Author: claimsbot

1. Apparatus for displaying information from a portable communications device, having a data output port and a scrollable display, on a remote projection display device having a data input port, the apparatus comprising:
a first data port associated with a cradle for receiving the portable communications device, the first data port adapted to be coupled to the data output port of the portable communications device, the first data port for receiving remote data from the portable communications device, the remote data including remote audio data and remote visual data;
a second data port that is adapted to be coupled to the data input port of the remote projection display device, the second data port coupled to a voltage control switch that senses a voltage when the portable communications device is received by the cradle, wherein automatically, upon placement of the portable communications device into the cradle, the second data port provides to the remote projection display device a representation of the remote visual data received from and displayed by the portable communications device; and
a processor coupled to the first data port and to the second data port, the processor establishing two-way communication between the portable communications device and the remote projection display device, wherein when a message is received at the portable communications device, then the processor exchanges the message with the remote projection display device and the remote projection display device displays the message, and after a predetermined period of inactivity then the processor ends two-way communication between the portable communications device and the remote projection display device, and when the portable communications device is removed from the cradle, then the processor commands the remote projection display device to resume displaying a speedometer input;
wherein the apparatus is configured to receive scrolling commands from a scroll controller, the scroll controller being adapted to cause the remote projection display device to provide a scrolling display of information that is simultaneously displayed on the scrollable display of the portable communications device such that the portable communications device and the remote projection display present the same information;
wherein the scroll controller comprises a scrolling control device that is integrated into an automobile steering wheel and is adapted to be electrically coupled to the remote projection display device and to the portable communications device such that the scrolling control device also controls the portable communications device and scrolls along the scrollable display of the portable communications device;
wherein the apparatus is also configured to receive commands from a display controller, the display controller being adapted to cause the remote projection display device to turn on and off the displayed information;
wherein the display controller also comprises a control device that is integrated into the automobile steering wheel and is adapted to be electrically connected to the remote projection display device;
wherein the cradle includes an audio serial port for receiving the remote audio data, a speaker for outputting the remote audio data, and a microphone for receiving audio data that is to be sent back through the portable communications device; and
wherein the cradle is also adapted to couple to a hands-free kit, such that when the cradle couples to the hands-free kit the hands-free kit outputs the remote audio data and receives the audio data that is to be sent back through the portable communications device.
2. Apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a data translator, coupled between the first data port and the second data port, that formats the remote visual data received from the portable communications device into a format from which the remote projection display device can provide a projected display.
3. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the portable communications device is an Internet appliance.
4. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the portable communications device is a cellular telephone.
5. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the portable communications device is a personal digital assistant.
6. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the remote projection display device provides the projected display on an automobile windshield.
7. Apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the remote projection display device is a heads-up display device that is integrated into an automobile.
8. Apparatus for hands-free communication using a portable communications device, the apparatus adapted to receive remote data from the portable communications device via a wireless telecommunications link, the portable communications device having an externally accessible data output port and the remote data including remote audio data and remote visual data, the apparatus comprising:
a housing that is adapted to receive the portable communications device;
a voltage control switch that senses a voltage when the portable communications device is received by the housing;
a first interface for coupling the data output port of the portable communications device to the housing;
a second interface for coupling the housing to a data input port of a remote projection display device;
a processor for receiving the remote data from the portable communications device, converting the received remote visual data to a format displayable by the remote projection display device, and forwarding the converted remote visual data to the remote projection display device via the second interface for automatic display upon detection of placement of the portable communications device into the housing, the processor establishing two-way communication between the portable communications device and the remote projection display device, wherein when a message is received at the portable communications device, then the processor exchanges the message with the remote projection display device and the remote projection display device displays the message, and after a predetermined period of inactivity then the processor ends two-way communication between the portable communications device and the remote projection display device, and when the portable communications device is removed from the cradle, then the processor commands the remote projection display device to resume displaying a speedometer input;
a serial port for receiving the remote audio data;
a speaker for outputting the remote audio data; and
a microphone for receiving audio data that is to be sent back through the portable communications device;
wherein the apparatus is adapted to couple to a hands-free kit, such that when the apparatus couples to the hands-free kit the hands-free kit outputs the remote audio data and receives the audio data that is to be sent back through the portable communications device;
wherein the portable communications device includes a scrolling capability, and the processor includes a scroll controller that receives scrolling commands from a remote scroll control device that is adapted to be integrated into an automobile steering wheel and adapted to cause the remote projection display device to provide a scrolling display of the converted remote visual data based on the scrolling commands that is simultaneously displayed on the portable communications device such that the portable communications device and the remote projection display present the same information, the scroll controller also controlling the portable communications device and scrolling along a display of the portable communications device;
wherein the processor is configured to receive commands from a remote toggle controller, the remote toggle controller being adapted to cause the remote projection display device to toggle the display of the remote visual data between on and off states in response to actuation of the remote toggle controller;
wherein the second interface is a wireless interface that is adapted to couple the housing to a corresponding wireless interface of the remote projection display;
wherein the processor includes a data translator for the converting of the received remote visual data;
wherein the first interface is a serial port connector and the second interface is a serial port connector; and
wherein a connection between the first interface and the data output port of the portable communications device is achieved upon receipt of the portable communications device.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. An antenna assembly for a cellular telephone, comprising: a solid dielectric core, and a two-terminal balanced antenna assembly including an electrical conductor on said solid dielectric core; said electrical conductor being configured and dimensioned to be matched to the operating frequency band of the cellular telephone communication band and terminating at each of its opposite ends in a common feed point connection such as to provide a two-terminal balanced antenna assembly having an isotropic radiation pattern and reduced electromagnetic field radiation.
2. The antenna assembly according to claim 1, wherein said electrical conductor is configured to define a first electrically-conductive loop in a first plane, and a second electrically-conductive loop in a second plane orthogonal to said first plane; said first and second electrically-conductive loops being connected in series with said common feed point connection to provide said two-terminal balanced antenna assembly.
3. The antenna assembly according to claim 2, wherein said first and second electrically-conductive loops are located and electrically connected such that: one-half of said first loop is in said first plane and is connected at one end to a first feed point connection; said second loop is fully in said second plane orthogonal to said first plane and is electrically connected at one end to the opposite end of said one-half of the first loop; and the remaining one-half of said first loop is in said first plane and is electrically connected between the opposite end of said second loop and a second feed point connection.
4. The antenna assembly according to claim 2, wherein each of said loops is of a length equal to one-half the wavelength of a predetermined frequency within the operative frequency band of the antenna assembly, such that the antenna assembly is of one full wavelength.
5. The antenna assembly according to claim 2, wherein each of said loops is of a length equal to one-quarter wavelength of a predetermined frequency within the operative frequency band of the antenna assembly, such that the antenna assembly is of a one-half wavelength.
6. The antenna assembly according to claim 2, wherein each of said loops is of rectangular configuration.
7. The antenna assembly according to claim 2, wherein each of said loops is of square configuration.
8. The antenna assembly according to claim 1, wherein said electrical conductor is of flat cross-section.
9. The antenna assembly according to claim 1, wherein said electrical conductor includes an electrically-conductive wire extending axially through said core, and an electrically-conductive helix extending around the outer surface of said core; one end of said electrically-conductive wire and one end of said electrically-conductive helix being electrically-connected together; the opposite ends of said electrically-conductive wire and said electrically-conductive helix constituting common feed terminals defining said common feed point connection.
10. The antenna assembly according to claim 9, wherein said dielectric core is of a cylindrical configuration.
11. The antenna assembly according to claim 1, wherein said solid dielectric core is a material selected from the group of aluminum oxide, aluminum nitride, silicon nitride, zirconium oxide, and a ferroelectric dielectric.
12. A two-terminal balanced antenna assembly for a transceiver of a wireless communication device, comprising: a first electrically-conductive loop in a first plane; a second electrically-conductive loop in a second plane orthogonal to said first plane; and a solid dielectric core; said first and second electrically-conductive loops being connected in series with a common feed point connection, to provide a two-terminal balanced antenna assembly having reduced electromagnetic field radiation from the body of a transceiver when attached thereto in comparison to a monopole antenna of comparable gain.
13. The antenna assembly according to claim 12, wherein said first and second electrically-conductive loops are located and electrically connected such that: one-half of said first loop is in said first plane and is connected at one end to a first feed point connection; said second loop is fully in said second plane orthogonal to said first plane and is electrically connected at one end to the opposite end of said one-half of the first loop; and the remaining one-half of said first loop is in said first plane and is electrically-connected between the opposite end of said second loop and a second feed point connection.
14. An antenna assembly for a wireless communication device, comprising: a first electrically-conductive loop constituted of two half-loops both disposed in a first plane; and a second electrically-conductive loop disposed in a second plane orthogonal to said first plane and located between said two half loops; said first and second loops being connected together in series with a common feed point.
15. The antenna assembly according to claim 14, wherein: one-half of said first loop is in said first plane and is connected at one end to a first feed point connection; said second loop is fully in said second plane orthogonal to said first plane and is electrically connected at one end to the opposite end of said one half-loop; and the other one-half of said first loop is in said first plane and is electrically-connected between the opposite end of said second loop and a second feed point connection.
16. The antenna assembly according to claim 14, wherein said first and second loops enclose a block of a solid dielectric material.
17. The antenna assembly according to claim 14, wherein each of said loops is of rectangular configuration.
18. A two-terminal balanced antenna assembly for a transceiver of a wireless communication device, comprising: a dielectric core; an electrically-conductive wire extending axially through said core; and an electrically-conductive helix extending of at least one complete helical turn around the outer surface of said core; one end of said electrically-conductive wire and one end of said of electrically-conductive helix being electrically-connected together; the opposite ends of said electrically-conductive wire and said electrically-conductive helix constituting common feed terminals, such as to provide a two-terminal balanced antenna assembly having reduced electromagnetic field radiation from the body of a transceiver when attached thereto in comparison to a monopole antenna of comparable gain.
19. The antenna assembly according to claim 18, wherein said dielectric core is of a cylindrical configuration.
20. The antenna assembly according to claim 18, wherein the dielectric material of said dielectric core is selected from the group of aluminum oxide, aluminum nitride, silicon nitride, zirconium oxide, and a ferroelectric dielectric.

1. A sheet feeding apparatus comprising:
rotatable feeding means for feeding a sheet by rotation thereof;
supporting means, having a supporting portion movable toward and away from the rotatable feeding means, for supporting a plurality of stacked sheets from a side opposite from the rotatable feeding means, and for elastically causing one sheet closest to the rotatable feeding means to contact the rotatable feeding means;
separating means, having an abutting portion movable toward and away from the rotatable feeding means, for elastically holding the sheets between the abutting portion and the rotatable feeding means, and for separating the sheets so as to allow only the one sheet closest to the rotatable feeding means to be fed out with the rotation of the rotatable feeding means, the separating means being disposed downstream of the supporting means in a sheet feeding direction;
sheet separating means for displacing remaining sheets in a direction away from the rotatable feeding means when the one sheet has been advanced to a target position reaching sheet transporting means disposed downstream in the sheet feeding direction;
abutting portion separating means for moving the abutting portion in a direction away from the rotatable feeding means so as to release the holding of the sheets between the abutting portion and the rotatable feeding means when the one sheet has reached the target position; and
limiting means for preventing the remaining sheets, excluding the one sheet, from moving downstream in the sheet feeding direction when the one sheet has reached the target position;
wherein the sheet separating means and the limiting means are integrally disposed.
2. The sheet feeding apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sheet separating means is provided adjacent to the rotatable feeding means, and displaces the remaining sheets near the rotatable feeding means by pressing the sheets from a side adjacent to the rotatable feeding means.
3. The sheet feeding apparatus of claim 1, wherein the limiting means aligns leading edges of leftover sheets which are sheets fed to the separating means from the remaining sheets by the rotatable feeding means and separated from the one sheet by the separating means.
4. The sheet feeding apparatus of claim 3, wherein
the sheet separating means pushes back leftover sheets upstream of the separating means in the sheet feeding direction; and
the limiting means aligns and supports the leading edges of the leftover sheets pushed back by the sheet separating means.
5. The sheet feeding apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:
a common drive shaft member rotatably supported, for driving in common the sheet separating means, the abutting portion separating means, and the limiting means which are connected together;
a rotational driving source; and
transmitting means for transmitting a drive force from the rotational driving source to the common drive shaft member, the transmitting means having a partially toothed gear with teeth formed only on a portion of a circumference thereof.
6. The sheet feeding apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:
a feed shaft member rotatably supported, the rotatable feeding means being connected thereto;
a common drive shaft member rotatably supported, for driving in common the sheet separating means, the abutting portion separating means, and the limiting means which are connected thereto together;
a rotational driving source; and
transmitting means for transmitting a drive force from the rotational driving source to the feed shaft member and the common drive shaft member, the transmitting means having a sun gear which rotates in an interlocking fashion with an output shaft of the rotational driving source, a feed input gear which is mounted in an area surrounding the sun gear and rotates in an interlocking fashion with the feed shaft member, a common input gear which is mounted in the area surrounding the sun gear and in a position circumferentially spaced apart from the feed input gear and rotates in an interlocking fashion with the common drive shaft member, and a planet gear which is in meshing engagement with the sun gear, and
the planet gear being mounted so as to be movable around the sun gear between a feed input position, where rotational force is transmitted to the feed input gear, and a common input position, where rotational force is transmitted to the common input gear.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A hydraulic composition comprising cement (A), a copolymer (B), a high-performance water reducing agent (C) which is a polycarboxylic acid based high-performance water reducing agent, and a powdery admixture for cement (D) being at least one species selected from the group consisting of blast-furnace slag, fly ash and limestone, wherein the copolymer (B) comprises a repeating unit (I) represented by the following formula (1);
wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group. n is an integer of 2 to 4, and a repeating unit (II) represented by the following general formula (2);
wherein R2, R3 and R4 are same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, a methyl group or a (CH2)pCOOM2 group, and may form a structure of an anhydride when the total number of COOM1 groups and COOM2 groups are 2. M1 and M2 are same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, a monovalent metal, a divalent metal, an ammonium group or an organic ammonium group, and p is an integer of 0 to 2 and wherein said copolymer (B) has a weight average molecular weight of 600,000 to 10,000,000.
2. A method of producing the hydraulic composition according to claim 1, wherein said copolymer (B) and said high-performance water reducing agent (C) are previously mixed and the resulting mixture is added.
3. The hydraulic composition according to claim 1, wherein said hydraulic composition comprises the powdery admixture for cement (D) in an amount of not less than 5% by mass based on 100% by mass of cement (A).
4. The hydraulic composition according to claim 3, wherein said hydraulic composition comprises the copolymer (B) in an amount of 0.000 1 to 0.5% by mass, the high-performance water reducing agent (C) in an amount of 0.01 to 5% by mass and the powdery admixture for cement (D) in an amount of 5to 200% by mass based on 100% by mass of cement (A).
5. The method of the producing the hydraulic composition according to claim 2, wherein said hydraulic composition comprises the powdery admixture for cement (D) in an amount of not less than 5% by mass based on 100% by mass of cement (A).
6. The method of the producing the hydraulic composition according to claim 5, wherein said hydraulic composition comprises the copolymer (B) in an amount of 0.0001 to 0.5% by mass, the high-performance water reducing agent (C) in an amount of 0.01 to 5% by mass and the powdery admixture for cement (D) in an amount of 5 to 200% by mass based on 100% by mass of cement (A).