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...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184920 | Microscope system A microscope system is constructed by a light guiding optical system 20 having an objective lens 21 and beam splitters 27a and 27b for splitting an optical image of a sample S, a photodetector 31 for acquiring an imag... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183514 | Signal waveform measuring apparatus and method comprising a wavelength conversion element A signal waveform measuring apparatus 1A is configured from: a signal optical system 11, a reference optical system 16, a time difference setting unit 12 setting a time difference between signal light L1 and reference light L2 | 05/22/2012 |
| 8164069 | Luminous body, electron beam detector using the same, scanning electron microscope, and mass analysis device A light-emitting body of rapid speed of response and high light emission intensity, and an electron beam detector, scanning electron microscope and mass spectroscope using this are provided. In the light-emitting body 10 according to the present invention, wh... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159576 | Solid state imaging device A solid state imaging device 1 includes a photodetecting section including M×N pixel portions P1,1 to PM,N two-dimensionally arrayed in M rows and N columns, a signal readout section including integrating circuits S1 to S | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159547 | Imaging apparatus and microscope apparatus using the same An image pickup device 1A is constructed with a photodetecting section 10 having a plurality of pixels; a charge transfer section 12 having 16 segmental charge transfer sections T01 to T16; an A/D converting section 15 | 04/17/2012 |
| 8143564 | Photodetection circuit This photodetecting circuit 1 is capable of suppressing oscillation of an output, and operates as a zero bias circuit in a case of a small photoelectric current to an extent that a dark current is concerned about, and limits an output current in a case of a l... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143141 | Laser beam machining method and semiconductor chip A laser processing method is provided, which, when cutting a substrate formed with a multilayer part including a plurality of functional devices, makes it possible to cut the multilayer part with a high precision in particular. In a state where a protective t... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139214 | Spectroscopy module, and method for manufacturing the same In a spectroscopy module 1, a light passing hole 5b through which a light L1 advancing to a spectroscopic portion 4 passes is formed in a light detecting element 5. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the relative positiona... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138450 | Method for cutting workpiece A method of cutting an object to be processed is provided, which can accurately cut an object to be processed comprising a substrate and a multilayer part provided on the front face of the substrate while having a plurality of functional devices into the functional ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134099 | Laser working method, laser working apparatus, and its manufacturing method An object to be processed 1 is irradiated with a laser light L modulated by a reflection type spatial light modulator 203 such that aberration of the laser light L converged inside the object 1 becomes a predetermined aberration or less. Therefo... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8133742 | Method for measuring immunochromato test piece After dropping a sample onto an immunochromatographic test strip, a change of absorbance at a first position on the immunochromatographic test strip is sensed by detecting reflected light while illuminating a measurement light on the first position, a change of abso... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126250 | Image acquiring apparatus, image acquiring method, and image acquiring program A semi-automatic mode according to which an operator makes a necessary confirmation when an image pickup condition for a micro image is set with reference to a macro image is provided in controlling the acquisition of the macro image, the setting of the image pickup... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125636 | Photodetector and spectrometer using the same A photodiode array, having a plurality of photodiodes 12 (n-type channel regions 121), and a light entrance portion 13, formed of an opening that is used to make light to be detected by photodiodes 12 enter, are provided in a substrate | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125552 | Solid-state image pickup device with adjustable image readout area There is provided a solid-state imaging device in which images can be read at high speed. Since an n-th processing circuit (e.g. PU1) can be connected to n-th pixel columns (N1) in respective imaging blocks B1, B2, and B3 via switc... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124500 | Laser processing method A laser processing method which can securely prevent particles from attaching to chips obtained by cutting a planar object is provided. When applying a stress to an object to be processed 1 through an expandable tape 23, forming materials of the object... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120765 | Observation device An observation device 1 comprises a light source unit 10, a biaxial scanning system 20, a wavefront modulation unit 30, an optical branching unit 40, a light detection unit 50, a wavefront detection unit 60, a control... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119966 | Solid-state image pickup device suppressing power consumption in case of increase in imaging pixels or speed by controlling imaging A/D converting circuit by signal from low power triggering A/D converting circuit The solid-state image pickup device 1 includes an imaging region 10, a triggering photosensitive region 20, a row selecting section 30, a column selecting section 40, a voltage holding section 50, an output section 60... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116606 | Fiber optic A fiber optic includes a plurality of fibers each including a core made of core glass for propagating light and a cladding for covering an outer periphery of the core and made of cladding glass lower in refractive index than the core glass and an absorber glass arra... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115386 | Photomultiplier tube Electrons are prevented from being made incident onto an insulation part of a casing between dynodes to improve a withstand voltage. The photomultiplier tube 1 is a photomultiplier tube which is provided with substrates 20, 40 arranged so as to oppose ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8110974 | Electron beam generating apparatus An electron beam generating apparatus (1a) includes an electron gun (2), a vacuum container (3), a frame material (11), and a window material (13). The electron gun (2) has a filament (7) from which an electron... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8110836 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor is provided with: a silicon substrate 2a of a first conductivity type, including a first surface S1a and a second surface S2a; a silicon layer 4a of a second conductivity type, arranged on the f... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8110802 | Photodetecting device including base with positioning portion In a photodetecting device 3, positional alignment marks 18A, 18B to serve as positional references of a photodetecting element 11 are formed at the front surface side of the photodetecting element 11. Moreover, a pin base 13 | 02/07/2012 |
| 8110422 | Manufacturing method of semiconductor laser element Starting point regions for cutting 8a, 8b extending along lines to cut 5a, 5b are initially formed in an object to be processed 1. The starting point regions for cutting 8b have modified re... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107770 | Microscope system and method A microscope system and method is described for determining a position of an area of an object within the complete object, wherein the image of the area of the object is contained within a field of view of a microscope. Image data representing a low magnification im... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106942 | Image acquiring apparatus, image acquiring method, and image acquiring program An image acquiring apparatus is made up of a macro image acquiring unit 20 used to acquire a macro image of each of a plurality of samples S, and a control unit 60 including a macro image acquisition control unit used to control a macro image acquiring... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8101940 | Photodetector and method for manufacturing photodetector A photodetector 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: an n-type InAs substrate 12; an n-type InAs buffer layer 14 formed on the n-type InAs substrate 12; an n-type InAs light absorbing layer 16 formed on t... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098701 | Quantum cascade laser element A DFB quantum cascade laser element that can reliably CW-oscillate a single-mode light even at room temperature or a temperature in proximity thereof is provided. In a quantum cascade laser element 1, a top-grating approach for which a diffraction grating ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094389 | Solid immersion lens holder A solid immersion lens holder 200 includes a holder main body 8 having a lens holding unit 60 that holds a solid immersion lens 6, and an objective lens socket 9 for attaching the holder main body 8 to a front end of an obje... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094221 | Solid-state imaging device A solid-state image pickup device comprising: a multilayer wiring board 2 having an opening portion 21; a spacer 3 covered with a conductive film 32, and fixed to the multilayer wiring board 2 in a state of making the conductive fi... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8093560 | Photoconductive antenna element This invention relates to a photoconductive antenna element having a structure capable of preventing element characteristics from deteriorating and attain a smaller size at the same time. This photoconductive antenna element (17) comprises a pair of electrode... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8084836 | Semiconductor photodetector and radiation detecting apparatus A photodiode array PD1 comprises an n-type semiconductor substrate one face of which is an incident surface of light to be detected; a plurality of pn junction-type photosensitive regions 3 as photodiodes formed on the side of a detecting surface that ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8084333 | Object cutting method An object cutting method which can reliably remove particles remaining on cut sections of chips is provided. An expandable tape 23 is electrically charged in a state where a plurality of semiconductor chips 25 obtained by cutting a planar object to be ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8068528 | Quantum cascade laser A quantum cascade laser includes a semiconductor substrate, and an active layer which is provided on the semiconductor substrate, and has a cascade structure in which unit laminate structures 16 having quantum well emission layers 17 and injection laye... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068224 | Spectroscopic module In the spectroscopy module 1, a light absorbing layer 6 having a light-passing hole 6a through which light L1 advancing into a spectroscopic portion 3 passes and a light-passing hole 6b through which light L... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068223 | Spectroscopic module The spectroscopy module 1 is provided with a body portion 2 for transmitting light L1, L2, a spectroscopic portion 3 for dispersing light L1 made incident from the front plane 2a of the body portion 2 in... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8058103 | Semiconductor substrate cutting method A method for cutting a semiconductor substrate having a front face formed with functional devices together with a die bonding resin layer. A wafer having a front face formed with functional devices is irradiated with laser light while positioning a light-converging ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8051800 | Nanomaterial immobilization method and immobilization apparatus In an immobilization process of electrostatically spraying a nanomaterial dispersion liquid 13 from an electrostatic spray nozzle 20 and immobilizing a nanomaterial on a sample 10, a voltage is applied between the dispersion liquid 13 and... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050381 | Medical X-ray imaging system The solid-state image pick-up device (1) includes a photodetecting section (10) which is formed by two-dimensionally aligning M×N (M and N are integers not less than 2) pixels in M rows and N columns and has a rectangular photodetecting surface. This ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049887 | Spectroscopic module The spectroscopy module 1 is provided with a body portion 2 for transmitting light L1, L2, a spectroscopic portion 3 for dispersing light L1 made incident from the front plane 2a of the body portion 2 in... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046055 | Lymph node detector A sentinel lymph node detecting apparatus 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a light source unit 2, illuminating an excitation light 10 and an illumination light 11 onto a biological observation location 20... | 10/25/2011 |
