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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8143343 | Microphase-separated structure, immobilized microphase-separated structure and wavelength-variable laser oscillator, temperature sensor and light filter using the structure A microphase-separated structure comprising a block copolymer, which contains at least a block chain A consisting of a monomer A as a repeating unit and a block chain B consisting of a monomer B as a repeating unit, and a solvent, wherein the solvent has a temperatu... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8075726 | Method for producing hermetically sealed container for beverage or food An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a hermetically sealed container, which method comprises conducting hermetic sealing of a container for beverage or food using a laser welding method, whereby the process speed of the sealing pro... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8049179 | Ultraviolet radiation detector and apparatus for evaluating ultraviolet radiation protection effect An ultraviolet radiation detector 10, detecting an ultraviolet radiation transmitted through or reflected from a measurement sample 15 from a light beam including at least the ultraviolet radiation, is characterized by spectral means 19 for spec... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7453567 | Fluorescence lifetime distribution image measuring system and its measuring method Pulse excitation light, emitted from a laser light source 10, is scanned in a first direction by a first scanning means 100, scanned in a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction, by a second scanning means 120, converged by an obj... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7429826 | Indirectly heated electrode for gas discharge tube, gas discharge tube using said indirectly heated electrode, and lighting device for said gas discharge tube An indirectly heated cathode C1 comprises a heater 1, a double coil 2, a mesh member 3, and a metal oxide 10. An electrical insulating layer 4 is formed on the surface of heater 1. Heater 1 is inserted into and... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7407287 | Pupil measuring apparatus A pupil measuring apparatus comprises a mark 1d placed in a space where a background is observable from the two eyes E; a mark moving device 1e for moving the mark 1d between the two eyes E and the background; an illuminatio... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7397647 | Ionized gas current emission type dust-free ionizer The ionizer of the present invention comprises a chamber which has an ionization part that ionizes a portion of an ion carrier gas that is supplied to the interior of this chamber, and a blowing part which feeds the ion carrier gas toward a charged body. The ionizat... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7372877 | Fiber laser unit Fiber laser unit 1 comprises a plurality of fiber lasers 2 and 3 that generate laser beams by exciting a laser active substance inside cores 2a and 3a by exciting light, propagate the laser beams inside the cores 2... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372037 | Solid-state imaging device and radiotion imaging system N+-type semiconductor regions 12d are formed on a front surface side of a p−-type layer 12c of a semiconductor substrate 12, and these n+-type semiconductor and p−-type semiconductor ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372489 | Signal processing circuit and solid-state image pickup device A VI conversion circuit 40n inputs a voltage output from a hold circuit 30n, converts this input voltage to a current based on the resistance value of a resistor R40, and outputs this current from a drain terminal of a ... | 05/13/2008 |
| RE40291 | Radiation detection device and method of making the same Light-receiving devices are two-dimensionally arranged on a substrate, bonding pads electrically connected to the light-receiving devices in the respective rows or columns via signal lines are arranged on the outer periphery of the substrate, and a protective passiv... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369720 | Optical device An optical device 1 has a photodetecting element 6, an optical waveguide layer 4 containing core portions 4a to 4c extending in directions crossing a layer thickness direction and a clad portion 4h cover... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365356 | Photocathode The invention relates to a photocathode having a structure that permits a decrease in the radiant sensitivity at low temperatures is suppressed so that the S/N ratio is improved. In the photocathode, a light absorbing layer is formed on the upper layer of a substrat... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7360953 | Light guiding device A light emitting end face side front end part of an optical fiber bundle 16 is covered by a sleeve member 13 and an emitting part outer cover 14. A glass rod holding member 42, which holds a glass rod 40, is mounted to emitting par... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359418 | Quantum cascade laser A quantum cascade laser 1, which generates infrared light or other light of a predetermined wavelength by making use of intersubband transitions in a quantum well structure, is arranged by forming, on a GaAs substrate 10, an AlGaAs/GaAs active layer | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358500 | Radiation detection by dual-faced scintillation An imaging device comprising a scintillator and a first and second imaging elements. The scintillator emits scintillation light in response to an incident of an energy beam. The imaging elements take an image of the scintillation light. These imaging elements have i... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359115 | Sample observation method, microscope, and solid immersion lens, optical contact liquid used in the method Optical contact liquid containing an amphipathic molecule is dripped onto a semiconductor device which is a sample as an inspection object (S104), and a solid immersion lens is set thereon (S105). The inserted position of the solid immersion lens is th... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356117 | X-ray inspection system The X-ray inspection system 10 comprises an X-ray electron conversion face 42 for converting an entered X-ray image transmitted through the measurement object into an electronic image, an output fluorescent face 46 for emitting fluorescence when... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355642 | Photo-detection device The present invention relates to a photo-detecting device having a structure which enables an increase of the number of pixels and advanced high density and further enables precise photo-detection. The photo-detecting device includes N photodiodes, N switches a comm... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7336808 | Optical sensor Photodetector 1 is equipped with photodiodes PDn, integrating circuits 10n, CDS circuits 20n, and hold circuits 30n. Each integrating circuit 10n includes an amplifier 11n, a capacitor C, a... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7329851 | Photodetector having a photosensitive region and two-dimensional pixel arrangement First integrating circuits 110 convert electric currents from one group of photosensitive portions electrically connected to each other in a plurality of pixels arranged in a first direction into voltages, and output the voltages. First S/H circuits 130 | 02/12/2008 |
| 7326907 | Wiring substrate and radiation detector using same A wiring substrate section 2, which has a wiring substrate 20 with through holes 20c each filled with a conductive member 21 serving as a conduction path for guiding a detected signal, is installed between a radiation detecting sec... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322877 | Production method for optical lens The method for making an optical lens according to the present invention is characterized in comprising: a optical lens preform fabrication step of fabricating a optical lens preform which comprises a first curved portion which serves as an optically functioning par... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7323674 | Photodetector using photomultiplier and gain control method The present invention relates to a photodetector that has a structure capable of realizing a wide range gain adjustment for each of electron multiplier channels respectively assigned to a plurality of light incidence regions of a multi-anode multiplier. The photodet... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317283 | Photomultiplier The present invention relates to a photomultiplier having a structure for performing a high gain and achieving a higher productivity in a state keeping or improving an excellent high-speed response. In the photomultiplier, an electron-multiplying unit accommodated i... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7312908 | 3D image display and 3D image display method A small, inexpensive three-dimensional image display having a structure for displaying a color three-dimensional image sharply even if a low-resolution spatial optical modulating element is used. The three-dimensional image display has an illumination light source u... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312921 | Microscope and sample observation method For a semiconductor device S as an inspected object, there are provided an image acquisition part 1, an optical system 2 including an objective lens 20, and a solid immersion lens (SIL) 3 movable between an insertion position including an... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7298826 | X-ray generator An X-ray generator of this invention has an X-ray monitor that monitors a state of an X-ray emitted from a target. Hence the state of the X-ray can be monitored in real time to maintain the X-ray in a constant state. The X-ray monitor is positioned off the path on w... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295736 | Image pickup device An image pickup device according to the present invention comprises (1) a fiber optical plate constituted by bundling a plurality of optical fibers, including a core and a cladding covering an outer periphery thereof and having a light incident surface and a light-e... | 11/13/2007 |
| D554754 | X-ray device | 11/06/2007 |
| 7288893 | Gas discharge tube A gas discharge tube 10 of the present invention generates an electric discharge between an anode part 24 and a cathode part 52 disposed inside a sealed container 12 in which gas has been sealed. The gas discharge tube 10 includes ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286642 | X-ray tube control apparatus and x-ray tube control method A maximum tube voltage value setting module 240a, a warming-up module 240b, a limit tube voltage control module 240c, a limit tube current control module 240d and a focus grid electrode control module 240 | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286172 | Optical sensor An amount of charges consonant with the intensity of the light entering photodiodes is generated, and the level of the charges is determined by a charge level determination circuit. Based on this determined charge level, a capacitance setting circuit sets a capacita... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7282712 | Infrared sensor An infrared sensor of this invention is characterized by including a support member including a support film and a substrate that supports the support film, a polysilicon film which ranges from above a concavity to above the substrate, SiO2 which is forme... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7276683 | Solid-state imaging device and radiation imaging system N+-type semiconductor regions 12d are formed on a front surface side of a p−-type layer 12c of a semiconductor substrate 12, and these n+-type semiconductor and p−-type semiconductor ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7271542 | Gas discharge tube A gas discharge tube 10 of the present invention generates an electric discharge between an anode part 24 and a cathode part 56 disposed inside a sealed container 12 in which gas has been contained. The gas discharge tube 10 compri... | 09/18/2007 |
| RE39806 | Scintillator panel, radiation image sensor, and methods of making the same A scintillator panel (2) comprises a radiation-transparent substrate(10), aflat resin film (12) formed on the substrate (10), a reflecting film (14) formed on the flat resin film (12), a deliquescent scintillator (16)... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262857 | Device for measuring immunochromatography test piece A measuring device 1 for immunochromatographic test strip 5a is configured to irradiate measurement light onto the immunochromatographic test strip 5a and to measure light from the immunochromatographic test strip 5a,... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259439 | Semiconductor photodetector and its production method In a semiconductor photodetector 1 according to the present invention, flat surfaces of three steps with different heights are formed in a top surface portion of a semi-insulating GaAs substrate 2. An n-type GaAs layer 3, an i-type GaAs layer | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256379 | Optical sensing device A first integrating circuit 23 converts and outputs electric currents, which are successively input from first groups of photosensitive portions via first switches 21, into and as a voltage. A first CDS circuit 24 outputs a voltage that is in ac... | 08/14/2007 |
