Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080247150 | SURFACE ILLUMINATION APPARATUS, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY WITH THE SAME - A surface illumination apparatus includes: a light source; an end-surface light-guide portion which guides light emitted from the light source in a long-side direction thereof and generates emitted light in a short-side direction thereof; and a light guide plate which allows the emitted light to be incident upon an end-surface portion thereof and emits the incident light from one main-surface portion thereof. The end-surface light-guide portion includes a plurality of polarization control portions arranged in the long-side direction; the plurality of polarization control portions each has a half-wave plate and a polarizing prism; the end-surface light-guide portion emits the emitted light in the form of either of S-polarized light and P-polarized light, using the plurality of polarization control portions; and the light guide plate emits, as output light, either of S-polarized light and P-polarized light from the one main-surface portion. | 10-09-2008 |
20080266897 | Surface illumination device and a liquid crystal display device using such a surface illumination device - A surface illumination device is provided with a laser light source capable of emitting a laser light, an incident surface on which the laser light is incident, a light guiding plate having a principal surface from which the laser light emerges as a surface emergent light, and an irradiating member capable of irradiating the laser light from the laser light source over a specified range extending in the longitudinal direction of the light guiding plate. | 10-30-2008 |
20090040787 | PLANAR ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A thin planar illumination device with a high light utilization efficiency is provided. In a planar illumination device | 02-12-2009 |
20090149078 | Connector - A connector comprises a plug, and a receptacle mounted on a substrate and having an opening into which the plug is inserted. The receptacle has a housing for holding a receptacle-side terminal part in an interior of a tubular shield cover that forms the opening. An engagement projection part provided to the plug engages with an engagement hole provided to a region of the shield cover of the receptacle that faces the substrate when the plug is inserted into the receptacle, and in a state in which the receptacle is mounted on the substrate, the region of the shield cover to which the engagement hole is provided is positioned away from the substrate by a set distance. | 06-11-2009 |
20090190070 | PLANAR ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE ADOPTING THE SAME - A planar illumination device includes a laser light source; a light guide plate for guiding light entered through an end surface to be outputted from a first principal surface; an optical element which forms diffusing light outputted from the laser light source into a substantially parallel light in a thickness-wise direction of the light guide plate and which outputs the resulting parallel light to the end surface of the light guide plate; and a first light deflecting unit for deflecting a propagation direction in the light guide plate of the light incident thereon, wherein the first light deflecting unit is arranged such that a degree of deflection of the light incident on the light guide plate differs according to positions in the light guide plate, to make an amount of light outputted from the first principal surface uniform in the first principal surface. | 07-30-2009 |
20090190072 | Wavelength separator, planar illumination device and liquid crystal display device using the wavelength separator - A wavelength separator is provided with a reflective color filter arranged to intersect with an optical path of light emerging from a principal surface of a light guide plate, and a recycle portion arranged at a side of the light guide plate opposite to the reflective color filter. Out of light incident on the light guide plate, light reflected by the reflective color filter is returned to the reflected color filter again by being reflected by the recycle portion via the light guide plate. | 07-30-2009 |
20090257340 | OPTICAL HEAD - To provide an optical head to produce good servo and read signals by reducing the influence of interference by light reflected from a non-read layer of a multilayer optical disc. | 10-15-2009 |
20090262630 | OPTICAL CONTROL DEVICE, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND OPTICAL HEAD CONTROL METHOD - An optical controller includes a light source for emitting light, an object lens for condensing light emitted from the light source, a light detection unit for receiving light reflected on an optical information recording medium and outputting a signal corresponding to the amount of the light, and a laser control unit for controlling the amount of the light emitted from the light source to the information recording surface on which information is to be recorded or reproduced, based on the recording state of an information recording surface disposed closer to the object lens than an information recording surface on which the information is to be recorded or reproduced. | 10-22-2009 |
20090303864 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM AND REPRODUCING DEVICE - An optical recording medium is provided with a plurality of recording layers, wherein the recording layers are formed such that all the spacings between two recording layers in all the combinations selected from the plurality of recording layers do not coincide with each other. Accordingly, the return of lights reflected by other layers to an optical head along the same optical path as reflected light from a readout layer during the reproduction can be avoided. Therefore, an optical recording medium, from which a good reproduction signal can be obtained, can be provided by suppressing the deterioration of a servo signal and a reproduction signal of a reproducing device due to a variation of interference fringes on a light receiving element. | 12-10-2009 |
20090316431 | PLANAR ILLUMINATING DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A light source section ( | 12-24-2009 |
20100014022 | PLANAR ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A planar illumination device for illuminating a liquid crystal display panel provided with a polarizing plate on a light incident side, includes: a light source unit for emitting light having a specified polarization direction; and a light irradiating member for deflecting light emitted from the light source unit and irradiating the liquid crystal display panel with the deflected light, wherein the light irradiating member deflects the light emitted from the light source unit such that the polarization direction of the light emitted from the light source unit substantially coincides with a transmission axis direction of the polarizing plate of the liquid crystal display panel. | 01-21-2010 |
20100026929 | PLANAR ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A planar illumination device is provided with a plurality of light guide paths, on which scanned light in different scanning sections of a scanning range by a scanning unit is respectively incident, and an illumination unit having a plurality of emission regions for emitting the light guided by the respective light guide paths. The number of the emission regions is 2 or more and 1000 or less, and the respective emission regions successively become luminous as the scanned light is incident on the respective light guide paths. | 02-04-2010 |
20100039585 | PLANAR ILLUMINATION DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A laser light source ( | 02-18-2010 |
20100045894 | PLANAR ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - Laser lights emitted from a light source | 02-25-2010 |
20100053497 | SURFACE ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY USING THE SAME - A light guide body is arranged and light emerging from the light guide body is made incident on a light guide plate. The light guide body is formed to introduce the incident light to the light guide plate in such a manner that the light incident on an end surface of the light guide plate has a specified light quantity distribution. | 03-04-2010 |
20100073600 | PLANAR ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A planar illumination device | 03-25-2010 |
20100177025 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE - An information display device ( | 07-15-2010 |
20100195022 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY BACKLIGHT DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - It is aimed to provide an LCD backlight device and liquid crystal display that can suppress light quantity loss and ensure uniform brightness. | 08-05-2010 |
20100233905 | CONNECTOR - The invention provides a connector wherein a highly reliable shielding performance can be realized while reducing the production cost and the size. A connector includes a shield cover configured by one metal plate. In the shield cover, a tubular portion which forms a fitting portion for a plug, mounting terminals for a printed circuit board, first contact pieces for a shield member of the plug, and second contact pieces for a case of an apparatus are integrally disposed. In the tubular portion, inner and outer double right and left side plates are disposed. The mounting terminals are configured by right and left extended portions downward projected from portions of the outer right and left side plates in rear of a front end opening of the tubular portion. The second contact pieces are configured by elastic pieces inward extended from the front end faces of the mounting terminals. | 09-16-2010 |
20100289986 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A wavelength selection substrate | 11-18-2010 |
20100321612 | PLANAR LIGHTING APPARATUS AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - Provided are a planar lighting apparatus which can perform display without luminance nonuniformity and with a specified luminance distribution in a scanning direction and has high luminance and a large area, and a liquid crystal display device using such a planar lighting apparatus. The scanning light quantity of scanning light | 12-23-2010 |
20110098086 | Mobile Phone and Incoming Alerting System - To provide a technique for informing the user of the incoming to a mobile phone through an external device such as a television, making use of an interface standardly equipped in the external device even when the power of the external device is off. The mobile phone includes a signal producing section for producing an incoming information signal containing information for informing the user of the incoming to the mobile phone in conformity to the HDMI standards when at least one of voice communication and data communication is received; and an HDMI communication section for outputting the incoming information signal to the external device to communicate with the external device capable of performing signal transmission conformed to the HDMI standards through a signal transmission medium conformed to the HDMI standards. | 04-28-2011 |
20110116010 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device has: a light source, a light guide plate for causing light from the light source to enter from a side surface of the light guide plate and exit as illuminating light from one principal surface thereof; a liquid crystal panel which includes a reflective color filter having wavelength selectivity in transmittance and reflectance and a polarizing plate disposed on a side that is closer to the light guide plate than the reflective color filter, and which is disposed on a light path of the illuminating light; and a recycle part for reflecting the illuminating light that has been reflected by the reflective color filter toward the reflective color filter once again, wherein the light from the light source is configured to enter the light guide plate as approximately linear polarization, and the polarizing plate of the liquid crystal panel is configured so exhibit transmittance of 90% or higher. | 05-19-2011 |
20110143594 | MULTIPOLAR PLUG - When a multipolar plug and a counter connector are fitted to each other, there is a possibility that a seam joint of a shell of the multipolar plug may coincide with that of a shell the counter connector, and high-frequency noises may leak through gaps of the coincident seam joints. The invention has been conducted in view of the problem, and provides a multipolar plug which can improve the EMI characteristics of a multipolar connector. According to the invention, when the multipolar plug | 06-16-2011 |
20110228195 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY BACKLIGHT AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING SAME - An LCD backlight ( | 09-22-2011 |
20120002136 | PLANAR ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A planar illumination device for illuminating a liquid crystal display panel provided with a polarizing plate on a light incident side, includes: a light source unit for emitting light having a specified polarization direction; and a light irradiating member for deflecting light emitted from the light source unit and irradiating the liquid crystal display panel with the deflected light, wherein the light irradiating member deflects the light emitted from the light source unit such that the polarization direction of the light emitted from the light source unit substantially coincides with a transmission axis direction of the polarizing plate of the liquid crystal display panel. | 01-05-2012 |
20120009824 | Surface Mount Multi-Connector and Electronic Apparatus Having the Same - A surface mount multi-connector having movable contact sections with high contact reliability and providing connection portions with high coplanarity. The surface mount multi-connector includes a first body in which a plurality of first contacts having movable contact sections and end sections that extend oppositely to each other are held by insert molding, a second body in which a plurality of second contacts having movable contact sections and end sections that extend oppositely to each other are held by insert molding, and a third body that incorporates the first body with which the second body has been coupled so that the movable contact sections of the second contacts and the movable contacts section of the first contacts face in the same direction. Tips ahead of the movable contact sections of the first and second contacts elastically mate with catching parts formed on the inner wall of the third body, and connection portions of the end sections of the first contacts and connection portions of the end sections of the second contacts lie in a same plane. | 01-12-2012 |
20120034803 | Locking Connector and Electronic Apparatus - A locking connector includes: a first head part; a plate-like base covering a plate surface of the first head part, a supporting part one end of which is supported by the base; first and second resilient parts positioned along the plate surface of the base from the supporting part, the first and second resilient part being resiliently deformable in a first direction substantially perpendicular to a direction C from the base end of the first head part to the fore-end of the first head part; first and second arm base end parts extending from end of the first and second resilient parts, respectively; first and second arm parts extending from the first and second arm base end parts, respectively, in the direction C; and first and second latching parts which are protrusions provided on the first and second arm parts, respectively. | 02-09-2012 |
20120157837 | ULTRASOUND PROBE AND ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION DEVICE USING THE SAME - An ultrasound probe which is capable of structurally improving resolution is provided. This ultrasound probe includes: an ultrasound probe which transmits ultrasound waves to a subject; and an optical probe which detects, with use of light, the ultrasound waves reflected off internal tissue of the subject, and openings of the ultrasound probe are larger than openings of the optical probe. With this, reflected waves (ultrasound waves) from the subject can be detected by the large openings, so that high resolution can be obtained relative to a width of the transmitted ultrasound waves. | 06-21-2012 |
20120253196 | ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION APPARATUS AND ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION METHOD - The ultrasound examination apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure is an ultrasound examination apparatus for observing an inside of a body of a living subject and includes: a transmitting probe that transmits ultrasonic waves to an inside of an examination target which is a part of the living subject; a receiving probe that detects microscopic displacement on a surface of the examination target without contact with the examination target, to detect reflected ultrasonic waves which are the to ultrasonic waves reflected from the inside of the examination target; | 10-04-2012 |
20120258618 | Connector - A connector includes: a contact portion electrically connectable to a plate-shaped connection object; a housing having a slit-shaped opening into which the connection object is insertable, the housing accommodating the contact portion; an actuator which is supported on the housing swingably about an axis extending in a width direction of the opening, and configured to directly press the connection object; and a restricting mechanism which is provided along the width direction of the opening, formed in both the housing and the actuator, and configured to prevent the actuator from being deformed in a direction opposite to a pressing direction of the actuator when the actuator is in a posture of pressing the connection object. | 10-11-2012 |
20130090561 | ULTRASONIC PROBE AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE - An ultrasonic probe which has high propagation efficiency of ultrasound and can obtain a high resolution ultrasonic diagnostic image, the ultrasonic probe includes an ultrasonic transducer including: a piezoelectric body which generates ultrasound; and a first matching layer which is disposed in a predetermined direction as seen from the piezoelectric body and is for performing acoustic matching between the piezoelectric body and a subject, wherein the first matching layer includes a plurality of matching regions which have a uniform thickness in the predetermined direction, are arranged in a direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction, and include at least two matching regions having frequency characteristics of ultrasound transmittance different from each other. | 04-11-2013 |
20130221805 | ULTRASONIC PROBE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE ULTRASONIC PROBE - An ultrasonic probe includes: a piezoelectric transducer which generates ultrasonic waves when voltage is applied to the piezoelectric transducer; and an acoustic matching layer for matching acoustic impedances between the piezoelectric transducer and a subject. The acoustic matching layer includes a sintered layer having, across a surface of the sintered layer, a plurality of microscopic pores formed by sintering a composite including a bonding material and metal nanoparticles each having a size of one micron or less. | 08-29-2013 |