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20090116802 | Optical Control Device and Manufacturing Method Thereof - The purpose of present inventions is to provide an optical control device having a single-mode waveguide in the optical control device having the ridge waveguide, and to stably manufacture and provide the optical control device having the single-mode waveguide with high precision even when the substrate is a thin plate with the thickness of 10 μm or less. An optical control device having a substrate | 05-07-2009 |
20090129718 | Light Modulator and Its Fabrication Method - It is an object of the invention to provide a light modulator using a thin plate having a thickness of 20 μm or less and capable of stably holding a conductive film suppressing troubles such as resonance phenomenon of microwaves in a substrate and pyro-electric phenomenon and to provide a method of fabricating the light modulator. The light modulator includes: a thin plate ( | 05-21-2009 |
20100104241 | METHOD OF ADJUSTING OPTICAL AXIS OF OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT, AND OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT - A method of adjusting the optical axis of an optical waveguide element which can improve a manufacturing yield of the optical waveguide element, an alignment yield between the optical waveguide element and an input waveguide means, etc. and can equalize the branch ratio in a Y-branch waveguide; and an optical waveguide element which can be made compact and also M inhibited from complication in structure by using this method. The optical waveguide element ( | 04-29-2010 |
20100232736 | Optical Control Device - It is an object to provide an optical control device capable of realizing speed matching between a microwave and a light wave or impedance matching of microwaves and of reducing a driving voltage. An optical control device including a thin plate | 09-16-2010 |
20100247025 | OPTICAL ELEMENT - Disclosed is an optical element which includes a support substrate and a thin plate of single crystal stacked on the support substrate through a thermoplastic adhesive, having the advantages of easily regulating the phase of light waves and restoring the regulated state to the original state. The optical element includes a support substrate | 09-30-2010 |
20110103735 | MACH-ZEHNDER WAVEGUIDE TYPE OPTICAL MODULATOR - It is intended to suppress the influence of a photorefractive phenomenon or the coupling of stray light to signal light. A Mach-Zehnder waveguide type optical modulator is provided which includes a thin plate | 05-05-2011 |
20120027337 | OPTICAL MODULATOR - In order to provide an optical modulator capable of suppressing generation of mode mismatching light in the Y-multiplexer in the MZ-type waveguide or mixing of the mode mismatching light with the radiation-mode light or the output light, and separately extracting output light and radiation-mode light, there is provided an optical modulator having a Mach-Zehnder type waveguide on a surface of a dielectric substrate, wherein a waveguide after multiplexing in a Y-multiplexer in an output side of the Mach-Zehnder type waveguide is a multiple mode waveguide | 02-02-2012 |
20150277156 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DEVICE - An object of the invention is to provide an optical waveguide device which is able to efficiently absorb or remove leaked light propagating in a substrate. An optical waveguide device in which an optical waveguide is formed on a substrate, in which the optical waveguide includes a main waveguide through which signal light propagates, and a metal layer (a bonding layer or an electrode) is formed, through a high refractive index layer having a refractive index higher than the refractive index of the substrate, in at least a part of a region on which the main waveguide is not formed. | 10-01-2015 |
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20090003773 | Method of forming an optical fiber - Marker grooves of an optical fiber are formed by a marker groove forming device including at least, on a substrate, a fiber guide and optical fiber pressing springs formed on a side wall surface in the fiber guide. The optical fiber pressing springs include edges contacted and pressed to the side of an optical fiber stored in the fiber guide, and plate springs for pressing the edges to the side of the optical fiber with fulcra on the side wall surface in the fiber guide. The optical fiber is pressed to a side wall surface in the fiber guide, and the edges are formed at a predetermined distance from each other. | 01-01-2009 |
20090003774 | Marker groove forming device - Marker grooves of an optical fiber are formed by a marker groove forming device including at least, on a substrate, a fiber guide and optical fiber pressing springs formed on a side wall surface in the fiber guide. The optical fiber pressing springs include edges contacted and pressed to the side of an optical fiber stored in the fiber guide, and plate springs for pressing the edges to the side of the optical fiber with fulcra on the side wall surface in the fiber guide. The optical fiber is pressed to a side wall surface in the fiber guide, and the edges are formed at a predetermined distance from each other. | 01-01-2009 |
20090004765 | Method of manufacturing micro-optic device - A micro-optic device including a complicate structure and a movable mirror is made to be manufactured in a reduced length of time. A silicon substrate and a single crystal silicon device layer with an intermediate layer of silicon dioxide interposed therebetween defines a substrate on which a layer of mask material is formed and is patterned to form a mask having the same pattern as the configuration of the intended optical device as viewed in plan view. A surface which is to be constricted as a mirror surface is chosen to be in a plane of the silicon crystal. Using the mask, the device layer is vertically etched by a reactive ion dry etching until the intermediate layer is exposed. Subsequently, using KOH solution, a wet etching which is anisotropic to the crystallographic orientation is performed with an etching rate which is on the order of 0.1 μm/min for a time interval on the order of ten minutes is performed to convert the sidewall surface of the mirror into a smooth crystallographic surface. Subsequently, the intermediate layer is selectively subject to a wet etching to remove the intermediate layer only in an area located below the movable part of the optical device. | 01-01-2009 |
20090146228 | Microminiature moving device - A microminiature moving device has disposed on a single-crystal silicon substrate movable elements such as a movable rod and a movable comb electrode that are displaceable in parallel to the substrate surface and stationary parts that are fixedly secured to the single-crystal silicon substrate with an insulating layer sandwiched between. Depressions are formed in the surface regions of the single-crystal silicon substrate where no stationary parts are present and the movable parts are positioned above the depressions. The depressions form gaps large enough to prevent foreign bodies from causing shorts and malfunctioning of the movable parts. | 06-11-2009 |
20090181487 | Method of making microminiature moving device - A microminiature moving device has disposed on a single-crystal silicon substrate movable elements such as a movable rod and a movable comb electrode that are displaceable in parallel to the substrate surface and stationary parts that are fixedly secured to the single-crystal silicon substrate with an insulating layer sandwiched between. Depressions are formed in the surface regions of the single-crystal silicon substrate where no stationary parts are present and the movable parts are positioned above the depressions. The depressions form gaps large enough to prevent foreign bodies from causing shorts and malfunctioning of the movable parts. | 07-16-2009 |
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20090251025 | ULTRASONIC PROBE AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS - A variance in transmitting/receiving sensitivity between multiple vibrational elements or transducers included in an ultrasonic probe is corrected. An ultrasonic probe in accordance with the present invention has multiple transducers, each of which includes multiple vibrational elements that each transmit or receive ultrasonic waves by converting ultrasonic waves and an electric signal into each other with a bias voltage applied thereto, set in array. The ultrasonic prove includes a transmitting/receiving sensitivity correction means that independently adjusts the bias voltage to be applied to at least two vibrational elements among the multiple vibrational elements so as to correct a variance in transmitting/receiving sensitivity between the at least two vibrational elements. | 10-08-2009 |
20110125020 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING PROBE OPERATION GUIDE - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to the present invention including a storage unit that stores reference three-dimensional volume data of an examinee obtained by an image pickup device, an ultrasonic probe that is inserted in a body cavity of the examinee and can perform ultrasonic scanning in a radial direction, an ultrasonic image generating unit that generates an ultrasonic tomographic image on the basis of a reflection echo signal from the ultrasonic probe, a position detector that detects a position and a posture of the ultrasonic probe on the basis of a sensor attached to the ultrasonic probe, an image generating unit that generates a scanning position mark representing an ultrasonic scanning position on a tomographic plane parallel to a travel direction of the ultrasonic probe from the reference three-dimensional volume data of the storage unit on the basis of an output of the position detector, and a display unit that displays the ultrasonic tomographic image and the scanning position mark. | 05-26-2011 |
20140171800 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND ULTRASOUND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide an ultrasound diagnostic device being able to display an ultrasound image which is not limited to a region targeted for ultrasound emission. The ultrasound diagnostic device is provided with an ultrasound probe having an ultrasound emitting surface for emitting an ultrasound wave and receiving a reflected wave of the ultrasound wave, an ultrasound image generator for generating an ultrasound image by using an reflected echo signal based on the reflected wave, an ultrasound volume data generator for accumulating the ultrasound images to generate three-dimensional ultrasound volume data of a test object, a reference image generator for generating multiple reference images by using three-dimensional volume data and the ultrasound volume data, and a display unit for displaying the ultrasound image and the reference images. | 06-19-2014 |
20140236001 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND ULTRASOUND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An ultrasound image is displayed while clarifying a positional relationship with an ultrasound probe. An ultrasound diagnostic device is provided with an ultrasound probe, a first position detecting means for detecting a position of the ultrasound probe, an ultrasound image generating means for generating an ultrasound image by using a reflected echo signal, an ultrasound volume data generating means for generating three-dimensional ultrasound volume data by accumulating the ultrasound images, a reference image generating means for generating a ultrasound reference image of an arbitrary cross section by using the ultrasound volume data and displaying an ultrasound probe mark indicating the position of the ultrasound probe in a superimposed manner on a position in the ultrasound reference image, the position corresponding to the ultrasound probe position detected by the first position detecting means, and a display means for displaying the ultrasound image and the ultrasound reference image. | 08-21-2014 |
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20140090814 | COOLING SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS USING THE SAME - The invention relates to a cooling system and an electronic apparatus using the same, and particularly aims to use a thermosiphon as the cooling system and derives an optimum shape (inter-fin gap, fin height, and fin upper-end hole diameter) of a boiling heat transfer surface for different coolants. In a cooling system using a thermosiphon according to the invention, an optimum shape (inter-fin gap, fin height, and fin upper-end hole diameter) of a boiling heat transfer surface of a heat receiving jacket that forms the cooling system is identified based on a critical radius of a steam bubble produced in an overheated liquid and the diameter of an air bubble departing from the heat transfer surface for a variety of coolants. | 04-03-2014 |
20150103486 | Phase Change Module and Electronic Device Mounted with Same - To provide a phase change module as a cooling system capable of saving energy and miniaturizing of the cooling system utilizing a thermo siphon, and an electronic device suitable to mounting such a phase change module. | 04-16-2015 |
20150216079 | COOLING SYSTEM AND ELECTRIC APPARATUS USING THE SAME - There is a problem in a shape of a fin of a boiling heat transfer surface of a conventional cooling system that a boiling nucleus may be stuck to the fin. In contrast, a cooling system of the present invention is provided with a boiling heat transfer surface that vaporizes a refrigerant liquid. Such that the refrigerant liquid forms a thin film at a root and a base portion of a fin for various refrigerants, it is provided with a configuration in which a protruding portion of the fin is inclined from a fin base. Further, it is provided with a configuration in which a notch is provided to the fin base at the fin root. Still further, it is provided with a configuration in which the protruding portion of the fin is cut in a fin base direction. | 07-30-2015 |