Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110044070 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE - A light source device includes a first semiconductor laser element that oscillates a first laser beam having a visible-region wavelength, a second semiconductor laser element that oscillates a second laser beam having a visible-region wavelength, and a light-scattering body that is irradiated with first laser beam and second laser beam to scatter first laser beam and second laser beam without changing the wavelengths. Because the wavelengths are not converted, first laser beam and second laser beam oscillated from first semiconductor laser element and second semiconductor laser element are emitted without generating energy losses of first laser beam and second laser beam. | 02-24-2011 |
20110157865 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE - Provided is an illumination device capable of reducing coherence of laser light emitted from a laser irradiation device to ensure safety to the eye at low cost. In the illumination device for exciting a fluorescent substance by irradiating the fluorescent substance with the laser light from the laser irradiation device to emit visible light for use as illumination light, a light scattering material is placed on and around an optical axis of the laser light. | 06-30-2011 |
20110279999 | LIGHT GUIDE MEMBER, LASER LIGHT GUIDE STRUCTURE BODY, LASER SHINING APPARATUS, AND LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS - A light guide member | 11-17-2011 |
20110280033 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, AND VEHICLE HEADLAMP - A headlamp includes: a laser diode for emitting laser beam; a light-emitting section for emitting light when irradiated with the laser beam emitted from the laser diode; and a cooling device for cooling the light-emitting device by use of a fluid. With the arrangement, it is possible to prevent an increase in temperature of the light-emitting section which is irradiated with excitation light, and thereby to realize a light source of long lifetime. | 11-17-2011 |
20120104934 | LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS, VEHICLE HEADLAMP, ILLUMINATING APPARATUS, AND VEHICLE, AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING THE LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS - A light emitting apparatus includes: a laser element which emits laser light; a light emitting section which generates fluorescence in response to the laser light emitted from the laser element; a parabolic mirror which reflects the fluorescence generated by the light emitting section; and a multilayer filter which transmits the laser light and reflects the fluorescence, the laser element being provided outside the parabolic mirror, the parabolic mirror being provided with a window part through which the laser light passes, and the multilayer filter being provided so as to cover the window part. | 05-03-2012 |
20120106178 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, VEHICLE HEADLAMP, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, AND LASER ELEMENT - A light emitting device of the present invention includes a light-emitting section for generating fluorescence by receiving a laser beam, and a light irradiation unit for irradiating a light irradiated surface of the light emitting section with a laser beam that increases regularly in beam diameter in a direction in which the laser beam travels. | 05-03-2012 |
20120106183 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, VEHICLE HEADLAMP, AND ILLUMINATION DEVICE - A headlamp includes an laser element for emitting a laser beam; a light emitting section for emitting fluorescence by receiving the laser beam emitted from the laser element; and a parabolic mirror for reflecting the fluorescence emitted from the light emitting section, the light emitting section being placed so that a focal point of the parabolic mirror and a periphery of the focal point are positioned on the light emitting section, the light emitting section being most strongly excited at a portion corresponding to the focal point, meanwhile, at a portion corresponding to the periphery of the focal point, the light emitting section being excited with intensity being dependent on light intensity distribution of the excitation light on an irradiation surface of the light emitting section. | 05-03-2012 |
20120106188 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, VEHICLE HEADLAMP, AND VEHICLE - A headlamp of an embodiment of this invention includes a laser element, a light emitting section, and a parabolic mirror. A part of the parabolic mirror is provided so as to face an upper surface of the light emitting section, which upper surface has a larger area than that of a side surface of the light emitting section. The light emitting section emits fluorescence in such a manner that distribution of the fluorescence corresponds to the Lambertian distribution. | 05-03-2012 |
20120106189 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, VEHICLE HEADLAMP, AND ILLUMINATION DEVICE - A headlamp of one embodiment of this invention includes a laser element for emitting a laser beam, a light emitting section for generating fluorescence upon receiving the laser beam, and a reflecting mirror for projecting the fluorescence. Distribution of the fluorescence emitted by the light emitting section corresponds to Lambertian distribution, and an incident angle of the laser beam with respect to an excitation light irradiated surface, which is a surface of the light emitting section irradiated with the laser beam, is set so that use efficiency of the fluorescence emitted by the light emitting section is increased. | 05-03-2012 |
20120140504 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, VEHICLE HEADLAMP, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, AND VEHICLE - A headlamp | 06-07-2012 |
20120224384 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, AND VEHICLE HEADLAMP - An illumination device | 09-06-2012 |
20120275134 | LIGHT PROJECTION UNIT AND LIGHT PROJECTION APPARATUS - A light projection unit capable of improving light use efficiency is provided. This light projection unit includes: a fluorescent member that includes an illuminated surface to which laser light is directed, converts at least part of the laser light into fluorescent light and outputs the fluorescent light from chiefly the illuminated surface; and a reflection member that includes a first reflection surface which reflects the fluorescent light output from the fluorescent member. The illuminated surface of the fluorescent member is inclined with respect to a predetermined direction in such a way that the illuminated surface faces in a direction opposite to a light projection direction. | 11-01-2012 |
20120275174 | LIGHT PROJECTION UNIT AND LIGHT PROJECTION DEVICE - A light projection unit is provided that can reduce the production of a portion where the light density is excessively increased on a fluorescent member. This light projection unit includes: a light collection member that includes a light entrance surface and a light emission surface which has an area smaller than that of the light entrance surface; a fluorescent member that includes an application surface to which the laser light emitted from the light collection member is applied and that mainly emits fluorescent light from the application surface; and a light projection member that projects the fluorescent light. The light emission surface of the light collection member is arranged a predetermined distance from the application surface of the fluorescent member. | 11-01-2012 |
20120314442 | LIGHT PROJECTION APPARATUS, LIGHT CONDENSING UNIT, AND LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS - A light projection apparatus that can produce an elongate light projection pattern is provided. The light projection apparatus includes a fluorescent member which is excited with exciting light and a light projecting member which reflects or transmits the light emanating from the fluorescent member to project it outside. The fluorescent member includes an irradiated region which is irradiated with the exciting light, and the length of the irradiated region in a first direction is greater than its length in a second direction. | 12-13-2012 |
20120327679 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, HEADLIGHT FOR A VEHICLE, AND ILLUMINATION DEVICE - A head lamp | 12-27-2012 |
20130003347 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - In a light emitting device ( | 01-03-2013 |
20130003400 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND VEHICLE HEADLIGHT - A headlight of the present invention includes: a fluorescent material light-emitting section; a reflector that reflects light emitted from the fluorescent material light-emitting section so as to emit reflected light out of the headlight; and a mini-mirror that reflects, toward a predetermined surface of the fluorescent material light-emitting section provided substantially at a focal point of the reflector, at least part of light that has not been directed toward the reflector. The mini-mirror has its optical axis inclined with respect to a normal line of the predetermined surface. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003403 | LIGHT-PROJECTING DEVICE, AND VEHICLE HEADLAMP INCLUDING LIGHT-PROJECTING DEVICE - A light-projecting device according to the present invention includes a plurality of light source units including (i) a light emitting section that emits light upon receiving a laser beam and (ii) a reflector. Each of the light source units project light to a corresponding one of light-projected spots which is a region to which light is projected in an illuminated region in a partitioning manner, and the illuminated region is formed by combining a plurality of the light-projected spot. | 01-03-2013 |
20130027951 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND VEHICLE HEADLAMP INCLUDING THE ILLUMINATION DEVICE - A headlamp system in accordance with the present invention includes (i) a laser light source unit including a light emitting section that emits light upon reception of a laser beam and (ii) an LED light source unit including an LED. The laser light source unit distributes light to a light-distributed spot, and the LED light source unit distributes light to a light-distributed area. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027962 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, LIGHTING DEVICE, VEHICULAR HEADLIGHT, AND VEHICLE - A headlight system in accordance with the present invention includes: a semiconductor laser element that emits laser light; a light-emitting section that upon receipt of the laser light emitted from the semiconductor laser element, emits illumination light which is both the laser light and fluorescence obtained by wavelength conversion of a portion of the laser light; and a diffusion plate that mixes the laser light and fluorescence which are contained in the illumination light emitted by the light-emitting section. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027964 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND VEHICLE HEADLIGHT - In a head lamp | 01-31-2013 |
20130182452 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, AND VEHICLE HEADLAMP - A headlamp ( | 07-18-2013 |
20130201708 | LIGHT PROJECTION DEVICE AND LIGHT GUIDE MEMBER USED IN SAME - A light projection device that can change a light projection pattern is provided. The light projection device includes: a plurality of excitation light sources that emit excitation light; a fluorescent member that is excited by the excitation light from the excitation light sources; a control portion that controls outputs of the excitation light sources; and a light projection member that projects light emitted from the fluorescent member. The fluorescent member includes a plurality of application regions to which the excitation light is applied, and the control portion controls the outputs of the excitation light sources so as to individually control the excitation states of the application regions. | 08-08-2013 |
20130235601 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND VEHICLE HEADLAMP - A headlamp in accordance with one aspect of the present invention is configured such that a first light source is provided at a focal position of a parabolic mirror, a second light source is provided in a position different from the focal position, and lighting of each of the first and second light sources is controlled, whereby a light-projection pattern is changed. | 09-12-2013 |
20130243247 | PERIPHERAL INFORMATION GENERATING APPARATUS, CONVEYANCE, PERIPHERAL INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - The peripheral information generating apparatus includes (i) a projection section for forming a projection pattern L, which at least partially has a continuous profile, on a road by irradiating the road with light, (ii) an image capturing section, and (iii) an image analyzing section for generating peripheral information, which indicates a peripheral situation of the peripheral information generating apparatus and of the road, by analyzing the projection pattern. | 09-19-2013 |
20130258689 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, FLOODLIGHT, AND VEHICLE HEADLIGHT - A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting section, a lens, and a movement control section, the movement control section changing an illumination position and a spot size of a laser beam in the light-emitting section by changing a relative position of the lens with respect to the light-emitting section. | 10-03-2013 |
20130265561 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND VEHICLE HEADLIGHT - A light-emitting device includes a plurality of laser elements, a light-emitting section for emitting light in response to a laser beam, and an emission control section for controlling whether each of the plurality of laser elements emits light or not. At least a part of the plurality of laser elements is positioned in such a manner that irradiation regions of the light-emitting section are positioned at least partially differently. | 10-10-2013 |
20130314937 | LIGHT PROJECTING DEVICE AND VEHICULAR HEADLAMP - A light projecting device of the present invention includes: a light source unit including (i) a laser element for emitting light, (ii) a light converging lens for converging the light emitted from the laser element, and (iii) a light emitting section for emitting light upon receipt of the light converged by the light converging lens; and a reflector for projecting light emitted from the light source unit. The light source unit is provided so as to be attached to or detached from a fixed part to which the light source unit is to be fixed. | 11-28-2013 |
20140056021 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, VEHICLE HEADLAMP AND ILLUMINATON APPARATUS - A headlamp includes the laser chip which emits excitation light, a light-emitting section which contains a phosphor, and an optical rod. The excitation light emitted from the laser chip is optically guided by the optical rod, and the light output from the optical rod enters the light-emitting section. An edge is present in the light intensity distribution of the light-emitting section. | 02-27-2014 |
20140078717 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE - Provided is an illumination device capable of reducing coherence of laser light emitted from a laser irradiation device to ensure safety to the eye at low cost. In the illumination device for exciting a fluorescent substance by irradiating the fluorescent substance with the laser light from the laser irradiation device to emit visible light for use as illumination light, a light scattering material is placed on and around an optical axis of the laser light. | 03-20-2014 |
20140362600 | HEADLIGHT SYSTEM INCORPORATING ADAPTIVE BEAM FUNCTION - A light source system comprising projection optics, which are capable of producing a far-field image of a light source. The light source comprises a fluorescent medium that when illuminated by light from laser emitters of a first waveband emits light of a second or more wavebands of longer wavelength. The resulting light emission produces a colour perceived as white. The light source is illuminated by a plurality of laser emitters arranged to illuminate the light source in an array-like manner. Control of the output of one or more of the laser emitters results in a variation of the spatial emission distribution from the light source and hence a variation of the far-field beam spot distribution via non-mechanical means. | 12-11-2014 |
20140369065 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND VEHICLE HEADLIGHT - In a head lamp | 12-18-2014 |
20150022997 | LIGHTING APPARATUS, HEADLAMP, AND MOBILE BODY - A lighting apparatus is provided that, while suppressing an increase in size, can change the illuminating direction. The lighting apparatus has: a laser generator which emits laser light; a light emitting member which is irradiated with the laser light emitted from the laser generator to emit light; an irradiated position changer which moves and thereafter stops an irradiated position at which the light emitting member is irradiated with the laser light; and a light projecting member which projects the light emitted from the light emitting member. | 01-22-2015 |
20150062943 | LIGHT-EMITTING UNIT, LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, AND VEHICLE HEADLIGHT - A light-emitting unit according to the present invention includes: a fluorescent section for emitting light upon irradiation with a laser beam; and a wavelength selection filter being provided so as to face the fluorescent section. The wavelength selection filter reflects the laser beam toward the fluorescent section and transmits fluorescence emitted from the fluorescent section. | 03-05-2015 |
20150124432 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, AND VEHICLE HEADLAMP - An illumination device | 05-07-2015 |
20150146410 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - In a light emitting device ( | 05-28-2015 |
20150251587 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND VEHICLE HEADLIGHT - A light-emitting device includes a plurality of laser elements, a light-emitting section for emitting light in response to a laser beam, and an emission control section for controlling whether each of the plurality of laser elements emits light or not. At least a part of the plurality of laser elements is positioned in such a manner that irradiation regions of the light-emitting section are positioned at least partially differently. | 09-10-2015 |
20150308644 | LIGHT PROJECTING DEVICE AND VEHICULAR HEADLAMP - A light projecting device of the present invention includes: a light source unit including (i) a laser element for emitting light, (ii) a light converging lens for converging the light emitted from the laser element, and (iii) a light emitting section for emitting light upon receipt of the light converged by the light converging lens; and a reflector for projecting light emitted from the light source unit. The light source unit is provided so as to be attached to or detached from a fixed part to which the light source unit is to be fixed. | 10-29-2015 |
20150308648 | LIGHT PROJECTING DEVICE AND VEHICULAR HEADLAMP - A light-projecting device according to the present invention includes a plurality of light source units including (i) a light emitting section that emits light upon receiving a laser beam and (ii) a reflector. Each of the light source units project light to a corresponding one of light-projected spots which is a region to which light is projected in an illuminated region in a partitioning manner, and the illuminated region is formed by combining a plurality of the light-projected spot. | 10-29-2015 |
20150309235 | OPTICAL APPARATUS, LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS, AND VEHICLE - An optical apparatus of an aspect of the present invention includes: a plurality of semiconductor laser elements each of which emits laser light; an optical fiber which has a core which guides the laser light; and an imaging section which causes a plurality of beams of laser light to form an image on an incidence end surface of the single core, the incidence end surface having an outer shape which has a first side defining a width of the core and a second side defining a height of the core, a plurality of spots which are formed on the incidence end surface having respective long axes which are aligned with each other, the long axes of the plurality of spots being aligned with the first side or the second side. | 10-29-2015 |
20150375672 | ILLUMINATING APPARATUS, VEHICLE HEADLAMP AND CONTROL SYSTEM OF VEHICLE HEADLAMP - An illuminating apparatus includes a first light source that emits blue laser light, a light emitting section that emits light by being irradiated with the blue laser light, a second light source that emits green laser light, a biaxial MEMS scanner that irradiates a part of the light emitting section with the green laser light, and a convex lens that projects the light emitted from the light emitting section to the outside. | 12-31-2015 |
20160085013 | LIGHT PROJECTION APPARATUS, LIGHT CONDENSING UNIT, AND LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS - A light projection apparatus that can produce an elongate light projection pattern is provided. The light projection apparatus includes a fluorescent member which is excited with exciting light and a light projecting member which reflects or transmits the light emanating from the fluorescent member to project it outside. The fluorescent member includes an irradiated region which is irradiated with the exciting light, and the length of the irradiated region in a first direction is greater than its length in a second direction. | 03-24-2016 |
20160116128 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND LIGHTING DEVICE - An optical guide member ( | 04-28-2016 |
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20080253014 | Magnetic disk controller and method - Among other disclosed subject matter, a magnetic disk controller can include an index detecting unit to detect an index of the magnetic disk, an error check code generating unit to, after the index detecting unit detects the index, generate a first error check code for first write data based on the first write data and a first physical address of a first sector subsequent to the detected index, and a writing control unit to cause the first error check code generated by the error check code generating unit, the first write data and the first physical address to be written into a second sector subsequent to the first sector. | 10-16-2008 |
20100088576 | MAGNETIC DISK CONTROLLER AND METHOD - Among other disclosed subject matter, a magnetic disk controller includes an interface that receives and transmits data to be written into a magnetic disk. The magnetic disk controller includes a first buffer and a second buffer each of which temporarily stores data that is to be written into at least one sector of the magnetic disk. The magnetic disk controller includes an encoding unit that encodes the data stored in any of the first buffer and the second buffer into data representing a signal to be applied to the magnetic disk. A data width M between the encoding unit and the first and second buffers is at least equal to twice a data width N between the interface and the first and second buffers. | 04-08-2010 |
20100277823 | MAGNETIC DISC CONTROLLER AND METHOD - A magnetic disk controller includes a first buffer that includes a first storage area that stores former portions of pieces of writing data, and a second storage area that stores latter portions of pieces of writing data; an encoding unit that encodes a former portion of the first piece of writing data; a second buffer that stores the encoded former portion of the first piece of writing data; and a buffer control unit that writes the encoded former portion of the first piece of writing data into a first sector of the magnetic disk. The encoding unit encodes the latter portion of the first piece of writing data. The second buffer stores the encoded latter portion of the first piece of writing data. The buffer control unit, writes the encoded latter portion of the first piece of writing data into the first sector of the magnetic disk. | 11-04-2010 |
20110279674 | DRIVE ASSIST DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a drive assist display apparatus which can realize, from imaging to displaying the front, left, right and down wide area of the backward or frontward of a vehicle, displaying in high visibility of a form of an imaged subject in accordance with purposes, improving visibility of directional and positional relationships between the imaged subject and the vehicle, and facilitating a movement of the eye line targeting to the subject on the display. It is assumed that planes are respectively perpendicular relationship with the vehicle front-back direction, the downward direction being vertically in perpendicular relationship with the vehicle front-back direction, the leftward direction being horizontally in perpendicular relationship with the vehicle front-back direction, and the rightward direction being horizontally in perpendicular relationship with the vehicle front-back direction. Square subjects assumed to be on the planes are displayed as squares or rectangles each having an area equal to one another on respective regions in accordance with the direction. The regions include a forward correction image display region | 11-17-2011 |
20120003070 | CONSTRUCTION VEHICLE - The construction vehicle is provided with an engine, a clutch, a travel device, a work equipment, a drive force setting dial, and a controller that includes: a theoretical value determination unit that determines a theoretical value, for the degree of engagement to make the upper limit value of the drive force equal to a set drive force; an operational state determination unit that determines whether the work equipment is outputting the drive force in a predetermined travel direction; a drive force determination unit that determines whether the drive force is greater than the set drive force; and a degree of engagement reduction unit that, if of operational state determination and of drive force determination are both affirmative, causes the degree of engagement to approach the theoretical value. | 01-05-2012 |
20120188267 | METHOD OF GENERATING INVERSE CONVERSION TABLE, PROGRAM FOR GENERATING INVERSE CONVERSION TABLE, IMAGE CONVERSION DEVICE, IMAGE CONVERSION METHOD, AND IMAGE CONVERSION PROGRAM - A method of generating an inverse conversion table generates an inverse conversion table T | 07-26-2012 |
20130013979 | MAGNETIC DISK CONTROLLER TO PROCESS PLURAL DATA SETS FOR RECORDING ONTO A MEDIUM - Methods and apparatus describe processing of data for recording to a storage device. An apparatus includes, in at least one aspect, a plurality of buffers and circuitry configured to encode data stored in one buffer of the plurality of buffers concurrently with storing data in another buffer of the plurality of buffers and to write the encoded data from the one buffer to a storage device concurrently with encoding the stored data in the other buffer. | 01-10-2013 |
20130038714 | DRIVE ASSIST DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a drive assist display apparatus which displays a main view | 02-14-2013 |
20130044217 | DRIVE ASSIST DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a drive assist display apparatus which displays a main view | 02-21-2013 |
20130262965 | MAGNETIC DISC CONTROLLER AND METHOD - An apparatus includes, in at least one aspect, a plurality of buffers and circuitry configured to store encoded data in one buffer of the plurality of buffers concurrently with storing other data in another buffer of the plurality of buffers and to write the stored encoded data from the one buffer to a storage device concurrently with storing encoded other data in the other buffer, replacing the stored other data in the other buffer. | 10-03-2013 |
20140002660 | BIRDS-EYE-VIEW IMAGE GENERATION DEVICE, AND BIRDS-EYE-VIEW IMAGE GENERATION METHOD | 01-02-2014 |
20140084813 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND LUMINAIRE - A power supply device includes a control circuit and a first circuit. The control circuit switches between a current control mode and a voltage control mode according to an inputted dimming signal and thus dims a light-emitting element. In the current control mode the control circuit controls an output current supplied to the light-emitting element to a target current, and in the voltage control mode the control circuit controls an output voltage supplied to the light-emitting element to a target voltage. The first circuit detects the output current and the output voltage, and sets the target voltage at which switching between the current control mode and the voltage control mode is carried out as a first voltage. | 03-27-2014 |
20140159602 | POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT AND LUMINAIRE - There is provided a power supply circuit including a power converting unit configured to convert a conduction angle controlled alternating-current voltage supplied via a power supply path and supply a direct-current voltage to a load, a control unit configured to detect a conduction angle of the alternating-current voltage and control the conversion of the voltage according to the detected conduction angle, and a power supply unit including a first branch path electrically connected to the power supply path, a semiconductor element configured to adjust an electric current flowing to the first branch path, a thermosensor configured to limit, if the temperature of the semiconductor element is equal to or higher than an upper limit temperature, an electric current flowing to the semiconductor element. The power supply unit converts the alternating-current voltage input via the first branch path and supplies a direct-current voltage to the control unit. | 06-12-2014 |
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20100265976 | SEMICONDUCTOR LAYER STRUCTURE - A III-nitride compound device which has a layer of AlInN ( | 10-21-2010 |
20110194302 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, ILLUMINATING DEVICE, AND VEHICLE HEADLIGHT - A light emitting device of the present invention includes: a laser diode group which generates a plurality of laser beams; a cylindrical light emitting element which emits incoherent light in response to the plurality of laser beams; and a light guide irradiation section which (i) guides the plurality of laser beams entered via a light incidence plane toward a light irradiation plane and (ii) irradiates the light irradiation area of the cylindrical light emitting element with the plurality of laser beams thus guided. The light irradiation plane of the light guide irradiation section has an area which is smaller than that of the light incidence plane. | 08-11-2011 |
20120268371 | Image Projection Device - A menu of commands is displayed on a screen by using visible light, and command frames are simultaneously displayed on the screen at the same positions using invisible light so as to enclose the commands. When invisible light is emitted from an indicating rod over a command intended to be operated, and when the light emitted from the indicating rod is detected within a command frame, an image projection device executes the command corresponding to the command frame. As a result, menu operation can be conducted easily and immediately without the need to perform a calibration even when the positional relationship between the projection device and a screen has been shifted. | 10-25-2012 |
20140029279 | HEADLIGHT SYSTEM INCORPORATING ADAPTIVE BEAM FUNCTION - A light source system comprising projection optics, which are capable of producing a far-field image of a light source. The light source comprises a fluorescent medium that when illuminated by light from laser emitters of a first waveband emits light of a second or more wavebands of longer wavelength. The resulting light emission produces a colour perceived as white. The light source is illuminated by a plurality of laser emitters arranged to illuminate the light source in an array-like manner. Control of the output of one or more of the laser emitters results in a variation of the spatial emission distribution from the light source and hence a variation of the far-field beam spot distribution. Further, fine variation of the far-field beam spot distribution may be achieved by re-direction of the laser beams by separate control methods. | 01-30-2014 |
20140029280 | HEADLIGHT SYSTEM INCORPORATING ADAPTIVE BEAM FUNCTION - A light source system comprising a projection lens, which is capable of producing a far-field image of a light source. The light source comprises a photoluminescent material that when illuminated by light from laser emitters of a first waveband emits light of a second or more wavebands of longer wavelength. The resulting light emission produces a colour perceived as white. The light source is illuminated by a plurality of laser emitters arranged to illuminate the light source in an array-like manner from the front side. Control of the output of one or more of the laser emitters results in a variation of the spatial emission distribution from the light source and hence a variation of the far-field beam spot distribution via non-mechanical means. An optical system is arranged to image light emitted from the photoluminescent material into the far-field, which optical system comprises a converging lens. | 01-30-2014 |
20140029281 | LIGHT SOURCE FOR AN AUTOMOTIVE HEADLIGHT WITH ADAPTIVE FUNCTION - A light source system operable in at least first and second modes to provide at least and first and second different far field illumination patterns, the system comprising: a photoluminescent material; and a light beam generator for generating, in the first mode, a first set of light beams for illuminating respective first regions of the photoluminescent material and for generating, in the second mode, a second set of light beams for illuminating respective second regions of the photoluminescent material, the first and second sets of light beams being independently controllable. In the first mode, the light beam generator generates the first set of light beams such that a first beam of the first set of light beams illuminates a first illumination region of the photoluminescent material having one side that is inclined with respect to another side of the illumination region. | 01-30-2014 |
20140185309 | LIGHTING APPARATUS, HEADLAMP, AND MOBILE BODY - A lighting apparatus is provided that, while suppressing an increase in size, can change the illuminating direction. The lighting apparatus has: a laser generator which emits laser light; a light emitting member which is irradiated with the laser light emitted from the laser generator to emit light; an irradiated position changer which moves and thereafter stops an irradiated position at which the light emitting member is irradiated with the laser light; and a light projecting member which projects the light emitted from the light emitting member. | 07-03-2014 |
20140340918 | LASER AND PHOSPHOR BASED LIGHT SOURCE FOR IMPROVED SAFETY - A light source system comprising an optical system which is arranged to project light from a light source into the far-field. The light source comprises a mixture of fluorescent materials which are sensitive to one of two wavebands in either the UV or blue part of the spectrum. The combination of the light emitted from both sets of fluorescent materials combined such that the resulting colour is perceived as white. The light source is illuminated by a plurality of laser emitters comprised of both emitters ( | 11-20-2014 |
20140369064 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting portion that emits fluorescence in response to excitation light incident on a surface of the light-emitting portion, and a reflector that defines a light-emitting region on the surface of the light-emitting portion, the fluorescence being emitted from the light-emitting region. The excitation light has a top-hat energy intensity distribution on the surface of the light-emitting portion. | 12-18-2014 |
20150241680 | Image Measurement Device - The image measurement device includes: a side-emitting illumination device that has a light amount distribution sharply changing in a photographing axis direction of a camera, and irradiates a workpiece on a movable stage with illumination light from a side; a measurement target place specifying part that specifies a measurement target place on a workpiece image; an illumination position adjusting part that moves the side-emitting illumination device in the photographing axis direction, to adjust a relative position of the side-emitting illumination device to the movable stage; a relative position identifying part that obtains a change in luminance in the measurement target place with respect to two or more of the workpiece images photographed by making the relative position different, to identify a relative position; an imaging control part that controls the illumination position adjusting part based on the identified relative position and drives the side-emitting illumination device. | 08-27-2015 |
20150252964 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND ILLUMINATION APPARATUS - In a light emitting section, a phosphor layer including a first phosphor particle which receives excitation light and emits fluorescence with a first peak wavelength and a phosphor layer including a second phosphor particle which receives the excitation light and emits fluorescence with a second peak wavelength are stacked. In the light emitting section, when an upper surface is a surface from which illumination light is mostly emitted, the illumination light including the fluorescence emitted from the first phosphor particle and the fluorescence emitted from the second phosphor particle, a reflective member to reduce leakage of fluorescence is provided on a side surface of the light emitting section. | 09-10-2015 |
20150362404 | METHOD FOR MEASURING LIGHT PHYSICAL CONSTANTS AND DEVICE FOR ESTIMATING LIGHT PHYSICAL CONSTANTS - A light physical constant measurement method includes: virtually dividing an optical transmission medium along a propagation direction to set a plurality of first segments; and estimating light physical constants of the plurality of first segments based on the result of a first propagation simulation that uses a model in which an input optical signal of each of the plurality of intensities propagates sequentially through the plurality of first segments, and in the estimating of light physical constants of the plurality of first segments, the light physical constants of the plurality of first segments are searched for using an evaluation function of evaluating a difference between a measured power spectrum of an output optical signal and a power spectrum of the output optical signal obtained as a result of the first propagation simulation, to estimate the light physical constants of the plurality of first segments. | 12-17-2015 |
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20080207797 | Anti-Fogging Coating Solution and Anti-Fogging Article - An anti-fogging coating solution comprising a homopolymer of a repeating unit derived from an ethylenic monomer having a hydroxyl group in the side chain or a copolymer of the above repeating unit and a repeating unit derived from an ethylenic monomer having an epoxy group, alkoxycarbonyl group, carboxyl group, amido group or amino group in the side chain as a resin component. A film formed from the coating solution of the present invention has excellent scratch resistance, initial anti-fogging property and anti-fogging retainability. | 08-28-2008 |
20090074483 | IMAGE TRANSFER DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image transfer device according to the present invention applies a transfer bias voltage to a toner image developed on a surface of an image carrying member, the transfer bias voltage having an opposite polarity from the polarity of an electric charge of the toner image, by a transfer roller from a power supply device, and electrostatically transfers the toner image to a transfer medium. A resistance element is connected between the power supply device and the transfer roller in series. The resistance element has a value of resistance which varies little with environmental variation, and a ratio between the value of resistance and a synthetic value of resistance of a transfer device including the conductive roller is set to a value which restrains variations in transfer efficiency of the electrostatic transfer with respect to variations in the synthetic value of resistance with the environmental variations. | 03-19-2009 |
20090254793 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus realizes an FEC function. In the communication apparatus, a T_FEC-pattern comparing unit calculates a code distance between a pattern of an input FEC frame falling in a certain detection window and the pre-defined T_FEC pattern for each of the detection windows one after another. Moreover, a code-distance comparing unit compares the code distances with each other to detect a code for boundary identification T_FEC between an IEEE802.3 frame and a FEC parity. Finally, a boundary-signal generating unit generates, based on the detected code for boundary identification T_FEC, a T_FEC boundary signal that indicates a detection position of the T_FEC in the input FEC frame. | 10-08-2009 |
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20110269621 | Porous body and method of producing the same - The present invention provides a porous body having a pH adjusting function. This porous body can be obtained by a method including the steps of preparing a mixture including a glass powder A containing an alkali component, a powder B including at least one crystal selected from a) a clay mineral that has a layered crystal structure and b) a zeolite, and a powder C of a water-soluble inorganic salt, the mixture containing 0.05 to 3 parts by mass of the powder B and 0.2 to 4 parts by mass of the powder C with respect to 1 part by mass of the glass powder A; forming the mixture into a shaped body; firing the shaped body at a temperature lower than a melting point of the water-soluble inorganic salt and equal to or higher than a softening point of the glass contained in the glass powder A to obtain a fired body; and leaching the water-soluble inorganic salt from the fired body to obtain a granular porous body. The main component of the powder B is at least one crystal selected from a 1:1 type mineral, a 2:1 type mineral other than a smectite mineral, a mixed-layer type mineral, a 2:1 ribbon type mineral, and a zeolite. | 11-03-2011 |
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20130058666 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus transfers an unfixed developer image carried on an image carrier on a sheet of paper in a transfer section and fixes the unfixed developer image to the sheet of paper in a fixing section, and includes: a paper feeding section which accommodates a sheet of paper to be reused where the developer image is erased using a first developer including decolorizing function and feeds a paper to the transfer section, and a management information generation section which forms on the sheet of paper a developer adhesion quantity of the developer image formed on the sheet of paper to be reused as the management information using the first developer. | 03-07-2013 |
20130063393 | FUNCTIONAL LAMINATED PLATE, AND TRANSPARENT ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE LAMINATED PLATE FOR TOUCH PANEL AND TOUCH PANEL PRODUCED USING SAME - Disclosed is a functional laminated sheet having flexibility, high body and good die cutting workability. The functional laminated sheet comprises a laminated sheet composed of at least two plastic films bound to each other through an adhesive layer and a functional layer formed on one surface or both surfaces of at least one of the plastic films, wherein the adhesive layer has a Martens hardness of 260 N/mm | 03-14-2013 |
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20160131998 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FORMING AN IMAGE WITH A PLURALITY OF OVERLAPPED IMAGES - An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit configured to form a first image to be transferred to a sheet with a first toner that is decolorizable and has a first brightness, and a second image forming unit configured to form a second image to be transferred to the sheet with a second toner that has a second brightness that is greater than the first brightness. At least a part of the first image transferred to the sheet is formed above the second image transferred to the sheet. | 05-12-2016 |
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20090176059 | Thermal Barrier Coating Member, Method for Producing the Same, Thermal Barrier Coating Material, Gas Turbine, and Sintered Body - There are provided a thermal barrier coating material and a thermal barrier coating member that can suppress spalling when used at a high temperature and have a high thermal barrier effect, a method for producing the same, a turbine member coated with a thermal barrier coating, and a gas turbine. The thermal barrier coating member comprises a heat resistant substrate, a bond coat layer formed thereon, and a ceramic layer formed further thereon, wherein the ceramic layer comprises an oxide which consists of an oxide represented by the general formula A | 07-09-2009 |
20100217540 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING PHYSICAL PROPERTY OF CERAMIC, METHOD FOR ESTIMATING PHYSICAL PROPERTY OF THERMAL BARRIER COATING, METHOD FOR ESTIMATING REMAINING LIFETIME OF THERMAL BARRIER COATING, METHOD FOR ESTIMATING REMAINING LIFETIME OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE MEMBER, AND PHYSICAL PROPERTY ACQUIRING APPARATUS - A method is provided by which physical properties, in particular, the Young's modulus and thermal conductivity of a ceramic layer of a thermal barrier coating formed on a high-temperature member are accurately estimated in a short period of time. A method for estimating a physical property of a ceramic includes a step of calculating the Larson-Miller parameter from the time for which and the temperature at which the ceramic is heated; a step of acquiring the porosity of the ceramic corresponding to the calculated Larson-Miller parameter, based on the calculated Larson-Miller parameter and a diagram correlating the Larson-Miller parameter and the porosity obtained from samples having the same composition as the ceramic; and a step of acquiring the physical property of the ceramic corresponding to the acquired porosity, based on the acquired porosity and a diagram correlating the porosity and the physical property obtained from samples having the same composition as the ceramic. | 08-26-2010 |
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20110262770 | THERMAL BARRIER COATING MATERIAL, THERMAL BARRIER COATING, TURBINE MEMBER, AND GAS TURBINE - A thermal barrier coating material that exhibits superior high-temperature crystal stability to YSZ, as well as a high degree of toughness and an excellent thermal barrier effect. Also provided are a thermal barrier coating, which has a ceramic layer formed using the thermal barrier coating material and exhibits excellent durability to heat cycling, and a turbine member and a gas turbine which are each provided with the thermal barrier coating. The thermal barrier coating material comprises mainly ZrO | 10-27-2011 |
20130143224 | METHOD FOR DETECTING NUCLEIC ACID, AND DEVICE OR KIT - A method and a device or kit for detecting a nucleic acid, which enable simple and precise visual detection of a nucleic acid amplified by an nucleic acid amplification method, without necessity of special devices are provided. The method for detecting a nucleic acid in a sample comprises: contacting a sample with a dye to react with each other; and observing a substance produced by the reaction with visible light, and evaluating the presence or absence of a nucleic acid by eye. The device or kit for detecting a nucleic acid in a sample comprises: a carrier that holds a dye which can bind to a nucleic acid; a path for passing a sample through the carrier; and an evaluation part for observing a substance produced by the reaction between the sample and the dye with visible light, and evaluating the presence or absence of a nucleic acid by eye. | 06-06-2013 |
20130252341 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING NUCLEIC ACID, AND KIT - The present invention provides a method for detecting a nucleic acid, by which a multi-stranded nucleic acid amplified by a nucleic acid amplification method is detected easily and with a high degree of accuracy without the need for specialized equipment, and also provides a nucleic acid detection device. Provided are a method for detecting a nucleic acid under visible light via a color reaction produced by contact between a chromogenic leuco dye and the multi-stranded nucleic acid, as well as a nucleic acid detection device using this method. | 09-26-2013 |