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20150062683 | OPTICAL DEFLECTION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical deflection device includes a mirror having a reflection face for deflecting light that enters the reflection face; and a support member to support the mirror including a torsion bar having one end being continuously connected to the mirror; a beam being continuously connected to another end of the torsion bar; and a plurality of piezoelectric elements disposed on the beam including a first piezoelectric element and a second piezoelectric element. | 03-05-2015 |
20150077823 | OPTICAL DEFLECTION DEVICE, APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPTICAL DEFLECTING DEVICE - An optical deflecting device includes a mirror having a reflecting surface and a support unit to support the mirror. The support unit includes a first drive unit. The first drive unit includes a plurality of continuously meandering first beams and a plurality of first piezoelectric members respectively provided to the plurality of first beams to swing the mirror around a first axis to deflect light incident on the reflecting surface of the mirror. Two voltages having non-similar waveforms are respectively applied in parallel to each two of the first piezoelectric members respectively provided to adjacent two of the first beams. | 03-19-2015 |
20160109697 | LIGHT DEFLECTOR, TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, OPTICAL SCANNER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A light deflector is provided including a mirror unit having a light reflection plane, a movable frame to support the mirror unit, a support frame disposed to surround the movable frame, a pair of serpentine beams each disposed between the movable frame and the support frame on both sides of the movable frame to form a turning shape, each of the serpentine beams having one end attached to the support frame, and another end attached to the movable frame, and a vibration damper provided on a portion that moves due to deformation of the serpentine beams caused by application of voltage being transferred | 04-21-2016 |
20160139404 | LIGHT DEFLECTOR, AND DEVICES INCORPORATING THE SAME - A light deflector includes a mirror unit having a light reflection plane, a base, a pair of elastic supporting members each having one end attached to the mirror unit and the other end attached to the base and configured to support the mirror unit in a rotatable and oscillatable manner, and a pair of drive bars each having one end attached to another end of a corresponding one of the elastic supporting members and the other end attached to the base in a cantilevered state. The mirror unit rotates and oscillates about a center of rotation as deformation of the drive bars is transmitted to the mirror unit through the elastic supporting members. The center of rotation of the mirror unit is within a range of −0.05×D to −0.01×D, where D denotes a diameter of the mirror unit. | 05-19-2016 |
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20100001342 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes: forming a LDMOS region, an offset drain MOS region, and a CMOS region; simultaneously forming a first well in the LDMOS region and the offset drain MOS region; simultaneously forming a second well in the first well of the LDMOS region and the CMOS region; and forming a second well in the CMOS region, wherein a depth of the first well is larger than a depth of the second well and the second well is a retrograde well formed by a high energy ion implantation method. | 01-07-2010 |
20100001345 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type; a well having a second conductivity type and provided inside the semiconductor substrate; a first impurity region having the first conductivity type and provided within the well; a second impurity region having the second conductivity type, provided inside the well and away from the first impurity region; and a third impurity region having a first conductivity type, provided surrounding the well and away from the second impurity region. In this semiconductor device, the well is formed to be deeper than the first impurity region, the second impurity region, and the third impurity region, in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate; and a minimum distance between the first impurity region and the second impurity region is smaller than a minimum distance between the second impurity region and the third impurity region. | 01-07-2010 |
20130062694 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH HIGH-VOLTAGE BREAKDOWN PROTECTION - A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type; a well having a second conductivity type and provided inside the semiconductor substrate; a first impurity region having the first conductivity type and provided within the well; a second impurity region having the second conductivity type, provided inside the well and away from the first impurity region; and a third impurity region having a first conductivity type, provided surrounding the well and away from the second impurity region. In this semiconductor device, the well is formed to be deeper than the first impurity region, the second impurity region, and the third impurity region, in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate; and a minimum distance between the first impurity region and the second impurity region is smaller than a minimum distance between the second impurity region and the third impurity region. | 03-14-2013 |
20150287726 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes a P-channel DMOS transistor provided with an N-type gate electrode, a P-channel MOS transistor provided with a P-type gate electrode, and an N-channel MOS transistor provided with an N-type gate electrode. The N-type gate electrode of the P-channel DMOS transistor desirably has a first end portion that is located on a source side of the P-channel DMOS transistor, a second end portion that is located on a drain side of the P-channel DMOS transistor, and a P-type diffusion layer at the first end portion. | 10-08-2015 |
20160118890 | CIRCUIT APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE - An output transistor of an output circuit that outputs a large current may have a partial fault, but such a partial fault may not be detected because the transistor is very large. To address this, the invention provides an output circuit in which one output transistor is divided into a plurality of transistors, and a plurality of pads that are connected correspondingly to the transistors are provided. Fault detection can be performed on the plurality of transistors by using each pad. At least some of the pads are connected to one same output terminal of the substrate or the like. | 04-28-2016 |
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20140185251 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a panel laminated body including a panel laminated body including a plurality of panels stacked together, flexible printed circuit boards each being connected to a corresponding one of respective short sides of the plurality of panels disposed in one of side portions of the panel laminated body, and an extension portion formed in at least a part of the flexible printed circuit boards so as to extend outwardly from a side area of the panel laminated body in a short-side direction of the panels in the side area. At least a pair of the extension portions is electrically connected together in a state where the pair of the extension portions is superimposed on each other and is folded in the side area of the panel laminated body. | 07-03-2014 |
20140192279 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display panel, a display area, a non-display area, a substrate member attached to the display panel with an adhesive layer interposed therebetween and including a touch panel and an operation section formed in the non-display area and used for performing an input operation on the touch panel, a step portion formed at least by a side portion of the display panel and a side portion of the adhesive layer such that a void is generated in a part between the display panel and the substrate member, and a light source unit disposed in the void such that at least a part of the light source unit is superimposed on the display panel in the step portion and configured to supply illumination light to the operation section to light the operation section. | 07-10-2014 |
20150042902 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY SYSTEM INCLUDING LIGHTING DEVICE - A lighting device includes a light source; a light guide plate including a side surface, on which light of the light source is incident, and a front surface extending perpendicular to the side surface; and a plurality of light emitting regions disposed on the front surface to be spaced apart from one another, and having optical patterns for emitting light from an inside of the light guide plate. | 02-12-2015 |
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20110198949 | VIBRATION GENERATOR - A vibration generator making a closed loop of a magnetic circuit of a permanent magnet to obtain a high vibrating force while kept small in size, including a reciprocating vibrator having a ring-shaped permanent magnet in a center hole of a ring-shaped weight, a first and second plate springs supporting this reciprocating vibrator at a recessed case and end plate to be able to elastically displace in a thickness direction spanning a first and a second end faces, a tubular toroidal coil passing through a center hole of the permanent magnet and generating a reciprocating vibrating magnetic field for reciprocatingly driving the permanent magnet in the thickness direction, and a columnar core passing through this toroidal coil, the ring-shaped permanent magnet being magnetized in the thickness direction, and the toroidal coil having a lower toroidal coil and an adjoining reversely wound series connected upper toroidal coil coaxial with the same. | 08-18-2011 |
20130221767 | VIBRATION GENERATOR - A vibration generator includes a housing, a vibrating body, and a leaf spring. The leaf spring includes a connection portion connected to the vibrating body at one longitudinal end of the leaf spring, an attachment portion attached to a circumferential wall portion at the other longitudinal end of the leaf spring and an intermediate portion formed between the connection portion and the attachment portion to extend around the vibrating body. The connection portion and the attachment portion are arranged along a direction intersecting a vibration direction of the vibrating body at the opposite sides of the vibrating body. The intermediate portion is arranged in an outside region around the vibrating body to extend across the vibration direction of the vibrating body. | 08-29-2013 |
20130229070 | VIBRATION GENERATOR - A vibration generator includes a housing, a vibrating body arranged inside of a circumferential wall portion of the housing, and a band-like leaf spring arranged between the vibrating body and the circumferential wall portion. The leaf spring includes a connection portion connected to the vibrating body, an attachment portion attached to the circumferential wall portion of the leaf spring and an intermediate portion formed between the connection portion and the attachment portion to extend around the vibrating body. The connection portion and the attachment portion are arranged at one transverse side and the other transverse side of the vibrating body along a direction intersecting a vibration direction of the vibrating body. The intermediate portion is arranged in a vibration-direction outer region of the vibrating body and formed in a single layer to extend across the vibration direction of the vibrating body. | 09-05-2013 |
20130241321 | VIBRATION GENERATOR - A vibration generator includes a circumferential wall portion, a vibrating body arranged inside the circumferential wall portion in an opposing relationship with a coil and configured to reciprocatingly vibrate in one direction, a band-shaped leaf spring arranged between the vibrating body and the circumferential wall portion to support the vibrating body on the circumferential wall portion, and a damper member including a base portion attached to one of the vibrating body and the leaf spring and a tip end portion extending toward the other of the vibrating body and the leaf spring. The tip end portion of the damper member makes sliding contact with the leaf sprig or the vibrating body. | 09-19-2013 |
20130272550 | VIBRATION GENERATOR - A vibration generator includes a coil arranged to generate magnetic fields, a ring-shaped yoke arranged to amplify an electromagnetic force generated by the magnetic fields in cooperation with the coil, a vibrating body arranged radially inward of the coil to move in a thrust direction, a ring-shaped magnet arranged in an outer peripheral portion of the vibrating body and opposed to the coil, and a spring arranged to support the vibrating body on at least one side of the vibrating body in thrust-direction. | 10-17-2013 |
20130278084 | VIBRATION GENERATOR - A vibration generator includes a coil, a vibrating body, a spring, and a shaft. The coil is arranged to generate magnetic fields. The vibrating body includes a magnet and a weight. The vibrating body is arranged to be vibrated in a thrust direction by an interaction of magnetic fields generated from the magnet and magnetic fields generated from the coil. The spring is arranged to support the vibrating body at one thrust-direction side of the vibrating body. The shaft is extended in the thrust direction through the vibrating body. The shaft is arranged to allow the vibrating body to slide along the shaft in the thrust direction. | 10-24-2013 |