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| 20090074452 | COUPLING PART, PHOTOSENSITIVE DRUM, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, wherein the main assembly includes a motor, a main assembly side gear for receiving driving force from the motor, a hole defined by twisted surfaces, the hole being substantially coaxial with the gear, and a main assembly side grounding contact provided in the hole, the process cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum; process mechanisms actable on the photosensitive drum; and a projection engageable with the twisted surfaces, the projection being provided at a longitudinal end of the photosensitive drum, wherein when the main assembly side gear rotates with the hole and projection engaged with each other, rotational driving force is transmitted from the gear to the photosensitive drum through engagement between the hole and the projection; and a cartridge side grounding contact electrically connected with the electrophotographic photosensitive drum for electrically grounding the electrophotographic photosensitive drum when the process cartridge is mounted to the main assembly of the apparatus, the cartridge side grounding contact being provided on the projection so as to be electrically connectable with the main assembly side grounding contact | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090074453 | COUPLING PART, PHOTOSENSITIVE DRUM, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, wherein the main assembly includes a motor, a main assembly side gear for receiving driving force from the motor, a hole defined by twisted surfaces, the hole being substantially coaxial with the gear, and a main assembly side grounding contact provided in the hole, the process cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum; process mechanisms actable on the photosensitive drum; and a projection engageable with the twisted surfaces, the projection being provided at a longitudinal end of the photosensitive drum, wherein when the main assembly side gear rotates with the hole and projection engaged with each other, rotational driving force is transmitted from the gear to the photosensitive drum through engagement between the hole and the projection; and a cartridge side grounding contact electrically connected with the electrophotographic photosensitive drum for electrically grounding the electrophotographic photosensitive drum when the process cartridge is mounted to the main assembly of the apparatus, the cartridge side grounding contact being provided on the projection so as to be electrically connectable with the main assembly side grounding contact | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090290908 | COUPLING PART, PHOTOSENSITIVE DRUM, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, wherein the main assembly includes a motor, a main assembly side gear for receiving driving force from the motor, a hole defined by twisted surfaces, the hole being substantially coaxial with the gear, and a main assembly side grounding contact provided in the hole, the process cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum; process mechanisms actable on the photosensitive drum; and a projection engageable with the twisted surfaces, the projection being provided at a longitudinal end of the photosensitive drum, wherein when the main assembly side gear rotates with the hole and projection engaged with each other, rotational driving force is transmitted from the gear to the photosensitive drum through engagement between the hole and the projection; and a cartridge side grounding contact electrically connected with the electrophotographic photosensitive drum for electrically grounding the electrophotographic photosensitive drum when the process cartridge is mounted to the main assembly of the apparatus, the cartridge side grounding contact being provided on the projection so as to be electrically connectable with the main assembly side grounding contact | 11-26-2009 |
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| 20080316766 | WAVEGUIDE AND LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A waveguide based on a three-dimensional photonic crystal is arranged to provide wave-guiding in a single mode and a mode having a field strength distribution with unimodality in a plane perpendicular to the wave-guiding direction, to thereby enable wave-guiding in a desired frequency band, wherein the three-dimensional photonic crystal has a plurality of line defect members which include a first line defect member made of a medium having a refractive index not smaller than that of the columnar structures and formed in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the columnar structures extend, and a second line defect member formed in the same direction as the first line defect member. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090092368 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL - At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a method for fabricating a three-dimensional photonic crystal. In the method for fabricating the three-dimensional photonic crystal, a plurality of layers can be defined as one unit, and the total thickness of the one unit can be controlled such that an average layer-thickness of the plurality of layers in the one unit is about equal to the ideal layer-thickness so that a photonic band-gap occurs in a desired wavelength region. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090208166 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL PERIODIC STRUCTURE INCLUDING ANTI-REFLECTION STRUCTURE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - The three-dimensional structure includes a first waveguide (line defect) in a three-dimensional photonic crystal formed by periodically arranging first and second media, which causes light to propagate therein in a first guide mode, a second waveguide (line defect) in the three-dimensional photonic crystal, which causes light to propagate therein in a second guide mode, reflective portions provided in the first and second waveguides to reflect parts of the lights propagating in the first and second waveguides, and
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| 20090232444 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL PERIODIC STRUCTURE INCLUDING ANTI-REFLECTION STRUCTURE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - The three-dimensional structure includes first and second waveguides, a resonator, a first region. The waveguides cause light to propagate therein in a first guide mode. The second waveguide and the first region are mutually connected such that at least part of the light propagating in the second waveguide is coupled with light propagating in the first region in a guide mode different from the first guide mode. Light present in the resonator is coupled with the lights respectively propagating in the waveguides. A condition of −1≦cos(φ)<0 is satisfied, where φ represents a phase difference between one of first and second lights whose intensity is higher than that of the other and third light. The first light is light reflected at a connection region between the first waveguide and the resonator. The second and third lights are lights coupled with the light present in the resonator and propagate in the waveguides. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20110025201 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus, which has a high contrast and can suppress the contrast variation and the effect of unwanted reflections regardless of the environment, comprises a luminescent layer; an excitation source which excites the luminescent layer; a front layer which obtains display light by transmitting light generated by the luminescent layer excited by the excitation source; and a periodic structure which is provided between the front layer and the luminescent layer and has a periodic refractive index distribution in a surface parallel to the front layer, wherein the periodic structure satisfies a relation of a following expression and the periodic interval of the periodic structure is 1 μm or greater and 3 μm or less. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110147701 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device includes a display surface constituted of a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels having a light-emitting layer, a front panel arranged at the ambient light entering side relative to the light-emitting layer, and a structure layer arranged between the light-emitting layer and the front panel. The structure layer has a structure containing particles arranged in a surrounding region and showing a refractive index distribution in a plane parallel to the display surface, each of the particles being constituted of a core and a shell forming an outer peripheral region relative to the core. The core, the shell, and the front panel and/or the surrounding region have different respective refractive indexes satisfying the requirement of N | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110156574 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS USING PHOSPHOR PARTICLES - The image display apparatus includes a light transmissive substrate, and plural pixels arranged on a further inner side than the substrate. Each pixel includes a light emission layer in which phosphor particles are dispersed in a background medium having a same refractive index as that of the phosphor particle, and an excitation source exciting the phosphor particles to cause them to emit light. Each pixel further includes a refractive index distribution structure disposed between the substrate and the light emission layer and having a periodic refractive index distribution in a direction along an inner surface of the substrate. | 06-30-2011 |
