| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090193893 | ANGULAR VELOCITY SENSOR - Provided is an angular velocity sensor including: a reference vibrator supported so as to generate reciprocating rotational vibration about a first rotation axis as a center; a detection vibrator supported by the reference vibrator so as to generate reciprocating rotational vibration about a second rotation axis, which is different from the first rotation axis, as a center; a reference vibration generating unit for allowing the reference vibrator to generate reciprocating rotational vibration; and a detection unit for detecting a displacement amount of the detection vibrator with respect to the reference vibrator, which is in association with the reciprocating rotational vibration of the detection vibrator. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090299185 | DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND APPARATUS - A novel diagnostic ultrasound apparatus has a plurality of ultrasound probes | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100043546 | SENSOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a sensor including a movably supported movable element and an opposing member. The sensor detects a relative positional relationship between the movable element and the opposing member which are provided with a spacing therebetween The opposing member has an impurity-doped portion which is provided to one of an opposing portion which is opposed to the movable element and an adjoining portion which adjoins the opposing portion. At least a part of the impurity-doped portion is formed on an opposite surface opposite to a surface which is opposed to the movable element, from which opposite surface an electrical wiring is led out. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20110083511 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, ULTRASONIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR ULTRASONIC APPARATUS - A signal processing apparatus scans a beam of elastic waves into an object to be examined, acquires received waveform data of a plurality of scan lines, and performs signal processing to form a tomographic image of said object to be examined from the received waveform data of the plurality of scan lines. The signal processing apparatus includes a scan line correlation calculation part ( | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110098568 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD USING ULTRASOUND AND ABERRATION CORRECTION METHOD - An ultrasound image forming method comprises a first step of receiving a first signal reflected from the object, a second step of obtaining an aberration correction value based on the first signal thus received, a third step of receiving a second signal reflected from the object when a second ultrasound corrected based on the aberration correction value is transmitted to the object, and a fourth step of forming an image from the aberration correction value and the second signal. The center frequency of the second ultrasound is between 0.5 MHz and 20 MHz, the center frequency of the first ultrasound is between 3/16 and 9/20 of the center frequency of the second ultrasound. By this method, an accurate aberration correction value can be obtained and an ultrasound imaging with high resolution can be achieved even if aberrations are large and difficult to correct. | 04-28-2011 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080264167 | SENSOR - A sensor includes a detecting oscillator supported in such a manner that the detecting oscillator is allowed to oscillate; first and second electrodes; a detecting electrode facing the first and second electrodes; and signal supplying units configured to supply first and second AC signals respectively to the first and second electrodes. Either the first and second electrodes or the detecting electrode is provided on the detecting oscillator. The first and second AC signals respectively supplied to the first and second electrodes by the signal supplying units cause the detecting oscillator to be maintained at a neutral position for detection without being displaced when no physical quantity is input. When the detecting oscillator is displaced, an input physical quantity is detected on the basis of a signal corresponding to charges induced at the detecting electrode by the first and second AC signals supplied respectively to the first and second electrodes. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080306371 | INTRAVITAL-INFORMATION IMAGING APPARATUS - An intravital-information imaging apparatus includes light sources for irradiating a living body with light, and acoustic-wave detectors that detect acoustic waves generated from a light absorber having absorbed part of energy of the light from the light sources, the light absorber existing in the living body. Furthermore, the intravital-information imaging apparatus includes signal processors that calculate information representing a distribution of optical characteristic values of the living body using sound pressures of the acoustic waves generated from the light absorber. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090005685 | ULTRASONIC PROBE AND INSPECTION APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH THE ULTRASONIC PROBE - An ultrasonic probe includes a light irradiating portion configured to radiate light for generating ultrasonic waves from a light absorber, an ultrasonic transducing portion configured to transduce the ultrasonic waves to an electric signal, and a light guide member configured to introduce light from a light source to the light irradiating portion. A light irradiating region of the light irradiating portion is included within an ultrasonic receiving region of the ultrasonic transducing portion. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20100248166 | Deflector Array, Exposure Apparatus, and Device Manufacturing Method - A deflector array includes a plurality of deflectors, which deflect charged particle beams, arrayed on a substrate. Each of the plurality of deflectors includes a single opening formed in the substrate, and each of the plurality of deflectors includes a pair of electrodes that oppose each other through the opening and are configured to deflect a single charged particle beam. The plurality of deflectors are arrayed such that a length of the pair of electrodes in a longitudinal direction thereof is not less than a distance between centers of two of the plurality of deflectors that are located nearest to each other. The plurality of deflectors is arrayed to form a checkerboard lattice, and two openings of the two of the plurality of deflectors overlap in the longitudinal direction. | 09-30-2010 |