Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Akiko Fujiuchi

Atsushi Ito

Kazuya Makabe

Masaki Wakisaka

Taku Matsuzawa

Daisuke Ohama

Hironobu Arimoto

Akira Ota

Toshiaki Shoji

Seiichi Matsumura

Koichiro Okamura

Tatsuya Kunieda

Ichihiro Abe

Keisuke Nakamura

Hideki Matsui

Hiroyuki Kawano

Masaki Ono

Hiroyuki Asano

Tatsuki Okamoto

Masaaki Okada

Toru Aramaki

Tadashi Minobe

Masaru Imaizumi

Nobutaka Kobayashi

Naoyuki Tokida

Masatoshi Kodama

Akio Masuda

Shunsuke Takatori

A solid-state imaging device includes blue photoelectric conversion elements, green photoelectric conversion elements, red photoelectric conversion elements, infrared photoelectric conversion elements, and an infrared cut filter (IRCF) is layered on the blue photoelectric conversion elements, the green photoelectric conversion elements, and the red photoelectric conversion elements with a uniform film thickness. Color filters that respectively transmit the blue light, the green light, and the red light are layered on the IRCF so as to correspond with the blue photoelectric conversion elements, the green photoelectric conversion elements, and the red photoelectric conversion elements. A visible-light shielding filter is layered on the infrared photoelectric conversion elements. An ultraviolet cut filter layered between the photoelectric conversion elements other than the infrared photoelectric conversion elements and the IRCF, and between the infrared photoelectric conversion elements and the visible-light shielding filter with a uniform film thickness.

Solid-state imaging device and image sensor for suppressing or preventing leaking of light into adjoining pixels

A light receiving unit including: a sensor board assembly on which plural sensor tips are arrayed in a line in a longitudinal direction of the sensor board and mounted on the sensor board; and a sensor plate on which plural of the sensor board assemblies are arrayed and mounted in a line in the longitudinal direction. The sensor chips include plural pixels formed in a line in the longitudinal direction. At longitudinal ends of the sensor board assembly, the sensor chips protrude outward in the longitudinal direction from the longitudinal ends. Between the facing sensor chips of the adjacent sensor board assemblies, the facing sensor chips mounted at the longitudinal ends, the ends of the facing sensor chips are spaced at a predetermined interval. The sensor board includes convex portions, at the longitudinal ends, protruding in the longitudinal direction. The sensor chips are mounted at the convex portion.

Light-receiving unit and image sensor

A light guide includes a first exit portion emitting first exiting light, a second exit portion emitting second exiting light in a different direction than the first exiting light, and a reflecting portion reflecting light entering the light guide to each of the first and second exit portions. The first and second exit portions respectively have first and second curved surfaces each having a convex cross section perpendicular to the long axis direction. The second exit portion is connected to the first exit portion in the direction perpendicular to the long axis direction. The reflecting portion is provided, in a plane facing the first exit portion and the second exit portion, at a position shifted in the direction perpendicular to the long axis direction from a position where a normal to the plane passes through a connection portion between the first and second exit portions.

Light guide, light source device, and image reading device

An image sensor includes: a lens configured to focus light irradiated toward an object to be read and reflected by the object to be read; a sensor configured to receive light focused by the lens; a sensor board configured to mount thereon the sensor; a board retaining plate, having a casing attachment surface extending in the X direction and a sensor board attachment reference surface that is in contact with the +Y side of the sensor board and is formed in a side surface of the casing attachment surface, and configured to retain the sensor board; and a first casing configured to fix or retain the board retaining plate by fastening of a surface of the casing attachment surface.

Image sensor

A lighting apparatus includes a first illumination portion and a second illumination portion. The first illumination portion and the second illumination portion respectively include a bar-like light guide whose shape of an end face of an end portion includes a part of a circle, an ellipse or a parabola, and light source elements that are provided to face the end face of the end portion of the light guide. In the light guide of the second illumination portion, light enters a determined range in which a focus of the shape of the end face of the end portion of the light guide is included. In the light guide of the first illumination portion, light enters a range that is not the determined range in which the focus of the shape of the end face of the light guide is included.

Lighting apparatus and image reading apparatus

Frame for image-sensor light source

Growing community of inventors

Chiyoda-ku, Japan

Akiko Fujiuchi