Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation

Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation

Akiko Hirao

Kazuki Matsumoto

Takayuki Tsukamoto

Noriko Yamamoto

Tomio Ono

Tsuyoshi Kobayashi

Toshihiko Nagase

Satoshi Mikoshiba

Hideyuki Nishizawa

Katsutaro Ichihara

Rumiko Hayase

Mitsunaga Saito

Yasuharu Hosono

Urara Ichihara, Legal Representative

Yasunobu Onishi

Kazuhiro Itsumi

Shuji Hayase

Yuji Kubota

Rumiko Horiguchi

Masahiro Hosoya

Yutaka Nakai

Yoshinori Honguh

Hirohisa Miyamoto

Norikatsu Sasao

Yuichiro Yamamoto

Shinichi Tatsuta

Masami Sugiuchi

Naru Ikeda

Yasutaka Nishida

Hisashi Yamada

Hajime Yamaguchi

Tatsuo Saishu

Satoshi Takayama

Yuzo Hirayama

Junichi Akiyama

Yoshinori Iida

Masakazu Yamagiwa

Naoko Kihara

Isao Takasu

Shintaro Enomoto

Yasushi Shinjo

Tomoaki Sawabe

Hiroto Honda

Akio Amano

Isao Amemiya

Yukitami Mizuno

Yuko Kizu

Tomoko Sugizaki

Yukio Kizaki

Takahiro Kamikawa

Masao Tanaka

Yuuji Kubota

According to one embodiment, a data processing device includes an acquisition part, and a processor. The acquisition part is configured to acquire first data including time-series image data. The processor is configured to derive first feature information based on a multidimensional array of n dimensions based on the first data acquired by the acquisition part. n is an integer not less than 3. A first axis of the multidimensional array is related to time.

Data processing device, data processing method, and data processing program for evaluation an object based on a persistence diagram from time-series image data

A sonic inspection device according to an embodiment includes: a sonic probe that includes a transducer configured to perform at least one of transmitting a sound wave and receiving a sound wave and has a sonic function surface constituting at least one of a transmitting surface of the sound wave and a receiving surface of the sound wave; a contact member that includes a couplant and a sheet-shaped member, the couplant having a first surface, which is in contact with the sonic function surface of the sonic probe directly or while interposing an intermediate member, and a second surface on an opposite side of the first surface, and containing an elastomer, and the sheet-shaped member laminated with the couplant to be in contact with the second surface and containing a polymer; and a loading mechanism configured to apply a load to the contact member.

Sonic inspection device, sonic inspection method, and contact member

An acoustic inspection device according to an embodiment has: an acoustic transducer including a piezoelectric element having at least one of functions of transmitting and receiving acoustic waves, and having an acoustic function surface functioning as at least one of a transmitting surface and a receiving surface of acoustic waves; a couplant, which is provided directly or with an intermediate member therebetween on the acoustic function surface of the acoustic transducer and contains at least an elastomer, having a contact surface to be in contact with an inspection target and an uneven structure provided on the contact surface; and a loading mechanism which applies and removes a load to/from the couplant.

Acoustic inspection method, acoustic inspection device, and couplant

A sensor includes a first element part having a first member and a first element. The first member is a acoustic tubular waveguide and extends along a first direction. The acoustic tubular waveguide includes a first opening and a second opening. A direction from the second opening toward the first opening is along the first direction. The first element includes a vibratile first membrane, and a first supporter supporting the first membrane. The second opening is between the first opening and the first membrane in the first direction. The sensor may be a Piezoelectric Micro electro mechanical systems Ultrasonic Transducer and may be used for inspecting paper and/or resin including detecting thickness of a fed through banknote and/or the presence of foreign matter thereon such as tape. An optical element may alternatively measure the vibration of a membrane from acoustic through transmission instead of an acoustic receiver.

Acoustic sensor having waveguide and inspection device

A sonic inspection device of an embodiment includes: a sonic probe which includes a vibrator having at least one of functions of transmitting a sound wave and of receiving a sound wave and which has a sonic function surface functioning as at least one of surfaces for transmitting the sound wave and for receiving the sound wave; a contact member including a couplant and a sheet member, the couplant being in contact with the sonic function surface of the sonic probe directly or through an intermediate member and containing at least an elastomer, and the sheet member being in contact with the couplant and having a plurality of holes; and a loading mechanism which applies/removes a load to/from the contact member. The sheet member has a thickness of not less than 0.15 times nor more than 0.35 times a wavelength &#x3bb; of the sound wave propagated in the couplant.

A multilayer ultrasonic transducer of an embodiment includes: a plurality of stacked oscillators; external electrodes disposed on outer exposed surfaces of two oscillators disposed in the outermost layers out of the plurality of oscillators; and a plurality of internal electrodes each disposed between two of the plurality of oscillators. There are provided electrode regions in which the plurality of internal electrodes are arranged such that the number of layers of the internal electrodes in a direction in which the oscillators are stacked gradiently increases from an inner region toward an outer peripheral region of the plurality of oscillators, and ultrasonic waves emitted from the plurality of oscillators are focused toward at least the inner region.

Multilayer ultrasonic transducer and ultrasonic inspection device

A sonic device in an embodiment includes a sonic transducer unit and a sonic propagation unit. The sonic transducer unit performs at least one of transmitting and receiving a sonic wave, and has a sonic function surface to configure at least one of a wave transmitting surface and a wave receiving surface. The sonic propagation unit includes: a substrate having a pair of electrodes; an electroadhesive element expressing body including a resin crosslinked body arranged on the substrate, and particles dispersed in the resin crosslinked body; and a power supply to apply voltage to the pair of electrodes. The sonic propagation unit is provided on the sonic function surface of the sonic transducer unit, and the electroadhesive element expressing body in the sonic propagation unit comes into contact with a test object.

Sonic device

A parameter estimation method, comprises: acquiring appearance information including a shape information and a position information of at least one package; vibrating the at least one package at least at one position selected in accordance with the appearance information, and acquiring at least one data showing a vibration of the at least one package, and estimating a value of at least one parameter of the at least one package in accordance with a relation between the at least one data and the at least one parameter.

Parameter estimation method and parameter estimation device

According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal/polymer complex includes a liquid crystal material, a polymer, and a chiral agent. The liquid crystal material exhibits blue phase and contains liquid crystal molecules that are spirally arranged to form liquid crystal molecular cylinders having a spiral arrangement. The polymer maintains the arrangement and has a dendrimer-type structure including a dendrimer unit and a polymerizable unit bonded to an end of the dendrimer unit. The dendrimer unit contains a central atom and at least two branched structures bonded to the central atom and has a generation of two or more. The polymerizable unit contains a polymerizable group which can bond to a polymerizable group.

Liquid crystal/polymer composite

According to one embodiment, there is provided an organic light-emitting diode including an anode and a cathode which are arranged apart from each other, and an emissive layer interposed between the anode and the cathode and including a host material and an emitting dopant. The host material includes a polymer containing dibenzothiophene backbones represented by the following formula (1) as repeating units: wherein n is an integer of from 20 to 10,000.

Organic light-emitting diode, display and illuminating device

A two-dimensional digital data acquisition element includes: a pixel area having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, each of the pixels having a photoelectric conversion element to convert the reproduced light from the optical information recording medium to an electric signal; selection circuits which select the pixel; a readout circuit which reads out an electric signal of a pixel selected by the selection circuits; and a 1-bit AD converter which converts an output of the readout circuit to 1-bit digital data. A pitch ratio N between a pitch Pof the unit data areas in the two-dimensional digital image information and a pitch Pof the pixels in the pixel area defined as N=P/Psatisfies a relation/(+1)&#x3c;/(&#x2212;1)where A is the number of digital data in one-dimensional direction of one byte of the two-dimensional digital data and n is a natural number of at least 2.

Two-dimensional digital data acquisition element and holographic storage apparatus

An optical recording medium includes a first substrate having a groove on the side of an outer peripheral portion thereof; a second substrate in contact with the first substrate in the outer peripheral portion; and a recording layer being disposed in a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate and forming a void in cooperation with the first substrate at the portion of the groove.

Optical recording medium and method of manufacturing the same

An optical-information recording medium includes a substrate that includes a servo surface having a servo pattern thereon; an information recording layer laminated on the servo surface of the substrate capable of recording information as a hologram produced by interference between an information beam containing the information and a reference beam; an address servo area that is formed as a part of the servo pattern, and that records therein address information and clock information for aligning a beam, emitted from an optical-information recording apparatus for recording information in the information recording layer, to a target position in the information recording layer; and a following up servo area that is formed as a part of the servo pattern, and that is to be irradiated by the beam to make the beam follow a rotation of the optical-information recording medium.

Medium, apparatus, and method of recording optical-information

A method of holographic recording and reproduction includes recording to the holographic recording medium a wavelength variation reference pattern which is recorded as a hologram at a wavelength of the recording beam, recording to the holographic recording medium a page data pattern as a hologram at the wavelength of the recording beam, detecting the wavelength variation between the recording beam and the reproducing beam based on the size of an image for wavelength variation reference obtained by reproducing the wavelength variation reference pattern at a wavelength of the reproducing beam, and reproducing the page data pattern using the reproducing beam with a wavelength controlled based on the detected wavelength variation.

Method of holographic recording and reproduction, holographic recording medium and holographic recording and reproducing apparatus

The optical information recording medium according to the present invention includes a transparent substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a recording layer that is arranged on the first surface of the transparent substrate, and a reflection layer arranged on the second surface of the transparent substrate. A hologram is recorded in the recording layer when a signal light and a reference light are incident from an incident side opposite to the transparent substrate. An optical density of the recording layer corresponding to the signal light decreases from the incident side toward the transparent substrate.

Optical information recording medium for holographic recording and method of holographic recording in optical information recording medium

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Akiko Hirao