Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujitsu Corporation

Nec Electronics Corporation

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Fuji Xerox Corporation

Akira Matsumoto

Yukiaki Nakamura

Yosuke Tsurumi

Satoshi Miura

Toshifumi Wakano

Yasuo Kadokura

Yusuke Otake

Satoshi Kamiwaki

Yusuke Ikeda

Shinya Nakashima

Takayuki Fukushima

Yasutaka Nakashiba

Masanobu Ninomiya

Masahiko Nakamizo

Kazuki Matsuo

Akiyuki Mitamura

Junpei Yamamoto

Norikazu Hishinuma

Takatsugu Nakamura

Ryusei Naito

Akira Urita

Yuya Yasuda

Yu Hashimoto

Takahiro Ono

Takuma Tachibana

Atsushi Sugawara

Hiroshi Nakazawa

Fusako Kiyono

Kazufumi Tomita

Masaki Iwase

Shuji Sato

Yutaka Sugizaki

Taichi Yamada

Akihiro Iizuka

Sakiko Hirai

Teruhiro Kuwajima

Keiji Tatani

Daisuke Tomita

Hiroyoshi Okuno

Takuya Sano

Yusuke Tanaka

Sakon Takahashi

Masaru Takahashi

Yoshinao Miura

Hiroshi Tayanaka

Noriyuki Mizutani

Tsutomu Kubo

Hiroki Iwashita

Takashi Iwadare

Yuichi Yamamoto

Kiyoo Morita

Shinji Watanabe

Tatsuya Usami

Satoshi Yoshida

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Yutaka Saito

Susumu Yoshino

Hirotaka Matsuoka

Takashi Ono

Koji Sasaki

Hirokazu Hamano

Tetsuya Iida

Hirokazu Honda

Hideo Maehata

Fumiaki Mera

Koichiro Zaitsu

Tsuyoshi Murakami

Takao Ishiyama

Kyoichi Naruo

Yuka Ishihara

Moegi Iguchi

Yasuaki Hashimoto

Masayuki Hiroi

Manabu Iguchi

Sumio Ohtani

Toshifumi Itabashi

Kana Yoshida

Satoshi Matsui

Tokuji Takizawa

Shotaro Takahashi

Soichiro Kitagawa

Masao Tsuruta

Koji Neya

Iwao Soga

Sadayuki Ohnishi

Masahito Ikeda

Tsutomu Furuta

Naotaka Mukoyama

Masahiro Okita

Yuusaku Shibuya

Narumasa Ito

Masahiro Etoh

Teruyuki Narita

Masanori Ishiguro

Tsuyoshi Eda

Takuji Daihisa

Tomoyuki Arai

Keiji Nishida

Ikuro Moriya

Eiji Nakai

There is provided an imaging device including a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of imaging elements that are arrayed in a matrix in a first direction and a second direction on the semiconductor substrate and perform photoelectric conversion on incident light. Each of the plurality of imaging elements includes a plurality of pixels that are provided in a predetermined unit region of the semiconductor substrate to be adjacent to each other and contains impurities of a first conductivity type, a separation section that separates the plurality of pixels, two first element separation walls that are provided along two first side surfaces extending in the second direction of the predetermined unit region to pierce through at least a part of the semiconductor substrate, and a first diffusion region provided in the semiconductor substrate around the first element separation wall and the separation section and containing impurities of a second conductivity type.

Imaging device and electronic equipment

A sensor chip according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a pixel. The pixel includes a photoelectric converter, a light reflector, and a light collector. The photoelectric converter includes a light entering surface which light enters and a multiplication region in which avalanche multiplication of carriers is caused by a high electric-field region. The light reflector is provided to oppose a surface, of the photoelectric converter, on an opposite side to the light entering surface. The light collector is provided between the photoelectric converter and the light reflector.

Sensor chip, electronic apparatus, and distance measurement apparatus

A sensor includes a first substrate including at least a first pixel. The first pixel includes an avalanche photodiode to convert incident light into electric charge and includes an anode and a cathode. The cathode is in a well region of the first substrate. The first pixel includes an isolation region that isolates the well region from at least a second pixel that is adjacent to the first pixel. The first pixel includes a hole accumulation region between the isolation region and the well region. The hole accumulation region is electrically connected to the anode.

Photodetector

A light receiving device () includes a first circuit substrate () and a second circuit substrate (). An avalanche photodiode (APD) () and a protection element () that protects the APD () are disposed on the first circuit substrate (). The second circuit substrate () is stacked on the first circuit substrate (), and a signal processing circuit that processes a signal output from the APD () is disposed on the second circuit substrate ().

Light receiving device and distance measuring device

An image reading apparatus includes a support portion, a reading portion, a first cover, a second cover, and a holding mechanism. The first cover moves between a second closed position where the first cover covers the reading portion in a first closed position and a second open position where the first cover opens the reading portion. The second cover moves between a third closed position where the second cover forms a second area of a conveyance path together with the first cover in the second closed position and a third open position where the second cover opens the second area. The holding mechanism prevents the first cover from moving from the second open position to the second closed position and holds the first cover in the second open position when the second cover is in the third open position and the first cover is in the second open position.

Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus comprising a reading portion, a first cover, a second cover and holding mechanism configured to prevent the first cover from moving to a second closed position and hold the first cover in the second open position

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion to form an image on a sheet, a tray on which sheets to be fed are stacked, and a swing member supported by the tray and configured to swing in a case where the swing member is pushed by a discharged sheet. A stacking portion includes a first surface on an upper portion of a first portion, and a moving member in contact with the discharged sheet. The moving member can be positioned at a position downstream of the first surface in the discharge direction, wherein the swing member overlaps with the first surface as viewed in the sheet width direction in a case where the swing member is not in contact with a discharged sheet, and the swing member is arranged such that a lower end of the swing member is not in contact with the stacking portion.

Sheet discharging apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus

An image reading apparatus including a conveyance portion configured to convey a document in a conveyance path, and a reading portion configured to read an image of a document conveyed in the conveyance path. The reading portion includes an image sensor configured to read an image of a document, a casing accommodating the reading element and including an opening portion having an opening through which an optical path of the reading element extends toward the conveyance path, a transparent member fixed to the casing and covering the opening, and a shield member disposed between the transparent member and the casing, and electrically grounded.

Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus comprising a reading portion, the reading portion includes an image sensor, casing, transparent member and a shield member between the transparent member and casing, and electrically grounded

An image reading apparatus includes a transparent member including a document placing surface on which a document is placed, a document pressing portion that presses the document placed on the transparent member against the transparent member, a pivot supporting portion that pivotably supports the document pressing portion so as to be pivotable about a pivot shaft with respect to a casing of the image reading apparatus, an image reading unit, an abutment portion against which an edge portion of the document placed on the document placing surface is abutted in order to position the document at a reference position, and an inclined surface. The abutment portion is provided at one portion of a front end on a side far from the pivot supporting portion. The inclined surface is provided at another portion of the front end and inclined upward toward the side far from the pivot supporting portion.

Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus having inclined surface for easy document removal

A document supporting portion includes a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion. The first supporting portion has a first supporting surface that supports a document. The second supporting portion has a second supporting surface that supports the document together with the first supporting surface and provided so as to be slidable between a first position at which the second supporting portion located above the first supporting portion and a second position at which the second supporting surface supports the document together with the first supporting surface. In a state where the second supporting portion is located at the first position, the second supporting surface constitutes a portion of an upper surface of the document feeding apparatus.

Document feeding, image reading, and image forming apparatus including slidable document supporting tray that pivots up from a second position and moves obliquely downward

An operation unit is provided on a front side of the image forming apparatus. A document feeding portion feeds a document supported by a document supporting portion in a document feeding direction from a front side of the image forming apparatus toward the rear side of the image forming apparatus. A document discharge portion discharges the document in a document discharge direction from the rear side toward the front side. The operation unit is disposed on one side with respect to an apparatus center of the image forming apparatus in a left-right direction orthogonal to a direction from the front side to the rear side. A conveyance center of the document feeding portion in the left-right direction is disposed on the other side with respect to the apparatus center in the left-right direction.

Image forming apparatus

This technology relates to a solid-state image sensor configured to make smaller the chip size of a CIS that uses an organic photoelectric conversion film, and to an electronic apparatus. A solid-state image sensor according to a first aspect of this technology is characterized in that it includes a first substrate and a second substrate stacked one on top of the other and a first organic photoelectric conversion film formed on the first substrate and that a latch circuit is formed on the second substrate. This technology may be applied to back-illuminated CISs, for example.

Solid-state image sensor and electronic apparatus

An image reading apparatus includes a main body, a cover, a reading unit, a cable, and a shield member. The cover pivots with respect to the main body and move between a first closed position and a first open position. The reading unit pivots with respect to the main body and reads an image of a sheet conveyed in the conveyance path. The cable bridges between the main body and the reading unit and configured to transmit an image signal from the reading unit. The cable includes an exposed portion located between the main body and the reading unit and exposed to an outside of the main body and the reading unit when the cover is located in the first open position. The shield member has conductivity, grounded, and disposed to cover the exposed portion of the cable.

Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image reading device, a holding member that is rod-like, and an image forming device having an image forming unit that forms an image on a sheet, and having a wall part having a hole. The image reading device reads an image on a document, is provided on the image forming device, and rotates around a rotation shaft openable and closable with respect to the image forming device. The holding member has one end attached on the image reading device, and holds the image reading device opened with respect to the image forming device when another end of the holding member is inserted into the hole formed in the wall part. The holding member includes a first regulation part that comes into contact with a lower surface of the wall part to regulate detachment of the other end of the holding member from the hole.

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Akira Matsumoto