Nec Corporation

Samsung Sdi Co., Inc.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Yamagata Promotional Organization for Industrial Technology

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

Disco Corporation

Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Hayashibara Seibutsu Kagaku Kenkyujo

Atsushi Oda

Satoru Toguchi

Hitoshi Ishikawa

Yukiko Morioka

Hiroshi Tada

Kazuhiko Hayashi

Keiichi Katsuta

Yuhi Tsutsumi

Etsuo Hasegawa

Takashi Fukuchi

Toshiyasu Suzuki

Shinnzo Tsuboi

Kazuo Tokuyama

Yoshikazu Sakaguchi

Junji Kido

Hideki Asada

Setsuo Kaneko

Shigeyoshi Hirashima

Yoshinobu Saito

Ichiro Fujieda

Hiromitsu Takeda

Hiroya Tsuji

Tomohiko Otose

Katsuhisa Ono

Masaki Tsuji

Tsutomu Uezono

Keiji Maekawa

Sadaharu Suga

Toshiki Kagami

Yasuhiro Iizumi

Makoto Satsuki

Toshitaka Mori

Yoshiaki Haba

Hirohide Yano

Toshihiko Sekizawa

Tsutomu Miyauchi

Akira Shinpo

Junichi Ohshima

Kentaroh Maki

Takashi Kawai

Takayoshi Nishino

Takenori Wajima

Hitoshi Ishiskawa

Yasuyo Ooga

Masataka Yokota

Masato Kimura

A recording unit records an installation position of a ground installation object and an installation identifier of the ground installation object for each of a plurality of the ground installation objects installed beside a track on which a vehicle of a track transport system mounted with an external sensor travels; an installation object recognition unit specifies the installation identifier from external sensor information including information detected by the external sensor and recognizes the ground installation object corresponding to the installation identifier by referring to the recording unit; and a detection distance calculation unit calculates a detection distance of the external sensor. The detection distance calculation unit calculates the detection distance of the external sensor from a self-position of the vehicle at which the ground installation object is recognized and the installation position of the ground installation object recognized by the installation object recognition unit.

Sensor performance evaluation system and method, and automatic driving system

An operation accuracy measuring method for measuring the operation accuracy of a linear motion mechanism includes the steps of placing on a support table a measuring jig having a flat lower surface, a parallel surface opposite and parallel to the lower surface, and a slanted surface joined to the parallel surface through a straight boundary line, adjusting the position of the measuring jig to allow the white light interferometer to observe the parallel surface and the slanted surface simultaneously, capturing images of the parallel surface and the slanted surface with the white light interferometer and observing changes in interference fringes appearing in image sections of the captured images that represent the parallel surface and the slanted surface while the support table is being linearly moved, and the step of deducing the operation accuracy of the linear motion mechanism on the basis of the observed changes in the interference fringes.

Operation accuracy measuring method

A running pattern creation device includes: a coordinate system that is formed of a positional coordinate axis and a vehicle velocity axis; a stopping avoidance zone position holding unitconfigured to hold positional information on a stopping avoidance zone of a vehicle; a vehicle condition holding unitconfigured to hold at least information on respective accelerations at an acceleration time, a deceleration time and a coasting time with respect to specification of the vehicle; a braking pattern creation unitconfigured to create a braking pattern that is a pattern for stopping the vehicleat a position other than the stopping avoidance zone using the positional information and information on acceleration at the deceleration time; a coasting pattern creation unitconfigured to create a coasting pattern that is a pattern for stopping the vehicleat a position other than the stopping avoidance zone using the positional information and the information on acceleration at the coasting time; an object region decision unitconfigured to decide an object regionthat is a region surrounded by the positional coordinate, the braking pattern and the coasting pattern; and a scheduled running pattern creation unitconfigured to create a scheduled running pattern that is a running pattern avoiding the object regionand can be expressed by the coordinate system.

Running pattern creation device and driving control method that uses running pattern creation device

A train position estimation device which calculates the position of a vehicle traveling on a predetermined path and comprises a surroundings shape measurement unit that is installed in the vehicle and measures the shape of the surroundings of the current location of the vehicle and a map storage unit for storing surroundings shape data at positions measured in advance, the train position estimation device being characterized by comprising a start position estimation unit for storing the probability of presence of the vehicle at each position; a map retrieval section determination device for outputting surroundings shape data for each position in descending order of presence probability; and a matching processing device that compares the surroundings shape data for the current location with the retrieved surroundings shape data and outputs the position for which the difference therebetween is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold value.

Train position estimation device

The present invention is provided with: a sensing unit which is provided in a vehicle and measures the three-dimensional shape of an object; a matching unit for performing matching between multiple sets of structure information, in which are associated a data group indicating the three-dimensional shapes of structures provided beforehand near a path the vehicle will travel along and positional information indicating the posit ions of the structures, and a data group indicating the three-dimensional shape of the object measured by the sensing unit, and for specifying the position of the object; and an estimated position determination unit for determining, with the position specified by the matching unit as a reference position, the estimated position of the vehicle on the basis of the reference position.

Vehicle control system

An organic EL element which has no layer that prevents penetration of holes and electrons to the counter electrode. The organic EL element includes: an anode, a hole injecting and transporting layer formed on the anode, a light emitting layer formed on the hole injecting and transporting layer, an electron injecting and transporting layer formed on the light emitting layer, and a cathode formed on the electron injecting and transporting layer. Ip&#x2267;Ipis established when an ionization potential of a constituent material for the light emitting layer is Ipand an ionization potential of a constituent material for the electron injecting and transporting layer is Ip. Ea&#x2267;Eais established when an electron affinity of a constituent material for the hole injecting and transporting layer is Eaand an electron affinity of the constituent material for the light emitting layer is Ea.

Organic electroluminescence element

An organic EL device including at least an anode, a cathode and an organic light-emitting zone with high brightness is provided. A mixture containing at least two compounds is used for a light-emitting zone and the spectrum of the luminescence from light-emitting zone includes at least one peak at a wavelength which is different from neither of fluorescent peak positions of the compounds included in light-emitting zone.

Organic electroluminescence device

An organic EL (electroluminescence) element capable of efficiently recombining holes and electrons in a light emitting layer and also improving efficiency and lifetime of the element. The element comprises electrodesand, the light emitting layer, and transport layersandthat transport holes and electrons to the layer. The layercontains compound functioning as electron accepting dopant and/or substance functioning as electron donating dopant. Accordingly, it is possible to optimize the injection valance of holes or electrons into the layer

A light modulator includes: a holding member having a frame disposed around an opening; and a light modulation panel formed in such a way that the edge thereof is held by the frame and the outer surface of the portion corresponding to the opening is flush with the outer surface of the frame or positioned outside the outer surface of the frame.

Light modulator and projection-type display apparatus

The present invention provides a patterning method of an organic EL device that can easily and efficiently be performed with high definition, and that can control a contrast by a luminous brightness. In an organic EL device having an organic layer, including an organic luminescent material, formed between a pair of counter electrodes, ultraviolet ray is irradiated to the organic layer, and the amount of irradiation is changed to form an emission pattern having a contrast caused by a luminous brightness corresponding to the amount of the irradiation of the ultraviolet ray.

Patterning method of organic electroluminescent device

Provided is a light emitting diode and method for fabricating the same, and a display device using the same, wherein the light emitting diode at least comprises a high refractive index layer on a light transmissive substrate; and an organic electroluminescence (EL) element formed of one organic thin layer or a plurality of organic thin layers interposed between a transparent first electrode and a second electrode formed on the high refractive index layer, and the high refractive index layer has a refractive index higher than that of an emitting layer or has a refractive index of 1.65 or more, and an interface between the high refractive index layer and the light transmissive substrate is roughed to have its center line average roughness in a range of 0.01 &#x3bc;m to 0.6 &#x3bc;m so that light leakage is be prevented and light extraction efficiency becomes higher.

Light-emitting diode, its manufacturing method, and display device using the same

An organic EL device having a light emitting element including a first electrode (), a second electrode () of transparent conductive film, and a light emitting organic material layer () formed between said first electrode () and said second electrode (), wherein said transparent conductive film is made of a metal oxide deficient in oxygen as compared with stoichiometric composition. Since the transparent conductive film () directly in contact with the light emitting organic material layer () over a wide area is made of the metal oxide deficient in oxygen as compared with stoichiometric composition, the transparent conductive film can absorb moisture and oxygen which may possibly absorbed by the light emitting organic material layer so that the light emitting organic material layer is prevented from deteriorating, and the long emission lifetime of the element can be ensured.

Organic EL device

A communication system includes: at least one light-emitting device for emitting a light; and at least one light-receiving device for receiving the light emitted from the at least one light-emitting device. The light-emitting device further includes: at least one driver unit for generating a modified current based on an externally entered information signal; and at least one light-emitting unit operatively and functionally coupled to the at least one driver unit for receiving the modified current and emitting a modified signal light including any information based on the modified current. The at least one light-emitting unit includes at least one electroluminescence element.

Light emitting device and communication system

A light-emitting body of the present invention includes an anode and a cathode at least partly facing the anode with the intermediary of a light-emitting material layer. An auxiliary electrode is formed, via an insulation layer, on the surface of the light-emitting body opposite to the surface where the anode faces the cathode via the light-emitting material layer. The cathode can be formed of a material that corrodes little. The light-emitting body therefore extends the life of a light-emitting device and therefore the life of a light-emitting display.

Light-emitting body, light emitting device and light-emitting display

A platen plate for supporting an ejection object for liquid droplets ejected from each nozzle on the bottom surface of a liquid ejection head can secure the flatness of the ejection object so as to appropriately eject ink as well as can prevent the contamination of the bottom surface of the ejection object. The platen plate is provided with a plurality of ribs raised from its bottom surface so as to extend in a conveying direction of a recording sheet and arranged at predetermined intervals in a width wise direction of the recording sheet, and out of a region where ink droplets ejected from the each nozzle are landed, the bottom surface of the recording sheet is supported with top faces of the ribs so as to define a distance between the recording sheet and the ink ejection surface, and within the region where ink droplets ejected from the each nozzle are landed, the rib top faces are formed to have a height, or the ribs themselves do not exist, so that the rib top faces are not brought into contact with the bottom surface of the recording sheet.

Platen plate and liquid discharging device

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Tokyo, Japan

Atsushi Oda