Hamamatsu-photonics K.k.

Ntn Corporation

Daiki Suzuki

Yuki Morinaga

Takuma Osaki

Tomoyuki Ide

Yoshihisa Warashina

Sadaharu Takimoto

Yasuyuki Sakakibara

Naoto Sakurai

Go Tanaka

Tomofumi Suzuki

Kyosuke Kotani

Tatsuya Sugimoto

Yutaka Kuramoto

Katsumi Shibayama

Ryusuke Kitaura

Nao Inoue

Shinya Iwashina

Atsuya Iima

Takahiro Matsumoto

Mikito Takahashi

Hidetaka Kawaoka

Tatsuro Sugiyama

Masazumi Kobayashi

Makoto Nozaki

Jo Ito

Kota Sugizaki

An actuator device manufacturing method includes: a preparation step of preparing an actuator device including a support portion, a movable portion, a connection portion, and a metal member disposed such that a stress acts on the metal member when the movable portion oscillates; an oscillation step of oscillating the movable portion for a predetermined time; an acquisition step of acquiring a parameter related to a viscous resistance in a vibration of the movable portion; and a determination step of determining that the actuator device is qualified, when a difference between the parameter acquired in the acquisition step and a reference value corresponding to the parameter at a start of the oscillation step is a predetermined value or more in a direction in which the viscous resistance decreases, and determining that the actuator device is disqualified, when the difference is less than the predetermined value.

Actuator device manufacturing method

A plunging-type constant velocity universal joint includes outer and inner joint members having linear track grooves, balls, and a cage accommodating the balls in pockets. Curvature centers of spherical outer and inner peripheral surfaces of the cage are offset toward opposite sides with respect to a joint center. A range between distances of 10 mm towards deep and opening sides from a center portion of a sliding range of the track groove of the outer member in the axial direction is a center range, and a region in which a PCD of the track grooves of the outer member becomes smallest is in the center range. A minimum value of a PCD clearance in the track grooves in the center range is from 0.010 mm to 0.100 mm. A PCD mutual difference of the track grooves of the outer member in the center range is 0.150 mm or less.

Plunging-type constant velocity universal joint

A metal substrate supported by a wiring substrate includes a first extending portion and a first connection portion connected to the first extending portion. The first connection portion includes a first region facing a portion of a wiring substrate in a Z-axis direction, a second region being continuous from the first region, and a third region being continuous from the second region. When viewed in the Z-axis direction, in a direction perpendicular to a connection direction in which the third region is connected to the second region, a width of the second region is larger than a width of the third region. A first bonding member bonding the wiring substrate and the metal substrate includes a first portion disposed between the portion and the first region, and a second portion being continuous from the first portion. The second portion reaches the second region but does not reach the third region.

Actuator device

A method for manufacturing a mirror device, the method includes a first step of preparing a wafer having a support layer and a device layer; a second step of forming a slit in the wafer such that the movable portion becomes movable with respect to the base portion by removing a part of each of the support layer and the device layer from the wafer by etching and forming a plurality of parts each corresponding to the structure in the wafer, after the first step; a third step of performing wet cleaning for cleaning the wafer using a cleaning liquid after the second step; and a fourth step of cutting out each of the plurality of parts from the wafer after the third step. In the second step, a circulation hole penetrating the wafer is formed at a part other than the slit in the wafer by the etching.

Method of manufacturing mirror device

An optical module includes a mirror unit configured to have a movable mirror part, a magnet part configured to have upper and bottom surfaces and a side surface and generate a magnetic field acting on the movable mirror part, and a holding member configured to hold the magnet part. The magnet part has a Halbach structure including a first magnet having a force to act in a first direction and a second magnet having a force to act in a second direction. The holding member integrally holds the magnet part against a force acting on the first magnet in the first direction and a force acting on the second magnet in the second direction. The mirror unit is supported on the upper surface by the holding member. A relaxation layer for relaxing stress from the magnet part is provided between the upper surface and the mirror unit.

Optical module

A light scanning system includes a mirror device, a magnet, a temperature sensor, and an arithmetic part. The arithmetic part generates first and second current signals based on a first target deflection angle and a first target frequency, a second target deflection angle and a second target frequency, an operating temperature, first data for correcting a change in a deflection angle of a mirror with respect to a change in a frequency of a current signal input to each of first and second drive coils, second data for correcting at least one of a shift of the mirror swinging with a first axis from a Y-axis and a shift of the mirror swinging with a second axis from an X-axis, and third data for correcting a change in a deflection angle of the mirror with respect to a change in the operating temperature.

Light scanning system and light scanning device

A mirror unit includes a light scanning device and a package. The package has a main body portion provided with a light incident opening that opens on one side in a predetermined direction, a protrusion provided on a top surface of the main body portion, and a flat plate-shaped window member disposed on the top surface on an inward side of the protrusion and covering the light incident opening. An end surface of the protrusion on the one side is positioned more to the one side than the window member. A thickness of the protrusion is smaller than a height of the protrusion from the top surface. When viewed in any direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction, a length of a part covered by the protrusion in the window member is longer than a length of a part exposed from the protrusion in the window member.

Mirror unit

An actuator device includes a support portion, a movable portion, a connection portion, a first wiring provided to the connection portion, a second wiring provided to the movable portion, a first insulation layer which includes a first opening exposing a surface opposite to the movable portion in a first connection part located at the movable portion in one wiring of the first and second wirings, a second insulation layer covering the first and second wirings. The other wiring of the first and second wirings is connected to the surface of the first connection part in the first opening. A region corresponding to a corner of the other wiring of the first and second wirings in a surface opposite to the movable portion in the second insulation layer is curved in a convex shape toward an opposite side to the movable portion.

A mirror device includes a support portion, a movable portion, and a pair of torsion bars disposed on both sides of the movable portion on a first axis. The movable portion includes a frame-shaped frame connected to the pair of torsion bars and a mirror unit disposed inside the frame. The mirror unit is connected to the frame in each of a pair of connection regions located on both sides of the mirror unit in a direction parallel to a second axis. A region other than the pair of connection regions in a region between the mirror unit and the frame is a space. An outer edge of the mirror unit and an inner edge of the frame are connected to each other so that a curvature in each of the pair of connection regions is continuous when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the first and the second axes.

Mirror device

A method for manufacturing a light scanning system includes a process of assembling a plurality of device structures, each of device structures including a mirror device and a magnet, a process of acquiring, for each of device structures, first data for correcting a change in a deflection angle of the mirror with respect to a change in a frequency of a current signal, and second data for correcting at least one of a shift of the mirror swinging with a first axis from a Y-axis and a shift of the mirror swinging with a second axis from an X-axis, a process of acquiring, for at least one of device structures, third data for correcting a change in a deflection angle of the mirror with respect to a change in an operating temperature, and a process of storing the first, second, and third data in the storage part.

Method for manufacturing optical scanning system, method for manufacturing optical scanning device, and data acquisition method

A method for manufacturing a mirror device, the method includes a first step of preparing a wafer having a support layer, a device layer, and an intermediate layer; a second step of forming a slit in the wafer such that the movable portion becomes movable with respect to the base portion by removing a part of each of the support layer, the device layer, and the intermediate layer from the wafer and forming a plurality of parts each corresponding to the structure in the wafer, after the first step; a third step of performing wet cleaning using a cleaning liquid after the second step; and a fourth step of cutting out each of the plurality of parts from the wafer after the third step. In the second step, a part of the intermediate layer is removed from the wafer by anisotropic etching.

Method for manufacturing mirror device

An actuator device includes a support portion; a first movable portion; a second movable portion; a first connection portion that connects the first and second movable portions such that the first movable portion is swingable around a first axis; a second connection portion that connects the second movable portion and the support portion such that the first movable portion is swingable around the first axis. Two natural angular frequencies ωand ω(where ω<ω) for vibration of the first and second movable portions around the first axis satisfy one of the following equation (1) and equation (2) and do not satisfy the other, In the above equations, ω=(k/j), kis a torsional spring constant of the first connection portion around the first axis, and jis an inertia moment of the first movable portion around the first axis.

Actuator device and method for manufacturing actuator device

In a mirror unit, a first wall portion is higher than a second wall portion. A window member is disposed on a top surface of the first wall portion and a top surface of the second wall portion and is inclined with respect to a mirror surface. When any one of first to fourth wall portions is set as a first reference wall portion, in a cross-section perpendicular to the first reference wall portion, a first line passing through a first end at a side of the first reference wall portion in the mirror surface and a first corner portion formed at the side of the first reference wall portion by an outer surface and a first side surface in the window member intersects the first wall portion. A wiring portion includes a portion extending inside a base and leads outside a frame member.

A mirror unit includes an optical scanning device, a frame member, and a window member. The frame member includes first and second wall portions facing each other in an X-axis direction. The first wall portion is higher than the second wall portion. The window member is disposed on a top surface of the first wall portion and a top surface of the second wall portion and is inclined with respect to a mirror surface of the optical scanning device. In a cross-section parallel to the X-axis direction, the first wall portion is separated from a first line passing through a first end at a side of the first wall portion in the mirror surface and a first corner portion formed at the side of the first wall portion by an outer surface opposite to the frame member and a first side surface in the window member.

An optical device includes a support portion, a first movable portion having an optical surface, a second movable portion having a frame shape and surrounding the first movable portion, a first coupling portion coupling the first movable portion and the second movable portion to each other, a second coupling portion coupling the second movable portion and the support portion to each other, and a softening member which has a softening characteristic and to which stress is applied when the first movable portion swings around a first axis. When viewed in a direction perpendicular to the optical surface, the softening member is provided to a portion of the second movable portion, the portion extending between a drive element and the first coupling portion, and is not electrically connected to an outside.

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