Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

Oki Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Riken Vinyl Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideaki Hasegawa

Yasunari Watanabe

Norihito Naito

Takayoshi Kihara

Shinsuke Kobayashi

Masaru Shimura

Shinji Katagiri

Hideo Nanataki

Motoki Adachi

Koji Higuchi

Nobuo Oshima

Kiyoto Toyoizumi

Yasunao Otomo

Takuya Kitamura

Masaki Funabashi

Noriyuki Yokouchi

Atsushi Hirama

Kazumi Yamauchi

Atsushi Toda

Shuichi Tetsuno

Eiji Shinohara

Satoshi Sunahara

Takeo Shoji

Kazutaka Nara

Junji Yoshida

Tatsuya Kimoto

Akira Nakayama

Kohei Matsuda

Hiroyoshi Ichikura

Takashi Kase

Kouji Yasukawa

Takeshi Akutsu

Hiroyuki Tamaoka

Kunihiro Harayama

Masahiro Tambo

Yoshihiro Ogawa

Aaron Michael Stewart

Tomoyuki Takahashi

Takeshi Yagi

Takashi Honda

Kazuo Fujii

Hiroaki Agata

Shinichi Arai

Kazuo Nakada

Hiroyuki Noguchi

Keiji Okano

Hisashi Shima

Kazuaki Kiyota

Keiichi Aoki

Satoshi Irino

Hideto Horikoshi

Taketsugu Sawamura

Manabu Nishimizu

Go Kobayashi

Hirokazu Fujino

Tatsuro Kurobe

Koji Yamazaki

Hideki Masai

Saburo Shibano

Terutoshi Kaneko

Takashi Fujihata

Kazuhide Aoyama

Junko Ikari

Kouji Tekeda

Kouji Takeda

Toshio Itou

Yuuichi Ike

Yuushi Shutou

Yasunao Ohtomo

An in vivo pressure measurement device includes: a light source configured to output test light; an optical fiber, to which the test light is input, at least partially including a sensor optical fiber configured to transmit the test light with a loss of 0.3 dB/m or more; and a light receiving unit configured to receive the test light transmitted through the sensor optical fiber. The in vivo pressure measurement device is configured to measure pressure in a living body acting on the sensor optical fiber based on intensity of the test light received at the light receiving unit.

In vivo pressure measurement device

A pressure sensor includes: a light source that outputs signal light; a sensor optical fiber where the signal light is input and the signal light is propagated with a loss of 0.3 dB/m or more; and an optical receiver that receives the signal light propagated through the sensor optical fiber. Further, pressure applied to the sensor optical fiber is detected on a basis of intensity of the signal light received by the optical receiver.

Pressure sensor

A sensing cable includes a first optical fiber, a second optical fiber that extends along the first optical fiber and that is spaced from the first optical fiber, and a transmitting material that includes an intervention portion present between the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber, the transmitting material being configured to transmit light from the first optical fiber to the second optical fiber through the intervention portion.

Sensing cable and sensing system

A controller which causes a light emitting element to continuously perform minute emission for a plurality of dots in a level in which toner is not attached to a non-image section on an image bearing member is provided. The controller controls a first driving current for an image section and controls a second driving current used to perform the minute emission by the light emitting element in the non-image section several times in one job. In the image section, a driving current obtained by adding the first driving current to the second driving current is supplied so that the light emitting element emits light.

Color image forming apparatus

A display driver is configured to drive a display device according to a video signal. The display signal includes a plurality of first to N-th output amplifiers (N is an integer greater than two) and an output electrical current capacity setting portion. The first to N-th output amplifiers are configured to amplify first to N-th gradation voltages a representing brightness level per pixel according to the video signal, so that the first to N-th output amplifiers obtain first to N-th pixel drive voltages. Further, the first to N-th output amplifiers are configured to output the first to N-th pixel drive voltages to the display device. The output electrical current capacity setting portion is configured to set an output electrical current capacity of each of the first to N-th output amplifiers individually or in a group of a plurality of output amplifiers.

Display driver having output electrical current capacity setting portion

A portable information device having a projector unit is disclosed. The projector unit includes a chassis, a connection terminal part and a projector part. The chassis includes an attachment part removably attached to an attachment target part disposed on a side surface of the portable information device. The connection terminal part is electrically connected to a terminal of the portable information device when the attachment part is attached to the attachment target part. The projector part is rotatably attached to the chassis so that a direction of projection from a projector lens can be changed.

Projector unit for portable information devices

An electronic device having a portable information equipment and an expansion unit is disclosed. The portable information equipment can be a tablet PC and the expansion unit is configured to expand a function of the tablet PC. The expansion unit includes an attachment part having a hook configured to be movable in an engagement direction from a non-engagement position to an engagement position, in the non-engagement position. The hook can be inserted into an engagement hole disposed at an attached part of the tablet PC in the engagement position. The hook can be further movable in a pulling direction of pulling the tablet PC towards the expansion unit, with the pulling direction being orthogonal to the engagement direction. A lever is utilized to move the hook in the engagement direction and in the pulling direction.

Expansion unit for portable information equipment

A plurality of video data pieces corresponding to one horizontal scan line of a display panel are classified into a first video data group and a second video data group different from the first video data group. Each piece of video data belonging to the first video data group is converted into a gradation voltage having an analog voltage value, and by interpolation based on each of the gradation voltages, a gradation voltage corresponding to each of the video data pieces belonging to said second video data group is obtained.

Display panel drive device and display panel drive method

Disclosed is an NFC antenna that facilitates a touch operation of a portable electronic instrument. An NFC antenna includes insulating substrates and an antenna coil having a front surface pattern and a back surface pattern formed on antenna surfaces that are present on the same planes. The insulating substrates are molded into an L shape together with a magnetic sheet sandwiched therebetween. The antenna coil is also arranged in the L shape in a similar manner. When the NFC antenna is arranged at a corner of a smart phone, a coil opening faces to a position of a touch corner. NFC can be started in a short time by a touch operation using the touch corner.

Antenna and portable electronic instrument for use in near field communication

A method of designing a semiconductor laser device includes: controlling a distance between the output-side reflection unit and the second reflection unit and an effective optical feedback &#x3ba; to the semiconductor laser element, the effective optical feedback &#x3ba; defined by a below-presented formula (1) including a circulating time &#x3c4; of the light in the semiconductor laser element, a reflectivity Rof the output-side reflection unit, and a reflectivity Rof the second reflection unit; selecting a semiconductor laser device in which an LFF period is equal to or smaller than 20 ns as a semiconductor laser device in which high speed switching occurs between an FBG mode and an FP mode; and using the selected semiconductor laser device as an semiconductor laser device oscillating in a coherent collapse mode.&#x3ba;=(1/&#x3c4;)&#xd7;(1&#x2212;)&#xd7;()&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)

Method of designing semiconductor laser device, method of designing raman amplifier, methods of manufacturing semiconductor laser device, semiconductor laser device, raman amplifier, and optical communication system

An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member; a charging device; an exposure device; and a developer carrying member, wherein, when it is assumed that an image forming area, a printing portion and a non-printing portion are an area on the photosensitive member on which an image to be transferred onto a recording material is formed, an area in the image forming area to which the developer adheres and an area in the image forming area to which the developer does not adhere, respectively, the exposure device exposes the printing portion at a first laser power, exposes the non-printing portion at a second laser power smaller than the first laser power, and exposes a non-image forming area on the photosensitive member between two adjacent image forming areas at no laser power or a third laser power smaller than the second laser power.

Image forming apparatus with control of developing bias and charging bias

A regulating member for regulating a developer amount carried on a developer carrying member includes a plate-like supporting member having an elasticity, the supporting member being provided with a fixed portion for being fixed to a fixed part; a first contact portion contactable to the developer carrying member, the first contact portion protruding from the regulating member from a side of the supporting member; and a second contact portion contactable to and the developer carrying member, the second contact portion being at a position closer to the fixed portion than the first contact portion.

Regulating member, developing device and process cartridge

A data processing apparatus includes an inputting portion; a first retrieving portion; a second retrieving portion; a clock determining portion; a first serial parallel converting portion; a second serial parallel converting portion; and a combining portion. The inputting portion receives a serial data including a clock bit. The first retrieving portion obtains a first retrieved data. The second retrieving portion obtains a second retrieved data. The clock determining portion determines whether the clock bit is included in the first retrieved data or the second retrieved data. The first serial parallel converting portion performs parallel conversion to obtain a first parallel data. The second serial parallel converting portion performs parallel conversion to obtain a second parallel data. The combining portion combines the first parallel data and the second parallel data to output a parallel data.

Data processing apparatus and method of processing data

An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, an exposure device, a detection device, a measurement device that measures a current flowing to the detection device, and a control unit that executes a detection mode in which an electrostatic latent image is formed on the photosensitive member and the measurement device detects a change in the current relative to the electrostatic latent image, wherein, in an adjustment mode, the control unit causes a potential difference between the electrostatic latent image and the detection device to be smaller as a layer thickness of the photosensitive member is more reduced.

Image forming apparatus

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Suntou-gun, Japan

Hideaki Hasegawa