Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hidemasa Mizutani

Noriyuki Kaifu

Shinjiro Okada

Akira Tsuboyama

Takashi Moriyama

Shinichi Takeda

Isao Kobayashi

Jun Kamatani

Takao Takiguchi

Seishi Miura

Satoshi Igawa

Manabu Furugori

Shigeki Kondo

Toru Koizumi

Satoshi Itabashi

Yasuhiro Shimada

Takayuki Yagi

Takahisa Kato

Futoshi Hirose

Toshihiro Saika

Susumu Yasuda

Toshio Kameshima

Takashi Suzuki

Keiji Ohtaka

Kiyoshi Iizuka

Jun Nakayama

Koichi Sato

Masakazu Morishita

Hideo Mori

Kazunari Fujii

Masahiro Fushimi

Takahiro Akiyama

Tatsuyuki Tokunaga

Koji Noguchi

Makoto Takagi

Yoshihiro Onitsuka

Mineto Yagyu

Masaru Nakayama

Ryuichiro Isobe

Yasuteru Ichida

Kazuhiko Muto

Osamu Yuuki

Ken Yamaguchi

Shigetoshi Sugawa

Takeshi Ichikawa

Kazuharu Katagiri

Chiori Mochizuki

Yukio Hanyu

Kazuaki Tashiro

Kazunori Katakura

Ikuo Nakazawa

Takayuki Teshima

Masayuki Ikegami

Hideya Kumomi

Katsuhiko Yamada

Hirokatsu Miyata

Hirohide Munakata

Tatsumi Shoji

Manabu Iwasaki

Miki Ogawa

Tomonari Horikiri

Takao Takuguchi

Provided is an ultrasonic detection device including: a capacitive electromechanical transducer including a cell that includes a first electrode and a second electrode disposed so as to oppose with a space; a voltage source for developing a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode; and an electric circuit for converting a current, which is caused by a change in electrostatic capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode due to vibration of the second electrode, into a voltage, in which the capacitive electromechanical transducer provides an output current with a high-pass characteristic having a first cutoff frequency with respect to a frequency, the electric circuit provides an output with a low-pass characteristic having a second cutoff frequency with respect to the frequency, and the second cutoff frequency is smaller than the first cutoff frequency.

Ultrasonic detection device and ultrasonic diagnostic device

A photoelectric converter of a high signal-to-noise ratio, low cost, high productivity and stable characteristics and a system including the above photoelectric converter. The photoelectric converter includes a photoelectric converting portion in which a first electrode layer, an insulating layer for inhibiting carriers from transferring, a photoelectric converting semiconductor layer of a non-single-crystal type, an injection blocking layer for inhibiting a first type of carriers from being injected into the semiconductor layer and a second electrode layer are laminated in this order on an insulating substrate.

Photoelectric converter, its driving method, and system including the photoelectric converter

Provided is a display apparatus capable of reducing external light reflection to reduce an amount of glare of the outside, in which a translucent protection member is provided to cover an observation surface side of a display member including an organic EL light-emitting portion, in order to protect the display member. The display apparatus includes the display member with an organic EL light-emitting portion having a pair of electrodes and an organic compound layer provided between the pair of electrodes; and a casing for housing the display member, wherein a protection member is provided in the casing with a gap from the display member, and wherein a phase member and a polarizing member are formed on the protection member such that the polarizing member is located closer to a light extraction side than the phase member.

Display apparatus

A luminescence device comprising a pair of electrodes and an organic compound layer disposed between the electrodes. The layer contains a metal coordination compound represented by the following formula (1): 

Luminescence device, display apparatus and metal coordination compound

A multicolor light-emitting device includes a plurality of organic EL devices each having two or more different luminescent colors. The multicolor light-emitting device includes a plurality of organic EL devices each having an organic compound layer including a light-emitting layerbetween a reflecting electrodeand a transparent electrodeThe plurality of organic EL devices each has two or more different emission spectra, wherein light-emitting regions in the light-emitting layer of the organic EL devices each having different emission spectra are located in different positions in the layer thickness direction corresponding to the different emission spectra.

Multicolor light-emitting device

The tiltable-body apparatus including a frame member, a tiltable body, and a pair of torsion springs having a twisting longitudinal axis. The torsion springs are disposed along the twisting longitudinal axis opposingly with the tiltable body being interposed, support the tiltable body flexibly and rotatably about the twisting longitudinal axis relative to the frame member, and include a plurality of planar portions, compliant directions of which intersect each other when viewed along a direction of the twisting longitudinal axis. A center of gravity of the tiltable body is positioned on the twisting longitudinal axis of the torsion springs.

Tiltable-body apparatus, and method of fabricating the same

In a display device having a display region formed by disposing a plurality of organic light emitting elements such as organic EL elements, it becomes possible to prevent penetration of water into the display region to suppress degradation in display characteristics even during drive over a long period of time and to improve long-term reliability. There is provided a display device comprising a display region () having a plurality of organic light emitting elements disposed on a substrate (), each of the plurality of organic light emitting elements having an organic layer (comprising a light emitting layer interposed between an anode and a cathode (), wherein the display region () is formed on a first insulating protective layer () provided on the substrate (), and a surface on a side opposite to a substrate () side and an entire periphery of the display region () are covered with an insulating protective film ().

Display device with protective film over display region

A luminescence device that has an organic compound layer disposed between a pair of electrodes. This organic compound layer contains a metal coordination compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein M is Ir, Rh or Pd; n is 2 or 3; CyN is a substituted or unsubstituted cyclic group containing a nitrogen atom connected to M and capable of containing another nitrogen atom and/or a sulfur atom; and CyC is a substituted or unsubstituted cyclic group containing a carbon atom connected to M and capable of containing a nitrogen atom and/or a sulfur atom.

An organic EL device includes a luminescence layer containing a metal coordination compound represented by the following formula (1): LmML'n, wherein M denotes Ir, Pt, Rh or Pd; L denotes a bidentate ligand; L&#x2032; denotes a bidentate ligand different from L; m is an integer of 1, 2 or 3; and n is an integer of 0, 1 or 2 with the proviso that the sum of m and n is 2 or 3. The partial structure MLm is represented by formula (2) or formula (3) shown below, and the partial structure ML&#x2032;n is represented by formula (4) or formula (5) shown below: wherein CyN1, CyN2 and CyN3 independently denote a substituted or unsubstituted cyclic group containing a nitrogen atom connected to M; CyN4 denotes a cyclic group containing 8-quinoline or its derivative having a nitrogen atom connected to M.

Metal coordination compound, luminescence device and display apparatus

The tiltable-body apparatus including a frame member, a tiltable body, and a pair of torsion springs having a twisting longitudinal axis. The torsion springs are disposed along the twisting longitudinal-axis opposingly with the tiltable body being interposed, support the tiltable body flexibly and rotatably about the twisting longitudinal axis relative to the frame member, and include a plurality of planar portions, compliant directions of which intersect each other when viewed along a direction of the twisting longitudinal axis. A center of gravity of the tiltable body is positioned on the twisting longitudinal axis of the torsion springs.

A process for producing a crystalline thin film is provided which comprises melting and resolidifying a starting thin film having regions different in the state coexisting continuously. A small region of the starting thin film has a size distribution of number concentration of crystal grains or crystalline clusters different from that of the surrounding region. In the process of melting and resolidification, the crystal grain grows preferentially in the one region to control the location of the crystal grain in the crystalline thin film.

Crystalline thin film and process for production thereof, element employing crystalline thin film, circuit employing element, and device employing element or circuit

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Hidemasa Mizutani