Sony Corporation

Dexerials Corporation

Hiroshi Mizuno

Akihiro Horii

Taizo Nishimura

Tomoko Katsuhara

Hiroto Kawaguchi

Shogo Shinkai

Noriyuki Hirai

Fumihiko Iida

Kei Obata

Mitsunari Hoshi

Kei Tsukamoto

Hayato Hasegawa

Akira Ebisui

Takayuki Tanaka

Yasuyuki Abe

Tomoaki Suzuki

Yasuyuki Kudo

Tomohiro Koyata

Yoshiaki Sakakura

Shinji Isozaki

Makoto Aoki

Jun Sasaki

Shunichi Kajiya

Eiji Ohta

Toru Abiko

Hirokazu Odagiri

Takashi Itaya

Satoshi Sato

Tatsuya Harima

Masashi Ogawa

Yuu Miura

Taro Omura

Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Takashi Sato

Takeshi Takahashi

Akihiro Shibata

Jun Shimizu

Yoshiyuki Takaku

Kiyohiro Kimura

Yuichi Arisaka

Teiichi Miyauchi

Yoshiteru Taka

Satoko Asaoka

Junichi Tachibana

Toshio Kano

Takuya Ito

Tsutomu Ichinose

Atsuo Yada

Kanako Hashimoto

Satoshi Sekino

Yu Andrew Chakchung

Tokuhiro Morioka

Saori Hayashi

Andrew Chakchung Yu

Motohiko Akiyama

Akiko Kakibe

Takahiro Hirai

Toru Takahashi

Hirofumi Tsuiki

Toshiyuki Onodera

Daisuke Ito

Tatsuo Suzuki

Mitsuhiro Chida

The sensor device includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, an electrode substrate, a first support, and a second support. The first conductive layer is formed to be deformable sheet-shaped. The second conductive layer is disposed to be opposed to the first conductive layer. The electrode substrate includes multiple first electrode wires and multiple second electrode wires and is disposed to be deformable between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, the multiple second electrode wires being disposed to be opposed to the multiple first electrode wires and intersecting with the multiple first electrode wires. The first support includes multiple first structures, the multiple first structures connecting the first conductive layer and the electrode substrate. The second support includes multiple second structures, the multiple second structures connecting the second conductive layer and the electrode substrate.

Sensor device, input device, and electronic apparatus

A sensor panel includes a sensor section that detects magnetic force of a contacting surface or a region in the vicinity of the contacting surface on a basis of a change in capacitance and is allowed to output a signal depending on the change in capacitance along with information on a position where the change in capacitance has occurred.

Sensor panel, input unit, and display unit

Provided are an input device and an electronic apparatus each including capacitive elements and being capable of allowing a plurality of information items to be separately input by simple operations. The input device includes: a capacitive element; a conductor that can be electrostatically coupled to the capacitive element; an operation portion that allows a load to be applied to the conductor; and a retaining portion that retains the conductor apart from the capacitive element. The retaining portion is capable of displacing the conductor with respect to the capacitive element in a stepwise manner in accordance with the load that is applied to the conductor through intermediation of the operation portion, and is capable of retaining the conductor at a plurality of positions with respect to the capacitive element.

Input device and electronic apparatus

A sensor includes a base layer and a pressing unit protruding with respect to the base layer. The pressing unit includes a first structure unit and a hollow second structure unit disposed on the first structure unit and having a bottom side opened. The second structure unit has a shape portion on a surface facing the base layer.

Input device pressing unit

A sensor is provided with a conductor layer, a sensor layer including a plurality of sensor units, and a separating layer which separates the conductor layer from the sensor layer, the sensor unit is formed of alternately arranged first and second electrode elements, and sensitivity on an outer periphery of the sensor unit is higher than the sensitivity in a central portion of the sensor unit.

Sensor, input device, keyboard, and electronic device

A sensor device includes: a sensor layer provided at a position facing a surface, of a substrate having an operation surface, opposite to the operation surface, and configured to detect a contacted position or a pressed position on the operation surface; and a gap layer located in a gap between the substrate and the sensor layer. The gap layer includes a bonding region bonding the substrate to the sensor layer, and a relaxation region relaxing stress applied from the substrate to the sensor layer.

Sensor device, display unit, and input unit

Provided is a sensor device, including: a deformable first surface; a second surface facing the first surface; an electrode board between the first surface and the second surface, the electrode board including a plurality of capacitive elements arranged in a matrix; a support including a first support layer and a second support layer, the first support layer including a plurality of first columns, the second support layer being layered on the first support layer, the support being deformable following deformation of the first surface, the support connecting at least one of the first surface and the second surface to the electrode board; and a conductor layer supported by the support.

An input apparatus includes a conductive layer having flexibility, a capacitance-type sensor layer having a plurality of detection units, and a structure layer having a plurality of structures, a reaction force of which is non-linearly changed with respect to a pressing amount. The structure layer is disposed between the conductive layer and the sensor layer. The two or more structures are disposed in an operation area corresponding to the detection units.

Input apparatus, keyboard, and electronic apparatus

An input apparatus includes a conductive layer having flexibility, a plurality of structures, a reaction force of which is non-linearly changed with respect to a pressing amount, a capacitance-type sensor layer, and an intermediate layer disposed between the plurality of structures and the sensor layer. The intermediate layer has a plurality of hole portions into which the plurality of structures is pressed, respectively.

Input apparatus, sensor, keyboard, and electronic apparatus

[Object] To provide a sensor device capable of detecting an operation position and a pressing force with high accuracy. [Solution] A sensor device includes a first conductor layer, an electrode substrate, and a plurality of first structural bodies configured to separate the first conductor layer from the electrode substrate. At least one of the first conductor layer and the electrode substrate has flexibility. The electrode substrate includes a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes intersecting the plurality of first electrodes. At least one of the first and second electrodes includes a plurality of sub-electrodes.

There is provided a sensor device that includes a flexible first conductor layer and an electrode substrate. The electrode substrate includes a plurality of first electrode wires, a plurality of second electrode wires, capacity sensors being formed at capacitively coupled portions of the first and second electrode wires, and a flexible substrate that supports the first and second electrode wires. The sensor device also includes a first supporting body including a plurality of first structures that connect the first conductor layer and the electrode substrate.

A sensor device includes: a first sensor including a first electrode board including a plurality of first capacitive elements arranged in a matrix, a first conductor layer facing the first electrode board, a first support layer arranged between the first electrode board and the first conductor layer, the first support layer being deformable, and a first operation input surface provided on the first electrode board or the first conductor layer, the first electrode board and/or the first conductor layer being flexible; and a second sensor layered on the first sensor, the second sensor including a second electrode board including a plurality of second capacitive elements, a second conductor layer facing the second electrode board, and a second support layer arranged between the second electrode board and the second conductor layer, the second support layer being deformable, the second electrode board and/or the second conductor layer being flexible.

An optical sheet includes a sheet body including a single translucent resin material layer having a first surface that light enters and a second surface that the light exits. The sheet body is orientationally crystallized in a first in-plane axis direction and a second in-plane axis direction orthogonal to each other and having a linear expansion coefficient of 1.0*10E&#x2212;5/&#xb0; C. or less in all in-plane directions. A structure surface portion that has a geometric configuration and is formed on at least one of the first surface and the second surface.

Optical sheet, optical sheet production method, surface-emitting apparatus, and liquid crystal display apparatus

A manufacture method of an optical sheet made of a transparent thermoplastic resin sheet on whose surface a regular geometric design working is performed, the optical sheet manufacture method comprising steps of performing a geometric design working on the resin sheet at a temperature not lower than a glass transition temperature of the resin sheet, by using a metal endless working belt formed with a geometric design on a surface thereof, rapidly cooling the resin sheet on which the geometric design working is performed to a temperature lower than the glass transition temperature, and detaching the rapidly cooled resin sheet from the metal endless working belt.

Optical sheet manufacture method and optical sheet

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