Oki Data Corporation

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Gree, Inc.

Orbray Co., Ltd.

Daiichi Seiyaku Co., Ltd.

Hiroyuki Fujiwara

Mitsuhiko Ogihara

Hiroshi Shimizu

Takahito Suzuki

Masaaki Sakuta

Ichimatsu Abiko

Tomoki Igari

Tomohiko Sagimori

Masaharu Nobori

Yusuke Nakai

Hironori Furuta

Masataka Muto

Masumi Koizumi

Masumi Taninaka

Makoto Ishimaru

Susumu Ozawa

Yukio Nakamura

Masaru Sasaki

Tsutomu Okamoto

Gakuto Yoshii

Hiroshi Kurokawa

Hiroshi Hamano

Kohei Yamamoto

Tsutomu Nomoto

Ryuichi Narita

Tsuyoshi Namekawa

Yoichi Iwamoto

Shuichi Yokohama

Takao Kusano

Shunzo Aibara

Tomochika Hamamoto

Tamotsu Miwa

Nobutaka Nakajima

Masahiko Toyoda

Kenichi Kawanishi

Hiroo Matsumoto

Ryuichi Nagase

Sumiro Isoda

Aya Yamanaka

Masahito Matsubara

Susumu Chihara

Tomohisa Ota

Kaina Teshima

Takafumi Hiro

Keisuke Sasajima

Kotoyo Mizuno

Yoshihisa Fujiwara

Ikuo Otake

Mitsuhiko Oghihara

An optical coupling device including multiple optical fibers each of which includes at least one core; and a self-forming optical waveguide, wherein the optical fibers are arranged facing each other, and the self-forming optical waveguide is provided between the optical fibers, an end portion of the self-forming optical waveguide is optically connected to the core of each optical fiber, the cores of the optical fibers arranged facing each other are optically connected to each other through the self-forming optical waveguide in a linear shape, optical axis directions of the optical fibers optically connected to each other through the self-forming optical waveguide are parallel with each other, and an end portion of each core is diagonally formed with an inclination angle according to a refractive index of each core and a refractive index of the self-forming optical waveguide.

Optical coupling device and method for manufacturing optical coupling device

A game apparatus for selectively providing motivation to specific users to continue playing a game, which may include a log information retrieval unit that retrieves log information associated with user identification information related to a plurality of registered users, a game processing unit that starts playing a game and progresses the game based on operation information by the registered users, an index value calculation unit that calculates, for each of the registered users, an index value indicating a possibility that the registered users will not perform a predetermined action within a predetermined period based on the log information retrieved by the log information retrieval unit, and a privilege granting unit that grants a predetermined privilege providing an advantage in the game to a specific user of the plurality of registered users based on the index value calculated by the index value calculation unit for each of the registered users.

Game apparatus, game method, and game program

An optical connector includes multiple optical fibers; a single multicore fiber; and multiple self-forming optical waveguides, wherein the total number of cores of the multiple optical fibers and the total number of cores of the multicore fiber are identical to each other, the multiple optical fibers and the multicore fiber are arranged facing each other, the self-forming optical waveguides are provided among the multiple optical fibers and the multicore fiber, end portions of the self-forming optical waveguides are optically connected to the cores of the multiple optical fibers and the cores of the multicore fiber, and either the multiple optical fibers or the multicore fiber contacting the end portions of the self-forming optical waveguides is detachable from the self-forming optical waveguides.

Optical connector and optical connector manufacturing method

A biaxial load test specimen includes a main body and four arms. The main body has a plurality of through-holes aligned along axial directions of two load axes orthogonal to each other. The four arms extend from the main body in the respective axial directions of the load axes. Each of the arms has a plurality of slit grooves extending, on respective extensions of the through-holes aligned in the axial directions, along the respective axial directions.

Biaxial load test specimen, biaxial load test apparatus, and biaxial load test method

A semiconductor composite apparatus includes a semiconductor thin film layer and a substrate. The semiconductor thin film layer and the substrate are bonded to each other with a layer of an alloy of a high-melting-point metal and a low-melting-point metal formed between the semiconductor thin film layer and the substrate. The alloy has a higher melting point than the low-melting-point metal. The layer of the alloy contains a product resulting from a reaction of the low-melting-point metal and a material of said semiconductor thin film layer.

Semiconductor composite apparatus, method for manufacturing the semiconductor composite apparatus, LED head that employs the semiconductor composite apparatus, and image forming apparatus that employs the LED head

A plug for heat-conducting tubes is equipped with: a plug main body, which is formed so as to be capable of being inserted into the heat-conducting tubes; a columnar member, which is capable of being inserted into and removed from the plug main body from the cylindrical open end of the plug main body, and has at its outer circumference a tapered surface; and a wedge member, which is formed so as to be capable of being inserted into and removed from the plug main body from the cylindrical open end of the plug main body, and has at its inner circumference a tapered surface which opposes the tapered surface of the columnar member when the wedge member is inserted into the plug main body.

Plug for heat-conducting tube, device for attaching plug for heat-conducting tube, and method for plugging heat conducting tube

The present invention supplied a display apparatus using plastic substrate instead of glass substrate, which can solve such problems that the plastic substrate has a low heat conductivity and its heat release performance becomes bad so that it is difficult to obtain stable performance and reliability. In the display apparatus being formed by bonding semiconductor thin film element on a plastic substrate, a thin film metal layer is formed on surface of the semiconductor thin film element for promoting heat release.

Display apparatus

A semiconductor apparatus includes a substrate having at least one terminal, a thin semiconductor film including at least one semiconductor device, the thin semiconductor film being disposed and bonded on the substrate; and an individual interconnecting line formed as a thin conductive film extending from the semiconductor device in the thin semiconductor film to the terminal in the substrate, electrically connecting the semiconductor device to the terminal. Compared with conventional semiconductor apparatus, the invented apparatus is smaller and has a reduced material cost.

Semiconductor apparatus with thin semiconductor film

A combined semiconductor apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate having an integrated circuit, a planarized region formed in a surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a semiconductor thin film including at least one semiconductor device and bonded on the planarized region. A surface of the semiconductor thin film, in which the semiconductor device is formed, is disposed on a side of the planarized region. The apparatus may further include a planarized film disposed between the planarized region and the semiconductor thin film.

Combined semiconductor apparatus with semiconductor thin film

A light emitting panel includes a plurality of light emitting element arrays each of which has a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a plane. The light emitting element arrays are configured so that an arrangement plane of the light emitting elements of one light emitting element array is overlapped with another arrangement plane of the light emitting elements of another light emitting element array in substantially parallel to each other, and so that the light emitting elements of one light emitting element array and the light emitting elements of another light emitting element array emit lights to the same side.

Light emitting panel having a plurality of light emitting element arrays arranged in descending order of wavelength

A semiconductor device includes three-terminal light emitting element array provided on a substrate, which includes a plurality of three-terminal light emitting elements which are substantially linearly arranged. Each three-terminal light emitting elements includes a first, second and third terminals. The third terminal is used to control a current between the first and second terminals. A Lead-out wiring portion is connected to the plurality of three-terminal light emitting elements. The three-terminal light emitting element array includes a common layer provided between two or more three-terminal light emitting elements adjacent to each other. The common layer mutually connects the second terminals (or the third terminals) of the two or three three-terminal light emitting elements. The lead-out wiring portion includes wirings led from the common layer and the plurality of three-terminal light emitting elements and extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to an arranging direction of the plurality of three-terminal light emitting elements.

Semiconductor device, optical print head and image forming apparatus

A semiconductor composite apparatus, includes a first substrate, a semiconductor thin film layer, active devices, first driving circuits, and second driving circuits. The semiconductor thin film layer is formed on the first substrate and is formed of a first semiconductor material. The active devices are formed in the semiconductor thin film layer. The first driving circuits is formed of a second semiconductor material and performing a first function in which the active devices are driven. The second driving circuits are formed of a third semiconductor material and performing a second function in which the active devices are driven, the second function being different from the first function.

Semiconductor composite apparatus, print head, and image forming apparatus

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Hiroyuki Fujiwara