The University of Tokyo

Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Corporation

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha

Tokyo Tanabe Company, Ltd.

Toppan Forms Co., Ltd.

Hiroyuki Matsui

Junichi Takeya

Koji Saito

Taro Yasuda

Yoshihisa Usami

Yuki Owashi

Takayoshi Yokoyama

Masahiro Takahashi

Satoshi Takeuchi

Nobuhito Toyama

Yoichi Takahashi

Junji Fujikawa

Yukio Iimura

Takashi Nishimoto

Akio Okamura

Satoshi Okazaki

Masanobu Fujita

An organic semiconductor element functions as a strain sensor, and includes a substrate and an organic semiconductor layer formed on the substrate as a single-crystal thin film of an organic semiconductor that is a polycyclic aromatic compound with four or more rings or a polycyclic compound with four or more rings including one or a plurality of unsaturated five-membered heterocyclic compounds and a plurality of benzene rings. Since the organic semiconductor layer is formed as the single-crystal thin film, an identical crystal structure is obtained regardless of formation technique. Therefore, when the same strain is given, the same carrier mobility is obtained and uniform property is obtained with respect to the strain. Accordingly, it is possible to provide strain sensors having uniform property.

Organic semiconductor element

An information collection system includes a plurality of radio tags and a reading device. Each of the radio tags stores identification information and includes a sensor, an antenna that receives a carrier wave from the reading device, and a data transmission unit that sends measurement data including the identification information and information obtained by the sensor to the reading device after the carrier wave is received by the antenna. The plurality of radio tags send the identification information and the information obtained by the sensor with different natural periods from the data transmission units. The reading device transmits the carrier wave to each of the radio tags, receives data from each of the radio tags, and obtains the data.

Information collection system

A sensing system includes an electronic tag and a reading device that transmits and receives information to and from the electronic tag. The reading device includes a transmission unit that sends an alternating-current radio wave including a high-frequency component and a low-frequency component. The electronic tag does not include a power supply and includes a receiving unit that obtains a power supply voltage from the high-frequency component of the alternating-current radio wave and obtains a clock signal from the low-frequency component and a return unit that maintains a maximum amplitude of the clock signal and sends a combination of information and the clock signal as a return signal. The reading device further includes a processing unit that decodes the return signal sent from the electronic tag on the basis of the clock signal.

Sensing system

A chip component take-in apparatus takes in and guides downward prismatic chip components stored in a bulk state in a storage chamber one by one in a predetermined direction. When a first take-in member and a second take-in member are relatively moved up and down in each flat face contact state, the chip components in face contact with the flat faces of the take-in members are gradually guided to a center along guide ways. The guided chip components in the longitudinal direction thereof are taken into a passage constituted by grooves and are moved downward along the passage by self-weight.

Chip component take-in apparatus

The method of forming a minute focusing lens with respect to over a photoactive area of an image sensor such as a CCD or CMOS, comprising: coating a resist film on a flattening layer formed over the photoactive area of the image sensor; exposing the resist film to light via a photo-mask, and developing the resist film; and patterning the resist film into a lens configuration provides in this invention in order to form a lens having a designed configuration that provides a good light focusing efficiency. The photo-mask is a light transmission type having no light-shading layer. And, this photo-mask is the one having provided thereon a light transmission portion comprising a light refraction material, having on its surface portion a stairs portion, the stairs portion having the phase of a transmission light at its respective position controlled relative to a prescribed width so that a desired light intensity distribution may be obtained at the surface of the photo-mask light-exposed portion.

Method of forming minute focusing lens

Bile acid converting microorganism and process for preparing bile acid

A chromium blank for forming a black matrix-screen to be used as a color filter for a liquid crystal display is formed by forming at least a first antireflection film, a second antireflection film and a screening film sequentially in that order on one major surface of a transparent substrate. Each of the first and the second antireflection film is a semitransparent film formed of a chromium compound or a chromium mixture, containing chromium as a principal component, and the screening film is formed of chromium, a chromium compound containing chromium as a principal component. The transparent substrate, the first antireflection film, the second antireflection film and the screening film meet an inequality: n.sub.s &lt;n.sub.1 &lt;n.sub.2 &lt;n.sub.3, where n.sub.s is the refractive index of the transparent substrate, n.sub.1 is the real part of the complex index of refraction of the first antireflection film, n.sub.2 is the real part of the complex index of refraction of the second antireflection film, and n.sub.3 is the real part of the complex index of refraction of the screening film, in the substantially entire visible wavelength range.

Chromium blanks for forming black matrix-screen and color filter for

For printing fine patterns, a fine pattern of a setting type ink is applied to a printing plate surface to become printing elements. Then, the setting type ink thus applied on the printing plate is subjected to a setting treatment thereby to set at least one part of the ink pattern, and thereafter the printing plate and an object to be printed are pressed relatively against each other thereby to transfer the ink pattern onto the print object. The printing plate can be an intaglio plate or a lithographic plate. Fine patterns of printing element widths as fine as 3 .mu.m with an ink film thickness of 2 .mu.m can be printed efficiently with the high precision on various objects including hard and rigid objects.

Method including treatment of ink on a plate to cause hardening at other

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