Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kao Corporation

Elf Atochem S.a.

Japan Science and Technology Agency

Sony Corporation

Dexerials Corporation

Sony Chemical & Information Device Corporation

Sumitomo Bakelite Company Limited

Japan Science and Technology Corporation

Atofina

Canon Kabashiki Kaisha

Jun Yamamoto

Sotomitsu Ikeda

Kenji Yamada

Shinjiro Okada

Sakae Suda

Tetsuo Hino

Satoshi Mogi

Kazuyuki Ueda

Hiroshi Yokoyama

Yasuki Tsutsumi

Toru Nakakubo

Kazuya Miyazaki

Wataru Kubo

Kazuya Otsuji

Satoshi Igawa

Makoto Yoneya

Yoshihisa Shinya

Akiyoshi Yokoi

Akira Morita

Taihei Mukaide

Naoki Hayashi

Patrick Alex

Misao Konishi

Atsuhito Yoshizawa

Shoji Ihara

Takatoshi Kuratsuji

Jerome Maillet

Ryota Aizaki

Tetsuya Tamura

Jong-Hyun Kim

Hiroyuki Yamada

Yoshiaki Kumamoto

Kaoru Hamada

Kenichi Otani

Lachezar Komitov

Hidesato Kizaki

Yasuhiro Fujita

Amita Goyal

Masayuki Okawa

Joachim Merziger

Neil Campbell

Takahiro Kashiwa

Yuichi Takeshige

Keiichiro Sugai

Christophe Maldeme

Toshiyuki Minegishi

Kazuhiro Date

Akira Suzuki

Yoshito Tanaka

An adhesive composition having a low dielectric constant, low dielectric loss tangent, excellent folding endurance, and excellent heat resistance. The adhesive composition includes: with respect to the total of 100 parts by mass of the adhesive composition, 70 to 90 parts by mass of the styrene elastomer; 5 to 25 parts by mass of a modified polyphenyleneether resin having a polymerizable group at an end; totally 10 parts by mass or less of an epoxy resin and an epoxy resin curing agent, wherein the styrene ratio of the styrene elastomer is less than 42%.

Adhesive composition, thermosetting adhesive sheet, and printed wiring board

A sealing resin composition including an epoxy resin, a curing agent, an inorganic filler, and rubber particles, in which a toughness index of a cured product of the sealing resin composition at 25° C. is equal to or more than 80 and equal to or less than 100.

Sealing resin composition

A motor control apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect an actual rotation position of a motor, a control unit configured to provide position feedback control on the motor so that the detected actual rotation position sequentially approaches a plurality of target rotation positions, and a processing unit configured to perform, before the position feedback control starts, processing to make an initial position deviation fall within a predetermined range, the initial position deviation being a difference between the actual rotation position and a first target rotation position of the plurality of target rotation positions.

Motor control apparatus, optical apparatus, and robot manipulator apparatus

An organic compound is represented by general formula (1) below: 

Organic compound, electrochromic device, electrochromic apparatus, optical filter, image pickup apparatus, lens unit, and window member

An electrochromic device includes an electrochromic elementincluding an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and an electrochromic layer, and drive meansconnected to the electrochromic element. The electrochromic elementincludes a plurality of anode terminals (A, A) electrically connected to the anode electrode, and a plurality of cathode terminals (C, C) electrically connected to the cathode electrode, and each of the anode terminals constitutes a terminal pair in combination with one of the cathode terminals. At least part of a first application period in which the drive meansapplies a voltage to a first terminal pair that is one of the terminal pairs and at least part of a second application period in which the drive meansapplies a voltage to a second terminal pair that is another one of the terminal pairs are not overlapped with each other.

Electrochromic device, optical filter using same, lens unit, image taking device, window member, and driving method for electrochromic element

An electrochromic element, which includes a pair of electrodes and an electrochromic layer disposed between the electrodes. The electrochromic layer contains at least one of two or more kinds of anode electrochromic materials, or two or more kinds of cathode electrochromic materials. All of one of the anode electrochromic materials and the cathode electrochromic materials have an equal molecular length, or have a molecular length ratio of (large molecular length)/(small molecular length) of 1.4 or less, the electrochromic element being such that even when a driving environment temperature changes, its gradation can be controlled under a state in which its absorption spectrum is retained.

Electrochromic element

An electrochromic apparatus comprises an electrochromic device and a drive unit operating for normal drive and heating drive of the electrochromic device. The electrochromic device comprises a pair of electrodes and an electrochromic layer including at least an electrochromic material and a solvent. Each of the paired electrodes has at least a pair of power supply sections on a surface thereof. The pair of power supply sections include a first power supply section and a second power supply section arranged oppositely relative to the first power supply section on the surface. The drive unit operates for the heating drive such that the electrochromic layer is heated by applying an alternating voltage between the pair of power supply sections of each of the paired electrodes so as to put any oppositely disposed positions of the paired electrodes in phase with each other.

Electrochromic apparatus and method of driving electrochromic device, as well as optical filter, lens unit, imaging apparatus and window member

A driver for an electrochromic element is configured to adjust the transmittance of a solution-type electrochromic element to allow the element to display a tone. The element has a pair of electrodes and at least one organic electrochromic material mixed between the electrodes. The driver has an adjusting controller configured to adjust the transmittance of the element. The adjusting controller has controller A and controller B. Controller A is configured to saturate a change in the transmittance of the element to an initial state by applying the voltage which resets the element to the initial state. Controller B is configured to control the tone of the element by applying the voltage which adjusts the transmittance of the element following controller A.

Driver for electrochromic element, method for driving electrochromic element, optical filter, imaging device, lens unit, and window component

An organic compound represented by General Formula (1),  in which, in General Formula (1), Rrepresents an alkyl group or an alkoxy group, Xand Xare each independently selected from an alkyl group which may have a substituent, an aryl group which may have a substituent, or an aralkyl group which may have a substituent, and Aand Aeach independently represent a monovalent anion.

Organic compound, electrochromic compound, and electrochromic element, optical filter, lens unit, imaging device, and window component having same

An electrochromic element, includes: a pair of electrodes (); and an electrochromic layer () disposed between the pair of electrodes (), the electrochromic element being controlled in transmittance by pulse width modulation, in which: the electrochromic layer () contains at least one of two or more kinds of anode electrochromic materials, or two or more kinds of cathode electrochromic materials; and all of one of the anode electrochromic materials and the cathode electrochromic materials have an equal molecular length, or have a molecular length ratio of (large molecular length)/(small molecular length) of 1.4 or less, the electrochromic element being such that even when a driving environment temperature changes, its gradation can be controlled under a state in which its absorption spectrum is retained.

An electrochromic composition has an anodic electrochromic compound and a cathodic electrochromic compound, in which the anodic electrochromic compound is represented by General Formula [1] and the cathodic electrochromic compound is represented by General Formula [2] In General Formula 1, Ato Arepresent substituents, Rand R, and Rand Rrepresent a hydrogen atom or a substituent. n is an integer of 1 to 5. X represents a thiophene derivative and Y- represents an anion.

Electrochromic composition and electrochromic element

An electrochromic apparatus includes an electrochromic element comprising a pair of electrodes and an electrochromic layer disposed between the pair of electrodes; and drive circuits connected to the electrochromic element, the drive circuits including a drive circuit A and a drive circuit B, in which, when no voltage is applied in a pulse width modulation (PWM) drive of the drive circuit A, a resistance value of the drive circuit A is larger than a resistance value of the electrochromic element, and in which when no voltage is applied in a PWM drive of the drive circuit B, the pair of electrodes is short-circuited.

Electrochromic apparatus, optical filter, imaging apparatus, lens unit, window member, and method of driving an electrochromic apparatus

Provided is an electrochromic element having: a pair of electrodes; an electrochromic layer which is provided between the pair of electrodes and has an electrolyte and an electrochromic material; and a spacer which surrounds a periphery of the electrochromic layer, the element having a change mechanism that changes a thickness of the electrochromic layer.

Electrochromic element, method for driving the same, and optical filter

A pet toilet includes an outer and inner container. A lower outer sidewall portion having a lower sidewall provided on a sidewall of the outer container, and a lower inner sidewall portion having a lower sidewall provided on a sidewall of the inner container. The outer and inner containers are movable. A pet entrance that is lower than an adjacent sidewall formed by arranging the inner container into the outer container, such that the position of the lower outer sidewall portion matches the position of the lower inner sidewall portion. Further, the lower outer sidewall portion is closed by the sidewall of the inner container and the lower inner sidewall portion is closed by the sidewall of the outer container by arranging the inner container into the outer container, such that the position of the lower outer sidewall portion does not match the position of the lower inner sidewall portion.

Pet toilet

Growing community of inventors

Tokyo, Japan

Jun Yamamoto