Seiko Epson Corporation

Kazuki Yoshida

Kanechika Kiyose

Yasunori Onishi

Tomoaki Nakamura

Kogo Endo

Yoshio Arai

Kazuyuki Kano

Yusuke Nakazawa

A medium transport device includes a medium transport path for transporting a medium, and a medium detection unit that detects a medium by using detection light intersecting the medium transport path. the medium detection unit is a part constituting an optical path of the detection light, and includes a first optical component positioned on a first side of the medium transport path, and a second optical component positioned on a second side with the medium transport path interposed therebetween, and the second optical component is accommodated in a recess formed in a wall face extending in a direction intersecting a path surface of the medium transport path.

Medium transport device and recording apparatus

An ultrasonic device unit includes an ultrasonic device including 1-st through n-th vibrator elements and 1-st through n-th device-side terminals connected corresponding respectively to the vibrator elements, and a flexible printed wiring board to be connected to the ultrasonic device, in which the flexible printed wiring board includes a first connector section provided with 1-st through k-th external connection terminals, a second connector section provided with (k+1)-th through n-th external connection terminals, a device connection section which is disposed between the first connector section and the second connector section, and to which the 1-st through n-th device-side terminals are connected, and interconnections adapted to connect the i-th device-side terminal and the i-th external connection terminal to each other.

Ultrasonic device unit, ultrasonic probe, and ultrasonic apparatus

An ultrasonic device unit includes an ultrasonic device, and a flexible printed wiring board to be connected to the ultrasonic device, the flexible printed wiring board is provided with a device connection to which the ultrasonic device is connected, a first connector including external connection terminals to be connected to the ultrasonic device, a second connector including external connection terminals to be connected to the ultrasonic device, a first inflective part adapted to link the device connection and the first connector to each other, and a second inflective part adapted to link the device connection and the second connector to each other, and a distance between the device connection and the first connector in the first inflective part and a distance between the device connection and the first connector in the second inflective part are different from each other.

An ultrasonic device unit includes an ultrasonic device having a device-side terminal, a reinforcing plate having a support surface adapted to support the ultrasonic device, and a flexible printed wiring board to be connected to the ultrasonic device, the flexible printed wiring board includes a connection to be connected to the device-side terminal, a bend continuous with the connection, and extending away from the ultrasonic device, and an outer edge disposed in an end in the extending direction of the bend, and the reinforcing plate is provided with a first side parallel to a first direction crossing the extending direction, and opposed to the bend, and a projection on a reverse surface opposite the support surface, and with which the outer edge has contact when the flexible printed wiring board is curved along the first side in the bend.

An ultrasonic device unit includes an ultrasonic device having a device-side terminal, a reinforcing plate having a support adapted to support the ultrasonic device, and a flexible printed wiring board to be connected to the ultrasonic device, the flexible printed wiring board is provided with a connection to be connected to the device-side terminal, and a bend continuous with the connection, extending away from the ultrasonic device, and having an end edge parallel to an extending direction, and the reinforcing plate is provided with a bending guide provided to a first side parallel to a first direction crossing the extending direction, having a circular arc curved surface convex away from the support, and opposed to the bend, and a guide surface disposed at an end in the first direction of the bending guide, and adapted to guide the end edge of the bend.

An ultrasonic apparatus includes an ultrasonic element substrate that includes an ultrasonic element array transmitting an ultrasonic wave in a first direction, and a first conductive film provided on the first direction side of the ultrasonic element array, a casing portion that has a conductive member provided to surround the ultrasonic element substrate on a side intersecting the first direction of the ultrasonic element substrate, and a support substrate that is provided on an opposite side to the first direction of the ultrasonic element substrate, supports the ultrasonic element substrate, and has conductivity.

Ultrasonic apparatus

An ultrasonic device unit includes a substrate having a planar part and a recess part recessed from the planar part, an ultrasonic device which has an element array including a plurality of thin film ultrasonic transducer elements disposed in an array and is disposed in the recess part, a first flexible printed board, one end of which is superimposed on a portion of an array surface of the ultrasonic device and connected to the same, the other end of which is superimposed on a portion of the planar part and connected to the same, wherein the array surface of the ultrasonic device which the one end of the first flexible printed board is superimposed on is positioned within a plane including the planar part or a plane outside of the recess part.

Ultrasonic device unit, probe, electronic device and ultrasonic imaging device

An ultrasonic transducer device includes a substrate on which a plurality of openings are arranged; a plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements, each of the ultrasonic transducer elements being provided to each of the openings of the plurality of openings, on a first surface of the substrate; and a member fixed to a second surface of the substrate, which is a surface on the opposite side of the first surface of the substrate. Provided to the member are a plurality of first groove sections, and a second groove section for bundling together the plurality of the first groove sections.

Ultrasonic transducer device, probe head, ultrasonic probe, electronic machine and ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus

In a position detection system, a retroreflection portion is provided on an outer peripheral surface of a designating member. Alight source unit emits detection light along an imaginary plane parallel to a reference surface. A light receiving element is arranged on one side in a Z-axis direction from the imaginary surface in such a way that a direction of a normal light to a light receiving surface intersects with the reference surface. When a distance between the designating member and the light source unit is long, light reflected by the retroreflection portion becomes incident more efficiently on the light receiving surface of the light receiving element than when the distance is short.

Position detection system and display system with input function

A detectable indication member for an optical position detection device includes a round bar shaped shaft and a spherical body provided at the distal end of the shaft. The outer peripheral surface of the spherical body and the outer peripheral surface of an end portion of the shaft portion connected to the spherical body form a retroreflective portion. A portion of the shaft adjacent the base end of the end portion absorbs infrared light.

Indication member, optical position detection device, and display system with input function

An optical position detecting device includes: a plurality of detection light source sections which includes a first light emitting element which emits a first detection light and a second light emitting element which is turned on at a timing different from a timing when the first light emitting element is turned on and emits a second detection light having a peak wavelength different from that of the first detection light; a light source driving section which turns on a part of the plurality of detection light source sections, and turns on the other part thereof; a light detecting section which detects the first detection light and the second detection light reflected by a object; and a position detecting section which detects the position of the object on the basis of the intensity of the first detection light and the intensity of the second detection light in the light detecting section.

Optical position detecting device and display device with position detecting function

A detection target space of an optical position detection device is divided into a detection target space due to a light emitting/receiving unit and a light emitting/receiving unit and a detection target space due to a light emitting/receiving unit and a light emitting/receiving unit. The light emitting/receiving units overlap each other in a Z-axis direction, and a light receiving element of the light emitting/receiving unit and a light receiving element of the light emitting/receiving unit are disposed so as to overlap each other in the Z-axis direction with light receiving surfaces facing to respective directions different from each other.

Optical position detection device and display system with input function

An optical position detecting device includes: a plurality of detection light source sections which emits a detection light; a light source driving section which turns on a part of the plurality of detection light source sections in a first period, and turns on the other part thereof in a second period; a first light detecting section which detects the detection light reflected by a object; a second light detecting section which has a sensitivity peak in a wavelength band which is different from that of the first light detecting section and detects the detection light reflected by the object; and a position detecting section which detects the position of the object on the basis of the intensity of the detection light in the first light detecting section and the intensity of the detection light in the second light detecting section in the first and second periods.

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Kazuki Yoshida