Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Keiji Sugi

Tomio Ono

Tomoaki Sawabe

Shintaro Enomoto

Daimotsu Kato

Toshiya Yonehara

Akio Amano

Yasushi Shinjo

Yukitami Mizuno

Tomoko Sugizaki

Hayato Kakizoe

Isao Takasu

Atsushi Wada

Yuko Nomura

Kenichi Mori

Taeko I Urano

Miho Yoda

Rei Hasegawa

Nobuyoshi Saito

Tsuyoshi Hioki

Hitoshi Nagato

Yujiro Hara

Mitsuyoshi Kobayashi

Isao Amemiya

Naoto Kume

Satomi Taguchi

Yasushi Shinjiyo

Tomoya Takeda

Kenichi Shimano

Jun Takasaki

Disclosed is a thermoelectric generation system that generates electricity using waste heat from a steam condenser that exchanges heat with steam as cyclic water flows through a high temperature portion and a low temperature portion, the thermoelectric generation system including: a first hot-water discharge line used to discharge the cyclic water passing through the high temperature portion; a cyclic water circulation line through which the cyclic water from under water circulates; and a thermoelectric generation unit that generates electricity on the basis of a temperature difference between a temperature of the cyclic water flowing through the first hot-water discharge line and a temperature of the cyclic water flowing through the cyclic water circulation line.

Thermoelectric generation system

According to one embodiment, a radiation detector includes a scintillator layer, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and an organic layer. The second conductive layer is provided between the scintillator layer and the first conductive layer. The organic layer is provided between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The organic layer includes an organic semiconductor region having a first thickness. The first thickness is 400 nanometers or more.

Radiation detector

According to one embodiment, a sensor includes a light emitter and a light sensor. The light emitter includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first light emitting layer. The second electrode is light-transmissive. The first light emitting layer is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The light sensor includes a third electrode, a fourth electrode, a fifth electrode, a first photoelectric conversion layer, and a second photoelectric conversion layer. the fourth electrode is light-transmissive. The fifth electrode is provided between the third electrode and the fourth electrode. The fifth electrode is light-transmissive. The first photoelectric conversion layer is provided between the third electrode and the fifth electrode. The second photoelectric conversion layer is provided between the fourth electrode and the fifth electrode.

Sensor

An organic electroluminescent device includes first and second electrode and an organic light emitting layer. The first electrode has an upper face. The organic light emitting layer is provided on the first electrode. The second electrode is provided on the organic light emitting layer. The second electrode includes a plurality of conductive parts. The conductive parts extend in a first direction parallel to the upper face and are arranged in a second direction. The second direction is parallel to the upper face and intersects with the first direction. When a length of each of the conductive parts in the second direction is set to W1 (micrometer), and a pitch of each of the conductive parts is set to P1 (micrometer). The W1 and the P1 satisfy a relationship of W1&#x2267;&#x2212;647(1&#x2212;W1/P1)+511 and a relationship of W1&#x2266;&#x2212;882(1&#x2212;W1/P1)+847.

Organic electroluminescent device, illumination apparatus, and illumination system

According to one embodiment, an organic electroluminescent element includes a first electrode, an organic layer, and a second electrode. The first electrode is light-transmissive. The organic layer is provided on the first electrode. The second electrode is provided on the organic layer. The second electrode is light-reflective and includes a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion. The first conductive portion extends in a first direction. The second conductive portion extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The second conductive portion intersects the first conductive portion. A length in the first direction of the first conductive portion is longer than 1 mm and not more than 47 mm. A length in the second direction of the second conductive portion is longer than 1 mm and not more than 47 mm.

Organic electroluminescent element, lighting device, lighting system, and method for manufacturing organic electroluminescent element

An organic electroluminescent device includes a first electrode, an insulating layer, an organic light emitting layer, and a second electrode. The insulating layer is provided on the first electrode. The insulating layer includes a first opening for exposing a part of the first electrode. The organic light emitting layer includes a first part and a second part. The first part is provided on the part of the first electrode. The second part is provided on the insulating layer. The second electrode is provided on the organic light emitting layer. The second electrode includes a conductive part and a plurality of second openings. The conductive part is disposed on at least a part of the first part. Each of the second openings exposes a part of the organic light emitting layer. The second electrode is light-reflective.

According to one embodiment, a light emitting element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a light emitting layer, and a conductive section. The second electrode is provided opposite to the first electrode. The light emitting layer is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The second electrode includes a plurality of layers, and the plurality of layers include a first layer. The conductive section pierces the first layer in thickness direction. The conductive section includes a conductive material. Each of the plurality of layers includes at least one of Al, Al alloy, Ag, Ag alloy, alkali metals, and alkaline-earth metals and being different from one another.

Light emitting element and light emitting device including a conductive section

In general, according to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a light emitting unit, a connection unit, a containing unit, and a second sealing unit. The light emitting unit includes a first substrate, a second substrate, an organic electroluminescent element, and a first sealing unit. The organic electroluminescent element is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first sealing unit seals circumferential edge portions between the first substrate and the second substrate. The connection unit supplies power to the organic electroluminescent element. The containing unit has a space being airtight in an interior of the containing unit. The containing unit contains the light emitting unit inside the space. The second sealing unit is provided in the containing unit. The second sealing unit seals between a portion of the unit extending outside the containing unit and the containing unit.

Illumination device

According to one embodiment, a display device, includes: a display unit and a control unit. The display unit has a plurality of segments. Each of the plurality of segments includes a plurality of organic light emitting layers to emit light of mutually different colors. The plurality of segments forms one of a plurality types of images by changing the colors of the emitted light from the plurality of segments. The control unit drives each of the plurality of segments of the display unit to emit light.

Display device

According to one embodiment, an organic electroluminescent light emitting device includes a transparent substrate, an intermediate layer, a first electrode, an organic light emitting layer, and a second electrode. The intermediate layer includes a plurality of fine particles and a flattened layer. The fine particles are adhered to a major surface of the transparent substrate. The flattened layer covers the fine particles and has a refractive index different from a refractive index of the fine particles. The flattened layer is transparent. The first electrode is provided on the intermediate layer. The first electrode is transparent. The organic light emitting layer is provided on the first electrode. The second electrode is provided on the organic light emitting layer.

Organic electroluminescent light emitting device and method for manufacturing the same

According to one embodiment, an organic electroluminescent device includes first and second electrodes, an interconnection layer, an organic light emitting layer and a light scattering layer. The first electrode has includes first, second and third portions. The interconnection layer is electrically connected to the first electrode. The third portion overlays the interconnection layer when projected to the plane. The first and second portions do not overlay the interconnection layer. The second electrode overlays the second portion and does not overlay the first and the third portions. The organic light emitting layer is provided between the second portion and the second electrode. The second portion is disposed between the fourth portion of the light scattering layer and the second electrode. The fifth portion of the light scattering layer overlays the interconnection layer. The light scattering layer does not overlay the first portion when projected to the plane.

Organic electroluminescent device, lighting apparatus, and method for manufacturing the organic electroluminescent device

According to one embodiment, an organic electroluminescent device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, an organic light emitting layer and an optical layer. The first electrode has a first major surface and a second major surface opposite to the first major surface and is light transmissive. The second electrode faces a portion of the first major surface. The organic light emitting layer is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic light emitting layer and the first electrode are disposed between the optical layer and the second electrode. The optical layer is able to transit between a first state where a traveling direction of light emitted from the organic light emitting layer is changed and a second state having a smaller degree of the change in the traveling direction of the light than the first state.

According to one embodiment, an organic electroluminescence device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a first organic layer and a second organic layer. The second electrode includes a metal. The first organic layer is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first organic layer is configured to emit light. The second organic layer is provided between the first organic layer and the second electrode. A refractive index of the second organic layer in a thickness direction for the light is lower than a refractive index of the first organic layer for the light.

Organic electroluminescent device

According to one embodiment, an organic electroluminescent device includes a first electrode, a plurality of second electrodes and an organic light-emitting layer. The first electrode includes a first major surface and is optical transparency. The second electrodes extend in a first direction parallel to the first major surface and are separated from each other in a second direction parallel to the first major surface and perpendicular to the first direction. An optical transmittance of the second electrodes is lower than an optical transmittance of the first electrode. A distance along the second direction between a line extending in the first direction and a side surface of each of the second electrodes continuously increases and decreases along the first direction. The side surface is unparallel to the first major surface. The organic light-emitting layer is provided between the first electrode and the second electrodes.

Organic electroluminescent device and lighting apparatus

According to one embodiment, an organic electroluminescent element includes: a first electrode having a first and a second major surfaces; a second electrode opposed to part of the first major surface; an organic luminescent layer provided between the first and the second electrodes; an optical layer having a third major surface opposed to the second major surface and a fourth major surface on opposite side from the third major surface. The fourth major surface includes a first region overlapping the second electrode, and a second region not overlapping the second electrode. The fourth major surface includes a first concave-convex provided in the first region and a second concave-convex provided in the second region. A planarization layer is provided on the second region and burying the second concave-convex.

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Keiji Sugi