Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd.

Kenji Nishiyama

Michio Kadota

Katsumi Fujimoto

Takeshi Nakao

Yasuhiro Kuratani

Chikahiro Horiguchi

Shinichiro Ichiguchi

Masanobu Nomura

Akinori Hamada

Shinsuke Ikeuchi

Yoshimasa Yoshioka

Gota Shinohara

Koshi Himeda

Mitsunori Inoue

Hironobu Kubota

Yuuki Ishii

Yasuharu Nakai

Tomohiko Mori

Masaaki Takata

Shinji Yasuda

Shunsuke Kido

Chiharu Sakaki

Atsushi Yamamoto

Yasuhiro Shimizu

Takeshi Furukawa

Hayami Kudo

Tatsuya Funaki

Ryo Okura

Masaki Nagata

Shinya Kiyono

Tatsuya Kitamura

Sho Fujita

Yuzo Mizushima

Kinya Aoki

Tetsuya Kimura

Yusuke Suzuki

Takaya Wada

Nobumasa Kitamori

Hitoshi Sakaguchi

Masahiro Kubota

Noboru Shiokawa

Rikiya Sano

Eiichi Takata

Munekazu Satake

Yuichi Iida

Noritaka Kishi

Yoshimitsu Ushimi

Daisuke Takagi

Kunikiyo Yoshio

Takahide Nakadoi

Tadashi Washimori

Yoshitaka Matsuki

Takaaki Mori

Hiraku Kawai

Motonao Kaku

Hideo Kitagawa

Shigeo Ito

Hidefumi Ohta

Takashi Nakao

Koji Tsutsui

A vibration device includes a light-transmissive body, and a vibrator to vibrate the light-transmissive body at a vibration acceleration of equal to or more than about 1.5×10m/sand equal to or less than about 8.0×10m/s.

Vibration device and vibration control method

A package board that includes an inductor layer having: a first magnetic layer including first magnetic particles and a resin; an inductor wiring that functions as an inductor in the first magnetic layer; and a second magnetic layer on at least one surface of the first magnetic layer, including second magnetic particles that are higher in average flatness than the first magnetic particles and a resin, the second magnetic particles having a shape where the dimension in a direction along the main surface of the second magnetic layer is longer than the dimension in the thickness direction of the second magnetic layer.

Package board

A vibration unit includes a light transmitting member including at least a portion of a detection region of an imaging element, and a vibration element including a vibrating body coupled to the light transmitting member. The light transmitting member includes a central region and a peripheral region located around the central region. The light transmitting member includes a hydrophilic film in the peripheral region thereof.

Vibration unit and optical detection device

An optical unit includes an optical sensor, a protective cover disposed in a direction of view from the optical sensor, an actuator to drive the protective cover, and a casing including a space between the casing and the protective cover and to which the optical sensor and the protective cover are attached. A first region on the casing adjacent to an outer edge of the protective cover with the space interposed between the casing and the outer edge of the protective cover is a hydrophobic region where a contact angle of a droplet is equal to or larger than a predetermined angle.

Optical unit and vehicle including optical unit

A vibrating device includes a translucent cover, an ejector to eject a liquid onto the surface of the translucent cover, and a first vibrating portion to vibrate the translucent cover at a vibration acceleration of larger than about 8.0×10m/sand equal to or smaller than about 21.0×10m/s.

Vibrating device and vibration control method

An optical device includes a protective cover and a driver. An outer surface of the protective cover includes a first region having higher hydrophobicity than a second region. The first region is separated from the second region by a first boundary line extending from a starting point deviating from a center point of the protective cover in the direction toward an outer edge portion of the protective cover and a second boundary line extending from the starting point in the direction toward the outer edge portion of the protective cover, and which is located on a side where the center point is not included. Among angles defined by the first and second boundary lines, an angle on the side where the center point is not included is equal to or less than about 180&#xb0;.

Optical device and optical unit including optical device

A semiconductor composite device is provided that includes a voltage regulator, a package board, and a load, and converts an input DC voltage into a different DC voltage to supply the converted DC voltage to the load. The VR includes a semiconductor active element. The package board includes a C layer in which a capacitor is formed, and an L layer in which an inductor is formed. A plurality of through holes penetrate the C layer and the L layer in a direction perpendicular to the mounting face in the package board. The capacitor is connected to the load through the through hole. The inductor is connected to the load through the through hole and to the VR through the through hole.

Semiconductor composite device and package board used therein

An electronic component includes a single-layer glass plate, an outer-surface conductor that is disposed above an outer surface of the single-layer glass plate and that is at least a part of an electrical element, and a terminal electrode that is a terminal of the electrical element. The terminal electrode is disposed above the outer surface of the single-layer glass plate and being electrically connected to the outer-surface conductor.

Electronic component, electronic-component mounting board, and electronic-component manufacturing method

A cleaning device for an imaging unit includes a housing that holds an imaging section, a protection cover provided in the visual field of the imaging section, a vibrator section that vibrates the protection cover, and a cleaning nozzle that discharges a cleaning liquid. The cleaning liquid discharged by the discharge section reaches a surface of side of the protection cover that is opposite to the side thereof adjacent to or in a vicinity of the imaging section. According to the vibrator section vibrating the protection cover, a portion of surface of the protection cover exhibits an amount of displacement larger than that of a portion of surface of the protection cover that the discharged cleaning liquid has reached.

Cleaning device and imaging unit including the same

A vibration device includes a light-transmitting body that is located on a subject side of an imaging element, a cylindrical body that includes a first end portion, a second end portion on the opposite side from the first end portion, and an outer surface and an inner surface that connect the first end portion and the second end portion to each other, the cylindrical body being connected to the light-transmitting body and holding the light-transmitting body on the first end portion side thereof, and a piezoelectric element provided along a circumferential direction of the cylindrical body and that torsionally vibrates the cylindrical body.

Vibration device

A cleaning device includes a casing holding an image capturing device, a protective cover disposed in a visual field of the image capturing device, a vibrator to vibrate the protective cover, a controller to control the vibrator, a monitor to detect an electrical characteristic value associated with a vibration of the vibrator, and a storage to store determination criteria based on which the controller evaluates the electrical characteristic value detected by the monitor. The controller is configured to evaluate the electrical characteristic value based on the plurality of determination criteria stored in the storage and clean a surface of the translucent body by controlling the vibrator according to the determination.

Cleaning device, and image capturing apparatus including cleaning device

A vibrating device includes a tubular vibrating body and a lens cover coupled to a first surface of the tubular vibrating body. The tubular vibrating body includes a tubular member and piezoelectric vibrators. The lens cover includes a mode changing coupler and a light transmitting body unit disposed in front of a lens of a camera. The mode changing coupler includes a thin portion having a thickness smaller than a thickness of the tubular member.

Vibrating device, method for driving same, and camera

A vibration device includes a top plate elastic body, a cylindrical body that includes a first end portion and a second end portion and is coupled with the top plate elastic body to retain the top plate elastic body on a side of the first end portion. The cylindrical body includes on a side of the second end portion, a ring-shaped flange portion extended outward in a radial direction of the cylindrical body, and a piezoelectric element fixed to the ring-shaped flange portion to cause the cylindrical body to vibrate.

A vibrating device includes a tubular body including a first end, a second end, and a plurality of side surfaces that connect the first and second ends, piezoelectric vibrators that are fixed to the tubular body and vibrate the tubular body, and a light transmitting body unit that is directly or indirectly connected to the second end of the tubular body.

Vibrating device, camera water-droplet-removing device, and camera

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Nagaokakyo, Japan

Kenji Nishiyama