Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.

Merck Patent Gmbh

Natsuki Yamamoto

Akira Kosaka

Yasutaka Tanimura

Takashi Matsuo

Masataka Hamada

Yoshihiro Hara

Tsukasa Yagi

Hirofumi Ohtani

Nobuaki Takahashi

Shigetoshi Kawabe

Kuniaki Uezawa

Seiji Ohashi

An optical fingerprint authentication device includes at least a light source and an image sensor and detects diffused light. The light source is an organic electroluminescence panel. The organic electroluminescence panel comprises a light emitting portion region and a light-transmitting non-light emitting portion, the light emitting portion region being shaped by an organic electroluminescence element. A fingerprint information reader having the image sensor arranged at a position adjacent to the non-light emitting portion is provided.

Optical fingerprint authentication device

An object of the invention is to provide an organic electroluminescence module having light-emitting units capable of keeping power consumption low and to provide an information device having such a module. The organic electroluminescence module of the invention includes a plurality of light-emitting units that are electrically connected to one another and each have a light-emitting region corresponding to a design to be displayed by light emission.

Organic electroluminescence module and information device

An object of the present invention is to provide an organic EL module that achieves a reduction in size and thickness, that has a high touch-sensing accuracy, and that is applicable to smart devices, and a smart device equipped with the same. The organic EL module of the present invention includes: an organic EL panel having a connecting electrode; and an electrical connecting unit laminated on the organic EL panel, wherein the electrical connecting unit has a flexible substrate and a capacitive sensing circuit provided on the flexible substrate and having a land, the electrical connecting unit is provided on a light-emitting surface side of the organic EL panel, the electrical connecting unit has a light-permeable part and a bent part formed by making two or more cuts in at least one side of the light-permeable part, and the land constituting the sensing circuit and the connecting electrode of the organic EL panel are electrically connected to each other at the bent part.

Organic electroluminescence module and smart device

An object of the present invention is to provide an organic EL panel having a display pattern that allows low power consumption, high emission uniformity, and high emission luminance ratio and makes it possible to reduce the manufacturing process time and provide high productivity, a method for manufacturing the organic EL panel, an organic EL module, and an information device. The organic EL panel of the present invention includes an organic EL device including an organic EL element having a pattern A including at least a light-emitting part and a non-light-emitting part; and at least one auxiliary member, wherein the organic EL element has an emission luminance ratio of the light-emitting part to the non-light-emitting part of 5:1 to 50:1, and the at least one auxiliary member has a pattern B being geometrically similar to the pattern A and including a light-transmitting part and a light-blocking part.

Organic electroluminescence panel, method for manufacturing the same, organic electroluminescence module, and information device

An organic electroluminescent element includes a support substrate having thereon at least two light emitting units each containing one or a plurality of organic functional layers and at least one intermediate metal layer having a light-transmitting property. The intermediate metal layer is arranged between the light emitting units. At least one organic functional layer in each light emitting unit has a region wherein a light emission function is modulated and another region wherein the light emission function is not modulated by being patterned with a mask during the step of forming the organic functional layer, and by being additionally patterned by light irradiation after formation of the organic functional layer. The at least two light emitting units are able to be electrically driven independently or simultaneously.

Organic electroluminescent element, method for manufacturing organic electroluminescent element, and organic electroluminescent module

An organic electroluminescent module of the present invention includes an organic EL panel and an electrical connection unit. The electrical connection unit includes a flexible substrate including a body disposed adjacent to a light-emitting surface of the organic EL panel, and a contact piece defined by a cutout in the body and disposed remote from the light-emitting surface of the organic EL panel; a capacitance sensing circuit and drive circuits formed on a surface of the body; lands formed on a surface of the contact piece; and metal layers formed on a surface of the contact piece in portions overlapping with the lands.

Organic electroluminescent module and method of manufacturing the same

A method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence element having on a belt-formed flexible base material, a first electrode, at least one organic functional layer, and a second electrode, includes continuously forming at least one organic functional layer by coating the same on a first electrode which is formed continuously on the flexible base material in the conveying direction thereof, further forming a second electrode on the organic functional layer, so as to make a plurality of organic electroluminescence element structures in the conveying direction, and then cutting the electroluminescence element structures into individual organic electroluminescence elements so as to manufacture organic electroluminescence elements.

Method of manufacturing organic electroluminescence element

A technique capable of satisfying both higher functionality and higher accuracy in a compact imaging device is sought to be provided. In order to accomplish the above object, an imaging device is formed by lamination of a plurality of layers including: an imaging element layer that has an imaging element part; a lens layer that has a lens part whose distance from the imaging element part is changeable, and is disposed between a subject and the imaging element part; and an actuator layer that has an actuator part to move the lens part, and is disposed between the subject and the imaging element part.

Imaging device and imaging device manufacturing method

A technique of enabling both of higher functionality and higher accuracy in a compact optical system is provided. To achieve this object, an imaging unit has a laminated structure formed by laminating a plurality of layers including: an image capturing element layer including an image capturing element part; a lens layer capable of changing a distance from the image capturing element layer; and an actuator layer including a movable part for moving the lens layer; and a signal transmitter disposed so as to connect the actuator layer and the image capturing element layer, and transmitting a drive signal for driving the movable part from the image capturing element layer side to the actuator layer, and the movable part is deformed according to the drive signal transmitted through the signal transmitter, and the actuator layer is provided between the image capturing element layer and the lens layer.

Imaging unit and imaging device

An object of the present invention is to provide an actuator allowing a control of displacement and configured to offer a high degree of freedom in designing, and a drive device and an imaging device including the actuator. To achieve the object, an actuator is adopted including a movable part deformable in accordance with heat generation and a control section controlling the amount of deformation of the movable part. In the actuator, the movable part is structured with a plurality of portions including a base portion, a force generating portion, and a heat generating portion being stacked, the force generating portion generating force in accordance with heating, the heat generating portion generating heat in accordance with a current supply. The control section controls the amount of deformation of the movable part by controlling the current supply to the heat generating portion based on an electrical resistance in the heat generating portion.

Actuator, drive device, and imaging device

Imaging device formed by lamination of a plurality of layers

A biasing spring is interposed between a coupling plate and a covering section while being compressed from its natural length. The biasing spring biases, by its resilient force, a lens unit toward a &#x2212;Z side to bring a surface of the lens unit at the &#x2212;Z side into contact with an abutment portion of a fixing frame section. When a temperature of an actuator is equal to or lower than a predetermined temperature, a biasing force of the biasing spring surpasses a force generated in the actuator, and thus the lens unit is not moved. When the actuator is heated up to a temperature equal to or higher than the predetermined temperature, the lens unit is continuously moved in the +Z direction. Thereby, movement of a lens due to a change of an environmental temperature can be prevented.

Lens driving device and camera unit

An object of the present invention is to provide a small-sized image sensor device having high precision of moving an object to be moved. The image sensor device includes: a fixed unit; a movable unit including an image sensor; a beam unit fixed to the fixed unit and movably supporting the movable unit; a driving unit for applying a driving force for moving the movable unit; and a wire unit provided for the beam unit and electrically connecting the image sensor and an external circuit.

Image sensor device with movable sensor

An object of the preset invention is to provide a technique capable of preventing occurrence of an assembly error. A driving apparatus for driving an object includes: a driving part having a stationary part and a moving part; and a displacement transmitting part for transmitting a displacement to the object in accordance with a drive displacement of the moving part. The displacement transmitting part and the moving part coupled to the displacement transmitting part are integrally molded.

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