Stanley Electric Co., Ltd

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Konica Corporation

Sony Corporation

Takaaki Sakai

Jun Yokobori

Minoru Asakawa

Junji Sato

Akio Ueda

Masaru Ushio

Hiroshi Kotani

Hiroki Ueda

Chikatsu Suzuki

Yoshinao Kitahara

Masanori Sato

Kenichi Hosoi

Takahiko Nozaki

Daisuke Ueda

Takao Kurohata

Akitoshi Matsubara

Akira Kosugi

Kazuhiko Ueno

Hiroshi Nagatani

Shoichi Nakamura

Yasumasa Tsukamoto

Norifumi Imazeki

Takeshi Waragaya

Takanori Kanda

Soji Owada

Hirohito Kondo

Shunya Ide

Katsutoshi Iwai

Tomoki Shiono

Masami Kumei

Keisuke Tanaka

Ken-ichi Hosoi

Shinichi Katano

Yosuke Kaneda

A reliable semiconductor light-emitting device can include a mounting board, at least one semiconductor light-emitting chip mounted on the mounting board, a wavelength converting layer having a side surface covering the light-emitting chip, and a seal member having an opening contacting the side surface of the wavelength converting layer and covering chip electrodes. The light-emitting device can also include a transparent layer disposed into the opening of the sealing member so as to be located over the light-emitting chip and within a top surface of the light-emitting chip, and can be configured to emit various mixture lights having a high uniformity by using lights emitted from the light-emitting chip and the wavelength converting layer. Thus, the disclosed subject matter can provide the reliable light-emitting device, which can emit the mixture lights including a substantially white color light from a small light-emitting surface as a light source for a headlight, etc.

Semiconductor light-emitting device emitting light mixtures with substantially white tone

A light-emitting device having an LED element and a resin layer including a convex portion covering the LED element can suppress color unevenness to achieve light emission with uniform color distribution. The light-emitting device can include a substrate, an LED element mounted on the substrate, a resin layer which contains a wavelength conversion material and is formed on the substrate to cover the LED element, the resin layer including a convex portion directly covering the LED element and a flat thin film portion extending around the convex portion, and a reflective portion which is formed over the thin film portion around the convex portion. A diffusion portion can be formed to cover the convex portion of the resin layer.

Light-emitting device, method for producing the same, and illuminating device

In the production of a light emitting device, in which a plurality of light emitting element parts carrying LED elements are formed on a substrate, and the substrate is diced, generation of shaving dusts is suppressed at the time of the dicing, and breakage of the substrate during the production process can be prevented. In the process of forming a slit crossing a region for forming a light emitting element part in a metal substrate, a recess which serves as a resin reservoir can be formed so as to cross the slit. The slit can be filled with an insulating material, the recess can be filled with a resin, and they both can be cured. A light emitting element part can be formed in the region for forming the light emitting element part, the metal substrate can be cut into units comprising one or a plurality of the light emitting element parts, and can be mounted on a printed circuit board on which a pattern is formed.

Light emitting device and method for manufacturing the same

A semiconductor light emitting device which has a wavelength converting part on a semiconductor film and can eliminate unevenness in emission color without a reduction in light output. The semiconductor film includes a light emitting layer. The support substrate is bonded to the semiconductor film via a light-reflecting layer and has a support surface supporting the semiconductor film and edges located further out than the side surfaces of the semiconductor film. The light-shielding part covers the side surfaces of the semiconductor film and part of the support surface around the semiconductor film in plan view. The wavelength converting part contains a fluorescent substance and is provided over the support substrate to bury the semiconductor film and the light-shielding part therein. The wavelength converting part has a curved surface shape in which its thickness increases when going from the edges toward the center of the semiconductor film.

Semiconductor light emitting device and manufacturing method of the same

A metal plate is prepared, on which at least one joint slit made up of a joint and an opening is formed in a predetermined direction for integrating multiple mounting plates of the light emitting apparatuses. Multiple light emitting elements set in array are mounted on the metal plate. An aperture is provided at a position corresponding to a position for mounting the light emitting element on the metal plate, and a plate-like reflector made of resin, on which a first reflector splitting groove is formed at a position coinciding with the joint slit of the metal plate, is mounted and fixed on the metal plate in such a manner as superimposed thereon. The metal plate and the resinous reflector are superimposed one on another and broken together, whereby the metal plate can be split successfully.

Method for manufacturing light emitting apparatus, light emitting apparatus, and mounting base thereof

A light-emitting device that suppresses color unevenness can be provided. A transparent member can be disposed on a fluorescence-containing resin layer. Part of excitation light can be emitted upward from an edge surface of the fluorescence-containing resin layer directly and without passing through the transparent member. Thus, fluorescent light emitted in large quantities from a place near an edge surface of the transparent member can be mixed with the excitation light emitted from the edge surface of the fluorescence-containing resin layer directly without passing through the transparent member, thereby suppressing color unevenness at a location near the edge surface of the transparent member.

Light emitting device that suppresses color unevenness

In an optical semiconductor device module constructed by an optical semiconductor device having a light emitting portion on its top surface, a mounting substrate adapted to mount the optical semiconductor device thereon, at least one wiring pattern layer formed on a front surface of the mounting substrate, and at least one power supplying portion in contact with the wiring pattern layer, at least one of the power supplying portion and the wiring pattern layer is uneven.

Optical semiconductor device module with power supply through uneven contacts

Image forming apparatus

A light emitting device is provided which has a reflector having a reflection surface made of porous alumina having an apparent density of 2.5 to 3.3 g/cm, and an LED disposed on the reflection surface or near the reflection surface. There are provided: a light emitting device equipped with an LED chip and a reflector having a high reflectivity relative to near infrared to ultraviolet rays irradiated from an LED chip and fluorescent material; and the reflector.

Light emitting device with a porous alumina reflector made of aggregation of alumina particles

In an optical semiconductor device module constructed by an optical semiconductor device having a light emitting portion on its top surface, a mounting substrate adapted to mount the optical semiconductor device thereon, and at least one conductive leaf spring adapted to fix the optical semiconductor device to the mounting substrate and supply power to the optical semiconductor device, the leaf spring is formed by a plurality of rectangularly-shaped terminals, and natural frequencies of at least two of the rectangularly-shaped terminals are different from each other.

Optical semiconductor device module having leaf springs with different rectangularly-shaped terminals

There is described an image forming system, which comprises an image forming apparatus to produce a printing material as one group of recording mediums or plural printing materials as plural groups of recording mediums from a single document set, and a finisher to apply a finish processing to said recording mediums, wherein the image forming system includes a controlling section to control so that, if a mixture mode is set, a non-finished recording medium and a finished recording medium within the single group are stacked at a same recording-medium stacking position on a stacking tray.

Image forming system, image forming apparatus and program

A display displays a capture mode displaying source image data and a send mode displaying processed image data, which is to be sent. The display simultaneously displays, upon a switch from the capture mode to the send mode, the processed image data and a manipulation. The manipulation includes pixel values of the source image data and dummy values. An input inputs an address of a terminal to which the processed image data is to be transmitted. A transmitter transmits an address of a terminal together with the processed image data over a network to a server such that the server executes a processing for providing the processed image data to the terminal. An image data processor determines an image processing capacity of the terminal and converts an image size of the source image data such that the processed image data is commensurate with the image processing capacity of the terminal.

Information processing apparatus and program for providing image data to a terminal

An image forming apparatus capable of recording images of a double sided original on both sides of a recording sheet, the image forming apparatus having, an image reader for reading images of the double sided original, a first setting section for setting a binding direction of the double sided original, a second setting section for setting a binding direction of the recording sheet with relating to the binding direction set by the first setting section, and an image rotator for making a required amount of rotation of an image read by the image reader, based on the binding directions having been set by the first setting section and by the second setting section.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

An image forming apparatus includes a dividing section which divides a plurality of pages into groups, each group including at least one page; an inputting section which inputs different text strings for each group; a creating section which creates a composite image of an image of a page and a text string which is inputted for the group including the page; and a printing section which prints the composite image on a sheet.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method to create a composite image of a page image and an input text string

An image forming apparatus for forming an image based on image information on a recording medium, including: a storage section for storing print conditions for each of a plurality of pages of image information; a print condition setting section for setting print conditions in accordance with the print conditions stored in the storage section; a preprint section for preprinting in conformity to the print conditions having been set; an input section for inputting contents of a change in print condition for the page to be changed, selected from a plurality of pages after the preprinting; and a change section for changing the setting of the print conditions for the selected page to be changed, based on the contents of the change.

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Takaaki Sakai