Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Takashi Kondo

Kazutaka Takeda

Junichiro Hayakawa

Naoki Jogan

Akemi Murakami

Jun Sakurai

Hideo Nakayama

Takeshi Minamiru

Masahiro Yoshikawa

Masateru Yamamoto

Takafumi Higuchi

Daisuke Iguchi

Tomoaki Sakita

Taku Kinoshita

Kazuhiro Sakai

Michiaki Murata

Tsutomu Otsuka

Fumio Koyama

Seiji Ono

Hisao Komazawa

Kenichi Ono

Satoshi Inada

Yoshinori Shirakawa

Takeshi Torii

Yoshinobu Nakamura

Kazuhiro Okawa

Hamed Dalir

Chikaho Ikeda

Hideaki Ozawa

Yuki Hara

Kazuyuki Matsushita

Masaya Kumei

A light-emitting component includes a substrate and plural light-emitting elements that are disposed on the substrate and emit light in a direction intersecting with a surface of the substrate and that are switched ON/OFF together. The plural light-emitting elements include a gate layer, the gate layer performing control so that the plural light-emitting elements are switched ON/OFF together, a film thickness of the gate layer being greater than a wavelength of light emitted from the plural light-emitting elements.

Light-emitting component, light-emitting element array chip, and optical measurement apparatus

A light-emitting component includes a substrate, plural light-emitting elements that are disposed on the substrate and emit light in a direction intersecting with a surface of the substrate, and a gate electrode that is electrically connected to each of the plural light-emitting elements and performs control so that the plural light-emitting elements are switched ON/OFF together. Plural holes are disposed around each of the plural light-emitting elements.

A light emitting apparatus includes a substrate and light emitting elements including at least one light emitting element that is provided, on the substrate, in each region of plural regions and that emits irradiation light toward a target object, the regions including a first region and a second region and being isolated from each other to be arranged one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally. In the plural regions, an irradiation light amount of at least one light emitting element provided in the first region that is a region located at an end in an arrangement direction is larger than an irradiation light amount of at least one light emitting element provided in the second region that is a region located at a place other than the end in the arrangement direction.

Light emitting apparatus and information processing apparatus

A light-emitting device is provided with a light source and a controller. The light source includes multiple light-emitting elements and multiple driving elements that are provided in correspondence with the light-emitting elements and drive the light-emitting elements to light up by going to an ON state. The controller controls a switching between a successive lighting operation that causes the light-emitting elements to light up successively and a simultaneous lighting operation that causes the light-emitting elements to light up simultaneously in parallel. The light source includes a power supply line set to a reference potential or a power supply potential, a driving signal line that is connected to the power supply line and that supplies a driving signal to the driving elements, and a lighting signal line that supplies a lighting signal for causing the light-emitting elements to light up. In the successive lighting operation, the controller sets the power supply line to the power supply potential and sets each driving element to the ON state with the driving signal and the lighting signal to cause each light-emitting element corresponding to each driving element to light up successively. In the simultaneous lighting operation, the controller sets the power supply line to the reference potential and also sets the driving elements to the ON state with the driving signal and the lighting signal to cause the light-emitting elements to light up simultaneously in parallel.

Light-emitting device, optical device, measuring device, and information processing device

A light-emitting device includes: a first light-emitting element array that includes plural first light-emitting elements arranged at a first interval; a second light-emitting element array that includes plural second light-emitting elements arranged at a second interval wider than the first interval, second light-emitting element array being configured to output a light output larger than a light output of the first light-emitting element array, and being configured to be driven independently from the first light-emitting element array; and a light diffusion member provided on an emission path of the second light-emitting element array.

Light-emitting device, optical device, and information processing device

A light-emitting element array chip includes: a first light-emitting element array that includes a first light-emitting element including a first substrate, a light-emitting element layer formed on the first substrate, and a first cathode electrode electrically connected to the light-emitting element layer; and a second light-emitting element array that includes a second light-emitting element including a second substrate, a non-p-type lower reflector formed on the second substrate, and a second cathode electrode electrically connected to the non-p-type lower reflector, in which the first light-emitting element array is provided on an emission surface side of the second light-emitting element array.

Light-emitting element array chip, light-emitting device, optical device, and information processing device

A light emitting device includes plural transfer elements to be sequentially turned on, plural setting elements that are respectively connected to the plural transfer elements and are capable of shifting to an on-state by the transfer element being turned on, plural driving elements that are respectively connected to the plural setting elements and are capable of shifting to the on-state by the setting element being turned on; and plural light emitting elements that are respectively connected to the plural driving elements and have increased light-emission or an increased light-emission intensity by the driving element being turned on, in which plural pairs of the driving element and the light emitting element are connected to at least one of the plural setting elements and the plural light emitting elements are arranged in a two-dimensional shape.

Light emitting device, optical measurement apparatus, and image forming apparatus

A light-emitting device includes one or more light-emitting units each including a light-emitting element including a function of a thyristor; an electrode for light emission to which a first voltage is applied for light emission of the light-emitting unit; and one or more light emission permission thyristors that permit the light-emitting element to emit light by a second voltage that is lower than the first voltage and set irrespective of the first voltage.

Light-emitting device and measurement device

A light emitting element formed of a laminate having a current constriction layer includes: a semiconductor substrate; a light emitting portion having plural first recess portions having a depth reaching the current constriction layer, and a current constriction structure formed in the current constriction layer and having an oxidized region where the current constriction layer is oxidized and a non-oxidized region surrounded by the oxidized region; an electrode pad disposed between the light emitting portion and an outer edge portion of the semiconductor substrate; and a step portion disposed between the electrode pad and the light emitting portion and formed from an upper surface of the laminate to the current constriction layer, and the current constriction layer in a region surrounded by the step portion is the oxidized region except for the non-oxidized region.

Light emitting element

A light-emitting element array includes multiple light-emission instruction units arranged in a first direction; a first light-emitting element group row including light-emitting element groups each including a multiple light-emitting elements such that the light-emitting element groups are arranged in a direction intersecting the first direction; a second light-emitting element group row including light-emitting element groups each including a multiple light-emitting elements such that the second light-emitting element group row is arranged along the first light-emitting element group row in the first direction; and a multiple wiring lines that connect the multiple light-emission instruction units to the light-emitting element groups in the first light-emitting element group row and the light-emitting element groups in the second light-emitting element group row to provide a light-emission instruction. The multiple wiring lines are connected such that in response to the multiple light-emission instruction units sequentially providing a light-emission instruction in the first direction, the light-emitting element groups in the first light-emitting element group row sequentially emit light in the direction intersecting the first direction and, after turning on of the first light-emitting element group row is completed, the light-emitting element groups in the second light-emitting element group row sequentially emit light in the direction intersecting the first direction.

Light-emitting element array, light emitting device, optical device, measurement device and information processing apparatus

A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting unit. The light-emitting unit includes an array of multiple light-emitting element groups, each including multiple light-emitting elements. In the light-emitting unit, the multiple light-emitting element groups are sequentially driven along the array such that, for each of the multiple light-emitting element groups, the multiple light-emitting elements included in the light-emitting element group are concurrently set to a state of emitting light or a state of not emitting light.

Light-emitting device, optical apparatus, optical measurement apparatus, and image forming apparatus

A light-emitting component includes a light-emitting element, a driving thyristor, and a light-absorbing layer. The light-emitting element emits light of a predetermined wavelength. The driving thyristor causes the light-emitting element to emit light or causes an amount of light emitted by the light-emitting element to increase, upon entering an on-state. The light-absorbing layer is disposed between the light-emitting element and the driving thyristor such that the light-emitting element and the driving thyristor are stacked, and absorbs light emitted by the driving thyristor.

Light-emitting component having light-absorbing layer, light-emitting device, and image forming apparatus

Provided is a light emitting chip C including: a substrate; light emitting elements each having one terminal connected to a predetermined reference potential and the other terminal, the light emitting element having a rectifying characteristic; and thyristors each connected in series with the other terminal of the light emitting elements, respectively, the thyristors being configured to make the light emitting element connected thereto emit light or increase light emission amount of the light emitting element when the thyristors turn on in an ON state.

Light emitting component, print head, image forming apparatus, and light irradiating device

A light-emitting component includes an insulating substrate, plural light-emitting elements, and plural thyristors. The plural light-emitting elements are disposed on the substrate and constituted by a first stacked semiconductor layer, the first stacked semiconductor layer being obtained by stacking plural semiconductor layers. The plural thyristors are constituted by a second stacked semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate such that the light-emitting elements and the thyristors are arranged side by side, connected to the plural light-emitting elements, respectively, and turn on to drive the light-emitting elements to emit light or to increase an emitted light amount, the second stacked semiconductor layer being obtained by stacking plural semiconductor layers that are different from the semiconductor layers of the first stacked semiconductor layer.

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Takashi Kondo