Oki Data Corporation

Tomoki Igari

Mitsuhiko Ogihara

Takahito Suzuki

Hiroyuki Fujiwara

Masataka Muto

Tomohiko Sagimori

Yusuke Nakai

Hironori Furuta

Hiroshi Kurokawa

Manabu Kida

An exposure device according to an embodiment may include: a holding member provided with a reference surface; an optical system being in contact with the reference surface and slidable in a first direction parallel to the reference surface; and a board including a light emitting element and being fixed to the holding member such that the optical system is sandwiched between the reference surface and the board.

Exposure device, reading head, image formation apparatus, and image reading apparatus

An LED head includes a base material having one or more wiring pattern formation surfaces and one or more metal wiring patterns formed on the one or more wiring pattern formation surfaces. When the occupancy ratio of the one or more metal wiring patterns in a first region of a substrate is A, and the occupancy ratio of the one or more metal wiring patterns in a second region of the substrate is B, the LED head satisfies 0.75&#x2264;A/B&#x2264;1 or 0.75&#x2264;B/A&#x2264;1.

Light exposure device, image forming apparatus, light reception device, and image reading apparatus

The present invention supplied a display apparatus using plastic substrate instead of glass substrate, which can solve such problems that the plastic substrate has a low heat conductivity and its heat release performance becomes bad so that it is difficult to obtain stable performance and reliability. In the display apparatus being formed by bonding semiconductor thin film element on a plastic substrate, a thin film metal layer is formed on surface of the semiconductor thin film element for promoting heat release.

Display apparatus

A light emitting panel includes a plurality of light emitting element arrays each of which has a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a plane. The light emitting element arrays are configured so that an arrangement plane of the light emitting elements of one light emitting element array is overlapped with another arrangement plane of the light emitting elements of another light emitting element array in substantially parallel to each other, and so that the light emitting elements of one light emitting element array and the light emitting elements of another light emitting element array emit lights to the same side.

Light emitting panel having a plurality of light emitting element arrays arranged in descending order of wavelength

A high-definition, high-intensity display apparatus having a plurality of semiconductor thin film light emitting elements and a plurality of linear electrodes connecting a power source to the light emitting elements, the linear electrodes being disposed so as to minimize the voltage drop across the linear electrodes.

A semiconductor composite apparatus, includes a first substrate, a semiconductor thin film layer, active devices, first driving circuits, and second driving circuits. The semiconductor thin film layer is formed on the first substrate and is formed of a first semiconductor material. The active devices are formed in the semiconductor thin film layer. The first driving circuits is formed of a second semiconductor material and performing a first function in which the active devices are driven. The second driving circuits are formed of a third semiconductor material and performing a second function in which the active devices are driven, the second function being different from the first function.

Semiconductor composite apparatus, print head, and image forming apparatus

The present invention supplied a display apparatus using plastic substrate instead of glass substrate, which can solve such problems that the plastic substrate has a low heat conductivity and its heat release performance becomes bad so that it is difficult to obtain stable performance and reliability. In the display apparatus, inner surface electrode integrated with vertical wiring between plastic substrate and thin film LEDis accumulated, the inner surface electrode acts as a heat release layer for releasing heat produced inside the thin film LED

A layered semiconductor light emitting device includes a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements each of which includes a light emitting region that converts electricity into light and emits the light. The semiconductor light emitting elements are layered in a layering direction perpendicular to the light emitting regions, and are bonded to each other via a planarizing layer having electrical insulation property. The planarizing layer includes a first planarizing region disposed above or below the light emitting regions of the semiconductor light emitting elements in the layering direction and formed of a first planarizing film having higher refractive index than air, and a second planarizing region other than the first planarizing region and formed of a second planarizing film having lower refractive index than the first planarizing film. In the layering direction, the upper semiconductor light emitting element transmits light emitted by the lower semiconductor light emitting element.

Layered semiconductor light emitting device and image forming apparatus

Provided is a technique of effectively extracting the beams of light excited in an LED light emitter other than the light beams emitted from a light-emitting region in the direction of a light-extraction surface. A pit with a tapered sidewall is formed in a substrate. A thin-film semiconductor element is attached to the pit. Light beams emitted from a side surface of the thin-film semiconductor element are reflected by the sidewall of the thin-film semiconductor element. Achieved thereby is effective extraction of light beams other than the light beams emitted from the light-emitting region in the direction of the light-extraction surface.

Efficient light emitting semiconductor device

An image display apparatus displaying an image by selectively emitting light from a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements being regularly arranged, includes a substrate; a first conductive wiring layer being formed on the substrate and supplying a first electric potential; a second conductive wiring layer supplying a second electric potential; the plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements each including a first electrode layer being electrically connected to the first conductive wiring layer and a second electrode layer being electrically connected to the second conductive wiring layer; and a plurality of raised parts being disposed on the substrate, each of the raised parts having an upper surface which is higher than an upper surface of the first conductive wiring layer; wherein the plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements is fixed on the plurality of raised parts respectively.

Image display apparatus having raised parts disposed on a substrate

A semiconductor composite apparatus includes a substrate and a planarizing layer, and a semiconductor thin film. The planarizing layer is formed on the substrate either directly or indirectly. The planarizing layer includes a first surface that faces the substrate, and a second surface that is on the side of the planarizing layer remote from the substrate. The semiconductor thin film formed on the planarizing layer. The second surface has a roughness of not more than 5 nm.

Semiconductor composite apparatus, LED, LED printhead, and image forming apparatus

A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a first conductive type semiconductor layer disposed on a main surface of the substrate; a second conductive type semiconductor layer disposed on the first conductive type semiconductor layer; a plurality of light emitting elements; and a second conductive side wiring pattern for commonly connecting the second conductive type semiconductor layer in the light emitting elements arranged adjacently. The second conductive type semiconductor layer includes a first conductive type semiconductor connection surface and a second conductive type semiconductor connection surface between the first conductive type semiconductor layer.

Semiconductor device, light emitting diode head, and image forming apparatus

A semiconductor device includes a light-emitting layer of a first conductivity type, a second conductivity type or non-doped type, a first contact layer of the second conductivity type disposed on the light-emitting layer and supplied with a voltage via a predetermined contact, a second contact layer of the second conductivity type disposed below the light-emitting layer and supplied with a voltage via a predetermined contact, a first etching stopper layer of the first or second conductivity type disposed below the light-emitting layer and above the second contact layer, and a third contact layer of the first conductivity type disposed below the second contact layer and supplied with a voltage via a predetermined contact.

Composite semiconductor device having a thyristor structure

A composite semiconductor device includes a semiconductor thin film, a substrate, connection pads, and a light blocking layer. The semiconductor thin film includes light emitting elements. The driver circuits are formed on the substrate and the semiconductor thin film is fixed on the substrate, the driver circuit driving the light emitting element. The connection pads are formed on the substrate, electrical connection being made through which the connection pads. The light blocking layer is formed in an area between the light emitting element and the connection pad, the light blocking layer. The light blocking layer prevents light emitted from the light emitting element from reaching wires connected to the connection pad.

Composite semiconductor device, LED head that employs the composite semiconductor device, and image forming apparatus that employs the LED head

An aspect of the invention provides a method of manufacturing a method of manufacturing a semiconductor element comprises the steps of: growing epitaxially a semiconductor layer on top of a semiconductor substrate; forming a patterned portion of the grown semiconductor layer by forming a pattern by a patterning process on top of the grown semiconductor layer; removing a portion of the semiconductor layer other than the patterned portion by a first etching method with a first etchant; and immersing a resultant from the first etching method in a second etchant that etches only the semiconductor substrate by a second etching method thereby removing the substrate from the semiconductor layer.

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Tomoki Igari