Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Incorporated

Toshihiro Dodo

Nobuhiro Fukuda

Mitsuo Takase

Shin Fukuda

A transparent panel heater which can be used for heating a window portion of liquid crystal displays, refrigerated showcases, freezed showcases, defrosters of windshields, and the like. The panel heater has a transparent substrate, a transparent conductive film formed on the substrate, a substantially light-transmittable metallic electrode-underling-layer formed on the transparent conductive film and a pair of metallic electrodes which are provided for electrifying the conductive film and formed on the electrode-underlying-layer. The transparent conductive film is a laminate of at least one transparent thin layer made of a nitride and/or a carbide and at least one substantially light-transmittable metallic layer. The transparent conductive film and electrode-underlying-layer are preferably formed by a dry process, and the electrodes are preferably formed by a wet plating method.

Transparent conductive laminate

Transparent panel heater

A circuit board for mounting one or more optical devices such as light receiving LSI chips and light emitting LSI chips. The circuit board has a flexible transparent substrate, a window portion which is formed as a slit-like transparent region of the transparent substrate, a plurality of electrodes for bonding the optical devices thereon provided on one surface of the substrate, a plurality of aggregated electrodes provided on the other surface on a region corresponding to the electrodes in a manner extending respectively in the longitudinal direction of the window portion and electrical connection portions penetrating the substrate. Each of the aggregated electrodes is electrically connected with two or more of the electrodes through the electrical connection portion. The circuit board will be used in, for example, an optical reader, an optical printer or the like in such a manner that the light which is coming in and/or going out of the optical device is transmitted through the window portion.

Circuit board for optical devices

A transparent panel heater which can be used for heating a window portion of liquid crystal displays, refrigerated showcases, freezer showcases, defrosters of windshields, and the like. The panel heater has a transparent substrate, a transparent conductive film formed on the substrate, a substantially light-transmittable metallic thin layer formed on the conductive film and a pair of electrodes for electrifying the conductive film. The metallic thin layer is preferably deposited by a dry process such as a sputtering process, an ion plating method, various CVD methods, and the like. The electrodes are preferably formed on the metallic thin layer by a wet plating method.

Transparent panel heater and method for manufacturing same

The invention provides a circuit board for an optical element which is disposed in an optical reading apparatus or an optical writing apparatus and is used to irradiate document reading light upon an document or irradiate image writing light upon a photosensitive material through a lighting window thereof. The circuit board for an optical element comprises a transparent layer in the form of a film, one or a plurality of metal electrodes formed in a layered condition at a portion of a first principal surface of the transparent layer positioned on the light incidence side along the lighting window which is defined so as to extend perpendicularly to the moving direction of the document or the photosensitive material in order to transmit the light there through, and a conductive charge preventing layer a light intercepting property and formed at a portion of a second principal surface of the transparent layer, which is the opposite surface to the first principal surface of the transparent layer and is opposed to the original or the photosensitive material so as to define the lighting window. An optical reading element or a image writing optical element is mounted on the metal electrode or any of the metal electrodes.

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Chigasaki, Japan

Toshihiro Dodo