Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Yodogawa Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Other

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Laurel Bank Machines Company, Ltd.

National University Corporation Toyohashi Universi

Toshio Yoshida

Kazuo Omine

Masayuki Tsuji

Kazuaki Sawada

Hitoshi Aoki

Yasushi Nagamune

Taimi Oketani

Toshitaka Ota

Toshihisa Gotoh

Tomohiro Konishi

Yoshimitsu Nakashima

Toshio Akai

Yuji Amano

Yoshinori Kamada

Satoshi Saitoh

Kohji Kobayashi

Shigetoshi Imai

Toshio Fukai

Takao Moritani

Setsuzou Konno

Takashi Tokizaki

Kuniaki Nagayasu

Yoshinobu Kanazawa

Isao Saraoka

A light detecting device includes: an optical filter () that transmits a first wavelength light having a wavelength in a first wavelength range, a second wavelength light having a wavelength in a second wavelength range, . . . , and an n-th wavelength light having a wavelength in an n-th wavelength range (n is an integer); an optical sensor () that detects at least one of a first wavelength light intensity of the first wavelength light, a second wavelength light intensity of the second wavelength light, . . . , and an n-th wavelength light intensity of the n-th wavelength light; and an analysis unit () that estimates a light intensity of light having a wavelength in a wavelength range other than at least one of the first wavelength range, the second wavelength range, . . . , and the n-th wavelength range based on at least one of the first wavelength light intensity, the second wavelength light intensity, . . . , and the n-th wavelength light intensity. A correlative relationship exists between a light intensity of light having a wavelength in the at least one wavelength range and the light intensity of the light having the wavelength in the wavelength range other than the at least one wavelength range.

Light detecting device, solid-state image capturing apparatus, and method for manufacturing the same

An ion sensor is configured such that part of a P well on which part a sensing section is provided is different, in dopant concentration, from the other part of the P well so that electric charges are injected merely to the sensing section in a state where a voltage is applied to an N-type substrate.

Chemical/physical phenomenon detecting device and method of producing the same

A cassette for supporting substrates and an elongated rib therefor is described and represents a further improvement in the previously proposed elongated rib systems of the prior art and is designed particularly to preclude deflection and dampen vibrations of loaded substrates. The elongated ribs for the cassette project from side panels utilizing an elongated rib structure including three segments; namely, a base resin body, a bar-like intermediate resin body extending from the base resin body, and a terminal resin body disposed at the forward end of the intermediate resin body. Preferably, the elongated rib structure includes a linearreinforcing member inserted fromthe base resin body to the intermediate resin body or, alternatively, from the base resin body through the intermediate resin body to the terminal resin body.

Elongated rib for cassette and substrate cassette

A high-concentration light-receiving N-layer is formed by ion implantation in a region near a substrate surface, and a low-concentration N-type epitaxial layer is formed by epitaxial growth in a deeper region. The depletion layer of a photodiode is thus expanded to a deep portion of the substrate by the low-concentration N-type region , by which a photoelectric conversion effect on incident light of a long wavelength is increased to improve sensitivity. In the above stage, a deepest potential portion is formed on the substrate surface side. Therefore, a depletion voltage can be prevented from rising. Further, an intermediate-concentration N-type epitaxial layer and a high-concentration N-type epitaxial layer are formed in a stack of two layers by epitaxial growth in a region deeper than a region in which a first P-type layer , or a barrier region is formed, by which a shutter voltage can be prevented from rising. Thus, sensitivity is improved without causing a rise in the depletion voltage and shutter voltage.

Solid-state imaging device capable of improving sensitivity without causing rise in depletion voltage and shutter voltage

A coin discriminating apparatus includes a magnetic sensor for detecting magnetic properties of a coin being transported and producing magnetic data of the coin, an optical sensor for producing optical data of the coin, a reference optical data memory for storing reference optical data of an obverse surface and a reverse surface of coins of each denomination, a reference magnetic data memory for storing reference magnetic data of an obverse surface and a reverse surface of coins of each denomination to be discriminated, a first coin discriminator for comparing optical data of the coin produced by the optical sensor with reference optical data of an obverse surface and a reverse surface of coins of each denomination and determining whether or not the coin is acceptable and the denomination of the coin, and a second coin discriminator for reading from the reference magnetic data memory magnetic reference data selected depending upon whether reference optical data of the obverse surface of a coin of a certain denomination or those of the reverse surface of the coin of the denomination were used when the first coin discriminator determined the coin to be acceptable and the denomination of the coin based thereon and comparing them with the magnetic data produced by the magnetic sensor, thereby finally discriminating whether or not the coin is acceptable and the denomination of the coin. According to the thus constituted coin discriminating apparatus, it is possible to accurately discriminate a counterfeit coin even when optical data acquired from the counterfeit coin such as diameter data and surface pattern data thereof coincide with those of genuine coins of a certain denomination and when the magnetic data acquired from the counterfeit coin are similar to those of coins of the denomination.

Coin discriminating apparatus

A CCD area sensor has an effective pixel region for detecting optical information of a subject and an ineffective pixel region for detecting optical black. On a light-receiving region in the ineffective pixel region, a light shielding film is provided with an opening portion. This enables hydrogen ions to be sufficiently diffused from a passivation film made of a P&mdash;SiN film toward a silicon substrate in a hydrogen annealing process even though the light shielding film is made of a material such as a high-melting point metal of TiW that is hard for hydrogen ions to penetrate. As a result, interface state densities in a light-receiving region and a transfer channel region are reduced, and a dark-time output voltage of the ineffective pixel region is reduced to be equivalent to that of the effective pixel region. Thus, no difference occurs between the effective pixel region and the ineffective pixel region in terms of the black level.

Solid state image sensing device

The present invention provides a flat cell that employs strip-shaped electrode plates on which an active material layer has been formed by coating paste or by electrolytic deposition on both sides or one side of a core material consisting of a metal foil. By constructing an electrode group having an oval cross section by spirally winding in a manner folding, a strip-shaped positive plate having a striped recessed portion of a predetermined width of which the center is positioned on the line of folding formed on the active material layer at least the inner side of at least the inner-most folded portion close to a core portion, and a strip-shaped negative plate with a separator interposed, reduction in the battery capacity due to breakage of the electrode plates and/or peeling off and dropping of the active material layers and failure due to internal short circuit as has previously been caused when assembling an electrode group having an oval cross section can be completely eliminated, thus drastically improving the reliability of flat cells, especially flat type lithium-ion secondary batteries.

Method of making a flat cell

Flat cells

A glass substrate transport box which is easy to handle and transported and adapted to protect glass substrates is provided at drastically reduced production cost. At least the body of the box is a molded piece of resin foam with a foaming ratio of 3-30, e.g. polyolefin foam, which has grooves for supporting glass substrates on at least a pair of its opposed inside walls. Preferably the inside wall of the body has a relatively dense skin layer. The resin foam may contain an electrically conductive polymer or an antistatic agent.

Glass substrate transport box

The invention provides a cassette which is sufficiently sturdy even though its side boards are of narrow width, is protected against static charging in the insertion and removal of substrates and, hence, against circuit failure, and is not liable to form a dust of friction. The invention further provides an improved substrate-supporting side board for use in the fabrication of a cassette. The above substrate-supporting side board comprises a metal core, an overlay and a plurality of shelf members, at least the frontal part of the overlay and the shelf members being made of resin, the shelf members being tongue-shaped projections arising from the overlay and extending in parallel and inwardly of the cassette frame at a predetermined pitch with an upward inclination toward free ends thereof, the supporting surface of each shelf member being slightly elevated in the center with respect to its flanks, and at least part of the portion of the resin which is to contact a substrate being molded from a dust-inhibited resin molding material, with the remainder being molded from an electrically conductive resin molding material.

Substrate-supporting side boards and a cassette utilizing the boards

In a clothes dryer, the electrical resistance of wet articles and the temperature of exhaust air are monitored. At the instant the monitored electrical resistance reaches a predetermined value, the time-varying rate of change of the monitored temperature is detected, to estimate the period of time for which the dryer operation is to be continued. At the end of the estimated time period, the heat cycle of the dryer is shut down.

Method and apparatus for controlling a clothes dryer

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Osaka, Japan

Toshio Yoshida