Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Technical Information Services Co., Ltd.

Yasushi Kobayashi

Hirokazu Sugihara

Makoto Taketani

Akihito Kamei

Masatoshi Yajima

Tadayasu Mitsumata

Kazuo Momoo

Kohei Nakata

Tomoaki Tojo

Manabu Imahashi

Yoshiaki Komma

Yasumori Hino

Kousei Sano

Hiroaki Oka

Kazuhiro Minami

Junichi Asada

Yuichi Takahashi

Yohichi Saitoh

Daigo Yamashina

Akihiro Sakaguchi

Ryuta Ogawa

Kohei Miyagawa

Provided is an objective lens which is used so that more information can be accumulated in a large-capacity optical disk and which has a further enhanced numerical aperture NA. The objective lens is a single lens having the numerical aperture NA and a refractive index n, and is configured so as to satisfy: NA&#x2265;0.91 and 1.61&#x2264;n&#x3c;1.72.

Objective lens, optical head device, optical information device, and optical disk system

A recording mark is formed on a recording medium by a predetermined recording signal, a playback signal of the recording mark formed on the recording medium is obtained, and an expected value signal of the playback signal based on the recording signal is generated. Based on an amplitude error between the playback signal and the expected value signal, and for each predetermined unit of the recording signal, a deviation amount of a mark shape of the recording mark from which the playback signal is obtained with respect to a mark shape of an ideal recording mark is calculated, and a mark shape of the recording mark formed on the recording medium is estimated. Based on the deviation amount of the mark shape of the recording mark, a correction amount is calculated for each predetermined unit of the recording signal, and a level of the recording signal is adjusted.

Recording state evaluation method, recording compensation method, and information recording/playback device

The present disclosure provides an optical disk device capable of reproducing data recorded on a high linear density optical disk stably. The optical disk device according to the disclosure is characterized by being equipped with a recording expected waveform generation circuit which generates, at the time of recording, an expected waveform that is expected to be obtained at the time of decoding; and a recording pulse generation circuit which generates a recording pulse for driving a laser with power and a time width suitable for an amplitude value of the recording expected waveform for each sampling point of the recording expected waveform.

Optical disk device

The first, third, fourth, and seventh photosensors are disposed on one side with respect to the centerline, and the second, fifth, sixth, and eighth photosensors are disposed on another side with respect to the centerline. The first and seventh photosensors are positioned between the third and fourth photosensors in the direction parallel to the centerline. The second and eighth photosensors are positioned between the fifth and sixth photosensors in the direction parallel to the centerline. The first photosensor receives overlapped light of the 0th-order light with the +1st-order diffracted light, the second photosensor receives overlapped light of the 0th-order light with the &#x2212;1st-order diffracted light, each of the third to sixth photosensors receives the 0th-order light, and does not receive the +1st-order diffracted light and the &#x2212;1st-order diffracted light, and each of the seventh and eighth photosensors receives at least the 0th-order light.

Recorder and player apparatus stably keeping track of recording medium

The present invention provides an optical device including: a light source; an optical element to be irradiated with light emitted from the light source; and a supporting member for supporting the optical element through a cured product of an adhesive. This cured product of the adhesive contains a thermoplastic elastic material. The present invention also provides an optical device including: a light source; an optical element to be irradiated with light emitted from the light source; and a supporting member for supporting the optical element through a cured product of an adhesive. This cured product of the adhesive has a Young's modulus of at least 1.0E+5 Pa but less than 1.0E+7 Pa in an exponential expression, in a temperature range that the cured product of the adhesive reaches due to heat generation during operation.

Optical device

In one embodiment, the optical pickup device includes: a light source that emits a light beam; a diffractive element that diffracts the light beam and generates a zero-order and &#xb1;first-order diffracted light beams; an objective lens that converges the diffracted light beams onto the same track on the storage medium; and a photodetector that receives the diffracted light beams reflected from the storage medium. If a distance from a light beam spot left by the zero-order diffracted light beam on the track to light beam spots left by the &#xb1;first-order diffracted light beams on that track is d [&#x3bc;m], the scanning linear velocity of the storage medium is v [m/s], and a time it takes for a phase-change material of the storage medium that has once been melted by the zero-order diffracted light beam to solidify is T [&#x3bc;s], vT&#x2266;d is satisfied.

Optical pickup device and optical read/write apparatus

In a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, first to third drain offset regions of a second conductivity type are formed in that order in a bottom up manner. A body region of the first conductivity type is formed partly in the second drain offset region and partly in the third drain offset region. The second drain offset region has a lower impurity concentration than the first and third drain offset regions. A curvature portion of the body region is located in the second drain offset region.

Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same

A semiconductor device includes: an n-type first well diffusion layer; an n-type second well diffusion layer; a p-type source diffusion layer; a p-type third well diffusion layer; a p-type drain diffusion layer; a gate insulating film; a gate electrode; a device isolation insulating film; and a buffer layer. The buffer layer is formed between the first well diffusion layer and the third well diffusion layer to be in contact with an end of the third well diffusion layer opposing the source diffusion layer, and extends from immediately below the gate insulating film to a position deeper than a peak of curvature of impurity concentration distribution of the third well diffusion layer. The buffer layer has an impurity concentration lower than an impurity concentration in the third well diffusion layer.

Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same

An optical pickup device includes: a light source for emitting light in a first wavelength range; an optical element for transmitting the light; a supporting member for supporting the optical element through an adhesive; a first light blocking member for blocking the light emitted from the light source from entering the adhesive when the optical element guides the emitted light to the optical disc; and a second light blocking member for blocking the light reflected from the optical disc from entering the adhesive when the optical element guides the reflected light to the detector unit. In this optical pickup device, at least one of the first and second light blocking member blocks the light in the first wavelength range and transmits light in a second wavelength range.

Optical pickup device with specific wavelength light blocking members for preventing further curing of adhesive

A light intensity control device of the present invention includes a light source for outputting a plurality of types of light beams having different wavelengths; a light receiving section for receiving and converting the light beams into an electric signal in accordance with the intensity of the respective light beam; and a polarization separation section provided between the light source and the light receiving section. The plurality of types of light beams include a first light beam and a second light beam having a longer wavelength than that of the first light beam. The polarization separation section guides both a first polarization direction light component of the second light beam and a second polarization direction light component, perpendicular to the first polarization direction, of the second light beam to the light receiving section. The polarization separation section guides a first polarization direction light component of the first light beam to the light receiving section, and suppresses a second polarization direction component, perpendicular to the first polarization direction, of the first light beam from advancing to the light receiving section.

Light intensity controller and optical pickup device

A cell potential measurement apparatus, which uses a planar electrode enabling a multi-point simultaneous measurement of potential change arising from cell activities, is provided which can conduct measurements accurately and efficiently as well as can improve convenience of arranging measurement results. According to the configuration of the cell potential measurement apparatus of this invention, it includes an integrated cell holding instrument, which includes a planar electrode provided with a plurality of microelectrodes arranged in a matrix form on the surface of a substrate, a cell holding part for placing cells thereon, drawer patterns from the microelectrodes, and electric contact points for outside connections; an optical observation means for optical observations of cells; a stimulation signal supply means to be connected to the cell holding instrument for providing electric stimulation to the cells; and a signal processing means to be connected to the cell holding instrument for processing an output signal arising from electric physiological activities of the cells. It is preferable that a cell culturing means is also provided for maintaining a culture atmosphere of the cells placed on the integrated cell holding instrument.

Cell potential measurement apparatus having a plurality of microelectrodes

A method of measuring the physical and chemical properties of tissue or cells and a device for the same is provided, with which the physical and chemical environment of the tissue or cells can be changed arbitrarily corresponding to experimental necessities. The device comprises a systemfor keeping the physical and chemical environment surrounding the biological tissue or cells constant, a systemfor arbitrarily changing the physical and chemical environment, observation systemsandfor observing the physical and chemical properties of the tissue or cells, and a systemfor comparing the change of the physical and chemical properties of the tissue or cells before and after changing the physical and chemical environment. The observation systemis a potential measurement device for measuring the electrophysiological properties of the tissue or cells. This device comprises an integrated cell placement deviceprovided with a plurality of microelectrodeson a substrate, a cell placement portionfor placing the tissue or cells on the microelectrodes, and a wiring patternfor applying an electrical signal to the microelectrodesand extracting an electrical signal from the microelectrodes

Method for measuring physiocochemical properties of tissues of cells, method for examining chemicals, and apparatus therefor

A method of observing a physical and chemical property of a tissue or cell by using an apparatus which comprises at least a cell culturing means, an environment conditioning means, an observing means and a comparing means, comprising the steps of (A) culturing the tissue or cell by the cell culturing means, (B) maintaining a first physical and chemical environment around the tissue or cell by the cell culturing means, (C) observing a first physical and chemical property of the tissue or cell in the first physical and chemical environment by the observing means, (D) changing the first physical and chemical environment to a second physical and chemical environment by the environment conditioning means, (E) observing a second physical and chemical property of the tissue or cell in the second physical and chemical environment by the observing means, and (F) comparing the first physical and chemical property of the tissue or cell with the second physical and chemical property of the tissue or cell by the comparing means.

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Osaka, Japan

Yasushi Kobayashi