Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Yoshio Goto

Yuichi Tokita

Seiji Yamada

Satoshi Nakamaru

Daisuke Yamaguchi

Wei Luo

Hideyuki Kumita

Akihiro Nakata

Hideki Sakai

Jusuke Shimura

Hiroichi Ishikawa

Kazuhito Wakana

Kyohei Yoshimitsu

Daisuke Ito

Takaaki Nakagawa

Masaya Kakuta

Hiroki Mita

Kentarou Sakai

Kazuhiko Miyahara

Michiko Nakao

Masahiro Matsumoto

Takashi Tomita

Shunichi Suwa

Nobuyuki Nagai

Yoshiki Ebiko

Tomoko Katsuhara

Nobuyuki Kuboi

Shuji Fujita

Ichiro Takemura

Kunihiko Nagamine

Yuichi Ishida

Tomoya Takei

Taiki Sugiyama

Yukari Tsunoda

Kazuyuki Ejima

An actuator includes an actuator body that includes a first surface and a second surface that face each other, a first constraining member that is provided on the first surface, and constrains the first surface from expanding and contracting, and a second constraining member that is provided on the second surface, and constrains the second surface from expanding and contracting. The actuator body includes a first electrode, a second electrode that faces the first electrode, and an elastomer layer that is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode is a pattern electrode. The first constraining member and the second constraining member are provided correspondingly to the first electrode.

Actuator, drive apparatus, and electronic apparatus

A gas detection method according to an embodiment of the present technology includes heating a semiconductor sensor that includes an absorption layer that includes a metal oxide; measuring a resistance value of the semiconductor sensor in an air atmosphere in which there exists a reducing gas; and determining that the reducing gas includes a detection-target substance when the measured resistance value is larger than another resistance value in a first temperature range, and when the measured resistance value is smaller than the other resistance value in a second temperature range in which a temperature is higher than a temperature in the first temperature range, the other resistance value being a resistance value of the semiconductor sensor in an air atmosphere in which there exists no reducing gas.

Gas detection method and information processing apparatus

An actuator is provided with a tubular actuator element and a supporting body which supports an inner peripheral surface of the actuator element. An internal pressure of the actuator element is higher than an external pressure of the actuator element.

Actuator, actuator module, endoscope, endoscope module, and controlling method

A sensor device according to the present technology includes a stack sensor. The stack sensor includes a first sensor layer and a second sensor layer. The first sensor layer has, as a detection target, a first substrate in a culture solution, the first substrate being changed in accordance with a change in a state of a cell. The second sensor layer has, as a detection target, a second substrate in the culture solution and is provided on the first sensor layer, the second substrate being changed in accordance with the change in the state.

Sensor device and detection apparatus

An actuator includes a stack including: an elastomer layer; and an elastic electrode disposed on each surface of the elastomer layer, in which the stack is subjected to a pre-strain of 50% or more at least in one direction. The stack may have a round tubular shape with the elastic electrodes disposed on opposite surfaces of the elastomer layer in a radial direction of the stack.

Actuator including elastomer layer and elastic electrodes and method for manufacturing the same

An actuator includes a laminate including an elastomer layer and an electrode, in which the laminate has a spiral or concentric shape, pre-distortion is applied to at least one member out of the elastomer layer and the electrode, and area distortion of the at least one member is 10% or larger.

Actuator, driving member, tactile sense presenting device, and driving device

An enzyme sensor including a pair of electrodes, an electron transfer layer held between the pair of electrodes, and an electron generating capsule in which a membrane containing at least a substrate of an enzyme to be detected encloses at least one or more kinds of enzymes other than the enzyme to be detected, the electron generating capsule being in contact with the electron transfer layer.

Enzyme sensor and electronic device

A shake correction device including a driven body, a first actuator that is extendable and contractible in a first direction, a second actuator that is extendable and contractible in a second direction, a support that supports the driven body via the first actuator and the second actuator, a first connection mechanism unit that connects at least either between the first actuator and the driven body or between the first actuator and the support, and a second connection mechanism unit that connects at least either between the second actuator and the driven body or between the second actuator and the support. The first connection mechanism unit and the second connection mechanism unit have at least one degree of rotational freedom.

Shake correction device including dielectric elastomer actuator, driving device, imaging device, and electronic device

Provided is a material-fixing substrate that does not have to use copper as a catalyst because the substrate-bonding site includes a cyclic alkyne to form a covalent bond with a surface of the substrate, and therefore that can reduce damage to a cell, for example, in a case where a to-be-fixed material is the cell. The material-fixing substrate has a to-be-fixed material fixed thereon via a material-fixing agent. The material-fixing agent includes: a substrate-bonding site that forms a covalent bond with a surface of the substrate and includes at least a cyclic alkyne; a hydrophilic site that is bonded to the substrate-bonding site; a light-responsive site that is bonded to the hydrophilic site and changes the skeleton thereof by irradiation with light; and an attachment site to which the to-be-fixed material is attached.

Material-fixing substrate and method for producing same, and material-fixing agent used for material-fixing substrate

This sleep assistance apparatus includes a stimulation generation unit that generates stimulation, a user being capable of receiving the stimulation; a detection unit that detects biological information of the user; and a control unit that decides optimal stimulation on the basis of the detected biological information, and causes the stimulation generation unit to generate the optimal stimulation.

Sleep assistance apparatus, sleep assistance system, and sleep assistance method

A method for enhancing luminescence of a luminous material, a substance detection method, a substance detection apparatus, and a luminescence enhancer are provided. A method for enhancing luminescence of a luminous material, the method including: holding, in a luminescence detection unit, the luminous material and a white colloidal particle both contained in a liquid; and irradiating the luminescence detection unit with light, in which the luminescence detection unit has an inner diameter of 300 &#x3bc;m or less in an optical axis direction.

Method for enhancing luminescence, substance detection method, substance detection apparatus, and luminescence enhancer

In the case in which a fuel cell has a structure in which a cathode () and an anode () are opposed with the intermediary of an electrolyte layer () and the cathode () is formed of an electrode to which an oxygen reductase and so on is immobilized and this electrode has pores inside, at least part of the surface of this electrode is rendered water repellent. For example, the surface of the electrode is rendered water repellent by forming a water-repellent agent on the surface of this electrode. Thereby, in the case in which the cathode is formed of an electrode to which an enzyme is immobilized and this electrode has pores inside, a fuel cell that can stably achieve a high current value by optimization of the amount of water contained in the cathode and a manufacturing method thereof are provided.

Fuel cell, manufacturing method thereof, electronic apparatus, enzyme-immobilized electrode, manufacturing method thereof, water-repellent agent, and enzyme immobilizing material

A fuel cell is provided having a structure in which a cathode and an anode face each other with an electrolyte layer therebetween. The cathode includes an electrode on which an oxygen reductase and the like are immobilized, and the electrode has pores therein, water repellency is imparted to at least part of the surface of the electrode. Water repellency is imparted by forming a water-repellent agent on the surface of the electrode. The water-repellent agent includes a water-repellent material such as carbon powder and an organic solvent such as methyl isobutyl ketone that causes phase separation with water. When the electrode has pores therein, there are provided a fuel cell that stably provides a high current value and a method for manufacturing the fuel cell.

Fuel cell and method for manufacturing the same, electronic apparatus, enzyme-immobilized electrode and method for manufacturing the same, water-repellent agent, and enzyme-immobilizing material

A color imaging element, a photosensor and a photoelectric transducer which use a protein and are capable of being stably used for a long time, and methods of manufacturing them are provided. A zinc-substituted cytochrome c552 is immobilized on a gold electrode with a self-assembled monolayer in between to form a blue-light photoelectric transducer. Alternatively, a cytochrome c552 is immobilized on a gold electrode with a self-assembled monolayer in between, and a fluorescent protein absorbing blue light is bonded to the cytochrome c552, thereby forming a blue-light photoelectric transducer. These photoelectric transducers each are used as a color imaging element or a blue-light photoelectric transducer of a photosensor.

Cytochrome c552 color imaging element and method of manufacturing the same, cytochrome c552 photosensor and method of manufacturing the same, cytochrome c552 photoelectric transducer and method of manufacturing the same, and cytochrome c552 electronic device

Provided is a photoelectric conversion element including a photoconductor containing a complex of a conductive polymer and/or polymer semiconductor and a protein containing at least one dye having a long-lived excited state.

Photoelectric conversion element, production method for a photoelectric conversion element, solid-state image sensor, production method for a solid-state image sensor, electronic apparatus, photoconductor, production method for a photoconductor and multilayer transparent photoelectric conversion element

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshio Goto