Sony Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Sony Corpotation

Yuichi Takai

Yasuhiro Watanabe

Miki Tsuchiya

Tetsuyuki Yoshida

Hiroyuki Okita

Taiki Donen

Hiroaki Ishiguro

Masahiro Shimase

Satoshi Ochi

Koichi Tanaka

Kenichi Takahashi

Hiroyuki Nagai

Yoshihisa Sato

Shuji Tanaka

Junichi Ohsako

Masayoshi Esashi

Hiroyuki Chibahara

Kazutoshi Nomoto

Koji Ishioka

Masayoshi Akita

Sho Sakamoto

Chiaki Kanai

Mariko Obinata

Ryo Koshiishi

Yasutomo Tanihara

Toshihiko Takematsu

Miki Tsuboi

The present disclosure aims to provide an electrical contact to which a low boiling point metal is added, the electrical contact being able secure both mechanical strength and conductivity at the same time. The electrical contact according to the present disclosure includes a base material made of Cu, particles of a high melting point substance dispersed in the base material, the particles being made of at least one of a high melting point metal or a carbide of the high melting point metal, and Te and Ti dispersed in the base material, wherein, the Te of 3.5 to 14.5 mass % is added where the total is 100 mass %, and Ti/Te is 0.12 to 0.38.

Electrical contact and vacuum switch tube comprising electrical contact

Provided is a small-sized, reliable vacuum interrupter that does not involve upsizing and complication of the reduction load application mechanism. A vacuum interrupter of the present invention includes a magnetic body disposed on a circumferential edge around a stem surface of at least one of a moving current-carrying stem and a fixed current-carrying stem. The magnetic body includes a lower magnetic permeance portion having a lower magnetic permeance than the other portion. The lower magnetic permeance portion produces a magnetic field parallel to the axial direction. Arc discharge is driven in the direction of the parallel magnetic field, thus being extinguished.

Vacuum interrupter

A vacuum interrupter according to the present invention includes: a vacuum container formed by two insulation containers each having an opening at one end thereof, the openings being opposed to each other; a pair of electrodes provided inside the vacuum container; and an arc shield having a contamination preventing portion surrounding the electrodes, and projections projecting in a direction along an outer circumferential surface of the contamination preventing portion, the arc shield being positioned by the projections being engaged with the openings.

Vacuum interrupter and vacuum circuit breaker using same

There is provided an optical element including first and second substrates that are disposed to face each other; a pair of wall portions that are erected on an inner surface of the first substrate facing the second substrate to be adjacent to each other in a first direction and extend in a second direction different from the first direction; first and second electrodes that are disposed on wall surfaces of the pair of wall portions to be insulated from each other and face each other and are provided to be apart from the first substrate; an insulating film that covers the first and second electrodes; a third electrode that is provided on an inner surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate; and a polar liquid and a non-polar liquid that are sealed between the first substrate and the second substrate and have different refractive indexes.

Optical element, method of forming optical element, optical element array, display device, and electronic apparatus

An optical element array includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a plurality of first walls which is provided upright on an inner surface facing the second substrate of the first substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode which are respectively provided on facing wall surfaces of the adjacent first walls, a third electrode which is provided on an inner surface facing the first substrate of the second substrate, a second wall which partially covers the inner surface of the first substrate and the first walls to partially or entirely surround at least a part of a space which is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a polar liquid and a nonpolar liquid which are sealed in the space surrounded by the first substrate, the second substrate and the second wall and have different refractive indices.

Optical element array, method of forming optical element array, display device and electronic apparatus

A liquid optical element array with good long-term stability is provided. The liquid optical element array includes: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; barrier ribs arranged upright on a surface facing the second substrate of the first substrate and sectioning a region on the first substrate into a plurality of cell regions; a first electrode and a second electrode arranged on wall surfaces of the barrier ribs to face each other; a third electrode arranged on a surface facing the first substrate of the second substrate; a projection arranged upright in each of the cell regions on the first substrate or the second substrate; and a polar liquid and a nonpolar liquid sealed between the first substrate and the third electrode and having different refractive indices.

Liquid optical element array and display

An optical device includes a first substrate which is transparent to incident light, a second substrate which is transparent to incident light, and a frame member which connects the first substrate to the second substrate. A lens chamber surrounded by the first substrate, the second substrate, and the frame member is filled with first and second liquids constituting a liquid lens. A region composed of an inorganic material and a region composed of an organic material coexist in the inner surface of the first substrate and the inner surface of the frame member. A first insulating layer composed of an inorganic material, an adhesion layer composed of an organic material, and a second insulating layer composed of an organic material are stacked in that order on the inner surface of the first substrate and the inner surface of the frame member.

Optical device and housing

Disclosed is a liquid lens apparatus. The liquid lens apparatus includes a liquid lens element and a fixing jig. The liquid lens element includes a main body, a lens surface, and a sealing portion, the main body including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a third substrate that is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and forms a liquid chamber, the lens surface being formed of an interface between two liquids which are contained in the liquid chamber and have different refractive indexes and being capable of being electrically deformed, the sealing portion hermetically sealing the main body. The fixing jig is engaged with the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate and the second substrate sandwiching the third substrate.

Liquid lens apparatus and manufacturing method of the same

A manufacturing method for a liquid lens device includes: preparing a body having a liquid chamber, a conductive first liquid stored in the liquid chamber, an insulating second liquid stored in the liquid chamber, an electrode kept in contact with the first liquid, and a liquid discharge passage for making the communication between the inside and the outside of the liquid chamber; applying pressure to the first and second transparent substrates to thereby compress the sealing member and discharge the first liquid through the liquid discharge passage to the outside of the liquid chamber; and closing the liquid discharge passage.

Liquid lens device and manufacturing method therefor

A lighting system is provided that includes: an optical device including a cylindrical lens made up of a liquid lens, an emission unit including an axis line in the Z-axis direction, and a reflecting mirror configured to reflect light emitted from the emission unit. The cross-sectional shape of a light reflecting portion when cutting away the reflecting mirror at a virtual plane perpendicular to the Z axis is a part of a parabola. The axis line of the emission unit is positioned between the vertex-of the parabola and a focal point. Thus, there is provided a lighting system in which an optical device, which is made up of a liquid lens employing an electrowetting phenomenon, having an arrangement and configuration whereby high optical power can be obtained.

Lighting system

A fuel cell mount apparatus includes: a fuel cell system including a power generation unit for generating electric power by use of a fuel and air, a hydrogen occlusion cylinder for supplying the fuel to the power generation unit, an air supply means for supplying air to the power generation unit, and a control unit for controlling the power generating operation of the power generation unit; and a dog type robot mounted with the fuel cell system and operated by electric power outputted from the fuel cell, wherein a part of component elements of the fuel cell system and a part of component elements of the dog type robot are used in common with each other, i.e., one of the component elements functions also as the other of the component elements, whereby a component element can be made to function as both a part of an electronic apparatus and a part of the fuel cell, the wastefulness of component elements can be removed, and the fuel cell can be efficiently mounted on various electronic apparatuses.

Fuel cell mount apparatus and electric power supply system

Disclosed herein is an optical device including: a light-transmitting first main body which constitutes a part on a light incidence side; a light-transmitting second main body which constitutes a part on a light outgoing side; a third main body which is stacked between the first main body and the second main body in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and which defines a liquid chamber between the first main body and the second main body; a lens surface which is formed by an interface between a plurality of liquids differing in refractive index and sealed in the inside of the liquid chamber, and which is electrically deformable; and a jig which clamps the mutually stacked first main body, second main body, and third main body in the second direction by the third engaging part and the fourth engaging part.

Optical device, electronic apparatus, and method of manufacturing optical device

A fuel cell is provided. The fuel cell includes a power generator incorporated in a housing having air intake ports, an electrical terminal connected to a printed-wiring board, and connectors and a fuel passage for supplying fuel. The terminals are formed in such configurations as to be insertion-mounted on the printed-wiring board or to be surface mounted on the printed-wiring board. The fuel cell is directly mounted on the printed-wiring board. Thus, a cell housing part or a fixing mechanism, a connector, for example, do not need to be provided on an electric device on which the fuel cell is mounted and the structure of the device itself is simplified and miniaturized.

Fuel cell with fuel passage layer having a wiring pattern

Fuel cell separation, fuel cell device, and electronic applied device technical field are provided. A fuel cell separator capable of making a fuel cell device compact and reducing variations in air supply amount to generating cells. Oscillating fans as fluid oxidant supplying means are respectively provided at openings of channels. The oscillating fans are individually driven to respectively supply air into the channels. The oscillating fans are included in a separator body of a separator. As compared with the case that the oscillating fans are provided separately from a fuel cell body having the separator as a component, the limitation to layout of the fuel cell body and various units for effecting stable electric power generation in the fuel cell body can be reduced, and the fuel cell device can be reduced in size.

Compact fuel cell separator incorporating fluid oxidant supply means, a fuel cell device and an electronic applied device incorporating the compact fuel cell separator

A manufacturing method for a liquid lens device includes the steps of: preparing a body having a liquid chamber, a conductive first liquid stored in the liquid chamber, an insulating second liquid stored in the liquid chamber, and a hollow electrode pipe for making the communication between the inside and the outside of the liquid chamber, the liquid chamber being defined by a first transparent substrate on which an electrode layer is formed, a second transparent substrate opposed to the first transparent substrate, and an annular sealing member interposed between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate; applying pressure to the first and second transparent substrates to thereby compress the sealing member and discharge the first liquid from the second end of the hollow electrode pipe; and closing the second end of the hollow electrode pipe.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuichi Takai