Alps Electric Co., Ltd.

Yuichi Umeda

Junichi Saito

Masatoshi Uchio

Arao Sato

Yoshihiro Someno

Ichiro Morishita

Masaru Nakayama

Kazuhiro Katagiri

Kazuyoshi Yamagata

Masahiro Tanaka

Tomomitsu Muta

Tatsumi Fujiyoshi

Ken Kawahata

Shinji Mitsuya

Yuichi Yasuda

Naoyuki Tokuchi

Junichi Sato

Tokio Isago

A first virtual axis orthogonally intersects with a second virtual axis, and a third axis (axis passing a support center point) vertical to the first and second virtual axes is permitted to be a reference axis. A magnetic drive mechanism is provided with first magnetic drive sections for applying a drive power to a movable axis, which is supporting an object to be controlled, in a rotating direction of the first virtual axis or in a rotating direction parallel to the first virtual axis, and second magnetic drive sections for applying a drive power to the movable axis, in a rotating direction of the second virtual axis or in a rotating direction parallel to the second virtual axis.

Actuator

A hologram information reproducing device is described which can reproduce information from a recording medium on which hologram information is recorded, and which can be downsized. In one aspect, when light from a light source is emitted, the light is converted into parallel reference light, by a lens of an optical system. A mirror changes the orientation of the reference light so that it is oriented obliquely downward towards a recording medium. More specifically, as viewed from the top, the mirror changes a path of the light from the light source unit by approximately 90 degrees. In addition, as viewed from the side, the mirror changes the path of the light from the light source unit downward by approximately 45 degrees. Since an interference pattern recorded on the recording medium is a Bragg grating, when the reference light illuminates a recording area of the recording medium, a reproduction light is obtained by Bragg diffraction. The reproduction light is reflected by a reflecting layer of the recording medium and is detected by a photodetector

Hologram information reproducing device

A capacitance detecting circuit detects, in terms of voltage, change in capacitance at intersections of a plurality of column lines and a plurality of row lines crossing each other. The capacitance detecting circuit includes a column-line driving unit for driving a column line; a row-line selector for selecting a specific row line from the plurality of row lines; and a capacitance calculator for calculating a capacitance at an intersection of the specific row line and the driven column line based on a reference current that flows in relation to a reference capacitance and a current that flows in relation to the capacitance at the intersection.

Capacitance detecting circuit and detecting method, and fingerprint sensor employing the same

A capacitance detecting circuit includes a code generator for generating code having orthogonality in chronological order. A column-line driver drives the plurality of column lines based on the code by dividing the column lines into a first column line group and a second column line group. A capacitance detector, which is connected to the row line, converts the total of currents generated in capacitances at the intersections with the driven column lines into a voltage signal and outputs the converted voltage signal. A decoding computation unit determines the voltages corresponding to the capacitances at the intersections for each of the column line groups by performing product sum computation between the measured voltages and the code. The column-line driver drives the first column line group and the second column line group by complementary voltages according to the code or information indicating the inversion of the code.

Capacitance detecting circuit and method, and fingerprint sensor using the same

In a capacitance detecting circuit, changes in capacitances at intersections between a plurality of row lines and a column line are detected as voltages. The capacitance detecting circuit includes a column-line driver for driving the column line. A code generator generates code having orthogonality in chronological order. A selection synthesizer selects a certain number of row lines from the plurality of row lines by using the code and synthesizes measured voltages at the intersections between the selected row lines and the driven column line so as to output the synthesized measured voltage. A decoding computation unit separates the measured voltages corresponding to the capacitances at the intersections by performing product sum computation between the synthesized measured voltage and the code.

A capacitance detecting circuit of a capacitive sensor having a plurality of column lines and a row line intersecting the column lines detects a change in capacitance at an intersection of a column line and a row line. The circuit includes a PN code generating unit for generating a code having orthogonality in time sequence to output the generated code as a column drive signal, a column line drive unit for driving a predetermined one of the column lines which are selected in response to the code, a capacitance detecting unit, connected to the row line, for detecting a voltage by converting a total sum of changes in capacitance at intersections of the selected column lines into the voltage to output the detected voltage, and a decode processing unit for performing a predetermined calculation on the detected voltage output from the capacitance detecting unit and the code to determine a voltage value responsive to the capacitance change at the intersection.

Capacitance detector circuit, capacitance detection method, and fingerprint sensor using the same

An apparatus for depositing an optical thin film at a high accuracy has a vacuum chamber in which a thin film is formed on a substrate by vapor deposition of a material at a target using ion beams from an ion gun, an optical monitor for optically measuring the thickness of the thin film and outputting transmittance data DT, a crystal monitor for measuring a frequency which changes as the deposition proceeds and for outputting frequency data DF, and a determination circuit . The determination circuit select between the optical monitor and the crystal monitor to control the thickness of the thin film to be formed on the substrate.

Method of forming optical thin films on substrate at high accuracy and apparatus therefor

In a relative angle detecting device, plural received light outputs are subjected to time division. Received light detection voltage is shifted by a phase shifter and sampling pulse is formed, and peak detecting means holds peak value of received light output based on the sampling pulse. In a CPU, peak value of each voltage is stored in a memory, and the stored value is operated thereby information regarding relative position between a light source and a light reception element is operated. Utilizing the time division, each received light detection voltage can be processed in the same condition, and the peak value of each received light output can be detected with high precision.

Optical position detecting device

Relative angle detecting device

A pair of detecting stations A.sub.i and A.sub.-i on a plane H extends along an axis X. Each of the detecting stations is provided with an iris member and a divided light receiving section. Received light outputs at each of the light receiving elements are defined as R.sub.i, L.sub.i, R.sub.-i, and L.sub.-i, and the following equation is calculated to enable a coordinate (x.sub.0, z.sub.0) of the moving light source to be attained by a simple calculation: S.sub.i =(R.sub.i -L.sub.i)/(R.sub.i +L.sub.i)+(R.sub.-i -L.sub.-i)/(R.sub.-i +L.sub.-i); T.sub.i =(R.sub.i -L.sub.i)/(R.sub.i +L.sub.i)-(R.sub.-i -L.sub.-i)/(R.sub.-i +L.sub.-i).

Coordinate position of moving light source by using separated groups of

An apparatus is disclosed for inclination detection wherein infrared transmitted signal, signal groups S1, S2, S3, . . . including a leader code, a parity bit and bits for data transfer are sequentially transmitted with an interval time t3. At each bit of the signal group S1, '1' and '0' of a binary signal expressing the data are not inverted, at the signal group S2, '1'and '0' expressing the data are inverted, and inversion and non-inversion are repeated every signal group. At bits of each signal group, since a time length expresses '1' and '0', a total time length of each signal group is different from that of other signal group. By repeating sets of inverted and non-inverted signal groups, the time length of each set is averaged, and hence, data processing can be made more efficient.

Apparatus for inclination detection and input apparatus using this

A remote coordinate designating device has a remote control with a light emitting device for emitting light, and a controller for detecting a designated position by receiving light from the remote control at a distance from the remote control. One cycle of a light signal from the light emitting device is composed of switch data and a coordinate detection timing header at the head, and a coordinate detection carrier. The switch data and the coordinate detection timing header use the same frequency as the normal remote control frequency band, and the frequency of the coordinate detection carrier is lower than the frequency of the switch data and the coordinate detection timing header. The switch data contains on-off information about a switch for pointing, and coordinate detection is started when a predetermined time has passed from the rise of a burst portion in the switch data.

Remote coordinate designating device

A light-emitting diode device includes a light-emitting diode, a lens cap made of synthetic resin, for covering the light-emitting surface of the light-emitting diode means, and a refractive layer formed between the light-emitting surface and the lens cap, the refractive layer having a composition, such as an air layer, with a refractive index different from the refractive index of said synthetic resin. In this arrangement the relationship between the light intensity and directional angles is shown by characteristics in which the light intensity is maximum in the center of the directional angles, and is relatively flat in the form of a sinusoid in the wide range of the directional angles. Therefore, even when the characteristics of each light-emitting diode is not verified, a predetermined light-signal transmission range is readily obtained without being affected by a scatter in the characteristics.

Light-emitting diode device with reduced scatter

A relative-angle detection apparatus which has an infrared-signal transmitting unit and an infrared-signal receiving unit. The transmitting unit includes a first light-emitting device array formed of a plurality of light-emitting devices disposed in a direction substantially coinciding with the fiducial axis for angle detection, and a second light-emitting device array formed of a plurality of light-emitting devices located to be slightly angled in the different directions with respect to the axis. The devices of the first light-emitting device array generate a continously-output first infrared signal in which an infrared signal is intermittently modulated by a first frequency and also modulated by a second frequency higher than the first frequency. The devices of the second light-emitting device array generate a second infrared signal in which an infrared signal is modulated by the first frequency and also divided into a plurality of signals so as to be output at different timings. The receiving unit detects and amplifies the first frequency contained in the first and second infrared signals and executes signal-processing on the amplified first frequency, thereby detecting the angle of the transmitting unit relative to the receiving unit.

Relative-angle detection apparatus

An information transmitting apparatus for efficiently transmitting input information coming from a plurality of transmitters wherein a receiver can determine the type of the transmitter from which the information was sent, the apparatus being produced at low cost and matching the conventional counterpart in signal reach distance. This information transmitting apparatus comprising a plurality of transmitters for sending input information in wireless manner, a receiver for receiving the input information coming from the plurality of transmitters to process the received input information, and a host controller connected to the receiver for accepting the processed information from the receiver, wherein the plurality of transmitters selectively send first-format information containing no device identifier and second-format information containing a device identifier and the receiver determines a type of one of the transmitters that has sent the input information from the device identifier contained in the received second-format information to perform information processing according to the determined type of the transmitter.

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Yuichi Umeda