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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2007
Applicant:
Masahiro Oda, Itami, JP;
Inventor:
Masahiro Oda, Itami, JP;
Assignee:
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/00 (2006.01); H01J 40/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An imaging device includes a storage portion of carriers, a multiplier section having a multiplier electrode multiplying carriers, a holding portion of the carriers and a readout electrode of carriers, wherein the multiplier electrode is set to an OFF-state potential and carriers are transferred to the holding portion after the potential of the readout electrode is set to an ON-state potential, and the ON-state potential of the readout electrode is maintained at least until a signal corresponding to the carriers transferred to the holding portion is read.