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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2012
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yutaka Hayashi, Ibaraki, JP;
Toshitaka Ota, Ibaraki, JP;
Yasushi Nagamune, Ibaraki, JP;
Hirofumi Watanabe, Hyogo, JP;
Takaaki Negoro, Osaka, JP;
Kazunari Kimino, Hyogo, JP;
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A reset method of an photoelectric conversion device at least including a phototransistor having a first collector, a first base, and a first emitter, and a first field-effect transistor having a first source, a first drain, and a first gate, includes: connecting the first base, and one of the first source and the first drain of the first field-effect transistor by having a common region, or a continuous region, without a base electrode; supplying a base reset potential to the other of the first source and the first drain; and overlapping a time in which a first emitter potential is supplied to the first emitter and a time in which a first ON-potential that turns on the first field-effect transistor is supplied to the first gate.