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20100307180 | Cold-storage heat exchanger - An outer surface of a cold-storage container (or a refrigerant tube) is provided with a plurality of protrusion portions or recess portions. A cooling air passage, in which air flows to cool a space to be cooled in a cold storage time and in a cold release time of the cold storage material, is provided to contact a surface of the refrigerant tube on a side opposite to the cold storage container bonded to the refrigerant tube. The refrigerant tubes and the cold storage container form therebetween a cold-storage side air passage by the protrusion portions or the recess portions, such that air flows in the cold-storage side air passage separated from the cooling air passage. For example, the cold-storage side air passage is provided with a slanting space that causes condensed water or ice generated in the cold storage time to be drained along the cold-storage side air passage. | 12-09-2010 |
20140083663 | Cold-Storage Heat Exchanger - A cold storage heat exchanger includes multiple refrigerant tubes, a cold storage container, an inner fin, a cooling air passage and an air-side fin. The inner fin is arranged inside of the cold storage container. The cooling air passage, in which air flows to cool a space, is provided to contact a surface of the refrigerant tube on a side opposite to the cold storage container. The air-side fin is arranged in the cooling air passage and thermally connected to the refrigerant tube. The cold storage container includes multiple recess portions bonded to the inner fin, and multiple protrusion portions located on an outer side of the recess portions. The protrusion portions of the cold storage container are bonded to an outer surface of the refrigerant tube. | 03-27-2014 |
20150153090 | COLD-STORAGE HEAT EXCHANGER - A cold storage heat exchanger includes multiple refrigerant tubes arranged to provide a clearance therebetween, multiple cold storage containers each of which is interposed between adjacent refrigerant tubes, bonded to the adjacent refrigerant tubes and defining a compartment receiving a cold storage material. A surface of each cold storage container has multiple protrusion portions, and each protrusion portion protrudes outward and is in contact with the adjacent refrigerant tubes. The multiple protrusion portions are arranged in a zigzag manner or extend continuously in an air flow direction. | 06-04-2015 |
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20080298738 | Waveguide type wavelength domain optical switch - A waveguide type wavelength domain optical switch includes an input/output port including at least three waveguide spectrometers stacked in thickness direction, a first lens for collecting light outputted from an input port of the input/output port in one axis direction, a second lens for collecting light outputted from the first lens in a direction orthogonal to the collecting direction of the first lens, and an optical phase modulation cell for reflecting light outputted from the second lens through the second lens and the first lens to an output port of the input/output port. Alternatively, the input/output port may include at least two waveguide spectrometers and a waveguide optical coupler circuit stacked in thickness direction | 12-04-2008 |
20100067900 | Optical waveguide-type wavelength domain switch - An optical waveguide-type wavelength domain switch includes a waveguide-type multi/demultiplexing device laminate comprising three or more laminated waveguide-type multi/demultiplexing devices, a lens system positioned on a demultiplex side of the waveguide-type multi/demultiplexing device laminate, and a reflective optical phase-modulating cell positioned on an opposite side of the waveguide-type multi/demultiplexing device laminate to the lens system. The lens system includes a lens alignment composed of plural lenses in one-to-one correspondence with the waveguide-type multi/demultiplexing devices and having a light-collecting or collimating function in the lens-aligning direction, an image-magnifying optical system having an N:1 (N>1) image-magnifying function arranged on the optical phase-modulating cell side of the lens alignment, an f-f lens (Y) arranged on the optical phase-modulating cell side of the image-magnifying optical system, and having a light-collecting or collimating function in the same direction as the lens-aligning direction of the lens alignment, and an f-f lens (X) having a light-collecting or collimating function in a perpendicular direction to the lens-aligning direction of the lens alignment. | 03-18-2010 |
20130272650 | WAVELENGTH CROSS CONNECT DEVICE - A wavelength cross connect device includes an input demultiplexing optical system for demultiplexing light input from a plurality of input ports into respective wavelengths, a wavelength switching optical system for switching and outputting the lights of respective wavelengths input from the input demultiplexing optical system to respective desired ports, and an output multiplexing optical system for multiplexing the lights of respective wavelengths input from the wavelength switching optical system per port. The input demultiplexing optical system and the output multiplexing optical system includes a lens system that has a function of focusing lights independently in vertical and widthwise directions. The wavelength switching optical system includes two light deflector arrays for outputting incoming light of each wavelength after adjusting a horizontal reflection angle of the light, and a switching lens including a lens that has a focal length equal to the Rayleigh length and acts only in a widthwise direction. | 10-17-2013 |
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20090268159 | AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT OF OPTIC NERVE HEAD WITH SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY - A fully automated optic nerve head assessment system, based on spectral domain optical coherence tomography, provides essential disc parameters for clinical analysis, early detection, and monitoring of progression. | 10-29-2009 |
20110176716 | ESTABLISHING COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN TWO- AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY SCANS - Advances in optical coherence tomography (OCT) have prompted a transition from time domain OCT, providing 2D OCT images, to spectral domain OCT, which has a 3D imaging capability. Yet conventional technology offers little toward the goal of inter-device compatibility between extant 2D OCT images and newer 3D OCT images for the same or comparable subjects, as in the context of ongoing monitoring the quantitative status of a patient's eyes. The inventive methodology is particularly useful to identify the scan location of tissue in a 2D OCT image within the 3D volumetric data, thereby allowing clinicians to image a patient via 3D OCT, based on available 2D OCT images, with minimal inter-device variation. | 07-21-2011 |
20120213423 | BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENTATION WITH THREE DIMENSIONAL SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY - In the context of the early detection and monitoring of eye diseases, such as glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy, the use of optical coherence tomography presents the difficulty, with respect to blood vessel segmentation, of weak visibility of vessel pattern in the OCT fundus image. To address this problem, a boosting learning approach uses three-dimensional (3D) information to effect automated segmentation of retinal blood vessels. The automated blood vessel segmentation technique described herein is based on 3D spectral domain OCT and provides accurate vessel pattern for clinical analysis, for retinal image registration, and for early diagnosis and monitoring of the progression of glaucoma and other retinal diseases. The technique employs a machine learning algorithm to identify blood vessel automatically in 3D OCT image, in a manner that does not rely on retinal layer segmentation. | 08-23-2012 |
20130077046 | NORMALIZATION OF RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS MEASUREMENTS MADE BY TIME DOMAIN-OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY - A scan location matching (SLM) method identifies conventional time domain optical coherence tomography (TD-OCT) circle scan locations within three-dimensional spectral domain OCT scan volumes. A technique uses both the SLM algorithm and a mathematical retinal nerve fiber bundle distribution (RNFBD) model, which is a simplified version of the anatomical retinal axon bundle distribution pattern, to normalize TD-OCT thickness measurements for the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) of an off-centered TD-OCT circle scan to a virtual location, centered on the optic nerve head. The RNFBD model eliminates scan-to-scan RNFL thickness measurement variation caused by manual placement of TD-OCT circle scan. | 03-28-2013 |
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20080210007 | Angular velocity sensor - An angular velocity sensor includes: a first tuning-fork vibrator having a first base and first aims extending from the first base in a first direction; a second tuning-fork vibrator having a second bass and second arms extending from the second base in a second direction; and a double gimbal portion mat has a drive gimbal portion vibrating about an axis extending in a fourth direction, and a sense gimbal portion vibrating about an axis extending in a fifth direction and senses an angular velocity about an axis extending in a third direction. | 09-04-2008 |
20080237757 | MICRO MOVABLE DEVICE, WAFER, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING WAFER - A micro movable device is made by processing a material substrate of a multilayer structure including a first layer, a second layer having a finely rough region on its surface on the side of the first layer, and an intermediate layer provided between the first and the second layer. The micro movable device includes a first structure formed in the first layer and a second structure formed in the second layer. The second structure includes a portion opposing the first structure via a gap and having a finely rough region on the side of the first structure, and being relatively displaceable with respect to the first structure. | 10-02-2008 |
20090139328 | Packaged micro movable device and method for making the same - A method is provided for making packaged micro-devices each including a micro movable element, a first packaging member formed with a recess, and a second packaging member formed with another recess. The micro movable element has a movable part. In accordance with the method, a device wafer is prepared for forming a plurality of micromovable elements. A first packaging wafer, formed with a plurality of recesses corresponding in position to the movable parts of the respective movable elements, is bonded to one surface of the device wafer. A second packaging wafer, formed with a plurality of recesses, is bonded to the other surface of the device wafer. The resulting laminate assembly is cut into separate products. | 06-04-2009 |
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20090028400 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZING A STRUCTURE OF INTEREST - A system. The system includes a computing device configured for communication with an imaging system and with a display device. The computing device includes a contour modeling module. The contour modeling module is configured for superimposing reference anchors on a cross-sectional image generated from 3D image data, for generating a line which connects the reference anchors, for sampling the 3D image data in a variable thickness plane defined by the connecting line, and for generating a contour-modeled C-mode image from the sampled 3D image data. | 01-29-2009 |
20120184845 | AUTOMATED MACULAR PATHOLOGY DIAGNOSIS IN THREEDIMENSIONAL (3D) SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (SD-OCT) IMAGES - Systems and methods of analyzing an optical coherence tomography image of a retina are discussed. A 2-dimensional slice of the image can be aligned to produce an approximately horizontal image of the retina and an edge map based at least in part on the aligned slice. Also, at least one global representation can be determined based on a (multi-scale) spatial division, such as multi-scale spatial pyramid, on the slice and/or edge map. Creating the local features is based on the specified cell structure of the global representation. The local features can be constructed based on local binary pattern (LBP)-based features. Additionally, a slice can be categorized into one or more categories via one or more classifiers (e.g., support vector machines). Each category can be associated with at least one ocular pathology, and classifying can be based on the constructed global descriptors, which can include the LBP-based local descriptors. | 07-19-2012 |
20130235346 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DOCUMENTING AND RECORDING OF THE PUPILLARY RED REFLEX TEST AND CORNEAL LIGHT REFLEX SCREENING OF THE EYE IN INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN - Systems and methods for documenting, recording, and interpreting the eccentric photorefraction, pupillary light reflex and the corneal light reflex eye screening tests in infants and young children. The system includes a computing device having an image capturing device, a light generating device, and a display. The system includes a computer application that is executable on the computing device and operative to utilize the computing device to perform eye screening tests. The system also includes a website that allows users to upload captured images from the computing device, so that the images may be processed, analyzed, and recorded. | 09-12-2013 |
20160100755 | SIGNAL NORMALIZATION AMONG MULTIPLE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY DEVICES - The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for normalizing an image of an eye among multiple optical coherence tomography (OCT) devices. The system can receive an OCT image and generate a normalized OCT image. The system is configured to normalize a sample density of the received image, normalize an amount of noise using a suitable noise reduction technique, normalize a distribution of signal amplitudes of the image, and then normalize a signal quality of the image. The resulting normalized image of the eye can then be used in the comparison among OCT images taken from multiple OCT devices. | 04-14-2016 |
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20080210457 | Tape carrier for semiconductor device and method for making same - A tape carrier for semiconductor device has a resin tape provided with an opening section for bonding, and a wiring lead formed on the resin tape. The wiring lead has a notched section disposed in the opening section and including a notch width W | 09-04-2008 |
20130064499 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION MODULE - A photoelectric conversion module includes a substrate, a photoelectric conversion element optically coupled to an optical fiber, and a conductor pattern that is provided on a surface of the substrate and includes an electrode pattern mounting the photoelectric conversion element and a restriction pattern for restricting a position of the optical fiber. | 03-14-2013 |
20130170790 | OPTICAL BOARD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND OPTICAL MODULE STRUCTURE - An optical board including a substrate including a plate-shaped resin including a first main plane and a second main plane facing each other, and a slit-shaped optical fiber receiving portion which penetrates between the first main plane and the second main plane in a thickness direction, a metal layer provided on the second main plane, and a wiring pattern consisting of metal and provided on the first main plane. An inclined plane is provided at an end of the optical fiber receiving portion in the substrate, a tilt angle of the inclined plane with respect to the first main plane is an obtuse angle, and a reflective layer is provided on the inclined plane for reflecting a light output from an optical fiber received in the optical fiber receiving portion toward the first main plane. | 07-04-2013 |
20130188906 | OPTICAL MODULE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An optical module includes a substrate, an optical device of a surface-emitting element or a surface-receiving element mounted on a surface of the substrate with a light-emitting portion or a light-receiving portion located to face the surface of the substrate, an optical fiber disposed parallel to the surface of the substrate and in a longitudinal direction of the substrate, a mirror provided to face the light-emitting portion or the light-receiving portion of the optical device and a tip of the optical fiber, and optically connect the optical device and the optical fiber, and an optical fiber receiving groove provided in the surface of the substrate to receive the optical fiber. A width of the mirror is greater than a width of the optical fiber receiving groove. Reflecting portions are provided on edges, respectively, of a mirror side end of the optical fiber receiving groove, and the reflecting portions reflect incident light from the mirror facing the edges, again back to the facing mirror. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188907 | OPTICAL MODULE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An optical module includes a substrate, an optical device including a surface-emitting or -receiving element mounted on a surface of the substrate with a light-emitting or -receiving portion, an optical fiber disposed parallel to the surface of the substrate and in a longitudinal direction of the substrate, a damming member provided between the optical device and the substrate to extend in a width direction of the substrate and dividing a gap between the optical device and the substrate in the longitudinal direction of the substrate into a first portion and a second portion, and a mirror provided at one side surface of the damming member a tip of the optical fiber. The first portion provided on an opposite side to the optical fiber is filled with an underfill resin, and the second portion provided on a side close to the optical fiber is filled with an optical fiber fixing resin. | 07-25-2013 |
20130209027 | PHOTOELECTRIC COMPOSITE WIRING MODULE - A photoelectric composite wiring module includes a flexible first substrate including a conductive line and an optical fiber mounted thereon along a longitudinal direction thereof, a second substrate including a recessed portion formed thereon to receive the conductive line and the optical fiber that protrude from an end portion of the first substrate, and an optical device mounted on the second substrate and optically coupled to the optical fiber. The recessed portion includes an opening on a mounting surface side of the second substrate to mount the optical device. | 08-15-2013 |
20140102756 | DIFFERENTIAL SIGNAL TRANSMISSION CABLE AND MULTI-CORE DIFFERENTIAL SIGNAL TRANSMISSION CABLE - A differential signal transmission cable includes first and second signal lines arranged parallel to each other, a conductive layer made of a conductor in which a current is induced when signals propagate through the first and second signal lines, and a dielectric disposed between the first and second signal lines and the conductive layer. The conductive layer has a signal attenuating structure including a non-continuous section in which the conductor is non-continuous, the non-continuous section being located such that, among differential signal components and common-mode signal components included in the signals propagating through the first and second signal lines, the common-mode signal components are attenuated by an attenuation factor greater than an attenuation factor of the differential signal components. | 04-17-2014 |
20140105536 | OPTICAL BOARD, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE OPTICAL BOARD AND OPTICAL MODULE STRUCTURE - An optical board includes a plate-shaped resin base material including a slit-shaped optical fiber housing portion formed thereon, a metal layer formed on a surface of the based material, and a reflective layer for reflecting light propagating in an optical fiber housed in the optical fiber housing portion. The base material further includes an inclined surface inclined with respect to the surface of the base material at a terminal end of the optical fiber housing portion. The reflective layer is formed over an end face of the metal layer and the inclined surface, the end face forming a flat surface continuously with the inclined surface. | 04-17-2014 |
20140133799 | OPTICAL BOARD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND OPTICAL MODULE - An optical board a substrate includes a plate-shaped resin including a first main plane and a second main plane, and an optical fiber receiving portion to receive an optical fiber, a first metal layer provided on the first main plane, and a second metal layer provided on the second main plane. The optical fiber receiving portion has a cavity structure, which penetrates in a thickness direction of the substrate between the first main plane and the second main plane, and the optical fiber is prevented from slipping out of the first main plane and the second main plane. | 05-15-2014 |
20140212086 | OPTICAL MODULE - An optical module includes a substrate including a conductor pattern formed thereon, a photoelectric conversion element mounted on the substrate, and an optical coupling member for optically coupling the photoelectric conversion element to an optical fiber. A part of the conductor pattern on the substrate defines an engagement portion that engages with the optical coupling member so as to position the optical coupling member relative to the substrate. | 07-31-2014 |
20140332978 | OPTICAL WIRING SUBSTRATE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL WIRING SUBSTRATE AND OPTICAL MODULE - An optical wiring substrate includes a first conductor layer including a metal, a second conductor layer including a metal and arranged parallel to the first conductor layer, an insulation layer disposed to insulate the first conductor layer from the second conductor layer, and an electronic component including a photoelectric conversion element mounted on the substrate, and a via hole formed in the second conductor layer and the insulation layer so as to pass through the second conductor layer and the insulation layer in a thickness direction thereof, the via hole including an inner surface plated with a metal. The via hole is configured such that at least a part of a bottom surface thereof blocked by the first conductor layer is arranged in a plan view so as to overlap with an arrangement position of a pad of the electronic component that is mounted on the first conductor layer. | 11-13-2014 |
20140334770 | OPTICAL WIRING SUBSTRATE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL WIRING SUBSTRATE AND OPTICAL MODULE - An optical wiring substrate includes an insulation layer including a resin, and a conductor layer formed on the insulation layer and including a metal and an inclined surface inclined relative to an optical axis of an optical fiber. A first wiring pattern and a second wiring pattern are formed in the conductor layer, the first wiring pattern including a first connecting part to which a first electrode of a photoelectric conversion element is connected, and the second wiring pattern including a second connecting part to which a second electrode of the photoelectric conversion element is connected. A distance between the first wiring pattern and the second wiring pattern is narrowest between the first connecting part and the second connecting part. A distance between the first connecting part and the second connecting part is less than a dimension of the conductor layer in a thickness direction thereof. | 11-13-2014 |
20140334771 | OPTICAL WIRING SUBSTRATE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL WIRING SUBSTRATE AND OPTICAL MODULE - An optical wiring substrate includes an insulation layer including a resin, an conductor layer formed on the insulation layer and including a metal, and an optical fiber accommodating part configured to accommodate an end part of an optical fiber. The conductor layer further includes a reflecting surface configured to be inclined relative to the insulation layer so as to reflect a light that propagates through the optical fiber. The optical fiber accommodating part includes at one end part thereof an abutting surface configured such that a tip of optical fiber inserted is abutted thereon. | 11-13-2014 |
20150162113 | DIFFERENTIAL SIGNAL CABLE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR - A differential signal cable is composed of two inner conductors, an insulator, which covers the two inner conductors separately or together, and an outer conductor, which covers a circumference of the insulator. When measured in a cable length of 1 m, an effective capacitance difference ΔX represented by Formula (1) below is not greater than 0.2 percent of an average value C of capacitances of the two inner conductors, | 06-11-2015 |
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20110212418 | METHODS FOR FORMING TOOTH ROOT AND PERIODONTAL TISSUE UNIT, AND REGENERATED TOOTH - A method for forming at least a tooth root in a tooth containing a tooth crown, including: forming a culture core containing the tooth and a cell-containing base material, the tooth being wrapped with the cell-containing base material, and culturing the culture core in a medium to form at least the tooth root in the tooth contained therein, wherein the cell-containing base material contains at least one kind of cells selected from periodontal ligament-derived cells, bone marrow-derived cells, dental follicle-derived cells, dental pulp-derived cells and dental papilla-derived cells, and the medium contains a component contained in a conditioned medium of a serum-free-cultured cell line of a human uterocervical squamous carcinoma cell line; an additive containing at least one selected from IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, IL-9, EGF, IGF-I, GH, PDGF-AB, VEGF, LIF, HGF, FGF-2, FGF-1, BMP-2, BMP-4, M-CSF, dexamethasone, insulin, thyroxine, thyrocalcitonin, ascorbic acid and β-glycerophosphate; or both of them. | 09-01-2011 |