Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100264409 | MOLECULAR DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, PHOTOSENSOR, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A molecular device includes a gold electrode, cytochrome c552 or a derivative or variant thereof immobilized on the gold electrode, and an electron transfer protein coupled to the cytochrome c552 or the derivative or variant thereof. Electrons or holes, or both, are transferred through the electron transfer protein by transition of electrons between molecular orbitals of the electron transfer protein. | 10-21-2010 |
20120012823 | COLOR IMAGING ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, PHOTOSENSOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, PHOTOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A color imaging element, a photosensor and a photoelectric transducer which use a protein and are capable of being stably used for a long time, and methods of manufacturing them are provided. A zinc-substituted cytochrome c552 is immobilized on a gold electrode with a self-assembled monolayer in between to form a blue-light photoelectric transducer. Alternatively, a cytochrome c552 is immobilized on a gold electrode with a self-assembled monolayer in between, and a fluorescent protein absorbing blue light is bonded to the cytochrome c552, thereby forming a blue-light photoelectric transducer. These photoelectric transducers each are used as a color imaging element or a blue-light photoelectric transducer of a photosensor. | 01-19-2012 |
20120138770 | NON-WETTED ALL SOLID PROTEIN PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A non-wetted all solid protein photoelectric conversion device that is able to be operated without existence of a liquid such as water inside and outside of the device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The non-wetted all solid protein photoelectric conversion device has a structure in which a solid protein layer composed of an electron transfer protein is sandwiched between an electrode and an electrode. The solid protein layer is immobilized onto the electrodes and. The solid protein layer does not contain a liquid such as water. The solid protein layer is composed of a monomolecular film or a multimolecular film of the electron transfer protein. | 06-07-2012 |
20120141831 | MULTILAYER TRANSPARENT LIGHT-RECEIVING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A multilayer transparent light-receiving device with significantly high photoresponsive speed that is easily manufactured, and a high-performance electronic device using the multilayer transparent light-receiving device are provided. The multilayer transparent light-receiving device is composed by laminating a plurality of protein transparent light-receiving elements using an electron transfer protein. The protein transparent light-receiving element has a structure in which a transparent substrate, a transparent electrode, an electron transfer protein layer, an electrolyte layer, and a transparent counter electrode are sequentially laminated. The multilayer transparent light-receiving device is used as a light-receiving device for a camera, an optical disc system and the like. | 06-07-2012 |
20120181517 | PROTEIN PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE, PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION SYSTEM, PROTEIN PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD, PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION SYSTEM MANUFACTURING METHOD AND PROTEIN-IMMOBILIZED ELECTRODE - A protein photoelectric conversion device including a gold electrode; and a substance selected from the group consisting of a metal-substituted cytochrome b | 07-19-2012 |
20120228587 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, PRODUCTION METHOD FOR A PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR, PRODUCTION METHOD FOR A SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, PHOTOCONDUCTOR, PRODUCTION METHOD FOR A PHOTOCONDUCTOR AND MULTILAYER TRANSPARENT PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT - Provided is a photoelectric conversion element including a photoconductor containing a complex of a conductive polymer and/or polymer semiconductor and a protein containing at least one dye having a long-lived excited state. | 09-13-2012 |
20120277414 | PROTEIN PHOTOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER AND TIN-SUBSTITUTED CYTOCHROME c - There are provided a novel protein which has extremely high stability with respect to light irradiation, and is capable of maintaining a photoelectric conversion function for a long time, and a protein photoelectric transducer which uses the protein, and is capable of being stably used for a long time. A tin-substituted horse-heart cytochrome c is obtained by substituting tin for iron as a central metal of a heme of a horse-heart cytochrome c. A tin-substituted bovine-heart cytochrome c is obtained by substituting tin for iron as a central metal of a heme of a bovine-heart cytochrome c. A protein made of the tin-substituted horse-heart cytochrome c or the tin-substituted bovine-heart cytochrome c is immobilized on an electrode to form a protein-immobilized electrode. A protein photoelectric transducer is formed with use of the protein-immobilized electrode. | 11-01-2012 |
20120313867 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIVE DISPLAY - Provided is a thin three-dimensional interactive display which enables multi-touch sensing and three-dimensional gesture recognition. The three-dimensional interactive display includes a light source for irradiating an object to be detected with a light, a light modulation layer, into which a scattered light generated by irradiating the object with the light from the light source enters, at least for modulating an intensity of the scattered light, a transparent light-receiving layer for receiving the light transmitted through the light modulation layer, and a display panel or a back light panel disposed on the opposite side of the transparent light-receiving layer from the light modulation layer. The transparent light-receiving layer has a two-dimensional array of light-receiving elements. | 12-13-2012 |
20140183487 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PROTEIN SEMICONDUCTOR, PROTEIN SEMICONDUCTOR, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PN JUNCTION, PN JUNCTION, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS, SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING CONDUCTIVITY TYPE OF PROTEIN SEMICONDUCTOR - A conductivity type of a protein semiconductor is controlled by controlling total amount of charge in amino acid residues, a p-type protein semiconductor or an n-type protein semiconductor is manufactured, and a pn junction is manufactured using the p-type protein semiconductor and the n-type protein semiconductor. The total amount of charge in amino acid residues is controlled by substituting one or more of an acidic amino acid residue, a basic amino acid residue, and a neutral amino acid residue, which are contained in protein, with an amino acid residue having different properties, chemically modifying one or more of an acidic amino acid residue, a basic amino acid residue, and a neutral amino acid residue, which are contained in the protein, or controlling polarity of a medium surrounding the protein. | 07-03-2014 |