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20080240179 | Two-dimensional photonic crystal surface-emitting laser - The two-dimensional photonic crystal surface emitting laser according to the present invention includes a number of main modified refractive index areas periodically provided in a two-dimensional photonic crystal and secondary structures each relatively located in a similar manner to each of the main modified refractive index areas. The location of the secondary structure is determined so that a main reflected light which is reflected by a main modified refractive index area and a secondary reflected light which is reflected by a secondary structure are weakened or intensified by interference. | 10-02-2008 |
20090074024 | Photonic crystal laser - A laser capable of emitting multiple laser beams is provided. A two-dimensional photonic crystal laser according to the present invention has a laminated structure including an active layer, a first photonic crystal layer having a periodic distribution of refractive index with a first period, and a second photonic crystal layer having a periodic distribution of refractive index with a second period that differs from the first period. This two-dimensional photonic crystal laser can emit a main beam traveling in a direction perpendicular to the two-dimensional photonic crystals and side beams each traveling in a direction inclined with respect to the main beam. These beams can be used, for example, in a recording/reproducing device by means of an optical disk, the main beam being used for recording/reproducing information and the side beams for following up the track. | 03-19-2009 |
20090135869 | Surface-emitting laser light source using two-dimensional photonic crystal - The present invention intends to provide a surface-emitting laser light source using a two-dimensional photonic crystal in which the efficiency of extracting light in a direction perpendicular to the surface is high. In a laser light source provided with a two-dimensional photonic crystal layer created from a plate-shaped matrix body in which a large number of holes are periodically arranged and an active layer arranged on one side of the two-dimensional photonic crystal layer, the holes are created to be columnar with a predetermined cross-sectional shape such as a circular shape, and the main axis of each of the columnar holes is tilted to a surface of the matrix body. When provided with this two-dimensional photonic crystal layer, the surface-emitting laser source using a two-dimensional photonic crystal has a Q | 05-28-2009 |
20090135871 | Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Laser - An objective of the present invention is to provide a laser capable of producing a radially polarized laser beam with an annular cross section. A laser oscillator | 05-28-2009 |
20090175304 | Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Laser Light Source - A two-dimensional photonic crystal surface emitting laser light source according to the present invention includes a two-dimensional photonic crystal made of a plate-shaped body material provided with a periodic arrangement of identically-shaped holes | 07-09-2009 |
20090279579 | Two-dimensional photonic crystal surface-emitting laser light source - The present invention provides a two-dimensional photonic crystal surface-emitting laser light source capable of producing a beam that is not accompanied by unnecessary side lobes. A window-shaped electrode | 11-12-2009 |
20090285255 | Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Laser Light Source - An objective of the present invention is to provide a surface emitting laser capable of selectively generating a laser oscillation in the fundamental mode and thereby emitting a single-wavelength laser light. In a surface emitting laser including an active layer and a two-dimensional photonic crystal provided on one side of the active layer, a reflector | 11-19-2009 |
20110188526 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL LASER - A two-dimensional photonic crystal laser light is provided. The two-dimensional photonic crystal laser includes a two-dimensional photonic crystal made of a plate-shaped member provided with a periodic arrangement of identically-shaped modified refractive index areas having a refractive index different from that of the plate-shaped member; and an active layer provided on one side of the two-dimensional photonic crystal. The modified refractive index areas are arranged at lattice points of a lattice with a same period at least in two directions; each modified refractive index area is shaped so that a feedback strength is different with respect to directions of two primitive lattice vectors of the lattice; the two-dimensional photonic crystal has a periodic structure of a supercell, which contains a plurality of lattice points; and the sum of the feedback strengths by all modified refractive index areas in the supercell is identical in each direction of the two primitive lattice vectors. | 08-04-2011 |
20120002692 | Surface-emitting laser light source using two-dimensional photonic crystal - The present invention intends to provide a surface-emitting laser light source using a two-dimensional photonic crystal in which the efficiency of extracting light in a direction perpendicular to the surface is high. In a laser light source provided with a two-dimensional photonic crystal layer created from a plate-shaped matrix body in which a large number of holes are periodically arranged and an active layer arranged on one side of the two-dimensional photonic crystal layer, the holes are created to be columnar with a predetermined cross-sectional shape such as a circular shape, and the main axis of each of the columnar holes is tilted to a surface of the matrix body. When provided with this two-dimensional photonic crystal layer, the surface-emitting laser source using a two-dimensional photonic crystal has a Q | 01-05-2012 |
20120027038 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL LASER - A two-dimensional photonic crystal laser according to the present invention includes a two-dimensional photonic crystal layer | 02-02-2012 |
20130039375 | PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SURFACE EMISSION LASER - A photonic crystal surface emission laser includes an active layer, and a photonic crystal layer made of a plate-shaped slab provided with modified refractive index area having a refractive index different from that of the slab, the modified refractive index areas being arranged on each of the lattice points of a first rhombic-like lattice and a second rhombic-like lattice in which both diagonals are mutually parallel and only one diagonal is of a different length, wherein a | 02-14-2013 |
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20120243569 | MULTI-BEAM SEMICONDUCTOR LASER APPARATUS - A multi-beam semiconductor laser apparatus includes three or more stripe semiconductor laser emission units which are arranged on a substrate, isolation grooves which separate the semiconductor laser emission units from each other, and pad electrodes which are disposed on outer sides of the outermost semiconductor laser emission units. The isolation grooves are formed between the pad electrodes and the semiconductor laser emission units adjacent to the pad electrodes and between adjacent semiconductor laser emission units. A distance between two isolation grooves formed on outer sides of the outermost semiconductor laser light emission units is smaller than a distance between two isolation grooves formed on both sides of inner ones of the semiconductor laser light emission units. | 09-27-2012 |
20140248020 | TERAHERZ-WAVE CONNECTOR AND TERAHERZ-WAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, AND WAVE GUIDE AND ANTENNA STRUCTURE - The terahertz-wave connector includes: a 2D-PC slab; lattice points periodically arranged in the 2D-PC slab, the lattice points for diffracting the THz waves in PBG frequencies of photonic band structure of the 2D-PC slab in order to prohibit existence in a plane of the 2D-PC slab; a 2D-PC waveguide disposed in the 2D-PC slab and formed with a line defect of the lattice points; and an adiabatic mode converter disposed at the edge face of the 2D-PC slab to which the 2D-PC waveguide extended, the 2D-PC waveguide extended to the adiabatic mode converter. There is provided also the THz-wave IC to which such a terahertz-wave connector is applied. | 09-04-2014 |
20140255040 | PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL SLAB ABSORBER AND HIGH-FREQUENCY CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS, AND TRANSMITTER, RECEIVER AND PROXIMITY WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The photonic-crystal (PC) slab absorber includes: a two-dimensional (2D)-PC slab composed of semiconducting materials; and a lattice point periodically arranged in the 2D-PC slab, the lattice point for forming resonant-state which can capture an electromagnetic waves incident from an outside by resonating an electromagnetic wave in a band edge of a photonic band structure of the 2D-PC slab in the plane of the 2D-PC slab. The 2D-PC slab is doped with impurities and can absorb the captured electromagnetic wave in the band edge resonant frequency of the 2D-PC slab. | 09-11-2014 |
20140348195 | TWO DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASERS - The 2D-PC vertical cavity surface emitting laser includes: a PC layer; and a lattice point for forming resonant-state arranged in the photonic crystal layer, and configured so that a light wave in a band edge in photonic band structure in the PC layer is diffracted in a plane of the PC layer, and is diffracted in a surface vertical direction of the PC layer. The perturbation for diffracting the light wave in the surface vertical direction of the PC layer is applied to the lattice point for forming resonant-state. The term “perturbation” means that modulation is periodically applied to the lattice point for forming resonant-state. For example, the periodic modulation may be refractive index modulation, hole-diameter modulation, or hole-depth modulation. | 11-27-2014 |
20140355635 | TWO DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SURFACE EMITTING LASERS - The 2D-PC SEL includes: a PC layer; and a lattice point for forming resonant-state arranged in the PC layer, and configured so that a light wave at a band edge in photonic band structure in the PC layer is diffracted in a plane of the PC layer, and is diffracted in a direction normal to the surface of the PC layer. The lattice point for forming resonant-state has two types of lattice points including a first lattice point and a second lattice point, and the shapes of the adjacent first lattice point and second lattice point are different from each other. | 12-04-2014 |
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20090199045 | SOFTWARE FAULT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, TEST MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, FAULT MANAGEMENT METHOD, TEST MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A fault management system is provided with a fault data entry accepting portion for accepting entry of fault data including indicator data for assessing three fault assessment items in four assessment grades, a fault data holding portion for storing the fault data, a fault data prioritizing portion for prioritizing the fault data in the order of addressing faults, a customer profile data entry accepting portion for accepting entry of customer profile data indicative of degrees of requirement by each customer regarding the three assessment items and the importance of customers to the user, and a customer profile data holding portion for storing the customer profile data. The fault data prioritizing portion prioritizes the fault data based on assessment values regarding the three assessment items. | 08-06-2009 |
20090271661 | STATUS TRANSITION TEST SUPPORT DEVICE, STATUS TRANSITION TEST SUPPORT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A status transition table generation portion generates a status transition table containing combination information cells provided in the form of a matrix for describing information corresponding to combinations of internal status and event. In a status transition table design support portion, a test path generation portion generates a test path including a series of test cases to be executed as a status transition test, based on information accepted by an operation specification information input acceptance portion. In a test support portion, a test cell highlight portion highlights a combination information cell associated with the next test case to be executed, during execution of the status transition test, and a test result history, an error replication procedure, and test progress are displayed on a display portion. | 10-29-2009 |
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20110154891 | EGR RATIO MEASURING DEVICE - In order to improve a measurement accuracy of an EGR ratio and to downsize the device and to save labor, the EGR ratio measuring device comprises a pair of nondispersive infrared gas analyzers ( | 06-30-2011 |
20130312482 | ANALYZER CALIBRATING SYSTEM AND EXHAUST GAS ANALYZING SYSTEM - An analyzer calibrating system intended to reduce calibration time and a consumption amount of calibration gas in the case of concurrently calibrating a plurality of analyzers and includes: a calibration gas line for concurrently supplying the same calibration gas to a plurality of analyzers; and a control unit adapted to determine whether or not an output value of each of the plurality of analyzers supplied with the same calibration gas is stable. The control unit calibrates the analyzer having the output value determined to be stable and stops the supply of the calibration gas to the analyzer having completed with the calibration. | 11-28-2013 |
20130312487 | EXHAUST GAS ANALYZING SYSTEM - An exhaust gas analyzing system makes it possible to determine appropriate maintenance timing of sampling pumps in the system, including sampling pumps and provided in a main flow path in order to sample exhaust gas sent from an introduction port, analysis parts provided on the upstream side or downstream side of the sampling pumps and in the main flow path, flow meters provided on the upstream side or downstream side of the analysis parts in the main flow path, and pump abnormality determination parts and for determining abnormality of the sampling pumps by comparing pump flow rates obtained by the flow meters to a predetermined abnormal flow rate. | 11-28-2013 |
20130312615 | EXHAUST GAS ANALYZING APPARATUS - An exhaust gas analyzing apparatus provided a first filter flow path with a first filter, a second filter flow path provided with a second filter, an exhaust gas analyzing part for analyzing exhaust gas passing through the first filter or the second filter, a flow path switching mechanism for switching between the first filter flow path and the second filter flow path. A pulse purge mechanism is provided for supplying purge gas to the filters, in the filter flow paths, in a pulsed manner, and in the case where a pressure difference between an upstream side and a downstream side of the filter provided in one filter flow path where the exhaust gas flows becomes equal to or larger than a predetermined value, the one filter flow path is switched to the other one, and purge gas is supplied to the filter provided in the one filter flow path in the pulsed manner. | 11-28-2013 |
20130333443 | HYDROGEN FLAME IONIZATION TYPE EXHAUST GAS ANALYZER - The present invention is intended to be able to determine an appropriate purge time in a hydrogen flame ionization type exhaust gas analyzer and a system incorporating the analyzer which includes: a collector electrode for capturing ions generated from exhaust gas by hydrogen flame; an acquisition circuit adapted to acquire ion current caused by the ions captured by the collector electrode; and an abnormality determining part for determining an abnormality in the case where a difference between a first output value of the acquisition circuit in the case where there flows no ion current caused by the exhaust gas to the collector electrode and a second output value of the acquisition circuit in the case where zero gas is introduced into the hydrogen flame is equal to a predetermined value. | 12-19-2013 |
20140250976 | EXHAUST GAS ANALYZING APPARATUS - The present invention is one that is, in an exhaust gas analyzing apparatus used together with a CVS mechanism, adapted to be able to make an analysis with high accuracy, and an analyzing mechanism is provided with: a target component concentration meter that measures a moisture-influenced concentration related value that is a value related to concentration of a measuring target component in a state of being influenced by moisture; and a moisture concentration meter that measures a moisture concentration related value that is a value related to concentration of the moisture, and adapted to, on the basis of the moisture concentration related value, eliminate the influence of the moisture from the moisture-influenced concentration related value to calculate each of the first concentration related value and the second concentration related value. | 09-11-2014 |
20140290336 | EXHAUST GAS SAMPLING APPARATUS AND EXHAUST GAS SAMPLING METHOD - The present invention is one that can, with suppressing moisture from condensing, easily set a dilution ratio to that enabling measurement accuracy to be improved, and provided with a constant volume sampling part that samples mixed gas that is controlled to have a constant flow rate, wherein the constant volume sampling part is provided with: a main flow path that is connected with an exhaust gas flow path and a diluent gas flow path, and intended to flow the mixed gas that is a mixture of exhaust gas and diluent gas; a constant flow rate mechanism that is configured to control a flow rate of the mixed gas to the constant flow rate; and a moisture detecting part that is provided on an upstream side of the constant flow rate mechanism to detect moisture in the mixed gas or the diluent gas. | 10-02-2014 |
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20110211765 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSNIG METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including a super resolving processor including: a high frequency estimator which generates difference image information between a low resolution image input as a processing object image of a super resolving process and a mid-processing image of the super resolving process or a processed image, that is, an initial image; and a calculator which performs a process of updating the processed image through a process of calculation between the difference image information output from the high frequency estimator and the processed image, wherein the high frequency estimator performs a learning type data process using learned data in the difference image information generating process. | 09-01-2011 |
20120288209 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an image processing apparatus including: an encoding processing unit carrying out a compression encoding process on input image data to obtain encoded data; an additional information generating unit generating, based on additional information generating information relating to the input image data, additional information to be used when specified image processing is carried out on image data obtained by carrying out a compression decoding process on the encoded data; and a data output unit outputting the encoded data obtained by the encoding processing unit and the additional information generated by the additional information generating unit in association with one another. | 11-15-2012 |
20120294513 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND LEARNING APPARATUS - A prediction calculation unit calculates a pixel value of a pixel of interest for each color component by a calculation of a learned predictive coefficient and a predictive tap, and outputs an output image including the pixel value of the pixel of interest of each color component. For example, the present technology can be applied to an image processing apparatus. | 11-22-2012 |
20140307522 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technique relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a program allowing a grasp of an ultrasonic image with an intuitive and simplified manipulation. | 10-16-2014 |
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20110091743 | METHOD OF PRODUCING GAS-BARRIER LAMINATED MEMBER - A method of producing a gas-barrier laminated member having a gas-barrier layer formed by crosslinking the carboxyl groups of a polycarboxylic acid polymer with multivalent metal ions. The method comprises forming a layer (A) containing an alkaline compound of a multivalent metal on at least one surface of a plastic base material, applying a solution (b) obtained by dissolving a polycarboxylic acid polymer in a solvent containing at least water onto the layer (A) that contains the alkaline compound of the multivalent metal, and removing the solvent by a heat treatment so that a metal-ionically crosslinked structure is formed with the multivalent metal ions among the carboxyl groups in the solution (b). The gas-barrier laminated member has excellent adhesion to the base material, gas-barrier property, retort resistance and flexibility, and is efficiently produced by only being heated at a low temperature for a short period of time through a decreased number of simplified steps. | 04-21-2011 |
20120219806 | GAS BARRIER LAMINATE AND A METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - To provide a gas barrier laminate having a gas barrier layer obtained by crosslinking the carboxyl groups of a polycarboxylic acid-type polymer with polyvalent metal ions maintaining good productivity, the crosslinking being accelerated with polyvalent metal ions to exhibit more excellent gas barrier property. A gas barrier laminate comprising a layer (A) of a non-aqueous resin containing a metal element in the polymer skeleton thereof, and a layer (B) of a polycarboxylic acid-type polymer in which an ionic crosslinking is formed with a polyvalent metal among the carboxyl groups. | 08-30-2012 |
20120238696 | COATING COMPOSITION FOR UNDERCOATING - To provide a coating composition for undercoating which, in forming a gas-barrier layer having a crosslinked structure between a polycarboxylic acid type polymer and polyvalent metal ions by the heating at a low temperature for a short period of time, permits polyvalent metal ions to be easily and quickly fed into the polycarboxylic acid type polymer and, besides, into the whole gas-barrier layer. A coating composition containing, as chief components, a nonaqueous polyester polyol, an isocyanate compound, and an alkaline compound of a polyvalent metal that serves as an ion source for forming the crosslinked structure, wherein the nonaqueous polyester polyol contains a nonaqueous polyester polyol which contains a metal element in the resin skeleton thereof as an essential component, and the alkaline compound of the polyvalent metal has an average primary particle size in a range of 0.005 to 0.5 μm. | 09-20-2012 |
20130273374 | GAS BARRIER LAMINATE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A gas barrier laminate having an undercoating (A) which comprises a main resin, an isocyanate type curing agent and an alkaline compound of a polyvalent metal; and a barrier layer (B) of a polycarboxylic acid polymer forming an ionic crosslinking due to the polyvalent metal among the carboxyl groups; formed on at least one surface of a plastic base material (P), wherein a region (b) free of the alkaline compound of the polyvalent metal is formed in the undercoating (A) on the side of the barrier layer (B), the content of nitrogen in the region (b) being larger than the content of nitrogen in the undercoating (A) other than the region (b), the gas barrier laminate having excellent gas barrier property, retort resistance, producibility as well as excellent flexibility without developing interlayer peeling even if it is folded and featuring excellent interlayer adhesion. | 10-17-2013 |
20150056390 | SURFACE-TREATED ALUMINUM PLATE, ORGANIC-RESIN-COATED SURFACE -TREATED ALUMINUM PLATE, CAN BODY AND CAN LID FORMED BY USING THE SAME - A surface-treated aluminum plate obtained by forming, on at least one surface of an aluminum plate, a conversion-coated layer that contains a polyester resin and a zirconium compound or a titanium compound. The surface-treated aluminum plate excellently adheres to an organic resin coating and can be used as a material for producing cans featuring excellent corrosion resistance and shock resistance. | 02-26-2015 |
20150079405 | GAS BARRIER MATERIAL AND GAS BARRIER LAMINATE - A gas barrier material comprising a polycarboxylic acid polymer, and containing 0.10 to 1.4% by weight of a monovalent metal element, at least not less than 5.0% by weight of a polyvalent metal element, and 0.01 to 3.0% by weight of a nitrogen element per the total weight of nitrogen and carbon. The gas barrier material exhibits excellent gas barrier property, excellent waterproof property after the bend working and excellent appearance on the surface of the coating. | 03-19-2015 |
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20140139872 | DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display position that includes a main region and a subregion, an operation portion that receives an input for producing a message and a movement operation for moving the message in the main region to the subregion, a storage portion that stores set data on the message and degree-of-importance data and a determination portion that determines, based on the degree-of-importance data, the degree of importance of the message. The display portion displays, in the subregion, the message on which the movement operation has been performed when the degree of importance is equal to or lower than a first criterion and continuously displays, in the main region, the message on which the movement operation has been performed when the degree of importance is higher than the first criterion. | 05-22-2014 |
20140139874 | DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device has a registration portion which accepts input of a message created by a user, a storage portion which stores the message inputted via the registration portion, a determination portion which extracts information on a display period of the message from the content of the message and which determines, based on the extracted information, an end time of display of the message, a time counting portion which counts time, and a display portion which displays the message stored in the storage portion until the end time determined by the determination portion. | 05-22-2014 |
20150062639 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, LOG MANAGEMENT METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a storage control portion, a setting control portion, and a deletion control portion. The storage control portion stores logs of jobs executed by the image processing apparatus into a storage portion. The setting control portion sets an importance level of each of the logs based on a plurality of target items and weight conditions, wherein the plurality of target items are set in advance with regard to the image processing apparatus, the jobs, or the logs, and the weight conditions are set in advance respectively in correspondence with the target items. The deletion control portion determines an order of automatic deletion of the logs stored in the storage portion, based on the importance level set by the setting control portion. | 03-05-2015 |