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20090220224 | Optical system, finder optical system, relay type finder optical system, eyepiece optical system, and single-lens reflex camera - The invention concerns an optical system adapted to split an optical path from a taking optical system into a finder optical system, which has a camera-shake correction function best suited for the finder optical system, and so on. This optical system comprises a taking optical system and a finder optical system. The taking optical system comprises an optical path splitter means operable to split an optical path into the finder optical system, and the finder optical system includes a relay optical system RLS for re-forming a subject image once. Anti-shake is implemented by shifting an optical subsystem RL that forms a part of the finder optical system in a plane vertical to an optical axis. | 09-03-2009 |
20100265595 | Two-unit zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus using the same - A two-unit zoom lens system which forms an image on an image pickup surface, includes in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit G | 10-21-2010 |
20130162886 | Inner Focus Lens System and Image Pickup Apparatus Using the Same - An inner focus lens system includes, from the object side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, an aperture stop, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit. The first lens unit includes a plurality of negative lenses and at least one positive lens, the lens located closest to the object side is a negative lens. The second lens unit includes at least one negative lens and at least one positive lens, and moves toward the object side for focusing from an infinite object distance to a close object distance such that the distance between the second lens unit and the aperture stop decreases and that the distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit increases. The lens system satisfies the following conditions: 106-27-2013 | |
20130265475 | Reflecting Telescope Optical System, Optical Unit, and Image Pickup Apparatus Using the Same - A reflecting telescope optical system comprises, a main reflecting mirror, a sub reflecting mirror which is disposed at a position facing a reflecting surface of the main reflecting mirror, and a plurality of lens units which is disposed at a position facing a reflecting surface of the sub reflecting mirror. The reflecting surface of the main reflecting mirror is a concave surface, and a reflecting area is formed to be ring-shaped. The reflecting surface of the main reflecting mirror and the reflecting surface of the sub reflecting mirror are mutually facing. The first operation is a movement for focusing at an object positioned between infinity and a near position, and the second operation is a reciprocating movement for changing the focused state after focusing. An amount of movement in the first operation is larger than an amount of movement in the second operation. | 10-10-2013 |
20140139720 | Zoom Lens and Image Pickup Apparatus Equipped with Same - A zoom lens comprising, in order from the object side to the image side a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power, wherein the first lens unit is located closest to the object side, the fifth lens unit is located closest to the image side, during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, the first lens unit, the second lens unit, the third lens unit, and the fourth lens unit move, the fifth lens unit is stationary, and the distances between the lens units vary, the third lens includes a positive lens, and the zoom lens satisfies the following condition (1): | 05-22-2014 |
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20140150559 | ELECTROSTATIC PRESSURE SENSOR - An electrostatic pressure sensor includes a diaphragm, a sensor pedestal, a cover plate, a stationary electrode, and a movable electrode. The cover plate is bonded to an outer peripheral portion of the diaphragm on the opposite side from the sensor pedestal to form a pressure introduction chamber in cooperation with the diaphragm. The cover plate has a pressure introducing hole that introduces a medium to be measured into the pressure introduction chamber from a direction that is perpendicular to a surface of the diaphragm. The pressure introducing hole is arranged so as to be positioned in a range of between 50.0% and 70.0% from the center of the diaphragm along a direction of the surface of the diaphragm, when the radius of the diaphragm is defined as 100%. | 06-05-2014 |
20140182386 | ELECTROSTATIC PRESSURE SENSOR - An electrostatic pressure sensor has a supporting diaphragm bonded to be held between first and second pedestal plates, a sensor chip supported on a top face of a center portion of the second pedestal plate. The supporting diaphragm has in the center portion thereof a large-diameter hole that forms a slit-shaped space between the first and second pedestal plates. The first pedestal plate has at least one inlet hole, for the fluid being measured, connecting to the slit-shaped space. The second pedestal plate has at least an outlet hole, connecting to the slit-shaped space, for directing the fluid being measured to the pressure-sensitive diaphragm of the sensor chip. The pedestal plate has an inlet hole of the first pedestal plate and an outlet hole of the second pedestal plate do not overlap each other in the direction of thickness of the first and second pedestal plates. | 07-03-2014 |
20150040674 | ELECTROSTATIC CAPACITIVE PRESSURE SENSOR - An electrostatic capacitive pressure sensor includes: a housing having an inlet portion for a fluid; a sensor chip that detects, as a change in electrostatic capacitance, a change in a diaphragm that flexes upon receipt of a pressure of the fluid, which has entered through the inlet portion; and a baffle that prevents deposition, onto the diaphragm, of a contaminating substance included in the fluid, provided within a flow path of the fluid that is subject to measurement between the inlet portion and the diaphragm. The baffle has a cylindrical structure that is closed on one end, disposed with the direction that is perpendicular to a pressure-bearing surface of the diaphragm as the axial direction. A plurality of flow paths, in which the fluid passes between the inner peripheral surface and the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical structure, is provided in multiple layers in the axial direction. | 02-12-2015 |
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20100182551 | Anti-Glare Film - The present invention provides an anti-glare film which has not only <1> sufficient anti-reflection property but also <2> a high level of contrast and <3> strong anti-glare properties and can be applied on a surface of various display devices such as a note PC, a desktop PC and a TV monitor. The anti-glare film of the present invention includes an anti-glare layer which has concavities and convexities on the surface, a haze according to JIS-7105-1981 in the range of 1.0-5.0%, and an average interval between concavities and convexities on the anti-glare layer surface Sm according to JIS-B0601-1994 in the range of 10-150 μm. | 07-22-2010 |
20100238384 | Anti-Glare Film, Polarizing Plate and Transmission Type LCD - The present invention provides an anti-glare film which has <1> sufficient anti-reflection properties, <2> a high level of contrast and <3> strong antifouling properties. A surface of an anti-glare layer of the anti-glare film of the present invention has a concave-convex structure, an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) according to JIS B0601-1994 in the range of 0.02-0.2 μm when a cut-off wavelength (λc) is 0.8 mm, and a surface free energy in the range of 15-25 mN/m. In addition, a haze of the anti-glare layer of the anti-glare film of the present invention is in the range of 1.0-5.0%. | 09-23-2010 |
20110085115 | ANTIGLARE FILM, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND TRANSMISSIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - An antiglare film includes a transparent substrate, and an antiglare layer formed on the transparent substrate. The antiglare layer includes a binder matrix and acrylic-styrene copolymer particles, and the binder matrix includes an acrylic material having a hydroxyl group. A quotient R | 04-14-2011 |
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20140257636 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE, AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD - To further improve fuel efficiency of vehicles. A vehicle control device that is mounted on a vehicle that has an engine, and a battery that can be charged by the amount of electric power that is generated by an alternator that is driven by power from the engine. The vehicle control device includes an idling stop control part | 09-11-2014 |
20140316628 | DRIVING ENVIRONMENT PREDICTION DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE AND METHODS THEREOF - There is a need to predict a driving environment with high responsiveness by a simple configuration. There is provided a driving environment prediction device that predicts a driving environment of a vehicle that causes a vehicle stop. The driving environment prediction device comprises: a first vehicle stop time rate calculator which is configured to calculate a rate of vehicle stop time in a first period, as a first vehicle stop time rate (shorter-period vehicle stop time rate); a second vehicle stop time rate calculator which is configured to calculate a rate of vehicle stop time in a second period which is longer than the first period, as a second vehicle stop time rate (longer-period vehicle stop time rate); and a driving environment predictor which is configured to predict the driving environment, based on the shorter-period vehicle stop time rate and the longer-period vehicle stop time rate. | 10-23-2014 |
20140330473 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD - There is a need to further improve the fuel consumption of a vehicle. There is provided a vehicle control device mounted on a vehicle having: an engine; a battery that is chargeable with an amount of electric power generated by a generator which is driven with power of the engine; and auxiliary machinery that are operated with electric power of the battery. The vehicle control device comprises an idle reduction controller, an SOC detector, a current value obtaining section, a current correcting section, an idle reduction capacity setting section and a remaining capacity controller. The current correcting section comprises: a smoothing process section that makes the current value obtained by the current value obtaining section subject to a smoothing process; a specific auxiliary machine operation detecting section that determines whether a specific auxiliary machine, which is included in the auxiliary machinery and is likely to have a temporary abrupt change of the current value, is in an operating state; and a current change suppressing section that suppresses an effect of a latest current value obtained by the current value obtaining section, in the smoothing process, when the specific auxiliary machine is determined to be in the operating state. | 11-06-2014 |
20140371983 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE, AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD - To improve the accuracy of prediction of the power consumption of the air conditioner units, a power consumption prediction device that predicts an amount of electric power consumed by a vehicle having one or more air conditioner units operable with electric power of a battery comprises: a passenger count detector that detects a count of passengers in the vehicle; an active air conditioner unit count detector that detects a count of active air conditioner units in the vehicle; a vehicle interior temperature detector that detects a vehicle interior temperature of the vehicle; an air conditioner unit set temperature acquirer that obtains a set temperature of each of the air conditioner units; and a power consumption predictor that predicts power consumption of the air conditioner units using the count of passengers, the count of active air conditioner units, the vehicle interior temperature and the set temperature of each air conditioner unit. | 12-18-2014 |
20150210284 | DRIVING ENVIRONMENT ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A driving environment estimation apparatus for identifying either an urban or suburban area including a vehicle stop degree data acquirer to obtain data representing a degree of tendency of a vehicle stop state; and an urban area/suburban area identifier to compare the obtained vehicle stop degree data with a threshold value to identify whether a vehicle driving area is an urban or suburban area. The urban area/suburban area identifier provides a predetermined high threshold value and a low threshold value lower than the high threshold value. The urban area/suburban area identifier identifies as the urban area when the vehicle stop degree data increases from a lower value than the high threshold value to be higher than the high threshold value, and identifies as the suburban area when the vehicle stop degree data decreases from a higher value than the low threshold value to be lower than the low threshold value. | 07-30-2015 |
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20100277730 | SPECTRAL COLORIMETRIC APPARATUS AND COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A spectral colorimetric apparatus for detecting a color of an image of a test subject illuminated includes a stop; a spectral detection optical system for spectrally detecting a beam diffused in the test subject and passing through the stop; and a guiding optical system for guiding, toward the stop, the beam diffused in the test subject, wherein in a first section which is a section including an optical axis of the guiding optical system, condensing positions of the light beam condensed by the guiding optical system change depending on a position in a direction orthogonal to the first section, and the stop is disposed between condensing positions closest to and farthest from the guiding optical system, of condensing positions, in the first section, of the beam condensed by the guiding optical system, in a direction of the optical axis of the guiding optical system. | 11-04-2010 |
20100277731 | SPECTROMETER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - There is provided is a spectrometer having a concave reflection type diffraction element, wherein, among surfaces other than a diffraction surface of the diffraction element, non-diffraction surfaces which are located outside the diffraction surface at the same side as the diffraction surface are a glossy surface, the spectrometer includes a light detection unit which is located at an imaging position of a first-order diffracted light diffracted by the diffraction element to receive the first-order diffracted light, and the light detection unit is disposed inside optical paths of light beams regularly reflected on the non-diffraction surfaces outside the diffraction surface. Accordingly, it is possible to effectively suppress a stray light reflected on the surfaces other the diffraction surface from being incident into the light detection unit and to detect the light spectrally diffracted by the diffraction surface at high accuracy. | 11-04-2010 |
20100277775 | ILLUMINATOR, AND SPECTRAL APPARATUS AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS THEREWITH - Provided is an illuminator including a light source unit having a light emitting surface, and a light guiding member guiding a light beam to an original disposed on an original plate. An intersection of a center axis of a light emitting surface and the original plate is separated from a reading position of the original in a sub scanning direction, the light guiding member includes an incident surface to which the light beam emitted from the light source unit is incident, a reflection surface that reflects the incident light beam, and an exiting surface exiting the incident light beam and the reflected light beam, and in the sub scanning section, the light beam having the highest light intensity in the light beams from the light source unit is deflected at the incident surface toward the reading position of the original with respect to the center axis. | 11-04-2010 |
20100278543 | SPECTRAL COLORIMETRIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A spectral colorimetric apparatus for detecting a color of an image of a subject, including: an illumination optical system illuminating the subject on a detection surface; a spectral optical system including a spectral element spectrally separating the beam diffused by the subject and a light receiving element array detecting a spectral intensity distribution; and a guiding optical system for guiding a beam diffused by the subject, wherein: the detection surface is parallel to a spectral plane including a principal ray of a beam entering the spectral optical system and a principal ray of a beam spectrally separated; the principal ray of the beam enters the spectral optical system within the spectral plane obliquely to a line joining a center of the light receiving element array with a surface vertex of the spectral element; and a light receiving surface of the light receiving element array is orthogonal to the spectral plane. | 11-04-2010 |
20130201478 | SPECTROMETER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - There is provided is a spectrometer having a concave reflection type diffraction element, wherein, among surfaces other than a diffraction surface of the diffraction element, non-diffraction surfaces which are located outside the diffraction surface at the same side as the diffraction surface are a glossy surface, the spectrometer includes a light detection unit which is located at an imaging position of a first-order diffracted light diffracted by the diffraction element to receive the first-order diffracted light, and the light detection unit is disposed inside optical paths of light beams regularly reflected on the non-diffraction surfaces outside the diffraction surface. Accordingly, it is possible to effectively suppress a stray light reflected on the surfaces other the diffraction surface from being incident into the light detection unit and to detect the light spectrally diffracted by the diffraction surface at high accuracy. | 08-08-2013 |
20130250295 | SPECTRAL COLORIMETRIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A spectral colorimetric apparatus for detecting a color of an image of a subject, including: an illumination optical system illuminating the subject on a detection surface; a spectral optical system including a spectral element spectrally separating the beam diffused by the subject and a light receiving element array detecting a spectral intensity distribution; and a guiding optical system for guiding a beam diffused by the subject, wherein: the detection surface is parallel to a spectral plane including a principal ray of a beam entering the spectral optical system and a principal ray of a beam spectrally separated; the principal ray of the beam enters the spectral optical system within the spectral plane obliquely to a line joining a center of the light receiving element array with a surface vertex of the spectral element; and a light receiving surface of the light receiving element array is orthogonal to the spectral plane. | 09-26-2013 |
20150116791 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus sets an irradiation region below a fixed reading glass when light guide members diffuse light of LEDs upward so that the irradiation region corresponding to a significantly sagged portion in a main scanning direction is wider than that corresponding to portions on both sides of the significantly sagged portion, and sets a light intensity of a plurality of LEDs corresponding to the significantly sagged portion in the main scanning direction to be larger than that of a plurality of LEDs corresponding to the portions on both sides of the significantly sagged portion. Therefore, the degradation of the illuminance corresponding to the significantly sagged portion due to the pressed fixed reading glass can be prevented, and the entire document can be read with uniform reading precision. | 04-30-2015 |