摘要:
A method of making a micromirror unit is provided. In accordance with the method, a micromirror unit is made from a material substrate having a multi-layer structure composed of silicon layers and at least one intermediate layer. The resulting micromirror unit includes a mirror forming base, a frame and a torsion bar. The method includes the following steps. First, a pre-torsion bar is formed by subjecting one of the silicon layers to etching. The obtained pre-torsion bar is rendered smaller in thickness than the mirror forming base and is held in contact with the intermediate layer. Then, the desired torsion bar is obtained by removing the intermediate layer contacting with the pre-torsion bar.
摘要:
A micro mirror unit includes a moving part carrying a mirror portion, a frame and torsion bars connecting the moving part to the frame. The moving part, the frame and the torsion bars are formed integral from a material substrate. The frame includes a portion thicker than the moving part.
摘要:
A reflective projector includes a light source, reflective liquid crystal panels, a dichroic prism for separating a light beam from the light source into light beams of predetermined colors by using interference and for synthesizing the light beams of predetermined colors into a light beam, and a projection lens. The reflective projector further includes a first polarizer provided between the light source and the reflective liquid crystal panels and a second polarizer provided between the reflective liquid crystal panels and the projection lens.
摘要:
A light-beam scanning apparatus includes at least two holograms with an optical path length difference .DELTA..PHI. along a scanning beam light flux. The path length is measured from a light source to a scanning surface in the first hologram, and is represented by .DELTA..PHI.
摘要:
An optical scanner suitable for use with a bar code reader includes a light source for generating a laser beam, a laser beam scanning device, a scanning pattern generating optical system, and a signal light condensing optical system for deflecting scattered signal light scattered by an object to be read to introduce the light to a photo-detector. The scanning pattern generating optical system or signal light condensing optical system includes two reflective holograms disposed substantially in parallel with each other to produce a reflection beam having an angle of reflection which is different from an angle of incidence of the laser beam thereon. The scanner is a miniaturized apparatus as a result of the reflection holograms.
摘要:
A heads-up display including a holographic optical element which reflects only at least one specific wavelength and allows a background light of other wavelengths to pass therethrough, an information source which emits information light having the specific wavelength, and a device for removing a wavelength of light corresponding to a complementary color of the specific wavelength.
摘要:
The invention relates to a liquid crystal display element displaying an image using a liquid crystal layer having memory characteristics and a method of driving the element. A liquid crystal display element capable of suppressing the generation of an afterimage attributable to image sticking is provided along with a method of driving the same. The liquid crystal display element includes a display section having memory characteristics including a cholesteric liquid crystal layer and displaying an image when a voltage is applied to the cholesteric liquid crystal layer, the section being capable of keeping the image displayed without electric power, a driving condition storing section for storing a plurality of different driving conditions including a voltage and an application period of the voltage, and a control section determining a display period for which a presently displayed image has been displayed on the display section when the displayed image is rewritten into a new image, acquiring a driving condition according to the display period from the driving condition storing section, and causing the display section to display the new image based on the acquired driving condition.
摘要:
A micro mirror unit includes a micro mirror substrate, a wiring substrate and an electroconductive spacer disposed between these substrates. The micro mirror substrate includes a moving part, a frame and torsion bars connecting the moving part to the frame. The moving part is provided with a mirror-formed portion. The wiring substrate is formed with a wiring pattern. The electroconductive spacer electrically connects the frame to the wiring pattern, while also providing a space between the micro mirror substrate and the wiring substrate.
摘要:
A tandem type color printer, having optical beam scanning units and corresponding photosensitive drums, which detects a positional shift of a scanning locus occurring on a corresponding one of the plurality of photosensitive drums, and automatically corrects the detected positional shift of the scanning locus. A detecting window, in which a beam transmission time varies with a change in the beam scanning position, is provided at each of the start end side and the terminal end side of each of a plurality of beam scanning loci in a mask plate. The mask plate is arranged between the optical beam scanning units and the photosensitive drums, to provide output of a detection signal corresponding to the incident time of the transmission beam resulting from beam scanning by a light source, and thus determines and corrects the direction and the amount of positional shift of the scanning locus.
摘要:
A high-resolution light-beam scanning apparatus utilizing only mass-producible holograms instead of utilizing auxiliary optical systems such as optical lenses or a mirror having curvature, and capable of compensating for disadvantages including scanning beam thickening and variation, failure of a rotatable hologram to rotate at a constant velocity, displacement of a scanning beam position in the scanning direction and the cross scanning direction due to a mode hop of a wavelength of a semiconductor laser, and deviation of a base of rotatable hologram from a parallel state. These disadvantages are detrimental to efforts for increasing the resolution of a hologram scanner and lowering the cost thereof. The light beam scanning apparatus includes at least two holograms with an optical path length difference .DELTA..PHI. along a scanning beam light flux. The path length is measured from a light source to a scanning surface in the first hologram, and is represented by .DELTA..PHI.