Abstract:
A light modulator element includes a liquid crystal element which has a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules aligned along a first direction, and two transparent electrodes disposed in opposition to each other with the liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween, and which controls the phase of linear polarization light and passing through said liquid crystal layer by applying an electric voltage between said two transparent electrodes; a polarizer plate which is disposed between a light source and said liquid crystal element and which has the transmission axis along the first direction or along a direction orthogonal to said first direction; and a rotation mechanism which supports the liquid crystal element and the polarizer plate and which rotates the liquid crystal element and the polarizer plate integrally in one unit with the optical axis of the liquid crystal element as the rotation axis.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to the provision of a liquid crystal device constructed by sealing a liquid crystal material between substrates, wherein provisions are made to prevent reflections at the sealing, thereby achieving excellent transparency. The liquid crystal device includes a first substrate disposed on a viewing side, a second substrate disposed opposite the first substrate, a sealing member disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate and sealed by the sealing member, and a muslin structure or moth-eye structure placed between the first substrate and the sealing member. The muslin structure or moth-eye structure serves to form a smooth refractive index gradient between the sealing member and the first transparent substrate, thereby enhancing the transparency of the liquid crystal device.
Abstract:
A base plate for power module, comprising an aluminum-silicon carbide composite and aluminum layers made of a metal containing aluminum as the main component formed on respective principal planes of the aluminum-silicon carbide composite, wherein the aluminum-silicon carbide composite is produced by forming or fabricating a flat plate-shaped silicon carbide porous body to have a thickness difference of at most 100 μm in the entire porous body and piling such porous bodies as they are each sandwiched between mold-releasing plates so that the fastening torque in the plane direction becomes from 1 to 20 Nm, and infiltrating a metal containing aluminum as the main component into the silicon carbide porous bodies,wherein the aluminum layers each has an average thickness of from 10 to 150 μm, the difference between the maximum thickness and the minimum thickness of the aluminum layer in each principal plane is at most 80 μm, and the difference between average thicknesses of the aluminum layers on the respective principal planes is at most 50 μm, and wherein the shape of the silicon carbide porous body is rectangle or a rectangle from which peripheral portions encompassing holes are removed.
Abstract:
A black pigment powder having a low value of magnetization according to the present invention is characterized in that it consists of a composite oxide containing Fe2TiO4 as a main component, wherein the total amount of Fe (II) and Fe (III) to Ti is from 150 to 300 atomic %, in such an amount that the amount of Fe (II) to the total amount of Fe (II) and Fe (III) is 0.50 or more, and that the L value of a coating according to the Hoover-type muller method is 9.0 or less. It is employed to produce a toner composition, a coating composition, a resin composition, a cosmetic material and the like.
Abstract translation:根据本发明的具有低磁化强度的黑色颜料粉末的特征在于其由以Fe 2 O 3 TiO 4作为主要成分的复合氧化物组成,其中 Fe(II)和Fe(III)与Ti的总量为150〜300原子%,Fe(II)与Fe(II)和Fe(III)的总量的量为 0.50以上,并且根据胡佛式粉碎机法的涂布的L值为9.0以下。 用于制备调色剂组合物,涂料组合物,树脂组合物,化妆品材料等。
Abstract:
The present invention provides an optical device that eliminates side lobes or their components from a super-resolution optical spot, and that is capable of electrically switching between super resolution and normal resolution as needed in simple manner. The optical device having a light generating unit for generating incident light and a lens system for collecting the incident light and producing a super-resolution optical spot containing a main lobe and a side lobe by modulating a portion of the incident light, comprises a polarization vector modulation unit for making polarization vectors of the side lobe and the main lobe differ from each other so that one or the other of the polarization vectors can be selected, and a polarization selective unit for eliminating the side lobe by selecting the polarization vector of the main lobe.
Abstract:
In an optical apparatus comprising a condensing optics (104) for condensing incident light of linearly polarized light (10), an optical splitting element (701) for splitting reflected light reflected by a light reflection member (105) disposed in close proximity of the focal plane of the condensing optics (104) from the incident light, and an optical detection element (704) for detecting a split light beam (12) split by the optical splitting element, an optical rotatory element (103), capable of optically rotating substantially 90° a polarization axis of the linearly polarized light in a region thereof, corresponding to a portion of an effective light beam (11) of the linearly polarized light, available for the condensing optics (104), and also controlling an optical rotatory power thereof by electric signals, is disposed in the optical path of the incident light of the linearly polarized light (10), Further, a linearly polarized light detection element (703) is disposed in the optical path of the split light beam (12). As a result, a superresolved image can be formed without causing attenuation in light amount, and sidelobes can be removed with ease from the split light beam split from the reflected light, thereby improving a SN ratio of detected signals. In addition, it is also possible to obtain detected light in a condition where an aperture of the condensing optics has been switched over.
Abstract:
A thermally responsive valve includes first and second bimetallic disks which are adapted to snap-over in response to first and second predetermined temperatures. First and second inlet ports are connected to vacuum and atmospheric pressure sources respectively and first and second outlet ports are connectable to first and second vacuum actuators respectively. The thermally responsive valve further includes first and second valve members, one of which controls the communication of vacuum to the first vacuum actuator in response to the snap-over action of the first bimetallic disk and the other of which controls the application of vacuum to said second vacuum actuator in response to the snap-over action of the second bimetallic disk. When communication between the vacuum source and the first and second vacuum actuators is interrupted by said first and second valve members, the first and second actuators will be then connected to the atmosphere through the second inlet port.
Abstract:
A solenoid-operated fluid control valve has an armature assembly which includes a reciprocally movable platelike magnetic valve member and a seal element loosely retained by the valve member and projecting therefrom. A magnetic core defines a fluid passageway and has a valve seating surface at its one end. The valve seating surface of the magnetic core opens in a valve chamber which surrounds the side surface of the magnetic valve member to guide its movement toward and away from the valve seating surface and to maintain the seal element in alignment with the valve seating surface. The seal element has opposed conical or spherical ends and an annular recess therebetween. The seal element loosely engages with and retained by an opening of the magnetic valve member to abut concentric with the valve seating surface of the magnetic core in spite of a slight eccentricity of the assembly within the valve chamber. The solenoid-operated fluid control valve also has a compression spring positioned concentric with the magnetic valve member and bears at one end against the magnetic valve member and a solenoid mounted on a bobbin in which the magnetic core is secured.
Abstract:
A phase modulation device corrects wave front aberrations generated by an optical system including an objective lens disposed on an optical path of a light flux. The phase modulation device includes a phase modulation element which includes a plurality of electrodes, and modulates the phase of the light flux in accordance with a voltage applied to each electrode, and a control circuit which controls the voltage to be applied to each electrode. The control circuit controls the voltage to be applied to each electrode in such a manner that the light flux is imparted with a phase modulation amount in accordance with a phase modulation profile having a polarity opposite to the polarity of a phase distribution to be determined according to a relational equation representing a relationship between a numerical aperture of the objective lens and a ratio between third-order spherical aberration and fifth-order spherical aberration.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to the provision of a liquid crystal device constructed by sealing a liquid crystal material between substrates, wherein provisions are made to prevent reflections at the sealing, thereby achieving excellent transparency. The liquid crystal device includes a first substrate disposed on a viewing side, a second substrate disposed opposite the first substrate, a sealing member disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate and sealed by the sealing member, and a muslin structure or moth-eye structure placed between the first substrate and the sealing member. The muslin structure or moth-eye structure serves to form a smooth refractive index gradient between the sealing member and the first transparent substrate, thereby enhancing the transparency of the liquid crystal device.