摘要:
The present invention provides an optical detection apparatus and an optical detection method for measuring at a high resolution an image in the wavelength range of from the infrared region to the gamma-ray region. The optical detection apparatus has a photoelectric conversion medium, which makes a change in electric property according to incidence of image in the wavelength range of from the infrared region to the gamma-ray region, a probe arranged in contact with the photoelectric conversion medium, and an urging mechanism for urging the probe against the photoelectric conversion medium to make the probe contact at a predetermined urging force with the medium. Further, the apparatus is so arranged that the urging mechanism keeps the probe in contact with the photoelectric conversion medium, a scanning device makes the probe relatively scan the photoelectric conversion medium in the contact state, a detector detects through the probe the change in electric property caused in the photoelectric conversion medium, and an information processor forms distribution information corresponding to the image in the wavelength range by making a correspondence between the change in electric property thus detected and the relative scan positions between the probe and the photoelectric conversion medium.
摘要:
Provided is a vibration actuator comprising an elastic body; an electromechanical transducer that causes the elastic body to vibrate; and a rotating body that rotates in response to a drive force received from contact with the elastic body at a vibrational antinode thereof, wherein the rotating body contacts the elastic body at a prescribed position along a direction in which an axis of the rotation extends. In the vibration actuator, the elastic body includes an elastic body contact member that is arranged in a region that includes the vibrational antinode of the elastic body, the rotating body includes a rotating body contact member that receives a drive force by contacting the elastic body contact member, and one of the elastic body contact member and the rotating body contact member has a contact surface that is oriented diagonally to the axis of rotation and contacts the other of the elastic body contact member and the rotating body contact member.
摘要:
In a tracking system for tracking a moving object by using a particle filter, the particle filter is configured to arrange particles initially, in a standby state, in a given background region provided in the screen of a camera and to rearrange the particles with respect to the moving object in accordance with a change in likelihood that the object has with respect to the particles.
摘要:
High-frequency circuit components are disclosed in which parasitic capacitance between a high-frequency circuit element and a substrate is reduced and mechanical strength is improved. An exemplary component has a conductive substrate, a coil as the high-frequency circuit-element, a mounting board including a thin dielectric film on which the coil is mounted, and a support board that couples the mounting board to the substrate. The mounting board is coupled so that it floats relative to the substrate as a result of deliberate warping of the support board.
摘要:
The light guide substrate 2 has mirror receiving grooves 24 and light guides. The light guides conduct light that is input into the input ports to selected output ports in accordance with the advance and retraction of the mirrors 31 with respect to the grooves 24. The actuator substrate 4 has mirrors 31 and actuators which place the mirrors 31 in a state in which the mirrors are drawn in toward the substrate 4, or a state in which the mirrors protrude from the substrate 4. The light guide substrate 2 and actuator substrate 4 are aligned using alignment marks and joined with a spacer 3 interposed so that the mirrors 31 retract from the grooves 24 when the mirrors 31 are drawn in toward the substrate 4, and so that the mirrors 31 advance into the grooves 24 when the mirrors 31 protrude from the substrate 4. This alignment is performed in a state in which all of the mirrors 31 are drawn in toward the substrate 4.
摘要:
A movable plate 21 is fastened to a substrate 11 via flexure parts 27a and 27b, and can move upward and downward with respect to the substrate 11. The substrate 11 also serves as a fixed electrode. The movable plate 21 has second electrode parts 23a and 23b which can generate an electrostatic force between these electrode parts and the substrate 11 by means of a voltage that is applied across these electrode parts and the substrate 11, and a current path 25 which is disposed in a magnetic field, and which generates a Lorentz force when powered. A mirror 12 which advances into and withdraws from the optical path is disposed on the movable plate 21. When the movable plate 21 is caused to move from the lower position in which the electrostatic force is increased to the upper position, the control part controls the current so that the Lorentz force is generated in a downward orientation and gradually decreases while the movable plate 21 is moving from an intermediate position to the upper position. As a result, the mobility range of the movable part can be expanded without applying a high voltage or sacrificing compact size, and the power consumption can be reduced; furthermore, the reliability in the case of long-term operation can be increased.
摘要:
An optical device is configured such that an insertion plate is held by a flat cantilever having electric wiring, and the flat magnet is placed in such a manner that the magnet faces a surface of the cantilever opposite to the other surface of the cantilever facing an optical waveguide, and that the current flowing through the electric wiring is controlled in this state so that the Lorentz force caused by the interaction between the current and the magnetic field displaces the cantilever to drive the insertion plate, and to insert or remove the insertion plate into or out of the slit provided in the optical waveguide to switch the optical path of signal light or to adjust the quantity of an optical beam.
摘要:
Component data including data of the circumferential length values of ring components 4 stored by a component storage facility 10 are managed by a component data managing unit 15. A processing unit 16 performs combinatorial trial calculations on the component data under a plurality of kinds of combinatorial conditions, generating lamination combinatorial data of component data of all layers of a laminated ring. A combinatorial condition which maximizes the number of generated lamination combinatorial data is used as an adequate combinatorial condition. A set of ring components that make up a laminated ring to be actually assembly is selected and unloaded based on lamination combinatorial data generated under the adequate combinatorial condition, and assembled into a laminated ring. With this arrangement, an increased number of laminated rings can efficiently be produced, and the mass-productivity of laminated rings can be increased.
摘要:
In a construction for electrically connecting electrical unit with joint surfaces thereof opposed to each other, wiring patterns electrically connected with distortion gauges are formed on function-element forming surfaces of each electrical three-dimensional unit and are extended to edge portions formed between the function-element forming surfaces and adjacent wiring surfaces as the joint surfaces to form first lands; second lands extending from the edge portions by a specified distance are formed at positions of the wiring surfaces corresponding to the first lands; and electrical connectors displaying a joining performance upon being pressed together are formed to bridge the first and second lands while being held in close contact with the first and second lands. A plurality of three-dimensional electrical unit can be securely and easily electrically connected with each other with high precision.
摘要:
When images on the front and rear sides of multiple originals are reduced in size and recorded onto both sides of a single recording sheet in composite form, recording positions of images on the front and rear sides of each original are determined such that reduced images on the front side of the original are recorded on the front side of the recording sheet and reduced images on the rear side of the same original are recorded at corresponding positions on the rear side of the recording sheet. As a result, when the recording sheet is cut into pieces corresponding to respective recorded images, images on the front and rear sides of each cut piece of the recording sheet respectively agree with images on the front and rear sides of each original.