摘要:
A light deflection device includes a deflection member having a sphere body enclosing a deflection face portion for deflecting a light beam, or a segmental sphere body having the deflection face portion and a segmental sphere face opposing to the deflection face portion. The device also includes a supporting member for supporting the deflection member in a turnable manner, and a driver for turning the deflection member. The driver is provided on the sphere face of the deflection member, and at a position opposing the sphere face or the segmental sphere face of the deflection member to apply a driving force to the sphere face or the segmental face. In one embodiment, a light deflection device array includes the arrangement of light deflection devices in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional array.
摘要:
Spinnable balls each having two surfaces with different optical characteristics can be produced by forming a plurality of balls with the same specific gravity on a thermoplastic film, and softening the thermoplastic film by controlling a heating temperature thereof based on the specific gravity of the balls so that the hemispheres of the balls are embedded into the thermoplastic film by their own weight. A layer having different optical characteristics from those of the balls is then formed on the exposed surface of each ball. Finally, the balls provided with the layers are detached from the thermoplastic film.
摘要:
In a display device of the type wherein a display state is selected by rotation of polarized colored balls, the colored balls are formed from a paraelectric material, and the charged state of each colored ball is provided by an electret-forming treatment due to charge-injection to a minute colored ball per se of a paraelectric material or a film of a paraelectric material coating a minute ball. As a result, a colored ball having an increased charge can be produced stably from an inexpensive material.
摘要:
A light deflection device comprises a segmental sphere body having a deflection face portion for deflecting and transmitting an incident light beam, and a segmental sphere face portion opposing to the deflecting face portion, a base plate for supporting the segmental sphere body in a turnable manner, and a driving means for turning the segmental sphere body, the refractive index of the segmental sphere body being different from the refractive index of a space or medium brought into contact with the deflection face portion. A light deflection device array coomprises the light deflection devices arranged in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional array.
摘要:
An optical waveguide includes a partial cylindrical portion, and a plurality of end portions. The partial cylindrical portion has an elongated profile, and is formed of a material transparent to light propagating along the partial cylindrical portion. The end portion has an approximately partial spherical profile, smoothly joins the partial cylindrical portion, and is formed of the same material as the material of the partial cylindrical portion, so that the light propagates along the partial cylindrical portion and the end portions while repeating total reflections at a boundary surface contouring the partial cylindrical portion and the end portions.
摘要:
A press die and a processing method of the press die surface, and a manufacturing method of a vehicle body of an automobile, are capable of maintaining a high non-defective product rate of works after press processing, even in a case in which foreign matter such as iron filings and the like have adhered to a die surface. A press die for sheet metal forming has a multitude of concave portions on a die surface, and has a roughness (Ry) of a die surface on which the multitude of concave portions has been formed of 30 to 38 μm.
摘要:
A light-emitting element is disposed to face the front side such that an end point of a rectangular or square light-emitting chip corresponding to the vehicle's own lane is positioned at a rear focal point of a convex lens. An additional lens is disposed to surround the convex lens. The additional lens includes an incident surface, a reflection surface, and an emitting surface. The additional lens is divided into a-plurality of fan-shaped areas in a circumferential direction with respect to an optical axis Ax. The division is performed for each angular range where a corner point of the light-emitting chip, which is positioned at an uppermost end of an image of the light-emitting chip formed on the reflection surface by the light emitted from the light-emitting element, becomes the same corner point.
摘要:
An electric potential measuring device has a detection electrode of a conductive material disposed in opposition to an object and a movable structure including a first solid material portion of a dielectric and a second solid material portion of another dielectric or a conductive material. A charge induced on the detection electrode by electric lines of force from the object is modulated by moving the movable structure with a drive mechanism, to measure an electric potential of the object. An image forming apparatus has the electric potential measuring device and an image forming unit for performing a control of an image formation by using the electric potential measuring device.
摘要:
A vehicle lamp includes a convex lens and a light emitting device. Light directly reaching a rear surface of the convex lens from the light emitting device is deflected through the convex lens to form a light distribution pattern having a horizontal cutoff line and an oblique cutoff line. The light emitting device includes a light emitting chip having a rectangular light emitting surface oriented to face the rear surface of the convex lens, and a corner of the rectangular light emitting surface is disposed on a rear focal point of the convex lens. A front surface of the convex lens includes a horizontally diffusing region which diffuses a part of the light in the horizontal direction, and an obliquely diffusing region which diffuses another part of the light toward the self lane side in an oblique direction forming an upward angle with respect to the horizontal plane.
摘要:
A lamp unit includes a semiconductor light-emitting element portion, a reflector that radiates light from a light source forward of the lamp, and a driving portion that moves relative positions of the semiconductor light-emitting element portion and the reflector. The semiconductor light-emitting element portion is provided with a light-emitting surface whose outer peripheral shape is generally oblong, the reflector is provided with a parabolic surface that has a focus line in the horizontal direction, and the driving portion is configured such that rotation is possible within a horizontal plane of the light-emitting surface from a first position where a short side of the light-emitting surface is generally parallel to the focus line up to a second position where a long side of the light-emitting surface is generally parallel to the focus line.