Abstract: Provided is an optical scanning device including: a mirror portion that reflects incident light; a first actuator that allows the mirror portion to swing around a first axis; a second actuator that allows the mirror portion to swing around a second axis which is orthogonal to the first axis; a pair of first angle detection sensors that output a signal corresponding to an angle of the mirror portion around the first axis, the pair of first angle detection sensors being disposed at positions facing each other across the first axis or the second axis; and at least one processor, in which the processor generates a first angle detection signal representing the angle of the mirror portion around the first axis by adding or subtracting a pair of first output signals output from the pair of first angle detection sensors.

Abstract: A driving controller derives a first shift time that is a shift time used for correcting a generation timing of a first reference signal representing that an angle of a mirror portion around a first axis is equal to a first reference angle, and is a shift time of a point in time when the angle of the mirror portion around the first axis is equal to the first reference angle with respect to a point in time when an output signal of a first angle detection sensor represents that the angle of the mirror portion around the first axis is equal to the first reference angle, based on an output signal of a photodetector.

Abstract: A driving controller provides a first driving signal having a first driving frequency to a first actuator that causes a mirror portion to swing around a first axis, provides a second driving signal having a second driving frequency to a second actuator that causes the mirror portion to swing around a second axis intersecting with the first axis, and derives a first driving condition of the first actuator under which the first driving frequency is less than a first resonance frequency around the first axis.

Abstract: A driving controller provides a first driving signal having a first driving frequency to a first actuator, provides a second driving signal having a second driving frequency to a second actuator, derives a first average phase delay time by averaging a first phase delay time of an output signal of a first angle detection sensor with respect to the first driving signal in a plurality of cycles, derives a second average phase delay time by averaging a second phase delay time of an output signal of a second angle detection sensor with respect to the second driving signal in a plurality of cycles, generates a first reference signal based on the first driving signal and the first average phase delay time, and generates a second reference signal based on the second driving signal and the second average phase delay time.

Abstract: A focusing mechanism includes: a driving source in which three or more cantilever-like piezoelectric actuators are radially arranged; and an optical lens unit that consists of an outer frame, an optical lens, a lens holder provided around the optical lens and holding the optical lens, and an elastic body connecting the lens holder to the outer frame and elongating and contracting in a radial direction of the optical lens, wherein surfaces of driving distal ends of the cantilever-like piezoelectric actuators, which are perpendicular to a direction of an optical axis of the optical lens, are in contact with the lens holder, and the cantilever-like piezoelectric actuators move the optical lens in the direction of the optical axis of the optical lens by the drive of the cantilever-like piezoelectric actuators to perform focusing.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device and method of manufacturing the same and an inkjet head are described. In one embodiment, the inkjet print head comprises a plurality of jets, wherein each of the plurality of jets comprises a nozzle, a pressure chamber connected with the nozzle, a piezoelectric body coupled to the pressure chamber, and an electrode coupled to the piezoelectric body to cause displacement of the piezoelectric body to apply pressure to the pressure chamber in response to a voltage applied to the electrode; and wherein electrodes of two or more of the plurality of jets have different sizes to cause their associated piezoelectric bodies to have a uniform displacement amount when the voltage is applied to the electrodes.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device and method of manufacturing the same and an inkjet head are described. In one embodiment, the inkjet print head comprises a plurality of jets, wherein each of the plurality of jets comprises a nozzle, a pressure chamber connected with the nozzle, a piezoelectric body coupled to the pressure chamber, and an electrode coupled to the piezoelectric body to cause displacement of the piezoelectric body to apply pressure to the pressure chamber in response to a voltage applied to the electrode; and wherein electrodes of two or more of the plurality of jets have different sizes to cause their associated piezoelectric bodies to have a uniform displacement amount when the voltage is applied to the electrodes.

Abstract: A piezoelectric microphone includes a plate, a support portion that is provided around the plate, connection portions that connect the plate and the support portion on two or more sides of the plate, and a detection portion including a lower electrode, a piezoelectric film, and an upper electrode which are stacked in this order. The detection portion is stacked on the connection portion . An inflection point of a cross-sectional deformation curve in a case in which the plate and the connection portion are deformed by sound pressure is present in a region in which the detection portion is not stacked.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device and method of manufacturing the same and an inkjet head are described. In one embodiment, the inkjet print head comprises a plurality of jets, wherein each of the plurality of jets comprises a nozzle, a pressure chamber connected with the nozzle, a piezoelectric body coupled to the pressure chamber, and an electrode coupled to the piezoelectric body to cause displacement of the piezoelectric body to apply pressure to the pressure chamber in response to a voltage applied to the electrode; and wherein electrodes of two or more of the plurality of jets have different sizes to cause their associated piezoelectric bodies to have a uniform displacement amount when the voltage is applied to the electrodes.

Abstract: A piezoelectric microphone includes a plate, a support portion that is provided around the plate, connection portions that connect the plate and the support portion on two or more sides of the plate, and a detection portion including a lower electrode, a piezoelectric film, and an upper electrode which are stacked in this order. The detection portion is stacked on the connection portion . An inflection point of a cross-sectional deformation curve in a case in which the plate and the connection portion are deformed by sound pressure is present in a region in which the detection portion is not stacked.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device and method of manufacturing the same and an inkjet head are described. In one embodiment, the inkjet print head comprises a plurality of jets, wherein each of the plurality of jets comprises a nozzle, a pressure chamber connected with the nozzle, a piezoelectric body coupled to the pressure chamber, and an electrode coupled to the piezoelectric body to cause displacement of the piezoelectric body to apply pressure to the pressure chamber in response to a voltage applied to the electrode; and wherein electrodes of two or more of the plurality of jets have different sizes to cause their associated piezoelectric bodies to have a uniform displacement amount when the voltage is applied to the electrodes.

Abstract: A focusing mechanism includes: a driving source in which three or more cantilever-like piezoelectric actuators are radially arranged; and an optical lens unit that consists of an outer frame, an optical lens, a lens holder provided around the optical lens and holding the optical lens, and an elastic body connecting the lens holder to the outer frame and elongating and contracting in a radial direction of the optical lens, wherein surfaces of driving distal ends of the cantilever-like piezoelectric actuators, which are perpendicular to a direction of an optical axis of the optical lens, are in contact with the lens holder, and the cantilever-like piezoelectric actuators move the optical lens in the direction of the optical axis of the optical lens by the drive of the cantilever-like piezoelectric actuators to perform focusing.

Abstract: The liquid ejection head has a structure in which three or more head modules including a plurality of ejection elements are arranged along a single direction, and the liquid ejection head includes a first head module, a second head module and a third head module which are arranged in ascending order of slope of ejection volume distribution in the single direction or are arranged in descending order of the slope of the ejection volume distribution in the single direction, the slope of the ejection volume distribution in the single direction being evaluated by subtracting an ejection volume at one end part in the single direction from an ejection volume at the other end part in the single direction.

Abstract: The production method for a liquid ejection head is provided, in which a first head module is set, a second candidate head module is selected, a first representative value of the first head module is acquired, a second representative value of the second candidate head module is acquired, an average value of the first representative value and the second representative value is derived, and the second candidate head module by which the derived average value is 0.76-fold or more and 1.24-fold or less of an average ejection volume target value is set as a second head module.

Abstract: The production method for a liquid ejection head is provided, in which a first head module is set, a second candidate head module is selected, a first representative value of the first head module is acquired, a second representative value of the second candidate head module is acquired, an average value of the first representative value and the second representative value is derived, and the second candidate head module by which the derived average value is 0.76-fold or more and 1.24-fold or less of an average ejection volume target value is set as a second head module.

Abstract: The liquid ejection head has a structure in which three or more head modules including a plurality of ejection elements are arranged along a single direction, and the liquid ejection head includes a first head module, a second head module and a third head module which are arranged in ascending order of slope of ejection volume distribution in the single direction or are arranged in descending order of the slope of the ejection volume distribution in the single direction, the slope of the ejection volume distribution in the single direction being evaluated by subtracting an ejection volume at one end part in the single direction from an ejection volume at the other end part in the single direction.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes: a substrate; a first electrode which is layered over the substrate; a first piezoelectric film which is layered over the first electrode; a metal oxide film which is layered over the first piezoelectric film; a metal film which is layered over the metal oxide film; a second piezoelectric film which is layered over the metal film; and a second electrode which is layered over the second piezoelectric film.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes: a substrate; a first electrode which is layered over the substrate; a first piezoelectric film which is layered over the first electrode; a metal oxide film which is layered over the first piezoelectric film; a metal film which is layered over the metal oxide film; a second piezoelectric film which is layered over the metal film; and a second electrode which is layered over the second piezoelectric film, wherein a polarizing direction of the first piezoelectric film and a polarizing direction of the second piezoelectric film are different from each other.

Abstract: An inkjet device includes a pumping chamber bounded by a wall, a piezoelectric layer disposed above the pumping chamber, a ring electrode having an annular lower portion disposed on the piezoelectric layer. A moisture barrier layer covers a remainder of the piezoelectric layer over the pumping chamber that is not covered by the annular lower portion of the ring electrode.

Abstract: An inkjet device includes a pumping chamber bounded by a wall, a piezoelectric layer disposed above the pumping chamber, a ring electrode having an annular lower portion disposed on the piezoelectric layer. A moisture barrier layer covers a remainder of the piezoelectric layer over the pumping chamber that is not covered by the annular lower portion of the ring electrode.