Abstract: The present invention includes: a casing having a bottom wall part and a pair of side wall parts extending upward from this bottom wall part; a rod-shaped lens provided above an LED substrate and along a longitudinal direction inside the casing; and a fixing mechanism for fixing the lens to the pair of side wall parts. The fixing mechanism includes: upwardly facing surfaces longitudinally extending along an inner surface of the side wall parts; downwardly facing surfaces longitudinally extending along side peripheral surfaces of the lens; a concave groove longitudinally extending above the upwardly facing surface on the inner surface of each of the side wall parts; and elastic bodies fitting into the concave grooves to be in contact with the side peripheral surfaces of the lens in a state that the downwardly facing surfaces are in contact with the upwardly facing surfaces.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to thermally isolate an LED and a control part from each other to make it difficult to thermally influence each other, and also to optimize fin shapes suitable for allowable temperatures of the both respectively, and is provided with: a first housing that contains an LED board; a second housing that contains an LED control part; a connecting member that connects the first housing and the second housing to each other; a fan mechanism that is provided between the first housing and the second housing; heat dissipation fins that are provided around the fan mechanism in the first housing; and an air path of which one end opening is formed at a position facing to an air inlet side of the fan mechanism in the second housing, and the other opening is formed on a surface different from an opposed surface of the second housing.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to the field of environmentally sealed casings for protection of electronic or other devices. More particularly, the present invention relates to enclosures for protecting LCD panels from the harsh environments in which they are sometimes used. In an embodiment, the present invention provides a harsh environment LCD enclosure comprising: a casing with an interior for protecting an LCD panel; a door for accessing the interior of the casing; a compression gasket assembly for sealing together the door and casing; an actuator for opening and closing the door; and a hinge assembly disposed entirely within the interior of the casing and operably configured to provide for rotational and linear movement of the door relative to the casing.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to permit division of an LED wiring board into various sizes to permit its use before and after the division, and also simplify operation of this division and simplify circuit design. More specifically, in the present invention, wiring patterns and for energizing LEDs are formed in a planar direction of the LED wiring board. Division grooves for dividing the LED wiring board into a plurality of sub-boards are formed on the front surface of the LED wiring board in a perpendicular direction and are provided in a manner such as to cross the wiring patterns in the planar direction. Use with the entire board before the division by the division grooves is possible, and use with division elements divided along any of the division grooves is also possible.

Abstract: To reliably keep an LED board and a heat conductive member in close contact to improve the heat-dissipation efficiency and to reliably position an LED and an optical element, such as a lens part, arranged in a housing are a slim LED board, the housing that has an accommodating concave part to house the LED board, a heat conductive member that is arranged between the LED board and the accommodating concave part, a pressing member that has the lens part and that presses a long side edge part of the LED board against a bottom surface of the accommodating concave part of the housing, a securing mechanism for securing the LED board, the heat conductive member and the pressing member to the housing, and a positioning mechanism for positioning the lens part relative to the LED.

Abstract: In order to enable heat from luminous objects to be effectively radiated, and assembly to be simplified to facilitate downsizing and the like, a linear light irradiating device is configured such that a luminous object mounting board is contained in a bottom-equipped groove-like containing space in a body in a bending state of being elastically deformed, and also on the basis of an elastic restoring force of the board, a back surface of a luminous object mounting region in the board or vicinity of the back surface is pressed against and brought into close contact with a fore end surface of an intervening object that has thermal conductivity and is made to protrude from an inner circumferential surface of the containing space.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to thermally isolate an LED and a control part from each other to make it difficult to thermally influence each other, and also to optimize fin shapes suitable for allowable temperatures of the both respectively, and is provided with: a first housing that contains an LED board; a second housing that contains an LED control part; a connecting member that connects the first housing and the second housing to each other; a fan mechanism that is provided between the first housing and the second housing; heat dissipation fins that are provided around the fan mechanism in the first housing; and an air path of which one end opening is formed at a position facing to an air inlet side of the fan mechanism in the second housing, and the other opening is formed on a surface different from an opposed surface of the second housing.

Abstract: In order to commonly perform image processing at an image processing device, even if inspection contents or valid inspection regions are changed for every image or if an illumination/image-pickup system for surface inspection per se is changed, a data structure for image processing is constructed in a manner that valid image-pickup region data indicative of a valid image-pickup region that is valid for inspection in the captured image, and image processing specifying data for specifying contents of the image processing performed on the valid image-pickup region are associated with the captured image data indicative of the image captured by the image-pickup device.

Abstract: A light source device, having an excellent cooling efficiency and usable when multiple devices are stacked in a vertical direction, is presented. The light source device includes a casing having a sufficiently small size in height relative to depth and width, wherein, an intake hole is formed in a casing wall for taking in air and an exhaust hole is formed for exhausting air, a fan arranged inside the casing so that a rotating shaft thereof is inclined with respect to the height direction of the casing and partitioning the interior into front and rear chambers to form an air flow from the intake hole to the exhaust hole, a light source inside the front chamber, and a heat radiation fin provided thermally connected to the light source inside the front chamber, wherein the intake hole is in the front chamber and the exhaust hole is in the rear.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for easily manufacturing an illumination device in which a surface mount chip-type LED is used, and a wiring board is formed into a truncated conical or another shape. The method includes, in a flexible strip-like wiring board having a partial ring or a linear shape, providing a through-hole T for filling with solder paste S at a wiring end portion L to be connected with a terminal of an LED, temporarily fixing the LED with bond B onto the wiring board held in a plate-like state, filling the through-hole T with the solder paste S from a back surface of the wiring board, rounding the wiring board mounted with the LED into a truncated conical or cylindrical shape, and reflowing the wiring board in the rounded state to solder the LED.

Abstract: To provide an illuminator for plant growth that can illuminate a plant intermittently (pulse illumination) or continuously to cause an effect similar to sunbeam spot phenomenon, thereby accelerating photosynthetic reaction. Specifically, the illuminator for plant growth includes a light source composed of a semiconductor optical device, a control unit for outputting a turn-on timing signal for the light source, a rhythm signal detecting unit for A/D converting an input rhythm signal, a timing signal modulating unit for modulating the turn-on timing signal with the output signal from the rhythm signal detecting unit, and a pulse drive unit for pulse-modulating a power signal with the modulated turn-on timing signal outputted from the timing signal modulating unit and supplying the pulse-modulated power signal to the light source.

Abstract: The light irradiation device is provided that can reduce moire interference with a simple and low-cost arrangement without sacrificing a compact design by comprising a transparent plate 31 which has a predetermined thickness and one of whose surfaces is arranged as an object facing surface 31a to face an object W such as a product on which light is to be irradiated, multiple reflecting sections 32 that are laid out on other surface of the transparent plate 31 with forming a microscopic space S therebetween with its light reflecting surface facing a direction of the object W, a light source section 5 arranged at a position where at least a part of the emitted light is transmitted, reaches the light reflecting surface, is reflected on the light reflecting surface and is emitted from the object facing surface 31a, and an antireflection film 33 that covers the object facing surface 31a.