Patents Assigned to Hamamatsu Photonics, K. K.
  • Publication number: 20230392779
    Abstract: A heatsink includes: a base plate thermally connected to a heat-generating unit; a plurality of heat radiation fins erected on a surface of the base plate, and arranged with gaps in a first direction along the surface; and a partition member provided to intersect the plurality of heat radiation fins, and partitioning the plurality of heat radiation fins in a second direction along the surface and intersecting the first direction. The partition member partitions the plurality of heat radiation fins such that more air passes through in the second direction between the plurality of heat radiation fins on a base plate side than on a side opposite to the base plate side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Kyoichi MURAYAMA, Keita UMENO
  • Publication number: 20230395745
    Abstract: A light emitting diode element includes: a first element portion including a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, and a first active layer; and a second element portion including a third semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type, a fourth semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type, and a second active layer. The first and second element portions are electrically connected to each other by a tunnel junction portion. When the first conductivity type is n-type, the first element portion includes an electron barrier layer arranged between the first active layer and the tunnel junction portion. When the first conductivity type is p-type, the second element portion includes an electron barrier layer arranged between the second active layer and the tunnel junction portion. The electron barrier layer includes AlGaAsSb or AlInAsSb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Asuka MISHIMA, Daisuke IIDA, Takahide YANAI
  • Patent number: 11835603
    Abstract: An optically pumped magnetometer includes cells configured to form a first cell region and a second cell region on a measurement target, a pump laser, a probe laser, a first optical system configured to cause pump light to be incident on the first cell region, a second optical system configured to cause the pump light having passed through the first cell region to be incident on the second cell region, a third optical system configured to cause first probe light to be incident on the first cell region, a fourth optical system configured to cause second probe light to be incident on the second cell region, detection portions configured to detect the first probe light having passed through the first cell region and the second probe light having passed through the second cell region, and a deriving portion configured to derive an intensity of a magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K., Kyoto University
    Inventors: Akinori Saito, Takahiro Moriya, Takenori Oida, Motohiro Suyama, Tetsuo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11835388
    Abstract: A light detection device includes: a Fabry-Perot interference filter provided with a light transmission region; a light detector configured to detect light transmitted through the light transmission region; a package having an opening and accommodating the Fabry-Perot interference filter and the light detector; and a light transmitting unit arranged on an inner surface of the package so as to close an opening, the light transmitting unit including a band pass filter configured to transmit light incident on the light transmission region. When viewed from a direction parallel to the line, an outer edge of the Fabry-Pert interference filter is positioned outside an outer edge of the opening, and an outer edge of the light transmitting unit is positioned outside the outer edge of the Fabry-Perot interference filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Masaki Hirose, Katsumi Shibayama, Takashi Kasahara, Toshimitsu Kawai, Hiroki Oyama, Yumi Teramachi
  • Patent number: 11833611
    Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes a support portion, a laser processing head, a vertical movement mechanism, a horizontal movement mechanism, and a controller. The controller controls starting and stopping of emission of a laser light from the laser processing head based on rotation information in a state where a focusing point is positioned at a position along a circumferential edge of an effective region in a target, while rotating the support portion, to perform a circumferential edge process for forming a modified region along the circumferential edge of the effective region in the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sakamoto, Junji Okuma
  • Patent number: 11835716
    Abstract: A mirror unit includes an optical scanning device, a frame member, and a window member. The frame member includes first and second wall portions facing each other in an X-axis direction. The first wall portion is higher than the second wall portion. The window member is disposed on a top surface of the first wall portion and a top surface of the second wall portion and is inclined with respect to a mirror surface of the optical scanning device. In a cross-section parallel to the X-axis direction, the first wall portion is separated from a first line passing through a first end at a side of the first wall portion in the mirror surface and a first corner portion formed at the side of the first wall portion by an outer surface opposite to the frame member and a first side surface in the window member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Daiki Suzuki, Tomoyuki Ide, Yuki Morinaga
  • Patent number: 11835667
    Abstract: A photon counting device includes a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element configured to convert input light to charge, and an amplifier configured to amplify the charge converted by the photoelectric conversion element and convert the charge to a voltage, an A/D converter configured to convert the voltage output from the amplifier of each of the plurality of pixels to a digital value and output the digital value, a correction unit configured to correct the digital value output from the A/D converter so that an influence of a variation in a gain and an offset value among the plurality of pixels is curbed, a calculation unit configured to output a summed value obtained by summing the corrected digital values corresponding to at least two pixels, and a conversion unit configured to convert the summed value output from the calculation unit to a number of photons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Tadashi Maruno, Eiji Toda, Mao Nakajima, Teruo Takahashi, Takafumi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20230384605
    Abstract: A spectroscopic module includes M beam splitters that are arranged along an X direction, where M is a natural number of 2 or more; M bandpass filters disposed on one side in a Z direction with respect to the M beam splitters, each of the M bandpass filters facing each of the M beam splitters; a light detector disposed on the one side in the Z direction with respect to the M bandpass filters and includes M light receiving regions, each of the M light receiving regions facing each of the M bandpass filters; a first support body supporting the M beam splitters; and a second support body supporting the M bandpass filters. Each of N beam splitters among the M beam splitters has a plate shape and has a thickness of 1 mm or less, where N is a natural number of 2 to M.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Kazumasa MURAKAMI, Tatsuya OGINO, Shinsuke OKADA
  • Publication number: 20230387149
    Abstract: Provided is an optical sensor including: a charge generation region that generates charges in response to incident light; a charge collection region to which charges generated in the charge generation region are transferred; and at least one transfer gate electrode disposed on a transfer region between the charge generation region and the charge collection region. The charge generation region includes an avalanche multiplication region that causes avalanche multiplication, and a gradient potential energy formation region that forms gradient potential energy that is gradient so that potential energy becomes lower as approaching the transfer region in the charge generation region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Mitsuhito MASE, Ryo TAKIGUCHI, Hiroaki ISHII, Masaru NAKANO, Shin-ichiro TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20230384624
    Abstract: An iterative Fourier transform unit of a modulation pattern calculation apparatus performs a Fourier transform on a waveform function including an intensity spectrum function and a phase spectrum function, performs a replacement of a temporal intensity waveform function based on a desired waveform after the Fourier transform, and then performs an inverse Fourier transform. The iterative Fourier transform unit performs the replacement using a result of multiplying a function representing the desired waveform by a coefficient. The coefficient has a value with which a difference between the function after the multiplication of the coefficient and the temporal intensity waveform function after the Fourier transform is smaller than a difference before the multiplication, and a ratio of the difference is smaller when an intensity is higher at each time of the function before the multiplication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Koyo WATANABE, Takashi INOUE
  • Patent number: 11832009
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array unit and a current source array unit. The pixel array unit includes N pixel units arrayed in a first direction. Each pixel unit includes a photodiode and an amplification MOS transistor. The current source array unit includes N current sources. Each current source includes a first MOS transistor, a second MOS transistor, a third MOS transistor, a fourth MOS transistor, and a setting circuit. The setting circuit sets ON/OFF of the third MOS transistor on the basis of a voltage of the signal line, thereby suppressing fluctuations in an amount of current flowing from a Vr supply line to a ground potential supply terminal via a common node and the first MOS transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Yoshimura, Yukinobu Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11828651
    Abstract: A spectroscopic module includes a plurality of beam splitters that are arranged along an X direction; a plurality of bandpass filters disposed on one side in a Z direction with respect to the plurality of beam splitters facing the plurality of beam splitters, respectively; a light detector disposed on the one side in the Z direction with respect to the plurality of bandpass filters and including a plurality of light receiving regions facing the plurality of bandpass filters, respectively; a first support body supporting the plurality of beam splitters; and a second support body supporting the plurality of bandpass filters. The second support body includes a support portion in which a support surface is formed so as to be open to the one side in the Z direction. The plurality of bandpass filters are disposed on the support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Murakami, Shinsuke Okada
  • Patent number: 11828653
    Abstract: A spectroscopic measurement apparatus includes an optical system, a photodetector, and an analysis unit. The optical system guides measurement target light from an object to a light receiving surface of the photodetector, and forms a spectral image of the measurement target light on the light receiving. The photodetector includes the light receiving surface on which a plurality of pixels are arranged respectively on a plurality of rows. The photodetector receives the spectral image for a first exposure time by a plurality of pixels in a first region on the light receiving surface, and outputs first spectrum data. The photodetector receives the spectral image for a second exposure time by a plurality of pixels in a second region on the light receiving surface, and outputs second spectrum data. The second exposure time is longer than the first exposure time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Kazuya Iguchi, Hideki Masuoka
  • Publication number: 20230378201
    Abstract: A semiconductor substrate including a first main surface and a second main surface opposing each other is provided. The semiconductor substrate includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type. The semiconductor substrate includes a plurality of planned regions where a plurality of second semiconductor regions of a second conductivity type forming pn junctions with the first semiconductor region are going to be formed, in a side of the second main surface. A textured region is formed on surfaces included in the plurality of planned regions, in the second main surface. The plurality of second semiconductor regions are formed in the plurality of planned regions after forming the textured region. The first main surface is a light incident surface of the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Tomoya TAGUCHI, Yuki Yoshida, Katsumi Shibayama
  • Publication number: 20230378861
    Abstract: An actuator device includes a support part, a movable part, a connecting part, a spiral coil provided to the movable part, a magnetic field generator, an external terminal provided to the support part; and a wiring connected to an inner end portion of the coil and the external terminal. The wiring includes a lead wiring connected to the external terminal, and a straddle wiring formed in a shape of a layer, provided to the movable part so as to straddle the coil, and connected to the inner end portion of the coil and the lead wiring. A thickness of the straddle wiring is smaller than a thickness of the coil. The straddle wiring is electrically insulated from the mirror surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Daiki SUZUKI, Takuma OSAKI, Yasuyuki SAKAKIBARA
  • Patent number: 11822054
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a metasurface structural body or the like having a structure for achieving desired optical characteristics. The metasurface structural body includes a base member having a first surface and a second surface opposing each other, and a plurality of antennas as a plurality of fine structures arranged along the first surface. The base member has a base portion and an adjacent portion. The antennas each has a first refractive index and an antenna end surface constituting a part of the first surface. The adjacent portion is provided such that a part thereof is positioned between the antennas, the adjacent portion having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index and an adjacent-portion end surface constituting a remaining part of the first surface. The antenna end surfaces and the adjacent-portion end surface form a flat surface as the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Soh Uenoyama, Yuu Takiguchi
  • Patent number: 11821793
    Abstract: A dispersion measurement apparatus includes a pulse forming unit, a correlation optical system, a photodetection unit, and an operation unit. The pulse forming unit forms a light pulse train including a plurality of light pulses having time differences and center wavelengths different from each other from a measurement target light pulse output from a pulsed laser light source. The correlation optical system receives the light pulse train output from the pulse forming unit and outputs correlation light including a cross-correlation or an autocorrelation of the light pulse train. The photodetection unit detects a temporal waveform of the correlation light output from the correlation optical system. The operation unit estimates a wavelength dispersion amount of the pulsed laser light source based on a feature value of the temporal waveform of the correlation light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Koyo Watanabe, Kyohei Shigematsu, Takashi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11822066
    Abstract: A sample observation device (1) includes: an emission optical system (3) for emitting planar light (L2) onto a sample (S); a scanning unit (4) for scanning the sample (S) with respect to an emission face (R) of the planar light (L2); an imaging optical system (5) having an observation axis (P2) inclined with respect to the emission face (R) and for forming an image from observation light (L3) generated in the sample (S) in accordance with the emission of the planar light (L2); an image acquiring unit (6) for acquiring a plurality of partial image data corresponding to a part of an optical image according to the observation light (L3) formed as an image by the imaging optical system (5); and an image generating unit (8) for generating observation image data of the sample S based on the plurality of partial image data generated by the image acquiring unit (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamamoto, Masanori Matsubara, Norikazu Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20230369822
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical kit for forming an optical system including an external resonator of a laser light source that outputs laser light, the optical kit including: a base including a main surface; a light source holding part provided on the main surface for holding the laser light source; and a holding part provided on the main surface for holding the optical system, wherein the holding part has a reflector holding part for holding the corner reflector, a first opening member holding part for holding the first opening member, and a second opening member holding part for holding the second opening member, and wherein the first opening member holding part is positioned closer to the reflector holding part than an emission surface of the laser light of the laser light source held by the light source holding part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventor: Tatsuo DOUGAKIUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230369825
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser element of the present disclosure reducing one-dimensional local oscillation includes a substrate, an active layer, and a phase modulation layer. The phase modulation layer includes a base layer and modified refractive index regions two-dimensionally placed on a reference surface. In a virtual square lattice on the reference surface, the gravity center of each modified refractive index region is placed away from the corresponding lattice point, and an angle of a vector connecting the corresponding lattice point to the gravity center is set individually. A lattice spacing and a light emission wavelength of the active layer satisfy a ?-point oscillation condition. The gravity center of each modified refractive index region is placed such that the absolute value of the Fourier coefficient of an annular or a circular shape obtained by rotating each modified refractive index region with the corresponding lattice point is 0.01 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi HIROSE, Hiroki KAMEI, Takahiro SUGIYAMA