Abstract: A touch panel includes: an infrared light transmitting material through which infrared light is transmitted and which has a surface as a touch surface (20) touched by a detection subject; area sensors (3) including photo sensor elements (4) below a touch region, which is touched by the detection subject, of the infrared light transmitting material; and infrared light sources (1) provided outside the touch region, the infrared light sources (1) emitting infrared light along said surface of the infrared light transmitting material such that an entire circumference of the detection subject touching the touch surface (20) is irradiated with the infrared light, the touch panel detecting a position touched by the detection subject so that the photo sensor element (4) receives, among infrared light emitted by the infrared light sources (1) along said surface, infrared light reflected by the detection subject and transmitted through the infrared light transmitting material.

Abstract: Provided is a backside illuminated semiconductor light-receiving device enhancing a frequency characteristic without deteriorating assembling operability. The light-receiving device includes a rectangular substrate; a light receiving mesa portion formed on a center portion of one side on a front surface of the substrate and includes a PN junction portion; a P-type electrode formed on the light receiving mesa portion and conductive with one side of the PN junction portion; an N-type electrode mesa portion formed on one corner portion of the one side; an N-type electrode pulled out to the N-type electrode mesa portion and conductive with the other side of the PN junction portion; a P-type electrode mesa portion and a dummy electrode mesa portion formed in a region including three other corner portions; and a dummy electrode formed on the dummy electrode mesa portion.

Abstract: A touch panel device includes a plurality of touch position detection electrodes provided in a touch area, and a detection circuit configured to detect a touch position or positions based on a capacitance or capacitances formed between the touch position detection electrodes and a touching object. The touch position detection electrodes include a first electrode and second electrodes formed along a curved substrate surface. The first electrode has a center portion provided at a center of the touch area, and a plurality of tip portions radially extending from the center portion to reach a periphery of the touch area. The second electrodes are located in a region including the periphery of the touch area, and one of the second electrodes is located between each adjacent pair of the tip portions.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor light receiving device including: a semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor layer laminated on the semiconductor substrate and including an upper surface portion; a reflecting film formed to cover the upper surface portion of the semiconductor layer and including a principal reflecting region and an upper surface; and an upper electrode formed to cover at least one portion of the upper surface of the reflecting film, and including a junction portion extending through the reflecting file to be provided in contact with the upper surface portion of the semiconductor layer, the junction portion of the upper electrode surrounding a portion of a circumference of the principal reflecting region of the reflecting film, the principal reflecting region being connected to a region of the reflecting film located outside the junction portion, in which the semiconductor light receiving device detects light entering from another side of the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: [Object] An apparatus and a method for producing optical sheeting with which increased productivity can be achieved while maintaining the accuracy of produced optical sheeting.

Abstract: A coordinate sensor (10) includes at least two line sensors (1) that are disposed in x-axis and y-axis directions, and right-angle prisms (2) each of which changes a light path of light that has passed through an image display region of a liquid crystal panel (20). Each of the line sensors (1) is disposed outside the image display region and has a light-receiving surface (1a) parallel to an image display surface of the liquid crystal panel (20). The right angle prisms (2) cause light which travels in the x-axis and y-axis directions and which has passed through the image display region to be guided to the light-receiving surfaces (1a) of the line sensors (1). The coordinate sensor (10) receives the light which has thus passed through the image display region of the liquid crystal panel (20) so as to detect a coordinate, on the image display region, that is indicated by an object to be detected such as a finger.

Abstract: Disclosed is a satellite navigation/dead-reckoning navigation integrated positioning device with improved accuracy of navigation data including position, velocity, and the like, which can be constituted at low cost. A tracking processing module (31) performs, based on a GPS positioning signal, acquisition processing and tracking processing thereof and demodulation processing of a navigation message. A GPS positioning calculation module (32) calculates position, velocity, and the like based on a pseudo-range observation, a Doppler frequency observation, and ephemeris data and gives the calculated position, velocity, and the like to an output judgment module (43) and the tracking processing module (31).

Abstract: The vehicle electric rotating machine includes a pulley unit having an opening portion formed in an axial front end thereof, and configured to perform at least one of transmission and reception of a rotation drive force to and from the rotation shaft of the rotor, and a lid attached to the opening portion to close an internal space of the pulley unit. The rotor includes a rotor side receiving surface in contact with one axial end surface of an inner ring of the bearing rotatably supporting the rotor. The pulley unit includes a pulley side receiving surface in contact with the other axial end surface of the inner ring. An air passage enabling air communication between the internal space of the pulley unit closed by the lid and ambient space is formed in at least one of the rotor side receiving surface, the pulley side receiving surface, and the lid.

Abstract: A brushless alternating current generator for vehicles comprises a stator, rotor, field winding, rectifier, housing, cover, and extension member. The rectifier has plural rectifying elements to rectify a voltage from the stator winding and output the rectified voltage and a radiating fin to which the rectifying elements are attached. The housing has a side wall and houses both the stator and the rotor and has an end face to which electric parts including the rectifier are attached. The side wall is along the axial direction. The end face is along the radial direction. Both the side wall and the radiating fin are mutually adjacent to provide a gap in the radial direction. The cover encloses the end face of the housing and has plural air inlets that takes in cooling air. The extension member is secured to the cover and extends into the gap in the axial direction.

Abstract: A brushless alternator includes a stationary field winding, a rotor, a stator, a rectifier, a terminal, and a protective resistor. The stationary field winding creates a magnetic flux. The rotor creates a rotating magnetic field with the magnetic flux created by the field winding. The stator includes three different-phase windings to generate a three-phase AC power in the rotating magnetic field created by the rotor. The rectifier rectifies the three-phase AC power generated by the stator into a DC power. The terminal is provided so that AC power generated by one of the three windings of the stator can be output from the alternator to external through the terminal. The protective resistor is electrically connected between the terminal and the one of the three windings of the stator to protect the alternator from electrical damage.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire and noise damper assembly comprises a pneumatic tire, a noise damper being attached to an inner surface of the tire and extending in the circumferential direction of the tire, and a protective cover being detachably attached to the tire and protecting the noise damper from ultraviolet rays and water.

Abstract: An opto-semiconductor device. An opto-semiconductor element includes a semiconductor substrate, a multilayered semiconductor layer formed on a first surface of the semiconductor substrate and having a resonator, a first electrode with multiple conductive layers formed on the multilayered semiconductor layer, and a second electrode formed on a second surface of the semiconductor substrate. A support substrate has a first surface formed with a fixing portion having a conductive layer for fixing the first electrode connected thereto through a bonding material. Bonding material and conductive layers forming the first electrode react to form a reaction layer. The difference in thermal expansion coefficient between semiconductor substrate and support substrate is not more than ±50%. A second barrier metal layer not reactive with bonding material is formed inside the first electrode uppermost conductive layer, while uppermost layer reacts with the bonding material to form the reaction layer.

Abstract: It is an objective to control the occurrence of the disorder of a far-field pattern and of an optical axial shift. A manufacturing method of a semiconductor laser device has the step for preparing a semiconductor substrate which has growth of a multi-layer including an active layer, the step for forming a mask over the growth of a multi-layer, and a step for forming a stripe-shaped ridge by dry etching and wet etching. A structure stacking a p-type AlGaInP layer, an etch-stop layer, a p-type Alx=0.7GaInP layer, a p-type Alx=0.6GaInP layer, a p-type GaAs layer, in order, over the active layer is taken in order to make the tailing part created in the dry etching process smaller by wet etching. The tailing part is composed of a p-type Alx=0.7GaInP layer including a high mixed crystal ratio of aluminum. Therefore, the p-type Alx=0.7GaInP layer is etched faster than the p-type Alx=0.

Abstract: An automotive alternator includes a magnet holder that is composed of first and second magnet holder pieces. Each of the first and second magnet holder pieces is made of a nonmagnetic metal plate to have a one-piece structure. Each of the first and second magnet holder pieces includes a plurality of receiving portions, each of which receives a permanent magnet, and a plurality of connecting portions. All the receiving portions of the first magnet holder piece have the same orientation. Each of the connecting portions of the first magnet holder piece connects a circumferentially-adjacent pair of the receiving portions of the first magnet holder piece. All the receiving portions of the second magnet holder piece have the same orientation. Each of the connecting portions of the second magnet holder piece connects a circumferentially-adjacent pair of the receiving portions of the second magnet holder piece.

Abstract: According to an AC generator for vehicles of the present invention, a terminal mount includes an L-shaped support having a radial extension, in which a metal terminal is contained and which radially extends about a rotary shaft of a rotor, and an axial extension, which extends from an end of the radial extension toward a rear cover along the rotary shaft, and at least one first guide molded integral with the L-shaped support. A radiating fin includes a second guide having a shape corresponding to a shape of the first guide. One of the first guide and the second guide is inserted into the other of the first guide and the second guide.

Abstract: The vehicle-use generator driven by a vehicle engine at a rotating shaft thereof includes a rotor rotatably mounted to the rotating shaft, a stator fixedly located radially outward of the rotor, a cooling fan fixed to the rotor to rotate together with the rotating shaft in order to generate cooling air for cooling the stator, and a housing that houses the rotor and the stator and rotatably supports the rotating shaft. The housing is provided with ribs arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotating shaft so as to form cooling air outlet windows. The ribs are inclined with respect to a radial direction of the rotating shaft, and shaped such that widths of the ribs are gradually changed cyclically in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: A brushless AC generator is mounted on a vehicle such as a truck, a farming vehicle or a construction vehicle. The generator is composed of a housing, stator fixedly contained in the housing, a rotor, for supplying a magnetic field to the stator, rotatably supported in the stator, and other associated components including a voltage regulator and a rectifier. The housing is composed of a front housing and a rear housing. An outside fan is connected to a rotor shaft and disposed at a front side. Cooling air is introduced into the generator by the outside fan through windows formed in the rear housing. A fringe surface of the window facing a shoulder portion of the rotor is sloped, so that the cooling air is smoothly introduced along the sloped surface thereby to improve cooling efficiency.

Abstract: A Lundell type rotor of an alternator has a pole core disposed on an outer side of a field coil in a radial direction of the rotor, and a non-magnetic claw pole joint ring. The pole core has claw poles disposed along a circumferential direction of the rotor at predetermined intervals. Each claw pole extends along an axial direction of the rotor and is magnetized in response to an electric current supplied to the field coil. The joint ring is formed by spirally bending a long band bar in a coil shape and has turn portions disposed along the axial direction. Each turn portion of the joint ring has no seams and is attached to inner side surfaces of the claw poles in the radial direction.

Abstract: An opto-semiconductor device. An opto-semiconductor element includes a semiconductor substrate, a multilayered semiconductor layer formed on a first surface of the semiconductor substrate and having a resonator, a first electrode with multiple conductive layers formed on the multilayered semiconductor layer, and a second electrode formed on a second surface of the semiconductor substrate. A support substrate has a first surface formed with a fixing portion having a conductive layer for fixing the first electrode connected thereto through a bonding material. Bonding material and conductive layers forming the first electrode react to form a reaction layer. The difference in thermal expansion coefficient between semiconductor substrate and support substrate is not more than 50%. A second barrier metal layer not reactive with bonding material is formed inside the first electrode uppermost conductive layer, while uppermost layer reacts with the bonding material to form the reaction layer.

Abstract: According to an AC generator for vehicles of the present invention, a terminal mount includes an L-shaped support having a radial extension, in which a metal terminal is contained and which radially extends about a rotary shaft of a rotor, and an axial extension, which extends from an end of the radial extension toward a rear cover along the rotary shaft, and at least one first guide molded integral with the L-shaped support. A radiating fin includes a second guide having a shape corresponding to a shape of the first guide. One of the first guide and the second guide is inserted into the other of the first guide and the second guide.