Abstract: An optical lens in which reflection is suppressed is provided by providing the optical lens with: a convex lens surface having, when the angle between a plane in contact with the lens surface and a direction perpendicular to the optical axis is an inclination angle, a maximum inclination angle of not less than 35 degrees and less than 90 degrees; and an antireflective structure provided on the lens surface and including structural elements that have a predetermined shape and are periodically arranged in an array form with a pitch smaller than the shortest wavelength of the incident light.

Abstract: A portable telephone terminal includes a browsing unit configured to browse content of a file via a network, a detection unit configured to detect at least one phone number from the content, a selection unit configured to select a phone number from the content by detecting the phone number therefrom, a preparation unit configured to prepare for starting call processing using the phone number selected by the selection unit, the call processing being processing for making a phone call, and a button used to start the call processing.

Abstract: An optical pickup (1) includes a light source (6) capable of emitting laser beams of various wavelengths and an objective optical system (2). The objective optical system (2) includes at least two wavefront conversion surfaces (13a) and (16a) and an objective lens (10). The at least two wavefront conversion surfaces (13a) and (16a) convert a wavefront of any laser beam entered therein into a different wavefront in response to the kind of an optical information recording medium (3) corresponding to the laser light. The objective lens (10) focuses the laser beam came out of the wavefront conversion surface (16a) on an optical information recording surface (3R). The optical pickup (1) satisfies the following condition for every wavelength of the corresponding laser beams: |SCMAX|<0.036??(1) wherein SCMAX is the maximum value of an offence against the sine condition of the objective optical system (2).

Abstract: A COF flexible printed wiring board, used for a semiconductor device, contains an insulating layer, a wiring pattern formed of a conductor layer on one side of the insulating layer, on which a semiconductor chip is to be mounted, and a heat-resistant releasing layer, wherein the releasing layer is formed from a releasing agent and is provided on a surface of the insulating layer, which surface is opposite to the mounting side of the semiconductor chip, and the releasing layer and the insulating layer, as a whole, exhibit an optical transmittance of 50% or higher, excluding the area corresponding to the wiring pattern.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce the influence of a stray light incident on a light receiving device by reflection of an unnecessary diffraction light not contributing to write or read on a disc surface at write or read of an optical disc having a large surface reflectivity with respect to an information recording surface. A position in which a diffraction light with an n-order in an advancing path and the n-order in a returning path, reflected on the information recording surface of a first information recording medium, is focused by a condensing lens is different from a position in which a diffraction light different from the n-order diffraction light in at least one of the advancing path and the returning path, reflected on a surface of the first information recording medium, is focused by the condensing lens.

Abstract: The present invention provides an objective lens system for forming a spot of a laser beam of ? wavelength on a first information recording surface through a disc protective layer having a first thickness and a second information recording surface through a disc protective layer having a second thickness greater than the first thickness, the objective lens system including: an objective lens having at least one diffraction structure for deflecting incident light by diffraction and at least two refractive surfaces for deflecting the incident light by refraction, wherein the diffraction structure divides the incident light into m1th order diffracted light (m1 is an integer) corresponding to the first information recording surface and m2th order diffracted light (m2 is an integer different from m1) corresponding to the second information recording surface and has negative power to diverge the m2th order diffracted light.

Abstract: [Problem] The present invention provides an afocal lens for an optical head that can ensure WD while satisfying NA, the optical head, an optical disc apparatus, a computer, an optical disc player, and an optical disc recorder. [Solution] Using a blue-violet laser beam source with wavelength of about 400 nm, and in an optical head compatible to optical discs having different protective substrate thickness, an afocal lens 105 that expands a diameter of light flux of light from a collimating lens and emits the light as substantially parallel light to an objective lens is provided between the collimating lens 104 and the objective lens 106. The configuration makes it possible to ensure WD while satisfying NA.

Abstract: An objective optical system 10 includes a diffraction plane 15 for separating a laser light beam into at least 0th-order diffracted light and 1st-order diffracted light. The objective optical system 10 is configured to focus the 0th-order diffracted light onto an information recording surface 22a of a first information recording medium 20a and the 1st-order diffracted light onto an information recording surface 22b of a second information recording medium 20b and meet the following conditional expression (1): ?0>?1 ??(1) wherein ?0 is the diffraction efficiency of the 0th-order diffracted light and ?1 is the diffraction efficiency of the 1st-order diffracted light.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a structure comprising: a resin pattern (A)3 formed on a base material 1 and having structure units of a predetermined shape; and a resin pattern (B)5 formed on a surface of the resin pattern (A)3 and having microscopic structure units, of a predetermined shape, arranged at a period shorter than or equal to a wavelength range of a using light, and to a method for producing the structure, comprising the steps of: (i) forming a resin layer 2 on the base material 1 and subjecting the resin layer 2 to an exposure-development process so as to form the resin pattern (A)3; and (ii) subjecting a surface of the resin pattern (A)3 to an exposure-development process so as to form the resin pattern (B)5, wherein the steps (i) and (ii) are sequential.

Abstract: A complex optical element includes a first optical portion and a second optical portion which are made of materials different from each other. The second optical portion is bonded to an optical functional face of the first optical portion. A concavoconvex face part is formed at the central part of the bond area between the first optical portion and the second optical portion.

Abstract: An optical pickup 1 includes a collimator lens 13 for changing the shape of a laser light by moving on the optical axis AX from a standard point. An objective lens 15 is set so as to form a spot of which size when the collimator lens 13 is located at the standard point is minimum at a point a distance apart from the surface on a light source 10 side of an information recording medium 20, the distance being a thickness to the designed center defined by an expression (1): Lc=(L0+Ln)/2 ??(1), wherein Lc is a thickness to the designed center; L0 is a distance between the surface on the light source side of the information recoding medium and an information recording face located nearest to the surface; and Ln is a distance between the surface on the light source side of the information recording medium and an information recording face located farthest from the surface.

Abstract: A diffractive optical element includes a first optical part and a second optical part bonded to each other with a bonded surface therebetween configured as a diffraction surface. In this diffractive optical element, the diffraction order of diffracted light with the largest quantity of light out of diffracted light for one of a plurality of kinds of laser beams obtained on the diffraction surface is different from the diffraction order for at least another laser beam.

Abstract: A low-cost contact detection sensor and contact detection method for easily detecting a contact by a third party is provided. A contact detection sensor comprises an antireflection structure including structure elements having a predetermined shape which are put in an array periodically at a pitch smaller than a wavelength of visible spectrum; and a substrate including the antireflection structure in at least a part of a surface portion thereof. The antireflection structure distinguishes whether the detection target is contacted by a human body or not based on a change in reflectance which occurs to an area of the detection target contacted by the human body when the detection target is contacted by the human body.

Abstract: Provision of a releasing layer transfer film which can form, in a simple manner, a releasing layer on a COF flexible printed wiring board, the releasing layer preventing melt adhesion of an insulating layer to a heating tool, thereby enhancing productivity and reliability of semiconductor devices produced by use of a semiconductor chip mounting line. The releasing layer transfer film 1 for forming a releasing layer onto an insulating layer serving as a component layer of a COF flexible printed wiring board, the releasing layer transfer film includes a transfer film substrate 2 and a transferable releasing layer 3 provided on a surface of the transfer film substrate 2, wherein the transferable releasing layer 3 is formed from a releasing agent and can be transferred onto the insulating layer.

Abstract: A multilayer wiring board comprising at least two double-sided wiring boards which comprises an insulating substrate and conductive metal wiring patterns on both surfaces of the insulating substrate. The wiring patterns on the insulating substrate are connected through a conductive metal in a through hole through the insulating substrate. The double-sided wiring boards are electrically connected by joining of low-melting conductive metal layers on connection terminals at the mating surfaces of the double-sided wiring boards. The at least two double-sided wiring boards are bonded by means of a polyimide adhesive resin that is selectively applied by screen printing on the double-sided wiring boards other than on the connection terminals. The wiring boards are reliably laminated, and the multilayer wiring board has a reliable electrical connection between the wiring boards.

Abstract: An optical pickup lens device includes, in the order from the light source side, a collimating lens for converting a bundle of rays into parallel rays or predetermined convergent or divergent rays, the collimating lens being movably held along a direction of an optical axis of a bundle of rays emitted from a light source; an aberration correcting element for allowing a bundle of rays emitted from the collimating lens to be transmitted therethrough; and an objective lens element having a numerical aperture of 0.8 or more, and converging a bundle of rays coming from the aberration correcting element onto the information recording medium to form a spot. The aberration correcting element and the objective lens element are integrally held together in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis so as to perform tracking on the information recording medium, and satisfy predetermined conditions.

Abstract: An optical pickup lens device includes, in the order from the light source side, a collimating lens for converting a bundle of rays into parallel rays or predetermined convergent or divergent rays, the collimating lens being movably held along a direction of an optical axis of a bundle of rays emitted from a light source; an aberration correcting element for allowing a bundle of rays emitted from the collimating lens to be transmitted therethrough; and an objective lens element having a numerical aperture of 0.8 or more, and converging a bundle of rays coming from the aberration correcting element onto the information recording medium to form a spot. The aberration correcting element and the objective lens element are integrally held together in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis so as to perform tracking on the information recording medium, and satisfy predetermined conditions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a COF flexible printed wiring board whose insulating layer is not melt-adhered to a heating tool, to thereby enhance reliability and productivity of a semiconductor chip mounting line, and also provides a method of producing the COF flexible printed wiring board. The COF flexible printed wiring board contains an insulating layer, a wiring pattern, on which a semiconductor chip being mounted, formed of a conductor layer provided on at least one side of the insulating layer and a releasing layer, wherein the releasing layer is formed from a releasing agent containing at least one species selected from a silane compound and silica sol and is provided on a surface of the insulating layer, which is opposite to the mounting side of the semiconductor chip.

Abstract: The present invention provides a COF flexible printed wiring board whose insulating layer is not melt-adhered to a heating tool, to thereby enhance reliability and productivity of a semiconductor chip mounting line, and also provides a method of producing the COF flexible printed wiring board. The COF flexible printed wiring board contains an insulating layer, a wiring pattern, on which a semiconductor chip being mounted, formed of a conductor layer provided on at least one side of the insulating layer and a releasing layer, wherein the releasing layer is formed from a releasing agent containing at least one species selected from a silane compound and silica sol and is provided on a surface of the insulating layer, which is opposite to the mounting side of the semiconductor chip.

Abstract: An optical lens in which reflection is suppressed is provided by providing the optical lens with: a convex lens surface having, when the angle between a plane in contact with the lens surface and a direction perpendicular to the optical axis is an inclination angle, a maximum inclination angle of not less than 35 degrees and less than 90 degrees; and an antireflective structure provided on the lens surface and including structural elements that have a predetermined shape and are periodically arranged in an array form with a pitch smaller than the shortest wavelength of the incident light.