Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a camera module formed with substantially the same scale as a chip of an image sensor, includes a lens held by a lens holder, an image sensor placed in a position in which an image is formed by the lens, and a wiring board disposed between the lens and the image sensor and electrically connected to the image sensor. An opening that permits light entering the image sensor to pass therethrough is formed in the wiring board. Further, a passive component is contained in the wiring board.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a camera module formed with substantially the same scale as a chip of an image sensor, includes a lens held by a lens holder, an image sensor placed in a position in which an image is formed by the lens, and a wiring board disposed between the lens and the image sensor and electrically connected to the image sensor. An opening that permits light entering the image sensor to pass therethrough is formed in the wiring board. Further, a passive component is contained in the wiring board.

Abstract: An aberration correcting device includes: a first transparent electrode; a second transparent electrode; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode, having refractive index varying according to an electric field applied to the liquid crystal layer, wherein the first transparent electrode has a first circular dividing line and a second circular dividing line formed outside the first circular division line arranged to be concentric with the second circular dividing line, and wherein a region between the first circular dividing line and the second circular dividing line is radially divided by plural radial dividing lines.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a ceramic package of which inner space is sealed by a ceramic base plate and a cover portion mounted on the ceramic base plate. The ceramic package has an image sensor, an element unit and a lead electrode. The image sensor and the element unit are mounted on the ceramic base plate. The lead electrode is formed on the ceramic base plate and electrically connected to the image sensor by a bonding wire. A surface on which the lead electrode is formed is the same as a surface on which the cover portion is mounted.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for fabricating a camera module includes the steps of: disposing a camera module body inside of a die; filling the die with a resin blocking a light; curing the resin; and removing the camera module body and the resin from the die. Here, disposing the camera module body inside of the die is disposing the camera module body having a lens holder secured on a sensor board inside of the die in such a manner that the side surface of the camera module body is not brought into contact with the side surface of the die. Filling the die with the resin is covering the upper end of the die with a lid so as to closely enclose the inside of the die, followed by filling the die with the resin. Taking the camera module body and the resin from the die is taking, from the die, the camera module body and the resin formed around the camera module body in close contact.

Abstract: An image recording device that records captured image data according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: an image sensor that acquires image data; a memory that holds measured PSF data indicating a PSF of at least one area of the image sensor virtually divided into a plurality of areas; and a restoring unit that restores the image data by using the measured PSF data. The measured PSF data is acquired from captured data acquired by capturing an adjustment chart for virtually dividing the image sensor into a plurality of areas by the image recording device.

Abstract: An aberration correcting device includes: a first transparent electrode; a second transparent electrode; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode, having refractive index varying according to an electric field applied to the liquid crystal layer, wherein the first transparent electrode has a first circular dividing line and a second circular dividing line formed outside the first circular division line arranged to be concentric with the second circular dividing line, and wherein a region between the first circular dividing line and the second circular dividing line is radially divided by plural radial dividing lines.

Abstract: An optical head device includes: a diffraction unit including a plurality of diffraction portions each diffracting a incident light in a given direction, the light beam being reflected by an optical disc; and a photodetection unit including a plurality of photodetectors each outputting a signal corresponding to an intensity of an irradiated light, wherein the photodetectors include at least two first photodetectors for generating a compensation value to compensate a tracking error signal, and wherein the diffraction portions include at least two first portions for focusing the incident light into the first photodetectors.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an APC photodetector accepts a light beam branched from a light beam toward a recording medium by a branching mirror and detects intensity of a light beam supplied from a light source, a light quantity adjusting element adjusts the intensity of the light beam, and the intensity of the light beam incident to the APC photodetector is changed in a continuous manner or a stepwise manner by the light quantity adjusting element. Therefore, when the single APC photodetector detects recording and reproducing light beams, the recording and reproducing light beams can fall within a dynamic range of the APC photodetector.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical head device provides a signal processing circuit which sets a control amount to move an objective lens so that a distance between the objective lens and a given recording layer of the an optical disc coincides with a focal position, an optical path length correction mechanism which corrects an influence of an aberration component producing an error in the focal distance, a thickness difference detection circuit which finds an amount of correction to be made by the optical path length, and an aberration correction circuit which generates a correction signal to correct the influence of the aberration component producing the error in the focal distance detected by the thickness difference detection circuit, and supplies the correction signal to the optical path length correction mechanism.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the optical head unit includes two or more light sources, an objective lens which condenses the light beam having the predetermined wavelength output from each of the light sources to a recording layer of a recording medium, and captures a light beam reflected on the recording layer, a polarization control element arranged between the light sources and the objective lens, to optimize directions of polarization of the light beam having the predetermined wavelength output from the light source and the light beam reflected on the recording layer, in accordance with the wavelength thereof, on the basis of a voltage to be applied, a photodetector which receives the reflected light beam captured by the objective lens and outputs a predetermined signal, and a polarization controller which varies the direction of polarization set by the polarization control element, in accordance with the output of the photodetector, the fluctuations of the signals recorded and/or reproduced in each wave

Abstract: The refractive index of a light transmission layer of an optical disk is set within the range of 1.45 to 1.75, the numerical aperture of a lens emitting laser light which is incident onto the light transmission layer is set to 0.65, and the wavelength range of the laser light is set within the range of 395 to 415 nm. Further, in order that aberrations fall within the range of certain acceptable values, the thickness t of the light transmission layer is set within the range of f(n)?t1?t?f(n)+t2, employing constants t1, t2 determined based on an acceptable value of aberration and function f(n) of the refractive index n.

Abstract: In a gas humidifier used for humidifying fuel in a molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC), a small-size gas humidifier is achieved by carrying out a steam-generating process and a gas humidifying process by the use of the steam by using a single unit. In order to achieve this structure, a plurality of longitudinal tube plates are laminated in a thickness direction with predetermined intervals so that a heat-exchanger core (100) of a plate-fin type is prepared. Heating-use high-temperature fluid (A) is allowed to flow alternately through a plurality of spaces that are formed inside the heat-exchanger core (100) and placed side by side in the horizontal direction so as to direct a gas to be humidified (B) to another space from above to below. An injection tube (210), which is used for spraying liquid (C) that serves as a steam source, is inserted virtually horizontally along tube plates on two sides in an upper portion of each space through which the gas to be humidified (B) flows.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical head unit according to an embodiment of the invention, a reflected beam guided to a detection area of a photodetector is changed in the image forming characteristic by a liquid crystal element, which is placed between an object lens and a collimator lens, and provided with a controllable diffraction index, according to a spherical aberration amount corresponding to a thickness error in a protection layer of an optical disc and a comatic aberration amount corresponding to a disc tilt of an optical disc.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical pick up apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention has an object lens which captures a light beam reflected on a recording surface of an optical disc, a polarization control element which divides a light beam captured by the object lens into a predetermined number of beams, and diffracts each divided beam in a predetermined direction, a photodetector which detects a light beam divided and diffracted by the polarization control element for each divided component, and a signal processor which calculates a tilt component along the radial direction of am optical disc, in an output of the photodetector, as a difference between a signal component indicating a change in the distance from the object lens to an optical disc, and a signal component indicating a position in the radial direction of a string of signal components recorded in an optical disc.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical head device and an optical disk unit using the same. The optical head device includes a relay lens control unit to control at least one of lenses of a relay lens unit based on an output signal outputted from a first optical detector and a power control circuit to control an intensity of a light beam emits from a light source.

Abstract: A method for forming an optical disk including, providing a substrate and an information recording layer on the substrate, and covering the information recording layer with a cover layer having light transmission properties such that a thickness t of the cover layer is determined based on a predetermined function f(n), which depends on a refractive index n of the cover layer, and the function f(n) is, f ? ( n ) = A 1 × n 3 ( n 2 - 1 ) × ( n 2 + A 2 ) ( n 2 + A 3 ) ? ? ? ( mm ) , ?in which, A1=0.049245, A2=?0.579135, and A3=0.012842, and constants t1 and t2 determine a range of the thickness t of the cover layer so that f(n)?t1<t<f(n)++t2.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical head unit which is provided with a liquid crystal element to correct aberration on an information recording surface of an optical disc, to decrease the influence of inclination and variations in the thickness of an optical disc, regardless of displacement of an optical axis of an object lens from a central axis of a liquid crystal element, the outermost transparent electrode among transparent electrodes optimized at a position where the optical axis of the object lens is not displaced from the center of the transparent electrode of the liquid crystal element, is shaped like an ellipse by extending in the radial direction of an optical disc.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical head unit of the invention combines preferably and simplifies a diffraction pattern of a diffraction element to guide a reflected laser beam divided into a predetermined number to a photodetector, in order to provide an optical head unit and an optical disc apparatus which provide a stable reproducing signal irrespectively of the standards of recording media, when reproducing information from a recording medium of optional standard. By using the combined and simplified diffraction pattern, the optical head unit easily provides outputs usable to detect first, second and third signals used to detect a tracking error when reproducing information recorded on an optical disc from a reflected laser beam from an optical disc, a fourth signal used to detect a focus error, and a fifth signal used to detect a spherical aberration compensating component.

Abstract: First and second photo detector cells are independently provided. At the time of a disk reproducing laser power, an addition output of electric signals subjected to opto-electric conversion from the first and second photo detector cells is derived as a control signal of a laser drive circuit by a first processing circuit. At a disk recording laser power, on the other hand, an electric signal subjected to opto-electric conversion from any one of the first and second photo detector cells is derived as a control signal of the laser drive circuit by a second processing circuit.