Abstract: This disclosure relates to an organic zener diode having one electrode and one counter electrode, and an organic layer arrangement formed between the electrode and the counter electrode, wherein the organic layer arrangement includes the following organic layers: an electrically n-doped charge carrier injection layer on the electrode side, made from a mixture of an organic matrix material and an n-dopant, an electrically p-doped charge carrier injection layer on the counter electrode side, made from a mixture of another organic matrix material and a p-dopant, and an electrically undoped organic intermediate layer that is arranged between the electrically n-doped charge carrier injection layer on the electrode side and the electrically p-doped charge carrier injection layer on the counter electrode side. An electronic circuit arrangement with an organic zener diode and method for operating an organic zener diode are also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to an organic optoelectronic component comprising a base electrode, a top electrode that is provided with passages and an arrangement of organic layers, which is formed between the base electrode and the top electrode and makes electrical contact with said electrodes. In said component, light can be generated in a light-emitting region by the application of electrical energy to the base electrode and the top electrode. An organic current distribution layer also extends into the region containing the passages, said layer making electrical contact with the top electrode and the light-emitting region.

Abstract: The invention relates to an organic field-effect transistor, in particular an organic thin film field-effect transistor comprising a gate electrode, a drain electrode and a source electrode, a dielectric layer which is formed in contact with the gate electrode, an active layer made from an organic material which is in contact with the drain electrode and the source electrode and which is configured electrically undoped, a dopant material layer which contains a dopant material that is an electrical dopant for the organic material of the active layer, and a border surface region in which a planar contact is formed between the active layer and the dopant material layer, wherein mobility of similar electrical charge carriers, namely electrons or holes, in the dopant material layer is no more than half as great as in the active layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electroluminescent light-emitting device comprising an arrangement of organic layers which are applied to a substrate, and also to a method for its production. The arrangement of organic layers comprises the following layers: at least one charge carrier transport layer consisting of organic material, and at least one light-emitting layer consisting of organic material. The arrangement of organic layers furthermore comprises at least one doped fullerene layer which has a doping that increases the electrical conductivity.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for an organic pin-type light-emitting diode with an electrode and a counter-electrode and a stack with organic layers between the electrode and the counter-electrode, where the stack with the organic layers comprises an emission layer comprising a k (k=1, 2, 3, . . . ) organic matrix materials, a doped charge carrier transport layer, which is arranged between the electrode and the emission layer, a further doped charge carrier transport layer, which is arranged between the counter-electrode and the emission layer, and one block layer, which is arranged between one of the doped charge carrier transport layers and the emission layer. The organic layers of the stack are formed by means of n (n?k+2) organic matrix materials, where the n organic matrix materials comprise the k organic matrix materials of the emission layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to an organic optoelectronic component comprising a base electrode, a top electrode that is provided with passages and an arrangement of organic layers, which is formed between the base electrode and the top electrode and makes electrical contact with said electrodes. In said component, light can be generated in a light-emitting region by the application of electrical energy to the base electrode and the top electrode. An organic current distribution layer also extends into the region containing the passages, said layer making electrical contact with the top electrode and the light-emitting region.

Abstract: The invention relates to an organic field-effect transistor, in particular an organic thin film field-effect transistor comprising a gate electrode, a drain electrode and a source electrode, a dielectric layer which is formed in contact with the gate electrode, an active layer made from an organic material which is in contact with the drain electrode and the source electrode and which is configured electrically undoped, a dopant material layer which contains a dopant material that is an electrical dopant for the organic material of the active layer, and a border surface region in which a planar contact is formed between the active layer and the dopant material layer, wherein mobility of similar electrical charge carriers, namely electrons or holes, in the dopant material layer is no more than half as great as in the active layer.

Abstract: A technology is disclosed for easily executing a compositional analysis to obtain a preferred composition. Image data is acquired, the image data is analyzed, and a plurality of composition lines expressing the feature of the image data on the composition are acquired. On the composition formed of the plurality of acquired composition lines, the ratio of lengths of two sides selected from the plurality of sides in the region partitioned by the plurality of composition lines is detected to be a specified value (for example, the golden ratio).

Abstract: A method of using a metal complex as an n-dopant for doping an organic semiconducting matrix material in order to alter the latter's electrical characteristics is provided. In order to provide n-doped organic semiconductors with matrix materials having a low reduction potential, while achieving high conductivities, the n-dopant is a neutral electron-rich metal complex with a neutral or charged transition metal atom as a central atom and having at least 16 valence electrons. The complex can be polynuclear and can possess at least one metal-metal bond. At least one ligand can form a ? complex with the central atom, which can be a bridge ligand, or it can contain at least one carbanion-carbon atom or a divalent atom. Methods for providing the novel n-dopants are provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing doped organic semiconductor materials with an elevated charge carrier density and effective charge carrier mobility by doping, in which the doping agent is substantially produced by electrocrystallization in a first step, the doping agent is selected from a group of organic compounds with a low oxidation potential, and in which an organic semiconductor material is doped with the doping agent in a second step. Furthermore, the invention relates to doped organic semiconductor materials with an elevated charge carrier density and effective charge carrier mobility produced by the aforementioned process. Furthermore, the invention relates to an organic diode comprising doped organic semiconductor materials produced in accordance with the aforementioned process.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for an organic pin-type light-emitting diode with an electrode and a counter-electrode and a stack with organic layers between the electrode and the counter-electrode, where the stack with the organic layers comprises an emission layer comprising a k (k=1, 2, 3, . . . ) organic matrix materials, a doped charge carrier transport layer, which is arranged between the electrode and the emission layer, a further doped charge carrier transport layer, which is arranged between the counter-electrode and the emission layer, and one block layer, which is arranged between one of the doped charge carrier transport layers and the emission layer. The organic layers of the stack are formed by means of n (n?k+2) organic matrix materials, where the n organic matrix materials comprise the k organic matrix materials of the emission layer.

Abstract: A thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer for slush molding; a thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer for slush molding obtained by pulverizing the above thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer for slush molding; and a skin material obtained by using the thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer powder for slush molding and performing slush molding, are disclosed.

Abstract: An instrument panel has a base, an air bag door core, a skin, and a polyurethane foam body. The base has an opening for passing an air bag if the air bag inflates. The door core is arranged on the surface of the base, to close the opening. The skin has a breaking facility that defines an air bag door. The foam body fills a space between the base and the skin. The instrument panel is provided with a specific string member. The string member has a face made of a non-adhesive part that is non-adhesive with respect to the foam body and a face made of an adhesive part that is adhesive with respect to the foam body. The string member is arranged on the surface of the base along the breaking facility so that the foam body breaks always along the breaking facility, to surely and smoothly open the air bag door without scattering the foam body.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus for forming an image on an image-bearing member includes an image-reading unit. The image-reading unit has an electric component which converts an original image to image data. The image-forming apparatus has a data memory in which the image data is stored, and an image-forming unit. The image-forming unit has an electric component which forms an image on the image-bearing member on the basis of the image data and a personal identification code. Furthermore, the image-forming apparatus has a control unit for controlling the image-forming unit so as to form an image on the basis of the image data at a predetermined timing which an operator requests.

Abstract: An automatic document feeder includes a document tray for receiving an original document for photocopying and another original document tray for receiving a document for facsimile for simple operation such that the plurality of paper sheets of the document on the document tray for photocopying are sequentially fed to a document table starting from the last sheet whereas the plurality of paper sheets of the document on the document tray for facsimile are sequentially fed to the document table starting from the first sheet. The feeder also includes a pair of empty sensors and for sensing the presence or absence of a document on the respective document trays and selects either the photocopying mode or the facsimile mode according to a signal from the related empty sensor.

Abstract: In an electronic copying machine, a paper feeding mechanism includes a paper supply roller, a reversal roller, and an aligning roller. The aligning roller and the reversal roller are rotated by a motor through first and second transmission mechanisms, respectively. The supply roller is rotated by the rotational force of the aligning roller through a third transmission mechanism. A first locking member is shifted by a first solenoid between a locking position, in which the first locking member engages the first transmission mechanism to interrupt the transmission of the driving force, and a transmission position, in which the first locking member is disengaged from the first transmission mechanism.

Abstract: A base for supporting an image forming apparatus at a predetermined level is constructed by a plurality of units which have the same height and can be removably piled up on each other. At least one of the units may have a drawer and may house a function-adding device which adds a new function to the apparatus when the apparatus is supported on the unit. The device may be a paper reversing machine or an additional paper sheet feeding machine. Each device housed in the unit has a conveying mechanism and a supplying mechanis. The supplying mechanism is connected to an introduction mechanism of the image forming apparatus when the apparatus is mounted on the device, and supplies a paper sheet to the introduction mechanism of the apparatus. Each device further has an introduction mechanism, which is connected to the supplying mechanism of another function-adding unit when the function-adding unit is supported on another such unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for checking the copying of secret documents. The apparatus includes an original table on which original documents are placed. If the original document is a secret document, it is provided with a predetermined identification section. Scanning and image forming apparatus is provided which forms an image of the document when authorized to do so. In operation, secret document detecting apparatus detects whether or not a secret document identification section is present on a given document to be copied. First controlling apparatus is provided for driving the scanning apparatus prior to an image forming scan. Second controlling apparatus is provided for either enabling or disabling the image forming apparatus depending on whether a secret document is present.

Abstract: A transmission light emitting unit emits light on an original placed on an original table. A color change area designating section shifts the light emitted from the transmission light emitting unit to an arbitrary area of an original image which is subjected to change in color of image formation to designate an arbitrary area as a portion subjected to change in color of image formation prior to image formation operation. An original scanner produces an optical image of the original upon completion of scanning of the original. An image forming unit forms an image corresponding to the optical image from the scanner on an image forming medium with predetermined colors according to the designation by the designation section. A color change area display unit has a display element capable of displaying a pattern, for flashing a display pattern corresponding to the area to be subjected to a change in color of image formation and designated by the color change area designating section.