Abstract: A press detecting touch panel that includes a housing defining an opening, a piezoelectric film, and a holding member which holds the piezoelectric film within the opening. An entire periphery of the holding member is fixed to the housing such that the holding member covers the opening, and a first cross sectional shape along a first direction of the holding member is different than a second cross sectional shape along a second direction of the holding member.

Abstract: A filter that includes a plurality of fibers arranged to form a first principal surface and a second principal surface opposite the first principal surface, and a plurality of first piezoelectric fibers that generate negative charges by stretching are arranged at least on a side of the first principal surface.

Abstract: One or more toner bottles are provided for supplying toners to development apparatuses. The toner bottles each include bottle portions and displacement sensors. The bottle portions accommodate the toners and are rotated by a drive force of a drive source. The displacement sensors are positioned on sides of the bottle portions and detect deflection amounts of the sides of the bottle portions to determine how much toner is remaining in each toner bottle.

Abstract: A touch sensor that includes a pressure detection sensor and a position detection sensor. The pressure detection sensor and the position detection sensor are sequentially disposed from an operation surface side of the touch sensor. The position detection sensor includes a dielectric substrate, first position detecting electrodes on a first principal surface of the dielectric substrate, and second position detecting electrodes on a second principal surface of the dielectric substrate. The pressure detection sensor includes a piezoelectric film, a first piezoelectric detecting electrode on a first principal surface of the piezoelectric film, and a second piezoelectric detecting electrode on a second principal surface of the piezoelectric film. The first and second piezoelectric detecting electrodes are disposed so as to not overlap the first and second position detecting electrodes.

Abstract: A displacement sensor having a rectangular shaped elastic member. A piezoelectric element is attached to a first main face of the elastic member. The piezoelectric element has a rectangular-shaped piezoelectric sheet and electrodes on both main faces of the piezoelectric sheet. The piezoelectric sheet is made of poly-L-lactic acid and is at least uniaxially-stretched. The piezoelectric element is attached so that the uniaxial-stretching direction of the piezoelectric sheet is 45° relative to a long-side direction of the elastic member. When the elastic member is bent along the long-side direction, the piezoelectric sheet is stretched along the long-side direction, and the piezoelectric element generates voltage of predetermined level.

Abstract: An antibacterial fiber that includes a charge generation member shaped in a fibrous form and that generates charges sufficient to suppress the proliferation of a bacillus by input of external energy, and a water-resistant member that covers the charge generation member.

Abstract: A pointer includes: a pointer tip having a tip configured to point a position; a transmitter configured to emit a signal from the pointer tip; and a main body connected to the pointer tip. The main body includes: an exterior housing forming an exterior; a detector configured to detect displacement of the exterior housing and output a detection signal; and a controller configured to change an operation state of the pointer in accordance with the detection signal. The detector includes: a detection device provided on an inner surface of the exterior housing and configured to detect the displacement; and a signal outputter configured to output the detection signal in the case where the detection device detects the displacement.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a piezoelectric substrate which includes a first piezoelectric body having an elongated shape and helically wound in one direction, and which does not include a core material, in which the first piezoelectric body includes a helical chiral polymer (A) having an optical activity; in which the length direction of the first piezoelectric body is substantially parallel to the main direction of orientation of the helical chiral polymer (A) included in the first piezoelectric body; and in which the first piezoelectric body has a degree of orientation F, as measured by X-ray diffraction according to the following Equation (a), within the range of 0.5 or more but less than 1.0: degree of orientation F=(180°??)/180°??(a) (in which ? represents the half-value width of the peak derived from the orientation).

Abstract: A device for detecting a holding state of an object. The device includes a housing for the object that has a shape that can be held by an operator and a piezoelectric sensor attached to the housing. Moreover, a detecting unit can detects a holding state of the housing by using a fluctuation amount of an output voltage of the piezoelectric sensor. The housing has a shape having a hollow space and the piezoelectric sensor has a flat film shape and is disposed in contact with an inner wall surface of the housing. The piezoelectric film produces charges when stretched and contracted in response to a displacement of the housing that are outputted as a voltage to the detecting unit. When detecting that the output voltage significantly fluctuates, the detecting unit identifies that the object is being held.

Abstract: A touch panel that includes a piezoelectric film having a first principal surface and a second principal surface that are opposed to each other, a capacitance detection electrode arranged on one side of the first principal surface of the piezoelectric film and configured to detect a touched position, and a piezoelectric voltage detection electrode arranged on one side of each of the first principal surface and the second principal surface of the piezoelectric film and configured to detect a piezoelectric voltage in accordance with an amount pressed into the piezoelectric film.

Abstract: A deformation detection sensor that includes a conductive member, a plurality of thermoplastic resin layers, and a piezoelectric film. At least one of the thermoplastic resin layers has a main surface, and the conductive member is formed on the main surface thereof. The plurality of thermoplastic resin layers are laminated and integrally formed by hot pressing into a laminated body. A transmission line is formed form a first portion of the conductive member and the thermoplastic resin in the laminated body. The piezoelectric film is attached to the laminated body to form a piezoelectric element made of a second portion of the conductive member, the thermoplastic resin in the laminated body, and the piezoelectric film.

Abstract: A touch panel that includes a housing defining an opening and a piezoelectric film covering the opening. The opening has a shape whose lengths in an X direction and a Y direction are different. The piezoelectric film is stretched in a uniaxial direction, and is aligned such that the uniaxial direction forms an angle of 45 degrees with respect to the X direction and the Y direction.

Abstract: A charge-generating thread for bacterium-countermeasure that includes a charge-generating fiber. The charge-generating fiber generates a charge by energy imparted from the outside of the fiber so as to restrain the proliferation of bacteria by the generated charge.

Abstract: An antibacterial fiber that includes a plurality of charge generation fibers. The plurality of charge generation fibers generate electric charges with application of external energy thereto, and the space between the plurality of charge generation fibers is not uniform.

Abstract: A pressure-sensing device including a pressed component that has a contact surface to which pressure is applied by contact from a presser; a polymeric piezoelectric element that is disposed at an opposite side from the contact surface of the pressed component and that has a piezoelectric constant d14 of 1 pC/N or more as measured at 25° C. using a stress-charge method; a curable resin layer that includes at least one selected from the group consisting of cold-setting resins, thermosetting resins, and actinic radiation-curable resins and that is in contact with at least part of a surface of the polymeric piezoelectric element; and an electrode that is in contact with at least part of a surface of the polymeric piezoelectric element or of a surface of the curable resin layer.

Abstract: A nonwoven member that includes a plurality of piezoelectric fibers. The nonwoven member is formed into a cloth by intertwining the plurality of piezoelectric fibers. The nonwoven member inhibits the growth of bacteria due to an electric charge generated when an external force is applied to the piezoelectric fibers.

Abstract: A pressure-detecting sensor that includes a piezoelectric sensor, a rectangular plate member, and an attaching member. The piezoelectric sensor is attached to the plate member via the attaching member so that the piezoelectric sensor is located in the vicinity of an end of the plate member in the longitudinal direction of the plate member, and such that the longitudinal direction of the piezoelectric sensor is parallel to the transverse direction of the plate member. The attaching member is composed of a sticky agent having an elastic constant of 106 Pa or lower. The piezoelectric sensor has a shape having aspect ratio of 2.5 or higher.

Abstract: When determining that a level of a deformation detection signal is greater than a threshold, a controller assumes that a touch operation is performed at an initially-detected position and virtually at another position different from the position, and outputs a position detection signal to a processor indicating that the two touch positions and separate from each other based on the touch position. Thus, the controller converts the deformation detection signal into the position detection signal corresponding to a pinch-out operation, and outputs the position detection signal to the processor.

Abstract: A touch panel that includes a plate member which includes a first principal surface and a second principal surface opposing each other, and is constructed so as to be distorted in response to a force applied to the first principal surface; a main functional unit having piezoelectric voltage detection electrodes disposed on opposed sides of a piezoelectric film and which detect a piezoelectric voltage corresponding to a distortion amount of the piezoelectric film; and an adhesive layer which adheres the plate member and the main functional unit, the adhesive layer being divided into a plurality of areas, and at least two areas have different moduli.

Abstract: A displacement detection sensor has a plate member and piezoelectric sensors with a piezoelectric film of PLLA. The piezoelectric sensors are mounted on the face of the plate member on the opposite side of the operation surface thereof. Tensile stresses are generated in the entire face of the plate member at pressing the operation surface. The piezoelectric sensor is mounted so that the direction of macro tensile stress in the plate member in the region in which the piezoelectric sensor is mounted and molecular orientation direction of the piezoelectric film intersect each other at an angle of 45°. The piezoelectric sensor is mounted so that the direction of macro tensile stress in the plate member in the region in which the piezoelectric sensor is mounted and molecular orientation direction of the piezoelectric film intersect each other at an angle of approximately 45°.