Abstract: Object: To provide a backlight device for a liquid crystal display device which can suppress occurrence of power loss in any of light emitting bodies, and a liquid crystal display device including the backlight device. Solution to Problem: In a cluster (161), arranged are two magenta light emitting bodies (131) including a blue light emitting element (143) with high drive voltage and red phosphors (151) covering the blue light emitting element (143), two green light emitting bodies (132), and one blue light emitting body (133). With this configuration, since two blue LED elements (143) are implemented also in two magenta light emitting bodies (131), the drive voltage of the magenta light emitting bodies (131) is substantially equal to the drive voltage of the green light emitting bodies (132) and the blue light emitting body (133).

Abstract: The preset invention provides a light unit attached to a vehicle, the unit including a ventilation mechanism configured to ventilate a space between an outer lens and a housing, wherein the ventilation mechanism includes a first passage including, at one end, a first opening connected to a communicating hole and communicating with the space, a second passage including, at one end, a second opening that opens to a front side of the vehicle, a third passage including, at one end, a third opening that opens to a rear side of the vehicle, and a connecting passage to which the other end of the first passage, the other end of the second passage, and the other end of the third passage are connected.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light emitting element includes: providing a wafer including: a substrate, and a semiconductor structure; irradiating the substrate with a laser beam to form a plurality of modified regions in the substrate; and subsequently, separating the wafer into a plurality of light emitting elements. Irradiating the substrate with a laser beam includes: performing a first irradiation step comprising irradiating the laser beam along a plurality of first lines that extend in a first direction that is parallel to the first face and that are aligned in a second direction that is parallel to the first face and intersects the first direction, and subsequent to performing the first irradiation step, performing a second irradiation step comprising irradiating the laser beam along second lines that extend in the second direction.

Abstract: A robot system 1 including: a robot; a control device which controls the robot; an elongated member attached to a distal end of the robot; a light projection unit attached to one end of the elongated member for emitting light in a longitudinal direction of the elongated member; a plurality of light reception units, arranged at the other end side of the elongated member, configured to receive the light emitted by the light projection unit; and a timer configured to measure time that is necessary for one of the light reception units to receive the light twice, where the control device controls the robot so as to slightly move a proximal end portion of the elongated member in a vibration movement direction of a distal end portion of the elongated member, based on the measured time and an order of light reception by the light reception units.

Abstract: The preset invention provides a light unit attached to a vehicle, the unit including a ventilation mechanism configured to ventilate a space between an outer lens and a housing, wherein the ventilation mechanism includes a first passage including, at one end, a first opening connected to a communicating hole and communicating with the space, a second passage including, at one end, a second opening that opens to a front side of the vehicle, a third passage including, at one end, a third opening that opens to a rear side of the vehicle, and a connecting passage to which the other end of the first passage, the other end of the second passage, and the other end of the third passage are connected.

Abstract: Object: To provide a backlight device for a liquid crystal display device which can suppress occurrence of power loss in any of light emitting bodies, and a liquid crystal display device including the backlight device. Solution to Problem: In a cluster (161), arranged are two magenta light emitting bodies (131) including a blue light emitting element (143) with high drive voltage and red phosphors (151) covering the blue light emitting element (143), two green light emitting bodies (132), and one blue light emitting body (133). With this configuration, since two blue LED elements (143) are implemented also in two magenta light emitting bodies (131), the drive voltage of the magenta light emitting bodies (131) is substantially equal to the drive voltage of the green light emitting bodies (132) and the blue light emitting body (133).

Abstract: A robot system includes a robot, and an RF tag, the RF tag including a detection device for detecting biometric authentication information of an individual, a memory for storing unique biometric authentication information of an authorized person which is authorized to perform operations related to a task of the robot, a first processor for obtaining a biometric authentication result by comparing the biometric authentication information detected by the detection device with the unique biometric authentication information stored in the memory, and a first antenna for transmitting the biometric authentication result obtained by the first processor. The robot system further includes a control device including a second antenna for receiving the biometric authentication result transmitted from the RF tag, wherein the control device advances a process of the operation when the biometric authentication result indicates that the individual is the authorized person.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor element includes: providing a wafer having a semiconductor layered body on a sapphire substrate; irradiating a laser light in an interior region of the sapphire substrate to create cracks in the sapphire substrate by performing a first scan to irradiate the laser light at a first depth with a first pulse energy to create a first modified region, and a second scan following the first scan to irradiate the laser light at a second depth with a second pulse energy greater than the first pulse energy along and within the first modified region; and dividing the wafer by extending the cracks to obtain a semiconductor element.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light emitting element includes: providing a wafer that comprises: a substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface, a dielectric multilayer film on the first main surface, and a semiconductor structure on the second main surface; focusing laser light onto an inner portion of the substrate from a first main surface side of the substrate, to simultaneously form a modified region in the substrate and remove a portion of the dielectric multilayer film; and cleaving the wafer at a portion where the modified region is formed to obtain a plurality of light emitting elements.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light emitting element includes: providing a wafer that includes a substrate having a first principal face and a second principal face, a dielectric multilayer film disposed on the first principal face, and a semiconductor structure disposed on the second principal face; forming modified regions in the substrate by focusing a laser beam inside the substrate via the dielectric multilayer film, and allowing cracks to form from the modified regions to the dielectric multilayer film; subsequent to forming the modified regions in the substrate, removing regions of the dielectric multilayer film that contain cracks; and cleaving the wafer along regions where cracks were formed in the substrate.

Abstract: A fixing structure of voltage detection terminal includes a voltage detection terminal and a resin case having insulation property. The voltage detection terminal includes a flat plate portion, a busbar connection portion that bends from an upper end of the flat plate portion in an extending direction perpendicular to an up-down direction, and a crimping portion connected to an end portion of an electrical wire. The resin case includes a terminal accommodating portion accommodating the voltage detection terminal. The busbar connection portion is bonded to a plane surface of a busbar in the up-down direction to overlap with the busbar. The terminal accommodating portion includes projections that block movement in the extending direction of the flat plate portion in the terminal accommodating portion, and a latch projection that blocks movement in the up-down direction of the voltage detection terminal in the terminal accommodating portion.

Abstract: By a simple circuit configuration, luminance unevenness is suppressed, and charge remaining after a power source supply is interrupted is suppressed. A slope control unit (52) generates a switch control signal (Von) having a waveform with a falling slope, by switching between a grounded state of being connected to a ground and an ungrounded state, and modulating the waveform of a high voltage (VGH), and in a case where a power supply from the outside is interrupted, the slope control unit (52) is in the ungrounded state.

Abstract: Provided is a backlight device for a liquid crystal display device, which is capable of suitably adjusting a white point and realizing a wide color reproduction range. An LED module that is a light source of the backlight device is constituted by a magenta light emitting body (110) having a structure in which a blue LED element (112) is covered with a red phosphor (114), a green light emitting body (120) including a green LED element (122), and a red light emitting body (130) including a red LED element (132). A backlight driving circuit independently controls each of luminance of light emitted from the magenta light emitting body (110), luminance of light emitted from the green light emitting body (120), and luminance of light emitted from the red light emitting body (130).

Abstract: An optical fiber has an incident end on which light is incident, an emitting end from which the light is emitted, and an aperture provided in a core located at or near the emitting end. The aperture is formed by irradiating the core with an ultrashort pulsed laser beam having pulse widths of 10?15 seconds to 10?11 seconds.

Abstract: A display device capable of accurately supplying a voltage used to generate a gate signal and a voltage used to drive a nonvolatile memory is provided using a simple configuration. A DC/DC converter 20 switches between a first state of converting an input voltage (Vin) into a voltage (Vs) used to drive a nonvolatile memory and a second state of converting the input voltage (Vin) into a voltage (Vg) used to generate a gate signal.

Abstract: By a simple circuit configuration, luminance unevenness is suppressed, and charge remaining after a power source supply is interrupted is suppressed. A slope control unit (52) generates a switch control signal (Von) having a waveform with a falling slope, by switching between a grounded state of being connected to a ground and an ungrounded state, and modulating the waveform of a high voltage (VGH), and in a case where a power supply from the outside is interrupted, the slope control unit (52) is in the ungrounded state.

Abstract: An optical semiconductor package has a base material that includes a principal surface, an optical semiconductor element that is located on the principal surface of the base material to project or receive light, and an optical transparency sealing layer that seals the optical semiconductor element while covering the principal surface of the base material. An air gap having a shape surrounding an optical axis of the optical semiconductor element is provided in the optical transparency sealing layer such that the light is reflected by an interface of a portion corresponding to an inner circumferential surface of the air gap in an interface formed by the air gap and the optical transparency sealing layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device wherein display performance of a two-dimensional image and that of a three-dimensional image are both improved. The liquid crystal display device is provided with: a liquid crystal display panel, which displays the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional image by selectively switching the images; and a backlight, which supplies light to the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight includes an illuminating region, which is scan-lighted corresponding to scanning of the liquid crystal display panel, and the scanning frequencies of the illuminating region at the time of displaying the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional image on the liquid crystal display panel are different from each other.

Abstract: A power module can prevent damages due to cracking or breakage of an insulating substrate when molding even if a heat plate constituting a power module pre-product is made areally smaller than the insulating substrate, and can also sufficiently satisfy demand for minimization. Specifically, the power module pre-product is sealed by a molding resin layer in a state where externally exposed end portion on one end side in both external connecting terminals and the other surface side of a heat plate are each exposed to the outside. The power module substrate constituting a multilayer substrate body includes an aligning hole, into which an aligning pin is inserted, the pin being included in a lower molding die constituting a molding die with an upper molding die that molds a molding resin layer, so as to position the power module pre-product inside a cavity.

Abstract: To provide an active-energy-ray-curable resin composition that exhibits high bonding strength even to plastic films that are difficult to bond such as untreated PET films, fluorine-based films, and polycarbonate films, which are referred to as difficult-to-bond films, and that can maintain the bonding strength even under wet heat conditions; an adhesive including the resin composition; and a laminate film obtained by using the adhesive. The essential components contained are a (meth)acrylate compound (A), a polyester resin (B), and a polymerization initiator (D), the (meth)acrylate compound (A) having a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) in a range of 5,000 to 30,000 and including, in a molecular structure, a (meth)acryloyl group and a polyester moiety, and the polyester resin (B) having an acid value in a range of 40 to 90 mgKOH/g.