Abstract: An imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate and a first transistor provided on the semiconductor substrate and including a first gate electrode, a source, and a drain. The semiconductor substrate includes a first well region of a second conductivity type, a second well region of a first conductivity type different from the second conductivity type, a first impurity region of the first conductivity type, the first impurity region being positioned in the first well region, being one of the source and the drain, holding charges generated by photoelectric conversion, and being electrically connected to the first gate electrode, and a second impurity region of the second conductivity type, the second impurity region being positioned in the second well region and electrically connected to the other of the source and the drain.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate, a first photoelectric converter, and a second photoelectric converter. The semiconductor substrate has an electric-charge storage region. The second photoelectric converter is located between the first photoelectric converter and the semiconductor substrate. The first photoelectric converter includes a first counter electrode, a first pixel electrode, and a first photoelectric conversion layer. The first photoelectric conversion layer is located between the first counter electrode and the first pixel electrode. The second photoelectric converter includes a second counter electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a second photoelectric conversion layer. The second photoelectric conversion layer is located between the second counter electrode and the second pixel electrode. The electric-charge storage region is electrically connected to the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode.

Abstract: An imaging device including pixels including a first pixel and a second pixel, the pixels arranged in rows and columns, the first pixel belonging to a first column, the second pixel belonging to a second column adjacent the first column; a first signal path through which a signal from the first pixel flows; and a second signal path through which a signal from the second pixel flows, a first circuit including first and second lines, a first voltage being applied to the first lines, a second voltage different from the first voltage applied to the second lines. The first signal path is located in a region closer to one of the first lines than any of the second lines in a plan view, and the second signal path is located in a region closer to one of the second lines than any of the first lines in the plan view.

Abstract: An imaging device including pixels including a first pixel and a second pixel, the pixels arranged in rows and columns, the first pixel belonging to a first column, the second pixel belonging to a second column adjacent the first column; a first signal path through which a signal from the first pixel flows; and a second signal path through which a signal from the second pixel flows, a first circuit including first and second lines, a first voltage being applied to the first lines, a second voltage different from the first voltage applied to the second lines. The first signal path is located in a region closer to one of the first lines than any of the second lines in a plan view, and the second signal path is located in a region closer to one of the second lines than any of the first lines in the plan view.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a plurality of pixels, a first circuit, a first signal path, and a second signal path. The plurality of pixels includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first circuit includes a first wiring part and a second wiring part. A signal of the first pixel flows through the first signal path. A signal of the second pixel flows through a second signal path. In a flow of the signal of the first pixel, a first crossing portion is located upstream of a first extension portion. In a flow of the signal of the second pixel, a second crossing portion is located upstream of a second extension portion.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a plurality of pixels, a first circuit, a first signal path, and a second signal path. The plurality of pixels includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first circuit includes a first wiring part and a second wiring part. A signal of the first pixel flows through the first signal path. A signal of the second pixel flows through a second signal path. In a flow of the signal of the first pixel, a first crossing portion is located upstream of a first extension portion. In a flow of the signal of the second pixel, a second crossing portion is located upstream of a second extension portion.

Abstract: Provided is a conjugate fiber for air-laid nonwoven fabric manufacture having a planar zig-zag crimp shape before a thermal treatment, such that a uniform web is obtained by air laying with high processability and productivity, and the conjugate fiber develops a spiral crimp when the web is subjected to a thermal treatment to thereby enable the web to shrink significantly, as a result of which a nonwoven fabric can be obtained in which fibers are amassed to a high density. The conjugate fiber for air-laid nonwoven fabric manufacture is a heat-fusible conjugate fiber in which a first component comprising an olefinic thermoplastic resin is conjugated with a second component comprising an olefinic thermoplastic resin having a melting point higher than that of the first component.

Abstract: There is provided a fiber for a wetlaid non-woven fabric, said fiber can be the basis ingredient of a paper that maintains uniform mass per unit area and fiber dispersion and has unprecedented bulkiness. The fiber for a wetlaid non-woven fabric has 30 to 100 wt % of apparently crimping fibers with a fiber diameter of from 3 to 40 ?m and 0 to 70 wt % of latently crimping fibers with a fiber diameter of from 3 to 40 ?m.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix, a plurality of first latch circuits, a first read bit line, a plurality of first driver circuits, a first amplifier, a second latch circuit, a second driver circuit, and a column scanning circuit. Each of the plurality of first latch circuits holds first pixel data which is obtained from a pixel located on the corresponding unit column. Each of the plurality of first driver circuits outputs the first pixel data, which is held in a corresponding one of the first latch circuits, to the first read bit line. The first amplifier amplifies a voltage of the first read bit line to generate first data. The second latch circuit holds the first data. The column scanning circuit sequentially outputs a plurality of the first pixel data by sequentially selecting the plurality of first driver circuits and selecting the second driver circuit.

Abstract: An electro-chargeable fiber includes a thermoplastic resin fiber having a nonionic fiber finish containing at least one major component selected from the group consisting of (a) at least one sorbitan fatty acid ester having formula (I) or formula (II) and (b) polyoxyalkylene alkyl ether having formula (III), wherein the nonionic fiber finish is present in an amount of 0.01-1.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix, a plurality of first latch circuits, a first read bit line, a plurality of first driver circuits, a first amplifier, a second latch circuit, a second driver circuit, and a column scanning circuit. Each of the plurality of first latch circuits holds first pixel data which is obtained from a pixel located on the corresponding unit column. Each of the plurality of first driver circuits outputs the first pixel data, which is held in a corresponding one of the first latch circuits, to the first read bit line. The first amplifier amplifies a voltage of the first read bit line to generate first data. The second latch circuit holds the first data. The column scanning circuit sequentially outputs a plurality of the first pixel data by sequentially selecting the plurality of first driver circuits and selecting the second driver circuit.

Abstract: A fiber bundle is provided that strikes an excellent balance among the properties and performance of the web and articles manufactured using this web, the productivity, processability, and cost. The fiber bundle comprising continuous fibers aligned in one direction is characterized in that the continuous fibers have crimps that form peaks and valleys in the width direction of the fiber bundle, and these crimps have a characteristic value A, defined as the absolute value of a slope with respect to the length direction of the fiber bundle of a straight line that connects the vertex of the peak with the vertex of the valley of adjacent crimps present in a single continuous fiber, of at least 0.3.

Abstract: Provided is a conjugate fiber for air-laid nonwoven fabric manufacture having a planar zig-zag crimp shape before a thermal treatment, such that a uniform web is obtained by air laying with high processability and productivity, and the conjugate fiber develops a spiral crimp when the web is subjected to a thermal treatment to thereby enable the web to shrink significantly, as a result of which a nonwoven fabric can be obtained in which fibers are amassed to a high density. The conjugate fiber for air-laid nonwoven fabric manufacture is a heat-fusible conjugate fiber in which a first component comprising an olefinic thermoplastic resin is conjugated with a second component comprising an olefinic thermoplastic resin having a melting point higher than that of the first component.

Abstract: A fiber bundle is provided that strikes an excellent balance among the properties and performance of the web and articles manufactured using this web, the productivity, proccessability, and cost. The fiber bundle comprising continuous fibers aligned in one direction is characterized in that the continuous fibers have crimps that form peaks and valleys in the width direction of the fiber bundle, and these crimps have a characteristic value A, defined as the absolute value of a slope with respect to the length direction of the fiber bundle of a straight line that connects the vertex of the peak with the vertex of the valley of adjacent crimps present in a single continuous fiber, of at least 0.3.

Abstract: Provided is a conjugate fiber for air-laid nonwoven fabric manufacture having a planar zig-zag crimp shape before a thermal treatment, such that a uniform web is obtained by air laying with high processability and productivity, and the conjugate fiber develops a spiral crimp when the web is subjected to a thermal treatment to thereby enable the web to shrink significantly, as a result of which a nonwoven fabric can be obtained in which fibers are amassed to a high density. The conjugate fiber for air-laid nonwoven fabric manufacture is a heat-fusible conjugate fiber in which a first component comprising an olefinic thermoplastic resin is conjugated with a second component comprising an olefinic thermoplastic resin having a melting point higher than that of the first component.

Abstract: There is provided a fiber for a wetlaid non-woven fabric, said fiber can be the basis ingredient of a paper that maintains uniform mass per unit area and fiber dispersion and has unprecedented bulkiness. The fiber for a wetlaid non-woven fabric has 30 to 100 wt % of apparently crimping fibers with a fiber diameter of from 3 to 40 ?m and 0 to 70 wt % of latently crimping fibers with a fiber diameter of from 3 to 40 ?m.

Abstract: An electro-chargeable fiber includes a thermoplastic resin fiber having a nonionic fiber finish containing at least one major component selected from the group consisting of (a) at least one sorbitan fatty acid ester having formula (I) or formula (II) and (b) polyoxyalkylene alkyl ether having formula (III), wherein the nonionic fiber finish is present in an amount of 0.01-1.