Abstract: A scintillator plate comprising: (i) a radiation transmissive substrate; (ii) a light absorbing layer formed on the substrate, the light absorbing layer absorbing light of a prescribed wavelength range; and (iii) a scintillator layer formed on the light absorbing layer, the scintillator layer converting radiation to the light having a wavelength absorbable to the light absorbing layer.

Abstract: An objective is to provide a radiation flat panel detector in which degradation of a phosphor layer property during aging is inhibited, the phosphor layer is protected from chemical alteration and physical impact, and sharpness is excellent. Also disclosed is a flat panel detector possessing a light-receiving element and provided thereon, a scintillator panel possessing a scintillator sheet having a phosphor layer provided on a substrate and provided thereon, a first protective film placed on the phosphor layer side and a second protective film placed on the substrate side to seal the scintillator sheet, wherein the light-receiving element is provided on the first protective film side of the scintillator panel; and the scintillator sheet is sealed at 5-8000 Pa.

Abstract: A scintillator panel comprising: (a) a scintillator sheet comprising: (i) a substrate, and (ii) a phosphor layer formed on the substrate; (b) a first protective film provided on a phosphor layer side surface of the scintillator sheet; and (c) a second protective film provided on a substrate side surface of the scintillator sheet, wherein (d) the scintillator sheet is sealed by the first protective film and the second protective film; and (e) the first protective film is not substantially coherent with the phosphor layer.

Abstract: A fixing device for heating and pressing a recording medium carrying an unfixed toner image or an unfixed ink image to fix the unfixed toner image or the unfixed ink image on the recording medium, includes a heating roller which has a heating source and has an endless peripheral surface moves around an axis, a pressure roller which is pressed onto the peripheral surface of the heating roller, and presses the recording medium passing between the pressure roller and the heating roller onto the peripheral surface of the heating roller, and plural cleaning sections which are provided to make contact with the heating roller. At least one of the cleaning sections is set, at a portion making contact with the heating roller, to have a relatively negative potential with respect to a surface potential of the heating roller.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section which transfers toner onto a latent image to form a toner image, a transfer section which transfers the toner image onto a recording material directly or via an intermediate transfer body, a fixing section which has a pair of rotatable members contacted and pressed each other, in which the recording material carrying the toner image is passed through the pair of rotatable members, and heats and presses the toner image to fix the toner image on the recording material, a cleaning section which cleans a peripheral surface of one of the pair of rotatable members, a paper dust amount measuring section which measures an amount of paper dust separably adhering to the recording material, before the toner image is transferred, and a control section which controls a cleaning operation rate of the cleaning section based on the measured amount of paper dust.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section which transfers toner onto a latent image due to a difference of electrostatic potential to form a toner image, a transfer section which transfers the toner image onto a recording material directly or via an intermediate transfer body, a fixing section which passes the recording material carrying the toner image between a fixing rotation body and a pressurizing member contacted and pressed each other, and heats and pressurizes to fix the toner image, and a paper dust amount measuring section which measures an amount of paper dust adhering to the recording material. The image forming section forms an image pattern with high toner area coverage at a predetermined interval based on the measured amount of paper dust, and the fixing section fixes the image pattern with the high toner area coverage transferred onto a recording material.

Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing an oriented film of a liquid crystal device holding a liquid crystal between a pair of substrates facing each other, includes: a film formation chamber; an evaporation section evaporating an oriented film material on the substrate by a physical vapor deposition, and forming the oriented film in the film formation chamber; a shielding plate formed between the evaporation section and the substrate, having an elongated opening for selectively evaporating the oriented film material, and covering an area of the substrate on which the oriented film is not formed; and a cleaning section providing a cleaning medium for removing the oriented film material adhered on the shielding plate, toward the opening of the shielding plate, and on the side of the shielding plate that faces the evaporation section.

Abstract: The present invention realizes a semiconductor integrated circuit device for driving liquid crystal (liquid crystal control driver IC) capable of easily setting drive conditions and the like according to specifications of a liquid crystal display to be used. An electrically-programmable nonvolatile memory circuit (EPROM) or an electrically erasable and programmable nonvolatile memory circuit (EEPROM) is provided in a semiconductor integrated circuit device for driving a liquid crystal display, and setting information is stored in the memory circuit. The memory circuit is constructed by a normal device which can be formed in the same process as a semiconductor manufacturing process of forming devices of other circuits.

Abstract: The present invention provides a technique to prevent increase in defect detection processing volume due to the shape of an object subject to the defect detection. An image of an object under inspection with a plurality of color regions is divided into areas by area segmentation according to colors. From the result of the segmentation, an inspection image representing a shape of a specific region among the plurality of color regions is obtained. The inspection image and a comparison image which is comparable at least in part with the inspection image are then compared to detect defects relating to the specific region.

Abstract: The present invention provides a technique to improve reliability of a segmentation result for a subject image, which is obtained a colored object with the possibility of change in color for each individual items. In a specified color space, existing color areas indicating ranges of colors containable in the subject image when the colored object has an allowable range of color, and non-existent color areas for outside the existing color areas are set. Then, subject image segmentation is performed by classifying colors of pixels of the subject image into the existing color areas and the non-existent color area.

Abstract: A board (9) is placed on a stage part (20) so that the back surface of the board is opposed to the stage part (20). The stage part cuts off light entering a hole penetrating the board (9) from a side of its back surface which is a reverse surface with respect to its pattern formed surface and has a reflection property which is different from that of the pattern formed surface with respect to an illumination light, and the illumination light is emitted from a light source part (31) onto the pattern formed surface (9a).

Abstract: In a reference binary image representing a pattern including wires formed on a substrate, an erosion is performed on a specific area having the same pixel value as a pixel value corresponding to a wire area to acquire an eroded image and a dilation is performed on the specific area which remains in the eroded image to almost the same degree as the erosion to acquire an eroded and dilated image. Subsequently, a differential image between the eroded and dilated image and the reference binary image is generated as a wire image representing a wire area. It is thereby possible to easily extract a wire area which is a fine pattern area. By setting respective different defect detection sensitivities for the wire area and the other area on the basis of the wire image and detecting a defect in an inspection image in accordance with the defect detection sensitivities, it is possible to appropriately detect a defect in a pattern on a substrate.

Abstract: A frequency switch is configured with two FET switches. One end of a second FET switch is connected between an I/O port and a reception port and the other end is ground. A strip line is connected between the second FET switch and the I/O port, and has an electrical length equivalent to ¼ wavelength of a high frequency signal input from transmission port.

Abstract: A high frequency switch configured particularly with FET switches. One end of second FET switch is connected between I/O port and reception port and the other end is ground. A parallel unit of strip line and capacitor is connected between second FET switch and I/O port. This parallel unit has the electrical length equivalent to ¼ wavelength of the high frequency signal input from transmission port.

Abstract: A high frequency switch module can handle transmit-receive signals of different frequency bands and realize excellent isolation. The high frequency switch module comprises a discriminating filter, a low-band high frequency switch, and a high-band frequency switch, wherein high-band 90-degree phase shifter that forms at least a high-band high frequency switch is configured by a high-pass filter, and a choke line is parallel-connected to the high-pass filter.

Abstract: A multiband high-frequency switch that is mainly used for mobile phones, comprising a strip line formed of the series connection of first and second strip lines. A second transmitting port is connected to the connection point of the strip lines connected in series via a third diode, and a second control port is connected between the second transmitting port and the third diode. In addition, first and second receiving ports are connected to the receiving-side port of the high-frequency switch via a diplexer.

Abstract: In a high-frequency switching module for use mainly in a communications apparatus and a high-frequency apparatus equipped with the same, the high-frequency switching module has a group of high-frequency terminals provided on the mounting side surface of a multi-layer assembly of which the lateral sides are formed as no-electrode provided sides excluding the high-frequency terminals. Thus, the high-frequency switching module and the high-frequency apparatus equipped with the same are less susceptible to the external effect.

Abstract: A voltage level shift circuit is provided on a power IC manufactured with a high-voltage process instead of on a source driver IC with a large capacity display memory manufactured with a low-voltage fine wiring process. This makes it possible to reduce the cost of manufacturing a source driver IC and decrease the chip area, leading to reduction in the overall IC chip cost.

Abstract: A high frequency switch module can handle transmit-receive signals of different frequency bands and realize excellent isolation. The high frequency switch module comprises a discriminating filter, a low-band high frequency switch, and a high-band frequency switch, wherein high-band 90-degree phase shifter that forms at least a high-band high frequency switch is configured by a high-pass filter, and a choke line is parallel-connected to the high-pass filter.

Abstract: A high frequency switch configured particularly with FET switches. One end of second FET switch is connected between I/O port and reception port and the other end is ground. A parallel unit of strip line and capacitor is connected between second FET switch and I/O port. This parallel unit has the electrical length equivalent to ¼ wavelength of the high frequency signal input from transmission port.