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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve productivity, reduce production cost, and improve reliabil ity of a focusing error signal. SOLUTION: An optical pickup device is provided with a 1st diffraction grating 45 for dividing an output light beam emitted from the light reception/ emission integral type element 31 into a zero order light beam and ± 1st order light beams, a 2nd diffraction grating 46 for diffracting the optical path of a returned light beam from an optical disk 2, and a 3rd diffraction grating 47 for diffracting a + 1st order light beam diffracted by the 2nd diffraction grating 46 by being disposed at the location where the 1st order light beam is entered to correct variations in an optical path, wherein the light reception/ emission integral type element 31 is disposed at the location where the - 1st order light beam diffracted by the 3rd diffraction grating 47 is entered and receives the - 1st order light beam to generate a focusing error signal FE and also receives the returned light beams from the optical disk 2 of ± 1st order light beams divided by the 1st diffraction grating 45 to generate a tracking error signal. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an objective lens expanding tolerance of inter-plane eccentricity and improving its yield, and to provide an optical pickup and an optical disk device using the same. SOLUTION: The optical pickup device includes an objective lens 7 having a numerical aperture of 0.82 or more with both surfaces of the objective lens formed in aspheric shapes, and focusing an optical beam onto an optical recording medium, and records and/or reproduces an information signal for the optical recording medium by tilting an optical axis of the objective lens 7 to correct aberration due to the inter-plane eccentricity included in the both surfaces 7a, 7b of the objective lens, wherein astigmatism, spherical aberration, and higher-order coma aberration are each ≤20 mλrms when tilting the optical axis of the objective lens 7 so that third-order coma aberration generated due to the inter-plane eccentricity is substantially zero. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform detection of a tracking error with sufficient precision by making diffracted light intensity ratio properly and raising the use efficiency of a laser in an optical pickup using optical beams of a plurality of kinds of different wavelengths. SOLUTION: A diffractive optical element 4 which is prepared in the optical pickup which condenses an optical beam of a first wavelength and an optical beam of a second wavelength which is longer than the first wavelength to an optical disk 8 with an objective lens 7, and detects a return optical beam reflected with an optical disk by a photo detector 10A, divides the optical beam of the first and the second wavelengths. The diffractive optical element 4 has; a first diffraction region which includes an optical axis and in which a first grid structure comprising periodical irregularities is formed; and a second diffraction region which is prepared outside the first diffraction region and in which a second grid structure comprising periodical irregularities of a different shape from the first grid structure is formed. The diffraction efficiency of primary diffracted light of optical beam of the above first wavelength in the above second diffraction region is made higher than the diffraction efficiency of the primary diffracted light of optical beam of the above first wavelength in the above first diffraction region. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a projector with which the restraint of overheat of a housing is achieved without increasing the size of an outside shape. SOLUTION: The projector 1 includes: a light source unit 20 having a light source 16, and a bowl-shaped reflector 21 surrounding the light source 16 and concentrating light from the light source 16 towards an optical unit 5; a light source cover 6 made of a metallic material, which surrounds the light source unit 20 so as not to interfere with the guide of light from the light source unit 20 to the optical unit 5; a ventilating space provided in contact with the surface of the light source cover 6; and fans 25a and 25b for creating a current of air within the ventilating space. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate efficiently oil mist and dust.SOLUTION: A video display device includes a video processing unit, a cooling fan, a filter, and a cooling duct. The video processing unit generates and displays video signals. The cooling fan generates a current of cooling air to cool the video processing unit. The filter is disposed in the intake side of the cooling fan and removes dust. The cooling duct is a ventilation path for the current of cooling air, and a recessed bay-shaped portion is provided at a downstream position thereof by a projection formed at the outlet end of the ventilation path and a ventilation wall. The bay-shaped portion provided on the cooling duct captures oil mist, and dust not fully removed by the filter, which are moved aside to the ventilation wall by the current of cooling air generated by the cooling fan.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an infrared optical system and an infrared imaging device, which has excellent optical characteristics in a far infrared ray region and can be achieved at low costs.SOLUTION: An infrared optical system comprises three lenses: a first lens 10, a second lens 11, and a third lens 12, which are arranged sequentially from the object side. The first lens 10 and the third lens 12 are spherical lenses made of an inorganic material and having positive power, the second lens 11 is a meniscus-shaped double-sided aspherical lens made of a resin material, and an aperture diaphragm 13 is provided between the first lens 10 and the third lens 12. A spherical lens is used for each of the first lens and the third lens made of an inorganic material, and an aspherical lens made of the resin material is used for the second lens, thus performing aberration correction while suppressing processing costs. Furthermore, the resin material facilitates thinning of the second lens and accordingly a high transmittance (to infrared light) is easily achieved.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an illumination device and a display device which achieve the compactness as well as improve the utilization efficiency of light while reducing the generation of interference patterns.SOLUTION: An illumination device includes: a light source section including a laser light source; an optical element disposed on an optical path of a laser light beam emitted from the laser light source, branching an optical path of an incident light beam incident thereon into a plurality of optical paths, and allowing branched light beams to be output therefrom; an optical member receiving the branched light beams that travel along the plurality of optical paths, and allowing illumination light to be output therefrom based on the branched light beams; and a driver section driving the optical element to allow phases of the branched light beams to be changed independently of one another.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an infrared optical system which has excellent optical characteristics in a far-infrared region and can be provided at low cost, and an infrared imaging device.SOLUTION: An infrared optical system comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first optical element 10, a second optical element 11, a third optical element 13 and a fourth optical element 14. The fourth optical element has positive refractive power. A diaphragm 12 is provided between the second optical element and the third optical element. The first optical element and the fourth optical element are made of any of silicon (Si), chalcogenide glass and zinc sulfide (ZnS). The second optical element and the third optical element are made of a resin material, and are configured so that at least one of a surface at the object side and a surface at the image side is aspherical.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a simply structured highly sensitive infrared ray detecting element involving no complexity in the manufacturing process.SOLUTION: An upper electrode of an infrared ray detecting element is provided with open functional parts in which the thickness of the upper electrode is made thinner or even reduced to zero; as the transmissivity of infrared rays becomes greater in such open functional parts, the quantity of infrared rays transmitted toward a pyroelectric element can be correspondingly increased; namely, as a result, the sensitivity of detecting infrared rays can be enhanced; the open functional parts are formed merely by making the upper electrode thinner or reducing the thickness thereof even to zero and, therefore, the infrared ray detecting element manufacturing process can be prevented from becoming more complex in achieving this enhanced sensitivity.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that, in a conventional projector device, efficiency of shaking dust off is lowered because vibration generated by driving a movable part is hardly transmitted to a filter, thereby efficiency of transmitting the vibration is lowered. SOLUTION: The projector device projects an image to a projection surface by illuminating an image forming element with light from a light source. The projector device includes: a device housing 2 in which the light source and the image forming element are housed, and which has an air intake window 15 for taking air in; and a filter device 4 which is disposed inside the air intake window 15 at the inner part of the device housing 2 and captures dust from the air. The filter device 4 has: a filter member 17 which absorbs the dust 14 in the air; a frame member 18 to which the filter member is attached; and a vibrator 19 which vibrates the frame member to vibrate the filter member 17, thereby shaking off the absorbed dust 14. The vibrator 19 is fixed and provided at an almost center part of the frame member 18. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT