US 6,982,422 B2
Photoelectric converter, its driving method, and system including the photoelectric converter
Noriyuki Kaifu, Tokyo (Japan); Hidemasa Mizutani, Kanagawa-ken (Japan); Shinichi Takeda, Kanagawa-ken (Japan); Isao Kobayashi, Kanagawa-ken (Japan); and Satoshi Itabashi, Kanagawa-ken (Japan)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Feb. 20, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/781,842.
Application 10/781842 is a division of application No. 10/184897, filed on Jul. 01, 2002, abandoned.
Application 10/184897 is a division of application No. 09/370199, filed on Aug. 09, 1999, granted, now 6,512,279.
Application 09/370199 is a division of application No. 08/735819, filed on Oct. 23, 1996, granted, now 6,075,256.
Application 08/735819 is a continuation of application No. 08/362985, filed on Dec. 23, 1994, abandoned.
Claims priority of application No. 5-331690 (JP), filed on Dec. 27, 1993; application No. 6-196640 (JP), filed on Aug. 22, 1994; application No. 6-196641 (JP), filed on Aug. 22, 1994; application No. 6-196642 (JP), filed on Aug. 22, 1994; application No. 6-196643 (JP), filed on Aug. 22, 1994; application No. 6-196644 (JP), filed on Aug. 22, 1994; application No. 6-196645 (JP), filed on Aug. 22, 1994; application No. 6-196648 (JP), filed on Aug. 22, 1994; application No. 6-196670 (JP), filed on Aug. 22, 1994; and application No. 6-313392 (JP), filed on Dec. 16, 1994.
Prior Publication US 2004/0159901 A1, Aug. 19, 2004
Int. Cl. H01L 25/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 250—370.09 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An X-ray detector provided with a photoelectric converter which comprises a plurality of thin film transistors and a plurality of photoelectric converting elements formed on a common substrate, the detector comprising:
first flexible circuit substrate means which mounts a shift register for driving said thin film transistors; and
second flexible circuit substrate means which mounts an integrated circuit IC for detecting a signal from said photoelectric converter.