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20120274889 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device which hardly causes image sticking even when there is a difference in the picture element areas. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a pair of substrates, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates, and is configured such that a pixel is formed by picture elements of a plurality of colors. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention is featured in that one of the pair of substrates includes scanning lines, signal lines, and storage capacitor lines, a thin film transistor connected to each of the scanning line and the signal line, and a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, in that the other of the pair of substrates includes an opposed electrode, in that the liquid crystal layer includes a region having a larger thickness and a region having a smaller thickness in one pixel, in that the pixel electrode is arranged for each of the picture elements, and in that the pixel electrode that overlaps a region having a smaller thickness of the liquid crystal layer among the plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in one pixel is connected to the thin film transistor having a larger channel width among the plurality of the thin film transistors arranged in the one pixel. | 11-01-2012 |
20120306732 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device ( | 12-06-2012 |
20120320026 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A color display pixel P | 12-20-2012 |
20120320297 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which hardly causes image sticking in a panel in which Cgd gradation is performed, even when the pixel capacitances of the picture elements are different from one another. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention is a liquid crystal display device which includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates, and is configured such that a pixel is formed by picture elements of a plurality of colors, wherein one of the pair of substrates includes scanning lines, signal lines, storage capacitor lines, thin film transistors connected to both of the scanning lines and the signal lines, and pixel electrodes connected to the thin film transistors; the other of the pair of substrates includes a counter electrode; the pixel electrodes are arranged for the picture elements; a scanning line and a pixel electrode form a gate-drain capacitance; the gate-drain capacitance formed by a pixel electrode with a larger pixel capacitance among the pixel electrodes arranged in one pixel is larger than the gate-drain capacitance formed by a pixel electrode with a smaller pixel capacitance among the pixel electrodes arranged in the one pixel; an overlapping area of each of the pixel electrodes overlapped with the scanning line initially increases in a travelling direction of a scanning line signal but a rate of the increase subsequently decreases, in each of the pixel electrodes respectively arranged for the picture elements of single colors; and rates of increase are different among the pixel electrodes with different pixel capacitances. | 12-20-2012 |
20120326954 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device which hardly causes image sticking even when there is a difference in the pixel areas. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a pair of substrates, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates, and is configured such that a pixel is formed by picture elements of a plurality of colors. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention is featured in that one of the pair of substrates includes scanning lines, signal lines, and storage capacitor lines, a thin film transistor connected to each of the scanning line and the signal line, and a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, in that the other of the pair of substrates includes an opposed electrode, in that the pixel electrode is arranged for each of the picture elements, and in that the pixel electrode having a larger area among the plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in one pixel is connected to the thin film transistor having a larger channel width among the plurality of the thin film transistors arranged in the one pixel. | 12-27-2012 |
20130002992 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device ( | 01-03-2013 |
20130038704 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic video image display method according to the present invention is such that in a case where switching between a right-eye image and a left-eye image, both of which accommodate a parallax that allows an observer to visually recognize a stereoscopic video image, is done once, for example, every two frames, a gray scale transition emphasis process is carried out in each of the frames, and that in a case where, in a visual recognition period (e.g. frame F | 02-14-2013 |
20140247259 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DRIVE METHOD FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL - In a case where two-lines simultaneous writing is carried out in a CS control pixel-division-type liquid crystal panel including: a first scanning signal line and a second scanning signal lines (G | 09-04-2014 |
20150042693 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVE METHOD FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL - A liquid crystal display device of the present invention employs a liquid crystal panel of CS control pixel division, and is configured such that two adjacent pixel rows share one retention capacitor wire, and two adjacent scanning signal lines are simultaneously selected. In a case where two pixels ((Pn+1) and (Pn+2)) which are adjacent along a scanning direction but are not simultaneously selected are to have an identical predetermined luminance in two frames, a first signal potential is written to one pixel (Pn+1) in one of the two frames and a second signal potential having a polarity identical to that of the first signal potential is written to the other pixel (Pn+2) in the other of the two frames, the first and second signal potentials are different from each other. The present invention makes it possible to suppress transverse lines of display unevenness which occur in the liquid crystal display device. | 02-12-2015 |
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20100260513 | Temperature Control Unit For Electrophotographic Photoconductor Substrate - There is provided a temperature control unit for an electrophotographic photoconductor substrate, containing a stretchable membrane member which is detachably disposed in a hollow space of the cylindrical substrate, wherein the membrane member is configured to sequentially stretch until reaching the deepest part of the hollow space of the cylindrical substrate as a result of an introduction of a refrigerant therein to closely contact with an entire inner wall of the cylindrical substrate, and to sequentially shrink to the original shape thereof as a result of a release of the refrigerant therefrom, so that the membrane member is detachably disposed in the hollow space, and wherein the membrane member is configured to make a heat transfer between a surface of the cylindrical substrate and the refrigerant via the membrane member closely contacted with the inner surface of the cylindrical substrate, to control a surface temperature of the cylindrical substrate. | 10-14-2010 |
20110286777 | LUBRICANT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE USING SAME - A lubricant for use in an image forming apparatus, which contains a lubricant material and at least one of diamine compounds represented by chemical structure 1, 2, and 3, | 11-24-2011 |
20120321348 | IMAGE BEARING DRUM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An image bearing drum having a hollow cylinder sleeve member; a photosensitive layer; a protective layer having fillers; and flange members, each of which has an attachment unit, a shaft hole unit, and a linking unit, wherein the surface of the protective layer having waviness has an arithmetical mean deviation of an assessed profile Wa (μm) of from 0.050 μm to 0.400 μm and a mean width of profile elements WSm (mm) of from 0.500 mm to 1.500 mm, and wherein the linking unit has at least one shock-absorbing hole located on a virtual line segment drawn to the shaft hole unit from the circumference of a virtually projected circle formed by projecting the outer periphery of the attachment unit axially along the shaft onto a virtual plane that contains the linking unit and is orthogonal to the shaft direction. | 12-20-2012 |
20130022902 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An electrophotographic photoreceptor including an electroconductive substrate; a charge generation layer located overlying the electroconductive substrate; a charge transport layer located overlying the charge generation layer; and an outermost layer located overlying the charge transport layer. The charge transport layer includes a positive hole transport material having the following formula (1): | 01-24-2013 |
20130059242 | PHOTORECEPTOR, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A photoreceptor including an electroconductive substrate; a photosensitive layer on the electroconductive substrate; and a protection layer on the photosensitive layer, wherein the protection layer includes a radical polymerizable compound having three or more radical polymerizable groups without a charge transportable group, a monofunctional radical polymerizable compound having a specific charge transportable group and a non-radical polymerizable compound having a specific charge transportable group. | 03-07-2013 |
20130059243 | PHOTORECEPTOR, COATING LIQUID FOR FORMING OUTERMOST LAYER OF PHOTORECEPTOR, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE USING THE PHOTORECEPTOR - An electrophotographic photoreceptor including an electroconductive substrate; a photosensitive layer located overlying the electroconductive substrate; and an outermost layer located overlying the photosensitive layer, wherein the outermost layer includes filler and a crosslinked resin having a residual group of a polycarboxylic acid compound and a group having the following formula (1): | 03-07-2013 |
20130243483 | PHOTORECEPTOR, METHOD FOR PREPARING PHOTORECEPTOR, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE USING THE PHOTORECEPTOR - In a photoreceptor including an electroconductive substrate; a photosensitive layer; and a protective layer, the protective layer includes a crosslinked resin having a residual group of a polycarboxylic acid compound and a group having the below-mentioned formula (10), and at least one of a compound having the below-mentioned formula (2) and a compound having the below-mentioned formula (3). | 09-19-2013 |
20130251401 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An image forming apparatus, including a photoreceptor; a charger; an irradiator; an image developer; a transferer; a fixer; and a cleaning blade formed of a strip-shaped elastic blade, removing a powder from the surface of the photoreceptor passing an edge line of the blade while contacting thereto, wherein the photoreceptor includes a crosslinked resin surface layer formed of at least one of an acrylic resin and a methacrylic resin, and the cleaning blade includes a contact point with the photoreceptor, including a substrate; a mixed layer formed of at least one of an acrylic resin and a methacrylic resin, located at the surface of the substrate; and a surface layer formed of at least one of an acrylic resin and a methacrylic resin, located on the surface of the substrate. | 09-26-2013 |
20130330104 | PHOTORECEPTOR, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A photoreceptor includes an electroconductive substrate, and a laminate structure formed of at least a charge generating layer and a charge transport layer and provided overlying the electroconductive substrate, wherein the charge transport layer contains a charge transport material, a compound represented by the following formula 1 and a compound represented by the following formula 2: | 12-12-2013 |
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20100150606 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING IMAGE BEARING MEMBER, IMAGE BEARING MEMBER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A method of manufacturing an image bearing member including forming a charge generation layer overlying an electroconductive substrate, forming a charge transport layer overlying the charge generation layer, the charge transport layer including a charge transport material having a molecular weight of from 600 to 900 and a binder resin, and forming a protection layer overlying the charge transport layer by applying a liquid application containing a polymerizable compound having a charge transport structure, a polymerizable compound having no charge transport structure, a filler, a polycarboxylic acid compound, and cyclopentanone and curing the polymerizable compound having a charge transport structure, and the polymerizable compound having no charge transport structure. | 06-17-2010 |
20100330475 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE BEARING MEMBER - An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member having an electroconductive substrate on which are provided at least a photosensitive layer and a protection layer, in that sequence, a charging device that charges the surface of the image bearing member to form a latent electrostatic image thereon, a development device that develops the latent electrostatic image with a development agent containing toner to obtain a developed toner image, a cleaning device that removes toner remaining on the surface of the image bearing member and a lubricant material applicator that applies a lubricant material to the surface of the image bearing member, the protection layer containing a cured resin and a filler and the surface form of the protection layer having an arithmetical mean waviness Wa of from 0.05 to 0.3 μm and an average length WSm of profile elements of from 0.5 to 1.5 mm, which are obtained from a waviness profile obtained by filtering a coarse component with a λc profile filter of 0.25 mm and filtering a wavelength component longer than a waviness with a λf profile filter of 2.5 mm. | 12-30-2010 |
20110059393 | IMAGE BEARING MEMBER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An image bearing member including an electroconductive substrate, a photosensitive layer overlying the electroconductive substrate, and a protection layer overlying the photosensitive layer, the photosensitive layer containing a diamine compound represented by the chemical structure 1, more of the diamine compound being disposed on the photosensitive layer side than the surface side relative to the midpoint in a depth direction of the protection layer: | 03-10-2011 |
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20100320878 | Electrical Rotating Machine - A direction in which cooling air generated by a cooling fan flows to be discharged is perpendicular or nearly perpendicular to a direction in which diffusers are inclined. Thus, airflow resistance is increased by the diffusers, and the cooling air cannot be efficiently discharged from discharge ports provided circumferentially in an outer peripheral portion of a housing. Further, a stator coil cannot be sufficiently cooled. An electrical rotating machine includes: a rotor having a cooling fan on an end face of the rotor; a stator that is arranged opposite the rotor and has a stator coil with a rotation clearance provided between the stator and the rotor; a housing that holds the rotor and the stator; a plurality of intake ports that are provided in a side wall portion of the housing; a plurality of discharge ports that are provided circumferentially in an outer peripheral portion of the housing; and a plurality of diffusers that are provided circumferentially on an inner wall surface of a corner portion of the housing, the diffusers inclining toward the side opposite to a rotational direction of the rotor. | 12-23-2010 |
20120299449 | Automotive Alternator - To provide a high-quality, high-output, and low-cost automotive alternator by suppressing heat generation through the reduction of current loss in a heat dissipating plate of a rectifier without expanding a space for placing the heat dissipating plate and reducing the cooling performance of the heat dissipating plate. An automotive alternator includes a rectifier, wherein the rectifier is configured such that a heat dissipating plate of positive pole to which the rectifier element of positive pole is mounted is disposed opposite to a heat dissipating plate of negative pole to which a plurality of rectifier elements of negative pole are mounted; wherein the heat dissipating plate of positive pole is made up of a first heat dissipating plate and a second heat dissipating plate, which are made of two different materials. | 11-29-2012 |
20120306300 | VEHICLE AC GENERATOR - Vehicle AC generator comprises a stator comprising stator windings; front frame and rear frame, each rotatably supporting a rotor in the stator via a space on an inner circumference thereof; cooling fan fitted to the rotor; first polarity arm configured to rectify a current of one polarity; second polarity arm configured to rectify a current of another polarity; rectifier device configured to rectify an alternating current generated in stator windings; protective cover covering rectifier device. Rectifier device comprises first heat dissipating plate having rectifier elements forming first polarity arm, second heat dissipating plate rectifier elements forming second polarity arm, and connection plate formed in waveform-like shape and disposed between the first and second heat dissipating plates, and passage of a cooling air blown by the cooling fan formed between first heat dissipating plate and connection plate and between second heat dissipating plate and connection plate. | 12-06-2012 |
20130057121 | ELECTRICAL ROTATING MACHINE - An electrical rotating machine which includes: a rotor; a stator provided with an armature winding, the rotor and the stator being housed in a housing space formed by a front bracket and a rear bracket; and a rear cover provided with a circumferential side wall and a bottom wall and disposed near the bottom of the rear bracket. The rear cover includes a plurality of engaging openings formed in the circumferential side wall of the rear cover, and steps of the engaging openings each produced by the difference between the diameter of the side wall on the bottom wall side and the diameter of the side wall on the end opening side. The bracket has engaging portions inserted into the corresponding steps for fixing the rear bracket. | 03-07-2013 |
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20120201587 | PRINTING OPERATION ASSISTING DEVICE - A printing operation assisting device for assisting a printing operation performed by a solder printer configured to print a solder cream on a substrate surface, including: a measure determining portion configured to determine a remedial measure against a deterioration of a print quality specified on the basis of print-result information obtained from an inspecting machine configured to inspect a print result by the printer, in accordance with a kind of the print-quality deterioration; and a measure issuing portion configured to issue a command relating to the remedial measure determined by the measure determining portion to at least one of the printer and its operator, wherein the measure determining portion is configured to determine a remedial measure against a certain print-quality deterioration and to redetermine another remedial measure different from the previously determined remedial measure where the deteriorated print quality is not improved by execution of the previously determined measure. | 08-09-2012 |
20130055911 | SCREEN PRINTING LINE AND SCREEN PRINTING METHOD - A screen printing line with higher utility is provided. In a screen printing line including a plurality of screen printing machines and a plurality of shuttle conveyors each provided between any adjacent two of the plurality of screen printing machines, each of the screen printing machines includes: a main body; a front conveyor having a substrate support device; a rear conveyor configured to allow passage of a circuit substrate; a printing device configured to carry out screen printing on the circuit substrate supported by the substrate support device. Also, each of the plurality of shuttle conveyors includes a movable conveyor movable between a position continuous to the front conveyor and a position continuous to the rear conveyor. | 03-07-2013 |
20130140136 | SHUTTLE CONVEYOR, CIRCUIT-SUBSTRATE WORKING MACHINE, AND CIRCUIT-SUBSTRATE WORKING SYSTEM - Utility of a circuit-substrate working machine including a substrate conveyor device and a shuttle conveyor designed to shift a circuit substrate in a direction intersecting a conveying direction is improved. Based on transmission of a deliverable-state advance notification signal for one of conveyor lanes of an upstream printer, a movable conveyor lane of an intermediate shuttle conveyor is moved to a position continuous to the one conveyor lane. The circuit substrate is delivered to the movable conveyor lane in a state in which the movable conveyor lane is located at a circuit-substrate receiving position, a receivable-state advance notification signal is produced for a receiving lane for receiving the circuit substrate supplied from one of conveyor lanes of a downstream printer which has transmitted a deliverable-state advance notification signal, and a receivable-state signal and a deliverable-state signal are obtained. The circuit substrate is then delivered to the receiving lane. | 06-06-2013 |
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20100263437 | Quartz sensor and sensing device - To provide a quartz sensor capable of detecting a sensing target with high sensitivity also in measurement in a liquid phase in which a difference in Q values at the time of measurement in the liquid phase and in a vapor phase is small. In a quartz sensor | 10-21-2010 |
20100266451 | Sensing device - To shorten the time required for an oscillation frequency to stabilize in a sensing device sensing a substance to be sensed by using the fact that a natural frequency of a piezoelectric resonator changes when the substance to be sensed is adsorbed by an adsorption layer formed on the piezoelectric resonator. A sensing device includes: an oscillator circuit | 10-21-2010 |
20110156823 | Piezoelectric oscillator - There is provided a temperature compensated piezoelectric oscillator which excels in frequency stability and has a good electronic noise characteristic, and with which a circuit can be structured simply. An auxiliary oscillator unit | 06-30-2011 |
20110221538 | Piezoelectric oscillator - To provide a technique capable of suppressing electric energy by a fundamental wave vibration and reducing phase noise in a piezoelectric oscillator using an overtone of a thickness shear vibration in a piezoelectric piece. An excitation electrode portion in an electrode | 09-15-2011 |
20110223620 | Method of detecting microorganisms and microorganism detecting apparatus - It is possible to determine the presence of bacteria in a sample solution in a shorter period of time without changing a conventional incubating method. Bacteria in a sample solution are incubated in, for example, a sterilized agar medium | 09-15-2011 |
20120012428 | Brake mechanism, transport apparatus and industrial apparatus - A brake mechanism is constituted to have: an electromotive actuator which suppresses a rotation of a disk by moving a first pad toward a second pad to sandwich and press the disk between the first pad and the second pad; a pressing force setting section outputting a set signal to set a pressing force of the pad to the disk; a plurality of piezoelectric elements provided at different places from each other in the first pad or the second pad, the plurality of piezoelectric elements detecting a stress of the pad; a signal processing part which processes electric signals obtained from the plurality of piezoelectric elements and generates a detection signal of a pressing force, the detection signal corresponding to a pressing force of the pad to the disk; and a computing part which obtains a deviation between the set signal and the detection signal, computes an operation signal of the electromotive actuator based on the deviation, and then outputs the operation signal. | 01-19-2012 |
20120070850 | Method for detecting microorganisms and microorganism detecting apparatus - It is possible to determine the presence of bacteria in a sample solution in a shorter period of time without changing a conventional incubating method. Bacteria in a sample solution are incubated in, for example, a sterilized agar medium | 03-22-2012 |
20120081187 | Oscillator - An oscillator outputs a sine wave with high purity capable of reducing phase noise. In a Colpitts oscillator circuit using a transistor as an amplifying part, a quartz-crystal resonator for waveform shaping is provided outside or inside an oscillation loop. A quartz-crystal resonator for oscillation and the quartz-crystal resonator for waveform shaping are formed, with an electrode pair and an electrode pair being provided on a common quartz-crystal piece. A separation distance between the electrode of the quartz-crystal resonator and the electrode of the quartz-crystal resonator is set large so that they are not elastically coupled, or even when they are elastically coupled, their coupling degree is weak, and an inductor causing parallel resonance with a parallel capacitance of the quartz-crystal resonator is provided. | 04-05-2012 |
20120180567 | External force detecting method and external force detecting device - A technique for detecting external force applied to a piezoelectric plate is provided. A crystal plate is cantilever-supported in a container. Excitation electrodes are formed on an upper face and lower face, respectively, of the crystal plate. A movable electrode is formed on the lower face side. A fixed electrode is provided on a bottom portion of the container facing the movable electrode. The excitation electrode on the upper face side and the fixed electrode are connected to an oscillation circuit. When the crystal plate bends by external force applied, capacitance between. A direction of the movable electrode along a length direction of the crystal plate is set to 30° to 60°, relative to a face orthogonal to an intended direction of the external force. The movable electrode and fixed electrode changes, and this capacitance change and a deformation of the crystal circuit. | 07-19-2012 |
20120180568 | External force detecting device and external force detecting sensor - A device is provided for a detecting external force applied to piezoelectric piece. A crystal piece is cantilever-supported in a container. Excitation electrodes are formed on an upper face and lower face, respectively. A movable electrode, connected via a lead-out electrode to the excitation electrode, is formed on the lower face side at a front end of the crystal piece. A fixed electrode is provided on a bottom portion of the container to face this movable electrode. The excitation electrode on the upper face side and the fixed electrode are connected to an oscillation circuit. When the crystal piece bends in response to an applied external force, capacitance between the movable electrode and fixed electrode, changes. This capacitance change results in a corresponding change in oscillation frequency of the crystal piece. | 07-19-2012 |
20120181899 | Piezoelectric resonator and elastic wave device - The generation of secondary vibration different in oscillation frequency from primary vibration is suppressed. In a quartz-crystal resonator in which excitation electrodes are formed respectively on both surfaces of a quartz-crystal piece whose primary vibration is thickness shear vibration, a hole portion is formed at a portion, in the excitation electrode, where secondary vibration is generated, and a concave portion is formed in a region, in the quartz-crystal piece, corresponding to the hole portion. Alternatively, a convex portion are preferably provided symmetrically with respect to a center of the quartz-crystal resonator. Consequently, the secondary vibration attenuates and the oscillation frequency of the secondary vibration shifts to a high frequency side. | 07-19-2012 |
20120186351 | Vibration Detecting Device - Provided is a device capable of easily and accurately detecting a vibration period when, for example, an earthquake occurs. When a quartz-crystal plate bends upon application of a force, capacitance between a movable electrode provided at its tip portion and a fixed electrode provided on a vessel to face the movable electrode changes, so that an oscillation frequency of the quartz-crystal plate changes according to this capacitance. Therefore, when the vessel is vibrated, there appear a first state where the quartz-crystal plate ends to approach the fixed electrode and a second state where the quartz-crystal plate is in an original state or bends to be apart from the fixed electrode. Accordingly, an oscillation frequency corresponding to the first state and corresponding to the second state alternately appear, and therefore, it is possible to find the period (frequency) of the vibration. | 07-26-2012 |
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20100145515 | ROBOT SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD - A robot system includes a robot arm driven by a motor, a collision detector that detects a collision between the robot arm and an obstacle, which is provided on the robot arm, and a stopping method selector that controls the robot arm by selecting any one of all stopping methods on the basis of the information obtained by the collision detector, thereby selecting a stopping method in accordance with the status of the collision. | 06-10-2010 |
20120000891 | ROBOT SYSTEM - For teaching a welding-point position for a robot, processing of a robot system includes first processing for moving a spot welding gun to a position at which movable and fixed electrodes pinch the welding point; second processing for extending the movable electrode toward a member to be welded by driving of a motor, detecting contact between the movable electrode and the member based on a torque command to the motor, and stopping the movable electrode after the contact is detected; and third processing for operating the robot toward the movable electrode to move the fixed electrode toward the member while maintaining the contact between the movable electrode and the member by the driving of the motor, detecting contact between the fixed electrode and the member based on a disturbance torque acting on a joint of the robot, and stopping the operation of the robot after the contact is detected. | 01-05-2012 |
20120065781 | REDUCER ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION METHOD, ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION DEVICE, AND ROBOT SYSTEM - The invention provides a method and a device capable of precisely and simply extracting data used for abnormality determination and life diagnosis of a drive system of an industrial robot while executing a normal action program. Regarding a torque signal Tf outputted from a motor driver for controlling a motor in accordance with a position command Xs generated based on an operation program of a robot to the motor, a highpass filter is applied after gravity compensating torque and interference torque due to other shafts of the robot are removed from the torque signal Tf, and an abnormality in a reducer is determined based on an extracted oscillating component of the reducer. | 03-15-2012 |
20130060381 | PARALLEL LINK ROBOT, PARALLEL LINK ROBOT SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PARALLEL LINK ROBOT - A parallel link robot includes a base, three servo motors disposed in the base, three arms, and a robot controller. Each of the three arms includes a first link and a second link that respectively include a first joint and a second joint. Each of the three arms is driven by a corresponding one of the three servo motors. The robot controller determines whether or not any of the first and second joints of the arms is dislocated on the basis of the torques of the three servo motors. | 03-07-2013 |
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20080252363 | Semiconductor Device and Electronic Appliance Using the Same - A semiconductor device with less power consumption and an electronic appliance using the same. The semiconductor device of the invention is supplied with a first potential from a high potential power source and a second potential from a low potential power source. Upon input of a first signal to an input node, an output node outputs a second signal. With the semiconductor device of the invention, a potential difference of the second signal can be controlled to be smaller than a potential difference between the first potential and the second potential, thereby power consumption required for charging/discharging wires can be reduced. | 10-16-2008 |
20080273004 | Shift Register and Semiconductor Display Device - The invention provides a shift register which can operate normally while suppressing a delay of signal and a rounding of waveform. The shift register of the invention includes a plurality of stages of flip-flop circuits each of which includes a clocked inverter. The clocked inverter includes a first transistor and a second transistor which are connected in series, a first compensation circuit including a third transistor and a fourth transistor which are connected in series, and a second compensation circuit including a fifth transistor and a transmission gate. According to the first compensation circuit, a timing at which a signal outputted from the flip-flop circuit rises or falls can be controlled in synchronization with an output of two stages before. The second compensation circuit can control a clock signal input can be controlled. | 11-06-2008 |
20090079350 | Semiconductor Device, Display Device Having The Same and Electronic Appliance - The present invention provides a semiconductor device and its driving method in which amplitude of a data line is decreased to reduce power consumption. In a reset period, a reset transistor and a switch transistor are turned on. In the reset period, an input of a potential from the reset transistor node G is dominant in a node D, and a selection transistor is turned off when a potential of the node D gets higher than a gate potential of the selection transistor. Thus, even though a potential of the data line changes, a potential of the node G does not change. Since the potential of the data line is not directly written in a gate of a driver transistor, it is possible to separately set an on/off potential to be applied to the gate of the driver transistor and the amplitude of the data line. | 03-26-2009 |
20100224868 | Light Emitting Device - The present invention provides a TFT that has a channel length particularly longer than that of an existing one, specifically, several tens to several hundreds times longer than that of the existing one, and thereby allowing turning to an on-state at a gate voltage particularly higher than the existing one and driving, and allowing having a low channel conductance gd. According to the present invention, not only the simple dispersion of on-current but also the normalized dispersion thereof can be reduced, and other than the reduction of the dispersion between the individual TFTs, the dispersion of the OLEDs themselves and the dispersion due to the deterioration of the OLED can be reduced. | 09-09-2010 |
20110095312 | Semiconductor Device and Method of Manufacturing the Same - An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device having high operation characteristic and reliability. | 04-28-2011 |
20110278578 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device according to the present invention includes: a planarization layer for insulating between a gate electrode etc. and a data wiring, a drain electrode, or the like of the transistor; and a barrier layer that is formed on an upper surface or lower surface of the planarization layer and at the same time, adapted to suppress diffusion of moisture or degassing components from the planarization layer. The display device adopts a device structure effective in reducing the plasma damage on the planarization layer by devising a positional relationship between the planarization layer and the barrier layer. Also, in combination with a novel structure as a structure for a pixel electrode, effects such as an increase in luminance can be provided as well. | 11-17-2011 |
20120181540 | Light Emitting Device - The present invention provides a TFT that has a channel length particularly longer than that of an existing one, specifically, several tens to several hundreds times longer than that of the existing one, and thereby allowing turning to an on-state at a gate voltage particularly higher than the existing one and driving, and allowing having a low channel conductance gd. According to the present invention, not only the simple dispersion of on-current but also the normalized dispersion thereof can be reduced, and other than the reduction of the dispersion between the individual TFTs, the dispersion of the OLEDs themselves and the dispersion due to the deterioration of the OLED can be reduced. | 07-19-2012 |
20120235155 | DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention is intended to suppress power consumption of an EL display. In accordance with the brightness of an image to be displayed in a pixel portion, the contrast of the image is determined whether to be inverted or not, and the number of bits of the digital video signal to be input into the pixel portion is reduced, and the magnitude of a current to flow through the EL element is allowed to be maintained at a constant level even when a temperature of an EL layer changes by providing the EL display with another EL element to be used for monitoring a temperature. | 09-20-2012 |
20130087775 | Light Emitting Device - The present invention provides a TFT that has a channel length particularly longer than that of an existing one, specifically, several tens to several hundreds times longer than that of the existing one, and thereby allowing turning to an on-state at a gate voltage particularly higher than the existing one and driving, and allowing having a low channel conductance gd. According to the present invention, not only the simple dispersion of on-current but also the normalized dispersion thereof can be reduced, and other than the reduction of the dispersion between the individual TFTs, the dispersion of the OLEDs themselves and the dispersion due to the deterioration of the OLED can be reduced. | 04-11-2013 |
20130187142 | Display Device - The present invention is intended to suppress power consumption of an EL display. In accordance with the brightness of an image to be displayed in a pixel portion, the contrast of the image is determined whether to be inverted or not, and the number of bits of the digital video signal to be input into the pixel portion is reduced, and the magnitude of a current to flow through the EL element is allowed to be maintained at a constant level even when a temperature of an EL layer changes by providing the EL display with another EL element to be used for monitoring a temperature. | 07-25-2013 |
20130341626 | Semiconductor Device and Method of Manufacturing the Same - An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device having high operation characteristic and reliability. The measures taken are: A pixel capacitor is formed between an electrode comprising anodic capable material over an organic resin film, an anodic oxide film of the electrode and a pixel electrode above. Since the anodic oxide film is anodically oxidized by applied voltage per unit time at 15 V/min, there is no wrap around on the electrode, and film peeling can be prevented. | 12-26-2013 |
20140124773 | Display Device - The present invention is intended to suppress power consumption of an EL display. In accordance with the brightness of an image to be displayed in a pixel portion, the contrast of the image is determined whether to be inverted or not, and the number of bits of the digital video signal to be input into the pixel portion is reduced, and the magnitude of a current to flow through the EL element is allowed to be maintained at a constant level even when a temperature of an EL layer changes by providing the EL display with another EL element to be used for monitoring a temperature. | 05-08-2014 |
20140151707 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - The present invention provides a TFT that has a channel length particularly longer than that of an existing one, specifically, several tens to several hundreds times longer than that of the existing one, and thereby allowing turning to an on-state at a gate voltage particularly higher than the existing one and driving, and allowing having a low channel conductance gd. According to the present invention, not only the simple dispersion of on-current but also the normalized dispersion thereof can be reduced, and other than the reduction of the dispersion between the individual TFTs, the dispersion of the OLEDs themselves and the dispersion due to the deterioration of the OLED can be reduced. | 06-05-2014 |
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20110036871 | TRIGGER-TYPE PUMP DISPENSER - [Objective] To provide a trigger-type pump dispenser having a cam mechanism which stabilizes the movement of a swing lever and prevents a biasing means for returning a piston from being affected by liquid. | 02-17-2011 |
20110147419 | PRESSURE ACCUMULATION DISPENSER - [Problem] To provide by the present invention a pressure-accumulation dispenser that can be given a pressure-accumulation function with a simple structure. | 06-23-2011 |
20110272493 | TRIGGER PUMP SPRAYER - A trigger pump sprayer in combination with a liquid dispensed from the sprayer. The trigger sprayer provides for efficacious particle size distributions of the liquids, when sprayed under non-ideal conditions. Non-ideal conditions include only partial strokes of the trigger, rather than full strokes and relatively slow trigger strokes. A bimodal distribution of particle sizes is obtained under two different operating conditions. The sprayer/liquid combination according to the present invention compresses the difference between the two modes, without requiring undue work by the operator. The advantageous particle size distribution difference is accomplished by using a precompression piston which reciprocates in response to trigger strokes, and selecting a liquid having appropriate properties to correspond to the trigger pump operating characteristics. | 11-10-2011 |
20110272494 | TRIGGER PUMP SPRAYER HAVING FAVORABLE PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION WITH SPECIFIED LIQUIDS - A trigger pump sprayer in combination with a liquid dispensed from the sprayer. The sprayer is suitable for dispensing liquid from a reservoir, through a nozzle into particles. The trigger sprayer provides for efficacious particle size distributions of the liquids, when sprayed under non-ideal conditions. Non-ideal conditions include only partial strokes of the trigger, rather than full strokes and relatively slow trigger strokes. The trigger sprayer advantageously delivers a particle size distribution suitable for liquids having particular rheological properties. The advantageous particle size distribution difference is accomplished by using a precompression piston which reciprocates in response to trigger strokes, and selecting a liquid having appropriate properties to correspond to the trigger pump operating characteristics. | 11-10-2011 |
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20080211616 | Inverter transformer having bobbin with protected terminal pins - An inverter transformer includes a core structure, bobbins each including a spool portion and first and second terminal blocks and having a part of the core structure inserted therein, and primary and secondary windings wound around the bobbin, wherein the first and second terminal blocks have recesses formed at their end faces and adapted to lodge terminal pins to tie wire ends of the secondary winding therearound, the distal tip ends of the terminal pins lodged in the recesses of the first and second terminal blocks are positioned either flush with or inward of the end face of the first and second terminal blocks, parts of the core structure are located above the recesses, and the end faces of the core structure oriented substantially orthogonal to an extending direction of the terminal pins are positioned either flush with or outward of the distal tip ends of the terminal pins. | 09-04-2008 |
20090154202 | Backlight inverter and method of driving same - A backlight inverter is provided which includes at least one inverter transformer and to which a plurality of cold cathode fluorescent lamps are connected, wherein a plurality of primary windings of the inverter transformer are connected to each other either in series or in parallel, a resonance circuit including a leakage inductance and a capacitance component is formed at the secondary side of the inverter transformer, and wherein the inverter transformer is driven at an operating frequency which is included in a frequency range between a parallel resonance frequency and a series resonance frequency of the resonance circuit and which excludes a frequency range between a first inflection point and a second inflection point of a gain characteristic curve of the inverter transformer. | 06-18-2009 |
20090230869 | Transformer - To provide a transformer in which costs of a backlight device are reduced by lighting a lamp without requiring an additional member for connecting the lamp to an inverter. A transformer according to the present invention includes terminal bases and in which terminal pins are implanted, a bobbin formed by winding a primary winding and secondary windings and around the outer circumference of a winding core, and a core. A lamp connecting terminal is arranged to the terminal bases and, and an electrode of a lamp is directly connected to the lamp connecting terminal, thereby attaching the lamp to the terminal bases and. The transformer is integrated into an inverter for a backlight device of a liquid crystal display apparatus, thereby lighting the lamp without using an additional member for connecting the lamp to the inverter. | 09-17-2009 |
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20100243924 | Radiation imaging apparatus - A supporting/moving section for supporting and moving a device to predetermined positions at which radiation imaging is performed is prepared. An operating portion is provided for manipulating the movement of the device supported by the supporting/moving means. A detecting section outputs detection signals, which are obtained by detecting external forces which are applied to the operating portion. A control section controls the supporting/moving means to move the device such that the movement tracks target values for movement, which are determined from the detection signals. During manipulation of the operating portion, a unique oscillation frequency measuring section executes measurements to obtain a unique oscillation frequency of the device. A unique oscillation attenuating section attenuates signal components, which are included in control signals output by the control means to control the supporting/moving means and cause the movement of the device to fluctuate at the unique oscillation frequency, in real time. | 09-30-2010 |
20110229977 | CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD, AS WELL AS PROGRAM - Testing of a test article based on a color development state of a test area is achieved in an easy manner. A sample is deposited on a spreading layer of a test piece, and the test piece is loaded in a loading port of a chromatographic analysis apparatus. After a preset time has elapsed, color development states of the test area and a control area in an observation window are read as an image. A preprocessing unit applies preprocessing to the image, and then, spatial frequency components of the image are calculated. Then, pattern information is generated based on the spatial frequency components, and the pattern information is displayed on an information output unit. | 09-22-2011 |
20110236262 | BIOLOGICAL SUBSTANCE DETECTING APPARATUS - A biological substance detecting apparatus that enables stable detection and quantitative analysis of biologically derived target substances is provided. The biological substance detecting apparatus employs a sensor chip provided with a fine flow channel through which a sample liquid is caused to flow, and a sensor surface that adsorbs a biologically derived target substance. Light is irradiated onto the sensor surface, and light emitted by the adsorbed target substance or a labeling substance bound thereto is detected. A flow speed controlling means, for controlling the flow speed of the sample liquid that flows through the fine flow channel to a value within a range such that the adsorption speed of the target substance is not controlled by dispersion. | 09-29-2011 |
20110239793 | EXTRACTION METHOD, EXTRACTION VESSEL FOR USE WITH THE SAME, EXTRACTION KIT AND VALVE EXPANSION MEMBER - A method is provided which is capable of efficiently taking most of a precious sample into an extraction vessel without wasting when the sample is extracted from a collection section of a sampling rod. The method includes the steps of collecting a sample using a sampling rod formed of a rod body and a collection section attached to the rod body, inserting the sampling rod into the extraction vessel, placing the rod body in a gap formed in a grappling hook section which is disposed in an insertion path of the sampling rod, the gap having a width smaller than a diameter of the collection section and being capable of receiving the rod body, withdrawing the rod body with the rod body being placed in the gap and detaching the collection section from the rod body by hooking the collection section to the grappling hook section. | 10-06-2011 |
20110244590 | ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD - A coloration state of a test region is read out as image density values by a readout device. A calculation is made to find a similarity degree between template information for the test region, which template information represents a state of coloration of the test region, and which has been stored previously in a pattern storing device, and the coloration state of the test region, which coloration state has been read out by the readout device. An analysis of an analyte is performed by a judgment device in accordance with the similarity degree, which has been calculated. | 10-06-2011 |
20130236910 | TEST METHOD AND APPARATUS - In a method for testing a patient with a test apparatus for a plurality of diseases using a specimen collected from the subject, if the subject is determined to be positive for one of the plurality of diseases, a test result indicating the positive is outputted from the test apparatus without waiting for completion of the testing of the other diseases. | 09-12-2013 |
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20100250910 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND SETTING MANAGEMENT METHOD - In a computer system including a server having a BIOS and a management module, the server includes therein a memory area and a server controller, and the management module includes therein a backup memory area and a management-module controller. When the BIOS changes the BIOS setting, the BIOS stores the BIOS setting into both of the memory area and the backup memory area by way of the server controller and the management-module controller. Here, the management module operates independently of the server. Accordingly, when a BIOS-setting read request is issued from the outside, the management-module controller makes the response to the request source by reading the data stored into the backup memory area. | 09-30-2010 |
20120185634 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INHERITING HBA IDENTIFIER OF PCI CARD - A PCI card's HBA identifier table held in an IODC in an IO slot expansion unit is read and recorded on a PCIe switch register of a PCIe switch. After a server blade is powered on so that an EFI is activated, the EFI reads the HBA identifier table recorded on the PCIe switch register and updates an HBA identifier of an HBA mounted in each PCI card. The HBA mounted in the PCI card operates with the updated HBA identifier of the PCI card. Thus, even when the PCI card is replaced by a new PCI card because of failure or the like, the new PCI card can operate with the same HBA identifier as that before the replacement. Therefore, a user does not have to register the HBA identifier of the PCI card newly in a device connected to the PCI card. | 07-19-2012 |
20130290651 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND COMPUTER SYSTEM INFORMATION STORAGE METHOD - If simultaneous replacement main system and standby system of a management module was necessary due to a failure, fault or other problem in a structure containing redundant management modules, then the management information retained in the management module will be lost. A computer system contains an external storage device that is outside the manager module. This external storage device stores the same information as the management information held by the main system management module, and after replacing the management modules the management information held in the external storage device is restored in the management module. A switch is further included between the external storage device and the management module, and controlling this switch from the management module allows the plurality of management modules to exclusively access the external memory device. | 10-31-2013 |
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20110287460 | METHOD OF LIPID ASSAY AND REAGENT FOR USE THEREIN - A method of lipid assay characterized by assaying the lipids contained in a blood component in the presence of an organic silicon compound. The method can cause specific conditions for direct methods while satisfying requirements such as no influence on precision of assay, no burden on assay apparatus, and easy availability. | 11-24-2011 |
20120178117 | METHOD OF LIPID ASSAY AND REAGENT FOR USE THEREIN - A method of lipid assay characterized by assaying the lipids contained in a blood component in the presence of an organic silicon compound. The method can cause specific conditions for direct methods while satisfying requirements such as no influence on precision of assay, no burden on assay apparatus, and easy availability. | 07-12-2012 |
20130004976 | HUMAN INSULIN ASSAY AND ASSAY REAGENT - A problem of the present invention is to provide an antibody specific to human insulin and an assay and an assay reagent using the antibody capable of accurately assaying human insulin without being affected by porcine insulin. The present invention provides an assay and an assay reagent capable of specifically assaying human insulin by combining a monoclonal antibody specifically reactive with human insulin and nonreactive with porcine insulin and a different anti-human insulin antibody. | 01-03-2013 |
20130164768 | METHOD OF LIPID ASSAY AND REAGENT FOR USE THEREIN - A method of lipid assay characterized by assaying the lipids contained in a blood component in the presence of an organic silicon compound. The method can cause specific conditions for direct methods while satisfying requirements such as no influence on precision of assay, no burden on assay apparatus, and easy availability. | 06-27-2013 |
20130210044 | METHOD OF LIPID ASSAY AND REAGENT FOR USE THEREIN - A method of lipid assay characterized by assaying the lipids contained in a blood component in the presence of an organic silicon compound. The method can cause specific conditions for direct methods while satisfying requirements such as no influence on precision of assay, no burden on assay apparatus, and easy availability. | 08-15-2013 |
20140051102 | METHOD OF LIPID ASSAY AND REAGENT FOR USE THEREIN - A method of lipid assay characterized by assaying the lipids contained in a blood component in the presence of an organic silicon compound. The method can cause specific conditions for direct methods while satisfying requirements such as no influence on precision of assay, no burden on assay apparatus, and easy availability. | 02-20-2014 |
20140127727 | BLOOD COAGULATION TIME PROLONGING AGENT - Provided is a reagent, which prolongs a blood coagulation time sufficiently and enhances an optical change, thereby enabling a correct and high-sensitive blood coagulability test. The present invention provides a blood coagulation time prolonging agent, including, as an active ingredient, a guanidine compound represented by the following formula (1) or an acid addition salt thereof (in the formula, R | 05-08-2014 |
20140287444 | METHOD OF LIPID ASSAY AND REAGENT FOR USE THEREIN - A method of lipid assay characterized by assaying the lipids contained in a blood component in the presence of an organic silicon compound. The method can cause specific conditions for direct methods while satisfying requirements such as no influence on precision of assay, no burden on assay apparatus, and easy availability. | 09-25-2014 |