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20090317624 | UNIFORMLY DISPERSED PHOTOCATALYST COATING LIQUID, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND PHOTOCATALYTICALLY ACTIVE COMPOSITE MATERIAL OBTAINED BY USING SAME - Disclosed is a uniformly-dispersed photocatalyst coating liquid having excellent dispersion stability of titanium oxide particles which have photocatalytic activity, which coating liquid places no burden on the environment while being excellent in handling properties. In addition, this uniformly-dispersed photocatalyst coating liquid enables to form a photocatalyst coating film, which is excellent in photocatalytic activities (antifouling property and/or antibacterial property), transparency and durability, on the surface of a base when applied thereto. Also disclosed are a method for producing such a uniformly-dispersed photocatalyst coating liquid, and a photocatalytically active composite material obtained by using such a uniformly-dispersed photocatalyst coating liquid. Specifically disclosed is a uniformly-dispersed photocatalyst coating liquid which is a composition containing, in an aqueous solvent, titanium oxide dispersed particles having an average primary particle diameter of 5-50 nm and an average dispersed particle diameter of 10-100 nm, a polymer dispersing agent, an alkoxysilane hydrolysis-polycondensation product, an organic amine, and additionally if necessary, silver particles. The uniformly-dispersed photocatalyst coating liquid has a pH within a range of 5-9. Also specifically disclosed are a method for producing such a uniformly-dispersed photocatalyst coating liquid, and a photocatalytically active composite material having antifouling property and antibacterial property, which is obtained by applying such a uniformly-dispersed photocatalyst coating liquid over the surface of a base. | 12-24-2009 |
20120225770 | PHOTOCATALYST COATING - Provided is an antifouling acrylic board coated with a photocatalyst layer suitable for a surface of a base material made of an acrylic organic material. The antifouling acrylic board includes an acrylic base material, a silica layer constituted of silica as a main constituent and formed on a surface of the acrylic base material, and a photocatalyst layer including titanium oxide particles dispersed in a silica matrix and formed on the silica layer and further includes a binding layer constituted of a silane coupling agent and provided between the surface of the acrylic base material and the silica layer. The silane coupling agent is an epoxy silane coupling agent or a vinyl silane coupling agent. | 09-06-2012 |
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20100264957 | OUTPUT CIRCUIT - An output circuit includes: an NMOS transistor of an output buffer, a transistor ON drive circuit configured to turn on the transistor; a switchable current source configured to turn off the transistor; and a drive control circuit configured to control the transistor ON drive circuit and the switchable current source. The electric charge at the gate terminal of the NMOS transistor of the output buffer is pulled out with the current of the switchable current source at a fixed current value even when the gate voltage of the transistor varies in a range of variations of the threshold voltage Vth of the transistor. | 10-21-2010 |
20110234185 | SEMICONDUCTOR-DEVICE DRIVING CIRCUIT, AND SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS INCLUDING DRIVING CIRCUIT - It is an object of the present invention to provide a driving circuit which is adapted, for a semiconductor device which exhibits a diode characteristic of flowing an abrupt current if the gate-source voltage therein exceeds a predetermined voltage, to have the functions of reducing electric-power consumption in high-load state, reducing the loss in the driving circuit in low-load states, preventing excessive voltages, excessive currents and excessive electric-power consumption, and reducing the loss in the semiconductor device. A gate control part in a driving circuit is adapted to control the voltage or the current which is supplied to the gate of a semiconductor device, according to signals indicative of operation states of the semiconductor device, wherein these signals are inputted from an operation-state detection part which detects operation states of the semiconductor device, and the semiconductor device exhibits a diode characteristic of flowing an abrupt current if the gate-source voltage therein exceeds a predetermined voltage. | 09-29-2011 |
20110241738 | SWITCHING DEVICE DRIVING UNIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS - In order to provide a switching device driving unit that, even in a case where a threshold voltage of a switching device is varied, can suppress variations in switching speed, and prevent a power loss caused by an unnecessary gate current in a constant ON operation state of the switching device, so that a desired slew rate can be easily set, a control current source circuit sets to different values based on a first input driving signal, in a driving current to be source-outputted to a gate or a base of the switching device, a current in a stage of an initial ON operation of a switching operation of the switching device and a current in a stage after completion of the switching operation. | 10-06-2011 |
20110285378 | DRIVE DEVICE - When a drive signal that is a PWM input signal is small (when the drive duty component of the PWM drive signal is small), shoot-through (through state) between the upper transistor and lower transistor can occur when there is variation in the drive circuit or transistors. An upper switching device and lower switching device control current supply to a load, and an upper drive circuit and lower drive circuit respectively drive the upper switching device and lower switching device. The upper drive circuit has an input terminal that receives a control signal that turns the upper switching device on or off; an upper source circuit that SOURCE outputs a drive current to the control terminal of the upper switching device according to a first level or second level signal applied to the input terminal; an upper sink circuit that SINK outputs drive current to the control terminal of the upper switching device according to a second level or first level signal applied to the input terminal; an upper sink transistor that sinks capacitive current through the control terminal when the upper switching device is off; an upper interface circuit that generates a first input drive signal to the upper source circuit according to the input terminal signal, and a second input drive signal to the upper sink circuit or the upper sink transistor; and a selector that selectively supplies the second input drive signal to the upper sink circuit or the upper sink transistor based on a signal from the inverter. The lower drive circuit is identically configured. | 11-24-2011 |
20130265812 | MATRIX CONVERTER CONTROLLING APPARATUS - A matrix converter control apparatus includes three AC switches each including a first and a second switching elements connected in series. The first and the second switching devices each: have a first terminal, a second terminal, and a gate terminal; pass a current between the first terminal and the second terminal when a first voltage which is a voltage of the gate terminal with reference to a voltage of the first terminal is higher than a threshold voltage; interrupt a current flowing from the second terminal to the first terminal when the first voltage is lower than the threshold voltage; and pass a current from the first terminal to the second terminal when the first voltage is lower than the threshold voltage and the voltage of the gate terminal is higher than the threshold voltage with reference to a voltage of the second terminal. | 10-10-2013 |
20140133202 | BUCK-BOOST AC/DC CONVERTER - A buck-boost AC/DC converter includes a first switching element group that performs full-wave rectification of an AC signal thereby generating a full-wave rectified signal and performs a buck operation, a second switching element group for performing a boost operation, a reactor, and a control unit that causes the first switching element group or the second switching element group to selectively perform the buck operation or the boost operation based on PWM operation, to maintain a DC voltage at a constant value. The switching elements included in the first and second switching element groups possess FET characteristics, inverse FET characteristics and inverse conductive characteristics. The control unit is further configured to switch a gate-source voltage to be supplied to the switching elements included in the first switching element group according to a polarity of the AC signal, thereby causing the first switching element group to perform full-wave rectification. | 05-15-2014 |