| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20120044741 | Semiconductor device having memory unit, method of writing to or reading from memory unit, and semiconductor device manufacturing method - A first semiconductor device is formed over a substrate and includes a first insulation film, a first electrode, and a first diffusion layer. A second semiconductor device is formed over a substrate and includes a second insulation film, a second electrode, and a second diffusion layer. The second electrode is coupled to the first electrode. A control transistor allows one of a source and a drain to be coupled to the first electrode and the second electrode, allows the other one of the source and the drain to be coupled to a bit line, and allows a gate electrode to be coupled to a word line. A first potential control line is coupled to the first diffusion layer and controls a potential of the first diffusion layer. A second potential control line is coupled to the second diffusion layer and controls a potential of the second diffusion layer. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120080736 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An antifuse whose internal written information cannot be analyzed even by utilizing methods to determine whether there is a charge-up in the electrodes. The antifuse includes a gate insulation film, a gate electrode, and a first diffusion layer. A second diffusion layer is isolated from the first diffusion layer by way of a device isolator film, and is the same conduction type as the first diffusion layer. The gate wiring is formed as one integrated piece with the gate electrode, and extends over the device isolator film. A common contact couples the gate wiring to the second diffusion layer. The gate electrode is comprised of semiconductor material such as polysilicon that is doped with impurities of the same conduction type as the first diffusion layer. The second diffusion layer is coupled only to the common contact. | 04-05-2012 |
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| 20090153008 | Display device - A terminal includes a first part, which includes a terminal contact hole and an ITO film, and a second part, which includes the ITO film but not the contact hole. A terminal wiring line of the terminal is wide in the first part and narrow in the second part. In regions adjacent to the first part, adjacent terminal wiring lines are bent outward, thus securing enough interval between wiring lines, with the result that terminals can be formed through patterning by normal light exposure. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090195490 | Driving method for display device - A liquid crystal display includes pixels each having an switching element, drain drivers and gate drivers for operating the switching elements and the pixels, and drain lines and gate lines supplying signals from the drain drivers and the gate drivers to the switching elements being formed on one of a pair of substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal layer. Wiring lines are formed on the one of a pair of substrates for transferring display data signals and a clock signal to the gate drivers. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090295700 | Display Device - A display device includes a display region which is constituted of a plurality of partial regions, and drive circuits which are connected to a plurality of video signal lines for respective partial regions. The video signal lines and the drive circuits are connected with each other via relay lines. A center line of the drive circuit and a center line of the partial region are arranged at positions displaced from each other, and the relay lines have a bent portion between the drive circuit and the video signal lines. By forming the bent portion on the relay line, the line resistances of the relay lines can be adjusted thus decreasing display irregularities generated by the positional displacement of the drive circuit. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100039600 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device having a narrowed peripheral area, particularly, a liquid crystal display device in which disconnection or short-circuiting of connecting lines disposed in the peripheral area is restrained is provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a pixel area having pixel electrodes, and a peripheral area surrounding the pixel area, and a gate driver and a drain driver are disposed in the peripheral area. A plurality of gate connecting lines which connect the gate driver and a plurality of gate lines are stacked in the peripheral area. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100053058 | Display Device - A display device in which a non-display region where drain lines, gate lines and pixels are not formed is formed at a portion within a display region which is constituted of a mass of the pixels, drain route-around lines and gate route-around lines are formed by routing the drain lines and the gate lines separated by the non-display region around the non-display region, a line width of at least one of the drain route-around line and the gate route-around line is set such that the line width at an intersecting portion where the drain route-around line and the gate route-around line intersect with each other differs from the line width at a non-intersecting portion. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20110141384 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can obviate cutting off of a peripheral region of the liquid crystal display device which is provided with an inspection circuit and can surely perform the inspection of an image display even when the peripheral region is narrowed. On a substrate of the liquid crystal display device, a pixel region which is comprised of a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of drain lines and a peripheral region which surrounds the pixel region are formed. A turn-on inspection terminal of the liquid crystal display device are formed on the peripheral region and a semiconductor chip for driving liquid crystal is formed on the inspection terminal. The semiconductor chip is electrically insulated from the inspection terminal. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110205480 | Liquid crystal display device - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can obviate cutting off of a peripheral region of the liquid crystal display device which is provided with an inspection circuit and can surely perform the inspection of an image display even when the peripheral region is narrowed. On a substrate of the liquid crystal display device, a pixel region which is comprised of a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of drain lines and a peripheral region which surrounds the pixel region are formed. A turn-on inspection terminal of the liquid crystal display device are formed on the peripheral region and a semiconductor chip for driving liquid crystal is formed on the inspection terminal. The semiconductor chip is electrically insulated from the inspection terminal. | 08-25-2011 |
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| 20090027757 | ELECTROCHROMIC DISPLAY ELEMENT AND FULL-COLOR ELECTROCHROMIC DISPLAY ELEMENT - An electrochromic display element includes a pair of counter electrodes having therebetween an electrochromic compound represented by Formula (1), wherein the electrochromic compound becomes colored when being oxidized and becomes colorless when being reduced by a driving operation of the electrodes: | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090256121 | ELECTROCHROMIC COMPOUND, ELECTRODE, AND DISPLAY ELEMENT - An electrochromic compound represented by Formula (1), | 10-15-2009 |
| 20100091352 | DISPLAY ELEMENT AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - This invention provides a novel electrochemical display element, which can realize bright white display, high-contrast black and white display, and full-color display by a simple member construction, and a method for driving the display element. The display element is characterized in that it comprises opposed electrodes, and an electrolyte, an electrochromic compound, a metal salt compound, and a white scattering material between the opposed electrodes, and multicolor display of three or more colors is carried out by black display, white display, and display of color other than black by driving the opposed electrodes by taking advantage of 1) a color change as a result of oxidation and reduction reactions of the electrochromic compound, and 2) a color change as a result of reduction precipitation and oxidation dissolution of a metallic element contained in the metal salt compound in at least one of the opposed electrodes. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20110013261 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DISPLAY ELEMENT - Provided is an electrochemical display element composed of a simple member structure, capable of driving at low voltage, and exhibiting high display contrast and white display reflectance, and further to provide the electrochemical display element exhibiting reduced variation in reflectance during repetitive driving even after storage for a long duration. Disclosed is an electrochemical display element possessing an N-oxyl derivative represented by the following Formula (1), an electrolyte and a pair of facing electrodes: | 01-20-2011 |
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| 20090083473 | FUNCTION-PROVIDING SYSTEM - From among identical modules stored on a module storage 112 and a module storage 212, an authenticated printing management module 130 selects the module with higher level information. For example, an ID authentication module 132 is stored in both the module storage 112 of an MFP 10 and the module storage 212 of a network interface card 11. The authenticated printing management module 130 selects the ID authentication module of the network interface card 11, in accordance with level information that represents an ID authentication module selection hierarchy. By so doing, where modules necessary for executing authenticated printing are included on both the MFP 10 and the network interface card 11, modules present on either the MFP 10 or the network interface card 11 are able to be selected appropriately for use. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090210927 | AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATED PRINTING SYSTEM, AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD - An authentication apparatus of the invention performs an authentication process based on authentication data input from a device used for data entry. The authentication apparatus receives device identification information for identifying the device and matches the received device identification information against authentication-authorized device identification information representing that the device is authorized to be used for authentication. In the case of failed matching of the received device identification information with the stored authentication-authorized device identification information, the authentication apparatus restricts the authentication process. This arrangement ensures the high security in an authenticated printing system including a printing apparatus connectable with at least one device used for entry of authentication data. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20100097173 | Entry/Exit Managing Device and Information Communication Terminal - An entry/exit managing device for controlling entry and exit of a user, who carries a portable memory and an information communication terminal, to and from a predetermined place includes: a portable memory communication unit which reads and writes data from and to the portable memory; a user managing unit which executes user authentication on the basis of user information stored in the portable memory; and a network device use information managing unit which manages network device use information used to set a network device use setting parameter in the information communication terminal. The portable memory communication unit reads the user information from the portable memory when the user enters the predetermined place. The user managing unit executes the user authentication on the basis of the user information. The portable memory communication unit writes the network device use information in the portable memory, when the user authentication succeeds. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100208646 | NETWORK CONNECTION CONTROL SYSTEM - A network connection control system is provided with: a relay device that relays communication in a communication network; and a communication terminal that performs communication via the relay device. The relay device has a network information transmission section, which is information about the communication network. The communication terminal has: a lower communication section that performs communication via the relay device; a network information receiving section that receives the network information via the lower communication section; a higher communication section that performs inter-higher-section communication via the lower communication section, with another higher communication section in another communication terminal; a judgment result acquisition section that acquires a judgment result based on the received network information, about whether or not to permit the inter-higher-section communication; and a communication control section that inhibits the inter-higher-section communication until a judgment result that the inter-higher-section communication is to be permitted is acquired. | 08-19-2010 |