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20100280634 | REDUNDANT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A redundant communication system includes: a first control device which calculates a control command value of an electric power device equipped in a vehicle, and outputs first and second command signals respectively corresponding to the control command value; a second control device which controls the electric power device on the basis of one of first and second control command values respectively corresponding to the first and the second command signals received from the first control device; a primary communication line which transmits the first command signal from the first control device to the second control device; and a secondary communication line which transmits the second command signal from the first control device to the second control device, wherein the second control device comprises: a primary communication line abnormality determining unit which determines that the primary communication line is abnormal, when a non-reception state of the first command signal or an abnormality state of the first command signal continues during a predetermined period; and a control command value switching unit which selects one of the first and second control command values in a switching manner, and wherein the control command value switching unit switches the selection from the first control command value to the second control command value within the predetermined period from a start time at which the non-reception state of the first command signal or the abnormality state of the first command signal starts until a time at which the primary communication line abnormality determining unit determines that the primary communication line is abnormal. | 11-04-2010 |
20140085348 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a driving module configured to apply a DC bias to a voltage corresponding to a gradation which is displayed on a pixel and to supply a resultant voltage to a pixel electrode, the driving module being configured to apply a higher DC bias in a white display state in which a potential difference is produced between a pixel electrode and a common electrode than in a black display state in which no potential difference is produced between the pixel electrode and the common electrode. | 03-27-2014 |
20140292191 | TRAVELING WAVE TUBE SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD OF TRAVELING WAVE TUBE - A traveling wave tube system includes a traveling wave tube, and a power supply device for supplying required power supply voltages to the respective electrodes of the traveling wave tube. The power supply device includes a control voltage generation circuit for generating a control voltage which is a negative DC voltage on the basis of a ground potential and supplying the control voltage to the anode, an anode voltage generation circuit for generating an anode voltage which is a negative DC voltage on the basis of the potential of the anode and supplying the anode voltage to the cathode, and a collector voltage generation circuit for generating a collector voltage which is a positive DC voltage on the basis of the potential of the cathode and supplying the collector voltage to the collector. | 10-02-2014 |
20140354928 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including an outer peripheral wiring which is formed along an outer periphery of an active area that displays an image, and which has a first reflective surface, a second substrate including a reflective layer which is formed by a plurality of segments that are mutually spaced apart, and which has a second reflective surface opposed to the first reflective surface, a sealant formed of a photosensitive resin material, which surrounds the active area, is formed along the outer peripheral wiring, and attaches the first substrate and the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer held in a cell gap in an inside surrounded by the sealant. | 12-04-2014 |
20150131015 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a second substrate including a first color filter, located in an area corresponding to first to fourth color pixels, and having an aperture in an area including the second and third color pixels, a second color filter located in an area corresponding to the second color pixel, a third color filter located in an area corresponding to the third color pixel, and a black matrix extending and partitioning the first to fourth color pixels, and a liquid crystal layer held between the substrates. The black matrix includes portions extending on the first color filter, and portions extending on the first color filter between the first and second color pixels and between the third and fourth color pixels. | 05-14-2015 |
20150268504 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a first insulating film, and a circumferential line, a second substrate includes a second insulating film, a first main spacer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate within a peripheral area and positioned between the first insulating film and the second insulating film, the first main spacer having a first height, and a first sub-spacer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate within the peripheral area and positioned between the circumferential line and the second insulating film, the first sub-spacer having a second height which is less than the first height. | 09-24-2015 |
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20090007428 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD - A method of manufacturing a liquid discharge head including a plurality of passages on a substrate, the passages communicating with a plurality of discharge ports configured to discharge liquid. The method includes the step of forming first to fourth patterns, the first pattern having a shape of one passage of the passages, the second pattern having a shape of other passage of the passages, the third pattern being formed near the first pattern, the fourth pattern being formed near the second pattern, the first to fourth patterns being formed on the substrate. The method also includes coating the substrate with a cover layer covering the first to fourth patterns, removing the first pattern to form the one passage, and removing the second pattern to form the other passage. | 01-08-2009 |
20090303289 | LIQUID DISCHARGE RECORDING HEAD AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A liquid discharge recording head includes a flow passage forming member having discharge ports and a flow passage, the discharge ports configured to discharge droplets, the flow passage communicating with the discharge ports. The flow passage forming member also has a first opening and a second opening, the first opening provided at a surface of the flow passage forming member with the discharge ports, the second opening causing the inside of the first opening to communicate with the outside of the flow passage forming member through a communication passage. | 12-10-2009 |
20100147793 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD - The present invention provides a method for producing a liquid discharge head including a silicon substrate having, on a first surface, energy generating elements, and a supply port penetrating the substrate from the first surface to a second surface, which is a rear surface of the first surface of the substrate. The method includes the steps of: preparing the silicon substrate having a sacrifice layer at a portion on the first surface where the ink supply port is to be formed and an etching mask layer having a plurality of openings on the second surface, the volume of a portion of the sacrifice layer at a position corresponding to a portion between two adjacent said openings being smaller than the volume of a portion of the sacrifice layer at a position corresponding to the opening; etching the silicon substrate from the plurality of openings and etching the sacrifice layer. | 06-17-2010 |
20110107598 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A liquid ejection head and a method of forming the same. The liquid ejection head includes a substrate, an ejection port, a liquid channel, and a supply port. The substrate has, above one side thereof, an energy generating element configured to generate energy used to eject liquid. The ejection port, from which a liquid is ejected, is located at a position corresponding to the energy generating element. The liquid channel communicates with the ejection port and penetrates the substrate from the one side to another side of the substrate. The supply port communicates with the liquid channel. The substrate has a projecting layer extending inward of an inner peripheral portion of an opening in the supply port in the one side, and the projecting layer and the energy generating element are formed of the same material. | 05-12-2011 |
20160059553 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid discharge head provided with a member having discharge ports formed configured to discharge liquid thereon, wherein a discharge port surface of the member having discharge ports arrayed thereon includes fumed silica. | 03-03-2016 |
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20090160748 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device, which is configured such that a liquid crystal layer is held between a pair of substrates, includes a scanning line which extends in a row direction of pixels, a signal line which extends in a column direction of the pixels, a pixel electrode which is disposed in association with each of the pixels and includes a slit, a first common electrode which is opposed to the pixel electrode via an interlayer insulation film, and a second common electrode which extends in parallel to the slit and is disposed adjacent to the pixel electrode in the same layer as the pixel electrode. | 06-25-2009 |
20090231525 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In a liquid crystal display device of a transflective type, each of pixels is provided with a transmissive part and a reflective part. The array substrate includes a switch element, an insulation layer which is disposed at least in the reflective part, a pixel electrode which includes a transmissive electrode disposed in the transmissive part of the pixel and a reflective electrode electrically connected to the transmissive electrode and disposed on the insulation layer in the reflective part, the pixel electrode being electrically connected to the switch element via a contact hole which is formed in the insulation layer by the reflective electrode, and a cover member which covers the reflective electrode in the contact hole and is formed of a material having a lower reflectance than the reflective electrode. | 09-17-2009 |
20120019753 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first insulative substrate, a second insulative substrate, a first polarizer disposed on an outer surface side of the first insulative substrate, a second polarizer disposed on an outer surface side of the second insulative substrate, and a first retardation plate and a second retardation plate, which are stacked between the second insulative substrate and the second polarizer. When a retardation in the thickness direction, which is defined by ((nx+ny)/2−nz)*d, is Rth, the first retardation plate has a negative first retardation Rth | 01-26-2012 |
20120327338 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a common electrode, an insulation film, and a pixel electrode, and a second substrate including a black matrix which includes a first light-shield portion, a second light-shield portion and a third light-shield portion, a first crossing portion at which the first light-shield portion and the second light-shield intersect, a second crossing portion at which the first light-shield portion and the third light-shield portion intersect, and a columnar spacer extending from a position overlapping the first crossing portion toward the first substrate. | 12-27-2012 |
20130027645 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including pixel electrodes disposed, respectively, in a first color pixel on one end side of an active area and in a second color pixel on the other end side of the active area, a light-shield layer which surrounds the first color pixel and the second color pixel and extends to a peripheral area surrounding the active area, a first color filter disposed in the first color pixel, a second color filter disposed in the second color pixel, a dummy color filter which is stacked on the light-shield layer in the peripheral area, creates a distance between second color filter and the dummy color filter and is continuous with the first color filter. | 01-31-2013 |
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20080228109 | GUIDE WIRE - A guide wire includes a member with a core wire. The guide wire may have a marker-forming layer which partly encircles the outer surface of the member and differs in color from the member, and a coating layer which covers the marker-forming layer and the member at least in the region where the marker-forming layer is formed and has such transparency as to make the marker-forming layer visible. The marker-forming layer and the coating layer can be formed from mutually miscible resins, while the marker-forming layer functions as a visible marker. | 09-18-2008 |
20080242933 | ENDOSCOPIC TREATMENT TOOL AND SUTURING METHOD USING THE SAME - An endoscopic treatment tool according to the present invention is an endoscopic treatment tool which is inserted into hollow organs via the mouth, nose, anus, or other natural orifice of the patient and performs suturing treatment within the hollow organs or abdominal cavities, includes: a hollow organ lining support which is smaller than the smallest diameter of a passage from a natural orifice of the hollow organ, the hollow organ lining support being able to expand so as to have a diameter larger than the smallest diameter of the passage from the natural orifice of the hollow organ. | 10-02-2008 |
20080281230 | Guide Wire - A guide wire includes a wire body having a core wire and a resin coating layer covering an outer periphery of a distal section of the wire body, and an annular member provided on the proximal side of the resin coating layer. The outer diameter of the distal end of the annular member and the outer diameter of the proximal end of the resin coating layer are preferably equal, and a distal end face of the annular member is joined to a proximal end face of the resin coating layer. | 11-13-2008 |
20110152791 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT - A medical instrument to be inserted into a living body before being used. The medical instrument is provided with a medical instrument main body including a long linear body having flexibility on which a coating layer covering at least the outer periphery on the distal side thereof is formed. The coating layer composes of a first layer which includes a material containing a low-friction resin material capable of lowering friction and a binder resin material serving as a binder; a second layer which is formed on the first layer and includes a material containing a low-friction resin material and a pigment and in which the content of a binder resin material is lower than the binder resin material content of the first layer or nil; and a third layer which is formed on the second layer and includes a material containing a low-friction resin material. | 06-23-2011 |
20120022470 | MEDICAL ELONGATE MEMBER HOUSING TOOL AND MEDICAL ELONGATE MEMBER HOUSING TOOL ASSEMBLY - An elongate member housing tool assembly includes a distal end side tubular member disposed on the distal end side and a proximal end side tubular member disposed on the proximal end side, which accommodate an elongate member, and a liquid inlet port to which a liquid supplying tool for supplying liquid into the distal end side tubular member is removably connected and which is provided on the distal end side tubular member. The distal end side tubular member and the proximal end side tubular member are wound spirally, and the proximal end of the distal end side tubular member and the distal end of the proximal end side tubular member are disposed in a spaced relationship from each other. A distal portion of the guide wire is accommodated in the distal end side tubular member, except possibly the most distal portion of the elongate member. | 01-26-2012 |
20120078051 | GUIDE WIRE FOR ENDOSCOPE - A guide wire includes a wire having an elongated body section and a distal portion decreasing in outer diameter from the body section. The guide wire may have a resin coating portion coating the body section and the distal portion and having a smooth outer surface; and a visually discernible mark provided at the resin coating portion. The body section may have a flexible portion which constitutes a part of the body section and lower in flexural rigidity than other portions of the body section different from the part, and the visually discernible mark is provided at a position of the resin coating portion at which the flexible portion is coated with the resin coating portion | 03-29-2012 |
20150025518 | BLOOD VESSEL INSERTION-TYPE TREATMENT DEVICE - A blood vessel insertion-type treatment device and method of cauterizing biological tissues are disclosed. The blood vessel insertion-type treatment device having a first torque transmission body and a first ultrasonic generator. The first torque transmission body has a longitudinal shape and having a proximal end and a distal end. The first torque transmission body transmits a torque which is supplied to the proximal end and which pivotally rotates the first torque transmission body in a longitudinal direction of the longitudinal shape. The first ultrasonic generator is disposed in the first torque transmission body. The first ultrasonic generator radiates ultrasonic waves for cauterizing biological tissues, which are apart from the first ultrasonic generator by a predetermined distance. | 01-22-2015 |
20160113662 | COLLECTION METHOD - A medical device and collection method are disclosed which can effectively aspirate and remove substances collected inside a filter, and prevent the collected substances from dropping down from a filter portion. The collection method includes inserting a medical device having a filter portion in a contracted state into the living body lumen, installing the filter portion in the living body lumen by bringing the filter portion into the expanded state; collecting the substances inside the living body lumen using the filter portion; inserting an aspiration catheter which applies an aspiration force to a distal opening via a lumen formed inside the aspiration catheter, into the living body lumen along the shaft portion, and fitting the distal opening into the concave portion of the filter portion; aspirating the substances collected inside the concave portion using the aspiration catheter; and removing the filter portion from the inside of the living body lumen. | 04-28-2016 |
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20110242469 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer held between the first and second substrates. The first substrate includes a first insulating substrate, and a pixel electrode and a counter electrode formed on the first insulating substrate. The second substrate includes a second insulating substrate. A first light shield layer is formed on a surface of the second insulating substrate apart from an end of the second insulating substrate opposing to the first substrate, and having a frame portion in a frame shape. Furthermore, a second light shield layer is arranged adjoining the first light shield layer extending up to the end of the second insulating substrate opposing to the first substrate. A third light shield layer to shield light is provided between the first light shield layer and second light shield layer. | 10-06-2011 |
20110310336 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates, an active area to display an image, a seal material surrounding the active area, and an intermediate area between the active area and the seal area. In the intermediate area, first and second color filters are formed on the second substrate. An overcoat layer is laminated on the first and second color filters. First and second pillar-shaped spacers are provided between the overcoat layer and the first substrate corresponding to the first and second color filters to form a first and second cell gaps between the first and second substrates, respectively. The first cell gap adjacent to the active area between the first and second substrates is smaller than the second cell gap adjacent to the seal area in the intermediate area. | 12-22-2011 |
20120229745 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a switching element, a first electrode, a second electrode electrically connected with the switching element and facing the first electrode. In the second electrode, a plurality of slits in a V shape is formed along a first direction. The first and second substrates include first and second alignment films, respectively. The slit in the V shape includes a central portion, a first end connected with one end of the first central portion, a second end connected with the other end of the first central portion, a second central portion, a third end connected with one end of the second central portion, and a fourth end connected with the other end of the second central portion. The first end and the third end are connected each other. | 09-13-2012 |