Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Akio Miyata

Tomoko Teranishi

Kazuhiro Deguchi

Shinichi Nakano

Toshiki Matsuoka

Eiji Satoh

Hideo Nojima

Yoshinori Sekoguchi

Tetsuya Ide

Yuka Utsumi

Toshiaki Takano

Takashi Yamashita

Kazuo Nishikawa

Mamoru Morikawa

Yutaka Unuma

Yasukata Takeda

Yasuyuki Umenaka

Tomohisa Miyatani

Hisako Arai

Katsutoshi Noguchi

Hiroko Niwano

Takeshi Furukawa

Mitsuhiro Koden

Shigeaki Mizushima

Toshihiko Taniguchi

Manabu Fujimoto

Tomoko Kase

Katsumi Kondoh

Takashi Kohama

Hiroyasu Yamashita

David Heard

Fumiaki Shimizu

Tomohisa Ito

Hunichi Tanii

Tomohiro Higuchi

Teruyuki Kataoka

An object is to provide a storage container including latent heat storage materials that provide a high cold insulation effect. A storage containerhas an electric cooling function and stores an object. The storage containerincludes at least one storage chamberthat stores the object; a first latent heat storage material A that is disposed in the storage chamberand has a predetermined phase change temperature; and a second latent heat storage material B that is disposed in the storage chamberand has a phase change temperature higher than the phase change temperature of the first latent heat storage material A.

Storage container

The present invention is to provide a latent heat storage member which is able to more reliably contribute to a daily peak shift of energy consumption, and a building material provided with the latent heat storage member. A latent heat storage memberwhich is formed by using a material including a latent heat storage material such as paraffin and a gelation agent and is used as a building material, includes an outer side surfacearranged on a solar light irradiation side facing the outside, and has a phase change temperature Twithin a temperature range between a lowest temperature Tsmin and a highest temperature Tsmax of the outer side surfacein the daytime.

Latent heat storage member and building material provided with same, microcapsules and thermal storage material using microcapsules

A display device (A) includes a first substrate () and second substrate () that are placed so as to face each other; active color filter layers () which are placed between the first substrate () and the second substrate (), which have memory properties, and which become in a colored state or an uncolored state depending on the voltage applied thereto; and a light-modulating layer () for controlling the intensity or degree of scattering of light incident on the active color filter layers () or the intensity or degree of scattering of light passing through the active color filter layers ().

Display device

A display device (A) according to the present invention includes a first substrate (), a second substrate () facing the first substrate (), a first electrode () formed on the first substrate (), a second electrode () formed on the second substrate (), and an electrochromic layer () provided between the first electrode () and the second electrode () and containing an oxidation coloring-type dye and a reduction coloring-type dye.

Display device including electrochromic layer

An ion generating device generates O(HO)(where n is a natural number) as negative ions and H(HO)(where m is a natural number) as positive ions, and discharges those ions into the air so that airborne germs are killed through an oxidation reaction by hydrogen peroxide HOor radical hydroxyl OH generated through as an active species a chemical reaction between the negative and positive ions. Satisfactory sterilization is achieved when the negative and positive ions are generated in such a way that the concentrations of the negative and positive ions are both 10,000 ion/cc at a distance of 10 cm from the point at which they are generated.

Sterilization method, ion generating device, ion generating apparatus, and air conditioning apparatus

A display device () includes an upper substrate (first substrate) (), a lower substrate (second substrate) (), and a conductive liquid () that is movably sealed in a display space (S) formed between the upper substrate () and the lower substrate (). In the display device (), an electrode member (f) for filling the conductive liquid () is provided in the display space (S) and configured so that a predetermined voltage can be applied thereto, and the conductive liquid () is filled in the display space (S) by applying the predetermined voltage to the electrode member (f).

Display device and method for manufacturing the same

A display device () includes an upper substrate (first substrate) (), a lower substrate (second substrate) (), and a conductive liquid () that is movably sealed in a display space (S) formed between the upper substrate () and the lower substrate (). In the display device (), a signal electrode (first electrode) () is provided on the upper substrate (), and a scanning electrode (second electrode) () and a reference electrode (third electrode) () are provided on the lower substrate (). The signal electrode () comes into contact with the conductive liquid () and is made of a material that is electrochemically inert to the conductive liquid ().

Display device and electric apparatus using the same

A display device () includes an upper substrate (first substrate) (), a lower substrate (second substrate) (), and a conductive liquid () that is sealed in a display space (S) formed between the upper substrate () and the lower substrate () so as to be moved toward an effective display region (P) or a non-effective display region (P). In the display device (), a signal electrode (), a reference electrode (), and a scanning electrode () are configured so that voltages in a predetermined voltage range can be independently applied to the respective electrodes. The same voltages (third voltage and fourth voltage) are applied to the reference electrode () and the scanning electrode () that are provided on the lower substrate () so as to be located on the effective display region (P) side and the non-effective display region (P) side, respectively.

A display device () includes an upper substrate (first substrate) (), a lower substrate (second substrate) (), and a conductive liquid () that is movably sealed in a display space (S) formed between the upper substrate () and the lower substrate (). In the display device (), a signal electrode (first electrode) () made of a material that is electrochemically inert to the conductive liquid () is placed in the display space (S). Moreover, a scanning electrode (second electrode) () and a reference electrode (third electrode) () are provided on the lower substrate ().

In a display device including: an upper space (display space)provided on a display surface side; and a colored liquidthat is sealed inside the upper spaceso as to be operable and is colored in a predetermined color, which is structured so as to be able to change a display color on the display surface side according to application of an electric field to the colored liquid, the colored liquidcontains a conductive liquid as a dispersion medium and a pigment of a self-dispersing type as a coloring agent. Thereby, the display device that can improve display quality and have high durability that enables to maintain an excellent displaying function over a long period of time, and the electric apparatus using the display device can be provided.

Sterilization method

In a display device that includes a display space provided on a display surface side and a liquid sealed inside the display space so as to be operable and is constituted so as to be able to change a display color on the display surface side according to an application of an electric field to the liquid, the liquid is an ionic liquid containing an ambient temperature molten salt combining a cation and an anion. Further, an amount of water blended in the liquid is 0 to 10 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the ionic liquid. This makes it possible both to reduce a voltage to be applied to the liquid so as to allow driving at a low voltage and to improve an operation performance.

A color image sensor has a white fluorescent tube as a light source, a microlens array with three rows of microlenses arranged vertically, a three-layer optical waveguide array and a three-line color CCD with color filters. The waveguides in each waveguide array layer are bent so that the interval between successive waveguides becomes narrower from the input end toward the output end. The three-line color CCD has three lines of light-receiving elements (photodiodes) as the light sensing portion. These lines in the light-receiving element array are arranged vertically at the same intervals as the waveguide layers are arranged. Further, a cylindrical lens is attached to cover the microlens array. Because of the presence of this cylindrical lens, the images of light beams incident on different microlenses of the microlens array corresponding to different waveguide layers are the same image from an identical area on the original.

Color image sensor and a production method of an optical waveguide array

In an optical waveguide reduction optical image sensor constituted by a polymeric optical waveguide array having a plurality of cores arranged into a one-dimensional array in a cladding substrate, and a photoelectric conversion element array for detecting light propagating through the polymeric optical waveguide array and converting the detected light into an electrical signal, a hollow thermal expansion suppressing member (jig) is mounted on the joint portion between the polymeric optical waveguide array and the photoelectric conversion element array, and the coefficient of linear thermal expansion of the thermal expansion suppressing member in the core array direction of the polymeric optical waveguide array is smaller than that of the polymeric optical waveguide array in the same direction.

Optical waveguide reduction optical image sensor

A film cartridge support in a photographic camera is provided in a film chamber which holds a film cartridge. The support includes a stopper for limiting the rotation of the film cartridge around a shaft of the film cartridge, and the stopper is supported for rotation in a direction approximately parallel to a surface of a film set on the camera. A modification of the support can include a block portion on the support extending across the lower end of the film chamber to prevent incorrect insertion of the film cartridge into the film chamber. A cut portion which is large enough to allow insertion of an operator's finger may be provided at the top end of the film chamber to allow easier insertion and removal of the film cartridge into and from the film chamber.

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Akio Miyata