Japan Display Inc.

Seiko Epson Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Daicel Corporation

Epson Imaging Devices Corporation

Chihiro Tanaka

Toshihiko Tanaka

Naoki Takada

Hayato Kurasawa

Koji Ishizaki

Hideki Kaneko

Tadashi Tsuyuki

Keiji Takizawa

Mitsuru Nakajima

Tatsuya Wakimoto

Tomoyuki Nakano

Masaki Miyatake

Yoshihiro Otagiri

Toshinori Uehara

Akihiro Iwamatsu

Tetsuya Ogata

Mutsumi Matsuo

Tsuyoshi Fujimoto

Kohei Shimizu

Yoshio Yamaguchi

Kohei Kinoshita

Tokiko Inoue

Kenichi Yoshimura

Takeyoshi Ushiki

Tae Nakahara

Motohiro Kamijima

Koji Noguchi

Toshiharu Matsushima

Hiroshi Ikeda

Shoji Hinata

Hiroshi Takemoto

Keita Sasanuma

Shinichiro Tanaka

Masahiro Horiguchi

Naosuke Furutani

Masaki Kobayashi

Shota Hosaka

Shinobu Kanatani

Osamu Ishige

Katsuhiro Imai

Satoshi Taguchi

Kenichi Honda

Norihiko Sasaki

Taiki Kasai

Kazuo Oike

Hideki Uehara

Hiroaki Shintani

Yuki Tsukamoto

Takuya Osaka

Takashi Inami

Kazuhiro Yamashita

Kazu Kobayashi

Kimihiro Nomura

Yoshio Yokouchi

Tatsuya Higashigaki

A dry-laid nonwoven fabric production method may include: affixing resin particles including polymeric molecules to a plurality of first fibers; applying an external force to the plurality of first fibers to which the plurality of resin particles are affixed so as to reduce gaps between the first fibers; relieving the applied external force to form in gas, from the plurality of resin particles, second fibers each having an outer diameter smaller than that of the first fiber and the outer diameter of each of the second fibers have a value in a range from 30 nm to 1.0 μm; and forming a nonwoven fabric that is a fiber composite including the first fibers and the second fibers.

Dry-laid nonwoven fabric production method

A display device includes: pixel electrodes including a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode adjacent to the first pixel electrode in a first direction; switching elements including a first switching element coupled to the first pixel electrode and a second switching element coupled to the second pixel electrode; gate lines including a first gate line coupled to the first switching element and a second gate line coupled to the second switching element; a gate driver supplying a gate signal to the gate lines; and drive electrodes including a first drive electrode and a second drive electrode adjacent to the first drive electrode in the first direction. The first drive electrode overlaps the first and second pixel electrodes, and the second gate line. The second drive electrode overlaps the first gate line. The gate driver supplies the gate signal to the first and second gate lines simultaneously.

Display device

A sensor device is provided and includes electrodes each including first parts arranged in a first direction and a second part connected to the first parts, the first parts each having a first mesh shape which is formed of first metal wires, and the second part having a second mesh shape which is formed of second metal wires, wherein a longitudinal direction of the second part is the first direction, and at least one of the first mash shape and the second mash shape has an intersection portion at which two of the first metal wires or two of the second metal wires intersect.

Sensor device

According to one embodiment, a touch detection device includes first detection electrodes in a detection area, second detection electrodes in the detection area, extending to intersect the first detection electrodes, first control lines connected to the first detection electrodes, respectively, and provided in a non-detection area, and second control lines connected to the second detection electrodes, respectively, and provided in the non-detection area. The second control lines overlap the first control lines at a plurality of positions as seen in plan view, such that areas of overlapping portions in which the first control lines overlap the second control lines are substantially equalized.

Touch detection device and display device with the same

A sensor device is provided and includes detection electrodes each having a mesh shape; and lead lines each including a first part and a second part, wherein the detection electrodes are connected to the lead linens, respectively, the first part has a first end and a second end opposed to the first end, and extends in a first direction, the second part extends in a second direction different from the first direction, the first part is connected to a corresponding one of the detection electrodes at the first end and connected to the second part at the second end, and a width of the first part is different from a width of the second part.

A sensor device is provided and includes electrodes each including first parts and a second part connected to the first parts, the first parts each extending in a first direction, the second part extending in a second direction different from the first direction; and a lead line including a third part connected to the second part and a fourth part connected to the third part, the third part extending in the first direction, the fourth part extending in a third direction different from the first direction, wherein the electrodes are arranged in the second direction, the second part is located between the lead line and the first parts, and the third part is located between the second part and the fourth part.

A control circuit for a display apparatus is provided and includes a buffer configured to temporarily store therein externally-supplied image data; and a controller configured to output pixel signals to signal lines of the display apparatus based on the image data stored in the buffer and read detection signals generated in detection conductors which extend along the signal lines of the display apparatus due to the pixel signals.

Control circuit for a display apparatus

A touch panel driving circuit is provided and includes a plurality of output circuits each outputting a driving signal, respectively; a power supply line connected to a power of the plurality of output circuits; a power supply circuit; and a resistor element that is provided in common for the plurality of output circuits and is different from a resistance of the power supply line, wherein the power of the plurality of output circuits is connected to the power supply circuit through the resistor element and the power supply line.

Touch panel driving circuit

According to one embodiment, a sensor device is provided and including electrodes each including a first line, a second line, and a third line; and a lead line connected to one of the electrodes at a first end portion of the one of the electrodes, wherein the first to third lines are electrically connected to each other, the first line runs in a first direction, the second line runs in a second direction different from the first direction, and intersects the first line, the electrodes are arranged in a third direction different from the first and second directions, the third line runs in the third direction and located along the first end portion, the lead line is drawn from the third line, and detection signals are detected by the electrodes.

Sensor-equipped display device and sensor device

A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a display functional layer, first electrodes, second electrodes, third electrodes, and a drive circuit. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The display functional layer is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate and used to display an image in a display area. The first electrodes are provided in the display area between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second electrodes are provided, facing the first electrodes, in the display area on the surface of the second substrate. The third electrodes are provided in a frame area on the outer side of the display area. The drive circuit supplies a first drive signal to at least one of the first electrodes and the second electrodes.

Display apparatus that includes electrodes in a frame area

According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: a plurality of pixels configured to display an image; a plurality of signal lines configured to supply pixel signals to the pixels; a plurality of detection conductors configured to be capacitively coupled to the signal lines; and a controller configured to output the pixel signals to the signal lines and read detection signals generated in the detection conductors due to the pixel signals.

Display apparatus

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Chihiro Tanaka