Stanley Electric Co., Ltd

Sumco Corporation

Hitachi Systems, Ltd.

Hiroto Fukushima

Yoshihisa Iwamoto

Tomonori Miura

Yasuo Toko

Akihiko Hanya

Nobuo Kudo

Shinya Iwasaki

Michiori Yoshitake

Ken Iikura

Natsuki Ohta

Tomoharu Ichihara

Naoya Tsumura

Yoshimitsu Toyoba

Akira Horiguchi

Kosaburo Ito

Kunihiko Katano

Norihisa Kobayashi

Reiki Tada

Ken Isobe

Shoji Nakao

Tsukasa Imura

Yasuhiko Tsukanaka

Takeshi Ezaki

A chat bot capable of seamlessly acquiring, in response to user input in a chat session, information necessary for an appropriate chat scenario for assisting the user from an external system and dynamically generating a chat scenario. Accordingly, the chat bot control device includes an external data acquisition unit for acquiring, in a chat session between a user and a chat bot, chat scenario creation data for generating a chat scenario from a predetermined external system based on a first input from the user; a scenario generation unit for generating, based on the chat scenario creation data, a first chat scenario that specifies transitions of a dialogue between the user and the chat bot using predetermined scenario conversion logic that defines a chat scenario generation pattern; and a scenario execution unit for executing the first chat scenario in the chat session.

Chat bot control device, chat bot control method, and chat bot control device system

The present invention provides a panel capable of switching between a state transparent to external light, a point light emitting state, and a surface light emitting state. Provided is a transparent panel provided with light emitting function, including: an LED die; a light transmitting substrate for LED, on which the LED die is mounted; a wiring pattern provided on a surface of the light transmitting substrate for LED and bonded to the LED die; and a light diffusing panel laminated on the light transmitting substrate for LED. The light diffusing panel includes: a pair of light transmitting substrates for liquid crystal; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of light transmitting substrates for liquid crystal; and transparent conductive films disposed on the light transmitting substrates for liquid crystal, and is switchable between a transparent state and a light diffusion state.

Transparent panel provided with light emitting function

An object of the present invention is to provide a composition for sintering capable of suppressing a crack from occurring in a wiring after sintering. Provided is the composition for sintering including silver nanoparticles, an organic dispersant for coating the silver nanoparticles, and a solvent. When the composition for sintering is heated, a weight loss rate in a range of 260&#xb0; C. to 600&#xb0; C. is 2.92% or less.

Composition for sintering, method for producing silver nanoparticles, circuit board, and method for manufacturing circuit board

An optical apparatus includes first and second substrates disposed to oppose each other, the first substrate having a first electrode provided on a surface of the first substrate nearer to the second substrate, and the second substrate having a second electrode provided on a surface of the second substrate nearer to the first substrate, and an electrolyte layer sandwiched between the first and the second substrates, and containing electro-deposition material including silver, wherein when potential of the first electrode is used as reference, a first voltage of positive polarity is applied in a first period to the second electrode, and a second voltage of positive polarity lower than the first voltage is applied in a second period after the first period to the second electrode.

Optical apparatus and automobile lighting

A double-side polishing apparatus for a work according to the present invention includes one or more work thickness measuring devices and a control unit. The double-side polishing method for a work includes the steps of: first polishing for polishing both surfaces of the work; first measurement for measuring the thickness of the work; in the first measurement step, when the thickness of the work is found to reach the predetermined thickness, terminating the orbital motion of the carrier plate; second polishing both surfaces of the work while the carrier plate performs only rotational motion; second measurement for measuring the thickness of the work at predetermined position(s); and determining a time for terminating polishing based on the result of the measurement of the thickness of the work in the second measurement step.

Apparatus and method for double-side polishing of work

A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate including a first electrode, a second substrate including a second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate which is controlled to a substantially vertical orientation having a pretilt angle smaller than 90 degrees. The first electrode includes a plurality of rectangular openings extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the orientation direction of liquid crystal molecules at substantially a center of the liquid crystal layer. A plurality of first areas and a plurality of second areas disposed mutually alternately are set in an effective display area in which the first electrode and the second electrode overlap in a planar view. Relative positions of the openings are mutually unmatched relative to at least a part of the plurality of second areas, and the openings are not formed in the plurality of first areas.

Liquid crystal display

A liquid crystal display element comprises a first and a second substrates, a vertical alignment liquid crystal layer, and a first and a second polarizers arranged to cross approximately their absorption axes and an alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules when no voltage is applied at almost 45 degrees. At least one of the electrodes comprises a polyline extending to an extending direction as a whole and having no straight line in parallel to the extending direction along an electrode edge, and the polyline is formed along an edge of at least one of the first and the second electrodes where the alignment directions when a voltage is applied and when no voltage is applied are opposite to each other if the polyline is a straight line along the extending direction.

Liquid crystal display element

To propose a method for realizing appropriate delivering of works to carriers in the conventional transfer process. Specifically, in a polishing method for polishing a work retained in a carrier, at least one carrier for retaining a work to be polished is placed between an upper plate and a lower plate; the work is fit in a hole of the carrier; the carrier and the work are inserted between the upper plate and the lower plate; and at least one of the upper plate and the lower plate is rotated while supplying a polishing agent to a space between the upper plate and the lower plate. In fitting the work in the hole of the carrier, an end portion of the work is held and the work is carried to a position above the lower plate; the work is positioned with respect to the hole of the carrier on the lower plate; and the work is released from the hold and guided by a guide to be slowly carried down toward the hole.

Polishing method and polishing apparatus

A liquid crystal display device includes a first and a second substrate placed opposite each other, a first electrode provided on the first substrate extending in a first direction, a second electrode provided on the second substrate extending in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction, and a vertically-aligned liquid crystal layer provided between the two substrates. A pixel is defined where the two electrodes intersect, and alignment treatment is performed to the first or second substrate in a direction parallel to the first direction. The first electrode has a linear shape in which electrode edges on either side extend in the first direction, and the second electrode is of a polygonal line shape in which an electrode edge of one side includes a line segment which obliquely crosses the first direction, and the pixel is demarcated by pixel edges including obliquely crossing line segments.

Liquid crystal display having pixel electrodes with tilted pixel edges

There is provided an electrochromic display that includes a display substrate, which includes a display electrode on a first substrate and an insulating film on or above the display electrode; a counter substrate having a counter electrode on a second substrate, the counter substrate facing the display substrate; and a color-developing layer containing an electrochromic material disposed in a region surrounded by a sealing member between the display substrate and the counter substrate. The insulating film is disposed on or above the display electrode except for a display region of the display electrode in the region surrounded by the sealing member.

Electrochromic display

The present invention provides an apparatus capable of uniformly grinding an polishing pad. Further, the present invention provides a method of grinding an polishing pad by using the grinding apparatus. Specifically, the present invention provides a method of, in a double-side polishing device having a carrier for holding a work, a pair of upper and lower rotating surface plates disposed to face each other to sandwich the carrier therebetween, and the polishing pad provided on each of the facing surfaces of the rotating surface plates for polishing the work, grinding the polishing pad, the method comprising the steps of: separating the upper and the lower rotating surface plates away from each other when the polishing pads on the upper and the lower rotating surface plates are to be ground; inserting, between the separated upper and lower rotating surface plates, an arm having at a front end portion thereof a grinding plate of a diameter smaller than those of the rotating surface plates; and pressing the grinding plate against the polishing pad of each of the rotating surface plates and rotating the grinding plate, thereby grinding the polishing pad of each of the rotating surface plates. The present invention also provides an apparatus which enables the grinding method described above.

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Tokyo, Japan

Hiroto Fukushima