Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hitoshi Matsumoto

Satoshi Horiuchi

Masakatsu Tominaga

Ryohki Itoh

Atsushi Suzuki

Koichi Tanaka

Tetsuo Tomimatsu

Tomoyuki Kitao

Masayuki Shigetomi

Hironobu Sawada

Masahiro Yoshida

Hajime Imai

Junichi Morinaga

Yoshiharu Kataoka

Toshiaki Fujihara

Kiyoshi Kuribayashi

Katsushige Asada

Takashi Fujikawa

Seiji Ikegami

Yasumasa Komatsu

Akihiko Nakano

Hiroshi Uda

A USB host portion is supplied with power in a normal mode, and the power supply is stopped in a power saving mode. The USB host portion can acquire print request data from a communication device while outputting a first control signal. Power is supplied to a signal input portion and a signal output portion in both modes. The signal input portion can receive a signal from the communication device. A control portion shifts to the normal mode when a notification signal is input to the signal input portion while operating in the power saving mode. The signal output portion outputs a second control signal in both the normal mode and the power saving mode. The voltage output portion outputs a rated voltage to the communication device when at least one of the first control signal and the second control signal is output.

Image forming apparatus, communication device, and image forming system

An image processing apparatus includes a connection unit, a first power supply unit, a second power supply unit, and a control device. The connection unit is connected to an electronic apparatus including a controlled device and a communication relay unit. The first power supply unit can supply power to the controlled device. The second power supply unit can supply power to the communication relay unit. The control device is capable of switching a power supply state by the first power supply unit and the second power supply unit between at least a first stop state in which power supply by the first power supply unit is continued and power supply by the second power supply unit is stopped and a second stop state in which power supply by the first power supply unit and the second power supply unit is stopped.

Power control for a controlled device and communication relay unit of an image processing apparatus

A printing system includes a user terminal and a plurality of image forming apparatuses. Each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses includes a status information transmitting part transmitting status information indicating a status of the image forming apparatus. The user terminal includes a power consumption estimating part and a display controlling part. The power consumption estimating part estimates power consumption consumed by print processing in the image forming apparatus on the basis of the state information received from the image forming apparatus with regard to the plurality of image forming apparatuses. The display controlling part controls to display the power consumption estimated by the power consumption estimating part in association with each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses on a displaying device.

Printing system estimating and displaying power consumption consumed by print processing in image forming apparatus

A liquid crystal display device in which lengths (dand1 d) of respective picture element electrodes () in an extended direction of scanning signal lines () are longer than lengths (d) of the respective picture element electrodes () in an extended direction of video signal lines () is arranged such that storage capacitor lines () are provided along the respective scanning signal lines () so as to overlap the respective picture element electrodes () via an insulating film () in plan view.

Liquid crystal display device utilizing storage capacitor lines

A transflective-type liquid crystal display device with a high image quality which has a high aperture ratio and an excellent efficiency of utility of reflected light is provided at low cost. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention is a liquid crystal display device having a transistor and a reflection section in each of a plurality of pixels; the reflection section includes a metal layer, an insulating layer formed on the metal layer, a semiconductor layer formed on the insulating layer, and a reflective layer formed on the semiconductor layer; a plurality of recesses are formed on the surface of the reflective layer; a storage capacitor is formed between at least a portion of the metal layer and at least a portion of the reflective layer; and at least one of the metal layer and the reflective layer includes two portions which are electrically isolated from each other.

Liquid crystal display device

The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel capable of providing a high contrast ratio with a storage capacitance being secured, and also provides a liquid crystal display device including such a panel. The present invention is a liquid crystal display panel having a structure in which a liquid crystal layer is interposed between a first substrate and a second substrate, wherein at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate includes a projection for liquid crystal alignment control, the first substrate includes a scanning signal line, a data signal line, a drain electrode electrically connected to a pixel electrode, a switching element, and a storage capacitor wiring, the storage capacitor wiring includes a main wiring part and a branch part, the branch part being connected to the main wiring part and overlapping with the projection for liquid crystal alignment control.

Liquid crystal display panel and liquid crystal display device

Method for manufacturing a display device, and display device substrate

A reliable and inexpensive solar module is disclosed. The solar module comprises a thin-film type photovoltaic cell array formed on a glass superstrate, leaving a margin of an appropriate width along the periphery of the glass superstrate, and a resin layer coated on the photovoltaic cell array and the peripheral margin of the glass superstrate. The solar module further comprises a backcover adhered by the resin layer to cover the photovoltaic cell array and the peripheral margin of the glass superstrate. The resin layer is preferably made of a fluoropolymer derived from a compound containing a perfluoroalkylene and active hydrogen atoms.

Solar module

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Osaka, Japan

Hitoshi Matsumoto