Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Isao Ota

Shingo Fujita

Hiroshi Yamazoe

Toshio Tatsumichi

Tsuyoshi Uemura

Naohide Wakita

Katsuhiko Kumagawa

Kazuo Takeda

Hiroyuki Ohnishi

Isako Kikuchi

Noriko Ohba

Kazushige Sakamoto

Mamoru Takeda

Yoshiharu Nishiura

Shigeru Yoshida

Masahiro Nagasawa

Hiroshi Kawarada

Tetsuro Ohtsuka

Haruhiro Shirazawa

Seiji Kiyokawa

Provided is a metal halide lamp capable of being dimmed, which is prevented from non-lighting due to leakage of an arc tube attributable to a crack occurring at thin tubes, as well as realizing a desired color characteristic. The metal halide lamp has an arc tube that includes an envelope made of translucent ceramic, a pair of electrodes, and metal halides, the metal halides including rare earth metal halide, sodium halide, and magnesium halide, the rare earth metal halide being at least one of dysprosium halide, thulium halide, holmium halide, cerium halide, and praseodymium halide, and the magnesium halide being at least one of magnesium iodide and magnesium bromide, where when a maximum lamp power P (W) is in a range of 70 W to 250 W, the following relations are satisfied:0.03450.0028&#x3c;0.0015+0.0475;&#x2267;0.021+0.313; and10.0,

Metal halide lamp that has desired color characteristic and is prevented from non-lighting due to leakage of arc tube attributable to crack occurring at thin tube, and lighting apparatus adopting the metal halide lamp

A metal halide lamp includes a ceramic arc tube that is composed of a main body and two narrow tube parts provided at respective ends of the main body; a pair of electrodes provided inside the main body; two feeders, each being connected at one end thereof to a different one of the electrodes inside the main body, and extending through a different one of the narrow tube parts, so as to be external to the arc tube at another end; a starting wire that is connected to one of the feeders, and that is in a vicinity of or contacts an outer surface of the arc tube; and a current suppressing unit that is on a current path of the starting wire, and suppresses or cuts off current on the path.

Metal halide lamp having function for suppressing abnormal discharge

A liquid crystal display comprises as liquid crystal panel having a liquid crystal layer disposed between electrode layers, polarizers disposed at both sides of the panel, and a solid birefringent film having the maximum refractive index direction varying with its depth and disposed at at least one side of the liquid crystal panel between the polarizers. The solid birefringent film conpensates the dependence of the polarization characteristic on wave length, thus being capable of obtaining either a monochrome display or a display having an extremely low coloration.

Liquid crystal display with compensation means of multiaxially elongated

A nonlinear diode which is easy to manufacture and has sharply nonlinear voltage-current characteristic and a matrix display unit in which it is used has a diode structure in which an amorphous semiconductor layer is disposed between a bus bar and a pixel electrode formed on a substrate so as to thereby provide an electrical connection therebetween. The amorphous semiconductor layer is made of a compound of arsenic and at least one of selenium and sulphur; a compound of nitrogen and at least one of boron; silicon; aluminium and gallium, a compound of carbon and silicon; or boron.

Liquid crystal matrix display unit

A driving method in accordance with the present invention permits the simple time sharing driving of a ferroelectric liquid crystal matrix panel at high scanning frequency and high multiplexing ratio. A predetermined pulse is applied to a scanning electrode when another scanning electrode is selected to reset the pixel. The pixel is inverted or kept by the action of a pulse applied to the pixel when selected and, under this condition, a desired brightness is written in a short scanning period. Besides, the representation of a number of grey levels is obtained by multiple scanning at reset timing varying with the scanning.

Method of driving a ferroelectric liquid crystal matrix panel

An improved driving method capable of achieving high-quality display even in simple matrix addressing for a ferroelectric liquid crystal matrix panel at a high multiplex ratio applies pulses of a frequency higher than that of a scanning voltage in an addressed condition to a scanning electrode in a non-addressed condition to gain either a surface stabilizing effect or an AC field stabilizing effect, hence ensuring high-contrast display. And the panel is so driven that the temporal average of the voltage applied to each pixel becomes zero, thereby averting deterioration of the liquid crystal.

Method of driving a liquid crystal matrix panel

A method of producing a substrate structure for a large size display panel. The method involves conveying a transparent substrate from a transparent substrate storage means in a conveying path through a vacuum chamber, and while conveying the substrate, forming at least a patterned transparent conductive film on a surface of the substrate by depositing strips of conductive film on the substrate through a pattern containing member extending in a direction orthogonal to the substrate conveying direction and having strip forming openings therein at intervals along the lengths thereof, and storing the transparent substrates with the strips thereon at the end of the conveying path.

Method of producing a substrate structure for a large size display panel

A dot matrix display panel with a thin film transistor and the manufacturing method therefor, the panel being so constructed that a gate insulating layer and a semiconductor layer are provided as one laminated film substantially equal in the size thereto on an insulating substrate having a gate electrode and in a region of the substrate except for the peripheral portion thereof, and a source electrode and a drain electrode come into contact with the semiconductor layer in a region covering the gate electrode and gate insulating layer so as to constitute a thin film transistor array substrate, so that a display medium is sandwiched between the array substrate and the substrate having a transparent electrode.

Dot matrix display panel with a thin film transistor and method of

A video camera with a monitor, which is provided integrally on both surfaces or the same one surface of a semiconductor substrate or a substrate having a semiconductor film thereon; an image pickup plate and a display unit in one functioning as the image pickup plate for converting an optical image into an electrical signal and the display unit for converting the electrical signal into a visual image; the camera is provided with an optical system for imaging the optical image on the pickup plate.

Video camera with a monitor

A method of producing thin film transistor arrays and having at least 7 steps including: a first step of forming a first electrode layer uniformly over an insulating substrate; a second step of forming electrodes, such as drain and source electrodes and bus bars with a desired pattern by photoetching the first electrode; a third step of forming a uniform semiconducting layer on the surface of the substrate having the patterned electrodes; a fourth step of successively forming a uniform insulating layer over the uniformly deposited semiconducting layer while keeping the array in a vacuum; a fifth step of photoetching the uniformly deposited insulating layer into a desired pattern; a sixth step of photoetching the uniform semiconducting layer into the same pattern as the patterned insulating layer; a seventh step of forming a second electrode uniformly over the surface having the patterned electrodes and insulating layer; and an eighth step of photoetching the uniformly deposited second electrode into a desired pattern.

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Osaka, Japan

Isao Ota