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Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.

Sekiusi Chemical Co., Ltd.

Kazuya Yoshimura

Makoto Nakahara

Daisuke Ikesugi

Takatoshi Kira

Hiroyuki Nakatani

Akihiko Tateno

Hiroshi Murata

Masaaki Kubo

Masaki Ban

Yuhji Yashiro

Kazutoshi Kida

Kyouhei Isohata

Shogo Hayashi

Tohru Sakuwa

Shinji Matsumoto

Mitsuhiro Tanaka

Manabu Ano

Tomohisa Matsushita

Hiroyuki Moriwaki

Takenori Maruyama

Osamu Miyazaki

Katsunori Nagata

Yoshihiro Shirai

Takeyuki Ashida

Yoshihide Koyama

Masami Ogura

Akira Yasuta

Masayuki Yamanaka

Shozo Tanaka

Tsuyoshi Ohmori

Mitsuo Uemura

Tomofumi Matsuno

Yoshiko Inagaki

Shunsuke Okajima

Syunji Nakai

Tokio Kiguchi

Yoshihisa Konishi

Nobuhiro Tone

Tomohiro Nagasato

Koji Ikeda

Ichiro Kawashima

Takuya Noguchi

A method of inspecting a sensor sheet formed by a roll-to-roll scheme for a touch sensor, the sensor sheet including a roll sheet and a sensor electrode layer thereon, the sensor electrode layer including sensor electrodes running in a prescribed direction, the sensor sheet further including a terminal connected to the sensor electrode layer and alignment marks, the method including: arranging the sensor sheet on an inspection table of an inspection device, the inspection table having an alignment mark and inspection electrodes running in another prescribed direction such that at least one of the alignment marks aligns with the alignment mark on the inspection table and such that the inspection electrodes face the sensor electrodes orthogonally in a plan view and are vertically separated by a dielectric to form capacitances at respective intersections therebetween; measuring the capacitances at the respective intersections; and outputting the measured capacitances as an inspection result.

Inspection device

Provided is a method for inspecting a touch panel with which method it is possible to perform an inspection with high accuracy and to allow an improvement in yield. A drive signal is supplied to either one of sensor electrodes () and an inspection electrode (), a plurality of sense signals related to the respective sensor electrodes () are obtained from the other of the sensor electrodes and the inspection electrode, and conditions of the sensor electrodes () are determined according to the sense signals.

Method for inspecting touch-panel electrode substrate

An input device having a row electrode and a column electrode made by patterning a meshed metallic layer by forming a dividing section on a metallic line constituting the meshed metallic layer can suppress variability in areas of individual dividing sections formed on the metallic lines, whereby uneven shading due to the patterned, meshed conductive layer is suppressed from appearing on a touch operation surface. In the input device having the row electrode and the column electrode made by patterning the meshed metallic layer by forming the dividing section on the metallic line constituting the meshed metallic layer, a mesh side section intersecting with an ideal contour Spof the column electrode (meshed electrode) corresponding to one side of a mesh in the metallic line Mwis divided by a dividing section Rs that does not overlap with an intersection Mcp of the metallic lines to form an actual contour of the column electrode.

Input device, method of manufacturing the same, and electronic information equipment

An input device having a row electrode and a column electrode made by patterning a meshed metallic layer by forming a dividing section on a metallic line constituting the meshed metallic layer can make areas of individual dividing sections of the metallic lines uniform, whereby uneven shading due to the patterned, meshed conductive layer is suppressed from appearing on a touch operation surface. In the input device having the row electrode and the column electrode made by patterning the meshed metallic layer by forming the dividing section on the metallic line constituting the meshed metallic layer, at an intersecting section where metallic lines Mwconstituting a meshed conductive layer Lpintersects an ideal contour Spof a meshed column electrode, the direction for dividing the metallic lines at the intersecting section is set to the direction matching the direction of width of the metallic lines such that the area of the dividing section traversing the metallic line is minimal.

There is provided a method and apparatus for sticking a polarizer to a liquid crystal panel. The method includes advancing a liquid crystal panel or similar substrate along a conveyance line, peeling a separate sheet from a polarizer to expose an adhesive layer, and sticking the polarizer to the liquid crystal panel or other substrate.

Method and apparatus for sticking polarizer to substrate

The present invention has its object to provide a method of spraying particles by which predetermined quantities of particles can be disposed on specified electrodes, in particular a method of spraying particles by which spacers can be sprayed in interelectrode gaps selectively even in the case of substrates comprising pattern-forming transparent electrodes, such as those used in liquid crystal display devices, and a method of producing liquid crystal display devices of high contrast and high display uniformity by which spacers can be disposed in interelectrode gaps without sacrificing the aperture ratio and by which spacers can be disposed on the substrate without irregularity to attain a uniform cell thickness over the whole substrate, as well as a particle spraying apparatus and a liquid crystal display device. The present invention provides a method of spraying particles

Method of scattering fine particles, method of manufacturing liquid crystal display, apparatus for scattering fine particles, and liquid crystal display

A liquid crystal display device, including: a first substrate; a second substrate; opposing the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a reflection film formed on one side of the second substrate that is closer to the liquid crystal layer; and a color filter formed on the reflection film, wherein: a plurality of pixel regions are arranged in a matrix pattern, each of the pixel regions including a reflection region where light coming from the first substrate side is reflected by the reflection film back to the first substrate side, and a transmission region where light coming from the second substrate side is transmitted to the first substrate side; and the color filter includes an opening in the reflection region.

Transmission/reflection type color liquid crystal display device

The substrate having colored layers of the present invention includes: a substrate; a reflection layer formed on the substrate; and colored layers of different colors formed on the reflection layer and including a plurality of pixel regions, wherein each of the plurality of pixel regions includes a plurality of colorless regions that are substantially colorless.

Substrate having colored layers and method for producing the same

A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of insulating substrates bonded to each other via a sealing material, and liquid crystal filled between a pair of the insulating substrates. A cell gap is formed so as to gradually increase from the center to an end of a display area at room temperature. According to this arrangement, it is possible to smooth out a difference in thermal expansion between the liquid crystal and the sealing material when an atmospheric temperature rises, and it is possible to prevent a cell gap from being too large in the center of the display area. Consequently, an irregular display color can be eliminated.

Liquid crystal display device with particular cell gap

A substrate cleaning apparatus of the present invention includes one sheet roll wound with one end of a polishing sheet that is arranged to be in contact with the surface of a liquid crystal panel, and the other sheet roll for rolling up the polishing sheet from the other end. The substrate cleaning apparatus further includes a rotating unit provided with a motor, a belt, and a rotation shaft for rotating the polishing sheet and the pair of sheet rolls with respect to the liquid crystal panel. Thus, the substrate cleaning apparatus can be provided which is capable of reducing an operation time required for removing foreign matters, enhancing operation efficiency, stably and reliably removing foreign matters, and restraining operation time even if the size of the substrate increases.

Substrate cleaning apparatus

Provided is a spacer microparticle spraying apparatus capable of selectively disposing spacer microparticles in electrode gaps where no pixels are present even on a substrate carrying an array of stripe electrodes in use for the STN liquid crystal display device, to a spacer particle spraying method and a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device which utilize said apparatus. The spacer microparticle spraying apparatus for selective disposition of a charged spacer microparticle on a substrate carrying a plurality of electrodes includes a spraying chamber adapted to accommodate the substrate, a spacer microparticle supply means for supplying the spacer microparticle into the spraying chamber and spraying it on the substrate, and a voltage application means for applying voltages to the electrodes disposed on the substrate, wherein the voltage application means is capable of applying different levels of voltages to the electrodes respectively.

Spacer microparticle spraying apparatus and method for fabricating a liquid crystal display

Liquid crystal display and manufacture thereof with electrostatic control of sprayed spacer particle deposition

Method of scattering fine spacers method of manufacturing liquid crystal display, apparatus for scattering fine spacers with electrostatic control and confinement, and liquid crystal display

A reflection-type color liquid crystal display (LCD) device is made up of a reflecting film, a color filter in which a resin black matrix is formed between color patterns, and a liquid crystal layer, which are disposed in this order between a pair of glass substrates. Furthermore, a light transmissive protective film for protecting the reflecting film when electrodepositing is formed on the reflecting film, and on which an electrodepositing transparent conductive layer is formed, and on which the color filter is formed by an electrodeposition method, thereby accurately forming the resin black matrix which is suitable for reflection-type LCD devices on a reflectional function layer provided within a liquid crystal cell.

Reflection-type color liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof

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Osaka, Japan

Kazuya Yoshimura