Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Sakai Display Products Corporation

Kyoto University

Dic Corporation

Kyushu University

Geomatec Co., Ltd.

Sharp Corporation

Soken & Chemical & Engineering Co., Ltd.

Sharp Kabushiki Kasiaha

Kiyoshi Minoura

Akira Sakai

Masahiro Hasegawa

Miho Yamada

Yuichi Kawahira

Koji Murata

Takako Koide

Akinobu Isurugi

Takahiro Nakahara

Masanobu Mizusaki

Sayuri Fujiwara

Shun Ueki

Kohzoh Nakamura

Takatoshi Orui

Hiroshi Tsuchiya

Hiroyuki Hakoi

Hidekazu Hayashi

Yozo Narutaki

Makoto Nakazawa

Yutaka Sawayama

Tokio Taguchi

Fumiki Nakano

Shinji Shimada

Eiji Satoh

Masahiko Tomikawa

Seiji Takami

Kozo Nakamura

Wataru Nakamura

Tadashi Ohtake

Yasushi Asaoka

Yuhki Kobayashi

Takao Imaoku

Masahiro Mitani

Ichiro Ihara

Katsuhiko Kishimoto

Shigeyasu Mori

Kenichiro Nakamatsu

Shinichi Kawato

Seiichi Mitsui

Yasuhiro Shibai

Masayuki Okamoto

Makoto Kanbe

Yasuhisa Itoh

Ken Atsumo

Nathan James Smith

Akiyoshi Fujii

Jumpei Takahashi

Tomoko Teranishi

Masahiro Shimizu

Chiaki Minari

Hiroyuki Sugawara

Kouji Kusumoto

Hisashi Watanabe

Nobuaki Yamada

Takashi Satoh

Hywel Hopkin

Isa Nishiyama

Akira Hirai

Teiyu Sako

Kazuhiro Deguchi

Hirotsugu Kikuchi

Jun Yamamoto

Yasuhiro Haseba

Ichiroh Ihara

Yasushi Okumura

Kohji Taniguchi

Waki Sakatsuji

Hidefumi Yoshida

Koichi Miyachi

Kazutaka Hanaoka

Yasuhiro Sugita

Hiroshi Fukushima

Atsushi Ban

Shigeaki Mizushima

Kazutoshi Kida

Ryuzo Yuki

Satoshi Shibata

Tsuyoshi Okazaki

Benjamin John Broughton

Tokiyoshi Umeda

Mikihiro Noma

Yuka Utsumi

Andrew Acreman

Kenichi Kitoh

Akiko Miyazaki

Hiroaki Asagi

Koji Taniguchi

Hajime Hiraki

Yuko Teraoka

Yuhsuke Tsuda

Kaoru Abe

Eiji Sato

Hidetsugu Matsukiyo

Takuya Ootani

Jiyun Yu

Yohji Taniguchi

Hiroki Higuchi

Hiroya Nishikawa

Kyohko Matsuura

An optical stack for a display device includes multiple layers that are incorporated into a display device that further includes a display panel. The optical stack includes a resin layer, an alignment film, an optical compensation layer, a polarizer, and a hard coat layer that are stacked in this order from a panel side. The optical stack is formed by preparing and coating a solution for each layer, and then curing and otherwise treating each layer as warranted for a particular layer, in turn to form the optical stack.

Display device having a multilayered optical stack in combination with a display panel and a touch panel

An endoscope distal end cover () is a cover for protecting a distal end () of an endoscope () which has an observation window at the distal end, including: a synthetic polymer film () which is to be located over the observation window () when the endoscope distal end cover is attached to the distal end of the endoscope, wherein the synthetic polymer film has a surface which includes a plurality of raised portions, when viewed in a normal direction of the synthetic polymer film, a two-dimensional size of the plurality of raised portions is in the range of more than 20 nm and less than 500 nm, and a static contact angle of water with respect to the surface is not less than 150°, and a static contact angle of hexadecane with respect to the surface is not less than 60°.

Cover for endoscope distal end part and endoscope

A display device includes an active matrix substrate including a transistor element and a light-emitting element layer provided on the active matrix substrate and including a first electrode, a second electrode, a function layer including a light-emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a sealing layer. The display device includes: a half mirror provided on a display surface side of the light-emitting element layer; and a first λ/plate, a reflective polarizer, and an absorbing polarizer which are provided in order from the light-emitting element layer side between the light-emitting element layer and the half mirror.

Display device including reflective and absorbing polarizers

An endoscope distal end cover () is a cover for protecting a distal end () of an endoscope () which has an observation window at the distal end, including: a synthetic polymer film () which is to be located over the observation window () when the endoscope distal end cover is attached to the distal end of the endoscope, wherein the synthetic polymer film has a surface which includes a plurality of raised portions, when viewed in a normal direction of the synthetic polymer film, a two-dimensional size of the plurality of raised portions is in the range of more than 20 nm and less than 500 nm, and a static contact angle of water with respect to the surface is not less than 98°.

Endoscope tip cover and endoscope

Provided is a liquid crystal display device and a polarizing plate capable of improving the contrast ratio in the front direction. The polarizing plate includes a pair of polarizers including a first polarizer and a second polarizer whose transmission axes are parallel to each other; a retarder between the paired polarizers; and a diffusion layer in at least one of a region between the paired polarizers or a region on a side without the retarder of the first polarizer.

Liquid crystal display device and polarizing plate

A synthetic polymer film (A), (B) having a surface which has a plurality of first raised portions (Ap), (Bp), wherein a two-dimensional size of the plurality of first raised portions (Ap), (Bp) is in a range of more than 20 nm and less than 500 nm when viewed in a normal direction of the synthetic polymer film (A), (B); and the surface has a microbicidal effect.

Synthetic polymer film whose surface has microbicidal activity, multilayer structure having synthetic polymer film, sterilization method with the use of surface of synthetic polymer film, method for reactivating surface of synthetic polymer film, mold for production of synthetic polymer film, and mold manufacturing method

Provided is a horizontal electric field mode reflective or transflective liquid crystal display device that achieves an increased reflectance. The liquid crystal display device sequentially includes: a first substrate; a first alignment layer; a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules horizontally aligned with no voltage applied; a second alignment layer; and a second substrate including a pixel electrode and a common electrode, the liquid crystal display device further including a reflective layer disposed in at least part of a pixel at a position closer to a back surface than the first alignment layer, the liquid crystal layer, the second alignment layer, the pixel electrode, and the common electrode, at least one alignment layer of the first alignment layer or the second alignment layer having an azimuthal anchoring energy value of less than 1&#xd7;10J/m.

Liquid crystal display device

The sealing material composition of the disclosure includes an unsaturated carbonyl compound having at least two unsaturated carbonyl groups and a curing agent that is thermally reactive with the unsaturated carbonyl compound and contains a compound having at least two of one or more kinds of functional groups selected from the group consisting of a mercaptan group, a hydroxyl group, and a secondary amine group.

Sealing material composition, liquid crystal cell and scanning antenna

Provided is a curved display device capable of preventing or reducing local light leakage while achieving a certain contrast ratio. The curved display device includes a liquid crystal panel in a normally black mode. The liquid crystal panel includes a first polarizer, a liquid crystal cell, and a second polarizer in a stated order from a viewing surface side. The liquid crystal cell includes a first substrate including a transparent substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a second substrate including a transparent substrate in a stated order from the viewing surface side. At least one of the first substrate or the second substrate is provided with a third polarizer on a surface of the transparent substrate closer to the liquid crystal layer.

Curved display device

Provided is a liquid crystal display device including: a liquid crystal panel; and a control circuit, the liquid crystal panel sequentially including an active matrix substrate, a first alignment film, a liquid crystal layer, a second alignment film, and a counter substrate, the active matrix substrate sequentially including a first substrate, a first electrode, a first insulating layer, and a second electrode including a linear electrode portion, the counter substrate including a second substrate and a third electrode, the third electrode extending in a longitudinal direction of the sub-pixel at a right or left end of the sub-pixel, a ratio of a width of the third electrode to a width of the first electrode in a widthwise direction being 0.14 or greater and 0.25 or smaller, the control circuit being configured to switch between application of an alternating voltage and application of a constant voltage to the third electrode.

Optical stack including multiple optical layers, display device including the optical stack disposed on a panel, and method for producing optical stack

In the present embodiment, a sealing agent () sealing two substates contains a low melting-point glass material and is adhered to each of a first substrate () and a second substrate (), a barrier rib (), which is formed in such a manner as to surround the outer periphery of an electronic element (), is disposed between the sealing agent () and the electronic element (), and between the first substrate () and the second substrate (), and the sealing agent () is spaced apart from the barrier rib (). As a result, a deterioration of the electronic element, caused by the heat produced when sealing, may be prevented while the electronic element formed between the two substrates is protected from moisture and oxygen.

Substrate sealing structure body, and, display device and production method therefor

The liquid crystal display device includes, sequentially from a viewing surface side to a back surface side: a linearly polarizing plate and a circularly polarizing plate including a first &#x3bb;/4 retardation layer; a thin-film transistor substrate including a pair of electrodes disposed in a pixel region and a metal line disposed outside the pixel region; a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules aligned parallel to the thin-film transistor substrate, alignment of the liquid crystal molecules varying in response to an electric field generated by application of voltage to the pair of electrodes; a color filter substrate including a color filter layer; and a backlight, the thin-film transistor substrate including a second &#x3bb;/4 retardation layer, the color filter substrate including a reflective layer disposed outside the pixel region and configured to reflect incident light from the backlight toward the back surface.

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Kiyoshi Minoura