Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Dai-Ichi Kogyo Seiyaku Co., Ltd.

Koichi Hirano

Seiichi Nakatani

Yoshihisa Yamashita

Takashi Ichiryu

Takeshi Suzuki

Shingo Komatsu

Yoshihiro Tomita

Toshiyuki Asahi

Yasuhiro Sugaya

Tetsuyoshi Ogura

Seiji Karashima

Hiroyuki Handa

Mitsuhiro Matsuo

Tatsuo Ogawa

Tsunenori Yoshida

Yasuyuki Matsuoka

Daisuke Wakuda

Susumu Sawada

Kenichi Hotehama

Masaki Suzumura

Takeshi Nakayama

Mikinari Shimada

Osamu Shibata

Yoshiyuki Saito

Toshiyuki Kojima

Tousaku Nishiyama

Koji Kawakita

Toshio Fujii

Shinobu Masuda

Masanori Nomura

Hiroyuki Ishitomi

Satoru Yuuhaku

Yoshiyuki Yamamoto

Shinya Tanaka

Osamu Inoue

Junichi Kato

Makoto Takahashi

Takashi Kitae

Hideki Iwaki

Tsukasa Shiraishi

Hideki Ohmae

Satoshi Arimoto

Yasuhiro Arai

Yasuteru Saito

Masami Nakagawa

Yutaka Kumano

Naoki Ike

Takaaki Okawa

Kazuo Okada

A tactile sensor includes: a first sheet having at least either flexibility or elasticity; and a second sheet having at least either flexibility or elasticity and having a first surface facing the first sheet and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The second surface includes a plurality of protruding shapes. Each of the plurality of protruding shapes includes an enclosed space inside, the enclosed space being defined by the first surface of the second sheet and the first sheet. At least one first electrode pattern is disposed on the first sheet in the enclosed space of each of the plurality of protruding shapes. At least one second electrode pattern is disposed on the first surface in the enclosed space of each of the plurality of protruding shapes.

Tactile sensor that includes two sheets each having at least either flexibility or elasticity

A flexible touch sensor comprises: a first sheet material that has a first major surface, and that has a cushioning property; a second sheet material that includes a conductive material, and that is disposed on the first major surface of the first sheet material; and a conductive wire that is disposed on the first major surface of the first sheet material, and that is sunk into the first sheet material.

Flexible touch sensor and method of manufacturing the same

A flexible substrate is provided with: a stretchable sheet; a member located on the sheet; and a stretchable strip connected to the member, and located on the sheet. When the amount of extension of the sheet is equal to or less than a predetermined value, the sheet has a first elastic modulus, and when the amount of extension of the sheet exceeds the predetermined value, the sheet has a second elastic modulus that is greater than the first elastic modulus and greater than the elastic modulus of the strip.

Flexible substrate including stretchable sheet

A manufacturing method for an electronic device according to the present disclosure includes (i) forming an insulating film on a surface of a cylinder, (ii) forming the insulating film having a via hole on the surface of the cylinder by pressing a relief member against the insulating film to remove a portion of the insulating film facing a protrusion of the relief member, and (iii) providing a precursor of an insulating layer having the via hole filled with conductive ink on a wiring substrate, wherein the via hole faces a wiring of the wiring substrate.

Manufacturing method for electronic device

An electrochemical detector is an electrochemical detector for detecting a substance in a liquid by generating a redox cycle, the electrochemical detector comprising: a first working electrode having a first electrode surface, a second working electrode having a second electrode surface, and a plurality of insulating spacer particles, wherein the first and second electrode surfaces are placed so as to face each other so that an electric field is formed between the first and second electrode surfaces, and the plurality of spacer particles are placed along the first and second electrode surfaces so as to separate the first and second electrode surfaces from each other.

Electrochemical detector and method for producing same

A tactile sense presentation device includes first electrodes covered with an insulating film and arranged on a plane; second electrodes arranged on a plane with tops exposed to outside; and a control unit performing a first operation in parallel with a second operation. The first operation is for applying temporally changing first voltages to a part of the first electrodes to generate electric fields which are changed by the part of first electrodes, and the second operation is for applying temporally changing first electric currents to a part of the second electrodes to cause the electric currents to flow from the part of the second electrodes to second electrodes which are different from the part of second electrodes via electric conductors. The first electrodes and second electrodes are arranged not to overlap each other.

Method for presenting tactile sensation and device therefor

A tactile sense presentation method includes arranging a plurality of first electrodes covered with an insulating film on a plane; arranging a plurality of second electrodes on a plane with tops exposed to outside; and performing a first operation in parallel with a second operation. The first operation is for applying temporally changing first voltages to a part of the plurality of first electrodes to generate electric fields which are changed by the part of the plurality of first electrodes. The second operation is for applying temporally changing first electric currents to a part of the plurality of second electrodes to cause the electric currents to flow from the part of the plurality of second electrodes to second electrodes which are different from the part of the plurality of second electrodes via electric conductors.

A tactile sense presentation device including: a tactile-sense presentation unit having a first working electrode group of a plurality of first working electrodes arranged along a first direction; and a control unit operable to apply a first tactile sense signal having a first waveform to each of the first working electrodes. The control unit applies the first tactile sense signal, in which a phase difference corresponding to a distance between adjacent first working electrodes is applied to the first waveform, to each of the plurality of first working electrodes so as to cause the first waveform to travel along the first direction at a predetermined speed.

Tactile sense presentation device and tactile sense presentation method

A touch panel device with the tactile sense presenting function according to this embodiment includes the plurality of electrodesarranged on the single plane, and the controller. The controllerperforms a first operation and a second operation in a time division manner. The first operation includes applying the first voltage which changes temporally, to some of the electrodes, detecting voltages generated on at least some of the remaining electrodesin this state, and detecting the position of the dielectric which is in proximity to the touch panel device, on the basis of the detected voltages. The second operation includes applying the second voltage which changes temporally, to some of the electrodes, and generating electric field with the some working electrodes

Touch panel device with tactile sense presenting function

A flexible display device includes a wire embedded layer that has flexibility and has a first principal surface, a thick wire embedded in the wire embedded layer so as to be substantially flush with the first principal surface of the wire embedded layer, an extraction lower electrode electrically connected to the thick wire and disposed on the first principal surface of the wire embedded layer, an emitting layer disposed on the extraction lower electrode, and an upper electrode disposed on the emitting layer. The flexible display device is suitable for large-screen devices and offers high productivity.

Display device and method for manufacturing the same

There is provided a method for manufacturing a flexible semiconductor device. The method of the flexible semiconductor device according to the present invention comprises the steps of: (i) forming an insulating layer on one of principal surfaces of a metal foil; (ii) forming a semiconductor layer on the insulating layer, and then forming source and drain electrodes so that the source and drain electrodes contact with the semiconductor layer; (iii) forming a flexible film layer so that the flexible film layer covers the semiconductor layer and the source and drain electrodes; (iv) forming vias in the flexible film layer, and thereby a semiconductor device precursor is provided; and (v) subjecting the metal foil to a processing treatment, and thereby forming a gate electrode from the metal foil, wherein, in the step (v) of the processing treatment of the metal foil, the gate electrode is formed in a predetermined position by using at least one of the vias of the semiconductor device precursor as an alignment marker.

Flexible semiconductor device, method for manufacturing the same, image display device using the same and method for manufacturing the image display device

There is provided a flexible semiconductor device. The flexible semiconductor device of the present invention comprises a metal layer comprising a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode; a metal oxide film made from a metal which constitutes the metal layer and formed over a surface region of the metal layer; and a semiconductor layer formed above the gate electrode via the metal oxide film. In the flexible semiconductor device, uncovered portions, each of which is not covered with the metal oxide film, are locally formed in the surface region of the metal layer; and also electrical connections are formed between the source electrode and the semiconductor layer and between the drain electrode and the semiconductor layer via the uncovered portions.

Flexible semiconductor device

There is provided a flexible semiconductor device. The flexible semiconductor device of the present invention comprising a support layer, a semiconductor structure portion formed on the support layer, and a resin film formed on the semiconductor structure portion. The resin film comprises an opening formed by a laser irradiation therein, and also an electroconductive member which is in contact with the surface of the semiconductor structure portion is disposed within the opening of the resin film.

Method for manufacturing flexible semiconductor device having gate electrode disposed within an opening of a resin film

The present invention achieves a formation of a metal oxide film of a thin film transistor with a simplified process. The present invention is concerned with a method for manufacturing a field-effect transistor comprising a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a channel layer and a gate insulating layer wherein the channel layer is formed by using a metal salt-containing composition comprising a metal salt, a polyvalent carboxylic acid having a cis-form structure of &#x2014;C(COOH)&#x2550;C(COOH)&#x2014;, an organic solvent and a water wherein a molar ratio of the polyvalent carboxylic acid to the metal salt is in the range of 0.5 to 4.0.

Field-effect transistor and method for manufacturing the same

There is provided a method for manufacturing a flexible semiconductor device. The manufacturing method of the flexible semiconductor device of the present invention comprising the steps of: forming a gate electrode; forming a gate insulating film so that the gate insulating film contacts with the gate electrode; forming a semiconductor layer on the gate insulating film such that the semiconductor layer is opposed to the gate electrode; forming source and drain electrodes so that the source and drain electrodes contact with the semiconductor layer; forming a flexible film layer so that the flexible film layer covers the semiconductor layer and the source and drain electrodes; forming vias in the flexible film layer; forming a first metal layer by disposing a metal foil onto the flexible film layer, and thereby a semiconductor device precursor is provided; and subjecting the first metal layer to a processing treatment to form a wiring from a part of the first metal layer, wherein, in the step of the processing treatment of the first metal layer, the wiring is formed in a predetermined position by using at least one of the vias as an alignment marker.

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