Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

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Sharp Corporation

Gtec Incorporated

Masahiro Shimizu

Takashi Katayama

Kazuhiko Tsuda

Kiyoshi Minoura

Kouji Kumada

Takashige Ohta

Hisakazu Nakamura

Yoshito Hashimoto

Yusuke Nishihara

Hisashi Watanabe

Masumi Kubo

Toshihiro Matsumoto

Shun Ueki

Tokio Taguchi

Hiroshi Tsuchiya

Satoshi Shibata

Tsuyoshi Okazaki

Hideo Ichinose

Yasuhisa Itoh

Yuichi Iyama

Takanori Takeda

Akira Shibazaki

Ken Kuboki

Taichi Sasaki

Hideki Fujimoto

Tetsuo Fukaya

Kei Shinada

Yuko Arai

Hitoshi Kamezaki, Legal Representative

Masano Kamezaki, Legal Representative

Masahiko Tamaki

Yutaka Kamezaki

Kazuhiro Mitani

A cooked rice forming apparatus for forming cooked rice into a desired shape includes a light guide part that is provided with a first surface and a second surface, and is made of a material having transparency, wherein the first surface is in slidably contact with one side of the cooked rice, and has a slope, and the second surface is arranged on a lower side of the slope and on the other side of the cooked rice; a light source part that emits ultraviolet rays and is provided near the light guide part; a forming part that is arranged below a lower side of the slope, and forms the cooked rice into the desired shape; and a housing body that accommodates an input part, a discharging part, the light guide part, the light source part and the forming part, wherein the light guide part is configured such that at least the first surface and the second surface glow due to the ultraviolet rays emitted from the light source part.

Cooked rice forming apparatus

A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device includes a step (A) of preparing an active matrix substrate, a step (B) of preparing a counter substrate, and a step (C) of producing a liquid crystal display panel using the prepared active matrix substrate and counter substrate. The step (C) includes a step (C) of bonding the active matrix substrate with the counter substrate with a predetermined gap interposed therebetween and a step (C) of forming a liquid crystal layer before or after the step (C). An alignment film is an alignment film having a specific resistance of 1&#xd7;10&#x3a9;&#xb7;cm or greater when a backlight is illuminated. The step (C) further includes, after the steps (C) and (C), a step (C) of irradiating the active matrix substrate, the liquid crystal layer, and the counter substrate with ultraviolet light.

Method for producing liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus

A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix pattern, each pixel including a first electrode and a second electrode for generating a transverse electric field, wherein: in a first group of pixels arranged in a line along either a row direction or a column direction, pairs of pixels are arranged repeatedly, each pair of pixels including two adjacent pixels that are different from each other in terms of an electrode structure of at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode; and voltages of the same polarity are applied to the two adjacent pixels included in the pair of pixels, and voltages of different polarities from each other are applied to two pixel pairs adjacent to each other in the first group of pixels.

Liquid crystal display device

Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device of active matrix type. Each pixel electrode () includes either a single regional electrode () or two or more regional electrodes () which are electrically connected to each other. The or each regional electrode is provided with: a first electrode (cross-shaped electrode) () which has a pattern dividing a first region into a plurality of second regions (R, R, R, and R); and a plurality of stripe electrodes () which are provided in each of the second regions so as to extend from the first electrode and so as to be separated from each other by a distance. A storage capacitor line (CSL) is provided facing one of pixel electrodes () in a film thickness direction to form a storage capacitor. The storage capacitor line (CSL) is provided so as not to extend facing an edge (') of a first region in the film thickness direction parallelly to the edge (&#x2032;). The invention eliminates irregular orientation of liquid crystal molecules in polymer sustained alignment.

What is provided is an OCB mode liquid crystal display device (), including: a plurality of gate bus lines (); a plurality of source bus lines (); pixels (); and pixel electrodes () corresponding to the respective pixels (). According to the OCB mode liquid crystal display device (), a gap width (L) between adjacent ones of the pixel electrodes () is wider at intersections (S) of the plurality of gate bus lines () and the plurality of source bus lines () than in areas other than the intersections (S).

A method of the present invention, for driving a liquid crystal display device includes the step of applying, when spray-bend transition of liquid crystal molecules is completed, a constant voltage to a storage capacitor electrode so that an electric potential difference between a pixel electrode and a common electrode becomes greater than an electric potential difference between the pixel electrode and another pixel electrode adjacent to said pixel electrode when application of a voltage for the spray-bend transition of the liquid crystal molecules is stopped.

Method of driving liquid crystal display device, and liquid crystal display device

A first substrate () is subjected to an alignment treatment for controlling an alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules of a liquid crystal layer, an alignment control region (R) is provided in at least a part of a Y-direction interelectrode region (R) between respective adjacent pixel electrodes (), and an extension direction (D) of the alignment control region (R) is at an angle of not less than &#x2212;15&#xb0; and not more than +15&#xb0; with a direction in which the alignment treatment is carried out (D).

In a method of driving a liquid crystal display device in accordance with the present invention, a transition voltage (+25 VDC) for causing liquid crystal molecules to be in a bend orientation state is applied, and after an entire surface is changed into the bend orientation state, the voltage applied to a liquid crystal layer is continuously reduced from a transition voltage to a reverse tilt eliminating voltage.

Method for driving liquid crystal display device and liquid crystal display device

A display device includes a liquid crystal layer having opposing principal faces; a plurality of electrodes; and an illuminator for emitting light toward one of the principal faces of the liquid crystal layer. When a predetermined voltage is applied, the liquid crystal layer forms an intermediate layer containing liquid crystal molecules which are oriented in a different direction from that of the liquid crystal molecules in an anchoring layer, and causes linearly-polarized light which has been transmitted through the anchoring layer to be refracted toward the one principal face in or near the intermediate layer. White is displayed while no voltage is applied across the liquid crystal layer, and black displaying is conducted while a voltage is applied across the liquid crystal layer.

Display unit having illuminator and liquid crystal layer capable of forming intermediate layer

An active matrix substrate is provided to be opposed to a counter substrate with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, the liquid crystal layer being in an OCB mode in which orientation is spray orientation when no voltage is applied and the orientation is changed to bend orientation when a voltage is applied. A storage capacitor bus line is provided on a pixel electrode so as to be opposite to the counter substrate and an opening is provided at a part of the pixel electrode at a region where the pixel electrode and the storage capacitor bus line intersect. A liquid crystal control circuit and a relay circuit are provided for applying a transition voltage to the storage capacitor bus line so as to apply an electric field between the pixel electrode and the storage capacitor bus line, and after a certain period in which liquid crystal molecules have responded, applying a transition voltage to the counter electrode so as to apply an electric field between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode.

Liquid crystal display device, its drive method, liquid crystal panel drive device, and liquid crystal panel drive method

A liquid crystal panel () includes scanning signal lines () for supplying scanning signals to gate electrodes () of TFTs (), and data signal lines () for supplying data signals to data electrodes () of TFTs. The liquid crystal panel further includes auxiliary capacitive electrode pads () for use in forming auxiliary capacitance and an auxiliary capacitive lines () so as not to generate a capacitive bond with the scanning signal lines. The liquid crystal panel is driven at a rewriting frequency of a screen of not more than 30 Hz. As a result, the liquid crystal panel can be driven at a low consumption power while maintaining a desirable display quality of the liquid crystal panel.

Display device, method of driving same and electronic device mounting same

A pixel electrode (), a gate bus line (), and a source bus line () are formed while interposing an interlayer insulating film () therebetween. When viewed from the display surface side of a liquid crystal display panel, the pixel electrode (), the gate bus line () and the source bus line () are arranged to overlap at least partially in the plan view. Consequently, in a liquid crystal display to which an OCB mode is applied, a uniform bend orientation can be attained over the entire screen even if transition nuclei are not generated in all pixels.

Liquid crystal display panel and liquid crystal display device

The display device according to the present invention includes: a liquid crystal layerhaving a first principal face and a second principal face opposing each other; a plurality of electrodesand; a fluorophore layer provided on the first principal face side of the liquid crystal layer; and an illuminator for emitting light for exciting the fluorophore layer toward the second principal face of the liquid crystal layer. When a predetermined voltage is applied, the liquid crystal layer forms an intermediate layer containing liquid crystal molecules which are oriented in a different direction from that of liquid crystal molecules in an anchoring layer near the second principal face, and causes linearly-polarized light which has been transmitted through the anchoring layer near the second principal face to be refracted toward the second principal face in or near the intermediate layer. Displaying is conducted by using light emitted by the fluorophore layer while no voltage is applied across the liquid crystal layer, and black displaying is conducted while a voltage is applied across the liquid crystal layer.

Display unit

Discloses are liquid crystal medium based on a mixture of polar compounds, the use thereof for electro-optical purposes, and displays containing the medium.

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Osaka, Japan

Masahiro Shimizu