Sony Corporation

Other

Hitachi-kokusai Electric Inc.

Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Minoru Nakano

Kazuto Noritake

Takao Suzuki

Hideki Matsuoka

Norio Oku

Masaaki Ueno

Kouichiro Takashima

Hideo Kataoka

Susumu Oima

Hirohide Fukumoto

Junichi Ushirono

Masao Kondo

Haruo Oba

Tsutomu Tanaka

Kazuo Tanaka

Hideki Sato

Shun Kayama

Yoshikazu Takahashi

Yukiko Shimizu

Hideto Yamaguchi

Hiroaki Adachi

Atsushi Koshiyama

Masahiro Fujino

Shintarou Morita

Kimitaka Kawase

Kunihito Saiki

Masahiko Kawabe

Masamichi Kotera

Takayuki Hatanaka

Kazuomi Kobayashi

This optical device includes an incidence plane and an output plane facing each other and a plurality of reflectors that are disposed between the incidence plane and the output plane and each reflect light incident from the incidence plane toward the output plane. Each of the plurality of reflectors has a first reflection surface and a second reflection surface disposed orthogonal to each other, and a line of intersection between the first reflection surface and the second reflection surface being inclined with respect to a normal to the incidence plane.

Optical device and display unit

An information processing apparatus includes a display unit located on a front surface of a case. The information processing apparatus also includes a sensing unit located on a side surface of the case facing away from the display unit.

Information processing apparatus

A display device equipped with a touch panel may include a device chassis provided with an opening section, a display panel having a display surface disposed accessible through the opening section, a touch panel disposed on the display surface of the display panel and capable at least of selecting a function displayed on the display surface in response to a pressing operation on the touch panel, and a surface sheet for covering the touch panel on the opposite side to the display panel, and closing the opening section to form a substantially the same surface with the device chassis, wherein a reinforcing area for improving resistivity against pressing force applied from the outside may be provided in a predetermined range of the surface sheet.

Display device equipped with a touch panel

An actuator is provided that includes: a diaphragm that vibrates to generate sound; a housing that is attached to an outer edge of the diaphragm to support the diaphragm; an accommodating space that is formed inside the diaphragm and the housing, and an axis of which extends in a thickness direction of the diaphragm in the middle of the diaphragm; a coil that is wound around the axis, is attached to a face of the diaphragm facing the accommodating space, and is disposed in the accommodating space; a movable body that is disposed in a radial inside space of the coil or on an extension of the space, within the accommodating space; and a spring that supports the movable body such that the movable body is movable in the axial direction within the accommodating space.

Actuator, touch panel display device, electronic apparatus

There is provided a display apparatus comprising: first display means including a first display section; and second display means including a second display section and a non-display section located at an outer periphery of the second display section; wherein partial area of a display surface of the first display section of the first display means faces the non-display section of the second display means; and wherein portion of the non-displaying section of the second display means, which is facing the display surface of the first display section is provided with a transmission section configured to transmit light from the first display section.

Display apparatus

A system for supplying a semiconductor manufacturing system control program includes an administrative server, a communications circuit connecting the administrative server to a controller of a semiconductor manufacturing system, a facility provided in the controller for determining a time when a previously installed control program can be changed, and a facility provided in the controller responsive to a result of the determination for storing a new control program received from the administrative server through the communications circuit in a memory to be executable by a processor.

System for supplying semiconductor manufacturing system control programs

A liquid-crystal display apparatus includes a liquid-crystal panel () having a color filter (), a W light-emitting diode () for irradiating white light to the liquid-crystal panel (), RGB light-emitting diodes () for irradiating lights of more than two colors containing white to the liquid-crystal panel (), a luminance sensor () for detecting ambient illuminance of the liquid-crystal panel () to output a detected signal and a control unit () for switching the W light-emitting diode () and the RGB light-emitting diodes () based on the detected signal from the luminance sensor (). In a related-art liquid-crystal display apparatus, since lights of red (R), green (G) and blue (B) are emitted with a time lag and superimposed upon each other so that a clear color may not be obtained in each pixel, thus resulting in insufficient color reproducing capability. According to the present invention, these defects encountered with the related art can be obviated.

Liquid-crystal display apparatus and electronic device

A temperature control method is provided which is capable of maintaining the accuracy of control based on a detected value of a temperature sensor substantially constant regardless of a change in an error of measurements of the temperature sensor. Measured values of thermocouples A, B, C of a thermocouple thermometer and those of sensor members A, B, C of a radiation thermometer of a sheet-feed apparatus are detected as the processing proceeds. A temperature control parameter of the sheet-feed apparatus is made to change based on differences between the detected temperature values as the processing proceeds.

Temperature control method and semiconductor device manufacturing method

A temperature control method is provided which is capable of performing quick, accurate, and error-free soaking control over all wafer areas to be thermally treated at a target temperature without requiring any skilled operator and which can be automated by using a computer. In the temperature control method of controlling a heating apparatus having at least two heating zones in such a manner that temperatures detected at predetermined locations equal a target temperature therefor, temperatures are detected at predetermined locations the number of which is larger than the number of the heating zones, and the heating apparatus is controlled in such a manner that the target temperature falls between a maximum value and a minimum value of a plurality of detected temperatures.

Temperature controlling method, thermal treating apparatus, and method of manufacturing semiconductor device

A display device includes pixels disposed in a matrix on a transparent base plate. Each pixel includes an opening region, in which an electro-optic element for emitting light through the base plate is formed, and a non-opening region, in which a thin film transistor for driving the electro-optic element is formed. The non-opening region has a first film structure including the thin film transistor. The opening region has a second film structure extending from the first film structure and existing between the electro-optic element and the base plate. The second film structure is different from the first film structure so as to adjust the light passing through the opening region.

Display device such as electro-optic element and thin film transistor and display device manufacturing method

A glass board used in the production of liquid crystal panels includes a matrix of individual substrates. Each of the substrates has a contact portion of an electrode formed on one of its principle surfaces. The individual substrates are spaced from each other so that the contact portions of adjacent substrates are not in contact with each other. Thus, when the individual substrates are cut, the contact portions are not weakened and contaminants are prevented from getting between the contact portions and the substrates.

Glass board used in the production of liquid crystal panels

A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal layer formed between first and second insulating substrates. A wiring layer, an insulation film and a first orientation layer are formed on the first substrate between it and the liquid crystal layer. A electrode layer and a second orientation film are formed on the second substrate between it and the liquid crystal layer. The wiring layer includes grooves along its peripheral portion which allow the insulation film to contact the first substrate, which promotes bonding and inhibits peeling of the insulation film from the wiring layer.

Liquid crystal display device

A mother glass board used to fabricate multiple liquid crystal display panels includes a substrate on which the liquid crystal panel portions are formed. An orientation film is formed on the liquid crystal panel portions. A pattern of metallic film is formed on the substrate outside that portion of the substrate on which the liquid crystal panel portions are located. The patterns include an alignment mark and an identifier mark used in the liquid crystal panel production process. An enclosure surrounding the liquid crystal panel portions is formed on the substrate between the pattern and the liquid crystal panel portions. The enclosure prevents stripes from being formed on the orientation film during a rubbing step in the production process in which the liquid crystal panel portions are rubbed with a cloth.

A liquid crystal display device minimized in image retention phenomenon, comprising: a first insulating substrate having a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix and a first alignment film provided on the inner surface thereof, said insulating substrate comprising a plurality of thin film transistors associated with each of the pixel electrodes; a second insulating substrate disposed opposed to the first insulating substrate, said second insulating substrate having facing electrodes and a second alignment film formed on the inner surface thereof; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and the second insulating substrates; and at least one of the first and the second alignment films having a thickness of 60 nm or less.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Minoru Nakano