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Mitsuhiro Koden

Tomoaki Kuratate

Fumiaki Funada

Aya Miyazaki

Kazuhiko Tamai

Akira Sakaigawa

Takashi Kaneko

Makoto Shiomi

Kazuhiko Sakaguchi

Hitoshi Takeda

Teiyu Sako

Tohru Kitamura

Tokihiko Shinomiya

Akira Tagawa

Yutaka Shiomi

Kazuyuki Kishimoto

Shinichi Saito

John Clifford Jones

Yoshimasa Fujita

Paul Antony Gass

Eiji Okabe

Hirohisa Tanaka

Nobuyuki Itoh

Yoshikazu Takehira

Hisanori Bessho

Masaaki Kabe

Michael Geraint Robinson

Makoto Kikuchi

Michael John Towler

Shigeaki Mizushima

Yuhki Kobayashi

Takaji Numao

Tetsuya Ide

Katsuyuki Murashiro

Craig Tombling

Yuka Utsumi

Kohzo Yano

Mayumi Tanabe

Naoya Kasai

Nicholas Mayhew

Masami Kido

Katsumi Kondoh

Tomoko Kase

Masatoshi Fukushima

Akiko Iwata

Kazuhiko Tsuchiya

Motonari Matsuki

Hiroshi Hamada

Yutaka Ishii

Mikio Katayama

Yoshitaka Yamamoto

Masaru Yoshida

Damien Gerard McDonnell

Tomohiko Yamamoto

Kenji Suzuki

Hiroaki Kato

Satoshi Shibata

Mitsuhiro Shigeta

Tomoo Furukawa

Naofumi Kondo

Ryushi Shundo

Hiroshi Morimoto

Yasunori Shimada

Kohichi Fujimori

Hideo Saito

Akio Miyata

Yoshimi Kojima

Takashi Yamashita

Hidenori Ogata

Kazuhiro Deguchi

Hirofumi Katsuse

Andrew John Slaney

Kohhei Kishi

Tsunenori Fujii

Mitsunori Takeda

Keizou Itoh

Yasuyuki Umenaka

Atsushi Sugiura

Tomohisa Miyatani

Hiromi Inoue

Kohei Kishi

Keizo Ito

Rachel Patricia Tuffin

Masayuki Katakami

Hiroshi Gouda

An object is to provide a storage container including latent heat storage materials that provide a high cold insulation effect. A storage containerhas an electric cooling function and stores an object. The storage containerincludes at least one storage chamberthat stores the object; a first latent heat storage material A that is disposed in the storage chamberand has a predetermined phase change temperature; and a second latent heat storage material B that is disposed in the storage chamberand has a phase change temperature higher than the phase change temperature of the first latent heat storage material A.

Storage container

A light-scattering body includes at least light-transmitting resin, and first particles and second particles which are dispersed in the light-transmitting resin. An average grain size Da of the first particles is greater than an average grain size Db of the second particles. A refractive index na of the first particles is less than a refractive index nb of the second particles. The average grain size Db of the second particles is within a range of 150 nm&#x2266;Db&#x2266;300 nm.

Light-emitting device, display device and illumination device

A phosphor substrate () includes a substrate (), phosphor layers (R,G, andB) which are disposed on the substrate () and which emit fluorescences (L) using incident excitation light (L), and a partition () surrounding side faces of the phosphor layers (R,G, andB), in which at least portions of the partition () in contact with the phosphor layers (R,G, andB) have light-scattering properties.

Phosphor substrate, display device, and electronic apparatus

A light-emitting device includes an excitation light source that emits excitation light; a first substrate which is disposed so as to face the excitation light source and on which a fluorescent layer and a first low-refractive-index layer are formed, the fluorescent layer being excited by the excitation light to emit fluorescence; and a barrier that surrounds side surfaces of the fluorescent layer, the side surfaces extending in a stacking direction of the excitation light source and the first substrate. At least a portion of the barrier that faces the fluorescent layer has a light-scattering property. The first low-refractive-index layer is located between the fluorescent layer and the first substrate. The first low-refractive-index layer has a refractive index lower than that of the first substrate.

Light-emitting device, and display apparatus, which can efficiently emit, to outside, fluorescence generated in fluorescent layer and can realize high-luminance light emission and in which generation of blurriness and fuzziness of display is suppressed

A storage container can maintain a temperature inside a storage room not to cause a temperature distribution for a certain time even if the operation is stopped. In a storage containerstoring preserved goods and having an electrical cooling function, the storage containerincludes a container bodyand a door. A space enclosed by the container bodyand the doorforms a storage room. The container bodyand the doorhave respectively heat insulating portionsand heat accumulating portions. The heat accumulating portionsare each made of at least one type of material that causes liquid-solid phase transition at a temperature between a controllable temperature inside the storage roomand a living environmental temperature. A value obtained by dividing temperature conductivity of the material by an amount of the material used per unit area of a wall surface of the storage roomis smaller in the heat accumulating portionsarranged near a first area where a temperature is more apt to come closer to the living environmental temperature under a temperature distribution that is formed inside the storage roomwith changes over time after stop of cooling, than in the heat accumulating portionsarranged near a second area where a temperature is less apt to come closer to the living environmental temperature thereunder.

An organic electric-field element includes an elongated support base member, a first electrode provided on the support base member, an organic layer provided to cover the first electrode, and a second electrode provided to cover the organic layer. At one end portion of the support base member, a two-layer structure region including the support base member and the first electrode is provided, and a three-layer structure region including the support base member, the first electrode, and the organic layer is provided, extending continuously from the other end of the two-layer structure region. At the other end portion of the support base member, a two-layer structure region including the support base member and the second electrode is provided, and a three-layer structure region including the support base member, the second electrode, and the organic layer is provided, extending continuously from one end of the two-layer structure region.

Organic element and organic device including the same

An optical control device in accordance with the present invention includes a substrate () with light output layers (); a substrate () with a light transmitting function, positioned opposite to the substrate (); and a liquid crystal () sandwiched between the substrates () and (), one of the substrates () and () having gate electrodes () for applying multiple scan signals, one of the substrates () and () having source electrodes for applying multiple signal electrodes, wherein the light output layers () are arranged in stripes and extend in the same direction as the gate electrodes ().

Light-control device and method of driving

A liquid crystal composition comprises a host material capable of exhibiting a smectic C phase, and a chiral dopant material which imparts or enhances chirality in the host material. The composition exhibits &tgr;-V curves. The chiral dopant material comprises at least first and second chiral centers. The chiral centers individually produce, in the liquid crystal composition, different and complementary temperature coefficients of spontaneous polarization within a predetermined temperature range. The chiral centers are present in the liquid crystal composition in relative amounts such that regions of the &tgr;-V curves across the predetermined temperature range are substantially coincident.

Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal shutter

A method of aligning a liquid crystal includes a step of fixing on a hot plate and heating a liquid crystal cell in which a liquid crystal composed of a ferroelectric liquid crystal material sealed between electrode substrates respectively having alignment films having applied thereto a uniaxial alignment by rubbing. According to the described method, a pressure is applied to the liquid crystal cell by a roller, and a portion subjected to an application of pressure is moved by moving the roller. Further, the liquid crystal is heated within a temperature range between a phase transition temperature of SmA phase SmC* phase and a temperature 10&deg; C. below the phase transition temperature, and the portion subjected to an application of pressure is moved in the same direction as the rubbing direction, thereby achieving the C,orientation at higher yield. Within the described temperature range, by moving the portion in an opposite direction to the rubbing direction, a C,orientation can be always achieved at high yield (almost 100%). As a result, the C,orientation can be surely achieved in the liquid crystal display element with ease.

Method for aligning liquid crystals, alignment device and liquid crystal display element

A diffractive spatial light modulator of the present invention includes a plurality of picture elements, each of the plurality of picture elements, comprises a plurality of first elongate parallel electrodes, a plurality of second elongate parallel electrodes interdigitated with the first electrodes and a third electrode, facing the first and second elongate parallel electrodes; and an address signal generator connected to the first and second elongate parallel electrodes and arranged to supply addressing signals for selectively switching each of the plurality of picture elements, picture element to any one of a non-diffractive state and a plurality of diffractive states of different diffraction efficiencies.

Diffractive spatial light modulator and display

A mixture of a ferroelectric or anti-ferroelectric liquid crystal material and a monomer having a single photopolymeric functional group is injected in the space between two electrode substrates while heat is applied. After cooling of the mixture it is irradiated with ultraviolet light at a temperature at which the liquid crystal material remains in the smectic phase so as to polymerise the monomer. Areas of liquid crystal material requiring different threshold voltages for switching are thereby produced. Alternatively such areas can be produced by changing the conditions applied to a mixture of liquid crystal material with a suitable dopant so as to cause separation of the dopant out of the liquid crystal material in order to provide a polarity of nucleation points for controlling domain formation within the liquid crystal material. Such control of domain formation can be used to provide greyscale in a liquid crystal device.

Liquid crystal display including dopant phase-separated from liquid

A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display element is provided with the steps of: arranging a pair of insulating substrates face to face with each other and bonding them to each other, each of the insulating substrates having electrodes formed thereon with an alignment film formed in a manner so as to cover the electrodes; and filling the gap between the two substrates with a mixture that is made by mixing a ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) composition with isotropic micro structural elements that locally give different threshold-value characteristics to liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal composition. With this arrangement, it is possible to provide a liquid crystal layer in which the isotropic micro structural elements are formed into a striped organization with the isotropic micro structural elements being sandwiched between smectic layers of the FLC composition. Consequently, it becomes possible to easily provide a liquid crystal display element with high quality that achieves a gray scale display suitable for practical use.

Manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display element

Monomers with photopolymerization characteristics and an initiator for polymerization are added to a liquid crystal composition having a ferroelectric liquid crystal phase (S5). In a state (S6) where coexist two domains which differ from each other in directions of molecular major axes in the ferroelectric liquid crystal phase, light is projected to the liquid crystal layer to form a polymer reticulate structure therein (S7). As a result, this state is made a stable one and the liquid crystal shows macroscopic switching behaviors among two states causing dark and bright displays respectively, and the above-described state causing halftone display.

Liquid crystal element stabilized by the use of polymer reticulate

A diffractive spatial light modulator includes: a layer of electro-optic material; a first electrode arrangement substantially covering a first side of the layer; and a second electrode arrangement substantially covering a second side of the layer. The first electrode arrangement includes a plurality of sets of elongate electrodes, and the elongate electrodes of each of the sets are electrically connected together and interdigitated with the elongate electrodes of at least one of the other acts. The second electrode arrangement includes a plurality of discrete picture element electrodes.

Diffractive spatial light modulator

Ferroelectric liquid crystal compositions having a large dependency of spontaneous polarization on temperature; liquid crystal display devices exhibiting a small dependency of response speed on temperature and making it possible to obtain a wide temperature margin in practical use, and fabricated by using the ferroelectric liquid crystal composition; and methods for driving the devices are provided; the compositions comprising at least one compound expressed by the following general formula (1) ##STR1## at least one compound expressed by the following general formula (2), and ##STR2## at least one compound expressed by the following general formula (3) ##STR3## wherein R.sub.1 to R.sub.6, ring A-B, A, X.sub.1, and X.sub.2 are herein defined.

Ferroelectric liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display

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