Seiko Epson Corporation

138 East Lcd Advancements Limited

Nobutaka Urano

Yoichi Momose

Kinya Ozawa

Tsuyoshi Maeda

Kaneo Yoda

Yoichi Miyasaka

Shunichi Seki

Naotaka Higuchi

Hitoshi Tsuchiya

Seiichi Taniguchi

Akio Ito

Shogo Nakada

Hisashi Koike

Masahiko Nakazawa

Satomi Yoshioka

Yoshiyuki Nagai

Tsukasa Ota

Junichi Taira

A fiber structure manufacturing apparatus including: an accumulation portion that accumulates a material containing a resin and a fiber in air to generate a fiber web; a transport portion that transports the generated fiber web in a transport direction; and a heating and pressurizing portion that pressurizes the transported fiber web with a heated lower flat plate and an upper flat plate to melt the resin, in which a liquid absorbent having a first region where pressurization by the heating and pressurizing portion is performed the predetermined number of times and a second region where the pressurization is performed more than a predetermined number of times is formed by alternately repeating transport at a predetermined pitch shorter than a length of the flat plate in the transport direction by the transport portion and the pressurization.

Fiber structure manufacturing apparatus, method of manufacturing fiber structure, and fiber structure

A liquid absorber includes a container and an absorbing unit. The container has an opening and collects a liquid. The absorbing unit is an assembly of porous absorbent blocks, each containing fibers and a polymeric absorbent, and is in the container with spaces between the porous absorbent blocks. Each of the porous absorbent blocks has a first component and a second component. The first component is porous and has a density of 0.05 [g/cm] or more and 0.50 [g/cm] or less. The second component has a higher polymeric absorbent content than the first component.

Liquid absorber, liquid-absorbing sheet, liquid absorbent, and image-forming apparatus

A liquid absorber includes a container that has an opening and that recovers liquid and a first absorbing unit that is constituted by an aggregate of porous absorbing body blocks and that is housed in the container such that a gap exists between the porous absorbing body blocks. The porous absorbing body blocks have a density of 0.05 [g/cm] or more and 0.50 [g/cm] or less.

Liquid absorber and image forming apparatus

A liquid absorber includes a liquid absorption member, a case, and a cover. The liquid absorption member absorbs liquid. The liquid absorption member includes a fiber and a liquid-absorbent resin. The liquid absorption member is stored in the case. The cover covers the liquid absorption member. The cover includes through-holes through which the liquid is to pass. The cover includes a recessed portion recessed toward the liquid absorption member. The recessed portion is disposed at a location to which the liquid is to be discharged. The through-holes are disposed at least in the recessed portion.

Liquid absorber and liquid ejection apparatus

In a liquid crystal display device, a reflecting surface is attached to a portion, which overlaps with a periphery portion of a light guiding plate where the light incident section is position in a surface on the light guiding plate side in the dispersing sheet which is positioned farthest to the light guiding plate side among a plurality of optical sheets which are positioned between the light guiding plate and a liquid crystal panel. As a result, light which is emitted from the periphery portion of the light guiding plate is returned into the light guiding plate by being reflected by the reflecting surface, and after this, is emitted as illumination light from a light emitting surface while progressing within the light guiding plate.

Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus

A speaker diaphragm includes a cone formed of a first material including first fibers derived from a plant and a first resin for binding the first fibers together, and an edge portion which is positioned at an outer peripheral portion of the cone and formed of a second material including a second resin, in which the cone and the edge portion are integrally formed. In addition, at least one of the content and the composition of the first resin and the second resin is different.

Speaker diaphragm including cone formed of material including fibers derived from plant and resin, speaker unit, speaker, and method for manufacturing speaker

An ink absorber includes: an ink absorbing member that is capable of absorbing ink; an accommodation section that accommodates the ink absorbing member; and a detachment structure section that detaches the ink absorbing member from the accommodation section. In the ink absorber, it is preferable that the accommodation section have a bottom section and side wall sections standing up from the bottom section, that inclined surfaces inclined relative to the bottom section be formed inside the side wall sections, and that the detachment structure section be configured with the inclined surfaces.

Ink absorber, ink absorbing member accommodation container, and ink absorbing structure

An ink absorbing member accommodation container includes: an accommodation container that has an accommodation space for accommodating an ink absorbing member containing water-absorbable resin capable of absorbing ink inside the accommodation container and that includes an inlet port through which the ink flows into the accommodation space; and a flying preventing mechanism that prevents a constituent material of the ink absorbing member from flying from the inlet port to an outside of the accommodation container.

Ink absorbing member accommodation container and ink absorbing structure

An illumination apparatus includes: a light-guiding plate; a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed along a side-end surface of the light-guiding plate that serves as a light-entry portion, each of the plurality of light-emitting elements has a light-emitting surface which faces toward the light entry portion; a light source substrate, disposed and separated with a space from the light entry portion of the light-guiding plate when viewed from above, that includes a mounting surface for the plurality of light-emitting elements, the mounting surface being orthogonal to the side-end surface serving as the light entry portion; and a step portion with which an end portion of the light source substrate located toward the light-guiding plate makes contact.

Illumination apparatus, liquid-crystal display apparatus, and electronic device

Provided is a liquid crystal display device including: an illumination device, and a liquid crystal panel that is arranged so as to be stacked on a light-emitting surface side of the illumination device, wherein the illumination device includes a light guide plate in which a side end surface extending in a first direction is a light incident portion, a plurality of light-emitting elements that align along a first direction and, each of the plurality of light-emitting elements faces a light-irradiating surface in the light incident portion, and a plurality of groove rows that are formed of a plurality of grooves which are linearly arranged in a second direction on an opposite surface facing the light-emitting surface of the light guide plate, the second direction intersects the first direction in an in-plane direction of the light-emitting surface, and that are arranged in parallel in the first direction.

Liquid crystal display device, electronic apparatus, and illumination device

An illumination apparatus includes: a light guiding plate; a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed along a side-end surface of the light guiding plate that serves as a light-entry portion, each of the plurality of light-emitting elements having a light-emitting surface facing toward the side-end surface; a light source substrate that extends along the light-entry portion and has the plurality of light-emitting elements disposed thereon on one surface side that faces the light-entry portion; and a connector member, held on another surface side of the light source substrate that opposes the one surface side, for supplying power to the plurality of light-emitting elements.

Illumination apparatus, display apparatus, and electronic device

A liquid crystal display device is provided which includes a liquid crystal panel, a light guide plate having a plurality of side surfaces, a plurality of light emitting elements; a light source substrate having a mounting surface on which the plurality of the light emitting elements are mounted, a light source support member made of metal, including a substrate support plate portion supporting the light source substrate, with the substrate support plate portion coming into contact with a rear surface of the mounting surface, a first surface and a second surface different from the first surface, and a metal frame accommodating the liquid crystal panel and the light guide plate, and including a first contact portion that comes into contact with the first surface and a second contact portion that comes into contact with the second surface.

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