Bridgestone Corporation

Nidec Copal Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Bridgestone

Nedec Copal Corporation

Ryo Sakurai

Takayuki Sato

Taichi Kobayashi

Hidetoshi Hiraoka

Yasuhiro Morimura

Tasuku Saito

Takanori Shoji

Hirotaka Yamazaki

Hidefumi Kotsubo

Hajime Kitano

Tokuo Okada

Takahiro Matsuse

Takao Ogawa

Teruo Miura

Tetsuo Kitano

Kazuo Naito

Yasuo Kurachi

Yoshitomo Masuda

Kunio Machida

Minoru Ishiharada

Takayuki Maruyama

Mitsuhiro Nishida

Yasumichi Wakao

Hiroyuki Anzai

Kanji Tanaka

Kazuya Murata

Gaku Yakushiji

Norihiko Kaga

Yoshinori Iwabuchi

Shingo Ohno

Yasushi Hanatsuka

Toshiaki Arai

Hiroshi Kato

Shingo Oono

Hajime Tamura

Yoichi Nishimuro

Noribumi Tachihara

Yoshiki Fukuyama

Yoneji Kobayashi

Takahisa Kamikura

Tatsuya Funaki

Maki Masutani

Osamu Shiino

Tomoko Noguchi

Masayuki Nishii

Hare Tazawa

A tire contact state estimation method includes: an information acquisition step of acquiring information of the tire; a correlation strength calculation step of calculating a first correlation strength between the rotational velocity and the braking and driving force, and also calculating a second correlation strength between the slip angle and the generated lateral force; a change detection step of detecting whether the first correlation strength has increased or decreased by a first threshold or more with respect to a predetermined first reference value, and also detecting whether the second correlation strength has increased or decreased by a second threshold or more with respect to a predetermined second reference value; and an estimation step of estimating at least two of the following: a condition of a road surface in contact with the tire, a tire internal pressure state, and a tire abrasion state.

Tire contact state estimation method

In a thin-film transistor comprising respective elements of: three electrodes of a source electrode, a drain electrode and a gate electrode; a channel layer; and a gate insulating film, at least the channel layer is formed by a metal oxide film including indium. Therefore, it is possible to obtain the thin-film transistor, which can manufacture an element to a polymer substrate without using a high temperature process and which can achieve a high performance and a high reliability at low cost.

Thin-film transistor with channel layer formed by metal oxide film including indium, and method of manufacturing the same

In an information display panel, in which display media are sealed between a transparent front substrate and a rear substrate, and, in which the display media, to which an electrostatic field is applied from electrodes arranged respectively to the front substrate and the rear substrate, are made to move so as to display information such as an image, the rear substrate is constituted by a flexible material, and a metal electrode is formed on the rear substrate by a patterning process using a vapor deposition and a sputtering or a metal electrode is formed on the rear substrate by effecting a patterning process to a metal film formed by a vapor deposition or a sputtering. In this manner, it is possible to obtain an information display panel, which can improve a flexibility of the rear substrate with the electrode by an inexpensive cost, achieve an easy handling of the substrate and decrease a panel breakage due to a detachment of two substrates.

Information display panel and method for manufacturing the same

In the method of manufacturing an information display panel, in which at least one group of display media having optical reflectance and charge characteristics and consisting of at least one or more groups of particles, are sealed in a cell formed by partition walls between two substrates, at least one substrate being transparent, and, in which the display media, to which an electrostatic field is applied, are made to move so as to display information such as an image, a display media filling step for filling the display media in the cell includes the steps of: setting a screen over the partition walls; arranging the display media on the screen; and moving a plate member on the screen under such a condition that the plate member is contacted to the screen. In this manner, it is possible to obtain the method of manufacturing the information display panel in which it is possible to fill the display media by an easy process, and to make easy a control of an area, to which the display media are to be filled, and a control of an amount of the display media to be filled.

Method of manufacturing information display panel

In the information display panel, in which one or more groups of display media are sealed between opposed two substrates, at least one substrate being transparent, and, in which the display media, to which an electrostatic field generated between the substrates is applied, are made to move so as to display information such as an image, at least one substrate of the two substrates (both substrates in the figure) is a laminated substrate in which a first substrate, a low elastic layer and a second substrate are successively laminated from an outer surface, so that a stress concentration at a rib adhesion portion and so on of a partition wall can be reduced, If the laminated substrate with a laminated construction including a buffer layer for reducing stress concentration, it is possible to provide the information display panel, which can improve a mechanical strength with respect to an external force.

Information display panel and information display device

A method of manufacturing an information display device having an information display panel, in which display media are sealed between two substrates, at least one substrate being transparent, and, in which the display media, to which an electrostatic field is applied, are made to move so as to display information such as an image, is characterized in that the improvement comprises, in the case of electrically connecting an electrode arranged on one substrate and an electrode arranged on the other substrate at an outer portion of an information display portion of the information display panel, the steps of: arranging an adhesive including conductive spacer particles having a diameter smaller than a distance between the electrodes arranged on the substrates at a predetermined portion between the substrates; and pressing a portion of the substrate, to which the adhesive is arranged, under pressure; so that the electrode arranged on one substrate is electrically connected to the electrode arranged on the other substrate.

Method of manufacturing information display device

An information display device has an information display plate where at least one or more kinds of particles are sealed between cells formed by a partition wall, the cells being between two opposite substrates at least either of which is transparent. At least either of electrodes is provided on a substrate, and an electric field is applied to the particles by the electrodes to move the particles, causing information such as an image to be displayed on the display plate. The surfaces of the substrates are smoothed by making D&#x2267;2H satisfied, with D being the diameter of a particle (a particle forming the particles), H the height of the electrodes. This thins the electrodes as much as possible (making the height of the electrodes small) and smoothes the surfaces of the substrates, and as a result, the information display device after an endurance test has an improved contrast ratio.

Information display device

In an image display panel: in which at least one group of particles or liquid particles is sealed between opposed substrates, at least one of two substrates being transparent; in which the particles or the liquid powders, to which an electrostatic field is applied, are made to move so as to display an image; and in which partition walls arranged between the substrates according to need, use is made of the substrate in which at least a surface, to which the particles or the liquid powders are contacted, is subjected to a hydrophobic treatment (first aspect), at least a surface of the partition wall, to which the particles or the liquid powders are contacted, is subjected to a hydrophobic treatment (second aspect), at least a surface of the partition wall, to which the particles or the liquid powders are contacted, is coated by a material having a small charge decay property (third aspect), a universal hardness of a binder resin used for a material constituting the partition wall is not less than 400 N/mm, which is obtained by a method of measuring a universal hardness in which the binder resin constituting the partition wall having a thickness of 3 &#x3bc;m is formed on a glass substrate having a universal hardness of 2000 N/mm(fourth aspect), a ratio Lh/Lw between a height Lh and a width Lw of the partition wall satisfies 0.5&#x2266;Lh/Lw&#x2266;20 (fifth aspect), and the partition wall has a predetermined drying function (sixth aspect).

Image display panel and image display device

An image display device, in which image display media are sealed between opposed substrates, at least one of two substrates being transparent, and in which the image display media, to which an electrostatic field is applied, are made to move so as to display an image. A construction of particles used as the image display media is improved (the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth aspects of the invention), and a material of the particles used as the image display media is improved (the third, seventh and tenth aspects of the invention). Whiteness of the particles and a liquid powder using the particles is improved, particle agglutination is prevented, and the charge property is controlled. Moreover, durability is improved such that a contrast of the image display during a repetition display is not decreased. As a result, an excellent image display can be achieved.

Particle use for image display media, image display panel using the particles, and image display device

A light shielding blade material is provided for an optical apparatus and has at least three prepreg sheets each being comprised of an epoxy resin of a thermosetting type as a matrix resin and containing a fiber drawn in an alignment direction within the matrix resin. These prepreg sheets are superposed upon each other so that the alignment directions of the fibers of the prepreg sheets disposed adjacent to each other cross at right angles to each other. The material has also two or more films each being comprised of an epoxy resin of a non-cured state as a base resin and containing 15 to 40 weight % of carbon black in the epoxy resin. These films are disposed to form a laminate of the prepreg sheets and the films so that the prepreg sheets contact one surface or both surfaces of each film. The laminate is applied with pressure and heat to cure the epoxy resin, such that the epoxy resin constituting the base resin of the film is diffused and integrated into the matrix resin of the prepreg sheet so that an interface between the base resin and the matrix resin disappears, and that the carbon black is dispersed from the base resin of the film to the matrix resin of the prepreg sheet.

Manufacturing method of light shielding blade material

A light shielding blade material for use in an optical apparatus is constructed by a substrate composed of a plastic film having a pair of surfaces opposed to each other. A shield coating capable of blocking an incident light is formed on each surface of the substrate. A reinforcement member is disposed on each shield coating. The reinforcement member is composed of a thermosetting resin prepreg sheet reinforced with fibers arranged in an alignment direction, and hardened to laminate with the substrate through the shield coating. A lubricant coating having a black appearance and a lubricity sufficient to suppress a surface friction is formed on each reinforcement member such that an upper layer of the lubricant coating and a lower layer of the shield coating are separated from each other by an intermediate layer of the reinforcement member.

Light shielding blade material for optical apparatus

Shielded flat cable

An anisotropically electroconductive film, which has a high reliability in its capacity for conducting electricity and also a good adhesion under such an adhesive condition that the film is heated at a temperature of 130&deg; C. or less for a short period of time, has a layer of an adhesive within which electroconductive particles are distributed. The adhesive is composed of a thermosetting resin composition including a base resin, a reactive compound, an organic peroxide and a reaction accelerating compound, and also the electroconductive particles incorporated into the thermosetting resin composition. The base resin is a polyacetalized resin which is obtained by acetalizing a polyvinyl alcohol. The reactive compound is at least one selected from a group consisting of acryloxy group-bearing compounds, methacryloxy group-bearing compounds and epoxy group-bearing compounds. The reaction accelerating compound is a compound which has a radically reactive group and alkali-reactive group as its end groups.

Anisotropically electroconductive film

A heat- and/or photo-curing adhesive composition to be used in production of a display unit integral with a touch panel by bonding the touch panel to the display unit, the adhesive composition comprising as a main component of one or more than one kind of copolymer selected from (1) ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer; (2) copolymer of ethylene, vinyl acetate, and acrylate and/or methacrylate monomer; (3) copolymer of ethylene, vinyl acetate, and maleic acid and/or maleic anhydride; and (4) copolymer of ethylene, acrylate and/or methacrylate monomer, and maleic acid and/or maleic anhydride.

Display unit integral with touch panel bonded through an adhesive composition or an adhesive film and production method thereof

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