Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Sho Ochi

Yasushi Asaoka

Tsuyoshi Maeda

Tsuyoshi Kamada

Shohei Katsuta

Makoto Yamada

Emi Yamamoto

Hideomi Yui

Tetsuya Ide

Jun Sakuma

Hiroka Hamada

Toru Kanno

Tomoko Ueki

Yuhsuke Tsuda

Katsumi Kondoh

Makoto Uno

An air conditioning apparatus according to an aspect of the invention includes: an air conditioner that has a heat pump; a humidity controller of a wet desiccant type; an air transport flow path through which air discharged from the air conditioner is transported to the humidity controller; and a control unit that includes an air conditioner temperature control unit controlling a temperature of air discharged from the air conditioner and a humidity controller humidity control unit controlling a humidity of air discharged from the humidity controller. The air conditioner supplies the air, the temperature of which is controlled, to the humidity controller via the air transport flow path and the humidity controller discharges the air, the humidity of which is controlled, into a room.

Air conditioning apparatus and air conditioning method

Provided is a humidity conditioning method that enables absorption and desorption of moisture with low power consumption. The humidity conditioning method includes: an adjustment step of adjusting a moisture amount of hygroscopic liquid; and a measurement step of measuring concentration of a hygroscopic substance contained in the hygroscopic liquid, in which at the adjustment step, at least either moisture absorption processing of causing moisture contained in air to be absorbed by the hygroscopic liquid or regeneration processing of separating the moisture from the hygroscopic liquid is performed, the regeneration processing includes atomization processing of irradiating at least a part of the hygroscopic liquid with an ultrasonic wave to generate an atomized droplet from the hygroscopic liquid and perform removal, the atomized droplet contains a first droplet and a second droplet whose particle size is larger than a particle size of the first droplet, a concentration region of the hygroscopic substance relative to total mass of the hygroscopic liquid includes a first concentration region in which the first droplet is generated, and a second concentration region in which the second droplet is generated and in which concentration is lower than that in the first concentration region, and the moisture amount of the hygroscopic liquid is adjusted so that the concentration is included in the first concentration region on a basis of a measurement result obtained in at least the measurement step.

Humidity conditioning device and humidity conditioning method

A humidity conditioning method includes: the humidity-absorbing step of bringing a hygroscopic liquid containing a hygroscopic material into contact with a first mass of air so that the hygroscopic liquid absorbs moisture in the first mass of air; and the regeneration step of separating moisture from the hygroscopic liquid having absorbed moisture, wherein the regeneration step retains the hygroscopic liquid having absorbed moisture, bombards at least some of the retained hygroscopic liquid with ultrasound to generate misty droplets from the hygroscopic liquid having absorbed moisture, and removes the misty droplets to separate moisture from the hygroscopic liquid.

A liquid crystal display device of one aspect of the present invention includes a liquid crystal display unit that includes a liquid crystal layer which exhibits vertical alignment and plural picture elements, and a control unit that controls a voltage which is supplied to the liquid crystal display unit. The control unit performs display by sequentially applying a first voltage that corresponds to a larger gradation number than an original gradation number and a second voltage that corresponds to zero gradation respectively in plural subframe periods that result from division of one frame period of an image signal in a case where the original gradation number of the input image signal is a low gradation number that is less than a prescribed threshold value, performs display by applying the second voltage in the one frame period in a case where the original gradation number is the zero gradation, and performs display by applying a third voltage that corresponds to the original gradation number in the one frame period in a case where the original gradation number is a high gradation number that is equivalent to or more than the threshold value.

Liquid crystal display device reducing color shift

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a light diffusion member which includes a light diffusion film, a polarizing film, and a retardation film. The light diffusion film includes a first substrate, a light diffusion portion, and a light shielding layer. The polarizing film includes a second substrate and a polarization layer. The retardation film includes a third substrate and a retardation layer. The retardation layer is formed from a birefringence body which has optically-negative uniaxiality. An alignment direction of the birefringence body is different in a thickness direction thereof. A slow axis of the retardation layer is positioned at azimuth between a transmission axis and an absorption axis of the polarization layer.

Light diffusion member, base material for light diffusion member production, display device using same and method for producing light diffusion member

A light-diffusing-member manufacturing method includes a step of forming a light diffusion portion on one surface side of a base, by developing an exposed negative photosensitive resin layer with an alkali developing solution, and a step of performing an acid treatment on the light diffusion portion with an acid solution, after removing the alkali developing solution which is adhered to the light diffusion portion and suspended matter in the alkali developing solution in the negative photosensitive resin layer, so as to lower an ionization degree of the negative photosensitive resin layer which is in an ionized state due to the alkali developing solution.

Light-diffusing-member manufacturing method and manufacturing device

A light control member includes a light-transmissive first substrate, a light diffusing portion which is defined on a first surface of the first substrate, and a light shielding layer which is defined in a first region other than a second region in which the light diffusing portion is formed on the first surface and includes a light emitting end surface in contact with the first substrate, and a light incident end surface opposite the light emitting end surface and having a first area larger than a second area of the light emitting end surface, and structured such that a height from the light incident end surface to the light emitting end surface is larger than a layer thickness of the light shielding layer.

Light control member, method of manufacturing light control member, apparatus for manufacturing light control member, and display device

A light-diffusion member () includes: a substrate () having light-transmitting properties; a light-diffusion portion () on a face of the substrate () facing a display medium (); and a light-blocking layer () on a part of the face of the substrate () facing the display medium () other than where the light-diffusion portion () is provided. The light-diffusion portion () includes: a light-emitting end face () in contact with the substrate (); and a light-incident end face () facing, and being larger in area than, the light-emitting end face (). The adhesive layer () adheres to light-incident end face () and partly () encroaches into a space () between the light-diffusion portion () and light-blocking layer ().

Display device, adhesive-layer-including light-diffusion member, and method of manufacturing the light-diffusion member

A liquid crystal display device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a liquid crystal panel of a vertical alignment mode, and an optical control member disposed on a light-exiting side of the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of pixels having at least two domains (), in which directors of liquid crystal molecules are in a first direction. An absorption axis of a first polarizing sheet and an absorption axis of a second polarizing sheet are a mutually orthogonal and form angle that is approximately 45&#xb0;. The optical control member includes a base, a light diffusion part, a light blocking layer and a low refractive index part. A planar shape of the light blocking layer () when seen from a normal line direction of the base has a straight line part parallel to the absorption axis (P, P) of one of the first polarizing sheet and the second polarizing sheet and a straight line part forming an angle of less than 45&#xb0; with the absorption axis (P, P) of one polarizing sheet.

Liquid crystal display device, optical control member, and base material for manufacturing optical control member

A light-control member () includes a substrate (); light-shielding layers () provided in a first area (A) on one surface () of the substrate (); a light-diffusion section () provided in an area other than the light-shielding layers () in the first area (A) and formed of light transmitting material; and a support section() provided in a second area (A) positioned on an outer side of the first area (A) on the one surface (), in which the light-diffusion section () has a light emitting end surface () in contact with the one surface () of the substrate (), a light incident end surface () opposing the light emitting end surface () and having an area greater than an area of the light emitting end surface (), and a reflective surface () which is in contact with the light emitting end surface () and the light incident end surface () and on which light incident from the light incident end surface () is reflected, and a formation area of the support section () per unit area in the second area (A) is greater than a formation area of the support section () per unit area in the first area (A).

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Sho Ochi