Seiko Epson Corporation

Japan Display Inc.

Japan Display West Inc.

Sumio Utsunomiya

Takeshi Koshihara

Takeyoshi Ushiki

Yoichi Fujikawa

Tomoyuki Kamakura

Hiroyuki Hara

Mitsuru Sato

Tomo Ikebe

Taimei Kodaira

Wakao Miyazawa

Takashi Hashimoto

Tatsuya Shimoda

Satoshi Inoue

Mutsumi Kimura

Hideto Ishiguro

Masayoshi Todorokihara

Kazuhiro Nishida

Daisuke Sato

Atsushi Takakuwa

Ryo Ishii

Daisuke Abe

Kazuyuki Miyashita

Atshushi Takakuwa

Mitsumi Kimura

An input-cable display device is provided including a first substrate on which a pair of electrodes that drive a liquid crystal layer are provided; a second substrate wherein the liquid crystal layer is formed within an inner surface of the second substrate between the first substrate and the second substrate; a detection electrode and a dielectric film that are laminated on an outer surface of the second substrate; a detector; a light shielding film; and a color filter layer, wherein the pair of electrodes provided on the first substrate comprises a pixel electrode and a common electrode, and the light shielding film and the color filter layer are laminated on the inner surface of the second substrate.

Input-capable display device

A blood pressure measurement device includes: a light emitting unit configured to irradiate a living body with measurement light; a light receiving unit configured to receive reflected or transmitted light of the measurement light; and a computational unit configured to calculate a blood flow and a volume pulse wave based on a light-receiving result from the light receiving unit, and to calculate blood pressure based on the blood flow and blood vessel resistance that is obtained from the volume pulse wave.

Blood pressure measurement device, electronic device, and blood pressure measurement method

A detection unit includes a sensor that detects the presence of force and a force component separation mechanism that separates the magnitude and the direction of the force and a control unit that controls the detection action of the force component separation mechanism based on the detection result of the sensor.

Detection device, electronic apparatus, and robot

An input-capable display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a detection electrode, a dielectric film, and a detector. A pair of electrodes that drive a liquid crystal layer are provided on the first substrate. The second substrate is opposed to the first substrate through the liquid crystal layer. The detection electrode and the dielectric film are laminated on an outer surface of the second substrate. The detector detects a position at which an electrostatic capacitance is formed with the detection electrode through the dielectric film. The second substrate includes a shield conductor that is formed on a side adjacent to the liquid crystal layer. An electric potential of the shield conductor is fixed.

Disclosed is a detection device for detecting a strength and a direction of an external force applied to a reference point, the detection device including: a first substrate having a plurality of first capacitor electrodes arranged around the reference point; a second substrate arranged to face the first substrate by interposing the first capacitor electrodes; a dielectric body arranged between the first and second substrates and made of an elastic body or fluid; a second capacitor electrode arranged to face the first capacitor electrodes by interposing the dielectric body between the first and second substrates; and a third substrate having an elastic projection which has a gravity center in a location overlapping with the reference point and is elastically deformed by the external force while a tip thereof abuts on the second substrate.

Detection device, electronic device, and robot

A liquid crystal device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, liquid crystal which is in between the first and the second substrate, and a detection electrode provided on a side of the first substrate, opposite to a side of the liquid crystal. The second substrate includes pixel electrodes connected through switching elements to signal lines, opposite electrodes formed between the pixel electrodes and the liquid crystal and are connected to control lines, a selection circuit that conducts the switching element during a selection period and interrupts conduction after the selection period has elapsed, a signal supplying circuit which supplies a data electric potential during the selection periods, a electric potential control circuit which sets the control lines to an predetermined electric potential when the scanning lines to the control line is selected and sets to a reference electric potential after the selection period has elapsed.

Liquid crystal device, method of driving liquid crystal device and electronic apparatus

An electroluminescence apparatus includes: a plurality of electroluminescence elements each of which includes a first electrode, a second electrode that is provided opposite the first electrode, and a light-emitting function layer that is sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode and includes at least an electroluminescence material layer, the electroluminescence element emitting light produced in the electroluminescence material layer through the second electrode; a separation area; a display area and auxiliary wiring being electrically connected to the second electrode, the auxiliary wiring including first auxiliary wiring and second auxiliary wiring, wherein the first auxiliary wiring extends in the first direction without any break, and the second auxiliary wiring has a gap that is formed between the first auxiliary wiring and the second auxiliary wiring.

Electroluminescence apparatus, method for manufacturing electroluminescence apparatus, and electronic apparatus

A liquid crystal device includes a liquid crystal panel, a plurality of detection electrodes, a switching circuit, and a position identification device. The liquid crystal panel is configured so that a liquid crystal is sealed in a gap between a first substrate and a second substrate, which are opposed to each other, and a voltage of an opposite electrode opposite the liquid crystal periodically varies. The plurality of detection electrodes are provided on a side opposite to a side on which the liquid crystal is provided via the first substrate, wherein an initial voltage is induced in each of the plurality of detection electrodes on the basis of a variation in voltage of the opposite electrode. The switching circuit sequentially connects each of the plurality of detection electrodes, in which the initial voltages are induced, to a detection portion. The position identification device generates a position signal that indicates a position of a pointing body on the basis of a detection signal produced in the detection portion.

Liquid crystal device, electronic apparatus and position identification method for identifying a position of an object

Provided is a coordinate input device including: a plurality of detection electrodes which are arranged in a planar shape in a detection area of a substrate; a plurality of routed wires connected to the plurality of detection electrodes; a coating film which coats the plurality of detection electrodes; a detection unit which detects a capacitance variation between the plurality of detection electrodes via the coating film; and a calculation unit which calculates a capacitance forming position from the detected result of the detection unit, wherein the plurality of detection electrodes are formed in the detection area in a first direction and are arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction so as to configure a plurality of detection electrode pairs, each of which is composed of a pair of adjacent detection electrodes, a ratio of the width of one-side detection electrode of the pair of detection electrodes to the width of the other-side detection electrode of the pair of detection electrodes configuring each of the detection electrode pairs is changed according to the first direction, and the plurality of routed wires are connected to one ends of the first direction of the detection electrodes and are formed on the same layer as the plurality of detection electrodes.

Coordinate input device and display device

A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprises providing a semiconductor layer deposited on a substrate with heat treatment by using a flame of a gas burner fueled by a hydrogen-and-oxygen mixed gas as a heat source.

Apparatus and method for manufacturing semiconductor device, and electronic apparatus

The invention provides an organic electroluminescence device having an input function, including: an element substrate that has a light-emitting layer sandwiched between a pair of electrodes; a sealing substrate that seals the element substrate; a first detection electrode that is provided at the inner-surface side of the sealing substrate; a second detection electrode that is provided at the outer-surface side of the sealing substrate; the second detection electrode having a detection axis that is not the same as that of the first detection electrode; a dielectric film that is formed on the second detection electrode; and a detection unit that detects a position at which electrostatic capacitance is generated via the dielectric film between the first detection electrode and the second detection electrode.

Organic electroluminescence device having input function and electronic apparatus

A method for fabricating a semiconductor device, comprising: forming a semiconductor film on a substrate; and recrystallizing the semiconductor film using as a heat source flame of a gas burner that uses hydrogen and oxygen gas mixture as a fuel.

Method of fabricating semiconductor device and method for fabricating electronic device

The invention provides an organic electroluminescence device having an input function, including: an element substrate that has a light-emitting layer sandwiched between a positive electrode and negative electrode in each of a plurality of sub pixel regions that are arrayed in a matrix pattern; a sealing substrate that seals the element substrate; and a touch panel section that is provided at the outer-surface side of the sealing substrate. In such a configuration of the organic electroluminescence device having an input function according to an aspect of the invention, the negative electrode is formed on an individual basis so as to correspond to the display color of each of the sub pixel regions; and the sealing substrate has a shield conductor that is formed on the element-substrate side of the sealing substrate, the shield conductor having a fixed potential.

A thin-film circuit device includes a substrate and a thin-film circuit layer, disposed on the substrate, having an element region and a low-strength region. The element region includes thin-film elements. The low-strength region extends between an end portion of the thin-film circuit layer and the element region and has a mechanical strength less than that of the surroundings of the low-strength region.

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Suwa, Japan

Sumio Utsunomiya