Noritake Co., Ltd.

Noritake Itron Corporation

Korg Incorporated

Ise Electronics Corporation

Tadami Maeda

Misa Yamanaka

Isamu Kanda

Kazunori Tatsuda

Fumio Mieda

Hitoshi Tsuji

Kouichi Okuyama

Hitoshi Sakuda

Kazuya Kinoshita

Koji Kato

Takahiro Okamoto

Naoya Katsumura

Yuuki Nakayama

Naoki Noda

There is provided an inexpensive electromagnetic shield that can achieve exceptional shielding and display visibility characteristics, and provide high environmental resistance as necessary. In an electromagnetic shield (), an intermediate layer () is formed on a glass substrate () comprising soda lime glass, an electroconductive layer () of Al is formed thereon, and openings () are formed by wet etching on the intermediate layer () and the electroconductive layer () after these layers have been formed by sputtering or vacuum deposition. Furthermore, an ITO layer () is formed on the entire glass surface including the intermediate layer () and the electroconductive layer () after the openings () are formed. In this configuration, the intermediate layer () comprises a mixture of at least one metal selected from chromium, molybdenum, and tungsten, and at least one oxide selected from oxides of silicon, oxides of aluminum, and oxides of titanium.

Electromagnetic shield

To provide a capacitive touch switch capable of improving ununiformity of design and improving appearance relating to design or decorativeness. A capacitive touch switchincludes a glass substrate, a sensor portion formed at a side of an opposite surface opposite to a touch surface of the glass substrate. The sensor portion includes a center portion A of a wire attached portionto a flexible printed circuit, and a connection portion C connected to the wire network B. In the connection portion C, an opening rate in a capacitive touch switch panel is increased by setting an electrode pattern width to be thinner from the wire attached portion A toward the wire network B.

Capacitive touch switch

To provide a projected capacitive touch switch panel having sensor units that are easy to adjust and that minimally reflect visible light, and furthermore having adequate environment-resistance properties. A projected capacitive touch switch panelcomprising a glass substratethat has a sensor unitfor performing detection along the X direction, and a glass substratethat has a sensor unitfor performing detection along the Y direction, in which: the two glass substrates are laminated, and the sensor units are sandwiched between the glass substrates so as to face each other; each of the sensor units has a sensor electrode comprising an Al thin film, and a blackened film including at least one metal selected from Cr, Mo, and W.

Projected capacitive touch switch panel

Provided is a capacitive touch switch panel on which it is possible to form a transparent sensor electrode having high quality design shape and reduced reflection of visible light, and which moreover has excellent appearance and ample environmental resistance. This capacitive touch switch panelis provided with a glass substrate, and with a sensor partformed on this glass substrate. The sensor parthas a sensor electrode, this sensor electrodecomprising an Al thin film formed by sputtering or vacuum deposition into a switch configuration on the glass substrateat the opposite surface sidefrom a touch surface, the sensor parthaving an intermediate layer between the glass substrateand at least a portion of the Al thin film. This intermediate layer comprises a thin film that includes at least one metal selected from Cr, Mo, and W.

Capacitive touch switch panel

A vacuum tube includes a filament and two pairs of a grid and an anode. The filament is tensioned linearly and emits thermoelectrons. Both of the anodes are formed on a same face on a planar substrate. The filament is arranged parallel to the planar substrate at a position facing both of the anodes. Each of the grids is arranged, such that the grid faces the anode of a same pair at a first predetermined distance from the anode and has a second predetermined distance from the filament, between the anode and the filament. The vacuum tube further includes an intermediate filament fixing part fixing the filament at a position corresponding to an intermediate point between the anodes of the two pairs.

Vacuum tube

An object of the present invention is to provide a vacuum tube with a structure close to that of an inexpensive and easily available vacuum fluorescent display which easily operates as an analog amplifier. A vacuum tube subject to the present invention comprises: a filament which is tensioned linearly and emits thermoelectrons, an anode arranged parallel to the filament, and a grid arranged between the filament and the anode such that the grid faces the anode. The present invention is characterized in that a distance between the filament and the grid is between 0.2 mm and 0.6 mm, including 0.2 mm and 0.6 mm.

The vacuum tube subject to the present invention comprises a filament and two pairs of a grid and an anode. The filament is tensioned linearly and emitting thermoelectrons. Both of the anodes are formed on the same face on a planar substrate. The filament is arranged parallel to the planar substrate at a position facing both of the anodes. Each of the grids is arranged, such that the grid faces the anode in the same pair at a first predetermined distance from the anode and has a second predetermined distance from the filament, between the anode and the filament. The vacuum tube comprises an intermediate filament fixing part fixing the filament at a position corresponding to an intermediate point between the anodes of the two pairs.

Provided is a substrate for mounting an LED element in which a stable light-emitting surface is obtained, as well as a light source and an LED display using this substrate, so that the axis at which light is emitted by a chip LED does not vary. The substrate for mounting an LED element () comprises a substrate () on which an LED element can be mounted, and a wiring layer () for supplying electricity to an LED element (). The wiring layer () for supplying electricity to the LED element () is formed on a mirror-finished surface on the entirety of a substrate surface on which the LED element is mounted, except for an insulating spacecapable of providing insulation between terminals of the LED element.

Substrate for mounting LED element, LED light source and LED display

The distance between filamentary cathodes and a phosphor on an anode substrate can be reduced by shortening the distance between the filamentary cathodes and a grid. To obtain high luminance without loss of display quality, the present invention provides a vacuum fluorescent display () with a driver IC, comprising a display unit () provided with a phosphor layer on an anode substrate (), a plurality of filamentary cathodes (), a grid (), a driver IC (), and a filament support () for shielding the IC and supporting an end part of the filamentary cathodes. The end part of the filamentary cathodes is fixed to one short side of the vacuum fluorescent display at a long side of the filament support. Depressions are provided to a surface of the filament support, or slits are provided to the filament support.

Vacuum fluorescent display with driver IC

A vacuum fluorescent display includes a display portion, filament cathode, grid, and a pair of filament support members. The display portion is arranged on a substrate and has an anode coated with a phosphor material in accordance with a pattern to be displayed. The filament cathode is applied above the anode of the display portion to be separate from the anode. The grid is arranged between the anode of the display portion and the filament cathode, and cooperates with the corresponding anode to display a predetermined pattern. The pair of filament support members are connected to an outside and extend the filament cathode. Part of the filament support members is clamped between a front glass plate and glass spacer and is extracted to outside.

Vacuum fluorescent display

A dot matrix type vacuum fluorescent display tube includes anode electrodes, first and second wiring groups, an anode driver, light-emitting portions, a grid electrode, cathode electrodes, and an envelope. The anode electrodes are arranged in a matrix on a substrate. The first and second wiring groups extend in opposite directions with respect to the arrangement direction of the anode electrodes, and each of the first and second wiring groups is extracted from every other ones of the anode electrodes arranged in the matrix. The anode driver applies drive signals, respectively, to the anode electrodes connected to the first and second wiring groups. The light-emitting portions comprise phosphors and are formed on the anode electrodes. The grid electrode is arranged to be spaced apart from the light-emitting portions arranged in a matrix by a predetermined distance. The cathode electrodes are arranged above the grid electrode. The envelope is arranged to include at least the anode electrodes, the light-emitting portions, the grid electrode, and the cathode electrodes, and has a display portion thereon.

Dot matrix type vacuum fluorescent display tube

A vacuum fluorescent display apparatus includes semiconductor chips and a phosphor layer. The semiconductor chips are disposed on a glass substrate and having semiconductor integrated circuits formed thereon. The phosphor layer includes phosphor pixels driven by the semiconductor integrated circuits and arranged on the semiconductor integrated circuits in a matrix with the same space in horizontal and vertical directions. A space between first and second arrays of the phosphor pixels that are formed on end portions of opposing sides of first and second semiconductor chips arranged adjacent to each other becomes equal to a space among the phosphor pixels arranged on the semiconductor integrated circuits.

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