Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kuraray Co., Ltd.

Kubota Corporation

Merck Patent Gesellschaft MIT Beschrankter Haftung

Sharp Corporation

Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited

Matushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Maruishi Sangyo Co. Ltd.

Nbc Industries Co., Ltd.

Takashi Katayama

Akihisa Kawamura

Masaharu Matsumoto

Masahiro Sueyoshi

Takeshi Fujita

Kazutaka Abe

Shuji Miyasaka

Kosuke Nishio

Eiji Otomura

Kousuke Nishio

Tsuyoshi Nakamura

Yoshiaki Takagi

Masahiro Shimizu

Tsukuru Ishito

Masanobu Mizusaki

Motoji Ohmori

Shunji Ohara

Masayuki Kozuka

Yohei Nakanishi

Tomoki Ogawa

Takeshi Norimatsu

Isamu Miyake

Yuichi Kawahira

Takeshi Noma

Hitoshi Nakatsuka

Gempo Ito

Eiji Noguchi

Junyo Nakagawa

Kei Shinada

Tuyoshi Nakamura

Tukuru Ishito

Hikaru Takato

Ryoji Yamaguchi

Takanori Takeda

Shinya Inada

Kojiro Ono

Tsuyoshi Kamada

Naoki Fujiwara

Koji Murata

Toshihiro Matsumoto

Shun Ueki

Tomokazu Ishikawa

Youhei Nakanishi

Emi Yamamoto

Tsuyoshi Okazaki

Hideo Ichinose

Kazuhiko Tanaka

Ryoji Suzuki

Masao Kawamoto

Tadashi Ohtake

Akira Hirai

Kazuhiko Maekawa

Masako Nakamura

Shinya Kato

Kazuyoshi Sakuragi

Yasuhito Watanabe

Daisuke Shinozaki

Nobuhiro Koga

Toshihiro Shigematsu

Masahiro Tsujimoto

Masakazu Nishiyama

Masakazu Kamura

Akira Teraoka

Tomoko Nango

Shuhei Yorimitsu

Katsumi Yanagihara

Ichirou Inoue

Tomoaki Kimura

Akihiro Hokimoto

Ken Monda

Shoji Asano

Yoshihiro Iwasaki

Toshiyasu Yajima

Junya Ide

Takuya Ootani

Mitsuru Chida

Shinji Kojima

Yoshinori Hitomi

Shigehiro Maeda

Makoto Meiarashi

Hiroshi Kanehira

Kaoru Iwakuni

Yuko Arai

Kakeshi Fujita

Yoshimi Umemura

Keiichi Ikehata

Hiroki Tonosaki

Kazunari Ohgaki

Hiroki Sano

Toru Yokomizo

Junyo Nakakawa

Tetsuya Watanabe

Yukio Goto

Yui Ishizaka

A liquid-crystal polyether fiber with high tensile strength has an ash content of 0.3 percent by weight or less, a degree of fusion (f) of 3 or less, and a tensile strength of 18 cN/dtex or more. The liquid-crystal polyether fiber has few residues of an anti-fusion agent and causes no fusion between filaments.

Liquid crystalline polyester fiber and method for producing the same

A liquid crystal cell according to the present invention includes: a TFT substrate including a first dielectric substrate, TFTs supported on the first dielectric substrate, and patch electrodes electrically connected to the TFTs; a slot substrate including a second dielectric substrate and a slot electrode including slots supported on the second dielectric substrate; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate which are arranged in a form in which the patch electrode and the slot electrode face each other; antenna units each including one of the patch electrodes and the slot electrode including at least one of the slots arranged corresponding to the one of the patch electrodes; and alignment films formed on surfaces of both of the TFT substrate and the slot substrate facing the liquid crystal layer, made of a polyimide-based resin, and having a relative dielectric constant of 3.8 or more.

Liquid crystal cell and scanning antenna

A method of producing a liquid crystal cell includes: a thin-film forming step of forming, on a surface of one electrode-attached substrates including a TFT substrate and a slot substrate, the TFT substrate including a first dielectric substrate, TFTs, and patch electrodes electrically connected to the TFTs, the slot substrate including a second dielectric substrate and a slot electrode supported on the second dielectric substrate and having slots, a thin film so as to cover the patch electrodes and/or the slot electrode; and a light irradiating step of irradiating the thin film with light including p-polarized light to provide the thin film with alignment-regulating capability of aligning liquid crystal molecules to thereby obtain an alignment film. The thin film includes a polymer including a photoreactive functional group and exhibiting the alignment-regulating capability of the thin film in a direction orthogonal to a polarization axis of the p-polarized light.

Method of producing liquid crystal cell, and liquid crystal cell

A wavelength conversion substrate according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a first substrate having an optical transparency; and a light modulation unit provided on one surface of the first substrate and configured to modulate a spectrum of incident light in accordance with a polarization state of the incident light. The light modulation unit includes: a plurality of metallic structures periodically provided at intervals from one another on one surface of the first substrate and configured to exhibit plasmon resonance due to incident light; and a plurality of wavelength conversion units provided so that at least some wavelength conversion units are adjacent to the plurality of metallic structures and comprising a wavelength converting material configured to emit light in a wavelength band different from a wavelength band of the incident light.

Wavelength conversion substrate, liquid-crystal element, liquid-crystal module, and liquid-crystal display device

A daylighting device of the present invention is provided with a planar optical memberand a support member. The planar optical memberis provided with a planar structure body which has a plurality of linear bodiesformed of optically transparent materials which are arrayed substantially in parallel and a plurality of binding members which are arranged in a direction which intersects with the plurality of the linear bodiesand which bind the plurality of the linear bodiesin a state of being arrayed substantially in parallel. The linear bodieshave reflective surfaces which reflect light which is incident to the linear bodyalong a direction which intersects with a length direction of the linear bodyand refractive surfaces which refract the light. In at least a part of a planar structure body, the orientations of reflective surfaces of at least some of the linear bodies out of the plurality of linear bodiessubstantially match and the orientations of the refractive surfaces of at least some of the linear bodies substantially match.

Planar optical member and daylighting device

A hearing assistance suitability determining device, that determines suitability including whether a subject can clearly hear speech using dichotic hearing assistance, includes: a subject hearing ability information input unit; a hearing ability type determining unit that determines at least one hearing ability type that corresponds to the hearing ability information, based on hearing ability information frequency characteristics; a suitability determining unit that determines suitability for dichotic hearing assistance based on the at least one hearing ability type determined by the hearing ability type determining unit; and suitability presenting unit that presents the suitability determined by the suitability determining unit. The suitability determining unit determines, by referring to a correspondence relationship, suitability based on clarity improvement amount for speech sound corresponding to the determined hearing ability type, the correspondence relationship indicating, for each hearing ability type, degree of perceived speech clarity improvement by the dichotic hearing assistance.

Hearing assistance suitability determining device and hearing assistance suitability determining method

A design information providing system, which does not allow continuation of manufacturing of products unless a patent license contract is concluded, includes a terminal apparatus () of a user manufacturing a product (BD player ()) and includes a patent license issuing server () issuing, to the terminal apparatus (), a contract certificate () certifying the conclusion of the contract, when a contract for a license necessary for manufacturing the BD player () is concluded with the user of the terminal apparatus (). Further, the design information providing system includes a design information providing server (an encryption key issuing server ()) transmitting an encryption key () to the terminal apparatus () on condition of the confirmation of the contract certificate (), when a request for design information (encryption key ()) unique to the BD player () is transmitted from the terminal apparatus ().

Information providing system and design information providing server

A liquid crystal display device () includes a first substrate (), a second substrate () provided to face the first substrate (), a liquid crystal layer () sandwiched between the first substrate () and the second substrate (), a first polarizing plate () and a second polarizing plate () respectively provided on a side of the first substrate () and a side of the second substrate () which are opposed to sides to which the liquid crystal layer () is provided, and a common electrode () and a pixel electrode () provided to the liquid crystal layer () side of the first substrate (). Alignment of liquid crystal molecules () of the liquid crystal layer () is controlled by an electric field generated between the common electrode () and the pixel electrode (). A polarizing layer () is provided on the liquid crystal layer () side of the second substrate () so as to be in contact with the liquid crystal layer (). The polarizing layer () has a uniaxial absorption anisotropy, and serves as an alignment layer for regulating a direction of alignment of the liquid crystal molecules ().

Liquid crystal display device

What is provided is an OCB mode liquid crystal display device (), including: a plurality of gate bus lines (); a plurality of source bus lines (); pixels (); and pixel electrodes () corresponding to the respective pixels (). According to the OCB mode liquid crystal display device (), a gap width (L) between adjacent ones of the pixel electrodes () is wider at intersections (S) of the plurality of gate bus lines () and the plurality of source bus lines () than in areas other than the intersections (S).

The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device capable of reducing the probability of image sticking. The liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer between the substrates. At least one of the substrates includes an alignment film and a polymer layer on the alignment film. The polymer layer includes monomer units derived from at least two species of polymerizable monomers. The at least two species of polymerizable monomers include at least two species of monomers selected from the group consisting of: specific polyfunctional monomers and specific monofunctional monomers.

Liquid crystal display device, process for producing liquid crystal display device, composition for forming polymer layer, and composition for forming liquid crystal layer

The present invention aims to provide a polypropylene fiber (PP fiber) excellent in strength, heat resistance, and water-absorption properties, a method of producing the same, and a hydraulic composition, a rope, a sheet-shaped fiber structure, and a composite material with an organic polymer each using the PP fiber. The present invention provides: a PP fiber having a fiber having a fiber strength of 7 cN/dtex or more and having either or both of (i) DSC properties such that the endothermic peak shape by DSC is a single shape having a half width of 10&#xb0; C. or lower and the melt enthalpy change (AH) is 125 J/ g and (ii) irregular properties such that the single fiber fineness is 0.i to 3 dtex and irregularities are formed on the surface.

Polypropylene fiber, method of producing the same and utilization of the same

A liquid crystal display device includes source bus lines, gate bus lines intersecting with the source bus lines, pixels arranged in a matrix to correspond to intersections between the gate bus lines and the source bus lines, each of the pixels including a TFT, a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer, and a potential control section for controlling the potential of the common electrode. The potential control section sets a voltage, obtained by reducing potential Vof the common electrode at which flicker is minimum in display of gray level as black display and gray level as white display alternately every pixel by a predetermined voltage, as center voltage Vof the potential of the common electrode in display of gray level for all the pixels.

Liquid crystal display device and potential setting method for the same

A hearing assistance suitability determining device () according to the present invention is a hearing assistance suitability determining device () which determines a suitability () of a subject for dichotic hearing assistance, and includes: a hearing ability information obtaining unit () which obtains left-ear hearing ability information () and right-ear hearing ability information () each of which indicates a hearing ability for frequencies; a hearing ability type determining unit () which determines, among hearing ability types each of which is defined by a tendency in a change of the hearing ability with respect to the frequencies, a hearing ability type () of the hearing ability indicated by the left-ear hearing ability information () and the right-ear hearing ability information (); and a suitability deciding unit () which determines, with reference to a suitability database (), the suitability () of the subject for the dichotic hearing assistance based on a suitability corresponding, in the suitability database (), to the hearing ability type () determined by the hearing ability type determining unit (), the suitability database () showing a correspondence relationship between each of the hearing ability types and one of suitabilities of the subject for dichotic hearing assistance.

Hearing assistance suitability determining device, hearing assistance adjustment system, and hearing assistance suitability determining method

A VA-mode liquid crystal display device having a high display quality is provided. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a vertical alignment type liquid crystal layer; a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other with the liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween; a first electrode provided in the first substrate on the liquid crystal layer side and a second electrode provided in the second substrate on the liquid crystal layer side; and a first alignment film provided between the first electrode and the liquid crystal layer and a second alignment film provided between the second electrode and the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixel areas located in a matrix. Each of the plurality of pixel areas includes a first liquid crystal domain in which a tilt direction of liquid crystal molecules at the center and in the vicinity thereof in a layer plane and in a thickness direction of the liquid crystal layer when a voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode is a predetermined first direction, a second liquid crystal domain in which such a tilt direction is a predetermined second direction, a third liquid crystal domain in which such a tilt direction is predetermined third direction and a fourth liquid crystal domain in which such a tilt direction is a predetermined fourth direction; a difference between any two among the first direction, the second direction, the third direction and the fourth direction is approximately equal to an integral multiple of 90 degrees.

To provide a hearing aid system () performing dichotic-listening binaural hearing aid processing which improves the clarity of speech and maintains the spatial perception ability. Each of first and second hearing aid devices () includes a sound pickup unit () and an output unit () outputting a sound indicated by a suppressed acoustic signal. The hearing aid system () includes: a first band suppression unit () generating the suppressed acoustic signal indicating the sound outputted from the output unit (), by suppressing a signal in a first suppression-target band out of the acoustic signal outputted from the sound pickup unit (); and a second band suppression unit () generating the suppressed acoustic signal indicating the sound outputted from the output unit (), by suppressing a signal in a second suppression-target band out of the acoustic signal outputted from the sound pickup unit (). The suppressed acoustic signals indicating the sounds outputted respectively from the output units () include, in common, a signal in a non-voice band included in the acoustic signal.

System, method, program, and integrated circuit for hearing aid

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Osaka, Japan

Takashi Katayama