Konica Corporation

Bridgestone Tire Company Limited

Renesas Technology Corp.

Konica-Minolta Holdings, Inc.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Japanese National Railways

Mitsubushi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshikazu Kondo

Kazuhiro Fukuda

Akira Nishiwaki

Kazuyoshi Iida

Yoshiro Toda

Masayasu Matsumoto

Takashi Murakami

Toshio Tsuji

Kiyoshi Oishi

Koji Fukazawa

Shunichi Iwamaru

Yumi Muramatsu

Keiichiro Mizuno

Wataru Mizuno

Sadao Nomoto

Noriaki Murayama

Kenji Watanabe

Kei Watanabe

Kenichi Shimomura

Yasuo Morohoshi

Shosuke Suzuki

Tomonori Katayama

Yoichi Kato

Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Kenichi Onda

Kazuo Kondo

Yutaka Arima

Keiichiro Tabata

Youichi Kato

Nobufumi Matsudaira

Norihisa Taniguchi

Susumu Sakamoto

Haruo Watanabe

Yasushi Onizaki

Provided are a method of manufacturing liquid crystal display device possessing transparent conductive layer exhibiting excellent optical transparency, resistance characteristic, evenness, adhesion to substrate, and hardness, and liquid crystal display device thereof. The liquid crystal display device possessing liquid crystal display panel and backlight unit, wherein liquid crystal display panel has a structure in which display electrode and reference electrode are provided on surface of region corresponding to unit pixel on liquid crystal layer side of one transparent substrate or each of both transparent substrates provided facing to each other via liquid crystal layer, and light transmitting liquid crystal layer is modulated by electric field generated parallel to transparent substrate between reference electrode and display electrode, wherein the method of manufacturing liquid crystal display device possesses the step of forming transparent conductive layer in pixel region by atmospheric pressure plasma method employing nitrogen gas as thin film forming gas.

Liquid crystal display device operated with an in-plane switching system and manufacturing method thereof

A film forming method comprising: supplying a reactive gas comprising a compound including a metal atom between facing electrodes; arranging a substrate between the electrodes; making the reactive gas in a plasma state by applying a voltage between the electrodes under atmospheric pressure or under a pressure in a vicinity of the atmospheric pressure and discharging; and forming a metal film on a surface of the substrate by supplying a reducing gas having a reducing property into a plasma atmosphere in which the reactive gas in the plasma state exists.

Film forming method employing reactive and reducing gases and substrate formed by the method

A method for forming nanostructured carbons comprising the steps of: generating a plasma by supplying at least a discharge gas between opposing electrodes and applying a high-frequency voltage between the electrodes under an approximately atmospheric pressure; existing a material gas for forming the nanostructured carbons with the plasma to generate an activated material gas; and exposing a substrate to the activated material gas.

Method for forming nanostructured carbons, nanostructured carbons and a substrate having nanostructured carbons formed thereby

A layer forming method is disclosed which comprises the steps of supplying power of not less than 1 W/cmat a high frequency voltage exceeding 100 kHz across a gap between a first electrode and a second electrode opposed to each other at atmospheric pressure or at approximately atmospheric pressure to induce a discharge, generating a reactive gas in a plasma state by the charge, and exposing a substrate to the reactive gas in a plasma state to form a layer on the substrate.

Layer forming method, product comprising the layer, optical film, dielectric-coated electrode and plasma discharge apparatus

An image pickup control unit specifies a scan area of a frame based on a scaling factor for electronic zooming. An image sensor converts incoming light signals into electric signals by performing reset scanning on each line of the specified scan area of the frame, and accumulates each of the electric signals, and reads the electric signals accumulated thereby by performing read scanning to output them as image data. In response to an instruction for changing a horizontal scanning period and a vertical scanning period of an Nth frame and later frames in a series of frames from the image pickup control unit, the image sensor performs reset scanning and read scanning on the Nth frame based on the changed horizontal scanning and vertical scanning periods even when a reset scanning period of the Nth frame partially overlaps a read scanning period of an immediately preceding (N&#x2212;1)th frame.

Image pickup device

An imaging control unit specifies a scan region, including an effective pixel region and a blanking region, of an image based on a magnification for electronic zooming, and converts an input optical signal into an electrical signal by scanning the scan region. The imaging control unit reads the electrical signal stored and delivers the electrical signal to an image sensor unit as picture data. An RW control unit stores the picture data in a register based on the magnification for electronic zooming, and then reads the picture data at a predetermined frame rate. A resolution converter performs interpolation processing of the picture data based on the magnification for electronic zooming.

Imaging device

A layer formation method is disclosed which comprises supplying gas to a discharge space, exciting the supplied gas at atmospheric pressure or at approximately atmospheric pressure by applying a high frequency electric field across the discharge space, and exposing a substrate to the excited gas, wherein the high frequency electric field is an electric field in which a first high frequency electric field and a second high frequency electric field are superposed, frequency &#x3c9;of the second high frequency electric field is higher than frequency &#x3c9;of the first high frequency electric field, strength Vof the first high frequency electric field, strength Vof the second high frequency electric field and strength IV of discharge starting electric field satisfy relationship V&#x2267;IV&#x3e;Vor V&#x3e;IV&#x2267;V, and power density of the second high frequency electric field is not less than 1 W/cm.

Layer formation method, and substrate with a layer formed by the method

A plasma treatment method for surface treatment of a substrate with an atmospheric pressure plasma treatment apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus has a first electrode and a second electrode opposed to each other, a discharge space between the opposed electrodes, a voltage application means for applying voltage across the discharge space, a gas supply means for supplying a reactive gas and an inert gas to the discharge space. The method is one wherein the reactive gas at the discharge space is excited at atmospheric pressure or at approximately atmospheric pressure by applying voltage through the voltage application means to generate discharge plasma, and a substrate is exposed to the discharge plasma to be subjected to surface treatment, and wherein the reactive gas is not directly in contact with the discharge surface of the first electrode or the second electrode.

Plasma treatment method at atmospheric pressure

A layer forming method is disclosed which comprises the steps of supplying power of not less than 1 W/cm at a high frequency voltage exceeding 100 kHz across a gap between a first electrode and a second electrode opposed to each other at atmospheric pressure or at approximately atmospheric pressure to induce a discharge, generating a reactive gas in a plasma state by the charge, and exposing a substrate to the reactive gas in a plasma state to form a layer on the substrate.

Layer-forming method using plasma state reactive gas

A layer formation method is disclosed which comprises supplying gas to a discharge space, exciting the supplied gas at atmospheric pressure or at approximately atmospheric pressure by applying a high frequency electric field across the discharge space, and exposing a substrate to the excited gas, wherein the high frequency electric field is an electric field in which a first high frequency electric field and a second high frequency electric field are superposed, frequency &ohgr; of the second high frequency electric field is higher than frequency &ohgr; of the first high frequency electric field, strength V of the first high frequency electric field, strength V of the second high frequency electric field and strength IV of discharge starting electric field satisfy relationship V &gE;IV>V or V >IV&gE;V , and power density of the second high frequency electric field is not less than 1 W/cm .

By carrying out a plasma discharge treatment for a support in which an image receiving layer comprising a void structure is formed, the void structure of the surface layer is subjected to hydrophilic treatment to enhance the water absorption capability of a recording media in the thickness direction (in the depth direction) and to enhance image receiving capability. Further, by making a portion more adjacent to the surface hydrophobic, an image disorder after receiving ink droplets is minimized. Still further, by continually carrying out an image receiving layer forming plasma treatment, it is possible to more efficiently produce an ink jet recording medium.

Surface treatment method, production method for ink jet recording medium, and ink jet recording medium

A coating apparatus for coating a conveyed support with an emulsion for a photographic light-sensitive material by letting the emulsion flow down between a pair of edge guides so as to form a curtain layer of the emulsion. The apparatus includes a slide surface, having a slit and inclined for a predetermined angle to the horizontal axis, for supplying the emulsion; side plates provided on both edges of the slide surface; the pair of edge guides each provided on respective one of the edges; and plural solution injecting outlets, each provided on respective one of the side plates, for supplying auxiliary solution; in which a coating operation of the conveyed support with the emulsion is conducted while the auxiliary solution is being flowed down along the edge guides at a flow rate between 0.3 cc/min. and 3.0 cc/min. from each of the solution injecting outlets.

Light-sensitive material and coating apparatus thereof

A method for producing a light-sensitive material. The method includes the steps of: discharging coating solution, including the light-sensitive material, from a coater die; forming a curtain layer of coating solution by causing the coating solution to fall from a die lip of the coater die in which the curtain layer is formed with an edge guide in which an end of the edge guide is arranged in the vicinity of the die lip and the other end of the edge guide is inclined toward the coater die in relation to the vertical line from the die lip; and coating a support with the coating solution by conveying the support at the downstream end of the curtain layer.

Method for coating a substrate using inclined edge guides

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Yoshikazu Kondo