Abstract:
The present invention provides a lighting device including a light source; a reflecting mirror for reflecting light emitted by the light source in a determined direction; and a compensating element for receiving the light from the reflecting mirror and allowing the light to outgo in the form of parallel rays. Further, a projection type image display system including the above-mentioned lighting device and a display element for forming an image by receiving light from the lighting device is provided. According to the present invention, light can be emitted with a satisfactory degree of parallelization and an even illuminance, constant irregularity due to the photoelasticity can be degraded, and the degradation in brightness of a projected image due to a low ratio of aperture can be avoided. Thus, a uniform image with no illuminance irregularity can be projected.
Abstract:
An image display apparatus includes a display panel unit having a plurality of pixels, and a flat-plate microlens array of a refraction index distribution type. The microlens array is constituted by forming a plurality of microlenses for converging illuminating light onto the respective ones of the pixels, in a substrate by a diffusion process. In the diffusion process, diffusion fronts of the neighboring microlenses of the flat-plate microlens array are fused into each other so as to form one continuous curved surface within the substrate.
Abstract:
A thin film semiconductor device and a liquid crystal display apparatus are provided wherein the thin film semiconductor device having light irradiated thereon is cut off by a conductor layer, and the ight can be prevented from reaching the semiconductor layer. As a result, the generation of carriers due to optical excitation does not occur and the off current can be reduced. Because there is no area where electric field intensity in an opposed direction to the source electrode and the drain electrode is weaker than the electric field intensity of the channel region in the semiconductor layer, even after an operation for a prolonged duration under the irradiation of light, carriers generated by optical excitation are not accumulated in the semiconductor layer, and the probability of trapping for the carriers into a gate insulating film is quite low, and therefore variations in the characteristics of the thin film semiconductor device are negligibly small. The liquid crystal display apparatus using the thin film semiconductor can restrict such deteriorations of display quality as the degradation of contrast and uniformity.
Abstract:
A thin-film transistor array has an insulating substrate; a plurality of thin-film transistors disposed in a matrix form on the substrate; a plurality of gate bus lines formed parallel to each other on the substrate, each of the gate bus lines being connected electrically with the gate electrodes of the thin-film transistors in the corresponding row of the matrix; and a plurality of source bus lines formed perpendicular to the gate bus lines on the substrate, each of the source bus lines being connected electrically with the source electrodes of the thin-film transistors in the corresponding column of the matrix; wherein at the intersections of the gate bus lines and the source bus lines, there is disposed a layered structure between the gate bus line and the source bus line, having successively a gate insulating film, a first semiconductor film, a protective insulating film, and a second semiconductor film which is connected electrically with the source intersections, wherein the width of the protective insulating film in the direction in which the gate bus line extends is equal to or greater than that of the second semiconductor film in that direction.
Abstract:
A flexible case hanging device for hanging and extending a flexible case such as an inner bag for a container comprises a belt member one end of which is fixed to a side edge along one edge of a corner of the inner bag and a free end of which is anchored by a buckle provided on a side edge along the other edge of the corner, and an annular body provided at a vertex of the corner. Part of the belt member passes through the annular body to form a loop of the belt member. The loop is adjustable into smaller sizes by pulling the free end of the belt member. The loop is fixed to an inner wall of the container. The free end of the belt member is fixed by the buckle. When the free end of the belt member is pulled to make smaller the loop of the belt member, the side edge and the vertex of the corner of the inner bag can be pulled to eliminate or prevent slack of the bag.
Abstract:
A lighting apparatus including a tubular light source and a member having a plurality of reflective surfaces which are angularly set such that light from the light source is reflected in a predetermined direction of a viewing angle by each of the reflective surfaces. A ratio of an apparent width of each of the reflective surfaces to an apparent interval of adjacent ones of the reflective surfaces, when viewed from the predetermined direction of the viewing angle, is so set as to be a function of a distance between the light source and each of the reflective surfaces.
Abstract:
A small-size discharge lamp includes a glass tube having first and second ends, with an outer diameter thereof being smaller than 5 millimeters and a length thereof being shorter than 300 millimeters. At opposite ends of the glass tube, an elongated filament and an elongated getter are provided adjacent each other and parallel to the axial direction of the glass tube.
Abstract:
A matrix liquid crystal display device provided with switching transistors, made of amorphous silicon thin-film for example, which are connected to each display picture element. The switching transistors are scanned with a scan pulse having width H which is set at a value greater than that is expressed by T/N, where H denotes the scan pulse width applied to row electrodes connected to each gate of the switching transistor, T denotes the total scan time and N the number of the scan lines. Concretely, the timewise width of the scan pulses is expanded or the number of applicable scan pulses is increased. The preferred embodiments relate to such a liquid crystal display driving system that can effectively minimize the decline of the voltage and the display characteristics caused by insufficient charge against the display picture element electrodes via the switching transistors. In particular, the driving method embodied by the present invention is extremely useful for driving a large-capacity X-Y matrix liquid crystal display device.
Abstract:
A method for preparing an electrochromic display device comprising first and second electrochromic layers and a solid electrolyte interposed therebetween, comprises the steps of forming a conductive film on a substrate, forming an insulating film, over the entire surface of the conductive film forming a resist at portions on the insulating film other than a display pattern and lead-in electrodes, removing the insulating film at the display pattern and the lead-in electrodes, forming the electrochromic material layers and the solid electrolyte over the entire portions other than the lead-in electrode, removing the resist and the electrochromic layers and the solid electrolyte as formed on the insulating film, and forming a second electrode on the second electrochromic layer.
Abstract:
An electro-chromic display device comprises an electro-chromic material and an electrolyte between a display electrode formed by a combination of a plurality of segments, and counter electrode disposed opposite thereto, and undergoes a reversible reaction for developing or erasing a color upon application of voltage or reverse polarity voltage. The counter electrode comprises a molded product obtained by molding under pressure a mixture of the powders of a solid oxidation-reduction type active material and an electrically conductive material.