Abstract:
A thin film semiconductor device and a liquid crystal display apparatus is provided wherein the thin film semiconductor device having light irradiated thereon is cut off by a conductor layer, and the light 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 of the device can be reduced. Because there is no area where the 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 operating the device 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 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 such as the degradation of contrast and uniformity.
Abstract:
An apparatus for generating a pattern defined by at least one group of vectors, includes a direction determining section for determining directions of current and previous vectors of each group of vectors, the end dot of the previous vector being the start dot of the current vector, a dot color determining section for determining dot color data of the start dot of the current vector in accordance with the direction of the current and previous vectors determined by said direction determining means, and a vector developing section for plotting the start dot of the current vector on a coordinate system in accordance with the dot color data.
Abstract:
The lighting device is equipped with a light guide having a linear Fresnel reflection surface consisting of steps of continuously alternating reflecting surfaces having two different reflection angles. A light source is installed at one end of the light guide of the above construction so that the light from the light source is emitted from the irradiation surface of the light guide after being reflected by the linear Fresnel reflection surface.
Abstract:
An electrochromic display device is characterized by comprising a counter electrode, opposed to a plurality of display segmented electrodes, for absorbing a charge present in some colored display segments. Thereafter, the counter electrode provides a refreshing charge to said some segments from which charge has been taken off. A total amount of charge, defined as the amount of charge necessary for coloring all the display electrodes, is kept constant by refreshing.
Abstract:
An electro-optical display comprises an electrochromic material and a predetermined number of display segments, each combination of the display segments defining a different desired display pattern. Lead-in electrodes connected to the respective display segments for driving purposes are shaped in such a manner as to have resistance values inversely proportional to the size of the corresponding display segments.
Abstract:
An alternator for a vehicle is provided which is equipped with a heat dissipator and a cooling air generator. The heat dissipator is disposed in a rectifier to cool rectifying devices. The cooling air generator generates a flow of cooling air to the heat dissipator. The heat dissipator has a plurality of sub-fins formed thereon. Each of the sub-fins is defined by a combination of a protrusion and a recess. The protrusions are formed on one of opposed major surfaces of the heat dissipator, while the recesses are formed on the other major surface, one in coincidence with each of the protrusions in a thickness-wise direction of the heat dissipator. This permits the heat dissipator to be pressed to form the protrusions and the recesses to make the sub-fins simultaneously, thus allowing a heat-dissipating area to be increased to ensure a desired degree of heat capacity thereof.
Abstract:
An alternator has front and rear bearings, supported by front and rear frames, to rotatably support a shaft of a rotor extending along axial direction. A washer is located between the rear frame and the rear bearing to apply pressing force to the rear bearing slightly movable along axial direction. The washer has a ring-shaped base portion concentrically located with the rear bearing, slanting portions extending from the base portion toward outside of radial direction such that two adjacent slanting portions arranged as each pair along circumferential direction are inclined to different sides of axial direction, and flattened portions extending from respective slanting portions toward outside and being parallel to the base portion. Flattened portions shifted to front side are in contact with the rear bearing, and flattened portions shifted to rear side are in contact with the rear frame.
Abstract:
A touch-sensored display device 20 according to the present invention includes: a counter substrate 6 disposed on a viewer side of an active matrix substrate 8 via a display medium layer 4, the counter substrate 6 having a counter electrode 5 which opposes pixel electrodes; a display panel driving circuit 14 for supplying to the counter electrode 5 a common voltage which undergoes periodic inversion in polarity; a transparent conductive film 7 for position detection placed so as to oppose the counter electrode 5 via the counter substrate 6; a strobe signal generation circuit 32 for generating a strobe signal which is in synchronization with a polarity inversion period of the common voltage, and a noise-cut current signal generation circuit 30 for generating a noise-cut current signal which is obtained by eliminating based on the strobe signal a predetermined portion from a current flowing from a terminal connected to the transparent conductive film 7 for position detection.
Abstract:
[Object] An apparatus and a method for producing optical sheeting with which increased productivity can be achieved while maintaining the accuracy of produced optical sheeting.[Solution] An apparatus 1 for producing optical sheeting includes: a first rotating roll R1 configured to be heated; a second rotating roll R2; a first belt mold S1 that has molds for optical elements on a surface thereof, and is configured to turn around the first rotating roll and the second rotating roll; a sheet feeding means D2 configured to feed synthetic resin sheeting onto a surface of the first belt mold S1, a second belt mold S2 configured to be pressed against the first belt mold S1 and to turn with the turning of the first belt mold S1; and at least two pressure rolls R3 and R5 around which the second belt mold S2 is mounted and which is configured to press the second belt mold S2 against the first belt mold S1, wherein the pressure roll R5 is arranged at a position where the second belt mold S2 comes away from the first belt mold S1 and cooled at a surface thereof.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a satellite navigation/dead-reckoning navigation integrated positioning device with improved accuracy of navigation data including position, velocity, and the like, which can be constituted at low cost. A tracking processing module (31) performs, based on a GPS positioning signal, acquisition processing and tracking processing thereof and demodulation processing of a navigation message. A GPS positioning calculation module (32) calculates position, velocity, and the like based on a pseudo-range observation, a Doppler frequency observation, and ephemeris data and gives the calculated position, velocity, and the like to an output judgment module (43) and the tracking processing module (31). Based on external support information including output of an inertial sensor, map information or information about the difference between a map position and a measured position, and the like in addition to the pseudo-range observation and the Doppler frequency observation, an integrated positioning calculation module (42) estimates the position, velocity, and the like, and gives the estimated position, velocity, and the like to the output judgment module (43). The output judgment module (43) compares the outputs of the GPS positioning calculation module (32) and the outputs of the integrated positioning calculation module (42) to judge the reliability of output data from the integrated positioning calculation module (42) and the abnormality of external support data.