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20090140490 | DOCUMENT CONVEYING DEVICES AND IMAGE READING DEVICES COMPRISING SUCH DOCUMENT CONVEYING DEVICES - A document conveying device includes a conveying path and a feed unit. The feed unit includes a tray including a document positioning surface configured to receive documents thereon, in which the document positioning surface has a hole formed therethrough. The feed unit also includes a separation roller which is rotatably supported by a drive shaft extending in a direction orthogonal to a document conveying direction and is configured to contact an uppermost document of the documents and to separate and convey the uppermost document. The separation roller includes a first end and a second end opposite the first end. Moreover, the feed unit includes a document sensor including a detection portion configured to detect the documents and to selectively move between a first position in which the detection portion projects from the document positioning surface via the hole and a second position in which the detection portion is retracted from the document positioning surface via the hole. In addition, the feed unit includes a casing pivotably mounted on the drive shaft. The casing includes a plate extending adjacent to the first end of the separation roller in the document conveying direction, and the first end of the separation roller and the detection portion are positioned closer to the second end of the separation roller than the plate of the casing. | 06-04-2009 |
20130187327 | SHEET-SUPPLY CASSETTE, AND IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS INCLUDING SHEET-SUPPLY CASSETTE - A sheet-supply cassette including a main member open upward and adapted to store a plurality of recording sheets stacked on each other, each of which is separated from the other recording sheets, and is fed in a sheet-feed direction, by a sheet feeder; an inclined sheet-separate plate provided in a downstream-side portion of the main member as seen in the sheet-feed direction, and which cooperates with the sheet feeder to separate the each recording sheet from the other recording sheets; and a plurality of back-surface support portions which are formed integrally with the downstream-side portion of the main member, such that the back-surface support portions are distant from each other in a perpendicular direction substantially perpendicular to the sheet-feed direction. The inclined sheet-separate plate is detachably attached to the back-surface support portions such that a back surface of the inclined sheet-separate plate is supported by the back-surface support portions. | 07-25-2013 |
20140085688 | Cable Wiring Structure and Image Reading Device - A cable wiring structure includes: a base member; a movable member configured to reciprocate in a first direction and in a second direction relative to the base member; a cable; a tension applying member, which is attached to the movable member and is movable in the first direction and in the second direction relative to the movable member, wherein when the movable member moves in the second direction, the tension applying member is coming in contact with an inner circumference of the curved portion to apply tension to the cable in response to movement of the movable member; and a load adjustment portion, which is configured to increase a load that is applied between the tension applying member and the movable member in a case where the movable member moves in the second direction as compared with a case where the movable member moves in the first direction. | 03-27-2014 |
20140118802 | Image Reading Apparatus - An image reading apparatus configured to reduce a force required for moving a document cover to an open position is provided. The image reading apparatus includes a document table having a top surface and a reading area and a document cover that is configured to pivot, around an axis extending in a first direction, between a closed position and an open position. The document cover includes a sheet. The top surface has a marginal area which is located outside of a reading area on a side opposite to the axis. The marginal area includes a contact area and a non-contact area which are arranged in the first direction. When the document cover is in the closed position, the top surface in the contact area contacts the sheet, and the top surface in the non-contact area does not contact the sheet. | 05-01-2014 |
20140151952 | Sheet Conveyor Device - A sheet conveyor device includes a conveyor that convey a sheet along a conveyance path in a conveying direction, a sheet stack portion that receives the sheet conveyed by the conveyor, and a conducting member. The conveyor includes an ejection roller that ejects the sheet to the sheet stack portion. The conducting member includes a contact portion, disposed along the conveyance path downstream of the ejection roller, that comes into contact with the sheet conveyed by the conveyor, and a discharge portion that discharges static electricity transferred to the contact portion by contact between the sheet and the contact portion. | 06-05-2014 |
20140151953 | Sheet Conveyor Device - A conveyor device includes a conveyor including a conveyor roller to convey a sheet along a conveyance path, a cover movable between a closed position where the cover covers the conveyor roller and an open position where the cover is separated from the conveyor roller. The conveyor further includes a pinch roller urged toward the conveyor roller when the cover is in the closed position. When the cover is in the closed position, the conveyor roller and the pinch roller define a nip point along the conveyance path. The conveyor device includes a holder supported by the cover and to rotatably support the pinch roller and an urging member disposed between the cover and the holder to move the holder away from the cover to urge the pinch roller toward the conveyor roller when the cover is in the closed position. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153068 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - The instant application discloses an apparatus including an image forming unit and an image reading apparatus. The image forming unit may be disposed adjacent to the base wall of the image reading apparatus. The image reading apparatus may include a base member including the base wall and a peripheral wall protruding orthogonally from the base wall to define an accommodation region; a movable member configured to reciprocate between one end portion of the accommodation region and another end portion of the accommodation region; a reading unit supported by the movable member; a cable having a first extending portion, a curve portion, and a second extending portion; and a contact reduction portion configured to reduce contact of the second extending portion of the cable with a side wall of the peripheral wall. Various embodiments of the contact reduction portion are also disclosed. | 06-05-2014 |
20150274448 | SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE - A sheet conveying device includes: a supporter which support a sheet to be supplied or a discharged sheet. The supporter includes: a first cover pivotable between a closed position and an open position and capable of supporting the sheet when the first cover is located at the open position; and a second cover pivotable between a first position and a second position and constituting a portion of an exterior of the sheet conveying device with the first cover when the second cover is located at the first position. The second cover has a first end portion contactable with the first cover located at the closed position. The first end portion is kept in contact with the first cover throughout a period in which the second cover is pivoted from the first position to the second position. | 10-01-2015 |
20150307299 | SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE - A sheet conveying device includes: a conveyor configured to convey a sheet; a cover configured to cover the conveyor; a guide spaced apart from the cover; and a movable member mounted on a first member which is one of the cover and the guide. The movable member is pivotable between a first position and a second position and located at the second position when the sheet is being conveyed. The movable member has a free end which is moved toward a second member while the movable member is being pivoted from the second position to the first position about a pivot center. The second member is another of the cover and the guide. The free end is contactable with the second member by an approach of the cover toward the guide when the movable member is located at the first position. | 10-29-2015 |
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20110049783 | Sheet Feeding Device and Imaging Apparatus Employing Sheet Feeding Device - A sheet feeding device includes a sheet feed tray, a chute having first and second guides, first and second rollers arranged on the first guide, first and second contact members protruded from the second guide and urged to contact the first and second rollers, respectively, and a sheet sensor arranged between the first roller and the second roller. A controller controls a motor to rotate the first and second rollers in a first direction in which the sheet is fed from the second roller to the first roller when the controller receives a signal from the sensor, and controls the motor to stop the rotation of the first and second rollers when the signal from the sensor is terminated, and then rotate the first and second rollers in a second direction in which the sheet is fed from the first roller to the second roller. | 03-03-2011 |
20110211234 | Cable Arrangement Structure and Image Scanner Employing the Same - A cable arrangement structure is provided with a movable body configured to reciprocally move relative to a base member, and a flexible cable transmitting electrical signals. One end of the flexible cable is fixedly connected to the base member, and another end is connected to the movable body. The flexible cable has a curved portion, and both ends of the flexible cable being located on a same side with respect to the curved portion. A tension applying unit configured to contact the curved portion of the flexible cable from an inner side of a curvature of the curved portion to apply tension to the flexible cable when the curved portion is located on a front direction of the movable body as moved. Application of the tension to the flexible cable is controlled in mechanical association with movement of the movable body. | 09-01-2011 |
20120261880 | SHEET CONVEYER DEVICE - A sheet conveyer device, including a main housing and a cover member, is provided. The cover member has a plane section made of a transparent material and is attachable to the main housing with a predetermined facing surface of the plane section set to face a predetermined plane of the main housing. An ornamental sheet can be detachably attached to the sheet conveyer device in a position between the predetermined plane and the cover member. The cover member includes an engaging piece, which is formed on a same side as the predetermined facing surface of the plane section and is engageable with an engageable section in the main housing. The engaging piece has a sheet holding rib and a clearance in between the predetermined facing surface and the sheet holding rib and holds a lateral end of the ornamental sheet in the clearance. | 10-18-2012 |
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20110157662 | Image Reading Apparatus - An image reading apparatus configured to reduce a force required for moving a document cover to an open position is provided. The image reading apparatus includes a document table having a top surface and a reading area and a document cover that is configured to pivot, around an axis extending in a first direction, between a closed position and an open position. The document cover includes a sheet. The top surface has a marginal area which is located outside of a reading area on a side opposite to the axis. The marginal area includes a contact area and a non-contact area which are arranged in the first direction. When the document cover is in the closed position, the top surface in the contact area contacts the sheet, and the top surface in the non-contact area does not contact the sheet. | 06-30-2011 |
20120155941 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including an automatic document feeder (ADF) that transports a document is provided. The ADF unit includes a subtray that is openable and closable. When transporting a document, the subtray is opened and a document to be transported is fed into a space below a guide member. At this time, surfaces of the subtray and a main tray are used as a feed tray. The document that has been transported is discharged onto a guide member and is further transported onto the surface of the second tray. At this time, the surface of the second tray and the surface of the guide member are used as a discharge tray. | 06-21-2012 |
20120248681 | SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE - A sheet conveying device includes a cover member made of resin and partially defining a conveying path, a roller member rotatably disposed on the cover member and configured to convey a sheet along the conveying path, an urging member disposed between the cover member and a rotary shaft of the roller member and urging the roller member toward the conveying path while one end of the urging member contacts the rotary shaft, and a plate member made of metal and disposed between the cover member and the urging member. The plate member includes a first segment extending along the cover member and contacting the other end of the urging member, a second segment extending from an edge of the first segment in a direction toward the conveying path, and a third segment extending from an edge of the second segment in a direction different from the second segment extending direction. | 10-04-2012 |
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20090028720 | Vacuum pump - A vacuum pump capable of accurately detecting a rotor temperature based on a change in permeability of a magnetic material. Two targets are fixed to a nut opposed to a gap sensor. The nut is made of pure iron, and a surface of the nut opposed to the gap sensor serves as a target. The target has a Curie temperature greater than a temperature monitoring range, and each of the targets has a Curie temperature falling within the temperature monitoring range. When the targets become opposed to the gap sensor in turn according to rotation of a rotor, three types of signals are output from the gap sensor. The difference-signal generation means generates a difference signal of each the targets, on the basis of a signal of the target. The difference signal is compared with a reference signal V | 01-29-2009 |
20100303644 | VACUUM PUMP - A condensation sensor is provided within a power supply device that is provided integratedly with a vacuum pump main unit. When the condensation sensor detects condensation within the power supply device, a CPU closes a cooling water valve. This stops the flow of cooling water that flows through the interior of the power supply device, through a cooling water duct. | 12-02-2010 |
20130147296 | MAGNETIC LEVITATION TYPE VACUUM PUMP AND MAGNETIC LEVITATION DEVICE - A magnetic levitation type vacuum pump includes an electromagnet magnetically levitating a rotor by a magnetic force, an electromagnet driving circuit supplying an electromagnet current including a magnetic levitation control current component and a carrier wave current component having a frequency band higher than the magnetic levitation control current component to the electromagnet coil, a levitated position detecting circuit detecting the carrier wave current component and generating a levitated position signal of the rotor, a magnetic levitation control circuit inputting a current command of the magnetic levitation control current component to the electromagnet driving circuit based on the levitated position signal. The electromagnet coil has a primary coil and a secondary coil connected in parallel with the primary coil. An interrupting circuit connected in series with the secondary coil for the carrier wave current component passing therethrough and interrupting the magnetic levitation control current component is further included. | 06-13-2013 |
20140112801 | MOTOR DRIVING DEVICE AND VACUUM PUMP - A motor driving device comprises: an inverter having a plurality of switching elements for driving a motor; an arithmetic section for calculating a rotational speed and a magnetic pole electric angle of a motor rotor based on information about a motor phase voltage and information about a motor phase current; a delay correcting section for correcting a phase delay of the magnetic pole electric angle calculated by the arithmetic section so as to generate corrected magnetic pole electric angle; a driving command generating section for generating a sinusoidal wave driving command based on a difference between the rotational speed and a target rotational speed and the corrected magnetic pole electric angle; and a PWM signal generating section for generating a PWM control signal for controlling on/off of the plurality of switching elements based on the sinusoidal wave driving command. | 04-24-2014 |
20140203742 | MOTOR DRIVING DEVICE AND VACUUM PUMP - A motor driving device comprises an inverter, a first arithmetic section, a driving command generating section and a PWM signal generating section. The first arithmetic section calculates a rotational speed and a magnetic pole electrical angle of a motor rotor based on information about a motor phase voltage and information about a motor phase current. The first arithmetic section includes a counter electromotive voltage arithmetic section, a converting section, a second arithmetic section, a third arithmetic section, and a fourth arithmetic section. The first arithmetic section outputs a sum of the magnetic pole phase error and the integrated value as the magnetic pole electrical angle. | 07-24-2014 |
20140210385 | MOTOR DRIVING DEVICE AND VACUUM PUMP - A motor driving device comprises a first arithmetic section calculating a rotational speed and a magnetic pole electrical angle of a motor rotor, a current command setting section setting a d-axis current command and a q-axis current command in a rotating coordinate dq system based on a difference between the rotational speed and a target rotational speed, a driving command generating section generating a sinusoidal wave driving command based on the d-axis current command, the q-axis current command, the rotational speed and the magnetic pole electrical angle and a PWM signal generating section. When the rotational speed has a positive value indicating a positive rotational state, the current command setting section sets the q-axis current command of acceleration driving, and when the rotational speed has a negative value indicating a reverse rotational state, the current command setting section sets the q-axis current command of deceleration driving. | 07-31-2014 |
20140212312 | MAGNETIC BEARING DEVICE AND VACUUM PUMP - A magnetic bearing device comprises a controller configured to obtain magnetic levitation information of the rotor shaft by AD sampling of current detection signals from the plurality of current sensors and a sum signal obtained by adding the pair of current detection signals relating to the pair of electromagnets, and perform PWM control of the excitation amplifiers based on the magnetic levitation information. The controller performs PWM control so that a length of one of an on-duty period and an off-duty period of the PWM carrier signal is always longer than a predetermined time period based on an attenuation characteristic of a spike noise produced in the electromagnetic current, and performs the AD sampling after the predetermined time period passes from starting timing of one of the on-duty period and the off-duty period. | 07-31-2014 |
20140219841 | MAGNETIC BEARING DEVICE AND VACUUM PUMP - A predetermined timing is a timing at which the sampling timing is in a vicinity of a maximum peak position of the carrier wave signal and a timing at which the sampling timing is in a vicinity of a minimum peak position. The demodulation arithmetic section outputs, as the demodulation calculated result, a value d3 calculated with d3=(d1−d2)/2 when a data value of the digital signal sampled in the vicinity of the maximum peak position is denoted by d1 and a data value of the digital signal sampled in the vicinity of the minimum peak position is denoted by d2. | 08-07-2014 |
20140271237 | VACUUM PUMP - An estimating section detects a signal including counter electromotive voltage information of the motor, and estimating a magnetic pole electric angle and a rotational speed of the motor. A driving current controller repeats generation and cut-off of the driving current supplied from a power supply to the motor via the inverter circuit or regenerated from the motor to the power supply in a low-speed period between a stopped state and a predetermined rotational speed in an accelerating operation at a motor starting time or a decelerating operation at a motor stopping time. The estimating section detects the signal at the cut-off time so as to estimate the magnetic pole electric angle and the rotational speed in the low-speed period. | 09-18-2014 |
20150050170 | MAGNETIC BEARING DEVICE AND VACUUM PUMP - A magnetic bearing device comprises a first carrier generation section generating a first carrier signal; a second carrier generation section generating a second carrier signal whose phase differs by (π/2+θ) radian from the phase of the first carrier signal; a first demodulation section performing demodulation by sampling the first modulated signal at sampling timing shifted by a phase θ from timing at which the first carrier signal becomes a peak; a second demodulation section performing demodulation by sampling the second modulated signal at sampling timing shifted by a phase (−θ) from timing at which the second carrier signal becomes a peak; and a controller controlling current in each of the first radial electromagnet and the second radial electromagnet, based on a result of the demodulation by each of the first demodulation section and the second demodulation section. | 02-19-2015 |
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20110044826 | Vacuum pump - A vacuum pump configured to exhaust gas includes an inductance gap sensor positioned oppositely near an end face of a rotational axis of a rotational body including a rotor; a plurality of individually formed recesses disposed at the end face facing the gap sensor at respectively different angular positions; and at least one ferromagnetic body disposed in at least one of the recesses. The ferromagnetic body has a Curie temperature approximately equal to an allowable temperature of the rotor. The gap sensor senses inductance changes associated with changes in magnetic permeability of the ferromagnetic body to detect a temperature of the rotor. One of the recesses where the ferromagnetic body is not disposed is a rotational number sensor target. Thus, a rotational number of the rotor is detected based on a change in inductance when the rotational number sensor target passes opposite the inductance sensor. | 02-24-2011 |
20120321442 | TURBOMOLECULAR PUMP DEVICE - A turbomolecular pump device includes: a turbomolecular pump main body; a power unit that drives the turbomolecular pump main body; and a water cooling unit that is provided between the turbomolecular pump main body and the power unit, wherein components provided in a casing of the power unit are classified into an intensive cooling required component that requires intensive cooling, a moderate cooling required component that requires moderate cooling, and a no cooling required component that requires substantially no cooling, the intensive cooling required component is mounted on a first high-conductivity substrate contacting to the water cooling unit, the moderate cooling required component is mounted on a second high heat-conductive substrate contacting to an inner surface of the casing, and the no cooling required component is mounted on a substrate arranged in a space between the first high heat-conductive substrate and the second high heat-conductive substrate. | 12-20-2012 |
20140377106 | SENSORLESS MAGNETIC LEVITATION VACUUM PUMP AND SENSORLESS MAGNETIC LEVITATION DEVICE - An electromagnet has a core with a pair of magnetic poles, a primary coil wound around the core, and a series circuit of a first auxiliary coil wound around the first magnetic pole of the core, a second auxiliary coil wound around the second magnetic pole of the core, and capacitors, and is connected in parallel to the primary coil and the series circuit. The first and the second magnetic poles are each divided into a plurality of split magnetic poles. The first auxiliary coil is composed of a plurality of split auxiliary coils wound around the respective pole in the plurality of split magnetic poles of the first magnetic pole so that the mutual inductance with the primary coil becomes zero. The second auxiliary coil is composed of a plurality of split auxiliary coils wound around the respective pole in a plurality of split magnetic poles of the second magnetic pole so that the mutual inductance with the primary coil becomes zero. | 12-25-2014 |
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20100247336 | TURBOMOLECULAR PUMP - The provision of the components requiring cooling on top of the cooling mechanism enables the cooling efficiency to be increased. Furthermore, a case of a control device is attached to the cooling mechanism whereon the components requiring cooling are disposed. The cooling mechanism fulfills the role of the contact surface of the case of the control device with the turbomolecular pump main unit, where the case does not have a case panel on the contact surface with the turbomolecular pump main unit. The cooling mechanism fulfills the role of one surface of the case for the control device, where the cooling mechanism is structured integrally with the control device. Additionally, the turbomolecular pump main unit, the cooling mechanism, and the control device are structured integrally by the turbomolecular pump main unit and the cooling mechanism being in contact. | 09-30-2010 |
20100247350 | TURBOMOLECULAR PUMP DEVICE AND CONTROLLING DEVICE THEREOF - A turbomolecular pump having a pump main unit having, at least, a rotary vein provided on a rotor, a static vein for working in cooperation with the rotary vein to perform a vacuum exhaust, and a motor for driving the rotor, comprising: a controlling device that includes a motor driving circuit for converting into thermal energy, in a regenerative braking resistance, the regenerative electric current that is produced at the time of regeneratively driving the motor; and a cooling device for cooling the controlling device. A rod-shape heating resistive element is used as the regenerative braking resistance, where this resistive heating element is routed along the inner peripheral surface of an end portion | 09-30-2010 |
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20150307000 | VEHICLE SEAT - A vehicle seat is configured in such a way that webbing of a strip shape more difficult to elongate than a seat cover is provided around an airbag at a back side of the seat cover, and a bulging portion is caused to crack by means of tension of the webbing accompanying inflation of the airbag, wherein a hanging member more difficult to elongate than the seat cover is provided on a part of the seat cover, a pleat portion that is a part of the seat cover and to which the hanging member is mounted, is pulled towards an inside of the seat, the hanging member is locked to a locking member at the seat pad side, one end side of the webbing is mounted at the bulging portion side, and the other end side of the webbing is mounted to the hanging member or the locking member in a position closer to the inside of the seat than the pleat portion. | 10-29-2015 |
20150307003 | VEHICLE SEAT - A seat pad is configured to be capable of, with an increased pressing from a top plate portion at a seating side, gradually shortening a distance between an outer side of a frame body portion and a separated part, and at the same time deflecting and deforming in a direction of immersing into a seat frame, and by a pressing from an edge portion at the seating side, an abutting part abuts against a supporting portion, so as to be supported on the seat frame. | 10-29-2015 |
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20110063558 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which is capable of achieving excellent wide-viewing-angle characteristics and rapid responsiveness, and is capable of displaying by a display mode which does not require operation for initial bend transition. The present invention relates to one embodiment of a liquid crystal display device including: two substrates at least one of which is transparent; and a p-type nematic liquid crystal disposed between the two substrates, the p-type nematic liquid crystal being aligned perpendicular to the surfaces of the two substrates when no voltage is applied, at least one of the two substrates having a comb-shaped electrode, and the comb-shaped electrode satisfying the relationship (S+1.7)/(S+L)≧0.7, wherein L represents an electrode width and S represents an electrode spacing. The present invention also relates to another embodiment of a liquid crystal display device wherein a pixel has a first region; and a second region which has a ratio S/L between the electrode width L and the electrode spacing S different from that of the first region. The present invention further relates to combination use of the aforementioned embodiments. | 03-17-2011 |
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20110279762 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY ELEMENT AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - An vertical alignment type liquid crystal display element ( | 11-17-2011 |
20110304528 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device in which viewing angle characteristics are improved without impairing transmittance. A liquid crystal display device of the present invention, comprises:
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20110304797 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that suppress moiré generated when a voltage is applied in a liquid crystal mode that drives a vertical alignment liquid crystal by using at least a pair of comb-shaped electrodes. A liquid crystal display device of the present invention comprises: a liquid crystal display panel including a liquid crystal layer and a pair of substrates sandwiching the liquid crystal layer; and a backlight unit disposed on a back side of the liquid crystal display panel, one of the pair of substrates including a pair of comb-shaped electrodes each having comb teeth, the comb teeth of one of the pair of comb-shaped electrodes and the comb teeth of the other of the pair of comb-shaped electrodes being disposed alternately and spaced apart from each other, the liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules with positive dielectric anisotropy, the liquid crystal molecules being aligned in a direction perpendicular to a surface of one of the pair of substrates when no voltage is applied, the backlight unit having an optical sheet with multiple folds parallel to one another on a surface, the pitch width of the pair of comb-shaped electrodes being different from an integral multiple of the pitch width of the folds of the optical sheet. | 12-15-2011 |
20110310330 | THIN BACKLIGHT SYSTEM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - According to a conventional backlight device for use in a thin full-color display device in which pixels are subjected to a color separation by colored lights, a large chromatic aberration occurs, thereby causing a deterioration in image quality. A thin backlight system in accordance with the present invention includes: a light emitting section ( | 12-22-2011 |
20110310337 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that can suppress a display defect due to collapse of liquid crystal alignment. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal display element including a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer hermetically interposed between the pair of substrates, wherein the liquid crystal layer includes a p-type liquid crystal material that is homeotropically aligned with respect to surfaces of the pair of substrates when no voltage is applied; one of the pair of substrates comprises a comb-shaped electrode and a first alignment layer configured to control alignment of the p-type liquid crystal material; | 12-22-2011 |
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20120120363 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY ELEMENT - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display element that can be driven at a low threshold voltage. A liquid crystal display element of the present invention includes: a pair of substrates; and a liquid crystal layer sealed between the pair of substrates, wherein the liquid crystal layer contains liquid crystal molecules that are aligned perpendicularly to at least one substrate face of the pair of substrates when a voltage is applied, the at least one of the pair of substrates comprises a pair of comb-shaped electrodes, the at least one of the pair of substrates comprises a polymer film on a face contacting the liquid crystal layer, and the polymer film is made of a polymer material having a CF | 05-17-2012 |
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20090316098 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal panel includes: a p-type liquid crystal material sandwiched by a pair of substrates and comb-teeth shape electrodes for applying, to the p-type liquid crystal material, an electric field parallel to a substrate surface. The p-type liquid crystal material is aligned vertically with respect to the substrate surface at the time when no electric field is applied. The comb-teeth shape electrodes have an electrode width of 5 μm or less, and an electrode spacing of 15 μm or less. A product of a dielectric constant anisotropy Δε and a refractive index anisotropy Δn of the p-type liquid crystal material is 1.3 or more and 3.1 or less. | 12-24-2009 |
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20120008074 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal panel ( | 01-12-2012 |
20120127398 | BACKLIGHT SYSTEM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A backlight system includes: a light-emitting section ( | 05-24-2012 |
20120127417 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device providing uniform display without lowering the transmissivity. | 05-24-2012 |
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20120154730 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device having an improved aperture ratio. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention comprises: a pair of substrates positioned to face each other; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the substrates, wherein the liquid crystal layer contains a liquid crystal molecule having positive dielectric anisotropy, the liquid crystal molecule is aligned in a direction vertical to surfaces of the substrates when no voltage is applied, one of the substrates comprises a first electrode and a second electrode, the electrodes respectively including comb-tooth portions that are alternately engaged at a certain interval, the first electrode comprises an extension in a layer separated by an insulating film from a layer in which an engagement between the comb-tooth portions of the first electrode and of the second electrode is formed, and the extension of the first electrode is positioned more distant from the liquid crystal layer than the comb-tooth portion of the second electrode is, and is positioned along the comb-tooth portion of the second electrode in an overlapping manner. | 06-21-2012 |
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