Abstract: A navigation apparatus includes notification means for notifying an advance direction at a branching point in a route guiding, storage means for storing a plurality of moving methods and notification methods corresponding to the respective moving methods, input means for selecting one of the plurality of moving methods stored in the storage means, and control means for causing the notification means to perform notification by the notification method corresponding to the moving method selected by the input means. Thus, it is possible to easily set a route guiding such as a distance to the branching point where guiding is started for each of the moving methods and a sound volume.

Abstract: A navigation apparatus includes notification means for notifying an advance direction at a branching point in a route guiding, storage means for storing a plurality of moving methods and notification methods corresponding to the respective moving methods, input means for selecting one of the plurality of moving methods stored in the storage means, and control means for causing the notification means to perform notification by the notification method corresponding to the moving method selected by the input means. Thus, it is possible to easily set a route guiding such as a distance to the branching point where guiding is started for each of the moving methods and a sound volume.

Abstract: An electrochromic display is disclosed which comprises an array-side substrate (10) wherein a TFT (14) and a pixel electrode (15) connected with the TFT (14) are formed, a color filter-side substrate (50) wherein a counter electrode (53) is formed, and an electrolyte layer (80) injected between the array-side substrate (10) and the color filter-side substrate (50). In this electrochromic display, the TFT (14) is formed to have an area not less than 30% of the area of the pixel, thereby supplying a larger current. Consequently, oxidation-reduction reaction in the electrochromic phenomenon proceeds at a higher rate, thereby enabling a high-speed response.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus is constituted whereby multiple source driver circuits provided with a driver IC are connected to the periphery of a liquid crystal display panel, and power supply voltages supplied from the outside are sequentially supplied from a specific source driver circuit to an adjacent source driver circuit, and a wire resistance calculation wire is formed for the driver IC in the voltage supply direction upstream, and is approximately equivalent to the signal wires extending from the upstream driver IC to the adjacent driver IC in the voltage supply direction downstream. The driver IC calculates the wire resistance by impressing a certain calculated voltage to one end of the wire resistance calculation wire, and then detects the voltage on the other end, calculates the amounts of the drop in voltage level based on the calculated wire resistance, and outputs the power supply voltages increased by the calculated respective amounts of the voltage drop to the downstream driver IC.

Abstract: The control circuit 11 causes display of messages received through the communication unit 1 in the display unit 14 in list form. A cursor for making selections from the messages displayed in list form has different patterns. The control circuit 11 associates the cursor patterns with message types. In another embodiment, the control circuit 11 groups received messages into new messages not yet reproduced by a user and old messages already reproduced, causes display of the number of the new messages in a predetermined area of the display unit when the new messages are stored in RAM 13, and display of the number of the old messages in said predetermined area when the new messages are not stored in RAM 13.

Abstract: A liquid crystal module provides for concave shaped recesses formed in an elastic member along the circumference of a linear light source that is arranged on the side of a light guide, and lamp holders attached to both ends of the linear light source, while ring-shaped hard members are engaged with the recesses. Thus, the hard members serve as a grip against an impact applied to the linear light source, and the linear light source is prevented from being damaged. Accordingly, a sidelight-type liquid crystal module with a liquid crystal panel is thereby obtained, in which the damage to the linear light source (when an impact, or the like, is applied to the liquid crystal panel) is prevented by simple means without affecting the quality of light that is emitted toward the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device provided with a backlight unit, creak reduction means is provided at least on one part of the areas where members constituting the liquid crystal display device such as the liquid crystal panel, the diffusion plate, the reinforcing plate, the frame of the liquid crystal display device and the back surface reflector for the backlight unit come into contact with each other. The creak reduction means may be a slippery film whose surface is fluorinated such as a fluororesin film, a polyacetal resin film, a polyethylene film, and a silicon coating film, or protrusions or protruding fins, or a friction reduction means such as silicon oil or fluorine oil, or a mutual displacement absorbing means such as a flexible sheet.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (1), comprising a liquid crystal display panel and an illumination unit (10). The illumination unit (10) further comprises a housing (11) having a rectangular bottom wall face and having, at its side peripheral edge parts, cut and erected pieces (141) and (142) formed by cutting out a part of the bottom wall surface and projecting the cutout parts to the rear surface, and a frame-shaped intermediate frame (20) having a display window (200) at its center part to which an illuminating member stored in the housing (11) is fixed. The intermediate frame (20) comprises locking pieces (231) inserted into opening parts (140) formed, when the cut and erected pieces are cut and raised, at positions corresponding to the cut and erected pieces (141) and (142).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display comprises a liquid crystal module (10) having a predetermined shape and having a back side covered with a metal back case (12); a liquid crystal drive circuit board (20) electrically connected at one side of the liquid crystal module (10), extending toward the central portion from the one side by predetermined length, having an electric connector (22) disposed on one side of the circuit board (20), and mounted on the metal back case (12); and a metal cover (30) having a cutout (33) large enough to expose the electric connector (22) and covering the circuit board (20). An earth terminal (36) is provided at one edge of the cutout (33) and is brought into elastic contact with an earth contact (24a) provided on one side of the circuit board (20) when the circuit board (20) is covered with the metal cover (30). With this constitution, a stable ground line is formed in the display by a simple machining to avoid noise interference.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device 30 comprising a backlight 32, a liquid crystal display panel 36, a liquid crystal parallax barrier 44, and a spacer member 40 arranged between the liquid crystal display panel 36 and the liquid crystal parallax barrier 44, in which the spacer member 40 is made of a glass material different from that of the glass substrates 36a, 36b constituting the liquid crystal display panel 36, and the spacer member 40 is a glass substrate having a thermal expansion coefficient larger than that of the glass substrates 36a, 36b constituting the liquid crystal display panel 36. More specifically, it is preferable that the spacer member 40 consist of a soda glass substrate and that the liquid crystal display panel 36 for display be formed of non-alkali glass.

Abstract: In a semiconductor laser device 10 including a semiconductor laser element 14, a frame 12 having a front face on which the semiconductor laser element 14 is placed, and a resin molded portion 15 that covers the front and back faces of the frame 12, on a front face side of the frame 12, the semiconductor laser element 14 is enclosed with an enclosure portion 15b of the resin molded portion 15, and the resin molded portion 15 has an open front serving as a laser beam emission window 15a. On a back face side of the frame 12, there is provided an exposed portion 16e enclosed with a U-shaped enclosure portion 15d of the resin molded portion 15, the exposed portion 16e where the frame 12 is exposed to the outside.

Abstract: When a hook detection unit (18) detects the off-hook of a handset (8), voice (e.g., “telephone book”, the other party's name) sent from a user is input via the handset (8), and a voice recognition unit (110) recognizes the voice, the other party's name and a telephone number stored in a telephone book memory (3) are displayed on a display unit (5). Then, when voice “up/down” is input via the handset (8), another party's name and a telephone number stored in a telephone book memory (3) are switched and displayed on a display unit (5); and when voice “telephone” or “fax” is input, a call is made or a fax transmission started to the other party displayed on the display unit (5).

Abstract: A display device has a flat box-shaped cabinet that is open in the upper face. The cabinet accommodates a liquid crystal display panel and holds it in place. The inside of the cabinet is divided into two areas. Of these two areas, one is an area in which a first circuit board, the fitting of which is compulsory, is fitted, and the other is an area in which a second circuit board, the fitting of which is optional, is fitted. On a rear lid of the liquid crystal display panel, synthetic resin fitting bases are formed, and hooks are formed thereon in the boundary between the two areas. When the second circuit board is not fitted, the hooks are used for attaching a small shield cover that covers the first circuit board, and, when the second circuit board is fitted, they are used for locking the second circuit board in place and preventing it from coming out of position.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser beam device, comprising a stem type package having a base part and a heat sink part, wherein the heat sink part is cylindrically formed so as to be concentric to the base part, a groove is formed along the axial direction of the heat sink part, and a semiconductor laser beam element is disposed at the bottom part of the inner wall surfaces of the groove whereby the radiating capability of the semiconductor laser beam device can be increased by increasing the volume of the heat sink part, and the element can be protected by the groove.

Abstract: A light-emitting device (1) is composed by integrating light-emitting diodes (2R, 2G, 2B) and a drive IC (3) for driving these light-emitting diodes (2R, 2G, 2B). The light-emitting device (1) is characterized in that the drive IC (3) has a built-in circuit for controlling the current value of each light-emitting diode (2) or the current proportions of the light-emitting diodes at constant values. The adjustment of the intensities of the light beams emitted from the light-emitting diodes can be simplified, and no outside circuits for adjustment are needed. The structure is excellent in assemblability. When a desired emission color is produced by mixing the emission colors, the adjustment for the mixing is easy, and a structure suited for enhancing the color rendering properties when a while light is emitted is provided.

Abstract: A first buffer layer is formed on a substrate at a lower temperature than a single-crystal-growth-temperature, one or more of a layer composed of a nitride containing neither Ga nor In, a layer which has two or more thin films having different moduli of elasticity cyclically laminated therein, and a layer having an Al composition ratio which decreases and a Ga composition ratio which increases in a direction from the first buffer layer to a device-constituting layer are formed as a second buffer layer on the first buffer layer at the single-crystal-growth-temperature, and a device-constituting layer composed of a nitride semiconductor is formed on the second buffer layer.

Abstract: A light emitting diode array in which, when viewed from the above, the shape of an almost square light emitting diode is square-chamfered or round-chamfered at the corners thereof in order to minimize light leakage at a reverse mesa surface to allow an electrode layer to surround the three directions of a light emitting unit, and part in the vicinity of the corner of the reverse mesa surface is extended up to a substrate unit to cover it. Accordingly, the light emitting diode array minimized in light leakage at the reverse mesa surface can be provided.

Abstract: An active matrix type liquid crystal display device capable of reducing power consumption and eliminating switching loss so as not to cause surge when stepwise changing the gate pulse supplied to a gate line during selection. The device includes, as the selection voltage supply circuit (18), a first power source (VGH0) for supplying a predetermined selection voltage and a second power source (VANA) for supplying voltage lower than the selection voltage by a predetermined value, so that voltage from the second power source is always applied to an output point (VG1) of the selection voltage supply circuit and voltage from the first power source is superimposed during a time shorter than the selection period from the beginning of the selection time, thereby applying stepwise gate pulses (GPn, GPn+1, GPn+2, . . . ) to the predetermined selected gate lines (Xn, Xn+1, Xn+2, . . . ).

Abstract: There is provided a disc player apparatus capable of transporting a disc (11) by holding the disc (11) between a lower roller (70) and an upper roller (80). The lower roller (70) and the upper roller (80) are rockably supported with respect to a main body (20a). A flat spring (210) which urges the upper roller (80) is attached to an upper case (200a) that is attached to the main body (20a). The urge of the flat spring (210) is applied via a roller support member (810) which supports the upper roller (80). The pressure is applied evenly to the upper roller (80), enabling to reduce diagonal travel of the disc for example, and to transport the disc smoothly.