Abstract: A light-emitting element used for display devices and illuminating devices has been formed on a flat substrate, and therefore, when the size of such devices is increased, manufacturing apparatuses also have to be enlarged. Also, a problem involved has been that even a failure of one light-emitting element causes the entire device to fail, making improvement of production yield difficult. To solve the above problems, in the present invention, light-emitting elements are formed as linear elements, and the linear elements are combined to form a plane light-emitting device. This enables the light-emitting device to be produced by selecting only linear light-emitting elements of good quality, and enlargement of apparatuses and enhancement of production yield can be expected.

Abstract: Organic materials doped with alkali metal have been conventionally used for electron transport layers or electron injection layers which constitute light-emitting films in organic EL light-emitting elements which are used in display devices or illuminating devices. Such conventional organic materials involve problems such that a strict process control is required since the alkali metal is highly reactive and thus, likely to be formed into a hydroxide, such that the resulting light-emitting element or light-emitting device needs complete sealing, and such that life of the light-emitting element cannot be sufficiently long. The present invention uses an alkali metal-including fullerene or an organic material doped with an alkali metal-including fullerene for electron transport layers or electron injection layers which constitute light-emitting films in organic EL light-emitting elements.

Abstract: The present invention provides a reflector having a light-diffusing property which suppresses inter-object reflection over a wide angle, and giving particularly high reflectance in an intended range of viewing angle; and to provide a reflection type liquid crystal display device using the same. The reflector includes a plurality of light-reflective concave portions. Each of the concave portions is formed so that an inclination angle (an angle between a plane tangential to a point on a concave surface and the surface of the base material) is maximum on a side portion of the curved surface, and so that the direction of the side portion having the maximum inclination angle is on a far side from a view point of an observer.

Abstract: A vehicular drive apparatus includes a case, a first brake having a first friction plate set and a second brake having a second friction plate set wherein the first friction plate set and the second friction plate set are sequentially arranged on a single axis, and a first hydraulic servo arranged to correspond to the first brake and a second hydraulic servo arranged to correspond to the second brake.

Abstract: A linear MISFET is resilient, flexible and capable of being fabricated into an integrated circuit in an arbitrary shape. Typically a structure includes a source region and drain region arranged in parallel. However, since a channel length of the MISFET for determining the electric characteristics thereof is determined by a distance between the source region and the drain region across a cylindrical gate insulating region, it has been difficult to downsize the channel length or improve reproducibility thereof. The present MISFET includes a semiconductor region serving as a channel region interposed between a source region(s) and a drain. Application of control voltage to the semiconductor region through the gate insulating region, controls electric current flowing between the source regions and drain region(s). The channel length is determined by a film thickness of the semiconductor region, thereby enabling downsizing and improvement of reproducibility, of the channel length.

Abstract: A hybrid driving unit in which a first electric motor (20), a second electric motor (23), a transmission (22) and a power splitting planetary gear (21) are disposed in order from the front side (the side of an internal combustion engine) on an axis within a casing member (14). Since the first electric motor (20) and the second electric motor (23) are disposed adjacently to each other, partial cases for storing these first and second electric motors (20) and (23) may be combined, thus facilitating the accommodation for producing the unit in series.

Abstract: A hybrid driving unit (7) is mounted to a vehicle by coupling a coupling section (14d) at the front end of a casing member (14) with an internal combustion engine (5) and by mounting a mounting section (14c) at the rear end of the casing member (14) to a part (4a) of a body (4). Still more, a second electric motor (23), i.e., a heavy device, is disposed in the rearmost part among a first electric motor (20), a power splitting planetary gear (21), the second electric motor (23) and a transmission disposed on an axis (13) in the casing member (14). Thereby, the vibration occurring in the casing member (14) is suppressed.

Abstract: A hybrid driving unit (7) in which a second electric motor (23) is disposed on the side closer to the front (the side closer to an internal combustion engine (5)) than a first electric motor (20). A casing member (14) is formed such that an inner diameter of a part thereof in which a stator (28) of the second electric motor (23) is fixed is larger than that of a part in which a stator of the first electric motor (20) is fixed. It allows the second electric motor (23) to be constructed so as to have a large radial dimension and to that extent, allows the length thereof in the longitudinal direction to be suppressed. Accordingly, it allows the length of the whole hybrid driving unit (7) to be shortened.

Abstract: An end face sensor device and a method of producing the sensor device, where the sensor device has flexibility or bendability independent of its shape and is suitable for constructing various devices with desired shapes. The end face sensor device is characterized in that a receptor portion is formed on an end face of a filiform body, the receptor body receiving information from a subject and outputting it as different information.

Abstract: A method for producing endohedral fullerenes at a higher yield and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. The apparatus includes a vacuum vessel (1), elements (3, 4) for generating a plasma current (2) of atoms to be contained, elements (8) for introducing fullerenes into the plasma current (2), a holding member (6) for holding a plurality of division plates (5a, 5b, 5c) concentrically divided and arranged in the downstream region of the plasma current (2), and a bias-applying unit (7a, 7b, 7c) for applying an arbitrary bias voltage to the division plates (5a, 5b, 5c).

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle drive system is designed to have dimensions that are shorter in an axial direction and improved centering accuracy of a rotor, in order to prevent deterioration of motor performance. A rotor support plate (15) has a flat-plate shaped disk portion (15b), and is fixed to a front cover (32) of a take off device (5), such as a torque converter, or the like, at the disk portion with a set block (67) and a bolt (69). A forward portion of the take off device is centered and supported by fitting a center piece (33) to a crankshaft (3). A support-plate hub (15a) is in contact with the center piece (33) at a small area (33c) in a vicinity of a fixing plane P of the disk portion (15b) and the set block (67), and thus centering of the rotor (13) is executed.

Abstract: An element capable of manufacturing various devices of any shape having plasticity or flexibility without being limited by shape and a method for manufacturing thereof are provided. An element characterized by that a circuit element is formed continuously or intermittently in the longitudinal direction. An element characterized by that a cross section having a plurality of areas forming a circuit is formed continuously or intermittently in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A solar battery which is not limited by shape but has plasticity or flexibility and is capable of being formed into an optional shape and whose degree of integration is extremely high is provided. A plurality of line elements in which a cross section having a photoelectromotive force circuit element is formed continuously or intermittently in the longitudinal direction are bundled, twisted, woven, joined, formed in combination or formed in the non-woven state.

Abstract: An integrated device using an element capable of manufacturing various devices of any shape having plasticity or flexibility without being limited by shape is provided. A plurality of elements in which a circuit element is formed continuously or intermittently in the longitudinal direction, or a plurality of elements in which a cross section having a plurality of areas forming a circuit is formed continuously or intermittently in the longitudinal direction are bundled, twisted, woven or knitted, joined, formed in combination or formed in the non-woven state.

Abstract: A motor/generator is arranged radially outward of a middle portion of a front cover of a torque converter so that at least a part of the motor/generator axially overlaps the torque converter, with a predetermined gap (C) between the front cover and the rotor of the motor/generator. The rotor of the motor/generator is supported by either the torque converter or an engine crankshaft or by any two of the torque converter, a motor housing and the crankshaft. The rotor is not affected by the torque converter and the efficiency of the motor is not reduced.

Abstract: A rotation of an input shaft is accelerated and transmitted to a drive shaft of an oil pump through gears. The oil pump is provided with a lubricant hole and part of the lubricant discharged from a discharge side oil chamber is supplied to a first sliding face of a radial bearing through the lubricant hole. By provision of a cutout portion in an oil sump and a first rib, part of the lubricant supplied from the input shaft to a bearing through a plurality of oil passages and the oil sump is supplied to a second sliding face which rotatably supports a thrust washer.

Abstract: Light-reflective concave portions are disposed on the surface of a substrate. The concave portions have a first and second vertical section perpendicular to each other. The first vertical section has an internal shape defined by a first curve and a second curve, the first curve extending from one point on the peripheral edge of the concave portion to the deepest point of the concave portion, and the second curve extending continuously from the first curve and from the deepest point of the concave portion to another point on the peripheral edge of the concave portion. The average of the absolute value of an inclination angle of the first curve is larger than that of the second curve relative to the substrate surface. The second vertical section has an internal shape defined by a shallow curve and deep curves formed at both sides of the shallow curve.

Abstract: A drive unit for a vehicle structured so as to be able to attain an interrupting state of inertia of a drive motor under a predetermined condition. Therefore, the drive unit for a vehicle has a drive motor able to transmit driving force to a drive wheel, and an operation lever for selecting a shift range for switching the drive motor between drive and non-drive. Further, the drive unit for a vehicle has a control section having a shift position detector for detecting the shift range selected by the operation lever. The drive unit for a vehicle also has brakes for attaining a neutral state by interrupting the power transmission between the drive motor and the drive wheel when the selection of a parking range is detected by the shift position detector. Thus, a state for applying no inertia of the drive motor to a parking device, is obtained even when the parking device is operated during a slight speed running.

Abstract: The present invention provides a reflector having a light-diffusing property which suppresses inter-object reflection over a wide angle, and giving particularly high reflectance in an intended range of viewing angle; and to provide a reflection type liquid crystal display device using the same. The reflector includes a plurality of light-reflective concave portions. Each of the concave portions is formed so that an inclination angle (an angle between a plane tangential to a point on a concave surface and the surface of the base material) is maximum on a side portion of the curved surface, and so that the direction of the side portion having the maximum inclination angle is on a far side from a view point of an observer.

Abstract: Light-reflective concave portions are disposed on the surface of a substrate. The concave portions have a first and second vertical section perpendicular to each other. The first vertical section has an internal shape defined by a first curve and a second curve, the first curve extending from one point on the peripheral edge of the concave portion to the deepest point of the concave portion, and the second curve extending continuously from the first curve and from the deepest point of the concave portion to another point on the peripheral edge of the concave portion. The average of the absolute value of an inclination angle of the first curve is larger than that of the second curve relative to the substrate surface. The second vertical section has an internal shape defined by a shallow curve and deep curves formed at both sides of the shallow curve.