Abstract: A thread tensioning device of a sewing machine for forming multiple types of stitches using a plurality of threads is provided. The thread tensioning device includes thread tensioners disposed to correspond to the threads, an adjusting mechanism coupled to the thread tensioners to select a stitch type and to simultaneously adjust the tensional force applied from each of the thread tensioners to the corresponding thread such that the tensional force is selected from reference tensional forces corresponding to the selected stitch type, fine adjustment mechanisms disposed to correspond to the thread tensioners and to be manually operable to finely adjust the tensional force applied from the corresponding thread tensioner to the corresponding thread, and a reset mechanism coupled to the fine adjustment mechanisms to resets at different timings and interlockingly with the adjusting mechanism an amount of the tensional force finely adjusted by each of the fine adjustment mechanisms.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display includes forming a first electrode, forming an organic light emitting medium layer including an organic light emitting layer on the first electrode, the respective organic light emitting medium layers including respective organic light emitting layers having different life-times in light emitting, and forming a second electrode on the organic light emitting medium layer, wherein the organic light emitting layer having a longer life-time is formed earlier.

Abstract: A relief printing plate has a convex part, wherein a top surface of the convex part, which touches a substrate, comprises a resin layer having an affinity for an ink liquid including an organic light emitting material and the convex part or a convex part forming layer including the convex part, which supports the resin layer, comprises an ink repellent layer which has non-affinity for the ink.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescent device is disclosed. The method includes forming a first electrode or a substrate; forming a partition wall adjacent to the first electrode; and forming an organic luminous layer on the first electrode by relief printing method.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescence device, including forming an organic light emitting layer by a relief printing method, the method including transferring an organic light emitting material ink from an ink supplier to a printing plate, and subsequently transferring the organic light emitting material ink from the printing plate to a substrate, wherein a solvent of the organic light emitting material ink comprises a solvent having a vapor pressure over 500 Pa at 20-25 degrees Celsius, and wherein the time between the reception of the ink by the printing plate and the transfer of the ink to the substrate is equal to or less than 5 seconds.

Abstract: As finer patterns of relief printing plates are produced, the spacing between the convex portions of the relief printing plates decreases, and a sufficient relief depth, which is the depth of a concave portions between the convex portions, cannot be obtained. In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a relief printing plate for use when a coating liquid is supplied to convex portions of the relief printing plate, the coating liquid located on the convex portions is printed, and a pattern composed of the coating liquid is formed on the print surface, this relief printing plate comprising a metal support having convex portions and a resin layer disposed on the convex portions of the support.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is a relief printing plate for forming a high-definition pattern by a printing method, having a convex part comprising a resin layer, a base material supporting the convex part and a light reflection controlling layer, the light wave length being in range of 400 nm-800 nm, and the layer being between the convex part and the base material.

Abstract: It is intended to provide an organic EL display panel production method which enables formation of light emitting layers by a relief printing process in an organic EL display having RGB arrangement in a delta alignment or a mosaic alignment. A relief plate (resin relief plate) 50 in this invention has projections 202 in the form of dots corresponding to arrangement of pixels P for one of the colors in accordance with the pixels P of which R, G, and B are arranged in the delta alignment. A resin relief plate 16 has projections 202 in the form of dots corresponding to the pixels P for any one of the colors among the pixels P corresponding to R, G, and B, and an area S2 of an apical surface of each of the projections 202 is 70% to 90% of an area S1 of a bottom surface of an aperture P1 of each of the pixels P.

Abstract: An organic luminescent layer of an organic electroluminescence element can be formed by relief printing using a plastic plate comprised a metal base material. A manufacturing method of an organic electroluminescent element including a substrate, a first electrode, an organic luminescent layer and a second electrode is provided, the method including forming an organic luminescent layer in upside of the first electrode by relief printing with the use of an organic luminescence ink, wherein the ink comprises an organic luminescent material dissolved in an organic solvent, and wherein a plastic plate having projection patterns comprising a resin on a metal base material is used in the relief printing.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device manufacturing method is disclosed wherein the device comprises a substrate, a first and second electrode, and an organic luminous layer. The method comprising: hardening of a water development type photosensitive resin to form a plastic plate; and printing organic luminescent ink on a substrate by relief printing method with the use of the plastic plate, wherein the organic luminescent ink is an ink capable of scattering organic luminescent material in an organic solvent.

Abstract: An organic luminescence ink is disclosed. The ink includes a solvent and organic luminescent material dissolved in the solvent. The solvent comprises solvent A having a boiling point more than 70 degrees Celsius and under 180 degrees Celsius and solvent B having a boiling point more than 180 degrees Celsius and less than or equal to 270 degrees Celsius. An amount of solvent B in sum of an amount of solvent A and solvent B is more then 5% by weight and less than or equal to 30% by weight.

Abstract: In functional inks for relief printing concerning the present invention, contents of compositions of functional layers can be 1.0-2.5 wt %. In addition, viscosity of functional ink for relief printing can be 15-50 mPa·s. Therefore, each functional layer can be formed with uniformity and reasonable thickness.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescent device is disclosed. The method comprises forming a first electrode or a substrate; forming a partition wall adjacent to the first electrode; and forming an organic luminous layer on the first electrode by relief printing method.

Abstract: An output buffer circuit of the invention comprises a first output transistor connected between a power supply potential node and an output node, a second output transistor connected between a ground potential node and the output node, a first control circuit for controlling a conductive state of the first output transistor, a first clamp circuit for supplying a given potential to a first node to which the first control circuit is connected, a control circuit for controlling a conductive state of the second output transistor, and a second clamp circuit for supplying a given potential to a second node to which the second control circuit is connected. The first clamp circuit supplies a given potential to the first node when the first control circuit is inactivated, and stops the supply of the given potential when the first control circuit is activated.

Abstract: An output buffer circuit of the invention comprises a first output transistor connected between a power supply potential node and an output node, a second output transistor connected between a ground potential node and the output node, a first control circuit for controlling a conductive state of the first output transistor, a first clamp circuit for supplying a given potential to a first node to which the first control circuit is connected, a control circuit for controlling a conductive state of the second output transistor, and a second clamp circuit for supplying a given potential to a second node to which the second control circuit is connected. The first clamp circuit supplies a given potential to the first node when the first control circuit is inactivated, and stops the supply of the given potential when the first control circuit is activated.

Abstract: A shaft seal having a high abrasion resistance is disclosed, by which the leakage of the gas from the high-pressure side to the low-pressure side can be reduced. In the shaft seal, flexible leaves are multi-layered to form a ring shape. The shaft seal is mainly arranged around the rotation shaft of a gas turbine or the like. The relevant turbine comprises a casing, a compressor, a rotation shaft, moving blades attached to the rotation shaft, and stationary blades attached to the casing in a manner such that the stationary blades face the moving blades, wherein the shaft seals are provided between a plurality of stationary blades and the rotation shaft wherein the leaves of each shaft seal contact the rotation shaft. Under the rated operating conditions, the top ends of the leaves slightly separate from the surface of the rotation shaft due to the dynamic pressure generated by the rotation of the rotation shaft.

Abstract: A weatherstrip assembly mounted to a body component or a body aperture through a holder includes a weatherstrip having weatherstrip bodies. Each pair of the weatherstrip bodies cooperate to form an L-shaped or a V-shaped corner portion of the weatherstrip corresponding to an associated one of L-shaped or V-shaped corner portions of the holder. Each of two weatherstrip bodies which constitute one of the corner portions of the weatherstrip has a mounting base held between a retainer and a clip which are respectively fixed to the inner and outer faces of the mounting base and which are coupled to each other through coupling pins formed integrally with the clip and extending through the weatherstrip mounting base, each coupling pin having a distal end portion thereof press-fitted into a pin hole formed in the retainer.

Abstract: A CAM device has an HIT flag cell and a word select separation circuit, with data being stored in a plurality of CAM cells. The HIT flag cell then stores whether or not data stored in the CAM and inputted words (data) coincide. The word select separation circuit the detects the lowest address values corresponding to words within coinciding words and then sequentially resets HIT flag cells storing the coinciding of words.

Abstract: In a sealing device for a rotary machine of the type that an annular groove is provided in an inner circumferential surface of a through-hole of a stationary member through which a rotary body supported rotatably by a bearing device extends, gap spaces between the rotary body and the both side portions of the stationary member on the opposite sides of the annular groove are sealed by seal rings, and a seal fluid feed hole for feeding a sealing fluid into the annular groove is provided in the stationary member; improvements are made in that a vibration suppressing movable ring is accommodated within the annular groove, the movable ring is mounted to the stationary member so as to be movable only in a radial direction so that an outside annular gap clearance may be formed between an outer circumferential surface of the movable ring and an inner circumferential surface of the annular groove and also an inside annular gap clearance may be formed between an inner circumferential surface of an inner hole of the mov