Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first dielectric film formed on the piezoelectric substrate, and electrodes that are provided on the first dielectric film and excite an acoustic wave, the electrodes including electrode fingers. At least a part of the first dielectric film is cut out between adjacent electrode fingers among the electrode fingers.

Abstract: An elastic wave device is described which includes a piezoelectric substrate, comb-shaped electrodes having teeth electrodes that are disposed so as to face each other on the piezoelectric substrate, a non-overlapping area in which the teeth electrodes of the comb-shaped electrodes do not overlap each other, and a overlapping area in which the teeth electrodes overlap each other and the velocity of sound is higher than that in the non-overlapping area.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a method of screening for a substance useful for transdifferentiation of microglia into neurons, a method of producing neurons, and a method of treating a neurologic disorder.

Abstract: A display driving circuit includes an amplifier circuit including an output stage including first and second MOS transistors which are complementary to each other to perform a push-pull operation, an output terminal, a switch element provided between an output end of the output stage and the output terminal, and a controller which enables the first and second MOS transistors to exclusively turn on and off.

Abstract: An elastic boundary wave device includes a first medium with piezoelectricity, an electrode exciting an elastic wave and provided on the first medium, a second medium made of a different material from the first medium and provided on the first medium to cover the electrode, and a sound absorbing portion provided on the second medium.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel microalga that produces hydrocarbons available as an alternative fuel to a diesel fuel (light oil). The present invention relates to a novel microalga Pseudochoricystis ellipsoidea having the ability to produce hydrocarbons, and to a process for producing hydrocarbons, characterized by culturing a microalga belonging to the genus Pseudochoricystis or the genus Choricystis having the ability to produce hydrocarbons, and collecting the hydrocarbon from the resulting cultured product.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, comb electrodes formed above the piezoelectric substrate, and a first dielectric film provided so as to cover the comb electrodes, the first dielectric film having empty spaces associated with fingers of the comb electrodes.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first dielectric film provided on the piezoelectric substrate, electrodes that are provided on the first dielectric film and excite an acoustic wave, and a second dielectric film that is provided so as to cover the electrodes and is thicker than the electrodes.

Abstract: An elastic boundary wave device includes a LiNbO3 substrate, an electrode exciting an elastic wave and provided on the substrate, and a silicon oxide film provided on the substrate to cover the electrode, and parameters of the elastic boundary wave device have any one of ranges, where “?” is a rotation Y cut angle of the substrate, “a” is a ratio of copper density with respect to a density of a material used as the electrode, “?” is a wavelength of the elastic wave excited by the electrode, “h” is a film thickness of the electrode, “H” is a thickness of the silicon oxide film.

Abstract: An acoustic boundary wave device includes a first medium having piezoelectricity, electrodes that are provided on the first medium and excite acoustic waves, a second medium made of a material different from the first medium and provided on the first medium so as to cover the electrodes, and a third medium that has a heat conductivity higher than that of the second medium and is provided so as to contact an upper surface of the second medium and at least a part of side surfaces of the second medium.

Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes: a ladder filter that has acoustic wave resonators connected in series and parallel arms; an inductor that is provided between a ground and at least one of the parallel-arm resonators in the ladder filter; and a resonance circuit that is provided in parallel with the inductor, and is located between the ground and the parallel-arm resonators in the ladder filter. In this acoustic wave filter, the resonance frequency of the resonance circuit is expressed as: 2f0?150 MHz<fr<2f0+150 MHz or 3f0?150 MHz<fr<3f0+150 MHz, where fr represents the resonance frequency, and f0 represents the passband frequency of the ladder filter.

Abstract: A surface-acoustic-wave device comprises a piezoelectric substrate and first and second comb-shaped electrodes each having a bus-bar portion parallel to a propagation direction of a surface acoustic wave in the substrate. Respective electrode fingers are periodically formed on the piezoelectric substrate and extend in directions perpendicular to the propagation direction, wherein the electrode fingers of the first comb-shaped electrode and the electrode fingers of the second comb-shaped electrode are separated away from the bus-bar portion of the opposing comb-shaped electrode. The respective electrode fingers being periodically arrayed in the propagation direction of the surface-acoustic-wave, and the electrode fingers of each comb-shaped electrode are inclined at root portions thereof outwardly right and left from the bus-bar portion of the corresponding comb-shaped electrode so that the inclined portions of the electrode fingers face a direction of a leaking surface-acoustic-wave perpendicularly.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, a resonator having comb electrodes that are provided above the piezoelectric substrate and excite an acoustic wave, and a capacitor that is provided above the piezoelectric substrate and is connected in series or parallel with the resonator, the capacitor including electrodes that horizontally face each other above the piezoelectric substrate. The electrodes of the capacitor are further from the piezoelectric substrate than the comb electrodes of the resonator.

Abstract: An output circuit of a data driver in a liquid crystal display apparatus conducts a dot inversion driving method. The output circuit includes amplifiers that output the data signals on data lines, switches that separate the data lines from the amplifiers and short/precharge circuit that shorts the lines between the data lines, for a predetermined time, and then supply the same polarity precharge voltage as the polarity when writing the data signals on the data lines in a next sequence.

Abstract: A surface-acoustic-wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate and first and second comb-shaped electrodes each having a bus-bar portion parallel to a propagation direction of a surface acoustic wave in the substrate. Respective electrode fingers are periodically formed on the piezoelectric substrate and extend in directions perpendicular to the propagation direction, wherein the electrode fingers of the first comb-shaped electrode and the electrode fingers of the second comb-shaped electrode are separated away from the bus-bar portion of the opposing comb-shaped electrode. The respective electrode fingers being periodically arrayed in the propagation direction of the surface-acoustic-wave, and the electrode fingers of each comb-shaped electrode are inclined at root portions thereof outwardly right and left from the bus-bar portion of the corresponding comb-shaped electrode so that the inclined portions of the electrode fingers face a direction of a leaking surface-acoustic-wave perpendicularly.

Abstract: A filter includes a parallel resonator having first comb electrodes provided on a piezoelectric substrate and a first dielectric film that covers the first comb electrodes, and a series resonator having second comb electrodes provided on the piezoelectric substrate and a second dielectric film covers the second comb electrodes and is made of a material identical to that of the first dielectric film. The first dielectric film has a different thickness from that of the second dielectric film.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a method of screening for a substance useful for transdifferentiation of microglia into neurons, a method of producing neurons, and a method of treating a neurologic disorder.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first dielectric film formed on the piezoelectric substrate, and electrodes that are provided on the first dielectric film and excite an acoustic wave, the electrodes including electrode fingers. At least a part of the first dielectric film is cut out between adjacent electrode fingers among the electrode fingers.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, comb electrodes formed above the piezoelectric substrate, and a first dielectric film provided so as to cover the comb electrodes, the first dielectric film having empty spaces associated with fingers of the comb electrodes.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first dielectric film provided on the piezoelectric substrate, electrodes that are provided on the first dielectric film and excite an acoustic wave, and a second dielectric film that is provided so as to cover the electrodes and is thicker than the electrodes.