Abstract: A lithium secondary battery which comprises: a negative electrode comprising as an active material a carbonaceous material capable of electrochemically holding/releasing lithium; a positive electrode comprising as an active material a lithium chalcogenide; and polymer electrolyte layers united respectively with the negative electrode and the positive electrode. The polymer electrolyte layers comprise an ionically conductive polymer matrix holding a nonaqueous electrolytic solution. They are obtained by crosslinking and polymerizing a liquid mixture of a monomeric precursor for the ionically conductive polymer and the nonaqueous electrolytic solution respectively on the negative electrode and the positive electrode using different polymerization initiators.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser device manufacturing method includes, sequentially, a first aging step S1, a first inspection step S2, a mounting step S3, a second aging step S4 and a second inspection step S5. Since the first aging step S1 on a semiconductor laser chip with a high-temperature direct current conduction is performed before the mounting step S3, threshold current and drive current of the semiconductor laser chip before mounting can be reduced.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention is composed of a ?/4 plate 1, a ?/2 plate 2, and a polarizing plate 3 which are provided in this order from the side of a liquid crystal layer 10. Here, an angle formed between an absorption axis of the polarizing plate 3 and an absorption axis of the ?/2 plate 2 is about 45°, an in-plane retardation of the ?/2 plate 2 is set to a value obtained by adding ?/4 to an in-plane retardation of a retardation plate 1, desirably, the ?/4 plate 1, and an optical axis of the ?/4 plate 1 and an optical axis of the ?/2 plate 2 are orthogonal to each other. In this configuration, the optical axis of the ?/4 plate 1 is placed at 150°, the optical axis of the ?/2 plate 2 is placed at 60°, and the absorption axis of the polarizing plate 3 is placed at 15°.

Abstract: An electronic element wafer module according to the present invention is provided, in which a translucent support substrate for covering and protecting a plurality of electronic elements is attached on an electronic element wafer having the plurality of electronic elements formed thereon, and an optical filter is formed corresponding to the electronic elements on at least one surface of the translucent support substrate, where the optical filter is removed to lessen warping along a part or all of dicing lines for individually dividing the electronic element wafer module into a plurality of electronic element modules.

Abstract: A toner whose flowability, chargeability and fixing property are enhanced, a developer, a developing device and an image forming apparatus are provided. The toner comprises a toner particle in which a shell layer is formed on a surface of a core particle, and external additive, where (1) the shell layer is formed in a film on the surface of the core particle, (2) a shape factor SF-2 is 120 or more and 140 or less, and (3) a BET specific surface area measured by the BET method is 1.2 m2/cm3 or more and 4.0 m2/cm3 or less. The developer containing such a toner is filled into the developing device in the image forming apparatus in order to form an image.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a solid-state pickup device module of the present invention includes: a step of processing a transparent substrate so that each of transparent substrates for a chip is held opposite to each of solid-state image pickup devices when the transparent substrate and a substrate having a plurality of solid-state image pickup devices are opposed to each other (step of processing a transparent substrate; S1 to S17); and a modularizing step in which the transparent substrate thus processed and the substrate having a plurality of solid-state image pickup devices are opposed to each other so as to place each of the transparent substrates for a chip opposite to each of the solid-state image pickup devices (modularizing step; S21 to S28). Thus, the present invention can improve manufacturing efficiency by bonding the transparent substrate and the substrate having a plurality of solid-state image pickup devices at a time.

Abstract: According to the present invention, heat generation amount control information for controlling a heat generation amount of a heat generating section (20) is arranged to correspond to each of temperatures so that a predetermined heat generation amount is obtained at each of the temperatures. The present invention includes a first computing section (41) that controls the heat generation amount of the heat generating section (20) according to the heat generation amount control information that is arranged in advance to correspond to temperature information that is obtained from a temperature sensor (13). This easily makes it possible to appropriately carry out at least either recording or reproduction with respect to a magnetic recording medium.

Abstract: An electromagnetic field detecting element 10 includes a lamination of three insulation layers 2, 3, and 4. The dielectric breakdown strength of the insulation layer 3 is greater than the dielectric breakdown strengths of insulation layers 2 and 4. The three insulation layers 2, 3, and 4 are disposed between a pair of electrodes 5 and 6. Boundaries 7 and 8 on both ends of an overlapping region of the opposing surfaces 5a and 6a in a Z direction are apart from the insulation layer 3 by thicknesses t1 and t3 of the insulation layers 2 and 4, respectively. Between the pair of electrodes 5 and 6, ballistic current paths interposing therebetween the insulation layer 3 are formed by applying, between the pair of electrodes 5 and 6, an electric field having a magnitude which causes dielectric breakdown in the insulation layers 2 and 4 while causing no dielectric breakdown in the insulation layer 3.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a toner is provided. The method for manufacturing a toner uses a rotary stirring apparatus that includes a circulating section for repeatedly performing circulation in a powder passage having a rotary stirring chamber and a circulation tube to return to the rotary stirring chamber by a rotary stirring section having a rotary disc around which rotary blades are installed and a rotary shaft, and a temperature adjusting section provided at least on a part of the powder passage for adjusting temperatures in the powder passage and of the rotary stirring section to a predetermined temperature, and includes a temperature adjusting step; a fine resin particle adhering step; a spraying step; and a film-forming step. The temperature in the powder passage is adjusted to the predetermined temperature by the temperature adjusting section at the fine resin particle adhering step, the spraying step, and the film-forming step.

Abstract: A notch is formed in a side of an optical sheet. As seen in plan view, the notch is shaped such that the maximum width of the notch as measured in the direction parallel to the line connecting both ends of a mouth portion of the notch is greater than the width of the mouth portion along the side of the optical sheet. Here, it is preferable that the notch be polygonal or have a curved shape as seen in plan view.

Abstract: In the image data processing apparatus of the present invention, one or more job icons each of which is indicative of the presence of a received job are displayed in a screen of a touch panel, and when any one of the displayed job icons is operated, an information window disclosing detail information concerning the operated job icon is additionally displayed. As a result, a limited display area of the touch panel can be effectively utilized, so that this enables the user to easily find not only a processing status of the received job but also detail information of the job.

Abstract: A solid-state image capturing apparatus according to the present invention includes a pixel area in which pixels for generating a signal charge by a photoelectric conversion on an incident light are arranged in a two dimensional matrix; a row selection section for selecting each pixel row of the pixel area; a plurality of column signal lines, to which an analog pixel signal from each pixel of a pixel row selected by the row selection section is readout; and a signal processing circuit for generating a digital pixel value from the analog pixel signal of each pixel that is read out to each of the column signal lines, where the signal processing circuit includes at least two or more AD conversion circuits for simultaneously converting the analog pixel signal of each pixel of the selected pixel row into a digital pixel value.

Abstract: A control unit is caused to drive a collimator lens from a position of an origin, by a clock number A of drive pulses of a pulse rate T1, thereby to move the collimator lens, and is caused to return the lens to the position of the origin at a pulse rate T2 higher than the pulse rate T1, and counts a clock number B of drive pulses required for returning the lens, and repeats the counting while raising the rate T2 stage by stage, until the clock numbers A and B do not become equal. When the clock numbers A and B are not equal, the control unit judges the occurrence of the step-out, and determines the rate T2 being one stage lower than the rate T2 at which the occurrence of the step-out has been judged, as the pulse rate of the operation of correction of spherical aberration.

Abstract: A method for reducing feedback overhead in a wireless communications system is described. Channel quality indicator (CQI) values corresponding to a measured channel quality are received from one or more mobile communications devices. The mobile communications devices to be scheduled at a future time are estimated. CQI values are requested from the mobile communications devices that are estimated to be scheduled at a future time.

Abstract: In the line light source device and the plane light emission device, first recesses 14 are formed between adjoining light emission elements 5, on surfaces of sealing resin layers 10 opposite to the board 4. The line light source device and the plane light emission device, in which the light emission elements are coated with resin, have a simple configuration and high uniformity in luminous intensity in an emission end face of the device.

Abstract: In a camera module 1 of the present invention, a mechanical shutter 2 is provided above a top surface of a lens unit 3, and a protrusion section formed to an end of a lens 31 is held in a depression section formed on a back surface of the mechanical shutter 2. With the arrangement, it is possible to cause the camera module 1 employing the mechanical shutter 2 to be smaller and thinner at the same time.

Abstract: A wireless video receiving apparatus is provided with a first voltage-controlled clock generation portion that can generate a video dot clock having a relatively high frequency and a second voltage-controlled clock generation portion that can generate a video dot clock having a relatively low frequency. A digital video signal compressed on the side of a transmitting apparatus is fed to a digital video signal decompression portion. The frequency of a horizontal synchronizing signal of an analog video signal fed to the side of a transmitting apparatus has been measured on the transmitting apparatus side, and a clock generated by the first or second voltage-controlled clock generation portion according to the frequency thus measured is fed to the digital video signal decompression portion, and then the compressed signal is decompressed.

Abstract: A display device used as a display unit of electronic equipment and a substrate for the display device, featuring a good display quality. The substrate for the display device comprises a plurality of gate bus lines formed in parallel on the substrate, a plurality of drain bus lines formed in parallel intersecting the plurality of gate bus lines via an insulating film, a plurality of storage capacitor bus lines formed nearly in parallel with the gate bus lines, a plurality of common storage capacitor wirings electrically connected to the plurality of storage capacitor bus lines and formed of the same material as that of the plurality of storage capacitor bus lines, and connection wirings for electrically connecting the plurality of common storage capacitor wirings together.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a parallax barrier with a barrier light-shielding layer patterned on a barrier glass, bonded with an adhesive layer composed of an ultraviolet curing resin, provided with an area without a light-shielding layer on the peripheral portion of the parallax barrier, and a sealing material is arranged between a TFT substrate and a CF substrate with at least a portion thereof overlapping with the area without the light-shielding layer. Thus, peeling on the bonding surfaces between the parallax barrier and the liquid crystal display panel does not easily occur, and the occurrence of display non-uniformity due to strain of the CF substrate is prevented.

Abstract: A method of monitoring synthesis of PCMO precursor solutions includes preparing a PCMO precursor solution and withdrawing samples of the precursor solution at intervals during a reaction phase of the PCMO precursor solution synthesis. The samples of the PCMO precursor solution are analyzed by UV spectroscopy to determine UV transmissivity of the samples of the PCMO precursor solution and the samples used to form PCMO thin films. Electrical characteristics of the PCMO thin films formed from the samples are determined to identify PCMO thin films having optimal electrical characteristics. The UV spectral characteristics of the PCMO precursor solutions are correlated with the PCMO thin films having optimal electrical characteristics. The UV spectral characteristics are used to monitor synthesis of future batches of the PCMO precursor solutions, which will result in PCMO thin films having optimal electrical characteristics.