Abstract: A coating composition for an electrophotographic photoreceptor that forms a charge-generating layer by being ejected from ejection nozzles in a form of droplets, comprises a charge-generating substance, a binding resin, and a solvent, has a viscosity of 1 mPa·s to 10 mPa·s, and the solvent contains at least one kind of high-boiling point solvent having a boiling point of 120° C. to 260° C., and the high-boiling point solvent is contained at a ratio of 5 parts by weight to 40 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the coating composition for an electrophotographic photoreceptor.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a row electrode drive circuit (scanning signal line drive circuit), a column electrode drive circuit (source signal line drive circuit), a power supply circuit, a common electrode drive circuit, and a memory (storage means). The memory stores the respective optimum applied voltages for the source electrode corresponding to display modes of the liquid crystal display device, a reflective mode and a transmissive mode. With the above arrangement, in the case where the display mode is switched among a plurality of display modes, the above active matrix display device can reset an optimum applied voltage for a common electrode or a source electrode in accordance with each of the display modes to suppress the occurrence of flickers, thus allowing the display device to maintain a high quality of display all the time.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate 1110a, a second substrate 1110b placed to face the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer 1120 interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal display device has a plurality of pixels each including a first electrode 1111 formed on the first substrate, a second electrode 1131 formed on the second substrate, and the liquid crystal layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The second electrode 1131 has at least one opening 1114 formed at a predetermined position in the pixel, the first substrate has a shading region in gaps between the plurality of pixels, and a wall structure 1115 is placed regularly on the surface of the first substrate facing the liquid crystal layer in the shading region.

Abstract: An illumination device for a flat panel display may include a light-guiding member for guiding light from a light-emitting lamp, wherein the light-emitting lamp has a light-emitting device incorporated in a lamp body, wherein the lamp body has a reflection surface that reflects light from the light-emitting device and an emitting surface that is opposite to the reflection surface and irradiates the reflected light from the reflection surface toward the light-guiding member. In certain example embodiments, the emitting surface is formed into a shape along the irradiated surface of the light-guiding member and the reflection surface is formed to be curved such that the reflected light is made approximately parallel seen from one direction upon reflecting the light from the light-emitting device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus of the present invention predicts the occurrence of an image elongation, in other words, predicts that an image transferred is lengthened on a sheet due to slipping of the sheet with respect to a photoreceptor at a transfer nip portion. If the occurrence of the image elongation is predicted, the amount of a rear edge portion to be deleted from an electrostatic latent image is obtained on the basis of a sheet rear edge void setting change table, the amount of the rear edge portion to be deleted is added to the default amount of a rear edge void, a portion corresponding to the rear edge portion of an image of image information is deleted, and a printing process is carried out. In this way, even if a slip phenomenon occurs, in other words, the sheet slips with respect to the photoreceptor, it is possible to surely secure a blank space at a rear edge portion of the sheet.

Abstract: In wireless networks, data objects are typically transferred from a data distributor to a data recipient by reliable point-to-point communication between the distributor and the recipient. However, the time to transfer data by point-to-point communication can become excessive if the number of recipients is large. Efficient and reliable data transfer is provided by a system incorporating broadcast and point-to-point communication topologies. The data is initially broadcast to all recipients. Data broadcasting is followed by polling the recipients. If the data missing after a broadcast can be transferred in less time by point-to-point communication then that topology is chosen to complete the transfer. If not, the missing data is broadcast again to all recipients. The efficiency of the broadcast phase can be improved by designating a representative to acknowledge successful data transfer on behalf of all recipients.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic circuit device capable of reducing the occurrence of electromagnetic waves accompanying the propagation of a signal. The electronic circuit device comprises a plurality of transparent substrates, on which an optical sensor and an optical shutter are formed. An optical signal is inputted from the external into the electronic circuit device, and the optical signal is directly irradiated on the optical sensor disposed on the transparent substrate, or the optical signal is transmitted through the transparent substrate and inputted into an optical sensor on the other substrate. The optical sensor converts the optical signal into an electric signal, and the circuit disposed on the substrate is operated. The optical shutter is controlled by the output of the circuit, the light is inputted from the external into this optical shutter, and whether the light has been transmitted or not is determined, thereby taking out the signal.

Abstract: A dual gate strained-Si MOSFET with thin SiGe dislocation regions and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The method forms a first layer of relaxed SiGe overlying a substrate, having a thickness of less than 5000 ?; forms a second layer of relaxed SiGe overlying the substrate and adjacent to the first layer of SiGe, having a thickness of less than 5000 ?; forms a layer of strained-Si overlying the first and second SiGe layers; forms a shallow trench isolation region interposed between the first SiGe layer and the second SiGe layer; forms an p-well in the substrate and the overlying first layer of SiGe; forming forms a p-well in the substrate and the overlying second layer of SiGe; forms channel regions, in the strained-Si, and forms PMOS and NMOS transistor source and drain regions.

Abstract: A semiconductor storage device has a memory cell array composed of a plurality of arrayed memory cells, word lines, bit lines, a bit line charging and discharging circuit, and a readout section. Each memory cell has two storage regions in vicinity of opposite ends of a channel region, first and second input/output terminals, and a control terminal. The readout section reads information stored in one of the first and second storage regions of a memory cell based on a first output equivalent to an output current from the memory cell when a current is passed from the first input/output terminal to the second input/output terminal of the memory cell and a second output equivalent to an output current from the memory cell when a current is passed from the second input/output terminal to the first input/output terminal.

Abstract: In a regenerator to be formed by winding a resin film into a cylindrical shape, a projection is formed on a surface of the resin film by subjecting the resin film in itself to plastic deformation, either by stamping or by laser beam irradiation. Thereafter, the resin film is stacked. The projection provides a gap between layers of the stacked resin film to be a flow passage for a working gas. Thus, a regenerator of high heat exchange efficiency is provided with ease and at low cost.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor device that offers a desirable adhesiveness among the bonding pad, the second insulating layer and the insulating film, and that permits an insulating film formed between a bonding pad and the second wiring layer from being cracked even when stress is applied to the bonding pad from above. In a semiconductor integrated circuit 11a, other wirings 12 are formed so as to avoid the regions right under opposed edges 7a and 7b of the bonding pad 1 and opposed edges 9a and 9b of an inner lead 8. For example, the region in which the other wirings 12 can be formed is selected to be a region 13a between right under the edge 7a of the bonding pad 1 and right under the edge 9a of the inner lead 8, and the region 13b between right under the edge 7b and right under the edge 9b of the inner lead 8. A insulating film 5 formed above these other wirings 12 is made up of an inorganic insulating film only.

Abstract: Methods and systems for efficient organization and communication of pixel intra-prediction modes.

Abstract: A backlight unit has a light source, a reflection sheet, a light guide plate, an air space, and a diffuser, wherein the reflection sheet, the light guide plate, the air space, and the diffuser are overlaid in this order. The light source is configured to arrange individual light sources having different spectra or different light emission quantities near an incident plane of the light guide plate, and on a plane facing the reflection sheet of the light guide plate, scatter dots are disposed which take light propagating through the light guide plate out of the reflection sheet side. The backlight unit and a liquid crystal display device including the same have excellent display quality.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory cell that can be mounted in a CMOS manufacturing process, and is capable of implementing high level of programming, reading and erasing ability. The memory cell is configured by a MOS transistor comprising two N-type first impurity diffusion layers formed separately on a P-type semiconductor substrate, and a first gate electrode formed above a first cannel region sandwiched by both diffusion layers through a first gate insulation film, a first capacitor comprising P-type second impurity diffusion layers formed on a well, and a second gate electrode formed above the diffusion layer through a second gate insulation film, and a second capacitor comprising the well adjacent to the second impurity diffusion layer, and a third gate electrode formed above the well through a third gate insulation film, wherein a different voltage can be applied to each of the capacitors.

Abstract: A method for predicting local concentrations of short-lived microparticles having an unstable composition in a room simply and in a short time is provided. The method for predicting the concentration distribution of microparticles includes the steps of determining a flow field in a room, determining the age-of-air distribution in the room on the basis of the flow field in the room, and converting the age of air into the concentration of the microparticles.

Abstract: A hologram element is composed of a hologram element body shaped as a right prism having two rhombus-shaped bottom surfaces. A hologram is disposed on one bottom surface of the hologram element body, the hologram being divided by a division line into a plurality of regions having different grating periods. A grating is disposed on another bottom surface of the hologram element body. A first diagonal line of the bottom surface is longer than a second diagonal line thereof. A center of the hologram is located at a point of intersection of the first diagonal line and the second diagonal line. The division line lies in the first diagonal line. Light which enters through the one bottom surface having the hologram illuminates a plane which is perpendicular to the one bottom surface and includes the division line.

Abstract: A control section (101) includes a first power control section (81) (a first power control mode) and a second power control section (82) (a second power control mode). The first power control section (81) is for controlling an setting value of electric power to be supplied to a heater lamp (64) based on the temperature of a heating roller (61). The second power control section (82) is for controlling the setting value of electric power to be supplied to the heater lamp (64) in order to forced-drive the heater lamp (64) by an electric power that is higher than the setting value of electric power. Switching control means (84) performs switching between the first power control mode and the second power control mode depending on a status of operation of each of components forming an image forming apparatus (100).

Abstract: An optical data recording medium, in which irradiation of a light beam is used for recording and/or reproducing data includes (i) a substrate having an a rise and/or a recess which are a light-incident surface, (ii) a reflective layer, provided on the light-incident surface of the substrate, for reflecting the light beam, (iii) a light absorption layer for converting, to heat, a light of the light beam to heat on the surface of the reflective layer, (iv) a reproducing layer, provided on the surface of the heat-light converting layer, having a transmittance that changes in accordance with a light intensity distribution of the light beam. The optical data recording medium is excellent in super-resolution property, and enables reproduction of a shorter mark length.

Abstract: A document that corresponds to an imaging job to be performed by an imaging device may be received. The document may be in a non-native format that is not native to the imaging device. It may be determined that a translation operation should be performed on the document. The translation operation may include translating the document from the non-native format into a native format that is native to the imaging device. At least one job auditing function may be performed with respect to the document in the non-native format. Audit data may be generated as a result of the at least one job auditing function being performed. The audit data may be provided to a job auditing record manager. The job auditing record manager may store the audit data in a job auditing record.

Abstract: In a display device including: a display space provided on a display surface side; and a conductive liquid sealed inside the display space so as to be operable, which is constituted so as to be able to change a display color on the display surface side according to an application of an electric field to the conductive liquid, a power source portion, a first driving circuit that is connected to the power source portion, and allows the conductive liquid to flow into an inside of the display space according to a voltage applied by the power source portion, and a second driving circuit that is connected to the power source portion, and allows the conductive liquid to flow out of the inside of the display space according to a voltage applied by the power source portion are provided.