Abstract: A backlight device is provided with: LEDs; a light guide plate having a light-receiving face, a light-exiting surface, and an opposite plate surface; a prism sheet including a plurality of light-exiting side unit prisms aligned along a second direction; a light-exiting surface-side prism portion including a plurality of light-exiting surface-side prism units aligned along the second direction; a light emission reflection portion including a plurality of reflection units aligned along a first direction at an interval; an opposite plate surface-side prism portion including a plurality of opposite plate surface-side unit prisms aligned along the second direction; and bow-shaped portions disposed into such a form as to be adjacent to the light-exiting surface-side prism units in the second direction while extending along the first direction, the bow-shaped portions having a bow-shaped cross-section.

Abstract: The organic EL display panel includes: a substrate; and an organic electroluminescent element disposed on the substrate, the organic electroluminescent element including, in the given order: an anode; a light-emitting layer; and a cathode, the light-emitting layer including multiple light-emitting portions, the multiple light-emitting portions each providing a luminescent color different from the luminescent color of the adjacent light-emitting portion, the multiple light-emitting portions each containing a luminescent dopant material, the concentration of the luminescent dopant material in each light-emitting portion changing in the thickness direction of the light-emitting portion and being at a local maximum in the vicinity of a first interface on the anode side and in the vicinity of a second interface on the cathode side, the local maximum in each light-emitting portion being 20% by weight or higher of the total weight of the light-emitting portion.

Abstract: Methods are presented for synthesizing metal cyanometallate (MCM). A first method provides a first solution of AXM2Y(CN)Z, to which a second solution including M1 is dropwise added. As a result, a precipitate is formed of ANM1PM2Q(CN)R.FH2O, where N is in the range of 1 to 4. A second method for synthesizing MCM provides a first solution of M2C(CN)B, which is dropwise added to a second solution including M1. As a result, a precipitate is formed of M1[M2S(CN)G]1/T. DH2O, where S/T is greater than or equal to 0.8. Low vacancy MCM materials are also presented.

Abstract: By using a light emitting device including an insulating substrate and a light emitting unit formed on the insulating substrate, the light emitting unit including: a plurality of linear wiring patterns disposed on the insulating substrate in parallel with one another, a plurality of light emitting elements that are mounted between the wiring patterns while being electrically connected to the wiring patterns, and a sealing member for sealing the light emitting elements, as well as a method for manufacturing thereof, it becomes possible to provide a light emitting device that achieves sufficient electrical insulation and has simple manufacturing processes so that it can be manufactured at a low cost, and a method for manufacturing the same.

Abstract: Novel gyrase inhibitors and related compositions and methods are useful for impeding bacterial growth.

Abstract: In a lighting unit, a first light source unit includes light sources and a first board having a first mount portion and a first empty portion, a second light source unit includes light sources and a second board having a second mount portion and a second empty portion. The first light entrance portion is on one edge portion thereof and the first fixing portion is adjacent to the first light entrance portion and on the one edge portion and fixes the first light source unit in close contact with the first empty portion. The second light entrance portion is on another edge portion and overlapped with the first fixing portion. The second fixing portion is adjacent to the second light entrance portion and overlapped with the first light entrance portion. The second fixing portion is in close contact with the second empty portion to fix the second light source unit.

Abstract: A circuit board includes a driver circuit for driving a pixel and an external connection terminal, on a substrate. The circuit board includes a wiring that is arranged just below the external connection terminal, and in a layer lower than the external connection terminal to overlap therewith.

Abstract: On a touch-panel display of an image forming apparatus, a function selecting area and a preview area are displayed next to each other. On the function selecting area, a function setting menu is displayed in one display mode among an icon mode in which only a group of icons are displayed, a regular mode in which a group of icons and a group of texts are displayed, and an express mode in which a group of icons, a group of texts and a group of function setting buttons are displayed. In the icon mode, detailed preview information is displayed on a large preview area, and in the express mode, detailed function selecting information is displayed on a large function selecting area.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus main body (apparatus main body) and an automatic document feeder mounted on the apparatus main body are provided, and a cable-side connector provided at a front end of an electrical cable extending from the automatic document feeder is removably connected to a board-side connector provided on a circuit board of the apparatus main body. In this configuration, an opening portion is provided in a back face of a housing of the apparatus main body at a position opposing the board-side connector, a lid that covers this opening portion is attached to a front end portion of the electrical cable by an attachment member, and this lid is configured so as to be attachable to the opening portion by a hook and fixing by screwing by means of a screw insertion boss.

Abstract: Radio transmission is performed even to a communication party whose bandwidth that can be used for transmission and reception is limited without having an influence of an offset of a DC component. A radio transmitter applied to an OFDMA communication system in which a plurality of different terminals performs communication using OFDM signals at the same time that includes a mapping part that allocates transmission power to each subcarrier, and also selects a subcarrier to which minimum power of the transmission power to be allocated is allocated and modulates transmission data in units of communication slots to output the modulated data; and a transmission part for transmitting radio signals including the modulated data using each of the subcarriers.

Abstract: The present invention provides Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase (Btk) inhibitor compounds according to Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and to their use in therapy. In particular, the present invention relates to the use of Btk inhibitor compounds in the treatment of Btk mediated disorders.

Abstract: A client (1) is provisioned with a content selection unit (13) for referencing description information (26), selecting content to be played in a certain period, and at the same time, and selecting content to be played at the next period from an id of a subset that is the same as the subset selected at the period, a request execution unit (14) for requesting the transmission of the selected content, and a content playback unit (15) for continuously playing the content transmitted in response to the request.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display that can suppress generation of defects even when attachment misalignment of substrates is generated, and that is advantageous in providing high definition. The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display including: a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates, the first substrate including an interlayer insulating film in which multiple openings are formed on the same straight line, the interlayer insulating film including multiple curved portions each provided with a curved upper surface, the curved portions each positioned between two adjacent openings, the second substrate provided with a spacer facing at least one of the curved portions, the spacer being longer in a first direction than in a second direction wherein the first direction is a direction parallel to the straight line, and the second direction is orthogonal to the first direction.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a readily produced and easily handled heat storage member. The heat storage member 1 has a rectangular plane surface of, for example, 15 (cm)×20 (cm), and has a thickness of, for example, 10 to 15 mm. The heat storage member 1 includes a gelatinous latent heat storage material 12, and a large number of highly heat conductive fillers 14 dispersed in the latent heat storage material 12. The highly heat conductive fillers 14 are mixed in the latent heat storage material 12 with a bias in dispersion density. In the rectangular plane surface of the heat storage member 1, a periodic pattern is formed in combination of cellular (cell-like) regions 10, which are demarcated by, for example, hexagonal contour lines 16 and which are periodically arrayed in the vertical and horizontal directions.

Abstract: A light emitting device (10) includes light emitting elements (12), conductor wirings (14), and alignment marks (18) formed on a substrate (11). The alignment marks (18) and the conductor wirings (14) are formed by printing.

Abstract: A communication terminal includes: a display, an input device for accepting a first operation instruction; a communication device for connection with a server and another terminal; and a control unit for receiving first contents from the server via the communication device according to the first operation instruction, determining whether connection with another terminal is established or not, transmitting the first contents to another terminal via the communication device when a determination is made that connection with another terminal is established, and causing the display to show the first contents.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes gene signature biomarkers that are useful for identifying cancer patients who are most likely to benefit from treatment with a PD-1 antagonist. The disclosure also provides methods and kits for testing tumor samples for the biomarkers, as well as methods for treating subjects with a PD-1 antagonist based on the test results.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes PD-L1 gene signature biomarkers that are useful for identifying cancer patients who are most likely to benefit from treatment with a PD-1 antagonist. The disclosure also provides methods and kits for testing tumor samples for the biomarkers, as well as methods for treating subjects with a PD-1 antagonist based on the test results.

Abstract: A backlight device is provided with: LEDs; a light guide plate having a light-receiving face, a light-exiting surface, and an opposite plate surface; a prism sheet that is disposed on the light-exiting side of the light guide plate and that includes a plurality of light-exiting side prisms aligned along a second direction; a light-exiting surface-side prism portion that is disposed in the light-exiting surface of the light guide plate and that includes a plurality of light-exiting surface-side prisms aligned along the second direction; a light emission reflection portion that is disposed in the opposite plate surface of the light guide plate and that includes a plurality of reflection units aligned along a first direction at an interval; and an opposite plate surface-side prism portion that is disposed in the opposite plate surface of the light guide plate and that includes a plurality of opposite plate surface-side prisms aligned along the second direction.