Abstract: A semiconductor device (100) according to the present invention includes a thin film transistor (10) having a gate electrode (62a), a first insulating layer (64), an oxide semiconductor layer (66a), a protection layer (68), a source electrode (72as), and a second insulating layer (74). A first connecting portion (30) includes a lower metal layer (72c), an upper metal layer (72c), and an insulating layer (74). A second connecting portion (40) includes a lower metal layer (72d) and an upper conductive layer (17d). A region in which the lower metal layer (72d) is in contact with the upper conductive layer (17d), and a region in which an insulating layer (74) made of a same material as the first insulating layer and a semiconductor layer (66d) made of a same material as the oxide semiconductor layer (66a) are stacked in between the lower metal layer (72d) and the upper conductive layer (17d), are formed in the second connecting portion (40).

Abstract: A push-pull circuit comprising: a push-pull first switching element and second switching element; a first rectifier element; a third switching element for switching a pathway between conductance and cutoff, the pathway leading from a connection point between the first switching element and an inductive load via the first rectifier element to a connection point between a DC power source and a center tap of the inductive load; a second rectifier element; and a fourth switching element for switching a pathway between conductance and cutoff, the pathway leading from a connection point between the second switching element and the inductive load via the second rectifier element to a connection point between the DC power source and the center tap of the inductive load.

Abstract: A lens frame, made from metal, retaining a light-emitting lens and a light-receiving lens is retained between a second mold and a third mold both of which are made from light-shielding resins. Anchors are formed by filling light-shielding resin for forming the third mold into fixing slots formed in an upper surface of the second mold and through holes formed in the lens frame. Since the lens frame is made from metal, thermal expansion of the lens frame is hardly caused by ambient temperature changes and self-heating. This causes little difference in the amount of change in difference between the lenses. Further, the lens frame is fixed with anchors between the second mold and the third mold. This suppresses the occurrence of sliding caused by difference in thermal expansion coefficient between the lens frame and the second and third molds.

Abstract: A lighting device includes: light-emitting diodes (light sources) (4); an LED substrate (light source substrate) (5) that has a mounting surface (5a) on which the light-emitting diodes (4) are mounted; a light-guiding plate (6) that has a light incident surface (6b1) from which light from the light-emitting diodes (4) enters, and a light emitting surface (6c) that emits the light having entered from the light incident surface (6b1) toward a liquid crystal panel (object to be irradiated) (2); and a reflection plate (7) that is provided on a side of an opposite surface (6d) of the light-guiding plate (6) that is opposite to the light emitting surface (6c), and reflects light. The reflection plate (7) includes a bent portion (7b) formed by bending an end portion of the reflection plate (7) so that the bent portion surrounds the light-emitting diodes (4) while being in close contact with the mounting surface (5a) of the LED substrate (5).

Abstract: An optical element according to the present invention includes: an optical surface at a center portion thereof; a spacer section having a predetermined thickness on an outer circumference side of the optical surface; a support plate including one or a plurality of through holes penetrating the optical surface, inside a transparent resin material; and a penetrating portion and/or a concave portion for releasing the resin material when forming resin, in a further outer peripheral portion of the support plate.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device that can reduce costs while preventing moving image blurring. The device includes a liquid crystal panel and a backlight device. The backlight device includes a rectangular light guide plate 10 in plan view, and a light source unit emitting light toward a light incident surface corresponding to a side surface of the light guide plate. The light source unit is configured by a plurality of light source blocks arranged in a Y direction. The light guide plate 10 includes a groove structure 32 for taking out light upward on its front surface opposed to a back surface of the liquid crystal panel, and a dot pattern 31 for scattering light on its back surface. The groove structure 32 has a plurality of stripe-like grooves extending in an X direction, wherein a ridge extending in the X direction is formed at a portion sandwiched between the two adjacent grooves.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus (10) capable of releasing pressure of toner accumulated between photoreceptor drums and cleaning blades without affecting the life of the photoreceptor drums includes photoreceptor drums (21A to 21D), an intermediate transfer belt (31), cleaning blades (250A to 250D), a cam mechanism (36), and a drive motor (26). The photoreceptor drums (21B to 21D) bear a toner image. The toner image is transferred from the photoreceptor drums (21A to 21D) to the intermediate transfer belt. The cleaning blades (250A to 250D) remove toner remaining on the photoreceptor drums (21A to 21D) after the toner image transfer. The cam mechanism (36) switches, after an image forming process, a contact state of the photoreceptor drums (21A to 21D) and the intermediate transfer belt (31) to a separation state. The drive motor (26) rotates the photoreceptor drums (21B to 21D) backward after switching the contact state to the separation state.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate (20a) includes a gate electrode (25) formed on an insulating substrate (10a), and a planarizing film (26) formed on the gate electrode (25) and made of a baked SOG material. The gate electrode (25) is a multilayer film including a first conductive film (27) formed on the insulating substrate (10a) and made of a metal except copper, a second conductive film (28) formed on the first conductive film (27) and made of copper, and a third conductive film (29) formed on the second conductive film (28) and made of the metal except copper.

Abstract: Occurrence of a crosstalk phenomenon is suppressed in a light-emitting device including a tandem element. A light-emitting device includes a first lower electrode and a second lower electrode over an insulating layer; a partition which is formed over the insulating layer and positioned between the first lower electrode and the second lower electrode; a projecting object formed over the partition; a first light-emitting unit over each of the first lower electrode, the partition, the projecting object, and the second lower electrode; an intermediate layer over the first light-emitting unit; a second light-emitting unit over the intermediate layer; and an upper electrode over the second light-emitting unit. A recess is formed by a side surface of the projecting object and a side surface of the partition.

Abstract: A light-emitting device production method includes a positioning step of positioning, in a light-emitting element, a sealing member at least containing a silicone resin semi-cured at a room temperature (T0) by primary cross-linking and a fluorescent material, the silicone resin decreasing in viscosity reversibly in a temperature region between the room temperature (T0) and a temperature lower than a secondary cross-linking temperature (T1), and being totally cured non-reversibly in a temperature region equal to or higher than the secondary cross-linking temperature (T1).

Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) for performing carrier aggregation is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. Multiple serving cells are configured. The UE determines a first parameter that defines a maximum number of elements with downlink (DL) assignments for a subframe in the DL association set for a serving cell. The UE determines physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information for the serving cell according to the first parameter. The UE sends the PDSCH HARQ-ACK information.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the construction and utilization of a new mammalian expression vector that contains a unique multiple cloning site (MCS), designated pUHAB. The pUHAB vector comprises a high copy replication origin (ColE1), a drug resistance gene (TK-Hygromycin), and a human cytomegalovirus promoter operably associated with a unique intron (hCMV/intron). Further, pUHAB comprises a selectable marker conferring resistance to kanamycin in bacterial cells, and a phage f1(+) region. pUHAB can be used to transiently or stably express cloned genes when transfected into mammalian cells. The invention also encompasses kits and host cells and cell lines comprising pUHAB, and methods of producing a recombinant protein using pUHAB.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polymorphic forms of a compound of formula A: This compound is useful as a glucagon receptor antagonist and serves as a pharmaceutically active ingredient for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and related conditions, such as hyperglycemia, obesity, dyslipidemia, and the metabolic syndrome. Hydrates, hemihydrates, anhydrates and similar polymorphic forms are included.

Abstract: This invention is to provide a developing device uniformly developing an image along an axis line of a developing roller and stably obtaining the image with a uniform concentration. The developing device comprises: a developer tank, the developing roller, and a cylindrical layer thickness-regulating member. The layer thickness-regulating member comprises a body part regulating a layer thickness of a developer retained on an outer periphery of the developing roller; a first supporting part having a diameter smaller than that of the body part and supporting the body part at one end of the body part; and a second supporting part having a diameter smaller than or the same as that of the body part and supporting the body part at the other end of the body part.

Abstract: A mobile station apparatus that transmits a physical uplink control channel and computes a transmit power for a physical uplink control channel transmission in a subframe based on a physical uplink control channel format for the physical uplink control channel transmission in the subframe. The mobile station apparatus assumes that the transmit power for the physical uplink control channel transmission in the subframe is computed based on a predefined physical uplink control channel format in a case that the mobile station apparatus does not transmit the physical uplink control channel in the subframe.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, a plurality of pixel electrodes respectively connected to a plurality of source bus lines are arranged along an extension direction of the source bus line, the pixel electrodes being alternately displaced to one side and then the other in an arrangement direction of the plurality of source bus lines. Thin film transistors each include a semiconductor layer containing a source portion, a channel portion and a drain portion, and a gate electrode formed using a portion of the gate bus line. The source portion, the channel portion and the drain portion are arranged so as to be adjacent to one another in a direction perpendicular to the arrangement direction of the plurality of source bus lines. The gate electrode extends in a direction parallel to the arrangement direction of the plurality of source bus lines and is arranged to oppose the channel portion.

Abstract: A noise event suppression technique for a monitoring system detects a noise event in a signal waveform when a focal sample in the waveform has an amplitude greater than an amplitude of algorithmically determined earlier and later samples in the waveform that are noncontiguous with the focal sample. When the monitoring system detects the noise event, the monitoring system reduces the amplitude of the focal sample to an amplitude between those of the earlier and later samples. The monitoring system outputs data determined using the waveform once noise events have been adequately suppressed.

Abstract: A UE for performing carrier aggregation is described. The UE determines a duplex method of each serving cell for carrier aggregation. A primary cell is a FDD cell. When transmitting PDSCH HARQ-ACK information on a PUSCH or using a PUCCH format 3 in a later subframe, the UE generates two NACKs for a PDSCH transmission in an earlier subframe for a serving cell when a configured downlink transmission mode supports up to two transport blocks, the serving cell is a TDD cell and an earlier subframe is an uplink subframe for the serving cell. The UE further generates a single NACK for a PDSCH transmission in an earlier subframe for a serving cell when a configured downlink transmission mode supports a single transport block, the serving cell is a TDD cell and an earlier subframe is an uplink subframe for the serving cell.

Abstract: A recording material conveying device includes a stripping claw being in contact with one rotary body of a first pair of rotary bodies, and a supporting member supporting a recording material curved when a jam occurs. The supporting member includes a supporting section located more away from the stripping claw than an imaginary straight line (C) passing a nip portion of the first pair of rotary bodies and a surface on a conveying path's side of the stripping claw, and the supporting section supports the recording material curved when the jam occurs. The recording material conveying device further includes a conveyance guide that is disposed on the downstream side from the supporting member and is displaced toward a pressed direction by a pressing force acting when the curved recording material comes into contact with the conveyance guide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to Sulfonamide Derivatives of Formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein A, W, X, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined herein. The present invention also relates to compositions comprising at least one Sulfonamide Derivative, and methods of using the Sulfonamide Derivatives for improving the pharmacokinetics of a drug.