Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display apparatus includes a first step of arranging a display panel (110) inside a housing (130); a second step including a light guide lens formation step of forming a curved surface (151b) of a light guide lens (151) into a concave-convex surface having surface roughness of 40-250 ?m, and a cover layer formation step of forming a light guide member (150) in such a manner that the curved surface (151b) of the light guide lens (151) is covered by a cover layer (152) to form an image-display-side surface of the cover layer (152) into a non-concave-convex surface; and a third step of bonding the light guide member (150) to a surface of an outer peripheral edge part of the display panel (110) and a surface of the window frame (130).

Abstract: A touch panel device (50) in accordance with the present invention includes: a detecting section (51) which detects, in accordance with a change in capacitance of a touch panel (40), an input operation conducted with respect to the touch panel (40); a calibration section (53) which calibrates a capacitance of the touch panel (40); and a determination section (54) which determines whether or not the change in capacitance in a region outside an input accepting region of the touch panel (40) is equal to or more than a predetermined amount.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel (a liquid crystal element) 12 according to the present invention includes a pair of substrates 12a and 12b having a normal distance therebetween, a liquid crystal layer 27 arranged between the substrates 12a and 12b, a plurality of first spacers 34, and a plurality of second spacers 35. The first spacers 34 have an average particle diameter AD1 that is larger than the normal distance SD between the substrates 12a and 12b and are configured to define a distance between the substrates 12a and 12b. The second spacers 35 have an average particle diameter AD2 that is smaller than the normal distance SD between the substrates 12a and 12b and are configured to define the distance between the substrates 12a and 12b.

Abstract: Novel crystalline forms of (2R,3S,5R)-2-(2,5-Difluorophenyl)-5-[2-(methylsulfonyl)-2,6-dihydropyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrazol-5(4H)-yl]tetrahydro-2H-pyran-3-amine are potent inhibitors of dipeptidyl peptidase-IV and are useful for the treatment of non-insulin dependent (Type 2) diabetes mellitus. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing these novel forms, processes to prepare these forms and their pharmaceutical compositions as well as uses thereof for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes.

Abstract: A structure (10) including (i) a casing (1) made of a dielectric and (ii) a conducting member (2) embedded in the casing (1) so as to be through the casing (1) is manufactured by insert molding. The conducting member (2) is provided with a recess (2c), and an upper mold (40) is provided with a protrusion (40a) corresponding to the recess (2c). The conducting member (2) is positioned to be fixed in the mold by fitting the protrusion (40a) in the recess (2c).

Abstract: An object of the invention of the present application is to drive data signal lines accurately by pulse width modulation driving and display gradations accurately. A PWM pattern generating circuit (12) generates 2q sets of PWM patterns associated with combinations of a gradation and the polarity of a gradation voltage. A selector (15) selects one PWM pattern from among the 2p+q PWM patterns, based on gradation data and a pattern set number. A charge and discharge control circuit (16) controls a charge and discharge circuit (17) to apply a charge voltage and a discharge voltage to a data signal line in a switching manner, based on the selected PWM pattern. One correction pulse may be selected for each data signal line from among a plurality of types of generated correction pulses, and a charge voltage may be applied to the data signal line based on the correction pulse.

Abstract: A steam cooker includes: a heating chamber for an item to be cooked; a removable water tank; a steam generating device with a housing to which water is supplied from the water tank and that heats the water within the housing and supplies steam to the heating chamber. A hardness detection portion includes a plurality of electrodes immersed in water within the water tank that detect the hardness of the water within the water tank by resistance between the electrodes. When the hardness of the water within the water tank is high, the interval of cleaning is shorter than an interval set when the hardness detected is low.

Abstract: A method for reporting uplink control information (UCI) by a user equipment (UE) is described. Downlink channels are measured to obtain channel state information (CSI). Radio resource control (RRC) signaling is received from an eNode B. It is determined whether simultaneous physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission is enabled. One or more CSI reports are transmitted on the PUSCH according to the RRC signaling.

Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides a method of inhibiting one or more cyclin dependent kinases in a patient comprising administering to said patient a therapeutically effective amount of at least one pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine compound or a pharmaceutical composition comprising such compound, and methods of treatment, prevention, inhibition, or amelioration of one or more diseases associated with the CDKs using such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions.

Abstract: A roller nanoimprint apparatus is disclosed which is capable of preventing a workpiece film with nanostructures having been transferred from the mold roller from being uneven in thickness and allowing easy replacement of the mold roller. At least one embodiment of the present invention is directed to a roller nanoimprint apparatus including a mold roller and continuously transferring nanosized protrusions to a surface of a workpiece film by rotating the mold roller, wherein the mold roller is a cylindrical body having an outer circumference surface with nanosized recesses formed thereon, the roller nanoimprint apparatus further includes a fluid container having an elastic film inflatable by injecting fluid into the container, the fluid container being arranged in a region defined by an inner circumference surface of the mold roller, the mold roller is mounted or demounted when the elastic film is shrunken, and the mold roller is supported from the inside when the elastic film is inflated.

Abstract: The present invention provides polynucleotides for enhanced expression of a target gene such as an immunoglobulin. Methods of expressing a target gene using the polynucleotides of the invention are also covered.

Abstract: A hydrogen (H) exfoliation gettering method is provided for attaching fabricated circuits to receiver substrates. The method comprises: providing a Si substrate; forming a Si active layer overlying the substrate with circuit source/drain (S/D) regions; implanting a p-dopant into the S/D regions; forming gettering regions underling the S/D regions; implanting H in the Si substrate, forming a cleaving plane (peak concentration (Rp) H layer) in the Si substrate about as deep as the gettering regions; bonding the circuit to a receiver substrate; cleaving the Si substrate along the cleaving plane; and binding the implanted H underlying the S/D regions with p-dopant in the gettering regions, as a result of post-bond annealing.

Abstract: When an image formation instruction for created document data is received, image data for a preview image corresponding to the document data is generated, the preview image based on the image data is displayed on a display, and an image is formed using data for image formation based on the image data for the preview image.

Abstract: Disclosed is a light-emitting device that exhibits good color rendering and highly efficiently emits white light in an incandescent bulb color range. The semiconductor light-emitting device (1) of the present invention includes: a semiconductor light-emitting element (2) that emits blue light; a green phosphor (14) that absorbs the blue light and emits green light; and an orange phosphor (13) that absorbs the blue light and emits orange light. The orange phosphor (13) produces an emission spectrum having a peak at a wavelength of equal to or greater than 590 nm but equal to or less than 630 nm and having a full width at half maximum of 130 nm or greater at the peak, the full width at half maximum of the emission spectrum of the orange phosphor (13) being broader than a full width at half maximum of an emission spectrum of the green phosphor (14). The orange phosphor (13) exhibits an absorptance having a peak wavelength of 420 nm or greater. ABS(530) and ABS(MAX) satisfy a relation, ABS(530)/ABS(MAX)<0.

Abstract: Disclosed is a display device wherein a light emitting element can have a longer service life, while suppressing luminance unevenness without causing an increase in cost or size. The display device comprises a light guide plate (21), an LED (25) that is arranged on the side of at least one corner portion (21d) of the light guide plate (21), a frame (4) that has a lateral portion (4b), and a bezel (5) that has a lateral portion (5b). The LED (25) is attached to a part (4d) of the lateral portion (4b) of the frame (4), and the part (4d) is thermally connected to a part (5d) of the lateral portion (5b) of the bezel (5).

Abstract: Vapor deposition particles (91) discharged from at least one vapor deposition source opening (61) pass through a plurality of limiting openings (82) of a limiting unit (80) and a plurality of mask openings (71) of a vapor deposition mask (70), and adhere to a substrate (10) that relatively moves along a second direction (10a) so as to form a coating film. The limiting unit includes a plurality of plate members stacked on one another. Accordingly, it is possible to efficiently form a vapor deposition coating film in which edge blurring is suppressed on a large-sized substrate at a low cost.

Abstract: A crucible (50) of the present invention includes: an opening (55a) from which vapor deposition particles are injected toward a film formation substrate on which a film is to be formed; a focal point member (54a), provided so as to face the opening (55a), which reflects vapor deposition particles injected from the opening (55a); and a revolution paraboloid (55b) which reflects, toward the film formation substrate, vapor deposition particles which have been reflected by the focal point member (54a).

Abstract: This invention relates to compounds having structural Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which are inhibitors of the Renal Outer Medullary Potassium (ROMK) channel (Kir1.1). The compounds of Formula I are useful as diuretics and natriuretics and therefore are useful for the therapy and prophylaxis of disorders resulting from excessive salt and water retention, including cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and chronic and acute heart failure.

Abstract: A mobile station device that communicates with a base station device, the mobile station device including: a determination unit which determines whether to request the base station device to provide control information of a small base station device accessed by the mobile station device or not; a first transmission unit, when the determination unit determines that the control information is to be requested, which sets information of the small base station device in a control information request message and transmits the control information request message to the base station device; a first reception unit which receives a response message transmitted from the base station device; and a measurement control execution unit which executes measurement control according to control information set in the response message received by the first reception unit.

Abstract: A circuit which is constituted by a plurality of n-channel transistors includes, in at least one embodiment, a transistor (T1) which has a drain terminal to which an input signal is supplied and a source terminal from which a output signal is supplied; and a transistor (T2) which has a drain terminal to which a control signal is supplied and a source terminal connected to a gate terminal of the transistor (T1). A gate terminal of the transistor (T2) is connected to the source terminal of the transistor (T2). With the arrangement, it is possible to provide (i) a semiconductor device which is constituted by transistors having an identical conductivity type and which is capable of reducing an influence of noise, and (ii) a display device including the semiconductor device.