Abstract: A nonvolatile random access memory that can be mounted on a substrate during a standard CMOS process. A memory cell comprises: a first MIS transistor including a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type in an electrically floating state, first drain and source regions of a second conductivity type formed on the first semiconductor layer, and a first gate electrode formed over the first semiconductor layer via a first gate insulating film; and a second MIS transistor including a second semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type isolated from the first semiconductor layer, second drain and source regions of the second conductivity type formed on the second semiconductor layer, a second gate electrode formed over the second semiconductor layer via a second gate insulating film. The first and second gate electrodes are electrically connected to each other so as to form a floating gate in an electrically floating state.

Abstract: A diode 201 includes a gate electrode 2, a gate insulating layer 5 provided on the gate electrode 2, at least one semiconductor layer 6, 7 provided on the gate insulating layer 5 and which includes a first region 6a and a second region 7b, a first electrode 10 which is provided on the first region 6a and which is electrically coupled to the first region 6a and the gate electrode 2, and a second electrode 12 which is provided on the second region 7b and which is electrically coupled to the second region 7b. The at least one semiconductor layer 6, 7 includes a channel region 6c which extends above the gate electrode 2 with the intervention of the gate insulating layer 5 therebetween, and a resistor region 7d which does not extend above the gate electrode 2. When the diode 201 is in an ON state, an electric current path is formed between the first electrode 10 and the second electrode 12, the electric current path including the channel region 6c and the resistor region 7d.

Abstract: A direct-viewing type display device includes a display panel including a display region which has a plurality of pixel lines extending in a first direction and a frame region, the display region and the frame region having a border extending in the first direction therebetween; and a light-transmitting cover. The plurality of pixel lines include a first pixel line adjoining the border, a second pixel line, and a third pixel line. The first pixel line, the second pixel line and the third pixel line are of different colors from each other. The light-transmitting cover includes a lens portion located over the border, the lens portion refracting a part of light going toward the frame region. A light diffusion structure is provided between the lens portion and a part of the display panel including the first pixel line, the second pixel line and the third pixel line.

Abstract: The present invention provides a circuit board with a reduced circuit area, and a display device comprising the circuit board and a narrower picture frame. The circuit board of the present invention comprises: a bottom gate thin film transistor comprising a first semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode; and a top gate thin film transistor comprising a second semiconductor layer, a second gate electrode, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode, wherein the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer are formed from the same material, and the first drain electrode or the first source electrode and the second gate electrode are connected without interposing any other thin film transistor therebetween, and have the same electric potential.

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 developing device includes: a developing tank for storing a developer containing a toner and a magnetic carrier, the developing tank including, inside thereof, a first developer carrying path; and a first stirring carrying member that rotates so that the first stirring carrying member carries the developer included in the first developer carrying path while stirring the developer. A toner supply opening is formed in a developing tank cover. An upper part of an inner wall surface of a side in which a developer sinks which inner wall surface faces downward rotation of the first stirring carrying member inclines from a direction perpendicular to a horizontal surface toward the first developer carrying path. An angle ? made by (i) a tangential line of the upper inner wall surface at a position of the upper inner wall surface which position is at a height of a top part of an outer circumference of the first stirring carrying member and (ii) a horizontal line is not less than 100° but not more than 150°.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device (100A) according to the present invention has first and second pixels (P1 and P2). Each of the first and second pixels (P1 and P2) includes first, second and third subpixels (R, G, and B). When the input signal indicates that each pixel should represent the first color, the luminances of the respective third subpixels (B1 and B2) of the first and second pixels (P1 and P2) are different from each other. But when the input signal indicates that each pixel should represent the second color, the average luminance of the respective third subpixels (B1 and B2) is substantially the same as when the first color is specified, and the luminances of the respective third subpixels (B1 and B2) are substantially equal to each other.

Abstract: A power control system includes a distribution unit distributing power supplied from a power system to a plurality of power demanding facilities, and a measurement unit measuring a value of running power between the power system and the distribution unit. A power control instruction is transmitted to a power demanding facility in the event of the condition of TLP<K1 (K1 indicates a threshold value used to detect reverse power flow) is established when the running power flowing from the power system towards the distribution unit is taken as a positive value. The power control instruction instructs a power storage device performing a discharging process to suppress the amount of power supplied in the direction towards the power system, and instructs a power storage device currently performing a charging process to increase the amount of power charged in a corresponding storage battery.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (100A) of the present invention includes an active matrix substrate (220); a counter substrate (240); and a vertical alignment type liquid crystal layer (260). The liquid crystal display device (100) has a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels including a plurality of subpixels. The plurality of subpixels include a red subpixel (R), a green subpixel (G), and a blue subpixel (B). When each of adjacent two of the plurality of pixels represents an achromatic color at a certain grayscale level, a luminance of a blue subpixel (B) included in one of the two adjacent pixels is different from a luminance of a blue subpixel (B) included in the other of the two adjacent pixels.

Abstract: An auxiliary capacitor line driving circuit (5), provided in a surrounding region located around a display region (R1) in a liquid crystal display panel, generates auxiliary capacitor driving signals, and includes: first and second voltage trunk lines (VCS1, VCS2) which carry two different voltages, respectively; at least one control signal line (VCTRL1, VCTRL2) carrying one control signal; and a plurality of TFTs (T1, T2, T3, T4) each alternately supplying, to the respective auxiliary capacitor lines (CSn, CSn+1, and the like) in a given cycle, the two different voltages supplied to the auxiliary capacitor line driving circuit (5). Therefore, a liquid crystal display device employing multi-picture element drive method can be provided as a liquid crystal display device that achieves narrowing of a picture frame region as a non-display region and an external circuit board.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an active metabolite (“M20”) of a molecule that is useful as a thrombin receptor antagonist: Also disclosed are formulations of this compound, synthetic routes to this compound, and methods of treating a variety of cardiovascular conditions, including acute coronary syndrome and peripheral arterial disease, and of effecting secondary prevention, by orally administering the active metabolilte.

Abstract: In a light emitting device, a light emitting device unit, and a method for fabricating a light emitting device according to an embodiment of the present invention, a light emitting device (100) includes a substrate (131), a semiconductor light emitting element (121) disposed on the substrate (131), and a resistor (122) coupled to the semiconductor light emitting element (121). The resistor (122) is coupled in parallel to the semiconductor light emitting element (121). The resistor (122) has a resistance set at such a value that when a light emitting operation voltage for causing light emission of the semiconductor light emitting element (121) is applied to the semiconductor light emitting element (121), a current flowing through the resistor (122) is equal to or less than one-fiftieth of a current flowing through the semiconductor light emitting element (121).

Abstract: A COF includes, in at least one embodiment, a heat dissipating material on a back surface of an insulating film. The heat dissipating material has a slit for reducing a degree of thermal expansion. Thus, at least one embodiment of the invention provides the COF in which deformation and disconnection of wiring are prevented.

Abstract: A semiconductor device 100 includes a thin-film transistor 123 and a thin-film diode 124. The thin-film transistor 123 includes a semiconductor layer S1 with a channel region 114, a source region and a drain region 112, a gate electrode 109 that controls the conductivity of the channel region 114, and a gate insulating film 108 arranged between the semiconductor layer and the gate electrode 109. The thin-film diode 124 includes a semiconductor layer S2 with at least an n-type region 113 and a p-type region 117. The respective semiconductor layers S1 and S2 of the thin-film transistor 123 and the thin-film diode 124 are portions of a single crystalline semiconductor layer, obtained by crystallizing the same crystalline semiconductor film, but have been crystallized to mutually different degrees.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a unit that detects the position of a sheet in a sheet transport path when jamming is detected, a forced moving processing unit that, when jamming is detected and rotational driving of sheet transport rollers is stopped, based on the position of the sheet in the sheet transport path, performs forced moving processing in which the sheet is transported so as to forcibly move the sheet to a sheet removal position, and a forced moving processing determination unit that determines whether the forced moving processing is to be performed by the forced moving processing unit in accordance with the position of the sheet that was detected by the sheet position detection unit.

Abstract: A camera module 20 includes an image sensing device 3, and a lens 5 for converging, on the image sensing device 3, incident light 40 from a direction in which an image is shot. The camera module 20 further includes a filter 30 including (i) a visible light scattering filter 8 for scattering the incident light 40 and (ii) a visible light transmitting filter 9 for transmitting the incident light 40, the filter 30 being provided, on a side of the lens 5 from which side the incident light 40 enters, so as to be movable perpendicular to a direction 42 of the incident light 40.

Abstract: Provided is an LED substrate including a plurality of LEDs that is capable of being downsized in width. An LED substrate (20) includes a radiating plate (22) made from metal, an insulating layer (23), a plurality of LEDs (21) disposed linearly along a longitudinal direction of the radiating plate and connected to each other in series, and first and second ground patterns (33, 34) disposed at left and right ends of the LED substrate, wherein the first and second ground patterns are electrically connected to the radiating plate, which is disposed under the first and second ground patterns while sandwiching therebetween the insulating layer, via sheet-metal screws (71, 72).

Abstract: An image forming apparatus extracts, from image data, authentication data by which a user is identified, sends the extracted authentication data to a control terminal that recognizes a function available to the user identified by the extracted authentication data, and then receives, from the control terminal, available-function data indicative of a result of the recognition. Then, the image forming apparatus chooses, in accordance with the available-function data thus received, a function that is available in the image forming apparatus. This enables the image forming apparatus to validate or invalidate each function in accordance with a user on the basis of the extracted authentication data.

Abstract: A semiconductor device 700 includes a substrate and an optical sensor unit 700 formed on the substrate for sensing light and for generating a sensing signal, the optical sensor unit 700 including a first thin film diode 701A for detection of light in a first wavelength range, a second thin film diode 701B detecting light in a second wavelength range that contains wavelengths longer than the longest wavelength in the first wavelength range. The first thin film diode 701A and the second thin film diode 701B are connected in parallel to each other. The sensing signal is generated based on the output from one of the first thin film diode 701A and the second thin film diode 701B. By this means, the wavelength range that can be detected by the optical sensor unit can be expanded and the sensing sensitivity can be increased.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device suppresses generation of image sticking in AC mode. A liquid crystal display device comprises an alignment film arranged on at least one of a pair of substrates. The alignment film comprises a polymer containing a first constitutional unit and a second constitutional unit. The first constitutional unit controls alignment of the liquid crystal molecules by photoirradiation. The second constitutional unit controls alignment of the liquid crystal molecules regardless of photoirradiation.