Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel (100A) according to an embodiment of the present invention is a liquid crystal display panel including: a first substrate (2) having a pixel electrode (4) formed thereon; a second substrate (3) opposing the first substrate (2); and a liquid crystal layer (1) retained between the first substrate (2) and the second substrate (3). The liquid crystal layer (1) edges near at least one of side faces of the liquid crystal display panel (100A), and includes a black layer (52) in contact with the side face of the liquid crystal layer (1) along which the liquid crystal layer (1) edges near at least one of the side faces of the liquid crystal display panel (100A).

Abstract: When a brake switch is switched from OFF to ON, current is applied to a brake ECU, and a command to switch a master cylinder from a second state to a first state is issued after a lapse of preparation time, so that switching-time change suppression control is performed. A reservoir shutoff valve is closed, and duty control is performed on a communication control valve. The duty ratio is set to 1 when a switching-time control duration expires, and the communication control valve is placed in an open position, to establish the first state. Thus, since the communication control valve is duty-controlled during switching from the second state to the first state, change in the hydraulic pressure of an input chamber is suppressed, and change of the operating feeling is suppressed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that is excellent in production efficiency, achieves a high CR, and significantly improves the viewing angle characteristics (reduces the gamma shift), while suppressing an image blur. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device at least including: an anisotropic collimating backlight; a lower polarizing plate; a liquid crystal panel; an upper polarizing plate; and an anisotropic diffusion element, the anisotropic collimating backlight having a light distribution anisotropy of a specific angle being combined with the anisotropic diffusion element having a diffusion anisotropy of a specific angle.

Abstract: The vehicle braking control device adapted to a vehicle brake device having an electromagnetic valve which controls the brake fluid flow between the master cylinder and the wheel cylinders in response to the input electric energy. The vehicle braking control device includes a valve opening electric energy obtaining portion which obtains an input electric energy upon opening of the electromagnetic valve as a valve opening electric energy and an operation characteristic setting portion which sets an operation characteristic based on the valve opening electric energy obtained corresponding to the predetermined pressure differential. The opening valve electric energy obtaining portion changes the input electric energy at a valve closing side or a valve opening side with a change amount per unit of time larger than before valve opening in response to an obtaining of the valve opening electric energy.

Abstract: Provided are an optical member capable of maintaining a high level of antireflectiveness while preventing fogging under conditions of total reflection, and a method of manufacturing the same. The optical member includes: a substrate; an intermediate layer; and an aluminum oxide layer which are stacked in this order, the aluminum oxide layer having a surface with an irregular structure made of aluminum oxide crystals. The intermediate layer includes multiple columnar structures inclined with respect to a substrate surface, and includes holes between the columnar structures. The method of manufacturing an optical member includes: forming on a substrate surface an intermediate layer including multiple columnar structures by oblique deposition; and forming a film by applying on the intermediate layer a solution containing aluminum compound and subjecting the film to hot water treatment to form on the film surface an aluminum oxide layer having an irregular structure made of aluminum oxide crystals.

Abstract: A hydraulic braking system includes: a cylinder device including a pressurizing piston, a rear chamber, and a front pressure chamber on opposite sides of the pressurizing piston; a brake cylinder coupled to the front pressure chamber; a regulator including a control piston, an input chamber provided at a rear of the control piston, and an output chamber coupled to the rear chamber in front of the control piston; and an input-hydraulic-pressure control device including a high-flow-rate supply unit configured, when an operation of the regulator is started, to supply the working fluid to the input chamber at a set flow rate; and a low-flow-rate supply unit configured, when the supply is finished, to supply the working fluid to the input chamber at a flow rate less than the set flow rate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which enables costs to be reduced, excels in productivity, and enables a high contrast ratio over a wide viewing angle range to be realized.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display which prevents the boundary line between a frame region and a display region from being observed in a mirror mode and which thus has improved design quality. The mirror display of the present invention includes a half mirror plate including a half mirror layer, and a display device disposed behind the half mirror plate, the display device including a display panel and a frame component that supports a peripheral portion of the display panel, and the mirror display including a reflectance adjuster that makes equal the reflectance in a display region where the half mirror layer and the display panel face each other and the reflectance in a frame region where the half mirror layer and the frame component face each other.

Abstract: A master cylinder device including: a housing whose front side is closed and which has a separation wall for separating the inside of the housing into a front side chamber and a rear side chamber; a pressurizing piston disposed in the front side chamber so as to define a pressurizing chamber for pressurizing the brake fluid and an input chamber into which a brake fluid from a high pressure source is introduced; an input piston disposed in the rear side chamber and moving forward by an operation force; and a transmission rod which is through the separation wall, whose proximal end portion is fixed in one of the pressurizing and input pistons, and whose distal end portion is apart from the other of the pressurizing and input pistons in a state of no forward movement.

Abstract: The braking device for a vehicle includes a judging portion which judges whether the input piston and the output piston are in contact with or separated from each other and a control portion which outputs the control signal to the pilot pressure generating device so that the hydraulic pressure detected by the hydraulic pressure detecting device becomes a target value corresponding to a vehicle state, when judged that the input piston is not in contact with the output piston and outputs another control signal to the pilot pressure generating device, by which the pilot pressure becomes higher than the pilot pressure generated under a same vehicle state to a vehicle state in a case that the control signal is outputted when the judging portion judges that the input piston is not in contact with the output piston, when judged that the input piston is in contact with the output piston.

Abstract: The present invention provides active shutter glasses and a stereoscopic image projection system that allow a stereoscopic image of excellent display quality to be viewed. The present invention provides active shutter glasses for a stereoscopic image projection system in which the active shutter glasses include a shutter section for the right eye and a shutter section for the left eye, the shutter section for the right eye and the shutter section for the left eye each include a liquid crystal cell, and when the glasses are worn, viewing angles of the shutter section for the right eye and the shutter section for the left eye each are wider on the right and left sides than on the upper and lower sides.

Abstract: A vehicle brake system includes a cylinder, a master piston including a pressure applying piston and a projection portion, a servo chamber, a contact/separation determining means determining a separated state and a contact state between the input piston and the master piston, a pilot pressure generating device generating a pilot pressure, a servo pressure generating device, a servo pressure measuring device measuring a servo pressure, and a master pressure estimating means estimating a master pressure from the pilot pressure and a first servo ratio, which is a cross-sectional area ratio between a first pilot chamber and a servo pressure generating chamber, in a case of the separated state, and estimating the master pressure based on the servo pressure, the pilot pressure and a second servo ratio, which is a cross-sectional area ratio between a second pilot chamber and the servo pressure generating chamber, in a case of the contact state.

Abstract: The invention provides a protective plate and a display device that can suppress yellowing, reduce a cost, and keep glass from scattering. The invention is a protective plate including a glass substrate; a first layer laminated on a main surface on one side of the glass substrate; a second layer laminated on the first layer; and an antireflective film pasted on a main surface on the other side of the glass substrate, in which the first layer contains polyorganosiloxane (A) and metal oxide particles (B), the second layer contains polyorganosiloxane (C), the antireflective film contains an organic matter, and transmittance of a laminated body of the glass substrate, the first layer, and the second layer is 82% or less at a wavelength of 340 nm.

Abstract: The present invention provides a circularly polarizing VA mode liquid crystal display device having an excellent gray scale viewing angle from an intermediate gray scale to a high gray scale at an azimuth angle of 45°.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that is excellent in production efficiency, achieves a high CR, and significantly improves the viewing angle characteristics (reduces the gamma shift), while suppressing an image blur. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device at least including: an anisotropic collimating backlight; a lower polarizing plate; a liquid crystal panel; an upper polarizing plate; and an anisotropic diffusion element, the anisotropic collimating backlight having a light distribution anisotropy of a specific angle being combined with the anisotropic diffusion element having a diffusion anisotropy of a specific angle.

Abstract: The vehicle braking control device adapted to a vehicle brake device having an electromagnetic valve which controls the brake fluid flow between the master cylinder and the wheel cylinders in response to the input electric energy. The vehicle braking control device includes a valve opening electric energy obtaining portion which obtains an input electric energy upon opening of the electromagnetic valve as a valve opening electric energy and an operation characteristic setting portion which sets an operation characteristic based on the valve opening electric energy obtained corresponding to the predetermined pressure differential. The opening valve electric energy obtaining portion changes the input electric energy at a valve closing side or a valve opening side with a change amount per unit of time larger than before valve opening in response to an obtaining of the valve opening electric energy.

Abstract: A thermoelectric material includes a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor oxide film formed on the substrate, and a thermoelectric layer provided on the oxide film. The semiconductor oxide film has a first nano-opening formed therein. The thermoelectric layer has such a configuration that semiconductor nanodots are piled up on or above the first nano-opening so as to form a particle packed structure. At least some of the nanodots each have a second nano-opening formed in its surface, and are connected to each other through the second nano-opening with their crystal orientation aligned. The thermoelectric material is produced through steps of oxidizing the substrate to form the semiconductor oxide film thereon, forming the first nano-opening in the oxide film, and epitaxially growing to pile up the plurality of nanodots on the first nano-opening. As a result, it is possible to provide the thermoelectric material superior in thermoelectric conversion performance.

Abstract: The vehicle brake system includes a cylinder, an output piston disposed in the cylinder, an input piston disposed in the cylinder but separating from the output piston and defining a separation chamber therebetween, a brake pedal connected to the input piston, a reaction force generating device for generating an elastic reaction force, a separation lock valve for controlling the communication between the separation chamber and the reaction force generating device, a fade state judging portion to judge whether the friction brake device is in a fade state or not and a friction braking force control portion for changing the mode to the fade state when the fade state judging portion judged that the friction brake device is in the fade state, wherein a desired friction braking force can be assured even under the brake fade state.

Abstract: When a brake switch is switched from OFF to ON, current is applied to a brake ECU, and a command to switch a master cylinder from a second state to a first state is issued after a lapse of preparation time, so that switching-time change suppression control is performed. A reservoir shutoff valve is closed, and duty control is performed on a communication control valve. The duty ratio is set to 1 when a switching-time control duration expires, and the communication control valve is placed in an open position, to establish the first state. Thus, since the communication control valve is duty-controlled during switching from the second state to the first state, change in the hydraulic pressure of an input chamber is suppressed, and change of the operating feeling is suppressed.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a birefringent layer that satisfies the relationship nx>ny?nz and may be considered a first-class birefringent layer, a birefringent layer that satisfies the relationship nx<ny?nz may be considered a second-class birefringent layer, and a birefringent layer that satisfies the relationship nx?ny?nz may be considered a third-class birefringent layer. The LCD may include a first polarizer, a first first-class birefringent layer whose in-plane phase difference is adjusted to a quarter wave, an LC cell, a second first-class birefringent layer whose Nz factor is substantially the same as the first first-class birefringent layer and whose in-plane phase difference is adjusted to a quarter wave, a second-class birefringent layer, and a second polarizer which may be stacked in this order.