Abstract: A boost converter with a flying capacitor topology is provided. The flying capacitor is charged during a first half of a cycle. During a second half of the cycle, the output voltage of the boost converter is supplied from Vdd until the output voltage approximately reaches Vdd. At that point, the flying capacitor is used to provide the output voltage.

Abstract: A large-scale wide area network system includes wireless communication base devices respectively configuring access points covering wireless zones subordinate thereto; wireless communication base control devices performing integrated control of the corresponding wireless communication base devices, and managing IP addresses of the wireless communication base control devices of a home location and a visited location as location information of a mobile terminal; in-area location information management devices respectively connected to the corresponding wireless communication base control devices via respective area IP networks corresponding to areas administered by the same common carrier, and managing the IP address of the wireless communication base control device of the home location as the location information of the mobile terminal; and a wide area location information management device hierarchically connected to the in-area location information management devices via a wide area IP network corresponding

Abstract: To provide a technology of setting up a call at a high efficiency by a location management device's sending notification of a call setup request to a call control device corresponding to a location of a callee communication device. A call control device connected to a location management device via a network receives a call setup request, searches a location data table for location information of a callee communication device in response to the call setup request, sets up, when the location information is searched out as a result of the search, a call on the basis of the location information, and notifies, when the location information is not searched out as the result of the search, the location management device of the call setup request.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel includes coating a resin film on one of a pair of substrates facing each other and patterning the resin film to form pillar spacers. The surface of the substrate where the pillar spacers have been formed is optically cleaned, and alignment film is formed on the optically cleaned substrate. In the optical cleaning process, a light source having an emission peak in a wavelength range of 180 nm or less, or 260 nm or more, and not having an emission peak in a wavelength range from 180 nm to 260 nm is used.

Abstract: To provide a technology capable of accommodating, in parallel, wireless networks of a plurality of user groups having different authentication policies etc and providing a proper communication service in response to an access from a user of each of the user groups.

Abstract: The wireless transmission device connected to any one of subnetworks configuring an IP network including a server managing IP addresses, and connecting a mobile terminal to any one of subnetworks, includes an address storage unit storing identifying information specifying the mobile terminal as a sender of a message and the IP address assigned to the mobile terminal from the server, a notifying unit notifying other wireless transmission devices of the stored information, and a proxy response unit responding, as a proxy for the server, when handover occurs, a message containing the IP address, as an assigned IP address, already assigned to the mobile terminal that is the sender of the received message based on the information stored in the address storage unit.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display, which can surely perform an instillation process used when liquid crystal is sealed between substrates in a cell process, and a fabrication method thereof. A liquid crystal display comprises a sealing material 6 made of a photo-curing type material which seals liquid crystal 22 sandwiched between substrates 4 and 16, and a shading film 8 having a shading area which overlays a red-colored layer 28 transmitting red light, a green-colored layer 26 transmitting green light and a blue-colored layer 24 transmitting blue light, wherein only the blue-colored layer 24 is formed in an area of the shading film contacting with the sealing material 6 and the photo-curing type material of the sealing material is structured to have a light reactive area for a wavelength of blue color band.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display, which can surely perform an instillation process used when liquid crystal is sealed between substrates in a cell process, and a fabrication method thereof. A liquid crystal display comprises a sealing material 6 made of a photo-curing type material which seals liquid crystal 22 sandwiched between substrates 4 and 16, and a shading film 8 having a shading area which overlays a red-colored layer 28 transmitting red light, a green-colored layer 26 transmitting green light and a blue-colored layer 24 transmitting blue light, wherein only the blue-colored layer 24 is formed in an area of the shading film contacting with the sealing material 6 and the photo-curing type material of the sealing material is structured to have a light reactive area for a wavelength of blue color band.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal inserted in an annular seal between the substrates, and a threshold pattern provided in a frame portion between the annular seal and a pixel display area. The threshold pattern has an opening connecting the pixel display area with an area between the annular seal and the threshold pattern. The liquid crystal can move between the space in the threshold pattern and the area between the annular seal and the threshold pattern in response to the expansion and the contraction of the liquid crystal.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display, which can surely perform an instillation process used when liquid crystal is sealed between substrates in a cell process, and a fabrication method thereof. A liquid crystal display comprises a sealing material 6 made of a photo-curing type material which seals liquid crystal 22 sandwiched between substrates 4 and 16, and a shading film 8 having a shading area which overlays a red-colored layer 28 transmitting red light, a green-colored layer 26 transmitting green light and a blue-colored layer 24 transmitting blue light, wherein only the blue-colored layer 24 is formed in an area of the shading film contacting with the sealing material 6 and the photo-curing type material of the sealing material is structured to have a light reactive area for a wavelength of blue color band.

Abstract: A timer circuit is arranged for reduced propagation delay and improved stability at low supply voltages. The timer circuit includes a capacitor circuit, a voltage offset circuit, an inverter circuit, and a current source circuit. The current source circuit is arranged to provide a current. Also, the capacitor circuit is arranged to provide a voltage ramp in response to the current. The voltage offset circuit is configured to provide a voltage offset. Further, the current source circuit, the capacitor circuit, and the voltage offset current are arranged to provide two voltage ramps that are offset from each other. Additionally, the inverter circuit includes a p-type transistor and an n-type transistor. The p-type transistor is configured to receive one of the two voltage ramps, and the n-type transistor is configured to receive the other of the two voltage ramps.

Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid crystal display panel, a method of inspecting the same, and an inspection apparatus used for the same and provides a liquid crystal display panel whose picture-frame area can be easily inspected, a method of inspecting the same, and an inspection apparatus used for the same. The liquid crystal display panel has a TFT substrate and a CF substrate combined through a sealing material continuously applied to an entire peripheral portion of the substrates, a liquid crystal sealed between the substrates, a picture-frame area in the form of a frame provided outside a display area and inside the region where the sealing material is formed, a conductive film formed in the picture-frame area on the TFT substrate, and another conductive film formed on the CF substrate and facing the first conductive film with the liquid crystal interposed between them.

Abstract: The magnetoresistance effect film of the present invention is more reliable than conventional magnetoresistance effect films. The magnetoresistance effect film has a layered structure, in which a seed layer, a magnetic oxide layer, a pinned magnetic layer, a nonmagnetic intermediate layer, and a free magnetic layer are layered in this order. The seed layer is made of a metallic oxide, and the magnetic oxide layer is made of CoxFe3-xOy (x=1.10-1.71, y?0).

Abstract: The magnetoresistance effect film has a magnetic oxide layer for fixing a magnetizing direction of a pinned magnetic layer and a greater MR ratio. The magnetoresistance effect film has a layered structure, in which a seed layer, the magnetic oxide layer, the pinned magnetic layer, a nonmagnetic intermediate layer, and a free magnetic layer are layered in this order, wherein the seed layer is an oxide layer being made of or including an oxide, which has a sodium chrolide (NaCl) type crystal structure, whose energy gap is 1 eV or more, and which is nonmagnetizable at room temperature, and wherein the magnetic oxide layer is an oxide layer including ferrite, which includes cobalt.

Abstract: Quiescent currents in a circuit that includes a regulator are reduced by disabling selected portions of the circuit. A window comparator is selected activated to evaluate the input voltage such that a first operating mode is activated when the input voltage is within a predetermined voltage range and a second operating mode is activated when the input voltage is outside of the predetermined voltage range. The battery voltage is used a reference signal when the first mode is selected such that a voltage reference circuit can be disabled to reduce power, while the voltage reference circuit is enabled when the second mode is selected. Another comparator circuit is periodically activated to compare the reference signal to the output voltage. The regulator is disabled after the output voltage exceeds a first level. The output voltage collapses below a second level associated, the evaluation and regulation process is repeated.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device in which liquid crystal is sealed between substrates using a one drop fill method, and a one drop fill apparatus used for the method, and particularly a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device using a one drop fill method that enables reduction of product defects of the liquid crystal display device and realization of a stable production process, and a one drop fill apparatus used for the method are provided. Dropping of liquid crystal is controlled so that the dropping quantity of the liquid crystal is reduced in an area including the vicinity of a seal material on the left side with a relatively narrow cell gap width while the dropping quantity of the liquid crystal is increased in an area including the vicinity of the seal material on the right side with a relatively broad cell gap width.

Abstract: A magnetic head of a magnetoresistance type is provided. The magnetic head comprises a magnetoresistance film, an underlying layer formed on each of both sides of the magnetoresistance film, and a magnetic-domain regulating film formed on the underlying layer so as to regulate a magnetic domain of a free magnetic layer in the magnetoresistance film. The underlying layer has a laminated structure of a tungsten-(W)-group metal layer formed on a tantalum-(Ta)-group metal layer. The underlying layer is formed so thick as to arrange the magnetic-domain regulating film at a position corresponding to the free magnetic layer.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel, wherein a gap between substrates is to be maintained as designed. In a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel, comprising a step of coating a resin film on one of a pair of substrates facing each other and patterning the resin film to form pillar spacers, a step of optically cleaning the surface of the substrate where the pillar spacers have been formed, and a step of forming an alignment film on the optically cleaned substrate, in the optical cleaning, a light source having an emission peak in a wavelength range of 180 nm or less or 260 nm or more and not having an emission peak in a wavelength range from 180 nm to 260 nm is used.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal inserted in an annular seal between the substrates, and a threshold pattern provided in a frame portion between the annular seal and a pixel display area. The threshold pattern has an opening connecting the pixel display area with an area between the annular seal and the threshold pattern. The liquid crystal can move between the space in the threshold pattern and the area between the annular seal and the threshold pattern in response to the expansion and the contraction of the liquid crystal.

Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate for a liquid crystal display device used for a display part of an information equipment, a liquid crystal display device provided with the same, a manufacturing method of the same, and a manufacturing apparatus of the same, and has an object to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display device in which a manufacturing process can be simplified and a frame part can be narrowed, a liquid crystal display device provided with the same, a manufacturing method of the same, and a manufacturing apparatus of the same. A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate and a CF substrate disposed to be opposite to each other, a liquid crystal sealed between the two substrates, a light shielding film formed on an outer peripheral part of the CF substrate, a display region defined by the light shielding film, metal layers formed on an outer peripheral part of the TFT substrate at a side of the liquid crystal and having a width of 0.