Abstract: To provide a pixel matrix and the like, which are capable of improving the picture quality by suppressing generation of flicker and crosstalk without deteriorating the numerical aperture of the pixels and without increasing the manufacturing cost. A first switch device has transistors connected in series. When selected by a gate line, the transistors are set ON simultaneously to apply a voltage, which is supplied from a data line, to a pixel electrode. A second switch device has a transistor and a control capacitor. When selected by a gate line different from the one mentioned above, the transistor is set ON to supply a prescribed potential to a connection point between the transistors of the first switch, and the prescribed potential is stored at the control capacitor. When not selected by the both gate lines, the potential of the connection point is kept to the potential stored at the control capacitor.

Abstract: The present invention aims to reduce flickers of the liquid crystal display device and enable the use of liquid crystal material exhibiting a high response speed, and to enhance light usage efficiency of the field sequential type liquid crystal display device. After writing the video signal to all the pixels in each sub-frame period, a correction voltage signal or an alternating signal having a frequency of greater than or equal to a certain frequency is input to the data line, so that the magnitude of the leakage current of each pixel TFT caused by the difference in polarity of the video signal with respect to the opposing electrode written to the pixel electrode is equalized, and the flickers are greatly reduced.

Abstract: To reduce flickers generated in a liquid crystal display device for allowing the use of a liquid crystal material exhibiting a high response speed so as to improve the light utilizing efficiency of a field sequential type liquid crystal display device. A liquid crystal display device includes: a display panel including a pixel matrix in which pixels each including a switching element and a pixel electrode are arranged in matrix near intersection of data lines and gate lines, and a counter electrode arranged to oppose the pixel matrix; and a control part which divides a period for displaying a color image of one frame into a plurality of sub-frame periods, and lights up light sources of different colors for each of the sub-frame periods to display images on the display panel. A shield electrode layer separated by an insulating film is disposed between the pixel electrode and the data lines.

Abstract: Fibers usable for an ion exchange filter includes a base material and ion exchange resin particles. The base material is made of a hydrophobic resin. The ion exchange resin particles are embedded within the base material At least some of the ion exchange resin particles are exposed on a surface of the base material.

Abstract: An ion exchange resin member 20 that serves as an impurity remover for removing impurities from fluid F discharged from a fuel cell 100 is placed in a discharge passage for the fluid F to flow through, and a dispersion means for dispersing the fluid F over, and making the fluid F flow to, an entry-side surface 21 of the ion exchange resin member 20 is placed upstream from the ion exchange resin member 20. Also, a gas discharge part and a liquid discharge part are placed downstream from a fluid outlet of the ion exchange resin member 20, and a liquid-movement-preventing means for preventing a liquid in the fluid discharged from the fluid outlet from moving toward the gas discharge part is placed between the ion exchange resin member 20 and at least either the gas discharge part or the liquid discharge part.

Abstract: The present invention is a fluid supply device having a bellows shaped pipe 21 midway in fluid supply piping, comprising: first filter means 19a that traps foreign matter in the fluid on the upstream side of the bellows shaped pipe 21; and second filter means 22 that traps foreign matter in the fluid discharged from the pipe 21 on the downstream side of the bellows shaped pipe 21.

Abstract: A sequence for applying pulses to control lines in a horizontal period is differentiated for every horizontal period or vertical period and a sequence for data driver circuitry to write signals in data lines in a horizontal period is differentiated for every horizontal period or vertical period so that potential fluctuations of data lines generated at the time of sampling are temporally made uniform so as to make recognition of streak-like irregularity difficult.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a charging roller, a transfer roller, and a toner charging brush, wherein the toner charging brush reciprocates in a longitudinal direction of the photosensitive drum. In the image forming apparatus, when a number of rotations per a unit time of the image bearing member is assumed to be “a” and a number of times of reciprocation per unit time of the toner charging brush is assumed to be “b” assuming that R=b/a, R is set to be in a range of 1/25?R?3. However, R=m/n (m and n are integers of 5 or less) is excluded. Consequently, generation of a periodic attachment pattern appearing on the photosensitive drum is eliminated.

Abstract: In a sequential driving method for time-divisionally displaying a plurality of color signals in respective ones of sub-frames forming one frame in a liquid crystal display apparatus including a plurality of data lines, gate lines, and liquid crystal pixels each including a liquid crystal cell and a switching element, black signals are written into all of the liquid crystal pixels at a beginning period of each sub-frame. Then, one color signal is sequentially written into rows of the liquid crystal pixels while the gate lines are sequentially selected. Finally, one backlight corresponding to one of the color signals is turned ON at an end period of each sub-frame. In this case, a level of pixel components of one color signal to be written into one row is compensated for, so that a change of an average transmittivity of each row is sufficiently small before the end period.

Abstract: A LC panel for use in a projection LCD device includes a source driver IC operating in a frame-inversion driving scheme. The luminance gradient caused by the frame-inversion driving scheme in the active-matrix substrate is cancelled by the luminance gradient caused by the heat generated by the source driver. A heat adjusting element is provided for the source driver IC, wherein the heat adjusting element is either a radiator or a heater depending on the relationship of the magnitude between the luminance gradients caused by the frame-inversion driving scheme and the source driver IC.

Abstract: A driving apparatus includes a plurality of driving devices; a plurality of malfunction detectors for detecting a malfunction of the driving devices; a plurality of electric current setting devices for setting electric currents through the driving device; and a controller for controlling the plurality of driving devices, malfunction detectors and the electric current setting devices. The controller is effective to set standard electric currents, maximum tolerable electric currents, standard speeds, minimum rotatable speeds and maximum tolerable speeds of the plurality of driving devices, and a total current applied to the plurality of driving devices, wherein the driving devices are given priorities depending on influential ranges of functions of the driving devices.

Abstract: An ion-removing apparatus includes a housing, a first ion-removing unit and a second ion-removing unit. The housing includes an inlet port, a liquid discharge port and a gas discharge port. The first ion-removing unit is disposed within the housing, so that the fluid that has entered the housing via the inlet port flows through the first ion-removing unit. The first ion-removing unit serves to remove a first ion, such anions, contained in the fluid. The second ion-removing unit is disposed within the housing, so that the fluid that has flown though the first ion-removing unit flows through the first ion-removing unit. The second ion-removing unit serves to remove a second ion, such as cations contained in the fluid. The liquid contained in the fluid that has flown through the second ion-removing unit is discharged from the liquid discharge port. The gas contained in the fluid that has flown through the second ion-removing unit is discharged from the gas discharge port.

Abstract: A driving apparatus includes a plurality of driving devices, a plurality of detectors for detecting a malfunction of the driving devices, and a controller, which is responsive to a detection result of the detectors, for decreasing a driving speed of a driving device at which a malfunction is detected and increases a driving speed of another driving device.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device driving method wherein pixel signals are supplied to corresponding arrays (each having 6 switches) of a data driver through pixel signal lines with 6 pixel signals of 12 pixel signals as one block. Any set of pixel signals consist of pixel signals having a polarity opposite to that of the pixel signals and pixel signals having a polarity identical to that of the pixel signals. A scanning circuit of the data driver supplies ON/OFF control signals overlapping one another in terms of time between a before block and an after block to the switch arrays. The switch arrays are successively turned ON to apply the pixel signals of blocks to corresponding data lines, respectively. Then, the pixel signals are sampled during turn-OFF of the switch arrays to be held in floating capacities of the data lines, respectively.

Abstract: A data line drive circuit for driving pixels via data lines in a liquid crystal display apparatus includes digital-to-analog converter circuits operable to output drive signals from input digital video signals into the data lines. Input-output characteristics of the digital-to-analog converter circuits are dynamically varied during a period of time during which a screenful of video signals are written into the pixels in the liquid crystal display apparatus.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device having a pixel board on which light shielding film 3, first insulating film 10, semiconductor layer, second insulating film 11 serving as a gate insulating film and gate wires 4 are formed, a source region, a drain region and a channel region or both of a channel region and LDD (Light doped drain) region being formed in the semiconductor layer, the light shielding film 3 is made of a conductive material, and contact holes 6 for connecting each gate line and the light shielding film are provided in the neighborhood of the side surface of the channel region or/and the LDD region.

Abstract: A driving apparatus includes a plurality of driving devices; a plurality of malfunction detectors for detecting a malfunction of the driving devices; a plurality of electric current setting devices for setting electric currents through the driving devices; a controller for controlling the plurality of driving devices, malfunction detectors and the electric current setting devices, wherein the controller is effective to set standard electric currents, maximum tolerable electric currents, standard speeds, minimum rotatable speeds and maximum tolerable speeds of the plurality of driving devices, and a total current applied to the plurality of driving devices, wherein the driving devices are given priorities depending on influential ranges of functions of the driving devices, wherein when the malfunction detector detects a malfunction of the driving devices, the electric current setting device raises the setting of the electric current of the driving device at which the malfunction is detected within the maximum

Abstract: The liquid crystal display apparatus is provided with a display unit, a video signal driving circuit, a scanning signal driving circuit, a common electrode potential controlling circuit, and a synchronizing circuit. The display unit has a scanning electrode, a video signal electrode, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in matrix form, a plurality of switching elements which transmit video signals to the pixel electrodes, and a common electrode. After the scanning signal driving circuit scans the entire scanning electrodes and transmits video signals to the pixel electrodes, the common electrode potential controlling circuit changes the potential of the common electrode into a pulse shape, overdrives video signals, or increases a torque required to return to a state in which no voltage is applied.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a plurality of developing devices for developing an electrostatic image formed on an image bearing member, and a rotary member holding the plurality of developing devices and rotated in a route including a developing position, the rotary member selectively positioning any one of the developing devices at the developing position. Each of the plurality of developing devices has a plurality of developer carrying members carrying a developer thereon and carrying the developer to the image bearing member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a charging roller, a transfer roller, and a toner charging brush, wherein the toner charging brush reciprocates in a longitudinal direction of the photosensitive drum. In the image forming apparatus, when a number of rotations per a unit time of the image bearing member is assumed to be “a” and a number of times of reciprocation per unit time of the toner charging brush is assumed to be “b” assuming that R=b/a, R is set to be in a range of 1/25?R?3. However, R=m/n (m and n are integers of 5 or less) is excluded. Consequently, generation of a periodic attachment pattern appearing on the photosensitive drum is eliminated.