Abstract: A damping alloy member 1 is constructed in such a manner that the improvement consists of a twin crystal type damping alloy made of Cu—Al—Mn alloy, Mg—Zr alloy, Mn—Cu alloy, Mn—Cu—Ni—Fe alloy, Cu—Al—Ni alloy, Ti—Ni alloy, Al—Zn alloy, Cu—Zn—Al alloy, Mg alloy, Cu—Si alloy, Fe—Mn—Si alloy, Fe—Ni—Co—Ti alloy, Fe—Ni—C alloy, Fe—Cr—Ni—Mn—Si—Co alloy and Ni—Al alloy, and has a shape of a flake, a wire or a spring for optimizing a deformation of the alloy. Moreover, a rubber vibration isolator, a floor vibration damping apparatus, a tire, a steel cord and a quake-absorbing rubber are constructed by using the damping apply member.

Abstract: A wet image forming device includes a plurality of developer support members that support a developer including a toner and a carrier functioning as a toner transfer agent, a plurality of image support members, the outer peripheral surfaces of each contacting the plurality of developer support members, and which support an electrostatic latent image developed with toner included in the developer supported by the plurality of developer support members, an intermediate transfer member to which an image developed on each of the plurality of image support members is transferred, a transfer roller that is pressed into contact with each of the plurality of image support members through the intermediate transfer member, and one or more carrier removing members that remove the carrier and arranged between a first image support member that is one of the plurality of image support members and a second image support member that is located adjacent to the first image support member.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a developing unit that can block unnecessary supply of liquid developer to an image support member and can prevent waste of liquid developer, and an image forming device comprising the same. The developing unit includes a developing member that is in contact with an image support member and supplies the image support member with liquid developer, a developer supply member that supplies the developing member with liquid developer, and an unattached region forming member that forms at least an unattached region that is free of liquid developer on the developing member, the unattached region extending from the contact point between the developing member and the image support member and the contact point between the developing member and the developer supply member.

Abstract: A cleaning unit includes a traveling belt and a belt cleaning member. The traveling belt is formed in a loop and travels via the vicinity of the contact point between an image support member and an image support member cleaning member, and comes into contact with liquid developer stored in the cleaning unit. The belt cleaning member is in contact with the traveling belt and arranged in a position downstream of the contact point between the traveling belt and liquid developer stored in the cleaning unit, and upstream of the point at which the traveling belt passes the vicinity of the contact point between the image support member and the image support member cleaning member in the traveling direction of the traveling belt. The belt cleaning member is configured to remove liquid developer attached to the traveling belt.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal panel comprises the steps of forming a gate insulating film, a channel layer and an etching stopper layer on a transparent substrate bearing a gate electrode, exposing the substrate to light from its back surface side by using the gate electrode as a light shielding mask by photolithography, developing the resist, etching the etching stopper layer, forming a source/drain layer, and etching the source/drain layer and a remaining part of the etching stopper by chemical gas phase etching.

Abstract: A semiconductor element heat dissipating member is provided which has excellent heat dissipation characteristics and adhesion characteristics and enables production of a semiconductor device at a low cost. A semiconductor device using the same, and a method of producing the same are also provided. The semiconductor element heat dissipating member has a conductive substrate and an electrically insulating amorphous carbon film containing hydrogen, and the electrically insulating amorphous carbon film is formed at least on a region of the conductive substrate on which region a semiconductor element is to be mounted.

Abstract: In view of conventional circumstances where a surface pressure distribution sensor has poor reproducibility when mass-produced, so it has been desired to stabilize sensing properties, to secure reliability, and to improve productivity and yield, the invention achieves stabilizing sensing properties, securing reliability, and improving productivity and yield by optimizing the size of the flow barrier provided inside the sealing agent and the gap, the material and location of the contact, and the tension of the common electrode film.

Abstract: To provide a PTT system that includes a plurality of PTT-capable mobile phones each including a display unit, and a server which mediates a PTT call between mobile phones out of the plurality of mobile phones. The server includes a storage unit, a retrieval unit, and a sending unit. The storage unit stores images of users of the plurality of mobile phones and phone identifiers of the plurality of mobile phones in correspondence with each other. The retrieval unit retrieves, from the storage unit, an image corresponding to a phone identifier of a mobile phone involved in the PTT call. The sending unit sends the retrieved image to at least one other mobile phone involved in the PTT call. A display unit in the at least one other mobile phone displays the image sent from the server.

Abstract: In a service system of an air conditioner connected through a network to a monitoring center, the air conditioner receives radio wave transmitted from a GPS satellite to transmit information of the received radio wave and a manufacturer's serial number on the air conditioner to the monitoring center and the monitoring center performs service of the air conditioner on the basis of the received information and the serial number. The service system of the air conditioner can perform service, update or renewal, maintenance and the like of an air conditioner more correctly and exactly and attain speedup thereof.

Abstract: Providing an objective lens capable of achieving reliable centering during formation, allowing high-precision formation, and improving durability of a manufacturing apparatus, and providing an optical pickup apparatus and an optical disk apparatus using that objective lens. According to the present invention, an objective lens is formed so as to satisfy condition 0.3?Z/D?0.5, where Z is a sag amount equivalent to a length of a convexly curved optical surface along an optical axis, and D is an optically effective diameter equivalent to a length which is optically effective for the optical surface and is orthogonal to the optical axis. It is possible to reliably perform centering during fabrication of the objective lens and allow high-precision formation for decreasing the lens aberration.

Abstract: In a service system of an air conditioner connected through a network to a monitoring center, the air conditioner receives radio wave transmitted from a GPS satellite to transmit information of the received radio wave and a manufacturer's serial number on the air conditioner to the monitoring center and the monitoring center performs service of the air conditioner on the basis of the received information and the serial number. The service system of the air conditioner can perform service, update or renewal, maintenance and the like of an air conditioner more correctly and exactly and attain speedup thereof.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel (and a method for manufacturing the liquid crystal display panel) includes a gate line and a signal line intersecting the gate line at an intersection portion where the gate line and the signal line intersect each other. The gate line includes at least two conductive portions and at least one opening portion on the intersection portion.

Abstract: Disclosed are a lens efficiently manufactured into an accurate shape at a low cost, a manufacturing method thereof, and an optical pickup using the lens. The lens includes a geometrical optics portion for converging light having been incident thereon from its light incoming plane, and two diffraction optics portions provided on the light incoming plane and a light outgoing plane of the geometrical optics portion, wherein the diffraction optics portions are made from a material different from that of the geometrical optics portion.

Abstract: In a service system of an air conditioner connected through a network to a monitoring center, the air conditioner receives radio wave transmitted from a GPS satellite to transmit information of the received radio wave and a manufacturer's serial number on the air conditioner to the monitoring center and the monitoring center performs service of the air conditioner on the basis of the received information and the serial number. The service system of the air conditioner can perform service, update or renewal, maintenance and the like of an air conditioner more correctly and exactly and attain speedup thereof.

Abstract: In view of conventional circumstances where a surface pressure distribution sensor has poor reproducibility when mass-produced, so it has been desired to stabilize sensing properties, to secure reliability, and to improve productivity and yield, the invention achieves stabilizing sensing properties, securing reliability, and improving productivity and yield by optimizing the size of the flow barrier provided inside the sealing agent and the gap, the material and location of the contact, and the tension of the common electrode film.

Abstract: A phase error signal indicating a most recent phase difference between an input clock signal and a feed-back signal is produced in a phase comparing unit. Also, the phase difference of the phase error signal is monitored in an abnormal condition detecting unit. When the phase difference is higher than a threshold value, the abnormal condition detecting unit judges that the input clock signal is set in an abnormal condition, and a frequency-controlled clock signal is produced in the voltage controlled oscillator according to the phase error signal. Therefore, the oscillation clock signal can be output without changing a phase of the oscillation clock signal while suppressing wonders or jitters.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel (and a method for manufacturing the liquid crystal display panel) includes a gate line and a signal line intersecting the gate line at an intersection portion where the gate line and the signal line intersect each other. The gate line includes at least two conductive portions and at least one opening portion on the intersection portion.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a gate line and a signal line intersecting the gate line at an intersection portion where the gate line and the signal line intersect each other. The gate line includes at least two conductive portions and at least one opening portion on the intersection portion. The at least one opening portion on the gate line is used for removing an etching stopper layer.

Abstract: A phase error signal indicating a most recent phase difference between an input clock signal and a feed-back signal is produced in a phase comparing unit. Also, the phase difference of the phase error signal is monitored in an abnormal condition detecting unit. When the phase difference is higher than a threshold value, the abnormal condition detecting unit judges that the input clock signal is set in an abnormal condition, and a frequency-controlled clock signal is produced in the voltage controlled oscillator according to the phase error signal. Therefore, the oscillation clock signal can be output without changing a phase of the oscillation clock signal while suppressing wonders or jitters.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal panel comprises the steps of forming a gate insulating film, a channel layer and an etching stopper layer on a transparent substrate bearing a gate electrode, exposing the substrate to light from its back surface side by using the gate electrode as a light shielding mask by photolithography, developing the resist, etching the etching stopper layer, forming a source/drain layer, and etching the source/drain layer and a remaining part of the etching stopper by chemical gas phase etching.