Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, plural pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix on a second substrate, a counter electrode provided on one of first substrate and the second substrate and plural switching elements connected to the respective plural pixel electrodes, a display drive control unit for driving the liquid crystal disposed between each of the pixel electrodes and the counter electrode, a lighting unit having LEDs emitting light of respective red, green and blue colors, and a lighting device control unit for making each LED of color perform time-division light emission in synchronization with the switching of each of the switching elements.

Abstract: Before starting the regular display in a liquid crystal display device of the bend alignment type, it is necessary to transition all the pixel regions in the entire display portion uniformly from splay alignment into bend alignment. However, conventionally, when applying a simple ac voltage, the transition sometimes does not take place, and when it does take place, the transition time is very long, and display defects due to alignment defects tend to occur. In the method for driving a liquid crystal display device with OCB cells according to the present invention, a step of applying between an electrode 22 and a pixel electrode 23 an ac voltage superimposed with a bias voltage, and a step of applying zero voltage or a low voltage to the substrates are repeated in alternation preceding the begin of the regular display operation and the regular display operation is carried out after all pixels have transitioned into bend alignment.

Abstract: A developing device using a trickle system is realized which includes developer discharging means for (i) suppressing changes in discharge of developer due to inclinations of the developing device and (ii) maintaining the stability in amount of the developer in a developer tank. In the developing device, the developer tank includes agitating chambers parted by a partition, and each of the agitating chambers has an agitating screw. Further, discharging openings for discharging an excess of the developer in the developer tank are provided downstream in transport directions of the agitating screws, respectively.

Abstract: A brush holding apparatus is mounted to an inner wall surface of a rear bracket and a cap mounted to a head portion of a brush holder portion is exposed through an opening in the rear bracket. Brushes are housed inside brush insertion apertures of the brush holder portion and are placed in elastic contact with slip rings by springs. An abrasion detection terminal is insert molded into the brush holder portion, a contact thereof projecting inside one of the brush insertion apertures and coming into contact with the corresponding spring when the brushes are abraded by a predetermined amount.

Abstract: A brush holding apparatus is mounted to an inner wall surface of a rear bracket and a cap mounted to a head portion of a brush holder portion is exposed through an opening in the rear bracket. Brushes are housed inside brush insertion apertures of the brush holder portion and are placed in elastic contact with slip rings by springs. An abrasion detection terminal is insert molded into the brush holder portion, a contact thereof projecting inside one of the brush insertion apertures and coming into contact with the corresponding spring when the brushes are abraded by a predetermined amount.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, plural pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix on a second substrate, a counter electrode provided on one of first substrate and the second substrate and plural switching elements connected to the respective plural pixel electrodes, a display drive control unit for driving the liquid crystal disposed between each of the pixel electrodes and the counter electrode, a lighting unit having LEDs emitting light of respective red, green and blue colors, and a lighting device control unit for making each LED of color perform time-division light emission in synchronization with the switching of each of the switching elements.

Abstract: A development apparatus according to an embodiment comprises a development tank which accommodates developer containing toner and carrier, an agitating screw which agitates and transports the developer in the development tank, and a development roller which is provided close to or in contact with a photosensitive body and visualizes an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive body. The toner and the carrier are externally replenished to the development tank, and excess developer in the development tank is discharged through a developer discharge outlet to outside of the development container. In the development container, the development apparatus further comprises a flow regulating member for regulating a flow of the developer. The flow regulating member is provided facing the developer discharge outlet and extending vertically upward with respect to a bottom plane of the development tank.

Abstract: The invention provides a stator for a dynamo-electric machine capable of preventing deterioration of efficiency. In the stator for dynamo-electric machine of which rotor is disposed inside the stator, a stator core 11 comprises: an inside ring core 9 formed annularly by laminating plate-type magnetic members in which a plurality of teeth are provided on one side of a yoke portion, disposing coils 8 in slots each formed between the teeth, bending the plate-type magnetic members so that the coils 8 are located inside, and bringing two end faces into contact with each other; and an outside ring core 10, being made of magnetic members and formed cylindrical in shape, which is fitted on outside of the inside ring 9 and holds the inside ring core 9.

Abstract: A folding-type electronic device, such as a portable telephone, is provided with a functional component such as a switch that a user can operate regardless of whether the device is in the opened state or in the closed state, without increasing the number of parts and without expanding the mounting space. The functional component, such as a rotation switch 5, is mounted on the space between a pair of bearing mechanisms 4 that are provided between the main casing 2 and the sub-casing 3. The user can access and operate the functional component, either when the device is in an opened state or in a closed state.

Abstract: To provide a high-response and wide-viewing-angle liquid crystal panel capable of causing a transition of liquid crystal, which is called the OCB mode, into a bend configuration in a short time, there is provided a period in which a potential difference higher than that in a normal image display period is continuously applied between gate lines and opposing electrodes or between pixel electrodes and the opposing electrodes of the liquid crystal panel. Also, ingenuities are exercised on the period in which the potential difference is continuously applied between them and on the structure of picture elements.

Abstract: A portable terminal apparatus can improve a communication efficiency while attempting a miniaturization of a housing. The portable terminal apparatus has a housing that accommodates component parts therein. An antenna and a battery are accommodated in the housing. The antenna is arranged so as to surround the battery.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having a pair of substrates; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the substrates; and a phase compensator arranged on an outer side of the substrates; wherein, when no voltage is applied, the liquid crystal layer, which has been subjected to a parallel alignment process, is in splay alignment, in which pretilt angles of the liquid crystal at an upper and at a lower boundary of the liquid crystal layer have opposite signs; wherein, before liquid crystal display driving, an initialization process is performed, in which the alignment of the liquid crystal layer is transitioned from splay alignment to bend alignment by application of a voltage; and wherein the liquid crystal display driving is performed in the bend alignment attained by this initialization; including at least one region outside the display pixels where the liquid crystal layer thickness is smaller than inside the display pixels, and that an electric field caused by the application of said voltage, applied to the

Abstract: In a stator for an alternator includes electric conductors which include a plurality of winding sub-portions in each of which one long strand of wire is bent back outside the slots at end surfaces of the stator core and wound into a wave winding so as to alternately occupy an inner layer and an outer layer in a slot depth direction within the slots a predetermined number of slots apart, and the turned portions of the strands of wire bent back outside the slots at both the end surfaces of the stator core are disposed in a circumferential direction so as to constitute a joint-side coil end and a turn-side coil end and the plurality of windings sub-portions are connected to each other on the joint-side coil end at a first end of the stator core, the average amount of application per unit area of any one of the varnish, with which the joint-side coil end is impregnated and the varnish, with which the counter-joint-side coil end is impregnated, is larger than the average amount of application per unit area of the

Abstract: A developing device is provided with a developer conveying member in which a plurality of electrodes arranged on a substrate at a predetermined interval are coated with a surface protection layer, the developer conveying member being provided in a developing area that faces an image carrying body whose surface carries an electrostatic latent image, wherein developer is conveyed on the developer conveying member using a traveling-wave electric field that is formed by applying a polyphase voltage to the respective electrodes. The developing device is further provided with a supplying member for supplying the developer onto the developer conveying member, wherein (i) an effective electrode width Le of the respective electrodes in their width direction orthogonal to their arranging direction and (ii) a width Lt of a developer existing area on the supplying member, the width Lt being orthogonal to a direction of supplying the developer, are set so as to satisfy a relation of Lt<Le.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of driving an active matrix display device in which one frame comprises a plurality of sub-frames each comprising a write time and a hold time and gray scale driving is brought about by the cumulative effect of the hold times. Gray scale display driving is carried out by randomly scanning scan lines other than one predetermined scan line in a predetermined sequence in the hold time of each sub-frame corresponding to the one predetermined scan line so that any one sub-frame is not written to any one scan line more than once and one frame is such that in each of the scan lines, the writings and the hold time of each of the sub-frames is ensured to bring about gray scale display. Through this means, the frame period is shortened.

Abstract: A brush holding apparatus is mounted to an inner wall surface of a rear bracket and a cap mounted to a head portion of a brush holder portion is exposed through an opening in the rear bracket. Brushes are housed inside brush insertion apertures of the brush holder portion and are placed in elastic contact with slip rings by springs. An abrasion detection terminal is insert molded into the brush holder portion, a contact thereof projecting inside one of the brush insertion apertures and coming into contact with the corresponding spring when the brushes are abraded by a predetermined amount.

Abstract: An image display device comprises a first storage device (4) for storing an image data, an image processor (8) for reducing the number of bits of the image data, a second storage device (10) for storing the image data after being processed, a display device (12) for displaying the image data after being processed, a driver (14) for driving the display device (12) and a controller (16) for controlling the operation of the driver (14). The controller (16) determines whether the image data stored in the first storage device (4) is dynamic or static, and, in the case of a static image, after storing the signals corresponding to one frame of the image data in the second storage device (10), operates only the second storage device (10), the driver (14) and the display device (12). Thereby, reduction of power consumption can be achieved while maintaining high image quality.

Abstract: On surfaces of insulating layers 1b and 1c of a transportation member 1, a protective layer 1d having a volume resistivity of 1010 ?·cm to 1017 ?·cm is so laminated that a sum of thickness of the insulating layers 1b and 1c is less than intervals between adjacent ones of progressive wave generating electrodes 2. With this arrangement, it is ensured that a progressive wave electric field generated by the progressive wave generating electrodes 2 is exposed beyond a surface of the transportation member 1. Even if developer T and the transportation member 1 contact each other, a surface potential of the transportation member 1 is not changed. Moreover, firm adhering of the toner T to the surface of the transportation member 1 is prevented. It is therefore possible to certainly transport the developer T to a development position always stably.

Abstract: An alternator is provided with a polyphase stator winding including a number of winding portions in which long strands of wire are wound so as to alternately occupy an inner layer and an outer layer in a slot depth direction within the slots at intervals of a predetermined number of slots, the strands of wire folding back outside the slots at axial end surfaces of the stator core, and the stator core being provided with an abutting portion extending axially such that the stator core becomes an annular shape by joining ends of the stator core at the abutting portions.

Abstract: A stator for an automotive alternator is provided with good installation characteristics for stator coils and which can lower noise. The stator includes a stator core in which a plurality of slots are formed at an inner circumference thereof and stator coils which are fitted into the slots. A rotor is provided inside the stator and includes a rotor coil, and a pole core for housing the rotor coil. Two slots are provided for each set of stator coils, each phase and each magnetic pole and the total number of slots is seventy-two or more. The stator core formed by laminating a plurality of sheet-shaped magnetic members. The stator coils are disposed in the slots, and the stator core is rounded such that the stator coils become the inner side thereof and both end surfaces thereof are contacted to connect the stator core in an annular shape.