Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of switching between a transparent state and a scattering state, reducing or preventing a decrease in transmittance in the transparent state, and reducing or preventing a decrease in luminance in the panel central portion in the scattering state. The liquid crystal display device includes, sequentially from its viewing surface side toward its back surface side: a first liquid crystal panel; a light source; and a second liquid crystal panel, the first liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components, the light source being configured to irradiate a back surface side main surface of the first liquid crystal panel with light from an oblique direction.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of switching between a transparent state and a scattering state, reducing or preventing a decrease in transmittance in the transparent state, and reducing or preventing a decrease in luminance in the panel central portion in the scattering state. The liquid crystal display device includes, sequentially from its viewing surface side toward its back surface side: a first liquid crystal panel; a light source; and a second liquid crystal panel, the first liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components, the light source being configured to irradiate a back surface side main surface of the first liquid crystal panel with light from an oblique direction.

Abstract: A rotor constituting a rotating electric machine includes a rotating shaft and a permanent magnet. A sleeve covering the outer surface of the permanent magnet is attached to the rotating shaft. The sleeve is made of a carbon fiber reinforced polymer. A resin film is joined to an outer circumferential wall of the sleeve via a joining material. A plurality of ridges are formed on the outer circumferential wall of the resin film. A riblet recessed relatively to the plurality of ridges is formed between the plurality of ridges.

Abstract: A rotor constituting a rotating electric machine includes a rotating shaft and a permanent magnet. A sleeve covering the outer surface of the permanent magnet is attached to the rotating shaft. A resin coating layer is formed on an outer circumferential wall of the sleeve. The resin coating layer includes a base portion and a plurality of ridges formed on the outer circumferential wall of the base portion. A riblet recessed relative to the plurality of ridges is formed between the plurality of ridges.

Abstract: Provided is a polymer dispersed liquid crystal display device including: a pair of substrates including an electrode on at least one substrate; and a composite layer disposed between the pair of substrates. The composite layer includes a liquid crystal component and a polymer network constituted by a cured product of a photopolymerizable liquid crystal compound, and is in a transparent state when no voltage is applied and in a scattering state when a voltage is applied, and the polymer network has a helical structure with a number of turns of from one to less than eight in the composite layer.

Abstract: The display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) layer and a light source, the PDLC layer containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components dispersed in the polymer network, the light source being apart from the liquid crystal panel with an air layer, and configured to emit light toward the liquid crystal panel from an oblique direction, the end portion and the central portion of the PDLC layer each having, in the scattering state, an angle dependence which changes a transmittance of light to be emitted from a front surface based on an angle at which light is incident on a back surface of the PDLC layer, with the angle dependence of the end portion being different from the angle dependence of the central portion, the light source irradiating the end portion and the central portion with light at different angles.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display element capable of switching between a transparent state and a scattering state and of reducing or preventing a decrease in luminance in the scattering state. The liquid crystal display element includes a liquid crystal panel containing a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal containing a polymer network and a liquid crystal component, and a light source module including a light source adjacent to the liquid crystal panel and a mirror configured to reflect light emitted from the light source toward the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of switching between a transparent state and a scattering state, reducing or preventing a decrease in transmittance in the transparent state, and reducing or preventing a decrease in luminance in the panel central portion in the scattering state. The liquid crystal display device includes, sequentially from its viewing surface side toward its back surface side: a first liquid crystal panel; a light source; and a second liquid crystal panel, the first liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components, the light source being configured to irradiate a back surface side main surface of the first liquid crystal panel with light from an oblique direction.

Abstract: The display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) layer and a light source, the PDLC layer containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components dispersed in the polymer network, the light source being apart from the liquid crystal panel with an air layer, and configured to emit light toward the liquid crystal panel from an oblique direction, the end portion and the central portion of the PDLC layer each having, in the scattering state, an angle dependence which changes a transmittance of light to be emitted from a front surface based on an angle at which light is incident on a back surface of the PDLC layer, with the angle dependence of the end portion being different from the angle dependence of the central portion, the light source irradiating the end portion and the central portion with light at different angles.

Abstract: Provided is a polymer dispersed liquid crystal display device including: a pair of substrates including an electrode on at least one substrate; and a composite layer disposed between the pair of substrates. The composite layer includes a liquid crystal component and a polymer network constituted by a cured product of a photopolymerizable liquid crystal compound, and is in a transparent state when no voltage is applied and in a scattering state when a voltage is applied, and the polymer network has a helical structure with a number of turns of from one to less than eight in the composite layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is manufactured at a low cost. In the liquid crystal display device, three sub-pixel electrodes are connected by inter-electrode connection portions to form one pixel electrode. One TFT is connected to the pixel electrode. A screen of a liquid crystal display panel is divided into n (n?2) of areas. Gate signal lines G of each divided area are scanned simultaneously one line at a time in each divided area. A backlight device emits light after completion of the scanning of each divided area.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes sub-pixel electrodes respectively provided to three sub-pixels, and an interelectrode connection portion that connects sub-pixel electrodes adjacent to each other among the sub-pixel electrodes. The interelectrode connection portion is provided in a position where boundaries of liquid crystal alignment directions of sub-pixels adjacent to each other are connected.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a second substrate, the first substrate including in the following order to a liquid crystal layer side: a first electrode, an insulating layer, and a second electrode provided with an aperture, the liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules homogeneously aligned in a no-voltage-applied state, the aperture having an outline including a first outline portion and a second outline portion which are at different directions to each other in each of pixels, the liquid crystal display panel further including a rib protruding to the liquid crystal layer side and disposed between the first outline portion and the second outline portion on one or both of a liquid crystal layer-side surface of the first substrate and a liquid crystal layer-side surface of the second substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is manufactured at a low cost. In the liquid crystal display device, three sub-pixel electrodes are connected by inter-electrode connection portions to form one pixel electrode. One TFT is connected to the pixel electrode. A screen of a liquid crystal display panel is divided into n (n?2) of areas. Gate signal lines G of each divided area are scanned simultaneously one line at a time in each divided area. A backlight device emits light after completion of the scanning of each divided area.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (100) includes a pair of substrates (11, 21), a liquid crystal layer (30) sandwiched between the pair of substrates (11, 21), an alignment film (12) disposed between the liquid crystal layer (30) and at least one substrate (11), and an alignment-sustaining layer (40) disposed between the alignment film (12) and the liquid crystal layer (30) and regulating the tilt direction of at least liquid crystal molecules close to the alignment film (12) among the liquid crystal molecules constituting the liquid crystal layer (30).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes sub-pixel electrodes respectively provided to three sub-pixels, and an interelectrode connection portion that connects sub-pixel electrodes adjacent to each other among the sub-pixel electrodes. The interelectrode connection portion is provided in a position where boundaries of liquid crystal alignment directions of sub-pixels adjacent to each other are connected.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device including: a first substrate; a liquid crystal layer; and a second substrate, the first substrate including a first electrode, and a second electrode, the liquid crystal molecules being aligned in a direction parallel to the first substrate with no voltage applied, the second electrode being provided with openings, the openings each having a long shape with two or more wide portions and one or more narrow portions, the two or more wide portions and the one or more narrow portions in each of the openings alternating with each other in a lengthwise direction of the opening, each of the wide portions of one of adjacent two openings being adjacent to one of the narrow portions of the other of the adjacent two openings, each of the narrow portions of the one opening being adjacent to one of the wide portions of the other opening.

Abstract: A spline connection structure includes a shaft portion having teeth with crowned tooth surfaces formed at equal intervals on an outer circumferential surface and a cylindrical portion having grooves into which the teeth of the shaft portion are fitted formed on an inner circumferential surface are connected. Two adjacent tooth surfaces facing each other are bent while maintaining a constant distance therebetween in a tooth width direction when viewed from a diameter direction of the shaft portion.

Abstract: An object is to provide a liquid crystal display device having long-term stability in a pretilt direction. A liquid crystal display device includes: a pair of substrates; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates; alignment films disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the pair of substrates; and polymer layers disposed between the alignment films and the liquid crystal layer. A material for forming the liquid crystal layer is a liquid crystal material. The liquid crystal material contains a liquid crystal compound having a polyphenylene group. A material for forming the alignment film is an alignment film material containing an acrylic resin having a photoreactive functional group. The polymer layer is a polymer of a (meth)acrylate monomer containing an aryl group having no condensed ring structure.

Abstract: In a wobble removal shaft coupling device including a wobble removal gear having an internal gear with a first central axial line and an external gear meshing with the wobble removal gear and having a second central axial line. The first and second central axial lines are in parallel with and offset from each other, and the external gear teeth are identical in number to the internal gear teeth of the wobble removal gear. At least one of the two sets of the gear teeth are resiliently deformable in a circumferential and/or radial direction so as to allow the two gears to be meshing with each other while permitting an eccentric wobbling movement of the external gear relative to the internal gear without requiring a play or a sliding engagement. The wobble removal shaft coupling device can be incorporated in a hypocycloid reduction gear device.