Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device is capable of flowing a constant electric current into each pixel and improving image qualities even if the device displays an image on a large screen. The organic electroluminescent display device including a lower electrode, an organic electroluminescent film, and an upper electrode on a substrate arranged in this order, wherein the upper electrode is divided in units of a pixel or dot by a partition having an insulating property.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent panel, a production method thereof, and an organic electroluminescent display device, in which color mixing between adjacent pixels, caused by overflow or pull-in of a liquid material is suppressed and discontinuity (physical and electrical separation by the step) of an upper electrode is reduced when an organic film such as a luminescent layer is formed by an application method such as an ink jet printing method. The organic electroluminescent panel of the present invention is an organic electroluminescent panel comprising a lower electrode, a bank, an organic film, and an upper electrode on a substrate, wherein the organic electroluminescent panel has: two or more bank regions having different film thicknesses; and an organic film region surrounded by the two or more bank regions, the organic film region having a planar shape of a quadrangle or a substantial quadrangle with a rounded vertex or side.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device is capable of flowing a constant electric current into each pixel and improving image qualities even if the device displays an image on a large screen. The organic electroluminescent display device including a lower electrode, an organic electroluminescent film, and an upper electrode on a substrate arranged in this order, wherein the upper electrode is divided in units of a pixel or dot by a partition having an insulating property.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display element includes a substrate, a plurality of first electrodes, an auxiliary electrode, an insulating layer, an organic layer, a second electrode, and a conductive material. The auxiliary electrode is provided between the plurality of first electrodes on the substrate and separated from the plurality of first electrodes. The insulating layer covers the auxiliary electrode, separates and isolates the plurality of first electrodes from each other, and has through holes extending to the auxiliary electrode. The organic layer is provided on each of the plurality of first electrodes. The second electrode covers a whole surface of the insulating layer and the organic layers and allowing light emitted in the organic layers to transmit therethrough. The conductive material is provided in the through holes, for electrically connecting the auxiliary electrode to the second electrode.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a patterned substrate includes the steps of: ejecting ink to a plurality of ink ejection portions arranged in a row by using a head having a plurality of ink ejecting means corresponding to the plurality of ink ejection portions; and drying the ejected ink. In the ink ejection step, ink is ejected so that a solid content weight of the ink in each ink ejection portion is different between an inner part and an end part of the plurality of ink ejection portions arranged in a row.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent panel, a production method thereof, and an organic electroluminescent display device, in which color mixing between adjacent pixels, caused by overflow or pull-in of a liquid material is suppressed and discontinuity (physical and electrical separation by the step) of an upper electrode is reduced when an organic film such as a luminescent layer is formed by an application method such as an ink jet printing method. The organic electroluminescent panel of the present invention is an organic electroluminescent panel comprising a lower electrode, a bank, an organic film, and an upper electrode on a substrate, wherein the organic electroluminescent panel has: two or more bank regions having different film thicknesses; and an organic film region surrounded by the two or more bank regions, the organic film region having a planar shape of a quadrangle or a substantial quadrangle with a rounded vertex or side.

Abstract: A method for fabricating an organic electroluminescent display includes the formation step of forming an organic electroluminescent layer in an electroluminescent layer formation chamber including an air atmosphere having a lower ozone concentration than the ambient atmosphere.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display element includes a substrate, a plurality of first electrodes, an auxiliary electrode, an insulating layer, an organic layer, a second electrode, and a conductive material. The auxiliary electrode is provided between the plurality of first electrodes on the substrate and separated from the plurality of first electrodes. The insulating layer covers the auxiliary electrode, separates and isolates the plurality of first electrodes from each other, and has through holes extending to the auxiliary electrode. The organic layer is provided on each of the plurality of first electrodes. The second electrode covers a whole surface of the insulating layer and the organic layers and allowing light emitted in the organic layers to transmit therethrough. The conductive material is provided in the through holes, for electrically connecting the auxiliary electrode to the second electrode.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a patterned substrate includes the steps of: ejecting ink to a plurality of ink ejection portions arranged in a row by using a head having a plurality of ink ejecting means corresponding to the plurality of ink ejection portions; and drying the ejected ink. In the ink ejection step, ink is ejected so that a solid content weight of the ink in each ink ejection portion is different between an inner part and an end part of the plurality of ink ejection portions arranged in a row.

Abstract: A liquid crystal cell substrate 109, a plasma cell substrate 104, a dielectric layer 103 provided between the liquid crystal cell substrate 109 and the plasma cell substrate 104, a liquid crystal layer 110 provided between the liquid crystal cell substrate 109 and the dielectric layer 103, and a plurality of plasma channels 106 provided between the dielectric layer 103 and the plasma cell substrate 104, are provided. Each of the plurality of plasma channels 106 includes a discharge gas, an anode 107 and a cathode 108, and the cathode 108 includes a cathode layer 108a made of a mixture of a conductive material and an insulative material including a glass having a lead weight percentage of 30% or less.

Abstract: A plasma addressing display device comprising a flat panel including a display cell having columns of signal electrodes and also including a plasma cell having rows of discharge channels, with pixels formed at intersections of the signal electrodes and the discharge channels; a scanning circuit for sequentially discharging the columns of the signal electrodes at a pre-set period to select pixels from row to row; and a signal circuit for supplying picture signals to the column of the signal electrodes to write the picture signals in the pixels of the selected row, the scanning circuit discharging each discharge channel with time shift as the discharging period allocated to the discharge channel of a previous row is partially overlapped at least with the discharging period allocated to the discharge channel of the next row to allocate a discharging period longer than the pre-set period to each discharge channel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal cell substrate 109, a plasma cell substrate 104, a dielectric layer 103 provided between the liquid crystal cell substrate 109 and the plasma cell substrate 104, a liquid crystal layer 110 provided between the liquid crystal cell substrate 109 and the dielectric layer 103, and a plurality of plasma channels 106 provided between the dielectric layer 103 and the plasma cell substrate 104, are provided. Each of the plurality of plasma channels 106 includes a discharge gas, an anode 107 and a cathode 108, and the cathode 108 includes a cathode layer 108a made of a mixture of a conductive material and an insulative material including a glass having a lead weight percentage of 30% or less.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a pair of substrates connected to each other via a pre-set gap for delimiting a hermetically sealed space, an ionizable gas charged into this space, and discharging electrodes formed at least on one of the substrates to incur discharge in the space. The discharging electrodes are coated with a protective skin film formed by the electro-deposition method. The protective skin film is an electro-deposited and sintered mixture of boride or carbon containing electrically conductive powders and glass powders. In electro-deposition, the mean particle size of the electrically conductive powders and the glass powders is not larger than 10 &mgr;m or in a range from 1 to 3 &mgr;m. The electrically conductive powders and the glass powders are mixed in a volumetric ratio in a range from 9:1 to 3:7, with the film thickness of the protective skin film being in a range from 1 to 20 &mgr;m.

Abstract: The present invention relates to ketone derivatives represented by the following formula and medical agents containing the ketone derivatives or pharmacologically acceptable salts thereof as an active ingredient, and in particular, relates to a hematopoietic agent; it is shown that the present invention increases blood cells, such as platelets, white blood cells, and red blood cells, and is effective in preventing and treating cytopenia caused by cancer chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and the like.

Abstract: The present invention relates to cyclic ketones represented by the following formula and to drugs in which an effective component is such a cyclic ketone or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof. The cyclic ketones of the present invention encourage the production of blood platelets, leukocytes and erythrocytes, and can be employed in the prevention or treatment of cytopaenia brought about by cancer chemotherapy, radiotherapy or drug therapy, or by immunological abnormality, anaemia and the like.

Abstract: This invention relates to ketones represented by the following formula ##STR1## and to drugs in which such a ketone or pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof is an effective component.The ketones of the present invention encourage the production of platelets, red blood cells, white blood cells and the like, and can be used to prevent or treat cytopaenia brought about by cancer chemotherapy, radiotherapy, bone marrow transplantation and drug therapy, or by immunological abnormality or anaemia, and the like.

Abstract: A two-terminal non-linear resistive device including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a zinc sulfide layer interposed therebetween. The zinc sulfide layer contains at least one transition metal element as an impurity. The zinc sulfide layer is formed by sputtering using a sintered ZnS target including the transition metal element or a sintered ZnS target including the transition metal sulfide.

Abstract: The present invention offers the serine protease exhibiting a biological activity which a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence shown in FIG. 1 shows, the serine protease precursor where a cleavable peptide or signal peptide connects with the N-terminal of the said serine protease, and the gene encoding them. The serine protease being useful in medical treatment fields can be manufactured in large quantities by the present invention.Moreover, the present invention offers the DNA sequence coding a transcription controlling region contained in the chromosomal gene of the serine protease of a human myeloid cell. This sequence is the transcription controlling region being necessary for the gene expression being specific to a human leukocyte or erythrocyte.

Abstract: The display apparatus of this invention performs a display by modulating the optical characteristics of a display medium.

Abstract: The display apparatus of this invention includes: a display medium having an electro-optic characteristic; a pair of substrates arranged to face each other sandwiching the display medium; a pair of electrodes disposed in inner surfaces of the pair of substrates for applying a voltage to the display medium; and at least one nonlinear element including a nonlinear resistance layer composed of a sulfide film obtained by immersing a conductive or semiconductive film in a solution containing sulfur ions or ions having sulfur atoms and applying a voltage between the conductive or semiconductive film as an anode and a cathode, the nonlinear element being disposed on the inner surface of one of the pair of substrates and electrically connected to one of the pair of electrodes.