Abstract: A sensor for detecting a target in a non-contact manner includes a first electrode; a second; a third electrode that is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a determination circuit that, in operation, detects entry of the target into a first region by detecting a change of first electrostatic capacitance, which is electrostatic capacitance of the first electrode, and detects entry of the target into a second region by detecting a change of second electrostatic capacitance, which is electrostatic capacitance of the second electrode. An electric potential of the third electrode is more negative than electric potentials of the first electrode and the second electrode. At least a part of the second region at least partially surrounds an outer edge of the first region in plan view.

Abstract: An operation switch includes: an electrostatic capacitance sensor that generates a sensing signal in response to approach or contact of an object; and a controller that determines whether or not the object is a human body in accordance with the sensing signal. The controller determines that the object is not a human body, when (A) a magnitude of the sensing signal is larger than a first threshold at a first time point, (B) a rate of change in the magnitude of the sensing signal in a first period is larger than a first rate, and (C) the magnitude of the sensing signal does not fall below a second threshold in a second period subsequent to the first period.

Abstract: A display panel including an EL panel unit, a CF panel unit, and a sealing resin layer. In the EL panel, a surface of a sealing layer has a non-flat surface as a whole in a Z-axis direction, with recess portions at light-emitting areas corresponding to regions between banks and protrusion portions at non-light-emitting areas corresponding to tops of the banks. D2<0.90×D1 and S>{(0.90×D1)?D2}×W are satisfied, where D1 (D1(R), D1(G), D1(B)) denotes a distance between the EL panel unit and the CF panel unit at a first recess portion, D2 denotes a distance between the EL panel unit and the CF panel unit at a protrusion portion, W denotes a width of a top of the protrusion portion, and S denotes a cross-sectional area of a second recess portion.

Abstract: A display panel includes an EL panel section, a CF panel section, and a sealing resin layer. In the EL panel section, the surface of a sealing layer has a projected and recessed shape in a Z-axis direction as a whole, wherein a light-emitting region corresponding to a region between banks is a recessed section, and a non-light-emitting region corresponding to a top portion of the bank is a projected section. The sealing resin layer includes a first sealing resin layer and a second sealing resin layer. Prior to performing heating or light irradiation in a step of forming the first and second sealing resin layers, the viscosity of a second non-fluid resin constituting the second sealing resin layer is lower than the viscosity of a first non-fluid resin constituting the first sealing resin layer.

Abstract: An operation switch includes: a capacitance sensor that generates three or more detection signals in response to approach or contact of an object to respective three or more electrodes; a determination circuit that determines whether or not the object is a living body based on one or more detection signals selected from the three or more detection signals, the one or more detection signals excluding a detection signal having a maximum intensity among the three or more detection signals; and a controller that, when the object is determined to be a living body, generates an operation signal for operating a predetermined device.

Abstract: An operation switch includes: a capacitance sensor that generates three or more detection signals in response to approach or contact of an object to respective three or more electrodes; a determination circuit that determines whether or not the object is a living body based on one or more detection signals selected from the three or more detection signals, the one or more detection signals excluding a detection signal having a maximum intensity among the three or more detection signals; and a controller that, when the object is determined to be a living body, generates an operation signal for operating a predetermined device.

Abstract: A display panel includes an EL panel section, a CF panel section, and a sealing resin layer. In the EL panel section, the surface of a sealing layer has a projected and recessed shape in a Z-axis direction as a whole, wherein a light-emitting region corresponding to a region between banks is a recessed section, and a non-light-emitting region corresponding to a top portion of the bank is a projected section. The sealing resin layer includes a first sealing resin layer and a second sealing resin layer. Prior to performing heating or light irradiation in a step of forming the first and second sealing resin layers, the viscosity of a second non-fluid resin constituting the second sealing resin layer is lower than the viscosity of a first non-fluid resin constituting the first sealing resin layer.

Abstract: An operation switch includes: an electrostatic capacitance sensor that generates a sensing signal in response to approach or contact of an object; and a controller that determines whether or not the object is a human body in accordance with the sensing signal. The controller determines that the object is not a human body, when (A) a magnitude of the sensing signal is larger than a first threshold at a first time point, (B) a rate of change in the magnitude of the sensing signal in a first period is larger than a first rate, and (C) the magnitude of the sensing signal does not fall below a second threshold in a second period subsequent to the first period.

Abstract: A control switch for controlling a level of an operation of an apparatus among operating levels including first, second, and third operating levels includes: sensors each of which, in operation, senses an object, the sensors including first, second, and third sensors arranged along one direction, the first, second, and third sensors being assigned first, second, and third level values, respectively; an acquisition circuit that, in operation, acquires a moving velocity of the object along the direction with the first, second, and third sensors; a change circuit that, in operation, changes at least two of the first, second, and third level values according to the moving velocity; and a control circuit that, in operation, causes the apparatus to operate at an operating level corresponding to the level value assigned to one of the first, second, and third sensors which has sensed the object.

Abstract: A sensor for detecting a target in a non-contact manner includes a first electrode; a second; a third electrode that is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a determination circuit that, in operation, detects entry of the target into a first region by detecting a change of first electrostatic capacitance, which is electrostatic capacitance of the first electrode, and detects entry of the target into a second region by detecting a change of second electrostatic capacitance, which is electrostatic capacitance of the second electrode. An electric potential of the third electrode is more negative than electric potentials of the first electrode and the second electrode. At least a part of the second region at least partially surrounds an outer edge of the first region in plan view.

Abstract: A switch includes a sensor that, in operation, outputs a detection signal indicative of approach of a target without making contact with the target, and a control circuit that, in operation, generates an operation signal for operating the apparatus on the basis of the detection signal supplied from the sensor. The control circuit generates the operation signal when the detection signal becomes smaller than a second threshold value within a predetermined period from a time when the detection signal exceeds a first threshold value that is different from the second threshold value and does not generate the operation signal when the detection signal becomes smaller than the second threshold value after elapse of the predetermined period from the time when the detection signal exceeds the first threshold value.

Abstract: A control switch for controlling a level of an operation of an apparatus among operating levels including first, second, and third operating levels includes: sensors each of which, in operation, senses an object, the sensors including first, second, and third sensors arranged along one direction, the first, second, and third sensors being assigned first, second, and third level values, respectively; an acquisition circuit that, in operation, acquires a moving velocity of the object along the direction with the first, second, and third sensors; a change circuit that, in operation, changes at least two of the first, second, and third level values according to the moving velocity; and a control circuit that, in operation, causes the apparatus to operate at an operating level corresponding to the level value assigned to one of the first, second, and third sensors which has sensed the object.

Abstract: A display panel including an EL panel unit, a CF panel unit, and a sealing resin layer. In the EL panel, a surface of a sealing layer has a non-flat surface as a whole in a Z-axis direction, with recess portions at light-emitting areas corresponding to regions between banks and protrusion portions at non-light-emitting areas corresponding to tops of the banks. D2<0.90×D1 and S>{(0.90×D1)?D2}×W are satisfied, where D1 (D1(R), D1(G), D1(B)) denotes a distance between the EL panel unit and the CF panel unit at a first recess portion, D2 denotes a distance between the EL panel unit and the CF panel unit at a protrusion portion, W denotes a width of a top of the protrusion portion, and S denotes a cross-sectional area of a second recess portion.

Abstract: A display device comprises: a film substrate; display pixels; a flexible printed circuit board and/or a driver integrated circuit; a protective resin that covers, in a plan view of the film substrate, an outer edge of the driver integrated circuit and/or part of the flexible printed circuit board; a fixing substrate; and an adhesive layer that bonds the film substrate to the fixing substrate. The film substrate has a first area including at least an outer edge of the protective resin in a plan view of the film substrate. In the first area, a product of a thickness t [m] of the film substrate by a shear strength X [N/m2] of the film substrate is greater than a peel strength Y [N/m] with which the film substrate is separated from the fixing substrate.

Abstract: A display device comprises: a film substrate; display pixels; a flexible printed circuit board and/or a driver integrated circuit; a protective resin that covers, in a plan view of the film substrate, an outer edge of the driver integrated circuit and/or part of the flexible printed circuit board; a fixing substrate; and an adhesive layer that bonds the film substrate to the fixing substrate. The film substrate has a first area including at least an outer edge of the protective resin in a plan view of the film substrate. In the first area, a product of a thickness t [m] of the film substrate by a shear strength X [N/m2] of the film substrate is greater than a peel strength Y [N/m] with which the film substrate is separated from the fixing substrate.

Abstract: A display panel device includes: a gate electrode above a substrate; a gate insulator above the gate electrode; a first source electrode and a first drain electrode above the gate insulator; a second source electrode and a second drain electrode above the first source electrode and the first drain electrode respectively; a first partition wall part having an opening in which the second source electrode and the second drain electrode are exposed; a semiconductor layer in the opening; an insulation layer above the semiconductor layer; a lower electrode above the insulation layer; and a contact hole in the insulation layer, for connecting the lower electrode and the second drain electrode or the second source electrode, wherein a film structure of each of the second source electrode and the second drain electrode is sparser than a film structure of each of the first source electrode and the first drain electrode.

Abstract: Forming an adhesive layer on a part of a surface of the flexible substrate; forming a magnetic material layer on the surface of the flexible substrate in a part other than the part on which the adhesive layer is formed; temporarily holding, using magnetic force, the flexible substrate on which the adhesive layer and the magnetic material layer are formed, above an inflexible substrate having magnetic property; fixing the flexible substrate with the inflexible substrate via the adhesive layer; forming a layer composing an organic EL unit on the flexible substrate temporarily held using the magnetic force and fixed via the adhesive layer; removing the part in which the flexible substrate and the inflexible substrate are fixed via the adhesive layer; separating the flexible substrate from the inflexible substrate; and separating the magnetic material layer from the flexible substrate separated from the inflexible substrate are included.

Abstract: An organic electro-luminescence (EL) display device according to the present invention includes: a main substrate; a display section provided above the main substrate and including a red light-emitting layer, a green light-emitting layer, a blue light-emitting layer, and a bank; a blue color filter provided above the display section, which selectively transmits blue light and selectively absorbs green light and red light; and a red color filter provided above the display section, which selectively transmits the red light and selectively absorbs the blue light and the green light, wherein the blue color filter has openings each at a position corresponding to the red light-emitting layer or the green light-emitting layer, and the red color filter has openings each at a position corresponding to the green light-emitting layer or the blue light-emitting layer.

Abstract: A display panel device includes: a gate electrode above a substrate; a gate insulator above the gate electrode; a first source electrode and a first drain electrode above the gate insulator; a second source electrode and a second drain electrode above the first source electrode and the first drain electrode respectively; a first partition wall part having an opening in which the second source electrode and the second drain electrode are exposed; a semiconductor layer in the opening; an insulation layer above the semiconductor layer; a lower electrode above the insulation layer; and a contact hole in the insulation layer, for connecting the lower electrode and the second drain electrode or the second source electrode, wherein a film structure of each of the second source electrode and the second drain electrode is sparser than a film structure of each of the first source electrode and the first drain electrode.

Abstract: Provided is an organic EL device comprising: an organic EL element including an anode 114, an organic EL layer 116, and a cathode 117; a wiring layer 106 that supplies power to the anode 114; and an organic layer 111 interposed between the anode 114 and the wiring layer 106, wherein the organic layer 111 includes (i) a first organic layer 112 including an azatriphenylene derivative and (ii) a second organic layer 113 including an amine-based compound, the first organic layer 112 being layered on the wiring layer 106, and the second organic layer 113 being layered on the first organic layer 112.