Abstract: Charges accumulated inside a wall structure of a resin vessel, which is sterilized by an electron beam irradiator, and an ionizer disposed outside a filler emits to the outer surface of the resin vessel are eliminated with negative ions having the same polarity as that of charges accumulated in the wall section of the resin vessel, while conveying the resin vessel sterilized by the electron beam irradiator to the filler, by which liquid fills the resin vessel.

Abstract: To prevent electrical charging inside a resin material as well as a surface of a resin vessel at a time of sterilizing the resin vessel by being irradiated with electron beam, a bottle support unit is mounted to a lower end portion of a cylindrical rotating shaft rotatably supported by a rotating wheel. The bottle support unit includes a pair of griper members by which a mouth portion of a bottle is gripped. A ground electrode is disposed to be capable of being inserted into the interior of the resin vessel through a mouth portion thereof, and the interior of the resin vessel is irradiated with the electron beam in a state of the ground electrode being inserted into the resin vessel.

Abstract: To eliminate charges accumulated inside a wall structure of a resin vessel 2, which is sterilized by an electron beam irradiator 16, an ionizer 134 disposed outside a filler 112 emits to the outer surface of the resin vessel 2 with negative ions having the same polarity as that of charges accumulated in the wall section of the resin vessel 2, while conveying the resin vessel 2 sterilized by the electron beam irradiator 16 to the filler 112, by which liquid fills the resin vessel 2. A filling nozzle 132 is connected to ground, and an ion flowing path is formed through a liquid column La filling the interior of the resin vessel 2 from the filling nozzle 132.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes: an active matrix-type TFT array substrate on which photoelectric conversion elements and thin film transistors are arranged in a matrix shape, wherein the photoelectric conversion element connects with a drain electrode via a contact hole opened through a first interlayer insulation film provided above the thin film transistor, wherein a data line and a bias line are connected with the source electrode and the photoelectric conversion element via respective contact holes opened through the second interlayer insulation, and wherein at least a part of the photoelectric conversion element is fixed to have a shape different from a normal pixel between pixels adjacent to each other in an extending direction of the gate line, and an electrical connection between the photoelectric conversion element and the data line is cut off in the transistor of the pixel having the different shape.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has pixel electrodes including a transmissive pixel electrode and a reflective pixel electrode. The liquid crystal display device includes a TFT array substrate, an opposing substrate, a sealing material that bonds both substrates, an organic film formed on the TFT array substrate and having a thick film portion provided below the pixel electrode and a thin film portion provided outside the thick film portion, a columnar spacer formed on the opposing substrate and holding substrate gap between the both substrates, and a gap retaining pad formed in a region outside the display region and inside the sealing material to adjust the substrate gap outside the display region according to the substrate gap on the pixel electrode. The columnar spacer holds the substrate gap between both substrates over the gap retaining pad and over the pixel electrode.

Abstract: An image detector comprises: an active matrix-type TFT array substrate having a pixel area, in which photoelectric conversion elements and thin film transistors are arranged in a matrix shape, a data line, and a bias line; a conversion layer, which is arranged on the TFT array substrate and converts radiation into light; and a conductive cover, which covers the conversion layer, wherein the conductive cover is adhered in an adhesion area in an upper layer than an area, in which at least one of the data line and the bias line extend from the pixel area to each of terminals, and wherein inorganic insulation films configured by at least two layers are formed between the at least one of the data line and the bias line and the adhesion area.

Abstract: It is aimed to prevent electrical charging inside a resin material as well as a surface of a resin vessel at a time of sterilizing the resin vessel by being irradiated with electron beam. A bottle support unit is mounted to a lower end portion of a cylindrical rotating shaft rotatably supported by a rotating wheel. The bottle support unit includes a pair of griper members by which a mouth portion of a bottle is gripped. The bottle rotated and conveyed in a state supported by the bottle support unit is irradiated with the electron beam from an electron beam irradiator to thereby sterilize the bottle. A ground electrode is disposed to be capable of being inserted into the interior of the resin vessel through a mouth portion thereof, and the interior of the resin vessel is irradiated with the electron beam in a state of the ground electrode being inserted into the resin vessel.

Abstract: The TFT substrate having a transparent conductive film pattern configuring a terminal that can be connected from outside and a first line extending from the terminal; a metal film that is removed from over the terminal and formed on the transparent conductive film pattern on the inside thereof; and an insulating film covering the metal film.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has pixel electrodes including a transmissive pixel electrode and a reflective pixel electrode. The liquid crystal display device includes a TFT array substrate, an opposing substrate, a sealing material that bonds both substrates, an organic film formed on the TFT array substrate and having a thick film portion provided below the pixel electrode and a thin film portion provided outside the thick film portion, a columnar spacer formed on the opposing substrate and holding substrate gap between the both substrates, and a gap retaining pad formed in a region outside the display region and inside the sealing material to adjust the substrate gap outside the display region according to the substrate gap on the pixel electrode. The columnar spacer holds the substrate gap between both substrates over the gap retaining pad and over the pixel electrode.

Abstract: A transflective type liquid crystal display device that includes a first substrate including a thin film transistor formed thereover, a second substrate arranged oppositely to the first substrate, a sealing material, formed in a shape of a frame surrounding a display area, to bond the first substrate and the second substrate, an inorganic insulating film to cover the thin film transistor over the first substrate, an organic film formed on the inorganic insulating film, and a pixel electrode including a transmissive electrode provided on the organic film and a reflective electrode provided on a part of the transmissive electrode, and the pixel electrode connecting to the thin film transistor through a contact hole penetrating the organic film and the inorganic insulating film.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal display device having a pixel electrode including a transmissive pixel electrode and a reflective pixel electrode. The liquid crystal display device includes a TFT array substrate, an opposing substrate, a sealing material that bonds the both substrates, an organic film formed on the TFT array substrate and having a thick film portion provided below the pixel electrode and a thin film portion provided outside the thick film portion, a columnar spacer formed on the opposing substrate and holding substrate gap between the both substrates, and a gap retaining pad formed in a region outside the display region and inside the sealing material to adjust the substrate gap outside the display region according to the substrate gap on the pixel electrode. The columnar spacer holds the substrate gap between the both substrates over the gap retaining pad and over the pixel electrode.

Abstract: A thin film transistor array substrate of the present invention having an array area, and a frame area, the thin film transistor array substrate includes: a thin film transistor; an upper metal pattern formed by the same material as source and drain electrodes at the same layer; a transparent conductive film pattern; and an upper layer insulation film, wherein the transparent conductive film pattern has: a first-type transparent conductive film pattern provided to located within one of a pattern of the electrode pattern and a pattern of the metal pattern, as viewed from the top side, and to not cover pattern end faces of the electrode pattern or the metal pattern; and a second-type transparent conductive film pattern provided to stick out from an inside of at least a portion of one of the patterns, as viewed from the top side and to cover the pattern end faces.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a transflective type liquid crystal display device includes forming an organic film having different film thicknesses on a passivation film covering a TFT, etching the passivation film to form a contact hole, etching a reflective electrode and a transmissive electrode formed on the organic film by using a resist pattern having different film thicknesses, removing, by ashing, a thin film portion of the resist pattern, and a thin film portion of the organic film exposed from the transmissive electrode to form an opening, etching the reflective electrode by using the resist pattern left after the removal of the thin film portion, and bonding substrates in such a manner that a sealing material in a shape of a frame is arranged in the opening of the organic film.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device includes a thin film transistor that is placed on a substrate, a photodiode that is connected to a drain electrode of the thin film transistor and includes an upper electrode, a lower electrode and a photoelectric conversion layer placed between the upper and lower electrodes, a first interlayer insulating film that covers at least the upper electrode, a second interlayer insulating film that is placed in an upper layer of the first interlayer insulating film and covers the thin film transistor and the photodiode, and a line that is connected to the upper electrode through a contact hole disposed in the first interlayer insulating film and the second interlayer insulating film.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a transflective type liquid crystal display device includes forming an organic film having different film thicknesses on a passivation film covering a TFT, etching the passivation film to form a contact hole, etching a reflective electrode and a transmissive electrode formed on the organic film by using a resist pattern having different film thicknesses, removing, by ashing, a thin film portion of the resist pattern, and a thin film portion of the organic film exposed from the transmissive electrode to form an opening, etching the reflective electrode by using the resist pattern left after the removal of the thin film portion, and bonding substrates in such a manner that a sealing material in a shape of a frame is arranged in the opening of the organic film.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device in accordance with an aspect of the present invention includes a thin-film transistor formed on a substrate, and a photo diode electrically connected to the thin-film transistor, wherein the photo diode includes a lower electrode connected to a drain electrode of the thin-film transistor, a photoelectric conversion layer formed on the lower electrode, an upper electrode formed from a transparent conductive film on the photoelectric conversion layer, the upper electrode being formed so as to be contained within an upper surface of the photoelectric conversion layer as viewed from a top, and a protective film (compound layer or the like) formed so as to protect a part of an upper surface of the photoelectric conversion layer located outside the upper electrode.

Abstract: There is provided an electron beam sterilizer judging, in an electron beam irradiation zone, whether an electron beam amount to be irradiated to a resin bottle is proper or improper. The sterilizer includes an electron beam irradiator for irradiating the resin bottle with an electron beam through an irradiation window and a bottle conveyer for conveying the resin bottle, and the resin bottle conveyed in front of the irradiation window is irradiated with the electron beam to thereby sterilize the bottle. A beam collector is disposed in front of the irradiation window so as to oppose thereto. The beam collector is supported in an electrically insulated manner by an insulating member. When the electron beam irradiates the beam collector, an electric current flowing the beam collector is measured by an electric current measuring device.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a multilayer thin film pattern includes forming a metal film over a substrate, forming a second thin film over the metal film, forming a resist pattern over the second thin film, etching the second thin film using the resist pattern as a mask, transforming the resist pattern using an organic solvent or a RELACS agent to cover an edge face of the etched second thin film and etching the metal film while the edge face of the second thin film is covered with the resist pattern.

Abstract: It is aimed to eliminate charges accumulated inside a wall structure of a resin vessel 2, which is sterilized by an electron beam irradiator 16, and an ionizer 134 disposed outside a filler 112 emits to the outer surface of the resin vessel 2 with negative ions having the same polarity as that of charges accumulated in the wall section of the resin vessel 2, while conveying the resin vessel 2 sterilized by the electron beam irradiator 16 to the filler 112, by which liquid fills the resin vessel 2. A filling nozzle 132 is connected to ground, and an ion flowing path is formed through a liquid column La filling the interior of the resin vessel 2 from the filling nozzle 132.

Abstract: A photosensor includes a photodiode including a semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer is made up of an n-type semiconductor layer, an i-type semiconductor layer and a p-type semiconductor layer, for example. The photosensor further includes a transparent electrode made of a transparent conductive film, and a nitrogen-containing semiconductor layer formed between the semiconductor layer and the transparent electrode.