Abstract: A propylene-based polymer which is suitably applicable to foam molding, sheet molding, blow molding or the like, because of having good flow characteristics, high melt tension, high swell ratio and thus good molding workability. It is attained by a propylene-based polymer or the like characterized by satisfying the following requirements (i) to (vi). Requirement (i): MFR is 0.1 g/10 minutes to 100 g/10 minutes. Requirement (ii): Q value by GPC is 3.5 to 10.5. Requirement (iii): ratio of components with a molecular weight of equal to or higher than 2,000,000, in a molecular weight distribution curve obtained by GPC, is equal to or larger than 0.4% by weight and less than 10% by weight. Requirement (iv): components, which elute at a temperature of equal to or lower than 40° C., are equal to or less than 3.0% by weight, in temperature rising elution fractionation by ODCB. Requirement (v): isotactic triad fraction (mm) measured with 13C-NMR is equal to or higher than 95%.

Abstract: The timing of obtaining an output value for use in a determination of a recording medium is generated from a received ultrasonic wave and a waveform generated by delaying the ultrasonic wave, whereby it is possible to reduce an influence of a reflection wave from the peripheral members and an influence of a change in the environment to improve the accuracy of determination of the recoding medium.

Abstract: A recording medium imaging apparatus includes an irradiation unit configured to irradiate a recording medium with light, an imaging unit configured to capture reflected light which is irradiated by the irradiation unit and reflected by the recording medium as a surface image, and a reference plate which includes a background that reflects light irradiated by the irradiation unit, and a mark that has a different reflectance ratio to the background, wherein the imaging unit captures reflected light reflected by the reference plate as a surface image and includes a control unit that determines a type of the recording medium based on the surface image of the reference plate and the surface image of the recording medium.

Abstract: There is provided a TFT substrate including a gate electrode having a thick film part and a thin film part with a smaller film thickness than the thick film part, a semiconductor active film formed above the thick film part and the thin film part of the gate electrode, an ohmic contact film formed on an inside of the semiconductor active film and on the semiconductor active film corresponding to the thin film part on an outside of the thick film part, and an electrode film constituting a source electrode and a drain electrode, having a planar shape identical to or on an inside of the ohmic contact film, and formed on the ohmic contact film.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes: a reflection LED for emitting light to a surface of a recording medium on which an image is not yet fixed; a transmission LED for emitting light to the back face of the surface of a recording medium on which an image is not yet fixed; a CMOS area sensor for reading, as image, a light irradiation region of the recording medium by the reflection LED or the transmission LED to output the image; and a condition setting mechanism for providing a control by which, in accordance with an output value from the CMOS sensor, a fixing processing condition of a fixing apparatus is set. The image forming apparatus transforms a waveform of the output from the CMOS area sensor to a frequency component to determine, based on the feature quantity of the frequency component, the type of the recording medium.

Abstract: In forming a thin film transistor using multi-tone exposure, a wiring width of a foundational wiring is 40 ?m or less, and a ratio of a wiring width of a foundational wiring in a dense case to a space between adjacent wirings is 1.7, preferably 1.0 or less.

Abstract: A propylene-based polymer which is suitably applicable to foam molding, sheet molding, blow molding or the like, because of having good flow characteristics, high melt tension, high swell ratio and thus good molding workability. It is attained by a propylene-based polymer or the like characterized by satisfying the following requirements (i) to (vi). Requirement (i): MFR is 0.1 g/10 minutes to 100 g/10 minutes. Requirement (ii): Q value by GPC is 3.5 to 10.5. Requirement (iii): ratio of components with a molecular weight of equal to or higher than 2,000,000, in a molecular weight distribution curve obtained by GPC, is equal to or larger than 0.4% by weight and less than 10% by weight. Requirement (iv): components, which elute at a temperature of equal to or lower than 40° C., are equal to or less than 3.0% by weight, in temperature rising elution fractionation by ODCB. Requirement (v): isotactic triad fraction (mm) measured with 13C-NMR is equal to or higher than 95%.

Abstract: A propylene-based polymer comprising the following component (A) insoluble in p-xylene at 25° C. and component (B) soluble in p-xylene at 25° C., wherein (i) the weight average molecular weight (Mw) measured with GPC is 100,000 to 1,000,000, (ii) the content of the component insoluble in hot p-xylene is 0.3% by weight or lower, and (iii) the degree of strain hardening (? max) in measurement of elongational viscosity is 2.0 or higher; and a method for producing the same, along with a resin composition comprising a propylene-ethylene copolymer (Z) in an amount of 50.0 to 99.9% by weight and a propylene-based polymer (M) in an amount of 0.1 to 50.0% by weight. Component (A): a component (CXIS) insoluble in p-xylene at 25° C., having requirements specified by (A1) to (A5). Component (B): a component (CXS) is soluble in p-xylene at 25° C., having requirements specified by (B1) to (B4).

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: In forming a thin film transistor using multi-tone exposure, a wiring width of a foundational wiring is 40 ?m or less, and a ratio of a wiring width of a foundational wiring in a dense case to a space between adjacent wirings is 1.7, preferably 1.0 or less.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus identifying recording materials to decide printing conditions, information concerning the type of the recording materials identified by a recording material identification unit is stored for each paper feed port. In a subsequent print job to be printed, the use of the information having been stored in advance makes it possible to omit the recording material identification process for the subsequent recording materials. This stored information includes individual information for each recording material and a determined value obtained from a plurality of a plurality of pieces of individual information. Once the determined value is set, the determined value is used thereafter. These pieces of stored individual information and the determined value are initialized when a change of paper or the like is detected at the paper feed port corresponding to the value and to the information.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a display device, the display device including: a TFT array substrate; an opposing substrate opposed to the TFT array substrate; and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the TFT array substrate and the opposing substrate, the method including the steps of: forming an organic planarization film on the TFT array substrate; forming a reflective pixel electrode on the organic planarization film; forming a step at the organic planarization film; and depositing an upper transparent conductive film so as to be divided at the step of the organic planarization film.

Abstract: The invention is objected to perform fixing in an optimum fixing condition even with various kinds of recording materials or the like while improving usability by discriminating the kinds of recording materials. An image reading sensor 123 includes a reflective LED 301, a transmissive LED 303 disposed on the opposite side relative to a recording material 304 for detecting the transmitted amount of light, a CMOS area sensor 211, and an imaging lens 1113. The light from the reflective LED 301 as a light source is applied toward the surface of the recording material 304, and the reflected light from the recording material 304 is collected via the lens 303 and an image is formed on the CMOS area sensor 211. The LED 301 is disposed so as to apply LED light to the surface of the recording material 304 diagonally at a predetermined angle.

Abstract: An image analysis system includes a camera which captures an image of a monitor object, a mirror mounted at a predetermined angle within a visual field of the camera so as to form an image of the monitor object viewed from a direction different from a capturing direction of the camera, and a data processing apparatus which monitors a change in the monitor object by segmenting an image captured by the camera into an image on the mirror and an image except the image on the mirror and separately analyzing the image on the mirror and the image except the image on the mirror. An image analysis method is also disclosed.

Abstract: An array substrate has regions in which an intermediate resist film thickness is formed and processed by an intermediate exposure amount which does not completely expose a resist, respectively on a drain electrode, source terminal, and a common connection wiring which are made of a second conductive film. Thin film patterns or a common wiring made of a first conductive film is formed in substantially entire regions on the bottom layers of the regions so that the heights from a substrate are substantially the same.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes: a reflection LED for emitting light to a surface of a recording medium on which an image is not yet fixed; a transmission LED for emitting light to the back face of the surface of a recording medium on which an image is not yet fixed; a CMOS area sensor for reading, as image, a light irradiation region of the recording medium by the reflection LED or the transmission LED to output the image; and a condition setting mechanism for providing a control by which, in accordance with an output value from the CMOS sensor, a fixing processing condition of a fixing apparatus is set. The image forming apparatus transforms a waveform of the output from the CMOS area sensor to a frequency component to determine, based on the feature quantity of the frequency component, the type of the recording medium.

Abstract: The invention is objected to perform fixing in an optimum fixing condition even with various kinds of recording materials or the like while improving usability by discriminating the kinds of recording materials. An image reading sensor 123 includes a reflective LED 301, a transmissive LED 303 disposed on the opposite side relative to a recording material 304 for detecting the transmitted amount of light, a CMOS area sensor 211, and an imaging lens 1113. The light from the reflective LED 301 as a light source is applied toward the surface of the recording material 304, and the reflected light from the recording material 304 is collected via the lens 303 and an image is formed on the CMOS area sensor 211. The LED 301 is disposed so as to apply LED light to the surface of the recording material 304 diagonally at a predetermined angle.

Abstract: A camera module includes a lens barrel holding a lens, and a main body holding the lens barrel, the lens barrel being capable of moving relative to the main body in the direction of the optical axis of the lens. The lens barrel has a protuberance on the underside thereof throughout the circumferential direction. The main body has a recess at a position corresponding to the protuberance of the lens barrel throughout the circumferential direction, the recess accommodating the protuberance. The protuberance is formed so as to have a height such that the protuberance is disposed in the recess both before and after the movement of the lens barrel relative to the main body in the direction of the optical axis of the lens.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus identifying recording materials to decide printing conditions, information concerning the type of the recording materials identified by a recording material identification unit is stored for each paper feed port. In a subsequent print job to be printed, the use of the information having been stored in advance makes it possible to omit the recording material identification process for the subsequent recording materials. This stored information includes individual information for each recording material and a determined value obtained from a plurality of a plurality of pieces of individual information. Once the determined value is set, the determined value is used thereafter. These pieces of stored individual information and the determined value are initialized when a change of paper or the like is detected at the paper feed port corresponding to the value and to the information.

Abstract: The invention is objected to perform fixing in an optimum fixing condition even with various kinds of recording materials or the like while improving usability by discriminating the kinds of recording materials An image reading sensor 123 includes a reflective LED 301, a transmissive LED 303 disposed on the opposite side relative to a recording material 304 for detecting the transmitted amount of light, a CMOS area sensor 211, and an imaging lens 1113. The light from the reflective LED 301 as a light source is applied toward the surface of the recording material 304, and the reflected light from the recording material 304 is collected via the lens 303 and an image is formed on the CMOS area sensor 211. The LED 301 is disposed so as to apply LED light to the surface of the recording material 304 diagonally at a predetermined angle.