Abstract: A tank manufacturing method includes the steps of (a) forming a reinforcing layer before hardening, (b) embedding at least a part of a label into the reinforcing layer before hardening, and (c) winding glass fiber with thermosetting resin before hardening impregnated so as to cover the label to form a surface layer before hardening. The step (a) includes (a1) forming an inner layer before hardening, and (a2) forming an outer layer before hardening having a cover rate lower than the inner layer before hardening and lower than 100%, the outer layer before hardening being arranged on the inner layer before hardening.

Abstract: Provided is a tank production shaft that can improve the performance of a tank having a fiber-reinforced resin layer formed thereon through winding and heating of reinforcing fibers impregnated with thermosetting resin. The tank production shaft is adapted to support a tank having a fiber-reinforced resin layer formed thereon through winding and heating of reinforcing fibers impregnated with thermosetting resin. The tank production shaft has an outer peripheral portion formed of fiber-reinforced resin.

Abstract: A semiconductor device (100A) includes a thin film transistor (10), an inter-layer insulation layer (22) covering the thin film transistor, and a transparent conductive layer (24) formed on the inter-layer insulation layer. The metal oxide layer (16) of the thin film transistor includes a first portion (16a) overlapping the gate electrode (12) via a gate insulation layer (14) and a second portion (16b) not overlapping the gate electrode (12). The second portion (16b) crosses a different edge (e2) different from an edge (e1) of the drain electrode (18d) on a side of the first portion when viewed in the normal direction of the substrate (11). The inter-layer insulation layer has a contact hole (22a) disposed to overlap a part of the drain electrode (18d) and at least a part of the second portion (16b) of the metal oxide layer when viewed in the normal direction of the substrate.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first metal layer including a gate electrode; a first insulating layer provided on the first metal layer; an oxide semiconductor layer provided on the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer provided on the oxide semiconductor layer; a second metal layer provided on the oxide semiconductor layer and the second insulating layer, the second metal layer including a source electrode; a third insulating layer provided on the second metal layer; and a first transparent electrode layer provided on the third insulating layer. The oxide semiconductor layer includes a first portion lying above the gate electrode and a second portion extending from the first portion so as to lie across an edge of the gate electrode on the drain electrode side. The third insulating layer does not include an organic insulating layer.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a display region in which a plurality of pixels are provided and a frame region lying outside the display region. The frame region includes a plurality of peripheral circuit TFTs which are supported by a substrate and which are constituents of a driving circuit. Each of the plurality of peripheral circuit TFTs includes a gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor layer arranged so as to at least partially extend over the gate electrode but to be insulated from the gate electrode, and source and drain electrodes connected with the oxide semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a gas tank comprises: a step (a) of preparing a liner having a hollow cylindrical shape; a step (b) of forming a first layer by winding a first fiber bundle impregnated with resin around the liner; a step (c) of forming a second layer by winding a second fiber bundle impregnated with resin around the liner with the wound first fiber bundle in such a manner that portions of the second fiber bundle overlap each other in a direction parallel to a center axis of the liner; a step (d) of causing a section where the portions of the second fiber bundle overlap each other to get into the first layer; and a step (e) of curing the resin.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing a tank with an outer surface profile that allows a thin label to be easily and firmly attached to a surface thereof, and also such a tank. The method for producing the tank, which includes winding fiber bundles containing an uncured resin component in multiple layers around the outer surface of a liner in a first pitch width so as to form a fiber reinforced resin layer, further includes: winding fiber bundles in a second pitch width wider than the first pitch width so as to form a gap with a required width where no fiber bundle is present between adjacent fiber bundles in winding the fiber bundles to form an outermost layer; shaving off a tip end portion of a projection made of a resin that has cured after bleeding into the gap, with a portion of the projection in a predetermined height left unshaved; and attaching a label to a surface obtained through shaving off the tip end portion.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing a tank with an outer surface profile that allows an elastic protective member to be easily and firmly attached to a surface thereof, and also such a tank with a protective member.

Abstract: A high pressure tank includes a liner, a reinforcing layer which includes a first thermosetting resin and fibers and is formed on the liner, and a protective layer which includes a second thermosetting resin having a lower gelling temperature than the a gelling temperature of first thermosetting resin and is formed on the reinforcing layer.

Abstract: An air trap unit includes an air trap container that stores ink, a flow inlet provided in the air trap container and allowing the ink to flow into the air trap container, a flow outlet provided in the air trap container and allowing the ink in the air trap container to flow out, and an inclination mechanism that inclines the air trap container such that the air trap container is put into one of a first state and a second state, the first state being a state where the air trap container is inclined such that the flow inlet is at a level higher than, or equal to, that of the flow outlet, and the second state being a state where the air trap container is inclined such that the flow outlet is at a level higher than that of the flow inlet.

Abstract: A valve opening/closing mechanism includes a rotating shaft, first and second cams provided on the rotating shaft and rotatable together with the rotating shaft, first and second valves, and a rotating mechanism that rotates the rotating shaft. The first and second valves each include a flow channel in which ink flows and an opening/closing member at a position at which the opening/closing member contacts the first or second cam, so as to open or close the flow channel, depending on whether the opening/closing member is in contact with the cam. When the rotating shaft is rotated by the rotating mechanism, rotating positions of the first and second cams are at any of first, second, third or fourth positions.

Abstract: A damper device includes an upstream damper provided upstream of an ink head and a downstream damper provided downstream of the ink head. The upstream damper includes an upstream ink chamber communicating with an upstream inflow port and an upstream outflow port and storing ink, and an upstream detector that detects an amount of ink stored in the upstream ink chamber. The downstream damper includes a downstream ink chamber communicating with a downstream inflow port and a downstream outflow port and storing ink, and a downstream detector that detects an amount of ink stored in the downstream ink chamber.

Abstract: In an ink supply system, an ink tank is connected with an inlet flow channel that is connected with a connection flow channel that is connected with an upstream flow channel, and the upstream flow channel is connected with an ink head. The ink head and the connection flow channel are connected with each other by a downstream flow channel. An upstream pump and an upstream damper are provided in the upstream flow channel, and a downstream pump and a downstream damper are provided in the downstream flow channel. A controller controls the upstream pump and the downstream pump.

Abstract: A damper device includes a hollow case main body provided with an opening, a pressure sensitive film attached to the case main body so as to cover the opening, demarcates a liquid storage chamber together with the case main body, and is flexibly deformable internally toward, or externally away from, the liquid storage chamber, an inlet that is in the case main body, is in communication with the liquid storage chamber, and allows the liquid to flow into the liquid storage chamber, an injection outlet that is in the case main body, is in communication with the liquid storage chamber, and allows the liquid to flow out toward the liquid injector, an elastic member coupled with the pressure sensitive film to flexibly deform the pressure sensitive film externally away from the liquid storage chamber, and a pressure receiving plate that is located between the pressure sensitive film and the elastic member and includes a discontinuously joined portion that is discontinuously joined with the pressure sensitive film.

Abstract: A molded resin strand includes a first layer containing thermoplastic resin, and a second layer covering the first layer and containing thermoplastic resin exhibiting physical properties different from those of the first layer. For example, the second layer is melt-extruded with the second layer covering the first layer. A three-dimensional object is modeled by lamination deposition by fusion between adjacent second layers. In a molded resin strand manufacturing method, a melt-kneaded resin material is continuously extruded from a ferrule of an extruder. The extruded molded resin strand is vacuum-sucked while passing through a sizing device. Subsequently, the molded resin strand is wound up after cooling solidification. The sizing device is provided with a space having a circular cross section, and a surface of the sizing device facing the space is provided with a plurality of vacuum suction grooves.

Abstract: A self-weight pressure control valve includes a hollow case main body with an opening, a partitioning wall dividing the case main body into first and second pressure chambers in communication with the opening, a communication opening in the partitioning wall and communicating the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber to each other, a valve rod including a rod portion inserted through the communication opening to pass the partitioning wall, and a valve portion located in the first pressure chamber, and a pressure sensitive film covering the opening of the case main body, coupled with a tip of the rod portion of the valve rod, and flexibly deformable toward the rod portion. When the pressure sensitive film is not flexibly deformed toward the rod portion, the communication opening is maintained in a closed state by the valve portion by use of a self-weight of the valve rod.

Abstract: A self-weight pressure control valve includes a hollow case main body with an opening, a partitioning wall dividing the case main body into first and second pressure chambers in communication with the opening, a communication opening in the partitioning wall and communicating the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber to each other, a valve rod including a rod portion inserted through the communication opening to pass the partitioning wall, and a valve portion located in the first pressure chamber, and a pressure sensitive film covering the opening of the case main body, coupled with a tip of the rod portion of the valve rod, and flexibly deformable toward the rod portion. When the pressure sensitive film is not flexibly deformed toward the rod portion, the communication opening is maintained in a closed state by the valve portion by use of a self-weight of the valve rod.

Abstract: A semiconductor device (1001) includes: a memory cell; and a writing control circuit (107), wherein the memory cell includes a memory transistor (10A) which has an active layer (7A), the active layer (7A) including a metal oxide, the memory transistor (10A) is a transistor which is capable of being irreversibly changed from a semiconductor state where a drain current Ids depends on a gate-source voltage Vgs to a resistor state where the drain current Ids does not depend on the gate-source voltage Vgs, and the writing control circuit (107) is configured to control voltages applied to a drain electrode, a source electrode and a gate electrode such that Vgs?Vds+Vth is satisfied where Vth is a threshold voltage of the memory transistor (10A) and Vds is a drain-source voltage of the memory transistor (10A), whereby writing in the memory transistor (10A) is performed.

Abstract: A first substrate of a display device includes a TFT provided for each pixel and including an oxide semiconductor layer. A second substrate includes a color filter layer and a light blocking layer. At least one of a first, second and third color filter included in the color filter layer has an average transmittance of 0.2% or less for visible light having a wavelength of 450 nm or less. In pixels provided with color filters having an average transmittance of 0.2% or less for visible light having a wavelength of 450 nm or less, the light blocking layer (a) includes a TFT shading portion extending along a channel length direction and having a width that is less than or equal to a length of the oxide semiconductor layer along a channel width direction; (b) includes a TFT shading portion extending along the channel width direction and having a width that is less than or equal to the length of the oxide semiconductor layer along the channel length direction; or (c) includes no TFT shading portion.

Abstract: A damper device includes a hollow case main body provided with an opening, a pressure sensitive film attached to the case main body so as to cover the opening, demarcates a liquid storage chamber together with the case main body, and is flexibly deformable internally toward, or externally away from, the liquid storage chamber, an inlet that is in the case main body, is in communication with the liquid storage chamber, and allows the liquid to flow into the liquid storage chamber, an injection outlet that is in the case main body, is in communication with the liquid storage chamber, and allows the liquid to flow out toward the liquid injector, an elastic member coupled with the pressure sensitive film to flexibly deform the pressure sensitive film externally away from the liquid storage chamber, and a pressure receiving plate that is located between the pressure sensitive film and the elastic member and includes a discontinuously joined portion that is discontinuously joined with the pressure sensitive film.