Abstract: Light shield areas 20 are formed between terminal groups 15 in a side near outgoing line groups in a display portion of a liquid crystal panel. This configuration is useful for reducing uneven brightness in a horizontal direction in the side near the outgoing lines in the display portion so as to improve the display quality.

Abstract: In a thin film transistor array substrate, when a light shield pattern is formed in the space between a wiring group and a transparent electrode film, a trench which makes it possible to reduce bright spot defects is formed in an insulating film without revealing a light shielding film, by intentionally leaving a part of an a-Si film which is a semiconductor film constituting a thin film transistor. Accordingly, it is possible to manufacture a thin film transistor array substrate with less bright spot defects without increasing the number of manufacturing processes.

Abstract: This invention concerns an apparatus and a method for the manufacture of blood products which are aimed at attaining the manufacture of blood products automatically and rationally with the operational efficiency enhanced, the quality of blood products stabilized, and the safety of blood products exalted, which are characterized in that the tube of a first container and the tube of a second container are aseptically and automatically connected preparatorily to the transfer of a plurality of blood components obtained by the separation of blood in the first container to the second container and the blood components in the first container are transferred through the connected tubes to the second container by use of a blood component transferring device.

Abstract: A lower layer metal wiring is led out from a display portion to a terminal portion provided to the periphery of the glass substrate and covered at the upper surface with an interlayer insulation film. An upper layer metal wiring formed on the interlayer insulation film is connected to the lower layer metal wiring by way of contact holes formed in the interlayer insulation film. The upper layer metal wiring is completely covered by the transparent conductive film. A protective insulation film is formed on the transparent conductive film, and an opening is made in to the protective insulation film in the terminal portion. In the terminal portion, copper foil wirings of a flexible wiring substrate are connected by way of an anisotropic conductive film. The upper layer metal wiring is removed at a portion not protected by the protective insulation film or the anisotropic conductive film.

Abstract: An active matrix liquid crystal display allows thin film switching transistors to selectively turn on for supplying an image signal from a liquid crystal driving circuit to pixel electrodes opposed through liquid crystal to a counter electrode. The image signal has a voltage range variable with gradation to be indicated for reproducing an image. The liquid crystal driving circuit controls the image signal in such a manner as to be change a central value of the voltage range with the gradation to be reproduced at each pixel so that variation of a feed-through voltage is canceled.

Abstract: A tube restoring apparatus includes a tube insertion passage through which a connected flexible tube having a deformed cross-sectional portion at a joint portion thereof can be passed, at least a pair of press members defining at least a part of the tube insertion passage and formed with press surfaces for pinching the deformed cross-sectional portion of the flexible tube therebetween, and driving mechanism for moving the press surfaces at least in opposite directions relative to each other under the condition that the deformed cross-sectional portion is pressed between the press surfaces.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an active matrix array substrate for a liquid-crystal display device including a plurality of gate and drain buses, a plurality of gate and drain terminals respectively connected to the gate and drain buses, and a plurality of slits each formed between the adjacent ones of the gate terminals and of the drain terminals to cut undesirable conductive-portions which short-circuit the adjacent two terminals.

Abstract: A tube loading apparatus for loading a flexible tube into a tube receiving section which can support the tube includes a head having a base, a pair of chucks mounted on the base and a driving mechanism for moving one of the chucks. The head is movable in the X and Y directions relative to the tube receiving section. Each of the chucks has a pair of holding members for holding the tube. One of the chucks is adapted to move in the X direction by the driving mechanism so as to change the distance between the chucks. The driving mechanism is driven when the tube is held by the holding members of the chucks, to increase the longitudinal distance of the tube while reducing the outer diameter of the tube. The thus deformed tube is inserted into the tube receiving section by keeping the deformed condition, and then the chucks are operated so as to release the tube. Accordingly, the tube can be automatically loaded into the tube receiving section.

Abstract: The tube carrier apparatus is composed of carrier rails, at least a pair of rollers provided so as to pinch a flexible tube therebetween, and a driving section for rotating the rollers. The carrier falls are formed with a groove as a passage for the tube through which the tube is to be carried in the longitudinal direction thereof. When the motor is driven, both the rollers are rotated in two different rotative directions, so that the tube is pinched between the rotating rollers and the tube is then carried in accordance with the rotation of the rollers. The tube carrier apparatus is simple in structure and small in size.

Abstract: A lighting apparatus for illuminating a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel from behind is disclosed, wherein the LCD panel, when illuminated uniformly, exhibits asymmetric contrast ratios as viewed in a vertical direction. The apparatus comprises a light guide panel having a multitude of light reflecting dots on a reflecting surface opposite to the LCD panel, and a light source for injecting light into the light guide panel in a horizontal direction through a first edge of the light guide panel, so that the light propagates through the light guide panel toward the opposite edge of the panel and irregularly reflects off the dots toward the liquid crystal display panel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display substrate includes a first substrate, a second substrate, terminals, and a conductive region. The first substrate has a large number of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix. The second substrate is arranged to be opposite to the first substrate and to interpose a liquid crystal with the first substrate and has a counter electrode for performing liquid crystal display by a voltage applied across said pixel electrodes and the counter electrode. The terminals include common electrode terminals arranged at one part of a peripheral portion of the first substrate. The conductive region is formed at a part of the peripheral portion in which the terminals of the first substrate are not formed, and the conductive region is connected to at least one of the common electrode terminals to apply a common potential to the counter electrode. A liquid crystal display device using the above liquid crystal display substrate is also disclosed.

Abstract: Inorganic paper, which is made through paper-making process from a mixture consisting essentially of:(a) fibrous inorganic compound, as the principal component, having a fiber diameter of 100 microns or smaller and a fiber length which is ten times or more as long as the fiber diameter; and(b) fiber material in a microfibrillar form as a binding agent.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for continuous shaping of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic tubes, a carbon fiber prepreg in tape form impregnated with a first thermosetting resin is laminated on and around a mandrel; the laminate provided on said mandrel is preheated; and the preheated laminate is pulled in and through a hot die together with the mandrel, during which it is gelled, cured, and shaped into a carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic tube, wherein a second thermosetting resin is uniformly supplied onto the outer circumference of the laminate in a resin squeezing zone in the hot die.

Abstract: A shift lever assembly operatively linked with a transmission, for manually operating the transmission, including a shift lever, a support, and a pair of stationary retainer plates. The shift lever has a handle portion at which the shift lever is manipulated, and a spherical coupling portion at which the shift lever is universally supported. The support consists of two halves in the form of a pair of support sheets which have respective adjoining surfaces substantially parallel to a plane in which the shift lever extends. The support sheets cooperate with each other to provide a spherical support portion which engages the spherical coupling portion of the shift lever for universally supporting the shift lever. Each support sheet has an outer surface opposite to the corresponding adjoining surface. The stationary retainer plates are disposed in spaced-part relation with each other on opposite sides of the support, so as to hold the pair of support sheets at their outer surfaces.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for continuous shaping of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic tubes, wherein a carbon fiber prepreg in tape form impregnated with a thermosetting resin is laminated on and around a mandrel, then the laminated carbon fiber prepreg tape on the mandrel is preheated, and the thus preheated laminate is pulled in and through a hot die together with the mandrel so as to subject the carbon fiber prepreg to gelling, curing and shaping into a predetermined carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic tube, the pulling operations being continuously carried out by alternate motion of first and second grasping mechanism in such a manner that the pulling force is generated in the second grasping mechanism, while the first grasping mechanism still retains its pulling force, and finally the gellation of the laminate is completed at the first half part of the hot die.