Abstract: A developing device includes: a housing in which a developer is contained; a cover member configured to cover an upper opening of the housing; a developer holder that is supported by the housing and holds the developer on an outer surface and rotates; a regulating member that faces the developer holder and configured to regulate an amount of the developer on the outer surface; a first exit path inclined toward an inside of the housing and configured to exit air from the inside of the housing to an outside of the cover member; and a second exit path that connects the first exit path and a filter member provided on the cover member, the filter member preventing passage of the developer and allowing passage of the air.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a prepreg, in which a matrix resin is applied to a reinforcing fiber sheet, where the sheet can continuously run without clogging due to generated fuzz, even at a high running speed, and where the sheet can be efficiently impregnated with the matrix resin. The prepreg is produced by a method which includes a step of allowing a reinforcing fiber sheet to pass horizontally or slantingly through the inside of a coating section storing a matrix resin to apply the matrix resin to the reinforcing fiber sheet, where the coating section includes a liquid pool and a narrowed section which are in communication with each other, where the liquid pool has a portion whose cross-sectional area decreases continuously along a running direction of the reinforcing fiber sheet, and wherein the narrowed section has a slit-like cross-section and has a smaller cross-sectional area than the largest cross-sectional area of the liquid pool.

Abstract: A display device includes a TFT substrate including a flattening layer on a surface, a sealing film including a resin film that is an ink-jet resin film, and a first bank that surrounds the flattening layer, is covered with the resin film on an inner side, and has a frame shape. The flattening layer includes, on an entire periphery of a circumferential end portion thereof, a recessed and protruding portion provided with recesses and protrusions having sizes different on a first side and a second side in a plan view.

Abstract: Each of lead wiring lines that constitutes a TFT layer and is provided to extend parallel to each other in a frame region extends to intersect with a perimeter edge surface of a first organic film that constitutes the TFT layer and is provided on each of the lead wiring lines. A second organic film is provided to cover a lower portion of the perimeter edge surface of the first organic film and each of the lead wiring lines on a side of the perimeter edge surface of the first organic film, the lead wiring lines extending from the perimeter edge surface of the first organic film.

Abstract: A display wiring line provided on a resin substrate layer, a flattening film covering the display wiring line, and an organic EL element provided on the flattening film are provided. The display wiring line includes first to third conductive layers layered sequentially from the resin substrate layer side. In the display wiring line, the second conductive layer is formed with a width smaller than a width of each of the first conductive layer and the third conductive layer, and a portion of a perimeter edge surface corresponding to the second conductive layer includes a recessed portion, and a resin cover covering a perimeter edge surface of the second conductive layer is provided in the recessed portion in a portion of the display wiring line exposed from the flattening film.

Abstract: The storage system includes a controller and a storage drive accessible from the controller. The controller includes a memory and a processing unit. The memory includes a first cache area in which the writing of data by the storage drive is permitted, and a second cache area in which the writing of data by the storage drive is prohibited. A In the first cache area, the storage of data, by staging-in-advance in response to a read request for a sequential read, by the processing unit is permitted, and the storage of cache data in a dirty state by the processing unit is prohibited. In the second cache area, the storage of the cache data in the dirty state by the processing unit is permitted.

Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure, in a non-display region, an oxide semiconductor layer is provided in a frame-like shape along a peripheral edge of a through hole, a first opening is provided in a first inorganic insulating film so as to surround the through hole in a plan view and expose the oxide semiconductor layer in the non-display region, a common functional layer is provided so as to extend from a display region to the non-display region, a second opening is provided in a frame-like shape so as to surround the through hole in a plan view and expose the oxide semiconductor layer in the common functional layer, and a second inorganic insulating film is in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer via the second opening.

Abstract: A separation wall is provided in a frame shape along a circumferential edge of a through-hole in a non-display region inside a display region. Both side surfaces of the separation wall are inclined in a reverse tapered shape in which a width between both side surfaces gradually decreases toward a base substrate side. An internal dam wall is provided in a frame shape to overlap a circumferential end portion of an organic insulating film of a sealing film on a display region side of the separation wall in the non-display region. A frame-like slit is provided in a common function layer configuring each of the light-emitting elements to surround the separation wall on the display region side of the separation wall and to pass through the common function layer.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the disclosure, in a non-display region inside a display region, an oxide semiconductor layer is provided in an island shape, a first opening is provided in a first inorganic insulating film so as to expose the oxide semiconductor layer in the non-display region, a common functional layer is provided so as to extend from the display region to the non-display region, and a second opening is provided so as to expose the oxide semiconductor layer in the common functional layer, a peripheral end of the second opening being surrounded by a peripheral end of the first opening in a plan view.

Abstract: A display device includes a base substrate, a thin film transistor layer including an upper layer insulating film and an organic resin layer, a plurality of light-emitting elements provided on the thin film transistor layer and each including a common function layer, a non-display region provided in the display region, an opening provided in the non-display region and passing through the base substrate, and a first frame-shaped protruding portion provided on the upper layer insulating film in a circumferential shape along the opening. The first frame-shaped protruding portion includes a portion where an area of a transverse section parallel to an upper face of the base substrate decreases from an upper face to a bottom face, the common function layer is also provided in the non-display region, and a slit surrounding the first frame-shaped protruding portion is formed in the common function layer provided in the non-display region.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for producing a prepreg, for applying a coating liquid to a reinforcing fiber sheet, the apparatus including: a coating section including: a liquid pool storing the coating liquid and having a portion whose cross-sectional area decreases continuously and vertically downward, and a narrowed section having a slit-like outlet in communication with the lower end of the liquid pool; a running mechanism for allowing the reinforcing fiber sheet to run vertically downward and be introduced into the coating section; a take-up mechanism for taking up the reinforcing fiber sheet downward from the coating section; wall constituent members opposed to each other in the thickness direction of the reinforcing fiber sheet to form the narrowed section; and an external force application mechanism for applying an external force to the wall constituent members in the thickness direction of the reinforcing fiber sheet.

Abstract: A sensor insertion device comprises a sheath, a handle, an operating body provided in the handle, a carrier provided below the operating body, a guide needle unit holder that provided at the lower end of the carrier and detachably holds a guide needle that guides a sensor in the insertion direction, and an arm that is rotatably supported by the cylindrical portion of the sheath. The arm has an outer end portion disposed outside the sheath and an inner end portion disposed inside the sheath. The handle has an arm operation surface that abuts on the outer end portion of the arm. The carrier has a ceiling that abuts on the inner end portion of the arm.

Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel which is flexible, and including a pair of flat portions held in a flat state, and a bending portion provided between the pair of the flat portions and held to be bendable; a first support supporting one of the pair of the flat portions in a flat state; a second support supporting the other of the pair of the flat portions in a flat state; and a joint joining the first support and the second support together. The joint is flexible and provided not to interfere with the bending portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a coating liquid impregnated sheet-like reinforcing fiber bundle formed by applying a coating liquid to a sheet-like reinforcing fiber bundle that is unidirectionally arranged continuous reinforcing fibers long in one direction. The present invention provides a production method and a coating device of a coating liquid impregnated sheet-like reinforcing fiber bundle, wherein the method and device can effect continuous running without clogging of generated fuzz even at a high running speed and effect efficient impregnation of a coating liquid into the sheet-like reinforcing fiber bundle.

Abstract: A display device includes a display region in which a plurality of light-emitting elements are disposed, each of which is provided with a first electrode, a second electrode, and a function layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The display device includes a frame region surrounding the display region, and a sealing layer. The second electrode includes an extending portion extending from the display region to the frame region, and overlaps all of the display region. A cap layer is provided on the extending portion so as to overlap at least part of an end portion of the extending portion, and the cap layer overlaps all of the display region. The sealing layer overlaps all of the second electrode and all of the cap layer.

Abstract: In an organic EL display device in which an outer peripheral shape of a display region is a variant shape different from a rectangular shape and having rounded corner portions and a notch portion, a protruding portion having a height equal to or greater than heights of a first dam wall and a second dam wall is provided at positions facing the rounded corner portions and the notch portion in the display region through the second dam wall and the first dam wall positioned inside the second dam wall, on the outer side of the second dam wall in a frame region.

Abstract: The invention enhances the production efficiency in the production of prepreg by allowing the arrangement property and rectilinearity of reinforcing fibers to be well maintained, allowing the basis weight uniformity of an applied resin to be good, and further allowing a high line speed and suppression of contamination in the process to be achieved. The invention provides a method of producing a prepreg, which includes: discharging a molten resin from a discharge portion; introducing the discharged resin by an air flow; and capturing the discharged resin on a reinforcing fiber sheet conveyed continuously, wherein a key point is that the discharged resin is captured in a region in which the reinforcing fiber sheet is conveyed substantially in planar form.

Abstract: The present invention is a method of producing a coating liquid-impregnated reinforcing fiber fabric 1b, including allowing a reinforcing fiber fabric 1a to pass substantially vertically downward through the inside of a coating section 20 storing a coating liquid 2 to provide the reinforcing fiber fabric 1a with the coating liquid 2; wherein the coating section 20 includes a liquid pool and a narrowed section which are in communication with each other; wherein the liquid pool has a portion whose cross-sectional area decreases continuously along a running direction of the reinforcing fiber fabric 1a, wherein the narrowed section has a slit-like cross-section and has a smaller cross-sectional area than the top side of the liquid pool, and wherein the vertical height of the portion whose cross-sectional area decreases continuously in the liquid pool is 10 mm or more.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a prepreg, in which a matrix resin is applied to a reinforcing fiber sheet, where the sheet can continuously run without clogging due to generated fuzz, even at a high running speed, and where the sheet can be efficiently impregnated with the matrix resin. The prepreg is produced by a method which includes a step of allowing a reinforcing fiber sheet to pass horizontally or slantingly through the inside of a coating section storing a matrix resin to apply the matrix resin to the reinforcing fiber sheet, where the coating section includes a liquid pool and a narrowed section which are in communication with each other, where the liquid pool has a portion whose cross-sectional area decreases continuously along a running direction of the reinforcing fiber sheet, and wherein the narrowed section has a slit-like cross-section and has a smaller cross-sectional area than the largest cross-sectional area of the liquid pool.

Abstract: A liquid applying device includes a circulation member, an impregnation member, and a support member. The circulation member is configured to circulate in a predetermined direction. The impregnation member is formed in a plate shape. The impregnation member is impregnated with a liquid. The impregnation member is in contact with the circulation member at an end portion thereof in a direction intersecting with a circulating direction of the circulation member so as to apply the liquid to the circulation member. The support member supports a portion including an end portion side of the impregnation member, at an opposite side of the circulation member in a state where the end portion of the impregnation member is in contact with the circulation member.