Abstract: A management device 21 comprising a main control part 23 that, during charging of a plurality of power storage elements 41 connected in series, outputs a first pull-down signal to a converter 11 so as to lower a charging voltage when the cell voltage of any of the power storage elements 41 is equal to or greater than a first threshold value.

Abstract: A management device 21 comprising a main control part 23 that, during charging of a plurality of power storage elements 41 connected in series, outputs a first pull-down signal to a converter 11 so as to lower a charging voltage when the cell voltage of any of the power storage elements 41 is equal to or greater than a first threshold value.

Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes a plurality of energy storage devices connected in series, a voltage detection unit configured to detect voltage of each of the energy storage devices, and a monitoring unit configured to monitor the plurality of energy storage devices. The monitoring unit determines a state of the energy storage apparatus in accordance with average cell voltage or an average SOC of the plurality of energy storage devices and minimum cell voltage of the plurality of energy storage devices.

Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes a plurality of energy storage devices connected in series, a voltage detection unit configured to detect voltage of each of the energy storage devices, and a monitoring unit configured to monitor the plurality of energy storage devices. The monitoring unit determines a state of the energy storage apparatus in accordance with average cell voltage or an average SOC of the plurality of energy storage devices and minimum cell voltage of the plurality of energy storage devices.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the field sequential system is realized that is capable of suppressing an occurrence of a color shift. The liquid crystal display device of the field sequential system includes a minimum responsive color difference data correction unit (122) that corrects a data value of pixel data of a color outside a displayable range to a value of a color in the displayable range, a tristimulus value-digital gradation value conversion unit (124) that converts the corrected pixel data to digital gradation data, and a digital gradation data correction unit (126) that performs a correction for over driving on the digital gradation data.

Abstract: A backlight unit includes excellent heat radiation characteristics. The backlight unit of an embodiment of the present invention includes a chassis and a light source attached to the chassis. As the light source, an LED is preferably used. The chassis includes an aluminum base or aluminum layer, and a porous alumina layer or pore-sealed porous alumina layer provided on the surface of the aluminum base or aluminum layer.

Abstract: A source driver generates a plurality of gradation voltages based on a plurality of gradation reference voltages VH255 to VL255 generated by a gradation reference voltage generation circuit, and drives the data lines using the generated gradation voltages. The control unit sets a waiting time before the power of the source driver is cut off, and controls the gradation reference voltage generation circuit such that all the plurality of gradation reference voltages VH255 to VL255 become the same voltage during the waiting time. In this way, the same voltages are written into the pixel circuits and the charge remaining in the pixel circuits are discharged, and thus, an afterimage, a ghosting, and a flickering caused by the remaining charge when the power is cut off are prevented.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid-crystal-driving method of driving liquid crystal by causing a potential difference between a pair of electrodes provided for one of upper and lower substrates, wherein a DC image sticking and a flicker are sufficiently reduced, and a liquid crystal display device driven by using the liquid-crystal-driving method. The present invention relates to a method of driving liquid crystal by causing a potential difference between a pair of electrodes provided for one of upper and lower substrates. In the liquid-crystal-driving method, a driving operation of driving liquid crystal by causing a potential between a pair of electrodes is executed. In the driving operation, the absolute value of a second offset voltage is larger than that of a first offset voltage.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (100) has a liquid crystal display panel (1), which includes a first substrate (10), a second substrate (20), and a liquid crystal layer (30). The first substrate includes a first electrode (11) provided for each pixel, and a second electrode (12) for generating a lateral field across the liquid crystal layer in cooperation with the first electrode, whereas the second substrate includes a third electrode (21) for generating a vertical field across the liquid crystal layer in cooperation with the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel which is capable of providing a sufficiently high response speed and an excellent transmittance, and a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display panel of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the substrates. The first substrate and the second substrate have electrodes. The electrodes of the second substrate include a pair of comb-shaped electrodes and a slit-formed electrode.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device each of which exhibits a sufficiently high response speed and an excellent transmittance. The liquid crystal display panel of the present invention includes a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the substrates, the first substrate and the second substrate each comprising an electrode, the electrode of the second substrate including a pair of comb-shaped electrodes and a planar electrode, the liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules which are inclined from an orthogonal direction to the main faces of the substrates between the pair of comb-shaped electrodes in a plan view of the main faces of the substrates when a voltage lower than a threshold voltage is applied.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the field sequential system is realized that is capable of suppressing an occurrence of a color shift. The liquid crystal display device of the field sequential system includes a minimum responsive color difference data correction unit (122) that corrects a data value of pixel data of a color outside a displayable range to a value of a color in the displayable range, a tristimulus value-digital gradation value conversion unit (124) that converts the corrected pixel data to digital gradation data, and a digital gradation data correction unit (126) that performs a correction for over driving on the digital gradation data.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that can achieve a sufficiently-high-speed response and has a sufficiently excellent transmittance and a thin film transistor array substrate preferably used in the liquid crystal display device. The thin film transistor array substrate according to the present invention is a thin film transistor array substrate that includes, as electrodes, one pair of comb electrodes and a sheet electrode, and at least one electrode selected from the group consisting of the pair of comb electrodes and the sheet electrode being electrically connected along a pixel line.

Abstract: The present invention provides a field sequential liquid crystal display device which can provide display with an appropriate gray scale value in a period when the period succeeds a period in which the light source in the backlight unit is turned off.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thin film transistor array substrate and a liquid crystal display device including the thin film transistor array substrate that are preferably applicable to a liquid crystal display device including the three-layered electrode structure that enables high response speed and high transmittance, and can have a high aperture ratio.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thin-film transistor array substrate capable of sufficiently preventing a decrease in the aperture ratio and insufficient charging of thin-film transistor elements due to shortening of signal writing time for pixels while achieving high speed driving; and a liquid crystal display device including the thin-film transistor array substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device each of which exhibits a sufficiently increased transmittance and an excellent response speed in falling, with its three-layered electrode structure that controls the alignment of liquid crystal molecules by an electric field in both rising and falling. The liquid crystal display panel of the present invention includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the substrates, the first substrate and the second substrate each having an electrode, the first substrate further having a dielectric layer, the electrode of the second substrate including a pair of comb-shaped electrodes and a planar electrode.

Abstract: A source driver generates a plurality of gradation voltages based on a plurality of gradation reference voltages VH255 to VL255 generated by a gradation reference voltage generation circuit, and drives the data lines using the generated gradation voltages. The control unit sets a waiting time before the power of the source driver is cut off, and controls the gradation reference voltage generation circuit such that all the plurality of gradation reference voltages VH255 to VL255 become the same voltage during the waiting time. In this way, the same voltages are written into the pixel circuits and the charge remaining in the pixel circuits are discharged, and thus, an afterimage, a ghosting, and a flickering caused by the remaining charge when the power is cut off are prevented.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that can suppress flicker. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a pair of substrates; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pair of substrates, at least one of the pair of substrates including a first electrode that includes at least two parallel comb teeth and at least two parallel slits, a second plate electrode, and an insulating film that separates the first electrode and the second electrode into different layers, assuming that the width of a comb tooth is L1 and the width of another comb tooth is L2 among the at least two comb teeth; and that the width of a slit is S1 and the width of another slit is S2 among the at least two slits, then L1, L2, S1, and S2 satisfy the formulas (H1) to (H6).

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device each having sufficiently excellent transmittance, and a thin film transistor array substrate for use in the liquid crystal display panel and the liquid crystal display device. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates, wherein the first substrate includes an electrode having a T-shaped branched section, and the electrode includes linear portions forming the T-shaped branched section and separately extending in directions different from a pixel array direction.