Abstract: In a dispensing system, a body is arranged outside a specimen processing cabinet, and in a state where a hand and a dispenser are inserted into the specimen processing cabinets, a specimen accommodated in a specimen container held by the hand is dispensed into a dispensing container by the dispenser.

Abstract: An antenna device includes: an array feeder including antenna elements that are arrayed, the antenna elements being configured to radiate electromagnetic waves; and a lens that refracts the electromagnetic waves. The array feeder is configured to excite the antenna elements with complex excitation amplitudes at which the electromagnetic waves after being refracted by the lens travel as a plane wave in a desired direction, each of the antenna elements being excited with a corresponding one of the complex excitation amplitudes.

Abstract: Organic EL display module including a pixel disposed in respective intersections between a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, which lines are aligned in a matrix, and a current supply line that supplies electric current to the pixel, wherein the pixel includes an active device selected by the scanning line, a data storage device that stores a data signal that is supplied from the data line by control of the active device, and an organic light emitting device that emits light by the electric current supplied by the current supply line according to the data signal stored in the data storage device, wherein the data storage device provides a lower electrode, an insulating layer and an upper electrode, and wherein the lower electrode has a same layer with a channel layer of the active device and the upper electrode is made of a metal material.

Abstract: A switching loss of a power conversion device is sufficiently reduced. A DC-DC converter includes a switching circuit that converts input first DC power into AC power, a transformer that performs voltage conversion of the AC power, and an output circuit that converts the AC power subjected to the voltage conversion by the transformer into second DC power. The control circuit that controls the DC-DC converter calculates a magnetic flux density value B of the transformer and controls a drive frequency of the switching circuit based on the calculated magnetic flux density value B.

Abstract: A switching loss of a power conversion device is sufficiently reduced. A DC-DC converter includes a switching circuit that converts input first DC power into AC power, a transformer that performs voltage conversion of the AC power, and an output circuit that converts the AC power subjected to the voltage conversion by the transformer into second DC power. The control circuit that controls the DC-DC converter calculates a magnetic flux density value B of the transformer and controls a drive frequency of the switching circuit based on the calculated magnetic flux density value B.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a charging apparatus having high efficiency of charging a battery by inputting an alternating current voltage. A charging apparatus that charges a direct current battery includes a step-down converter unit to which a direct current voltage from a power supply is input and that converts the direct current voltage, and when a voltage of the direct current battery is between a predetermined first voltage smaller than a charge completion voltage of the direct current battery and the charge completion voltage, a variable voltage that increases from the first voltage to the charge completion voltage in accordance with charging of the direct current battery is input to the step-down converter unit.

Abstract: Organic EL display module including a pixel disposed in respective intersections between a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, which lines are aligned in a matrix, and a current supply line that supplies electric current to the pixel, wherein the pixel includes an active device selected by the scanning line, a data storage device that stores a data signal that is supplied from the data line by control of the active device, and an organic light emitting device that emits light by the electric current supplied by the current supply line according to the data signal stored in the data storage device, wherein the data storage device provides a lower electrode, an insulating layer and an upper electrode, and wherein the lower electrode has a same layer with a channel layer of the active device and the upper electrode is made of a metal material.

Abstract: Organic EL display module including a pixel disposed in respective intersections between a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, which lines are aligned in a matrix, and a current supply line that supplies electric current to the pixel, wherein the pixel includes an active device selected by the scanning line, a data storage device that stores a data signal that is supplied from the data line by control of the active device, and an organic light emitting device that emits light by the electric current supplied by the current supply line according to the data signal stored in the data storage device, wherein the data storage device provides a lower electrode, an insulating layer and an upper electrode, and wherein the lower electrode has a same layer with a channel layer of the active device and the upper electrode is made of a metal material.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a charging apparatus having high efficiency of charging a battery by inputting an alternating current voltage. A charging apparatus that charges a direct current battery includes a step-down converter unit to which a direct current voltage from a power supply is input and that converts the direct current voltage, and when a voltage of the direct current battery is between a predetermined first voltage smaller than a charge completion voltage of the direct current battery and the charge completion voltage, a variable voltage that increases from the first voltage to the charge completion voltage in accordance with charging of the direct current battery is input to the step-down converter unit.

Abstract: Organic EL display module including a pixel disposed in respective intersections between a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, which lines are aligned in a matrix, and a current supply line that supplies electric current to the pixel, wherein the pixel includes an active device selected by the scanning line, a data storage device that stores a data signal that is supplied from the data line by control of the active device, and an organic light emitting device that emits light by the electric current supplied by the current supply line according to the data signal stored in the data storage device, wherein the data storage device provides a lower electrode, an insulating layer and an upper electrode, and wherein the lower electrode has a same layer with a channel layer of the active device and the upper electrode is made of a metal material.

Abstract: Organic EL display module including a pixel disposed in respective intersections between a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, which lines are aligned in a matrix, and a current supply line that supplies electric current to the pixel, wherein the pixel includes an active device selected by the scanning line, a data storage device that stores a data signal that is supplied from the data line by control of the active device, and an organic light emitting device that emits light by the electric current supplied by the current supply line according to the data signal stored in the data storage device, wherein the data storage device provides a lower electrode, an insulating layer and an upper electrode, and wherein the lower electrode has a same layer with a channel layer of the active device and the upper electrode is made of a metal material.

Abstract: A switching power supply has a function of improving a power factor, and outputs insulated DC. The switching power supply performs two kinds of controls for switching devices exclusive to each other: controlling of a switching device provided in a direction in which the discharging of a primary-side smoothing capacitor is prohibited at the time of suspension of commercially available AC power and near the zero cross of an input voltage; and causing a switching device provided between the output side of a third winding and the primary-side smoothing capacitor to control a charging current, thereby charging a capacitor in a boosted manner.

Abstract: A display module includes a pixel disposed in respective intersections between a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, which lines are aligned in a matrix, and a current supply line that supplies electric current to the pixel, the pixel includes a data storage device for storing a data signal supplied from the data lines, and an emitting device that emits light by the electric current supplied by the current supply line according to the data signal stored in the data storage device. One terminal of the data signal storage device is connected to one of the scanning lines placed anteriorly of to the pixel that is being selected.

Abstract: A switching power supply has a function of improving a power factor, and outputs insulated DC. The switching power supply performs two kinds of controls for switching devices exclusive to each other: controlling of a switching device provided in a direction in which the discharging of a primary-side smoothing capacitor is prohibited at the time of suspension of commercially available AC power and near the zero cross of an input voltage; and causing a switching device provided between the output side of a third winding and the primary-side smoothing capacitor to control a charging current, thereby charging a capacitor in a boosted manner.

Abstract: It is an object to provide an organic light-emitting element having two or more light-emitting layers, wherein degradation of each constituent material for the light-emitting layer is reduced to improve reliability of the element. The present invention provides an organic light-emitting element having a laminated structure with a first mixed light-emitting layer 4 composed of a hole transport material, an electron transport material and a dopant which determines a color of an emitted light, and a second mixed light-emitting layer 5 composed of a hole transport material, an electron transport material and a dopant which determines a color of an emitted light, and also provides an image display device which uses the organic light-emitting element.

Abstract: A scanning line, a signal line, a first current supply line, and a second current supply line are formed on a glass substrate, a first electrode is formed on the wiring layer comprising the above members, an organic layer comprising a hole transport layer, a light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and an electron injection layer is formed on the first electrode, a second electrode is formed as cathode on the electron injection layer, the first electrode as anode is connected to a plus terminal of a power source through the driving devices and the first current supply line, whereas the second electrode as cathode is connected to a minus terminal of the power source, and is connected to the second current supply line in the display region of each pixel, with a contact hole serving as a feeding point, whereby wiring resistance due to the second electrode is reduced, and variations in the brightness of a panel is reduced.

Abstract: An active matrix type display includes a light emission device having a transparent pixel electrode and a metal pixel electrode on both surfaces of a light emitting layer and a driving circuit controlling the driving current of the light emission device. The driving circuit is formed on a substrate, and the light emission device is formed as a layer above the driving circuit with an intermediate layer of insulation material interposed therebetween. The metal pixel electrode device is connected with the driving circuit through a conduction portion which extends through the intermediate layer. Thus, light emitted from the light emission device can be prevented from reaching transistors by locating the transistors below the metal pixel electrode, and leakage current produced by the light of a transistor in the off state can be suppressed to prevent degradation of the image quality.

Abstract: A scanning line, a signal line, a first current supply line, and a second current supply line are formed on a glass substrate, a first electrode is formed on the wiring layer comprising the above members, an organic layer comprising a hole transport layer, a light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and an electron injection layer is formed on the first electrode, a second electrode is formed as cathode on the electron injection layer, the first electrode as anode is connected to a plus terminal of a power source through the driving devices and the first current supply line, whereas the second electrode as cathode is connected to a minus terminal of the power source, and is connected to the second current supply line in the display region of each pixel, with a contact hole serving as a feeding point, whereby wiring resistance due to the second electrode is reduced, and variations in the brightness of a panel is reduced.

Abstract: An organic LED (OLED) display device and an operating method of driving the same. In an OLED image display device, one switch transistor is provided in one pixel. For at least a part of an OFF period of time of the switch transistor, the OLED is in the non-light emission state, and also the bias of the polarity reverse to that in the light emission is applied to the OLED.

Abstract: A scanning line, a signal line, a first current supply line, and a second current supply line are formed on a glass substrate, a first electrode is formed on the wiring layer comprising the above members, an organic layer comprising a hole transport layer, a light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and an electron injection layer is formed on the first electrode, a second electrode is formed as cathode on the electron injection layer, the first electrode as anode is connected to a plus terminal of a power source through the driving devices and the first current supply line, whereas the second electrode as cathode is connected to a minus terminal of the power source, and is connected to the second current supply line in the display region of each pixel, with a contact hole serving as a feeding point, whereby wiring resistance due to the second electrode is reduced, and variations in the brightness of a panel is reduced.