Abstract: The present invention provides an ion sensor and a display device which are capable of detecting positive ions and negative ions with high precision, at low cost. The ion sensor includes: a field effect transistor; an ion sensor antenna; and a capacitor, the ion sensor antenna and one terminal of the capacitor connected to a gate electrode of the field effect transistor, the other terminal of the capacitor receiving voltage.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an active matrix substrate (20a) including a plurality of first touch panel interconnects (19b) extending in parallel with each other, a counter substrate (30a) facing the active matrix substrate (20a) and including a plurality of second touch panel interconnects (25a) extending in parallel with each other in a direction intersecting the first touch panel interconnects (19b), a liquid crystal layer (40) provided between the active matrix substrate (20a) and the counter substrate (30a) with an alignment film (9a, 9b) being interposed between the liquid crystal layer (40) and each of the active matrix substrate (20a) and the counter substrate (30a), and a plurality of columnar touch pins (P) connected to the first or second touch panel interconnects (19b, 25a). Repellency to the alignment films (9a, 9b) is imparted to at least a portion of a top portion of each of the touch pins (P).

Abstract: The present invention provides an inexpensive display device that includes an ion sensor portion and a display and that can be miniaturized. The present invention is a display device that includes an ion sensor portion including an ion sensor circuit and a display including a display-driving circuit. The display device has a substrate, and at least one portion of the ion sensor circuit and at least one portion of the display-driving circuit are formed on the same main surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A lighting apparatus, a lighting system and a lighting control method are disclosed. The lighting apparatus includes an LED module, a heat sink for emitting heat generated from the LED module, a rectifier for rectifying an input commercial AC power, a transformer including a main coil and an auxiliary coil to transform the rectified power, and an electronic module for biasing a current used to drive the LED module based on the input voltage transported via the auxiliary coil.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ion sensor with which an ion concentration in a sample in which both ions are mixed can be measured with high accuracy, a display device, a method for driving the ion sensor, and a method for calculating an ion concentration. The present invention is an ion sensor that includes a field effect transistor. The ion sensor detects one of negative ions and positive ions using the field effect transistor, and consecutively thereafter detects the other of the negative ions and positive ions using the field effect transistor.

Abstract: A device includes: an active matrix substrate (20a) including a plurality of first display lines (11a) extending parallel to each other and a plurality of second display lines extending parallel to each other in a direction crossing the first display lines (11a); and a counter substrate (30a) including a black matrix (B) provided so as to overlap the first display lines (11a) and the second display lines, wherein the active matrix substrate (20a) includes a plurality of touch panel lines (11b) extending parallel to each other in a direction in which the first display lines (11a) extend, and portions of the black matrix (B) overlapping the second display lines are electrically conductive and are configured so as to come into contact with the touch panel lines (11b) when the surface of the active matrix substrate (20a) or the counter substrate (30a) is pressed.

Abstract: A lighting apparatus, a lighting system and a lighting control method are disclosed. The lighting apparatus includes an LED module, a heat sink for emitting heat generated from the LED module, a rectifier for rectifying an input commercial AC power, a transformer including a main coil and an auxiliary coil to transform the rectified power, and an electronic module for biasing a current used to drive the LED module based on the input voltage transported via the auxiliary coil.

Abstract: A coil component has a magnetic core made of magnetic alloy, a coil having a spiral part placed around a pillar part of the magnetic core, a magnetic sheath formed on the magnetic core in a manner covering the coil except for the bottom face of the magnetic core, and a first external terminal and a second external terminal formed on the magnetic core and magnetic sheath, where the parts of the magnetic sheath covering the areas around the spiral part of the coil are thicker than the parts covering the top face of the spiral part.

Abstract: A gate driver includes: a scan signal output circuit for performing alternately scanning whereby either odd-numbered scan signal lines or even-numbered scan signal lines are sequentially driven and scanning whereby the remaining scan signal lines are sequentially driven; a rise counter circuit for sensing the rise count for a clock signal in a HIGH level period of an externally supplied start signal; a scan sequence setup circuit for setting up a scan sequence to be followed by the scan signal output circuit according to the rise count; and a start signal generating circuit for generating a start signal to be supplied to a next scan signal line driver circuit. Hence, the resultant scan signal line driver circuit and method thereof is capable of producing high quality images at low cost while restricting power consumption and heat generation by a data signal line driver circuit.

Abstract: An optical sensor circuit in accordance with the present invention detects, based on a change in the amount of light received when a pointer (P) is placed in a coordinate detection area (2) through which light from a light source (3) passes, coordinates of a position of the pointer (3) in the coordinate detection area (2).

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device provided with a monolithic gate driver, a panel frame area is to be reduced as compared with a conventional configuration so that the device size can be reduced. In a region on an array substrate located outside of a display region, a third metal (503) is formed as a metal film in addition to a source metal (501) and a gate metal (502). The source metal (501) forms a wiring pattern that includes source electrodes of thin film transistors disposed in a pixel circuit and a gate driver, and the gate metal (502) forms a wiring pattern that includes gate electrodes of the thin film transistors. The third metal (503) is electrically connected to at least one of the source metal (501) and the gate metal (502) through a contact.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device equipped with a display panel that is provided with a photo-detection section with improved accuracy of detecting a touch position. A display panel (11) of an organic EL display device (10) includes a photo-detection section (40) that detects reflected light when a screen is touched by a finger or the like. The photo-detection section (40) includes a photodiode (41) that receives the reflected light, and an output amplifier (42) that outputs an output voltage corresponding to the amount of the received light. If an a-Si diode is used for such a photodiode (41), a sufficiently large signal difference in sensitivity between the bright state and the dark state can be achieved. Also, if a p-Si amplifier is used for the output amplifier (42), the output voltage becomes the saturation voltage at the time of read-out.

Abstract: A display device of the present invention includes a display panel (101) including a photodiode (17), which generates a current having a magnitude corresponding to an intensity of light incident on the photoelectric conversion element; and, a backlight (108) for irradiating light from behind the photodiode (17) to beyond a front surface of the display panel (101), wherein: the photodiode (17) includes an activating layer made of hydrogenated a-Si; the light source (108) has a peak wavelength within a range from 780 nm or more to 830 nm or less; and the display device further includes a light blocking member (15) for blocking light having a wavelength less than 780 nm, the light blocking member (15) being provided between a front surface of the display panel (101) and the photodiode (17) and over the photodiode (17).

Abstract: A field-effect transistor (62a) has a back gate (62ag2). The back gate (62ag2), a cathode of a photodiode (62b), and a first end of a first capacitor (62c) are connected with each other via a first node (netA). An anode of the photodiode (62b) is connected with a first line (Vrst). A second end of the first capacitor (62c) is connected with a second line (Csn). A gate (62ag1) of the field-effect transistor (62a) is connected with a third line (Vrwn), and a drain of the filed-effect transistor (62a) is connected with a fourth line (Vsm). A source of the field-effect transistor (62a) is an output of an output amplifier (62a).

Abstract: A display device includes: an optical sensor circuit provided in a display region, the optical sensor circuit including a light-receiving element and detecting intensity of light incident to the light-receiving element; and a pressure detection circuit which detects pressure applied to a display surface of a display panel on a basis of a change of the display surface in a panel thickness direction which change is caused by the pressure, with respect to a region in which the pressure is to be detected, both of the detection of the pressure by the pressure detection circuit and the detection of the intensity of the light by the optical sensor circuit being carried out within a period allocated to acquisition of detection data concerning the pressure in the display region.

Abstract: A display device includes, in a display region, a first circuit including a photodiode (62b), a first capacitor (62c), a second capacitor (62d), and an output amplifier (62a). A cathode of the photodiode (62b), one end of the first capacitor (62c), one end of the second capacitor (62d), and an input of the output amplifier (62a) are connected with one another via a first node (netA). An electrode at the other end of the second capacitor (62d) is provided on a substrate having a display surface of a display panel, and an electrode at the one end of the second capacitor (62d) is positioned to be away from the display surface in a thickness direction of the display panel in such a manner as to face the electrode at the other end of the second capacitor (62d).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an active matrix substrate (20a) including a plurality of first touch panel interconnects (19b) extending in parallel with each other, a counter substrate (30a) facing the active matrix substrate (20a) and including a plurality of second touch panel interconnects (25a) extending in parallel with each other in a direction intersecting the first touch panel interconnects (19b), a liquid crystal layer (40) provided between the active matrix substrate (20a) and the counter substrate (30a) with an alignment film (9a, 9b) being interposed between the liquid crystal layer (40) and each of the active matrix substrate (20a) and the counter substrate (30a), and a plurality of columnar touch pins (P) connected to the first or second touch panel interconnects (19b, 25a). Repellency to the alignment films (9a, 9b) is imparted to at least a portion of a top portion of each of the touch pins (P).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an active matrix substrate (20a) including a plurality of first touch panel interconnects (19b) extending in parallel with each other, a counter substrate (30a) facing the active matrix substrate (20a) and including a plurality of second touch panel interconnects (25a) extending in parallel with each other in a direction intersecting the first touch panel interconnects (19b), and a liquid crystal layer (40) provided between the active matrix substrate (20a) and the counter substrate (30a) with an alignment film (9a, 9b) being interposed between the liquid crystal layer (40) and each of the active matrix substrate (20a) and the counter substrate (30a). The first touch panel interconnects (19b) each have a plurality of first touch pins (Pa) having a columnar shape in regions where the first touch panel interconnects (19b) intersect the second touch panel interconnects (25a).

Abstract: The present invention provides a prophylactic and therapeutic agent for arteriosclerotic diseases and a method or reagent for detecting arteriosclerotic diseases. Further, the present invention provides a therapeutic agent for an arteriosclerotic disease, comprising salusin-? as an active ingredient, a therapeutic agent for an arteriosclerotic disease, comprising an antagonist of salusin-? as an active ingredient, and a method for detecting an arteriosclerotic disease, comprising assaying salusin-? in a biological sample.

Abstract: In a display device driven by multi-picture element driving, in order to realize narrowing of a frame, a gate driver provided in the display device includes buffers. Storage capacitor driving signals are inputted in the buffers. In at least one embodiment, once the storage capacitor driving signals are inputted, the buffers shape waveforms of the storage capacitor driving signals, and outputs the storage capacitor driving signals thus shaped to storage capacitor wires via terminals “CSVtypeA1?R” to “CSVtypeA4?R” and terminals “CSVtypeA1?L” to “CSVtypeA4?L”. The buffers supply storage capacitor driving signals reduced in waveform rounding as such, to drive a storage capacitor that is connected to the storage capacitor wires.