Abstract: A display device includes the following: a flexible display body; and a support supporting the flexible display body, wherein the support has a hollow that enables intake/discharge of a gas. This can enhance the convenience of the flexible display body. An outer shape of the support is larger than an outer shape of the flexible display bod.

Abstract: A display device includes: a foldable display panel having flexibility; a touch detector disposed selectively on one panel face side of the display panel and capable of detecting a plurality of touch areas; and a determiner for detecting that the display panel is folded only if the touch areas detected by the touch detector are three or more in number, and a largest first touch area thereof is located between the touch areas other than the first touch area.

Abstract: A display device includes: a foldable display panel having flexibility; a touch detector disposed selectively on one panel face side of the display panel and capable of detecting a plurality of touch areas; and a determiner for detecting that the display panel is folded only if the touch areas detected by the touch detector are three or more in number, and a largest first touch area thereof is located between the touch areas other than the first touch area.

Abstract: In order to achieve an electronic device with a high display quality while preventing a wiring pattern of a touch panel from being visually recognized in a display region, the present invention includes: a touch panel electrode (20) provided so as to surround a display region (41); and a control section (10) connected to the touch panel electrode (20) and configured to sense, in accordance with a change in capacitance of the touch panel electrode (20), a touch operation carried out by an object coming into contact with or coming closer to at least one of the display region (41) and a frame region (50).

Abstract: An input device includes a display unit having a display screen on which a plurality of buttons are displayed and a touch panel that detects a location on the display screen that has been touched, a vibration unit that causes the display unit to vibrate, an input controller that validates an input based on touch when the location detected by the touch panel is within a button, and a vibration controller that does not cause the vibration unit to vibrate when the location detected by the touch panel is confined to only one button, but causes the vibration unit to continually vibrate when another location is detected for as long as the other location is being detected.

Abstract: The invention aims at providing a powder cosmetic which does not suffer from the aggregation of powder even when it contains a large amount of oily component and in which no caking of powder on the surface occurs even when pressed, and a process for the production of platy calcium sulfate dihydrate usable for the cosmetic. The process of the production includes a process for producing a powder cosmetic comprising calcium sulfate dihydrate and an oily component, and a process for producing platy calcium sulfate dihydrate which process comprises dissolving a calcium salt in an organic acid and reacting the resulting calcium solution with sulfuric acid.

Abstract: The invention aims to provide a powder cosmetic in which the powder component causes no aggregation and the surface powder component causes no caking in press processing even if a large amount of oily component is contained therein. Said powder cosmetic is characterized by comprising oblate cellulose particles and an oily component.

Abstract: A display surface of the present invention includes a display operation surface (2) including an input operation surface (2a) that constitutes at least a part of the display operation surface (2), the input operation surface (2a) being configured to be directly touched by a user so that an input operation is performed, the input operation surface (2a) having a first region (3) and a second region (4) which are provided in a single substrate, the first region (3) being planar and substantially flat, and the second region (4) being protruded and/or recessed with respect to a reference plane which is an input surface the first region (3). It is therefore possible to realize (i) a touch panel which has further improved operator's operability and is provided to an electronic device having multi-functions, (ii) a display device including the touch panel, and (iii) an electronic device including the touch panel.

Abstract: The invention aims at providing a powder cosmetic which does not suffer from the aggregation of powder even when it contains a large amount of oily component and in which no caking of powder on the surface occurs even when pressed, and a process for the production of platy calcium sulfate dihydrate usable for the cosmetic. The process of the production includes a process for producing a powder cosmetic comprising calcium sulfate dihydrate and an oily component, and a process for producing platy calcium sulfate dihydrate which process comprises dissolving a calcium salt in an organic acid and reacting the resulting calcium solution with sulfuric acid.

Abstract: A process for producing 2,2?-bis (trifluoromethyl)-4,4?-diaminobiphenyl which is useful as a raw material for polyimide resin, etc. In benzidine rearrangement of 3,3?-bis(trifluoromethyl) hydrazobenzene in the presence of an inorganic acid such as sulfuric acid aqueous solution or concentrated hydrochloric acid, use of a water-immiscible organic solvent such as toluene as reaction solvent can increase the yield of the product. 3,3?-bis(trifluoromethyl) hydrazobenzene can be synthesized by reduction of m-nitrobenzotrifluoride.

Abstract: A process for producing 2,2?-bis (trifluoromethyl)-4,4?-diaminobiphenyl which is useful as a raw material for polyimide resin, etc. In benzidine rearrangement of 3,3?-bis(trifluoromethyl) hydrazobenzene in the presence of an inorganic acid such as sulfuric acid aqueous solution or concentrated hydrochloric acid, use of a water-immiscible organic solvent such as toluene as reaction solvent can increase the yield of the product. 3,3?-bis(trifluoromethyl) hydrazobenzene can be synthesized by reduction of m-nitrobenzotrifluoride.

Abstract: A pigment containing particles surface treated with N-acylglycine hydroxyaluminum and/or N-acyl-N-methylglycine hydroxyaluminum, and a pigment dispersion which contains such surface treated particles and a cosmetically acceptable oily material, having excellent dispersion stability and versatility (ease of dispersion and wide range of usage), because the particles are easily and uniformly dispersed in a short period of time at a high concentration in such a cosmetically acceptable oily material, thus a cosmetic product is thereby stable as an emulsion and has better usage than existing products.

Abstract: There is provided a pigment surface treated with N-acylglycine hydroxyaluminum and/or N-acyl-N-methylglycine hydroxyaluminum, and a pigment dispersion which contains such surface treated pigment and a cosmetically acceptable oily material, and has an excellent dispersion stability and versatility (ease of dispersion and wide rage of usage).

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a 4-nitrosodiphenylamine of the formula (2) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 independently represent hydrogen atom, methyl group, ethyl group, cyclohexyl group, methoxy group, ethoxy group or chlorine or bromine atom, or a salt thereof, comprising treating a diphenylamine represented by the formula (1) ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are as defined above with (i) a mixture of nitrogen oxides, (ii) a hydrogen halide and (iii) an aliphatic alcohol, wherein the atomic ratio of oxygen to nitrogen of the mixture of nitrogen oxides is more than 1.0 and less than 2.0. This process produces 4-nitrosodiphenylamine of the formula (2) or a salt thereof conveniently and effectively, and is industrially advantageous.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement of a reflection mode alkali photocathode which relies on controlling a deposition weight of antimony. The reflection mode alkali photocathode according to this invention includes a thin layer of antimony directly deposited on a base substrate and activated by alkali metals. The thin film of antimony is deposited in a thickness of below 100 .mu.g/cm.sup.2. This reflection mode photocathode is suitably usable in photomultipliers. As the base substrate, nickel, aluminium and stainless, etc. are used. As the alkali metals, cesium, potassium, sodium and rubidium are usable.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement of a reflection mode alkali photocathode which relies on controlling a deposition weight of antimony. The reflection mode alkali photocathode according to this invention includes a thin layer of antimony directly deposited on a base substrate and activated by alkali metals. The thin film of antimony is deposited in a thickness of below 100 .mu.g/cm.sup.2. This reflection mode photocathode is suitably usable in photomultipliers. As the base substrate, nickel, aluminium and stainless, etc. are used. As the alkali metals, cesium, potassium, sodium and rubidium are usable.

Abstract: In order to improve the contrast of a liquid crystal display device by the voltage equalization method, scanning side electrodes totaling D in number are scanned in line sequential fashion while applying a voltage between each selected scanning side electrode and each signal side electrode, the voltage applied being controlled in such a way that, during a total of D times of scanning of the scanning side electrodes for production of one frame, when a particular scanning side electrode and a particular signal side electrode are simultaneously in a select state, a voltage Vop is applied to the corresponding liquid crystal, and when the scanning side electrodes respectively are in a non-select state, which occurs the remaining (D-1) times for each of the scanning side electrodes, a voltage whose polarity is reversed in response to the select and non-select states of the signal side electrodes and whose absolute value is represented by .vertline.Vop/B.vertline.

Abstract: A method of driving a liquid crystal display device by a voltage averaging method comprises the step of operating this device at a bias ratio which is larger than the theoretically optimum bias ratio for the device so that unevenness in contrast is reduced.

Abstract: A method for producing chlorosilanes, which are useful in a wide range of industrial field as an intermediate for organosilicon products such as silicone rubbers, silicone oils, silicone resins, etc. as well as a raw material for the production of organic chemicals such as medicines, agricultural chemicals, dyestuffs, etc., represented by the general formula, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.4, which may be the same or different, represent an alkyl group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, a chloromethyl group, an ethynyl group or a halogen atom; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, which may be the same or different, represent an alkyl group having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms; R.sub.5 and R.sub.6, which may be the same or different, represent an alkyl group having from 1 to 2 carbon atoms; and R.sub.7 represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, which comprises reacting a disiloxane represented by the general formula, ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.

Abstract: Salicylaldehydes useful for perfumes, agricultural chemicals, chelating agents and the like are produced in high yield with high selectivity by reacting formaldehyde or its derivative with a corresponding phenol in a solvent using as a catalyst chromium or iron compounds.