Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate, on which a reference potential trunk line that supplies a reference potential to a plurality of sub-pixels and a switching element of each of the plurality of sub-pixels, are disposed; and a second substrate, on which a display signal line that supplies a display signal, is disposed. A liquid crystal capacitance of each of the plurality of sub-pixels is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Pixels composed of the plurality of sub-pixels that correspond to a plurality of luminance regions are arranged in a matrix. In case that a prescribed half-tone is displayed in between pixels that are adjacent in the row direction, the plurality of sub-pixels that correspond to the same luminance region are arranged adjacently in the row direction.

Abstract: Provided is a pixel circuit which includes a plurality of subpixel circuits and which makes it possible to suppress overshooting of electric potentials of the subpixel circuits to a small level. A pixel circuit (PIX1) includes a first subpixel circuit (PIXA) and a second subpixel circuit (PIXB). The first subpixel circuit (PIXA) includes a first display element (ClcA), a first node (nA), a first external connection terminal (P1), and a first switching element (T1). The second subpixel circuit (PIXB) includes a second display element (ClcB), a second node (nB), a second external connection terminal (P2), a third external connection terminal (P3), a second switching element (T2), and a third switching element (T3). The first node (nA) and the second node (nB) are connected to each other via a first capacitor (C2).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a readily produced and easily handled heat storage member. The heat storage member 1 has a rectangular plane surface of, for example, 15 (cm)×20 (cm), and has a thickness of, for example, 10 to 15 mm. The heat storage member 1 includes a gelatinous latent heat storage material 12, and a large number of highly heat conductive fillers 14 dispersed in the latent heat storage material 12. The highly heat conductive fillers 14 are mixed in the latent heat storage material 12 with a bias in dispersion density. In the rectangular plane surface of the heat storage member 1, a periodic pattern is formed in combination of cellular (cell-like) regions 10, which are demarcated by, for example, hexagonal contour lines 16 and which are periodically arrayed in the vertical and horizontal directions.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide cooling equipment which can reduce power consumption. Cooling equipment 1 includes a storage chamber 30 that stores storage goods; latent heat storage materials 101 to 106 disposed inside the storage chamber 30; a compressor 40 that configures a refrigerating cycle for cooling the inside of the storage chamber 30; a temperature sensor 60 that detects a temperature of the latent heat storage materials 101 to 106; and a control unit 100 that controls the compressor 40, based on a state of the latent heat storage materials 101 to 106.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat-transfer device and has an object to provide a heat-transfer device that has a high degree of freedom of aspects in arrangement with respect to the heating element. The heat-transfer device is provided with a contact surface 20e coming into contact with a heating element 100. The heat-transfer device has a pin portion 20 transferring heat from the heating element 100 through the contact surface 20e, and has a gelled latent heat storage material 70 arranged to be in contact with the pin portion 20.

Abstract: Performance of heat insulation between the outside of a storage container and the inside of a storage chamber is effectively improved. The storage container includes a container body having an opening, a door member closing the opening in an openable and closable manner, and a temperature-controlled unit having a function of making a temperature inside a storage chamber 2 enclosed by the container body and the door member be different from a temperature outside the storage chamber.

Abstract: A storage container can maintain a temperature inside a storage room not to cause a temperature distribution for a certain time even if the operation is stopped. In a storage container 1 storing preserved goods and having an electrical cooling function, the storage container 1 includes a container body 10 and a door 20. A space enclosed by the container body 10 and the door 20 forms a storage room 100. The container body 10 and the door 20 have respectively heat insulating portions 12, 22 and heat accumulating portions 14, 24. The heat accumulating portions 14, 24 are each made of at least one type of material that causes liquid-solid phase transition at a temperature between a controllable temperature inside the storage room 100 and a living environmental temperature.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: pixels each composed of n sub-pixels, the pixels being arranged in a matrix; a switching element provided for each sub-pixel; a liquid crystal element provided for each sub-pixel; n reference potential trunk lines having a mutually different magnitude of potential; a first display signal line that supplies a display signal; a scanning line; a controller; a first substrate on which the n reference potential trunk lines and the switching elements are disposed; and a second substrate on which the first display signal lines are disposed. The liquid crystal elements are formed in between the first substrate and the second substrate. A pole at one end of each liquid crystal element of the n sub-pixels is connected to the first display signal line, and a pole at the other end of each liquid crystal element of the n sub-pixels is connected to the respective first to nth reference potential trunk lines via the respective switching elements.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate, on which a reference potential trunk line that supplies a reference potential to a plurality of sub-pixels and a switching element of each of the plurality of sub-pixels, are disposed; and a second substrate, on which a display signal line that supplies a display signal, is disposed. A liquid crystal capacitance of each of the plurality of sub-pixels is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Pixels composed of the plurality of sub-pixels that correspond to a plurality of luminance regions are arranged in a matrix. In case that a prescribed half-tone is displayed in between pixels that are adjacent in the row direction, the plurality of sub-pixels that correspond to the same luminance region are arranged adjacently in the row direction.

Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of stripe-shaped data electrodes that are formed on a first substrate and that extend in the column direction; a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of reference signal lines that are formed on a second substrate and that extend in the row direction; a plurality of pixel electrodes that are formed on the second substrate and that are disposed in a matrix arrangement; a plurality of switching elements that are formed on the second substrate and in which on/off is controlled by the plurality of scanning lines, and that are disposed between the plurality of reference signal lines and the plurality of pixel electrodes; and an oxide semiconductor layer that is disposed between a source electrode and a drain electrode. The switching elements are formed so as to be disposed in the vicinity of a gate electrode on the oxide semiconductor layer, with an insulating layer interposed therebetween.

Abstract: The present invention is a system, wherein a switching element is on/off controlled by means of a gate driver of a second substrate, electrical conductivity is made to a pixel electrode at a necessary position by means of a reference signal line, and data signals are applied to the data electrodes of a first substrate. An input terminal contact part connected to the drive signal terminal of the gate driver is electrically connected to the signal line contact part on the first substrate side, and the signal line contact part is connected to the first substrate side terminal merging part. Selection of a scanning line by means of the gate driver, and application of the signals to the data electrodes are performed by inputting required signals from the outside to the first substrate side terminal merging part.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (1) includes: a plurality of pixels each displaying any one of mutually different primary colors; a subpixel, provided for each of the plurality of pixels, which has an auxiliary capacitor (Cs1); and a second subpixel, provided for each of the plurality of pixels, which has an auxiliary capacitor (Cs2), the second subpixel having, at a certain grayscale level, a different luminance from the luminance brought about by the first subpixel. The liquid crystal display device (1) further includes: an auxiliary capacitor line (6n) connected commonly to an auxiliary capacitor (Cs1R) in a pixel (8) and an auxiliary capacitor (Cs1G) in another pixel (10); and an auxiliary capacitor line (7n) connected to an auxiliary capacitor (Cs1B) in another pixel (12). The auxiliary capacitor line (6n) is electrically isolated from the auxiliary capacitor line (7n).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (1) of the present invention includes: gate bus lines (2); source bus lines (4); CS bus lines (6); gate electrodes; source electrodes; first transistors (TFT1); second transistors (TFT2); first pixel electrodes; second pixel electrodes; pixel regions (8) each including a first sub pixel (8a) and a second sub pixel (8b); pixel regions (10) each including a first sub pixel (10a) and a second sub pixel (10b); pixel regions (12) each including a first sub pixel (12a and a second sub pixel (12b)); gate electrodes; drain electrodes; third transistors (TFT3); first buffer capacitor electrodes; second buffer capacitor electrodes; and capacitors (Cd). Capacitances of the capacitors (Cd) in the respective pixel regions vary depending on the colors displayed by the respective pixel regions. This makes it possible that occurrence of a color shift of an image viewed from the oblique viewing direction is reduced.

Abstract: A liquid crystal drive circuit, a liquid crystal display device, and a method for driving the liquid crystal drive circuit are disclosed. A liquid crystal drive circuit of an embodiment includes: a gate bus line drive circuit for driving a plurality of gate bus lines; a drive parameter selecting section for selecting, in accordance with how many gate bus lines of the plurality of gate bus lines are concurrently driven by the gate bus line drive circuit, a drive parameter optimized for a ratio between bright and dark pixels which ratio is determined in accordance with how many gate bus lines of the plurality of gate bus lines are concurrently driven by the drive parameter selecting section; and a source bus line drive circuit for driving a plurality of source bus lines by use of the drive parameter thus selected by the drive parameter selecting section.

Abstract: An LCD device (1) includes a liquid crystal display panel (2) and a liquid crystal driving section (4) for driving the liquid crystal display panel (2) from a region with a lower temperature to a region with a higher temperature in in-screen temperature distribution of the liquid crystal display panel (2) in operation. This configuration allows a scan direction (6) in which the liquid crystal display panel (2) is driven to correspond to temperature distribution direction (8) from a portion with a lower temperature to a portion with a higher temperature. As a result, image quality of images to be displayed by the general-purpose liquid crystal display panel (2) is improved.

Abstract: Provided is a pixel circuit which includes a plurality of subpixel circuits and which makes it possible to suppress overshooting of electric potentials of the subpixel circuits to a small level. A pixel circuit (PIX1) includes a first subpixel circuit (PIXA) and a second subpixel circuit (PIXB). The first subpixel circuit (PIXA) includes a first display element (ClcA), a first node (nA), a first external connection terminal (P1), and a first switching element (T1). The second subpixel circuit (PIXB) includes a second display element (ClcB), a second node (nB), a second external connection terminal (P2), a third external connection terminal (P3), a second switching element (T2), and a third switching element (T3). The first node (nA) and the second node (nB) are connected to each other via a first capacitor (C2).

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display apparatus which allows high-speed driving with maintenance of a high viewing angle characteristic. The liquid crystal display apparatus includes, in one of pixels of a display driving circuit, a gate bus line; a data bus line; a storage capacitor bus line; a first transistor and a second transistor which are connected with the gate bus line and with the data bus line; a liquid crystal capacitor in a first subpixel; a liquid crystal capacitor in a second subpixel; and a third transistor connected with the liquid crystal capacitor in the second subpixel. The gate electrode of the third transistor is connected with a gate bus line (n+2) corresponding to pixels on a second or latter scanning line forward from a scanning signal line corresponding to the third transistors.

Abstract: In order to provide a liquid crystal display device substrate realizing high-speed driving and wide viewing angle characteristics, a liquid crystal display device substrate (1) includes: gate lines (12); source lines (14) crossing the gate lines (12); Cs lines (16) corresponding to the gate lines (12); TFTs (21) and (22), which are electrically connected with the gate lines (12) and the source lines (14); first and second pixel electrodes electrically connected with the TFTs (21) and (22); TFTs (23) electrically connected with the second pixel electrodes; control signal lines (18) corresponding to the gate lines (12) and electrically connected with gate electrodes of the TFTs (23), via which control signal lines (23) a control signal for controlling switching of the TFTs (23) between on/off conditions is supplied; and buffer capacitors Cs having first electrodes electrically connected with the TFTs (23) and second electrodes electrically connected with the Cs lines (16).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device circuit disclosed includes: a first output transistor (Mo1n+1) having (i) a gate electrode connected to an (n+1)th gate bus line or a gate bus line subsequent to the (n+1)th gate bus line, (ii) a drain electrode connected to a first capacitor (Cb1n+1), and (iii) a source electrode connected to a first pixel electrode (PE1n); and a second output transistor (Mo2n?1) having (i) a gate electrode connected to an (n?1)th gate bus line or a gate bus line preceding the (n?1)th gate bus line, (ii) a drain electrode connected to a second end of the second capacitor (Cb2n?1), and (iii) a source electrode connected to a second pixel electrode (PE2n). This produces a liquid crystal display device circuit that can both reduce power consumption and have a good viewing angle characteristic regardless of whether the scan direction is a forward direction or a backward direction.

Abstract: A plasma treatment apparatus generates a plasma in a treatment vessel by an electromagnetic wave radiated from an electromagnetic wave radiation portion into the treatment vessel to perform plasma treatment by the plasma. At least a part of a wall constituting the treatment vessel includes at least a part of an electromagnetic wave transmission path which transmits the electromagnetic wave.