Abstract: A field emission type display device adopts the structure in which one pixel is constituted of a combination of a plurality of small apertures and a plurality of small electron sources. Due to such a constitution, it is possible to reduce undesired electrons to control electrodes and to enhance of the heat resistance of the carbon nanotubes of electron sources, whereby it is possible to obtain a display device of high quality and long lifetime exhibiting the high-performance electron emission characteristic. Boron (B) is adhered to carbon nanotubes which constitute electron sources through the small apertures of the control electrodes and hence, the alignment of the small apertures and the small electron sources is ensured and the area of the electron source is set equal to or less than the area of the aperture.

Abstract: The present invention provides a film for use in organic EL device, having a sufficient gas-barrier property for protection of organic EL device, and an organic EL device structure using such a film. That is, the present invention provides a film for use in organic EL device, made of an organic inorganic hybrid material whose molecules have an organic skeletal moiety and an inorganic skeletal moiety and contain fluorine group and siloxane group.

Abstract: A controller apparatus for a faucet, for controlling the faucet using energy created by electric power generation, wherein all components used therein keep necessary performance thereof for a long period of time and wherein no components require exchange thereof until the product service-life of the faucet apparatus is reached, thereby realizing true maintenance-free apparatus. The controller apparatus for a faucet comprises a capacitor; a voltage conversion means for converting the capacitor voltage to a predetermined voltage; a faucet controller circuit operated with electricity supplied from the voltage conversion means; and an electromagnetic valve for opening or closing a flow passage by said faucet controller circuit. The controller apparatus for a faucet further comprises an electric power generation means and a primary battery, and the capacitor is charged with either of an output of the electric power generation means and the primary battery.

Abstract: The present invention can suppress rupture of distance holding members, a back substrate or a front substrate attributed to atmospheric pressure. In a display device of the present invention, between the back substrate having cathode lines and plate-member control electrodes and the front substrate, a large number of distance holding members which hold a distance between the substrates are mounted in an erected manner. At portions where the distance holding members are brought into contact with the back substrate and/or the front substrate, a buffering/fixing material which is constituted of a buffering material having high resiliency and an adhesive is interposed for dispersing the atmospheric pressure applied from the back substrate and the front substrate substantially uniformly. Further, the distance holding members are fixed between the back substrate and the front substrate by a heat treatment and pressurizing step.

Abstract: To ensure sufficient electron source regions on cathode lines formed on a back substrate, cathode lines are divided into line portions and cathode portions, wherein the line portions are made narrow to a width which is a required minimum for transmitting signals and an area of the cathode portions which form an electron source is formed in a wide island shape.

Abstract: An emissive display using an organic electroluminescent device is provided, in which the pixel circuit is simplified, the aperture ratio is increased, high resolution is achieved, and the power consumption is reduced. In the configuration, among the two sets of inverter circuits, one set of inverter circuit is formed by a circuit connecting an organic electoluminescent device and a transistor in series, and a transistor of a memory circuit is omitted. Also, in the mutual connection of the two sets of inverters, display data is inputted to a line connected to the gate of the transistor connected in series with the organic electoluminescent device, and owing to this connection, the write load is reduced, and the high resolution is achieved by enabling to write at high speed.

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: The present invention provides a film for use in organic EL device, having a sufficient gas-barrier property for protection of organic EL device, and an organic EL device structure using such a film. That is, the present invention provides a film for use in organic EL device, made of an organic inorganic hybrid material whose molecules have an organic skeletal moiety and an inorganic skeletal moiety and contain fluorine group and siloxane group.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display device which can sufficiently ensure spaces for mounting distance holding members 5 when the distance holding members 5 are mounted, can facilitate the assembling and can realize the electron emission characteristics of high performance. At least two different types of gaps b, c (b <c) are provided among cathode lines 2 (2R, 2G, 2B) and the distance holding members 5 are mounted at portions of the gaps c having a larger size whereby the space for mounting the distance holding members 5 can be sufficiently ensured.

Abstract: To obtain a paste for electron sources which can enhance heat resistance of carbon nanotubes, which can suppress burn-out of the carbon nanotubes even during heating at a high temperature, and can exhibit a high electron emission performance, boron (B) is added to the paste formed of the carbon nanotubes and metal. Due to the addition of boron, the oxidation of the carbon nanotubes can be suppressed, and the degradation of the electron emission characteristics and the degradation of the uniformity of the emission of electrons during the heating process such as baking can be prevented.

Abstract: In a display device, a distance (a gap) between cathode lines (electron sources) and control electrodes is made uniform and a stray discharge attributed to the electron sources attached to the cathode lines which are exposed through between the neighboring plate-like control electrodes can be prevented. A display device comprises a back panel and a front panel on an inner surface of a back substrate. The back panel includes a plurality of cathode lines which have electron sources on an inner surface of the back panel and extend in parallel to each other, and a plurality of plate-like control electrodes which have electron passing holes which allow electrons emitted from the electron sources to pass therethrough to a front panel side, cross the cathode lines in a non-contact manner and are formed in parallel to each other. The front panel includes anodes and phosphors formed on an inner surface of a front substrate which faces the back substrate.

Abstract: A display apparatus capable of reducing power consumption comprising a display element, said display element comprising a first substrate, and a second substrate having phosphors; said first substrate comprising a plurality of transistor elements, a plurality of electron emitter elements, a plurality of first signal lines stretched in a first direction, and a plurality of second signal lines stretched in a second direction perpendicular to said first direction; each of said electron emitter elements being provided for one of said transistor elements, having a structure comprising a base electrode, an insulator and a top electrode stacked as layers placed one on another in this order of enumeration, and emitting electrons when a positive-polarity voltage is applied to said top electrode; wherein each of said transistor elements and each of said electron emitter elements are provided in each intersection region of said plurality of first signal lines and said plurality of second signal lines.

Abstract: A display device of the present invention reduces the occurrence of cracks and breaking of plate-like control electrodes, enhances the operability of assembling and suppresses the reduction of a yield factor of products. The display device includes a back substrate which has a plurality of cathode lines which extend in one direction, are arranged in parallel in another direction which crosses one direction and include electron sources respectively, and a plurality of control electrodes which cross the cathode lines in a non-contact manner within a display region, extend in another direction and are arranged in parallel in one direction on an inner surface thereof, and a front substrate which has anodes and phosphors on an inner surface thereof and faces the back substrate with a given distance therebetween. The control electrodes are formed of plate-like control electrodes.

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 watercraft includes an exhaust system having a connection pipe communicating exhaust gases from an expansion chamber to a water trap. The water trap is positioned generally toward one side of a center line of the watercraft and is angled relative to the center line. A downstream end of the connection pipe opens into a rearward section of the water trap. An exhaust discharge port opens through an upper portion of a forward section of the water trap. The discharge port is closer to the center line than is the downstream end of the connection pipe. An exhaust discharge conduit extends from the discharge port to an exhaust outlet formed through the watercraft hull on an opposite side of the center line from the water trap. In this arrangement, when the watercraft is rolled onto its side, the water trap will prevent water from invading the watercraft engine.

Abstract: An image projector, having a light source, an LCD panel into which a light emitted from the light source enters, and a projection lens into which the light emitted from the LCD panel enters. There exists, in an entrance pupil of the projection lens, a range in which light emitted from respective pixels of the LCD panel overlap with each other at least in a horizontal direction. The image projector forms part of an image display.

Abstract: The present invention provides a film for use in organic EL device, having a sufficient gas-barrier property for protection of organic EL device, and an organic EL device structure using such a film. That is, the present invention provides a film for use in organic EL device, made of an organic inorganic hybrid material whose molecules have an organic skeletal moiety and an inorganic skeletal moiety and contain fluorine group and siloxane group.

Abstract: An emissive display using an organic electroluminescent device is provided, in which the pixel circuit is simplified, the aperture ratio is increased, high resolution is achieved, and the power consumption is reduced. In the configuration, among the two sets of inverter circuits, one set of inverter circuit is formed by a circuit connecting an organic electoluminescent device and a transistor in series, and a transistor of a memory circuit is omitted. Also, in the mutual connection of the two sets of inverters, display data is inputted to a line connected to the gate of the transistor connected in series with the organic electoluminescent device, and owing to this connection, the write load is reduced, and the high resolution is achieved by enabling to write at high speed.

Abstract: This display module performs a high quality display by preventing the effect resulting from a residual charge of a data signal in the previous scanning remaining in a capacitor of a pixel circuit.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a display having data holding function, a vertical drive circuit sequentially and selectively scanning matrix form display elements, and a horizontal drive circuit writing a voltage among binary voltage preliminarily assigned depending upon the digital data of the image signal. The horizontal drive circuit and the vertical drive circuit are operated for performing selective scan of respective display element for at least m times in one frame period. The vertical drive circuit is constituted of n number of sequence circuits and logic operation circuits for outputs of the sequence circuits, where n is smaller than m, a period from inputting to the sequence circuit to outputting from the final stage being less than or equal to half of one frame period, and at least one of the sequence circuits being used with selectively inputting a plurality of inputs.