Abstract: Non-polymeric drag reducing agents in the form of maleated fatty acids and the esters thereof and the organic, inorganic or amine salts thereof are described herein. These additives are useful to reduce drag in hydrocarbon fluids and multi-phase fluids of hydrocarbon(s) and water. No injection probes or other special equipment is expected to be required to introduce the drag reducing agent into the liquid stream, nor is grinding (cryogenic or otherwise) of the additive necessary to form a suitable drag reducing agent. The drag reducing additives of the invention are not subject to shear degradation and do not cause undesirable changes in the emulsion or fluid quality of the fluid being treated, or undesirable foaming.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a first frame, a liquid crystal panel supported by the first frame, the liquid crystal panel having a display region and a side wall portion, a digitizer located on the liquid crystal panel, the digitizer having a peripheral portion, and a second frame having a front surface with an opening region and a side wall portion, the front surface pressurizing the peripheral portion of the digitizer, the opening region formed at a location corresponding to the display region of the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: A touch panel-mounted liquid crystal panel minimizes picture distortion upon driving of the touch panel. In the liquid crystal panel, a lower glass substrate has switching devices provided in the vicinity of intersections between data lines and gate lines. An upper glass substrate has a black matrix joined to it. Patterned clusters of spacers are positioned at an area corresponding to the black matrix in such a manner to enlarge its contact area with the upper glass substrate, thereby keeping a uniform distance between the upper and lower glass substrates. The enlarged contact area allows the patterned clusters of spacers to sufficiently absorb a pressure load of a finger or a stylus pen. Accordingly, uniform distance between the upper and lower glass substrates is maintained even upon driving the touch panel. As a result, light deterioration and local image distortion is prevented or minimized.

Abstract: An improved touch panel with polarizer, a flat panel display with touch panel, and a laminating method. The improvement having an adhesive layer, provided on an upper base of the polarizer in order to manufacture a laminate structure; or dot spacers formed between transparent conductive films are formed so that substrates can be laminated to each other. The touch panel with polarizer includes: dot spacers between transparent conductive films so that substrates can be laminated to each other; the polarizer bonded to a lower sheet has an adhesive layer bonded to the touch panel causing the polarizer to be integrated with the panel, and another adhesive layer causing the polarizer to be bonded to the liquid crystal display; and the other polarizer is bonded to the liquid crystal display. A touch panel is bonded together, and a polarizer is bonded to the panel, and the liquid crystal display is bonded to an adhesive layer on the polarizer.

Abstract: A polarizer integrated with a transparent conductive film for a liquid crystal display includes a lower film an optical film and a transparent conductive film. A touch panel integrated with the polarizer is formed by attaching an upper sheet to the upper surface of the polarizer integrated with a transparent conductive film. A flat panel display with an integral type touch panel includes a touch panel integrated with the flat panel display having a lower polarizer, a liquid crystal display and an upper polarizer.

Abstract: An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes first and second opposed substrates having inner surfaces in which a liquid crystal layer formed therebetween, a data bus line and a gate bus line arranged perpendicularly and/or horizontally in a matrix on the first substrate thereby defining a unit pixel region, and a pair of data electrode and common electrode applying a plane electric field in the liquid crystal layer, the electrodes being inclined with respect to the data bus line and parallel to each other.

Abstract: A polarizer integrated with a transparent conductive film for a liquid crystal display includes a lower film an optical film and a transparent conductive film. A touch panel integrated with the polarizer is formed by attaching an upper sheet to the upper surface of the polarizer integrated with a transparent conductive film. A flat panel display with an integral type touch panel includes a touch panel integrated with the flat panel display having a lower polarizer, a liquid crystal display and an upper polarizer.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a first frame, a liquid crystal panel supported by the first frame, the liquid crystal panel having a display region and a side wall portion, a digitizer located on the liquid crystal panel, the digitizer having a peripheral portion, and a second frame having a front surface with an opening region and a side wall portion, the front surface pressurizing the peripheral portion of the digitizer, the opening region formed at a location corresponding to the display region of the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: An improved touch panel with polarizer, a flat panel display with touch panel, and a laminating method. The improvement having an adhesive layer, provided on an upper base of the polarizer in order to manufacture a laminate structure; or dot spacers formed between transparent conductive films are formed so that substrates can be laminated to each other. The touch panel with polarizer includes: dot spacers between transparent conductive films so that substrates can be laminated to each other; the polarizer bonded to a lower sheet has an adhesive layer bonded to the touch panel causing the polarizer to be integrated with the panel, and another adhesive layer causing the polarizer to be bonded to the liquid crystal display; and the other polarizer is bonded to the liquid crystal display. A touch panel is bonded together, and a polarizer is bonded to the panel, and the liquid crystal display is bonded to an adhesive layer on the polarizer.

Abstract: An apparatus for locating a point physically touched and producing an electrical signal corresponding to the location includes an insulating substrate; a resistor touch pattern supported on the insulating substrate; and a protective insulating plate arranged over the resistive touch pattern. The resistive touch pattern has a plurality of strip resistors parallel to a center line; a plurality of linear resistors connected to the strip resistors, the resistance of the linear resistors decreasing with distance from the center line; first and third terminals positioned on an intermediate point of alternate edges of the touch pattern; and second and fourth terminals, positioned on an intermediate point of other alternate edges of the touch pattern. The resistive value of the linear resistors selected for a corresponding strip resistor so as to produce equal potential at a corresponding selected point on all said strip resistors.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device having a digitizer. A liquid crystal panel is supported by a lower frame having a side wall portion. A digitizer is located on the liquid crystal panel. An upper frame having a front surface with an opening region and a side wall portion is located over the digitizer such that the tipper frame pressurizes a peripheral portion of the digitizer. The opening region is formed at a location corresponding to the display region of the liquid crystal panel. The upper and lower frames mate to hold the liquid crystal panel and the digitizer in place. The upper frame is beneficially metallic to provide electrical shielding of conductors on the digitizer. Common electrical circuits are shared by the digitizer and the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: Compositions and methods have been discovered for inhibiting corrosion of metals, particularly iron alloys, in contact with fluids, either hydrocarbons, alcohols, or aqueous fluids, employing mercaptoalcohols. The mercaptoalcohols should have at least one water solubilizing hydroxyl group. In particular, suitable mercaptoalcohols have the formula: (HS)n—R—)(OH)m where R is a straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkylene, arylene, alkylarylene, arylalkylene, or hydrocarbon moiety having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms; n and m each independently averages from 1 to 3; and the heteroatom in the heterocyclic moiety substituent, if present, may be N, O, S and/or P. Preferred mercaptoalcohols include 2-mercaptoethanol, 2-mercaptopropanol, 1-mercapto-2-propanol, and 2-mercaptobutanol, in part because they are soluble in many fluids. These corrosion inhibitors show improved inhibition of both generalized and localized corrosion, specifically in high shear and high flow environments.

Abstract: Process steps for bonding substrates of a touch panel. Steps include forming an insulator layer around a flexible printed cable (FPC) contact formed on electrodes, forming a low resistive metal layer, to which the FPC is attached, on the insulator layer, forming dot spacers out of insulating material within the active area. Next, connecting the FPC with a band region formed by the insulator layer and the low resistive metal layer after the insulator layer, the low resistive metal layer and the dot spacers have been formed. Finally, bonding the substrates for reading an X coordinate and for reading a Y coordinate after connection between the insulator layer, the low resistive metal layer, the dot spacers and the FPC.

Abstract: A contact structure of a touch panel having X-axis (Y-axis) potential compensating electrodes arranged along peripheries of the conductive film of a substrate; a FPC contact for another substrate constructed on an electrode arrangement defined by electrodes; the electrodes arranged along outermost peripheries of the transparent conductive film of the another substrate; and another FPC contact for the another substrate constructed on the electrode arrangement defined by the electrodes arranged on the film of the another substrate.

Abstract: Non-polymeric drag reducing agents in the form of maleated fatty acids and the esters thereof and the organic, inorganic or amine salts thereof are described herein. These additives are useful to reduce drag in hydrocarbon fluids and multi-phase fluids of hydrocarbon(s) and water. No injection probes or other special equipment is expected to be required to introduce the drag reducing agent into the liquid stream, nor is grinding (cryogenic or otherwise) of the additive necessary to form a suitable drag reducing agent. The drag reducing additives of the invention are not subject to shear degradation and do not cause undesirable changes in the emulsion or fluid quality of the fluid being treated, or undesirable foaming.

Abstract: An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes first and second opposed substrates having inner surfaces in which a liquid crystal layer formed therebetween, a data bus line and a gate bus line arranged perpendicularly and/or horizontally in a matrix on the first substrate thereby defining a unit pixel region, and a pair of data electrode and common electrode applying a plane electric field in the liquid crystal layer, the electrodes being inclined with respect to the data bus line and parallel to each other.

Abstract: An improved touch panel with polarizer, a flat panel display with touch panel, and a laminating method. The improvement having an adhesive layer, provided on an upper base of the polarizer in order to manufacture a laminate structure; or dot spacers formed between transparent conductive films are formed so that substrates can be laminated to each other. The touch panel with polarizer includes: dot spacers between transparent conductive films so that substrates can be laminated to each other; the polarizer bonded to a lower sheet has an adhesive layer bonded to the touch panel causing the polarizer to be integrated with the panel, and another adhesive layer causing the polarizer to be bonded to the liquid crystal display; and the other polarizer is bonded to the liquid crystal display. A touch panel is bonded together, and a polarizer is bonded to the panel, and the liquid crystal display is bonded to an adhesive layer on the polarizer.

Abstract: Compositions and methods have been discovered for inhibiting corrosion of metals, particularly iron alloys, in contact with fluids, either hydrocarbons, alcohols, or aqueous fluids, employing mercaptoalcohols. The mercaptoalcohols should have at least one water solubilizing hydroxyl group.

Abstract: A contact structure of a touch panel having X-axis (Y-axis) potential compensating electrodes arranged along peripheries of the conductive film of a substrate; a FPC contact for another substrate constructed on an electrode arrangement defined by electrodes; the electrodes arranged along outermost peripheries of the transparent conductive film of the another substrate; and another FPC contact for the another substrate constructed on the electrode arrangement defined by the electrodes arranged on the film of the another substrate.

Abstract: A contact structure of a touch panel having X-axis (Y-axis) potential compensating electrodes arranged along peripheries of the conductive film of a substrate; a FPC contact for another substrate constructed on an electrode arrangement defined by electrodes; the electrodes arranged along outermost peripheries of the transparent conductive film of the another substrate; and another FPC contact for the another substrate constructed on the electrode arrangement defined by the electrodes arranged on the film of the another substrate.