Abstract: Base coat as an example of a resin composition for a cosmetic is a resin composition for a cosmetic used in a cosmetic to be adhered to nail as a part of living body. The resin composition for a cosmetic includes a stimulus-responsive material that undergoes a volume change by external stimuli, the external stimuli excluding both an external stimulus due to contact with a solvent and an external stimulus due to contact with a solution, and a solidified matter of the resin composition for a cosmetic has a surface with a water contact angle between 30° and 110° (inclusive). The solidified matter of the resin composition for a cosmetic undergoes the volume change by application of the external stimuli to reduce strength of adhesion to the part of living body.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head comprising: a head body that ejects liquid droplets from a liquid ejecting surface; a wiring substrate electrically connected to the head body; a holder member to which the head bodies are fixed, and that includes a flow channel to the head bodies, and a wiring through hole through which the wiring substrate passes; a circuit substrate that includes a connection portion electrically connected to the wiring substrate, and a substrate that arranges the connection portion on both surfaces thereof and stands in a direction intersecting the liquid ejecting surface; a set of a first correction plate facing each other with respect to each of both surfaces of the substrate of the circuit substrate for correcting the holder member; and a cover member that accommodates the circuit substrate fixed to the holder member and the first correction plate.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head comprising: a head body that ejects liquid droplets from a liquid ejecting surface; a wiring substrate electrically connected to the head body; a holder member to which the head bodies are fixed, and that includes a flow channel to the head bodies, and a wiring through hole through which the wiring substrate passes; a circuit substrate that includes a connection portion electrically connected to the wiring substrate, and a substrate that arranges the connection portion on both surfaces thereof and stands in a direction intersecting the liquid ejecting surface; a set of a first correction plate facing each other with respect to each of both surfaces of the substrate of the circuit substrate for correcting the holder member; and a cover member that accommodates the circuit substrate fixed to the holder member and the first correction plate.

Abstract: A flow path unit having a liquid flow path through which liquid flows includes a first flow path substrate that forms a flow path wall of the liquid flow path, a second flow path substrate that forms a flow path wall of the liquid flow path, and a coating film that is provided on an area from a coating portion for coating the flow path wall of the first flow path substrate to a fixing portion for fixing the first flow path substrate and the second flow path substrate. Provided are the flow path unit in which the liquid flow path is coated with the coating film without inhibiting fixing of the substrates, a liquid ejecting head, a liquid ejecting apparatus, and a flow path unit manufacturing method.

Abstract: A flow path unit having a liquid flow path through which liquid flows includes a first flow path substrate that forms a flow path wall of the liquid flow path, a second flow path substrate that forms a flow path wall of the liquid flow path, and a coating film that is provided on an area from a coating portion for coating the flow path wall of the first flow path substrate to a fixing portion for fixing the first flow path substrate and the second flow path substrate. Provided are the flow path unit in which the liquid flow path is coated with the coating film without inhibiting fixing of the substrates, a liquid ejecting head, a liquid ejecting apparatus, and a flow path unit manufacturing method.

Abstract: An electrophoretic display includes a first substrate, a second substrate, an electrophoretic element interposed therebetween, a plurality of scanning lines on an electrophoretic element side surface of the first substrate, a plurality of data lines extending in the crosswise directions of the plurality of scanning lines on the electrophoretic element side surface of the first substrate, a selection transistor connected to one of the scanning lines and one of the data lines, a pixel electrode connected to the selection transistor, and a capacitor with two electrodes, one of the electrode thereof being connected to the selection transistor and the pixel electrode, and the other electrode thereof being connected to one of the scanning lines, wherein a plurality of pixel electrodes are arranged so that a dot density thereof is more than or equal to 200 dpi.

Abstract: There is provided a method of driving an electrophoretic display device including a display unit that has a plurality of pixels and an electrophoretic element disposed between substrates forming one pair. The method includes setting an area that at least includes a pixel forming an image component that is formed to have a first gray scale and a pixel that is disposed to be adjacent to the pixel forming the contour of the image component and represents a second gray scale as an image removing area and selectively changing the pixels that constitute the image removing area to have the second gray scale.

Abstract: A control method for controlling an electro-optical device is disclosed. When an image in a display section is rewritten from a first image to a second image, a drive section is controlled such that voltage corresponding to the first gray level is applied to a first pixel whose gray level to be displayed changes from a second gray level to a first gray level, voltage corresponding to the first gray level is applied to a second pixel having two or more sides adjacent to pixels displayed in the second gray level when the first image is displayed, among pixels whose gray level to be displayed does not change and remains in the first gray level, and voltage is not applied to a third pixel, other than the second pixel, among the pixels whose gray level to be displayed does not change and remains in the first gray level.

Abstract: An electro-optic device includes spaced apart pixel electrodes in respective unit areas arranged in a plane defined by dividing the plane into common shapes without gaps, and an electro-optic layer facing the pixel electrodes. In response to an applied first electric potential to the pixel electrodes, the electro-optic layer expresses a first grayscale, and in response to an applied second electric potential, it expresses a second grayscale. The distance between adjacent pixel electrodes is selected so that a boundary between an area expressing the first grayscale and an area expressing the second grayscale is substantially identical to a boundary between the unit area provided with one of the adjacent pixel electrodes and the unit area provided with another of the adjacent pixel electrodes.

Abstract: An electrophoretic display includes a first substrate, a second substrate, an electrophoretic element interposed therebetween, a plurality of scanning lines on an electrophoretic element side surface of the first substrate, a plurality of data lines extending in the crosswise directions of the plurality of scanning lines on the electrophoretic element side surface of the first substrate, a selection transistor connected to one of the scanning lines and one of the data lines, a pixel electrode connected to the selection transistor, and a capacitor with two electrodes, one of the electrode thereof being connected to the selection transistor and the pixel electrode, and the other electrode thereof being connected to one of the scanning lines, wherein a plurality of pixel electrodes are arranged so that a dot density thereof is more than or equal to 200 dpi.

Abstract: An electrophoretic display device including: a first substrate; a second substrate that is disposed so as to face the first substrate; an electrophoretic device that is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a plurality of first electrodes that are formed so as to overlie the electrophoretic device side of the first substrate; and a second electrode that is formed on the electrophoretic device side of the second substrate so as to face the plurality of the first electrodes. The second electrode has light reflectivity.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a thin-film device includes forming a separation layer on a substrate, forming a base insulating layer on the separation layer, forming a thin-film device layer on the base insulating layer, bonding a transfer layer including the base insulating layer and the thin-film device layer to a transfer body with an adhesive, causing intralayer delamination or interfacial delamination in the separation layer, and removing the transfer layer from the substrate. The thin-film device layer includes a first wiring sublayer which is located at the bottom of the thin-film device layer and which is in contact with the base insulating layer, a dielectric sublayer which is in contact with a surface of the first wiring sublayer, a semiconductor sublayer electrically insulated from the first wiring sublayer with the dielectric sublayer, and a second wiring sublayer formed subsequently to the semiconductor sublayer.

Abstract: A display device for an active matrix drive includes a plurality of pixels each having display retainability and including a first sub-pixel through an nth sub-pixel (n is a natural number greater than 1), a selection switching element provided correspondingly to each of the sub-pixels, connected to a data line, and for selecting the corresponding sub-pixel, and an external input switch provided correspondingly to each of the sub-pixels, connected to a selection line, and for supplying a signal from the selection line to the corresponding sub-pixel in response to an input operation from the outside. The selection line includes n kinds of selection lines, from a first selection line connected to the first sub-pixel to an nth selection line connected to the nth sub-pixel, and the n kinds of selection lines are connected to selection switches for one of selecting the selection lines individually and selecting two or more of the selection lines in a lump.

Abstract: An electro-optical apparatus includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels, a plurality of pixel electrodes, each of the plurality of pixel electrodes being provided for the pixel, a common electrode facing the plurality of pixel electrodes, an electro-optical layer disposed between the plurality of pixel electrodes and the common electrode, a plurality of holding capacitors, each of the plurality of holding capacitors being provided for the pixel, a capacitance line connected to the electrode of the holding capacitor, and a control unit that controls the potentials of the plurality of pixel electrodes, the common electrode, and the capacitance line.

Abstract: In an electrophoretic display device sandwiching an electrophoretic material between a first substrate and a second substrate, a plurality of pixels are formed on the first substrate; each pixel is composed of n subpixels (n being an integer of 2 or more); and the n subpixels contain at least one pair of adjoining subpixels that cannot be divided by a straight line.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a thin film device which includes a thin film body and a substrate supporting the thin film body including forming a thin film body on a first substrate; bonding the thin film body to a second substrate; and transferring the thin film body onto the second substrate by detaching the first substrate from the thin film body. In the method, the thin film body has a plurality of corners in a top view and at least one corner of the plurality of corners is chamfered, and the first substrate is peeled off from a portion where the one corner contacts therewith, in the transferring of the thin film body.

Abstract: There is provided a method of driving an electrophoretic display device including a display unit that has a plurality of pixels and an electrophoretic element disposed between substrates forming one pair. The method includes setting an area that at least includes a pixel forming an image component that is formed to have a first gray scale and a pixel that is disposed to be adjacent to the pixel forming the contour of the image component and represents a second gray scale as an image removing area and selectively changing the pixels that constitute the image removing area to have the second gray scale.

Abstract: An electro-optic device includes spaced apart pixel electrodes in respective unit areas arranged in a plane defined by dividing the plane into common shapes without gaps, and an electro-optic layer facing the pixel electrodes. In response to an applied first electric potential to the pixel electrodes, the electro-optic layer expresses a first grayscale, and in response to an applied second electric potential, it expresses a second grayscale. The distance between adjacent pixel electrodes is selected so that a boundary between an area expressing the first grayscale and an area expressing the second grayscale is substantially identical to a boundary between the unit area provided with one of the adjacent pixel electrodes and the unit area provided with another of the adjacent pixel electrodes.

Abstract: A display device of active matrix driving type has a plurality of pixel regions arranged in a plane, each of the pixel regions including a selection switching element that controllably switches a supply of a signal to the each of the pixel regions, a pressure sensitive switching element that controllably switches a supply of a signal to the each of the pixel regions in response to an input of an external pressure, and a retention capacitance that retains a signal supplied to the each of the pixel regions, wherein the pressure sensitive switching element includes a semiconductor layer having a channel region, and a piezoelectric film laminated on the channel region, and the retention capacitance includes a pair of capacitance electrodes and a ferroelectric film sandwiched between the pair of capacitance electrodes.

Abstract: An electro-optic device includes spaced apart pixel electrodes in respective unit areas arranged in a plane defined by dividing the plane into common shapes without gaps, and an electro-optic layer facing the pixel electrodes. In response to an applied first electric potential to the pixel electrodes, the electro-optic layer expresses a first grayscale, and in response to an applied second electric potential, it expresses a second grayscale. The distance between adjacent pixel electrodes is selected so that a boundary between an area expressing the first grayscale and an area expressing the second grayscale is substantially identical to a boundary between the unit area provided with one of the adjacent pixel electrodes and the unit area provided with another of the adjacent pixel electrodes.