Abstract: A liquid crystal display pixel structure and a method for manufacturing the structure are provided. An additional conductive layer (i.e. a third conductive layer) is provided to electrically connect a second patterned conductive layer, a control device, and a capacitance device at a control area and a capacitance area of the substrate. A half-tone mask is utilized in the manufacturing processes to simultaneously define the patterns of the third conductive layer and a transparent conductive layer. Thus, the photolithography processes can be economized to reduce manufacturing costs while increasing capacity.

Abstract: A dual side display includes reflection and transmission pixels for displaying an image on both sides of the display. A reflection film provided in a reflection pixel region is extended up to a transmission storage capacitor formation region of a transmission pixel such that the aperture ratio of the reflection pixel is enhanced. An upper storage electrode connected to a transmission storage line is formed between the reflection film and a lower storage electrode of the transmission storage capacitor to prevent a coupling phenomenon between the reflection film and the lower storage electrode and a resulting signal distortion.

Abstract: A control circuit equipped with electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection includes a plurality of shift registers, a plurality of buses coupled to the plurality of shift registers, a common line, a set of ESD protection components coupled to a set of the plurality of the buses for protecting the plurality of buses from ESD events; and a set of current paths coupled between the set of the ESD protection components and the common line for providing the ESD current paths to pass through.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate including a substrate, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of independent common line patterns, and a plurality of pixels is provided. The scan lines, data lines, and common line patterns are disposed on the substrate. The pixels are arranged in array on the substrate, wherein each pixel is electrically connected to corresponding scan line and data line, and the common line patterns are distributed under each pixel. Each pixel includes a plurality of active components and a plurality of pixel electrodes. Each of the pixel electrodes is electrically connected to corresponding scan line and data line through different active components. The capacitance coupling effect between each of the pixel electrodes and common line patterns are different. Additionally, an inspection method for the active matrix substrate and a liquid crystal display having the active matrix substrate are further provided.

Abstract: A light sensitive display.

Abstract: The present invention provides a new technique, in which direct drawing of ink jet is used and a gap between a source electrode and a drain electrode is narrowed down to 4 ?m or less without increasing the number of processes. According to this technique, a conductive layer SD1A and a conductive layer SD2A arranged at opposed positions with a first gap are prepared by direct drawing of ink jet on upper layer of a silicon semiconductor layer SI by forming a source electrode SD1 and a drain electrode SD2 on a thin-film transistor, and by a laminating layer of the transparent conductive films SD1 and SD2 with a second gap, which is narrower than the first gap between the opposed ends of the conductive layers, to cover the upper layer of said first layer and the opposed ends of the conductive layers arranged at opposed positions.

Abstract: A color backlight device and fabrication method thereof is provided. A surface conduction emitter display with more than one color serves as the color backlight device. The color backlight device can be used in a liquid crystal display (LCD) to obviate the use of a color filter. The invention also provides a color display control method of the LCD and a pixel arrangement method of the color backlight device.

Abstract: A backlight unit of a liquid crystal display for arranging a wire for supplying a driving current connected to a common electrode to be penetrated a piece provided at the inside portion is disclosed. In the backlight unit of the liquid crystal display, a cover bottom includes an accepting space to which the reflection sheet is attached. A first and a second side bottoms are arranged within the accepting space of the cover bottom, and are located to be symmetrical with both sides of the reflection sheet. A first and second common electrodes are commonly connected to both side ends of the plurality of lamps. A first piece is located between the lamps, and is formed to penetrate the first side bottom and the cover bottom. And wherein, a first wire for supplying a driving current connected to the first common electrode is arranged to penetrate the first common electrode.

Abstract: A backlight unit and a liquid crystal display device having the same are disclosed. The backlight unit includes a light source, a light guide plate guiding light emitted from the light source, an optical sheet arranged on the light guide plate, a mold frame receiving the light guide plate and the optical sheet, a printed circuit board (“PCB”) outlet in the mold frame, a printed circuit board (“PCB”) received in the PCB outlet, and a PCB adhesive sheet for adhering the PCB to the mold frame.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is disclosed. The liquid crystal display comprises: a liquid crystal panel; a bottom cover disposed on the back surface of the liquid crystal panel and mounting and supporting the liquid crystal panel; a printed circuit board disposed on the back surface of the bottom cover; and a cover shield fastened to the bottom cover and the printed circuit board so as to cover the printed circuit board and comprising at least two depressed portions at a fastening portion fastened to the bottom cover and the printed circuit board.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display module which can prevent an external force from ill-affecting the display even when the external force is applied to the liquid crystal display module. In the liquid crystal display module according to the invention which includes a liquid crystal display panel, a light guide plate and a mold which are arranged on a back surface of the liquid crystal display panel, a metal-made lower frame which is arranged on a light-guide-plate-and-mold side, and a metal-made upper frame which is arranged on a liquid-crystal-display-panel side, a thickness of the lower frame is set larger than a thickness of the upper frame. The thickness of the lower frame is preferably set 1.33 times or more and 2.66 times or less as large as the thickness of the upper frame.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display module, a circuit board, and a shield case. The circuit board is mounted on the liquid crystal display module and has a socket for receiving a power supply plug. The shield case includes an offset portion on a rear part to contain the circuit board. An opening formed with holding members for securing the socket is provided at the offset portion.

Abstract: Provided is a photoluminescence liquid crystal display (LCD) using a light source emitting polarized light. The photoluminescence LCD may include a light source emitting polarized light, a light control unit including a liquid crystal layer having a plurality of pixel regions and modulating a polarization direction of the polarized light individually with respect to each of the pixel regions, a polarizer transmitting the modulated light only when the polarized light has a polarization direction, and a photoluminescence layer excited by the light transmitted through the polarizer and emitting excitation light by photoluminescence. Accordingly, an additional polarizer may not be on a rear surface of the light control unit, so that photoluminescence LCD may have a simpler structure and increased light use efficiency.

Abstract: A display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a light guiding plate disposed behind the liquid crystal display panel, a light source unit disposed at a side of the light guiding plate, and a light source cover encompassing the light source unit for reflecting light from the light source unit to the light guiding plate, and including a plate in which a plurality of heat pipe are formed.

Abstract: An exemplary backlight module (20) includes a light guide plate (250) including a light incident surface (251), a frame (280) accommodating the light guide plate and including a side wall (281), light emitting units (270) adjacent to the light incident surface of the light guide plate, and elastic members (240). The elastic members are detachably engaged with the side wall of the frame. Each elastic member is configured to elastically urge a corresponding light emitting unit such that the light emitting unit abuts the light incident surface of the light guide plate. In other examples, each elastic member elastically urges the side wall of the frame, or elastically urges the light guide plate. A liquid crystal display device using the backlight module is also provided.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes an upper cover comprising a display window, a liquid crystal panel provided behind the upper cover, a light guide plate provided behind the liquid crystal panel, a light source unit provided along a side of the light guide plate, and a light source cover which comprises a reflection unit that is joined to the upper cover and reflects light emitted from the light source unit to the light guide, and a support unit that extends from a side of the reflection unit to a rear of the light guide plate.

Abstract: A transflective display device (1), comprising: an array of transmissive pixels (4) and reflective pixels (12) arranged such that at least one characteristic of an image is different for the image displayed in transmissive mode compared to the image displayed in reflective mode, for example different resolution, or one mode colour and the other mode monochrome, and arranged to switch off a backlight (190) that provides illumination for the transmissive mode responsive to the ambient light level (304) exceeding a threshold level (316). The device may further, or alternatively, be arranged to drive the reflective pixels (12) in an all-black state responsive to the ambient light level (304) falling below the threshold (316). An additional threshold (318) may be used to provide a hysteresis loop (320-321).

Abstract: An LCD module including a plurality of LCD panels arranged in an array and a backlight unit is provided. Each of the LCD panels has a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area, and the non-display area of each LCD panel is overlapped with the non-display areas of the adjacent LCD panels. The backlight unit is disposed under the LCD panels.

Abstract: A novel method of producing an optical film is disclosed. The method comprises steps (1) to (3) in this order: (1) preparing, on a surface of an alignment film, a layer of a polymerizable composition comprising a polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a dichroic polymerization initiator; (2) aligning molecules of said polymerizable liquid crystal compound in said layer in a first alignment state; and (3) irradiating said layer with polarized ultraviolet light to carry out polymerization of said polymerizable liquid crystal compound and fix molecules of said polymerizable liquid crystal compound in a second alignment state thereby to form an optically anisotropic layer, wherein a percentage of polarized ultraviolet light having an extinction ratio ranging from 1 to 8 is not greater than 15% with respect to an energy density of polarized ultraviolet light per unit area (J/cm2).

Abstract: The invention provides a polarizing plate used in a liquid crystal device. The polarizing plate according to an aspect of the invention includes: a polarizing film; and a first protection layer that has a predetermined first optical axis, wherein the first protection layer is disposed either directly or indirectly on one surface of the polarizing film with the first optical axis of the first protection layer being aligned in parallel with a transmission axis of the polarizing film.

Abstract: An optical device includes a plastic-based film and a diffusing layer. The diffusing layer includes inner scattering elements that selectively scatter visible light having a wavelength range, and has pencil hardness of more than 2H under a 500 g-load specified in ISO/DIS 15184. When the optical device is arranged at a front side of a liquid crystal display apparatus that displays color near 8 test colors specified in CIE 1974, as a test color, chrominance ?u?v? of less than 0.05 is obtained based on a chromaticity coordinate (u0?, v0?) of CIE1976UCS observed in the front surface 100A1 of the liquid crystal display apparatus and a chromaticity coordinate (u?, v?) observed at an observation angle of ±60 degrees in horizontal and vertical directions of a screen of the liquid crystal display apparatus when a direction perpendicular to the screen is assumed to be 0 degrees.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device that makes it possible to prevent coating unevenness of a colored layer from occurring. The liquid crystal display device includes a first colored layer, a second colored layer and a third colored layer, which layers are formed in a display area. In the liquid crystal display device, the first colored layer is arranged in a grid pattern in a manner of surrounding the second colored layer and the third colored layer. In addition, when (n, m) denotes the coordinates of a pixel having a grid square formed therein in the display area, grid squares are omitted in at least pixels of (n?1, m?1), (n?1, m+1), (n+1, m?1) and (n+1, m+1).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device improved with the luminance in a reflection portion, including a liquid crystal display panel having a first substrate, a second substrate and liquid crystals put between the first substrate, and the second substrate in which the liquid crystal display panel has a plurality of sub-pixels, the plurality of sub-pixels have, as one basic unit, at least three first to third transmission type sub-pixels and a reflection type sub-pixel, the first to third transmission type sub-pixels and the reflection type sub-pixel are independently driven under control, the first transmission type sub-pixel displays a first color, the second transmission type sub-pixel displays the second color, the third transmission sub-pixel displays a third color, and the reflection type sub-pixel displays a white color.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display apparatus in which a transmission region and a reflection region disposed in parallel. The apparatus includes first and second substrates and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates. The second substrate has at least a counter electrode, an interlayer insulating film and a pixel electrode for forming a fringe field for driving molecules of the liquid crystal. At least one parameter relating to the interlayer insulating film formed on the second substrate is set different between the transmission region side interlayer insulating film and the reflection region side interlayer insulating film so that driving voltages for the transmission and reflection regions are substantially equal to each other.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device in which a plurality of electrodes is provided on one of a plurality of substrates with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween and liquid crystal molecules configuring the liquid crystal layer are driven by an electric field generated between the pair of electrodes, wherein the one substrate has an alignment film which contacts the liquid crystal layer to regulate an alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules and is provided so as to cover at least one of the pair of electrodes, and wherein the thickness of the alignment film is larger than that of at least one of the electrodes contacting the alignment film.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus including a pair of substrates having electrodes and vertical alignment layers. A liquid crystal having a negative anisotropy of dielectric is inserted between the substrates. Each substrate has linearly arranged alignment control structures for controlling the alignment of the liquid crystal. The alignment control structures are formed in the form of projections or slits. Each alignment control structure is formed of a plurality of constituent units. In addition, means for forming a boundary of alignment of liquid crystal (singular point in director field) to control the liquid crystal located on the alignment control structures.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer; a first electrode part; and a second electrode part. The first electrode part includes a pixel electrode formed in the pixel area and a peripheral electrode formed in the peripheral area. The second electrode part includes a pixel electrode part formed in the pixel area and a peripheral electrode formed in the peripheral area. The peripheral electrode of at least one of the first electrode part and the second electrode part is formed by a plurality of electrodes adjacent to each other. Voltage values of driving voltages applied to the respective electrodes adjacent to each other of the peripheral electrode are different from each other.

Abstract: The invention provides an LCD panel with main slits corresponding to alignment protrusions. The gate lines are shielded by the electrode portion and do not overlap the main slits. Because the gate line and the major slits do not overlap, the liquid crystal molecule arrangement of the liquid crystal layer is not affected by the operating voltage of the gate line.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The liquid crystal display has a thin-film transistor (TFT) array substrate, a color filter substrate with a plurality of bumps, and a liquid crystal layer sealed between the TFT array substrate and the color filter substrate. When the sealing process is performed, the bumps are pressed and deformed so that the contact area between the bumps and the TFT array substrate increases.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate; a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines disposed on the first substrate; an insulation layer disposed between the scan line and the data line; a plurality of thin film transistors (TFT), each TFT including a gate, a channel layer, a source, and a drain; a plurality of pixel electrodes; a plurality of retaining wall patterns disposed on the insulation layer and the material thereof is selected from at least one of the source/drain and channel layer; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrate; and a plurality of pillar spacers between the first and second substrate, wherein one end of the pillar spacer is disposed inside the retaining wall pattern.

Abstract: A bonding structure of panel and back-plate is made by coarsening the surface of the rear plane of silicon die, and then the LCoS panel may bond with the back-plate module more tightly. The coarse structure increases contact surface when bonding the back-plate module with the LCoS panel, as a result of increasing stickiness on both and reducing manufacturing process defects caused by position shifting between the back-plate module and LCoS panel, and solving the position problem before the bonding of the LCoS panel with the back-plate module.

Abstract: A substrate on which light emitting diodes (LEDs) of a back light unit is mounted is fixed to a heat sink without using a screw. A groove having an inverse tapered inner side wall is provided in a heat sink, and a substrate on which LEDs are mounted is stored in the groove. When the LEDs are turned on, the substrate expands due to thermal expansion to contact with the side wall of the groove, and can be fixed to the groove without using screws.

Abstract: A transparent display comprising a transmittance control block and a display block is provided. The transparent display transmits an optical image from a front surface to a back surface. The optical image is projected onto the front surface. A first image is displayed on the transparent display and superimposed onto the optical image. The transmittance control block is mounted to the front surface side. The transmittance control block comprises a guest-host liquid crystal layer and transparent electrodes. The transmittance of the light incident to the guest-host liquid crystal layer is able to be adjusted. The guest-host liquid crystal is mounted between the transparent electrodes. The display block is mounted to the back surface side. The display block comprises an organo-electroluminescence device. The first image is displayed on the display block.

Abstract: An imaging lens is provided, whose lens characteristics can be switched between e.g. normal imaging and close-up imaging without requiring mechanically movable mechanism or attachment/removal of another lens. Switching of lens function is realized by combining a liquid crystal diffraction lens and a refractive lens and applying a voltage to a liquid crystal layer of the liquid crystal lens. The liquid crystal lens is constituted by two liquid crystal lenses that are laminated together so that their polarization directions producing lens functions are perpendicular to each other, which suppresses chromatic aberration and achieves good imaging characteristics by appropriately selecting focal lengths and Abbe numbers.

Abstract: An apparatus (200) is provided. The apparatus includes a first eyeglass frame section (204). Further, the apparatus includes a first antenna embedded in the first eyeglass frame section. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a second eyeglass frame section (206). Moreover, the apparatus includes a second antenna embedded in the second eyeglass frame section.

Abstract: A protective device for eyes, for example, goggles of a shield, includes a double lens member, a frame member and a face fixation member. The double lens member includes a front lens, a back lens and a gasket. The front lens and the back lens are made of polycarbonate resins, polyurethane resins, polyester resins or polyamide resins. The front lens and the back lens are disposed in parallel with the gasket therebetween in order to form a space surrounded with the front lens, the back lens and the gasket. This device is excellent in the antifogging property in the double lens.

Abstract: Folding eyeglasses with a multifunction carrying case are disclosed. The folding eyeglasses may be any type of glasses such as reading glasses, sun glasses, and/or prescription glasses. Preferably, the glasses fold at the bridge of the nose and on each temple. Once folded, the glasses may be placed inside the multifunction carrying case. The carrying case includes a retractable pen and/or a light. The pen may be exposed and/or retracted in any suitable manner. For example, the pen may be spring-loaded and a button may be pushed to expose the pen. In such an instance, the pen may be retracted by pushing it back into the carrying case, thereby resetting the spring. The light may use any suitable light source. For example, the light may use one or more white and/or colored light emitting diodes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a light polarizing ophthalmic lens comprising a substrate made of organic glass and an optically transparent composite film deposited on the front main face of the substrate, said transparent composite film comprising a latex layer having an outer main face provided with parallel microgrooves, and a polarizing dye material filling at least partially the said microgrooves. The present invention also relates to a process for the manufacture of the light polarizing ophthalmic lens.

Abstract: Vision training eyewear include lenses having a plurality of obscuration zones. The obscuration zones are individually switchable to provide light emission or attenuation that can interfere with normal vision of the wearer. A pattern or sequence of patterns can be selectively activated at a fixed or variable rate while a trainee is exposed to a test situation.

Abstract: The method comprises the following steps: a centering step during which the optical frame of reference of the lens is acquired and a blocking accessory is fastened thereto; and a step of shaping the lens to have a desired outline. The blocking accessory is fitted with an electronic identification element bearing an identification code, and said identification code of the electronic element is read initially during a first read during the centering step to associate the code in memory with the mounting parameters of the lens that is receiving the blocking accessory, and then during a second read during the shaping step in order to recover the mounting parameters associated with the identification code as read and thus with the lens attached to the blocking accessory.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for imaging within the eye is provided whereby a component of eye position is detected using optical imaging data. Tracking eye position over time and correctly registering imaging data for scan locations or using eye position to detect decentration achieves improved imaging. In one embodiment, essentially perpendicular B-scans are imaged sequentially and the corneal arc within each B-scan is analyzed to determine the vertex of the eye. The eye vertex is tracked over pairs of perpendicular B-scans to determine eye motion. In another embodiment, the decentration in the Pachymetry map is removed by correcting for the misalignment of the center of the Pachymetry map and the actual location of the corneal vertex.

Abstract: A cornea imaging apparatus comprising: an illumination optical system having an illumination source; an imaging optical system having a photoelectric element for receiving a reflected light beam from a cornea of an eye under examination; actuating means for moving the illumination optical system and the imaging optical system in a direction nearer to or further from the eye to bring about focusing; imaging process retracting control means for controlling the actuating means during an imaging operation by the imaging optical system; continuous imaging means for taking multiple images of the cornea at different times and positions by the photoelectric element of the imaging optical system during a retracting operation; and imaging operation control means for controlling imaging operation status of the cornea by the continuous imaging means with reference to a photoreception signal of reflected light from the cornea.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of designing a soft contact lens, the method comprising the steps of: (a) measuring or defining a wavefront generated by passage of light through a selected eye and using the wavefront to generate a computer model of the optical characteristics of the selected eye; (b) measuring or defining the topography of the cornea of the selected eye; (c) incorporating into the computer model a soft contact lens, the posterior surface topography of which is defined by the topography of the cornea, offset by an arbitrary amount intended to represent the tear layer thickness of the selected eye, said lens having a defined thickness at a selected locus on the anterior surface; (d) calculating a desired topography for the anterior surface of the lens such that the wavefront will be corrected to assume a desired pattern (for example, preferably planar, the plane of which is perpendicular to the optical axis of the lens) when passing through the computer model eye/lens combination; (e) remodelling the len

Abstract: An apparatus and method for stereoscopic 3D image projection and viewing using a single projection source, alternating polarization, and passive eyewear. This approach is applicable to frame sequential video created using existing 3D graphics APIs, as well as other video signal formats, and is compatible with existing digital light processor (DLP) technology for both front and rear projection systems. A alternating polarizer filter actuator in the form of a closed feedback loop with pulse width modulated control is used to modulate the projected image. A preferred embodiment enables an existing DLP projection system to be enhanced with 3D capability.

Abstract: In a one-dimensional IP (vertical disparity discarding system), it is made possible to obtain a perspective projection image with no distortion or reduced distortion. A stereoscopic display device is provided with a display device including a display plane in which pixels are arranged flatly in a matrix shape; and a parallax barrier including a plurality of apertures or a plurality of lenses and being configured to control directions of rays from the pixels such that a horizontal disparity is included but a vertical disparity is not included.

Abstract: A projector having an ultrasonic speaker including an ultrasonic transducer for emitting an ultrasonic wave signal to a screen; a distance measuring device for measuring a distance between the ultrasonic transducer and the screen; and an ultrasonic frequency control device for controlling a frequency of the ultrasonic wave signal based on a measured result of the distance measuring device and a sound pressure of the ultrasonic wave signal emitted by the ultrasonic transducer, so that the ultrasonic wave signal has a predetermined sound pressure at or in a vicinity of the screen. The projector may include a storage device for storing a propagation loss characteristic in air of the ultrasonic wave signal emitted from the ultrasonic transducer. The ultrasonic frequency control device controls the frequency of the ultrasonic wave signal by referring to the propagation loss characteristic of the ultrasonic wave signal stored in the storage device.

Abstract: A projection display or modulation optical system includes a spatial light modulator and an inorganic, dielectric grid polarizer. The spatial light modulator selectively encodes image information on a polarized incident light beam and the inorganic, dielectric grid polarizing beam splitter separates the image information from the beam and produces a polarized image bearing light beam. The grid polarizer includes a stack of film layers disposed over a substrate; each film layer being formed of a material that is both inorganic and dielectric; adjacent film layers having different refractive indices; and at least one of the film layers being discontinuous to form a form birefringent layer with an array of parallel ribs with a period less than approximately 260 nm.

Abstract: A microprojector comprising an illumination optical system, including light sources for green, red and blue laser light beams, first through third focusing lenses arranged in the optical path of the light beams, first through third mirrors diverting the light beams to a rear side of the microprojector, a reflection mirror diverting the light beams upward, a unifying unit, and a polarizing beam splitter; an image display panel reflecting the linearly polarized green, red and blue light beams in the opposite direction to the incident direction as well as selectively rotating the polarization of linearly polarized green, red and blue light beams in accordance with an externally input image signal; and a projection optical system having a plurality of lenses linearly arranged to project the light beams, thereby forming an image onto an external surface. The microprojector includes components arranged in such a way that they occupy a relatively small space.

Abstract: An optical element includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a retardation plate made of an inorganic material, having refractive index anisotropy, and having a thin plate like main part to be disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the main part being formed to be thin in comparison with a thickness of the first substrate and a thickness of the second substrate, a first adhesive layer for filling a gap between the first substrate and the retardation plate, and a second adhesive layer for filling a gap between the retardation plate and the second substrate.

Abstract: An openable lid is provided to cover an opening formed in the upper end of a casing of a projection type image display apparatus. Formed on the base of the casing and underneath the opening is a first mount section, on which a plinth is mounted with fixing screws. A prism assembly incorporating at least three liquid crystal panels and three polarization plates for RGB colors integrally attached to a color compounding prism is securely fixed on the plinth. The first mount section is provided with engagement members fixed thereon for temporarily holding the plinth that bears thereon the prism assembly to thereby prevent the plinth from falling downward if the screws are removed to dismount the plinth from the first mount section even when the image display apparatus is installed upside down on a ceiling for example and the lid is open.