Provided are an organic thin film transistor, a flat panel display device and methods of manufacturing these. The organic thin film transistor includes: source and drain electrodes and an organic semiconductor layer formed on a surface of a substrate; a gate electrode insulated from the source and drain electrodes and the organic semiconductor layer; wherein a thickness of at least a portion of th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shredder throat safe system with regard to a shredder which destroys articles such as books and CD's.

SOLUTION: A configuration provided with various devices which detect the intrusion of undesired objects such as human fingers or hands to its feed opening or a potential intrusion thereto is provided.

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rack-and-pinion type steering device capable of omitting the provision of a coil spring and accordingly eliminating noise emission resulting from a permanent set in fatigue of a coil spring, and of setting to the optimum resilient pressing force easily at all times.

SOLUTION: The rack-and-pinion type steering device 1 is equipped with a gear case 3 made of...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sub-frame mechanism of a new structure capable of simply sensing the external force acting on a vehicle wheel accurately and quickly and provide a vibrationproof device for a sub-frame able to be adopted to the sub-frame mechanism.

SOLUTION: The arrangement according to this invention is equipped with the sub-frame 12 to constitute the sub-frame mechanism ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily release a deceleration control mode with a simple operation and restrain a variation in braking force at the time of the releasing.

SOLUTION: It is possible to shift to a deceleration control mode by the operation of a deceleration setting means of a steering column even if a shift lever is kept to be at a "D" position. The deceleration control mode is releas...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a driver from feeling something wrong in case that a shock occurs at the beginning of deceleration control or an adequate deceleration is not obtained when a plurality of operations are simultaneously carried out for deceleration control.

SOLUTION: When an operation to set a shift lever to a deceleration control mode by moving the shift lever to an "E" posit...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming device miniaturizing a pushing-up member and reducing the number of parts.

SOLUTION: In this image forming device (heat transfer printer), the pushing-up member 9, shaft parts 9c and 9d, and turning shaft parts 9a and 9b including coming-off prevention parts 9e and 9f for preventing the pushing-up member 9 from coming off in the upward direc...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a mercaptorganyl(alkoxysilane) in high conversion through reductively splitting the corresponding bis(alkoxysilylorganyl) polysulfide without using any further antipoisening reagent such as water, an alcohol or hydrogen sulfide for a necessary metal catalyst.

SOLUTION: The method for producing the mercaptorganyl(alkoxysilane) comprises...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a mercaptorganyl(alkoxysilane) in high conversion through reductively splitting the corresponding bis(alkoxysilylorganyl) polysulfide without using any further antipoisening reagent such as water, an alcohol or hydrogen sulfide for a necessary metal catalyst.

SOLUTION: The method for producing the mercaptorganyl(alkoxysilane) comprises...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly output required power to a drive shaft even when output decrease occurs in a power storage device such as a secondary battery.

SOLUTION: When the battery is not in a condition within an allowable input and output range, a target rotation speed Ne* and target torque Te* are set by using an operation line for the time of battery restriction along which rotatio...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular control device capable of restraining a shock, when the next shift request is generated in the middle, by controlling torque of a prime mover when shifting by a continuously variable transmission.

SOLUTION: This vehicular control device is equipped with the continuously variable transmission for changing the torque of the prime mover when shiftin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gear shifting control device for a vehicle such as a motor cycle capable of smooth gear shifting operation while eliminating clutch operation.

SOLUTION: This device is provided with a control unit smoothly changing output of an engine by determining shift operation start timing based on detection signal of the sift operation detector and controlling quanti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make both compatible in improving acceleration responsiveness and preventing a shift shock in shifting.

SOLUTION: This power train reduces output torque of a prime mover by reducing a suction air quantity when reducing the gear ratio; and has a standard torque calculating means S2 for predetermining standard torque from throttle opening and a rotating speed of the p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a parking lock control unit of a hybrid vehicle which can eliminate a parking lock mechanism which restricts the layout and increases the cost, by fulfilling a parking lock function by using a fastening element constituting a driving force combination transmission when selecting a park range.

SOLUTION: In the hybrid vehicle including a drive source comprisin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hydraulic circuit of an automatic transmission capable of obtaining sufficient centrifugal cancel effect.

SOLUTION: In this automatic transmission comprising a friction transmitting mechanism for transmitting rotating power by frictional force generated in accompany with hydraulic control in a cylinder chamber, and a centrifugal cancel chamber for cancelin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the degradation with time of a light emitting element by a new method.

SOLUTION: A light emitting device has a control transistor which is connected to a monitoring element, and an inverter an output terminal of which is connected to a gate electrode of the control transistor and an input terminal of which is connected to one electrode of the control transisto...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a semiconductor device and its fabrication process in which stripping is suppressed in device forming process.

SOLUTION: In the process for fabricating a semiconductor device, a semiconductor substrate 101 having an isolation region 103 and a semiconductor region 102 entirely covering the isolation region 103 is prepared, one or a plurality of circuit element...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device capable of stabilizing operation without oscillation and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device.

SOLUTION: A plurality of transistors are adjacently arranged on a semiconductor substrate 21, the gates 22 of these transistors are connected in common by a gate bar 22a, a source wiring 24 is formed on these transistors for co...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To further surely engage gears of a parking lock mechanism 90, and to shorten a distance between a vehicle and a stopping position when engaging the gears.

SOLUTION: The gears of the parking lock mechanism 90 are engaged with one another during a parking gear 92 is rotated by an amount of half engagement in a vehicle back-going direction, or during the parking gear 92 ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control the occurrence of shock or shaking to a vehicle when an internal combustion engine is started.

SOLUTION: When a start of an engine 22 is demanded in a stop state, a position where rotational movement becomes least is set as a locking position, based on the rotational position of the rotor of a motor MG2 as a three-phase AC synchronous motor connected to a ri...