Disclosed is a panel reversing apparatus which reverses a panel, the panel reversing apparatus including: a panel support unit which supports the panel; and a rotating unit which rotates the panel support unit so as to reverse a direction, in which one surface of the panel supported by the panel support unit faces, and a direction, in which the other surface of the panel faces, in which the panel support unit includes a single surface contact unit which is in contact with only one surface between the one surface and the other surface of the panel.

An optical forming device includes a resin tank that holds a photocurable resin, a light source that emits light for curing the photocurable resin, and an optical modulator. The optical modulator includes a liquid crystal, a first substrate and a second substrate that sandwich the liquid crystal, and a first electrode and a second electrode that apply voltage to the liquid crystal. The optical modulator modulates, in a pattern based on the shape of a three-dimensional shaped object, light that causes the photocurable resin to cure, and irradiates the modulated light on the photocurable resin. The optical modulator includes a plurality of modulation regions including a first region and a second region that have mutually different voltage transmittance characteristics.

Provided is a jig having a structure that differs from conventional jigs and enables flat plates to be bonded while suppressing an air bubble formation. A flat-plate bonding jig is provided with the following: a first surface; a second surface that is on the opposite side of the first surface, has a plurality of suction holes for sucking a flat-plate, and is curved outward in a substantially arc shape; a main body connecting the first surface and the second surface; and a communication means that is disposed in the main body and allows the suction holes to communicate with a suction means.

Provided are a method for manufacturing a PDLC membrane electrode, a negative pressure platform, and a PDLC membrane. The method for manufacturing a PDLC membrane electrode includes the following steps: placing a PDLC membrane on a negative pressure platform with a side to be processed facing upwards, and making a liquid crystal activation area of the side to be processed of the PDLC membrane coincide with a transparent area of the negative pressure platform, and other area coincides with a main body area of the negative pressure platform; activating a liquid crystal layer of the PDLC membrane; cutting and tearing off, according to a half-cut area, a PET layer and an electric conduction layer located on the liquid crystal layer, and sweeping or tearing off the activated liquid crystal layer together to expose the electric conduction layer below the liquid crystal layer to form a corresponding electrode.

A protective film includes a panel protective film, a first protective film disposed on a surface of the panel protective film and covering the surface of the panel protective film, the first protective film having a surface and an opposite surface facing the panel protective film, and a second protective film disposed on an opposite surface of the panel protective film and covering the opposite surface of the panel protective film, the second protective film having a surface facing the panel protective film and an opposite surface opposed to the surface of the second protective film, wherein the first protective film includes a first film layer, a first adhesive layer disposed on the opposite surface of the first film layer, and a blocking layer disposed on an opposite surface of the first adhesive layer along an edge of the first adhesive layer.

In the step of curing a resin for bonding a TFT substrate and a counter substrate each having an alignment film that has been optically aligned by using UV-light, damage to the alignment film due to the UV-light can be prevented without using a light shielding mask. A UV-light absorption layer is formed between each black matrix on the counter substrate. The TFT and counter substrates are sealed at their periphery by a resin that is cured by UV-light radiated from the counter substrate side. Since the absorption layer has a high absorbability to UV-light at a wavelength of 300 nm or less that degrades the alignment film, damage to the alignment film due to the UV-light for curing the resin can be prevented. Thus, provision of a light shielding mask for shielding the UV-light for the display region can be saved.

Provided is an etching delay element for forming a protruding portion at an object by shielding part of the object against etching, the etching delay element being attached to a non-etching section of the object corresponding to the protruding portion and being made of a material that is etchable by an etchant.

A method of manufacturing a mounting substrate includes a provisional pressing process, a driver pressing process, and a flexible printed circuit board pressing process. In the provisional pressing process, a driver 40 and a flexible printed circuit board are provisionally pressed. In the driver pressing process, the driver 40 is thermally pressed with using a pressing head 52 having a driver pressing surface 53 and a flexible printed circuit board pressing surface 54, and pressure force is applied to the driver 40 with elastically deforming a buffer 57. In the flexible printed circuit board pressing process, the pressing head 52 is moved closer to the glass substrate GS such that a height level of the flexible printed circuit board pressing surface 54 with respect to a mounting surface 21 and a height level of the driver pressing surface 53 with respect to the mounting surface 21 are same and pressure force is applied to the flexible printed circuit board 30 with elastically deforming the buffer 57.

Provided is a system for continuously manufacturing an optical display device includes: a feeding unit which transfers and feeds an optical film, wherein the optical film includes a release film which is extended in a longitudinal direction, and a plurality of sheet pieces of a polarization film which is arranged in a longitudinal direction and includes an adhesive layer, wherein the sheet pieces of a polarization film is adhered to the release film through the adhesive layer so that the sheet piece of the polarization film is peeled from the release film; a peeling unit which peels the sheet pieces of the polarization film from the release film by folding back inwardly the release film of the optical films fed by the feeding unit; a winding unit which winds the release film from which the sheet piece of the polarization film is peeled by the peeling unit; a laminating unit which laminates on the panel the sheet piece of the polarization film peeled from the release film, while transferring the panel; and a control unit which controls at least one of the feeding unit, the winding unit, and the laminating unit so that the peeling point where the sheet piece of the polarization film is peeled from the release film is formed at a target peeling position spaced apart from the front end of the peeling unit by a predetermined distance toward the laminating unit, and a rear end of a first sheet piece and a front end of a second sheet piece which are connected to each other by adhesion of the adhesive layer are spaced apart and separated from each other between a complete peeling time when the first sheet piece is completely peeled from the release film and a laminating completion time when the first sheet piece is completely laminated, wherein the first piece and the second piece of the polarization film are adjacent to each other with the first sheet piece positioned downstream in a feeding direction.

An adaptive backlight module and a method and system for producing an adaptive backlight module are described herein. In one example, an adaptive backlight module includes a light source, a polarizer, at least one enhancement film disposed between the light source and the polarizer, and a diffuser disposed between the light source and the enhancement film. The diffuser includes a first electrode coupled to a first substrate and a second electrode coupled to a second substrate. A liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode of the diffuser.