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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform stable discharge by suppressing abnormal discharge in a plasma display device. SOLUTION: The plasma display device includes a scanning electrode drive circuit for driving a scanning electrode, a sustaining electrode drive circuit for driving a sustaining electrode, and a data electrode drive circuit for driving a data electrode. At least one of a plurality of subfields includes an initializing period in which initializing discharge is generated by a plurality of discharge cells. The scanning electrode drive circuit applies ramp waveform voltage which changes from first potential to second potential to the scanning electrode to perform the initializing discharge in the initializing period, and the data electrode drive circuit applies voltage which changes from third potential to fourth potential to each data electrode at least once so that a potential difference between the scanning electrode and each data electrode may be small before a point of time when application of the ramp waveform voltage is started. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plasma display device that prevents erroneous lighting all over a wide temperature range, and to provide a method for driving the plasma display device. SOLUTION: There is provided the method for driving the plasma display device comprising: a panel including a plurality of discharge cells having a pair of display electrodes including a scanning electrode and a sustain electrode; a temperature detection circuit for detecting an environmental temperature of the panel and outputting the detected temperature; and an APL detection circuit for detecting the APL of an image signal. In the method, an abnormal charge erasing period is provided in which a rectangular waveform voltage is applied to the scanning electrode in the period between the initialization period of at least one sub-field among a plurality of sub-fields and a write period, wherein a time for applying the rectangular waveform voltage is controlled based on the detected temperature detected by the temperature detection circuit and the APL detected by the APL detection circuit. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plasma display device that prevents erroneous lighting over a wide temperature range, and to provide a method for driving the plasma display device. SOLUTION: The method for driving the plasma display device which has a panel having discharge cells each having a pair of display electrodes consisting of a scanning electrode and a maintenance electrode and a temperature detection circuit which detects the ambient temperature of the panel and outputs a detected temperature. Between an initialization period and writing period of at least one sub-field out of a plurality of sub-fields, an abnormal charge elimination period for applying a rectangular waveform voltage to the scanning electrode is provided to control the number of sub-fields to be provided with the abnormal charge elimination period according to the detected temperature detected by the temperature detection circuit. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To decrease a temperature of an infrared sensor and maintain detection accuracy of the infrared sensor thereby to accurately detect a temperature.SOLUTION: An induction heating cooker comprises: a first cooling duct 54 which has a top face and lateral faces and is arranged on the outside of a heat sink 64, for cooling the heat sink 64 by cooling air; and a second cooling duct 57 which is formed on the top face of the first cooling duct 54 and includes a second exhaust part 59 arranged near an infrared sensor unit 53 and a second suction part 58 arranged on the windward side of the second exhaust part 59 with respect to a cooling fan 60, in which a part of the cooling air flows in from the second suction part 58 and is exhausted from the exhaust part 59 in a manner of being separated from the cooling air which passes through the first cooling duct 54 and the cooling air blown out from the second suction part 58 blows at the infrared sensor unit 53.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication terminal mounted with plural antennas capable of reducing interference between the antennas without increasing board size while maintaining the flexibility in board use.SOLUTION: The communication terminal includes: a housing 2; a display device 3 disposed inside the housing 2; a metal member 4 holding the display device 3; two antennas 5 and 6 disposed in the housing 2; two power supply sections 7 and 8 each supplying the power to each of the two antennas 5 and 6; and a metal element 9 disposed between the two antennas 5 and 6 with front end opened being electrically connected to the metal member 4. The distance from each of the power supply sections 7 and 8 to an edge of the metal element 9 is arranged to be a wavelength of a half of the resonance frequency between the two antennas 5, 6. With this, isolation performance between the two antennas 5 and 6 is ensured; and thereby the gain deterioration due to the interference between the antennas 5 and 6 is improved.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a temperature detection unit which achieves a highly reliable installation by rotation even when a clearance between an inner coil and an outer coil is narrow.SOLUTION: An induction heating cooker comprises a temperature detection element holding base 6 having a substantially rectangular shape with one corner 6a cut off which is positioned nearest to a heating coil 2 among corners when the temperature detection element holding base 6 is positioned at an initial position A. By doing this, when a temperature detection unit 1 is rotated from the initial position A to an installation position B, the temperature detection element holding base 6 and the heating coil 2 do not interfere with each other. Accordingly, because a distance between the temperature element holding base 6 and the heating coil 2 can be reduced and a restriction to a distance between an inner coil 2a and an outer coil 2b is eased, design of a coil having intended characteristics is made easy.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a portable radio terminal which can suppress antenna performance deterioration when a housing is held by a hand.SOLUTION: A platy first metal frame 8 is provided on a side surface of a housing 2, and a second metal frame 9 is provided at a position near a feeding portion 6 and keeping an interval portion 10 from the first metal frame 8. The first metal frame 8 is grounded near four corner portions 4a-4d of a circuit substrate 4, and the second metal frame 9 is not grounded. The interval portion 10 between the first metal frame 8 and the second metal frame 9 is disposed so as to expose on the side surface near a corner portion 2a of the housing 2. By adopting such a structure, antenna performance deterioration when the housing is held by a hand can be suppressed. In a free space, the second metal frame 9 does not influence on an antenna element 7, so that the performance of the antenna can be improved in both of the free space state and the handheld state.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance image display quality by reducing the black luminance of an image displayed on a plasma display panel and then enhancing the contrast.SOLUTION: In an initialization period, one of a forcible initialization waveform, a selective initialization waveform and a non-initialization waveform is generated and applied to a scan electrode. One field comprises a special initialization sub-field for selectively generating the forcible initialization waveform and non-initialization waveform and a plurality of selective initialization sub-fields for generating only the selective initialization waveform. The forcible initialization waveform is applied to one scan electrode once for each field group. Scan electrodes on both sides of a scan electrode applied with the forcible initialization waveform in the special initialization sub-field are applied with the non-initialization waveform in at least two special initialization sub-fields which are the special initialization sub-field and the first special initialization sub-field right after the special initialization sub-field.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain excellent image display quality by stably generating a maintenance discharge by suppressing occurrence of a wrong discharge when displaying an image on a plasma display panel.SOLUTION: A driving method for a plasma display panel that applies a decreasing inclined voltage to a scanning electrode and a positive voltage to a maintenance electrode in an initialization period, and also applies scanning pulses to the scanning electrode and write pulses to a data electrode in a write period includes: dividing an image display region of the plasma display panel into a plurality of regions and detecting the rate of the number of discharge cells to be lit in each of the regions to the number of discharge cells as a partial lighting rate of the area for each of subfields; detecting maximum values of the partial lighting rates by the subfields; and changing the levels of the positive voltage applied to the maintenance electrode in the initialization period and write period according to the maximum values of the partial lighting rates.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve user-friendliness in circle-less designing.SOLUTION: The induction heating cooker is provided with a top plate 1, a first light-emitting part 3, a second light-emitting part 4, an infrared sensor 5, a heating object detecting means 6 and a power source switch 7. The heating object detecting means 6, when a heating object P is loaded on the top plate 1, detects increase of a light-receiving amount of the infrared sensor 5 of light of the second light-emitting part 4 reflected from the heating object P, and an emission state of the first light-emitting part is changed in accordance with a state of the power source switch 7, so that user-friendliness is improved even in the circle-less designing excellent in designability.