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Display Devices & Components
Control Center
With restructuring of the Cathode Ray
Tube and Rechargeable Battery busi-
nesses behind it, the Control Center is
now channeling its energies toward
growing its current businesses, including
Components and Materials, such as Fine
Ceramics and Metals; Electron Tubes
and devices, such as X-ray tubes and
Power Electron Tubes; and the solid-
state devices, such as Thermal Printing
Heads. Going forward, a major emphasis
will be on commercialization of new
products, such as Direct Methanol Fuel
Cells (DMFC), the next generation
power source.
Toshiba’s DMFC has already won
notice, including recognition as “the
world’s smallest fuel cell” in the
Guinness World Records 2006. The
Company is promoting development
for applications where extended power
supply is in demand, especially digital
mobile products, and targets commercial-
ization in 2007.
SED Project Team
The SED panel offers outstanding char-
acteristics that surpass those of other flat
panel display TVs : vibrant, natural col-
ors (high dynamic range and color repro-
ducibility); superior, true blacks (high
contrast); and ghost-free images, even in
with dynamic moving images (fast
response time). Toshiba is scheduling the
launch of SED TVs to coincide with the
build-up of the Beijing Olympics in
2008, and is now readying for construc-
tion of a mass production facility that
will integrate a rationalized production
system.
Toshiba Matsushita
Display Technology Co., Ltd.
In FY2005, in a very tough business envi-
ronment characterized by rapid price
deterioration, sales were slightly up from
the previous fiscal term, at 299.7 billion
yen. This reflects successful sales expan-
sion in overseas markets and increased
sales volume of AV devices. Although
Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology
Co., Ltd (TMD) promoted efforts to
boost sales and cut costs, among them
measures to minimize production losses,
TMD could not counteract the influence
of deep price deterioration, and operating
income of 4.0 billion yen was down by
9.5 billion yen from the previous fiscal
term.
TMD leads the industry in Low
Temperature Polysilicon TFT LCD
products and know-how, including the
SOG (System on Glass) technology that
it applies to the development of differen-
tiated, high-value added products, such
as displays that accept direct input from
a light pen or a finger, and displays that
can handle both VGA and QVGA.
Working with Intel Corporation, TMD
has also developed LCD driver technolo-
gy that significantly reduces power con-
sumption, and plans to bring this to mar-
ket in the near future. TMD leads the
way here, too, with the ultimate product
with glass substrate (0.2mm) with LED
backlight. This advanced display is
already in mass production.
April 2006 saw the start-up of new
production lines for Low Temperature
Polysilicon LCD at the Company’s
Ishikawa Operations. With this
enhanced production capacity, TMD is
ready to meet growing demand from
large accounts both in Japan and over-
seas, and ready to accelerate sales expan-
sion.
Direct Methanol Fuel Cell for
digital mobile products
Toshiba is working toward practi-
cal utilization of the world’s small-
est fuel cells, and has developed a
Direct Methanol Fuel Cell unit
that can be housed directly in the
product. The Company is using
prototype digital mobile products
to verify operating characteristics.
Toshiba’s Direct Methanol Fuel
Cell was recognized as the world’s
smallest in the Guinness World
Records 2006.
Development of 9-inch Field-
sequential OCB-LCD
Combining field-sequential tech-
nology* with a high speed
response, one of the characteris-
tics of OCB, allowed Toshiba
Matsushita Display Technology
Co., Ltd. to develop an LCD that
delivers high transmittance (2.6
times higher than its previous
OCB panels), low power con-
sumption, a wide viewing angle
(170 degrees, both up and down
and left and right) and a fast
response time (3.3ms), along with
high brightness and ultra highres-
olution.
* This technology has to be driven
at least three times normal
speed to display RGB signals, so
an LCD with high-speed
response, such as an OCB, is
indispensable for realizing full
performance potential.