Abstract: A vibration-damping device includes: an elastic body connecting a tubular first mounting member and a second mounting member; and a partition member partitioning a fluid chamber within the first mounting member, the fluid chamber being filled with fluid, into a primary fluid chamber on one side and an auxiliary fluid chamber on another side. The partitioning member includes: the limiting passages communicating between the primary and the auxiliary chambers, and generating fluid column resonance with respect to input vibration, thereby damping and reducing the vibration; switching device switching between the resonance frequencies of the limiting passages; a connection passage connecting the primary and the auxiliary chambers; a fluid pressure introducing passage into the switching device to operate the switching device; and a thin film body provided within the connection passage, and blocking the communication between the primary and the auxiliary fluid chambers via the connection passage.

Abstract: A vehicular antivibration device includes a torque rod and an actuator. The torque rod is connected at a first end to a vehicle body and connected at a second end to a vibration source. The actuator is disposed between the first end and the second end of the torque rod, includes an inertia mass supported on the torque rod, and causes the inertia mass to reciprocate in the axial direction of the torque rod. The actuator includes a coil, a magnetic core, a permanent magnet and a heat-conducting member. The magnetic core forms magnetic paths for the coil, and the coil is wound around the outer periphery of the magnetic core. The permanent magnet faces the inertia mass and is disposed on the magnetic core. The heat-conducting member is disposed so as to contact the coil and the torque rod.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a stacked via structure including a plurality of first vias formed over a substrate, a first interconnect formed on the plurality of first vias, a plurality of second vias formed on the first interconnect, and a second interconnect formed on the plurality of second vias. One of the first vias closest to one end part of the first interconnect and one of the second vias closest to the one end part of the first interconnect at least partially overlap with each other as viewed in the plane, and the first interconnect has a first extension part extending from a position of an end of the first via toward the one end part of the first interconnect and having a length which is more than six times as long as a via width of the first via.

Abstract: An assembly of an airbag module includes an airbag housing receiving an airbag cushion and a steering wheel having a mounting plate part. The airbag housing has first hooks, the mounting plate part has second hooks coupled with the first hooks, respectively, and at least one of the first and second hooks has a protective member, at least a portion of which is interposed between the first and second hooks to prevent abrasion and contact noise between the first and second hooks due to the elastic movement of the airbag housing to the mounting plate part. The assembly minimizes the striking noise and the abrasion caused by friction between the airbag housing and the mounting plate part through the preventive member due to the elastic movement of the airbag housing to the mounting plate part.

Abstract: A first insulating film is formed on a semiconductor substrate, an interconnect groove is formed in the first insulating film, the inside of the interconnect groove is filled with a metal film, thereby forming a first interconnect. Then, a protective film is formed on the first insulating film and the first interconnect, and the surface of the protective film is exposed to reactive gas, thereby forming a reaction layer on an interface between the first interconnect and the protective film.

Abstract: A blue light-emitting silicate phosphor favorably employable as a blue light-emitting source of a light-emitting apparatus which gives emission of a visible light upon irradiation of ultraviolet rays having a wavelength of 254 nm, such as ultraviolet rays emitted by a fluorescent lamp is produced by a method comprising calcining a powdery mixture comprising a magnesium oxide powder, an MeO source powder, a EuO source powder and a SiO2 source powder, said magnesium oxide powder having a purity of 99.9 wt. % or higher and a BET specific surface area in the range of 3 to 60 m2/g and having been prepared by bringing a metallic magnesium vapor into contact with oxygen whereby oxidizing the metallic magnesium vapor.

Abstract: A moisture absorbent for an organic EL element having hydrophobicity and no reduction in moisture absorption speed, and a method for producing the moisture absorbent are provided. The moisture absorbent for an organic EL element includes, as a main component, calcium oxide particles each having an alkoxide layer on the surface thereof. Furthermore, the method for producing a moisture absorbent for an organic EL element includes dry-pulverizing calcium oxide in the presence of an alcohol, and thereafter dry-treating the pulverized calcium oxide.

Abstract: Disclosed is an MgO target for sputtering, which can accelerate a film formation rate even when MgO is used as a target for sputtering in the formation of an MgO film. The MgO target for sputtering, which includes MgO and an electroconductive material as main components, and in which the electroconductive material is capable of imparting orientation to a MgO film when the MgO film containing the electroconductive material is formed by a DC sputtering.

Abstract: An anti-vibration device for a vehicle including a rod (11) fixed to an engine (1) at one end portion (12) thereof and fixed to a vehicle body at the other end portion (13) thereof, an inertia mass (15) supported on the rod (11), an actuator (17) operative to reciprocate the inertia mass in an axial direction of the rod, and an acceleration sensor (21) that detects vibration of the rod in the axial direction. The acceleration sensor (21) is disposed between the one end portion (12) of the rod (11) and the other end portion (13) of the rod (11). Accordingly, sensitivity to pitch vibration of the rod (11) is reduced so that accuracy in detection of rigid body resonance in the axial direction is enhanced.

Abstract: A blue light-emitting phosphor having an elemental formula of Sr3-xMgSi2O8:Eux (wherein x represents a value in the range of 0.008 to 0.110), a merwinite crystal structure and a crystal lattice strain of 0.080% or less as determined from an X-ray diffraction pattern at diffraction angle 2? of 20-130° by the Le Bail method, wherein the X-ray diffraction pattern is determined using a CuK? ray having an incident angle of ?, is used advantageously as a blue light-emitting material for a light-emitting device which comprises a semiconductor light-emitting element capable of emitting a light having a wavelength of 350-430 nm upon application of an electrical current, such as a white light-emitting LED lamp, and a blue light-emitting material capable of emitting a blue light upon excitation with a light emitted by the semiconductor light-emitting element.

Abstract: An anti-vibration device includes a tubular first attachment member connected to either a vibration generating section or a vibration receiving section; a second attachment member connected to the other of the vibration generating section and the vibration receiving section; a first rubber elastic body elastically interconnecting the first and second attachment members; a liquid containing a first liquid and a second liquid which are insoluble in each other, the second liquid having a smaller surface tension than the first liquid, and the second liquid in the liquid weighing less than the first liquid in the liquid; a partition member partitioning the inside of the first attachment member into a main liquid chamber and a sub liquid chamber, the main liquid chamber having a first partition wall and having a portion of the liquid enclosed therein, an inner volume of the main liquid chamber changing due to deformation of the first rubber elastic body, a part of the first partition wall being formed of the first

Abstract: A torque rod (1) has two elastic bushes (2, 3) to be mounted respectively to a vibration-generating side and a vibration-receiving side, and a connecting rod (4) connecting the two elastic bushes (2, 3). The actively controlled vibration cancellation means (5) is an actuator including: the shaft (5a) having two opposite ends mounted to the connecting rod (4) and extending in an axial direction of the connecting rod (4), the mass member (5b) shaped in a tube to surround the shaft (5a); a coil (5e) and a winding core (5f) fixed to the shaft (5a) in the tube-shaped mass member (5b); a permanent magnet (5d) mounted to an inner peripheral surface of the tube-shaped mass member (5b) or the shaft (5a), and a connecting member (5c) for connecting at least one end of the tube-shaped mass members (5b) to the shaft (5a).

Abstract: A blue light-emitting silicate phosphor favorably employable as a blue light-emitting source of a light-emitting apparatus which gives emission of a visible light upon irradiation of ultraviolet rays having a wave-length of 254 nm, such as ultraviolet rays emitted by a fluorescent lamp is produced by a method comprising calcining a powdery mixture comprising a magnesium oxide powder, an MeO source powder, a EuO source powder and a SiO2 source powder, said magnesium oxide powder having a purity of 99.9 wt. % or higher and a BET specific surface area in the range of 3 to 60 m2/g and having been prepared by bringing a metallic magnesium vapor into contact with oxygen whereby oxidizing the metallic magnesium vapor.

Abstract: A blue light-emitting phosphor having an elemental formula of Sr3-xMgSi2O8:Eux (wherein x represents a value in the range of 0.008 to 0.110), a merwinite crystal structure and a crystal lattice strain of 0.080% or less as determined from an X-ray diffraction pattern at diffraction angle 2? of 20-130° by the Le Bail method, wherein the X-ray diffraction pattern is determined using a CuK? ray having an incident angle of ?, is used advantageously as a blue light-emitting material for a light-emitting device which comprises a semiconductor light-emitting element capable of emitting a light having a wavelength of 350-430 nm upon application of an electrical current, such as a white light-emitting LED lamp, and a blue light-emitting material capable of emitting a blue light upon excitation with a light emitted by the semiconductor light-emitting element.

Abstract: A conductive leather with high conductivity and durability and a steering wheel with such conductive leather. The conductive leather includes a coating layer formed of a base coat layer and a top coat layer, both made up of resin based materials. The top coat layer includes a first top coat layer formed on the base coat and a second top coat layer formed on the first top coat layer. The resin based material used in the second top coat layer is a crosslinked resin and the resin based material used in the first top coat layer is non-crosslinked resin. At least one of the first top coat layer and the second top coat layer includes carbon-based conductive particles.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a vibration isolator (10), wherein in a sealing step in which a liquid mixture is sealed inside the interior of a first mounting component (11) in a vibration isolator main body (21), after the internal pressure inside the first mounting component (11) has been changed to a negative pressure which is equal to or greater than the vapor pressure of a first liquid (L1) which has the lower vapor pressure from among the first liquid (L1) and a second liquid (L2), the first liquid (L1) is injected into the interior of the first mounting component (11) so as to raise the internal pressure thereof, and, thereafter, the second liquid (L2) is injected into the interior of the first mounting component (11).

Abstract: The sudden generation of heat being frequently caused in the case of the overcharge of a lithium secondary cell which have a positive electrode comprising a composite metal oxide of lithium and cobalt or a composite metal oxide of lithium and nickel, a negative electrode comprising metallic lithium, a lithium alloy or a material capable of occluding and releasing lithium, and a nonaqueous electrolyte solution comprising a nonaqueous solvent and an electrolyte dissolved therein can be efficiently prevented by the addition, to the nonaqueous electrolyte solution, of an organic compound which, when the lithium secondary cell is overcharged, decomposes into a decomposition product capable of dissolving out the cobalt or nickel contained in the positive electrode and depositing it ion the negative electrode (for example, a tert-alkylbenzene derivative).

Abstract: Provided are a sputtering target including a target main body 10 that has MgO as a main component and a thickness of 3 mm or smaller, and a method of manufacturing a magnetic memory using the sputtering target which improves an MR ratio.

Abstract: A vibration-damping device includes: an elastic body connecting a tubular first mounting member and a second mounting member; and a partition member (8) partitioning a fluid chamber within the first mounting member, the fluid chamber being filled with fluid, into a primary fluid chamber on one side and an auxiliary fluid camber on another side.

Abstract: There is provided a vibration isolator in which a restriction passage for causing a main fluid chamber and a sub-fluid chamber to communicate with each other is changed over to one of a first restriction passage and a second restriction passage according to a change in the frequency of vibrations in a short period of time, and the size of the isolator is made small efficiently. A plunger member 78 closes an orifice opening 74 when being moved to a closing position against the urging force of a coil spring 90 by the fluid pressure in a pressurization space 130, and opens the orifice opening 74 when being returned to an opening position by the urging force of the coil spring 90. For the orifice opening 74, the opening ratio R between the transverse opening width along the axial direction and the longitudinal opening width along the circumferential direction is set in the range of 2?R?25, further preferably 5?R?20.