Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes: a laminated body having a plurality of capacitor elements stacked to have principal surfaces thereof overlapped with each other. The capacitor elements each include a valve-action metallic substrate having two principal surfaces opposed to each other, a dielectric oxide film covering a surface of the valve-action metallic substrate, and a cathode layer covering a surface of the dielectric oxide film. The laminated body has two principal surfaces and more than one side surface, and has at least one of the side surfaces with the valve-action metallic substrates exposed. An anode terminal is electrically connected to the side surface of the laminated body having the valve-action metallic substrates exposed therefrom, and the cathode layers and the anode terminal are insulated with insulators interposed therebetween, the insulators being obtained from the cathode layers.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body, an inner electrode, an outer electrode, and a connecting portion. The inner electrode is disposed inside the ceramic body. The end portion of the inner electrode extends to a surface of the ceramic body. The outer electrode is disposed on the surface of the ceramic body so as to cover the end portion of the inner electrode. The outer electrode includes a resin and a metal. The connecting portion is disposed so as to extend from an inside of the outer electrode to an inside of the ceramic body. In a portion of the surface of the ceramic body on which the outer electrode is disposed, the length of the connecting portion that extends in a direction in which the inner electrode is extends about 2.4 ?m or more.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes a capacitor element; an exterior resin; an anode lead terminal; and a cathode lead terminal. The anode lead terminal has a Cu base material, and an Au-plating layer formed thereon, and includes an Au region where the Au-plating layer as a surface layer is formed, and a Cu region where the Au-plating layer is not formed. The cathode lead terminal includes a base material, and an Au-plating layer as a surface layer of the cathode lead terminal, which is formed on the base material, and an anode section of the capacitor element is connected to the Cu region of the anode lead terminal.

Abstract: A clay-like shaped body for forming a sintered precious metal body, the clay-like shaped body obtained by shaping a clay-like composition containing at least one powder selected from the group consisting of precious metal powders and precious metal alloy powders, an organic binder, an organic additive and water into either a wire-like shape having a diameter of 0.5 mm to 3.0 mm or a sheet-like shape having a thickness of 0.2 mm to 3.0 mm, wherein cracking does not occur when the clay-like shaped body is wound tightly once around the outer peripheral surface of a core rod having a circular cross-sectional shape with a diameter of 13 mm.

Abstract: A clay-like composition for forming a sintered precious metal body, the clay-like composition containing at least one powder selected from the group consisting of precious metal powders and precious metal alloy powders, an organic binder, an organic additive and water, wherein the clay-like composition has an initial hardness measured using a type E durometer of E8 to E20, and has a hardness after standing for one hour at room temperature of E40 or less.

Abstract: A developing device includes a supplying chamber, an agitating member, a toner carrier, a retaining part and a detecting part. The supplying chamber accommodates a toner replenished from a toner container. The agitating member agitates the toner in the supplying chamber. The toner carrier supplies an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier with the toner from the supplying chamber. The retaining part recovers and retains the toner dispersed in the vicinity of the image carrier and the toner carrier. The detecting part detects an amount of the toner in the retaining part. The retaining part is moreover configured to replenish the recovered toner from the retaining part to the supplying chamber when the detecting part detects an amount of the toner in the retaining part more than a predetermined amount in a state where the toner is needed to be replenished to the supplying chamber.

Abstract: A clayish composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body capable of forming a sintered silver alloy body, which is not easily discolored even in the atmosphere and has excellent tensile strength, flexural strength, surface hardness (hereinafter, sometimes collectively referred to as ‘mechanical strength’), elongation or the like, powder for the clayish composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body, a method for manufacturing the clayish composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body, a sintered silver alloy body and a method for manufacturing the sintered silver alloy body.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic base body and is structured such that fluorine is present between the ceramic base body and a sintered metal layer or between a sintered metal layer and a conductive resin layer.

Abstract: In the case where development is performed by a two-component developing method, a previous charge removal light-emitting portion applies charge removal light to a first charge removal target region of an effective outer circumferential surface of a photosensitive member on which effective outer circumferential surface an electrostatic latent image can be formed. The first charge removal target region includes a part of a magnetic brush contact region of the effective outer circumferential surface and a region of the effective outer circumferential surface between the magnetic brush contact region and a transfer position of a toner image.

Abstract: A clay-like composition for forming a sintered copper body of the present invention includes a powder constituent containing a copper-containing metal powder which contains copper and a copper-containing oxide powder which contains copper; a binder; and water, wherein the amount of oxygen contained in the powder constituent is in a range of from 4 mass % to 8 mass %.

Abstract: A conductive resin composition which allows a resin electrode which is favorable in terms of shape and adhesion to a ceramic device to be formed reliably, and a chip-type electronic component including resin electrodes formed with the conductive resin component are described. The conductive resin composition contains a linear bifunctional epoxy resin having a molecular weight of 11000 to 40000 and a terminal glycidyl group, a conductive silver powder, and a solvent, and has a yield value of 3.6 Pa or less. In addition, the conductive powder can have a surface attached to a fatty acid or a salt thereof, and the ratio of the fatty acid or salt thereof to the conductive powder is 0.5 wt % or less. Furthermore, the conductive powder can be spherical, and the ratio of the conductive powder in solids constituting the conductive resin composition can be 42 to 54 vol %.

Abstract: A ceramic body is prepared that includes an inner electrode disposed inside the ceramic body and in which an end portion of the inner electrode is led to a surface of the ceramic body. An electrode layer is formed on the surface of the ceramic body so as to cover the end portion of the inner electrode, the electrode layer containing a resin, a first metal filler that contains a first metal component, and a second metal filler that contains a second metal component having a higher melting point than the first metal component. A heating step of heating the electrode layer is performed to form an electrode including a metal layer that is located on the surface of the ceramic body and that contains the first and second metal components and a metal contained in the inner electrode.

Abstract: A clay-like composition for forming a sintered precious metal body, the clay-like composition containing at least a precious metal powder and/or a precious metal alloy powder, an organic binder, an organic additive, and water, wherein the organic additive is from 0.1 to 3.0 mass % of propylene glycol. The clay-like composition has excellent bendability, even after drying during shaping, and as a result, there are minimal time restrictions during working of the composition by bending and the like.

Abstract: A ceramic body includes an inner electrode disposed inside the ceramic body and in which an end portion of the inner electrode extends to a surface of the ceramic body. An electrode layer is formed on the surface of the ceramic body so as to cover the end portion of the inner electrode, the electrode layer including a resin, a first metal filler that contains a first metal component, and a second metal filler that contains a second metal component having a higher melting point than the first metal component. A step of heating the electrode layer is performed to form an electrode including a metal layer that is located on the surface of the ceramic body and that includes the first and second metal components and a metal contained in the inner electrode.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a sintered silver alloy body of the present invention includes steps of adding copper oxide to a silver-containing clay-like composition that contains silver-containing metal powder containing silver, a binder, and water to manufacture a clay-like composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body; making an object by making the clay-like composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body into an arbitrary shape; and baking the object in a reduction atmosphere or a non-oxidizing atmosphere after the object is dried.

Abstract: A first outer electrode and first inner electrodes are supplied with an anode potential and a second outer electrode and second inner electrodes are supplied with a cathode potential when a monolithic ceramic capacitor is mounted and in use. The first outer electrode supplied with the anode potential has a thickness that is greater than a thickness of the second outer electrode supplied with the cathode potential.

Abstract: A laminated ceramic electronic component that includes a laminated body formed by laminating a ceramic layer and an internal electrode, and forming an external electrode on an outer surface of the laminated body so as to be electrically connected to the internal electrode. The external electrode includes a conducting layer that is in contact with the internal electrode, and the internal electrode contains Ni. The conducting layer contains metal particles containing a Cu3Sn alloy, and a thermosetting resin. The internal electrode and the conducting layer are bonded to each other with a CuSnNi alloy phase interposed therebetween.

Abstract: A laminated ceramic electronic component that includes a laminated body formed by laminating a ceramic layer and an internal electrode; and an external electrode formed on an outer surface of the laminated body so as to be electrically connected to the internal electrode. The external electrode includes a conducting layer that is in contact with the internal electrode, and the internal electrode contains Ni. The conducting layer contains metal particles containing a Cu3Sn alloy, and a thermosetting resin. The metal particles contain Sn in a weight ratio of 36.5 to 47.8% to the total amount of Sn and Cu.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes a capacitor element; an exterior resin; an anode lead terminal; and a cathode lead terminal. The anode lead terminal has a Cu base material, and an Au-plating layer formed thereon, and includes an Au region where the Au-plating layer as a surface layer is formed, and a Cu region where the Au-plating layer is not formed. The cathode lead terminal includes a base material, and an Au-plating layer as a surface layer of the cathode lead terminal, which is formed on the base material, and an anode section of the capacitor element is connected to the Cu region of the anode lead terminal.

Abstract: The electronic component has a resin electrode which constitutes an external electrode on a face of a ceramic base body. At least a tip portion of a resin electrode region extended around another face of the body is bonded to the ceramic base body, and further a relationship between Rz1 and Rz2 satisfies the following requirement: Rz1>Rz2, Rz1>3.3 ?m, and Rz2<3.2 ?m, wherein Rz1 is a ten-point average surface roughness of a first region of a surface of the ceramic base body to which the tip portion is bonded, and Rz2 is a ten-point average surface roughness of a second region of the surface of the ceramic base body where the external electrode is not formed.