Abstract: There is provided a gas trapping material and vacuum heat insulation equipment where the gas trapping material can be activated in a sealing step of the vacuum heat insulation equipment, and production efficiency can be enhanced by maintaining a high gas trapping characteristic even when a gas is released in a baking step or in a sealing step under an air atmosphere. The gas trapping material contains porous metal oxide and silver particles having an average particle size of 0.5 nm to 100 nm inclusive.

Abstract: The present invention provides a highly reliable multilayered glass panel and an encapsulating material for achieving the highly reliable multilayered glass panel. The encapsulating material includes lead-free low melting glass particles containing vanadium oxide and tellurium oxide, low thermal expansion filler particles, and glass beads as a solid content. A volume fraction of the glass beads in the solid content is not less than 10% to not more than 35%, and a volume fraction of the lead-free low melting glass particles in the solid content is larger than a volume fraction of the low thermal expansion filler in the solid content.

Abstract: A metallic laminate shaped flow path member has both a surface roughness of a flow path inner surface and corrosion resistance at such a level as to be utilizable as a flow path member for use in a supply line for a corrosive fluid in a semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus. A metallic substrate constituting the metallic laminate shaped flow path member has surface irregularities, the inner surface of the flow path of the metallic laminate shaped flow path member is formed with a glass coating layer in such a manner as to fill at least recessed regions of the surface irregularities of the metallic substrate, and the glass coating layer includes at least one of a layer of a P2O5—ZnO—Al2O3 based glass, a layer of a Bi2O3—ZnO—B2O3 based glass, and a layer of an SiO2—B2O3—Na2O based glass.

Abstract: A lead-free low-melting glass composition containing vanadium oxide, tellurium oxide, silver oxide and lithium oxide, said composition satisfying the following two relational expressions (1) and (2) in terms of oxides. [Ag2O]?[TeO2]?[V2O5]?[Li2O]??(1) 2[V2O5]?[Ag2O]+[Li2O]?40??(2) (In the formula, [X] represents a content of component X, and the unit thereof is “mol %”; the same applies hereinafter.) Thus, it is possible to provide a lead-free low-melting glass composition which enables sealing and adhesion at around the melting point (232° C.) of tin and which has high adhesiveness and stickiness.

Abstract: An ultrasound observation device is configured to acquire an echo signal which is obtained by converting, to an electrical signal, ultrasound received by an ultrasound probe by using a first measurement method that utilizes displacement of an observation target to measure elasticity information of the observation target, and a second measurement method that utilizes a shear wave generated by the observation target to measure the elasticity information of the observation target. The ultrasound observation device includes a processor configured to control the ultrasound observation device and the ultrasound probe, and the processor is configured to control the ultrasound probe to execute the second measurement method based on the echo signal obtained using the first measurement method.

Abstract: An ultrasound observation device includes a controller. The controller is configured to: generate data on an ultrasound image based on an ultrasound signal; automatically set a second region of interest that is relatively stiff in a first region of interest preset within the ultrasound image; and generate data on first and second elastic images each having a display mode according to stiffness of the corresponding first and second regions of interest.

Abstract: The lead-free glass composition contains vanadium oxide, tellurium oxide, alkali metal oxide, iron oxide, barium oxide, and tungsten oxide while containing substantially no phosphorus oxide, and further contains at least one of additional components including yttrium oxide, lanthanum oxide, cerium oxide, erbium oxide, ytterbium oxide, aluminum oxide, and gallium oxide. A content of the tellurium oxide is equal to or more than 25 mol %, and equal to or less than 43 mol % in terms of oxide TeO2. A content of the alkali metal oxide is equal to or more than 4 mol %, and equal to or less than 27 mol % in terms of oxide R2O (R: alkali metal element).

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a lead-free glass composition in which crystallization is suppressed and which has a low softening point. This lead-free glass composition is characterized by containing silver oxide, tellurium oxide and vanadium oxide, and further containing at least one compound selected from among yttrium oxide, lanthanum oxide, cerium oxide, erbium oxide, ytterbium oxide, aluminum oxide, gallium oxide, indium oxide, iron oxide, tungsten oxide and molybdenum oxide as an additional component, and in that the content values (mol %) of silver oxide, tellurium oxide and vanadium oxide satisfy the relationships Ag2O>TeO2?V2O5 and Ag5O?2V2O5 when calculated in terms of the oxides, and in that the content of TeO2 is 25-37 mol. %.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a multilayer glass which can be manufactured by a simple process. To solve the above problem, the multilayer glass according to the invention includes a first glass substrate, a second glass substrate that faces the first glass substrate at an interval of a predetermined space, and a sealing part that seals a periphery of an internal space defined by the first glass substrate and the second glass substrate. The sealing part is formed with a sealing material containing low melting point glass. The internal space is in a vacuum state. The first glass substrate includes an exhaust port that is provided to be included in a projection part of the sealing part when being projected in a lamination direction of the first glass substrate and the second glass substrate. The exhaust port is blocked by the sealing material (see FIG. 3).

Abstract: The present invention provides a highly reliable multilayered glass panel and an encapsulating material for achieving the highly reliable multilayered glass panel. The encapsulating material includes lead-free low melting glass particles containing vanadium oxide and tellurium oxide, low thermal expansion filler particles, and glass beads as a solid content. A volume fraction of the glass beads in the solid content is not less than 10% to not more than 35%, and a volume fraction of the lead-free low melting glass particles in the solid content is larger than a volume fraction of the low thermal expansion filler in the solid content.

Abstract: Provided is a physical quantity measurement device in which a bonding temperature of a bonding layer is lowered to a temperature not affecting an operation of a semiconductor chip and an insulating property of the semiconductor chip and a base is secured. The physical quantity measurement device includes a base (diaphragm), a semiconductor chip (strain detection element) to measure a physical quantity on the basis of stress acting on the base, and a bonding layer to bond the semiconductor chip to the base. The bonding layer has a first bonding layer bonded to the semiconductor chip, a second bonding layer bonded to the base, and an insulating base material disposed between the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer. The first and second bonding layers and contain glass.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a neutron-absorbing material which has high neutron absorption performance, is less apt to suffer structural degradation caused by irradiation with neutrons or ? rays, and has satisfactory water resistance. The glass composition according to the present invention is characterized by containing Gd2O3, B2O3, CeO2, and Bi2O3 when the components are expressed in terms of oxide, the total amount of Gd2O3 and B2O3 being 65 mol % or greater in terms of oxide amount.

Abstract: A steering control device includes a command value setting processing portion configured to set a current command value based on a detection value of steering torque; a feedback processing portion configured to control a voltage applied to a motor so as to control a current flowing through the motor to the current command value, based on an output value of an integral element obtained by using a difference between the current and the current command value; an end determination processing portion configured to determine whether a turning angle of steered wheels has reached a limit angle; and an end-time limit processing portion configured to perform correction to increase a magnitude of the difference, based on a degree of a decrease in a magnitude of a rotational speed of the motor when the end determination processing portion determines that the turning angle has reached the limit angle.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a multilayer glass which can be manufactured by a simple process. To solve the above problem, the multilayer glass according to the invention includes a first glass substrate, a second glass substrate that faces the first glass substrate at an interval of a predetermined space, and a sealing part that seals a periphery of an internal space defined by the first glass substrate and the second glass substrate. The sealing part is formed with a sealing material containing low melting point glass. The internal space is in a vacuum state. The first glass substrate includes an exhaust port that is provided to be included in a projection part of the sealing part when being projected in a lamination direction of the first glass substrate and the second glass substrate. The exhaust port is blocked by the sealing material (see FIG. 3).

Abstract: There is provided a gas trapping material and vacuum heat insulation equipment where the gas trapping material can be activated in a sealing step of the vacuum heat insulation equipment, and production efficiency can be enhanced by maintaining a high gas trapping characteristic even when a gas is released in a baking step or in a sealing step under an air atmosphere. The gas trapping material contains porous metal oxide and silver particles having an average particle size of 0.5 nm to 100 nm inclusive.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to decrease the process temperature for a multilayer glass into which an optical element is to be packed, thereby reducing the damage to the optical element during processing. A multilayer glass according to the present invention is so configured that a gap formed between glass plates is sealed with a sealing material that can fix at a process temperature lower than a temperature employed for the processing of an optical element (see FIG. 1).

Abstract: It is an object to provide a highly reliable physical-quantity measurement device which can relax thermal stress at a time of bonding and suppress creep or drift of a sensor output. To attain the above-described object, a physical-quantity measurement device according to the present invention includes a semiconductor element, and a base board connected to the semiconductor element with a plurality of layers being interposed. In the plurality of layers, a stress relaxing layer including at least metal as a main ingredient and a glass layer including glass as a main ingredient are formed each in a layered form including one or more layers. At least one of the stress relaxing layer and the glass layer includes low-melting-point glass, and a softening point of the low-melting-point glass is equal to or lower than the highest heat temperature that the semiconductor element can resist.

Abstract: The lead-free glass composition contains vanadium oxide, tellurium oxide, alkaline metal oxide, iron oxide, barium oxide, and tungsten oxide while containing substantially no phosphorus oxide, and further contains at least one of additional components including yttrium oxide, lanthanum oxide, cerium oxide, erbium oxide, ytterbium oxide, aluminum oxide, and gallium oxide. A content of the tellurium oxide is equal to or more than 25 mol %, and equal to or less than 43 mol % in terms of oxide TeO2. A content of the alkaline metal oxide is equal to or more than 4 mol %, and equal to or less than 27 mol % in terms of oxide R2O (R: alkali metal element).

Abstract: An ultrasound observation apparatus includes: an agreement determination circuit configured to compare a reference image that is an ultrasound image chosen from ultrasound images and in which at least one region of interest is set and a latest ultrasound image with each other at least partly, and determine whether the reference image and the latest ultrasound image agree with each other; and a measurement circuit configured to, when the agreement determination circuit determines that the reference image and the latest ultrasound image agree with each other, transmit a push pulse to the at least one region of interest to cause shear waves, transmit and receive a tracking pulse to detect propagation of the shear waves, and measure elasticity characteristics in the at least one region of interest.

Abstract: It is an objective of the invention to provide a conductive joint article exhibiting electrical joinability comparable to that of solder joining of easy-to-solder joinable metals even when a joined member of the conductive joint article is made of a hard-to-solder joinable metal. There is provided a conductive joint article with conductive joined members electrically joined via a joining layer, at least one of the joined members being made of a hard-to-solder joinable metal. The joining layer comprises an oxide glass phase and a conductive metal phase. The oxide glass phase includes vanadium as a major constituent and at least one of phosphorus, barium and tungsten as an accessory constituent, and has a glass transition point of 390° C. or less. And, connection resistance between the joined members exhibits less than 1×10?5 ?/mm2.