Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a joining material that can easily join materials to be joined even when characteristics and physical properties thereof differ greatly. To solve the above problem, the joining material according to the present invention is characterized by including a base material, a first layer that is disposed on one surface of the base material, and a second layer that is disposed on the other surface of the base material and includes a phase having a different coefficient of thermal expansion to that of the phase configuring the first layer, at least one of the first and second layers including glass having a softening point of 600° C. or lower.

Abstract: There is provided a bonding article comprising: an electrical insulating substrate; a first adhesion layer laminated on one surface of the electrical insulating substrate; and a second adhesion layer laminated on the other surface of the electrical insulating substrate. Both the first adhesion layer and the second adhesion layer include a low-melting-point lead-free glass containing vanadium oxide and tellurium oxide as chemical constituents and having a softening point of 360° C. or lower. And, when contours of the first adhesion layer, the electrical insulating substrate, and the second adhesion layer are projected parallel to one another along the lamination direction, the contour of the first adhesion layer is located inside the contour of the second adhesion layer.

Abstract: An ultrasonic observation apparatus including a processor comprising hardware, wherein the processor is configured to: create an ultrasonic image based on an ultrasonic signal reflected from an observation target; calculate elasticity information of the observation target in a predetermined region within the ultrasonic image; extract, from the predetermined region, a region where the elasticity information satisfies a predetermined condition; calculate diagnosis support information that supports an operator to determine a diagnosis sequence on the basis of the elasticity information of the extracted region; and create an image by synthesizing the diagnosis support information into the ultrasonic image.

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: An object of the present invention is to provide a multi-layer glass with high degree of vacuum and high mass productivity. In order to achieve the object, the multi-layer glass according to the present invention includes a first glass substrate, a second glass substrate disposed facing the first glass substrate with a space therebetween, a sealing portion, which contains a glass composition and is disposed in a peripheral edge portion of the space between the first glass substrate and the second glass substrate, and column members disposed between the first glass substrate and the second glass substrate, wherein the column member is made of a metal or alloy, and a melting point of the metal or alloy is higher than a softening point of the glass composition and is lower than or equal to a temperature 20° C. higher than a flow point of the glass composition.

Abstract: An ultrasound observation apparatus includes: an ultrasound image generator configured to generate data of an ultrasound image based on an ultrasound wave signal; a region of interest setting unit configured to set a first region of interest set in advance within the ultrasound image and a plurality of second regions of interest including at least the first region of interest; a reference value calculating unit configured to calculate reference values according to ultrasound wave signals of the first region of interest and the plurality of second regions of interest, respectively; and an elastic image generator configured to set a display region of interest in which the reference value of the first region of interest and the reference values of the second regions of interest have a predetermined correlation and the second regions of interest are maximized, and generate data of an elastic image having a display mode according to hardness of the display region of interest.

Abstract: A heat-dissipating structure is formed by bonding a first member and a second member, each being any of a metal, ceramic, and semiconductor, via a die bonding member; or a semiconductor module formed by bonding a semiconductor chip, a metal wire, a ceramic insulating substrate, and a heat-dissipating base substrate including metal, with a die bonding member interposed between each. At least one of the die bonding members includes a lead-free low-melting-point glass composition and metal particles. The lead-free low-melting-point glass composition accounts for 78 mol % or more in terms of the total of the oxides V2O5, TeO2, and Ag2O serving as main ingredients. The content of each of TeO2 and Ag2O is 1 to 2 times the content of V2O5, and at least one of BaO, WO3, and P2O5 is included as accessory ingredients, and at least one of Y2O3, La2O3, and Al2O3 is included as additional ingredients.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a charged particle beam device that exhibits high performance due to the use of vanadium glass coatings, and to provide a method of manufacturing a component for a charged particle beam device. Specifically provided is a charged particle beam device using a vacuum component characterized by comprising a metal container, the interior space of which is evacuated to form a high vacuum, and coating layers formed on the surface on the interior space-side of the metal container, wherein the coating layers are vanadium-containing glass, which is to say an amorphous substance.

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: 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: 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 purpose of the present invention is to provide a joining material that can easily join materials to be joined even when characteristics and physical properties thereof differ greatly. To solve the above problem, the joining material according to the present invention is characterized by including a base material, a first layer that is disposed on one surface of the base material, and a second layer that is disposed on the other surface of the base material and includes a phase having a different coefficient of thermal expansion to that of the phase configuring the first layer, at least one of the first and second layers including glass having a softening point of 600° C. or lower.

Abstract: An ultrasound observation apparatus for generating an ultrasound image based on an ultrasound echo acquired by an ultrasound probe provided with an ultrasound transducer includes: a puncture needle detection unit configured to detect an image of a puncture needle displayed in the ultrasound image; a motion extraction unit configured to extract a linear motion at a point of the puncture needle based on a history of the image of the puncture needle in the ultrasound image; and a composite image generation unit configured to generate a composite image by generating loci of the linear motions extracted by the motion extraction unit and superimposing the loci on the ultrasound image, the composite image generation unit generating the composite image by using the loci of the linear motions having passed through a common section a plurality of times among the loci of the linear motions extracted by the motion extraction unit.

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.

Abstract: An Ag2O—V2O5—TeO2 lead-free low-melting glass composition that is prevented or restrained from crystallization by heating so as to soften and flow more satisfactorily at a low temperature contains a principal component which includes a vanadium oxide, a tellurium oxide and a silver oxide; a secondary component which includes at least one selected from the group consisting of BaO, WO3 and P2O5; and an additional component which includes at least one selected from the group consisting of oxides of elements in Group 13 of periodic table. A total component of the principal component is 85 mole percent or more in terms of V2O5, TeO2 and Ag2O. Contents of TeO2 and Ag2O each is 1 to 2 times as much as a content of V2O5. A content of the secondary component is 0 to 13 mole percent. A content of the additional component is 0.1 to 3.0 mole percent.

Abstract: Provided are a vacuum heat insulating member which includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; and a sealing part disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, in which an internal space is formed by surrounding by the first substrate, the second substrate and the sealing part, and in which the sealing part includes a glass phase and a metal phase, the metal phase being disposed on a side of the internal space of the glass phase. Thus, in the vacuum heat insulating member, an amount of a gas released from the glass phase to the internal space can be decreased and a high heat insulating property can be kept.

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 ultrasound observation apparatus including a displacement calculating section that measures displacement of a subject based on an ultrasound signal, an elastic-image generating section that generates an elastic image based on the measured displacement, a memory section that stores generated one or more elastic images, a determination-region setting section that sets a proper-image determination region for proper image determination in the elastic image according to a size of an ROI, a characteristic calculating section that calculates a region characteristic of the proper-image determination region, and a proper-image determining section that determines based on the region characteristic whether the elastic image is a proper image.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a charged particle beam device that exhibits high performance due to the use of vanadium glass coatings, and to provide a method of manufacturing a component for a charged particle beam device. Specifically provided is a charged particle beam device using a vacuum component characterized by comprising a metal container, the interior space of which is evacuated to form a high vacuum, and coating layers formed on the surface on the interior space-side of the metal container, wherein the coating layers are vanadium-containing glass, which is to say an amorphous substance.

Abstract: An ultrasound probe is provided which maintains sufficient adhesion strength of the layers that configure the ultrasound probe and which matches the acoustic impedance of a piezoelectric element to that of the organism; also provided is an ultrasound diagnostic device provided with said ultrasound probe. This ultrasound probe (100a) is characterized by comprising a backing layer, a piezoelectric element layer (6E), an acoustic matching layer (2A) and an acoustic lens (1), laminated in that order, wherein an adhesion layer (14A) containing vanadium glass is provided between the piezoelectric element layer (6E) and the acoustic matching layer (2A).