Abstract: An external terminal electrode is attached to a frame, and the frame contains a first resin, and has a first adhered surface. A heat sink plate supports the frame, has an unmounted region where a power semiconductor element is to be mounted within the frame in plan view, is made of metal, and has a second adhered surface. An adhesive layer contains a second resin different from the first resin, and adheres the first adhered surface of the frame and the second adhered surface of the heat sink plate to each other. One of the first and second adhered surfaces includes a flat portion and a protruding portion. The protruding portion protrudes from the flat portion and opposes the other one of the first adhered surface and the second adhered surface with the adhesive layer therebetween.

Abstract: An outer periphery coating material being coated onto an outer peripheral surface of a ceramic honeycomb structure to form an outer periphery coated layer. The outer periphery coating material comprises: a particle mixture containing cordierite particles and amorphous silica particles in a mass ratio of from 40:60 to 80:20; and from 10 to 30% by mass of crystalline inorganic fibers in an outer percentage relative to the particle mixture. An average particle diameter of the cordierite particles is different from an average particle diameter of the amorphous silica particles.

Abstract: A exhaust gas mixing apparatus includes an outer cylinder being configured to an insulating ceramic; fins being configured to an insulating ceramic, the fins being provided on an inner side of the outer cylinder; and an electric heating portion embedded in at least a part of the outer cylinder and/or the fins.

Abstract: A masking method for honeycomb formed body, including bonding a film on at least one bottom face of a honeycomb formed body in a quadrangular prism shape such that an adhesive surface is in contact with the bottom face. The step of bonding the film includes bonding of the film so as to have a bottom face covering portion that covers a whole surface of the bottom face and a pair of outer edge portions along one pair of opposite sides of a quadrangle defining an outer peripheral shape of the bottom face and a pair of protruding portions protruding from another pair of opposite sides of the quadrangle. At least a part of the adhesive surface of each of the pair of protruding portions is bonded so as to be in contact with a pair of opposing lateral faces of the honeycomb formed body.

Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure having porous partition walls provided, surrounding a plurality of cells which serve as fluid through channels extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face, and a porous plugging portion provided either at an end on the inflow end face or the outflow end face of the cells, wherein the plugging portion is composed of a porous material, the honeycomb structure has a central region and a circumferential region, and a ratio of an area of the circumferential region with respect to that of the central region ranges from 0.1 to 0.5, porosity of a central plugging portion in the central region is lower than that of a circumferential plugging portion in the circumferential region, and the porosity of the central plugging portions ranges from 60% to 68%, and that of the circumferential plugging portions ranges from 70% to 85%.

Abstract: In a honeycomb structure, porous partition walls are arranged to surround cells extending from an inflow end face of the honeycomb structure body to an outflow end face thereof, intersection points at which the partition walls arranged in a latticed manner in the inflow end face intersect include a first intersection point that is one intersection point, and second intersection points one of which is the other intersection point in the partition wall including the first intersection point, and which are adjacent to the first intersection point, and the inflow end face has concave/convex portions each including the first intersection point as a bottom portion and the peripheral second intersection points of the first intersection point as top portions, or each including the first intersection point as a top portion and the peripheral second intersection points of the first intersection point as bottom portions.

Abstract: A honeycomb formed body containing a ceramics raw material, the honeycomb formed body including: a pillar shaped honeycomb structure portion having a plurality of rectangular cells, the cells being defined by partition walls and extending from a first end face to a second end face to form flow paths; an outer peripheral portion having outer peripheral portions X where the partition walls are covered with an outer peripheral wall; and outer peripheral portions Y where the partition walls are exposed. Each of the outer peripheral portions X includes a tapered portion having a gradually deceasing thickness of the outer peripheral wall toward a boundary portion with an adjacent outer peripheral portion Y. The tapered portion requires a length equal to or more than one time of an average cell pitch in the outer peripheral direction until thickness of the outer peripheral wall is halved.

Abstract: A dehydration method is a dehydration method for selectively separating water from a mixture that contains water, using a zeolite membrane having an AFX structure, and the method includes a step of supplying the mixture to a supply side space of the zeolite membrane having an AFX structure, and a step of making a pressure difference between the supply side space and a permeation side space of the zeolite membrane having an AFX structure.

Abstract: Provided is a method for inspecting a piezoelectric element in which voltage is applied to a piezoelectric element and evaluation of the electrical characteristics of the piezoelectric element is performed. The method includes a first step in which the piezoelectric element is held on a flat plate-shaped slightly adhesive sheet and a second step in which voltage is applied to the piezoelectric element held on the slightly adhesive sheet and evaluation of the electrical characteristics of the piezoelectric element is performed.

Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes: a metal base member fixed to a surface, on the opposite side of a wafer mounting surface, of an electrostatic chuck; an electrode terminal connected to an electrode embedded in the electrostatic chuck; a through hole provided at a position of the base member, the position being opposed to the electrode terminal; an insulating sleeve fixed to the inner circumferential surface of the through hole; a chuck-side terminal which is connected to the electrode terminal via a flexible cable, and fixed to the insulating sleeve with arranged in the insulating sleeve; a flexible insulating tube that covers the cable, the flexible insulating tube having one end fixed to the electrode terminal and the other end fixed to the chuck-side terminal; and an insulating resin member that covers at least part of the electrode terminal, the part being not covered by the insulating tube.

Abstract: A plurality of illumination elements obliquely irradiating an inspection target region in irradiation directions different from each other and equiangularly spaced around an image capturing part in a state where each of a low-angle, intermediate-angle, and high-angle illumination parts has a different irradiation angle are sequentially turned on and off. An image of the image captured region is captured every time each of the plurality of illumination elements is turned on. A determination image generation part specifies an inspection-excluded region based on at least one of maximum luminance image data and minimum luminance image data of three types of captured image data each corresponding to an irradiation angle of each illumination part and generates determination image data for the image captured region other than the inspection-excluded region. A defect determination part determines existence of a defect based on the determination image data.

Abstract: A heat recovery device, including a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure comprising an outer peripheral side wall having one or more planar outer peripheral side surfaces; one or more thermoelectric conversion modules arranged to face the one or more planar outer peripheral side surfaces; a tubular member that circumferentially covers the outer peripheral side surfaces of the honeycomb structure and the one or more thermoelectric conversion modules; and a casing that circumferentially covers the tubular member; wherein the partition walls are mainly configured of ceramics; and wherein the casing has an inflow port and an outflow port for a second fluid having a temperature lower than that of the first fluid, and a flow path for the second fluid is formed circumferentially around the tubular member between an inner surface of the casing and an outer surface of the tubular member.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a pillar shaped honeycomb; an inner cylindrical member; an outer cylindrical member arranged on a radially outer side of the inner cylindrical member such that a part of the outer cylindrical member forms a flow path for a second fluid; an upstream cylindrical member having a cylindrical portion and a flange portion, the upstream cylindrical member being located on a side of a first end face of the honeycomb structure, and an end portion of the flange portion being connected to the inner cylindrical member and/or the outer cylindrical member; and a downstream cylindrical member having a cylindrical portion and a flange portion, the downstream cylindrical member being located on a side of a second end face of the honeycomb structure, and an end portion of the flange portion being connected to the inner cylindrical member and/or the outer cylindrical member.

Abstract: There is provided a secondary zinc battery including: (a) at least one unit cell including; a positive electrode; a negative-electrode structure including a negative-electrode active material layer containing at least one selected from the group consisting of elemental zinc, zinc oxide, zinc alloys, and zinc compounds; a LDH separator including a porous substrate composed of a polymeric material and layered double hydroxide (LDH); and an electrolytic solution; and (b) a pressuring unit compacting the unit cell to bring the negative-electrode structure in close contact with the LDH separator. Pores of the porous substrate are filled with the LDH such that the LDH separator is hydroxide-ion-conductive and gas-impermeable. The LDH separator separates the positive electrode from the negative-electrode active material layer.

Abstract: A monolithic separation membrane structure according to the present invention includes a porous support body and a separation membrane. The porous support body has a plurality of filtration cells opening at both end surfaces, a plurality of water collecting cells closed on the both end surfaces, a plurality of discharge flow paths running through the plurality of water collecting cells and opening on an outer peripheral surface, and a monolithic base body including the outer peripheral surface. The separation membrane is formed on inside surfaces of the plurality of filtration cells. The plurality of filtration cells includes a first filtration cell and a second filtration cell which are adjacent to each other. The plurality of water collecting cells include water collecting cell which is adjacent to the first filtration cell and are separated from the second filtration cells.

Abstract: The composite sintered body includes AlN and MgAl2O4. The open porosity of the composite sintered body is lower than 0.1%. The relative density of the composite sintered body is not lower than 99.5%. The total percentage of the AlN and the MgAl2O4 contained in the composite sintered body is not lower than 95 weight percentage and not higher than 100 weight percentage. The percentage of the MgAl2O4 contained in the composite sintered body is not lower than 15 weight percentage and not higher than 70 weight percentage. It is thereby possible to provide a high-density composite sintered body having high plasma corrosion resistance, high volume resistivity, and high thermal conductivity.

Abstract: A peak intensity of a (002) plane is greater than or equal to 0.5 times a peak intensity of a (100) plane in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by irradiation of X-rays to a membrane surface of the ERI membrane.

Abstract: A frame is made of a first material. An external terminal electrode is attached to the frame. A heat sink plate supports the frame and includes a mounting region in the frame. The heat sink plate is made of a non-composite material containing copper with purity of 95.0 weight percentage or more. A first adhesive layer bonds the frame and the heat sink plate to each other. The first adhesive layer is made of a second material different from the first material, and has a first composition. A power semiconductor element is mounted on the mounting region of the heat sink plate. A cover is attached to the frame to constitute a sealing space sealing the power semiconductor element without gross leak. A second adhesive layer bonds the frame and the cover to each other, and has a second composition different from the first composition of the first adhesive layer.