Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor that includes an internal electrode containing at least one kind of metal A selected from the group consisting of In, Ga, Zn, Bi, and Pb and dissolved in Ni to form a solid solution. The internal electrode has a ratio of A of 1.4 atomic percent or more to a total amount of A and Ni in a near-interface region located to a depth of 2 nm from a surface of the internal electrode facing a corresponding ceramic dielectric layer. A relation between a value X of atomic percent representing the ratio of A in the near-interface region and a value Y of atomic percent representing the ratio of A in a central region in a thickness direction of the internal electrode is X?Y?1.0. Such a multilayer capacitor is formed by annealing a ceramic stack under a predetermined condition to increase the ratio of metal A in the near-interface region of the internal electrode.

Abstract: A display device having a display panel, a conductive shielding film disposed on a surface of the display panel, and a flexible circuit unit connected to another surface of the display panel and configured to provide a driving signal to the display panel, wherein the shielding film has at least one protrusion disposed adjacent the flexible circuit unit.

Abstract: A multilayer body includes an inner layer portion having a dimension in a stacking direction greater than a dimension of the inner layer portion in a width direction, a second outer layer portion including an outer portion including a second principle surface and an inner portion disposed adjacent to both of the outer portion and the inner layer portion, a dimension of the outer portion in the stacking direction being greater than a dimension of the inner portion, and a composition ratio of Si relative to Ti in the outer portion is greater than that in the inner portion.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component wherein outer electrode is placed over both end portions of a ceramic body. A first coating mainly containing Ni and a second coating containing Sn, solder, or the like are placed on a surface of the outer electrode. The outer electrode includes an end-surface portion and a side-surface turnover portion. The outer electrode includes a glass layer which is placed in a region within at least 5 ?m in linear distance L from a covering end portion of the side-surface turnover portion in a direction toward the end-surface portion so as to be in contact with the ceramic body and which contains, at least, Si. The average thickness t of the glass layer is 3 ?m to 10 ?m. The content of a Si component is 11% by weight or more (preferably 40% by weight or less).

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an MEMS variable capacitor and its driving method, the MEMS variable capacitor including, a first electrode, a second electrode floating over the first electrode upper part, a fixed electrode separated at the second electrode side surface, and a drifting electrode placed between the second electrode and the fixed electrode, connected to the second electrode, and physically contacting the fixed electrode by a voltage applied to the fixed electrode.

Abstract: A vacuum variable capacitor includes a pre-vacuum enclosure for reducing a pressure differential across the bellows. The vacuum force load on the drive system can thereby be reduced, allowing faster movement of the movable electrode, faster capacitance adjustment of the vacuum variable capacitor and longer lifetimes of the device.

Abstract: A laminated ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body, first and second inner electrodes within the ceramic body and including opposed portions opposed to each other in the thickness direction of the ceramic body, a first terminal electrode electrically connected to the first inner electrode, and a second terminal electrode electrically connected to the second inner electrode. The widthwise distance between first widthwise edges and second widthwise edges of the first and second terminal electrodes are smaller, in plan view, than widths of the first and second inner electrodes at the opposed portions.

Abstract: In a multilayer ceramic capacitor, a ceramic body includes dielectric layers and inner electrodes stacked in a stacking direction, outer electrodes on the ceramic body and connected to the plurality of inner electrodes. When viewing a first cross section of the ceramic body parallel or substantially parallel to first and second side surfaces of the ceramic body and having the plurality of inner electrodes exposed, a connection proportion is about 30% to about 70% and is a proportion of a number of the inner electrodes connected to the outer electrodes to a number of all of the plurality of inner electrodes exposed at the first cross section, and when the first cross section is viewed, glass is present between one of the inner electrodes not connected to each of the outer electrodes, and each of the outer electrodes.

Abstract: A capacitor and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The capacitor includes a porous substrate, an electrolyte composition, and a pair of electrodes. The porous substrate has a plurality of holes. The electrolyte composition is located in the holes of the porous substrate, and the electrolyte composition includes an electrolyte solution and a nano carbon material dispersed in the electrolyte solution. The electrodes are respectively located on two opposite surfaces of the porous substrate.

Abstract: A capacitor electrode includes a conductive base member and an electrode part electrically connected to the base member. The electrode part contains carbon particles of a first carbon material capable of adsorbing and desorbing ions. The electrode part further contains voids including first voids with diameters of not less than 0.2 ?m and not more than 1.0 ?m, and second voids with diameters of not less than 0.05 ?m and less than 0.2 ?m. The value of (VA×VA)/(VB×M) is greater than 0.022, where VA is the sum of the volumes of the first voids, VB is the sum of the volumes of the second voids, and M is the volume of the electrode part per unit weight of the electrode part.

Abstract: A display includes an upper surface adapted to present visual information to a device user and an outer perimeter proximate the upper surface. An optically transparent lens is carried by a housing and overlies the display. The optically transparent lens and the upper portion of the housing together define an upper surface of the portable electronic device. An optically transparent resin is carried between the display and the optically transparent lens. The optically transparent resin includes a perimeter portion disposed between the outer perimeter of the display and the side portion of the housing. The resin can be cured using light.

Abstract: A capacitor electrode includes a collector, and an electrode layer disposed in contact with the collector and capable of inserting and releasing cations. The electrode layer includes first carbon material particles capable of inserting and releasing cations and second carbon material particles capable of inserting and releasing cations. The average particle diameter of primary particles of the second carbon material particles is smaller than the average particle diameter of primary particles of the first carbon material particles. In the electrode layer, the content amount of the second carbon material particles is smaller than the content amount of the first carbon material particles.

Abstract: An electric double layer capacitor electrode, including: an activated carbon having: a pore volume utilization efficiency (PVUE) of from about 200 to 290 F/cm3, wherein PVUE is the ratio of the activated carbon gravimetric capacitance (F/g) to the pore volume (cm3/g) of the activated carbon; a low non-linearity value of from 0.1 to 5%; and a total pore volume of from 0.32 to 0.56 cm3/g. Also disclosed is a method of making an electric double layer capacitor electrode, and a method of characterizing the performance of activated carbon, and the electrode, in an electric double layer capacitor (EDLC) device, as defined, herein.

Abstract: Provided is a solid electrolyte capacitor which includes: a bottomed cylindrical housing which includes a bottom surface portion and a side surface portion raised from the bottom surface portion, and has an opening portion formed on an edge portion of the side surface portion; a capacitor element which is accommodated in the inside of the housing, and is formed by winding an anode foil and a cathode foil in an overlapping state with a separator interposed therebetween and by filling a space formed between the anode foil and the cathode foil with a solid electrolyte; a sealing member which seals the opening portion of the housing in a state where the capacitor element is accommodated in the inside of the housing; and a composite sheet which is arranged between the bottom surface portion of the housing and the capacitor element, and has the structure where a resin made of a high-molecular weight compound is retained in a fiber sheet containing at least cellulose fibers.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of: placing between a cooling element and an opposing surface a slurry of: a dielectric powder containing barium titanate, a dispersant, a binder, and water; maintaining the cooling element at a temperature below the opposing surface to cause the formation of ice platelets perpendicular to the surface of the cooling element and having the powder between the platelets; subliming the ice platelets to create voids; sintering the powder to form the dielectric material; and filling the voids with the polymeric material. The process can produce a composite having: a sintered dielectric material of barium titanate and platelets of a polymeric material embedded in the dielectric material. Each of the platelets is perpendicular to a surface of the composite.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided, comprising a display panel, a frame, wherein the display panel is fixed to the frame; and an elastic cover, wherein the elastic cover covers a first side, opposite to the display panel, of the frame. According to the present invention, the elastic cover is used as one part of the electronic device forming part of the product.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor that contains an anode body, dielectric overlying the anode body, adhesion coating overlying the dielectric, and solid electrolyte overlying the adhesion coating. The solid electrolyte contains an inner conductive polymer layer and outer conductive polymer layer, at least one of which is formed from a plurality of pre-polymerized conductive polymer particles. Furthermore, the adhesion coating contains a discontinuous precoat layer containing a plurality of discrete nanoprojections of a manganese oxide (e.g., manganese dioxide).

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a high-capacity slurry electrode for use in a flow energy storage system, comprising: an electrolyte; electrode active particles, distributed in the electrolyte, functioning as an electrode active material in an electrochemical flow capacitor storage system; and a redox active material, dissolved in the electrolyte, behaving as a pseudo-capacitor through a redox reaction on a surface of the electrode active material, wherein the high-capacity slurry electrode exhibits both capacitor properties based on the electrode active particles and pseudo-capacitor properties based on the redox active material.

Abstract: There is provided a multilayered ceramic capacitor, including: a ceramic body; an active layer including a plurality of first and second internal electrodes; an upper cover layer; a lower cover layer formed below the active layer, the lower cover layer being thicker than the upper cover layer; first and second external electrodes; at least one pair of first and second internal electrodes repeatedly formed inside the lower cover layer, wherein, when A is defined as ½ of an overall thickness of the ceramic body, B is defined as a thickness of the lower cover layer, C is defined as ½ of an overall thickness of the active layer, and D is defined as a thickness of the upper cover layer, a ratio of deviation between a center of the active layer and a center of the ceramic body, (B+C)/A, satisfies 1.063?(B+C)/A?1.745.

Abstract: A mounting structure includes a bonding material (106) that bonds second electrodes (104) of a circuit board (105) and bumps (103) of a semiconductor package (101), the bonding material (106) being surrounded by a first reinforcing resin (107). Moreover, a portion between the outer periphery of the semiconductor package (101) and the circuit board (105) is covered with a second reinforcing resin (108). Even if the bonding material (106) is a solder material having a lower melting point than a conventional bonding material, high drop resistance is obtained.