Abstract: A new method for evaluating embrittlement of an amorphous alloy ribbon is provided. The method includes: pressing a pressurization member from one side to a plurality of positions of an amorphous alloy ribbon; scattering, in the amorphous alloy ribbon, pressurization portions where the pressurization member is pressed to form indentation; and evaluating embrittlement by the number or distribution of pressurization portions where cracks have occurred.

Abstract: An automotive member and a resistance spot welding method. The automotive member includes a resistance spot weld formed by resistance-spot-welding a plurality of steel sheets including at least one high strength steel sheet. The high strength steel sheet has a specific chemical composition. The microstructure in the vicinity of the edge of the nugget of the resistance spot weld is a composite microstructure containing ferrite at a volume fraction of 1 to 30%, martensite at a volume fraction of 1 to 50%, and tempered martensite at a volume fraction of 20% or more. The average number density of Nb-based precipitate grains having a grain diameter less than 0.09 ?m and Ti-based precipitate grains having a grain diameter less than 0.09 ?m is 10 or more grains per 100 ?m2 in a sheet cross section.

Abstract: A resistance spot welding method in which a high strength zinc-based coated steel sheet used in a sheet set has an equivalent carbon content of 0.20% or more and a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more. The method includes performing a first energization step such that a current value at the end of the energization, a current value Is at the start of the energization, and a thickness of the thinnest steel sheet among steel sheets overlapping each other satisfy specified relationships. The method includes performing a second energization step in which a cooling step of holding a non-energization state for 10 ms or longer and shorter than 160 ms and performing energization at a current value equal to or more than the current value at the end of the first energization step for 20 ms or longer and shorter than 200 ms are repeated.

Abstract: A spot welded member includes a spot weld formed by holding a sheet stack of multiple steel sheets between a pair of electrodes and spot-welding the sheet stack, in which at least one of the multiple steel sheets is a high-strength zinc-based coated steel sheet having a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more, the high-strength zinc-based coated steel sheet having a coating with an Al content of 0.5% or more by mass, and in which the heat shock region of the spot weld outwardly extending from an edge of a corona bond area includes a coated layer including an FeAl alloy layer having an average thickness of 0.3 ?m or more and a zinc-based coated layer having an average thickness of 2.0 ?m or more on the FeAl alloy layer at the interface between the base steel sheet of the high-strength zinc-based coated steel sheet and the coating.

Abstract: An amorphous lamination core for motor is configured by laminating amorphous alloy pieces, a pressurization member is pressed to a plurality of positions of the amorphous alloy piece, the number of pressurization portions with a crack is N, the total number of pressurization portions to which the pressurization member is pressed is N0 (N0?100), and a degree of embrittlement is N/N0×100(%), the pressurization member is made of beryllium copper, and has a body portion of ?1.4 mm and a conical portion, the conical portion has a bottom surface of ?4 mm and a vertex angle ? of 120°, and when the degree of embrittlement is evaluated with the conical portion being pressed against the amorphous alloy piece and pressurization force of the pressurization member being set to 14 N, a degree of embrittlement of the amorphous alloy piece is equal to or less than 3.0%.

Abstract: A new method for evaluating embrittlement of an amorphous alloy ribbon is provided. The method includes: pressing a pressurization member from one side to a plurality of positions of an amorphous alloy ribbon; scattering, in the amorphous alloy ribbon, pressurization portions where the pressurization member is pressed to form indentation; and evaluating embrittlement by the number or distribution of pressurization portions where cracks have occurred.

Abstract: There is provided an oxide semiconductor that is capable of achieving p-type semiconductor properties in the oxide semiconductor and has excellent transparency, mobility and weather resistance. The oxide semiconductor is achieved by an oxide composite having a pyrochlore structure that contains Sn and Nb whose composition ratio Sn/Nb is 0.81?Sn/Nb<1.0. The oxide semiconductor has a wide bandgap of 2.2 eV, indicating that the oxide semiconductor has transparency in a visible spectrum and is a p-type semiconductor with high mobility. When Sn is less than a stoichiometric composition ratio in a composition formula of Sn2Nb2O7, that is, when Sn/Nb<1, p-type semiconductor properties can be achieved by generation of a structural defect V?Sn, and when the composition ratio Sn/Nb is greater than or equal to 0.81, the pyrochlore structure is obtained.

Abstract: The operating machine boom is an operating machine boom 40 including a tubular boom member 41 configured such that an upper member 42 and a lower member 43 with U-shaped sections are welded together with each upper flat portion 42a butting with a corresponding one of lower flat portions 43a. A welded portion 41b between the upper member 42 and the lower member 43 is on a compression portion B side with respect to a stress neutral point P at a boundary between a compression portion B at which compression stress is caused and a tension portion A at which tensile stress is caused when a load acts downwardly on a tip end side of the boom member 41, and a reinforcement member 44 is arranged on an inner surface side of the welded portion 41 b.

Abstract: A wire for a melting treatment is provided and has, as a whole, a component composition of a precipitation-strengthening Ni-based super heat-resistant alloy in which an equilibrium precipitation amount of gamma prime at 700° C. is equal to or greater than 40% by mole. The wire has an integrated structure including: an element wire having a component composition in which the equilibrium precipitation amount of gamma prime at 700° C. is equal to or greater than 0% by mole and less than 40% by mole; and a material having a component composition in which the equilibrium precipitation amount of gamma prime at 700° C. is equal to or greater than 0% by mole and less than 40% by mole, and which is different from the component composition of the element wire. A method of producing the wire for a melting treatment is also provided.

Abstract: In a column end joint structure for joining an end of a column made of flat wooden material having a rectangular cross-section to a joining member, splitting generation at the end of the column is controlled. An expansion of crack is controlled when splitting generated. A cutout portion is provided in each of ends in a longitudinal direction of a column end face, and a joint fitting is coupled inside the cutout portion by a joint bolt. The joint fitting is coupled to a foundation by an anchor bolt. Joint fittings are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the end face inside each cutout portion. One joint fitting is located contacting or close to a surface of the column inside the cutout portion such that the joint fitting side face and the surface of the column inside the cutout portion restrain a displacement orthogonal to the column axis.

Abstract: A jib attachment/detachment mechanism to mount a jib on a boom head includes a guide mechanism including a guide roller and a guide support configured to guide engaging portions of a jib support to positions of engagement with shaft pins of a boom head when the jib support is pulled up with a wire by using a winch and to prevent change of a state of the wire pulled up by the winch when the jib support is rotated around the shaft pins by contracting a cylinder.

Abstract: Provided is a method by which a low-oxygen and high-density molybdenum target can be efficiently obtained, while fully utilizing the characteristics of each molybdenum (Mo) starting material powder. The present invention provides a method for producing a molybdenum target, wherein a mixed powder that is obtained by mixing a molybdenum powder A, which is prepared by reducing molybdenum oxide and then crushing the resulting so as to have an average particle diameter of 2-15 ?m, and a molybdenum powder B, which is prepared by crushing a molybdenum bulk starting material having a density of not less than 6.64×10 (kg/m3) so as to have an average particle diameter of 50-2,000 ?m, is sintered under pressure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a detection method for a genetic disease, and specifically relates to detection of disease-causing genes for autosomal recessive inherited Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT). In the method according to the present invention, a mutation(s) in MME (membrane metallo-endopeptidase) gene, FAT3 (FAT tumor suppressor homolog 3) gene, and/or SELRC1 (Sell repeat containing 1) gene in a biological sample are/is detected.

Abstract: In a column end joint structure for joining an end of a column made of flat wooden material having a rectangular cross-section to a joining member, splitting generation at the end of the column is controlled. An expansion of crack is controlled when splitting generated. A cutout portion is provided in each of ends in a longitudinal direction of a column end face, and a joint fitting is coupled inside the cutout portion by a joint bolt. The joint fitting is coupled to a foundation by an anchor bolt. Joint fittings are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the end face inside each cutout portion. One joint fitting is located contacting or close to a surface of the column inside the cutout portion such that the joint fitting side face and the surface of the column inside the cutout portion restrain a displacement orthogonal to the column axis.

Abstract: [Problem] The purpose of the present invention is to provide a pharmaceutical composition containing an antibacterial agent, which is effective in elucidating one cause of dementia, and in treatment thereof. [Solution] The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of dementia, containing an antibacterial agent. The present invention moreover provides a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of extreme halophile infections, containing a folic acid synthesis inhibitor.

Abstract: An electronic receipt system includes a terminal device, a first memory unit which a first user has, and a second memory unit which a second user who is a trading partner of the first user has. The terminal device includes biometric authentication obtaining means to obtain biometric authentication information of the first user and biometric authentication information of the second user; electronic tally generating means to generate electronic tallies based on the biometric authentication information of the both users; electronic receipt generating means to generate electronic receipts including transaction information of the first user and the second user, the electronic receipts including a first electronic receipt having one of the electronic tallies and a second electronic receipt having another of the relevant electronic tallies; means to store the first electronic receipt in the first memory unit; and means to make the second electronic receipt to be stored in the second memory unit.

Abstract: A jib attachment/detachment mechanism to mount a jib on a boom head includes a guide mechanism including a guide roller and a guide support configured to guide engaging portions of a jib support to positions of engagement with shaft pins of a boom head when the jib support is pulled up with a wire by using a winch and to prevent change of a state of the wire pulled up by the winch when the jib support is rotated around the shaft pins by contracting a cylinder.

Abstract: Provided is a method by which a low-oxygen and high-density molybdenum target can be efficiently obtained, while fully utilizing the characteristics of each molybdenum (Mo) starting material powder. The present invention provides a method for producing a molybdenum target, wherein a mixed powder that is obtained by mixing a molybdenum powder A, which is prepared by reducing molybdenum oxide and then crushing the resulting so as to have an average particle diameter of 2-15 ?m, and a molybdenum powder B, which is prepared by crushing a molybdenum bulk starting material having a density of not less than 6.64×10 (kg/m3) so as to have an average particle diameter of 50-2,000 ?m, is sintered under pressure.

Abstract: A perovskite phosphor film emitting red light from among the three primary colors (i.e., red, green and blue) underlying the construction of displays which is fabricated by adsorbing a nanosheet as a seed layer on a solid substrate and forming an oriented film of an oxide phosphor thereon, characterized in that the perovskite phosphor film comprises a film of an oxide phosphor (3) having a high transparency that is formed on a seed layer comprising a nanosheet (2) that is adsorbed on a solid substrate (1) such as a glass substrate or the like, and the oxide phosphor (3) is (SrxCa1-x)1-yPryTiO3: 0?x?0.8, 0.001?y?0.01.

Abstract: A motor includes: a stator (12) having coils; a rotor (11), which is disposed inside the stator and has a plurality of magnets; and a magnetic path switching part (18), which is provided in the rotor (11) and switches a magnetic path of the rotor (11) to select intense field control as a forward salient-pole structure or weak field control as an inverse salient-pole structure. The magnetic path switching part (18) is formed by use of a member having magnetic anisotropy, which is arranged on a magnetic path connecting magnets (13) of the same pole and a magnetic path connecting magnets (13) of different poles in the rotor (11). By changing the magnetic anisotropy of the member, the forward salient-pole structure and the inverse salient-pole structure are switched therebetween.