Abstract: A door handle that has an elongated shape and is mounted onto a vehicle door in a state where a longitudinal direction thereof is aligned with a vehicle front-and-rear direction, the door handle includes: a front part and a rear part each of which has a connection surface to be connected to the vehicle door; and a grip part provided between the front part and the rear part, wherein a rear end of the front part protrudes outward in the longitudinal direction more than the front end thereof on the connection surface of the front part, and a curvature radius of a protruding portion of the rear end of the front part on the connection surface of the front part is R4 or less.

Abstract: A detection device is retained in the rumen of a cow by being orally administered to the cow, and detects the state of the inside of the rumen. The detection device wirelessly transmits measured values of the rumen pH as detection results. A monitoring unit (receiver and monitoring server) acquires information transmitted from the detection device, and monitors the state of the inside of the rumen. The detection device is configured to be recoverable orally from the rumen of the cow. The operating conditions of the detection device are recorded in the detection device ahead of time, and can be updated by means of a wireless signal transmitted from a setting unit to the detection device.

Abstract: When an optical module is inserted into a compartment of a receptacle cage in a state where a heatsink is detached from the receptacle cage, a tip end portion of a protection wall portion of the optical module comes into contact with end portions of guide pieces of a guide plate even if the optical module is inserted with the protection wall portion being lifted up, and the tip end portion of the protection wall portion is thereby pushed down and guided to a clearance below the guide pieces.

Abstract: A distal end portion for pressing an object to be joined of one of a resonator and a reception jig is constituted as a protrusion having an outer face not including an angular sharp edge, such as a hog-backed shape or a semispherical shape, and during joining, while metal foils stacked are being laterally thinly stretched with lateral vibration from the resonator and atoms of the metal foils are being moved laterally without the protrusions forcibly holding down the metal foils, a metal amount corresponding to a volume stretched is smoothly discharged along a curved face without breaking the metal foils, and even when the stacked metal foils are used as the object to be joined, breaking of the metal foils is not generated during joining, so that a step of protecting the metal foils with a protection member is unnecessary.

Abstract: A distal end portion on a side of an object to be joined of a resonator for joining is so configured that a plurality of protrusions each having an outer face not including an angular shape edge are stacked in two or more steps in a direction in which the resonator for joining and a reception jig for joining oppose to each other and that a shape of a protrusion on the side of the object to be joined is made smaller than a shape of a protrusion on a side of the resonator for joining.

Abstract: A bonding target member 1 having a solid bonding material 3 with aluminum as a main component is interposed between a metal member 2 and a ceramic member 4 and an elastic member 12 are pressurized by a pressurizing section 13 and a bonding tool section 15 of a resonator 14 in a vertical direction. The bonding tool section 15 of the resonator 14 resonates with sound vibration or ultrasound vibration transmitted from an oscillator 16. An interfacial portion between the metal member 2 and the bonding material 3 with aluminum as a main component and an interfacial portion between the bonding material 3 with aluminum as a main component and the ceramic member 4 each receive pressurization and vibration energy to be bonded together. The metal member 2 and the ceramic member 4 can be bonded together at ordinary temperature in the atmosphere with the bonding material 3 with aluminum as a main component.

Abstract: A bonding target member typically has a solid bonding material with aluminum as a main component interposed between a metal member and a ceramic member. These elements and an elastic member are pressurized by a pressurizing section and a bonding tool section of a resonator in a vertical direction. The bonding tool section of the resonator resonates with sound vibration or ultrasound vibration transmitted from an oscillator. The metal member and the ceramic member can alternatively be bonded together without the intermediate bonding material. In both cases, bonding at ordinary temperature in the atmosphere is possible. When the ceramic member has a thickness resistant to pressurization and vibration energy at the time of bonding to resist cracking, the elastic member may be disposed on the metal member side, or may not be used.

Abstract: A distal end portion for pressing an object to be joined of one of a resonator and a reception jig is constituted as a protrusion having an outer face not including an angular sharp edge, such as a hog-backed shape or a semispherical shape, and during joining, while metal foils stacked are being laterally thinly stretched with lateral vibration from the resonator and atoms of the metal foils are being moved laterally without the protrusions forcibly holding down the metal foils, a metal amount corresponding to a volume stretched is smoothly discharged along a curved face without breaking the metal foils, and even when the stacked metal foils are used as the object to be joined, breaking of the metal foils is not generated during joining, so that a step of protecting the metal foils with a protection member is unnecessary.

Abstract: In a vertical vibration joining apparatus where a resonator having a vibrator on one end side is horizontally attached to a supporting tool capable of ascending and descending, the resonator includes a cross phone of a cross shape in a front view and two boosters, the cross phone is for converting acoustic vibration transmitted from the vibrator from vibration in a lateral direction to vibration in a vertical direction orthogonal to the lateral direction, two boosters are provided at both ends of a pair of projection portions of the cross phone in the lateral direction, and portions to be supported to the supporting tool are coaxially and integrally provided on two boosters by bending outer peripheral faces of the boosters at minimum vibration amplitude points of vibration in the lateral direction resonating with the acoustic vibration transmitted from the vibrator outside in a diametrical direction to project the same annularly.

Abstract: [Solving Means] A method for joining a plurality of members to be joined composed of metals or materials different in kind from each other which are metal and such an inorganic substance as ceramics to each other, the members being put in a state stacked up and down by having a configuration that a member to be joined 1 is received from an opening of an inside space portion 3 provided in a member to be joined 2 into the inside space portion 3 to be supported by a slope 7 of the inside space portion 3 and the members to be joined 1 and 2 are subjected to a vertical load shown by arrow 14 from a joining tool portion 12 and an anvil 13, while the joining tool portion 12 resonates with acoustic wave vibration or ultrasonic wave vibration transmitted from an acoustic wave vibrator or an ultrasonic wave vibrator to be subjected to vibration in a longitudinal direction shown by arrow 15, so that the members are joined in an ingot-like state, in a diffusion-like state, or in an alloy-like state.

Abstract: A gyroscope package, system and method for use in a downhole tool suitable are provided. The gyroscope package, system and method includes a housing coupleable with a downhole tool, a gyroscope body within the housing, and an inductive-type MEMS gyroscope. The MEMS gyroscope includes a magnetic shield disposed around the inductive-type MEMS gyroscope to magnetically shield the inductive-type MEMS gyroscope.

Abstract: A bonding target member 1 having a solid bonding material 3 with aluminum as a main component is interposed between a metal member 2 and a ceramic member 4 and an elastic member 12 are pressurized by a pressurizing section 13 and a bonding tool section 15 of a resonator 14 in a vertical direction. The bonding tool section 15 of the resonator 14 resonates with sound vibration or ultrasound vibration transmitted from an oscillator 16. An interfacial portion between the metal member 2 and the bonding material 3 with aluminum as a main component and an interfacial portion between the bonding material 3 with aluminum as a main component and the ceramic member 4 each receive pressurization and vibration energy to be bonded together. The metal member 2 and the ceramic member 4 can be bonded together at ordinary temperature in the atmosphere with the bonding material 3 with aluminum as a main component.

Abstract: Methods and systems for azimuth measurements using a gyroscope unit are disclosed. The method includes acquiring a ratio value between two earth rate components orthogonal to each other by using the gyroscope unit at a measuring position; acquiring three gravity vector components orthogonal to each other at the measuring position; and determining an azimuth with respect to a reference axis predetermined in the gyroscope unit, based on the ratio value, the three gravity vector components and a geodetic latitude of the measuring position.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for selecting a marker for diagnosis of the nutritional status capable of reflecting the status of a particular nutrient in a plant without being influenced by various stresses in environmental factors, etc., and a method for diagnosing the status of a particular nutrient in a plant using a marker for diagnosis of the nutritional status selected by the method. A metabolite quantitatively changed depending on only the amount of a particular nutrient in a plant is selected as a marker for diagnosis of the nutritional status reflecting the status of the nutrient in the plant.

Abstract: [Solving Means] A heatsink support mechanism includes: a flexural portion formed at an uppermost end of a side wall 126 constituting a receptacle cage 12; a top plate 127; and a reinforcing portion 12RF formed at a joint in which one end of the side wall 126 and one end of a side wall 128 are joined together. In the case where a heatsink 26 is inserted through the above-described predetermined gap 12g and positioned right above a compartment 121, one end of a lock piece 12LF of the top plate 127 is fixed to a hook-shaped fixing portion in the heatsink 26.

Abstract: A device for high-temperature applications is provided. The device includes a base member and at least one electrically conducting layer. The electrically conducting layer is made of polycrystalline of a first metal doped with at least one second metal different from the first metal and formed on or above the base member as electrodes for bulk acoustic vibration and/or resonance or as at least one temperature-sensitive element for sensing temperature.

Abstract: Apparatus to provide a time reference are disclosed herein. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a resonator. A first cap is coupled to a first side of the resonator to define a first cavity, and a second cap is coupled to a second side of the resonator to define a second cavity. The first cavity and the second cavity provide a first vacuum in which the resonator is to resonate. The resonator, the first cap and the second cap have substantially identical thermal expansion coefficients. The example apparatus also includes a vacuum chamber surrounding the resonator, the first cap and the second cap. The vacuum chamber is to provide a second vacuum in which the resonator, the first cap and the second cap are disposed. A frequency of resonance of the resonator in the first vacuum is to provide a time reference.

Abstract: Methods of acquiring viscosity of a downhole fluid in a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation is provided. The downhole fluid is measurable by a vibrating wire viscometer positionable in the wellbore. The method involves acquiring a signal of the downhole fluid from the viscometer, generating an initial estimate of the viscosity parameter based on measured viscosity signal parameters and by selectively adjusting the viscosity signal, and generating final estimates of the viscosity parameters by performing Kalman filtering on the initial estimates.

Abstract: A method for producing fractured fragments of polycrystalline silicon having a fracturing process fracturing fragments of polycrystalline silicon between a pair of rolls which are rotated in a counter direction each other around parallel axes, in which: the rolls have a plurality of fracturing teeth protruding radially-outwardly from outer peripheral surfaces thereof; the fracturing teeth have spherical top surfaces and conical or cylindrical side surfaces; the fracturing process is performed in fracturing ratio of equal to or more than 1.0 to less than 1.5, and the fracturing ratio is specified by a maximum length of polycrystalline silicon before fracturing with respect to a facing distance between the top surfaces of the fracturing teeth at a facing part of the rolls.

Abstract: Provided is a method for increasing the thickness of the secondary cell wall of a plant. A method for increasing the thickness of the secondary cell wall of a plant by using a tracheary element differentiation (TED)-associated protein or a C-terminal fragment of the same, which comprises constructing a transgenic (Tg) plant containing, in an expressible manner, a DNA encoding protein(s) selected from the group consisting of a combination of TED6 with TED7, a C-terminal fragment of TED6, a C-terminal fragment of TED7, and a combination of a C-terminal fragment of TED6 with a C-terminal fragment of TED7, and expressing said DNA in said plant; the Tg plant; and a progeny, a cell, a tissue or a seed of the same.