Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus for collecting correct strain information irrespective of the depth of an object. The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprises an ultrasonic probe for transmitting/receiving ultrasonic waves to/from an object, pressing means for pressing biological tissues of the object, transmission means for transmitting ultrasonic waves to the biological tissues via the ultrasonic probe, reception means for receiving the reflected echo signals generated from the object via the ultrasonic probe, strain information calculating means for calculating the strain distribution of the biological tissues on the basis of the data on a pair of frames at different acquisition times received by the reception means, strain image construction means for constructing the strain image according to the strain distribution determined by the strain information calculating means, and display means for displaying the strain image.

Abstract: The thermosetting die-bonding film of the present invention is used in manufacturing a semiconductor device, has at least an epoxy resin, a phenol resin, and an acrylic copolymer, and the ratio X/Y is 0.7 to 5 when X represents a total weight of the epoxy resin and the phenol resin and Y represents a weight of the acrylic copolymer.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus capable of accurately providing an elasticity modulus by actually measuring the pressure in an ultrasonic scanning region. The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprises a pressure bag installed on the ultrasonic transmitting/receiving surface of the ultrasonic probe and filled with a liquid, a liquid charging/discharging means for inflating or deflating the pressure bag by charging/discharging the liquid into/from the pressure bag, a pressure measuring means for measuring the pressure of the liquid placed in the pressure bag, and a pressure calculation means for calculating the pressure in the ultrasonic scanning region of an object to be examined in contact with the pressure bag according to the information on the pressure measured by the pressure measurement means. An elasticity information calculation means calculates the elasticity modulus using the information on the pressure.

Abstract: The present invention is a dicing die-bonding film having a dicing film having a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on an ultraviolet-ray transmitting base and a die-bonding film provided on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is formed by laminating the die-bonding film onto a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer precursor formed from an acrylic polymer comprising an acrylic ester as a main monomer, a hydroxyl group-containing monomer at a ratio in the range of 10 to 40 mol % with respect to 100 mol % of the acrylic ester, and an isocyanate compound having a radical reactive carbon-carbon double bond within a molecular at a ratio in the range of 70 to 90 mol % with respect to 100 mol % of the hydroxyl group-containing monomer, and then curing by irradiating with an ultraviolet ray from the base side, and the die-bonding film is formed from an epoxy resin.

Abstract: A dicing die-bonding film having a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on a base and a die-bonding film on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer comprising an acrylic polymer comprising acrylic ester A represented by CH2?CHCOOR1 (where R1 is an alkyl group having 6-10 carbon atoms), acrylic ester B represented by CH2?CHCOOR2 (where R2 is an alkyl group having 11 carbon atoms or more), a hydroxyl group-containing monomer, and an isocyanate compound having a radical reactive carbon-carbon double bond, where the ratios of components are 40-10 mol % of the acrylic ester B with respect to 60-90 mol % of the acrylic ester A, 10-30 mol % hydroxyl group-containing monomer with respect to 100 mol % of the total of the acrylic ester A and the acrylic ester B, and 70-90 mol % isocyanate compound with respect to 100 mol % of the monomer containing a hydroxl group.

Abstract: A dicing die-bonding film having a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on a base and a die-bonding film on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer comprising an acrylic polymer comprising an acrylic ester A represented by CH2?CHCOOR1 (where R1 is an alkyl group having 6-10 carbon atoms), an acrylic ester B represented by CH2?CHCOOR2 (where R2 is an alkyl group having 11 carbon atoms or more), a hydroxyl group-containing monomer, and an isocyanate compound having a radical reactive carbon-carbon double bond, where the ratios of components are 40-10 mol % of the acrylic ester B to 60-90 mol % of the acrylic ester A, 10-30 mol % hydroxyl group-containing monomer to 100 mol % of the total of the acrylic ester A and the acrylic ester B, 70-90 mol % isocyanate compound to 100 mol % of the hydroxyl group-containing monomer, and the die-bonding film is formed from an epoxy resin.

Abstract: A dicing die-bonding film comprising a dicing film having a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on a base and a die-bonding film on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer comprising an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive comprising an acrylic polymer which comprises an acrylic ester, a hydroxyl group-containing monomer where a ratio is in a range of 10-40 mol % to 100 mol % of the acrylic ester, an isocyanate compound having a radical reactive carbon-carbon double bond where a ratio is in a range of 70-90 mol % to 100 mol % of the hydroxyl group-containing monomer, and a compound having two or more radical reactive carbon-carbon double bonds where a ratio is in a range of 10-60 parts by weight to 100 parts by weight of the acrylic polymer, and the die-bonding film is formed from an epoxy resin and is laminated on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dicing die-bonding film having a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and a die bonding adhesive layer being sequentially laminated on a supporting substrate, wherein said pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a thickness of 10 to 80 ?m, and has a storage elastic modulus at 23° C. of 1×104 to 1×1010 Pa.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is characterized by including a displacement/strain calculation unit 12 which obtains a strain distribution of a body site on a scan plane when pressed by an ultrasonic probe 1 and a non-pressed image creation unit 5 which corrects an ultrasonic image on the basis of the strain distribution calculated by the displacement/strain calculation unit and generates a corrected ultrasonic image in a non-pressed state or a pressed image creation unit 40 which generates a corrected reference image obtained by adding, to the reference image, a strain equivalent to one in the ultrasonic image on the basis of the strain distribution obtained by the displacement/strain calculation unit 12, in order to accurately perform comparative observation of an ultrasonic image and a reference image captured by a medical diagnostic apparatus other than the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus.

Abstract: A dicing/die-bonding film including a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (2) on a supporting base material (1) and a die-bonding adhesive layer (3) on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (2), wherein a releasability in an interface between the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (2) and the die-bonding adhesive layer (3) is different between an interface (A) corresponding to a work-attaching region (3a) in the die-bonding adhesive layer (3) and an interface (B) corresponding to a part or a whole of the other region (3b), and the releasability of the interface (A) is higher than the releasability of the interface (B). The dicing/die-bonding film is excellent in balance between retention in dicing a work and releasability in releasing its diced chipped work together with the die-bonding adhesive layer.

Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a driving assisting apparatus and driving assisting method which can predict with a high accuracy a state of a traffic light when a vehicle enters an intersection.

Abstract: A novel plant virus vector and a method of gene expression into plants are provided, and the present invention relates to a plant virus vector characterized in that a part of the sequence of the 2b region of the RNA2 molecule of the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) is deleted; the aforementioned plant virus vector characterized in that the region from the StuI site to the stop codon of the 2b ORF of pCY2, which is an infectious clone of CMV-Y RNA2, is deleted; and a method of gene expression in plants characterized in that a foreign gene is introduced so as to be stably expressed in a plant using the genetic recombinant. This vector is useful as a plant RNA vector for causing stable expression of foreign genes.

Abstract: An automated pressing device (3) for an ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus according to the present invention is constituted by being provided with a probe holding member (21) including an attaching portion (31) to which a probe (2) is detachably attached and a griping portion (32) to which the attaching portion is slidably attached together with the probe attached thereto so as to permit advancing and retreating of an ultrasonic transmission and reception plane (27) of the probe, a motive power transmission wire (23) including a flexible cylindrical body (41) of which one end is secured to the griping portion in the probe holding member and an inner wire (42) that is inserted in the cylindrical body and of which one end is coupled to the attaching portion and a pressing motive power means (24) to which the other end of the cylindrical body in the motive power transmission wire is secured and that couples with the other end of the inner wire to advance and retreat the same.

Abstract: An ultrasonographic device includes an ultrasonic wave transmitter/receiver section which transmits and receives ultrasonic waves to and from a test subject through a probe, a phasing addition circuit which controls the phase of the received ultrasonic wave and generates RF signal frame data, an RF signal frame data selection section which makes variable the frame interval of the RF signal frame data to be outputted, and an elastic image generating section which sets the optimum imaging range for each elastic frame data generated based on the RF signal frame data and generates elastic image.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for extending the sugar chain modification of a lipid or a protein by introducing two or more glycosyltransferase genes in a biological organism (including animal-, plant- or microbial cells). Also disclosed is a recombinant plant with a potency to generate ceramide trihexoside and a method for generating ceramide trihexoside using the plant. Methods for synthetically preparing ceramide trihexoside utilizing a transgenic tobacco prepared by constructing an expression vector with the ORF of human- or animal-derived ?1,4-galactosyltransferase gene (?1,4 GT) for plants and subsequently introducing the vector into tobacco using a genetic approach for plants and methods for the mass-scale production of ceramide trihexoside are also disclosed herein.

Abstract: The thermosetting die bonding film of the invention is a thermosetting die bonding film used to produce a semiconductor device, which contains, as main components, 5 to 15% by weight of a thermoplastic resin component and 45 to 55% by weight of a thermosetting resin component, and has a melt viscosity of 400 Pa·s or more and 2500 Pa·s or less at 100° C. before the film is thermally set.

Abstract: A laser processing protection sheet (2) capable of effectively preventing contamination on the surface of an article to be processed by decomposition products when the article to be processed (1) is processed by the UV absorption ablation of a laser beam (7). A production method for a laser processed article (10) using the laser processing protection sheet (2). The laser processing protection sheet (2) is provided on the laser beam incident surface side of the article to be processed (1) when the article (1) is processed by the UV absorption ablation of the laser beam (7).

Abstract: An image showing the spatial distribution of the hardness of a tissue of an object to be examined from which the influence of the pressure amount is eliminated is displayed. From ultrasonic tomography data measured by pressing the tissue, a physical quantity relating to the distortion of the tissue at measurement points of the tissue is determined. An elasticity image of the tissue is created according to the physical quantity. The physical quantities at the measurement points are indexed by using the physical quantity in a reference region determined in the elasticity image as a reference, and an indexed elasticity image showing the distribution of the index value is created.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dicing die-bonding film including a dicing film having a pressure sensitive adhesive layer provided on a base material and a die-bonding film provided on the pressure sensitive adhesive layer, and having excellent storage stability of a product even at room temperature. The dicing die-bonding film in the present invention is a dicing die-bonding film having a dicing film including a radiation curable pressure sensitive adhesive layer provided onto a base material and a die-bonding film provided on the pressure sensitive adhesive layer, in which a pressure sensitive adhesive in the pressure sensitive adhesive layer is constituted by containing an acryl polymer, and in which the acid value of the acryl polymer is in a range of 0.01 to 1 and the iodine value is in a range of 5 to 10.

Abstract: An object is to provide a pressing member, an ultrasonic probe and an ultrasonic diagnosing device that enhance the efficiency of uniformly pressing a subject and achieve a high-precision elastic image. Therefore, the contact surface of the pressing member with the subject is formed so that the vertical direction of the face of at least a part of the contact surface is different from the vertical direction of the face of the other part. The pressing member is detachably mounted on the probe or formed integrally with the probe.