Abstract: Provided is an aluminum alloy element for a slide fastener, which has improved strength and abrasion resistance. The element for the slide fastener includes a base material of an aluminum alloy having a composition represented by a general formula: AlaSibCucMgdTieBf in which a, b, c, d, e and f each represents % by mass; a is a balance; 0.2?b?0.8, 0.8?c?1.8, 0.8?d?1.8, 0<e?0.05, and 0<f?0.01; and unavoidable impurity elements may be contained; the aluminum alloy comprising, dispersed therein, precipitates containing at least one element selected from a group consisting of Al, Si, Cu and Mg, the element for the slide fastener comprising a pair of leg portions and a head portion that connects the pair or leg portions and comprises a convex portion and a concave portion for engagement.

Abstract: Elements for a slide fastener are provided, which have high strength and improved abrasion resistance. More particularly, an element for a slide fastener includes as a base material, an aluminum alloy having a composition represented by a general formula: AlaSibCucMgd in which a, b, c and d are expressed in percentage by mass, a denotes a balance, 0.4?b?0.9, 0.15?c?0.8, 0.8?d?2.0, and unavoidable impurity elements may be contained; and the aluminum alloy containing a precipitate containing Mg and Si.

Abstract: Provided is an aluminum alloy element for a slide fastener, which has improved strength and abrasion resistance. The element for the slide fastener includes a base material of an aluminum alloy having a composition represented by a general formula: AlaSibCucMgdTieBf in which a, b, c, d, e and f each represents % by mass; a is a balance; 0.2?b?0.8, 0.8?c?1.8, 0.8?d?1.8, 0<e?0.05, and 0<f?0.01; and unavoidable impurity elements may be contained; the aluminum alloy comprising, dispersed therein, precipitates containing at least one element selected from a group consisting of Al, Si, Cu and Mg, the element for the slide fastener comprising a pair of leg portions and a head portion that connects the pair or leg portions and comprises a convex portion and a concave portion for engagement.

Abstract: Elements for a slide fastener are provided, which have high strength and improved abrasion resistance. More particularly, an element for a slide fastener includes as a base material, an aluminum alloy having a composition represented by a general formula: AlaSibCucMgd in which a, b, c and d are expressed in percentage by mass, a denotes a balance, 0.4?b?0.9, 0.15?c?0.8, 0.8?d?2.0, and unavoidable impurity elements may be contained; and the aluminum alloy containing a precipitate containing Mg and Si.

Abstract: Disclosed are optical information recording layers to create recording marks upon irradiation with a laser beam, in which the recording layers are composed of: an indium alloy containing 0.1 to 15 atomic percent of one or more rare-earth elements; an indium alloy containing 0.1 to 50 atomic percent of one element selected from the group consisting of palladium (Pd), cobalt (Co), platinum (Pt), and vanadium (V); an indium alloy containing 6 to 50 atomic percent of nickel (Ni); or an indium alloy containing 0.1 or more and less than 50 atomic percent of gold (Au). Also disclosed are information storage media provided with the recording layers, and sputtering targets for the deposition of the recording layers, which have the alloy compositions.

Abstract: Provided is a recording layer for optical information storage media, which not only excels in initial reflectivity and creativity of recording marks, but also extremely excels in durability under high temperature and high humidity conditions, and which can be adequately applied to next-generation optical discs using blue-violet laser. The recording layer for optical information storage media is a recording layer to create recording marks upon irradiation with a laser beam. This recording layer is composed of a tin-based alloy containing a total of 1.0 atomic percent or more and 15 atomic percent or less of at least one selected from neodymium (Nd), gadolinium (Gd), and lanthanum (La).

Abstract: Provided is a recording layer for optical information recording media that is not only excellent in initial reflectivity, creation of recording marks, and the like but also extremely excellent in durability under a high temperature and high humidity environment and that can be adequately applied to a next generation optical disc using a blue-violet laser beam. The recording layer for optical information recording media used to create recording marks by irradiating a laser beam comprises a Sn-based alloy containing 5 to 50 atomic percent of In and/or 12 to 40 atomic percent of Zn.

Abstract: A recording film for an optical information recording medium excellent in the productivity and also excellent in the durability (recording retainability), as well as an optical information recording medium, including: (1) a recording film for use in an optical information recording medium having a heat conductivity of 0.8 W/Kcm or less, a light absorptivity to a light at a wave length of from 0.3 ?n to 1.0 ?m of 15% or more and a melting temperature from 300 to 800° C., (2) an optical information recording medium in which the recording film comprises the recording films described above, and (3) a sputtering target for forming the recording film.