Abstract: A method for evaluating a solder joint portion by means of which a part and a substrate are joined to each other includes a preparation process for preparing the substrate including the solder joint portion, a thermal shock process for applying thermal shock to the solder joint portion multiple times, and an evaluation process for obtaining a change of a crystal grain size in the solder joint portion caused by the application of the thermal shock so as to evaluate a lifespan of the solder joint portion based on the change of the crystal grain size obtained.

Abstract: A method for evaluating a solder joint portion by means of which a part and a substrate are joined to each other includes a preparation process for preparing the substrate including the solder joint portion, a thermal shock process for applying thermal shock to the solder joint portion multiple times, and an evaluation process for obtaining a change of a crystal grain size in the solder joint portion caused by the application of the thermal shock so as to evaluate a lifespan of the solder joint portion based on the change of the crystal grain size obtained.

Abstract: A soft magnetic powder material includes an iron powder, and a plated layer formed on a surface of the iron powder and possessing a lubricating property. The plated layer includes a lubricant material and a matrix in which the lubricant material disperses. The soft magnetic powder material is manufactured by an electroless deposition process, by which a plated layer is formed by depositing, on a surface of an iron powder, at least one element building a matrix, along with a micro-powdered lubricant material.

Abstract: An antenna device 1 has an antenna unit 2 which includes an antenna core member 5 including a soft magnetic member 51 having conductivity and a conductor member 6 which is attached to the antenna core member 5. At least part of the antenna core member 5 (for example, a core sheet 50A) is a sensor electrode which is able to detect an object. The sensor electrode is used as a sensor electrode such as a capacitance-operated sensor electrode. Thus, it is possible to provide an antenna device and a door handgrip apparatus having an antenna unit including an antenna core member which is shared for an antenna function and a sensor function.

Abstract: A magnetic circuit member contains spherical and/or caterpillar-shaped graphite dispersed in a ferritic iron matrix including silicon.

Abstract: An antenna is comprised of a core portion laminated by a magnetic ribbon through a deformable member and a coil portion wound around the core portion.

Abstract: A soft magnetic powder material includes an iron powder, and a plated layer formed on a surface of the iron powder and possessing a lubricating property. The plated layer includes a lubricant material and a matrix in which the lubricant material disperses. The soft magnetic powder material is manufactured by an electroless deposition process, by which a plated layer is formed by depositing, on a surface of an iron powder, at least one element building a matrix, along with a micro-powdered lubricant material.

Abstract: A rotor for an electric rotary machine includes a rotatable rotor body, a plurality of magnet portions provided at the rotor body in circumferential direction with a certain interval, and a supporting portion provided at the rotor body for supporting the plurality of the magnet portions. At least the supporting portion of the rotor body is made of ferritic cast iron as base material.

Abstract: A door handle apparatus includes a handle body attached to a door, a cover made of resin attached to the handle body and including a design layer decorated metallic like color tone, an antenna portion attached to a space formed between the handle body and the cover and having at least one of transmitting function and receiving function, and a metallic microparticle paint layer included in the design layer of the cover and formed by depositing metallic miroparticles by painting.

Abstract: A magnetic circuit member contains a matrix portion including iron and silicon; and graphite particles in the matrix. Each of the graphite particles has either a spherical shape or a compact vermicular shape. The inclusion of graphite particles having a relatively low conductivity in the matrix portion having a good magnetic property prevents eddy currents from forming in the magnetic circuit member in an alternating magnetic field, thus preserving the original magnetic property found in the absence of the alternating magnetic field. Each of the graphite particles has a spherical or compact vermicular shape that does not intercept magnetic flux passing through the material forming the magnetic circuit member. The graphite contained in the material improves liquidity of the melted material in casting, thus the magnetic circuit member can be manufactured by casting.

Abstract: A soft magnetism metal powder having a majority of particles, each of which, when cross-sectioned, has no greater than ten crystal particles on average, may be coated on an outer surface of each of the particles with a resistive material having a higher resistivity than the underlying parent phase. The soft magnetism metal powder may be prepared by heating a soft magnetism metal powder to a high temperature in a high temperature atmosphere, thereby reducing the number of crystal particles in each of the soft magnetism metal powder particles. A soft magnetism metal formed body may be prepared by pressing the soft magnetism metal particles at a sufficient temperature and pressure.

Abstract: An antenna is comprised of a core portion laminated by a magnetic ribbon through a deformable member and a coil portion wound around the core portion.

Abstract: A magnetostrictive device for a torque sensor which has a high sensor sensitivity whether the excitation frequency is in a high frequency range or in a low frequency range and can withstand excess load torques well, and also a method of easily manufacturing the device. In manufacturing the magnetostrictive device 1 for a torque sensor, which has a magnetic anisotropic portion 15 formed on the surface of a shaft body 10 thereof, the method of forming the magnetic anisotropic portion 15 comprises the steps of: forming spiral grooves in the surface of the shaft body 10 to form a plurality of troughs 16 and ridges 17 alternately; and directly applying a compressive stress only to the ridges 17 to cause deformations accompanied by plastic flow and to provide an almost planar plateau portion 171 at a crest portion of each of the ridges 17.

Abstract: A magnetic circuit member contains a matrix portion including iron and silicon; and graphite particles in the matrix. Each of the graphite particles has either a spherical shape or a compact vermicular shape. The inclusion of graphite particles having a relatively low conductivity in the matrix portion having a good magnetic property prevents eddy currents from forming in the magnetic circuit member in an alternating magnetic field, thus preserving the original magnetic property found in the absence of the alternating magnetic field. Each of the graphite particles has a spherical or compact vermicular shape that does not intercept magnetic flux passing through the material forming the magnetic circuit member. The graphite contained in the material improves liquidity of the melted material in casting, thus the magnetic circuit member can be manufactured by casting.

Abstract: A bar antenna includes a single body ferromagnetic substance core, a bobbin which accommodates the core in a hollow space and has a plurality of coil windings, a case in which is positioned the core and the bobbin, and a potting material in the case and/or the bobbin. The potting material isolates the core from temperature changes, humidity changes and vibration.

Abstract: A soft magnetism metal powder having a majority of particles, each of which, when cross-sectioned, has no greater than ten crystal particles on average, may be coated on an outer surface of each of the particles with a resistive material having a higher resistivity than the underlying parent phase. The soft magnetism metal powder may be prepared by heating a soft magnetism metal powder to a high temperature in a high temperature atmosphere, thereby reducing the number of crystal particles in each of the soft magnetism metal powder particles. A soft magnetism metal formed body may be prepared by pressing the soft magnetism metal particles at a sufficient temperature and pressure.

Abstract: A bar antenna includes a single body ferromagnetic substance core, a bobbin which accommodates the core in a hollow space and has a plurality of coil windings, a case in which is positioned the core and the bobbin, and a potting material in the case and/or the bobbin. The potting material isolates the core from temperature changes, humidity changes and vibration.

Abstract: A cold accumulator filled with a cold accumulating material including 20 to 95 at % of at least one element selected from the group consisting of cerium (Ce), neodymium (Nd), praseodymium (Pr), magnetic body dysprosium (Dy), holmium (Ho), erbium (Er) and thulium (Tm), and 5 to 80 at % of an additive containing at least silver (Ag), thereby improving the specific heat at 10 to 30 K. The cold accumulating material can increase the efficiency of heat accumulating at 10 to 30 K, and the cold accumulator can be applied to refrigerators which generate refrigeration at cold low temperatures of 10 to 30 K.

Abstract: There is provided an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus in which ultrasonic waves are transmitted and received in directions each along the associated one of a plurality of scan lines extending in a depth direction within the subject to obtain received signals, and data representative of displacement of the respective pixel points along each scan line within the subject are evaluated on the basis of the thus obtained received signals, thereby displaying an image based on the data representative of the displacement. According to the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, color data of a pixel train involved in the presence of displacement (color-displayed) appearing continuously by less than N pixels (typically, one pixel to two or three pixels at most) is replaced by data representative of the absence of the displacement (not color-displayed).

Abstract: An ultrasound imaging device having functions of storing data of at least one image in a memory and reading the data from the memory to show a freeze-frame on a display in response to a freeze instruction given by a user includes a discerning signal generation unit for generating a discerning signal which marks a change from one image frame to a next image frame in a video signal of ultrasound images, a discerning signal adding unit for marking a point of the change in the video signal by adding the discerning signal to the video signal, a control unit for stopping image data of the video signal from being stored in the memory after receiving the freeze instruction at a moment when the discerning signal is detected in the video signal, so that last two fields of the video signal stored in the memory and forming the freeze-frame are an even field and an odd field of the same frame.