Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kyoto University

Fuji Chemical Company, Limited

Tokyo Institute of Technology

University of Yamanashi

Sophia School Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaha

Hisato Yabuta

Makoto Kubota

Ryo Hayashi

Kanako Oshima

Nobuyuki Kaji

Nobuhiro Yasui

Takayuki Watanabe

Kaoru Miura

Jumpei Hayashi

Takanori Matsuda

Tatsuo Furuta

Kenji Maeda

Fumio Uchida

Chiemi Shimizu

Hidenori Tanaka

Shunsuke Murakami

Miki Ueda

Yoshihiro Ohashi

Akira Uebayashi

Masaki Azuma

Yuichi Shimakawa

Yoshihiko Matsumura

Koji Suzuki

Mikio Shimada

Ayanori Endo

Ayumu Sato

Hiroki Imai

Masafumi Sano

Satoshi Wada

Hiroshi Uchida

Toshihiro Ifuku

Takehiko Kawasaki

Norio Kaneko

Yasuyoshi Takai

Kenji Takashima

Yoshinori Kotani

Hiroshi Funakubo

Nobuhiro Kumada

Shintaro Yasui

Jun-ichi Nagata

Akira Tsuboyama

Hideo Hosono

Tatsuya Iwasaki

Yasushi Shimizu

Masato Ofuji

Atsushi Fujii

Hideya Kumomi

Taichi Sato

Toshio Kamiya

Taihei Mukaide

Kenji Nomura

Masatoshi Watanabe

Katsumi Abe

Yoshinori Tateishi

Tomoaki Yamada

Tomohiro Watanabe

Kazunori Fukuda

Hideyuki Omura

Keisuke Yazawa

Ichiro Fujii

Ryuta Mitsui

Takahiro Oikawa

Provided are a method of manufacturing a ceramic article in which the improvement of mechanical strength, wear resistance, and machinability is achieved using a direct modeling system, and a ceramic article. The manufacturing method includes the steps of: (i) arranging powder containing ceramics as a main component on a base; (ii) irradiating a part or an entirety of the arranged powder with an energy beam to melt and solidify the powder, to thereby obtain an intermediate modeled article; (iii) causing the modeled article to absorb a metal component-containing liquid to impregnate the modeled article therewith; and (iv) subjecting the modeled article having absorbed the metal component-containing liquid to heat treatment.

Ceramics product manufacturing method and ceramics product

A piezoelectric material having a large electromechanical coupling coefficient is provided. The material is manufactured by a method including the steps of: heating a piezoelectric material having a low-temperature side ferroelectric phase A and a high-temperature side ferroelectric phase B between which the phase of the piezoelectric material transitions according to a temperature change, from room temperature to a temperature range higher than Tat which temperature a change from the ferroelectric phase B to the ferroelectric phase A occurs in a temperature lowering process and lower than Tat which temperature a change from the ferroelectric phase A to the ferroelectric phase B occurs in a temperature rising process; starting application of an electric field to the piezoelectric material in a state where it is held within this temperature range; and continuing and finishing the electric field application at a temperature lower than T.

Method of manufacturing piezoelectric element, method of manufacturing electronic device, piezoelectric element, and electronic device

Provided are a piezoelectric ceramics which does not contain lead, has small temperature dependence of a piezoelectric constant within an operating temperature range, and has high density, a high mechanical quality factor, a satisfactory piezoelectric constant, and a small surface roughness, and a method of manufacturing the piezoelectric ceramics. The method of manufacturing a piezoelectric ceramics is characterized by including: sintering a compact containing a raw material at 1,000° C. or more to obtain a sintered compact; abrading the sintered compact; and annealing the abraded sintered compact at a temperature of 800° C. or more and less than 1,000° C.

Method of manufacturing piezoelectric ceramics, piezoelectric ceramics, piezoelectric element, ultrasonic motor, optical apparatus, dust removing device, image pickup apparatus, ultrasonic probe, ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and electronic apparatus

A method of producing a ceramic manufactured object including (i) a step of leveling a ceramic powder to form a powder layer, (ii) a step of irradiating the powder layer with a laser beam based on three-dimensional data to crystallize an irradiated site, and (iii) performing the steps (i) and (ii) in repetition, wherein in the step (ii), a surface of the powder layer is irradiated with the laser beam in an unfocused state.

Method of producing ceramic manufactured object

Provided are a powder for laser manufacturing which can be stably manufactured and from which a three-dimensional manufactured object ensuring a manufacturing accuracy can be obtained and a using method thereof. A powder for ceramic manufacturing for obtaining a manufactured object by repeatedly sintering or fusing and solidifying in sequence a powder in an irradiation portion with laser light, in which the powder includes a plurality of compositions, at least one composition of the compositions is an absorber that relatively strongly absorbs the laser light compared to other compositions, and at least a part of the absorber changes to a different composition that relatively weakly absorbs the laser light by irradiation with the laser light and a using method of a powder in which the powder is used.

Powder for ceramic manufacturing, ceramic manufactured object, and manufacturing method thereof

An electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support, an intermediate layer, and a photosensitive layer in this order, wherein the intermediate layer comprises a tungsten oxide particle, and the tungsten oxide particle contains a tungsten atom, an oxygen atom, and a cesium atom.

Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus

A piezoelectric material includes: an oxide containing Na, Ba, Nb, Ti, and Mn, in which the oxide has a perovskite-type structure, a total amount of metal elements other than Na, Ba, Nb, Ti, and Mn contained in the piezoelectric material is 0.5 mol % or less with respect to a total amount of Na, Ba, Nb, Ti, and Mn, a molar ratio x of Ti to a total molar amount of Nb and Ti is 0.05&#x2264;x&#x2264;0.12, a molar ratio y of Na to Nb is 0.93&#x2264;y&#x2264;0.98, a molar ratio z of Ba to Ti is 1.09&#x2264;z&#x2264;1.60, a molar ratio m of Mn to the total molar amount of Nb and Ti is 0.0006&#x2264;m&#x2264;0.0030, and 1.07&#x2264;y&#xd7;z&#x2264;1.50 is satisfied.

Piezoelectric material, piezoelectric element, and electronic equipment

Provided is a method of producing a manufactured object including forming the manufactured object by performing, once or a plurality of times, a step of forming a powder layer from material powders containing powders of an inorganic compound and a step of irradiating a predetermined region of a surface of the powder layer with an energy beam and thereby fusing/solidifying the material powders. In the step of fusing/solidifying the material powders, an amorphous-rich region and a crystalline-rich region are formed separately by changing at least one of an output of the energy beam, a relative position between the surface of the powder layer and a focus of the energy beam, and a scanning rate.

Method of producing manufactured object and manufactured object

A lead-free piezoelectric material includes perovskite-type metal oxide containing Na, Nb, Ba, Ti, and Mg and indicates excellent piezoelectric properties. The piezoelectric material satisfies the following relational expression (1): 0.430&#x2264;a&#x2264;0.460, 0.433&#x2264;b&#x2264;0.479, 0.040&#x2264;c&#x2264;0.070, 0.0125&#x2264;d&#x2264;0.0650, 0.0015&#x2264;e&#x2264;0.0092, 0.9&#xd7;3e&#x2264;c&#x2212;d&#x2264;1.1&#xd7;3e, a+b+c+d+e=1, where a, b, c, d, and e denote the relative numbers of Na, Nb, Ba, Ti, and Mg atoms, respectively.

Provided is a lead-free piezoelectric material reduced in dielectric loss tangent, and achieving both a large piezoelectric constant and a large mechanical quality factor. A piezoelectric material according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure is a piezoelectric material including a main component formed of a perovskite-type metal oxide represented by the general formula (1): Na(BiBa)NbTiO(where 0.84&#x2264;x&#x2264;0.92, 0.84&#x2264;y&#x2264;0.92, 0.002&#x2264;(w+s)(1&#x2212;y)&#x2264;0.035, and 0.9&#x2264;w/s&#x2264;1.1), and a Mn component, wherein the content of the Mn is 0.01 mol % or more and 1.00 mol % or less with respect to the perovskite-type metal oxide.

A material powder for additive modeling including a nitride, and a eutectic oxide, the nitride having an average density lower than an average density of the eutectic oxide, is used to produce a structure using an additive modeling method.

Powder for additive modeling, structure, semiconductor production device component, and semiconductor production device

A powder for ceramic shaping to be used for obtaining a structure by repeating the execution of a process of sequential melting and solidification by irradiation of a laser beam contains inorganic compound particles and an organic compound, the organic compound being provided on the surfaces of the inorganic compound particles, and the organic compound has an absorption band that overlaps the wavelength of the laser beam.

Powder for ceramic shaping and ceramic shaping method using the same

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