Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nikon Corporation

Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Nippon Steel Corporation

Asahi Kasei Microsystems Co., Ltd.

Oki Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation

Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co., Ltd.

Koshin Denki Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Koshin Kenki Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Isao Kimura

Hiroyuki Maeda

Hidemi Kubota

Kenji Hasegawa

Atsushi Shiozaki

Masako Shimomura

Naoko Sumi

Kiyomitsu Kudo

Hirokazu Komuro

Aya Yoshihira

Shinichi Tanaka

Takashi Fujikawa

Takashi Morizumi

Kouichi Touma

Atsushi Watanabe

Kazuhiro Watanabe

Teruo Ozaki

Hiromichi Noguchi

Asao Saito

Makoto Shibata

Toru Takeuchi

Katsuhito Sasaki

Mamoru Ishikiriyama

Akira Shibuya

Daniel Wu

Eiichiro Saeki

Hisami Hasegawa

Michio Aoyama

Koichi Touma

Shiro Suzuki

Akihiro Tanaka

Junichi Kobayashi

Hiroshi Sugitani

Atsushi Takeuchi

Tadayoshi Inamoto

Yasuhiro Yano

Junji Shimoda

Hiroto Matsuda

Tokuya Ohta

Shinichiro Watanabe

Akira Tsujimoto

Naoto Inaba

Shun-ichi Kodama

Mitsuru Otsuka

Akemi Ishizaki

Motoi Kamba

Tatsuya Ohsumi

Yasumasa Yokoyama

Norihisa Kawamura

Suomi Kurihara

Kazunori Chiba

Toyoki Kuroiwa

Hiroyuki Oshikiri

Koichi Toma

Junichi Kohayashi

Tooru Suzuki

The buckling-restrained brace that is capable of being fixed to connected portions of a structure using bolts, the brace includes: a plate member extending in an axial direction, and in which bolt holes for fixing the bolts are formed at end portions of the plate member in the axial direction; and a buckling-restrained member configured to restrain a center portion of the plate member in the axial direction to prevent the plate member from buckling, wherein the buckling-restrained member includes a pipe member surrounding the plate member from the outside in a radial direction, and a filler filling the gap between the pipe member and the plate member, and the plate member includes a fixing plate, a portion of which is embedded in the filler, and the remaining portion is protruded from the filler in the axial direction, and in which the bolt hole is formed at an end portion of the remaining portion in the axial direction.

Buckling-restrained brace and method of manufacturing buckling-restrained brace

A measuring apparatus, method and program with which a distance between two points that are not within one photographing range can be easily measured is provided. According to an embodiment, a representative point is set in an image in which a start point is set, and the coordinates, of the points and characteristic quantity of a neighborhood image is stored. Hereafter in each image until an end point is set, a representative point of the most recent image is searched, the coordinates thereof are stored, a new representative point is set, the coordinates thereof and the characteristic quantity of the neighborhood image are stored, and the coordinates of the end point are stored. A vector between the respective two points connecting the start point, representative points and the end point in the sequence of setting is calculated, and the distance between the start point and the end point is calculated.

Measuring apparatus, method, and program

To provide an aqueous coating composition which has a high storage stability and which is capable of forming a coating film excellent in gloss, adhesion and water resistance; a process for its production; and a process for forming a coating film by using the aqueous coating composition. An aqueous coating composition comprising a fluoro-olefin copolymer, a pigment, a copolymer (1) (an A-B type block copolymer which is a copolymer having no fluorine atoms or ionic groups and which comprises hydrophilic blocks (A) having repeating units (a) having a polyoxyethylene chain in the side chain, and hydrophobic blocks (B) having repeating units (b) having a hydrocarbon chain in the side chain) and an aqueous medium.

Aqueous coating composition and process for its production, and process for forming coating film

Disclosed is a two-pack fluorine coating composition which comprises a combination of: a base component comprising a fluorinated copolymer having a hydroxyl group which can be dissolved in a low-polar weak solvent even at a low temperature and; a curing agent comprising a polyisocyanate compound. Specifically disclosed is a fluorine coating composition comprising: (A) a base component which comprises a fluorinated copolymer of a fluoroolefin and a monomer having a double bond copolymerizable with the fluoroolefin and which has a fluorine content of 10 mass % or more, wherein 5 to 30 mol % of the monomer has a hydroxyl group and 10 to 50 mol % of the monomer has a branched alkyl group having 3 or more carbon atoms; and (B) a curing agent comprising a polyisocyanate compound which is produced by the reaction between at least one diisocyanate selected from an aliphatic diisocyanate and a alicyclic diisocyanate and a monoalcohol having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and which has an [(allophanate group)/(isocyanurate group)] ratio of 90/10 to 81/19 by mole.

Fluorine coating composition

A composition for aqueous coating material which has a low content of an organic solvent and presents little burden on the environment and which is excellent in storage stability. A composition for aqueous coating material, which comprises a synthetic resin containing a fluorinated copolymer (A) comprising from 40 to 60 mol % of a fluoroolefin unit, from 3 to 50 mol % of an alkyl vinyl ether or alkyl vinyl ester unit, from 4 to 30 mol % of a hydroxyl group-containing vinyl ether unit and 0.4 to 7 mol % of a structural unit of the following formula (a4): 

Composition for aqueous coating material and process for its production, and two-component curable aqueous coating material kit

An aqueous coating composition which has a low content of an organic solvent, whereby a burden on an environment is small; in which an increase of the molecular weight, gelation, etc. are suppressed; which performs excellent storage stability and provides a coating film having good water permeability/water which composition is obtained by dispersing a fluorocopolymer (A) obtained by solution polymerization in an aqueous medium, and which comprises a repeating unit (1) of fluoroolefin, a repeating unit (2) of a vinyl or allyl monomer, a repeating unit (3) of a vinyl or allyl monomer having a hydroxyl group bonded thereto, and a unit (4) of a vinyl or allyl monomer having a carboxylate group bonded thereto, and which comprises a fluorocopolymer (A) wherein a proportion of the repeating unit (4) is from 0.4 mol % to less than 4 mol % based on the total repeating units, and an aqueous medium, wherein an amount of an organic solvent contained in the composition is from 0 to 1 mass %.

Aqueous coating composition, process for producing it and two-pack type curable aqueous coating kit

A composition for aqueous coating material which has a low content of an organic solvent and presents little burden on the environment and which is excellent in storage stability. A composition for aqueous coating material, which comprises a synthetic resin containing a fluorinated copolymer comprising from 40 to 60 mol % of a fluoro-olefin unit, from 3 to 50 mol % of an alkyl vinyl ether or alkyl vinyl ester unit, from 4 to 30 mol % of a hydroxyl group-containing vinyl ether unit and 0.4 to 7 mol % of a structural unit of the following formula 

A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a first insulating film over a semiconductor substrate, forming a laminated body on the first insulating film that includes a polysilicon film and a metal film that is separated from the insulating film by means of the polysilicon film, and forming a first wiring layer and a first electrode simultaneously by patterning the laminated body.

Method for manufacturing an electrode structure of a MOS semiconductor device

A metal film according to the present invention has a cubic crystal structure having a periodic pattern of crystal orientation in a plane. The crystal orientation is gradually rotated about a particular crystal-axis direction such that a {100} plane, a {110} plane, and a {111} plane appear.

Crystalline metal film

The present invention relates to a buckling restrained brace capable of absorbing vibration energy produced by an earthquake, wind power and the like, in a building and a steel structure. The buckling restrained brace of the present invention is accomplished by a buckling restrained bracewherein a steel-made center axial memberis passed through a buckling-constraining concrete memberreinforced with a steel member, and an adhesion-preventive filmis provided to the interface between the steel-made center axial member and buckling-constraining concrete, the adhesion-preventive film showing a secant modulus in the thickness direction of at least 0.1 N/mmbetween a point which shows a compressive strain of 0% and a point which shows a compressive strain of 50%, and up to 21,000 N/mmbetween a point which shows a compressive strain of 50% and a point which shows a compressive strain of 75%, and having a thickness din the plate thickness direction of the steel-made center axial member and a thickness din the plate width direction thereof from at least 0.5 to 10% of the plate thickness t and from at least 0.5 to 10% of the plate width w, respectively, and by the application of the buckling restrained brace to a damping steel structure.

Buckling restrained braces and damping steel structures

The invention relates to a process for producing a high-quality ink-jet recorded image. The process comprises the steps of (i) applying a first ink containing at least one colorant to an opaque printing medium by an ink-jet method to form a visible image; and (ii) applying a second ink, which does not change or substantially not change the hue of the printing medium, to a portion of the printing medium that is complementary to the visible image, thereby alleviating a difference in gloss between the visible image and the portion complementary to the visible image.

Ink-jet recording process, ink-jet recorded image and method of alleviating difference in gloss in the ink-jet recorded image

In a liquid ejecting head having a first liquid flow path communicating with an ejecting port for ejecting a liquid to be ejected and an element substrate having a heating element for forming a bubble from a bubble forming liquid as well as including a second liquid flow path corresponding to the first liquid flow path and a movable separation membrane for substantially separating the first liquid flow path and the second liquid flow path corresponding to the first liquid flow path from each other at all times, the liquid ejecting head includes an atmosphere communication port facing the atmosphere for communicating the second liquid flow path with the atmosphere, and an atmosphere communication path having an atmosphere communication path introduction port facing the second liquid flow path, wherein the atmosphere communication port is formed through the same surface as that of the ejecting port, whereby the liquid ejecting head can remove remaining bubbles in the bubble forming liquid by a simple arrangement as well as improve a liquid ejecting efficiency by effectively transmitting the pressure of a bubble formed in the bubble forming liquid to the liquid to be ejected.

Liquid ejecting head, head cartridge, and liquid ejecting and recording apparatus

A semiconductor device including a P-type semiconductor layer; an N-type first well on the surface of the semiconductor layer; a P-type second well on the surface of the first well; an N-type source region on the surface of the second well; and an N-type drain region on the surface of the first well and apart from the source region at a specific distance. A gate electrode is formed on the semiconductor layer and extends from the source region to the second well and the first well. An application electrode is arranged apart from the gate electrode on the first well between the second well and the drain region, and extends from the first well to the edge thereof. A P-type first impurity diffusion layer is formed on the surface of the source region and extends to the second well under the source region.

Method for manufacturing a lateral double-diffused MOS transistor having stable characteristics and equal drift length

An ink jet head has an element formed on a substrate, having a laminated structure, and comprising a small-sized electromagnet having a coil and a core, electrodes for conducting electricity through the electromagnet, a film that isolates the electromagnet and the electrodes from ink, and a displacing plate having of magnetic materials located opposite the core via the film. A liquid passage and an ink ejection openings are formed on this element. Ink droplets are ejected by exerting pressure required to eject the ink using the attraction/returning of the displacing plate associated with the application/elimination of magnetic force carried out by conducting/interrupting current through the electromagnet. Thus, an ink jet head is provided which has excellent ejection stability and power and which achieves dot-based gradation.

Ink jet head, manufacturing method thereof, and ink jet printing apparatus

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