Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd.

Satoshi Ishino

Noboru Kato

Jun Sasaki

Yuya Dokai

Nobuo Ikemoto

Ikuhei Kimura

Takeshi Kataya

Katsumi Taniguchi

Masahiro Ozawa

Kuniaki Yosui

Takahiro Baba

Masamichi Ando

Hiroyuki Kubo

Teppei Miura

Kimikazu Iwasaki

Mikiko Tanaka

Norio Sakai

Hiroaki Kaida

Jiro Inoue

Mitsuyoshi Nishide

Norio Nakajima

Hidekiyo Takaoka

Shinichiro Banba

Kosuke Nakano

Michinobu Maesaka

Mamoru Ogawa

Kenji Kubota

Yoshihiro Kawaguchi

Yasuko Yoshinaga

Tsuyoshi Saito

Yoshihito Otsubo

Harufumi Mandai

Kenichi Ishizuka

Noriyuki Ueki

Shinichi Nakano

Koji Shiroki

Takahiro Watanabe

Yoshihiko Nishizawa

Toshifumi Oida

Bunta Okamoto

Yuhei Ono

Jun Harada

Keisuke Araki

Kosuke Yamada

Shunsuke Kanematsu

Isamu Morita

Tomoyoshi Yamamoto

Tomonori Ito

Masaki Kimura

Wataru Yanase

Noburo Kato

Ryo Todo

A piezoelectric thread that includes a core thread; and a piezoelectric film wound around the core thread. The piezoelectric thread is constructed to generate a charge by energy imparted from outside of the piezoelectric thread.

Charge-generating thread for bacterium-countermeasure, cloth for bacterium-countermeasure, cloth, clothing article, medical member, charge-generating thread that acts on living body, and charge-generating thread for substance-adsorption

A surface mount coil component includes an element body defining a compact including magnetic material particles; a coil that is buried, excluding an end portion of the coil, in the element body; and an input-output terminal electrically connected to the end portion of the coil. A thermoplastic resin layer is provided on a surface on a mounting surface side of the element body. An interlayer connection conductor is provided in the thermoplastic resin layer. The input-output terminal is provided on a surface of the thermoplastic resin layer and is electrically connected to the end portion of the coil via the interlayer connection conductor.

Surface mount coil component and manufacturing method for the same, and DC-DC converter

An antibacterial electric charge generation yarn meets requirements (a) to (e) mentioned below simultaneously and suppresses proliferation of bacteria by electric charge generated upon deformation of the yarn:

Antibacterial electric charge generation yarn, method for manufacturing antibacterial electric charge generation yarn, and antibacterial cloth

A surface mount coil component includes an element body with a first surface, a second surface that opposes the first surface, and a third surface connecting the first surface and the second surface, the element body being defined by a compact including magnetic particles; a first conductor pattern provided at the first surface of the element body; a second conductor pattern provided at the second surface of the element body; input/output terminals provided at the third surface of the element body; and metal pins embedded in the element body, ends of each metal pin being connected to the first and second conductor patterns. The first conductor pattern, the second conductor pattern, and the metal pins define a coil conductor. The input/output terminals are defined by a pair of metal pins exposed at the third surface.

Surface mount coil component, method of manufacturing the same, and DC-DC converter using the same

A nonwoven member that includes a plurality of piezoelectric fibers. The nonwoven member is formed into a cloth by intertwining the plurality of piezoelectric fibers. The nonwoven member inhibits the growth of bacteria due to an electric charge generated when an external force is applied to the piezoelectric fibers.

Antibacterial nonwoven member, antibacterial nonwoven fabric, and antibacterial buffer material

A charge-generating thread for bacterium-countermeasure that includes a charge-generating fiber. The charge-generating fiber generates a charge by energy imparted from the outside of the fiber so as to restrain the proliferation of bacteria by the generated charge.

A repair method that includes covering a damaged part of a member to be repaired with a repair material, and heating the repair material to a predetermined temperature to form an alloy layer. At least the surface of the member to be repaired is a first metal such as Cu. The repair material includes a second metal such as Sn. By the heating, the surface of the member to be repaired is integrally joined with a layer of an intermetallic compound and an alloy having a melting point higher than a melting point of either of the first metal or the second metal.

Repair method and repair material

An electromagnetic-coupling module including a radio IC chip and a feeder circuit board on which the radio IC chip is mounted and a feeder circuit including a resonant circuit having a predetermined resonant frequency is attached to an article. The article has a radiation element that radiates a transmission signal supplied from the feeder circuit of the electromagnetic-coupling module via electromagnetic coupling and that supplies a received reception signal to the feeder circuit via the electromagnetic coupling.

Electromagnetic-coupling-module-attached article

An electrical element includes a flexible antenna and a rigid member higher in rigidity than the flexible antenna. At least one of the flexible antenna and the rigid member is made of thermoplastic resin. A conductor pattern defining at least a portion of a section that performs the main function of the electrical element is provided at the flexible antenna. No conductor pattern that performs the main function of the electrical element is provided at the rigid member. Opposing surfaces of the flexible antenna and the rigid member are directly joined to each other.

Electrical element, mobile device, and method for manufacturing electrical element

A first structural material is bonded to a second structural material with a joining material provided with a mixed layer of a raw-material component for forming an intermetallic compound layer and a resin component that softens and flows during heat treatment interposed therebetween to form bonded structural materials. When the bonded structural materials are heat-treated, the first structural material is joined to the second structural material with an intermetallic compound layer, and the resin component exudes and covers the lateral circumferential (exposed) portion of the intermetallic compound layer with a resin film.

Method for joining structural material, joining sheet, and joint structure

A radio IC device includes an electromagnetic coupling module includes a radio IC chip arranged to process transmitted and received signals and a feed circuit board including an inductance element. The feed circuit board includes an external electrode electromagnetically coupled to the feed circuit, and the external electrode is electrically connected to a shielding case or a wiring cable. The shielding case or the wiring cable functions as a radiation plate. The radio IC chip is operated by a signal received by the shielding case or the wiring, and the answer signal from the radio IC chip is radiated from the shielding case or the wiring cable to the outside. A metal component functions as the radiation plate, and the metal component may be a ground electrode disposed on the printed wiring board.

Radio IC device

A high-frequency signal transmission line includes a body; a signal line including a first line portion provided to a first layer of the body, a second line portion provided to a second layer of the body alternately being connected; and a first ground conductor provided to the first layer or a third layer positioned on an opposite side of the second layer relative to the first layer, and also overlaid with a plurality of second line portions in planar view from a normal direction of a principal surface of the body, and also not overlaid with a plurality of the first line portions. A property impedance of the first line portion and a property impedance of the second line portion are different from each other.

High-frequency signal transmission line and electronic apparatus including the same

An accessory device to be mounted on a main device is provided with a wireless IC device. The main device is provided with a reader/writer that is an interrogator that communicates with the wireless IC device of the accessory device. When the accessory device is mounted on or about to be mounted on the main device, the reader/writer selects two or more frequencies in a frequency band in which an authentic wireless IC device can communicate to perform communication with the wireless IC device. With this configuration, even if the identification code written in an RFID tag is read and the RFID tag is duplicated, the duplicated RFID tag can be accurately and effectively determined as being counterfeit.

Method for determining existence of wideband impedance matching circuit in a wireless IC device system

A transmission line portion of a flat cable includes first regions and second regions connected alternately. In the first region, the transmission line portion is a flexible tri-plate transmission line including a dielectric element including a signal conductor, a first ground conductor including opening portions, and a second ground conductor which is a solidly filled conductor. In the second region, the transmission line portion is a hard tri-plate transmission line including a wide dielectric element including a meandering conductor, and a first ground conductor and a second ground conductor which are solidly filled conductors. A variation width of the characteristic impedance in the second region is larger than a variation width of the characteristic impedance in the first region.

High-frequency transmission line and electronic device

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Nagaokakyo, Japan

Satoshi Ishino