Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.

Hitachi Powdered Metals Co., Ltd.

Thk Co., Ltd.

Adv Antest Corporation

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Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Renesas Technology Corp.

Hitachi Displays, Ltd.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Japan, Ltd.

Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Maxell, Limited

Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Holdings Corporation

Panasonic Communications Co., Ltd.

Takashi Naito

Hiroki Yamamoto

Takuya Aoyagi

Takashi Namekawa

Ken Takahashi

Shinichi Tachizono

Yuji Hashiba

Kei Yoshimura

Yuichi Sawai

Tadashi Fujieda

Tatsuya Miyake

Yasutaka Suzuki

Motoyasu Terao

Motomune Kodama

Toshimichi Shintani

Taigo Onodera

Masanori Miyagi

Takahiko Kato

Fumiyoshi Kirino

Hajime Murakami

Mitsutoshi Honda

Akira Kato

Sumio Hosaka

Tetsuo Nakazawa

Eiji Koyama

Youichi Inomata

Hideto Momose

Masatomo Terakado

Kiyoshi Akamatsu

Masahiro Watanabe

Masahiko Ogino

Noriyuki Kumasaka

Akihiro Miyauchi

Takao Ishikawa

Akitoyo Konno

Munehisa Horiguchi

Takeshi Tsukamoto

Shigehisa Motowaki

Shinji Yamada

Kenkichi Inada

Shigeru Murayama

Hiroyuki Akata

Katsuhiko Sakamoto

Hiroshi Yoshida

Mutsuhiro Mori

Kenji Yoshida

Takao Miwa

Masato Yoshida

Hiroki Kaneko

Satoru Amou

Akira Mizuno

Takeshi Nojiri

Yasuo Imanishi

Tadanori Segawa

Mitsunori Iwamuro

Masao Ando

Hiroki Kuramoto

Hiroshi Sasaki

Masahiro Hasebe

Seiji Miura

Akemi Hirotsune

Haruo Akahoshi

Hiroshi Hozoji

Toshiya Satoh

Nobuaki Miki

Yasushi Miyauchi

Tatsuya Sugita

Hironori Suzuki

Masahiko Ando

Seiichi Watanabe

Takeshi Kondo

Nobuyuki Inaba

Shigemi Hirasawa

Toshiaki Morita

Teruaki Takeuchi

Yoshifumi Sekiguchi

Nobutake Tsuyuno

Shin Takahashi

Satoru Ogihara

Eiichi Ide

Kunihiro Maeda

Katsumi Mabuchi

Yuuichi Kijima

Toshiyuki Kiyokawa

Kazutaka Okamoto

Akira Gunji

Minoru Abe

Mitsuo Hayashibara

Satoshi Matsunuma

Masaki Nagatsuka

Kenichi Souma

Shigeru Kikuchi

Michifumi Kawai

Norihisa Iwasaki

Katsunori Doi

Akira Yano

Yuzo Kozono

Shuichiro Adachi

A mobile robot includes: a drive unit that changes a moving speed and a travel direction; a detection unit that detects a plurality of detection target objects; and a control unitthat acquires a distance Z and a direction θ to the detection target object unit, calculates a travel direction in which the distance and the direction to the detection target object satisfy a predetermined relationship, and drives and controls the drive unit on the basis of the calculated travel direction. The control unit calculates a distance x in a direction orthogonal to the movement route between the detection target object and a current position of the mobile robot and the direction to the detection target object, calculates a difference δx between the distance x and a certain distance Xref, and executes drive control for the drive unit to cause the difference δx to be 0 (zero).

Mobile robot, mobile robot control system, and mobile robot control method

A mobile robot includes: a drive unit that changes a moving speed and a travel direction; a detection unit that detects a plurality of detection target objects; and a control unitthat acquires a distance Z and a direction &#x3b8; to the detection target object unit, calculates a travel direction in which the distance and the direction to the detection target object satisfy a predetermined relationship, and drives and controls the drive unit on the basis of the calculated travel direction. The control unit calculates a distance x in a direction orthogonal to the movement route between the detection target object and a current position of the mobile robot and the direction to the detection target object, calculates a difference &#x3b4;x between the distance x and a certain distance Xref, and executes drive control for the drive unit to cause the difference &#x3b4;x to be 0 (zero).

There is provided a gas trapping material and vacuum heat insulation equipment where the gas trapping material can be activated in a sealing step of the vacuum heat insulation equipment, and production efficiency can be enhanced by maintaining a high gas trapping characteristic even when a gas is released in a baking step or in a sealing step under an air atmosphere. The gas trapping material contains porous metal oxide and silver particles having an average particle size of 0.5 nm to 100 nm inclusive.

Gas trapping member and vacuum heat insulation equipment

The present invention provides a highly reliable multilayered glass panel and an encapsulating material for achieving the highly reliable multilayered glass panel. The encapsulating material includes lead-free low melting glass particles containing vanadium oxide and tellurium oxide, low thermal expansion filler particles, and glass beads as a solid content. A volume fraction of the glass beads in the solid content is not less than 10% to not more than 35%, and a volume fraction of the lead-free low melting glass particles in the solid content is larger than a volume fraction of the low thermal expansion filler in the solid content.

Sealing material and multilayered glass panel using same

A mobile robot includes a driving unit which changes a moving velocity and a traveling direction, a detection unit which detects a plurality of detection objects disposed along a traveling path to a target point, and a control unit which acquires a distance and a direction to the detection object detected by the detection unit, calculates a traveling direction in which the distance to the detection object and the direction of the detection object satisfy a predetermined relationship, and controls the driving unit based on the calculated traveling direction.

Mobile robot and control method

The lead-free glass composition contains vanadium oxide, tellurium oxide, alkali metal oxide, iron oxide, barium oxide, and tungsten oxide while containing substantially no phosphorus oxide, and further contains at least one of additional components including yttrium oxide, lanthanum oxide, cerium oxide, erbium oxide, ytterbium oxide, aluminum oxide, and gallium oxide. A content of the tellurium oxide is equal to or more than 25 mol %, and equal to or less than 43 mol % in terms of oxide TeO. A content of the alkali metal oxide is equal to or more than 4 mol %, and equal to or less than 27 mol % in terms of oxide RO (R: alkali metal element).

Lead-free glass composition, and glass composite material, glass paste, and sealing structure body containing the same

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a lead-free glass composition in which crystallization is suppressed and which has a low softening point. This lead-free glass composition is characterized by containing silver oxide, tellurium oxide and vanadium oxide, and further containing at least one compound selected from among yttrium oxide, lanthanum oxide, cerium oxide, erbium oxide, ytterbium oxide, aluminum oxide, gallium oxide, indium oxide, iron oxide, tungsten oxide and molybdenum oxide as an additional component, and in that the content values (mol %) of silver oxide, tellurium oxide and vanadium oxide satisfy the relationships AgO&#x3e;TeO&#x2265;VOand AgO&#x2264;2VOwhen calculated in terms of the oxides, and in that the content of TeOis 25-37 mol. %.

Lead-free glass composition, glass composite material, glass paste, sealing structure, electrical/electronic component and coated component

The purpose of the present invention is to decrease the process temperature for a multilayer glass into which an optical element is to be packed, thereby reducing the damage to the optical element during processing. A multilayer glass according to the present invention is so configured that a gap formed between glass plates is sealed with a sealing material that can fix at a process temperature lower than a temperature employed for the processing of an optical element (see FIG.).

Multilayer glass

It is an objective of the invention to provide a conductive joint article exhibiting electrical joinability comparable to that of solder joining of easy-to-solder joinable metals even when a joined member of the conductive joint article is made of a hard-to-solder joinable metal. There is provided a conductive joint article with conductive joined members electrically joined via a joining layer, at least one of the joined members being made of a hard-to-solder joinable metal. The joining layer comprises an oxide glass phase and a conductive metal phase. The oxide glass phase includes vanadium as a major constituent and at least one of phosphorus, barium and tungsten as an accessory constituent, and has a glass transition point of 390&#xb0; C. or less. And, connection resistance between the joined members exhibits less than 1&#xd7;10&#x3a9;/mm.

Conductive joint article and method for manufacturing same

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a joining material that can easily join materials to be joined even when characteristics and physical properties thereof differ greatly. To solve the above problem, the joining material according to the present invention is characterized by including a base material, a first layer that is disposed on one surface of the base material, and a second layer that is disposed on the other surface of the base material and includes a phase having a different coefficient of thermal expansion to that of the phase configuring the first layer, at least one of the first and second layers including glass having a softening point of 600&#xb0; C. or lower.

Joining material and joined body using same

An air pump apparatus is provided which uses an electric actuator that can electrically operate a pneumatic device such as a suction pad or air chuck. The air pump apparatus includes an air cylinder having a built-in piston, and an electric actuator configured to move the piston linearly and relatively to the air cylinder, using the electric motor as a drive source. Air under negative pressure and/or positive pressure generated by the electric actuator causing the piston of the air cylinder to move linearly is used to operate a pneumatic device.

Air pump apparatus using electric actuator and air pump system

A sealed structural body has an internal space and is made of glass, wherein at least a part of a boundary between the internal space of the sealed structural body and the outside is separated by a sealing material containing a metal material and a lead-free oxide glass. The lead-free oxide glass contains at least one of element Ag or P, Te, and V.

Sealed structural body and method for manufacturing the same

There is disclosed a heat-insulating member including a pair of substrates and an airtight sealing part, in which the airtight sealing part is formed in an outer peripheral part between the pair of substrates to form a space between the pair of substrates, the space being in a vacuum or reduced pressure state, a sealing material that forms the airtight sealing part includes a low-melting glass, and the low-melting glass contains a vanadium oxide, barium oxide, phosphorus oxide, and tungsten oxide, in which the following two relational expressions are satisfied in terms of oxide contents: VO+BaO+PO+WO&#x2265;90 and VO&#x3e;BaO&#x3e;PO&#x3e;WO(wherein unit: mol %). Thereby, influence on environmental impact can be reduced and maintenance of airtightness and an improvement in acid resistance can be achieved.

Heat-insulating member, low-melting glass composition, and sealing material paste

An object of the present invention is to provide a multi-layer glass with high degree of vacuum and high mass productivity. In order to achieve the object, the multi-layer glass according to the present invention includes a first glass substrate, a second glass substrate disposed facing the first glass substrate with a space therebetween, a sealing portion, which contains a glass composition and is disposed in a peripheral edge portion of the space between the first glass substrate and the second glass substrate, and column members disposed between the first glass substrate and the second glass substrate, wherein the column member is made of a metal or alloy, and a melting point of the metal or alloy is higher than a softening point of the glass composition and is lower than or equal to a temperature 20&#xb0; C. higher than a flow point of the glass composition.

Multi-layer glass and method for producing the same

The present invention aims at providing a lead-free glass composition that can be soften and flowed at a firing temperature that is equal to or lower than that of conventional low melting point lead glass. Furthermore, the present invention aims at providing a lead-free glass composition having fine thermal stability and fine chemical stability in addition to that property. The lead-free glass composition according to the present invention is characterized by comprising at least AgO, VOand TeOwhen the components are represented by oxides, wherein the total content ratio of AgO, VOand TeOis 75 mass % or more. Preferably, the lead-free glass composition comprises 10 to 60 mass % of AgO, 5 to 65 mass % of VO, and 15 to 50 mass % of TeO.

Glass composition, glass frit containing same, glass paste containing same, and electrical/electronic component obtained using same

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