Ngk Insulators, Inc.

Yoshio Kikuchi

Masaki Ishikawa

Takafumi Kimata

Haruo Otsuka

Kenichi Hidaka

Hiroyuki Shibata

Takashi Suzuki

Kenji Morimoto

Kisuke Yamamoto

Shinji Kawasaki

Iwao Ohwada

Makoto Iwai

Yoshinori Isoda

Yukio Miyairi

Yoshimasa Kobayashi

Hiroharu Kobayashi

Tatsuya Hishiki

Masaaki Kawai

Miyuki Kojima

The present invention relates to a transparent sealing member and an optical component. The present invention is a transparent sealing member (A) used in an optical component (A) provided with a package (A) having at least one optical element () emitting ultraviolet light () and a mount board () to which the optical element is mounted. The transparent sealing member (A) is provided with a transparent body () joined on the mount board () via an organic adhesion layer (), and the transparent body () has a housing space () in a lower surface opening.

Transparent sealing member and optical component

A light converging member () according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a recess portion () that is used for an optical component () with an optical element () for emitting light, the recess portion being opposed to the optical element () and having a size 0.5 or more times larger than the maximum length of a light emission region in the optical element; and a lens body () for converging light having passed through the recess portion ().

Light converging member and optical component

The present invention relates to an optical component and a transparent sealing member. An optical component has: at least one optical element; and a package that houses therein the optical element. The package has: a mounting board on which the optical element is mounted; a transparent sealing member bonded on the mounting board; a recessed section surrounding the optical element mounted on the mounting board; and a refractive index matching agent applied to the inside of the recessed section. The package has at least one groove in communication with the outside from the recessed section.

Optical component and transparent sealing member

The present invention relates to a transparent sealing member and an optical component. This transparent sealing member () is used in a package () for accommodating at least one optical element (), and is bonded to a mounting substrate () having the optical element () mounted thereto, by a resin adhesive (). The transparent sealing member () is provided with a plurality of particles () which are affixed to a surface () to be bonded to the mounting substrate ().

A first transparent sealing member is used in a package accommodating at least one optical element, and is attached to a mounting substrate having a mounting surface for the optical element. In the first transparent sealing member, at least one corner part among a plurality of corner parts configured by a surface facing the mounting substrate and a surface along the mounting surface of the mounting substrate has a curved shape, and punctiform minute recessed parts are formed on the surface of the curved shape. The average presence frequency of the minute recessed parts is 100,000 to 3,000,000 inclusive per 1 mm.

Transparent sealing member having at least one corner portion in curved shape and method for manufacturing same

The present invention relates to an optical component and a transparent body used in the optical component. The optical component includes at least one optical element that radiates ultraviolet light, and a package that accommodates the optical element. The package includes a mounting substrate on which the optical element is mounted, and a transparent body that is bonded to the mounting substrate with an organic-based adhesive layer therebetween. The package has a structure in which the ultraviolet light is transmitted through the transparent body but not guided to the adhesive layer, and the ultraviolet light does not directly come into contact with the adhesive layer.

Optical component and transparent body

The present invention relates to a transparent sealing member. A quartz glass transparent sealing member is used in an optical component having at least one optical element, and a mounting board on which the optical element is mounted, and constitutes, with the mounting board, a package that houses the optical element. The concentration of aluminum in a surface portion is higher than the concentration of aluminum in an inner portion.

Transparent sealing member

A transparent sealing member is provided with minute recesses at least in the surface of the member from which light from an optical element is emitted. The average width of the minute recesses is 0.1 &#x3bc;m to 2.0 &#x3bc;m, the average depth of the minute recesses is 5 nm to 50 nm, and the average frequency of occurrence of the minute recesses is 100000 to 3000000 recesses per 1 mm.

A ceramic formed body extrusion method for forming a ceramic formed body having a wall-shaped or plate-shaped formed portion by using an extrusion die provided with a slit for extrusion of a ceramic formed body from a raw material for forming, the slit including a slit former stage unit located on an upstream side in an extrusion direction in the extrusion and a slit latter stage unit located on a downstream side in the extrusion direction, the slit latter stage unit having a width of three to 27 times a width of the slit former stage unit, and by extruding a raw material containing a first particle having an aspect ratio of two or more and less than 300 such that the raw material passes though the slit former stage unit of the extrusion die and then passes through the slit latter stage unit.

Ceramic formed body extrusion method, ceramic formed body, and ceramic porous body

A honeycomb structure includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having a porous partition wall. The honeycomb structure body includes a plurality of cells defined by the partition wall so as to extend from a first end face to a second end face of the honeycomb structure body, the partition wall is formed by a porous body including a silicon phase as a main phase and an oxide, and the oxide includes a first oxide made of an alkali earth metal oxide, AlO, and SiO.

Honeycomb structure

A method for manufacturing a plugged honeycomb structure, includes: a forming raw material preparation step of mixing and kneading a partition wall base material raw material at least including cordierite powder and binder with water to obtain a partition wall base material forming raw material; a forming/drying step of forming the partition wall base material forming raw material to obtain a honeycomb formed body, and drying the honeycomb formed body to obtain a honeycomb dried body; a slurry application step of applying trapping layer forming slurry including a cordierite forming raw material or alumina to a surface of a not-fired partition wall base material of the obtained honeycomb dried body; a firing step of firing the slurry-applied honeycomb dried body; and a plugging step of disposing a plugging portion at open ends of predetermined cells of the slurry-applied honeycomb dried body or of the honeycomb fired body.

Method for manufacturing plugged honeycomb structure, and plugged honeycomb structure

A honeycomb structure includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having a porous partition wall. The honeycomb structure body includes a plurality of cells defined by the partition wall so as to extend from a first end face to a second end face of the honeycomb structure body, the partition wall is formed by a porous body including a silicon phase as a main phase, and the silicon phase as the main phase has content of each of metals other than silicon and metals making up silicide that is 0.3 part by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of silicon.

A plugged honeycomb structure includes: a pillar-shaped honeycomb substrate having a partition wall base material that defines a plurality of cells serving as a through channel of fluid; a plugging portion disposed at open ends of predetermined cells at an inflow-side end face of fluid and at open ends of residual cells at an outflow-side end face of fluid; and a porous trapping layer disposed at least at a surface of the partition wall base material of the residual cells. The partition wall base material is formed by a base material porous body including cordierite as a main phase, the trapping layer is formed by a trapping layer porous body including cordierite as a main phase, and a part of the trapping layer penetrating into pores formed at the partition wall base material has a thickness of 0 to 20 &#x3bc;m.

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Yoshio Kikuchi