New Materials Japan back issues from Wednesday, May 1:
Hydrogen storage alloy.
May 01, 2002 ... The Mitsui Mining and Smelting Company has developed a hydrogen storage alloy material that has minimized cobalt (Co) content. The material is not susceptible to grain size reduction and has exhibited excellent hydrogen storage characteristics. The material also exhibits ...
Bluetooth baseband large system integration from Toshiba.
May 01, 2002 ... Toshiba Corporation has developed the Bluetooth baseband process large system integration (LSI) TC356510 equipped with Bluetooth upper layer software. It plans to ship samples in May 2002. The LSI is equipped with the Bluetooth upper layer software, including a protocol stack ...
Company-wide technology developments in robotics.
May 01, 2002 ... Omron Corporation, in collaboration with US-based Tmsuk Inc, has developed a business-use monitoring robot that can be remotely operated using an IMT-2000 third-generation (3G) mobile communications service. The robot was created by combining a four-legged robot developed by ...
Development of carbon wire heaters encapsulated in quartz glass.
May 01, 2002 ... Toshiba Ceramics Co Ltd has jointly developed, along with Tokyo Electron Limited, a carbon wire heater encapsulated in quartz glass, known as the QCH-Heater. The QCH-Heater completely encapsulates its heating elements (the carbon wires), and thus can be used in a variety of ...
Antenna technology cuts cost of third-generation wireless system.
May 01, 2002 ... Tokyo-based Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd has developed an antenna technology that reduces the cost of third-generation (3G) wireless communications systems. The technology enables base stations to cover wider areas than before if a mobile terminal has the same level of signal power; ...
Alps Electric develops transparent touch panel for mobile devices.
May 01, 2002 ... Alps Electric Company Ltd has developed the KT Series resistor thin-film tablet (transparent touch panel) for cellular telephones and personal digital assistants. The company plans to start sampling the product in late May 2002. The series uses a resistor film that reads changes ...
Chip sets for high-speed wireless LAN.
May 01, 2002 ... NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories has developed chip sets for the high-speed wireless local area network (LAN) standard IEEE802.11a, using the 5.2 GHz band. The chip sets are composed of two chips, a baseband processing LSI chip and an intermediate frequency (IF) ...
Matsushita's transparent speaker can be fixed to glass surface.
May 01, 2002 ... Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Ltd has jointly developed with Matsushita Electronic Components Company Ltd the Sound Window speaker, which operates by vibrating a transparent film with air pressure. This speaker can be attached to the surface of a display or glass. It ...
Nanotechnology used to develop electro-liquid powder.
May 01, 2002 ... Bridgestone Corporation has developed an original electro-liquid powder and performed trial production of the new thin display device, using nanometer technologies. The display device is based on a new technology concept and is different from the conventional liquid crystal ...
Display panels with improved colour reproduction range.
May 01, 2002 ... Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Ltd has developed a semi-translucent type of thin film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal panel for cellular telephones with a colour reproduction range five times greater than the conventional model. Its colour reproduction is improved by ...
Kyocera launches A-GPS wireless module for CDMA2000 1x.
May 01, 2002 ... Kyocera Corporation has developed the CDMA2000 1x trimode A-GPS wireless module. called Kyocera 200. It provides voice, data and position-location functions for OEM products. The trimode module is compatible with CDMA and new CDMA2000 1x networks (CDMA PCS 1900 MHz, CDMA digital 800 MHz ...
Asahi Kasei and Teijin form joint venture for novel fibre production.
May 01, 2002 ... Asahi Kasei Corporation and Teijin Limited have concluded an agreement to establish a joint venture for polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) fibre operations. The new joint venture, tentatively named Solotex Corporation, is to be established in May. With characteristics which ...
Solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell.
May 01, 2002 ... The Matsushita Electric Industrial Company has developed a compact solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell with a simplified structure that has a high mechanical strength and an improved gas-sealing property. The fuel cell, which operates at room temperature, may be used in portable ...
Disposable guidewire for endoscopy.
May 01, 2002 ... Olympus Optical Company Ltd and Terumo Corporation have jointly developed a guidewire for digestive endoscopy of the pancreas and bile duct. This is the first project under a medical equipment alliance agreement that began in April 2001. The Disposable Guidewire, which will be ...
Ceramic catalyst can kill MRSA.
May 01, 2002 ... The mesoporous ceramics research group at the Ceramics Research Institute of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has developed a novel ceramic catalyst that can kill Escherichia coli (E. Coli) and the superbug, MRSA. The ceramic catalyst may be ...
Waste anaesthetic gas disposal system.
May 01, 2002 ... Showa Denko KK (SDK) has developed, in co-operation with the Kyushu University Hospital, a system for disposing of waste anaesthetic gases at hospitals. A mixture of nitrous oxide and volatile anaesthetic after use in general inhalation anaesthesia is 99.5% decomposed and treated in the ...
Rare-earth ceramic filter.
May 01, 2002 ... The Murata Manufacturing Company has developed a high frequency dielectric ceramic composition with a dielectric constant of 30 to 50, and a Q value of 15 000 or more at 1 GHz. This new high frequency dielectric ceramic composition will find use in the manufacture of dielectric resonators, ...
Fastest transistor for 160 Gbps optical comms.
May 01, 2002 ... Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd's Communications Research Laboratory and Osaka University have jointly developed a transistor that achieves the cut-off frequency (fT) of 562 GHz. According to Fujitsu Laboratories, this is the world's fastest transistor, and opens the way to building optical ...
Large-diameter indium phosphide monocrystal mirror wafers.
May 01, 2002 ... Showa Denko KK has developed a six-inch (150 mm) indium phosphide (InP) semi-insulating monocrystal mirror wafer. Markets are rapidly growing for optical fibre communications equipment based on the dense wavelength division multiplexing system, because it can dramatically increase the ...