Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Nippon Steel Corporation

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Akira Taniyama

Naoki Maruyama

Takashi Fujii

Masayuki Iijima

Kazuhiro Ogawa

Hisashi Amaya

Takahiro Arai

Takashi Nemoto

Shunsuke Taniguchi

Shinjirou Akaboshi

Takafumi Amino

Tatsuo Nagata

Kenichiro Tadokoro

Hideki Takabe

Masakatsu Ueda

Iwao Terashima

Takumi Nishimoto

Kouichi Tsubata

Hiromitsu Date

Kou Ishikura

Akira Sekino

Shigeru Takahashi

Takashige Mori

Suguru Sakuramoto

Hideki Miyanishi

Chie Yokoyama

Masayuki Onozato

Norio Ishiwata

Naoto Okamoto

Provided is a negative electrode active material which is excellent in capacity, capacity retention ratio, and a coulombic efficiency when charging/discharging is repeated. The chemical composition of the alloy particles of the negative electrode active material of the present disclosure includes 0.50 to 3.00 mass % of oxygen, and alloy elements containing Sn: 13.0 to 40.0 at % and Si: 6.0 to 40.0 at %, with the balance being Cu and impurities. The structure of the alloy particles includes: one or more types selected from the group consisting of a phase having a D0structure, and a δ phase; one or more types selected from the group consisting of an ε phase and an η' phase; and a SiOphase (x=0.50 to 1.70). The SiOphase (x=0.50 to 1.70) has a volume fraction of 5.0 to 60.0% and the η′ phase has a volume fraction of 0 to 60.0%.

Negative electrode active material, negative electrode, and battery

A Si/Mn ratio of steel material components of a base material is not less than 0.27 nor more than 0.90 in mass ratio, an internal oxide layer having a thickness of not less than 1 &#x3bc;m nor more than 30 &#x3bc;m is provided right below an oxide scale of a steel sheet surface layer portion, and regarding the internal oxide layer, an internal oxide in a crystal grain of the internal oxide layer is an oxide containing Si and having a thickness of not less than 10 nm nor more than 200 nm in a crystal grain in a range of greater than 0% and 30% or less of a thickness of the internal oxide layer from an interface between the internal oxide layer and base iron toward a direction of the surface layer oxide scale, one or more branches of the internal oxide exist in a cross section of 1 &#x3bc;m&#xd7;1 &#x3bc;m square, and in any crystal grain boundary having a length of 1 &#x3bc;m, one or more of the internal oxides in the crystal grain are connected to an internal oxide of the crystal grain boundary to form a net-like structure.

Hot-rolled steel sheet and manufacturing method thereof, and manufacturing method of cold-rolled steel sheet

There is provided a tilting parameters calculating device for use in a charged particle beam device for making a charged particle beam irradiated to a surface of a sample mounted on a sample stage, the tilting parameters calculating device being configured to calculate tilting parameters, the tilting parameters being input parameters to control a tilting direction and a tilting value of the sample and/or the charged particle beam, the input parameters being necessary to change an incident direction of the charged particle beam with respect to the sample, the tilting parameters calculating device including a tilting parameters calculating unit for calculating the tilting parameters based on information that indicates the incident direction of the charged particle beam with respect to a crystal lying at a selected position on the surface in a state where the incident direction of the charged particle beam with respect to the sample is in a predetermined incident direction, the information being designated on a crystal orientation figure, which is a diagram illustrating the incident direction of the charged particle beam with respect to a crystal coordinate system of the crystal.

Tilting parameters calculating device, sample stage, charged particle beam device, and program

In a food transfer heat treatment apparatus using a spiral transfer belt, heat treatment gas blowing means and a heat treatment gas circulating method for enhancing the heat transfer efficiency between a heat treatment gas and food and for improving the heat treatment effect are realized to expand the degree of freedom for the layout of the apparatus and to simplify the assembly. Provided is a spiral transfer heat treatment apparatus comprising endless conveyer belts () for circulating the food (f) in a store room (), and a spiral moving unit () for causing a heat treatment gas (c) to act on the food (f) while transferring the food (f) on the conveyer belts (). The spiral transfer heat treatment apparatus further comprises a heat treatment gas generating device () arranged in the inside space of the spiral moving unit (), a distribution duct () arranged between the heat treatment gas generating device () and the spiral moving unit () for receiving the heat treatment gas (c) generated in the heat treatment gas generating device (), and a plurality of hollow nozzle units () protruding from the distribution duct () between the conveyer belts () of the spiral moving unit (), thereby to inject the heat treatment gas flow toward the food (f) on the conveyer belts () arranged below and to form their upper faces () into the supporting faces of rails () for supporting the conveyer belts () slidably.

Spiral transfer heat treatment apparatus

A tempering treatment method whereby the temperature of meat, which involves a carcass prepared by slaughtering cattle or poultry and sterilizing and washing, is lowered as close to the ice storage temperature as possible to prevent a temperature rise caused by the actions of enzymes contained within the meat before transporting the meat to a refrigerated storage, which comprises surface-freezing the meat by blowing a cold air stream at about &#x2212;20 to about &#x2212;40&#xb0; C. to the meat before conducting the tempering treatment, thus allowing the generation of freezing latent heat in the subcutaneous part owing to the surface-freezing (freezing the subcutaneous tissue), and then rapidly lowering the core temperature inside the meat due to the latent heat released at the melting of the freezing latent heat to thereby conduct the tempering treatment at a temperature of 0 to +15&#xb0; C.

Method and apparatus for tempering treatment of meat, tempered meat treated by the method, and refrigerated meat storage

An ammonia/COrefrigeration system is provided in which the ammonia cycle and CObrine cycle can be combined without problems even when refrigeration load such as refrigerating showcase, etc. is located at any place in accordance with circumstances of customer's convenience. The system comprises apparatuses working on an ammonia refrigerating cycle, a brine cooler for cooling and condensing COby utilizing the latent heat of vaporization of the ammonia, and a liquid pump provided in a supply line for supplying the cooled and liquefied COto a refrigeration load side cooler, wherein said liquid pump is a variable-discharge pump for allowing COto be circulated forcibly, and the forced circulation flow is determined so that COis recovered from the outlet of the cooler of the refrigeration load side in a liquid or liquid/gas mixed state.

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An ammonia/COrefrigerating system having a liquid pump for feeding the liquid COcooled in a brine cooler by the utilization of the vaporization latent heat of ammonia in an ammonia refrigeration cycle to a cooler, which comprises a liquid receiving vesselfor receiving a CObrine cooled in a brine cooler, a liquid pumpcapable of changing the rate of the feed of a liquid, a rising pipingprovided between the liquid pumpand a cooler, and a communication pipefor communicating the top of the riser pipewith the COgas phase in the liquid receiving vessel, wherein the discharge pressure of the liquid pumpis set so as for the COrecovered form the cooleror the liquid receiverin the state of a liquid or a gas-liquid mixture, and the level of the rise in the rising pipingis set at a level being the same as or higher than the highest storage level for the CObrine in the liquid receiving vessel. The above ammonia/COrefrigerating system allows a refrigeration cycle of a combination of an ammonia cycle and a COcycle to be formed with no care, even when a refrigerating showcase, which is the cooler side of the COcycle, is installed at an arbitrary place.

A continuous transfer type freezer for cooling or freezing articles such as foodstuffs transferred on a conveyor belt by spraying chilled air from slit nozzles on the articles is provided in which chilled air jets rectified to have long spray travel is produced, thin stream layer of chilled air is formed on the surface of the article to achieve increased heat transfer, and exhaust passages of the chilled air are formed such that they do not affect the cooling function. A plurality of slit nozzlesare apposed above and under the conveyor belt along the belt transfer direction, each of the nozzlesis shaped such that it has an angled and succeeding parallel entrance way so that the chilled air is rectified in the entrance ways and spout from the nozzle opening at large velocity, and exhaust passagesare formed between each of the slit nozzles such that the chilled air spouted from the nozzles flows toward both lateral end sides of the conveyor belt

Continuous transfer type freezer

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Tokyo, Japan

Akira Taniyama