Nkk Corporation

Jfe Steel Corporation

Fujitsu Denso Ltd.

Atsushi Ogawa

Kuninori Minakawa

Kazuhide Takahashi

Hiroyoshi Suenaga

Chiaki Ouchi

Masakazu Niikura

Masahiko Yamaguchi

Hiroshi Iizumi

Kiyohide Taniguchi

Yasuo Ooka

Shin-ichi Takagi

Naoya Uchida

Provided is a golf club head which has the coefficient of restitution within the regulated range and which is easy for hitting balls. The ball-hitting face is made of a material anisotropic in Young's modulus. Preferably the direction of the largest Young's modulus on the face material is perpendicular to the horizontal direction on the face.

Golf club head

The present invention can achieve the reliability and simplicity in registering a fingerprint by indicating the quality of a fingerprint image by the number of pseudo minutiae, improve the security of an entrance/exit control system to register a fingerprint, detect the direction of ridge lines of a fingerprint accurately as much as possible, improve the security in checking a fingerprint remarkably, collect renewed registered fingerprint data by a host device and hold the registered fingerprint data of each gate as the latest fingerprint data, improve the operability by enabling to use identification numbers having the less number of digits, and register a fingerprint having a high match rate by automatically applying spatial filtering in re-registering only. A fingerprint registering method according to the present invention detects normal minutiae and pseudo minutiae in a fingerprint pictured by a fingerprint image pickup unit, counts pseudo minutiae in registering windows with normal minutiae at almost the center, determines the average number of pseudo minutiae in registering windows from a total of pseudo minutiae in all registering windows, and registers a fingerprint when the average number of pseudo minutiae is equal to or below a threshold.

Fingerprint registering method and fingerprint checking device

A method for making an .alpha.+.beta. titanium alloy comprising: preparing an .alpha.+.beta. titanium alloy, hot-working the titanium alloy in an .alpha.+.beta. phase region, heating and then heat treating the hot-worked titanium alloy to a temperature from the .beta.-transus minus 55.degree. C. to the .beta.-transus minus 10.degree. C., air cooling the heat treated titanium alloy, heating and then heat treating the air cooled titanium alloy to a temperature from the .beta.-transus minus 250.degree. C. to the .beta.-transus minus 120.degree. C., and air cooling the heat treated titanium alloy.

Method for making .alpha.+.beta. titanium alloy

A method for making titanium alloy products comprises the steps of:

Method for making titanium alloy products

A method of making a titanium base alloy comprising the steps of heating a titanium base alloy to a temperature ranging from .beta.-transus minus 250.degree. C. to .beta.-transus; and hot working the heated alloy with a reduction ratio of at least 50%. The titanium base alloy consists essentially of about 3.42 to 5 wt. % Al, 2.1 to 3.7 wt. % V, 0.85 to 2.37 wt. % Mo, at least 0.01 wt. % O, at least one element selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co, Cr, and the balance being titanium. The invention also includes superplastic forming of said alloys. The titanium alloy satisfies the following equations:

Method of making Ti-Al-V-Mo alloys

A method of making a titanium base alloy comprising the steps of: heating a titanium base alloy to a temperature ranging from .beta.-transus minus 250.degree. C. to 5-transus; the titanium base alloy consisting essentially of about 3.42 to 5 wt. % Al, 2.1 to 3.7 wt. % V, 0.85 to 3.15 wt. % Mo, at least 0.01 wt. % 0, at least one element selected from the group consisting of Fe, Ni, Co and Cr, and the balance being titanium, and satisfying the following equations: 0.85 wt. %.ltoreq.X wt %.ltoreq.3.15 wt %, 7 wt %.ltoreq.Y wt %.ltoreq.13 wt. %, X wt. %=Fe wt. %+Ni wt. %+Co wt. %+0.9.times.Cr wt. %, Y wt. %=2.times.Fe wt. %+2.times.Ni wt. %+2.times.Co wt. %+1.8.times.Cr wt. %+1.5.times.V wt. %+Mo wt. %, and hot working the heated alloy with a reduction ratio percent of at least 50%.

Ti-Al-V-Mo-O alloys with an iron group element

A Titanium base alloy with improved superplastic, hot workability, cold workability, and mechanical properties is provided. The alloy has about 4% Al and 2.5% V, with below 0.15% O, with 2% Fe and 2% Mo, 0.85.about.3.15 wt. % Mo, and at least one element from the group of Fe, Ni, Co, and Cr as beta stabilizing elements, and as contributing elements to the lowering of beta transus, finally to the improvement of the superplastic properties, and hot and cold workability, with the grain size of below 5 .mu.m. A method of making thereof is provided with the reheating temperature between beta transus minus 250.degree. C. and beta transus. A method of superplastic forming thereof is provided with the heat treating temperature between beta transus minus 250.degree. C. and beta transus.

Titanium base alloy for excellent formability and method of making

A titanium base alloy with improved superplastic, hot workability, cold workability, and mechanical properties is provided. The alloy has about 4% Al and 2.5% V, with below 0.15% O, with 2% Fe and 2% Mo, 0.85.about.3.15 wt. % Mo, and at least one element from the group of Fe, Ni, Co, and Cr as beta stabilizing elements, and as contributing elements to the lowering of beta transus, finally to the improvement of the superplastic properties, and hot and cold workability, with the grain size of below 5 .mu.m. A method of making thereof is provided with the reheating temperature between beta transus minus 250.degree. C. and beta transus. A method of superplastic forming thereof is provided with the heat treating temperature between beta transus minus 250.degree. C. and beta transus.

Titanium base alloy for excellent formability

The invention provides a titanium alloy having improved superplastic forming characteristics and mechanical characteristics. A titanium alloy having superplastic forming characteristics consisting essentially of about 5.5 to 6.75 wt. % Al, 3.5 to 4.5 wt. % V, 0.01 to 0.2 wt. % O, 0.85 to 3.15 wt. % Fe, 0.85 to 3.25 wt. % Mo, with 2.times.Fe wt. %+Mo wt. % being from 3 to 8, and balance titanium; said alloy containing .alpha.-crystals having a grain size below about 6 .mu.m in diameter. The Fe and Mo act as .beta.-stabilizing elements and contributing elements to lowering the beta transus and to the improvement of the superplastic characteristics.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Atsushi Ogawa