Nkk Corporation

Nippon Kokan Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Steel Corporation

Toshiba Ceramics Co., Ltd.

Tokyo Magnetic Printing Co., Ltd.

Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Hiroshi Kamio

Kenji Araki

Yoshinobu Shima

Makoto Suzuki

Shigetake Horie

Takeshi Suzuki

Satoshi Matsumoto

Akira Kazama

Yasumitsu Nakahama

Takao Noguchi

Shinya Yamamoto

Shuzo Fukuda

Akio Fujibayashi

Hideya Kaminaka

Kazuo Kunioka

Kouichi Takeuchi

Masanori Ohmura

Yasushi Ueno

Masaru Abe

Kenji Takeshige

Takeshi Kaneto

Kenichi Sakai

Yoshiaki Makino

Kenji Hirabe

Yukifumi Ogawa

Hiroshi Sakama

Yasumitsu Nakaham

Hiroaki Himori

Mamoru Namikawa

Takeshi Keneto

Genichi Kagai

Kazunori Yako

Toshinori Matsuo

Kazuyoshi Arikata

Norio Inoue

To provide a titanium alloy with superior corrosion resistance. The titanium alloy, having α- and β-phases, containing: by mass %, Fe: 0.010 to 0.300%, Ru: 0.010 to 0.150%, Cr: 0 to 0.10%, Ni: 0 to 0.30%, Mo: 0 to 0.10%, Pt: 0 to 0.10%, Pd: 0 to 0.20%, Ir: 0 to 0.10%, Os: 0 to 0.10%, Rh: 0 to 0.10%, one type or two or more types of La, Ce, and Nd: 0 to 0.10% in total, one type or two or more types of Cu, Mn, Sn, and Zr: 0 to 0.20% in total, C: 0.10% or less, N: 0.05% or less, O: 0.20% or less, H: 0.100% or less, with the balance made up of Ti and impurities, wherein an average A-value in Expression (1), which represents a composition ratio of elements contained in β-phase crystal grains, is in a range of 0.550 to 2.000, is used.

Titanium alloy

Provided is a stainless steel product having a chemical composition consisting of C: less than 0.05%, Si: 4.0 to 7.0%, Mn: 1.50% or less, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.030% or less, Cr: 10.0 to 20.0%, Ni: 11.0 to 17.0%, Cu: 0.15 to 1.5%, Mo: 0.15 to 1.5%, Nb: 0.5 to 1.2%, Sol. Al: 0 to 0.10%, Mg: 0 to 0.01%, and balance Fe and impurities, wherein MgO.AlOinclusions constitute an area fraction of 0.02% or less. This stainless steel product has excellent corrosion resistance to hot concentrated sulfuric acid of approximately 93 to 99% concentration, for example, and also is economically advantageous.

Stainless steel product

An apparatus for making a silicon single crystal large in diameter dependently on the Czochralski process, wherein appropriate openings (11) are provided on the warmth keeping over (10) so as to prevent an undesirable influence caused by atmospheric gas. The major elements of the apparatus are that the sum of areas of the openings (11) is larger than the area of gap (18) formed between the lower end of the warmth keeping cover (10) and the level of silicon solution, and that the warmth keeping cover and the heat insulating member (12) are composed of sheet metal.

Silicon single crystal manufacturing apparatus

In a silicon single crystal manufacturing apparatus of the type which continuously feeds starting material, a metallic heat keeping plate is arranged to cover a partition member dividing molten silicon into a single crystal growing section and a material melting section within a quartz crucible and an upper side of the material melting section. The metallic heat keeping plate is provided for the purpose of preventing the occurrence of solidification of the molten silicon on the inner side of the partition member and preventing excessive cooling of a silicon single crystal. The metallic heat keeping plate has a thickness of 3 mm or less and its material is tantalum or molybdenum. Further, the heat keeping plate includes a straight body portion formed with a plurality of openings for adjusting the temperature of the single crystal.

Apparatus for manufacturing silicon single crystals

According to the present invention, the inside of a crucible in which a molten raw material is placed is partitioned off with a partition ring so that a pulled single crystal is surrounded and the molten raw material may be moved and granular silicon is supplied to the outside of the partition ring, thereby to form the whole surface of outside molten liquid as a granular silicon soluble region so as to maintain the molten liquid surface on the inside of the partition ring at almost a constant level, and also to set the temperature of the molten liquid on the outside of the partition ring higher than the temperature of the inside thereof at least by 10.degree. C. or higher by covering the partition ring and the molten liquid surface on the outside thereof with a heat keeping board.

Manufacturing method and equipment of single silicon crystal

Method for manufacturing a large columner silicon single crystal having a diameter of 12 cm-30 cm by pulling up a crystal, growing, and rotating it in one direction, from molten silicon material in a quartz crucible rotating in the other direction. The inside of the quartz crucible is divided into two sections--the peripheral section for feeding and melting raw materials and the central section for growing and pulling the crystal--by means of a cylindrical partition. The material feeding and melting section and the partition are sufficiently covered by an insulating board to reduce radiant energy heat loss and to keep the temperature at least above the freezing point of the molten materials in order to prevent the molten materials from solidifying at or around the inner wall of the cylindrical partition.

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for manufacturing silicon single crystals by the Czochralski method, including the steps of dividing a crucible containing molten silicon into an inner single crystal growing section and an outer material feeding section to allow said molten silicon to move slowly, and pulling a silicon single crystal from said single crystal growing section while continuously feeding silicon starting material to said material feeding section, the improvement wherein temperatures of said material feeding section and said molten silicon are maintained higher than a melting point of silicon by at least more than 12.degree. C.

Method and apparatus for manufacturing silicon single crystals

A silicon single crystal manufacturing apparatus in which a partition member formed with at least one small hole through its lower part is arranged in a rotating quartz crucible so as to surround a large cylindrical silicon single crystal which is rotated and pulled. The whole or part of the partition member is made from cellular silica glass whose cell content (volume percentage) is between 0.01 and 15% or less than 0.01% but increased to 0.01 through 15% by the heat used for melting starting silicon material. Thus, the molten material contacting with the inside of the partition member is prevented from decreasing in temperature and solidification of the molten material from this portion is prevented.

An apparatus for forming epitaxial layers, comprises a first susceptor disposed in a reaction furnace and having an outer periphery constituted by a heat reflection material and capable of supporting a plurality of semiconductor wafers, a second susceptor disposed coaxially with the first susceptor such as to surround the first susceptor at a predetermined space therefrom and having an inner periphery constituted by a heat reflection material and capable of supporting a plurality of semiconductor wafers such that these semiconductor wafers face the semiconductor wafers supported by the first susceptor, and a pair of heat reflection members disposed in the reaction furnace between the outer periphery of the first susceptor and the inner periphery of the second susceptor. The first and second susceptors are rotated in mutually opposite directions about a common vertical axis during an epitaxial growing process.

Apparatus for forming thin films

A magnetic medium for magnetic embossment comprises a main magnetic layer and a high permeability magnetic-metal layer, a nonmagnetic white metal layer and a coloring layer laminated on the main magnetic layer. A magnetic card comprises a card substrate which is nonmagnetic, and a magnetic medium for magnetic embossment disposed on at least a part of the card substrate, which magnetic medium comprises a main magnetic layer and a high permeability magnetic-metal layer, a nonmagnetic white metal layer and a coloring layer laminated on the main magnetic layer.

Magnetic medium for magnetic embossment and magnetic card using the same

An apparatus for continuously cooling a heated metal plate lying horizontally, which comprises: an upper cooling water ejecting means, arranged above the metal plate in parallel to the width direction thereof, for ejecting cooling water onto the upper surface of the metal plate; a water tank, arranged below the metal plate, for receiving cooling water; and a lower cooling water ejecting means having a lower cooling water ejecting bore, arranged in the water tank in parallel to the width direction of the metal plate. The lower cooling water ejecting means ejects, in the form of a jet stream, cooling water from the lower cooling water ejecting bore together with cooling water received in the water tank, onto the lower surface of the metal plate. The above-mentioned jet stream is surrounded by a jet stream guide duct arranged between the lower cooling water ejecting means and the lower surface of the metal plate.

Apparatus for continuously cooling heated metal plate

A method and an apparatus for cooling a steel sheet, which comprises: ejecting cooling water onto a steel sheet laid horizontally from above and from below said steel sheet immediately after the completion of hot rolling to cool said steel sheet; shielding each of the both side edge portions of the upper surface in the width direction of said steel sheet from said ejected cooling water by a shielding means movable in the width direction of said steel sheet so that the temperature distribution in the width direction of said steel sheet becomes uniform at the completion of the ejection of cooling water; and, determining a shielding width of each of said both side edge portions of said steel sheet, which is shielded from said ejected cooling water, on the basis of the width and the thickness of said steel sheet, the temperature and the flow rate per unit area of cooling water ejected onto the upper and the lower surfaces of said steel sheet, the period of time from start to completion of the ejection of cooling water, and the temperature distribution in the width direction of said steel sheet immediately before the start of the ejection of cooling water.

Method and apparatus for cooling steel sheet

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Hiroshi Kamio