Toshiba Tungaloy Co., Ltd.

Tokin Corporation

Nishimatsu Co., Ltd.

Minoru Nishida

Tsutomu Mashimo

Hisashi Yamasaki

Susumu Yamaya

Katsuhiko Kaneko

The object of the present invention is to provide a stoichiometric B1-type tantalum nitride and a sintered body thereof. A B1-type tantalum nitride and a sintered body thereof, wherein a stoichiometric B1-type tantalum nitride is produced typically according to the method of impact compression, having the properties (a) that the X ray diffraction substantially shows a pattern ascribed to the stoichiometric B1-type tantalum nitride alone but not others, (b) that the measured value of the lattice spacing D (h, k, l) has a deviation of 0.00013 nm or less from the corresponding value calculated based on the B1 structure, (c) that the lattice constant is 0.4335.about.0.4338 nm, (d) that the electron diffraction image substantially shows the spots particular to the stoichiometric B1-type tantalum nitride alone but not others and (e) the value of Z in TaN.sub.z is within a range of 0.96-1.01.

Stoichiometric B1-type tantalum nitride and a sintered body thereof and

The object of the present invention is to provide a stoichiometric B1-type tantalum nitride and a sintered body thereof. A B1-type tantalum nitride and a sintered body thereof, wherein a stoichiometric B1-type tantalum nitride is produced typically according to the method of impact compression, having the properties (a) that the X-ray diffraction substantially shows a pattern ascribed to the stoichiometric B1-type tantalum nitride alone but not others, (b) that the measured value of the lattice spacing D (h, k, l) has a deviation of 0.00013 nm or less from the corresponding value calculated based on the B1 structure, (c) that the lattice constant is 0.4335.about.0.4338 nm, (d) that the electron diffraction image substantially shows the spots particular to the stoichiometric B1-type tantalum nitride alone but not others and (e) the value of Z in TaN.sub.z is within a range of 0.96-1.01.

In construction of a stonework crusher utilizing thermal deformation of shape memory alloy, heating means is coupled to one or more insert heads made of shape memory alloy without leaving any space there between so that thermal deformation of the insert heads should pose no substantial influence upon heat transmission from the heating means. In particular when several crushers are used in combination, uniform heat transmission at different crushers allows concerted generation of crush force by the combined crushers for effective and efficient crushing of stoneworks.

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Minoru Nishida