Nippon Steel Corporation

Nippon Steel Chemical Co., Ltd.

Rikagaku Kenkyusho

Nippon Steel Corooration

Nippon Bunri University School of Engineering

Naoya Hamada

Tatsuhiko Sakai

Hideyuki Hamamura

Motoi Kido

Masafumi Miyazaki

Eiichiro Ishimaru

Katsuhiro Minamida

Hideaki Yamamura

Eiichi Takeuchi

Yasushi Kurisu

Hirofumi Imai

Hideki Oka

Atsushi Sugihashi

Mamoru Yamada

Satoshi Yamaguchi

Tadahiro Izu

Isao Suichi

Kazumi Seki

Mitsuru Nakayama

Yasuo Maruki

Hisashi Mogi

Koichi Chiba

Shigeyoshi Arai

Akira Sakaida

Maki Sato

Hayato Kaetsu

Yoshiharu Horita

Kimihiko Sugiyama

Yuji Fujioka

Akira Ishibashi

Takashi Otsubo

Makoto Yamasaki

Syohei Isomura

Masahi Oikawa

Takumi Kono

Tomozumi Murata

A semiconductor laser device with the energy density increased at the focal point and a LD pumped solid-state laser device configured of the particular semiconductor laser device are provided. A stack array laser element for radiating a two-dimensional array of laser beams includes a plurality of parallel laser beam columns each aligned in the form of dotted lines. In front of the stack array laser element, each laser beam column collimated by being refracted in the direction substantially perpendicular to the direction of the dotted line is received, and radiated by turning at right angles to the direction of the laser beams from each emitter or emitter group. In this way, the laser beams are converted into a plurality of substantially ladder-shaped parallel laser beam columns. These parallel laser beam columns are compressed to form parallel laser beam columns in alignment. Each compressed one of parallel laser beam columns is turned at right angles and radiated. Thus, all the laser beams are converted into a plurality of aligned parallel laser beams, which are collimated and condensed at a focal point.

Semiconductor laser device and solid-state laser device using the same

The present invention provides a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet with an extremely low core loss by scanning by a small focused laser beam spot and a method of production of the same, that is, a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet improved in electrical characteristics by scanning by a continuous wave fiber laser of the TEMmode with a wavelength &#x3bb; of 1.07&#x2266;&#x3bb;&#x2266;2.10 &#x3bc;m substantially perpendicular to the steel sheet rolling direction and at substantially constant spacing and a method of production of the same, wherein a rolling direction focused spot diameter d (mm) of the irradiated beam, a linear scan rate V (mm/s) of the laser beam, an average output P (W) of the laser, a width of the formed laser scribing traces or with of the electrical domains Wl (mm), and a rolling direction Pl (mm) of the laser scribing traces are in the following ranges:0&#x3c;d&#x2266;0.200.001&#x2266;P/V&#x2266;0.0120&#x3c;Wl&#x2266;0.201.5&#x2266;Pl&#x2266;11.0.

Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet superior in electrical characteristics and method of production of same

A semiconductor laser device including a laser element stack array emitting a two-dimensional array shaped group of laser beams consisting of rows of laser beams arranged linearly in parallel in a broken line configuration and optical elements arranged in front of the array, receiving rows of laser beams bent and collimated in a direction substantially perpendicular to the orientation of the broken line configuration. Laser beams are emitted from emitters or groups of emitters and are rotated by right angles so as to convert the laser beams to a plurality of rows aligned in parallel in an approximate ladder rung configuration and the distance between center axes of the rows of laser beams is shortened to condense the laser beams by converting them to a group of laser beams emitted from a common object and thereby making all laser beams converge to a single image.

Semiconductor laser device and solid-state laser device using same

A cooling drum for metal cast strip by continuous casting has dimples 40 to 200 &#x3bc;m in average depth and 0.5 to 3 mm in diameter of circle equivalent formed on a plated peripheral surface of the cooling drum, adjacent to each other at rims of the dimples; and a film, containing oxides of at least one member selected from the group consisting of Ni&#x2014;W, Ni&#x2014;Co&#x2014;W, Cr, Ni&#x2014;Fe and Ni&#x2014;Al, is formed on the peripheral surface.

Cooling drum for thin slab continuous casting, processing method and apparatus thereof, and thin slab and continuous casting method thereof

A semiconductor laser apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is provided. For example, the apparatus may include a single or a plurality of stacked-array laser diodes, first beam compressors, and a separating optical device separating the group of laser beams into subgroups of laser beams in a first direction, and deflecting the subgroups of laser beams so that the subgroups of laser beams approach in the first direction and recede from one another in a second direction. In addition, a collimating optical device may be provided which is adapted to deflect the subgroups of laser beams in the first and second directions by the same angles. Further, a beam converter may be included which divides each subgroup of laser beams and turning the axis thereof, and second beam compressors and a group of cylindrical lenses can be provided that can make the angle of divergence in the first direction close to the angle of divergence in the second direction.

Semiconductor laser apparatus capable of routing laser beams emitted from stacked-array laser diode to optical fiber with little loss

A low core loss grain-oriented electrical steel sheet that does not have a significant deterioration in a magnetic flux density and a decrease of a space factor, and which may withstand stress-relieving annealing is provided. Melted and re-solidified layers can be formed on either or both of the surfaces of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet that extend in a direction that is perpendicular to the rolling direction (e.g., in the direction of the width thereof), at a cyclic interval of not less than approximately 2 mm to less than approximately 5 mm in the rolling direction. The melted and re-solidified layers may be provided on each surface of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, and can have an aspect ratio that is a ratio of the depth to the width of the melted and re-solidified layer of not less than approximately 0.20 and a depth of not less than approximately 15 &#x3bc;m. In addition, the melted and re-solidified layers can be formed by using a laser.

Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic properties and method for producing the same

Dimples, preferably 40 to 200 &#x3bc;m in average depth and 0.5 to 3 mm in diameter of circle equivalent, are formed on the peripheral surface of a cooling drum, adjacent to each other at the rims of the dimples; and fine humps (preferably, fine humps 1 to 50 &#x3bc;m in height and 5 to 200 &#x3bc;m in diameter of circle equivalent on the surfaces of the dimples and/or fine humps 1 to 50 &#x3bc;m in height and 30 to 200 &#x3bc;m in diameter of circle equivalent at the rims of the dimples), fine holes (preferably, fine holes 5 &#x3bc;m or more in depth and 10 to 200 &#x3bc;m in diameter of circle equivalent), or fine unevenness (preferably, fine unevenness 1 to 50 &#x3bc;m in average depth and 10 to 200 &#x3bc;m in diameter of circle equivalent) are formed at the rims and/or on the indented surfaces of said dimples.

Cooling drum for continuously casting thin cast piece and fabricating method and device therefor and thin cast piece and continuous casting method therefor

The present invention relates to a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic properties, which are improved by irradiating laser beams onto the positions paired on the both surfaces of the steel sheet and forming fine closure domains, characterized in that the width of the closure domains in the rolling direction is 0.3 mm or less and the deviation in the rolling direction between the positions of the paired closure domains on the both surfaces is equal to or smaller than the width of said closure domains in the rolling direction. Further, the present invention relates to a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic properties, characterized in that the steel sheet has the marks of laser irradiation on its surface. Yet further, the present invention relates to a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic properties, characterized in that the substrate steel is not exposed at the portions of laser irradiation on the surface of the steel sheet.

Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic properties

A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet with improved magnetic properties is achieved by a reduced 180&deg; C. magnetic wall spacing with pulse laser light irradiation. The rolling direction width of the periodic closure domain generated by laser irradiation is no greater than 150 &mgr;m. The depth of the periodic closure domain in the direction of the steel sheet thickness is at least 30 &mgr;m. The product of the length of the periodic closure domain in the rolling direction width direction multiplied by the length of the depth of the periodic closure domain in the direction of the steel sheet thickness is at least 4500 &mgr;m . The magnetostriction with materials of 0.23 mm sheet thickness (&lgr;19 p-p compression) is no greater than 0.9&times;10 , and magnetostriction with materials of 0.27 mm sheet thickness (&lgr;19 p-p compression) is no greater than 1.3&times;10 .

Grain-oriented electrical steel sheets having excellent magnetic characteristics, its manufacturing method and its manufacturing device

A method of producing a corrugated metal sheeting including a flat metal sheet and a corrugated metal sheet joined to each other, which sheeting is used to produce a carrier or honeycomb structure for carrying catalytic agents used for purifying exhaust gases from, for example, an internal combustion engine of an automobile. In the method, the flat and corrugated metal sheets are brought together so that corrugations of the corrugated metal sheet are successively brought into contact with the flat metal sheet in such a manner that the corrugated metal sheet is freely movable to thereby release resilient stresses therefrom, and a laser beam is incident on a contact line between the flat metal sheet and each of the corrugations of the corrugated metal sheet, to thereby weld them to each other.

Method of producing corrugated metal sheeting and method of producing

This invention relates to a process for enriching carbon 13 by mixing a halogenomethane containing one or more fluorine atoms and carbon 13 of natural isotopic abundance with one or two or more additive gases selected from a group of oxygen-containing oxidizing agents, halogens, and hydrogen halides, irradiating the resulting raw material gas mixture by a carbon dioxide laser to cause selective dissociation and reaction of the halogenomethane of carbon 13, separating the unchanged substances from the reaction mixture to obtain a product enriched with carbon 13, further converting the enriched product to carbon monoxide, and enriching carbon 13 by low-temperature distillation of the carbon monoxide. The process has advantages of low overall energy consumption, high yields of carbon 13, easy separability of the unchanged substances and high degrees of carbon 13 enrichment.

Process for enriching carbon 13

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