Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Mec International Co., Ltd.

Toyota School Foundation

Meiwa E-tec Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

K.k. Sun Metalon

Tetra Co., Ltd

Nippon Quaker Chemical, Ltd.

Yuichi Furukawa

Fumio Kawahara

Yasushi Iwata

Jun Yaokawa

Yuji Okada

Yoshiki Tsunekawa

Yoshio Sugiyama

Shingo Nakamura

Hiroaki Iwahori

Katsuhiro Takami

Shuji Sotozaki

Eiji Tabata

Hidenori Matsuoka

Hitoshi Kabasawa

Setsuyu Hayakawa

Takeshi Matsuo

Hiroyuki Matsubara

Yu Sasaki

Hiroshi Kawai

Takashi Tomita

Tsukasa Kato

Naoaki Sugiura

Masahiro Okumiya

Motoaki Ozaki

Norihiro Amano

Yuki Maeda

Kazuhiko Nishioka

Takaaki Niinomi

Toshikazu Ikeda

Daichi Suzuki

Tetsuya Nakajima

Shuxin Dong

Kyosuke Yoshimi

Kojiro Suzuki

Ikuo Yamauchi

Mitsuhiro Kobayashi

Nao Kumemoto

Atsuto Okamoto

Mitsuo Suzuki

Tomohiro Koyama

Soichiro Ishida

Katsumi Hongyo

Hiroaki Wakai

Takashi Yasu

Toshio Uchida

Keiichi Morita

Yasufumi Kondo

There is provided a heating device that is capable of increasing heating efficiency of a heating target by microwave irradiation. The heating device includes a microwave irradiator configured to irradiate a heating target with microwaves, and a collector configured to collect fluid generated from the heating target that is irradiated with the microwaves. The microwaves are electromagnetic waves with a frequency of 300 MHz to 30 GHz, for example. The heating target includes metal, for example. Furthermore, the heating target includes non-metal such as oil, organic compound, and water, for example. When the heating target is irradiated with the microwaves, the heating target is heated, and non-metal with lower melting point and boiling point than metal becomes fluid and is separated from the heating target.

Heating device

A manufacturing history management system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a data generation unit, a data storage unit, and a data extraction unit. The data generation unit generates manufacturing history data by associating internal void information specific to a product and manufacturing history information of the product with a product identification code. The data storage unit stores the manufacturing history data relating to a plurality of the products generated by the data generation unit. The data extraction unit checks the internal void information of the manufacturing history data of the plurality of products stored in the data storage unit against the internal void information of a predetermined product and extracts the manufacturing history data that matches the internal void information of the predetermined product from the manufacturing history data of the plurality of products stored in the data storage unit.

Manufacturing history management system and manufacturing history management method

A plunger lubricant for die casting includes a component (a), a component (b), a component (c), and water. The component (a) is one or two or more compounds selected from among mineral oils, synthetic hydrocarbons, and fatty acid esters. The component (b) is one or two or more compounds selected from among alkali metal salts of higher fatty acids or alkali metal salts of aliphatic hydroxy acids. The component (c) is an alkali metal salt of an oxoacid or polyoxoacid that is able to be dehydrated and condensed.

Plunger lubricant for die casting and method of applying the same

Provided is a method for producing a heat sink that can easily and effectively form a heat radiating film on the surface of a substrate without requiring enormous heat energy for increasing the temperature of the substrate. The method is a method for producing a heat sink having a substrate and a heat radiating film formed on the surface of the substrate, including a first step of casting a substrate by injecting molten metal into a cavity of molding dies; and a second step of applying a heat radiating coating to the substrate through spraying or dropping in the period from when the molding dies are opened after the casting until when the temperature of the substrate that has been cast becomes lower than the deposition temperature that is a temperature necessary to deposit the heat radiating coating on the substrate.

Method for producing heat sink

There is provided a nitrided layer repair method in which a molten metal is pressurized and solidified, and thus a nitrided layer formed on a cavity surface of a mold used to form a casting object is repaired. In the nitrided layer repair method, a nitriding source is applied to the cavity surface, and the cavity surface of the mold is nitrided by heating and pressurizing the cavity surface using the molten metal.

Nitrided layer repair method

A method for manufacturing a pipe with a rib, in which a rib portion formed inside a pipe portion includes bent portions in accordance with bending of the pipe portion or a twisted portion in accordance with twisting of the pipe portion, includes drawing out molten metal held in a furnace by using a starter, from a surface of the molten metal, and drawing up the molten metal through a shape defining member defining a sectional shape of the pipe with the rib to be cast, and cooling and solidifying the molten metal passed through the shape defining member and drawn up. The bent portions are formed by moving at least one of the starter and the shape defining member in a horizontal direction. The twisted portion is formed by rotating at least one of the starter and the shape defining member about an axis extending along a vertical direction.

Pipe with rib and method for manufacturing pipe with rib

There are provided a manufacturing method of a casting capable of easily manufacturing a casting having a complex form and of increasing the degree of freedom of form of the casting to be manufactured, a manufacturing device thereof and a casting. At the time of forming a casting by drawing out molten metal from a bath surface of a molten metal bath and solidifying the molten metal which has been drawn out, an outer contour unit configured from a plurality of outer contour defining members for defining the outer contour of a casting is arranged in a region between the bath surface of the molten meth bath and a solid region where the molten metal is solidified and the molten metal which has been drawn out from the bath surface is drawn out through a region determined by the outer contour unit, and the form of the casting is changed by moving at least one of the plurality of outer contour defining members according to the drawing out of the molten metal.

Manufacturing method of casting, manufacturing device thereof, and casting

A surface treatment method for a metal material is provided which includes applying diluted sulfuric acid to a surface of the metal material that is composed primarily of iron, performing a heat treatment on the metal material in the presence of at least one of CO, COand organic gas under nitriding conditions under which a nitrided layer is formed in a superficial layer of the metal material after the application of the diluted sulfuric acid to form a carbon film which includes at least one of carbon nanocoils, carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofilaments on a surface of the nitrided layer of the metal material.

Surface treatment method for metal material and mold treated by surface treatment method

A surface treatment method on a base material coated a surface with a carbon film includes: supplying at least any one of titanium, zirconium, niobium, vanadium, hafnium, tantalum, and tungsten to the carbon film; and heating the carbon film to 400&#xb0; C. or more under an inert atmosphere, thereby forming a coating film on the base material.

Surface treatment method and coating agent

A casting mold includes a carbon film with which at least a surface of the casting mold which forms a cavity is covered, and mold oil with which a surface of the carbon film is coated. In the casting mold, aluminum powder is added to the mold oil.

Casting mold and cast article produced using the same

A surface-treated mold that includes a mold, a metal layer that is provided on a surface of the mold and contains at least one metal selected from nickel, chromium, tungsten and brass, and a carbon film that is provided on a surface of the metal layer, wherein the metal layer contains carbon, and the carbon concentration in the metal layer is higher between the boundary with the carbon film and the center of the metal layer than that between the boundary with the mold and the center of the metal layer.

Surface-treated mold and method of producing surface-treated mold

An object is to propose a mold release agent improving the state of a mold surface by repeating casting cycle so as to extend the life of the metal mold actively, and a casting method using the mold release agent. A water-soluble mold release agent applied on a mold surface of a metal mold contains organic acid or organic acid salt which is reducing and ligand, wherein concentration of a total thereof is not less than 0.01 wt % in using concentration and is not more than a fixed concentration which is stability limit of emulsion of the mold release agent in undiluted concentration. Construction weight ratio of the organic acid or organic acid salt which is reducing and the ligand is in the range from 99/1 to 30/70. The mold release agent is applied on a mold surface of a die casting metal mold, molten metal is injected into the metal mold, and the organic acid or organic acid salt which is reducing in the mold release agent is reacted with a component of the mold surface so as to deoxidize FeOon the mold surface to FeO.

Mold release agent and casting method

An oil-based graphite lubricant for a plunger includes graphite that is used as a solid lubricant, and an organic bentonite swollen by a mineral oil and a surfactant that are used as a graphite dispersant. The lubricant is prepared by a method which includes a first step of causing an organic bentonite to swell in the mineral oil, a second step of adding a surfactant, and a third step of adding and dispersing graphite.

Lubricant for a plunger and production method thereof

A method for rust-proofing a mold, which is capable of reducing the time and the cost required for rust-proofing the mold. The method includes an iron hydroxide-forming step for forming iron hydroxide on a predetermined part of the surface of the mold, and a surface-treating step for forming a film covering the molding surface of the mold, and for changing the iron hydroxide formed on the mold into black rust, by heating the mold, under an oxygen-deficiency atmosphere, on which the iron hydroxide is formed in the iron hydroxide-forming step.

Method for rust-proofing mold

A technique for an infrared radiation thermometer used for thermography that detects measurement abnormality of an infrared radiation thermometer and estimates the causes of the measurement abnormality such as contamination of an objective lens and a malfunction in a mechanism section of the infrared radiation thermometer.

Abnormal measurement detection device and method for infrared radiation thermometer

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