Abstract:
There are provided a process for forming a silicon nitride sintered body, encompassing a sialon sintered body, by making much of the superplasticity of the sintered body intact as a simple material without formation thereof into a composite material, and a formed sintered body produced by the foregoing process. A silicon nitride sintered body (encompassing a sialon sintered body) having a relative density of at least 95% and a linear density of 120 to 250 in terms of the number of grains per 50 µm in length in a two-dimensional cross section of the sintered body is formed through plastic deformation thereof at a strain rate of at most 10 -1 /sec under a tensile or compressive pressure at a temperature of 1,300 to 1,700°C. The formed sintered body has a degree of orientation of 5 to 80% as examined according to a method specified by Saltykov, a linear density of 80 to 200, and excellent mechanical properties especially at ordinary temperatures.
Abstract:
An efficient method for the highly selective recovery of silver value in an aqueous solution containing silver ions in a low concentration, such as depleted photographic fixing solutions, comprises extracting the silver ions from the aqueous phase with an organic solution containing 0,0-bis(2-ethylhexyl) hydrogen thiophosphate as an extractant solution, the silver ions contained in the extract solution being back-extracted with a hydrochloric acid solution containing thiourea. Alternatively, the silver-containing starting aqueous solution may be contacted with beads of a porous resin bearing the thiophosphate compound so that the silver ions are selectively adsorbed on the resin beads and then the silver ions are leached out of the resin beads with an organic solvent.
Abstract:
A robot hand for gripping workpieces to be forged which are subjected to impact loads is provided. The robot hand 2 includes a grip 3 for gripping a workpiece to be forged and a grip support 2a for supporting the grip 3. A grip guide 12 for supporting the grip 3 so that it is movable in forward and rearward directions and a spherical seat 5 for bearing the grip guide 12 so that it can be inclined are provided within a casing 4 of the grip body 2a. The casing 3 of the grip support 2a is provided with various actuators 9, 10, 11, 7 for changing the supporting state between a state in which the grip 3 can be moved and inclined and a state in which the grip 3 can not be moved and inclined. The grip 3 is brought into the movable and inclining state for absorbing an impact when the impact load is applied to the gripped workpiece to be forged.
Abstract:
A high-strength, high-productivity preform wire for a carbon fiber reinforced aluminum composite material, which comprising: a continuous fiber bundle of carbon filaments having a 2/3-width ranging from 25 to 75 cm⁻¹, as measured on the basis of Raman spectroscopy, the 2/3-width corresponding to 2/3 of the peak level of a Raman band obtained corresponding to a wave number of about 1,585 cm⁻¹, the peak level attributed to E 2g symmetric vibration of a graphite structure; one or two materials selected from the group consisting of carbon, silicon carbide, titanium, titanium carbide, boron, and titanium boride, the material(s) covering the individual fibers constituting the continuous fiber bundle; and a matrix consisting essentially of aluminum or aluminum alloy each of which contains 0.1 % or less of copper and 0.45 % or less of silicon, both by weight based on the weight of matrix, and infiltrated into the continuous fiber bundle.
Abstract:
A contrast-enhancing agent for photolithography which comprises: (a) a photo-bleachable compound having, in its molecule, at least one characteristic structural unit represented by the general formula in which Z is a divalent group which forms a heterocyclic aromatic ring structure with the nitrogen atom, X is a monovalent anionic group and n is a positive integer; and (b) a water-soluble polymer as a binder.
Abstract:
An alloy of nickel and titanium in the atomic ratio of 49:51 to 56:44 can be prepared at a temperature much lower than the eutectic point of the corresponding alloy. Thus, a green compact of a powdery mixture of the component metals is subjected to a heat treatment under high vacuum first at a rate of temperature increase of 5 to 30 °C per minute up to a temperature of, for example, 600 °C and then at a rate of temperature increase of at least 40 °C per minute up to a temperature of 815-900 °C. The surface of the metal particles is activated during the first stage together with degassing and the surface-activated metal particles are brought into an exothermic reaction at the second stage to cause explosive fusion and alloying.
Abstract:
When preparing carbon fibers from mesophase pitches, are usually encounters the formation of cracks along the fiber axis. The crack formation is the most serious and troublesome problem. A simple process and apparatus which can effectively prevent the crack formation are disclosed. The process is that when preparing the carbon fibers from mesophase pitches by melt spinning, it is sufficient only to give a rotatory motion to the molten mesophase pitches just before extrusion substantially around the axis of a spinning nozzle hole (3). The apparatus is essentially the same as a usual nozzle plate (1) having a pitch introducing tube (4) and a spinning nozzle hole (3) provided that the apparatus further contains a plug member (2) having an outer spiral groove (7) such as a drill point or a worm gear and the plug member (2) is inserted into the pitch introducing tube (4).
Abstract:
Apparatus 1 for evaluating catalyst performance according to the invention comprises a reaction vessel 2 in which a plurality of catalysts S are disposed at a distance, supply pipes 3 for supplying a reactant gas into the reaction vessel 2, a plurality of measuring instruments 7 provided with gas sensors 71 for sensing the gas formed by the contact of the reactant gas with a plurality of catalysts S, and outputting signals according to the kinds and concentrations of the formed gas, and a calculating unit 8 for receiving the output signals from the plurality of measuring instruments 7 and identifying the kinds of the formed gas and calculating the concentrations thereof. With such a constitution, performance evaluation on a plurality of catalysts can be made concurrently, quick and in simple steps.