Abstract: A sensor device includes a first pair of connection terminals extended from a first sensor and a second pair of connection terminals extended from a second sensor. A first negative connection terminal that is a negative connection terminal of the first pair of connection terminals and a second negative connection terminal that is a negative connection terminal of the second pair of connection terminals are electrically connected to each other.

Abstract: A composite cable is provided with plural wires each having a metal conductor and an insulator, a binder layer that bundles the plural wires together, a shield layer composed of a metal conductor and arranged around the binder layer, and a sheath covering around the shield layer. An outer diameter of the sheath is 2.0 mm or less. An amount of the metal conductor per unit length used in the shield layer is 0.4 times or more and 0.7 times or less than an amount of the metal conductor per unit length used in the plural wires.

Abstract: A spheroidal graphite cast iron meeting N(5-)?250, N(5-20)/N(5-)?0.6, and N(30-)/N(5-)?0.2, wherein N(5-) represents the number (/mm2) of graphite particles having equivalent-circle diameters of 5 ?m or more, N(5-20) represents the number (/mm2) of graphite particles having equivalent-circle diameters of 5 ?m or more and less than 20 ?m, and N(30-) represents the number (/mm2) of graphite particles having equivalent-circle diameters of 30 ?m or more, among graphite particles observed in an arbitrary cross section of at least 1 mm2.

Abstract: A device includes a container for storing slurry, a main pipeline with one end connected to the container and the other end extending to an inner space of the container and forming a first circulation path, a nozzle attached to the other end of the main pipeline, a pump provided in the first circulation path between one end and the other end of the main pipeline for sucking and pressurizing slurry, a sub-pipeline which branches from the pump or branches from the main pipeline between the pump and the nozzle and extends to the inner space of the container and forms a second circulation path, a valve for switching distribution of slurry to one or both of the first and second circulation paths, and a discharge port provided at a tip opposite to a branch end of the sub-pipeline and located below the nozzle in a vertical direction.

Abstract: A signal transmission cable includes at least one internal conductor, an insulator, and an external conductor. The at least one internal conductor is formed in an elongated shape and is configured to transmit a signal. The insulator covers the internal conductor. The external conductor is a band-shaped resin tape having characteristics of an elongation percentage of equal to or more than 30% and a volume resistivity of equal to or less than 4×10?4 ?·cm. The external conductor is configured to be wound around the insulator.

Abstract: Recrystallization of an aluminium alloy wire material is suppressed while a heat resistance of the same is improved. In a wire material made of an aluminium alloy, an aluminium alloy wire material is provided, the aluminium alloy containing Zr of 0.2 to 1.0 mass %, Co of 0.1 to 1.0 mass % and remainders that are aluminium and unavoidable impurities, and the aluminium alloy wire material having a tensile strength at a room temperature that is equal to or higher than 170 MPa, an elongation that is equal to or higher than 10%, and a stress at time of tensile deformation at a strain speed of 10?5/sec under a temperature condition of 250° C. that is equal to or higher than 40 MPa.

Abstract: A water-treating ceramic filter unit comprising a filter having pluralities of flow paths partitioned by porous ceramic cell walls and plugs alternately sealing the one-side or other-side ends of the flow paths; a housing containing the filter such that water to be treated is supplied from one end of the filter, and that the treated water is discharged from the other end of the filter; and seal members disposed on the outer edge portions of both end surfaces of the filter for longitudinally sandwiching and fixing the filter to the housing; the maximum of a gap between a side surface of the filter and the housing being equal to or less than the equivalent diameter of the flow paths.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a mold having both good adhesion resistance and smoothness, and a production method therefor. Provided is a mold made of a composite material comprising hard phases and metal phases characterized in that the mold has a reinforced layer made of hard phases for a working surface and the working surface satisfies the arithmetic average roughness Ra?0.1 ?m and skewness Rsk??0.01. Also provided is a production method for a mold made of a composite material comprising hard phases and metal phases characterized in having: a shaping step for working the surface of the mold made of said composite material and adjusting to Ra?0.1 ?m; and after the shaping step, a surface layer-modifying step for etching the surface of the mold adjusted to Ra?0.1 ?m and removing the metal phases near the surface.

Abstract: Provided are a Ni-based alloy capable of being melted and solidified and excellent in corrosion resistance and abrasion resistance, a Ni-based alloy powder, a Ni-based alloy member, and a product including a Ni-based alloy member. The Ni-based alloy excellent in corrosion resistance and abrasion resistance includes, by mass %: Cr: 8.5% to 23.0%; Mo: 8.5% to 27.0%; Ta: 0.5% to 2.5%; W: 15.0 to 51.0%; and C: 1.0 to 3.5%, the balance being Ni and unavoidable impurities, in which the mass ratios Ni:Cr:Mo of Ni, Cr and Mo are 2.5 to 3.5:1:1.0 to 1.5.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes a main phase comprising an R2T14B compound, and a grain boundary phase. The atom number ratio of B to T in this R-T-B sintered magnet is less than the atom number ratio of B to T in the stoichiometric composition of the R2T14B compound, and the relationships 26.0 mass %?([Nd]+[Pr]+[Ce]+[Dy]+[Tb])?(9×[O]+12×[C])?27.5 mass %, 0.15 mass %?[O]?0.30 mass %, and 0.05 mass %<[Tb]?0.35 mass % are satisfied, where [Nd] is the Nd content (mass %), [Pr] is the Pr content (mass %), [Ce] is the Ce content (mass %), [Dy] is the Dy content (mass %), [O] is the O content (mass %), and [C] is the C content (mass %). Tb concentration and/or the Dy concentration gradually decreases from the magnet surface toward the magnet interior, at least in part.

Abstract: The present invention provides a heat treatment method and a heat treatment apparatus for an amorphous alloy ribbon, said method and apparatus being capable of uniformly heat treating an amorphous alloy ribbon, while suppressing the occurrence of anisotropy in the magnetic characteristics. A heat treatment method for an amorphous alloy ribbon, said method comprising a step wherein an amorphous alloy ribbon is transferred, while being in contact with a heated projected surface, and the amorphous alloy ribbon is transferred, while having the part that is in contact with the projected surface pressed against the projected surface from a surface which is on the reverse side of the surface that is in contact with the projected surface.

Abstract: A martensitic stainless steel strip capable of achieving higher fatigue strength. This martensitic stainless steel strip has a martensite structure and has a thickness of 1 mm or less, and is characterized in that the compressive residual stress at a surface of the steel strip is 50 MPa or more and the areal ratio of carbides present in the metal structure of the steel strip is 0.5-8.0%. The compressive residual stress at a surface of the steel strip is preferably such that the compressive residual stress in a direction perpendicular to rolling is at least 50 MPa greater than the compressive residual stress in the direction of rolling.

Abstract: A multicore cable inspection method of specifying a correspondence relationship among ends of insulated electric wires exposed from both ends of a multicore cable, the method including: inputting, by capacitance coupling, an inspection signal to the end of the insulated wire to be inspected among the ends of the insulated wires exposed at the one end of the multicore cable; inputting, by the capacitive coupling, each of first and second signals, each of which has a phase different from the inspection signal, to the ends of the two insulated wires other than the insulated wire to be inspected; measuring a voltage of an output signal outputted from the capacitive coupling from each end of the insulated wires exposed at the other end of the multicore cable; and specifying the other-side end of the insulated wire to be inspected. At this time, an amplitude of a signal obtained by adding the inspection signal and the first and second signals is smaller than that of the inspection signal.

Abstract: A method for producing a sintered R-T-B based magnet includes: preparing a sintered R-T-B based magnet work (R is a rare-earth element; and T is at least one selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co, Al, Mn and Si, and contains Fe with no exception); preparing an RL-RH-B-M based alloy; and a diffusion step of performing heat treatment while at least a portion of the RL-RH-B-M based alloy is attached to at least a portion of a surface of the sintered R-T-B based magnet work. In the RL-RH-B-M based alloy, the content of RL is 50 mass % or higher and 95 mass % or lower, the content of RH is 45 mass % or lower (including 0 mass %), the content of B is 0.1 mass % or higher and 3.0 mass % is lower; and the content of M is 4 mass % or higher and 49.9 mass % or lower.

Abstract: An Fe—Co-based alloy bar and a method for manufacturing same, whereby excellent magnetic properties can be reliably obtained. The method for manufacturing an Fe—Co-based alloy bar comprises a heating straightening step for applying tensile stress to a hot-rolled material of an Fe—Co-based alloy while heating the hot-rolled material to a temperature of 500-900° C. Preferably, ohmic heating is used as a heating means in the heating straightening step. In addition, the Fe—Co-based alloy bar has 20% or more by area ratio of crystal grains having a grain orientation spread (GOS) value of at least 0.5°.

Abstract: An Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon reduced in an iron loss in a condition of a magnetic flux density of 1.45 T is provided. One aspect of the present disclosure provides an Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon. The Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon has continuous linear laser irradiation marks on at least one surface. The linear laser irradiation marks are formed along a direction orthogonal to a casting direction of the Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon. Each linear laser irradiation mark has unevenness on its surface. When the unevenness is evaluated in the casting direction, a difference HL between a highest point and a lowest point in the thickness direction of the Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon is 0.25 ?m to 2.0 ?m.

Abstract: A database storing data associated with an identifier unique to each sample, the data including first data representative of at least one of composition data, processing data, and property data for the each sample, and second data representative of microstructure data for the each sample. The microstructure data includes a feature determined based on a temperature dependence of magnetization for the each sample.

Abstract: A resin tube is a tube that is composed of a first fluoropolymer and a second fluoropolymer. The first fluoropolymer is made of a melt-type fluoropolymer that melts at a temperature higher than a melting point, and the second fluoropolymer is made of polytetrafluoroethylene or a cross-linked fluoropolymer. An inner circumferential surface of the tube has irregularities with arithmetic average roughness Ra of 1 ?m or more.

Abstract: The soft magnetic alloy of the present disclosure is represented by a composition formula of FeaSibBcCudMe where M is at least one type of element selected from a group consisting of Nb, Mo, V, Zr, Hf, and W, and the formula satisfies 82.5?a?86, 0.3?b?3, 12.5?c?15.0, 0.05?d?0.9, and 0?e<0.4 in at %. The soft magnetic alloy includes a structure that has a crystal grain with a grain diameter of 60 nm or less in an amorphous phase.

Abstract: A ceramic honeycomb structure comprising large numbers of flow paths longitudinally formed by cell walls arranged in a lattice pattern in cross section, and an outer peripheral wall formed around the flow paths; in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, fan-shaped bulges projecting in a fan shape toward the flow paths from cell wall intersections at which the cell walls are crossing; the circumscribed circles of circular portions of the fan-shaped bulges at all cell wall intersections having a constant radius; and when the distance between the center point of the circumscribed circle and the center point of the cell wall intersection is defined as a center point distance S, a center point distance So in the outer peripheral portion of the ceramic honeycomb structure and a center point distance Sc in the center portion meeting Sc<So.