Abstract: The welding operation monitoring system includes an image capturing device that is disposed on a side opposite to a side to which the plasma flow is supplied out of a pipe inside and a pipe outside of the strip-shaped steel sheet formed in a tubular shape, and is configured to capture a color image including a plasma flow over the V-shaped region; and a welding operation monitoring device that is configured to generate a specific color component image obtained by extracting a specific color component from the color image, and specifies a V-shaped display region, which is a region corresponding to the V-shaped region within the color image, on the basis of the V-shaped region shown in the specific color component image, thereby analyzing a state of the welding operation.

Abstract: The welding operation monitoring system includes an image capturing device that is disposed on a side opposite to a side to which the plasma flow is supplied out of a pipe inside and a pipe outside of the strip-shaped steel sheet formed in a tubular shape, and is configured to capture a color image including a plasma flow over the V-shaped region; and a welding operation monitoring device that is configured to generate a specific color component image obtained by extracting a specific color component from the color image, and specifies a V-shaped display region, which is a region corresponding to the V-shaped region within the color image, on the basis of the V-shaped region shown in the specific color component image, thereby analyzing a state of the welding operation.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method producing a common rail excellent in fatigue strength from an inexpensive steel which uses as the material of the common rail a steel for high-strength liquid phase diffusion bonding having good toughness and fatigue strength, which steel contains, in mass %, C: 0.01 to 0.3%, Si: 0.01 to 0.5%, Mn: 0.01 to 3.0%, Cr: 1.0 to 12.0% and Mo: 0.1 to 2.0%, further contains, in mass %, V: 0.01 to 1.0%, B: 0.0003 to 0.01%, Ti: 0.01 to 0.05% and N: 0.001 to 0.01%, has P content limited to 0.03% or less, S content to 0.01% or less and O content to 0.01% or less, further has total content of grain boundary segregated embrittling elements As, Sn, Sb, Pb and Zn limited to 0.015% or less, and a balance of unavoidable impurities and Fe.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a common rail having a common rail body and a holder which include chemical components of 0.01-0.3 mass % of C, 0.01-0.5 mass % of Si, 0.01-3.0 mass % of Mn, 0.0003-0.01 mass % of B, 0.001-0.01 mass % of N, over 0.01-0.5 mass % of Al, 0.01-0.05 mass % of Ti, P limited to 0.03 mass % or less, S limited to 0.01 mass % or less, O limited to 0.01 mass % or less, a total content of As, Sn, Sb, Pb, and Zn limited to 0.015 mass % or less, the balance including Fe and inevitable impurities, in which the TLB value is 0.001% or more, the method including: inserting an insert metal; performing liquid phase diffusion bonding; performing laser-peening; and removing a surface layer.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method producing a common rail excellent in fatigue strength from an inexpensive steel which uses as the material of the common rail a steel for high-strength liquid phase diffusion bonding having good toughness and fatigue strength, which steel contains, in mass %, C: 0.01 to 0.3%, Si: 0.01 to 0.5%, Mn: 0.01 to 3.0%, Cr: 1.0 to 12.0% and Mo: 0.1 to 2.0%, further contains, in mass %, V: 0.01 to 1.0%, B: 0.0003 to 0.01%, Ti: 0.01 to 0.05% and N: 0.001 to 0.01%, has P content limited to 0.03% or less, S content to 0.01% or less and O content to 0.01% or less, further has total content of grain boundary segregated embrittling elements As, Sn, Sb, Pb and Zn limited to 0.015% or less, and a balance of unavoidable impurities and Fe.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method producing a common rail excellent in fatigue strength from an inexpensive steel which uses as the material of the common rail a steel for high-strength liquid phase diffusion bonding having good toughness and fatigue strength, which steel contains, in mass %, C: 0.01 to 0.3%, Si: 0.01 to 0.5%, Mn: 0.01 to 3.0%, Cr: 1.0 to 12.0% and Mo: 0.1 to 2.0%, further contains, in mass %, V: 0.01 to 1.0%, B: 0.0003 to 0.01%, Ti: 0.01 to 0.05% and N: 0.001 to 0.01%, has P content limited to 0.03% or less, S content to 0.01% or less and O content to 0.01% or less, further has total content of grain boundary segregated embrittling elements As, Sn, Sb, Pb and Zn limited to 0.015% or less, and a balance of unavoidable impurities and Fe. The steel is used for liquid phase diffusion bonding.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a common rail having a common rail body and a holder which include chemical components of 0.01-0.3 mass % of C, 0.01-0.5 mass % of Si, 0.01-3.0 mass % of Mn, 0.0003-0.01 mass % of B, 0.001-0.01 mass % of N, over 0.01-0.5 mass % of Al, 0.01-0.05 mass % of Ti, P limited to 0.03 mass % or less, S limited to 0.01 mass % or less, O limited to 0.01 mass % or less, a total content of As, Sn, Sb, Pb, and Zn limited to 0.015 mass % or less, the balance including Fe and inevitable impurities, in which the TLB value is 0.001% or more, the method including: inserting an insert metal; performing liquid phase diffusion bonding; performing laser-peening; and removing a surface layer.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method producing a common rail excellent in fatigue strength from an inexpensive steel which uses as the material of the common rail a steel for high-strength liquid phase diffusion bonding having good toughness and fatigue strength, which steel contains, in mass %, C: 0.01 to 0.3%, Si: 0.01 to 0.5%, Mn: 0.01 to 3.0%, Cr: 1.0 to 12.0% and Mo: 0.1 to 2.0%, further contains, in mass %, V: 0.01 to 1.0%, B: 0.0003 to 0.01%, Ti: 0.01 to 0.05% and N: 0.001 to 0.01%, has P content limited to 0.03% or less, S content to 0.01% or less and O content to 0.01% or less, further has total content of grain boundary segregated embrittling elements As, Sn, Sb, Pb and Zn limited to 0.015% or less, and a balance of unavoidable impurities and Fe. The steel is used for liquid phase diffusion bonding.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Sheet bars are effectively joined while they are traveling and subjected to continuous hot rolling without causing defects in quality and without requiring large expensive apparatus such as a swing roller etc.The present invention is to provide a continuous hot rolling method and apparatus in which the tail of a preceding sheet bar is butted to the top of a succeeding sheet bar between the rough and finishing mills on a continuous hot rolling line, and the butted portion is welded from the upper surface of the sheet bars by means of laser beam or plasma arc while the sheet bars are traveling.According to the present invention, it is possible to join sheet bars from the upper surface in a short period of time without stopping the sheet bars and without causing splashes and burrs, before the sheet bars are subjected to continuous finish rolling.

Abstract: Sheet bars are effectively joined while they are traveling and subjected to continuous hot rolling without causing defects in quality and without requiring large expensive apparatus such as a swing roller etc.The present invention is to provide a continuous hot rolling method and apparatus in which the tail of a preceding sheet bar is butted to the top of a succeeding sheet bar between the rough and finishing mills on a continuous hot rolling line, and the butted portion is welded from the upper surface of the sheet bars by means of laser beam or plasma arc while the sheet bars are traveling.According to the present invention, it is possible to join sheet bars from the upper surface in a short period of time without stopping the sheet bars and without causing splashes and burrs, before the sheet bars are subjected to continuous finish rolling.

Abstract: The present invention is a honeycomb panel comprising metal face sheets respectively disposed on upper and lower faces of said honeycomb core characterized in that said honeycomb panel has a metal side plate disposed on at least one side face thereof, for mutually connecting honeycomb panels to each other, and a process for producing a honeycomb panel, said process characterized by comprising the steps of: welding a corrugated honeycomb core at an end face of its corrugation to a side plate along the end face of said corrugation; welding the honeycomb core at top portions of its corrugation to an upper face sheet from the side of the honeycomb core by means of an energy beam; welding bottom portions of the corrugation of the honeycomb core to a lower face sheet from the side of the face sheet by means of an energy beam; and welding the face sheets to the side plate before or after welding the honeycomb core to the face sheets.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A core strip for a honeycomb core panel is composed of a metal strip shaped into a corrugated configuration and having continuous alternate convex and concave portions of identical shape, each of the convex portions being defined by a plateau portion and a pair of inclined portions, and each of the concave portions being defined by a bottom portion and the pair of inclined portions. The inclined portions interconnect the plateau portion and the bottom portion. At the one side edge of the shaped metal strip, the plateau portion and the inclined portions have respective first flanges disposed perpendicular to the metal strip and directed away from a convex surface of the convex portion. At the other side edge of the shaped metal strip, the bottom portion and the inclined portion have respective second flanges disposed perpendicularly to the metal strip and directed away from a convex surface of the concave portion.