Abstract: A tire vulcanizer includes a support structure (13) which includes a platen portion (14); a guide member (31) which includes a flanged portion (33) in an end portion thereof so as to cause the flanged portion (33) to be detachably supported by a peripheral edge portion of a through-hole (25) formed in the platen portion (14); and a bag head (37) which is slidably inserted into the guide member (31). The bag head (37) includes a restriction member (70) which abuts on the guide member (31) and restricts displacement of the bag head (37) in an insertion direction in a case where the bag head (37) is inserted to a predetermined position set in advance with respect to the guide member (31). The restriction monitor (70) is detachable mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the bag head (37) to protrude outward from the outer peripheral surface.

Abstract: A saw wire includes a steel wire (11) having a steel strand (11a) with predetermined composition, an abrasive (13) fixed to the steel wire (11) by a fixing part (12), and an intermetallic compound (15) on an interface between the abrasive (13) and the fixing part (12). Tensile strength of the steel strand (11) is 3500 MPa or more, and the fixing part (12) includes a Sn-based solder containing Zn or Ag.

Abstract: Provided are a tire vulcanizer and a method for transporting or packaging the same whereby, even in cases where the overall height direction dimension of the vulcanizer exceeds size limits for domestic transportation or export packaging, the vulcanizer can easily clear said limits and be transported or packaged. A tire vulcanizer comprising tie rods extending upward from a base plate, said tie rods receiving squeezing force applied to a bolster plate and a top mold when vulcanizing a tire and guiding lifting/lowering of the bolster plate and the top mold when opening and closing the top mold. In such a tire vulcanizer, the tie rods are configured so as to be vertically dividable into at least two or more sections at a position in the length direction thereof.

Abstract: An oxide superconducting bulk magnet member includes a plurality of bulk sections that have outer circumferences with outer circumferential dimensions different from each other and are disposed in a manner such that among the outer circumferences, an outer circumference in which the outer circumferential dimension is relatively large surrounds a small outer circumference; and interposed sections that are disposed between a pair of the bulk sections that are adjacent to each other, wherein a gap is formed between the bulk sections adjacent to each other, each of the bulk sections is an oxide bulk in which an RE2BaCuO5 phase is dispersed within an REBa2Cu3O7-x phase, and a bulk section having the smallest outer circumferential dimension among the bulk sections has a columnar shape or a ring shape, and bulk sections other than the bulk section having the smallest outer circumferential dimension have a ring shape.

Abstract: A saw wire includes a steel wire (11) having a steel strand (11a) with predetermined composition, an abrasive (13) fixed to the steel wire (11) by a fixing part (12), and an intermetallic compound (15) on an interface between the abrasive (13) and the fixing part (12). Tensile strength of the steel strand (11) is 3500 MPa or more, and the fixing part (12) includes a Sn-based solder containing Zn or Ag.

Abstract: There are provided a fixed-abrasive grain saw wire with a superior cutting performance and a manufacturing method thereof. Particularly, there are provided a fixed-abrasive grain saw wire with abrasive grains adhered to a metal wire via a Zn-based or Sn-based low-melting-point metal and a high-melting-point metal having a melting point higher than that of the low-melting-point metal, and a manufacturing method thereof.

Abstract: A dust seal structure of an internal mixer including a casing having a mixing chamber defined therein, and a rotor rotating in the mixing chamber for kneading a material, which is charged into the mixing chamber to be kneaded there, comprises a ring-shaped cylinder fitted to a rotor shaft of the rotor and mounted on a peripheral edge of an opening portion of the casing through which the rotor shaft passes, the cylinder being located at the peripheral edge of the opening portion of the casing, and being adapted to urge a ring-shaped sealing member fitted on the rotor shaft in a direction of the rotor shaft to inhibit leakage of the kneading material from the mixing chamber.

Abstract: A conductor obtained by connecting a plurality of superconductors by normal conductivity or a conductor including superconductors and normal conductors, said low resistance conductor using superconductors characterized in that an apparent specific resistance of said conductor at below a superconducting transition temperature of said superconductors is lower than the specific resistance of copper at that superconducting transition temperature.

Abstract: A conductor obtained by connecting a plurality of superconductors by normal conductivity or a conductor comprised of superconductors and normal conductors, said low resistance conductor using superconductors characterized in that an apparent specific resistance of said conductor at below a superconducting transition temperature of said superconductors is lower than the specific resistance of copper at that superconducting transition temperature.

Abstract: A method of constructing a stainless-steel floor on a floor bed includes providing support members on the floor bed, placing a stainless-steel plate on the support members; and bonding the stainless-steel plate to the floor bed by using mortar to fill the space between the stainless-steel plate and the floor bed, or by using adhesive.

Abstract: A method of constructing a stainless-steel floor on a floor bed includes providing support members on the floor bed, placing a stainless-steel plate on the support members; and bonding the stainless-steel plate to the floor bed by using mortar to fill the space between the stainless-steel plate and the floor bed, or by using adhesive.

Abstract: A conductor obtained by connecting a plurality of superconductors by normal conductivity or a conductor comprised of superconductors and normal conductors, said low resistance conductor using superconductors characterized in that an apparent specific resistance of said conductor at below a superconducting transition temperature of said superconductors is lower than the specific resistance of copper at that superconducting transition temperature.

Abstract: A large superconductor intermediate of REBa2Cu3Ox system (where RE is one kind or a combination of rare earth elements including Y), characterized by a structure that oxide superconductors having non-superconductive phases finely dispersed in REBa2Cu3Ox phases (123 phases) of different peritectic temperatures (Tp) are laminated three-dimensionally in the order of Tp's, seed crystals mounted on the oxide superconductor layer having a highest Tp, and excluded phases included in at least the oxide superconductor having the high Tp.

Abstract: A conductor obtained by connecting a plurality of superconductors by normal conductivity or a conductor comprised of superconductors and normal conductors, said low resistance conductor using superconductors characterized in that an apparent specific resistance of said conductor at below a superconducting transition temperature of said superconductors is lower than the specific resistance of copper at that superconducting transition temperature.

Abstract: A current-limiting device employing a bulk superconductive material wherein a non-superconductive phase is finely dispersed in a REBa2—Cu3—O7−x phase as a superconductive phase, where the current-limiting device has a mechanism that promotes or generates quenching beyond the conduction current.

Abstract: A large superconductor intermediate of REBa2Cu3Ox system (where RE is one kind or a combination of rare earth elements including Y), characterized by a structure that oxide superconductors having non-superconductive phases finely dispersed in REBa2Cu3Ox phases (123 phases) of different peritectic temperatures (Tp) are laminated three-dimensionally in the order of Tp's, seed crystals mounted on the oxide superconductor layer having a highest Tp, and excluded phases included in at least the oxide superconductor having the high Tp.

Abstract: An oxide superconducting material includes a REBa2Cu3O7−x phase (RE designating one or a combination of two or more rare earth elements including Y), particles composed of Ce, Ba, Cu and O dispersed therein, and RE2BaCuO5 or RE4Ba2Cu2O10 dispersed therein. A method is provided for producing the superconducting material from a mixed powder obtained by adding a Ce—Ba—Cu—O system additive to a starting material powder containing RE, Ba, Cu and O.

Abstract: Disclosed is an oxide superconductor comprising an oxide of RE, Ba and Cu, which consists of a superconductor having a texture wherein the crystal directions of the 123 phase in the matrix are uniform, large angle grain boundaries having an directional difference larger than 20.degree. are not present and the 211 phase is finely dispersed, or an aggregate thereof, wherein the superconductor is formed into a plate or wire and the c-axis of the crystal of the formed body is uniform within .+-.30.degree. to the normal of the plate face of the formed body or in the range of from 60.degree. to 120.degree. to said normal. Also disclosed is a process for the preparation of an oxide superconductor as set forth above, which comprises inserting a formed body as mentioned above to a heating furnace and moving a region of a temperature at which grains are formed in the 123 phase of the matrix of the formed body, i.e., through a region having a temperature of from 1050.degree. to 910.degree. C.

Abstract: Enlargement of a crystal of a bulk oxide superconductor of REBa.sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.7-x, wherein RE is at least one of Y and rare earth elements, is effected by three dimensionally arranging layers of REBa.sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.7-x with a different RE in the order of decreasing (123) phase formation temperatures from the center outward, or by forming a stack of layers of RE Ba.sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.7-x with a different RE in the order of decreasing (123) phase formation temperatures; the size of the layer being enlarged along with a decrease in the (123) phase formation temperature.

Abstract: The present invention is characterized in that oxides of Y, Ba and Cu having a superconductive substance-forming composition are melted, the melt is rapidly cooled and solidified, the obtained sheet is heated at a temperature of 1000.degree. to 1350.degree. C. to produce a partially melted state thereof, and the sheet is gradually cooled at a rate lower than 200.degree. C./hr, whereby a micro-structure in which precipitates of the RE.sub.2 BaCuO.sub.5 phase having a diameter smaller than 20 .mu.m are dispersed in the REBa.sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.7-y crystal is obtained.