Abstract: An optical system for a shape measuring device of the present invention includes a parallel light irradiation system and an imaging optical system, in which the parallel light irradiation system includes a point light source, a collimator lens, and a telecentric lens having a both side or object side telecentric structure to be irradiated with light from the collimator lens through an object to be measured, the imaging optical system includes an image sensor onto which an image of a portion of the object to be measured, the image by light passing through the telecentric lens is projected, and the point light source includes an LED, a diffusion member that diffuses and emits light from the LED; and a pinhole member having a pinhole into which light from the diffusion member is incident.

Abstract: A structural member is elongated in a longitudinal direction, and includes a first member made of a steel plate and a second member made of a steel plate, the first member and the second member being joined. In the structural member, a closed cross-sectional shape is formed by the first member and the second member in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The first member has a tensile strength of equal to or greater than 980 MPa, and includes a first hemming process part subjected to hemming bending at both end parts in a width direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. The second member has a tensile strength of equal to or greater than 980 MPa, and includes a second bonded part held in the first hemming process part at both end parts in the width direction and bonded to the first hemming process part by an adhesive.

Abstract: This coupling device for a tubular member is provided with: a base stand for holding an inner member and an outer member in a state in which the outer member is disposed around the inner member; a plurality of pressing members that are supported by the base stand in a movable manner in the radial direction of the inner member and the outer member and have a protruding part on the tip thereof; a pressing member that make contact with the final end of the pressing member and that can press the pressing member radially inward; and a drive mechanism that drives any one among the base stand and the pressing member in a direction perpendicular to the movement direction of the pressing member so that the one member moves relative to the other.

Abstract: A gas-shielded arc welding method includes welding a steel plate having a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more while feeding a consumable electrode via a welding torch and flowing a shielding gas. The consumable electrode includes, in mass %, C: 0 to 0.20%, Si: 0 to 0.50%, Mn: 0 to 0.50%, Cr: 1.00% to 9.00%, S: 0.0020% to 0.0600%, and Ni: 0 to 0.50%. The shielding gas includes, in vol. %, at least one of CO2 and O2: 1% to 15% in total, with the remainder being Ar and unavoidable impurities. Welding is performed under the condition satisfying the relationship of 1?{?0.05×[CO2+O2]}+[Cr]?8.3, and [Cr] represents the content of Cr in the consumable electrode, and [CO2+O2] represents a total content of at least one of CO2 and O2 in the shielding gas.

Abstract: An additive manufacturing method is provided for producing a manufactured object by depositing weld beads formed by melting and solidifying a filler metal, the method including repeating the following three steps in the following order: forming a bead layer in which the weld beads are arranged, identifying a region where an impurity is generated on a surface of the formed bead layer, and estimating a thickness of the impurity in the identified region. The method further includes selectively removing the impurity from the surface after the estimating based on the estimated thickness of the impurity.

Abstract: A welding control method for welding to form a molten pool, the method including: an acquisition step for acquiring image data including the molten pool; an identifying step for identifying, on the basis of the acquired image data, a plurality of feature points near a boundary between the molten pool and an unmolten portion at least on the side in the direction of welding progress; a calculating step for calculating geometric quantity data on the basis of information about the plurality of feature points; a determining step for determining whether a weld is appropriate or inappropriate on the basis of the geometric quantity data and a predetermined threshold value; and a correcting step for correcting the welding conditions on the basis of a result of the determination in the determining step.

Abstract: A building includes at least one structural member. The structural member includes a light-receiving surface that is formed by extrusion or casting of a metal and is irradiated with sunlight, a structural member main body in which a hollow portion extending from a first end portion toward a second end portion is formed, a pair of lid portions that are respectively disposed at the first end portion and the second end portion, and close the hollow portion, an inlet that is provided in any one of the pair of lid portions and through which a heating medium flows into the hollow portion, and an outlet that is provided in any one of the pair of lid portions and through which the heating medium flows out from the hollow portion.

Abstract: A door beam includes an outer flange, an inner flange, and a pair of webs connecting the outer flange and the inner flange. The outer flange, the inner flange, and the pair of webs define a closed cross-sectional portion. The outer flange includes an outer central portion constituting the closed cross-sectional portion, and outer protruding portions protruding outward from the closed cross-sectional portion. The inner flange is formed with an attachment press working portion having been subjected to press working so as to serve as an attachment portion with respect to the inner panel at both end portions in the longitudinal direction. The outer protruding portion is formed with a mastic press working portion having been subjected to press working so as to serve as an attachment portion with respect to the outer panel.

Abstract: This arc spot welding method for dissimilar materials joins a steel upper plate and a non-ferrous metal lower plate. The upper plate has a flat plate-like base part and an upright wall part erected on the base part. The base part has a through-hole. The arc spot welding method for dissimilar materials includes superposing the base part on the lower plate so that the lower plate faces the base part via the through-hole; and arc-welding the base part and the lower plate by filling the through-hole with a molten weld metal at a position, which is a target position, offset in the direction opposite the upright wall part from the center of the through-hole.

Abstract: A shielding includes a first outer shell member that surrounds a welding torch, is disposed to form a radial gap from the welding torch, and is configured to define a first annular space having a first opening in a bottom portion thereof, a first gas supply member disposed to surround the welding torch inside the first outer shell member, and configured to supply a shielding gas to the first annular space, and a dispersing member disposed below the first gas supply member in the first annular space, and configured to disperse the shielding gas.

Abstract: A resistance spot welding machine contains a pair of electrodes each having an electrode tip to sandwich a plurality of steel sheets; and an angle correction mechanism that is provided in at least one of the pair of electrodes and that is capable of correcting the angle of the electrode tip to the steel sheets. The resistance spot welding machine spot welds the plurality of steel sheets by sandwiching the plurality of steel sheets with the pair of electrode tips and applying current while a welding force is applied to the pair of electrode tips, and the angle correction mechanism has a pair of universal joints each having an engaging portion having an end with a convex spherical shape and an engaged portion having a concave spherical shape to which the engaging portion fits slidably.

Abstract: A method for measuring the behavior of a welding phenomenon includes: an image processing step for carrying out, in accordance with the behavior of a welding phenomenon of interest, image processing with respect to a welding image that has been imaged by a visual sensor; an image division step for using the processed image that has been generated in the image processing step to generate a plurality of divided images for respective constituent elements corresponding to the welding phenomenon; and a derivation step for using at least two divided images among the plurality of divided images to derive the behavior of the welding phenomenon.

Abstract: A method for controlling a modeling device that corrects a target position of a welding torch in the modeling device. The method includes acquiring a reference profile prepared in advance and including a shape of a positioning index body implemented by at least a part of a base metal or a weld bead, a step of measuring a shape of the positioning index body by a shape measurement unit attached to the welding torch or a manipulator to acquire an actual profile, comparing the reference profile with the actual profile of the positioning index body to obtain a deviation amount of the target position of the welding torch based on a positional deviation of the positioning index body between the reference profile and the actual profile, and outputting an operation correction command of the manipulator for correcting the target position of the welding torch according to the deviation amount.

Abstract: A bead forming method includes the steps of preparing a bumper stay having a partition wall that partitions an internal space and extends in a longitudinal direction, an elastic body that can be inserted into the bumper stay, and a pusher that presses the elastic body; inserting the elastic body into the bumper stay and arranging the elastic body in the bumper stay so as not to come into contact with the partition wall; and forming a buckling bead by compressing the elastic body in the longitudinal direction of the bumper stay by the pusher to expand the elastic body outward in a radial direction without coming into contact with the partition wall, thereby bulging a part of an outer wall of the bumper stay outward in the radial direction without deforming the partition wall.

Abstract: A piston ring is a piston ring for use in an oil-free-type reciprocating compressor for compressing hydrogen gas, the piston ring containing thermoplastic polyimide as a main component and carbon fiber and/or graphite as an additive, and having a tensile strength of 90 MPa or more and a bending strength of 150 MPa or more.

Abstract: The element joint is obtained by joining: a long pipe; a short pipe made of a quality of material having a strength equal to or higher than a strength of the long pipe; and a plate material made of a quality of material having a strength equal to or higher than a strength of the short pipe. In the element joint, at least one member of the long pipe and the short pipe includes a pipe-shaped portion, and the pipe-shaped portion of the one member is pipe-expanded and joined to the other member by press-fitting. The short pipe and the plate material are welded to each other.

Abstract: This welding-related information display method includes a display step for displaying, on the same graph, at least two measurement items from among a plurality of measurement items included in welding-related information, in association with a time series and/or position information. Each of the two or more measurement items is displayed by changing the color and/or the line type on the graph. This method is able to switch between the graph display screen, and a welding video display screen associated with the measurement items displayed on the graph and/or a display screen for historical information about errors detected with the measurement items. The welding-related information includes at least one of welding setting information, welding state information, production status information, correction information, and welding phenomenon information.

Abstract: A heat collector includes a body including a hollow portion extending from a first end to a second end of the body and being a metal-extruded body having a light-receiving surface to receive sunlight, a pair of lids adjacent to the first end and the second end and covering the hollow portion, an inlet located in one of the pair of lids to allow a heating medium to enter the hollow portion, and an outlet located in one of the pair of lids to allow the heating medium to exit the hollow portion.

Abstract: A precursor, which is a drawn wire product of a composite pipe, the composite pipe having: a composite wire group; a barrier layer; and a protective layer, wherein the composite wire group has: a plurality of tin wires each having at least one tin core being made of tin or a tin alloy, and a copper matrix which surrounds the at least one tin core; and a plurality of niobium wires each having a plurality of niobium cores being made of niobium or a niobium alloy, and a copper matrix which surrounds the plurality of niobium cores, the plurality of niobium wires being disposed such that each of the tin wires is surrounded by the niobium wires, the composite wire group contains titanium in an amount of from 0.38% by mass to 0.55% by mass.

Abstract: A joint structure, includes: a first member including a high tensile strength steel; a second member including a high tensile strength steel and superposed on the first member; a surface soft layer formed on at least one of a superposition surface of the first member, on which the second member is superposed, and a superposition surface of the second member, on which the first member is superposed; a molten-solidified portion formed by melting and solidifying the first member and the second member; and a heat affected zone formed around the molten-solidified portion, in which the surface soft layer has a total thickness of 5 ?m to 200 ?m, and the molten-solidified portion has a carbon amount of 0.21 mass % or more, and a maximum Vickers hardness of the surface soft layer in the heat affected zone is 100 Hv to 500 Hv.