Abstract: A heat treatment furnace may include: a furnace body comprising an entrance, an exit, and a heat treatment space having a temperature-rising space and a temperature-maintained space that are configured to thermally treat a plurality of objects; conveying plates on which the plurality of objects is to be placed; a pusher configured to push the conveying plates in a front direction from the entrance to the exit of the furnace body; and a plurality of heaters extending in an up-down direction and aligned in the front direction in the heat treatment space. Each of the plurality of heaters may include a heating part configured to generate heat. Positions of the heating parts of the plurality of heaters in the up-down direction may vary from the heater closest to the entrance toward the heater closest to the exit.

Abstract: Provided is a lithium secondary battery including a sintered body, the sintered body including a laminate portion which includes a plurality of positive electrode layers, a plurality of negative electrode layers, and a separator, and in which the plurality of positive electrode layers and the plurality of negative electrode layers are alternately laminated through the separator. The sintered body includes a positive electrode connection portion connected to at least two or more of the plurality of positive electrode layers included in the laminate portion, the positive electrode connection portion containing 70 vol % or more and 100 vol % or less of a positive electrode active material for forming the plurality of positive electrode layers.

Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a ceramic base having a wafer placement surface on its top surface where a wafer is able to be placed and incorporating an electrode, a cooling base bonded to a bottom surface of the ceramic base and having a refrigerant flow channel, a plurality of holes extending through the cooling base in an up and down direction, and a heat exchange promoting portion that is provided in an area around at least one of the plurality of holes and that promotes heat exchange between refrigerant flowing through the refrigerant flow channel and a wafer placed on the wafer placement surface.

Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure having a porous partition wall and a plugging portion, wherein a thickness of the partition wall is 152 to 254 ?m, a cell density of the honeycomb structure is 38.8 to 62.0 cells/cm2, a pore diameter D50 at which the cumulative pore volume is 50% of the total pore volume is 11 to 15 ?m in a pore diameter distribution of the partition wall measured by the mercury press-in method, a porosity of the partition wall measured by the mercury press-in method is 60 to 75%, and a partition wall wet area ratio (A/S), which is a value obtained by dividing a wet area A of pores formed in the porous partition wall by a cross-sectional area S of the pores, is 0.21 to 0.35 m2/m2.

Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure having a porous partition wall and a porous plugging portion, wherein the partition wall is composed of a material containing cordierite as a main component, a porosity of the partition wall is 60 to 70%, a ratio (S2/S1×100%) of the total S2 of an opening area of pores which exist within a unit surface area S1 and which have an equivalent circle diameter exceeding 3 ?m with respect to the unit surface area S1 of the partition wall is 58 to 70%, and a ratio (R/D) of an average equivalent circle opening diameter R (?m) of pores which exist at a surface of the partition wall and which have an equivalent circle diameter exceeding 3 ?m with respect to an average pore diameter D (?m) of the partition wall measured by a mercury press-in method is 0.3 to 0.8.

Abstract: An infrared processing device includes an infrared heater including a heating body and a metamaterial structure capable of, when thermal energy is input from the heating body, radiating infrared rays which have a maximum peak of a non-Planck distribution and whose maximum peak has a peak wavelength of 2 ?m or more and 7 ?m or less; an inner tube that surrounds the infrared heater, contains at least one of a fluorine-based material having a C—F bond and calcium fluoride, and transmits infrared rays of the peak wavelength; and an outer tube that surrounds the inner tube and forms, between the inner tube and the outer tube, an object channel through which a processing object is allowed to flow.

Abstract: A reactor module includes a housing, and a plurality of reactors arranged about a predetermined axis in the housing. In a cross section along a radial direction perpendicular to the predetermined axis, shortest distances between the housing and the plurality of reactors are equivalent to each other.

Abstract: A wafer placement table includes: a ceramic plate having a wafer placement surface, a cooling plate having a refrigerant flow path and being provided on a lower surface-side of the ceramic plate; a first ceramic plate penetration section that reaches the wafer placement surface; a second ceramic plate penetration section that reaches the wafer placement surface; a first gas passage that communicates with the first ceramic plate penetration section; and a second gas passage that communicates with the second ceramic plate penetration section. The first gas passage has a first gas intermediate passage, the second gas passage has a second gas intermediate passage, the second gas intermediate passage is provided above the first gas intermediate passage, and the refrigerant flow path has a first flow path section provided above the first gas intermediate passage, and a second flow path section provided below the second gas intermediate passage.

Abstract: An object orientation adjusting device 10 in a roller hearth kiln includes: a first roller group 18 including a plurality of rollers 17 configured to rotate in a direction perpendicular to a conveying direction; a second roller group 20 comprising a plurality of rollers 19 configured to rotate in the direction perpendicular to the conveying direction; a lifting apparatus configured to simultaneously lift the first roller group 18 and the second roller group 20; and first sensors A, A, second sensors B, B, third sensors C, C, fourth sensors D, D configured to detect an orientation of a saggar K on a plane and arranged on both sides of a conveying path in pairs.

Abstract: A pillar shaped honeycomb structure, including: an outer peripheral wall; and a porous partition wall disposed inside the outer peripheral wall, the partition wall defining a plurality of cells, each of the cells extending from one end face to other end face to form a flow path, wherein the plurality of cells include two or more types of magnetic substances in which at least two of a maximum magnetic permeability, a Curie point, and an intrinsic resistance value are different.

Abstract: A biaxially oriented SiC composite substrate includes a first biaxially oriented SiC layer that contains a threading screw dislocation and a basal plane dislocation, and a second biaxially oriented SiC layer that is formed continuously from the first biaxially oriented SiC layer and that contains 1×1016 atoms/cm3 or more and 1×1019 atoms/cm3 or less of a rare earth element. The defect density of a surface of the second biaxially oriented SiC layer is smaller than the defect density of the first biaxially oriented SiC layer.

Abstract: A catalyst support for induction heating includes: a honeycomb structure including a pillar shaped honeycomb structure portion having: an outer peripheral wall; and a partition wall disposed on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition wall defining a plurality of cells, each of the cells extending from an end face on an inlet side to an end face on an outlet side in a gas flow direction to form a flow path; a catalyst supported onto an interior of the partition wall; and at least one magnetic body provided within the honeycomb structure, wherein the catalyst support has a region A where the catalyst is not supported, at least on the end face side of the catalyst support on the inlet side in the gas flow direction, and wherein the magnetic body is arranged at least in the region A in the gas flow direction.

Abstract: An inspection device for a pillar shaped honeycomb filter includes: a housing portion that can house a pillar shaped honeycomb filter; an introduction pipe and a discharge pipe through which a gas can flow, each of the introduction pipe and the discharge pipe being connected to the housing portion; a particle generation portion for generating particles; a particle introduction portion for introducing the particles generated by the particle generation portion into the introduction pipe; a gas stirring portion arranged in the introduction pipe on an upstream side of the particle introduction portion in a gas flow direction; and particle counters for measuring the number of particles, the particle counters being arranged in the introduction pipe and the discharge pipe on a downstream side of the particle introduction portion in the gas flow direction.

Abstract: A ceramic heater includes a ceramic substrate, a resistance heater, a cylindrical shaft, a thermocouple path, and a thermocouple insertion hole. The disc-shaped ceramic substrate has a wafer placement surface at an upper surface. The resistance heater is embedded in the ceramic substrate. The cylindrical shaft supports the ceramic substrate from a lower surface of the ceramic substrate. The thermocouple path is provided between the resistance heater and the wafer placement surface and extends from a start position on a center side to an end position on an outer circumferential side inside the ceramic substrate. The thermocouple insertion hole is open at an inner shaft region of the lower surface of the ceramic substrate surrounded by the cylindrical shaft and communicates with the thermocouple path.

Abstract: A ceramic heater including a heater electrode embedded in a plate made of ceramic, wherein, of the heater electrode, a specific area surrounding portion surrounding a specific temperature area in which temperature of the plate becomes low has a smaller thickness than a normal portion of the heater electrode.

Abstract: A coin-type lithium secondary cell for soldering by reflow method includes a positive electrode including a lithium composite oxide, a negative electrode, an electrolyte layer provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and including an electrolytic solution, a cell case having an enclosed space in which the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the electrolyte layer are housed. The positive electrode and the negative electrode as a whole contains 3.0% by mass or less of lithium carbonate.

Abstract: A particle adhesion device includes: a holder; a chamber; a nozzle; an intake port; and a flow control member. The holder holds a filter substrate having a first end face and a second end face. The chamber is in communication with the holder and is arranged so that the first end face of the filter substrate faces a space in the chamber. The nozzle is arranged on an opposite surface of the chamber opposing to the first end face of the filter substrate, and can inject an aerosol containing particles toward the first end face of the filter substrate. The intake port is provided on the opposite surface of the chamber and can incorporate an ambient gas. The flow control member is arranged on the opposite surface provided with the intake port, and can control the flow of the ambient gas.

Abstract: Provided is a honeycomb-type ceramic positive electrode having a columnar honeycomb structure, having a first end face, a second end face parallel to the first end face, and an outer side face perpendicular to the first end face and the second end face, and also having a plurality of holes extending from the first end face to the second end face. The honeycomb-type ceramic positive electrode is composed of a lithium complex oxide sintered body in which a plurality of primary grains composed of a lithium complex oxide are bonded, and when a central axis of the columnar honeycomb structure parallel to the outer side face or an axis parallel thereto is defined as a z-axis, the plurality of primary grains are oriented in a z-axis direction.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion device includes: a dielectric substrate having holes periodically formed in a non-linear optical crystal substrate; a line-defect optical waveguide formed in the dielectric substrate; and a periodically poled portion provided in the optical waveguide. The wavelength conversion device is configured to convert a wavelength of light traveling through the optical waveguide.

Abstract: A method for producing a ceramic body includes: a forming step of forming a forming material containing SiC powders having an average particle size D50 of 15 to 50 ?m and SiC powders having an average particle size D50 of 2 to 8 ?m in a mass ratio of 3:7 to 7:3 to obtain a formed body; and a firing and impregnating step of firing the formed body and impregnating it with metal Si.