Abstract: A TIG welding method for a ferrite stainless steel sheet is disclosed, wherein a first shield gas is used wherein the gas is a mixture of argon gas and helium gas, 20 to 90% by volume of helium is included in the mixture, and the flow rate S1 of the first shield gas is set in a range of 0.175 m/sec?S1?1.75 m/sec, and a second shield gas is used wherein the gas is argon gas, and the flow rate S2 of the second shield gas is set in a range of 0.05 m/sec?S2?1.51 m/sec.

Abstract: A nitrogen-enriched gas manufacturing method and a nitrogen-enriched gas manufacturing apparatus which minimize variations in the compressor load in order to ensure satisfactory utilization of the performance of the compressor.

Abstract: A method for producing nitrogen gas from a raw material gas using a PSA system, the method including using a second adsorbent, which is packed in an auxiliary adsorption tank provided in a line connecting two main adsorption tanks packed with a first adsorbent, to reduce the oxygen concentration within a recovered gas discharged from the main adsorption tank performing a depressurization equalization step, and then introducing the gas into the main adsorption tank performing a pressurization equalization step.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula (I): or a salt thereof; and a method of quantitatively analyzing an amino group-containing target substance, including labeling a target substance in samples by using, as a labeling compound, two or more of such compounds having a mutually different mass due to isotope labeling, to confer a mass difference to the target substance between two or more samples, and the like.

Abstract: This invention provides a method for forming a catalyst layer for carbon nanostructure growth, which can eliminate the influence of water in a liquid for catalyst layer formation, can grow homogeneous and highly oriented carbon nanostructures over the whole area of a substrate and can realize mass production of the carbon nanostructures, and a liquid for catalyst layer formation for use in the method, and a process for producing carbon nanostructures using the catalyst layer formed by the method. The catalyst layer for use in the production of CNTs is formed by preparing a catalyst metal salt solution of a catalyst metal-containing metal compound (a catalyst metal salt) dispersed or dissolved in a solvent having an ample wettability towards the substrate and coating the catalyst metal salt solution onto the substrate to a form a thin film. The thin film is then heat treated to form a catalyst layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of adjusting vapor-phase growth apparatuses in which the individual difference of a heater-set temperature and a surface temperature of substrate-mounted plate among the vapor-phase growth apparatuses is eliminated.

Abstract: The present invention provides a burner combustion method for supplying and combusting an oxidant stream and a fuel stream, wherein the oxidant stream is composed of a primary oxidant stream jetted from around the periphery of the fuel stream or from a position near the fuel stream, and a plurality of secondary oxidant streams, and by periodically changing the flow rate of at least one of the primary oxidant stream and the plurality of secondary oxidant streams, and also causing a periodic change in the oxygen concentration within the oxidant stream, causing a periodic change in the oxygen ratio which is calculated by dividing the supplied amount of oxygen, supplied by the oxidant stream, by the theoretically required amount of oxygen, and providing a difference between the periodic changes in the oxygen concentration and the oxygen ratio, the combustion state adopts a periodic oscillating state.

Abstract: A method for producing a fluorine-containing substituted compound, the method including: introducing an organofluorine compound and an organolithium compound into a microreactor provided with a flow path capable of mixing a plurality of liquids, to thereby obtain a reaction product; and introducing, into the microreactor, the reaction product and an electrophile exhibiting electrophilic effect on the reaction product, to thereby obtain a fluorine-containing substituted compound.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sub-zero treatment device capable of uniformly cooling a cooling target object and reducing the amount of liquid refrigerant used for cooling the cooling target object. The sub-zero treatment device has an exhaust member extending from a through-hole provided in a cooling tank constituting a cooling target object mounting chamber through to the interior of the cooling target object mounting chamber, and having an exhaust port, wherein the exhaust port is disposed in an exhaust port positioning space, which is the space located in the upper half of the cooling target object mounting chamber and having a width in the transverse direction that is equal to the maximum width in the transverse direction of the suction port.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a combustion burner that is capable of efficiently performing heating of a raw material powder by improving the dispersibility of the raw material powder that is ejected from a raw material powder-ejecting port using a simple configuration, and a combustion burner in which raw material powder introduction pipes that introduce the raw material powder inside a raw material powder supply pathway are provided so that axes that extend from central axes of the raw material powder introduction pipes do not intersect a central axis of the burner main body, and so that angles ? that are formed by central axes of the raw material powder introduction pipes and an outer surface of a second circular member are larger than 0° and smaller than 90°.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a combustion burner which is capable of heating or melting a raw material powder efficiently by dispersing the raw material powder, and which is capable of improving a collection rate of the heated or melted raw material powder, the invention providing a combustion burner that forms flame including a dispersal member which is provided in the raw material powder outlet which spouts the raw material powder into the flame, includes first and second inclined surfaces, and which disperses the raw material powder by colliding with the raw material powder that is supplied to the raw material powder outlet.

Abstract: A distillation apparatus includes: a distillation column group in which a plurality of distillation columns, which are respectively equipped with a reboiler, is connected in the form of a distillation cascade; feed-gas condensers which liquefy feed gases from respective former distillation columns and feed said liquefied feed gases to respective latter distillation columns; gas-feeding lines which connect the respective former distillation columns and the respective feed-gas condensers; and liquid-feeding lines which connect the respective feed-gas condensers and the respective latter distillation columns.

Abstract: One object of the present invention is to perform compartmental analysis of the dynamics of a tracer in the brain, and the present invention provides a compartmental analysis system including a measurement apparatus that measures the strength of an electromagnetic wave from a tracer and a compartmental analyzer that performs compartmental analysis of the dynamics of the tracer in the brain on the basis of the strength of the electromagnetic wave, wherein the compartmental analyzer includes a rate constant calculation unit that calculates a rate constant when the tracer moves between compartments on the basis of the strength of an electromagnetic wave in a first compartment corresponding to the cerebral blood vessel in the brain or an input function in the first compartment, the strength of an electromagnetic wave in a second compartment corresponding to the brain tissue in the brain, and the strength of an electromagnetic wave in a third compartment corresponding to the cerebral sulcus or cerebral ventricle i

Abstract: A composite resin material particle is produced by a method including the steps of: forming a mixed slurry containing a resin material particle and carbon nanotubes; supplying the mixed slurry to a pressure vessel, followed by supplying carbon dioxide with stirring an inside of the pressure vessel; holding the inside of the pressure vessel at a temperature and at a pressure which allow the carbon dioxide to be maintained in a subcritical or supercritical state; and transferring the carbon dioxide to the outside of the pressure vessel.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a method for burning a burner which has NOx reduction effects and has practical value, and a device therefore; the present invention provide A method for burning a burner in a heating furnace including a step of: periodically changing at least one of a flow rate of a fuel fluid and a flow rate of an oxidizing agent fluid which are supplied to the burner while periodically changing an oxygen concentration in the oxidizing agent fluid, thereby an oxygen ratio which is calculated by dividing an amount of oxygen supplied by a theoretical necessary amount of oxygen is periodically changed, and the periodical change of the oxygen ratio is made different from the periodical change of the oxygen concentration to cause combustion in periodically vibrational conditions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a susceptor which is rotatably provided in a chamber and has a plurality of substrate mounting parts, and a substrate on which a thin film is deposited is rotatably mounted on the substrate mounting part, and the susceptor has a disk-shape wherein there is an opening at an inner periphery of the susceptor, into which a rotating shaft to rotate the susceptor is inserted, and the susceptor has a plurality of notches extending in a radial direction at an outer periphery and/or a periphery of said opening.

Abstract: In order to enable a satisfactory fluxless brazing without needing flux or vacuum facilities, a brazing object including an aluminum alloy material provided with an Al—Si—Mg brazing filler metal is joined by the Al—Si—Mg brazing filler metal without the use of flux by heating the aluminum alloy material, when raising the temperature in a brazing furnace, at least in a temperature range of 450° C. to before melting of the filler metal under a first inert gas atmosphere having an oxygen concentration of preferably 50 ppm and following by heating at least at or above a temperature at which the filler metal starts to melt under a second inert gas atmosphere having an oxygen concentration of preferably 25 ppm and a nitrogen gas concentration of preferably 10% by volume or less.

Abstract: A nitrogen-enriched gas manufacturing method and a nitrogen-enriched gas manufacturing apparatus which minimize variations in the compressor load in order to ensure satisfactory utilization of the performance of the compressor.

Abstract: A low-temperature gas supply device is provided with a first heat exchanger, in which a mixed gas mixing a vaporization gas of a low-temperature-liquefied gas with a gas of a temperature higher than the low-temperature-liquefied gas and the low-temperature-liquefied gas are introduced and heat-exchanged with each other, and the mixed gas is discharged as a low-temperature gas refrigerant and the low-temperature-liquefied gas is discharged as the vaporization gas; a mixing unit, in which the gas and the vaporization gas discharged from the first heat exchanger are mixed and discharged as the mixed gas; and a first control unit, in which, based on the difference between a detected temperature of the low-temperature gas refrigerant and an intended temperature, respective amounts of the gas introduced to the mixing unit and the vaporization gas are adjusted to control the temperature of the low-temperature gas refrigerant to the intended temperature.

Abstract: An oxidation treatment method of the present invention includes the step of bringing a solution having an ozone concentration of 120 to 500 mg/L into contact with a substance to be treated made of a combustible substance, thereby subjecting the substance to be treated and the surface thereof to an oxidation treatment. An oxidation treatment apparatus of the present invention includes: a dissolving means that dissolves an oxygen-ozone mixed gas in a fluorine-based solvent to form mixed fluid; an undissolved gas removal means that removes an undissolved gas from the mixed fluid to form a solution; and an oxidation treatment means that brings the solution into contact with a substance to be treated made of a combustible substance, thereby subjecting the substance to be treated and the surface thereof to an oxidation treatment.