Abstract: A coupling structure includes a hollow rod section formed of a metal pipe and fastening sections formed by plastic deformation of the metal pipe so as to be connected with end sections of the hollow rod section. The fastening section includes a pair of base end sections which are each connected with a peripheral wall section forming a closed cross-section at the end section of the hollow rod section, and are separated from each other, and a bottom wall including a flat surface connected with the pair of the base end sections, and a pair of front end sections including a pair of side walls curving inwards from at least widthwise end sections of the bottom wall on a base end section side.

Abstract: A steel sheet includes a predetermined chemical composition, and includes a steel microstructure represented by, in an area ratio, ferrite: 5% to 80%, a hard microstructure constituted of bainite, martensite or retained austenite or an arbitrary combination of the above: 20% to 95%, and a standard deviation of a line fraction of the hard microstructure on a line in a plane perpendicular to a thickness direction: 0.050 or less in a depth range where a depth from a surface when a thickness of a steel sheet is set as t is from 3t/8 to t/2.

Abstract: A wire material used for manufacturing a non-heat treated component whose tensile strength is 900 MPa to 1300 MPa, containing, in mass %: C: 0.20% to 0.50%, Si: 0.05% to 2.0%, Mn: 0.20% to 1.0%, being limited to contain P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.030% or less, N: 0.005% or less, F1 defined by the following expression (1) is less than 0.60, with the balance made up of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a metal structure contains a pearlite structure of 64×(C %)+52% or more in a volume fraction, with the balance made up of one kind or two kinds of a pro-eutectoid ferrite structure and a bainite structure, an average block grain diameter of the pearlite structure at a region from a surface layer to 0.1 D is 15 ?m or less when a diameter of the wire material is set to be D, and (the average block grain diameter of the pearlite structure at the region from the surface layer to 0.1 D)/(an average block grain diameter of the pearlite structure at a range from 0.25 D to a center) is less than 1.0.

Abstract: A heat transfer coefficient ? between a solidified shell (2) and a mold (4) sandwiching a mold flux layer (3), and a heat transfer coefficient ? between a molten steel (1) and the solidified shell (2) are found by solving an inverse problem by using data from thermocouples (6), and a solidified shell thickness and a solidified shell temperature are estimated (solidified state in mold estimation amounts), and further, solidified state in mold evaluation amounts are obtained. It is determined whether a normal casting state or an abnormal casting state by comparing at least one or more kinds of amounts contained in the solidified state in mold estimation amounts and the solidified state in mold evaluation amounts with allowable limit values which are found based on at least one or more kinds of amounts contained in the solidified state in mold estimation amounts and the solidified state in mold evaluation amounts when the abnormal casting occurred in a past and stored in a data storage part.

Abstract: [Object] To monitor, on a metallic body surface, a region that has a specific hue and a region that does not have the specific hue and has a surface whose roughness varies. [Solution] Included are: a measurement apparatus which includes a line sensor camera which is provided such that an optical axis of the line sensor camera is substantially parallel to a normal direction of a metallic body surface, and first, second, and third illumination light sources each configured to irradiate the metallic body surface with first, second, and third illumination light beams each having a strip shape, the measurement apparatus being configured to measure separately respective reflected light beams of the three illumination light beams that have been emitted; and an arithmetic processing apparatus configured to calculate surface state monitoring information on the basis of luminance values of the reflected light beams.

Abstract: A steel wire rod includes, in terms of mass %, 0.95-1.10% C, 0.10-0.70% Si, 0.20-1.20% Mn, 0.90-1.60% Cr, 0-0.25% Mo, 0-25 ppm B, 0-0.020% P, 0-0.020% S, 0-0.0010% O, 0-0.030% N, and 0.010-0.100% Al. In a surface area of the steel wire rod, the Vickers hardness is HV 300 to HV 420, the area ratio of pearlite is 80% or more, and the area ratio of pro-eutectoid cementite is 2.0% or less. In an inner area of the steel wire rod, the area ratio of pearlite is 90% or more, and the area ratio of pro-eutectoid cementite is 5.0% or less. In the steel wire rod, the area ratio of pearlite blocks having an equivalent circle diameter of more than 40 ?m is 0.62% or less, and the difference in Vickers hardness between the surface area and a center portion is HV 20.0 or less.

Abstract: A steel has a chemical composition consisting of, by mass percent, C: 0.15-0.65%, Si: 0.05-0.5%, Mn: 0.1-1.5%, Cr: 0.2-1.5%, Mo: 0.1-2.5%, Ti: 0.005-0.50%, Al: 0.001-0.50%, and optionally at least one element selected from Nb: ?0.4%, V: ?0.5%, and B: ?0.01%, Ca: ?0.005%, Mg: ?0.005%, and REM: ?0.005%, and the balance of Fe and impurities, wherein Ni, P, S, N and O as impurities are Ni: ?0.1%, P: ?0.04%, S: ?0.01%, N: ?0.01%, and O: ?0.01%. The steel is hot-worked into a shape and then sequentially subjected to heating the steel to a temperature exceeding the Ac1 transformation point and lower than the Ac3 transformation point and cooling. Then, a step of reheating the steel to a temperature not lower than the Ac3 transformation point and quenching the steel by rapid cooling, and a step of tempering the steel at a temperature not higher than the Ac1 transformation point are performed.

Abstract: The transverse flux induction heating device is allows an alternating magnetic field to intersect the sheet face of a conductive sheet which is conveyed in one direction, thereby inductively heating the conductive sheet. The transverse flux induction heating device includes a heating coil disposed such that a coil face faces the sheet face of the conductive sheet; a core around which the heating coil is coiled; a shielding plate formed of a conductor and disposed between the core and a side end portion in the direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the conductive sheet; and a non-conductive soft magnetic material which is attached to the shielding plate, wherein the shielding plate is interposed between the core and the non-conductive soft magnetic material.

Abstract: A non-heat treated steel for induction hardening contains, in mass %, C: 0.35 to 0.44%, Si: 0.01 to less than 0.30%, Mn: 0.80 to 1.50%, P: 0.030% or less, S: more than 0.010 to 0.095%, Cr: more than 0.10 to 0.30%, V: 0.050 to 0.200%, N: 0.0040 to 0.0200%, O: 0.0024% or less, Cu: 0.05% or less and Ni: 0.05% or less, and for which fn1?50.0, fn2: 0.70 to 1.00, and fn3?1.30. In the steel, a ratio of a number of Mn oxides containing oxygen in an amount of 20.0 mass % or more and Mn in an amount of 10.0 mass % or more to the number of oxides is 10.0% or less. fn1=80C2+55C+13Si+4.8Mn+30P+30S+1.5Cr fn2=C+(Si/10)+(Mn/5)?(5S/7)+(5Cr/22)+1.65V fn3=?2C—Si+2.33Mn+0.26Cr+V?1.5Cu?1.

Abstract: Coil surfaces of a first coil (1) and a second coil (3) are parallel in a state of having an interval therebetween. When the first coil (1) rotates, a combined inductance by the first coil (1) and the second coil (3) changes.

Abstract: An H-section steel has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a Mg-containing oxide having an equivalent circle diameter of 0.005 ?m to 0.5 ?m is contained at a total number density of 100 pieces/mm2 to 5000 pieces/mm2, a thickness of a flange is 100 mm to 150 mm, at a strength evaluation portion which is at a ? position from a surface of the flange in a length direction and at a ¼ position from the surface in a thickness direction, a fraction of bainite in a steel structure is 80% or more, and the average prior austenite grain size is 70 ?m or more, and at a toughness evaluation portion which is at a ½ position from the surface of the flange in the length direction and at a ¾ position from the surface of the flange in the thickness direction, the average prior austenite grain size in a steel structure is 200 ?m or less.

Abstract: A superconducting bulk magnet comprising a plurality of superconducting bulk materials combined, in which breakage of superconducting bulk materials is prevented and a strong magnetic field can be generated, that is, a superconducting bulk magnet comprising a plurality of superconducting bulk materials, each comprising a single-crystal formed RE1Ba2Cu3Oy (RE is one or more elements selected from Y or rare earth elements, where 6.8?y?7.

Abstract: An inspection object imaging apparatus includes: a light source configured to produce a light beam belonging to an infrared wavelength band and having a predetermined spread half-angle on a surface of an inspection object; a projection optical system to project the light beam on the surface of the inspection object at a predetermined projection angle; and an imaging unit. The imaging unit includes an imaging optical system configured to condense reflected light and branch the reflected light to two different directions, and a first image sensor and a second image sensor, the first image sensor positioned on the inspection object side with respect to a position of the imaging optical system that is conjugate with the surface of the inspection object, along an optical axis of the reflected light, and the second image sensor positioned on the reflected-light travel direction side with respect to the conjugate position.

Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes a steel sheet and a hot-dip galvanized layer arranged on the steel sheet, in which the Si content and the Al content by mass % of components of the steel sheet satisfy a relationship 0.5<Si+Al<1.0, and a metallographic structure of the steel sheet satisfies a relationship of {(n2)2/3×d2}/{(n1)2/3×d1}×ln(H2/H1)<0.3 when the n1 is the number of a MnS of a surface portion of the steel sheet, the d1 ?m is an average equivalent circle diameter of the MnS in the surface portion of the steel sheet, the H1 GPa is a hardness of a martensite of the surface portion of the steel sheet, the n2 is the number of the MnS of a center portion of the steel sheet, the d2 ?m is an average equivalent circle diameter of the MnS in the center portion of the steel sheet, and the H2 GPa is the hardness of the martensite of the center portion of the steel sheet.

Abstract: The high alloy for oil well according to the present embodiment consists of, in mass %, C: 0.03% or less, Si: 1.0% or less, Mn: 0.05 to 1.5%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.03% or less, Ni: 26.0 to 40.0%, Cr: 22.0 to 30.0%, Mo: 0.01% or more to less than 5.0%, Cu: 0.1 to 3.0%, Al: 0.001 to 0.30%, N: more than 0.05% to 0.30% or less, O: 0.010% or less, and Ag: 0.005 to 1.0%, wherein the alloy satisfies the following Formula (1) and (2), wherein the high alloy for oil well has yield strength of 758 MPa or more: 5×Cu+(1000×Ag)2?40??(1) Cu+6×Ag?500×(Ca+Mg+REM)?3.5??(2) where, each element symbol in each Formula is substituted by the content (in mass %) of each element.

Abstract: Around a crankshaft (S) supported by a support device (10), a first shape measuring device (31) to a fourth shape measuring device (34) are disposed, and the crankshaft (S) and the first shape measuring device (31) to the fourth shape measuring device (34) are relatively movable in an axial direction (X direction) of the crankshaft (S). The first shape measuring device (31) and the third shape measuring device (33) are disposed so as to face to one X direction and acquire partial shape information (including the other side surfaces in the X direction of counterweights (S2)) of the crankshaft S, and further, the second shape measuring device (32) and the fourth shape measuring device (34) are disposed so as to face to the other X direction and acquire partial shape information (including one side surfaces in the X direction of the counterweights (S2)) of the crankshaft S. This makes it possible to accurately inspect a shape of the crankshaft (S) in a short time.

Abstract: There is provided a welding structure member excellent in corrosion resistance in an environment where high-concentration sulfuric acid condenses, the welding structure member including base material having a chemical composition containing, in mass percent, C?0.05%, Si?1.0%, Mn?2.0%, P?0.04%, S?0.01%, Ni: 12.0 to 27.0%, Cr: 15.0% or more to less than 20.0%, Cu: more than 3 0% to 8.0% or less, Mo: more than 2.0% to 5.0% or less, Nb?1.0%, Ti?0.5%, Co?0.5%, Sn?0.1%, W?5.0%, Zr?1.0%, Al?0.5%, N<0.05%, Ca?0.01%, B?0.01%, and REM?0.01%, with the balance: Fe and unavoidable impurities, and the welding structure member including including weld metal having a chemical composition containing, in mass percent, C?0.10%, Si?0.50%, Mn?3.5%, P?0.03%, S?0.03%, Cu?0.50%, Ni: 51.0 to 69.0%, Cr: 14.5 to 23.0%, Mo: 6.0 to 17.0%, Al?0.40%, Ti+Nb+Ta?4.90%, Co?2.5%, V?0.35%, and W?4.5%, with the balance: Fe and unavoidable impurities.

Abstract: An automotive component manufacturing method includes a molding process of pressing a portion of a hollow tube formed from a metal material, or a composite material including a metal and a resin, so as to deform the portion of the hollow tube, from a tube outer side toward a tube inner side, to beyond an axial center of the hollow tube, and mold the portion of the hollow tube into a deformed section deformed with a concave profile; and a deformation process of deforming a location having a high level of residual stress in a closed cross-section configured by the deformed section so as to deform the location out-of-plane.

Abstract: There is provided a hot forged product having excellent wear resistance and fatigue strength even when the hot forged product is produced with a thermal refining treatment and a case hardening thermal treatment after hot forging omitted, and having a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: 0.45 to 0.70%, Si: 0.01 to 0.70%, Mn: 1.0 to 1.7%, S: 0.01 to 0.1%, Cr: 0.05 to 0.25%, Al: 0.003 to 0.050%, N: 0.003 to 0.02% with the balance being Fe and impurities. The matrix at the depth of 500 ?m to 5 mm from an unmachined surface of the forged product is a ferrite-pearlite structure, in which a pro-eutectoid ferrite area fraction is 3% or less or a pearlite structure, and the average diameter of pearlite colonies in the pearlite structure at the depth of 500 ?m to 5 mm from the unmachined surface is 5.0 ?m or less.

Abstract: A hot-pressed steel sheet member includes a specific chemical composition and further includes a steel structure in which an area ratio of ferrite in a surface layer portion ranging from a surface to 15 ?m in depth is greater than 1.20 times an area ratio of ferrite in an inner layer portion being a portion excluding the surface layer portion, and the inner layer portion contains a steel structure represented, in area %, ferrite: 10% to 70%, martensite: 30% to 90%, and a total area ratio of ferrite and martensite: 90% to 100%. A tensile strength of the hot-pressed steel sheet member is 980 MPa or more.