Abstract: [Problem] To provide: an RF tag antenna which is able to be fitted to a tire that contains a steel wire and a carbon powder; an RF tag; a tire which is provided with an RF tag; and a tire with a built-in RF tag. [Solution] An RF tag antenna 10 according to the present invention is used by being fitted to a tire 920 that contains a steel wire 925 and a carbon powder; and the RF tag antenna 10 comprises a ground part 30 and a potential difference formation part 20. The potential difference formation part 20 and the ground part 30 constitute a resonant circuit (LC); and the ground part 30 is electrically connected to the steel wire 925.

Abstract: To provide a safe RFID data collecting device and an RFID data collection system with which there is no leakage of information being written to an RFID tag or information being read from the RFID tag, even if communication with the RFID tag is intercepted. This RFID data collecting device includes an RFID reader 10, a wired and wireless LAN connecting unit 20, a portable telephone communication unit 30, and a system control unit 40 including a processor 41 and a memory 42, wherein: the system control unit 40 is provided with a common key system encryption/decryption function; data written to an RFID tag 80 are encrypted before being written; data read from the RFID tag 80 are decrypted after being read; and a common key for encryption/decryption is saved in a SIM card 32 provided in the portable telephone communication unit.

Abstract: An RF tag includes an RF tag antenna and an IC chip. The RF tag antenna is provided with: an insulation base material having a first main surface, a second main surface, and a first lateral surface; a first waveguide element provided on the first main surface; a second waveguide element provided to extend from the second main surface to the first lateral surface and the first main surface; and a power supply part and a short circuiting part that are provided on the first main surface. A planar inverted-F antenna is formed from the insulation base material, the first waveguide element, the second waveguide element, the power supply part, and the short circuiting part. The lengths of the power supply part and the short circuiting part are set such that the resonant frequency of an LC resonant circuit coincides with the reception frequency of radio waves.

Abstract: An RF tag has a particular structure of an RF tag antenna to which an IC chip is mounted. The RF tag antenna includes: an inductor pattern section having a C-shape and configured in a form of a flat plate; a notch section formed by cutting out a periphery of the inductor pattern section; an antenna section formed around the notch section; and a ground section provided in continuation with the inductor pattern section and configured in a form of a flat plate.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide an antenna for an RF tag and an RF tag with which a communication distance between reading devices can be extended. [Solution] This antenna for an RF tag is provided with: an insulation member 40; a waveguide element 20 provided on one side of the insulation member 40; a waveguide element 30 disposed so as to face the waveguide element 20 and provided on the other side of the insulation member 40; a power supply unit 50 having one end electrically connected to the waveguide element 30; and a short-circuit unit 60 having one end electrically connected to the wave guide element 20 and the other end electrically connected to the waveguide element 30, wherein the permittivity of an insulation region A1 on the waveguide element 20 side among regions sandwiched between the waveguide element 20 and the waveguide element 30 is different from the permittivity of an insulation region A2 on the waveguide element 30 side among said regions.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide: an RF tag antenna capable of achieving a low profile or receiving a non-directional radio wave; and a method for manufacturing an RF tag and the RF tag antenna. [Solution] This RF tag antenna 100 is adhered to a conductive member 900, and has a plate-shaped antenna unit and an inductor pattern L. The plate-shaped antenna unit receives a radio wave transmitted from a reading device, and comprises: a first waveguide element part 210 and a second waveguide element part 220 which are formed extending in the longitudinal direction; a first insulating base stacked on the first waveguide element part 210 and adhered to the conductive member 900; a power supply part 230 which electrically connects the first waveguide element part 210 and the second waveguide element part 220; and a short-circuiting part 240 which forms an electrical connection.

Abstract: There is provided an RF tag that can be mounted in a cavity of a member formed of a conductor having the cavity therein, and has high communication performance. An RF tag 1 of the present invention is an RF tag that is mounted in a cavity 101 of a conductor-made member 100 having the cavity 101 therein, and includes at least a free space antenna 10, a resonance circuit 20, an IC chip 30, a closed space antenna 40, and a substrate 50 for supporting the closed space antenna, a portion of the free space antenna is exposed from the cavity to the outside, and the substrate supports the closed space antenna so that the closed space antenna is not in contact with the inner surface of the conductor-made member. The closed space antenna, the substrate and the conductor-made member forms a capacitor portion C2.

Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide an RF tag antenna capable of improving readability and a method of manufacturing the same, and an RF tag.

Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide an RF tag antenna capable of improving readability and a method of manufacturing the same, and an RF tag.

Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide an RF tag antenna capable of improving readability and a method of manufacturing the same, and an RF tag.

Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide an RF tag antenna capable of improving readability and a method of manufacturing the same, and an RF tag.

Abstract: To protect the collimator of a transferred plasma arc torch from premature failure due to corrosion, an anti-corrosive covering is applied on the exposed face surface and a portion of the inner exit bore of the collimator. The specification describes several methods for producing the collimator for a plasma torch having an anti-corrosive coating or cladding on the exposed surfaces thereof, including electroplating, electroless plating, flame spraying, plasma spraying, plasma transferred arc, hot isostatic pressing and explosive cladding.

Abstract: An improved collimator for a plasma arc torch consists of an annular holder member and an insert member. The insert member includes a tubular stem portion ending in an integrally formed, radially extending face plate. When the stem portion is fitted into the central bore of the holder member with a predetermined clearance fit therebetween, a cooling water passage is created. The improved collimator is characterized by the absence of any welds between the holder member and the insert member that would be exposed to conductive gases given off during use of the plasma arc torch and a lesser resistance to cooling water flow than prior art collimator designs.

Abstract: An improved collimator for a plasma arc torch consists of an annular holder member and an insert member. The insert member includes a tubular stem portion ending in an integrally formed, radially extending face plate. When the stem portion is fitted into the central bore of the holder member with a predetermined clearance fit therebetween, a cooling water passage is created. The improved collimator is characterized by the absence of any welds between the holder member and the insert member that would be exposed to conductive gases given off during use of the plasma arc torch and a lesser resistance to cooling water flow than prior art collimator designs.

Abstract: A method for gasifying a wide variety of biomass into hydrogen and carbon monoxide (syngas) using plasma torch technology. Generally, biomass is converted into syngas by feeding biomass into a reaction chamber, directing the beam of a plasma torch across the face of the biomass in the chamber, and extracting hydrogen and carbon monoxide rich gas from the reaction chamber. The extracted gas can then be used as a gaseous fuel substitute for natural gas or as a feedstock for conversion to synthetic liquid fuels.

Abstract: An electrically-heated chemical process reactor having an inlet for receiving industrial gases, an internal channel for passing the flow of gases, and an outlet for expelling the gases. An array of current-carrying screen element packets are arranged along the channel for receiving a heating current, and the internal gas channel includes passages through the array for preheating the gas prior to entering the channel.

Abstract: A discharge housing for connection to a plasma arc furnace outlet, having water quenching stations positioned inside the housing into the gas flow path, and having an inner flow path concentrically positioned inside an outer flow path, with an exhaust port on the downstream end of the outer flow path.

Abstract: An electrical foam heating element made by the process of forming a volume of reticulated silicon carbide foam material into a preferred shape, heating the material to a temperature of about 1000.degree. C. for a period of 24-30 hours, forming conductive edges over two respectively facing edge surfaces, applying an electrically-conductive felt material against the respective conductive faces, and clamping foam volume and foam between two electrically-conductive electrodes. In another embodiment, a region of nickel foam material is provided between the respective electrodes and the silicon carbide interior, and intermediate felt layers are provided between the nickel foam and the silicon carbide foam, and between the nickel foam and the electrodes. The layered felt material is of three-layer construction: inner and outer layers of electrically-conductive felt separated by an interior metal foil layer.