Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an agitator equipped with a bottom paddle that has favorable agitation performance also in a streamline flow region of low Re number and to provide an agitation method.

Abstract: There is provided a seal structure which surely maintains sealing performance of a pressure vessel including a bottomed tubular vessel body with an opening end and a lid closing the opening end. In this seal structure of the pressure vessel, annular grooves 11a, 11b and ridges 21a, 21b fitted to each other are formed on both of the inner and outer sides at the joining faces of opening end 11 of the vessel body 10 and the lid 20, and an annular vent hole 30 is formed between the inner ridge 21a and the outer ridge 21b. An air supply hole 31 for supplying an inert gas to the vent hole 30 is formed in the lid 20. The joining faces on the inside of the inner groove 11a and inner ridge 21a are in metal-to-metal contact. Furthermore, gaskets 51a, 51b are held between the ridges 21a, 21b and the grooves 11a, 11b.

Abstract: An object is to provide a stirring apparatus which can exhibit excellent mixing characteristics and shorten the mixing time. The stirring apparatus includes a stirred tank having a bottomed cylindrical shape, a rotational shaft disposed coaxially or substantially coaxially within the stirred tank, a plate-shaped bottom blade having a lower end edge shaped to conform to a bottom wall surface of the stirred tank, the bottom blade having an opening for communication between one face side and an opposite face side, of the bottom blade, the ratio (h/d) between the blade height h of the bottom blade and the impeller diameter d of the bottom blade satisfies 0.4?h/d, and the ratio of the opening area to the projection area of the bottom blade as viewed from the rotational direction thereof (opening ratio of the bottom blade) is 10-60%.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a finned tube type heat exchanger (spiral tube fin heat exchanger) capable of having a reduced size and having an increased heat exchange efficiency and, therefore, an increased performance. A spiral tube fin heat exchanger includes a plurality of heat transfer tubes that allow a heat exchanging object to flow therein and each including a radially-extending tube fin on an outer peripheral surface thereof, the plurality of heat transfer tubes being arranged to be oriented in an identical direction, wherein the tube fin has a spiral shape and has a spiral axis being coincident with a center axis of each of the heat transfer tubes, and the plurality of heat transfer tubes are arranged such that tip ends of tube fin portions in one of adjacent heat transfer tubes intrude between tube fin portions in the other one of adjacent heat transfer tubes.

Abstract: An oven observing equipment capable of observing the inside of an oven turned to a high temperature precisely includes: a housing 13 having an intake part for cooling air, and a discharging part for discharging the cooling air after being used for cooling; and an imaging device 20 contained in this housing 13 near the discharge part. This imaging device 20 is composed of integrated combination of an image sensor 16; plate-like thermoelectric cooling elements 18a to 18d arranged in a state that their heat-absorbing faces surround the periphery of a body of the image sensor; thermoconductive blocks 17a to 17d embedded in the gaps between the image sensor body and the thermoelectric cooling elements 18a to 18d; and cooling fins 19a to 19d formed on the heat-radiating faces of the thermoelectric cooling elements 18a to 18d are integrated with each other.

Abstract: There is provided a bellows for a pressure vessel that would not rupture due to thermal expansion and contraction, avoiding stagnation of a raw material. The bellows 40 for a pressure vessel is adapted to realize ring-shaped sealing between an open end 11 of a bottomed tubular vessel body 10 into which a raw material is caused to flow, and an outer peripheral portion of a dispersion board 30 closing the open end 11 so as to permit downflow of the raw material toward the bottom of the vessel body 10. The bellows 40 is provided with a flexure portion 41 flexing radially so as to permit thermal expansion and contraction without being depressed for avoiding of stagnation of the raw material. The flexure portion 41 has a concave curved surface 42 and a convex curved surface 43 which are continuously formed to have a wave shape.

Abstract: A mixer capable of developing suitable stirring characteristics by forming a sufficient vertical circulation flow over the entire part of the inside of a tank, wherein an opening is formed in a stirring blade under the following conditions: (i) the ratio of the opening area of the opening in the upper half of the stirring blade to the overall area of the upper part of the stirring blade (the opening rate in the upper half of the stirring blade) is 45 to 80%, (ii) the ratio of the opening area of the opening in the lower half of the stirring blade to the overall area of the lower half of the stirring blade (the opening rate in the lower half of the stirring blade) is 18 to 50%, and (iii) the ratio of the opening rate in the lower half of the stirring blade to the opening rate in the upper half of the stirring blade is 31 to 71%.