Abstract: A continuous casting start timing determination method, a continuous casting facility operation method, a slab manufacturing method, a determining device, a continuous casting start determination system, and a display terminal device are provided. A continuous casting start timing determination method for determining a continuous casting start timing includes: a measurement step of measuring temperatures in a copper plate of a casting mold in the continuous casting facility, by use of a plurality of temperature sensors provided in a casting-direction determination position as a predetermined casting-direction position on the copper plate; and a determination step of determining the start timing based on a casting-direction position of a molten metal surface of molten steel, the casting-direction position being estimated based on measurement results in the measurement step and a width of a slab to be cast in the continuous casting facility.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a photoresist underlayer over a semiconductor substrate. The photoresist underlayer includes a polymer, including a main polymer chain having pendant target groups, and pendant organic groups or photoacid generator groups. The main polymer chain is a polystyrene, a polyhydroxystyrene, a polyacrylate, a polymethylacrylate, a polymethylmethacrylate, a polyacrylic acid, a polyvinyl ester, a polymaleic ester, a poly(methacrylonitrile), or a poly(methacrylamide). Pendant target groups are selected from the group consisting of a substituted or unsubstituted: C2-C30 diol group, C1-C30 aldehyde group, and C3-C30 ketone group. Pendant organic groups are C3-C30 aliphatic or aromatic groups having at least one photosensitive functional group, and pendant photoacid generator groups are C3-C50 substituted aliphatic or aromatic groups. A photoresist layer is formed over the photoresist underlayer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a current collector for a lithium metal battery, the current collector comprising a metal substrate having a plurality of cracks formed therein.

Abstract: Methods of forming structures including a photoresist absorber layer and structures including the photoresist absorber layer are disclosed. Exemplary methods include forming the photoresist absorber layer that includes at least two elements having an EUV cross section (??) of greater than 2×106 cm2/mol.

Abstract: Presented are passive-type separator assemblies for separating hydrogen and water in fuel cell systems (FCS), methods for making/using such separators, and FCS-powered vehicles equipped with such separators. A liquid-gas separator assembly for an FCS includes an outer housing with an internal compartment, a first port fluidly connecting this internal compartment to an FCS transfer conduit to receive FCS exhaust, and a second port fluidly connecting the internal compartment to an FCS exhaust manifold to transfer water separated from the exhaust. A third port fluidly connects the internal compartment to an FCS hydrogen inlet to transfer hydrogen extracted from the exhaust. A first chamber located inside the internal compartment fluidly connects the first and second ports and evacuates extracted water from the compartment. A second chamber located inside the internal compartment above the first chamber fluidly connects the first chamber to the third port and evacuates extracted hydrogen from the compartment.

Abstract: A steel continuous casting method effectively reducing center segregation occurring inside a cast piece includes cooling of a cast piece performed with a water volume density per surface area of the cast piece in a first section set within a range of 50 to 2000 L/(m2×min) or lower. The first section is a range along a cast piece withdrawing direction in a continuous casting machine, from a start point at which an average value of a solid phase ratio along a thickness direction at a final solidified part in a cast piece width direction is 0.8 or lower to an end point at which the average value of the solid phase ratio along the thickness direction at the final solidified part in the cast piece width direction is higher than the solid phase ratio at the start point but not higher than 1.0.

Abstract: A resist composition and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the resist composition includes an organometallic compound, the organometallic compound including a central metal and ligands combined with the central metal; and an excess ligand compound, the excess ligand compound being combinable with the central metal via a coordination bond.

Abstract: A sonotrode configured for use in an ultrasonic welding system is provided. The sonotrode includes a body portion terminating at a tip portion, the tip portion includes (i) an alignment feature and (ii) a working surface configured to press against a base portion of a conductive pin during an ultrasonic welding process. The working surface defines an aperture configured to receive an elongate portion of the conductive pin. The alignment feature is configured to align the conductive pin with respect to the aperture.

Abstract: A golf club head with a mitered joint for joining components of dissimilar materials is disclosed herein. The golf club head has a body with an internal edge defining a recess, and a face component having an internal edge. The face component is disposed over the recess. The internal edge of the body and the internal edge of the face have an angle ranging from about 10 degrees to about 80 degrees.

Abstract: A system for the continuous casting and subsequent flat rolling of a steel strip with an austenitic and/or ferritic microstructure and a thickness of less than 1.0 mm comprises a casting device with which a raw steel strip with a thickness in the range of 1.50 to 4.0 mm can be continuously cast. At least one hot rolling stand is coupled to the casting device, with which the raw steel strip can be roughed into the steel strip immediately after the casting process while still in the austenitic and/or ferritic microstructure range. At least one rolling module is arranged immediately after the hot rolling stand coupled to the casting device. The rolling module includes, in this order, a cooling device, a heating device and a hot rolling stand with which the roughed steel strip can be hot-rolled in the austenitic and/or ferritic microstructure range to specifications into the steel strip.

Abstract: The invention relates to a venting device (01) for venting a casting chamber (11) by means of an evacuation device (12), wherein the venting device (01) has a base body (02) having an outflow channel (03) which is formed within the base body (02) and having an insertion portion (04) for being connected to the casting chamber (11) in a detachable and fluid-conducting manner and having a connection portion (05) for being connected to the evacuation device (12) in a detachable and fluid-conducting manner, wherein air can flow out through the outflow channel (03) when evacuating the casting chamber (11) and a filter unit (06) is disposed in the outflow channel (03). Furthermore, the invention relates to a casting device (10) comprising at least one casting chamber (11) having a casting chamber wall (13).

Abstract: A control circuit for use with a network and a distributed control system. The control circuit incudes a switch module, a communication interface module coupled to the switch module and configured to convert data sampled from industrial field into a format suitable for being transmitted to the switch module via the network, and a controller module coupled to the switch module and configured to receive the converted data from the switch module and process the converted data. The switch module is configured to enable a communication between the communication interface module and external devices outside the control circuit and a communication between the controller module and the external devices.

Abstract: A sealed squeegee for supplying a solder paste with a uniform density is disclosed. In the process of pressurizing and mixing the solder paste contained in a pressurization chamber by a pumping pad that contracts and expands according to injection and discharge of compressed air, the sealed squeegee minimizes a pressure change within the pressurization chamber due to a pressure shock within the pressurization chamber, reduces the number of components by coupling separate components of the existing buffer device and pressurization device into a single pumping pad, prevents a pressure drop within the pressurization chamber by improving sealing capability, prevents unnecessary waste of the solder paste through ease of disassembly and assembly by reducing the number of components and precision in discharging the appropriate amount of solder paste, and improves printing quality by improving cleanability for using different types of solder pastes.

Abstract: A composition for forming a resist underlayer film and a method for producing a resist pattern, the method using the composition for forming a resist underlayer film; and a method for producing a semiconductor device. A resist underlayer film-forming composition which contains an organic solvent and a polymer that has an end blocked with a compound (A), wherein: the polymer is derived from compound (B) that is represented by formula (11). (In formula (11), Y1 represents a single bond, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, an alkylene group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, the alkylene group being optionally substituted by a halogen atom or an aryl group having from 6 to 40 carbon atoms, or a sulfonyl group; each of T1 and T2 represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms; and each of n1 and n2 independently represents an integer from 0 to 4).

Abstract: A TWIP steel sheet is provided having an austenitic matrix including by weight: 0.1?C?1.2%, 13.0?Mn<25.0%, 0.1?Si?3.0%, 0.1?Cu?5.0%, S?0.030%, P?0.080%, N?0.1%, 0.1?Al?4.0% and 0.1?V?2.50% in such way that:—when the amount of Al<2.0%, the weight ratio Al/V is between 0.2 and 8 or—when the amount of Al?2.0%, the amount of V>0.25%, and on a purely optional basis, one or more of Nb?0.5%, B?0.005%, Cr?1.0%, Mo?0.40%, Ni?1.0%, Ti?0.5%, and/or 0.06?Sn?0.2%, the remainder of the composition being made of iron and inevitable impurities resulting from elaboration.

Abstract: Methods and systems for producing a thermite weld include applying a first vibration and a second vibration to molten thermite material within a mold between a first piece and a second piece to be welded. The first vibration includes a first vibration frequency and a first amplitude, and the second vibration includes a second vibration frequency and a second amplitude. The first vibration and the second vibration are applied simultaneously to the molten thermite material until the molten thermite material cools below a liquid-to-solid transition temperature. Interference patterns and harmonics between the first vibration and the second vibration enhance the elimination of gas voids within the molten thermite material and enhance grain refinement in the molten thermite material of the resulting thermite weld without damaging the mold.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a display device, the apparatus including: a head portion configured to fix a driving chip; a heater portion coupled to the head portion; a booster portion connected to the head portion; a converter portion connected to the booster portion and configured to vibrate the head portion; and a cooling portion arranged at the converter portion or the booster portion and configured to cool the converter portion or the booster portion by supplying a gas to the converter portion or the booster portion.

Abstract: Provided is a reducing material for gas pressure welding that enables attachment of a reducing material for gas pressure welding onto a tip portion of a material to be pressure-welded in a state where a gap between tip surfaces of respective materials to be pressure-welded is narrow when the reducing material for gas pressure welding is attached onto the tip portion of the fixed material to be pressure-welded such as a steel material.

Abstract: An adjustable clamp for welding together pipes, the adjustable clamp having a first axis perpendicular to the pipes and a second axis parallel to the pipes. The adjustable clamp includes four clamp corners, four transverse bolts, two parallel bolts, two threaded inserts, and four spaces. Each clamp corner includes a first transverse aperture, a second transverse aperture, and a third parallel aperture. The first and second apertures are transverse relative to the first axis and the third aperture is parallel relative to the first axis. Each transverse bolt is securable within the first and second transverse apertures of the four clamp corners. Each parallel bolt is securable within the third apertures of the four clamp corners. Each threaded insert is placeable within the third apertures of the four clamp corners and each threaded insert is mated with a respective parallel bolt. Each spacer surrounds a portion of each transverse bolt.

Abstract: A continuous casting process of a steel semi-product is provided. The process includes a step of casting using a hollow jet nozzle located between a tundish and a continuous casting mould. The nozzle includes, in its upper part, a dome for deflecting the liquid metal arriving at the inlet of the nozzle towards the internal wall of the nozzle, defining an internal volume with no liquid metal. A simultaneous step of injecting powder through a hole of the dome occurs. The powder has a particle size of 200 ?m or less. The dome includes a first device to inject the powder without any contact with the dome and a second device to avoid sticking or sintering of the powder onto the first device.