Abstract: A manufacturing method of alloy powder comprises a liquid film forming step, a supplying step and a dividing step. In the liquid film forming step, a high speed fluid made of coolant liquid is shaped into a liquid film which has a predetermined thickness of 0.1 mm or more and receives a predetermined acceleration of 2.0×104G or more along a thickness direction. In the supplying step, molten alloy which is not divided into a size of the predetermined thickness or less is supplied to the liquid film. In the dividing step, the molten alloy is divided into the size of the predetermined thickness or less by the high speed fluid to make alloy particles and keeping the alloy particles in the liquid film by the predetermined acceleration so that the alloy particles are continuously cooled in the high speed fluid.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: manufacturing a cold-rolled sheet; forming a groove in the cold-rolled sheet; removing an Fe—O oxide formed on a surface of the cold-rolled sheet; primary recrystallization annealing the cold-rolled sheet; and applying an annealing separating agent to the primary recrystallized cold-rolled sheet, and secondary recrystallization annealing it, wherein a close contacting property coefficient calculated by Formula 1 below is 0.016 to 1.13. close contacting property coefficient (Sad)=(0.8×R)/Hhill-up??[Formula 1] (In Formula 1, R represents the average roughness (?m) of the surface of the cold-rolled sheet after the removing of the oxide, and Hhill-up represents the average height (?m) of the hill-up present on the surface of the cold-rolled sheet after the removing of the oxide.).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a metal printed object that can reduce the generation of sputters, and the present invention provides a method for manufacturing a metal printed object in which, in the presence of a shielding gas supplied around metal powder in a chamber, heat is supplied to the metal powder using energy rays to form a metal layer and laminate the metal layer, wherein the mass per unit volume of the shielding gas at a temperature of 25° C. and a pressure of 0.1 MPa is 1.30×10?3 g/cm3 or less.

Abstract: Methods for recovering metals from metal-containing materials are provided. The metal-containing material comprises either Co and Li (e.g., an electrode material from a spent lithium ion battery) or Fe and Al (e.g., bauxite). The metal-containing material is exposed to a leaching solution comprising ammonium hydrogen oxalate, oxalic acid, or both, to provide a solid composed of either cobalt oxalate or iron oxalate, and a solution of either lithium oxalate or aluminum oxalate. The solid is processed to provide either cobalt oxide or iron oxide; the solution is processed to provide either a lithium precipitate or an aluminum precipitate, and a filtrate comprising an oxalate; and the filtrate comprising the oxalate is processed to recover ammonium hydrogen oxalate, oxalic acid, or both. The method further comprises repeating the digestion step with the recovered ammonium hydrogen oxalate, the recovered oxalic acid, or both.

Abstract: A method for producing material powder, comprising providing material and an atomization gas charged with an atomization gas pressure by means of an atomization gas compressor to an atomization device, melting the material and pulverizing the molten material into material powder by means of charging the molten material with the atomization gas using the atomization device, introducing the material powder from the atomization device into a pressurized container and providing a conveyor gas charged with a conveyer gas pressure by means of a conveyer gas compressor to the pressurized container, wherein the conveyor gas pressure is higher than the atmospheric pressure and lower than the atomization gas pressure, as well as a device for carrying out the method.

Abstract: An exemplary process includes determining a desired pore size, selecting an initial pore size greater than the target pore size, manufacturing a porous structure with the initial pore size, forging the porous structure to form a forged part having the desired pore size, and forming an orthopedic device from the forged part.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a fin material made of an aluminum alloy for heat exchangers with no fin buckling deformation and having excellent buckling resistance in a temperature range of 400° C. to 580° C. before a filler alloy melts at the time of brazing is provided. The fin material made of an aluminum alloy for heat exchangers contains 1.0 to 2.0 mass % of Mn, 0.7 to 1.4 mass % of Si, and 0.05 to 0.3 mass % of Fe, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, in which a number density of intermetallic compounds having a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.025 to 0.4 ?m is 3.0×106 particles/mm2 or more, and an amount of solid solution of Mn is 0.3 mass % or less.

Abstract: A method for producing a Ni- or Ti-based alloy product includes preliminarily processing a hot working material of a Ni- or Ti-based alloy after hot working into a predetermined shape; heating and holding the material at a solution treatment temperature to obtain a material held in a heated state; and cooling the material to obtain a solution-treated material. The cooling step includes placing a flow path-forming member having a space for forming a flow path for a fluid on a surface of the material held in a heated state to form a fluid flow path defined by the surface of the material held in a heated state and an inner surface of the space of the flow path-forming member; and allowing a fluid to flow in the fluid flow path so that the fluid in the flow path locally cools a part of the surface of the material.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a component comprising bombarding nanoparticles in a dispersion with a laser to transform the ligand and cause the nanoparticles to drop out of the dispersion and deposit onto a substrate; and bombarding additional nanoparticles in the dispersion with the laser to transform the ligand and cause the nanoparticles to drop out of the dispersion and deposit onto the nanoparticles previously deposited out of the dispersion.

Abstract: A powder admixture useful for making a sintered valve seat insert includes a first iron-base powder and second iron-base powder wherein the first iron-base powder has a higher hardness than the second iron-base powder, the first iron-base powder including, in weight percent, 1-2 % C, 10-25 % Cr, 5-20 % Mo, 15-25 % Co, and 30-60 wt. % Fe, and the second iron-base powder including, in weight %, 1-1.5 % C, 3-15 % Cr, 5-7 % Mo, 3-6 % W, 1-1.7 % V, and 60-85 % Fe. The powder admixture can be sintered to form a sintered valve seat insert optionally infiltrated with copper.

Abstract: Energy-efficient production of a ferritic hot-rolled strip (6) in an integrated casting-rolling plant (1), which modifies the known processes for producing a ferritic hot-rolled strip (6) in an integrated casting-rolling plant (1) so that the ferritic hot-rolled strip (6) can be produced significantly more energy-efficiently but nevertheless has good metallurgical properties and a good surface quality.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing indium tin oxide particles and a method for producing a curable composition, the methods including a step of obtaining a precursor solution including indium and tin by heating indium acetate and tin acetate in a solvent including a carboxylic acid and having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, and a step of obtaining a reaction solution including indium tin oxide particles by dropwise adding the obtained precursor solution to a solvent having a hydroxy group and having 14 to 22 carbon atoms, which has a temperature of 230° C. to 320° C., in which an acetic acid concentration in the precursor solution is in a range of 0.5% by mass to 6% by mass.

Abstract: Disclosed is a copper-niobium alloy for a medical biopsy puncture needle. A needle core and/or needle tube of the puncture needle are/is made of the copper-niobium alloy. The copper-chromium alloy includes the following components by mass: 5?Nb?15 and the balance of Cu. A copper alloy with designed components is obtained by combining a diamagnetic material Cu with paramagnetic Nb, and compared with existing medical stainless steel and titanium alloy, the copper alloy has greatly reduced magnetic susceptibility, and specifically, the artifact area and volume are also significantly reduced. In addition, the blank of use of the copper alloy in medical biopsy paracentesis is filled.

Abstract: An Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon reduced in iron loss, less deformed, and highly productive in a condition of a magnetic flux density of 1.45 T is provided. One aspect of the present disclosure provides an Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon having first and second surfaces, and is provided with continuous linear laser irradiation marks on at least the first surface. Each linear laser irradiation mark is formed along a direction orthogonal to a casting direction of the Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon, and has unevenness on its surface. When the unevenness is evaluated in the casting direction, a height difference HL×width WA calculated from the height difference between a highest point and a lowest point in a thickness direction of the Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon and the width WA which is a length of the linear irradiation mark on the first surface is 6.0 to 180 ?m2.

Abstract: A method for producing a grain oriented electrical steel sheet includes a decarburization annealing process where an oxidation degree PH2O/PH2 is controlled, an annealing separator applying process where a mass ratio of MgO and Al2O3 in an annealing separator is controlled, a final annealing process where hydrogen in mixed gas atmosphere is controlled to 50 volume % or more, an annealing separator removing process where water-washing is conducted using solution with inhibitor, a smoothing process where chemical-polished is conducted to control average roughness Ra, and an insulation coating forming process where insulation coating forming solution in which crystalline phosphide is included is applied.

Abstract: A spheroidal graphite cast iron having a chemical composition of: C: 3.0% to 4.0%, Si: 2.0% to 2.4%, Cu: 0.20% to 0.50%, Mn: 0.15% to 0.35%, S: 0.005% to 0.030%, Mg: 0.03% to 0.06%, each by mass, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, where Mn and Cu are contained at 0.45% to 0.75% in total; and a structure in which a ferrite layer encloses spheroidal graphite crystallized out in a matrix of pearlite. Part of the pearlite is extended from the matrix side to the spheroidal graphite side to divide the ferrite layer at one or more areas.

Abstract: A method is provided for the heat treatment of an object comprising at least one rare-earth element with a high vapor pressure. One or more objects comprising at least one rare-earth element with a high vapor pressure are arranged in an interior of a package. An external source of the at least one rare-earth element is arranged so as to compensate for the evaporation of this same rare-earth element from the object and/or to increase the vapor pressure of the rare-earth element in the interior of the package, and the package is heat treated.

Abstract: A 2-step high temperature process for recovering Ni, Co, and Mn from various sources comprises preparing a metallurgical charge comprising materials containing Ni, Co, and Mn, and Si, Al, Ca and Mg as slag formers; smelting the charge with slag formers in first reducing conditions, thereby obtaining a Ni—Co alloy comprising a major part of at least one of Co and Ni, with Si<0.1%, and a first slag comprising the major part of the Mn; separation of the first slag from the alloy; and, smelting the first slag in second reducing conditions, more reducing than said first reducing conditions, thereby obtaining a Si—Mn alloy comprising the major part of the Mn, with Si>10%, and a second slag. A Ni—Co alloy is produced, and a Si—Mn alloy is produced. The second slag is essentially free of heavy metals and therefore suitable for reuse.

Abstract: There is provided a method for manufacturing a rare earth sintered magnet having a stable magnetic performance, by uniformly distributing a heavy rear earth element to the surface of the magnet and the grain boundary inside of the magnet by using a mixture of a heavy rare earth compound or a heavy rare earth metal alloy and a rare earth magnet powder, to lower a decrease rate of the magnetic characteristics based on the temperature of the rare earth sintered magnet.

Abstract: A drawing die made from cemented carbide material is formed of tungsten carbide and a metallic binder. The cemented carbide material includes: tungsten carbide with an average grain size of 0.15-1.3 ?m, 0.5-5.0 wt.-% (Co+Ni), with a ratio Co/(Co+Ni) of 0.6-0.9; 0.1-1.0 wt.-% Cr, with 0.05?Cr/(Co+Ni)?0.22; 0.02-0.2 wt.-% Mo; and 0-0.04 wt.-% V. The cemented carbide material is substantially free from ?-phase.