Abstract: A three-dimensional shape measuring method includes: projecting a first grid pattern based on a first light and a second grid pattern based on a second light onto a target object in such a way that the first grid pattern and the second grid pattern intersect each other, the first light and the second light being lights of two colors included in three primary colors of light; picking up, by a three-color camera, an image of the first grid pattern and the second grid pattern projected on the target object, and acquiring a first picked-up image based on the first light and a second picked-up image based on the second light; and performing a phase analysis of a grid image with respect to at least one of the first picked-up image and the second picked-up image and calculating height information of the target object.

Abstract: A high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet has a hot-dip galvanized layer on a surface of the steel sheet, a specific component composition, and a steel microstructure containing, on an area percentage basis, 0% to 15% of ferrite and upper bainite in total, 80% to 100% of lower bainite and martensite in total, and 0% to 10% of retained austenite, and containing precipitates having a particle size of 100 to 2,000 nm in an amount of 109 to 1012 particles/m2 in a region extending to a position 100 to 300 ?m from the surface layer of the steel sheet, in which the ratio of the average amount of C at a position 5 ?m from the surface layer of the steel sheet to the average amount of C at a position 70 ?m from the surface layer of the steel sheet in the thickness direction is 0.20 to 0.80.

Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet includes a base steel sheet and a galvanized layer on a surface thereof. The base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition and a microstructure in which an area fraction of martensite is 30% or less, an area fraction of pearlite is 1% or less, a total area fraction of tempered martensite and carbide-containing bainite is 30% or more and 99% or less, an area fraction of retained austenite is 1% to 20%, and a total area fraction of ferrite and non-carbide-containing bainite is 45% or less in the steel sheet microstructure in a predetermined region and in which an area fraction of retained austenite grains having two or more crystal orientations is 40% or less in all the retained austenite grains in a predetermined region.

Abstract: A laser welding device includes a chamber which has an internal space in which a workpiece is disposed, a laser beam irradiation unit which irradiates the workpiece with a laser beam to weld the workpiece, a vacuum pump which suctions air in the chamber to decrease a pressure in the chamber, a laser transmission window through which the laser beam emitted from the laser beam irradiation unit is transmitted, and a shutter which is disposed on the chamber side with respect to the laser transmission window and closed when the pressure in the chamber is returned to the atmospheric pressure after laser welding.

Abstract: The laser welding device includes a laser transmission window and a gas injection nozzle. The gas injection nozzle includes an optical path hole and an injection unit that injects an inert gas for shielding metal vapor into the optical path hole toward an irradiation direction (E) side and an optical axis (A) side of a laser beam (L).

Abstract: A golf club comprises: a golf club shaft extending from its first end to second end in its axis direction; a golf club head attached to the second end of the golf club shaft; a grip attach to the first end of the golf club shaft and having a grip end; and a weight member attached to the golf club shaft. The specific gravity of the weight member is 2.5 or more. The length of the weight member is 20 mm or less. The weight member is disposed in a grip-end portion of the golf club shaft so that a mass distribution in the axis direction of the grip-end portion has a local maximum occurring at a position within the grip-end portion, wherein the grip-end portion is defined as extending from the grip end toward the second end by 40 mm in the axis direction.

Abstract: A warm-workable high-strength steel sheet having superior warm workability and residual ductility after warm working, and a method for manufacturing such steel sheets. The warm-workable high-strength steel sheet has a chemical composition including, in mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.20%, Si: not more than 3.0%, Mn: 3.5 to 8.0%, P: not more than 0.100%, S: not more than 0.02%, Al: 0.01 to 3.0% and N: not more than 0.010%, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. The steel sheet has a microstructure that includes, in area fractions, 10 to 60% retained austenite, 10 to 80% ferrite, 5 to 50% martensite and 0 to 5% bainite, the C content in the retained austenite being less than 0.40 mass %.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a high-strength galvanized steel sheet having excellent strength-elongation balance, coating adhesiveness, and surface appearance. The method includes: (i) a first heating process of heating a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition, (ii) a first pickling process of pickling the steel sheet which was subjected to the first heating process in an oxidizing acidic aqueous solution, (iii) a second pickling process of pickling the steel sheet which was subjected to the first pickling process in a non-oxidizing acidic aqueous solution, (iv) a second heating process of holding the steel sheet, which was subjected to the second pickling process, at a temperature range of 700° C. or higher and 900° C. or lower in a hydrogen-containing atmosphere for 20 seconds or more and 300 seconds or less, and (v) performing a galvanizing treatment on the steel sheet which was subjected to the second heating process.

Abstract: A coupling part of a weather strip is fixed between a first anchoring part and a second anchoring part on an outer peripheral part of a sash of a door. A hollow seal member and an outer lip are integrally formed with the coupling part and make elastic contact with a second surface and a first surface of a door opening edge of a body panel, respectively, when the door is in the closed position. The weather strip is fixed to the sash only by fixing the coupling part. A pillar part couples the coupling part with the hollow seal member. A body seal lip is provided on the hollow seal member and makes elastic contact with the door opening edge when the door is in the closed position.

Abstract: This laser welding device includes a tubular portion. The tubular portion includes a first tubular portion and a second tubular portion. The second tubular portion has a constant cross-sectional shape orthogonal to an irradiation direction along the irradiation direction E. The tubular portion has a predetermined length that is longer than a length of a chamber in the irradiation direction.

Abstract: A steel sheet having excellent fatigue resistance as a material for automobile parts and a TS of 590 MPa or more, and a method for producing the same. The steel sheet has a composition comprising, by mass %, C: 0.04% or more and 0.15% or less, Si: 0.3% or less, Mn: 1.0% or more and 2.6% or less, P: 0.1% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 0.1% or less, N: 0.015% or less, one or two of Ti and Nb: 0.01% or more and 0.2% or less in a total, and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities. The steel sheet has 50% or more of ferrite and 10% or more and 50% or less of martensite in terms of an area ratio, and a microstructure in which a standard deviation of nano-hardness is 1.50 GPa or less and tensile strength of 590 MPa or more.

Abstract: A steel sheet, a plated steel sheet, and methods for producing a hot-rolled steel sheet, a cold-rolled full hard steel sheet, and a steel sheet. The steel sheet has a specified composition and a microstructure including 0 to 80% of polygonal ferrite and 20 to 100% of a total of martensite, bainite, and residual austenite in terms of an area ratio within 20 ?m of the steel sheet surface. The content of Mn in martensite present within 20 ?m of the steel sheet surface ([Mn]SM) and the content of Mn in a bulk ([Mn]B) satisfy [Mn]SM/[Mn]B?1.5. At a location 300 ?m from the steel sheet surface, an area ratio of the martensite is in a range of 20 to 50%.

Abstract: A steel sheet, a plated steel sheet, and methods for producing a hot-rolled steel sheet, a cold-rolled full hard steel sheet, and a steel sheet. The steel sheet has a specified composition and a microstructure including 0 to 60% of polygonal ferrite and 40 to 100% of a total of martensite, bainite, and residual austenite in terms of an area ratio within 20 ?m from the steel sheet surface. The content of Mn in martensite present within 20 ?m of the steel sheet surface ([Mn]SM) and the content of Mn in a bulk ([Mn]B) satisfy [Mn]SM/[Mn]B?1.5. At a location 300 ?m from the steel sheet surface, an area ratio of the martensite is in a range of 40 to 80%, and the polygonal ferrite and the bainite have an average crystal grain size of less than 15 ?m.

Abstract: An ultrasonic homogenizer includes an ultrasonic transducer; an ultrasonic horn that irradiates an ultrasonic wave generated by the ultrasonic transducer; a holder that receives an irradiating surface of the ultrasonic horn; an intake port that is provided on a bottom face of the holder and intakes a mixture liquid into the holder; and an ejection port that is provided on the holder above the intake port and discharges the mixture liquid supplied inside the holder; an opening area of the intake port being smaller than an irradiating area of the ultrasonic horn and the irradiating surface of the ultrasonic horn being disposed above the intake port whereby facing the intake port.

Abstract: A curved display panel including a display surface curved around one curving axis includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite the first substrate while having a space therebetween, first pixel sections included in the first substrate and arranged within a surface area of the display surface, and second pixel sections included in the second substrate and arranged within the surface area of the display surface and overlapping the first pixel sections, respectively, in a curved state of the display surface. For at least some of the second pixel sections that are to be displaced by curving, position relation with respect to the first pixel sections in the flat state of the display surface is changed from that in the curved state of the display surface by a correction displacement amount based on an assumed displacement amount corresponding to a position within the surface area of the display surface.

Abstract: A method for producing a high-strength galvanized steel sheet having excellent fatigue resistance properties. The method includes an oxidation processing in which a steel sheet is heated at a temperature of 400 to 750° C. in an atmosphere having an O2 concentration of 1000 ppm by volume or more and a H2O concentration of 1000 ppm by volume or more, and the steel sheet is heated at a temperature of 600 to 850° C. in an atmosphere having an O2 concentration of less than 1000 ppm by volume and a H2O concentration of 1000 ppm by volume or more. The method also includes reduction-annealing in which the steel sheet is heated at a heating rate of 0.1° C./sec or more to a temperature of 650 to 900° C. in an atmosphere having a H2 concentration of 5 to 30 vol % and a H2O concentration of 10 to 1000 ppm by volume.

Abstract: A steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a method for producing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a microstructure including martensite and bainite. The total area fraction of the martensite and the bainite to the entirety of the microstructure is more than 90% and 100% or less. The microstructure includes inclusion clusters A and B, the content of the clusters A in the microstructure being 2 clusters/mm2 or less, and the content of the clusters B in the microstructure being 5 clusters/mm2 or less. The microstructure includes carbide particles including Fe as a main constituent which have an aspect ratio of 2.0 or less and a major axis of 0.30 ?m or more and 2 ?m or less. The content of the carbide particles in the microstructure is 4000 particles/mm2 or less. The microstructure includes prior ? grains having an average size of 6 to 15 ?m.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which is an image display device for displaying a stereoscopic image includes two correction tables (a nighttime correction table and a daytime correction table) storing correction values corresponding to combinations of a gradation value of a processing target pixel and a gradation value of an adjacent pixel, a correction table selection unit configured to select one of the two correction tables depending on conditions, and gradation value correction units (a right-image gradation value correction unit and a left-image gradation value correction unit) configured to correct the gradation value of the processing target pixel based on the correction table selected by the correction table selection unit.

Abstract: There are provided a high-strength steel sheet excellent in strength, workability in terms of, for example, ?, and energy absorption characteristics, and a production method therefor. The high-strength steel sheet has a specific component composition and a steel microstructure containing, on an area percent basis, 1% to 35% ferrite having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more, 10% or less ferrite having an aspect ratio of less than 2.0, less than 5% non-recrystallized ferrite, 40% to 80% in total of bainite and martensite containing carbide, 5% to 35% in total of fresh martensite and retained austenite, and 3% to 35% retained austenite, the retained austenite having a C content of 0.40% to 0.70% by mass.

Abstract: A load port apparatus connects a main opening of a wafer transportation container to a frame opening. The apparatus includes an installation unit, a frame unit, a flange clamp unit, and a detection unit. The installation unit includes an installation table configured to install the container and relatively move to the frame opening. The frame unit is upright upward from the installation unit and includes the frame opening. The flange clamp unit includes an engagement section and a drive section. The engagement section is engageable with a flange surrounding an outer circumference of the main opening. The drive section drives the engagement section to carry out an engagement operation and a separation operation. The detection unit detects the engagement operation by the flange clamp unit with classification into a normal engagement operation and an abnormal engagement operation.