Abstract: A joining method of an aluminum member to a dissimilar metal member excluding copper by brazing or soldering through the use of a brazing filler metal or a solder for aluminum member; in which a plating composed of a metal voluntarily selected from copper, aluminum, zinc, lead, silicon, cadmium, tin and an alloy having major component of two or more kinds of them, is previously applied on a surface of joined portion of the dissimilar metal member, the plated joined portion of the dissimilar metal member is dipped in a molten brazing filler metal or a molten solder and ultrasonic vibration is given to the joined portion to stick the brazing filler metal or the solder to the joined portion, and a brazing or a soldering is carried out thereafter.

Abstract: Food is contained in a container made from packing materials with an oxygen permeability of 200 ml/m.sup.2. 24Hr.multidot.atm, an oxygen absorber which has a microwave-proof layer with film thickness of 5-20 .mu.m on at least one side and also air-permeable packing material on at least one side, whose surface with the air-permeable packing meterial is permeable to air with a water vapor permeability of 10-3,000 g/m.sup.2. 24Hr.multidot.atm. The oxygen absorber packet is fixed in said container. Under these conditions, it becomes possible to perform both heat treatment and microwave treatment of the food contained therein.

Abstract: A heat-pipe device for transferring heat generated by a heat-generating element, having at least one heat-pipe body which is an extrudate of plate-like configuration made of aluminum or its alloy, the heat-pipe body including a planer-structure portion which has on one side thereof a flat face to which the heat-generating element is directly fixed, the heat-pipe body further including a plurality of passage-defining portions which protrude from the other side of the planer-structure portion and extend parallel to, and apart a predetermined distance from, each other, each passage-defining portion having therein a flow passage which is fluid-tightly charged with a working fluid for transferring the heat generated by the heat-generating element. Also is disclosed a heat-sink device for cooling a heat-generating element, having at least one heat-pipe body including a planer-structure portion and a plurality of passage-defining portions.

Abstract: A microwave and luminous probe for use in a system for detecting the piston position in an internal combustion engine and the light emitted in a combustion chamber thereof on the basis of a microwave signal and a luminous signal includes a hollow cylindrical case body fitted into the combustion chamber, internal and external conductors coaxially inserted within the case body and having different diameters from each other in the ratio of from 1:1.5 to 1:4, an annular passage defined by an annular space formed between the internal and external conductors and serving as microwave and light transmitting members, and a dipole antenna composed of a metal tube forming the internal conductor protruded from the annular passage in the range of from 1/8 to 3/8 of the wavelength of the microwave. The probe detects the light emitted by combustion in the combustion chamber with high accuracy.