Abstract: A top-blowing lance nozzle is configured to freely switch an adequate expansion condition so as to control an oxygen-blowing amount and a jetting velocity independently of each other without requiring a plurality of lance nozzles or a mechanically movable part. A lance nozzle is configured to blow refining oxygen to molten iron charged in a reaction vessel while a gas is blown from a top-blowing lance to the molten iron. One or more blowing holes for blowing a working gas are on an inner wall side surface of the nozzle, at a site where the lance nozzle has a minimum cross-sectional area in a nozzle axis direction or at a neighboring site of the site.

Abstract: A compound for forming a metal-containing film to be contained in a composition for forming a metal-containing film used in manufacturing a semiconductor, where the compound for forming a metal-containing film is represented by the following general formula (M-1) or (M-2). This provides: a compound for forming a metal-containing film having better dry etching resistance than conventional resist underlayer film materials and also having high filling and planarizing properties; a composition for forming a metal-containing film containing the compound; a patterning process in which the composition is used as a resist underlayer film material; a patterning process in which the composition is used as a resist material; and a semiconductor photoresist material containing the composition.

Abstract: A molten iron refining method having, an auxiliary material, and an oxidizing gas supplied through a top-blowing lance, to a cold iron source and molten pig iron that are contained/fed in a converter-type vessel, and molten iron is subjected to a refining process. A pre-charged cold iron source is charged into the converter-type vessel at an amount not larger than 0.15 times. A furnace-top-added cold iron source that's part or all of the cold iron source and added from a furnace top is fed during the refining process. A burner at a leading end of the top-blowing lance that spray holes through which a fuel and a combustion-supporting gas are ejected. During the refining process, a powdery auxiliary material processed into powder that's part of the auxiliary material is blown in, to pass through a flame formed by the burner.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus can be connected with an ultrasound probe including a plurality of elements adapted to transmit ultrasound signals and to receive reflected wave signals from a subject or from the air. The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry diagnoses states of the elements based on a feature value of the reflected wave signal. The processing circuitry also prepares, based on the states, deterioration degree information indicative of the deterioration degrees of the elements. The processing circuitry superimposes the deterioration degree information onto an ultrasound image of the subject and causes a display to display a resultant image.

Abstract: A converter steelmaking method has molten pig iron subjected to dephosphorization process for dephosphorized molten iron, dephosphorized molten iron is subjected to decarburization process for molten steel. For dephosphorization process, a first cold iron source in amount meeting Formula (1) is charged into first converter-type vessel, then undephosphorized molten pig iron is charged and subjected to dephosphorization process. Dephosphorized molten iron is discharged and held in molten metal receiving vessel. After second cold iron source is charged into first converter-type vessel in which dephosphorization process has been performed, the dephosphorized molten iron held in molten metal receiving vessel is charged and subjected to decarburization process. % Ws0?0.1186T?134 (% Ws0?0) . . . (1), where % Ws0: a ratio (%) of first cold iron source to sum of first cold iron source and charge amount of undephosphorized molten pig iron, and T: a temperature (° C.) of undephosphorized molten pig iron.

Abstract: A converter blowing control method includes: calculating, by heat balance calculation and material balance calculation, an amount of oxygen supplied and an amount of a cooling material or a rising heat material charged to control a temperature and a component concentration of molten steel at end of blowing in a converter to target values; controlling the blowing in the converter based on the calculated amount of oxygen supplied and the calculated amount of a cooling material or a rising heat material charged; estimating a pre-blowing molten iron temperature that is a temperature of molten iron used as a raw material for blowing to be a target of the heat balance calculation, charged into the converter, and is in a state immediately before start of the blowing; and using the estimated pre-blowing molten iron temperature as a charged molten iron temperature in the heat balance calculation.

Abstract: A film capacitor includes a stack including at least one dielectric film and a plurality of metal films, the at least one dielectric film including a polyarylate film, wherein each of the at least one of dielectric film and each of the plurality of metal films are alternately stacked in a stacking direction, each of the plurality of metal films deposited on each of the at least one dielectric film by vapor deposition, cover films on two first side surfaces, the two first side surfaces facing each other in a first direction, the first direction orthogonal to the stacking direction, the cover films containing a polyester hot-melt resin, and metal-sprayed electrodes on two second side surfaces, the two second side surfaces facing each other in a second direction, the second direction perpendicular to the first direction and orthogonal to the stacking direction.

Abstract: A converter blowing control method includes: calculating, by heat balance calculation and material balance calculation, an amount of oxygen to be supplied and an amount of a cooling material or a rising heat material to be charged for controlling a temperature and a component concentration of molten steel at end of blowing in a converter to target values; and controlling the blowing in the converter based on the calculated amount of oxygen to be supplied and the calculated amount of a cooling material or a rising heat material to be charged. A temperature of molten iron is used as a raw material for blowing, which is a target of the heat balance calculation, is used as a charged molten iron temperature used in the heat balance calculation, the temperature of molten iron being measured during a period when the molten iron is charged into the converter.

Abstract: A method for producing low-carbon ferromanganese capable of achieving a high Mn yield. In producing low-carbon ferromanganese by blowing an oxidizing gas from a top-blowing lance onto a bath face of high-carbon ferromanganese molten metal accommodated in a reaction vessel provided with a top-blowing lance and bottom-blowing tuyere to perform decarburization, the slag composition during the blowing is adjusted so that a value of (CaO+MgO)/(Al2O3+SiO2) on a mass basis in the slag composition is not less than 0.4 but not more than 5.0. Also, agitation is performed under a condition that an agitation power density ? of an agitation gas blown through the bottom-blowing tuyere is not less than 500 W/t.

Abstract: An emotion estimation apparatus includes a recording section that records one or more events that cause a change in an emotion of a person and prediction information for predicting, for each event, an occurrence of the event; an event predicting section that predicts the occurrence of the event, based on detection of the prediction information; and a frequency setting section that sets a frequency with which an estimation of the emotion is performed. If the occurrence of the event is predicted by the event predicting section, the frequency setting section sets the frequency to be higher than in a case where the occurrence of the event is not predicted, and also sets the frequency based on the content of the event.

Abstract: Proposed is a method for removing phosphorus from a phosphorus-containing substance which is applicable in an industrial scale so as to effectively reduce phosphorus contained in the phosphorus-containing substance. In this method, the phosphorus-containing substance used as a raw material for metal smelting or metal refining is reacted with a nitrogen-containing gas at a treatment temperature T (° C.) which is lower than a melting temperature (Tm) of the substance, so that phosphorus is removed preferably in the form of phosphorus nitride (PN). In this regard, a nitrogen partial pressure and an oxygen partial pressure in the nitrogen-containing gas are preferably controlled, thereby reducing a load of dephosphorization process, for example.

Abstract: A film capacitor includes: a main body portion including a first metallized film including a first metal film on a first face of a first dielectric film, and a second metallized film including a second metal film on a second face of a second dielectric film; and external electrodes. The first or second dielectric film is located between the first and second metal films. The external electrodes are disposed on main body ends so as to be electrically connected with the first or second metal film. At least one of the first and second metal films includes a first portion which has a film thickness of 20 nm or more and is located in proximity to the main body ends, and the first portion includes a first groove extending in the first direction and being in contact with corresponding one of the main body ends.

Abstract: When performing dephosphorization treatment of hot metal by adding a refining agent as a lime source and an oxygen source (dephosphorizing agent(s) and a gaseous oxygen source into the hot metal accommodated in a hot metal holding container, the refining agent used is a refining agent having an Ig-loss value of from 4.0% by mass to 35.0% by mass and including 60% by mass or more of quicklime.

Abstract: A personal identification apparatus includes a recording unit that records in advance feature information concerning an activity of at least one of a first person (person A) and a second person (person B or C) when the first person and the second person are together; an information acquiring unit that acquires identification information for identifying the other person; and an identification processing unit that identifies the other person as the second person, based on matching between the identification information and the feature information.

Abstract: A method removes phosphorus from a phosphorus-containing substance. In the method, the phosphorus-containing substance that is used as a raw material for metal smelting or refining is reacted with a nitrogen-containing gas so that phosphorus in the phosphorus-containing substance is removed through nitriding. Prior to a treatment of a nitriding removal of phosphorus from the phosphorus-containing substance, a treatment is performed in which the phosphorus-containing substance is heated to an unmolten state temperature range so as to react with a reducing agent, thereby reducing at least a part of metal oxide in the phosphorus-containing substance.

Abstract: A film capacitor device includes a capacitor body, a metal electrode on each of side surfaces of the capacitor body, an external electrode electrically connected to the metal electrode, and a bond bonding the metal electrode and the external electrode together. The capacitor body includes a plurality of unit stacks being stacked. The plurality of unit stacks each include a film stack including a plurality of dielectric films being stacked and a pair of protective films covering surfaces of the film stack. The plurality of unit stacks in the capacitor body are stacked with end faces of the plurality of unit stacks in a first direction (x-direction) being displaced.

Abstract: A setting apparatus includes: a CPU and a memory connected to the CPU. The memory is configured to store information regarding each of a plurality of users individually using a single space. The CPU is configured to perform: identifying a user to use the space; authenticating the user identified in the identifying; setting devices provided in the space based on the information stored in the memory. The information stored in the memory includes: first information; and second information given stricter restriction than the first information. The CPU is configured to perform: the setting including performing a predetermined setting of the devices provided in the space based on the first information of the user identified in the identifying.

Abstract: A dephosphorization method using a top and bottom blown converter. This method uses a converter charged with molten iron and slag, to blow an oxygen-containing gas from a top-blowing lance, supply the gas from an inlet of a blowing hole, and supply a control gas from an opening toward an axial center. This method has: a slag top-surface position measurement step, with the top surface of the molten iron measured in advance, measuring an arbitrary position in a top surface of the slag; a slag top-surface difference calculation of slag thickness difference between the measured top-surface positions of the molten iron and the slag; and a jetting condition adjustment step of, using the obtained slag thickness, adjusting a jetting condition of the gas jetted from the top-blowing lance into an appropriate range. The top-blown jetting condition is adjusted by comparing the slag thickness and the depth of a surface depression.

Abstract: A method and system for predicting slopping in a converter occurring during decarburization refining in the converter in which molten steel is produced from a molten pig iron by blowing oxidizing gas to the molten pig iron in the converter from a top blowing lance, or optionally further blowing oxidizing gas or inert gas from a bottom blowing tuyere to perform the decarburization refining of the molten pig iron. The method includes measuring an emission spectrum of a throat combustion flame blowing out from a throat of the converter, calculating emission intensity of the measured emission spectrum at a wavelength in a range of 580 to 620 nm, and predicting the occurrence of the slopping based on a time-series change of the calculated emission intensity.

Abstract: A top-blowing lance nozzle is configured to freely switch an adequate expansion condition so as to control an oxygen-blowing amount and a jetting velocity independently of each other without requiring a plurality of lance nozzles or a mechanically movable part. A lance nozzle is configured to blow refining oxygen to molten iron charged in a reaction vessel while a gas is blown from a top-blowing lance to the molten iron. One or more blowing holes for blowing a working gas are on an inner wall side surface of the nozzle, at a site where the lance nozzle has a minimum cross-sectional area in a nozzle axis direction or at a neighboring site of the site.