Abstract: A bracket for a hose of a vehicle system. The bracket having a hook and a mounting segment. The hook allows free movement of the hose while cradling the hose to prevent the hose from rubbing against abrasive or high temperature surfaces. The mounting segment includes an anti-rotation segment which abuts a mounting point to prevent rotation of the bracket. The bracket also includes gussets which reinforce the bending resistance of the bracket.

Abstract: A double insulating wall structure heating furnace capable of preventing its inner pipe whose strength has decreased due to high-temperature heating from being damaged. A double insulating wall structure heating furnace 1 includes an outer pipe 2 and an inner pipe 3 disposed inside the outer pipe 2, in which a sealed space 8 formed between the outer and inner pipes 2 and 3 is depressurized and a heating space 13 formed inside the inner pipe 3 is heated, and in which a tubular reinforcing member 6 is disposed so as to cover an outer circumference of the inner pipe 3, the tubular reinforcing member being formed of a material having a higher heat resistance and a higher strength than those of the material of the inner pipe 3.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method that ensures easily manufacturing an alloy ribbon piece having excellent soft magnetic properties. The method is a method for manufacturing an alloy ribbon piece obtained by crystallizing an amorphous alloy ribbon piece and including: increasing a temperature of the amorphous alloy ribbon piece to a crystallization starting temperature; and increasing the temperature of the amorphous alloy ribbon piece from the crystallization starting temperature to a crystallization process termination temperature equal to or less than a crystallization completion temperature.

Abstract: There is provided a metal sheet producing method that can avoid a decrease in magnetic properties. The metal sheet producing method is a. method for producing metal sheets by applying heat treatment to metal sheets made of amorphous soft magnetic material while conveying the metal sheets along a bar and thus crystallizing the amorphous soft magnetic material into nano-crystal soft magnetic material. The method includes attaching the plurality of metal sheets in a laminated state to an upstream portion of the bar, separating the plurality of metal sheets from each other using magnetic force and moving the metal sheets while applying heat treatment thereto so as to allow them to pass by a midstream portion of the bar, and sequentially laminating the metal sheets that have passed by the midstream portion on a downstream portion of the bar.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing metal foils, capable of easily crystalizing amorphous soft magnetic material of a plurality of metal foils into nano-crystal magnetic by uniformly heating the metal foils. Separating members (magnets) are disposed on the opposite sides of a laminate, which has been obtained by laminating a plurality of metal foils made of amorphous soft magnetic material, in the laminated direction of the laminate, and the metal foils forming the laminate are magnetized with the magnets. Thus, the adjacent metal foils are separated from each other in the laminated direction and a gap is formed between the metal foils. The metal foils are heated with the gap formed therebetween so that the amorphous soft magnetic material of each metal foil is crystalized into nano-crystal magnetic material.

Abstract: A decompression heat-insulating pipe structure that can exhibit the desired heat-insulating performance and is easy to assemble. In the structure, a space between ends of inner and outer tubes is decompressed. The outer tube includes a first flange, which extends radially inward from an axially one end thereof, and a second flange, which extends radially outward from the axially other end thereof. The inner tube includes a third flange, which extends radially inward from an axially one end thereof and is opposed to the first flange at an axially inward position of the first flange, and a fourth flange, which extends radially outward from the axially other end thereof and being opposed to the second flange at an axially outward position of the second flange. First and second elastic seal members are disposed between the first and third flanges and between the second and fourth flanges, respectively.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a nanocrystalline alloy ribbon piece with high productivity is provided. The method according to the present disclosure is a method for manufacturing an alloy ribbon piece obtained by crystallizing an amorphous alloy ribbon piece, and includes: preparing the amorphous alloy ribbon piece; sequentially heating the ribbon piece from one end to an intermediate position toward another end to a temperature range equal to or more than a crystallization starting temperature, and stopping the heating when heating the ribbon piece up to the intermediate position; and sequentially heating the ribbon piece from the other end to a position immediately before the intermediate position to the temperature range. In the sequentially heating the ribbon piece from the other end, the ribbon piece is heated up to the position immediately before the intermediate position after the heating is stopped in sequentially heating the ribbon piece from the one end.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an alloy ribbon piece capable of manufacturing a nanocrystalline alloy ribbon piece is provided. The method for manufacturing an alloy ribbon piece according to the present disclosure is a method for manufacturing an alloy ribbon piece obtained by crystallizing an amorphous alloy ribbon piece, and includes: preparing the amorphous alloy ribbon piece; sequentially heating the amorphous alloy ribbon piece from one end to an intermediate position toward another end to a temperature range equal to or more than a crystallization starting temperature, and stopping the heating when heating the amorphous alloy ribbon piece up to the intermediate position to the temperature range; and heating a region on the other end side with respect to the intermediate position of the amorphous alloy ribbon piece to the temperature range equal after the stopping of the heating in the sequentially heating.

Abstract: A decompression heat-insulating pipe structure that can exhibit the desired heat-insulating performance and is easy to assemble. In the structure, a space between ends of inner and outer tubes is decompressed. The outer tube includes a first flange, which extends radially inward from an axially one end thereof, and a second flange, which extends radially outward from the axially other end thereof. The inner tube includes a third flange, which extends radially inward from an axially one end thereof and is opposed to the first flange at an axially inward position of the first flange, and a fourth flange, which extends radially outward from the axially other end thereof and being opposed to the second flange at an axially outward position of the second flange. First and second elastic seal members are disposed between the first and third flanges and between the second and fourth flanges, respectively.

Abstract: An amount Y of liquid hydrogen that has passed through a first valve and has been volatilized during a predetermined time after first and second valves are opened is calculated by using a pressure P0 in an internal space of a liquid hydrogen tank measured before the two valves are opened, a pressure P1 in the internal space measured after the lapse of the predetermined time since the two valves are opened, and an amount X of the gaseous hydrogen that has passed through the second valve during the predetermined time. A fluid level H of the liquid hydrogen in the liquid hydrogen tank after the lapse of the predetermined time since the two valves are opened is calculated by using a expression showing a relationship between the H and an amount Y1 of the liquid hydrogen that passes through the first valve and drops therefrom, and the Y.

Abstract: A vacuum heat insulating container 1 includes an outer tube 2 having a bottom and an inner tube 3 having a bottom and an inner tube 3 having a bottom, the outer tube 2 and the inner tube 3 being arranged in such a way that the central axes thereof being a horizontal direction, an opening end of the outer tube 2 and an opening end of the inner tube 3 being bonded to each other, and a depressurized sealed space 8 being formed between the outer tube 2 and the inner tube 3, in which the vacuum heat insulating container further includes a load receiving part 7 for causing the outer tube 2 to support the inner tube 3, and the location of the load receiving part 7 in a vertical direction coincides with the location of the central axis of the outer tube 2.

Abstract: Provided is a vacuum heat-insulating container including an outer cylinder having a bottom and an inner cylinder having a bottom and disposed inside the outer cylinder, with a vacuum space formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder. The inner cylinder and the outer cylinder are disposed such that an opening plane of the inner cylinder is located outward of an opening plane of the outer cylinder. The outer cylinder has a first annular wall. The inner cylinder has a second annular wall. The vacuum heat-insulating container further includes an annular sealing member that is made of an elastic body having a lower coefficient of heat transfer than the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder, and that is squeezed between the first annular wall and the second annular wall so as to seal the vacuum space.

Abstract: In a vacuum insulating container, an outer cylinder has a first annular wall that extends radially inward so as to be inclined with respect to an aperture plane of the outer cylinder at an open end of the outer cylinder and has a tip end part spaced apart from an outer peripheral surface of the inner cylinder; an inner cylinder has a second annular wall that extends radially outward so as to be inclined with respect to the aperture plane of the inner cylinder at an open end of the inner cylinder and faces the first annular wall; and an annular sealing member formed of an elastic body having a low thermal conductivity is compressed between the first annular wall and the second annular wall.

Abstract: Provided is a decompression heat-insulating pipe structure that can be used in the system operating at high temperatures. A decompression heat-insulating pipe structure of the present disclosure includes: an outer tube and an inner tube each having a flange; and a seal member between the flanges, the seal member being configured to keep a space between the outer tube and the inner tube in a decompression state, and a shifting means configured to shift the outer tube and the inner tube relatively so as to selectively dispose the tubes at a pressing position to press the seal member between the flanges and at a cancellation position to cancel the pressing of the seal member.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a rare-earth magnet includes: manufacturing a sintered body having by performing pressing on a magnetic powder for a rare-earth magnet; and manufacturing a rare-earth magnet by putting the sintered body in a plastic working mold and by performing hot plastic working on the sintered body while pressing the sintered body to give anisotropy to the sintered body. The sintered body has a cuboid shape and includes at least one recessed side face that has a recessed portion curved inward. The plastic working mold includes a lower die, a side die forming a rectangular frame of four side faces, and an upper die slidable in the side die. The hot plastic working is hot upsetting.

Abstract: An intermediate product for a vacuum insulation panel includes an outer covering member having a sealed space, a core material disposed in the sealed space and having heat insulation properties, and a first gas absorbent disposed in the sealed space, sealed by a container having gas barrier properties and absorbing a first specific gas, wherein the first specific gas is sealed in the sealed space, and an unsealing member configured to unseal the container when a pressing force is applied from an outside is attached to the container.

Abstract: A vacuum heat insulating container 1 includes an outer tube 2 having a bottom and an inner tube 3 having a bottom and an inner tube 3 having a bottom, the outer tube 2 and the inner tube 3 being arranged in such a way that the central axes thereof being a horizontal direction, an opening end of the outer tube 2 and an opening end of the inner tube 3 being bonded to each other, and a depressurized sealed space 8 being formed between the outer tube 2 and the inner tube 3, in which the vacuum heat insulating container further includes a load receiving part 7 for causing the outer tube 2 to support the inner tube 3, and the location of the load receiving part 7 in a vertical direction coincides with the location of the central axis of the outer tube 2.

Abstract: A double insulating wall structure heating furnace capable of preventing its inner pipe whose strength has decreased due to high-temperature heating from being damaged. A double insulating wall structure heating furnace 1 includes an outer pipe 2 and an inner pipe 3 disposed inside the outer pipe 2, in which a sealed space 8 formed between the outer and inner pipes 2 and 3 is depressurized and a heating space 13 formed inside the inner pipe 3 is heated, and in which a tubular reinforcing member 6 is disposed so as to cover an outer circumference of the inner pipe 3, the tubular reinforcing member being formed of a material having a higher heat resistance and a higher strength than those of the material of the inner pipe 3.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rare earth magnet includes: preparing a powder by preparing a rapidly-solidified ribbon by liquid solidification, and by crushing the rapidly-solidified ribbon; manufacturing a sintered compact by press-forming the powder; and manufacturing a rare earth magnet by performing hot deformation processing on the sintered compact to impart anisotropy to the sintered compact. In this method, the rapidly-solidified ribbon is a plurality of fine crystal grains. The powder includes a RE-Fe—B main phase and a grain boundary phase of a RE-X alloy present around the main phase. RE represents at least one of Nd and Pr. X represents a metal element. A nitrogen content in the powder is adjusted to be at least 1,000 ppm and less than 3,000 ppm by performing at least one of the preparation of the powder and the manufacturing of the sintered compact in a nitrogen atmosphere.

Abstract: A rotor production method includes: a first step of arranging a plurality of sintered bodies side by side with an insulating lubricant applied to an interface of at least one of the sintered bodies adjacent to each other, and then housing the sintered bodies in a cavity of a molding die such that the sintered bodies are arranged side by side in the cavity, the sintered bodies being precursors of a plurality of split magnets constituting one rare-earth magnet; a second step of turning the sintered bodies into the split magnets by performing hot working to impart magnetic anisotropy to the sintered bodies arranged in the cavity, and producing an integrated magnet in which the split magnets are integrated together with the lubricant interposed therebetween; and a third step of producing a rotor of a motor by inserting the integrated magnet into a magnet slot of the rotor.