Abstract: The present invention provides a system that makes a recommendation, to an operator, of a countermeasure method considered appropriate from a precursory stage of abnormality. This recommended action notification system comprises: a plurality of automatic analyzers 51 that include a first automatic analyzer; and a learning device 52 that is connected to a network 53. The recommended action notification system is for making a recommendation to an operator for an action to be executed on the first automatic analyzer.

Abstract: An apparatus line for manufacturing seamless steel pipes and tubes includes: a heating apparatus for heating a steel raw material; a piercing apparatus for piercing the heated steel raw material thus forming a hollow material; and a rolling apparatus for applying working to the hollow material to form a seamless steel pipe having a predetermined shape. A cooling apparatus is arranged on an exit side of the rolling apparatus. A heated steel raw material is worked by the rolling apparatus after being pierced by the piercing apparatus, and thereafter, using a surface temperature of a hollow piece before being cooled by the cooling apparatus as a cooling start temperature, the hollow piece is cooled to a cooling stop temperature differing by 50° C. or more from the cooling start temperature and being equal to or above 600° C. at an average cooling speed of 1.0° C./s or more in terms of an outer surface temperature.

Abstract: An automatic analyzer is capable of reducing the time required for a series of maintenance operations in that the user’s maintenance work is linked to the device driving so that the maintenance work proceeds in the order of the maintenance work tools. An automatic analyzer includes a plurality of processing units for processing a specimen: an agitation mechanism, a reagent dispensing mechanism, a mixer, an incubator, and a specimen dispensing mechanism. A control unit controls a processing unit, an analysis unit, and a display unit and causes the display unit to display a plurality of maintenance work tools used for maintenance work performed by the operator on the plurality of processing units and to display the maintenance work contents of the plurality of processing units that continuously use one of the plurality of maintenance work tools, selected by the operator via the display unit.

Abstract: A working mechanism (8) includes a lower boom (9), an upper boom (10), a middle arm (11), an arm (12), a working tool (13), a working tool cylinder (22), and a link (16). The working tool cylinder (22) is disposed on a lower surface (12B) side of the arm (12), and a cylinder guard (23) is fixed on a first link (17) of the link (16). The cylinder guard (23) is rotationally displaced in synchronization with an expanding or contracting operation of the working tool cylinder (22) and is interposed between the working tool (13) and the working tool cylinder (22) to protect the working tool cylinder (22).

Abstract: The invention is directed to suppress charge of a region of interest or damage in the region of interest caused by blanking. A charged particle beam device includes: a deflector configured to scan a region of interest with a beam emitted from a beam source; a second deflector configured to retract the beam to outside of the region of interest after scanning the region of interest with the beam; and one or more computer systems including one or more processors configured to execute a program stored in a storage medium, in which the one or more computer systems determine a retraction direction or a retraction position of the beam (Step S402) based on a scanning direction of the beam in the region.

Abstract: Provided is a preform solder including a first metal containing Sn and a second metal formed of an alloy containing Ni and Fe. Alternatively, provided is a preform solder (1) having a metal structure including a first phase (10) that is a continuous phase and a second phase (20) dispersed in the first phase (10), the first phase (10) contains Sn, the second phase (20) is formed of an alloy containing Ni and Fe, and a grain boundary (15) of a metal is present in the first phase (10).

Abstract: A seamless steel pipe has a t/Dout of 0.05 to 0.40, where t is a wall thickness (mm) of the seamless steel pipe, and Dout is an outside diameter (mm) of the seamless steel pipe. The seamless steel pipe has a maximum depth dmax (mm)?0.350 mm for defects in an inner surface of the steel pipe on a cross section perpendicular to a pipe axis. The seamless steel pipe has an average defect depth dave (mm)?0.200 mm for defects having a depth of 0.050 mm or more in the inner surface of the steel pipe. The seamless steel pipe, per millimeter of an inner circumferential length of the pipe, has at most 30 defects having a depth of 0.050 mm or more in the inner surface of the steel pipe.

Abstract: Provided is a rolling straightening machine which enables outer-diameter-reducing rolling and straightening rolling of a pipe or tube material or a bar material at high speed with high accuracy. The rolling straightening machine includes at least two rollers arranged across a pass line of a pipe or tube material or a bar material, the at least two rollers having a gap therebetween, the gap being defined by an outer-diameter-reducing rolling portion having a diameter reduced from an upstream side toward a downstream side in the rolling straightening machine and a straightening rolling portion continuous from an exit side of the outer-diameter-reducing rolling portion toward a downstream side of the rolling straightening machine, the rollers having shapes which are symmetrical about the pass line in the outer-diameter-reducing rolling portion, and in the straightening rolling portion, asymmetrical to the pass line in the outer-diameter-reducing rolling portion.

Abstract: An operator can perform exchange work of a reagent container without including a mechanism for reagent exchange and interrupting an analysis operation. An automatic analyzer includes: an analysis unit including a plurality of operation units for performing analysis of a specimen; and a control unit for controlling the analysis unit. The control unit allows the analysis unit to set to at least (a) an analysis operation mode in which a first and a second operation unit are operated for the analysis of the specimen, (b) a partial operation mode in which only the first operation unit is continuously operated after the analysis of the specimen is completed in the analysis operation mode, and (c) a reagent exchange mode in which consumables containing a reagent are exchangeable in the analysis unit. The control unit allows the analysis unit to shift from the partial operation mode to the reagent exchange mode.

Abstract: Provided is a preform solder including a first metal containing Sn and a second metal formed of an alloy containing Ni and Fe. Alternatively, provided is a preform solder (1) having a metal structure including a first phase (10) that is a continuous phase and a second phase (20) dispersed in the first phase (10), the first phase (10) contains Sn, the second phase (20) is formed of an alloy containing Ni and Fe, and a grain boundary (15) of a metal is present in the first phase (10).

Abstract: Provided are an LNT layered catalyst for a lean burn gasoline engine having an enhanced NOx storage rate and capable of developing a higher NOx purification rate, and an exhaust gas purification apparatus using the same, the LNT layered catalyst including a substrate, a first catalyst layer including ceria-alumina particles carrying Pt, Pd, and BaO, and a second catalyst layer including ceria-alumina particles carrying Pt and Rh, in which a content of Pt in the first catalyst layer is 0.45 to 0.85 mass %; among Pt included in the first catalyst layer, a content proportion in a first depth region is 88 to 90 mass %, and a content proportion in a second depth region is 10 to 12 mass %; a content of Ba in the first catalyst layer is 4 to 11 mass %; and the second catalyst layer is substantially free from Ba.

Abstract: An electric compressor includes a housing; a rotary shaft; an impeller connected to at least a first end portion of the rotary shaft in an axial direction of the rotary shaft, of the first end portion and a second end portion of the rotary shaft in the axial direction; and a pair of air bearings supporting the rotary shaft such that the rotary shaft is rotatable relative to the housing. A load on the first end portion is larger than a load on the second end portion. The pair of air bearings includes a first air bearing, and a second air bearing supporting the rotary shaft at a position closer to the second end portion of the rotary shaft than the first air bearing is. A load carrying capacity of the first air bearing is larger than a load carrying capacity of the second bearing.

Abstract: A skew rolling apparatus with which shape defects in non-steady-state portions at the front and back ends of a seamless pipe shell can be prevented. The skew rolling apparatus includes a skew pierce rolling mill configured to pierce roll a steel material into a seamless pipe shell, and a skew outside-diameter mill following the skew piercing mill in a pass direction of the seamless pipe shell in the skew rolling apparatus. The skew rolling apparatus satisfies specified formulae.

Abstract: An alloy pipe and a method for producing the same are disclosed. The alloy pipe of the present invention contains, as a component composition, in terms of % by mass, Cr: 11.5-35.0%, Ni: 23.0-60.0%, and Mo: 0.5-17.0%, has an austenitic phase as a microstructure, has a Mo concentration (% by mass) in a grain boundary of the austenitic phase that is 4.0 times or less than a Mo concentration (% by mass) within grains of the austenitic phase, and has a tensile yield strength in a pipe axial direction of 689 MPa or more and a ratio (compressive yield strength in a pipe axial direction)/(tensile yield strength in a pipe axial direction) of 0.85 to 1.15.

Abstract: A dual-phase stainless steel or dual-phase stainless steel seamless pipe has a certain composition, the dual-phase stainless steel or dual-phase stainless steel seamless pipe having a microstructure containing 20 to 70% austenitic phase and 30 to 80% ferritic phase by volume, the dual-phase stainless steel or dual-phase stainless steel seamless pipe having a yield strength, YS, of 448 MPa or more, and containing oxide inclusions of which oxide inclusions having an average particle diameter of 1 ?m or more have a number density of 15/mm2 or less, and at most 50 mass % of the oxide inclusions having an average particle diameter of 1 ?m or more are oxide inclusions containing aluminum.

Abstract: There is provided an automatic analysis device that can easily realize introduction and replacement of additional reagents in operation even in a small-scale configuration. The automatic analysis device includes a reagent dispensing mechanism 107 that dispenses a reagent from a reagent container 113 containing a reagent, and a normal reagent storage portion 130 that stores a reagent container and an additional reagent storage portion 111. The normal reagent storage portion 130 is positioned in a normal movable area 132, which is a portion of a movable area 131 of the reagent dispensing mechanism 107 and the additional reagent storage portion 111 is positioned in an area excluding the normal movable area 132 in the movable area 131 of the reagent dispensing mechanism 107.

Abstract: A stainless steel pipe of a predetermined composition is provided that has an axial tensile yield strength of 689 MPa or more, an axial compressive yield strength/axial tensile yield strength ratio of 0.85 to 1.15, and a microstructure that is 20 to 80% ferrite phase by volume with the remainder containing an austenite phase, the stainless steel pipe having pipe end portions at least one of which has a fastening portion for an external thread or an internal thread, and having a curvature radius of 0.2 mm or more for a corner R formed by a bottom surface of a thread root and a pressure-side flank surface of the thread, measured in an axial plane section of the fastening portion.

Abstract: A stainless steel seamless pipe is provided that is a stainless steel comprising, in mass %, Cr: 11.5 to 35.0%, and Mo: 0.5 to 6.0%, and including ferrite and austenite, the stainless steel seamless pipe having a ferrite grain boundary and/or a ferrite-austenite grain boundary with a Mo concentration (mass %) that is at most 4.0 times the intragranular Mo concentration (mass %) of ferrite, or an austenite grain boundary with a Mo concentration (mass %) that is at most 4.0 times the intragranular Mo concentration (mass %) of austenite, the stainless steel seamless pipe having an axial tensile yield strength of 689 MPa or more, and an axial compressive yield strength/axial tensile yield strength ratio of 0.85 to 1.15.

Abstract: A stainless steel pipe of a predetermined composition is provided that comprises N, Ti, Al, V, and Nb so as to satisfy the predetermined formula, the stainless steel pipe having an axial tensile yield strength of 757 MPa or more, an axial compressive yield strength/axial tensile yield strength ratio of 0.85 to 1.15, and a microstructure that is 20 to 80% ferrite phase by volume with the remainder containing an austenite phase, the stainless steel pipe having pipe end portions at least one of which has a fastening portion for an external thread or an internal thread, and having a curvature radius of 0.2 mm or more for a corner R formed by a bottom surface of a thread root and a pressure-side flank surface of the thread, measured in an axial plane section of the fastening portion.

Abstract: The seamless pipe in which a thin-walled portion in a pipe circumferential direction is formed in a pipe axial direction, in which a line segment formed by connecting one end and the other end of the thin-walled portion along a pipe surface with a shortest distance in a formation direction of the thin-walled portion is inclined at an angle ? of 5.0° or more with respect to the pipe axial direction. It is preferable that one end and the other end of the thin-walled portion are set from a region in a pipe selected with a shorter length between a length of 1.0 m in the pipe axial direction and 90% of a length in the pipe axial direction where the thin-walled portion turns once in the pipe circumferential direction.