Abstract: A heat treatment device includes: a heating chamber inside which a treatment object is contained; a lower heater that heats the lower section of a receiving area that is an area inside the heating chamber in which the treatment object is contained; and an upper heater that heats the upper section of the receiving area.

Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes: a cleaning chamber that accommodates an object to be cleaned; a drying chamber connected to the cleaning chamber; a connecting member connecting a first opening provided in the cleaning chamber and a second opening provided in the drying chamber; a valve element positioned inside the cleaning chamber and facing the first opening; a valve seat facing the valve element; and an actuator that drives the valve element.

Abstract: A probe cover which is to be attached to a socket that is configured to support a plurality of contact probes, includes: a base; two positioning pins which are disposed on the base; and at least one supporting member which is disposed on the base. The two positioning pins and the supporting member are capable of positioning the base in a state where the base is separated from the socket by a predetermined distance, and a mutual separation distance between the two positioning pins is changeable.

Abstract: A cooling device configured to cool an article to be treated by immersing the article to be treated in coolant includes a cooling chamber configured to accommodate the article to be treated and store the coolant therein, a supply nozzle configured to supply the coolant into the cooling chamber from below the article to be treated, a recovery pipeline configured to collect the coolant stored in the cooling chamber from above the article to be treated, and a pump configured to pump the coolant collected by the recovery pipeline to the supply nozzle.

Abstract: A conveyance device for a heat treatment device presses a conveyed body to convey the conveyed body in a linear direction, and includes a cylinder mechanisms having a retractable rod that presses the conveyed body, in which: an abutting member is disposed at a tip part of the rod of the cylinder mechanism so that the abutting member abuts locations, which are different from each other in a circumferential direction, on an outer peripheral surface of the conveyed body; a guide rail configured to guide the abutting member is provided; and the abutting member is provided with a traveling roller that travels on the guide rail.

Abstract: A carburizing device includes a furnace body that performs heat treatment on a treatment object to perform carburization treatment on the treatment object, in which: a heater configured to perform heat treatment on the treatment object is provided upright in a vertical direction within the furnace body; a gas supply section configured to supply a gas for burnout toward the heater is provided at a lower end part of the heater; the heater is inserted through a protective tube provided upright in the vertical direction; and the gas supply section is configured to supply the gas for burnout to between the protective tube and the heater.

Abstract: A method for producing an electrode catalyst for a fuel cell is provided. The electrode catalyst includes a carbon support and a catalyst supported on the carbon support. The catalyst is one of platinum and a platinum-alloy. The method includes supporting the catalyst on the carbon support; and treating the carbon support carrying the catalyst with a nitric acid and cleaning the treated carbon support, such that an amount of an acid present on the carbon support becomes in a range from 0.7 mmol to 1.31 mmol of the acid per gram of the electrode catalyst.

Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus includes a cooling chamber configured to perform cooling of a treatment object, a conveyance chamber installed above the cooling chamber and configured to convey the treatment object, a lift table on which the treatment object is placed, and a lift mechanism having a driving apparatus installed above the lift table and configured to raise and lower the lift table between the cooling chamber and the conveyance chamber using the driving apparatus.

Abstract: A heat treatment device which performs vacuum carburizing treatment by heating a workpiece is presented. The heat treatment device includes: a heater chamber in which a heater is provided; a heat treatment chamber in which the workpiece is heated and vacuum carburizing treatment is performed on the workpiece and is disposed so as to be adjacent to the heater chamber in the heat treatment device; and a muffle plate which partitions a portion between the heater chamber and the heat treatment chamber. A gas introduction portion through which burnout gas is introduced is independently provided in each of the heater chamber and the heat treatment chamber.

Abstract: A carburizing device is configured to perform a carburizing treatment on a treatment target, and includes a furnace body, an insulating container provided inside the furnace body, a furnace bed provided inside the insulating container and on which the treatment target is mounted, and a heat source provided inside the insulating container, in which at least surfaces of main components of the furnace bed, the heat source and the insulating container are made of a ceramic material.

Abstract: A block has a planar portion abutting a back side of a contact region of a flexible substrate, and a recess that is concave with respect to the planar portion. An electronic component mounted on the flexible substrate is located within the recess. When viewed from a direction perpendicular to the planar portion, the recess is located at a position near a power supply bump, except at a position overlapping the power supply bump, or the recess is filled with a filler. The planar portion of the block abuts only the back side of the power supply bump.

Abstract: A glass plate has, at least at a part of an outer edge, an adjacent surface that intersects a principal plane at an obtuse angle, wherein the adjacent surface is a cutting plane formed by an extension of a crack, and the adjacent surface forms a diffraction grating including at least one of a Wallner line and an Arrest line.

Abstract: An exchangeable contact unit which can be attached to or detached from a main body of an inspection jig, includes: a flexible board which is provided with a contact part with respect to an object to be inspected; and a coaxial connector which is directly and electrically connected to the flexible board.

Abstract: A method for processing a glass sheet includes a scribing step of heating a part of a glass sheet with laser light which is transmitted through the glass sheet from a first main surface of the glass sheet to a second main surface of the glass sheet, and moving an irradiation position of the laser light on the glass sheet, thereby forming a scribe line on at least the second main surface of the glass sheet.

Abstract: A glass sheet processing method is provided for irradiating a laser beam on a glass sheet and forming a cleavage in the glass sheet with thermal stress. If each of an irradiation area of the laser beam on the surface and an irradiation area of the laser beam on the back face of the glass sheet includes a peak position of a power density of the laser beam, each irradiation area has an asymmetrical power density distribution that is asymmetrical with respect to a reference line that passes through the peak position and is parallel to a moving direction of the peak position. If each irradiation area has no peak position, each irradiation area has an asymmetrical shape that is asymmetrical with respect to a reference line that passes through a centroid position of the irradiation area and is parallel to a moving direction of the centroid position.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a supported catalyst for a fuel cell having a high activity, a method of manufacturing thereof, and a fuel cell including the supported catalyst for a fuel cell. A supported catalyst for a fuel cell of the present invention includes a conductive carrier and catalyst particle supported on the conductive carrier and contains platinum. The ratio of the mass of oxygen to the mass of the catalyst particle measured by using an inert gas fusion-nondispersive infrared absorption method is 4 mass % or less.

Abstract: A conduit structure for molten glass, in which molten glass is flown through a double-pipe structure, with little stress loading even for a long time operation. A supporting rib connecting an inner pipe and an outer pipe is employed in the double pipe structure having the inner pipe and outer pipe in the conduit structure for molten glass, wherein excessive stress concentration hardly occurs in an inner pipe-joint portion, an outer pipe-joint portion and the rib when the rib is applied with a stress load due to the weight of the inner pipe.

Abstract: A substrate for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy analysis (SERS) comprises a ferroelectric single crystal having polarization-inverted patterns of spontaneous polarizations including polarization-inverted portions and non-inverted polarization portions, and metallic dots positioned at only either one polarized surfaces of the polarization-inverted portions and the non-inverted polarization portions. The provided SERS substrate produces a high enhancement effect. A microfluidic device incorporating the SERS substrate is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a small-sized physically-strengthened glass sheet having excellent design properties, a structure using the small-sized physically-strengthened glass sheet, and a method for manufacturing the structure. In the cutting step in the method for manufacturing a physically-strengthened glass sheet of the present invention, the intermediate layer 17 is locally heated at a temperature not higher than the annealing point thereof with a laser beam 20 to thereby locally generate a tensile stress smaller than the internal residual tensile stress CT or a compressive stress in the intermediate layer 17 to control the propagation speed of the crack 30 due to the internal residual tensile stress.

Abstract: A method for processing a glass sheet includes a scribing step of heating a part of a glass sheet with laser light which is transmitted through the glass sheet from a first main surface of the glass sheet to a second main surface of the glass sheet, and moving an irradiation position of the laser light on the glass sheet, thereby forming a scribe line on at least the second main surface of the glass sheet.