Abstract: The present invention provides a heat treatment system, which includes a treatment chamber having an input port and a discharge port for charging and discharging materials to be treated. A heating system including a plurality of pipe-like heaters positioned one after another in serial arrangement is provided so that the heating temperature is gradually increased for heating the steam or the atomized water introduced from the water feeding system into the heaters by applying voltage on the heaters to turn the steam and the atomized water to superheated steam, and for performing heat treatment on the materials to be treated by injecting the superheated steam into the treatment chamber.

Abstract: The present invention provides a heat treatment system, which includes a treatment chamber having an input port and a discharge port for charging and discharging materials to be treated. A heating system including a plurality of pipe-like heaters positioned one after another in serial arrangement is provided so that the heating temperature is gradually increased for heating the steam or the atomized water introduced from the water feeding system into the heaters by applying voltage on the heaters to turn the steam and the atomized water to superheated steam, and for performing heat treatment on the materials to be treated by injecting the superheated steam into the treatment chamber.

Abstract: In an image information search network system of the invention, image information file storing units of search stations installed at a plurality of different locations relatively distant from each other can commonly receive image information. Each image information file storing unit stores image information for a predetermined number of pages and an AWS (advanced work station) serving as a search terminal stores and displays image information for a designated page. File directory units for storing management information for searching image information are provided to some search stations, and are also used by the other search stations. An image information processing unit can be connected not only to a terminal control unit but also directly to the AWS. The terminal control unit is of a distributed processing type, and executes search processing for the respective AWSs. The terminal control unit can execute image file transfer processing and printing processing independently of the search processing.