Abstract: A panel-shaped formed product made of a metal sheet includes a top panel portion, an opening portion, and a vertical wall portion. The top panel portion is polygonal. The opening portion is provided in the top panel portion. The vertical wall portion extends from at least not less than two adjacent borders among the borders of the top panel portion. At least one pair of each vertical wall portion of pairs of adjacent vertical wall portions of the vertical wall portions has a stepped portion. As a result, the panel shaped formed product has fewer defects such as cracks and wrinkles even when it has a shape that is difficult to form.

Abstract: A drive assist circuit includes a pulse generation circuit which outputs a pulse to control an assist operation when an assist signal makes a first transition corresponding to a transition of a gate signal from a high level to a low level. The pulse generation circuit includes a delay circuit provided in one of two inputs of a logic gate. The delay circuit is configured such that a delay is greater when an input makes a transition corresponding to the first transition of the assist signal, as compared to a case where the input makes a transition corresponding to an inverse of the first transition.

Abstract: A process of pressing a blank to form an intermediate formed component configured including a top plate, the ridge lines at short direction ends of the top plate, and vertical walls facing each other in a state extending from the respective ridge lines and at least one of the vertical walls configuring a curved wall curving as viewed from an upper side of the top plate, such that a step projecting toward an opposite side to a side on which the vertical walls face each other is formed to the curved wall so as to run along a length direction of the top plate. The method includes pressing the intermediate formed component to narrow a projection width of the step, or to move a portion of the curved wall where the vertical walls face each other.

Abstract: A panel-shaped formed product made of a metal sheet includes a top panel portion, an opening portion, and a vertical wall portion. The top panel portion is polygonal. The opening portion is provided in the top panel portion. The vertical wall portion extends from at least not less than two adjacent borders among the borders of the top panel portion. At least one pair of each vertical wall portion of pairs of adjacent vertical wall portions of the vertical wall portions has a stepped portion. As a result, the panel shaped formed product has fewer defects such as cracks and wrinkles even when it has a shape that is difficult to form.

Abstract: Provided is a configuration that makes up for a lack of tensile rigidity and a lack of collision properties at the same time. [Solution] An automotive exterior panel according to the present invention: an exterior material 110; and a reinforcing member 120 that is in contact along an automobile inside surface of the exterior material 110 and of which a second moment of area in a direction orthogonal to the exterior material is less than or equal to 15,000 mm4 in a cross section orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the 10 reinforcing member. By this configuration, the second moment of area in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the reinforcing member 120 is made less than or equal to 15,000 mm4, and hence a lack of tensile rigidity can be made up for at the same time.

Abstract: The present invention provides a shock-absorbing member including: an exterior material 110 for an automobile; a first reinforcing member 122 that is disposed adjacent to the exterior material 110 and whose cross section orthogonal to the extending direction has a height, in the direction orthogonal to the exterior material 110, that is greater than the width in the S direction along the exterior material 110; a second reinforcing member 124 that is disposed adjacent to the exterior material 110 and whose cross section orthogonal to the extending direction has a height, in the direction orthogonal to the exterior material 110, that is greater than the width in the direction along the exterior material 110; an intersecting part where the first reinforcing member 122 and the second reinforcing member intersect and overlap; and a joint that joins the first reinforcing member 122 and the second reinforcing member 124 at the intersection.

Abstract: A method for making an ultra-thin dielectric printed circuit board (PCB) is provided. A first side of a first conductive layer is removably coupled to a disposable base. A first ultra-thin dielectric layer and a second conductive layer are laminated to a second side of the first conductive layer, where the first ultra-thin dielectric layer is positioned between the first and second conductive layers, and the first ultra-thin dielectric layer is thinner than at least one of the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The second conductive layer may then be patterned to form electrical paths. The patterned second conductive layer is then filled with a dielectric filler. One or more conductive layers and one or more ultra-thin dielectric layers may then be coupled to the second conductive layer. The disposable base may then be detached from the first conductive layer.

Abstract: A hot press device according to the present disclosure includes a first press, a second press, a conveyance device linking the first press and the second press together, and a heating furnace provided within a conveyance range of the conveyance device.

Abstract: An output circuit includes: a first p-type transistor having a source connected to VDDH and a gate to which an input signal is fed; and a second p-type transistor having a source connected to the drain of the first p-type transistor, a drain connected to an output terminal, and a gate connected to a first node. A capacitor has one terminal to which the input signal is fed and the other terminal connected to the first node. A first n-type transistor has a source connected to VDDL, a drain connected to the first node, and a gate to which a signal corresponding to the input signal is fed. A second n-type transistor has a source and a gate both connected to VDDL and a drain connected to the first node.

Abstract: A drive assist circuit includes a pulse generation circuit which outputs a pulse to control an assist operation when an assist signal makes a first transition corresponding to a transition of a gate signal from a high level to a low level. The pulse generation circuit includes a delay circuit provided in one of two inputs of a logic gate. The delay circuit is configured such that a delay is greater when an input makes a transition corresponding to the first transition of the assist signal, as compared to a case where the input makes a transition corresponding to an inverse of the first transition.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus and a related method, where plasma species is introduced via a plasma in-feed line into a reaction chamber for a deposition target. The plasma in-feed line goes via a plasma formation section. The velocity of the plasma species within the plasma in-feed line is speeded up by a constriction downstream of the plasma formation section.

Abstract: The present invention provides a susceptor with improved responsiveness of temperature control, and an object thereof is to obtain a high-quality wafer product without impairing productivity. Provided is a susceptor that generates heat by induction heating, the susceptor including a graphite base material and a ceramic coating layer. The graphite base material exhibits a variation (?max/?min) of an in-plane electrical resistivity distribution of the graphite base material at room temperature of 1.00 to 1.05 and a rate of high-temperature change (?1600/?800) of electrical resistivity at 1600° C. to that at 800° C. of 1.14 to 1.30.

Abstract: The substrate processing management system for a substrate processing line including a defect tallying section to calculate a defect rate representing a rate of occurrence of substrates or electronic components determined to be defective with the substrate inspection machine, or obtain a number of defective products having substrates or electronic components determined to be defective; an attribute change recognition section to recognize when an attribute, among the attributes of the electronic component, having a possibility of affecting the inspection, has changed in the component mounting machine; a fault point estimation section to estimate, when the defect rate or the number of defective products exceeds a predetermined value, which of the component mounting machine or the substrate inspection machine is a fault point depending on whether an attribute has changed; and a countermeasure calling section configured to call for a defect countermeasure to the estimated fault point.

Abstract: This press forming method is a press forming method of manufacturing a press-formed article from a workpiece sheet using a press forming apparatus including a punch, a die, a punch pad, and a die pad, in which, when the workpiece sheet is clamped between the die and the punch, a surface of the workpiece sheet on a die side in a section between a point in contact with a die bottom end shoulder portion and a point in contact with the die pad is in non-contact with the die and the die pad, and an end surface of a punch side blank holding surface adjacent to a punch shoulder portion is flush with the punch shoulder portion or located on a more inner side of the punch than the punch shoulder portion.

Abstract: A hat member 1 includes a top-plate portion 13, first ridges 113, and two side walls 11. The two side walls have a middle hardness Dc of 300 HV or higher. Each of the two side walls 11 includes a softened portion L and a strength-transition portion T adjacent to the softened portion L. The softened portion L has a hardness Dn lower than the middle hardness Dc by at least 8% (Dc?Dn?0.08Dc). The strength-transition portion T extends 0.5 mm or longer from the softened portion L toward the first end of the side wall. The strength-transition portion T has a hardness Dt that transitionally changes within the range of 8% to 1% lower than the middle hardness Dc (0.92Dc?Dt?0.99Dc). The hat member 1 further includes two second ridges 114 and two flanges 14.

Abstract: Methods for depositing silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) thin films on a substrate in a reaction space are provided. The methods can include at least one plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) cycle including alternately and sequentially contacting the substrate with a silicon precursor that does not comprise nitrogen and a second reactant that does not include oxygen. In some embodiments the methods allow for the deposition of SiOC films having improved acid-based wet etch resistance.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a quenched member includes heating a pressed intermediate article to an Ac3 transformation point of a steel sheet or higher, the intermediate article having been processed so as to have a rectangular cross-section and so as to include a terminal portion at which two terminal edges of the steel sheet are aligned with each other at a same side of the rectangular cross-section, and quenching the heated intermediate article inside a die.

Abstract: A method of producing a press-formed product includes a steel plate heating step, a hot forging step and a hot stamping step. In the steel plate heating step, a steel plate is heated to 950° C. or more. In the hot forging step, the heated steel plate is forged to form a varying-thickness steel plate. In the hot stamping step, the heated varying-thickness steel plate is subjected to press-working by a press tooling to form a press-formed product, and the press-formed product that is formed is cooled inside the press tooling. Thus, a press-formed product that has high strength and for which a reduction in weight is possible can be produced.

Abstract: There is provided a method of filling one or more gaps by providing the substrate in a reaction chamber and introducing a first reactant to the substrate with a first dose, thereby forming no more than about one monolayer by the first reactant on a first area; introducing a second reactant to the substrate with a second dose, thereby forming no more than about one monolayer by the second reactant on a second area of the surface, wherein the first and the second areas overlap in an overlap area where the first and second reactants react and leave an initially unreacted area where the first and the second areas do not overlap; and, introducing a third reactant to the substrate with a third dose, the third reactant reacting with the first or second reactant remaining on the initially unreacted area.

Abstract: Provided is a coated steel sheet including a steel sheet, a first aluminum coating layer provided on a first surface of the steel sheet, a zinc compound layer or a metallic zinc layer provided on a surface of the first aluminum coating layer, and a second aluminum coating layer provided on a second surface of the steel sheet, as an outermost surface of the steel sheet. Further provided are a coated steel sheet coil using this coated steel sheet, and a method of producing a hot-press formed article, as well as an automobile part using a press formed article produced by the method of producing a hot-press formed article.