Abstract: Apparatus for producing alkali hydroxide and method for operating apparatus for producing alkali hydroxide are provided. A cooling chamber through which a coolant can pass is constructed by placing a separation wall in a cathode chamber on a side opposite to an ion-exchange membrane, and a flow rate adjuster, such as manual valves, which can adjust the supply flow rate of the coolant is placed in each unit cell. The electrolytic temperature of each unit cell is regulated at an optimum operating temperature depending on the current density by adjusting the flow rate of the coolant without individually adjusting the flow rate of salt water supplied to the unit cell or the concentration of the salt water.

Abstract: Provided is a laser welding method including a welding step of welding a workpiece by irradiating a surface of a workpiece with a laser beam that is swept two-dimensionally while being advanced in an X direction. In the welding step, the laser beam is swept to draw a predetermined pattern on the surface of the workpiece. Additionally, drawing speed and output of the laser beam are controlled to have an equal amount of heat input per unit drawing length in the predetermined pattern over the entire length of the predetermined pattern. The predetermined pattern is a continuous pattern in which two annular patterns are in contact with each other at one point.

Abstract: A laser welding device includes: a laser oscillator to which an incidence end of a fiber is connectable; a welding head connectable to an emission end of the fiber and configured to perform laser welding while condensing laser light emitted from the laser oscillator via the emission end and irradiating a workpiece with the laser light; a detector configured to detect presence or absence of a defect in the laser welding; and a controller including a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the laser welding device to perform operations. The operations include: performing, in response to receiving, from the detector, an output signal indicating a defect at a welding point on the workpiece during the laser welding of the workpiece, control such that supplementary laser welding is performed at a predetermined position in a vicinity of the welding point.

Abstract: A laser welding device includes: a laser oscillator with which an incoming end of a fiber is connected; a welding head that is connected to an outgoing end of the fiber and that performs laser welding while irradiating a workpiece with laser light by guiding the laser light from the laser oscillator to the workpiece via the fiber; a sensor that detects, during the laser welding, an intensity of plume light that is based on the laser welding at a welded position at which the workpiece is irradiated with the laser light; and a controller that controls a height of the welding head based on a detection output from the sensor, the height being a height in a direction parallel with a direction that the laser light is emitted.

Abstract: A laser welding method includes a welding step of applying a laser beam to a surface of a workpiece while the laser beam is caused to advance in an X-direction and scanning with the laser beam is simultaneously performed in a Y-direction intersecting the X-direction. The welding step includes a first weaving step of causing the laser beam to weave in the Y-direction with first amplitude (A1), and a second weaving step of causing the laser beam to weave with a predetermined amplitude smaller than first amplitude (A1) at both end portions of a weaving trajectory drawn by the laser beam in the first weaving step.

Abstract: This gate device is provided with a guide unit having a guide section that is disposed at the downstream side of pinch rollers at a path line along which a metal sheet is conveyed, opens/closes a coil-up line that is curved from the path line, and guides the upwards-facing surface side of the metal sheet led in to the coil-up line. A configuration is adopted such that the guide unit has a main body frame and a liner that is attached to the main body frame, forms at least a portion of the second guide surface that guides the metal sheet, has a lower coefficient of friction than the main body frame, and has a lower hardness than that of the metal sheet.

Abstract: A coiler device (1), provided with a chute roller (50), has: pinch rollers (10a, 10b) that lead a metal sheet carried in along a path line (L1) to a coil-up line (L2) that is curved from the path line (L1); a mandrel (20) that coils the metal sheet and is disposed ahead of the coil-up line (L2); and a chute roller (50) that exposes at least the leading end of the metal sheet to the coil-up line (L2) when being wound to the mandrel (20), and suppresses curving of the metal sheet toward a surface of the metal sheet facing the chute roller (50).

Abstract: This coiler device provided with a chute guide has: pinch rollers that lead a metal sheet carried in along a path line to a coil-up line that is curved from the path line; a mandrel that is disposed ahead of the coil-up line and coils up the metal sheet; and a chute guide that guides the upward-facing surface side of the metal sheet at the coil-up line and introduces the metal sheet to the coil-up opening of the mandrel. A configuration is adopted such that the chute guide has: a main body frame; and a liner that is attached to the main body frame, forms at least a portion of the guide surface that guides the metal sheet, has a lower coefficient of friction than the main body frame, and has a lower hardness than the metal sheet.

Abstract: This coiler device provided with a chute guide has: pinch rollers that lead a metal sheet carried in along a path line to a coil-up line that is curved from the path line; a mandrel that is disposed ahead of the coil-up line and coils up the metal sheet; and a chute guide that guides the upward-facing surface side of the metal sheet at the coil-up line and introduces the metal sheet to the coil-up opening of the mandrel. A configuration is adopted such that the chute guide has: a main body frame; and a liner that is attached to the main body frame, forms at least a portion of the guide surface that guides the metal sheet, has a lower coefficient of friction than the main body frame, and has a lower hardness than the metal sheet.

Abstract: Adopted is a coiler device (1) that is provided with a chute roller (50) and has: pinch rollers (10a, 10b) that lead a metal sheet carried in along a path line (L1) to a coil-up line (L2) that is curved from the path line (L1); a mandrel (20) that coils the metal sheet and is disposed ahead of the coil-up line (L2); and a chute roller (50) that exposes at least the leading end of the metal sheet to the coil-up line (L2) when being wound to the mandrel (20), and suppresses deformation of the metal sheet such that same bends to the upward facing surface side.

Abstract: This gate device is provided with a guide unit having a guide section that is disposed at the downstream side of pinch rollers at a path line along which a metal sheet is conveyed, opens/closes a coil-up line that is curved from the path line, and guides the upwards-facing surface side of the metal sheet led in to the coil-up line. A configuration is adopted such that the guide unit has a main body frame and a liner that is attached to the main body frame, forms at least a portion of the second guide surface that guides the metal sheet, has a lower coefficient of friction than the main body frame, and has a lower hardness than that of the metal sheet.

Abstract: A hot rolled steel sheet cooling apparatus includes a gradual cooling header 2 including a rod-like cooling water nozzle 3 for gradual cooling and a rapid cooling header 4 including a rod-like cooling water nozzle 5 for rapid cooling such that the headers constitute a cooling unit 9. The cooling unit 9 includes an elevating unit 7 capable of moving upward and downward in unison with the cooling unit. In cooling the upper surface of a hot rolled steel sheet (hot rolled steel strip or steel plate), uniform and stable cooling is achieved while both of high cooling rate and low cooling rate are ensured.

Abstract: A rotor oscillation preventing structure for a steam turbine includes: a stator vane 3; a moving blade 1; a shroud cover 2 installed on an outer circumferential side distal end of the moving blade 1; and a plurality of seal fins 6 installed, at any interval in the axial direction of a rotor, on an wall surface of a stationary body located on an outer circumferential side of the shroud cover 2, a whirl preventing structure comprised of whirl preventing plates 9 or whirl preventing grooves 11 is provided at a shroud cover inlet return portion 10 of the shroud cover 2 so as to block the whirl flow of leakage flow 8 on an upstream side in an operating steam flow direction of the seal fins to reduce an absolute velocity component of the leakage flow 8 in a rotational direction of the rotor.

Abstract: A hot rolled steel sheet cooling apparatus includes a gradual cooling header 2 including a rod-like cooling water nozzle 3 for gradual cooling and a rapid cooling header 4 including a rod-like cooling water nozzle 5 for rapid cooling such that the headers constitute a cooling unit 9. The cooling unit 9 includes an elevating unit 7 capable of moving upward and downward in unison with the cooling unit. In cooling the upper surface of a hot rolled steel sheet (hot rolled steel strip or steel plate), uniform and stable cooling is achieved while both of high cooling rate and low cooling rate are ensured.

Abstract: Whirl flow of leakage flow is reduced to reduce the occurrence potential of steam whirl. A rotor oscillation preventing structure for a steam turbine includes: a stator vane 3; a moving blade 1; a shroud cover 2 installed on an outer circumferential side distal end of the moving blade 1; and a plurality of seal fins 6 installed, at any interval in the axial direction of a rotor, on an wall surface of a stationary body located on an outer circumferential side of the shroud cover 2, a whirl preventing structure comprised of whirl preventing plates 9 or whirl preventing grooves 11 is provided at a shroud cover inlet return portion 10 of the shroud cover 2 so as to block the whirl flow of leakage flow 8 on an upstream side in an operating steam flow direction of the seal fins to reduce an absolute velocity component of the leakage flow 8 in a rotational direction of the rotor.

Abstract: Nickel paste contains nickel powder, a resin binder and an organic solvent, wherein the nickel powder is a small amount sulfur nickel powder including less than 100 ppm sulfur. This provides the nickel paste that the change in viscosity due to sulfur included in the paste can be preferably restrained by using nickel powder including extremely small amount of sulfur. Limitation of sulfur to the extremely small amount causes superior stability, and then, since kinds of solvents and resin binders are not limited, the change in viscosity can be preferably restrained with using the solvent that is hard to cause the chemical attack on the green sheet as described above. Thus, nickel paste that is hard to cause the chemical attack and the change in viscosity can be provided.

Abstract: A laser machining apparatus includes a laser generator for generating a laser beam and a driver unit for moving the laser beam relatively with respect to a workpiece as to emit the laser beam on the workpiece. The laser beam includes plural laser pulses. The laser pulses have spots each having a longitudinal direction. The driver unit moves the laser beam in the longitudinal direction relatively with respect to the workpiece so that the spots overlap each other. This laser machining apparatus can process the workpiece at high quality and high productivity.

Abstract: Nickel paste includes nickel powder, a resin binder and an organic solvent, wherein the nickel powder includes less than 100 ppm sulfur. This provides the nickel paste that the change in viscosity due to sulfur included in the paste can be preferably restrained by using nickel powder including extremely small amount of sulfur. Limitation of sulfur to the extremely small amount causes superior stability, and then, since kinds of solvents and resin binders are not limited, the change in viscosity can be preferably restrained with using the solvent that is hard to cause the chemical attack on the green sheet as described above. Thus, nickel paste that is hard to cause the chemical attack and the change in viscosity can be provided.

Abstract: The deposit conveyance mechanism is capable of effectively conveying deposits. The mechanism comprises: a conveying tube 10 having a suction port 12, a vertical tube part 13, a horizontal tube part 14 horizontally extending sideward, the horizontal tube part 14 being held in the water so as to locate below a hydraulic gradient line and vertically moved so as to move the suction port 12 close to and away from the bottom face of the water storing place, by an elevating unit 38, in a prescribed cycle; a cup-shaped member 60 provided to the suction port 12 of the conveying tube 10, the cup-shaped member having a lower part in which the suction port 12 is capable of moving upward and downward; a steam supplying section 73 supplying steam into the cup-shaped member 60; and a compressed gas supplying section 74 supplying a compressed gas into the cup-shaped member 60.

Abstract: A composition for removing side wall which includes an aqueous solution containing both nitric acid and at least one of carboxylic acids selected from the group consisting of polycarboxylic acid, aminocarboxylic acid, and salts thereof; a method of removing side wall; and a process for producing a semiconductor device. Use of the composition is effective in removing side wall at a low temperature in a short time in semiconductor device production without corroding the wiring material, e.g., an aluminium alloy. Thus, a semiconductor device having an aluminium alloy wiring which has undergone substantially no corrosion can be efficiently produced.