Abstract: Ferritic stainless steel sheet for an exhaust part which has little deterioration in strength even if undergoing long term heat history and is low in cost, excellent in heat resistance and workability characterized by containing, characterized by containing, by mass %, C: less than 0.010%, N: 0.020% or less, Si: over 0.1% to 2.0%, Mn: 2.0% or less, Cr: 12.0 to 25.0%, Cu: over 0.9 to 2%, Ti: 0.05 to 0.3%, Nb: 0.001 to 0.1%, Al: 1.0% or less, and B: 0.0003 to 0.003%, having a Cu/(Ti+Nb) of 5 or more, and having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities.

Abstract: In a plasma processing method for conducting etching on an object to be processed by generating plasma from depositional gas introduced into a processing chamber and exposing the object to be processed to the plasma in a state in which radio frequency power is applied, the object to be processed is etched under etching conditions that a deposit film on an inner wall of the processing chamber becomes amorphous by repeating a first period during which the object to be processed is exposed to plasma and a second period during which the object to be processed is exposed to plasma and an etching rate is lower as compared with the first period. Consequently, particles due to increase in the number of processed sheets of the object to be processed can be suppressed.

Abstract: Ferritic stainless steel sheet which has a high oxidation resistance and scale spallation resistance even at a high temperature near 1000° C., characterized by containing C: 0.020% or less, N: 0.020% or less, Si: over 0.10 to 0.35%, Mn: 0.10 to 0.60%, Cr: 16.5 to 20.0%, Nb: 0.30 to 0.80%, Mo: over 2.50 to 3.50%, and Cu: 1.00 to 2.50%, having an amount of increase of oxidation after a continuous oxidation test in the air at 1000° C. for 200 hours of 4.0 mg/cm2 or less, and having an amount of scale spallation of 1.0 mg/cm2 or less.

Abstract: The invention provides a dry etching method capable of obtaining a good profile with little side etch without receiving the restriction of a micro loading effect. A dry etching method for etching a sample having formed on the surface thereof a pattern with an isolated portion and a dense portion using plasma comprises a first etching step using an etching gas containing a CF-based gas and a nitrogen gas in which an etching rate of a dense portion of the pattern is greater than the etching rate of the isolated portion of the mask pattern, and a second etching step in which the etching rate of the isolated portion of the pattern is greater than the etching rate of the dense portion of the pattern.

Abstract: Ferritic stainless steel excellent in heat resistance and workability which contains, by mass %, C: 0.02% or less, N: 0.02% or less, Si: 2% or less, Mn: 2% or less, Cr: 10 to 20%, Cu: 0.4 to 3%, Ti: 0.01 to 0.5%, and B: 0.0002 to 0.0030% and has a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities.

Abstract: The present invention provides, as a material superior in heat resistance in a hot environment where the maximum temperature of the exhaust gas becomes 750 to 900° C., ferritic stainless steel sheet superior in heat resistance in a broad temperature region of 750 to 900° C. with long term stability by a smaller amount of addition of Mo than SUS444 containing about 2% of expensive Mo, that is, ferritic stainless steel sheet superior in heat resistance characterized by containing, by mass %, C: 0.01% or less, N: 0.02% or less, Si: 0.05 to 1%, Mn: 0.1 to 2%, Cr: 10 to 30%, Mo: 0.1 to 1%, Cu: 1 to 2%, Nb: 0.2 to 0.7%, Ti: 0.01 to 0.3%, and B: 0.0002 to 0.0050%, having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and having a 0.2% yield strength at 750° C. of 70 MPa or more.

Abstract: The present invention provides a ferritic stainless steel sheet superior in shapeability containing, by wt %, C: 0.001 to 0.010%, Si: 0.01 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.0%, P: 0.01 to 0.04%, Cr: 10 to 20%, N: 0.001 to 0.020%, Nb: 0.3 to 1.0%, and Mo: 0.5 to 2.0%, wherein the total precipitates are, by wt %, 0.05 to 0.60%. A method of production of a ferritic stainless steel sheet superior in shapeability comprising producing a cold rolling material in the production process so that the Nb-based precipitates become, by vol %, 0.15% to 0.6% and have a diameter of 0.1 ?m to 1 ?m and/or so that the recrystallized grain size becomes 1 ?m to 40 ?m and the recrystallization rate becomes 10 to 90%, then cold rolling and annealing it at 1010 to 1080° C.

Abstract: The invention provides a dry etching method capable of obtaining a good profile with little side etch without receiving the restriction of a micro loading effect. A dry etching method for etching a sample having formed on the surface thereof a pattern with an isolated portion and a dense portion using plasma comprises a first etching step using an etching gas containing a CF-based gas and a nitrogen gas in which an etching rate of a dense portion of the pattern is greater than the etching rate of the isolated portion of the mask pattern, and a second etching step in which the etching rate of the isolated portion of the pattern is greater than the etching rate of the dense portion of the pattern.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a process for conveniently and efficiently producing high purity thioredoxin from yeast. In the production of thioredoxin using yeast, thioredoxin is produced through the following steps (i) to (iii): (1) culturing the yeast; (2) stressing the yeast obtained in step (1) to cause a release of thioredoxin from a cell of the yeast; and (3) collecting the thioredoxin released from the yeast cell.

Abstract: The present invention provides, as a material superior in heat resistance in a hot environment where the maximum temperature of the exhaust gas becomes 750 to 900° C., ferritic stainless steel sheet superior in heat resistance in a broad temperature region of 750 to 900° C. with long term stability by a smaller amount of addition of Mo than SUS444 containing about 2% of expensive Mo, that is, ferritic stainless steel sheet superior in heat resistance characterized by containing, by mass %, C: 0.01% or less, N: 0.02% or less, Si: 0.05 to 1%, Mn: 0.1 to 2%, Cr: 10 to 30%, Mo: 0.1 to 1%, Cu: 1 to 2%, Nb: 0.2 to 0.7%, Ti: 0.01 to 0.3%, and B: 0.0002 to 0.0050%, having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and having a 0.2% yield strength at 750° C. of 70 MPa or more.

Abstract: The present invention provides a ferritic stainless steel sheet superior in shapeability containing, by wt %, C: 0.001 to 0.010%, Si: 0.01 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.0%, P: 0.01 to 0.04%, Cr: 10 to 20%, N: 0.001 to 0.020%, Nb: 0.3 to 1.0%, and Mo: 0.5 to 2.0%, wherein the total precipitates are, by wt %, 0.05 to 0.60%. A method of production of a ferritic stainless steel sheet superior in shapeability comprising producing a cold rolling material in the production process so that the Nb-based precipitates become, by vol %, 0.15% to 0.6% and have a diameter of 0.1 ?m to 1 ?m and/or so that the recrystallized grain size becomes 1 ?m to 40 ?m and the recrystallization rate becomes 10 to 90%, then cold rolling and annealing it at 1010 to 1080° C.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an oral preparation that can be used to diagnose the existence or degree of pyridine metabolic capacity disorder, pyrimidine metabolic rate, etc., with high accuracy and with little variation due to individual differences. The oral preparation is prepared using a powder material obtained by mixing and pulverizing (a) an isotope-labeled compound and/or a pyrimidine metabolite compound and (b) a sugar and/or a sugar alcohol.

Abstract: A ferrite stainless steel for an automobile exhaust system member superior in thermal fatigue strength comprised of, by wt %, C: 0.020% or less, Si: 0.02 to 0.15%, Mn: 0.05 to 0.20%, P: 0.040% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.10%, N: 0.020% or less, Cr: 15 to 18%, Mo: 1.5 to 2.0%, Ti: 3×(C+N) to 0.25%, Nb: 0.4 to 0.8%, B: 0.0003 to 0.0050%, the C and N satisfying the relationship of C+N: 0.030% or less, and the Al, Si, and Mn satisfying the relationship of Al×(Si+Mn): 0.001 to 0.020, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities. The 0.2% proof stress at 900° C. before heat treatment in the atmosphere at 900° C. for 300 hours is at least 15 MPa, and a difference of the 0.2% proof stress before and after the heat treatment is not more than 5 MPa.

Abstract: The present invention provides a wafer holder, a wafer support member, a wafer boat and a heat treatment furnace, which are capable of sufficiently suppressing slip dislocations, without lowering productivity and at low cost, in the high temperature heat treatment of silicon wafers, and said wafer holder is characterized in that: the wafer holder is composed of a wafer support plate and three or more wafer support members mounted on said wafer support plate, each of the wafer support members having a wafer support portion or more; at least one of said wafer support members is a tilting wafer support member which has a plurality of upward-convex wafer support portions on the upper surface and is tiltable with respect to said wafer support plate; and the wafer is supported by at least four wafer support portions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a ferritic stainless steel sheet superior in shapeability containing, by wt %, C: 0.001 to 0.010%, Si: 0.01 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.0%, P: 0.01 to 0.04%, Cr: 10 to 20%, N: 0.001 to 0.020%, Nb: 0.3 to 1.0%, and Mo: 0.5 to 2.0%, wherein the total precipitates are, by wt %, 0.05 to 0.60%. A method of production of a ferritic stainless steel sheet superior in shapeability comprising producing a cold rolling material in the production process so that the Nb-based precipitates become, by vol %, 0.15% to 0.6% and have a diameter of 0.1 ?m to 1 ?m and/or so that the recrystallized grain size becomes 1 ?m to 40 ?m and the recrystallization rate becomes 10 to 90%, then cold rolling and annealing it at 1010 to 1080° C.

Abstract: A ferrite stainless steel for an automobile exhaust system member superior in thermal fatigue strength comprised of, by wt%, C: 0.020% or less, Si: 0.02 to 0.15%, Mn: 0.05 to 0.20%, P: 0.040% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.10%, N: 0.020% or less, Cr: 15 to 18%, Mo: 1.5 to 2.0%, Ti: 3×(C+N) to 0.25%, Nb: 0.4 to 0.8%, B: 0.0003 to 0.0050%, the C and N satisfying the relationship of C+N: 0.030% or less, and the Al, Si, and Mn satisfying the relationship of Al×(Si+Mn): 0.001 to 0.020, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities. The 0.2% proof stress at 900° C. before heat treatment in the atmosphere at 900° C. for 300 hours is at least 15 MPa, and a difference of the 0.2% proof stress before and after the heat treatment is not more than 5 MPa.

Abstract: The present invention provides a wafer holder, a wafer support member, a wafer boat and a heat treatment furnace, which are capable of sufficiently suppressing slip dislocations, without lowering productivity and at low cost, in the high temperature heat treatment of silicon wafers, and said wafer holder is characterized in that: the wafer holder is composed of a wafer support plate and three or more wafer support members mounted on said wafer support plate, each of the wafer support members having a wafer support portion or more; at least one of said wafer support members is a tilting wafer support member which has a plurality of upward-convex wafer support portions on the upper surface and is tiltable with respect to said wafer support plate; and the wafer is supported by at least four wafer support portions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a low iron-loss Fe-based amorphous alloy thin strip having an ultrathin oxide layer with a controlled thickness and/or a segregated layer containing either or both P and S at the lower section of an ultrathin oxide layer, as well as an Fe-based amorphous alloy thin strip fabricated with an ultrathin oxide layer with a controlled structure on the thin strip surface, wherein the ultrathin oxide layer is formed with a two-layer structure on the thin strip surface to reduce iron loss. Specifically, there is provided an Fe-based amorphous alloy thin strip characterized by being a quenched metal thin strip obtained by ejecting a molten metal onto a moving substrate through a casting nozzle with a slot-shaped opening and quenching it to solidity, and by having ultrathin oxide layer with a thickness of from 5 nm to 20 nm on at least one surface of the thin strip.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rapidly quenched metal strip used as a core material for transformers, magnetic shields, choke coils, etc., and to an Fe-based rapidly quenched metal strip having a strip thickness exceeding 20 .mu.m and up to 70 .mu.m, wherein nonmetallic inclusions contained in said metal strip have a maximum particle size up to 50% of the strip thickness, and densities of the nonmetallic inclusions are up to 10 nonmetallic inclusions/mm.sup.3 for nonmetallic inclusions having a particle size exceeding 10 .mu.m and up to 50% of the strip thickness, up to 3.times.10.sup.3 nonmetallic inclusions/mm.sup.3 for nonmetallic inclusions having a particle size of at least 3 .mu.m to up to 10 .mu.m, and up to 5.times.10.sup.5 nonmetallic inclusions/mm.sup.3 for nonmetallic inclusions having a particle size of at least 0.3 .mu.m to less than 3 .mu.m, and showing the following average value <.epsilon..sub.f > of a bending fracture strain .epsilon..sub.

Abstract: An instrument for chemical and microbiological tests comprises a sample container for temporarily storing a liquid sample; a plurality of sample-holding portions formed on the bottom face of the sample container; and a liquid-absorbent body capable of coming in contact with the liquid sample so that the body can absorb the excess sample, when the liquid sample is introduced into the container, while retaining the sample to be held on the sample-holding portions. This instrument can be used in a chemical or microbiological test wherein a sample is used in a relatively small amount and, in particular, those requiring a large number of reactions and cultivation. Moreover, the instrument does not require the dispensation of a sample to each reaction system and does not cause any scatter of the sample in the surroundings.