A method of imparting high strength, high ductility, and high fracture toughness to a refractory metal alloy workpiece includes: (i) subjecting the workpiece to at least one pass that reduces the initial cross-sectional area of said workpiece, (ii) annealing the workpiece subsequent to the at least one pass, and (iii) subjecting the workpiece to a final working step comprising at least one pass co...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solar device with air-conditioning function, which is capable of securing hot-water for indoor heating or hot-water supply and capable of effecting indoor cooling without employing any special cooling device such as an absorption cooling device or the like. SOLUTION: For hot-water supplying, city water (hot-water) heated by a solar panel 1 is guided to a heat ins...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the weight without being accompanied by deterioration of charge and discharge characteristics by constituting a pasted negative electrode plate active material after battery jar formation so that the capacity of a specified pore diameter is within a specified range. SOLUTION: A pasted negative electrode plate active material negative is constituted so that the capac...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the life of a battery by including carbon powder and a dodecylbenzene sulfonate in a pasted negative electrode plate active material. SOLUTION: Prescribed quantities of lignin powder, barium sulfate powder and sulfuric acid having a specific gravity of 1.30, and about 1 wt.% of acetylene black, for example, are added to lead powder containing 70-80 wt.% of lead mon...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead-acid battery equipped with an enhanced cyclic lifetime characteristic without causing a drop of the electricity collecting efficiency. SOLUTION: Pure lead is heated at 500 deg.C, and 0.07 wt.% calcium and 1.2 wt.% tin are added followed by stirring, and the obtained mixture is poured into a book-mold lattice die at 250 deg.C, followed by 30-min slow cooling ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To exclude an influence of a magnetic field for magnetization or a magnetization of a substrate and to permit accurate immunoassay by utilizing high sensitivity of an original SQUID(superconducting quantum interference device) by squaring a magnetic field for magnetizing a label to a direction of a magnetic flux to be detected by the SQUID. SOLUTION: A specimen 2 supported on...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical device which is excited only by the intensity of light to control the light itself without using an electric field or current, which has a function to display with high contrast ratio and high quality, which can be produced into a large screen, and moreover, which can emit light or operate in an integrated state. SOLUTION: The device is equipped with a p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a waste incineration furnance operation training device to simulate operating conditions made to be approximate to an actual waste incineration furnance and also to be utilized even in the learning of an operating method for suppressing an incomplete combustion. SOLUTION: The waste incineration furnace operation training device which simulates the operation of a was...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a software constitution management supporting device flexibly operating each kind of management according to a request from a user or a manager or the like, and properly operating the quality management of a software product according to the constitution management of the software product. SOLUTION: A software constitution management supporting device 10 is provide...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase speed of mask control in a burst write mode and to improve a transfer rate of data by inputting prescribed plural command signals through plural command pads and conducting the mask control in the burst write mode by the signals. SOLUTION: Plural write enable signals /WE1 to /WEn corresponding to a burst length (n) are prepared and inputted to a command decoder 90...

Ski attachment comprises a stop (3) and a heel part (5), the elastic means preventing the release of these parts comprises at least a blade (6) working in buckling between two translating parts (2,4) respectively connected to the stop and the heel part.

The present invention provides a method for determining magnetometer errors during wellbore survey operations. It is capable of determining errors on up to three axes, with or without the use of an external reference measurement of the local magnetic field, and is capable of providing an accurate result using data from a minimum number of surveys. A model is used to correct the observed data and t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system where general concept for selling a copy can be applied to a digital copying machine and/or a network printing environment by preserving image data related with a job in a memory and outputting image data on the job in the memory in accordance with the confirmation of the payment of the cost of the job by means of a printer. SOLUTION: When the user of a co...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a superior superconducting connection by preventing a gap from being produced in a superconducting connecting part. SOLUTION: In this superconducting connecting method for an oxide superconducting material, at least two sheath tape materials 13, 14 formed by a Bi-based 2212 oxide supercoducting precursor (A) 17 coated with a base material 18 are brought into contac...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify manufacturing of a semiconductor wafer which is proper for a semiconductor device especially by reducing treatment process by cutting a semiconductor wafer from single crystal, processing a semiconductor wafer surface by ductile cutting removal, and performing finish polishing and cleaning for a wafer surface. SOLUTION: A semiconductor wafer is cut from single cry...

A method for composing and transmitting, and method for receiving and looking-up an electronic message which enable an operator to simply interact with a computer provided with a visualiser or a display, so as to enable electronic documents visualizable by informatic programs not included in the computer to be visualized, thereby allowing a noticeable reduction of any infomatic virus diffusion. In...

The invention concerns a method for treating by impregnation a permeable architectural material which consists in spraying on the architectural material to be treated one or several dispersions in liquid phase of at least a type of photocatalytic compound based on metal oxide or sulphide and at least a type of compound promoting the bonding of said photocatalytic compounds to the architectural mat...

The invention concerns a method comprising steps which consist in: grinding, fine grinding and polishing a surface of an optical product made of transparent thermoplastic material, one of the steps of fine grinding or polishing consisting in treating the surface with a solvent or a mixture of solvents. The invention is applicable to lenses for spectacles.;

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To acquire data such as the flow rate of various phases of a fluid flowing in a hydrocarbon well (12) in production, in particular in an inclined or horizontal portion of the well, both the local speed of the fluid and the proportions of the various phases are determined in each of at least two distinct regions of the well that are not in alignment with one another parallel to the axis of the well...

Method for preparing cellular expanded rubber material from expandable rubber mixture is claimed in which said mixture is subjected to at least operations of wringing, crosslinking and expansion; crosslinking and expansion taking place simultaneously and continuously in a horizontal plane. Method for preparing cellular expanded rubber material from expandable rubber mixture is claimed in which sai...