摘要:
The invention comprehends a silicon nitride sintered body having consistent qualities, a process for producing the same, a ceramic heater employing the silicon nitride sintered body as a substrate and a glow plug containing the ceramic heater as a heat source. In the production of a silicon nitride sintered body through a hot press method, a sintering aid protecting agent is added to the raw material. The employable protecting agents are metallic elements such as Ta, W and Mo and compounds of the metallic elements such as nitrides and silicides. Conversion of these elements and compounds to carbides occurs preferentially to reduction of the sintering aid. Thus, it becomes possible to suppress reduction of the sintering aid in a reducing atmosphere formed, for example, of carbon monoxide, which is generated particularly when a graphite pressing die is employed. A ceramic heater which comprises a substrate formed from the silicon nitride sintered body and a resistance heater embedded in the substrate is obtained. Further, a glow plug containing the ceramic heater serving as a heat source is obtained.
摘要:
A heating resistor containing RE2O3 (where RE represents a rare earth element) in a predetermined amount. The mole ratio of residual oxygen to RE2O3, the amount of residual oxygen being expressed on an SiO2 basis and being obtained by subtracting the amount of oxygen contained in RE2O3 from the total amount of oxygen, falls within a predetermined range. A crystal phase of disilicate or melilite serves as a predominant phase of grain boundaries. The heating resistor contains a conductive component, such as WC or TiN, which contains one or more elements selected from among Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, and W. The heating resistor is embedded in a substrate, yielding a ceramic heater.
摘要:
A ceramic heater includes a silicon nitride ceramic and a heating element embedded in the ceramic. The heating element is formed through use of, as a main component, a silicide, carbide, or nitride of at least one element selected from the group consisting of W, Ta, Nb, Ti, Mo, Zr, Hf, V, and Cr. The ceramic includes, as sintering aids, 1 to 20% by weight of at least one rare earth element calculated as an oxide thereof; 0.5 to 8% by weight of V (vanadium) calculated as V.sub.2 O.sub.5, and, 0.5 to 8% by weight of at least one Va/VIa group element selected from the group consisting of Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, and W calculated as an oxide thereof. The proportion in total of vanadium and the Va/VIa element is 1 to 10% by weight calculated as oxides. The ceramic heater has excellent high-temperature strength and acid resistance.
摘要:
In a ceramic heater, a resistive heating element formed from a ceramic electrically conductive material is embedded in a ceramic body. The ceramic electrically conductive material has a structure in which particles of an electrically conductive ceramic phase are dispersed in a matrix ceramic phase, and contains the ceramic electrically conductive phase in a range of from 30 to 80% by weight. When a virtual circle is drawn with a certain radius in a section of said ceramic electrically conductive material, if the percentage of the area of said electrically conductive ceramic phase particles in the virtual circle is not smaller than 60%, a region enclosed by the circle is defined as an uneven distribution portion of said electrically conductive ceramic phase particles and the maximum diameter of the uneven distribution portion is set to be not larger than 5 .mu.m.
摘要:
A process for controlling the temperature of glass inside a forehearth for the formation of gobs comprises the steps of: determining a set temperature of the glass in the zone No. 1 by effecting a fuzzy inference based on a preset membership function and a preset inference rule of a preset fuzzy set by using two variables, i.e., a deviation between a measured temperature and a set temperature of glass in the spout portion and a timevarying change amount between a temperature measured at a current measurement and a temperature measured at a previous measurement with respect to the glass in the spout portion, as an antecedence; determining a set temperature of the glass in each of zone Nos. 2 and 3 through a fuzzy inference based on a preset membership function and a preset inference rule of a preset fuzzy set through taking two variables, i.e., a deviation amount between a temperature of the glass measured in each of the zone Nos. 2 and 3 and a set temperature of the glass therefor and a time-varying change amount between a temperature measured at a current measurement and a temperature measured at a previous measurement, as an antecedence; and controlling an amount of a combustion gas through each burners by adjusting a set open degree of each cooling valve and a set value of the glass in each of the zone Nos. 1 through 3 based on the set temperatures determined.
摘要:
In a spark plug insulator having a sintered ceramic body, the ceramic body has silicon nitride (Si.sub.3 N.sub.4), aluminum nitride (AlN) and alumina (Al.sub.2 O.sub.3), the weight ratio of aluminum nitride (AlN) and alumina (Al.sub.2 O.sub.3) to silicon nitride (Si.sub.3 N.sub.4) being in the range of 0.093 to 1.439; and at least one sintering additive is among the group consisting of yttrium oxide (Y.sub.2).sub.3), calcium oxide (CaO), lanthanum oxide (La.sub.2 O.sub.3), magnesia (MgO), cerium oxide (CeO.sub.2), scandium oxide (Sc.sub.2 O.sub.3), strontium oxide (SrO), barium oxide (BaO) and neodymium (Nd.sub.2 O.sub.3). The weight percentage of the sintering additive ranges from 0.3% to 15.0% of the total weight of the silicon nitride (Si.sub.3 N.sub.4), aluminum nitride (AlN) and alumina (Al.sub.2 O.sub.3).
摘要翻译:在具有烧结陶瓷体的火花塞绝缘子中,陶瓷体具有氮化硅(Si 3 N 4),氮化铝(AlN)和氧化铝(Al 2 O 3),氮化铝(AlN)和氧化铝(Al 2 O 3)与氮化硅的重量比 Si 3 N 4)在0.093〜1.439的范围内; (O 2)3),氧化钙(CaO),氧化镧(La 2 O 3),氧化镁(MgO),氧化铈(CeO 2),氧化钪(Sc 2 O 3),锶等中的至少1种烧结添加剂 氧化物(SrO),氧化钡(BaO)和钕(Nd2O3)。 烧结添加剂的重量百分比为氮化硅(Si 3 N 4),氮化铝(AlN)和氧化铝(Al 2 O 3)的总重量的0.3%至15.0%。
摘要:
A high definition camera for photographing still pictures using a high resolution charge coupled solid-state imaging device. The imaging device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in rows and columns, wherein each column is divided into repeating sequences of four photoelectric elements, each element corresponding to a pixel and one of four fields. A plurality of vertical charge transfer paths are formed between each column of the photoelectric elements and a horizontal charge transfer path is connected to a terminal portion of each of the vertical charge transfer paths. The horizontal charge transfer path includes first and second horizontal registers. Pixel signals generated at photoelectric elements corresponding to one of four fields are transferred to transfer elements in a field shift period corresponding to the one field. Thereafter, the signals are transferred toward to the horizontal charge transfer path in accordance with drive signals and are then horizontally transferred by the horizontal charge transfer path at every row to read and store the signals for the one field. The signals of the four fields are stored in respective memory areas of a memory. In an embodiment, signals are read by every frame and the signals of two fields, corresponding to one of the first and second horizontal registers, are supplied to an electronic viewfinder for display. A still image of the displayed image is recorded in accordance with signals of four fields upon actuation of a shutter. In an additional embodiment, both of the horizontal registers are operable to output signals during a high resolution mode and only one of the horizontal registers are operable to output signals during a low resolution mode.
摘要:
Disclosed herein is a magnetic recording device simple in arrangement, in which, while a motion picture is being recorded, a unitary part of the motion picture is extracted to perform a still picture recording operation with high picture quality.
摘要:
The output level of color video signals, especially the G-signal or the luminance signal from a solid-state imaging device of an electronic still camera, is maintained constant regardless of the color temperature for optimum adjustment of the white balance. This is made possible in such a manner that the gain of a variable-gain amplifier for white balance adjustment is separately controlled for each of the three primary colors as a function of a measured color temperature, or that the light exposure realized by the diaphragm and the shutter is adjusted as a function of the color temperature. A control circuit for effecting the adjustment includes lookup table data for compensating for color-temperature-dependent sensitivity characteristics of the solid-state imaging device. The color temperature is measured by a color temperature sensor or a sensor sensing the color component of incident light. In such a manner, changes in sensitivity characteristics of the solid-state imaging device or the difference in sensitivity characteristics between the solid-state imaging device and the light measurement device as a function of the color temperature may be compensated.