Silicon nitride sintered body, process for producing the same, ceramic heater employing the silicon nitride sintered body and glow plug containing the ceramic heater

    公开(公告)号:US06359261B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-03-19

    申请号:US09696547

    申请日:2000-10-25

    IPC分类号: F23Q700

    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.

    Heating resistor, heating resistor for use in ceramic heater, and ceramic heater using the same
    72.
    发明授权
    Heating resistor, heating resistor for use in ceramic heater, and ceramic heater using the same 有权
    加热电阻,用于陶瓷加热器的加热电阻器,以及使用陶瓷加热器的陶瓷加热器

    公开(公告)号:US06274853B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-08-14

    申请号:US09563435

    申请日:2000-05-03

    IPC分类号: H05B302

    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.

    摘要翻译: 含有预定量的RE2O3(其中RE表示稀土元素)的加热电阻器。 残留氧与RE2O3的摩尔比,以SiO 2为基准表示的残留氧的量,通过从氧的总量中减去RE2O3中所含的氧量而得到的量落在预定范围内。 二硅酸盐或闪石的晶相作为晶界的主要相。 加热电阻器包含含有选自Ti,Zr,Hf,V,Nb,Ta,Cr,Mo和W中的一种或多种元素的诸如WC或TiN的导电组分。加热电阻器嵌入基板 ,产生陶瓷加热器。

    Ceramic heater ceramic glow plug and method of manufacturing the ceramic
heater
    74.
    发明授权
    Ceramic heater ceramic glow plug and method of manufacturing the ceramic heater 失效
    陶瓷加热器陶瓷电热塞及陶瓷加热器的制造方法

    公开(公告)号:US5883360A

    公开(公告)日:1999-03-16

    申请号:US60474

    申请日:1998-04-15

    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.

    摘要翻译: 陶瓷加热器包括氮化硅陶瓷和嵌入在陶瓷中的加热元件。 通过使用选自W,Ta,Nb,Ti,Mo,Zr,Hf,V和Cr中的至少一种元素的硅化物,碳化物或氮化物作为主要成分来形成加热元件 。 所述陶瓷作为烧结助剂,含有1〜20重量%的作为其氧化物计算的至少一种稀土元素; 0.5〜8重量%的以V2O5计算的V(钒),0.5〜8重量%的选自由Nb,Ta,Cr,Mo和W组成的组中的至少一种Va / VIa族元素,计算为 其氧化物。 钒和Va / VIa元素的总比例为氧化物计算的1〜10重量%。 陶瓷加热器具有优异的高温强度和耐酸性。

    Glow plug and heating element made of ceramic material
    75.
    发明授权
    Glow plug and heating element made of ceramic material 失效
    辉光插头和陶瓷材料制成的加热元件

    公开(公告)号:US5877474A

    公开(公告)日:1999-03-02

    申请号:US827160

    申请日:1997-03-27

    申请人: Masahiro Konishi

    发明人: Masahiro Konishi

    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.

    摘要翻译: 在陶瓷加热器中,由陶瓷导电材料形成的电阻加热元件嵌入陶瓷体中。 陶瓷导电材料具有将导电陶瓷相的粒子分散在基体陶瓷相中的结构,并且含有30〜80重量%的陶瓷导电相。 当在所述陶瓷导电材料的一部分中以一定半径绘制虚拟圆时,如果虚拟圆中的所述导电陶瓷相颗粒的面积百分比不小于60%,则由圆包围的区域 被定义为所述导电陶瓷相颗粒的不均匀分布部分,并且不均匀分布部分的最大直径被设定为不大于5μm。

    Processes for controlling of the temperature of glass inside forehearth
    76.
    发明授权
    Processes for controlling of the temperature of glass inside forehearth 失效
    控制炉内玻璃温度的工艺

    公开(公告)号:US5693110A

    公开(公告)日:1997-12-02

    申请号:US266206

    申请日:1994-06-27

    IPC分类号: C03B7/06 G05D23/22 C03B5/24

    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.

    摘要翻译: 用于控制用于形成料滴的前炉内的玻璃的温度的方法包括以下步骤:通过基于预设隶属函数和预设推理规则来实现模糊推理来确定区域1中的玻璃的设定温度 通过使用两个变量,即测量温度和喷口部分中的玻璃的设定温度之间的偏差以及在当前测量时测量的温度与在先前测量时测量的温度之间的时间变化量的预设模糊集合, 尊重出口部分的玻璃,作为前提; 通过基于预设的隶属函数和预设模糊集的预设推理规则,通过采用两个变量来确定每个区域2和3中的每个区域中的玻璃的设定温度,即,两个变量之间的偏差量, 在每个区域2和3中测量的玻璃和其玻璃的设定温度以及在当前测量时测量的温度与在先前测量时测量的温度之间的时变变化量作为前提; 并且通过基于所确定的设定温度,通过调节每个冷却阀的设定开度和每个区域1至3中的玻璃的设定值来控制通过每个燃烧器的燃烧气体的量。

    Sintered ceramic body for a spark plug insulator and method of sintering
the same
    77.
    发明授权
    Sintered ceramic body for a spark plug insulator and method of sintering the same 失效
    用于火花塞绝缘体的烧结陶瓷体及其烧结方法

    公开(公告)号:US5370832A

    公开(公告)日:1994-12-06

    申请号:US31931

    申请日:1993-03-15

    CPC分类号: H01T13/38 C04B35/597

    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%。

    High-definition still picture cameras having a solid-state imaging
device with photoelectric conversion elements divided into four fields
    78.
    发明授权
    High-definition still picture cameras having a solid-state imaging device with photoelectric conversion elements divided into four fields 失效
    具有固态成像装置的高分辨率静止图像摄像机,其具有分为四个场的光电转换元件

    公开(公告)号:US5251036A

    公开(公告)日:1993-10-05

    申请号:US952667

    申请日:1992-09-28

    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.

    摘要翻译: 用于使用高分辨率电荷耦合固态成像装置拍摄静止图像的高分辨率相机。 成像装置包括以行和列排列的多个光电转换元件,其中每列被分成四个光电元件的重复序列,每个元素对应于像素和四个场中的一个。 在每个光电元件列之间形成多个垂直电荷传输路径,并且横向电荷传输路径连接到每个垂直电荷传输路径的端子部分。 水平电荷传输路径包括第一和第二水平寄存器。 在与四个场中的一个相对应的光电元件处产生的像素信号在对应于一个场的场移位周期中传送到传送元件。 此后,根据驱动信号将信号转移到水平电荷传输路径,然后在每一行由水平电荷传输路径水平传输,以读取并存储用于一个场的信号。 四个场的信号被存储在存储器的相应的存储区域中。 在一个实施例中,信号由每帧读取,并且对应于第一和第二水平寄存器之一的两个场的信号被提供给电子取景器以进行显示。 根据快门的动作,根据四个场的信号记录显示图像的静止图像。 在另外的实施例中,两个水平寄存器可操作以在高分辨率模式期间输出信号,并且只有一个水平寄存器可操作以在低分辨率模式期间输出信号。

    Electronic still camera for compensating color temperature dependency of
color video signals
    80.
    发明授权
    Electronic still camera for compensating color temperature dependency of color video signals 失效
    用于补偿彩色视频信号的色温依赖性的电子静态照相机

    公开(公告)号:US4774564A

    公开(公告)日:1988-09-27

    申请号:US93910

    申请日:1987-09-08

    申请人: Masahiro Konishi

    发明人: Masahiro Konishi

    IPC分类号: H04N5/235 H04N9/73

    CPC分类号: H04N9/735 H04N5/235

    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.

    摘要翻译: 彩色视频信号的输出电平,特别是来自电子静态照相机的固态成像装置的G信号或亮度信号,与色温无关,保持恒定,以最佳地调节白平衡。 这样可以以这样一种方式使得用于白平衡调节的可变增益放大器的增益作为测量的色温的函数被分别地控制在三原色中的每一个上,或者由隔膜和 根据色温调节快门。 用于进行调整的控制电路包括用于补偿固态成像装置的与色温相关的灵敏度特性的查找表数据。 色温由色温传感器或传感器检测入射光的颜色分量。 以这种方式,可以补偿固态成像装置的灵敏度特性的变化或作为色温的函数的固态成像装置和光测量装置之间的灵敏度特性的差异。