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A system for ablating tissue includes a catheter having an elongate body, with at least one ablation element (e.g., RF electrode) and at least one acoustic transducer located within the body's tip region. The transducer receives acoustic signals from proximate the tip region. The system also includes a monitoring unit coupled to the transducer to interpret the received acoustic signals as data regarding at least one therapeutic parameter (e.g., pre-pop detection, lesion making progress, tissue interface detection, tissue contact force, tissue contact establishment, bubble spatial distribution, bubble depth, bubble size, bubble size distribution, tissue interface distance, tissue interface position, tissue attenuation, tissue thickness, lesion spectral fingerprint). The monitoring unit is operable to provide feedback to a practitioner, such as graphical, audible, and/or haptic output of sensed data, and may also be operable to control operation of the at least one ablation element in response thereto.

The invention concerns steel for high temperature use containing by weight: 0.06 to 0.20% of C, 0.10 to 1.00% of Si, 0.10 to 1.00% of Mn, not more than 0.010% of S, 10.00 to 13.00% of Cr, not more than 1.00% of Ni, 1.00 to 1.80% of W, Mo such that (W/2+Mo) is not more than 1.50%, 0.50 to 2.00% of Co, 0.15 to 0.35% of V, 0.040 to 0.150% of Nb, 0.030 to 0.12% of N, 0.0010 to 0.0100% of B and optionally up to 0.0100% of Ca, the rest of the chemical composition consisting of iron and impurities or residues resulting from or required for preparation processes or steel casting. The chemical constituent contents preferably verify a relationship such that the steel after normalizing heat treatment between 1050 and 1080° C. and tempering has a tempered martensite structure free or practically free of delta ferrite.

A contactless power transferring apparatus includes a terminal loading portion, a primary coil, an up-down-direction pressing portion, a width direction pressing portion and a thickness direction pressing portion. The terminal loading portion has an opening through which a mobile terminal is inserted and loaded. The primary coil transfers power using electromagnetic induction to a secondary coil incorporated in the mobile terminal. When the mobile terminal is inserted inside the terminal loading portion, the pressing portions operate in an up-down direction, in a left-right direction and in a width direction, to press and support the mobile terminal respectively from below to position the coils in the up-down direction, from the width direction to position the coils in the left-right direction and from the thickness direction to dispose the coils a predetermined distance apart.

A system for forming high quality silicon material, e.g., polysilicon. In a specific embodiment, the melted material comprises a silicon material and an impurity, e.g., phosphorous species. The system includes a crucible having an interior region. In a specific embodiment, the crucible is made of a suitable material such as a quartz material or others. The quartz material is capable of withstanding a temperature of at least 1400 Degrees Celsius for processing silicon. In a specific embodiment, the crucible is configured in an upright position and has an open region to expose a melted material. In a specific embodiment, the present system has an energy source. Such energy source may be an arc heater or other suitable heating device, including multiple heating devices, which may be the same or different. The arc heater is configured above the open region and spaced by a gap between the exposed melted material and a muzzle region of the arc heater to cause formation of a determined temperature profile within a vicinity of a center region of the exposed melted material while maintaining outer regions of the melted material at a temperature below a melting point of the quartz material of the crucible. In a specific embodiment, the system produces a melted material comprising a resulting phosphorous species of 0.1 ppm and less, which is purified silicon.

A shearing method for a thin plate including forming a protruded product part having a first sagging part when the thin plate with a thickness of up to approximately 5mm is performed with a half die cutting by pressing the half die cutting punch slightly larger than the half die cutting hole to form a shallow recessed part, fixing the product part by a fixing member, forming a second sagging part at an edge portion of the thin plate by pressurizing a scrap part by moving a pressure punch which is provided with a gap between the fixing member and the pressure punch and by being bent between the scrap part and the product part, and then separating the scrap part from the product part.

The present invention provides a heat-insulating container and a method for manufacturing the same which make it possible to lower manufacturing costs, and to obtain a sufficient heat-insulating effect, and which are also suitably used in a limited installation space such as an engine compartment or the like. The present invention is a heat-insulating container for storing and maintaining a temperature of a liquid, comprising an inside container (1) having inlet and outlet opening part (5) for the liquid, and a sheet-form outer covering (3) which accommodates the inside container (1). A heat-insulating material (2) is sealed between the outer covering (3) and the inside container (1), and a heat-insulating space in a state of reduced pressure is formed between the outer covering (3) and the inside container (1), flange parts are formed on the liquid inlet and outlet openings of the inside container (1), the outer covering (3) and the inside container (1) are joined by the flange parts. The resulting heat-insulating container has exceptional heat-insulating properties and can be used in a limited space.

The present invention provides a method for forming high quality silicon material, e.g., polysilicon. The method includes transferring a raw silicon material in a crucible having an interior region. The crucible is made of a quartz or other suitable material, which is capable of withstanding a temperature of at least 1400 Degrees Celsius. The method includes subjecting the raw silicon material in the crucible to thermal energy to cause the raw silicon material to be melted into a liquid state to form a melted material at a temperature of less than about 1400 Degrees Celsius. Preferably, the melted material has an exposed region bounded by the interior region of the crucible. The method also includes subjecting an exposed inner region of the melted material to an energy source comprising an arc heater configured above the exposed region and spaced by a gap between the exposed region and a muzzle region of the arc heater to cause formation of determined temperature profile within a vicinity of an inner region of the exposed melted material while maintaining outer regions of the melted material at a temperature below a melting point of the quartz material of the crucible. Preferably, the method removes one or more impurities from the melted material to form a higher purity silicon material in the crucible.

A surface nanostructure forming method includes: preparing a substrate having an appropriate processing value; a first process of irradiating a part which is close to a surface of the substrate with laser light having a pulse duration of picosecond order or shorter at an irradiation intensity being close to the appropriate processing value of the substrate, or greater than or equal to the appropriate processing value and less than or equal to an ablation threshold and forming periodic nanostructures in which first modified portions and second modified portions are periodically arranged in a self-assembled manner at a focus at which the laser light is concentrated and in a region being close to the focus; and a second process of performing an etching treatment on the surface of the substrate having the periodic nanostructures formed thereon to form an uneven structure having the first modified portions as valleys.

Free machining steel for use in machine structures capable of stably and reliably providing excellent machinability (chip disposability and tool life) and mechanical characteristics (transverse direction toughness) comparable, in a Pb free state, with existent Pb-added steels the machining steel being manufactured so as to contain 0.0005 to 0.02 mass % of Mg and provide a distribution index F1 for the sulfide particles defined by the following equation (1) of 0.4 to 0.65 or a distribution index for the sulfide particles defined by the following equation (2) of 1 to 2.5: <paragraph lvl="0"><in-line-formula>F1=X1/(A/n)½ (1), or </in-line-formula><paragraph lvl="0"><in-line-formula>F2=sigmaF/X2 (2) </in-line-formula>as described in the specification.

A method of manufacturing a microelectronic device including a first component hybridized with a second component via electric interconnects, involves the steps of: (i) forming the first and second components, the second component being transparent to ultraviolet radiation at least in line with locations provided for the interconnects; (ii) forming interconnection elements including copper oxide on the second component at the locations provided for the interconnects; (iii) placing the first and second components on each other; and (iv) applying the ultraviolet radiation through the second component on the elements including copper oxide to implement an ultraviolet anneal converting copper oxide into copper.

A nonaqueous ink, having: colorant particles, the colorant particles having an average particle diameter of 1 nm or more and less than 50 nm, and the value (D₉₀−D₁₀) of being 100 nm or less, a dispersant; and a cationically-polymerizable compound; wherein D₉₀−D₁₀ is a value obtained by subtracting D₁₀ from D₉₀; D₉₀ and D₁₀ represent respectively the particle diameters at cumulative colorant particle numbers of 0.9 (90 number %) and 0.1 (10 number %) in an integral value of the distribution function dG=F(D)dD; and G represents the number of the pigment particles; and D represents the diameter of the particles.

The present invention relates to a method for controlling a rock drilling process, in which an impulse-generating device comprising an impact element transmits a shock wave to a tool connected to the impulse-generating device, whereby a portion of the energy of the shock wave is transmitted to the rock by means of the tool and a portion of the energy of the shock wave is reflected and brought back to the impulse-generating device as reflected energy. The method comprises steps of generating at least one parameter value representing the reflected energy, and regulating the interaction of said impact element with said tool at least partially based on said value or values to control the rise time and/or length of said shock wave. The invention also relates to a regulation device, an impulse-generating device and a drilling rigg.

A method is provided for press forming a product having a shape of a top board portion, a vertical wall portion continuously formed from the top board portion and a flange portion continuously formed from the vertical wall portion at a press process of two or more stages, wherein a convex or concave bead shape is preformed in a position of a flat metal sheet as a raw material corresponding to a neighborhood of a position generating breakage or flange wrinkles when the raw material is formed into a product shape, and thereafter a product shape is press formed from the raw material having the preformed bead shape.