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Development of Balance for Measurement of Impurity Gases in Metal
- Measuring adsorption and emission gas amounts for quality control in resource recycling age -
September 29, 2006
Japan Atomic Energy Agency (President Yuichi Tonozuka, hereinafter referred to as the "Atomic Energy Agency") has implemented the "Achievement Development Project" to support productization utilizing patents that the Atomic Energy Agency holds by medium and small size companies. However, as for "Development of Vacuum Balance" adopted in the year 2006, the implementing enterprise, NIKKIN FLUX INC. (1651, Kamekubo, Fujimino-shi, Saitama, President Soichiro Omachi), through joint research with the Atomic Energy Agency, successfully manufactured a vacuum thermobalance, which is expected to be widely used for quality control1) of materials such as impurity content evaluations that are unavoidable in a resource recycling age. This balance is expected to be widely used for quality improvement2) of products based on traceability (history management) across manufacturing industries. For example, it can quantitatively measure adsorption and emission gas amounts in metallic materials to be used for vehicle parts as a weight change of metallic materials.
From here on, NIKKIN FLUX INC. will carry out adjustments of the exterior for commercialization and begin sales this fiscal year. Prior to the sales initiative, request analysis by bringing samples to this company will be accepted.
As the vacuum thermobalance can heat a sample as it is placed in a vacuum, it has the capability that the amount of gas adsorbed or emitted by a sample can be very precisely and temporally-stably measured as a change of absolute weight. Additionally, the combination of the vacuum thermobalance and emission gas analyzer "Gravimas" developed last year enables evaluation of various types of impurity gases occluded in aluminum casting parts for vehicles as a weight by type. Both devices can quantitatively analyze and measure adsorption and emission gas in not only metallic materials but also various raw materials. Therefore, this technology is expected to be used as standardized technology for quality control in the materials field and manufacturing technical field.
•Supplementary Explanation
•External Appearance of Vacuum Thermobalance
•Outline Drawing of Vacuum Thermobalance
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