Engineering
Achievement of an integrated production system beginning with design
Metal Technology Co. Ltd.’s Engineering Division is responsible for the design phase. Based on the customer’s requirements, the engineer designs and verifies the validity of the design through FEM analysis, mock-up tests, etc. in order to complete the design ready for manufacturing. After that, MTC completes the manufacturing of the product by making full use of various manufacturing technologies (material selection, machining, heat treatment / surface treatment, bonding, etc.) tailored to the needs of the design.
【Achievements】
Metal Technology Co. Ltd.’s Engineering Division has been an integral part in the development and installation of critical parts for Japan’s nuclear research institutes with regards to particle acceleration. MTC is also a key player in the development of nuclear fusion technology. This includes neutron experiments at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), the world's largest fusion experiment, the ITER project, and experience manufacturing equipment used for the XMASS experiment for university funded research.
Integration of technology and know-how
The Engineering Division is the center of engineering activities at MTC, coordinating and closely cooperating with all of MTC’s plants. Each plant has specific manufacturing strengths in a variety of areas that complement one another. This allows MTC to perfectly match our customer’s needs. MTC believes that products manufactured in such a manner will contribute to society by meeting our customers’ requests whilst utilizing accumulated know-how to best utilize resources and reduce waste.
Engineering case examples
An example of an accelerator
Product name: Collision point (interaction region) beam pipe for SuperKEKB
Product details
The beam pipe is a vacuum chamber with a complicated structure that is used as part of the SuperKEKB, a gigantic accelerator leading the physics experiments in elementary particles in Japan. The SuperKEKB is a colliding-beam accelerator and the beam pipe manufactured by MTC is installed at the most important section of it, (add: the interaction region (IR)) where electrons and positrons collide frontally.
The center of the beam pipe is made of thin-walled beryllium, allowing the new particles to permeate unobstructed, because of its low atomic number. It has a double structure for cooling, with the cooling medium flowing between the walls. On both sides of the pipe, Tantalum that has a high atomic number is used to shield against particles (noise) incoming from other parts of the SuperKEKB to prevent them from entering the detector. Electrons and positrons intersect at a low angle and to allow them to cross the interaction region at that vector, the pipe splits in two on both ends.
accelerator
Mercury Target
The Mercury Target Container Unit 8 was delivered to J - PARC (High Intensity Proton Accelerator Facility) on the 22nd of September 2017. Metal Technology Co. Ltd.’s engineering division was responsible for designing and manufacturing the Mercury Target for the 7th time. Under the guidance of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), we thoroughly reviewed the contents of the design and production of Unit 7,the previous product, and applied several improvements to this new Unit. As a result, we were able to complete it after a 2 year design and production period.In mid-April 2018, at J-PARK, a proton beam of around 300kW has been continuously irradiated under user manual operation. From the end of April, we have been able to meet our original goal of operating at 500kW.
2018/05/11
accelerator
Muon Target
A device to be installed at MLF (Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility) of J－PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex). Protons are accelerated and made to collide with the graphite target, thus producing muons.
2017/12/01
accelerator
T0 Chopper
A light scattering device constructed to reduce the background noise through high speed neutrons on the measuring instruments. MTC has supplied 4 T0 Choppers to J-PARC’s (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex) MLF (Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility).
Rotation speed:100Hz/ 50Hz/ 25Hz
Synchronization accuracy:below±5μs / below±10μs/ below ±20μs
2017/12/01
An example of a nuclear fusion experiment device
Product name: Millimeter wave wide-band polarizer for ECH (electron cyclotron resonance heating)
Product details
Metal Technology Co. Ltd. has conducted collaborative research with members of the Quantum Science and Technology Research and Development Organization (QST), and Ibaraki University (Saegusa Laboratory) on the ECH (electron cyclotron resonance heating) of the superconducting tokamak plasma nuclear fusion experiment device “JT-60SA”. We have developed a high power wide-band polarizer compatible at millimeter wave of megawatts level. The wide-band polarizer for millimeter waves successfully developed this time can transmit, with high efficiency, high power millimeter waves (frequency: 110 GHz, 138 GHz) for heating plasma.
The polarizer, through its metal mirror which is equipped with a rotatable reflective diffraction grating, can produce arbitrary polarized waves which can enter the plasma. Through continued collaborative research the heat loss was reduced to 50% or less, the size was reduced by about 4 kg, and the cooling efficiency was improved in comparison to the prototype type.
nuclear fusion reactor
NBI electrode for nuclear fusion reactor
A NBI (neutral beam injection) electrode made of oxygen-free copper for the JAEA Japan Atomic Energy Agency.
2017/12/01
nuclear fusion reactor
Accelerating electrode made of molybdenum
Prototype electrode and support frame for NBI (neutral beam injection) device to be installed at ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor). To induce nuclear fusion, plasma has to be heated up to one hundred million degrees C. One method to heat up the plasma is NBI heating where “hot” particles are injected.
2017/12/01
nuclear fusion reactor
Wideband polarizer for JT-60SA
Metal Technology Company has conducted collaborative research with members of the Quantum Science and Technology Research and Development Organization (QST), and Ibaraki University (Saegusa Laboratory) on the ECH (electron cyclotron resonance heating) of the superconducting tokamak plasma nuclear fusion experiment device “JT-60SA”. We have developed a high power wide-band polarizer compatible at millimeter wave of megawatts level.
2017/12/01
An example of medical care products
Name of a product: Target
Product details:
We are participating in the development of various targets used in cancer treatment equipment with accelerators. The target material is cut, heat treated, bonded, and finished as a completed product. We are currently working on a prototype and developing our capability to meet our customer's needs.
An example of experiment devices
Name of product:PMT holder for XMASS experiment
Product details:
This is an oxygen-free copper holder supporting 642 photomultiplier tubes for XMASS experiment we manufactured and delivered to the Institute for cosmic ray research, University of Tokyo. We took charge of the design, production, and assembly of this equipment. This experiment and the institute were written in the an article published in the Newton magazine (May, 2010). We used oxygen-free copper material and completed the construction in 90 days after melting in order to prevent activation from cosmic rays.
experiment devices
MTC supporting the world’s advanced technology.
Dr. Sakai, an Associate Professor, and his laboratory team at the Resilience Engineering Research Center, University of Tokyo is conducting advanced multi physics simulation technology into atomic/resilience engineering, as well as food and pharmaceutical engineering areas.
2018/03/22
experiment devices
Accelerating electrode made of molybdenum
Prototype electrode and support frame for NBI (neutral beam injection) device to be installed at ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor). To induce nuclear fusion, plasma has to be heated up to one hundred million degrees C. One method to heat up the plasma is NBI heating where “hot” particles are injected.
2017/12/01
experiment devices
XMASS Project
Apart from the visible matter we know, the universe is made up of dark matter: invisible, unknown matter, the existence of which could not be demonstrated yet. All over the world countries and research institutions are conducting studies to detect dark matter with different methods and devices. In Japan, the University of Tokyo is leading the XMASS project.
2017/09/11
Metal Technology
FEM analysis program
ANSYS Mechanical
Structural analysis, thermal analysis:Utilized for structural analysis given external force / self weight and heat conditions.
MARC
Marc is a powerful, general-purpose, nonlinear finite element analysis solution to accurately simulate the product behaviour under static, dynamic and multi-physics loading scenarios. Used in areas such as simulation of SPF (superplastic forming process) and structural analysis at high temperatures.
ANSYS CFD
We can model and simulate all fluid processes, including fluid-structure Multiphysics interactions.
ANSYS Maxwell
ANSYS Maxwell simulates 2-D and 3-D low frequency electromagnetic fields for design of electromagnetic and electromechanical devices.
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