A method of manufacturing a cutting member include cutting a first metal material to form a first portion of the cutting member; cutting second metal material to form a second portion of the cutting member, wherein a first edge of the second portion has at least two line segments, a curve formed by the at least two line segments being mathematically continuously differentiable; welding the first portion and the second portion together; raising the cutting member blank to a first temperature at a first rate and holding raising the cutting member blank from the first temperature to a second temperature at a second rate lower than the first rate and holding, and raising the cutting member blank from the second temperature to a third temperature at a third rate not higher than the second rate and holding.

A method of manufacturing a cutting member include cutting a first metal material to form a first portion of the cutting member; cutting second metal material to form a second portion of the cutting member, wherein a first edge of the second portion has at least two line segments, a curve formed by the at least two line segments being mathematically continuously differentiable; welding the first portion and the second portion together; raising the cutting member blank to a first temperature at a first rate and holding raising the cutting member blank from the first temperature to a second temperature at a second rate lower than the first rate and holding, and raising the cutting member blank from the second temperature to a third temperature at a third rate not higher than the second rate and holding.

An image processing device executes image processing by each object of an object group in which plural objects are connected to each other in a directed acyclic graph form. The image processing device includes: a division unit that divides image data as an image processing target into division image data having a first size; a subdivision unit that subdivides the division image data into subdivision image data having a second size smaller than the first size for each partial processing which is image processing to be performed on the division image data, the division image data corresponding to the partial processing which is determined as executable processing based on a pre-and-post dependency relationship; and a control unit that performs control for causing plural computation devices to execute subdivision partial processing which is image processing to be performed on the subdivision image data, in parallel.

Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a cutting member that has a first portion for supporting, a second portion for forming a cutting edge, and a third portion connecting the first and second portion; the method includes: providing a first metal material used for forming the first portion; providing a second metal material used for forming the second portion; welding the first and second metal material with high energy density beam to form the third portion at the welding site; performing heat treatment on a cutting member blank obtained after welding. Also disclosed is a cutting member, the first portion of a first metal material; the second portion of a second metal material; after welding, the metallographic structure of the third portion and its nearby metallographic structure are substantially free of holes. The body of the manufactured cutting member has good toughness, the cutting edge has high hardness, and the body and cutting edge are not easily broken and have long service life.

Conditioning devices for conditioning blades are provided. A conditioning device includes a first rod and a second rod, at least one of the first rod and the second rod rotatable about an axis, the first rod and the second rod oriented to define a blade conditioning zone therebetween, the blade conditioning zone being defined by a blade conditioning angle between the first rod and the second rod. The conditioning device further includes a stationary magnet and a movable magnet. The movable magnet is connected to the one of the first rod and the second rod and rotatable about the axis. The movable magnet has an opposite magnetic orientation relative to the stationary magnet. Rotation of the one of the first rod and the second rod adjusts the blade conditioning angle.

A razor blade including a substrate with a cutting edge, the substrate includes a mixed nitride-substrate interregion disposed at or beneath a surface of the substrate, the mixed nitride-substrate interregion being substantially free of a compound layer.