Patents Assigned to IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.
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Publication number: 20180010854Abstract: A heat treatment device includes: a heat treatment chamber which accommodates an object to be treated; a cooling gas supply unit which supplies a cooling gas into the heat treatment chamber; a cooling gas circulation unit which circulates the cooling gas in the heat treatment chamber; and a gas purge unit which gas-purges, with an inert gas, a portion in which there is a possibility of mixing of the cooling gas supplied into the heat treatment chamber and an oxygen gas, in which the cooling gas supply unit supplies a hydrogen gas into the heat treatment chamber as the cooling gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA
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Publication number: 20170370648Abstract: A heat treatment system includes heating chambers configured to perform heat treatment on objects to be treated, and a conveyance device configured to load each of the objects to be treated into the heating chambers, unload the object to be treated from the heating chambers, and convey the object to be treated under an oxygen-free atmosphere, wherein the conveyance device includes a cooling device configured to perform cooling treatment on the object to be treated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Takahiro NAGATA
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Publication number: 20170307296Abstract: A multi-chamber heat treatment device according to the present disclosure in which heating chambers are disposed with an intermediate transport chamber interposed therebetween in a top view, and a treatment object is stored in a heating chamber via the intermediate transport chamber, wherein the multi-chamber heat treatment device includes a gas cooling chamber which cools the treatment object using a cooling gas; and a cooling gas circulation device which includes an gas inlet and a gas outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2017Publication date: October 26, 2017Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Kaoru ISOMOTO, Akira NAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20170254592Abstract: A thermal treatment device includes a heating chamber which heats an object to be treated; and a moisture removal chamber which is provided adjacent to the heating chamber to put in and out of the object to be treated toward the heating chamber, and in which a vacuum atmosphere is created in the periphery of the object to be treated.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2017Publication date: September 7, 2017Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA
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Publication number: 20170175214Abstract: A heat treatment device includes: a heating device that heats a treatment object; a cooling device including a cooling room that accommodates the treatment object heated by the heating device and into which a cooling medium used for cooling the treatment object is supplied; a pressurized gas supplier that supplies pressurized gas into the cooling room; a pressure relief valve that communicates internal and external areas of the cooling room with each other when the pressure relief valve is opened; a pressure sensor that measures the pressure inside the cooling room; and a controller that controls the pressure relief valve such that the pressure relief valve is opened when a measurement result of the pressure sensor is higher than or equal to a threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2017Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Kaoru ISOMOTO, Gen NISHITANI, Akira NAKAYAMA, Takahiro NAGATA, Yuusuke SHIMIZU
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Patent number: 9636716Abstract: This vacuum cleaning device is provided with: a vapor chamber in which vapor of a hydrocarbon-based cleaning agent is generated; a condensation chamber; a first heat exchanger in which heat exchange between the vapor and a heating medium is carried out; a cleaning chamber in which a workpiece can be cleaned under vacuum by the condensed cleaning agent that has been generated in the condensation chamber; a compressor that adiabatically compresses and further heats the heating medium that was heated by the first heat exchanger; a second heat exchanger that carries out heat exchange between the heating medium heated by the compressor and the hydrocarbon-based cleaning agent in the vapor chamber; and a vacuum unit that further cools the heating medium that has been cooled by the second heat exchanger by forcing vacuum expansion of the heating medium.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignees: IHI CORPORATION, IHI MACHINERY AND FURNACE CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Hirata, Yasuhiro Shigegaki, Tetsuya Hirata, Kazuo Miyoshi, Yoshiyasu Matsuda, Noboru Hiramoto
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Patent number: 9618267Abstract: Graphite is produced from powder as a carbon source by means of a graphitization furnace. The graphitization furnace is comprised of: an electrically conductive crucible including a hollow configured to house the powder; an electrode including a columnar shaft and a head provided at an end of the shaft, the head having a shape selected from the group consisting of a sphere, a hemisphere, a column with a rounded edge, a cone, and a cone with a rounded tip; and a power source configured to apply electric current to the powder through the crucible and the electrode.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignees: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyasu Matsuda, Kazumi Mori
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Publication number: 20170081737Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes: cooling nozzles which are disposed around an object to be treated accommodated inside a cooling room and spray a cooling medium onto the object to be treated; a header pipe communicating with the cooling nozzles; and a cooling pump which supplies the cooling medium to the header pipe. The cooling nozzles are divided into groups. The header pipe is provided in each of the groups of the cooling nozzles.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Kaoru ISOMOTO, Takahiro NAGATA, Akira NAKAYAMA, Yuusuke SHIMIZU, Gen NISHITANI
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Publication number: 20170073786Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus includes: a heat treatment chamber that performs heating treatment for a treatment object thereinside; and a thermal insulator disposed inside the heat treatment chamber and surrounding a receiving area for the treatment object. The heat treatment chamber includes a side wall portion and a lid portion configured to be attachable to and detachable from the side wall portion. The thermal insulator includes a ceiling disposed on the inside of the lid portion. The ceiling includes a thermal insulator lid that is at least part of the ceiling and is united to the lid portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Kaoru ISOMOTO, Takahiro NAGATA, Akira NAKAYAMA, Yuusuke SHIMIZU, Gen NISHITANI
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Publication number: 20170073787Abstract: A cooling device configured to cool an article to be processed by spraying a coolant includes a cooling chamber configured to accommodate the article to be processed, a header pipe having a connecting pipe protruding from a main body section to which a nozzle is attached and into which the coolant supplied into the main body section is supplied, and disposed in the cooling chamber, and an attachment section formed at the cooling chamber and into which the connecting pipe is inserted from an inside of the cooling chamber to an outside of the cooling chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Kaoru ISOMOTO, Takahiro NAGATA, Akira NAKAYAMA, Yuusuke SHIMIZU, Gen NISHITANI
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Publication number: 20170059247Abstract: A heat treatment device includes: a heating chamber inside which a treatment object is contained; a lower heater that heats the lower section of a receiving area that is an area inside the heating chamber in which the treatment object is contained; and an upper heater that heats the upper section of the receiving area.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Kaoru ISOMOTO, Takahiro NAGATA, Akira Nakayama, Yuusuke SHIMIZU, Gen Nishitani
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Publication number: 20170056937Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes: a cleaning chamber that accommodates an object to be cleaned; a drying chamber connected to the cleaning chamber; a connecting member connecting a first opening provided in the cleaning chamber and a second opening provided in the drying chamber; a valve element positioned inside the cleaning chamber and facing the first opening; a valve seat facing the valve element; and an actuator that drives the valve element.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Masatoshi MITSUZUKA, Osamu SAKAMOTO, Takahiro NAGATA
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Patent number: 9555450Abstract: Vacuum cleaning apparatus (1, 51) includes a vapor generating member (8, 8a, 53, 53a) for generating vapor of a petroleum-based solvent, a cleaning chamber (2) allowing a workpiece to be cleaned under reduced pressure by the vapor fed from the vapor generating member, a condensing chamber (21) that is connected to the cleaning chamber and is maintained in a depressurized state, a temperature maintaining member (22) that maintains the condensing chamber at a lower temperature than the cleaning chamber, and an opening/closing member (20) that provides or cuts off communication between the condensing chamber and the cleaning chamber.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignees: IHI CORPORATION, IHI MACHINERY AND FURNACE CO., LTD.Inventors: Noboru Hiramoto, Masatoshi Mitsuzuka, Hiroyuki Konishi
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Publication number: 20170022579Abstract: A cooling device configured to cool an article to be treated by immersing the article to be treated in coolant includes a cooling chamber configured to accommodate the article to be treated and store the coolant therein, a supply nozzle configured to supply the coolant into the cooling chamber from below the article to be treated, a recovery pipeline configured to collect the coolant stored in the cooling chamber from above the article to be treated, and a pump configured to pump the coolant collected by the recovery pipeline to the supply nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Kaoru ISOMOTO, Takahiro NAGATA, Akira NAKAYAMA, Yuusuke SHIMIZU, Gen NISHITANI
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Publication number: 20170023304Abstract: A conveyance device for a heat treatment device presses a conveyed body to convey the conveyed body in a linear direction, and includes a cylinder mechanisms having a retractable rod that presses the conveyed body, in which: an abutting member is disposed at a tip part of the rod of the cylinder mechanism so that the abutting member abuts locations, which are different from each other in a circumferential direction, on an outer peripheral surface of the conveyed body; a guide rail configured to guide the abutting member is provided; and the abutting member is provided with a traveling roller that travels on the guide rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Kaoru ISOMOTO, Gen NISHITANI, Akira NAKAYAMA, Takahiro NAGATA, Yuusuke SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20170022596Abstract: A carburizing device includes a furnace body that performs heat treatment on a treatment object to perform carburization treatment on the treatment object, in which: a heater configured to perform heat treatment on the treatment object is provided upright in a vertical direction within the furnace body; a gas supply section configured to supply a gas for burnout toward the heater is provided at a lower end part of the heater; the heater is inserted through a protective tube provided upright in the vertical direction; and the gas supply section is configured to supply the gas for burnout to between the protective tube and the heater.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Masatoshi MITSUZUKA, Osamu SAKAMOTO, Takahiro NAGATA
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Publication number: 20170003076Abstract: A graphitization furnace includes: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed so as to face the first electrode; a first energized heating element provided on a surface of the first electrode facing the second electrode; and a second energized heating element provided on a surface of the second electrode facing the first electrode. The first and second energized heating elements are configured to allow to be disposed therebetween, an object to be processed. The graphitization furnace is configured to heat and graphitize the object to be processed disposed between the first and second energized heating elements by energizing between the first and second electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyasu MATSUDA, Atsuo INZEN
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Publication number: 20160377346Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus includes a cooling chamber configured to perform cooling of a treatment object, a conveyance chamber installed above the cooling chamber and configured to convey the treatment object, a lift table on which the treatment object is placed, and a lift mechanism having a driving apparatus installed above the lift table and configured to raise and lower the lift table between the cooling chamber and the conveyance chamber using the driving apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Kaoru ISOMOTO, Takahiro NAGATA, Akira NAKAYAMA, Yuusuke SHIMIZU, Gen NISHITANI
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Publication number: 20160348969Abstract: A heat treatment device which performs vacuum carburizing treatment by heating a workpiece is presented. The heat treatment device includes: a heater chamber in which a heater is provided; a heat treatment chamber in which the workpiece is heated and vacuum carburizing treatment is performed on the workpiece and is disposed so as to be adjacent to the heater chamber in the heat treatment device; and a muffle plate which partitions a portion between the heater chamber and the heat treatment chamber. A gas introduction portion through which burnout gas is introduced is independently provided in each of the heater chamber and the heat treatment chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2016Publication date: December 1, 2016Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Kaoru ISOMOTO, Takahiro NAGATA, Akira NAKAYAMA, Yuusuke SHIMIZU, Gen NISHITANI
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Publication number: 20160333502Abstract: A furnace for continuously graphitizing carbon fibers includes a supply unit configured to supply an object to be treated made of carbon fibers, a chamber in which the supplied object to be treated is graphitized, and a recovery unit configured to recover the graphitized object to be treated, in which the chamber includes a preheating zone in which the supplied object to be treated is preheated, and an electric heating zone in which the preheated object to be treated is electrically heated, and the electric heating zone includes a pair of electric rolls across which the preheated object to be treated is strung, and a DC power source that is connected to the pair of electric rolls and applies a current between the pair of electric rolls through the preheated object to be treated that is strung across the pair of electric rolls.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyasu MATSUDA, Atsuo INZEN