Patents by Inventor Mitsuji Hirata

Mitsuji Hirata has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6580743
    Abstract: A stave cooler used for cooling a furnace wall of a metallurgical furnace such as a blast furnace, having a structure in which cooling pipes to cool a metal base are cast on the side opposite the furnace interior side of the metal base and a heat resistant steel plate having openings or a lamination of heat resistant steel plates having openings is cast, in a prescribed thickness, in the furnace interior side surface of the metal base. It is acceptable to form the lamination suitably into a rectangular parallelepiped and cast it, in a plurality, in the furnace interior side of the metal base. The wear rate of the furnace interior side surface of the stave cooler is small, and its structure prevents the heat resistant steel plate(s) from falling out by thermal expansion of the stave cooler proper or wearing locally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuji Hirata, Kazushi Kishigami
  • Patent number: 5876478
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a metal mold for glass, which needs not apply any swab in molding of glass, enabling no-swabbing glass forming. The alloy for the mold comprises by weight Cu: 10 to 80%, Al: 4 to 11%, Cr: 3 to 16%, Ni: 2 to 36%, and at least one rare earth element: 0.02 to 2.0% with the balance consisting of Fe and further comprises at least one member selected from the group consisting of Ti: Al%.times.0.5 to 2, V: Al%.times.0.2 to 1, Zr: Al%.times.0.1 to 0.3, and Nb: Al%.times.0.1 to 0.3. The alloy is gradually cooled from the solidification initiation temperature to 50.degree. C. at a cooling rate of 10.degree. C./ min. The surface of the mold is coated with an Al-containing coating or roughened to an average roughness of 0.3 to 5 .mu.m. A solid lubricating film is provided in a fitting portion of the mold, or alternatively a self-lubricating solid is embedded in the fitting portion of the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroto Imamura, Michio Endo, Syoichi Sekiguchi, Shigeki Ogura, Isao Arikata, Mitsuji Hirata, Koji Akafuji, Hirokazu Taniguchi, Toru Ono
  • Patent number: 5656104
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a metal mold for glass, which needs not apply any swab in molding of glass, enabling no-swabbing glass forming. The alloy for the mold comprises by weight Cu: 10 to 80%, Al: 4 to 11%, Cr: 3 to 16%, Ni: 2 to 36%, and at least one rare earth element: 0.02 to 2.08 with the balance consisting of Fe and further comprises at least one member selected from the group consisting of Ti: Al %.times.0.5 to 2, V: Al %.times.0.2 to 1, Zr: Al %.times.0.1 to 0.3, and Nb: Al %.times.0.1 to 0.3. The alloy is gradually cooled from the solidification initiation temperature to 500.degree. C. at a cooling rate of 10.degree. C./min. The surface of the mold is coated with an Al-containing coating or roughened to an average roughness of 0.3 to 5 .mu.m. A solid lubricating film is provided in a fitting portion of the mold, or alternatively a self-lubricating solid is embedded in the fitting portion of the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroto Imamura, Michio Endo, Syoichi Sekiguchi, Shigeki Ogura, Isao Arikata, Mitsuji Hirata, Koji Akafuji, Hirokazu Taniguchi, Toru Ono