Patents by Inventor Motofumi Takemura

Motofumi Takemura 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).

  • Dual-purpose installation for continuous annealing and hot dip plating
    Publication number: 20030189276
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dual-purpose installation for continuous annealing and hot dip plating to produce a continuously annealed steel sheet and a hot dip plated steel sheet by switching process routes in the single installation, and according to the present invention, by installing a bypass facility which leads a steel sheet from a continuous annealing furnace to a water quenching facility without it traveling through a plating pot and a plating facility in the a dual-purpose installation for continuous annealing and hot dip plating, it becomes possible to prevent the steel sheet coming out from the annealing furnace from being exposed to the outside atmosphere and being oxidized during the production of a continuously annealed product and to realize a less expensive dual-purpose installation for continuous annealing and hot dip plating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Masanori Hoshino, Kouichi Terahara, Motofumi Takemura, Nobuyoshi Okada