Patents by Inventor Seiji Itoyama
Seiji Itoyama 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).
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Publication number: 20060102316Abstract: An ultra-low carbon steel slab having a carbon content of about 0.01 mass percent or less is produced by casting at a casting speed of more than about 2.0 m/min using a mold provided with a casting space having a short side length D of about 150 to about 240 mm and an immersion nozzle provided with discharge spouts each having a lateral width d, the ratio D/d being in the range of from about 1.5 to about 3.0. Accordingly, a ultra-low carbon steel slab can be obtained having superior surface quality without performing slab conditioning such as scarfing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2005Publication date: May 18, 2006Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation a corporation of JapanInventors: Seiji Itoyama, Toshio Fujimura, Makoto Suzuki, Hirohide Uehara, Takeshi Matsuzaki, Chikashi Tada, Yuji Miki, Akira Yamauchi
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Publication number: 20050045303Abstract: An ultra-low carbon steel slab having a carbon content of about 0.01 mass percent or less is produced by casting at a casting speed of more than about 2.0 m/min using a mold provided with a casting space having a short side length D of about 150 to about 240 mm and an immersion nozzle provided with discharge spouts each having a lateral width d, the ratio D/d being in the range of from about 1.5 to about 3.0. Accordingly, a ultra-low carbon steel slab can be obtained having superior surface quality without performing slab conditioning such as scarfing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2004Publication date: March 3, 2005Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation, a corporation of JapanInventors: Seiji Itoyama, Toshio Fujimura, Makoto Suzuki, Hirohide Uehara, Takeshi Matsuzaki, Chikashi Tada, Yuji Miki, Akira Yamauchi
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Patent number: 6261639Abstract: A hot-rolling process prevents surface deterioration of the stainless steel sheet which forms during hot rolling of a stainless steel slab after heating in a heating furnace, and does not cause damage to the heating furnace nor a decrease in yield of the steel sheet. The hot-rolling process for a stainless steel slab includes heating a stainless slab containing 10 weight percent or more of chromium in a heating furnace and hot-rolling the slab. A surface treatment, which is used prior to the heating, composition is composed of a mixture containing at least one of a Ca compound and a Ba compound and a binder for binding the mixture to a slab surface and for forming a coating film on a slab surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1999Date of Patent: July 17, 2001Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Hiromitsu Shibata, Seiji Itoyama, Kenichi Sorimachi
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Patent number: 5775404Abstract: This invention proposes a continuous casting method for austenitic stainless steel capable of simultaneously establishing productivity and an excellent surface quality of steel sheet. For this purpose, the invention lies in a method of continuously casting austenitic stainless steel by pouring melt of austenitic stainless steel from a tundish through an immersion nozzle into a continuously casting mold of a continuous slab caster, solidifying it in the mold and continually drawing the resulting slab of given size out from the mold, characterized in that a high-speed continuous casting is carried out so as to satisfy a relation of casting speed, superheating degree of molten steel in the tundish, sectional area of discharge port in the immersion nozzle and slab width represented by the following equation:0.30.ltoreq.V.sup.0.58 .multidot.W.sup.-0.04 .multidot..DELTA.T.multidot.d.sup.-0.96 .ltoreq.0.85whereinV: casting speed (m/min)W: slab width (mm).DELTA.T: superheating degree of molten steel in tundish (.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1996Date of Patent: July 7, 1998Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Yuji Miki, Seiji Itoyama, Nagayasu Bessho, Sumio Yamada, Hiroshi Nomura
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Patent number: 5579824Abstract: In a process of withdrawing castings while vertically oscillating a mold formed with long side walls and short side walls, the long side walls are moved apart from the castings by operating a hydraulic cylinder in the time zones for which the castings are applied with a large frictional force. On the contrary, the separated long side walls are made to move together to the casting in the other time zones for which the casting is not applied with the large frictional force. By repeating the separation and approaching of the long side walls, it is possible to obtain castings which are reduced in the depths of oscillation marks and suppressed in segregations at oscillation mark trough portions.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 1996Date of Patent: December 3, 1996Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Seiji Itoyama, Hirokazu Tozawa, Shuji Takeuchi, Kenichi Sorimachi
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Patent number: 5356454Abstract: A mold powder for use in continuous casting, containing specified amounts of CaO, Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, TiO.sub.2, Li.sub.2 O, BaO, MgO, F and Na.sub.2 O, and further containing at least one of BN and C as aggregate. The mold powder, when used in continuous casting of a steel rich in strong reducing metal elements such as Al, Ti, REM and so forth, remarkably suppresses generation of deterioration in the surface quality of the slab and break out of the slab which are attributable inferior lubrication.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1993Date of Patent: October 18, 1994Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Seiji Itoyama, Hidenari Kitaoka, Toshikazu Sakuraya, Kenichi Sorimachi, Saburo Moriwaki, Sumio Yamada, Chikashi Tada, Takahiro Mitumune, Shinichi Kaneko, Masafumi Maeda
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Patent number: 5299627Abstract: Steel is continuously cast while adding a mold powder using a vertical continuous casting mold having two pairs of mold surfaces which form a casting cavity, wherein the surface temperature of the mold is kept at 700.degree. C. or more by forming the mold surfaces of a Ni-Cr alloy, and a mold powder having a solidifying point lower than the surface temperature is used so that the mold powder is maintained in a liquid-phase state.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1992Date of Patent: April 5, 1994Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Kenichi Sorimachi, Hirokazu Tozawa, Seiji Itoyama, Shuji Takeuchi, Akira Yamauchi
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Patent number: 4949777Abstract: A continuous casting process introduces the factor of rate temperature change for detecting break out in the cast metal. Introduction of rate of temperature change as a parameter representative of the cast metal condition is successful for avoiding the influence of variation of the casting condition, fluctuation of the powder to be introduced between the casting mold wall and the cast metal, casting speed and so forth. For achieving accurate detection of break out of the cast metal by introducing the temperature change factor, casting mold wall temperatures are measured at various measuring points which are circumferentially aligned. Rates of temperature change at each measuring point and average rate of temperature change of all measuring points are derived and compared for making judgement of possible break out when the difference of the rate of temperature change at each measuring point and the average rate of temperature change becomes greater than a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1988Date of Patent: August 21, 1990Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corp.Inventors: Seiji Itoyama, Kichio Tada, Tsukasa Telashima, Shuji Tanaka, Hiromitsu Yamanaka, Takao Yunde, Hiroaki Iguchi, Nagayasu Bessho
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Patent number: 4945975Abstract: A method of oscillating a mold of a vertical continuous caster of the type having a pair of longer side frames and a pair of shorter side frames. The mold is oscillated vertically during the casting. A pair of mold walls, e.g., the longer side frames, are moved towards and away from the cast metal in synchronization with a vertical oscillation of the mold, so as to control the condition for supplying a mold powder into the gap between the mold walls and the cast metal.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1989Date of Patent: August 7, 1990Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Kenichi Sorimachi, Hirokazu Tozawa, Tetsuya Fujii, Seiji Itoyama, Yuji Miki
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Patent number: 4817702Abstract: A method and apparatus for continuous casting of an elongated thin metal strip achieves substantially high yield without allowing break-out or sticking. The method for casting a continuous elongated metal strip includes a step of driving endless belts at a varying speed so as to apply jerks to the slightly and half-solidified metal that release the metal from the surfaces of the stationary side walls. Applying jerks to the casting chamber by varying the driving speed of the endless belt ensures that the solidifying metal will travel smoothly and thus ensures a high manufacturing yield.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1987Date of Patent: April 4, 1989Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Seiji Itoyama, Hakaru Nakato, Tsutomu Nozaki, Yasuhiro Habu, Nagayasu Bessho, Tetsuya Fujii
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Patent number: 4735254Abstract: A method and apparatus for continuous casting of an elongated thin metal strip achieves substantially high yield without allowing break-out or sticking. The method for casting a continuous elongated metal strip includes a step of driving endless belts at a varying speed so as to apply jerks to the slightly and half-solidified metal that release the metal from the surfaces of the stationary side walls. Applying jerks to the casting chamber by varying the driving speed of the endless belt ensures that the solidifying metal will travel smoothly and thus ensures a high manufacturing yield.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1986Date of Patent: April 5, 1988Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Seiji Itoyama, Hakaru Nakato, Tsutomu Nozaki, Yasuhiro Habu, Nagayasu Bessho, Tetsuya Fujii