Patents Assigned to Chugai Ro Co., Ltd.
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Publication number: 20230251612Abstract: In the detection of a state where a belt-shaped body W is processed as conveyed through a furnace 10, a conveyance route R for conveying the belt-shaped body through the furnace is set and a processing condition for processing the belt-shaped body in the furnace as conveying the belt-shaped body along the conveyance route is set. A fluid analysis is performed on the assumption that a highly viscous fluid Wa having the same characteristic as that of the belt-shaped body flows along the conveyance route at the same speed as that of the belt-shaped body. The processing state of the belt-shaped body conveyed through the furnace is simulated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2020Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: CHUGAI RO CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuji Kidani
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Patent number: 10935234Abstract: Provided is an auxiliary burner for an electric furnace capable of increasing and homogenizing the heating effect of iron scrap by suitably and efficiently burning solid fuel along with gas fuel. This auxiliary burner 100 for an electric furnace comprises a solid fuel injection tube 1, a gas fuel injection tube 2, and a combustion-supporting gas injection tube 3 in the stated order from the center side, all arranged coaxially, and is characterized in that: a flow path 30 of the combustion-supporting gas injection tube 3 is provided with a plurality of swirl vanes 4 for swirling the combustion-supporting gas, and a flow path 20 of the gas fuel injection tube 2 is provided with a plurality of swirl vanes 5 for swirling the gas fuel; and the angle ?1 of the swirl vanes 4 and the ?2 of the swirl vanes 5 satisfy the relationship ?1<?2.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignees: JFE STEEL CORPORATION, CHUGAI RO CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichi Tsutsumi, Yoshihiro Miwa, Sumito Ozawa, Ikuhiro Sumi, Kenichi Tomozawa, Takayuki Ito
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Patent number: 10676282Abstract: A belt-shaped material conveying apparatus that supports a belt-shaped material conveyed in a conveying direction to a wind-up roll at a carrying-out side from a feed roll at a carrying-in side between these rolls in a noncontact state by air streams spouted to the belt-shaped material from support pads disposed to face a top surface side and an undersurface side of the belt-shaped material respectively, includes a pair of hydraulic cylinders as tilt means that tilts the support pad in the width direction of the belt-shaped material which crosses the conveying direction of the belt-shaped material.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Chugai Ro Co., Ltd.Inventor: Motofumi Akasaka
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Patent number: 10663229Abstract: According to the present invention, in a heating furnace in which a fuel is burned by mixing the fuel supplied through a fuel supply pipe with combustion air supplied through a combustion air supply pipe by a combustion burner, a cooling medium guiding pipe through which cooling air for cooling the fuel supply pipe is guided into the furnace is provided to the outer peripheral side of the fuel supply pipe, and a cooling water supply pipe through which cooling water is supplied via a cooling water adjusting valve is connected to the cooling medium guiding pipe.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: CHUGAI RO CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriyuki Yokoi, Tadahiro Iwamoto
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Patent number: 10648662Abstract: The present disclosure provides a nozzle structure for a hydrogen gas burner apparatus, capable of reducing an amount of generated NOx. A nozzle structure for a hydrogen gas burner apparatus, includes an outer pipe, an inner pipe disposed concentrically with the outer pipe, and a stabilizer configured to throttle a space between the outer pipe and the inner pipe. The inner pipe includes an inner pipe end part with an axial opening hole and a circumferential opening hole formed therein, the axial opening hole penetrating in an axial direction of the inner pipe, the circumferential opening hole penetrating in a radial direction of the inner pipe. A hydrogen gas flows through the inner pipe. The circumferential opening hole lets the hydrogen gas flow out from the inner pipe in the radial direction of the inner pipe.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CHUGAI RO CO., LTD.Inventors: Nozomi Maitani, Daisuke Sakuma, Koichi Hirata, Noriyuki Ueno
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Patent number: 10557666Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes: a first air nozzle configured to spray air to the metal strip from above; a first water nozzle configured to spray water to the metal strip from above; and a gas discharging part configured to discharge an air around the metal strip upwardly, wherein the first air nozzle, the first water nozzle and the gas discharging part are aligned along a transport direction of the metal strip in the order of the first air nozzle, the first water nozzle and the gas discharging part, wherein the cooling apparatus is adapted to collide the air from the first air nozzle against the metal strip and then the air moves along a surface of the metal strip to a point at which steam is generated by the water from the first water nozzle, and is adapted to discharge the steam using the gas discharging part.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: CHUGAI RO CO., LTD.Inventor: Hideo Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 10527283Abstract: Provided is a burner tile that has good fire resistance, good heat resistance, good erosion resistance, and good thermal shock resistance. A burner tile 1E includes a molded inorganic fiber product and has a burner main hole 3E. The burner tile 1E includes an inner layer 120 including a combination of inorganic fiber rods 121 and 122 such that the inner layer 120 defines an inner circumferential surface of the main hole 3E, and an outer layer 130 formed by surrounding an outer circumferential surface of the inner layer 120 with the molded inorganic fiber product. Part of the burner tile 1E extending along the inner circumferential surface of the main hole 3E has a high bulk density achieved by highly concentrating an inorganic binder in the inorganic fiber in part including the inner circumferential surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignees: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION, CHUGAI RO CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Fukui, Mitsuo Suzuki, Shunsuke Yamamoto, Takeshi Oohashi, Kensuke Kawabata
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Publication number: 20190271465Abstract: Provided is an auxiliary burner for an electric furnace capable of increasing and homogenizing the heating effect of iron scrap by suitably and efficiently burning solid fuel along with gas fuel. This presently disclosed auxiliary burner 100 for an electric furnace comprises a solid fuel injection tube 1, a gas fuel injection tube 2, and a combustion-supporting gas injection tube 3 in the stated order from the center side, all arranged coaxially, and is characterized in that: a combustion-supporting gas flow path 30 of the combustion-supporting gas injection tube 3 is provided with a plurality of swirl vanes 4 for swirling the combustion-supporting gas, and the angle ? formed between the swirl vanes 4 and the burner axis is 5° or more and 45° or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2017Publication date: September 5, 2019Applicants: JFE STEEL CORPORATION, CHUGAI RO CO., LTD.Inventors: Sumito OZAWA, Koichi TSUTSUMI, Yoshihiro MIWA, Ikuhiro SUMI, Kenichi TOMOZAWA, Takayuki ITO
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Publication number: 20190264914Abstract: Provided is an auxiliary burner for an electric furnace capable of increasing and homogenizing the heating effect of iron scrap by suitably and efficiently burning solid fuel along with gas fuel. This auxiliary burner 100 for an electric furnace comprises a solid fuel injection tube 1, a gas fuel injection tube 2, and a combustion-supporting gas injection tube 3 in the stated order from the center side, all arranged coaxially, and is characterized in that: a flow path 30 of the combustion-supporting gas injection tube 3 is provided with a plurality of swirl vanes 4 for swirling the combustion-supporting gas, and a flow path 20 of the gas fuel injection tube 2 is provided with a plurality of swirl vanes 5 for swirling the gas fuel; and the angle ?1 of the swirl vanes 4 and the ?2 of the swirl vanes 5 satisfy the relationship ?1<?2.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2017Publication date: August 29, 2019Applicants: JFE STEEL CORPORATION, CHUGAI RO CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichi TSUTSUMI, Yoshihiro MIWA, Sumito OZAWA, Ikuhiro SUMI, Kenichi TOMOZAWA, Takayuki ITO
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Publication number: 20190093952Abstract: According to the present invention, in a heating furnace in which a fuel is burned by mixing the fuel supplied through a fuel supply pipe with combustion air supplied through a combustion air supply pipe by a combustion burner, a cooling medium guiding pipe through which cooling air for cooling the fuel supply pipe is guided into the furnace is provided to the outer peripheral side of the fuel supply pipe, and a cooling water supply pipe through which cooling water is supplied via a cooling water adjusting valve is connected to the cooling medium guiding pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: CHUGAI RO CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriyuki Yokoi, Tadahiro Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20180363983Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes: a first air nozzle configured to spray air to the metal strip from above; a first water nozzle configured to spray water to the metal strip from above; and a gas discharging part configured to discharge an air around the metal strip upwardly, wherein the first air nozzle, the first water nozzle and the gas discharging part are aligned along a transport direction of the metal strip in the order of the first air nozzle, the first water nozzle and the gas discharging part, wherein the cooling apparatus is adapted to collide the air from the first air nozzle against the metal strip and then the air moves along a surface of the metal strip to a point at which steam is generated by the water from the first water nozzle, and is adapted to discharge the steam using the gas discharging part.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: CHUGAI RO CO., LTD.Inventor: Hideo YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 10124272Abstract: A vapor circulation regeneration system is provided for utilizing a vapor by circulation and regeneration. The system includes at least: a liquefaction regeneration unit including a liquefaction space where the vapor of an object to be heated is liquefied and a heating part for maintaining a liquid-like state; a vaporization unit for heating the liquid-like material by means of a heating part so as to generate a vapor; a fluid communication part for establishing fluid communication between the liquefaction regeneration unit and the vaporization unit; a processing unit for processing an object to be processed by using the vapor; a return pipe for returning the vapor used in the processing unit to the liquefaction regeneration unit; a liquefaction regeneration temperature control part for controlling the temperature of the liquefaction regeneration unit; and a vaporization temperature control part for controlling the temperature of the vaporization unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: CHUGAI RO CO., LTD.Inventors: Junya Tanaka, Masamichi Yamamura, Kunihiro Kitahashi
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Publication number: 20180140967Abstract: A vapor circulation regeneration system is provided for utilizing a vapor by circulation and regeneration. The system includes at least: a liquefaction regeneration unit including a liquefaction space where the vapor of an object to be heated is liquefied and a heating part for maintaining a liquid-like state; a vaporization unit for heating the liquid-like material by means of a heating part so as to generate a vapor; a fluid communication part for establishing fluid communication between the liquefaction regeneration unit and the vaporization unit; a processing unit for processing an object to be processed by using the vapor; a return pipe for returning the vapor used in the processing unit to the liquefaction regeneration unit; a liquefaction regeneration temperature control part for controlling the temperature of the liquefaction regeneration unit; and a vaporization temperature control part for controlling the temperature of the vaporization unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2016Publication date: May 24, 2018Applicant: CHUGAI RO CO., LTD.Inventors: Junya TANAKA, Masamichi YAMAMURA, Kunihiro KITAHASHI
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Patent number: 9824867Abstract: Provided is a plasma generation apparatus capable of generating uniform plasma over a wide range. The plasma generation apparatus includes two oppositely arranged plasma guns each injecting a discharge gas to be ionized, and having a cathode for emitting electrons, and a converging coil for forming a magnetic flux to guide the emitted electrons, and polarities of the converging coils with respect to the cathodes in the two plasma guns are opposite to each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: CHUGAI RO CO., LTD.Inventor: Eiji Furuya
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Patent number: 9696090Abstract: A thermal processing furnace for workpieces has a blowing hood in which a nozzle is installed, the nozzle blowing a gas flow to thermally process a workpiece, including a driving mechanism that adjusts a distance between the nozzle and a portion of the workpiece facing the nozzle so that the gas flow blown from the nozzle impinges on workpieces of various dimensions at a desired flow velocity, wherein a plurality of nozzles are arranged as the nozzle along a conveying direction of the workpiece in a zone where the thermal processing is performed, and the driving mechanism adjusts a distance between each of the nozzles and a portion of the workpiece facing the nozzle individually in each of the plurality of nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: CHUGAI RO CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaaki Nakano, Sousaku Takeuchi
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Patent number: 9625212Abstract: In a heating furnace 10 where elongate workpieces fed into the heating furnace are sequentially transferred on fixed beams by walking beams from an inlet area to an outlet area, concaves to retain the workpieces are formed at least on the walking beams. A concave in the inlet area for heating the workpieces is increased in width in a transfer direction, while a concave in the outlet area where the heated workpieces are wholly heated to a uniform temperature and retained in position is formed in a corrugated configuration. Despite curving of an elongate workpiece being heat treated as transferred by walking beams in a direction crossing a longitudinal direction of the workpiece, this ensures that the curved workpiece is properly transferred and adequately corrected for the curving.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: CHUGAI RO CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaaki Nakano, Hideyuki Sawada
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Publication number: 20160348905Abstract: Provided is a burner tile that has good fire resistance, good heat resistance, good erosion resistance, and good thermal shock resistance. A burner tile 1E includes a molded inorganic fiber product and has a burner main hole 3E. The burner tile 1E includes an inner layer 120 including a combination of inorganic fiber rods 121 and 122 such that the inner layer 120 defines an inner circumferential surface of the main hole 3E, and an outer layer 130 formed by surrounding an outer circumferential surface of the inner layer 120 with the molded inorganic fiber product. Part of the burner tile 1E extending along the inner circumferential surface of the main hole 3E has a high bulk density achieved by highly concentrating an inorganic binder in the inorganic fiber in part including the inner circumferential surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2015Publication date: December 1, 2016Applicants: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC., CHUGAI RO CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi FUKUI, Mitsuo SUZUKI, Shunsuke YAMAMOTO, Takeshi OOHASHI, Kensuke KAWABATA
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Publication number: 20150176901Abstract: A thermal processing furnace for workpieces has a blowing hood in which a nozzle is installed, the nozzle blowing a gas flow to thermally process a workpiece, including a driving mechanism that adjusts a distance between the nozzle and a portion of the workpiece facing the nozzle so that the gas flow blown from the nozzle impinges on workpieces of various dimensions at a desired flow velocity, wherein a plurality of nozzles are arranged as the nozzle along a conveying direction of the workpiece in a zone where the thermal processing is performed, and the driving mechanism adjusts a distance between each of the nozzles and a portion of the workpiece facing the nozzle individually in each of the plurality of nozzles.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2013Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: Chugai Ro Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaaki Nakano, Sousaku Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20150107987Abstract: Provided is a plasma generation apparatus capable of generating uniform plasma over a wide range. The plasma generation apparatus includes two oppositely arranged plasma guns each injecting a discharge gas to be ionized, and having a cathode for emitting electrons, and a converging coil for forming a magnetic flux to guide the emitted electrons, and polarities of the converging coils with respect to the cathodes in the two plasma guns are opposite to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: CHUGAI RO CO., LTD.Inventor: Eiji Furuya
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Patent number: 8986458Abstract: The present invention provides a plasma processing apparatus capable of bringing plasma close to a processing target and separating the plasma from the processing target. The plasma processing apparatus 1 according to the present invention has a chamber internally having a holding space 2a in which a processing target object 5 is held, and a plasma space 2b in which plasma is to be formed, a plasma gun 3 for emitting electrons into the plasma space 2b to form the plasma, and at least one pair of position-adjustable opposed magnets 4 for forming a magnetic flux passing across the chamber 2, between the holding space 2a and the plasma space 2b.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Chugai Ro Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shinya Akano