Patents Assigned to The Japan Steel Works, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20150029812
    Abstract: A screw pair includes first and second screws having an outer circumferential surface on which a groove is spirally formed, and transports a raw material in a first direction along each of axis centers. An inner surface of the groove of each of the screws includes a first surface, which faces in the first direction, and in which the outer circumferential surfaces of the screws are formed to coincide with each other without a gap therebetween in the state where the screws mesh with each other, and a second surface, which faces in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and which forms a gap between the outer circumferential surfaces of the screws in the state where the screws mesh with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Shimizu, Kiyoshi Handa, Jun Kakizaki
  • Publication number: 20150023862
    Abstract: A first object of the present invention is to provide a method for efficiently growing a nitride single crystal even under low pressure conditions. The present invention relates to a method for producing a nitride single crystal, comprising growing a nitride crystal on the surface of a seed crystal having a hexagonal crystal structure by setting a pressure in a reaction vessel having the seed crystal, a nitrogen-containing solvent, a mineralizer containing a fluorine atom, and a raw material placed therein to 5 to 200 MPa and performing control so that the nitrogen-containing solvent is in at least either a supercritical state or a subcritical state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Tohoku University, The Japan Steel Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru ISHIGURO, Quanxi BAO, Chiaki YOKOYAMA, Daisuke TOMIDA, Shigefusa CHICHIBU, Rinzo KAYANO, Mutsuo UEDA, Makoto SAITO, Yuji KAGAMITANI
  • Publication number: 20150001045
    Abstract: A screw-type fine powder raw material feeding device includes a screen (5) wound on the outer periphery of a tubular receiving member (21) and a plurality of annular metal fixtures (23) for bringing the screen (5) into close contact with the tubular receiving member (21) side. A gap (D) between the screen (5) and an outer diameter of a screw (2) is set to 1 mm to 10 mm, only a gas separated from the fine powder raw material is discharged to the outside from the gas vent ports (20), and the fine powder raw material is fed into a cylinder (1a), with no fine powder raw material being leaked to the outside from the screen (5). The invention also relates to a method of using the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS,LTD
    Inventors: Yohei Shimizu, Jun Kakizaki, Yoshihiko Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 8899954
    Abstract: In a crosshead, a pair of sheets (7) are formed by bisecting a parison (3) suspended from a resin flow passage (30) formed between a core (9) and a die (8) by causing a first dividing body (33) of a separator (5, 5a) provided on the core (9) or the die (8) to contact a second dividing body (40) provided on the core (9) or the die (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignees: The Japan Steel Works, Ltd., Yachiyo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Ito, Ryuichi Kawachi, Naoto Saito, Yukio Fujiwara, Satoru Araya, Kazuhiro Ohtaki, Masahiro Niihori, Takatoshi Watanabe, Naoya Tabuchi, Wataru Iwase
  • Patent number: 8899820
    Abstract: There is provided a melting kneading devolatilizing extruder in which the surface renewability of a molten raw material is improved. The melting kneading devolatilizing extruder of the invention includes at least one surface renewable screw segment each including a plurality of discs that are arrayed such that a phase angle E, which is a deviation angle between the discs around an axis of a screw, is 0°<E<90° within a surface renewal region, and the surface renewable screw segment includes a void portion between the discs so that the discs are arranged at intervals in a direction of the axis of the screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: The Japan Steel Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Inagawa, Seiji Takamoto, Hiroaki Shintani, Shigeki Inoue
  • Patent number: 8870441
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to improve capacity of process and not require a vent portion by an upper polygonal groove and a transition portion provided to a transport cylinder. A plastic extrusion method and apparatus according to the invention is a method and a configuration, in which an upper polygonal groove and a transition portion are integrally or separately provided to a transport cylinder so as to increase a frictional coefficient of an inner wall of the cylinder, to increase transport efficiency of a plastic raw material by a screw, and to allow at least gas, etc., pass toward a hopper side without using a vent portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: The Japan Steel Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyohei Yata, Seiji Takamoto, Fumio Kobayashi, Shigeki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20140248433
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a molded product, which has a highly homogeneous thin film, at low cost by operating an injection molding machine and a film forming device at a high rate of operation is provided. A molded product formed by an injection molding machine is conveyed to a temporary stage by a first conveying device. The molded products corresponding to several times of an injection molding step are pooled on the temporary stage by the repetition of an injection molding step. A second conveying device collectively conveys all the molded products, which are pooled on the temporary stage, to a film forming device. Films are formed on the molded products by the film forming device, and the molded products are conveyed to the outside by a third conveying device. The injection molding step is continuously performed while a film forming step is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventor: Shoso NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20140227605
    Abstract: The present invention provides a production method and the like of a microporous stretched film having a high puncture strength and the like. The method includes: a first step of melt-kneading a cellulose nanofiber and a polyolefin resin to thereby disperse the nanofiber in the resin; a second step of removing water from a kneaded mixture obtained in the first step; a third step of mixing a plasticizer in the nanofiber and the resin and melt-kneading them to prepare a polyolefin resin composition; a fourth step of extrusion-molding the polyolefin resin composition; a fifth step of stretching an extrusion-molded article obtained in the fourth step to form a film; and a sixth step of extracting the plasticizer from the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Kushizaki, Ryou Ishiguro, Mariko Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20140212323
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer overlay welding section in which a first layer of an overlay welding section to be formed on the bearing contact surface of a high Cr steel turbine rotor includes C: 0.05 to 0.2%, Si: 0.1 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.3 to 1.5%, Cr: 4.0 to 7.7%, and Mo: 0.5 to 1.5% with a remainder including Fe and unavoidable impurities, a multilayer overlay welding section in which, in addition to the above layer, an upper layer welding section includes C: 0.05 to 0.2%, Si: 0.1 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.3 to 2.5%, Cr: 1.0 to 4.0%, and Mo: 0.5 to 1.5%, and a welding material therefor and a process for producing the multilayer overlay welding section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.), THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Honma, Rinzo Kayano, Mikihiro Sakata, Ken Yamashita
  • Patent number: 8764426
    Abstract: A power supplying apparatus for supplying power to servo amplifiers is configured by an AC/DC converter and a predetermined power storage circuit. In a process of a molding cycle except for an injection process, power is supplied from the AC/DC converter, and the power is stored in the power storage circuit. In the injection process, the AC/DC converter and the power storage circuit are controlled in conjunction with each other to supply the stored power, which is required when performing the injection process, from the power storage circuit, so as to prevent the AC/DC converter from supplying an excessive amount of power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: The Japan Steel Works, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Ochi
  • Patent number: 8727762
    Abstract: In order to ensure quality of pellets by eliminating temperature differences among extrusion nozzle holes with use of a heating medium flowing through heating channels only once and flowing out through a heating medium outlet, provided is a die plate for resin granulation, in which a plate main body (1) is divided into regions (A to n) for every 360/n (n=4, 6, or 8) degrees, or into first to fourth regions (A to D) for every 90 degrees, and an inner annular heating passage (4) and an outer annular heating passage (5) are formed. A heating medium (F) supplied through a heating medium inlet (2) flows through heating channels (8) only once, and then flows out through a heating medium outlet (3) to an outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: The Japan Steel Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Makida, Kenji Nishimoto, Osamu Sumida, Tomonori Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8716189
    Abstract: A method of producing a superconductive material involves the step (1) of applying a solution of an organic compound of metals, oxides of the metals forming a superconductive material, onto a support body to be subsequently dried, a provisional baking step (2) of causing organic components of the organic compound of the metals to undergo thermal decomposition, and a main baking process step (3) of causing transformation of the oxides of the metals into the superconductive material, thereby producing an epitaxially-grown superconductive coating material, wherein at the time of irradiation of a surface of the support body coated with the solution of the organic compound of the metals for forming the superconductive material, and/or of a surface of the support body, opposite to the surface coated with the solution of the organic compound of the metals, with the laser light, during a period between the steps (1) and (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, The Japan Steel Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsugu Sohma, Tetsuo Tsuchiya, Toshiya Kumagai, Kenichi Tsukada, Kunihiko Koyanagi, Takashi Ebisawa, Hidehiko Ohtu
  • Publication number: 20140098626
    Abstract: There is provided with a screw that is inserted into a cylinder an inside of which a material is loaded, and is rotatably supported in both end portions on an upstream side and a downstream side, or in an end portion on the upstream side, in the cylinder; a first kneading blade including a plurality of first blades that are helically provided on the screw and send the material toward the downstream side with rotation of the screw; and a second kneading blade including a second blade that is helically provided on the screw and returns the material, which is sent toward the downstream side by the first kneading blade, toward the upstream side, the number of blades in the second blade being smaller than the number of blades in the first blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Ikeya, Makoto Ishikawa, Reo Fujita, Seiji Takamoto, Shigeki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20140086820
    Abstract: Using a device for producing nanocarbon, a fluidized bed is formed by supplying a low hydrocarbon and oxygen to a fluid catalyst 1, and nanocarbon and hydrogen are produced by a decomposition reaction of the low hydrocarbon accompanied by a self-combustion of the low hydrocarbon and the oxygen, wherein the device for producing nanocarbon includes: a fluidized bed reactor 2 for containing, the fluid catalyst 1 and for causing the self-combustion of the low hydrocarbon and the oxygen while being supplied with the low hydrocarbon and the oxygen; a gas supplying unit 5 connected to the fluidized bed reactor 2 and for supplying the low hydrocarbon and the oxygen to the fluidized bed reactor 2; an exhaust gas path 8 connected to the fluidized bed reactor 2 and for exhausting an exhaust gas in the fluidized bed reactor 2 to outside; and a supplying unit 2a connected to the fluidized bed reactor 2 and for supplying the fluid catalyst 1 to the fluidized bed reactor 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicants: National University Corporation Kitami Institute of Technology, THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru Nakamura, Akio Tada
  • Publication number: 20140065255
    Abstract: A guide device 3 for smoothing into a shape of a flat plate a parison P having a semi-circular shape in a planar cross-section, the parison being extruded from an extrusion device 1 and divided into two by a cutter 2, wherein the guide device includes a spiral guide element 4 that is in contact with the parison P while rotating about an axis, the spiral guide element being formed so as to rotate in opposite directions with each other on the left and right of a middle part 4C as a boundary so as to expand the parison P to the left and right. The spiral guide element 4 is formed in a protruding shape on an outer periphery of a shaft 5 rotated by the driving of a drive motor M.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicants: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS LTD., Yachiyo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Araya, Shinsuke Yamashita, Hiroaki Hayashi, Yuji Hisatomi, Naoto Saito, Naoyuki Murata, Ryuichi Kawachi, Yuji Ito
  • Patent number: 8662761
    Abstract: A laser optical system using optical fiber transmission, includes a first optical fiber for transmitting laser light emitted from a laser oscillator, a collimator lens for collimating laser light emitted from the first optical fiber, a spherical array lens including a plurality of cells for converging laser light emitted from the collimator lens into a plurality of spots, a plurality of second optical fibers each having a smaller core diameter than the first optical fiber and configured to admit the laser light converged into the corresponding spot by the spherical array lens, the second optical fibers having output ends that have mutually parallel axial lines and are arranged linearly in a single row, and a linearization optical unit for shaping laser light emitted from the second optical fibers into laser light having a linear cross section at an illuminated surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignees: Showa Optronics Co., Ltd., The Japan Steel Works, Ltd
    Inventors: Tomonari Yahata, Yoshiaki Aida, Ryotaro Togashi, Ryosuke Sato, Toshio Inami, Hideaki Kusama
  • Publication number: 20140005283
    Abstract: A synthesis gas and nanocarbon production method has a lower hydrocarbon decomposition step for decomposing lower hydrocarbon to produce hydrogen and nanocarbon, a carbon dioxide reduction step for reacting a part of the nanocarbon produced with carbon dioxide to produce carbon monoxide, and a mixing step for mixing the hydrogen and carbon monoxide produced in a predetermined ratio, thereby nanocarbon and a synthesis gas having a desired gas ratio can be simultaneously produced easily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicants: National University Corporation Kitami Institute of Technology, THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru Nakamura, Akio Tada
  • Publication number: 20130341825
    Abstract: A production apparatus includes the following stations juxtaposed in the following sequence: a parison forming station for forming a parison; a built-in part attachment station where opposite sides of a center die provided with a built-in part are held between a pair of molding dies to locate the center die in the molding dies with the parison between the center die and the molding dies, and the built-in part being attached to the parison transferred to the molding dies; a molding station where the molding dies are closed to mold the hollow molded product; and a conveyance station for taking the hollow molded product out of the molding dies and conveying the hollow molded product. The center die is fixed at the built-in part attachment station, and the molding dies are configured to be movable back and forth between the built-in part attachment station and the molding station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicants: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD., YACHIYO INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takatoshi Watanabe, Satoru Araya, Masahiro Niihori, Wataru Iwase, Naoya Tabuchi, Kazuhiro Ohtaki, Yuji Hisatomi, Naoto Saito, Naoyuki Murata, Ryuichi Kawachi, Yuji Ito
  • Publication number: 20130333481
    Abstract: In a method of determining a fatigue crack lifetime of a low-alloy steel material coming in contact with high-pressure hydrogen in a high-pressure hydrogen environment, estimate a fatigue crack acceleration starting point KmaxT of the low-alloy steel material using a crack-growth threshold stress intensity factor KIH-R obtained through a rising load test on the low-alloy steel material in a high-pressure hydrogen environment. The high-pressure hydrogen environment of the rising load test is a high-pressure hydrogen environment which has the same pressure and atmosphere as in the high-pressure hydrogen environment in which KmaxT is estimated and in which the test temperature tolerance between both environments is ±5° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoru Wada
  • Patent number: 8609059
    Abstract: To provide a production method for a nitride crystal, where a nitride crystal can be prevented from precipitating in a portion other than on a seed crystal and the production efficiency of a gallium nitride single crystal grown on the seed crystal can be enhanced. In a method for producing a nitride crystal by an ammonothermal method in a vessel containing a mineralizer-containing solution, out of the surfaces of said vessel and a member provided in said vessel, at least a part of the portion coming into contact with said solution is constituted by a metal or alloy containing one or more atoms selected from the group consisting of tantalum (Ta), tungsten (W) and titanium (Ti), and has a surface roughness (Ra) of less than 1.80 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Tohoku University, The Japan Steel Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Mikawa, Makiko Kiyomi, Yuji Kagamitani, Toru Ishiguro, Yoshihiko Yamamura