Patents by Inventor Etsuo INOUE

Etsuo INOUE 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).

  • Publication number: 20220252348
    Abstract: To provide a heat treatment member and the like that, even when repeatedly loaded into a heat treating furnace, suppresses the occurrence of deformation, cracking, and the like, allowing use for a prolonged period of time, and enables uniform and sufficient carburizing treatment of a part to be heat-treated. The above-described problem is solved by a heat treatment member constituting a heat treatment structure repeatedly loaded into a heat treating furnace with a part to be heat-treated placed thereon, hooked thereto, or the like, comprising an ST member composed of a steel material or a Ni alloy material and a CC member composed of a carbon composite material being detachably combined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventor: Etsuo INOUE
  • Publication number: 20210172045
    Abstract: A heat-treatment tray member comprises a tray, and a plurality of part receivers detachably mounted onto the tray. The tray includes a base part provided with a plurality of mounting parts capable of mounting the plurality of part receivers in predetermined positions, and the base part and corner support columns are constituted by a carbon composite material, or a steel material or a nickel alloy material. The corner support columns are provided to corners of the base part to layer a plurality of the trays, and one or two or more center support columns are preferably provided at or near a center of the base part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventor: Etsuo INOUE