Patents by Inventor Jirou Mase

Jirou Mase 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).

  • Patent number: 5149487
    Abstract: A prereduction furnace of a smelting reduction facility of iron ore includes of a fluidizing prereduction chamber at an upper part of the prereduction furnace wherein iron ores are fed and prereduced, a gas blowing chamber at a lower part of the prereduction furnace wherein a reducing gas is fed, a ceramic main body of a distributor mounted between the fluidizing prereduction chamber and the gas blowing chamber, a metal box attached to the bottom side of the ceramic main body, which prevent adhesion of dust in the reducing gas, nozzles passing through the ceramic main body and through the metal box for injecting the reducing gas in the blowing chamber, into the prereduction chamber and a discharge pipe for discharging prereduced iron ores mounted at a bottom center portion of the prereduction chamber and extending through the ceramic main body, through the metal box, and through a bottom of the gas blowing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1992
    Assignee: NKK Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsuo, Genji Kanatani, Hitoshi Kawata, Tatsurou Ariyama, Jirou Mase, Yoshiyuki Kitano, Haruhito Tsuboi, Shinichi Isozaki