Patents by Inventor Kinichi Higuchi

Kinichi Higuchi 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).

  • Apparatus and methods for manufacturing hot rolled steel sheets
    Patent number: 6463652
    Abstract: A high-quality hot rolled steel sheet is manufactured with a high production efficiency and a low cost, from a long, hot slab, using a combination of continuous casting facilities and a plate reduction press machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignees: Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., NKK Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Narushima, Kenichi Ide, Yasushi Dodo, Kinichi Higuchi, Hisashi Honjou, Hajime Ishii, Nobuhiro Tazoe, Yasuhiro Fujii, Kazuyuki Sato, Sadakazu Masuda, Shuichi Yamashina, Satoshi Murata, Masaaki Yamamoto, Takumasa Terauchi, Toru Minote, Shinji Okazaki, Yoichi Motoyashiki
  • Continuous steel plate manufacturing facilities
    Patent number: 5601137
    Abstract: The invention provides a continuous steel plate manufacturing facility including continuous casting equipment (12) having a plurality of strands, a plurality of rows of slab conveyers (14) disposed downstream of each of the strands, and a single slab transporting apparatus (16) disposed downstream of the slab conveyers for horizontally transporting slabs from the rows of slab conveyers to a single rolling line disposed downstream of the rows of slab conveyers. A continuous slab casting line defined by the strand and the slab conveyers diagonally intersects, at an intersection point, on the slab transporting apparatus with a slab feeding line (18) which is in communication with the rolling line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Abe, Shigeki Narishima, Kinichi Higuchi
  • Rolling roll with variable profile and of the tapered piston type
    Patent number: 4837906
    Abstract: Longitudinal axial positions in a roll longitudinal axis of ring pistons fitted into a profile-variable rolling roll are detected with a higher degree of accuracy. In response to outputs representative of the detected longitudinal axial positions of the ring pistons, the positions of the ring pistons can be controlled with a high degree of accuracy, whereby controllability of shape of the rolling roll is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Ishikawajima-Harima Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takaaki Mori, Kinichi Higuchi, Tsukasa Oyauchi, Masao Nitanda, Kohei Hosoi, Isao Imai, Heiji Kato, Mitsuhiko Ichikawa