Patents by Inventor Naoki SEINO

Naoki SEINO 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: 11534823
    Abstract: A method and device heat an object to be heated by a flame which is produced by supplying a fuel fluid and a combustion supporting gas to a burner as a heat, source. A temperature rising rate is increased by gradually increasing an oxygen concentration in the combustion supporting gas supplied to the burner and a device for heating an object to be heated including a burner for heating the object to be heated. A flow rate control unit controls a flow rate of a fuel fluid and a combustion supporting gas. A calculation unit transmits combustion information of the burner to the flow rate control unit, and the flow rate control unit increases a temperature rising rate of the object to be heated by increasing the oxygen concentration in the combustion supporting gas supplied to the burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hagihara, Takayuki Matsumura, Naoki Seino
  • Patent number: 11473776
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a burner which makes it possible to prevent blockage and damage of the nozzle by the molten metal and the slag, and the present invention provides a burner including a combustion supporting gas supply passage which is configured to supply a combustion supporting gas toward a combustion supporting gas outlet provided at the center of the tip end side; a fuel supply passage which is configured to supply a fuel toward a fuel ejection outlet provided around the combustion supporting gas outlet; and a protective nozzle provided from a position surrounding a periphery of the fuel ejection outlet so as to project forward beyond the tip end surface at which the combustion supporting gas ejection outlet and the fuel ejection outlet are provided; wherein the combustion supporting gas supply passage includes a Laval nozzle, and a diameter-enlarged nozzle of which a diameter gradually increases from the tip end of the Laval nozzle toward the combustion supporting gas ejec
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Hagihara, Naoki Seino
  • Patent number: 11333353
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a burner which is capable of decreasing the amount of NOx emission and heating the object to be heated uniformly with excellent heat transfer efficiency when heating the object to be heated while oscillating the flame by self-induced oscillation, and a method for heating using a burner, and the present invention provides a burner including a center fluid ejection outlet 2 having a sectional fan shape in which an interval between a pair of side walls 63a and 63b gradually expands toward a downstream side, a pair of openings 62a and 62b provided on side walls 61 of a fluid ejection flow path 6 on an upstream side of the central fluid ejection port 2 and communicated by a communication pipe 7, a first peripheral fluid ejection outlet arranged around the center fluid ejection outlet, a second peripheral fluid ejection outlet is arranged at a position at which a distance between a center thereof and a center of the center fluid ejection outlet is larger than a dist
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Saito, Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Masashi Yamaguchi, Yoshiyuki Hagihara, Naoki Seino
  • Patent number: 11199323
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a burner which can uniformly heat a wide area without decreasing the heat radiation even when the swing width of the flame self-oscillating is large, and the present invention provides a burner in which a main combustion fluid and a second combustion fluid are combusted by ejecting the main combustion fluid while self-oscillating from a central expanding ejection port (3) which expands towards a tip end and ejecting the second combustion fluid from a pair of side ejection ports (5 and 7) provided on both sides of the central expanding ejection port (3), wherein a pair of the side ejection ports (5 and 7) are disposed symmetrically with respect to a central axis of the central expanding ejection port (3), and the central expanding ejection port (3) and the side ejection ports (5 and 7) are provided such that an expanding angle ? of the central expanding ejection port (3) and an angle ? formed by the central axes of a pair of the side ejection ports (5 and 7) sa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Saito, Yoshiyuki Hagihara, Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Naoki Seino
  • Patent number: 11053559
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to improve efficiency at the time of operation of a melting and refining furnace of a cold iron source using an oxygen burner lance, and the present invention provides a melting and refining furnace comprising a through-hole provided through a furnace wall, one or more oxygen burner lances provided in the through-hole: and a thermometer which is configured to measure a temperature in the furnace, the oxygen burner lance has one or more openings communicating with the inside of the furnace, and the thermometer is provided in any one of the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hagihara, Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Naoki Seino
  • Publication number: 20200363059
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an oxygen-enriched burner which can change any oscillation period and uniformly heat an object to be heated with an excellent heat transfer efficiency when heating the object to be heated while moving the flame with self-induced oscillation, and a method for heating using an oxygen enriched burner, and the present invention provides an oxygen-enriched burner including a center fluid ejection outlet and a peripheral fluid ejection outlet provided around the center fluid ejection outlet, a pair of openings are provided at opposite positions on side walls of a fluid ejection flow path of the center fluid ejection outlet, a pair of the openings are communicated with each other by a communication portion, an interval between a pair of side walls downstream of the openings in the fluid ejection flow path is gradually expanded toward the downstream side, and the communication portion includes a first communication pipe and the second communication pipe each having a f
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Takeshi SAITO, Yasuyuki YAMAMOTO, Masashi YAMAGUCHI, Yoshiyuki HAGIHARA, Naoki SEINO
  • Publication number: 20200182461
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an oxygen enriched burner which can uniformly heat with excellent heat transfer efficiency even at a position away from the burner, when heating an object to be heated by a self-oscillating flame, and a method for heating using an oxygen enriched burner, and the present invention provides an oxygen enriched burner including a central fluid discharge outlet and a pair of first peripheral fluid discharge outlet and a pair of second peripheral fluid discharge outlets, which are arranged opposite to each other around the central fluid outlet, a pair of openings are provided in side walls of a fluid ejection flow path on the upstream side of the central fluid discharge outlet, the distance between a pair of side walls gradually expands toward the downstream side, a pair of the second peripheral fluid outlet are arranged so as to be orthogonal to the direction facing the openings and sandwich the central fluid outlet therebetween, an angle y° formed by the central ax
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Takeshi SAITO, Yasuyuki YAMAMOTO, Yoshiyuki HAGIHARA, Naoki SEINO
  • Publication number: 20200165692
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to improve the efficiency when operating the melting/refining furnace of the cold iron source using a burners and a lance, or during refining, and the present invention provides a method for operating a melting/refining furnace comprising a through hole so as to penetrate a furnace wall, at least one burners provided in the through hole; and at least one lances installed in an oxidant gas supply hole provided above the through-hole for the burner, wherein an amount of oxygen introduced in the melting step is adjusted to a range calculated based on a the furnace volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki HAGIHARA, Yasuyuki YAMAMOTO, Naoki SEINO
  • Publication number: 20200158333
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a burner which is capable of decreasing the amount of NOx emission and heating the object to be heated uniformly with excellent heat transfer efficiency when heating the object to be heated while oscillating the flame by self-induced oscillation, and a method for heating using a burner, and the present invention provides a burner including a center fluid ejection outlet 2 having a sectional fan shape in which an interval between a pair of side walls 63a and 63b gradually expands toward a downstream side, a pair of openings 62a and 62b provided on side walls 61 of a fluid ejection flow path 6 on an upstream side of the central fluid ejection port 2 and communicated by a communication pipe 7, a first peripheral fluid ejection outlet arranged around the center fluid ejection outlet, a second peripheral fluid ejection outlet is arranged at a position at which a distance between a center thereof and a center of the center fluid ejection outlet is larger than a dist
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Takeshi SAITO, Yasuyuki YAMAMOTO, Masashi YAMAGUCHI, Yoshiyuki HAGIHARA, Naoki SEINO
  • Publication number: 20200088404
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a burner which can uniformly heat a wide area without decreasing the heat radiation even when the swing width of the flame self-oscillating is large, and the present invention provides a burner in which a main combustion fluid and a second combustion fluid are combusted by ejecting the main combustion fluid while self-oscillating from a central expanding ejection port (3) which expands towards a tip end and ejecting the second combustion fluid from a pair of side ejection ports (5 and 7) provided on both sides of the central expanding ejection port (3), wherein a pair of the side ejection ports (5 and 7) are disposed symmetrically with respect to a central axis of the central expanding ejection port (3), and the central expanding ejection port (3) and the side ejection ports (5 and 7) are provided such that an expanding angle ? of the central expanding ejection port (3) and an angle ? formed by the central axes of a pair of the side ejection ports (5 and 7) sa
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Takeshi SAITO, Yoshiyuki HAGIHARA, Yasuyuki YAMAMOTO, Naoki SEINO
  • Publication number: 20200016652
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a method and a device for heating an object to be heated which can uniformly heat the object to be heated in a shorter time than in the prior art, the amount of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides (NOx), and the like generated can be significantly reduced, and the object to be heated can be dried and heated efficiently and in an environmentally friendly manner, and the present invention provides a method for heating an object to be heated by a flame which is produced by supplying a fuel fluid and a combustion supporting gas to a burner as a heat source, wherein a temperature rising rate is increased by gradually increasing an oxygen concentration in the combustion supporting gas supplied to the burner and a device for heating an object to be heated including a burner for heating the object to be heated, a flow rate control unit for controlling a flow rate of a fuel fluid and a combustion supporting gas, and a calculation unit for transmitting combustion informatio
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki HAGIHARA, Takayuki MATSUMURA, Naoki SEINO
  • Publication number: 20200011526
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a burner which makes it possible to prevent blockage and damage of the nozzle by the molten metal and the slag, and the present invention provides a burner including a combustion supporting gas supply passage which is configured to supply a combustion supporting gas toward a combustion supporting gas outlet provided at the center of the tip end side; a fuel supply passage which is configured to supply a fuel toward a fuel ejection outlet provided around the combustion supporting gas outlet; and a protective nozzle provided from a position surrounding a periphery of the fuel ejection outlet so as to project forward beyond the tip end surface at which the combustion supporting gas ejection outlet and the fuel ejection outlet are provided; wherein the combustion supporting gas supply passage includes a Laval nozzle, and a diameter-enlarged nozzle of which a diameter gradually increases from the tip end of the Laval nozzle toward the combustion supporting gas ejec
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Yasuyuki YAMAMOTO, Yoshiyuki HAGIHARA, Naoki SEINO
  • Patent number: 10422525
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide an oxygen burner which is capable of forming a high-velocity-oxygen jet flow without a cooling structure, and efficiently dissolving an object to be heated, and the present invention provides an oxygen burner comprising a primary oxygen ejection port provided at a tip of the primary oxygen flow path, a plurality of fuel gas supply pipes provided so as to branch a tip end side of the fuel gas flow path, a fuel gas ejection port provided in each of the fuel gas supply pipes, and a secondary oxygen ejection port provided at a tip of the secondary oxygen flow path, the fuel gas ejecting ports are arranged so as to surround the primary oxygen ejection port, the secondary oxygen ejection port is arranged so as to surround the fuel gas ejection ports and the primary oxygen ejection port, and the fuel gas ejection ports are arranged on the same plane and protrude than a tip of the primary oxygen ejection port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hagihara, Naoki Seino, Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Takayuki Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20190284652
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to improve efficiency at the time of operation of a melting and refining furnace of a cold iron source using an oxygen burner lance, and the present invention provides a melting and refining furnace comprising a through-hole provided through a furnace wall, one or more oxygen burner lances provided in the through-hole: and a thermometer which is configured to measure a temperature in the furnace, the oxygen burner lance has one or more openings communicating with the inside of the furnace, and the thermometer is provided in any one of the openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki HAGIHARA, Yasuyuki YAMAMOTO, Naoki SEINO
  • Publication number: 20190024888
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide an oxygen burner which is capable of forming a high-velocity-oxygen jet flow without a cooling structure, and efficiently dissolving an object to be heated, and the present invention provides an oxygen burner comprising a primary oxygen ejection port provided at a tip of the primary oxygen flow path, a plurality of fuel gas supply pipes provided so as to branch a tip end side of the fuel gas flow path, a fuel gas ejection port provided in each of the fuel gas supply pipes, and a secondary oxygen ejection port provided at a tip of the secondary oxygen flow path, the fuel gas ejecting ports are arranged so as to surround the primary oxygen ejection port, the secondary oxygen ejection port is arranged so as to surround the fuel gas ejection ports and the primary oxygen ejection port, and the fuel gas ejection ports are arranged on the same plane and protrude than a tip of the primary oxygen ejection port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki HAGIHARA, Naoki SEINO, Yasuyuki YAMAMOTO, Takayuki MATSUMURA