Patents by Inventor Noriyuki Hishinuma

Noriyuki Hishinuma 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: 9649679
    Abstract: A water-blocking apparatus for cooling water for a hot-rolled steel sheet according to the present invention, which blocks cooling water sprayed onto a hot-rolled steel sheet at a sprayed water density of higher than 4 m3/m2/min and equal to or less than 10 m3/m2/min when the hot-rolled steel sheet is cooled after finish rolling of a hot-rolling process, includes: a plurality of water-blocking nozzles which spray water-blocking water onto the hot-rolled steel sheet. Impact areas of the water-blocking water respectively sprayed from the water-blocking nozzles are continuously lined up in a straight line in a width direction of the hot-rolled steel sheet on a surface of the hot-rolled steel sheet and the adjacent impact areas partially overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Nikaido, Yoshihiro Serizawa, Noriyuki Hishinuma
  • Patent number: 9061335
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus for hot rolling is installed on a downstream side of a finishing mill of a continuous hot rolling mill, and cools a steel sheet rolled by the finishing mill while being conveyed. The cooling apparatus includes first pinch rolls which, during an interval when the steel sheet fed out from a final stand of the finishing mill moves from a position of the final stand to a position where a surface temperature of the steel sheet reaches 850° C. or less, pinch the steel sheet while applying tension of 3.9 MPa or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Serizawa, Shigeru Ogawa, Yoji Nakamura, Tooru Akashi, Noriyuki Hishinuma, Tetsuo Kishimoto
  • Publication number: 20150101386
    Abstract: A water-blocking apparatus for cooling water for a hot-rolled steel sheet according to the present invention, which blocks cooling water sprayed onto a hot-rolled steel sheet at a sprayed water density of higher than 4 m3/m2/min and equal to or less than 10 m3/m2/min when the hot-rolled steel sheet is cooled after finish rolling of a hot-rolling process, includes: a plurality of water-blocking nozzles which spray water-blocking water onto the hot-rolled steel sheet. Impact areas of the water-blocking water respectively sprayed from the water-blocking nozzles are continuously lined up in a straight line in a width direction of the hot-rolled steel sheet on a surface of the hot-rolled steel sheet and the adjacent impact areas partially overlap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Nikaido, Yoshihiro Serizawa, Noriyuki Hishinuma
  • Patent number: 8920708
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of cooling a hot-rolled steel strip which has passed through a finishing rolling, including: cooling the hot-rolled steel strip from a first temperature of not lower than 600° C. and not higher than 650° C. to a second temperature of not higher than 450° C. with cooling water having the water amount density of not lower than 4 m3/m2/min and not higher than 10 m3/m2/min, wherein with respect to the area of the target surface, the area of a portion where a plurality of spray jets of the cooling water directly strikes on the target surface is at least 80%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Serizawa, Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Shigeru Ogawa, Shinji Ida, Hitoshi Nikaidoh, Isao Yoshii, Noriyuki Hishinuma, Tetsuo Kishimoto, Nobuhiro Takagi
  • Patent number: 8414716
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of cooling a hot-rolled steel strip which has passed through a finishing rolling, including: cooling the hot-rolled steel strip from a first temperature of not lower than 600° C. and not higher than 650° C. to a second temperature of not higher than 450° C. with cooling water having the water amount density of not lower than 4 m3/m2/min and not higher than 10 m3/m2/min, wherein with respect to the area of the target surface, the area of a portion where a plurality of spray jets of the cooling water directly strikes on the target surface is at least 80%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Serizawa, Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Shigeru Ogawa, Shinji Ida, Hitoshi Nikaidoh, Isao Yoshii, Noriyuki Hishinuma, Tetsuo Kishimoto, Nobuhiro Takagi
  • Patent number: 8359894
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for cooling a hot-rolled steel strip after a finishing rolling in which a transportation speed varies, the method including: setting a transportation-speed changing schedule on the basis of a temperature of a steel strip before the finishing rolling and a condition of the finishing rolling; performing a first cooling in which the hot-rolled steel strip is cooled under a film boiling state in a first cooling section; performing a second cooling in which the hot-rolled steel strip is cooled with a water amount density of not less than 2m3/min/m2 in a second cooling section; and coiling the hot-rolled steel strip, in which a cooling condition is controlled in the first cooling so as to satisfy 0.8?(T2a??T2a)/?Tx?1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Yoshii, Noriyuki Hishinuma, Yoshiyuki Furukawa, Satoru Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20120306130
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of cooling a hot-rolled steel strip which has passed through a finishing rolling, including: cooling the hot-rolled steel strip from a first temperature of not lower than 600° C. and not higher than 650° C. to a second temperature of not higher than 450° C. with cooling water having the water amount density of not lower than 4 m3/m2/min and not higher than 10 m3/m2/min, wherein with respect to the area of the target surface, the area of a portion where a plurality of spray jets of the cooling water directly strikes on the target surface is at least 80%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshihiro SERIZAWA, Yasuhiro NISHIYAMA, Shigeru OGAWA, Shinji IDA, Hitoshi NIKAIDOH, Isao YOSHII, Noriyuki HISHINUMA, Tetsuo KISHIMOTO, Nobuhiro TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20120174645
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus for hot rolling is installed on a downstream side of a finishing mill of a continuous hot rolling mill, and cools a steel sheet rolled by the finishing mill while being conveyed. The cooling apparatus includes first pinch rolls which, during an interval when the steel sheet fed out from a final stand of the finishing mill moves from a position of the final stand to a position where a surface temperature of the steel sheet reaches 850° C. or less, pinch the steel sheet while applying tension of 3.9 MPa or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Serizawa, Shigeru Ogawa, Yoji Nakamura, Tooru Akashi, Noriyuki Hishinuma, Tetsuo Kishimoto
  • Publication number: 20120151981
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for cooling a hot-rolled steel strip after a finishing rolling in which a transportation speed varies, the method including: setting a transportation-speed changing schedule on the basis of a temperature of a steel strip before the finishing rolling and a condition of the finishing rolling; performing a first cooling in which the hot-rolled steel strip is cooled under a film boiling state in a first cooling section; performing a second cooling in which the hot-rolled steel strip is cooled with a water amount density of not less than 2 m3/min/m2 in a second cooling section; and coiling the hot-rolled steel strip, in which a cooling condition is controlled in the first cooling so as to satisfy 0.8?(T2a??T2a)/?Tx?1.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Yoshii, Noriyuki Hishinuma, Yoshiyuki Furukawa, Satoru Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20120067470
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of cooling a hot-rolled steel strip which has passed through a finishing rolling, including: cooling the hot-rolled steel strip from a first temperature of not lower than 600° C. and not higher than 650° C. to a second temperature of not higher than 450° C. with cooling water having the water amount density of not lower than 4 m3/m2/min and not higher than 10 m3/m2/min, wherein with respect to the area of the target surface, the area of a portion where a plurality of spray jets of the cooling water directly strikes on the target surface is at least 80%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Serizawa, Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Shigeru Ogawa, Shinji Ida, Hitoshi Nikaidoh, Isao Yoshii, Noriyuki Hishinuma, Tetsuo Kishimoto, Nobuhiro Takagi
  • Patent number: 7938917
    Abstract: A method for controlling the cooling of a steel sheet characterized by controlling the end-of-cooling temperature in a cooling process from the Ae3 or above temperature of the steel sheet, during which; preliminarily obtaining enthalpies (H? and H?) of an austenite phase and ferrite phase respectively at some temperature, obtaining a gynamic enthalpy (Hsys) defined by formula (1) with an untransformed fraction (X?) of austenite in accordance with a target temperature pattern, predicting the temperature by using a gradient of this dynamic enthalpy with respect to temperature as a dynamic specific heat and controlling the cooling of the steel sheet: Hsys=H?(X?)+H?(1?X?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Riki Okamoto, Noriyuki Hishinuma, Hidenori Miyata, Hirokazu Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20080135137
    Abstract: A method for controlling the cooling of a steel plate, characterized in that, in the control of the temperature at the end of cooling in the process of the cooling of a steel plate from the Ae3 temperature or higher, the enthalpies (H? and H?) of the austenite and ferrite phases at respective temperatures are determined in advance, a dynamic enthalpy (Hsys) defined by the formula (1) is determined from the proportion (X?) of untransformed austenite being determined in the correspondence to an objective temperature pattern, and a temperature of the steel plate is predicted by using an inclination of the above dynamic enthalpy to temperature as a dynamic specific heat for controlling the cooling of the steel plate. Hsys=H? (X?)+H? (1?X?) . . .
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Riki Okamoto, Noriyuki Hishinuma, Hidenori Miyata, Hirokazu Taniguchi