Patents by Inventor Shinichi Fukuoka

Shinichi Fukuoka 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: 9573172
    Abstract: A gas wiping apparatus includes a pair of wiping nozzles which are disposed so as to face each other and interpose a coated steel sheet therebetween in a thickness direction of the coated steel sheet, and each of which ejects a wiping gas along a width direction of the coated steel sheet; a gas shield plate that is disposed at a position which separates toward an outside from each end portion of the coated steel sheet so that the gas shield plate is interposed between the pair of wiping nozzles; and a side nozzle that ejects a gas to form a gas flow along each surface of the gas shield plate in a direction reverse to a direction in which the coated steel sheet is pulled upward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Fukuoka, Yoshihiro Suemune, Tooru Oohashi, Yoko Amano
  • Publication number: 20140360537
    Abstract: A gas wiping apparatus includes a pair of wiping nozzles which are disposed so as to face each other and interpose a coated steel sheet therebetween in a thickness direction of the coated steel sheet, and each of which ejects a wiping gas along a width direction of the coated steel sheet; a gas shield plate that is disposed at a position which separates toward an outside from each end portion of the coated steel sheet so that the gas shield plate is interposed between the pair of wiping nozzles; and a side nozzle that ejects a gas to form a gas flow along each surface of the gas shield plate in a direction reverse to a direction in which the coated steel sheet is pulled upward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Shinichi Fukuoka, Yoshihiro Suemune, Tooru Oohashi, Yoko Amano
  • Patent number: 7461520
    Abstract: A gas liquefaction plant includes a pre-cooling exchanger which pre-cools a feed gas by means of indirect heat exchange with a first refrigerant; a first refrigerant compressor which compresses the first refrigerant which has been used for refrigerating the feed gas in the pre-cooling exchanger; a cryogenic heat exchanger which refrigerates and liquefies the feed gas which has been pre-cooled by the pre-cooling exchanger by means of indirect heat exchange with a second refrigerant; a second refrigerant compressor which refrigerates the second refrigerant which has been used for cooling and liquefying the feed gas in the cryogenic heat exchanger; and a piping complex which receives piping used in the gas liquefaction plant, wherein the pre-cooling exchanger, the first refrigerant compressor, the cryogenic heat exchanger, and the second refrigerant compressor are installed at one side of the piping complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: JGC Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Iijima, Shinichi Fukuoka, Naoyuki Takezawa
  • Publication number: 20060150671
    Abstract: A gas liquefaction plant includes a pre-cooling exchanger which pre-cools a feed gas by means of indirect heat exchange with a first refrigerant; a first refrigerant compressor which compresses the first refrigerant which has been used for refrigerating the feed gas in the pre-cooling exchanger; a cryogenic heat exchanger which refrigerates and liquefies the feed gas which has been pre-cooled by the pre-cooling exchanger by means of indirect heat exchange with a second refrigerant; a second refrigerant compressor which refrigerates the second refrigerant which has been used for cooling and liquefying the feed gas in the cryogenic heat exchanger; and a piping complex which receives piping used in the gas liquefaction plant, wherein the pre-cooling exchanger, the first refrigerant compressor, the cryogenic heat exchanger, and the second refrigerant compressor are installed at one side of the piping complex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2004
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Applicant: JGC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Lijima, Shinichi Fukuoka, Naoyuki Takezawa