Patents by Inventor Shiro Watakabe

Shiro Watakabe 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: 9873923
    Abstract: A method of operating a blast furnace by blowing a pulverized coal at an amount of not less than 150 kg/t?p from tuyeres through a lance into a blast furnace, wherein when the operation is performed under a condition that lump coke charged from a furnace top has a strength defined in JIS K2151 (DI15015) of not more than 87%, the pulverized coal blown through the tuyere contains not more than 60 mass % as a weight ratio of coal having a particle size of not more than 74 ?m and has an average volatile matter of not more than 25 mass %, and a blast temperature blown through the tuyere is not higher than 1100° C., oxygen is simultaneously blown into the furnace with the blowing of the pulverized coals through the lance and a gas having an oxygen concentration of 60 vol %-97 vol % is used as a carrier gas for the blowing of the pulverized coal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinori Murao, Daiki Fujiwara, Shiro Watakabe, Michitaka Sato, Takashi Watanabe, Akio Shimomura
  • Patent number: 9650689
    Abstract: A method of operating a blast furnace includes two or more lances that inject reducing agents from a tuyere; injecting a solid reducing agent and a flammable reducing agent from different lances; and disposing the lances so that an axial line that extends from an end of the lance that injects the solid reducing agent and is the axial line of the lance that injects the solid reducing agent and an axial line that extends from an end of the lance that injects the flammable reducing agent and is the axial line of the lance that injects the flammable reducing agent cross each other, and so that a main flow of the solid reducing agent injected and a main flow of the flammable reducing agent injected overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Daiki Fujiwara, Akinori Murao, Shiro Watakabe
  • Patent number: 9410218
    Abstract: A method of operating a blast furnace comprising two or more lances that inject reducing agents from a tuyere including injecting a solid reducing agent and a flammable reducing agent from different lances; and arranging a position of an end of the lance that injects the flammable reducing agent closer to a near side in a injecting direction by more than 0 to 50 mm than a position of an end of the lance that injects the solid reducing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Akinori Murao, Daiki Fujiwara, Shiro Watakabe
  • Publication number: 20160138120
    Abstract: A method of operating a blast furnace by blowing a pulverized coal at an amount of not less than 150 kg/t?p from tuyeres through a lance into a blast furnace, wherein when the operation is performed under a condition that lump coke charged from a furnace top has a strength defined in JIS K2151 (DI15015) of not more than 87%, the pulverized coal blown through the tuyere contains not more than 60 mass % as a weight ratio of coal having a particle size of not more than 74 ?m and has an average volatile matter of not more than 25 mass %, and a blast temperature blown through the tuyere is not higher than 1100° C., oxygen is simultaneously blown into the furnace with the blowing of the pulverized coals through the lance and a gas having an oxygen concentration of 60 vol %-97 vol % is used as a carrier gas for the blowing of the pulverized coal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinori Murao, Daiki Fujikara, Shiro Watakabe, Michitaka Sato, Takashi Watanabe, Akio Shimomura
  • Publication number: 20140159287
    Abstract: A method of operating a blast furnace includes two or more lances that inject reducing agents from a tuyere; injecting a solid reducing agent and a flammable reducing agent from different lances; and disposing the lances so that an axial line that extends from an end of the lance that injects the solid reducing agent and is the axial line of the lance that injects the solid reducing agent and an axial line that extends from an end of the lance that injects the flammable reducing agent and is the axial line of the lance that injects the flammable reducing agent cross each other, and so that a main flow of the solid reducing agent injected and a main flow of the flammable reducing agent injected overlap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiki Fujiwara, Akinori Murao, Shiro Watakabe
  • Publication number: 20140131929
    Abstract: A method of operating a blast furnace comprising two or more lances that inject reducing agents from a tuyere including injecting a solid reducing agent and a flammable reducing agent from different lances; and arranging a position of an end of the lance that injects the flammable reducing agent closer to a near side in a injecting direction by more than 0 to 50 mm than a position of an end of the lance that injects the solid reducing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinori Murao, Daiki Fujiwara, Shiro Watakabe