Patents by Inventor Shunji Horinouchi

Shunji Horinouchi 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: 7547377
    Abstract: A coke-oven repairing apparatus comprising: a traveling carriage 3 which travels in the direction of coke oven battery with the carriage straddled on the rails placed on the top of a coke oven; a traversing carriage 4 provided on said traveling carriage 3, which moves in the direction orthogonal to the direction of coke oven battery; and a working device 5 for making repairs on the oven walls within the coke oven which is mounted on said traversing carriage 4, wherein the working device 5 includes: a guide post 31 which stands on the traversing carriage 4, and is also coupled, at its lower end portion, to a supporting portion provided on the traversing carriage through a pivot shaft 42; a lance 32 which ascends or descends along the guide post 31; and a derricking device 45 which tilts the guide post 31 between a forward-tilted posture and a backward-tilted posture using the pivot shaft 42 as the fulcrum to oscillate the lance 32 inserted in a coke-oven carbonizing chamber through a charging-hole, within
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Kansai Coke and Chemicals Co., Ltd., The
    Inventors: Hironobu Inamasu, Nobuki Takayama, Shunji Horinouchi, Hirofumi Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20070102278
    Abstract: A coke-oven repairing apparatus comprising: a traveling carriage 3 which travels in the direction of coke oven battery with the carriage straddled on the rails placed on the top of a coke oven; a traversing carriage4 provided on said traveling carriage 3, which moves in the direction orthogonal to the direction of coke oven battery; and a working device 5 for making repairs on the oven walls within the coke oven which is mounted on said traversing carriage 4, wherein the working device 5 includes: a guide post 31 which stands on the traversing carriage 4, and is also coupled, at its lower end portion, to a supporting portion provided on the traversing carriage through a pivot shaft 42; a lance 32 which ascends or descends along the guide post 31; and a derricking device 45 which tilts the guide post 31 between a forward-tilted posture and a backward-tilted posture using the pivot shaft 42 as the fulcrum to oscillate the lance 32 inserted in a coke-oven carbonizing chamber through a charging-hole, within the
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Inventors: Hironobu Inamasu, Nobuki Takayama, Shunji Horinouchi, Hirofumi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 5745969
    Abstract: A repairing method using a lance for repairing an oven wall surface of a coke oven comprises the steps of arranging a distance sensor at a top end of the lance, quantitatively measuring a depth of a worn or a damaged area by the distance sensor, and blowing a repairing material from a repairing nozzle to the worn area in accordance with a measurement result to thereby repair the worn area. The lance used in this repairing method has a multistage structure having a polygonal cross section and is extendable. With this structure, the oven wall surface can be scanned in a linear fashion or along a plane. If the top end of the lance is movable in accordance with a basic motion pattern and/or a travelling pattern, it is possible to readily repair a repair range having a complicated shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignees: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd., Kawasaki Steel Corporation, NKK Corporation, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., Kansai Netukagaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeru Yamada, Hiroyuki Shiraishi, Terutsune Nishio, Hideaki Morimoto, Keiji Matsuda, Tetsuro Uchida, Tamotsu Takahashi, Tsutomu Matsuno, Keizi Kamegawa, Makoto Numazawa, Ryuzo Moritani, Hidekuni Ito, Toshio Kondo, Hideki Ohhira, Shunji Horinouchi