Patents by Inventor Tatsuhito Fukushima

Tatsuhito Fukushima 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: 11612923
    Abstract: In a tandem type cold rolling mill of a circulating oil-feeding system for continuously rolling a steel sheet by feeding a coolant serving as a rolling oil and a cooling water to each stand, an edge heater for heating both edge portions of the steel sheet to not lower than 60° C. as a steel sheet temperature at an entry side of a roll bite is arranged at an upstream side of the first stand in the cold rolling mill and a device for jetting a coolant having a concentration higher than that of the coolant fed to the firsts stand onto surfaces of both edge portions of the steel sheet is arranged between the edge heater and the first stand. The cold rolling mill can be used to roll a hard-to-roll material such as silicon or stainless steel sheet without causing an edge crack or sheet breakage in low-speed rolling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuhito Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20200230673
    Abstract: In a tandem type cold rolling mill of a circulating oil-feeding system for continuously rolling a steel sheet by feeding a coolant serving as a rolling oil and a cooling water to each stand, an edge heater for heating both edge portions of the steel sheet to not lower than 60° C. as a steel sheet temperature at an entry side of a roll bite is arranged at an upstream side of the first stand in the cold rolling mill and a device for jetting a coolant having a concentration higher than that of the coolant fed to the firsts stand onto surfaces of both edge portions of the steel sheet is arranged between the edge heater and the first stand. The cold rolling mill can be used to roll a hard-to-roll material such as silicon or stainless steel sheet without causing an edge crack or sheet breakage in low-speed rolling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuhito Fukushima
  • Patent number: 10259027
    Abstract: A cold rolling facility includes: a heating device; a tandem mill including a plurality of rolling mills; a meandering-amount measuring unit; a meandering-movement correction device; a shape measuring unit; a shape controller configured to control a shape of a steel sheet after being cold-rolled by the rolling mill located on the uppermost stream side; and a controller configured to control operations of the meandering-movement correction device based on a measurement value of a meandering-movement amount of the steel sheet by the meandering-amount measuring unit to control a meandering movement of the steel sheet before being heated, and configured to control operations of the shape controller based on a measurement value of a shape of the steel sheet by the shape measuring unit to control the meandering movement of the steel sheet that is attributed to cold rolling of the steel sheet by the tandem mill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masayasu Ueno, Yoshimitsu Harada, Hidemasa Kodama, Tatsuhito Fukushima
  • Patent number: 10207303
    Abstract: A cold rolling apparatus includes: a heating device configured to heat a sequentially transferred steel sheet; a cold rolling mill configured to sequentially cold-roll the steel sheet after being heated; a meandering-movement correction device arranged on an upstream side of the heating device in a transfer direction of the steel sheet, and configured to correct a meandering movement of the steel sheet transferred toward the heating device; and a meandering-movement suppression device arranged between the heating device and the cold rolling mill, and configured to suppress a meandering movement of the steel sheet attributed to the cold rolling of the steel sheet by using the cold rolling mill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masayasu Ueno, Yoshimitsu Harada, Hidemasa Kodama, Tatsuhito Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20160339493
    Abstract: A cold rolling facility includes: a heating device; a tandem mill including a plurality of rolling mills; a meandering-amount measuring unit; a meandering-movement correction device; a shape measuring unit; a shape controller configured to control a shape of a steel sheet after being cold-rolled by the rolling mill located on the uppermost stream side; and a controller configured to control operations of the meandering-movement correction device based on a measurement value of a meandering-movement amount of the steel sheet by the meandering-amount measuring unit to control a meandering movement of the steel sheet before being heated, and configured to control operations of the shape controller based on a measurement value of a shape of the steel sheet by the shape measuring unit to control the meandering movement of the steel sheet that is attributed to cold rolling of the steel sheet by the tandem mill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayasu Ueno, Yoshimitsu Harada, Hidemasa Kodama, Tatsuhito Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20160332203
    Abstract: A cold rolling apparatus includes: a heating device configured to heat a sequentially transferred steel sheet; a cold rolling mill configured to sequentially cold-roll the steel sheet after being heated; a meandering-movement correction device arranged on an upstream side of the heating device in a transfer direction of the steel sheet, and configured to correct a meandering movement of the steel sheet transferred toward the heating device; and a meandering-movement suppression device arranged between the heating device and the cold rolling mill, and configured to suppress a meandering movement of the steel sheet attributed to the cold rolling of the steel sheet by using the cold rolling mill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayasu Ueno, Yoshimitsu Harada, Hidemasa Kodama, Tatsuhito Fukushima