Patents by Inventor Toshimitsu Fuchigami

Toshimitsu Fuchigami 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).

  • Publication number: 20130247998
    Abstract: To provide a method and an apparatus for feeding a zinc gas superheated to a boiling point of zinc or higher at a controlled rate of feed. The method for feeding the zinc gas according to the invention includes a step for introducing melt zinc into a zinc gas evaporation apparatus, a step for generating the zinc gas from the melt zinc by inputting electric power corresponding to a rate of feed of the zinc gas to allow zinc to cause self-heating by high-frequency induction heating, a step for introducing the generated zinc gas into a gas heating apparatus, and a step for heating the zinc gas by resistance heating to form a superheated zinc gas. An apparatus for feeding the zinc gas according to the invention is applied to the method, and includes a zinc gas evaporation apparatus, a gas heating apparatus and a control apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicants: JNC CORPORATION, TOHO TITANIUM CO., LTD., JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Ohkubo, Toshimitsu Fuchigami, Yoshiki Iwata