Patents by Inventor Toshinori Matsuo

Toshinori Matsuo 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).

  • Method and apparatus for cooling steel sheet
    Patent number: 4440584
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for cooling a steel sheet, which comprises: ejecting cooling water onto a steel sheet laid horizontally from above and from below said steel sheet immediately after the completion of hot rolling to cool said steel sheet; shielding each of the both side edge portions of the upper surface in the width direction of said steel sheet from said ejected cooling water by a shielding means movable in the width direction of said steel sheet so that the temperature distribution in the width direction of said steel sheet becomes uniform at the completion of the ejection of cooling water; and, determining a shielding width of each of said both side edge portions of said steel sheet, which is shielded from said ejected cooling water, on the basis of the width and the thickness of said steel sheet, the temperature and the flow rate per unit area of cooling water ejected onto the upper and the lower surfaces of said steel sheet, the period of time from start to completion of the ejection of cooling
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1984
    Assignee: Nippon Kokan Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Takeshige, Kenji Hirabe, Yukifumi Ogawa, Kazuyoshi Arikata, Kazunori Yako, Kenichi Sakai, Toshinori Matsuo, Hiroshi Kamio