Patents by Inventor Yataka Akase

Yataka Akase 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: 20090108509
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus of thick-gauge steel plate having a plurality of pairs of constraining rolls, each comprising a top roll and bottom roll, constraining and conveying hot rolled thick-gauge steel plate and a plurality of spray nozzles spraying water on the top and bottom surfaces of the thick-gauge steel plate conveyed between the adjoining pairs of constraining rolls before and after each other in the conveyance direction, said cooling apparatus of thick-gauge steel plate characterized by arranging said plurality of spray nozzles so that: (i) the sum of the areas of the impact surfaces of the water sprays from the top surface side spray nozzles on the surface of the thick-gauge steel plate is in the range of 4 to 90% of the surface area of the steel plate between the roll outer circumferences at the closest distance between the pairs of constraining rolls and (ii) the sum of the areas of the impact surfaces of the water sprays from the bottom surface side spray nozzles on the surface of the thick-gauge ste
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Seruzawa, Ryuji Yamamoto, Hisayoshi Matsunaga, Shigetru Ogawa, Yataka Akase, Hironori Ueno