Patents by Inventor Yoshimichi Takenaka
Yoshimichi Takenaka 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).
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Patent number: 7938883Abstract: A method of making metallic iron in which a compact, containing iron oxide such as iron ore or the like and a carbonaceous reductant such as coal or the like, is used as material, and the iron oxide is reduced through the application of heat, thereby making metallic iron. In the course of this reduction, a shell composed of metallic iron is generated and grown on the surface of the compact, and slag aggregates inside the shell. This reduction continues until substantially no iron oxide is present within the metallic iron shell. Subsequently, heating is further performed to melt the metallic iron and slag. Molten metallic iron and molten slag are separated one from the other, thereby obtaining metallic iron with a relatively high metallization ratio.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2007Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Takuya Negami, Kazuo Kunii, Shinichi Inaba, Masataka Shimizu, Isao Kobayashi, Yoshimichi Takenaka, Toshihide Matsumura, Akira Uragami, Takashi Kujirai, Osamu Tsuchiya, Kimio Sugiyama, Shuzo Ito, Shoichi Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20090025511Abstract: A method of making metallic iron in which a compact, containing iron oxide such as iron ore or the like and a carbonaceous reductant such as coal or the like, is used as material, and the iron oxide is reduced through the application of heat, thereby making metallic iron. In the course of this reduction, a shell composed of metallic iron is generated and grown on the surface of the compact, and slag aggregates inside the shell. This reduction continues until substantially no iron oxide is present within the metallic iron shell. Subsequently, heating is further performed to melt the metallic iron and slag. Molten metallic iron and molten slag are separated one from the other, thereby obtaining metallic iron with a relatively high metallization ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2007Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHOInventors: Takuya Negami, Kazuo Kunii, Shinichi Inaba, Masataka Shimizu, Isao Kobayashi, Yoshimichi Takenaka, Toshihide Matsumura, Akira Uragami, Takashi Kujirai, Osamu Tsuchiya, Kimio Sugiyama, Shuzo Ito, Shoichi Kikuchi
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Patent number: 6605130Abstract: Pellets incorporated with a carbonaceous material of the present invention contain a carbonaceous material and iron ore mainly composed of iron oxide. The maximum fluidity of the carbonaceous material in softening and melting, and the ratio of iron oxide particles of 10 &mgr;m or smaller in the iron ore are within the range above a line which connects in turn points A, B and C shown in FIG. 1, including the line. This permits the production of pellets incorporated with a carbonaceous material having excellent thermal conductivity and high strength. Reduction of the pellets incorporated with a carbonaceous material produces reduced iron having high strength after reduction and a low fines ratio with improved productivity.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2001Date of Patent: August 12, 2003Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimichi Takenaka, Shoji Shirouchi, Masakata Shimizu, Kazuya Miyagawa
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Publication number: 20030061909Abstract: A method of making metallic iron in which a compact, containing iron oxide such as iron ore or the like and a carbonaceous reductant such as coal or the like, is used as material, and the iron oxide is reduced through the application of heat, thereby making metallic iron. In the course of this reduction, a shell composed of metallic iron is generated and grown on the surface of the compact, and slag aggregates inside the shell. This reduction continues until substantially no iron oxide is present within the metallic iron shell. Subsequently, heating is further performed to melt the metallic iron and slag. Molten metallic iron and molten slag are separated one from the other, thereby obtaining metallic iron with a relatively high metallization ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2002Publication date: April 3, 2003Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHOInventors: Takuya Negami, Kazuo Kunii, Shinichi Inaba, Masataka Shimizu, Isao Kobayashi, Yoshimichi Takenaka, Toshihide Matsumura, Akira Uragami, Takashi Kujirai, Osamu Tsuchiya, Kimio Sugiyama, Shuzo Ito, Shoichi Kikuchi
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Patent number: 6506231Abstract: A method of making metallic iron in which a compact, containing iron oxide such as iron ore or the like and a carbonaceous reductant such as coal or the like, is used as material, and the iron oxide is reduced through the application of heat, thereby making metallic iron. In the course of this reduction, a shell composed of metallic iron is generated and grown on the surface of the compact, and slag aggregates inside the shell. This reduction continues until substantially no iron oxide is present within the metallic iron shell. Subsequently, heating is further performed to melt the metallic iron and slag. Molten metallic iron and molten slag are separated one from the other, thereby obtaining metallic iron with a relatively high metallization ratio.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2001Date of Patent: January 14, 2003Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Takuya Negami, Kazuo Kunii, Shinichi Inaba, Masataka Shimizu, Isao Kobayashi, Yoshimichi Takenaka, Toshihide Matsumura, Akira Uragami, Takashi Kujirai, Osamu Tsuchiya, Kimio Sugiyama, Shuzo Ito, Shoichi Kikuchi
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Patent number: 6432533Abstract: A method of making metallic iron in which a compact, containing iron oxide such as iron ore or the like and a carbonaceous reductant such as coal or the like, is used as material, and the iron oxide is reduced through the application of heat, thereby making metallic iron. In the course of this reduction, a shell composed of metallic iron is generated and grown on the surface of the compact, and slag aggregates inside the shell. This reduction continues until substantially no iron oxide is present within the metallic iron shell. Subsequently, heating is further performed to melt the metallic iron and slag. Molten metallic iron and molten slag are separated one from the other, thereby obtaining metallic iron with a relatively high metallization ratio.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2000Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Takuya Negami, Kazuo Kunii, Shinichi Inaba, Masataka Shimizu, Isao Kobayashi, Yoshimichi Takenaka, Toshihide Matsumura, Akira Uragami, Takashi Kujirai, Osamu Tsuchiya, Kimio Sugiyama, Shuzo Ito, Shoichi Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20020046628Abstract: Pellets incorporated with a carbonaceous material of the present invention contain a carbonaceous material and iron ore mainly composed of iron oxide. The maximum fluidity of the carbonaceous material in softening and melting, and the ratio of iron oxide particles of 10 &mgr;m or smaller in the iron ore are within the range above a line which connects in turn points A, B and C shown in FIG. 1, including the line. This permits the production of pellets incorporated with a carbonaceous material having excellent thermal conductivity and high strength. Reduction of the pellets incorporated with a carbonaceous material produces reduced iron having high strength after reduction and a low fines ratio with improved productivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2001Publication date: April 25, 2002Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Yoshimichi Takenaka, Shoji Shirouchi, Masakata Shimizu, Kazuya Miyagawa
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Patent number: 6334883Abstract: Pellets incorporated with a carbonaceous material of the present invention contain a carbonaceous material and iron ore mainly composed of iron oxide. The maximum fluidity of the carbonaceous material in softening and melting, and the ratio of iron oxide particles of 10 &mgr;m or smaller in the iron ore are within the range above a line which connects in turn points A, B and C shown in FIG. 1, including the line. This permits the production of pellets incorporated with a carbonaceous material having excellent thermal conductivity and high strength. Reduction of the pellets incorporated with a carbonaceous material produces reduced iron having high strength after reduction and a low fines ratio with improved productivity.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1999Date of Patent: January 1, 2002Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimichi Takenaka, Shoji Shirouchi, Masakata Shimizu, Kazuya Miyagawa
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Publication number: 20010049980Abstract: A method of making metallic iron in which a compact, containing iron oxide such as iron ore or the like and a carbonaceous reductant such as coal or the like, is used as material, and the iron oxide is reduced through the application of heat, thereby making metallic iron. In the course of this reduction, a shell composed of metallic iron is generated and grown on the surface of the compact, and slag aggregates inside the shell. This reduction continues until substantially no iron oxide is present within the metallic iron shell. Subsequently, heating is further performed to melt the metallic iron and slag. Molten metallic iron and molten slag are separated one from the other, thereby obtaining metallic iron with a relatively high metallization ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2001Publication date: December 13, 2001Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHOInventors: Takuya Negami, Kazuo Kunii, Shinichi Inaba, Masataka Shimizu, Isao Kobayashi, Yoshimichi Takenaka, Toshihide Matsumura, Akira Uragami, Takashi Kujirai, Osamu Tsuchiya, Kimio Sugiyama, Shuzo Ito, Shoichi Kikuchi
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Patent number: 6302938Abstract: A carbonaceous material is controlled such that the amount of carbon is from 7 to 60 mass % based on the total amount of iron and Zn in a starting mixture comprising one or more of ducts containing iron oxide and Zn oxide and a binder in an amount to bond the dusts, and water is added to prepare green pellets incorporated with the carbonaceous material. Then, dry pellets prepared by drying the thus prepared green pellets into a reduction furnace, the dry pellets are heated by heat transfer, mainly, radiation such that a temperature elevation rate is from 3 to 13° C./sec within a temperature range from 150 to 900° C. of the pellets, thereby reducing Zn oxide and evaporating Zn, as well as reducing iron oxide to produce reduced iron pellets.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2000Date of Patent: October 16, 2001Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Tsunao Kamijo, Kazuya Miyagawa, Yoshimichi Takenaka, Masakata Shimizu, Shoji Shirouchi, Haruhisa Iwakiri
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Patent number: 6258149Abstract: A method of producing reduced iron agglomerates capable of preventing oxidation in the surface layer of the agglomerates and obtaining reduced iron agglomerates having a high degree of metallization, by blowing a methane or methane-containing gas to the reduced iron oxide agglomerates incorporated with carbonaceous material at a surface temperature of 1150° C. or higher during movement in a moving hearth heating type furnace at the end of reduction as the final stage of the stagnation period of the agglomerates in the heating furnace.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1999Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Takeshi Sugiyama, Hidetoshi Tanaka, Takao Harada, Sumito Hashimoto, Yoshimichi Takenaka, Shoji Shirouchi
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Patent number: 6152983Abstract: A carbonaceous material is controlled such that the amount of carbon is from 7 to 60 mass % based on the total amount of iron and Zn in a starting mixture comprising one or more of ducts containing iron oxide and Zn oxide and a binder in an amount to bond the dusts, and water is added to prepare green pellets incorporated with the carbonaceous material. Then, dry pellets prepared by drying the thus prepared green pellets into a reduction furnace, the dry pellets are heated by heat transfer, mainly, radiation such that a temperature elevation rate is from 3 to 13.degree. C./sec within a temperature range from 150 to 900.degree. C. of the pellets, thereby reducing Zn oxide and evaporating Zn, as well as reducing iron oxide to produce reduced iron pellets.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1998Date of Patent: November 28, 2000Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Tsunao Kamijo, Kazuya Miyagawa, Yoshimichi Takenaka, Masakata Shimizu, Shoji Shirouchi, Haruhisa Iwakiri
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Patent number: 6129777Abstract: Iron oxide agglomerates incorporated with the carbonaceous material having a particle size within a range of about 10 to 30 nm are prepared upon production of reduced iron agglomerates. Then, the iron oxides agglomerates incorporated with the carbonaceous material were laid thinly at a laying density of less than 1.4 kg/m.sup.2 /mm or lower on a hearth of a moving hearth furnace. Subsequently, the iron oxide agglomerates are heated rapidly such that the surface temperature of the iron oxide agglomerates reaches 1200.degree. C. or higher within one-third of the retention period of time of the iron oxide agglomerates in the moving hearth furnace. Then, the iron oxide agglomerates are reduced till the metallization ratio thereof reaches 85% or higher to form reduced iron agglomerates and then the reduced iron agglomerates are discharged out of the moving hearth furnace. With the procedures, reduced iron agglomerates of a high average quality can be obtained at a high productivity.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 1999Date of Patent: October 10, 2000Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Kojiro Fuji, Hidetoshi Tanaka, Takao Harada, Takeshi Sugiyama, Yoshimichi Takenaka, Kazuya Miyagawa, Shoji Shirouchi, Haruhisa Iwakiri, Makoto Nishimura, Takao Umeki, Sumito Hashimoto, Teruhisa Uehara
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Patent number: 6036744Abstract: A method of making metallic iron in which a compact, containing iron oxide such as iron ore or the like and a carbonaceous reductant such as coal or the like, is used as material, and the iron oxide is reduced through the application of heat, thereby making metallic iron. In the course of this reduction, a shell composed of metallic iron is generated and grown on the surface of the compact, and slag aggregates inside the shell. This reduction continues until substantially no iron oxide is present within the metallic iron shell. Subsequently, heating is further performed to melt the metallic iron and slag. Molten metallic iron and molten slag are separated one from the other, thereby obtaining metallic iron with a relatively high metallization ratio.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 1997Date of Patent: March 14, 2000Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Takuya Negami, Kazuo Kunii, Shinichi Inaba, Masataka Shimizu, Isao Kobayashi, Yoshimichi Takenaka, Toshihide Matsumura, Akira Uragami, Takashi Kujirai, Osamu Tsuchiya, Kimio Sugiyama, Shuzo Ito, Shoichi Kikuchi
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Patent number: 4257806Abstract: Fired iron-ore pellets are disclosed which are prepared by crushing iron ore to be pelletized, mixing a carbonaceous material of grain sizes ranging from 0.1 to 3 mm in diameter to the crushed iron ore in an amount of up to 4% by weight, pelletizing the mixture thus prepared, and firing the resulting pellets; thereby providing pellets throughout each of which is dispersed macro-pores of sizes ranging from 0.1 to 3 mm in diameter at a ratio of up to 25% relative to all pores contained in each pellet.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1978Date of Patent: March 24, 1981Assignee: Kobe Steel, LimitedInventors: Isao Fujita, Mamoru Onoda, Fumikazu Kawaguchi, Yoshimichi Takenaka, Tadao Tsutaya