Hiroshi Kaneda

Title: Hiroshi Kaneda and Innovations in Wire-Rod Cooling.

Introduction

Hiroshi Kaneda is an inventor associated with Kamiichi, Japan, and Nippon Steel Corporation. His work includes inventions for cooling hot-rolled wire rods during transfer from a rolling mill. His listed portfolio includes 2 patents.

Latest Patents

Kaneda’s listed patents address methods and equipment for controlling the cooling of hot-rolled wire rods.

“Method of Cooling Hot-Rolled Wire Rods” describes forming a continuously delivered rod into rings and arranging them as a densely packed coil with slightly offset ring centers. The coil is conveyed through an enclosed space and progressively cooled. The method regulates the gaseous heat-transfer medium to keep the coil’s external surface temperature substantially uniform, helping minimize temperature differences across the coil. It also vertically drops the rings at least once to promote heat release from the coil’s core regions.

“Apparatus for Cooling Hot-Rolled Wire Rods” describes equipment that forms the rod into successive rings and gathers them into an overlapping, densely packed coil on a conveyor. A step in the conveyor loosens the coil as it passes over, while an enclosure and stirring devices help maintain progressively decreasing temperatures along the direction of travel. Coolant nozzles at the step direct coolant onto the backs of the vertically dropping rings.

Career Highlights

Kaneda’s listed inventions focus on improving heat transfer and temperature uniformity during wire-rod cooling. The method and apparatus combine coil arrangement, controlled airflow, conveyor movement, and coolant application.

Collaborations

The provided information identifies Katsunori Nashimoto and Hiroshi Sato as Kaneda’s coworkers. It does not specify their roles in the listed patents.

Conclusion

Hiroshi Kaneda’s listed patent work at Nippon Steel Corporation centers on methods and apparatus for cooling hot-rolled wire rods through controlled coil handling and heat transfer.