Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Kawasaki Steel Corporation

Hajime Kai

Yoshiharu Anbe

Kunio Sekiguchi

Kenji Ueda

Takao Dobashi

Sumiyasu Kodama

Toshimi Mineura

Masaru Miyokawa

A rolling load signal is detected during a few rotations of a top and a bottom backup roll at different detection time points at which the top and bottom backup rolls are out of phase from each other and then are analyzed by Fourier analysis so as to detect the amplitudes and phases of the eccentricity of the top and bottom backup rolls separately, whereby the roll gap is controlled and the separately detected eccentricity of the top and bottom backup rolls is thus obtained. Even when there is a difference in roll eccentricity frequency between the top and bottom backup rolls and even when external disturbances exist due to the aging of the roll eccentricity and to the estimated errors of the mill constant M and the plasticity coefficient Q of a piece of metal to be rolled, the roll eccentricity can be suitably adjusted so that the roll eccentricity can be detected with a high degree of accuracy and then eliminated.

Method of controlling elimination of roll eccentricity in rolling mill

An apparatus for detecting a roll eccentricity in a rolling mill includes mark pulse generators each provided for upper and lower rolls from which an eccentricity is to be detected, the mark pulse generator generating one pulse per one rotation of the roll, sampling pulse generators each provided for the upper and lower rolls for generating n pulses per one rotation of the roll, and a rolling pressure detector for the rolls. After a mark pulse is generated, the rolling pressure signal outputted from the rolling pressure detector is first stored at the output timings of the sampling pulses. Next, a difference of the rolling pressure signals outputted from the rolling pressure detector is subjected to a Fourier transformation, the rolling pressure signals corresponding to those obtained after and before the relative phases of the upper and lower rolls are changed. The resultant values together with rotary angles and relative phases are used to output an eccentricity quantities independently for each roll.

Apparatus for detecting eccentricity of roll in rolling mill

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Hajime Kai