Nippon Steel Corporation

Teruo Kawabata

Noriyuki Suzuki

Takeshi Kawachi

Eiichi Takeuchi

Kazuto Yamamura

Hiroyuki Mitake

Masahiro Doki

Yoshiaki Kimura

Junichi Kinoshita

Katsuhiro Imanaga

Rikiya Kanno

A transferred plasma heating anode for heating a molten metal in a container by applying Ar plasma generated by passing a direct current through the molten metal, the transferred plasma heating anode comprising; an anode, composed of a conductive metal, that has an internal cooling structure, a metal protector having an internal cooling structure that is placed outside the anode with a constant gap between the anode and the protector, and a gas supply means that supplies an Ar-containing gas to the gap, is characterized by the central portion on the external surface of the anode tip end being inwardly recessed.

Transfer type plasma heating anode

A continuous casting apparatus for molten metal is equipped with a mold having an electromagnetic coil which imparts a low frequency alternating current to the initially solidified portion of a meniscus and is formed with a plurality of divided cooling portions wherein the divided cooling portions are formed with a plurality of cooling copper plates each having cooling paths and back plates. The outer wall of the divided cooling portions is formed by facing the cooling path side of each of the divided cooling copper plates to that of the corresponding nonmagnetic stainless steel back plate and closing and fixing both plates, and the cooling copper plates are electrically insulated from each other by bonding electric insulating material to the joint faces of the cooling copper plates.

Continuous casting apparatus for molten metal

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Muroran, Japan

Teruo Kawabata