Hitachi, Ltd.

Nippon Steel Corporation

Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.

Toshiyuki Kajiwara

Yoshio Takakura

Yasutsugu Yoshimura

Tomoaki Kimura

Tadashi Nishino

Mitsuo Nihei

Takao Sakanaka

Kenichi Yasuda

Shinichi Kaga

Hidetoshi Nishi

Tokuji Sugiyama

Kenji Horii

Takao Funamoto

Teruo Sekiya

Hironori Shimogama

Ken-ichi Yasuda

Yoshihiko Iida

Kazuo Kobayashi

Yutaka Fukui

Satoshi Hirano

Keiichi Kuniya

Hideyo Kodama

Yukio Hirama

Masahisa Sobue

Fuminori Ishikawa

Kimihiko Akahori

Toshimi Sasaki

Takashi Norikura

Toyotsugu Masuda

Takashi Mashiko

Sensuke Okada

Kenichi Koyama

Yoshihisa Furuzono

Hiromitsu Mitsui

Gen Nagakubo

Yusutsugu Yoshimura

Akira Goto

Koichi Seki

Masahiro Hayashi

Kenji Yamamoto

Ken Ichiryu

Kinpei Okano

Hiroyuki Shiraiwa

Hiromi Matsumoto

Hitoshi Okoshi

Toshio Kikuma

Shunzo Tomioka

Tsuneo Nakamura

Shigeru Shida

Kouichi Seki

Teruo Yamaguchi

Shigemichi Matsuka

Michimasa Takagi

Ryohei Kinose

Keiji Miyakozawa

Haruo Kinoshita

Hidekazu Tabata

Minoru Igari

Tsuneo Ochiai

Kouichi Matsumoto

Kenichi Yoshimoto

Chukichi Hanzawa

Masaki Ishimoto

Toshiyuki Kadota

Kazuyuki Nakano

Kenzi Tabusi

Tatsuji Kojima

Tetsuya Higuchi

Isamu Ishiyama

Ryo Abo

Shunichi Hamada

Masayoshi Tagawa

Norihito Satou

Hideotoshi Nishi

Tadayuki Watanabe

Tadashi Nisino

Masaaki Kouga

Teruo Yamagushi

Shinichi Yasunari

Ryohei Konose

Isao Asotani

Tetsuji Taniguchi

Shigekazu Nagashima

Noriyoshi Sonobe

To improve the productivity of the cold rolling facility by providing the cold rolling facility with a strip wiper free of dust and foreign matters suitable for high-speed rolling. The wiping ability was greatly improved by floating and supporting the wiper roll by the static pressure bearing of air of two-pocket type, and by variably adjusting the load range of the floating force in response to the plate width. At high-speed rolling exceeding 700 m/min which was incapable with the conventional roll wiper or tube wiper, the productivity of the cold rolling facility and the surface quality of the strip were greatly improved by applying to the cold rolling facility the wiping device whose wiping ability is equal to or better than the tube wiper at low speeds, and its effect is very large.

Strip wiper device, strip wiping method, rolling mill and rolling method

The work rolls of two sets of roller groups are held within one-piece metal chock in a rolling mill. A one-piece metal chock in which the driving side and operating side are separate then provides support at the upper part of the rolling material, with support similarly being provided at the lower part using another pair of single piece metal chocks. Two sets of roll groups can then be arranged close to each other, strip walking and strip curving can be prevented, and a rolling mill, rolling method and rolling installation that are easy to maintain and provide superior rolling efficiency can be provided.

Rolling mill and rolling method and rolling equipment

A bonding apparatus for bonding metal plates, includes an overlapping mechanism for overlapping end portions of the metal plates, at least two supports for supporting the overlapped portion of the metal plates at one side of the metal plates, and a shearing blade disposed opposite the supports so as to sandwich the overlapped portion of the metal plates therebetween, wherein a moving mechanism is provided for relatively moving at least one of the shearing blade and the supports so as to press the shearing blade into the overlapped portion of the metal plates disposed between the supports and the shearing glade. A method for bonding is characterized by bonding metal plates by using the above apparatus.

Method of bonding metal plates, apparatus therefor and hot strip mill

A cluster type multi-roll rolling mill with 20 rolls provided in a mono-block housing has 4 backing bearing shafts for supporting rolls on each of two, upper and lower, sides of a travelling path of a rolling material, and is characterized in that the 4 backing bearing shafts on at least one side of said two, upper and lower sides consist of two outside backing bearing shafts and two central backing bearing shafts, the two outside backing bearing shafts each are fixed to the housing through a saddle, the two central backing bearing shafts between the two outside backing bearing shafts are movable in a vertical direction and a drive mechanism is provided for moving vertically the two central backing bearing shafts.

Cluster type multi-roll rolling mill and rolling method

A work roll crossing type rolling mill has back-up rolls arranged in such a manner that their axes are not inclined in a horizontal plane. Work rolls are constructed in such a manner that their axes can be inclined in a horizontal plane relative to the backup rolls such that the axes of the work rolls cross the axes of the back-up rolls and such that the axes of the work rolls cross each other. A lubricant supply device is provided for supplying a lubricant between each work roll and each back-up roll combination to greatly reduce the thrust exerted to the work rolls, whereby the rolling mill is given an excellent ability of controlling the crown of the material to be rolled.

Rolling mill, hot rolling system, rolling method and rolling mill

A rolling mill drive apparatus for driving any rolls of a pair of work rolls, 2 to 4 intermediate rolls and 2 to 4 backup rolls comprises a drive roller without tooth, rotated by an electric motor, at least one driven roller without tooth, contacting with the drive roller, a load imparting device for imparting a contact load between the drive roller and the driven roller to rotate the driven roller with frictional force caused by the contact load, and a spindle connected to at least the driven roller of the drive roller and the driven roller and transmitting rotation of the driven roller to the rolls. A rolling mill uses the rolling mill drive apparatus. A rolling method is for rolling using the rolling mill.

Rolling mill drive apparatus, rolling mill and rolling method

A bonding apparatus for bonding metal plates, includes an overlapping mechanism for overlapping end portions of the metal plates, at least two supports for supporting the overlapped portion of the metal plates at one side of the metal plates, and a shearing blade disposed opposite the supports so as to sandwich the overlapped portion of the metal plates therebetween, wherein a mechanism is provided for moving relatively moving at least one of the shearing blade and the supports so as to press the shearing blade into the overlapped portion of the metal plates disposed between the supports and the shearing blade. A method for bonding is characterized by bonding metal plates by using the above apparatus.

A strip rolling mill of cluster type has, on at least one side of the strip path, a work roll, a plurality of intermediate rolls supporting said work roll and a plurality of backing bearing assemblies supporting said intermediate rolls. Each backing bearing assembly has a row of backing bearing units and shape control means by which the backing bearing units are adjustable relative to the work roll axis so that strip shape control can be applied. All backing bearing assemblies on one side of the strip path have such shape control means. In the mill at least two of the shape control means are independently operable so as to apply respectively different shape control patterns to the work roll.

Shape control in a strip rolling mill of cluster type

A work roll cross type rolling mill comprises a pair of work rolls and a pair of back-up rolls for backing up the work rolls. The back-up rolls are so arranged that their axes can be inclined within horizontal planes only to three or four specific angular positions. The work rolls are allowed to be inclined within horizontal planes with respect to the back-up rolls such that the axes of the work rolls cross the axes of the associated back-up rolls and cross each other. The nip between each the work roll and the associated back-up roll is lubricated so as to reduce axial thrust generated therebetween due to the crossing of the rolls. The cross angle between the work rolls is set and controlled during rolling operation only when the roll peripheral speed or the rolling speed is 50 m/min or higher. Advantages of work roll cross type rolling mill are fully extended to realize stable rolling without trouble so as to ensure high quality of the rolled product while achieving higher rate of operation of the mill with facilitated operation.

Rolling mill and method of using the same

A multi-high rolling mill is disclosed which includes an upper work roll backed by an intermediate roll and a backup roll and a lower work roll backed up by a single backup roll. Control benders are provided on each of the intermediate roll and the upper and lower work rolls. In order to optimize the control of the rolling operation for skinpass rolling and the like, the control benders for the upper work roll and the intermediate backup roll are controlled so as to effect a control of the crown sheet over the entire width of the material being rolled, while the control bender for the lower work roll controls the sheet crown of the rolled material at the lateral side end portions, resulting in a composite control substantially improving the sheet quality and preventing edge wrinkles in the material being rolled. In the disclosed embodiments, the intermediate roll has a larger drum length than a predetermined maximum sheet width of rolled material to be rolled by the work roll. The shape of sheet material is sensed by a shape detector which provides a signal to a controller which actuates the roll benders.

Five-high rolling mill

The apparatus is formed by confronting wide side mold walls and confronting narrow side mold walls, The narrow side mold walls are composed of an electrically conductive refractory material and are directly heated. Each of the narrow side mold walls include an upper squeezed portion and a lower parallel portion, The upper squeezed portion has a surface in contact with the molten metal which converges in width along a casting direction. The lower parallel portion has surface in contact with the molten metal which is substantially uniform in width.

Apparatus for and method of continuous casting

A mill including large-diameter work rolls which are directly driven is disposed in an upstream stage of a hot strip finish rolling mill train, and mills including small-diameter work rolls which are driven by back-up rolls or intermediate rolls are disposed in middle and downstream stages of the hot strip finish rolling mill train, so that a strip can be rolled with strong draft and at a low speed, whereby a small-scale production of hot strips on the order of million tons annual yield can be achieved with a compact structure of equipment.

Hot steel plate rolling mill system and rolling method

By rolling a slab with a thickness of 80 mm or less in a plant including a continuous casting machine and a hot strip rolling mill directly combined with each other, low-speed rolling can be achieved while suppressing a drop of the strip temperature and the occurrence of scales. After a slab 2 cast by a continuous casting machine 1 and being 80 mm or less thick is heated and descaled, it is rough-rolled into a bar with a thickness of 20 to 60 mm by a roughing mill 7 constructed as a 4H-twin mill. After being heated and descaled again, the bar is finish-rolled by finishing mills 19 to 21, each of which employs small-diameter work rolls having a diameter not larger than 500 mm, into a thin plate with a thickness in the range of 1.6 mm to 15 mm or a thick plate with a thickness in the range of 3 mm to 40 mm. The rolling speed on the delivery side of the finishing mills 19 to 21 is set to be as low as 350 m/minute or less with a result of small production scale, and the plant length is set to be not longer than 100 m with a result of small plant space.

Hot strip rolling plant and method directly combined with continuous

The integrated manufacturing system is formed by the combination of a continuous casting apparatus and hot rolling mills. The continuous casting apparatus is formed by confronting wide side mold walls and confronting narrow side mold walls. The narrow side mold walls are composed of an electrically conductive refractory material and are directly heated. Each of the narrow side mold walls include an upper squeezed portion and a lower parallel portion. The upper squeezed portion has a surface in contact with the molten metal which converges in width along a casting direction. The lower parallel portion has a surface in contact with the molten metal which is substantially uniform in width.

Integrated manufacturing system

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Tokyo, Japan

Toshiyuki Kajiwara