Kawasaki Steel Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Yoshimitsu Fukui

Nobuaki Nomura

Hideyuki Nikaido

Toshisada Takechi

Tomoyuki Tezuka

Norio Takashima

Yoshiharu Anbe

Kunio Isobe

Masanori Kitahama

Yoshito Goto

Noriyasu Okitani

Taichi Hatashita

In the continuous rolling mills, the strip crown and the strip flatness of a strip can be controlled to any desired value. In the strip crown measuring method, the strip crown of the first stage rolling mill can be obtained by adding the set target strip crown value and a value obtained by multiplying the deviation in mechanical strip crown between the predicted value and the actually measured value by a imprinting ratio. Further, the strip crowns of the second and after rolling mills can be obtained by adding the set target strip crown, a value obtained by multiplying the deviation in mechanical strip crown between the predicted value and the actually measured value by a imprinting ratio, and a value obtained by multiplying the deviation in entry strip crown between the target value and the calculated measurement value by an inheritance coefficient, for each rolling mill. Further, in the control method of the continuous rolling mills, the rolling mill is controlled in correspondence to the deviation in strip crown between the value actually measured by the profile gauge and the previously calculated value, in such a way that the manipulated variables of the actuators of the rolling mills arranged on the upstream side of the rolling mill having the profile gauge are equal to each other or determined to a predetermined proportion by use of imprinting ratios and inheritance coefficients.

Strip crown measuring method and control method for continuous rolling

A sheet crown control method and apparatus for use in endless rolling in which consecutively fed sheets are joined to each other to be continuously rolled through a rolling equipment line. The rolling equipment line includes a junction device for joining consecutively fed sheets to each other, a plurality of stands arranged in tandem on the downstream side of the junction device and having a roll bender load adjusting mechanism and a roll crossing mechanism. The roll cross angle of rolls incorporated in a stand of each rolling mill is set at a predetermined value beforehand if there is a roll cross angle that will enable a target sheet crown to be applied to each sheet and the roll bender load of each stand is adjusted on-line, thereby effecting sheet crown control. Rolling also may be performed while adjusting the roll cross angle of rolls incorporated in stands of each rolling mill on-line together with the roll bender load. The roll bender load and the roll cross load may be adjusted in a transition region where a junction between sheets exists or in a stationary region where sheets of the same material follow one after another.

Sheet crown control method and rolling equipment line for endless rolling

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Chiba, Japan

Yoshimitsu Fukui