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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2022
Filed:
May. 12, 2017
Applicant:
Kobe Steel, Ltd., Kobe, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kobe Steel, Ltd., Kobe, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C21B 13/00 (2006.01); C21B 13/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C21B 13/105 (2013.01); C21B 13/004 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a reduced iron production method enabling heat to be input well into reduced-iron raw materials on a hearth covering material in a reduction-melting furnace to improve the efficiency of treatment thereof. The reduced-iron raw materials are set on the hearth covering material through their falls and reduced on the hearth covering material. The hearth covering material is constituted by carbon materials each having a particle diameter of 5 mm or less. At least 7 mass % of the carbon materials have respective particle diameters each being 0.1 mm or less. This restrains the reduced-iron raw materials from embedment into the hearth covering material.