MUMBAI, India, Oct. 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517091445 A) filed by Nippon Steel Corporation, Tokyo, on Sept. 24, for 'hot rolling facility and hot rolling method.'
Inventor(s) include Niitani, Hiroshi; Aoki, Toshikazu; and Kihara, Yuki.
The application for the patent was published on Oct. 10, under issue no. 41/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Provided is a hot rolling facility for hot-rolling a steel material containing Cu, the hot rolling facility comprising: a heating furnace for heating the steel material after casting to a predetermined temperature; a rough rolling device including a plurality of rolling mills for performing rough rolling of the steel material heated in the heating furnace; a finish rolling device for performing finish rolling of the steel material subjected to rough rolling by the rough rolling device; and a removal device for removing a target area that includes a crack caused by a Cu-enriched layer that is present on the top surface side of the steel material during the rough rolling or after the rough rolling and that has a higher concentration of Cu components than in a base material of the steel material, the removal device being provided on the downstream side, in a conveying direction of the steel material, of the rolling mill positioned on the most upstream side among the plurality of rolling mills of the rough rolling device and on the upstream side of the finish rolling device."
The patent application was internationally filed on Mar. 27, 2024, under International application No.PCT/JP2024/012448.
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