US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on March 17 for "Residual liquid amount detection method and detection apparatus for the same, residual molten material amount detection method and detection apparatus for the same, and method for operating vertical furnace" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,629, issued on March 17, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Residual liquid amount detection method and detection apparatus for the same, residual molten material amount detection method and detection apparatus for the same, and method for operating vertical furnace" was invented by Yuki Kawashiri (Tokyo), Tetsuya Yamamoto (Tokyo), Taihei Nouchi (Tokyo) and Kazuhira Ichikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A residual molten material amount detection method and detection apparatus that can detect a residual amount of molten material in a vertical furnace and a method for operating a vertical furnace by using the detectio...