US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on March 24 for "Liquid level detection method and detection apparatus for the same, molten material liquid level detection method and detection apparatus for the same, and method for operating vertical furnace" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,690, issued on March 24, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

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

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