ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,414, issued on May 12, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Cooling water temperature control method and cooling water temperature control device for steel sheet" was invented by Masaki Hirai (Tokyo), Yusuke Ota (Tokyo) and Ichiro Tanokuchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling water temperature control method, includes: calculating thickness of a water film remaining on a steel sheet; calculating a change in the thickness of the water film; calculating a change in temperature of the steel sheet; calculating a steel sheet temperature on an exit side of a draining roll at which a position where the thickness of the water...