US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on Oct. 20 for "Steel continuous casting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,591, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Steel continuous casting method" was invented by Norichika Aramaki (Tokyo), Shuhei Irie (Tokyo), Akitoshi Matsui (Tokyo), Hirokazu Sugihara (Tokyo) and Yusuke Nojima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steel continuous casting method effectively reducing center segregation occurring inside a cast piece includes cooling of a cast piece performed with a water volume density per surface area of the cast piece in a first section set within a range of 50 to 2000 L/(m2xmin) or lower. The first section is a range along a cast piece withdrawing direction in a continuous ca...