IP Library Granted Patent US 8,414,716
Granted Patent B2
US 8,414,716 · App. 13/319,600 · Granted Apr 9, 2013

Cooling method of hot-rolled steel strip

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Patent No.
US 8,414,716
App. No.
13/319,600
Granted
Apr 9, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides a method of cooling a hot-rolled steel strip which has passed through a finishing rolling, including: cooling the hot-rolled steel strip from a first temperature of not lower than 600° C. and not higher than 650° C. to a second temperature of not higher than 450° C. with cooling water having the water amount density of not lower than 4 m 3 /m 2 /min and not higher than 10 m 3 /m 2 /min, wherein with respect to the area of the target surface, the area of a portion where a plurality of spray jets of the cooling water directly strikes on the target surface is at least 80%.

Claims (11)

1. A method of cooling a hot-rolled steel strip which has passed through a finishing rolling, comprising:

cooling a target surface of the hot-rolled steel strip from a first temperature of not lower than 600° C. and not higher than 650° C. to a second temperature of not higher than 450° C., with cooling water in a water amount density of not lower than 4 m 3 /m 2 /min and not higher than 10 m 3 /m 2 /min, wherein

with respect to an area of the target surface, an area of a portion where a plurality of spray jets of the cooling water directly strike on the target surface is at least 80%.

2. The method of cooling the hot-rolled steel strip according to claim 1 , wherein the cooling water is ejected such that the cooling water strikes on the target surface with a velocity of not lower than 20 m/sec.

3. The method of cooling the hot-rolled steel strip according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the cooling water is ejected such that the cooling water strikes on the target surface with a pressure of not lower than 2 kPa.

4. The method of cooling the hot-rolled steel strip according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the cooling water is ejected in a substantially conical shape, and an impact angle of the cooling water to the target surface is not smaller than 75 degrees and not larger than 90 degrees when viewed from a steel strip rolling direction.

5. The method of cooling the hot-rolled steel strip according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the cooling water which flows on an upper surface of the hot-rolled steel strip is blocked at an upstream side from a position where a supply of the cooling water starts, and the cooling water which flows on the upper surface of the hot-rolled steel strip is blocked at a downstream side from a position where the supply of the cooling water finishes.

6. The method of cooling the hot-rolled steel strip according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein:

an upper surface and a lower surface of the hot-rolled steel strip is cooled; and

a rapid cooling is performed by controlling a cooling performance for the upper surface of the hot-rolled steel strip to be not less than 0.8 times and not more than 1.2 times of a cooling performance for the lower surface of the hot-rolled steel strip.

7. The method of cooling the hot-rolled steel strip according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein only an upper surface of the hot-rolled steel strip is cooled.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 14, 2019
From: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
To: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049257/0828 →
MERGER Recorded Feb 16, 2013
From: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
To: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 029822/0654 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 10, 2011
From: SERIZAWA, YOSHIHIRO; NISHIYAMA, YASUHIRO; OGAWA, SHIGERU; IDA, SHINJI; NIKAIDOH, HITOSHI; YOSHII, ISAO; HISHINUMA, NORIYUKI; KISHIMOTO, TETSUO; TAKAGI, NOBUHIRO
To: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 027207/0745 →