US Patent Issued to JFE Steel on July 22 for "Metal-strip rapid cooling apparatus, metal-strip rapid cooling method, and method of producing metal strip product" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,956, issued on July 22, was assigned to JFE Steel Corp. (Tokyo).

"Metal-strip rapid cooling apparatus, metal-strip rapid cooling method, and method of producing metal strip product" was invented by Soshi Yoshimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal-strip rapid cooling apparatus includes a cooling fluid ejection device including one set of nozzles or a plurality of sets of nozzles arranged in a horizontal direction, and configured to eject a cooling fluid onto the metal strip from both sides of the metal strip; cooling fluid removing rolls configured to remove a remaining fluid from the metal strip onto which the cooling fl...