C21B 5/006
Automatically controlling the process
Official title: {Automatically controlling the process}
C21B5/006 (Automatically controlling the process) appears on 59 US grants and 78 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C21B- Granted patents
- 59
- Published applications
- 78
- Assignees
- 54
- Inventors
- 216
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2018 | 3 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 5 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3 |
| 2021 | 0 | 4 |
| 2022 | 3 | 8 |
| 2023 | 2 | 8 |
| 2024 | 4 | 18 |
| 2025 | 4 | 8 |
| 2026 | 10 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method and system for adaptive learning of models in manufacturing systems15 Sep 2026US 12,737,673 B2Tata Consultancy Services Limited
- Optimal calculation method of energy operating condition in iron mill, optimal calculation device of energy operating condition in iron mill, and running method of iron mill12 May 2026US 12,624,403 B2Jfe Steel Corporation
- Hydrogen-rich blast furnace ironmaking system based on mass-energy conversion, and production control method therefor5 May 2026US 12,618,119 B2Changli County Xingguo Precision Machine Parts Co., Ltd.
- 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 furnace24 Mar 2026US 12,584,690 B2Jfe Steel Corporation
- Residual liquid amount detection method and detection apparatus for the same, residual molten material amount detection method and detection apparatus for the same, and method for operating vertical furnace17 Mar 2026US 12,577,629 B2Jfe Steel Corporation
- Hot metal temperature control method, hot metal temperature control device, hot metal temperature control system, and terminal device20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242883 A1Jfe Steel Corporation
- Furnace heat prediction data creation device and method therefor, and furnace heat prediction device and method therefor6 Aug 2026US 2026/0228384 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
- Process control method, blast furnace operation method, hot metal production method, process control device, and program30 Jul 2026US 2026/0218321 A1Jfe Steel Corporation
- Method for measuring molten material level in blast furnace, device for measuring molten material level in blast furnace, and blast furnace operation method30 Jul 2026US 2026/0218322 A1Jfe Steel Corporation
- Molten material height detection method, molten material height detection apparatus, and method for manufacturing molten material30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219092 A1Jfe Steel Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Load cell arrangement23US 4,004,647 AThe Babcock & Wilcox Company · 1977
- Industrial process control apparatus and method13US 4,500,950 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1985
- Method for operating a blast furnace13US 6,302,941 B1NKK Corporation · 2001
- Use of the continuous blast furnace gas analysis for supervision and regulation of the blast furnace operation10US 4,040,789 AAugust Thyssen-Hutte AG · 1977
- Multi-purpose zone controlled blast furnace and method of producing hot metal, gases and slags9US 4,381,938 A1983