# US 8,772,674 B2 · Method of heating plated steel plate

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- Number: US 8,772,674 B2
- Document ID: US8772674B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 13/367,127
- Filed: 2012-02-06
- Published: 2012-08-16
- Granted: 2014-07-08
- Earliest claimed: 2011-02-15
- Assignees: Asteer Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Kouji Shimotsu
- Inventors: Kouji Shimotsu
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8772674B2

## CPC

- C21D 1/40: Direct resistance heating
- H05B 3/0004: {Devices wherein the heating current flows through the material to be heated (Circuit arrangements for heating by passing the current directly across the material to be heated H05B3/0023; granular, powdered or fluid material H05B3/60)}
- Y10T 428/12493: Composite; i.e., plural, adjacent, spatially distinct metal components [e.g., layers, joint, etc.]
- C21D: MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING (surface treatment of metallic material involving at least one process provided for in class C23 and at least one process covered by this subclass C23F17/00; unidirectional solidification of eutectic materials or unidirectional demixing of eutectoid materials C30B)
- H05B: ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
- Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION

## Abstract

When applying a current to a plated steel plate, plating often biases. In the present invention, when applying a current, the current is applied with a flux guiding member arranged in proximity to a side surface of the plated steel plate. The direction of the magnetic flux at the side surface of the plated steel plate is corrected, and the bias of the plating is efficiently suppressed.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method of heating a plated steel for quenching by directly applying a current to the plated steel plate, the method comprising the steps of:
connecting electrodes to the plated steel plate including a pair of side surfaces extending in a direction along which the applied current flows;
arranging a pair of solid metal blocks having high magnetic permeability, which have wall surfaces orthogonal to an upper surface of the plated steel plate, along the pair of side surfaces of the plated steel plate with an insulating gaps provided between the pair of side surfaces and the wall surfaces of the pair of solid metal blocks; and
applying the current to the plated steel plate.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of heating the plated steel plate for quenching according to claim 1, wherein the current is applied with an insulating plates arranged in the insulating gaps between the wall surfaces of the pair of solid metal blocks having high magnetic permeability and the pair of side surfaces of the plated steel plate so that the insulating plates closely contact the wall surfaces of the paw of solid metal blocks and the pair of side surfaces of the plated steel plate.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method of heating the plated steel plate for quenching according to claim 1, wherein the pair of solid metal blocks having high magnetic permeability includes a concaved grooves having a cross-sectional shape that encompasses encompass the pair of side surfaces of the plated steel plate extending in the direction along which the applied current flows, the concaved grooves being provided on the wall surfaces orthogonal to the upper surface of the plated steel plate.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The method of heating the plated steel plate for quenching according to claim 3, wherein the current is applied with insulating plates fitted into the concaved grooves of the member pair of solid metal blocks having high magnetic permeability so that the insulating plates closely contact the concaved grooves and the side surfaces of the steel plate.