Continuous heat treatment furnace and utilizing the same, metal tube and heat treatment method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8641841
APP PUB NO 20100156011A1
SERIAL NO

12651064

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A continuous heat treatment furnace is provided in which an atmosphere-control gas is introduced to a heating chamber having a heating zone, metal tubes are continuously charged along an axial direction from a furnace entrance, and the metal tube subjected to a heat treatment is taken out from a furnace. The continuous heat treatment furnace includes a front chamber which has a preheating zone on an entrance side of the heating chamber and seal curtains which are located on an entrance side and an exit side of the front chamber.

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  • NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Sakamoto, Akhiro Chiba, JP 2 2
Tatsuoka, Mikio Hyogo, JP 2 2

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