JP2008296249A - Method for photographing overall width of hot-rolled metallic band using near infrared ray camera in hot rolling and method for recording overall width photographing result - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide suitable methods in a method for photographing the overall width of a hot-rolled metallic band and a method for recording overall width photographing results such that quality assurance, when delivering a product to customers, is properly performed. <P>SOLUTION: When photographing the overall width of the hot-rolled metallic band 8 by using the near infrared ray camera 25A which is installed on the inlet side of a coiler 24 of a hot-rolling line 100, a shutter speed is adjusted in accordance with the temperature of the hot-rolled metallic band 8. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  In the present invention, when a metal material is hot-rolled to form a hot-rolled metal strip (hereinafter referred to as a material to be rolled), the near-infrared camera is used immediately before winding the hot-rolled metal strip as a hot-rolled metal strip. The present invention relates to a method for photographing a full width and a method for recording a photographed result.

  The hot rolling is generally performed by heating a slab-like metal material produced by continuous casting, ingot-making, or ingoting to several hundred to several hundreds of degrees Celsius in a heating furnace, and then on the hot rolling line. This is a process in which the roll is rotated while being pinched by a pair or a plurality of pairs of rolls, and is rolled thinly and wound into a coil shape.

  FIG. 13 shows an example of a hot rolling line 100 that has been generally used conventionally. A metal material 8 having a thickness of 140 to 300 mm (hereinafter referred to as a material to be rolled) heated to several hundred to several hundreds of degrees Celsius by the heating furnace 10 is rolled to a thickness of 0.8 to 25 mm by a roughing mill 12 and a finishing mill 18. And thinly stretched into a metal strip.

  In the case of the hot rolling line 100 shown in FIG. 13, the rough rolling mill 12 has two groups of R2 and R4, but the number of bases is not necessarily limited to this. In addition to one or two, the most common one is four, and the one with a large number is up to six. As in the case of the hot rolling line 100 shown in FIG. 13, the numbers R2 and R4 are skipped only because R1 and R3 are planned to be added to the empty space in the case of an increase in production in the future. . Although not shown in FIG. 13, there is also one in which a width press is installed immediately upstream of the roughing mill 12.

  Although there are differences in these various radixes, the roughing mill 12 generally performs rough rolling 6 times or 7 times in total by reciprocating rolling, unidirectional rolling, or both, and the material to be rolled after rough rolling. 8 is supplied to the finishing mill 18 following it. Each rolling in the rough rolling is also called a rolling pass, and rolling a plurality of times such as 6 times or 7 times is also called rolling with 6 passes or 7 passes.

In the case of the hot rolling line 100 shown in FIG. 13, rough rolling is performed with a total of 6 passes, 5 passes for R2, 1 pass for R4. (In the case of the four most common ones, it is common to perform rough rolling in a total of 6 passes, 3 passes for R1, 1 pass each for R2, R3, and R4.)
In the case of the hot rolling line 100 shown in FIG. 13, the number of rolling mills (stands) constituting the finish rolling mill 18 is seven of F1 to F7, but there are six.

  The finishing mill 18 takes the form of a tandem rolling mill that simultaneously rolls a high-temperature rolled material 8 of several hundred to several hundreds of degrees Celsius with a plurality of rolling mills. Often referred to as a “rolling mill”. 19 is a roll.

  As shown in FIG. 13, it is a hot rolling method in which one rolling material is rolled by the finish rolling mill 18 and the next rolling material is rolled at a certain time interval to repeat the operation. Is called batch rolling. On the other hand, in some cases, the materials to be rolled are joined and finish-rolled, which is called continuous hot rolling or endless rolling, but batch rolling is more common.

  By the way, in the hot rolling line 100, many (one hundred or more) table rolls (not shown) are installed between other rolling mills (stands) except between the stands of the finish rolling mill 18. The rolled material 8 is conveyed.

  Further, when the material 8 is extracted from the heating furnace 10, oxide layers (hereinafter referred to as scales) are formed on the front and back surfaces thereof. In addition, since the rolled material 8 is exposed to the atmosphere at a high temperature even in the process of being rolled and thinned and lowered in temperature by heat radiation, new scales are generated on the front and back surfaces of the rolled material 8. For this reason, on the entry side of each rolling mill in the rough rolling mill 12, descaling is performed by spraying high-pressure water inside and outside 10 to 30 MPa on the front and back surfaces of the material to be rolled 8 as the supply pressure from the pump. A device 16 is installed to remove the scale.

  Moreover, although not shown in figure, since each work roll 19 contacts a hot material to be rolled, it is cooled with cooling water. Each backup roll 20 is also cooled by cooling water.

  In FIG. 13, 14 is a crop shear, which cuts and removes the crop at the leading end of the material 8 to be rolled (finished portion at the leading end of the material 8 to be rolled) before finish rolling. 18 is shaped into a substantially rectangular planar shape that is easy to be smoothly bitten.

  50 is a control device, 70 is a process computer, and 90 is a business computer.

  By the way, the quality required for the metal strip rolled in the hot rolling line 100 as shown in FIG. 13 has become increasingly sophisticated in recent years. A typical example is a steel product, that is, a steel strip. In particular, with the recent trend toward lighter automobiles, the demand for high-tensile steel, that is, high-tensile steel, has increased, and the required quality has also improved.

  High-strength steel often refers to steel having a tensile strength of 400 MPa or more. However, in recent years, not only high tensile strength, but also cracking when press working or hole expansion processing, etc. In addition to high workability, quality such as tensile strength and high workability is required to be as uniform as possible regardless of where the steel strip is.

  In the production of high-strength steel, in terms of composition, the Si content is typically increased, but in addition, depending on the use of the steel strip and the quality required for it, C, Mn, Ti, Various components such as Nb,... May be adjusted.

  However, the production technique and conditions for producing the above-mentioned quality in the production stage of hot rolling are important for any component, and among them, the material 8 to be rolled after finish rolling is important. The temperature of the steel sheet is cooled to the temperature of the coiler 24, and how to make the temperature just before the winding as uniform as possible on the steel strip as a product becomes a problem. .

  Therefore, in the example of the hot rolling line 100 shown in FIG. 13, the temperature immediately before winding the rolled material 8 measured by the coiler entry side thermometer 25 is the product hot-rolled metal strip to be delivered to the customer. In addition, it is most important for quality assurance, and in addition, control of the run-out table 23 and the cooling-related equipment 26 installed therein is important. Furthermore, the temperature of the material 8 to be rolled immediately after finish rolling, which is measured with the finish delivery thermometer 21, is also important.

  As mentioned earlier, in recent years, the quality required for high-strength steel has become sophisticated, and on the steel strip that is the product, how the quality can be made as uniform as possible. In addition, how to make the temperature just before winding as uniform as possible has become a problem. For that purpose, the temperature just before winding the material to be rolled 8 is changed to the material to be rolled 8. Must be measured over the full width of Further, when considering the control of the runout table 23 and the cooling-related equipment 26 installed thereabove, the temperature immediately after the finish rolling of the material 8 to be rolled may have to be measured over the entire width of the material 8 to be rolled. is there.

  In this regard, in the past, in a hot rolling line such as the hot rolling line 100 that has been generally used conventionally, the finishing side thermometer 21 and the coiler inlet side thermometer 25 have a width of the material 8 to be rolled. It was fixedly installed at a position corresponding to the center of the direction and relied on an infrared radiation thermometer having a field spot diameter of 20 to 50 mm at most.

  In other words, the temperature of the material 8 in the width direction of the material 8 to be rolled is merely measured over the entire length, and the temperature distribution in the width direction is not measured. Was enough.

  However, even if the result of the temperature measurement over the entire length, represented by the center in the width direction of the material 8 to be rolled, is a temperature distribution that is acceptable for quality assurance in the longitudinal direction of the material 8 to be rolled, Even in the width direction of 8, the temperature distribution that is acceptable for quality assurance cannot be actually guaranteed unless the width direction temperature distribution is measured.

  Under batch rolling, the effect of flatness control in the finish rolling mill 18 does not yet appear. The tip of the material 8 to be rolled is several tens of meters, or the tension does not act, and the coiler 24 starts from the final stand of the finishing mill 18. In the hundreds of tens of meters of the tip or tail end of the material to be rolled 8 corresponding to the distance up to, there is inevitably an uneven portion of the shape of the material to be rolled 8, and the shape of the mountain wave is irregular, As shown in FIG. 14, when a pool of cooling water is locally generated at the tip of the material 8 to be rolled, the portion is cooled locally and the temperature distribution in the width direction becomes uniform. Hateful.

  By the way, the phenomenon that occurs between the surface of the steel and the cooling water is that when the temperature of the steel material to be rolled is 550 ° C. or higher, the entire surface of the material to be rolled 8 as shown in FIG. Although it is in a state of film boiling covered with 550 ° C., the film of water vapor becomes unstable from below about 550 ° C., and there is a part where the cooling water w and the material to be rolled 8 are in direct contact with each other. As shown in FIG. 15 (b), when the state shifts to the state of nucleate boiling, and further the temperature of the material 8 to be rolled decreases as a whole, the state completely shifts to the state of nucleate boiling.

  The problem is that in the process in which the temperature of the material to be rolled 8 is decreasing as a whole, nucleate boiling promotes heat transfer rather than film boiling, and the value converted to a heat transfer coefficient also increases. In the part where nucleate boiling occurs, the temperature of the material to be rolled 8 is likely to decrease locally compared to other surrounding parts.

  In the case of high-strength steel, the value obtained as the temperature immediately before winding is often less than 550 ° C. in order to ensure quality, and therefore the timing of passing through the temperature range where film boiling shifts to nucleate boiling is the material to be rolled 8 There is an early part and a late part in some parts and other parts around.

  In the portion having the water pool as described above, a portion having a low temperature (black spot) is locally formed on the material 8 to be rolled, so that the material 8 to be rolled immediately before winding is finally formed between the portion having the water pool and the portion not having the water pool. Accordingly, the quality of the rolled material 8 as a whole is not uniform, and the quality is locally deviated from the allowable range.

  Efforts have been made to measure the temperature distribution in the width direction of the material 8 to be rolled. However, there are problems as described above, and it can be said that their importance has increased in recent years.

  In the past, in order to measure the temperature distribution in the width direction of the material 8 to be rolled, in addition to the thermometer fixedly installed at a position corresponding to the center in the width direction of the material 8 to be rolled, By installing a thermometer that scans in the width direction, and scanning the material 8 being conveyed in the width direction, the result is a scan (scanning) that draws a locus on the material 8 as a result. ) And measured the temperature. For this reason, as shown in FIG. 16 as viewed from above the hot rolling line, a portion called a black spot having a locally low temperature may not be scanned, and as a result, the same portion may not be detected.

  Patent Document 1 describes that the temperature distribution in the width direction of the steel plate after controlled cooling is discretely measured over the entire length of the steel plate. As shown in FIG. 17, black or shadow in which the timing at which a temperature deviation occurs in the width or longitudinal direction of the steel sheet coincides with the timing at which the use of cooling related equipment such as a cooling bank, nozzle and / or header starts or ends. It is described that a part of the entire length of the entire length 8 of the material to be rolled 8 is determined as an abnormal part, and the cooling device is also diagnosed as abnormal.

  In Patent Document 1, as can be seen from FIG. 17, the temperature of the material 8 to be rolled is discretely measured at a pitch of 200 mm in the width direction.

  In Patent Document 2, for the case of a thick plate rolling line, the temperature distribution of the steel sheet is measured by a thermoviewer or a scanning (scanning) type radiation thermometer on the downstream side (exit side) of the hot straightening device (hot leveler). The purpose is to determine the residual stress distribution, and to adjust the conditions of the heat treatment that is the subsequent manufacturing process, thereby suppressing the deformation due to residual stress release when cutting the steel sheet as much as possible, That's it.

  Here, the thermoviewer means that the basic principle is the same as that of a near-infrared camera. For example, square pixels are arranged two-dimensionally vertically and horizontally, and temperature data measured at each pixel is linearly interpolated to obtain the temperature of the object. Although the distribution is to be measured pseudo-continuously, the vertical and horizontal dimensions per pixel are smaller than 200 mm, which is an example of the discrete temperature measurement pitch in Patent Document 1 described above. For this reason, a temperature distribution closer to continuity can be measured.

  In Patent Document 2, it is unclear where and how much region of the material to be rolled is to be measured, but it is certainly not the full width. As an example, there is a reference to a steel plate with a width of 3000 mm. As a measurable region, a near-infrared camera that can cover the entire width of a steel plate with a width of 3000 mm has been developed as well as at the time of filing of Patent Document 2. Because it is not.

  Patent Document 3 describes that, in the case of a hot rolling line of a steel strip, the temperature of the plane of the steel plate being conveyed is measured on the upstream side (entrance side) from the cooling-related equipment. The purpose is to perform cooling control by water cooling when the minimum temperature of the plane temperature is not more than a predetermined temperature and the deviation of the plane temperature is not more than a predetermined value, and the deviation of the plane temperature is a predetermined value. When the temperature exceeds the range, by performing cooling control by gas cooling, the temperature deviation is reduced and the quality is made as uniform as possible.

Note that Patent Document 3 does not describe a near-infrared camera as a means for measuring the temperature of the flat surface of a steel sheet, and it is also unclear where and how much of the rolled material is to be measured. It is.
JP-A-2005-279665 JP 2003-31326 A JP 2000-313920 A

  Since the technology of Patent Document 1 is based on discrete temperature measurement of a material to be rolled, such as a pitch of 200 mm in the width direction, the material to be rolled being transported has been scanned in the width direction. As in the case of measuring the temperature, there is a problem that a portion called a black spot having a locally low temperature may not be detected.

  The technique of Patent Document 2 is intended for a thick plate rolling line, and the measurement visual field does not cover the entire width of the material to be rolled. For this reason, when there is a portion called a black spot having a locally low temperature in a portion of the material to be rolled out of the field of view, there is a problem that the same portion may not be detected in the same manner.

  The technique of Patent Document 3 also has a problem that the shutter speed described in the best mode for carrying out the invention described later is not sufficiently short from the technical level at the time of filing. It is unlikely to cover the full width, and only describes that the cooling by the cooling-related equipment is used for control to switch between water cooling and air cooling in a feed-forward manner. As a result, the flat (two-dimensional) temperature distribution of the material to be rolled is not subject to measurement, and the measurement results are not recorded, and products for consumers are not used. The problem remained in that we could not guarantee the quality on delivery.

  The present invention has been made to solve such a problem of the prior art, and is capable of appropriately performing quality assurance on product delivery to consumers, and a full-width photographing method of a hot-rolled metal strip, and full-width photographing result recording. It is intended to provide a preferred method.

That is, the present invention is as follows.
(1) When photographing the full width of a hot-rolled metal strip using a near-infrared camera installed on the coiler entrance side of a hot rolling line, the shutter speed is adjusted according to the temperature of the hot-rolled metal strip. Full width photography method of hot rolled metal strip.
(2) A method for photographing the full width of a hot-rolled metal strip, wherein the shutter speed is increased so that the resolution of the temperature measured by photographing the full width of the hot-rolled metal strip using a near-infrared camera can be secured.
(3) A full length full width photographing method of the hot rolled metal strip using the full width photographing method of the hot rolled metal strip of (1) or (2).
(4) A method for recording a full width photographing result of a hot-rolled metal strip, which records the photographing result of any one of (1) to (3).

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the suitable method in the full-width imaging | photography method of a hot-rolled metal strip and a full-width imaging | photography result recording method which can perform the quality guarantee on the product delivery with respect to a consumer appropriately can be provided.

  The parts with black spots are inferior in mechanical properties such as the elongation and hole expandability of the steel strip that is the product. We must respond to the condition of delivery.

  In order to prevent such parts of the rolled material with black spots from being delivered to the customer by mistake and to ensure quality assurance, the parts of the rolled material with such black spots It is necessary to be able to make a quality judgment that the image is accurately captured as a locally low temperature portion.

  For this purpose, as shown in FIG. 9A, it is preferable to install a near-infrared camera that can cover and cover the entire width of the material to be rolled 8 on the entrance side of the coiler. Of course, it may be installed in the middle of the run-out table or on the exit side of the finish rolling mill, or may be installed in a plurality of locations as shown in FIGS. 9 (b) to 9 (d).

  Here, the near-infrared camera installed on the inlet side of the coiler is 30 m from the center of the mandrel (not shown) of the coiler 24 on the upstream side in the conveying direction of the material 8 to the upstream side (incoming side) in the conveying direction of the material 8 to be rolled. It is preferable to install in the position within.

  The near-infrared camera installed on the finishing mill exit side is installed at a position within 30 m from the center of the work roll of the final stand of the finishing mill 18 to the downstream side (exit side) in the conveying direction of the material 8 to be rolled. It is preferable to do this.

  If the near-infrared camera installed in the middle of the run-out table is installed, it is preferable to install it in the middle position between them.

  FIG. 1 shows the relationship between the excision length and the poor flatness (steepness) of the tip, such as a) ear extension and b) medium extension.

  If the portion where the black spot is formed on the material 8 to be rolled is long in the longitudinal direction due to poor flatness (steepness) of the tip such as a) ear extension and b) medium extension, FIG. As can be seen from the above, it is necessary to lengthen the excision length when excising the entire length of the region including the remarkable portion of the black spot in a post-process such as pickling.

  For this reason, in the longitudinal direction of the material 8 to be rolled, the effect of controlling the flatness in the finish rolling mill 18 does not yet appear. It is preferable to cover and photograph a non-flat portion of the shape of the material 8 to be rolled, which corresponds to the distance from the final stand to the coiler 24, which is several hundreds of meters at the front end or tail end of the material 8 to be rolled.

  Of course, it is also preferable to photograph the entire length of the material 8 to be rolled.

  Each photograph in FIG. 1 is a temporary infrared camera taken on the hot rolling line 100 at a position 1 m upstream of the coiler entry-side thermometer 25 and taken from an overhead view of the finishing mill 18 side. . The target of tensile strength, which is representative of mechanical properties, is 590 MPa, and the target of coiling temperature at the position of the coiler inlet side thermometer 25 is 470 ° C. In the drawing, D denotes a drive (drive side), O denotes an operator side (opposite the drive side), C denotes a center portion, Q denotes a quarter portion, and E denotes an edge portion. The value of the steepness is that at a position of 53 m in the longitudinal direction from the foremost part of the material 8 to be rolled.

  About the tip part and tail end part (length corresponding to the distance from the final stand F7 of the finish rolling mill 18 to the coiler 24) that may have poor flatness of the material 8 to be rolled, at least over its entire length in the longitudinal direction, It is preferable to obtain continuous captured images.

  Of course, it is also preferable to obtain a continuous photographed image over the entire length of the material 8 to be rolled.

  The size of each near-infrared camera used here is 30 μm long × 30 μm wide, and the number of vertical and horizontal pixel arrangements is 320 × 256 in the horizontal direction, as shown in FIG. When the material to be rolled 8 is photographed from directly above as in the case of the main installation, it is converted to the material to be rolled 8 side to be measured, not the near infrared camera side, and the total length is 10 mm × 10 mm wide per pixel. Thus, an area of 3200 mm in the vertical direction (longitudinal direction) × 2560 mm in the horizontal direction (width direction) can be captured in the field of view by one photographing.

  Both vertical and horizontal dimensions per pixel are preferably 10 mm or less in terms of the material to be rolled 8 that is a measurement target. If it is larger than this, the photographed image has a mosaic shape, so that it becomes difficult to understand the outer edge and the planar shape of the black spot.

  On the other hand, the lower limit of the size need not be specified. The above example given as an example is 10 mm or more.

  The width of the material to be rolled that is generally manufactured from the past is 2300 mm at the maximum, and the field of view of this near infrared camera can cover the entire width of all the material to be rolled 8.

  Image taken by temporary near infrared camera FIG. 3 (a) shows a case where the image was taken normally. In the example of the hot rolling line 100, the conveyance speed of the material to be rolled 8 ranges from 120 mpm to 1200 mpm. However, since the vertical (longitudinal direction) has a field of view of 3200 mm, for example, the conveyance speed of the material to be rolled 8 is 1200 mpm. For example, since it takes 3200/1000 ÷ 1200/60 = 0.16 sec to convey 3200 mm, one image is taken every 0.16 sec, and the image is taken from the moment before the tip of the rolled material 8 enters the field of view. The entire length of the material to be rolled 8 is conveyed and the photographing is finished after the moment when the tail end is out of the field of view. If the transport speed is slower, the shooting interval can be increased in inverse proportion to the transport speed.

  By the way, when a near-infrared camera that has a shutter speed of one thousandth of a shot and is not sufficiently short is used and the conveyance speed of the material to be rolled 8 is high, as shown in FIG. In addition, the image may be blurred and the black spot may appear large and blur.

  In this embodiment, a near infrared camera having the specifications shown in Table 1 is used. By using a near-infrared camera equipped with a high-speed shutter of the shortest 10 μsec (1 / 100,000 second), it is possible to take a picture so that the image does not flow even when the material to be rolled 8 is fast. .

FIG. 4A shows how much brightness is measured when the shutter speed of the near-infrared camera is changed in various ways. The horizontal axis indicates how much the heat radiation energy (W / mm ² ) is calculated from the temperature of the material 8 to be rolled, and the vertical axis indicates the luminance value ([− ]).

  Although it is a problem on the near-infrared camera side, in the region where the luminance value is less than 8000 ([-]), the influence of noise is large and it becomes difficult to obtain a clear image.

In addition, since the brightness value is measured with a 16-bit signal due to the specifications of this near-infrared camera, the region exceeding 2 ¹⁶ = 65536 ([-]) at the maximum is saturated and cannot be measured. The upper limit was set to 60000 ([-]) for a margin.

  The range between the upper limit and the lower limit described above is a measurable range, and the temperature range corresponding to the range is the measurable temperature range.

  FIG. 4B shows the relationship in an easy-to-understand manner. When the shutter speed is taken on the horizontal axis, the measurable temperature range is shown on the vertical axis. When the shutter speed is shortened, the temperature of the material 8 to be rolled below 300 ° C. becomes impossible to measure from below about 40 μsec, and when the shutter speed is shortened, the measurable temperature range is reduced. It can be seen that the lower limit goes up.

  When the material to be rolled 8 is high-strength steel, the temperature immediately before winding is different depending on the type, but the temperature of the material 8 after cooling by the cooling-related equipment 26 reaches 300 ° C. at the minimum. There is.

  Therefore, if it is attempted to measure the minimum temperature of 300 ° C. regardless of the type of the material to be rolled 8, the shutter speed needs to be 40 μsec or more.

  Therefore, it is preferable to adjust the shutter speed according to the temperature of the material 8 to be rolled.

  That is, for example, when the target temperature immediately before winding of the material to be rolled 8 is a low temperature close to measurable 300 ° C., the shutter speed of the near-infrared camera is set to 40 μsec, for example, to the extent that the image is not blurred. The above-mentioned (in the near-infrared camera used in the present embodiment, the specification is a maximum of 50 μsec: longer than the specification of Table 1), and the target temperature of the rolled material 8 immediately before winding is 450 ° C. to, for example, When the temperature is as high as 750 ° C., it is preferable to reduce the shutter speed of the near-infrared camera to, for example, less than 40 μsec (the shortest is 10 μsec: the same) to ensure the measured temperature range.

  However, since the radiant energy decreases as the temperature of the material 8 to be rolled approaches the measurable lower limit, it goes without saying that it is preferable to increase the shutter speed so as to ensure the measured temperature range. As the temperature of the rolled material 8 approaches the measurable upper limit, it is possible to prevent the image from blurring as a result of instantaneously photographing the state of the rolled material flowing at high speed when the shutter speed is shortened as much as possible. Therefore, it is preferable.

  When adjusting the shutter speed of the near-infrared camera according to the target temperature of the material to be rolled 8, the material to be rolled 8 is not limited to the case where the material to be rolled 8 is high-tensile steel, for example. It is preferable to adjust the shutter speed of the near-infrared camera so as to be determined in advance before actual shooting, depending on the target temperature immediately before winding, which is determined by the type of the image.

  Or it is also preferable to adjust the shutter speed of a near-infrared camera according to the track record of the temperature of the front-end | tip part of the to-be-rolled material 8 measured with the finishing delivery side thermometer 21. FIG.

  Next, what a near-infrared camera can measure is brightness. In some cases, the manufacturer of the near-infrared camera may incorporate a logic to convert the brightness into temperature in some way, but when the measurement result does not match the existing spot thermometer, an error of up to 20 ° C will occur. There is a problem.

  Therefore, in order to solve such a problem, the brightness measured with the near-infrared camera and the spot thermometer were measured in advance for the same part of the same heat source outside the hot rolling line, that is, offline. What is obtained when the relationship between the temperature and the temperature of the heat source is changed as a luminance-temperature conversion curve is stored in the control device 50 or the process computer 70, and the hot rolling. There is a method of converting the luminance when the near-infrared camera is installed in a line and photographing the material to be rolled into temperature according to the luminance-temperature conversion curve.

  FIG. 3A shows the result. Further, the scale shown on the right side of FIG. 3A is displayed in relation to the color shade and the temperature. The color is actually a color, but the one that looks whitish as the brightness increases and darker as the brightness decreases is associated with the temperature.

  Alternatively, a near-infrared camera is installed in the hot rolling line to photograph the material to be rolled and measure the temperature, and a spot thermometer at a certain place in the field of view of the near-infrared camera at the place where the near-infrared camera is installed However, after measuring the temperature of the material to be rolled and calibrating the near-infrared camera so that the temperature of the portion of the material to be rolled measured with the spot thermometer matches the temperature measured with the near-infrared camera. There is also a method of photographing the material to be rolled. This can be said to be online calibration.

  FIG. 9A shows an example in which the near-infrared camera 25A is installed in the form of being attached to the coiler entry-side thermometer 25. However, a coiler that is a spot thermometer at a certain point in the field of view of the near-infrared camera. The direction of the coiler inlet side thermometer 25 is adjusted so that the temperature of the material to be rolled can also be measured by the inlet side thermometer 25. FIG. 9B shows an example in which near-infrared cameras 21A and 25A are installed so as to be provided on both the finisher-side thermometer 21 and the coiler inlet-side thermometer 25, and FIG. 9C shows the intermediate temperature. An example in which the near-infrared cameras 27A and 25A are installed so as to be attached to both the total 27 and the coiler inlet side thermometer 25, FIG. 9 (d) shows the finishing side thermometer 21, the intermediate thermometer 27, and the coiler input. An example in which the near-infrared cameras 21A, 27A, and 25A are installed in the form of being attached to the three of the side thermometers 25 is shown. Similarly, the finishing thermometer 21 and the intermediate thermometer 27 that are spot thermometers are shown. Adjust the direction of the.

  If the field of view of the spot thermometer is larger than the size of the pixel of the near-infrared camera, and there are multiple near-infrared camera pixels in the field of view of the spot thermometer, the spot thermometer It is preferable to obtain a brightness-temperature conversion curve or calibrate the near-infrared camera so that the temperature measured at the pixel and the temperature measured at the pixel match, but the average values match. For example, other methods may be used.

  Now, the story changes, and how the quality is determined based on the planar (two-dimensional) temperature distribution of the material 8 to be rolled measured with a near infrared camera. An example of taking a picture and measuring the temperature will be described below.

  First, the overall flow will be described with reference to each step in FIG.

  First, when the conveyance speed of the material to be rolled 8 is 1200 mpm, the temperature distribution data of the full width of the entire length is measured every 3200 mm in the conveyance direction, that is, the longitudinal direction of the material 8 to be rolled, by photographing once every 0.16 sec. I told you to do.

  When one piece of the material to be rolled 8 is photographed up to its tail end, here, for ease of later processing, the temperature distribution data of the full width of the whole length of the material to be rolled 8 is as in the examples described later. Temporarily stored in a recording medium such as a memory attached to a computer such as a personal computer, and re-edited into temperature distribution data divided every predetermined length, for example, every 4 m (4000 mm) in the longitudinal direction of the material 8 (step 110). ).

  The result is stored in a recording medium such as a hard disk attached to a computer such as a personal computer (step 120).

  The data may be one or more at a time. Again, it is read out and temporarily stored in a recording medium such as a memory attached to the computer such as the personal computer (step 130).

  Then, in the one structural unit or in one screen, it is determined whether or not all the pixels are out of the temperature tolerance, and the pixels exceeding the upper limit value of the temperature tolerance (temperature upper limit threshold value), Pixels that are below the lower limit of the temperature tolerance (temperature lower limit threshold) are temporarily stored together with the plane (two-dimensional) coordinates of the pixel (which may be representative values or vertical and horizontal ranges), and the plane outside the temperature tolerance (two-dimensional) A distribution is created (step 150).

  Further, for each individual material 8 to be rolled, various statistical values of defective portions of quality out of the temperature tolerance are calculated for every fixed length, that is, for each of the above-mentioned one structural unit (step) 160). Details thereof will be described later.

  Further, the quality defective portion of the material 8 to be rolled out of the temperature tolerance is determined from each of the various statistical values, for example, every 1 m, and, for example, the hexadecimal display of the quality determination result as shown in FIG. And set as bit information over the entire length (step 170). Details of this will also be described later.

  Finally, regarding the poor quality portion of the material 8 to be rolled out of the temperature tolerance, the starting position from the tip of the material 8 to be rolled and its length are determined, and each material to be rolled 8 is linked to each other. The data is stored in a recording medium such as a hard disk attached to the computer (step 180).

  The above description of how the quality determination is performed and the overall flow of the processing are as described above. Details of the processing of (Step 160) and (Step 170) described later are as follows. This will be described below.

  The process of calculating the statistical value in (Step 160) is as follows.

Examples of statistical values to be calculated include the following.
(1) Out-of-tolerance area ratio As shown in FIG. 7 (a), the ratio of the area of the quality defect portion of the rolled material 8 out of the temperature tolerance that occupies the area of the rolled material 8 viewed from above is the tolerance. It is a detached area ratio (%).

The calculation formula is as follows.
Tolerance out-of-tolerance ratio = Sigma out-of-tolerance area S _i / (region length × rolled material width) × 100 (%)
... (1)
(2) Out-of-tolerance length ratio As shown in FIG. 7 (b), in the longitudinal direction of the quality defect portion of the rolled material 8 out of the temperature tolerance, which occupies the region length when the rolled material 8 is viewed from above. The length ratio is the out-of-tolerance length ratio (%). If there is a region that wraps in the longitudinal direction, the wrapping region is not counted twice, but is considered as one region, and its length is obtained and calculated (L ₃ in FIG. 7B).

The calculation formula is as follows.
Tolerance length ratio = Σ Tolerance length L _i / Area length (2)
(3) Average number of out-of-tolerance As shown in FIG. 7 (c), the quality defect portion of the material 8 to be rolled out of the temperature tolerance per display area of the number of screens N (N = 4 in this embodiment). The number is an average number out of tolerance.

The calculation formula is as follows.
Average number of tolerance deviation = Number of tolerance deviation points / Number of screens N (Piece / Constant length 4m pitch)
... (3)
(4) Average area of out-of-tolerance locations / pieces As shown in FIG. 7 (d), the sum of the areas of poor quality parts of the rolled material 8 out of temperature tolerance divided by the number of the same parts, The average area / piece of out-of-tolerance locations.

The calculation formula is as follows.
Average area of out-of-tolerance locations / piece = Σ Tolerance out-of-place area S _i / Number of out-of-tolerance locations
... (4)
On the other hand, the process of determining the defective portion and determining the length in (Step 170) is as follows. In the present embodiment, (1) to (3) are determined for every 4 m pitch of the material to be rolled, and (4) and (5) are considered to require particularly detailed determination, and for each 1 m of material to be rolled. Judgment is made.
(1) Judgment based on out-of-tolerance area ratio When the result of calculation according to the above-described equation (1) (region length = 4 m in this embodiment) is equal to or greater than a certain threshold value S _NG1 , the constituent unit of the material to be rolled 4 m The result of the quality determination is determined to be rejected (NG).
(2) Tolerance out of determination described above by length ratio (2) Results of Computational (region in this embodiment the length = 4m) is, in the case of more than a threshold L _NG, structure of the material to be rolled 4m About a unit, it determines with the result of quality determination being disqualified (NG).
(3) Judgment based on average number of out-of-tolerance When the result of calculation according to the above-described equation (3) (in this embodiment, the number of screens N = 4) is equal to or greater than a certain threshold value N _NG , the constituent unit of the material 4m The result of the quality determination is determined to be rejected (NG).
(4) Judgment by the area per out-of-tolerance location When the area S _{i of} out-of-tolerance location is at least one threshold S _NG2 or more, as shown in FIG. The result of quality determination is determined to be rejected (NG) for each material 1 m. (Be careful because it is different from the above-mentioned formula (4). However, since what is used in the calculation process of the above-mentioned formula (4) is used for judgment, it is not so difficult.)
(5) Judgment based on longitudinal and width direction dimensions for each out-of-tolerance location There is at least one threshold L _NG with a longitudinal direction dimension of an out-of-tolerance location, or a threshold with a width-direction size at an out-of-tolerance location. In the case where there is at least one W _NG or more, as shown in FIG. 8B, the quality judgment result is judged as rejected (NG) for each 1 m of the material to be rolled. .

By the way, in the present embodiment described above, the temperature upper limit threshold, the temperature lower limit threshold, the tolerance threshold area threshold S _NG1 , the tolerance dimension longitudinal dimension threshold L _NG , and the tolerance dimension width dimension threshold. W _NG , the threshold value N _NG of the number of out-of-tolerance locations, the threshold value S _NG2 of the area per out-of-tolerance location, and the like are stored in the process computer 70 for each type and size of the material 8 to be rolled. If necessary, it may be transmitted to a business computer 90 or a personal computer, or may be transmitted to a near-infrared camera via the control device 50.

  Now, although the story changes a little, in the case of batch rolling, as described above, the tip portion and the tail end portion of the material 8 to be rolled can have uneven portions. Of these, dozens of meters will always be out of tolerance, so they should be cut out in a later process. Measures such as avoiding the complexity of becoming may be taken.

  Similarly, the cooling water riding on the upper surface of the material to be rolled 8 flows down from both edges in the width direction, so that both edges in the width direction of the material to be rolled 8 are cooled more strongly than the center in the width direction and are locally low in temperature. Since parts are formed, these parts may not be subjected to quality determination.

  Because of the above cases, the process computer calculates the length of the material to be rolled at the tip, the length of the material to be rolled at the tail end, the width / width of the material to be rolled at the edge, and the like for each type and size of the material 8 to be rolled. It is also preferable that the data is stored in 70 or the like, and transmitted to the business computer 90 or a personal computer, or transmitted to the near-infrared camera via the control device 50 as necessary.

Further, in order to remove abnormal values and noise, the temperature upper limit filter value, the temperature lower limit filter value, etc. are provided above the temperature upper limit threshold and below the temperature lower limit threshold, and the longitudinal dimension threshold L _{NG of the} out-of-tolerance location. upper, above the threshold W _NG in the width direction dimension of the portion out tolerances of the filter value of the longitudinal dimension of the portion out tolerances, etc. filter value of the width dimension of the portion out tolerances, is stored in such a process computer 70 in If necessary, it may be transmitted to the business computer 90 or a personal computer, or may be transmitted to the near-infrared camera via the control device 50.

  The overall flow of how to perform quality determination based on the planar (two-dimensional) temperature distribution of the material to be rolled 8 measured with a near-infrared camera, and processing of some steps However, the description of the example in the present embodiment is finished. However, the present embodiment described above is merely an example, and the specific logic of the quality determination is limited to the present embodiment described above. is not.

  FIG. 9A shows an extracted portion after the finishing mill 18 of the hot rolling line 100 shown in FIG. 13 described above. As shown in FIG. 9A, a near-infrared camera 25A was installed in the form of being attached to the coiler entry-side thermometer 25. The distance between them is only 1 m.

  The plane (two-dimensional) temperature data of the rolled material 8 measured by the near-infrared camera 25A is sent to the dedicated personal computer 251 and subjected to image processing. For the poor quality portion of the rolled material 8 that is out of the temperature tolerance, After the starting position from the tip of the material 8 to be rolled and its length are determined, the plane (two-dimensional) of the material 8 to be rolled, including the results of the quality determination for each fixed length (4 m) and 1 m as described above. ) In addition to the temperature data, all the data appearing above are linked to each rolled material 8 as a result of the quality judgment of the hot-rolled metal strip, and are similarly linked to each rolled material 8 If the identification data called No is recorded in the key and the coil No. is further input, it passes through the local LAN 252 and is located in a plurality of other locations, for example, the office of the manufacturing department or the office of the quality control department Etc. The computer 253 can remotely copy the planar (two-dimensional) temperature data after the image processing, and reproduce the temperature data after the image processing on the screen of the personal computer 253 in each office. In addition, the temperature data after the image processing can be analyzed or processed. Of course, it can also be used for quality assurance in product delivery to consumers. This is because if there is a poor quality part, it is possible to take a countermeasure such as adding a purification process such as pickling or skin pass, and instructing artificially to remove the poor quality part.

  Although it depends on the length of one rolled material 8, the data has a capacity of about 20 to 40 MB. Therefore, even with a storage capacity such as a hard disk of a personal computer, data for several hundred pieces of rolled material can be used. Can be recorded. If you focus on high-strength steel, you can practically record several months of data. It goes without saying that recording can be done semipermanently by replacing the hard disk.

  As described above, even when the storage capacity is about the same as that of a personal computer, hot rolling is used to record the result of quality determination using a near-infrared camera capable of photographing the entire width of a hot-rolled metal strip that is rolled in a hot rolling line. A computer system 900 for recording the quality determination result of the metal strip can be constructed.

  FIG. 9B shows an example in which the near-infrared cameras 21A and 25A are installed so as to be provided in both the finisher-side thermometer 21 and the coiler inlet-side thermometer 25.

  It is the same as that in the first embodiment after the route where the planar (two-dimensional) temperature data of the material 8 to be rolled measured by the near-infrared cameras 21A and 25A is transmitted to the dedicated personal computer 251 and later.

  Temperature data after image processing is analyzed and processed, and can be used for quality assurance in product delivery to customers, as well as temperature data measured by the near infrared camera 21A attached to the finishing-side thermometer 21 Based on the above, the feed-forward control, such as weakening the cooling method by the cooling-related equipment 26, is performed on the portion of the rolled material 8 where the black spot is present, so that the temperature immediately before winding the rolled material 8 is possible. The quality of the whole length of the material 8 to be rolled is to be as good as possible.

  FIG. 9C shows an example in which the near-infrared cameras 27A and 25A are installed so as to be attached to both the intermediate thermometer 27 and the coiler entry-side thermometer 25.

  The route after the plane (two-dimensional) temperature data of the rolled material 8 measured by the near-infrared cameras 27A and 25A is transmitted to the dedicated personal computer 251 and later is the same as in the first and second embodiments.

  Cooling-related equipment based on the temperature data measured by the finishing thermometer 21 as well as being used for quality assurance in product delivery to customers after analyzing and processing the temperature data after image processing 26, feed-forward control for cooling the material 8 to be rolled is performed at a portion upstream of the intermediate thermometer 27 or a portion further downstream, but a near-infrared camera attached to the intermediate thermometer 27. Based on the temperature data measured at 27A, the feed of the part with the black spot of the material 8 to be rolled is weakened in the cooling-related equipment 26 by the part downstream from the intermediate thermometer 27. While performing forward control, about the part with the black spot of the to-be-rolled material 8, the cooling of the part upstream from the intermediate thermometer 27 of the cooling related equipment 26 is carried out. By also performing feedback control such as weakening the method, the temperature immediately before winding the rolled material 8 is made as uniform as possible, and the entire length of the rolled material 8 is as wide as possible. , Trying to pass quality.

  FIG. 9D shows an example in which near-infrared cameras 21A, 27A, and 25A are installed in the form of being provided side by side with a finishing delivery thermometer 21, an intermediate thermometer 27, and a coiler entry-side thermometer 25.

  In the case of the third embodiment shown in FIG. 9C, the control is performed in the same manner as in the third embodiment based on the temperature data measured by the near-infrared camera 21A instead of the finishing delivery thermometer 21. By doing so, the temperature immediately before winding of the material to be rolled 8 is made as uniform as possible, and the quality of the whole length of the material 8 to be rolled is to be passed as much as possible.

  As shown in FIG. 10, the temperature data measured by the near-infrared camera is taken in via the control device 50, and the role of the dedicated personal computer 251 in the first to fourth embodiments shown in FIGS. 70 or the business computer 90, and the business computer 90 records the identification data called coil No. associated with each material 8 as a key.

  In addition to the above method, a dedicated personal computer 251 (not shown) is provided between the near-infrared camera and the control device 50, between the control device 50 and the process computer 70, or between the process computer 70 and the business computer 90. The temperature data after interpolating and image processing by the dedicated personal computer 251 is sent to the business computer 90. Further, in the business computer 90, the identification data called coil No. associated with each rolled material 8 is used as a key. The temperature data after image processing may be recorded.

  Instead of the in-house LAN 252 in FIG. 9, a network that connects the business computers 90 for each line via a dedicated line is formed, and a terminal or personal computer connected to the business computer 90 for each line, or directly to the network. If the coil No. is input from the connected terminal or PC, for example, after remote image processing, even in remote locations such as offices of manufacturing departments and offices of quality control departments. The two-dimensional temperature data can be copied, and the temperature data after image processing can be reproduced on the terminal or PC screen of each office, and the temperature after image processing. Data can also be analyzed or processed. Of course, it can also be used for quality assurance in product delivery to consumers.

  When it is automatically determined that there is a poor quality part, a refining process such as a pickling line 200 having an inline skin pass 30 is added as a subsequent process of the hot rolling process according to a command from the business computer 90. This is because it is possible to take measures such as automatically instructing to cut off the defective portion with the shear 5.

  When poor quality parts are concentrated in the range of 30m from the foremost part of the material 8 to be rolled, 30m is cut off and the rolled material after the bad quality part is cut off at the tail end of the previous material to be rolled. The tip of the material 8 is welded by the welding machine 6 and is continuously passed through the pickling line 200.

  However, for example, when there is a poor quality part in the range of 30 to 40 m and the range of 100 to 120 m from the cutting edge of the material 8 to be rolled, the range of 30 to 40 m and the range of 100 to 120 m are excised. So, a healthy part for 60m is made in the 40-100m part, but it is an order from the customer where the welded part may be mixed, or the welded part should not be mixed, but a small weight for 60m However, if it is an order from an okay customer or an order that eventually becomes a cut plate, the 60 m healthy portion is welded to the front and rear ends of the material to be rolled by the welding machine 6. Then, the pickling line 200 is continuously passed.

  If it is an order from a customer who should not have a welded portion and should not have a small weight of 60m, the entire range of 30 to 100m should be excised and the tail of the previous rolled material At the end, the tip of the material to be rolled 8 after the poor quality portion is excised is welded by the welding machine 6 and continuously passed through the pickling line 200.

  The same applies to the tail end of the material 8 to be rolled.

  When automatically instructing to cut out the poor quality portion with the shear 5, the cutting command, where to cut in the longitudinal direction of the material to be rolled, the longitudinal position (cutting start position) and the cutting length are used as commands. Make output.

  The business computer 90, in addition to the attribute data such as the order material, order thickness, order width, etc. from the customer of each material 8 to be rolled, for example, the full length thickness distribution in the hot rolling line 100 and the full width measured with a near infrared camera. Various huge production record data such as temperature distribution are recorded in association with each material 8 to be rolled. In addition to the hot rolling line 100, the entire picking line 200 and other manufacturing processes such as cold rolling (not shown) are also included here. In addition to instructing and managing the passing process through the company, it also manages manufacturing and quality results.

  Including these business functions, including business computer 90, its computer program, attached recording device and recording medium, and terminals and personal computers connected thereto, and man-machine data interface functions such as its screen display function, A computer system is called a vidicon system.

  FIG. 10 shows an overview of a vidicon system 901 that includes the hot rolling line 100 and other manufacturing processes, as well as the passing process instruction and management, as well as manufacturing and quality performance management.

  In the example of FIG. 10, the business computer 90 is provided separately for a hot rolling line, for a cold rolling line, for a pickling line, for another line, etc., but the way of dividing is limited to the above example. Alternatively, it may be integrated into one computer.

  Moreover, in FIG. 10, although the case where the form of FIG. 9 (a) is followed as an example as a form which installs a near-infrared camera in the hot rolling line 100, FIG.9 (b)-(d) is shown. An example of the case of following various forms is also possible.

  Below, the effect by implementation of this invention is demonstrated.

  FIG. 11 shows data obtained by continuously measuring the temperature at the coiler entrance side only in the width center of the material 8 to be rolled, in the longitudinal direction. Since the material to be rolled was moderately elongated, the longitudinal distribution of the flatness (steepness) at the center of the width of the material to be rolled and the longitudinal distribution of the temperature of the material to be rolled showed a correlation. It can be seen that a part having a low temperature of the material to be rolled is locally formed in a part having a poor flatness within a range of 20 m from the most advanced part. Actually, the part surrounded by ○ was cut out, but when it was pressed under the same conditions as the customer as a test, a crack occurred.

  In addition, before installing the near infrared camera on the coiler entry side, it was necessary to determine the defective portion based on the temperature measurement result by the coiler entry side thermometer 25, but the vertical axis in FIG. The value obtained by subtracting the length of the portion determined to be a defective quality when the temperature is measured by the coiler inlet side thermometer 25 from the length of the portion determined to be a defective quality when the temperature is measured is 10 m or more. It shows the ratio of the number of the material to be rolled. Before the near-infrared camera was installed on the entrance side of the coiler, about 25.5% of the material to be rolled, it was judged that there were few cases where the temperature exceeded the upper temperature threshold or less than the lower temperature threshold. (After installing a near-infrared camera on the inlet side of the coiler, the ratio is naturally 0%.)

  By using the present invention, the entire width of a hot-rolled metal strip is photographed using a near-infrared camera installed on the coiler entrance side of a hot rolling line, and the temperature distribution is measured or further recorded. It will be possible to properly guarantee the quality of products delivered to the house.

A diagram showing the relationship between the ablation length and the poor flatness (steepness) of the tip, such as a) ear extension and b) medium extension The diagram for explaining one embodiment of the present invention The diagram for explaining one embodiment of the present invention The diagram for explaining one embodiment of the present invention The diagram for explaining one embodiment of the present invention The diagram for explaining one embodiment of the present invention The diagram for explaining one embodiment of the present invention The diagram for explaining one embodiment of the present invention The diagram for explaining one embodiment of the present invention The diagram for explaining one embodiment of the present invention Diagram for explaining another embodiment of the present invention Diagram for explaining the effect of the present invention Graph for explaining the effect of the present invention Diagram for explaining an example of a conventional hot rolling line Diagram for explaining the problems of the prior art Diagram for comparing film boiling and nucleate boiling Diagram for explaining the problems of the prior art Diagram for explaining the prior art

Explanation of symbols

5 Shear 6 Welding machine 8 Rolled material
10 Heating furnace
12 Rough rolling mill
135 Edger Roll
14 Cropshire
15 Finishing-side thermometer
18 Finishing mill
19 Work roll
20 Backup roll
21 Finishing side thermometer
21A near infrared camera
22 Finishing side thickness gauge
23 Runout table
24 coiler
25 Coiler inlet side thermometer
25A near infrared camera
251 PC
252 Local LAN
253 PC at each office
26 Cooling related equipment
27 Intermediate thermometer
27A near infrared camera
30 Inline skin pass
50 Control unit
70 process computer
90 Business computer
100 hot rolling line
200 pickling line
900 computer system
901 vidicon system A transport direction

Claims (4)

Hot rolling, characterized by adjusting the shutter speed according to the temperature of the hot-rolled metal strip when photographing the entire width of the hot-rolled metal strip using a near infrared camera installed on the coiler entrance side of the hot rolling line Full width photography method of metal strip. A method for photographing a full width of a hot-rolled metal strip, wherein the shutter speed is increased so as to ensure resolution of the temperature measured by photographing the full width of the hot-rolled metal strip using a near infrared camera. The full length full width imaging method of the hot rolled metal strip using the full width imaging method of the hot rolled metal strip according to claim 1 or 2. 4. A method for recording a full width photographing result of a hot-rolled metal strip, which records the photographing result according to claim 1.