Hitachi, Ltd. is an international company that develops communication and electronic devices, heavy electrical and industrial equipment, and customer electronics. The Company’s miscellaneous merchandise ranges from nuclear power structures to kitchen tools. Hitachi also functions a subsidiary in the wire and cable, metal, and chemical businesses.
In India, Hitachi, Ltd. focuses on holistic sensing method and system, user-driven network traffic shaping, model creation supporting method and model creation supporting system, distributed ledger device, distributed ledger system, and distributed ledger management method and data providing apparatus and data providing method.
Hitachi, Ltd. filed a patent application numbered 2178/DEL/2014 that is titled ROLLING CONTROL DEVICE AND ROLLING CONTROL METHOD. The patent has been filed in the field of Mechanical Engineering. This Patent Application has been granted as Patent Number 352994. This invention relates to a rolling control device, rolling control method, and rolling control program capable of effectively suppressing a sheet velocity fluctuation due to a radius fluctuation of a tension reel that winds out a material to be rolled on the inlet side of a rolling mill and a tension reel that winds up the material to be rolled on the outlet side of the rolling mill.
During the Patent Examination, the Patent Examiner raised objections under Section 3(k) of the Patents Act, 1970 (as amended) stating that certain claims fall within its limitation.
As a response, the Applicant submitted that the invention does not fall under the purview of Section 3(k) of the Act. The invention has a technically advanced technique for controlling a rolling mill and a technical advantage of effectively suppressing a sheet velocity fluctuation due to a fluctuation in the radius of a tension reel that winds out a material to be rolled on the inlet side of a rolling mill or a tension reel that winds up the material to be rolled on the outlet side of the rolling mill.
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