Patents Assigned to Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11932921
    Abstract: An object is to provide an alloy composition that has a sufficient melting point for casting of an aluminum alloy, also has high hardness, and can suppress an occurrence of galling. The alloy composition of the present invention includes: a Mo—Cr-based dendritic structure 3; and a Ni—Al-based interdendritic structure 5 that fills a periphery of the Mo—Cr-based dendritic structure 3. The alloy composition of the present invention can adopt a chemical composition I in which when Mo+Cr+Ni+Al=100 at. % holds, Ni+Al=15 to 50 at. % and Mo+Cr=50 to 85 at. % hold; or a chemical composition II in which Ni+Al=40 to 70 at. % and Mo+Cr=30 to 60 at. % hold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shuho Koseki, Kenichi Inoue, Hiroshi Shiratori, Kazuya Shinagawa
  • Patent number: 11895776
    Abstract: In a flexible printed wiring board (1), a first electrical conduction pattern (4) prepared on the first surface (3a) on which a bare chip (2) is mounted is prepared only inside a mounting region (3c) of the bare chip. Preferably, the first electrical conduction patterns (4) are prepared so as to avoid positions opposite to test electrodes (2b) which the bare chip comprises. Thereby, in the flexible printed wiring board used for mounting the bare chip, occurrence of malfunction resulting from electrical connection with a part other than a bump of the bare chip can be certainly prevented, and reliability of various devices using the bare chip can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro Umeyama
  • Publication number: 20230173452
    Abstract: Provided is an adsorption member excellent in adsorption ability for a foulant having a relatively small molecular weight. The adsorption member includes a plurality of flow channels through which water to be treated passes, and partition walls that partition the flow channels from one another. The partition walls each include a porous ceramic substrate having a communication holes that allow the water to be treated to pass between the adjacent flow channels, and a layer made of particles of a metal oxide fixed to surfaces of the flow channels and surfaces of the communication holes. In the partition walls, a ratio (B/A) of a total pore specific surface area B of pores having a diameter of 6 nm or more and 10 nm or less as measured using a mercury intrusion method to a total pore specific surface area A of pores having a diameter of 1 nm or more and 100 nm or less as measured using a gas adsorption method is 49.3% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mieko KASHI, Tomonori SAEKI, Keiko NAKANO, Toshitaka ISHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230178272
    Abstract: A resistor is composed of a resistor body part and a molded resin in which the resistor body part is embedded. The molded resin includes a base resin and a filler that is higher in thermal conductivity than the base resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventor: Keisuke FUKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230166318
    Abstract: Provided is a metal gasket including, expressed in mass%, C: 0.10% or less, Si: 1.0% or less, Mn: 2.0% or less, P: 0.04% or less (including 0%), S: 0.01% or less (including 0%), Ni: 25.0-60.0%, Cr: 10.0-20.0%, either Mo or W alone, or both Mo + W/2: 0.05-5.0%, Al: more than 0.8% to 3.0% or less, Ti: 1.5-4.0%, Nb: 0.05-2.5%, V: 1.0% or less (including 0%), B: 0.001-0.015%, Mg: 0.0005-0.01%, S/Mg: 1.0 or less, N: 0.01% or less (including 0%), and O: 0.005% or less (including 0%), with the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities. The metal gasket has a metal structure in which a precipitate ?? phase having an average equivalent circle diameter of 25 nm or larger is not present within the austenite base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro UEHARA, Junichi NISHIDA
  • Patent number: 11664136
    Abstract: A composite cable includes a plurality of power lines, one signal line unit, and a sheath collectively covering the plurality of power lines and the one signal line unit. The signal line unit includes a plurality of pairs of signal lines, and an inner sheath covering a first assembled article. The first assembled article is formed by arranging the signal lines to be paired at each pair of adjacent vertices of a polygon with an even number of vertices in a cross-section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the signal line unit and twisting all the signal lines together. A twisting direction of a second assembled article formed by twisting the plurality of power lines and the one signal line unit together is different from a twisting direction of the first assembled article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Hayakawa, Tomoyuki Murayama, Hirotaka Eshima, Takahiro Futatsumori
  • Patent number: 11655912
    Abstract: A diaphragm assembly for a mass flow controller is disclosed. The diaphragm assembly includes an aperture, side walls extending from the aperture and disposed about a central axis, the side walls including multiple convolutions, and a poppet including an interior surface facing the aperture and exterior sealing surface. At least a portion of the diaphragm assembly moveable extends and retracts within a control valve cavity of the mass flow controller. A push rod extending from the interior surface of the poppet moves, responsive to an actuator of the mass flow controller, to enable the exterior sealing surface of the poppet to open and close a flow path through the control valve cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryan Johnson, Ken Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20230150571
    Abstract: A stroke sensor is provided with two disk-shaped rotors configured to rotate with a stroke of a measuring object, a rotation detecting unit that detects rotations of the two rotors, respectively, and a stroke position detecting unit that detects the stroke position of the measuring object based on the rotations of the two rotors detected by the rotation detecting unit. At least one of the two rotors is in direct contact with the measuring object. The two rotors are provided side by side in an arrangement direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the measuring object and are provided so as to be adjacent to the measuring object in an arrangement perpendicular direction perpendicular to the axial direction and the arrangement direction. Each of the two rotors is provided in such a manner that its rotation axis direction is inclined with respect to the arrangement direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yohei SHIRAKAWA
  • Patent number: 11646412
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a cathode active material used for a lithium ion secondary battery which has a large charge-discharge capacity, and excels in charge-discharge cycle properties, output properties and productivity, and, a lithium ion secondary battery using the same. The cathode active material used for a lithium ion secondary battery comprises a lithium-transition metal composite oxide having an ?-NaFeO2 type crystal structure and represented by the following formula (1); Li1+aNibCocMdO2+?, where, in the formula (1), M is at least one metal element other than Li, Ni and Co; and a, b, c, d and a are respectively numbers satisfying ?0.04?a?0.04, 0.80?b?1.0, 0?c?0.06, b+c+d=1, and ?0.2<?<0.2, and an a-axis lattice constant of the crystal structure is 2.878×10?10 m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Toyama, Shin Takahashi, Hisato Tokoro, Genei Nakajima, Shuichi Takano, Akira Gunji, Akihiko Noie
  • Patent number: 11643711
    Abstract: Provided are a laminate shaped article made of a maraging steel and having excellent toughness, a method for manufacturing the same, and a metal powder for laminate shaping. The laminate shaped article is made of a maraging steel comprising 0.1-5.0 mass % of Ti. When sis is performed on concentration distribution of Ti in a cross section parallel to a lamination direction of the above laminate shaped article, a length of a linear Ti-rich portion having a Ti concentration B of (1.5×A) or more with respect to an average Ti concentration A in the cross section is 15 ?m or less. In addition, the method for manufacturing the laminate shaped article uses a metal powder made of a maraging steel comprising 0.1-5.0 mass % of Ti, and a heat source output is set to 50-330 W and a scanning speed is set to 480-3000 mm/sec during the laminate shaping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Norihide Fukuzawa, Koichi Sakamaki, Yousuke Nakano, Kousuke Kuwabara, Shiho Fukumoto, Kazuya Saito
  • Patent number: 11636974
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a non-circular wound magnetic core composed of a nano-crystallized soft magnetic alloy thin strip comprises: a step for acquiring a multilayer body by winding a soft magnetic alloy thin strip; a step for nano-crystallizing the soft magnetic alloy thin strip by inserting a heat treatment inner peripheral jig to the inner peripheral side of the multilayer body, maintaining the multilayer body in a non-circular shape, and subjecting the multilayer body to a heat treatment; and a step for maintaining the nano-crystallized multilayer body in the non-circular shape by using outer and inner peripheral jigs and impregnating resin between the layers of the multilayer body. The resin impregnation inner and outer peripheral jigs are shaped so as to not contact the inner peripheral surface and/or the outer peripheral surface of the multilayer body at a part where the multilayer body has a large degree of curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Satake, Tomoki Ono, Tetsuya Takiyama
  • Publication number: 20230122004
    Abstract: A production method for an alloy member having mainly high hardness and high resistance to corrosion and produced by an additive manufacturing method, the alloy member, and a product using the alloy member are provided. The production method for an alloy member includes: an additive manufacturing step of forming a shaped member through an additive manufacturing method using an alloy powder containing elements Co, Cr, Fe, Ni, and Ti each in a range of 5 atom% to 35 atom% and containing Mo in a range exceeding 0 atom% and 8 atom% or less, the remainder being unavoidable impurities; and a heat treatment step of holding the shaped member in a temperature range higher than 500° C. and lower than 900° C. directly after the additive manufacturing step without undergoing a step of holding the shaped member in a temperature range of 1080° C. to 1180° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kousuke Kuwabara, Shuho Koseki
  • Patent number: 11630163
    Abstract: A multi-core cable testing device is configured to specify a correspondence between ends of an insulated wire at both ends of a multi-core cable including insulated wires. The device includes a signal input unit for inputting a test signal by capacitive coupling into one end of the insulated wire as a testing object at one end of the multi-core cable, a signal output unit for outputting the test signal by capacitive coupling from each end of the insulated wires at the other end of the multicore cable, a correspondence specifying unit for measuring a voltage of the test signal from the signal output unit and for specifying an other side end of the insulated wire based on a measured voltage. At least one of the signal input unit and the signal output unit includes a signal transmission cable for transmitting the test signal and a substrate configured to be connected to the signal transmission cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventor: Yohei Shirakawa
  • Patent number: 11632008
    Abstract: An arrangement structure of wiring member for rotating electrical machine is configured in such a manner that a wiring member for rotating electrical machine including a plurality of conductive wires and connecting coil ends of a stator to electrodes of a terminal block in a rotating electrical machine is arranged on an arranging target member. The wiring member for rotating electrical machine includes a holding portion including a molded resin so as to cover all the plurality of conductive wires together and holds the plurality of conductive wires. A cushioning member comprising an elastic body is provided between the holding portion and the arranging target member. The holding portion is arranged on the arranging target member via the cushioning member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Umetsu, Noriyuki Takahashi, Takahiro Futatsumori
  • Patent number: 11619750
    Abstract: A scintillator structure includes a plurality of cells and a reflector covering the plurality of cells. Here, each of the plurality of cells includes a resin and a phosphor, and the phosphor contains gadolinium oxysulfide. A breaking strength of an interface between each of the plurality of cells and the reflector is 900 gf or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yousuke Nobumoto, Shinsuke Terazawa, Satoshi Shiota
  • Publication number: 20230099300
    Abstract: Provided are a steel that is for a die and that enables production of a die being for hot working and having both high hardness and high thermal conductivity; a die for hot working; and a manufacturing method for the same. The steel for a hot working die has a compositional makeup containing, in mass %, 0.45-0.65% of C, 0.1-0.6% of Si, 0.1-2.5% of Mn, 1.0-6.0% of Cr, 1.2-3.5% of (Mo+½W) where Mo and W are contained independently or in combination, 0.1-0.5% of V, 0.15-0.6% of Ni, 0.1-0.6% of Cu, and 0.1-0.6% of Al, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. Further, this die for hot working has said compositional makeup, and this manufacturing method is for manufacturing said die for hot working.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shuji Yamanaka, Takayuki Hirashige, Shiho Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 11613101
    Abstract: A magnetic piece, a multilayer magnetic piece and a multilayer core with an adhesive agent of excellent saturation magnetic flux density are provided. The magnetic piece includes a soft magnetic amorphous alloy ribbon 1 and a resin layer 2 provided on at least one surface of the soft magnetic amorphous alloy ribbon. The resin layer contains a resin whose Shore D hardness is not more than 60. The resin may have a Shore D hardness of not more than 25 or may have a Shore D hardness of not less than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: HITACHI METALS, LTD., METGLAS, INC.
    Inventors: Akio Uchikawa, Nakao Moritsugu, Daichi Azuma
  • Patent number: 11613796
    Abstract: A cemented carbide comprising 55-90 parts by mass of WC particles and 10-45 parts by mass of a Fe-based binder phase; the binder phase having a composition comprising 0.5-10% by mass of Ni, 0.2-2% by mass of C, 0.5-5% by mass of Cr, 0.2-2.0% by mass of Si, and 0.1-5% by mass of W, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and containing 0.05-2.0% by area of Fe—Si—O-based particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takumi Ohata
  • Patent number: 11615926
    Abstract: A method configured to produce a pressure-sensitive sensor composed of a cylindrical-shape body including therein a hollow portion along a longitudinal direction of that sensor, and being made of an elastic electrical insulating member, and a plurality of electrode wires arranged helically along an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical-shape body and arranged in such a manner as to have no contact with each other. The method includes, with an extruder with a head, extrusion-molding the cylindrical-shape body while running the plurality of electrode wires into that head in such a manner that a periphery of the plurality of electrode wires is coated with the cylindrical-shape body, and taking up the cylindrical-shape body and the plurality of electrode wires ejected from the extruder while rotating the cylindrical-shape body and the plurality of electrode wires in a circumferential direction of the sensor, to thereby helically arrange the plurality of electrode wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Sugita, Masahiro Abe
  • Patent number: 11613799
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides an Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon for an Fe-based nanocrystalline alloy, the Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon being a cooled body of a molten metal that has been applied to a surface of a chill roll, wherein the Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon includes a recess having a depth of 1 ?m or more in a 0.647 mm×0.647 mm region located in a central part, in the ribbon width direction, of a ribbon surface, which is a cooled surface, in which a maximum area of the recess having a depth of 1 ?m or more is 3000 ?m2 or less; and a method of manufacturing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Itagaki, Motoki Ohta