Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
  • Publication number: 20220362892
    Abstract: A flux-cored wire comprising a flux which is a core and a hoop which is an outer skin or sheath is described. The flux includes a strong deoxidizing metal element containing Mg and Al, and a fluoride powder. At least 60 mass % of a strong deoxidizing metal powder related to the strong deoxidizing metal element has a grain size of at most 150 ?m. At least 60 mass % of the fluoride powder has a grain size of at most 75 ?m. The flux is present at a concentration of 10-30 mass % relative to a total mass of the flux-cored wire. The flux-cored wire also requires a specific composition of elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Keito ISHIZAKI, Takashi YASHIMA, Shun IZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20220362777
    Abstract: In a channel structure of a channel device, first confluence channels of a plurality of first channels include a plurality of first confluence channels arranged along a second board front surface, first confluence portions of the first channels in each of first boards are configured of a plurality of first confluence portion through-holes that penetrate the first board, and second first-liquid introduction channel and second second-liquid introduction channels of a plurality of second channels are arranged along the second board front surface and are located in an area that is deviated from the first confluence channels in a view in a direction along a stacking direction of the first board and the second board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Akira MATSUOKA, Koji NOISHIKI, Nobumasa ICHIHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220364214
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet according to one aspect of the present invention includes an annealing step of reduction-annealing a steel sheet having a Si content of 1.0% by mass or more and 3.0% by mass or less at a temperature equal to or higher than an A3 point of the steel sheet in an atmosphere having a dew point of ?20° C. or higher; and a hot-dip galvanizing step of making the annealed steel sheet enter into a galvanizing bath to form a galvanized layer on a surface of the steel sheet, wherein a temperature of the steel sheet entering into the galvanizing bath is set to 390° C. or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Takayuki MAEDA, Hiroshi IRIE
  • Publication number: 20220355372
    Abstract: A method for joining an aluminum material includes, in the following order, arranging a first wrought aluminum alloy material along a first jig in an internal space defined between the first jig and a second jig that is arranged to face the first jig and has a pouring port, pouring molten aluminum toward the first wrought aluminum alloy material through the pouring port under pressure to cause the molten aluminum to collide with a surface of the first wrought aluminum alloy material, thereby digging down the first wrought aluminum alloy material at a collision position between the molten aluminum and the first wrought aluminum alloy material, and flowing the molten aluminum together with a fraction of the first wrought aluminum alloy material removed by digging within the internal space along a surface of the first wrought aluminum alloy material around the collision position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Yoshihaya IMAMURA, Chieko IMAI, Toshiaki KITAZAWA, Hisaomi MASUZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220355656
    Abstract: A vehicle body structure for an electric vehicle includes: a battery disposed at a center lower portion of a vehicle body; a side sill being hollow and extending in a vehicle body front-rear direction outside in a vehicle width direction of the battery; a bridge beam member being hollow, disposed below the side sill and outside in the vehicle width direction of the battery, extending in the vehicle body front-rear direction, and having a cross section perpendicular to the vehicle body front-rear direction formed as a closed cross section; and at least one bridge pier member made of steel, extending in the vehicle width direction from the battery toward the bridge beam member, and having a cross section perpendicular to the vehicle width direction forming at least a part of a closed cross-sectional shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.), TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sadao MIYAZAWA, Kenichi WATANABE, Kenta KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220355421
    Abstract: An austenitic stainless steel flux cored wire may provide a welded metal having excellent cryogenic temperature toughness; a welded metal from the wire may have excellent cryogenic temperature toughness; and a welding method may involve such wire(s). An austenitic stainless steel flux cored wire in which a flux is filled in a steel-made shell. The flux cored wire may contain Si, Mn, Ni, Cr, C, P, and N in amounts each falling within a specified range relative to the entire mass of the wire, with the remainder made up by Fe and unavoidable impurities, and X1 is 17.5 to 22.0 inclusive, as calculated by formula (1): X1=[Ni]W+0.5×[Cr]W+1.6×[Mn]W+0.5×[Si]W+15×[C]W??(1), wherein, in formula (1), [Ni]W, [Cr]W, [Mn]W, [Si]W and [C]W represent the contents (% by mass) of Ni, Cr, Mn, Si, and C, relative to the entire mass of the wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Hidenori NAKO, Keito ISHIZAKI, Junichi KAWATA, Yuta KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20220355407
    Abstract: In preparing a built-up object by depositing beads, in a step of dividing into the bead model, a trapezoidal bead model a cross section of which is a trapezoidal shape is applied to a position where the bead is formed in a portion not adjacent to an existing bead, and a parallelogram bead model a cross section of which is a parallelogram is applied to a position where the bead is formed adjacent to a bead that is already formed, in the parallelogram bead model opposite sides in the deposition direction of the bead being parallel to each other, and opposite sides in the bead arrangement direction being parallel to a side of another bead mode that is adjacent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Tatsuya FUJII, Masatoshi HIDA, Shuo HUANG
  • Publication number: 20220355478
    Abstract: A robot slider position setting device sets a position of a robot slider that moves while being loaded with a robot that performs predetermined work on a workpiece by using a tool provided at a distal end of the robot. The robot slider position setting device includes an interference-region-information storage unit that stores interference region information indicating an interference region with which the robot interferes in a predetermined ambient environment, an approaching-direction determination unit that determines a direction of an arm of the robot as an arm approaching direction such that the direction does not overlap the interference region by fixing a wrist rotation center of the robot in a state where the tool is in an orientation according to a predetermined working position, and a position determination unit that determines the position of the robot, slider based on the arm approaching direction determined by the approaching-direction determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventor: Masatoshi Hida
  • Publication number: 20220347734
    Abstract: A structure includes: a first member made of metal having a tubular shape, and having a through-insertion hole; a second member made of resin and joined to the first member; and a third member made of metal having a tubular shape, and inserted through inside the first member. The third member is tube-expanded toward the first member and joined to the first member by press-fitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Taiki YAMAKAWA, Toru HASHIMURA, Yasuhiro MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20220349020
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength steel sheet, which can be used in various applications including automobile parts and exhibits excellent collision safety and excellent moldability, and a method for manufacturing the high-strength steel sheet. The high-strength steel sheet according to an aspect of the present invention satisfies a predetermined chemical composition and has a metallographic microstructure having ferrite fraction: 0% to 10%, MA fraction: 0% to 30%, hard phase other than ferrite and MA: 70% to 100% in terms of area proportion and retained austenite fraction: 5% to 30% in terms of volume proportion, and in the high-strength steel sheet, the skewness of IQ as analyzed by the EBRD method is ?1.2 to ?0.3 when the skewness is expressed by a predetermined relational expression in a case where crystal grains having a bcc structure and a bct structure are regarded as an aggregation of regions having an area of 0.05 ?m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Tadao MURATA, Muneaki IKEDA, Toshio MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20220347887
    Abstract: The kneading rotor according to one aspect of the present disclosure is a kneading rotor for a kneading machine, comprising a base made of carbon steel or alloy steel for machine structure, a padded layer made of austenitic stainless steel on at least part of a surface of the base and has a hard chromium plated layer on at least part of a surface of the padded layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Tsutomu KOITABASHI, Ryuichi KOBAYASHI, Yasuyuki SUGITA, Masao MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20220344739
    Abstract: An electric vehicle battery case 100 includes: a tray including a placement portion on which a battery is placed and having a groove formed in a bottom portion of the placement portion; a closing plate joined to the tray to close the groove and define a coolant flow path; and a top cover configured to seal the placement portion of the tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventor: Hideki ISHITOBI
  • Publication number: 20220344752
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electric vehicle battery case includes: preparing a frame configured to define a through space inside and a flat plate made of resin; superposing and disposing the flat plate on the frame; and applying pressure to the flat plate from an opposite side from the frame to press the flat plate against the frame to cause the flat plate to swell in the through space, thereby deforming the flat plate into a tray having a bathtub shape including a bottom wall and a peripheral wall provided at a peripheral edge of the bottom wall and configured to define an opening portion, and joining by press-fitting the tray to the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventor: Hideki ISHITOBI
  • Publication number: 20220339689
    Abstract: A method joins members for joining a first member being cylindrical and a second member being plate-shaped and having an opening. This method includes: inserting a first member into an opening of the second member; inserting an elastic body into the first member; guiding an outer diameter side of the first member with a pair of outer dies on both sides of the second member; and compressing an elastic body in the first member with a pair of inner dies. The inner dies compress the elastic body within a range in which the outer dies are positioned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Yasuhiro MAEDA, Toru HASHIMURA, Taiki YAMAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220331958
    Abstract: A multi-joint-robot linear-member-shape simulator receives a position of at least one via point via which the linear member extends between a start-point position and an end-point position of the linear member, an initial position of an adjustment via point that adjusts a length of the linear member, and an adjustment parameter of the adjustment via point, and repeatedly executes shape control for determining the shape of the linear member and a length adjustment for determining the length of the linear member when the linear member has the determined shape by using the input position of the via point and the input initial position of the adjustment via point as an initial value until a difference between an actual length of the linear member and the determined length thereof becomes smaller than or equal to a permissible value. When the shape control is to be executed, the adjustment parameter is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Fumiaki SAWAKAWA, Masatoshi HIDA
  • Publication number: 20220331915
    Abstract: A wire for gas-shielded arc welding includes, based on a total mass of the wire C: 0.01 mass % or more and 0.10 mass % or less, Si: 0.05 mass % or more and 0.55 mass % or less, Mn: 1.60 mass % or more and 2.40 mass % or less, Ti: 0.05 mass % or more and 0.25 mass % or less, Cu: 0.30 mass % or less, Al: 0.10 mass % or less, P: 0.025 mass % or less, and S: 0.010 mass % or less with the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities. In addition, the following relationship is satisfied: 0.1?[Ti]/[Si]?3.0, where [Si] is the content of Si (mass %) based on the total mass of the wire and [Ti] is the content of Ti (mass %) based on the total mass of the wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Hikaru KINASHI, Jing YU, Yasuyuki YOKOTA
  • Publication number: 20220331711
    Abstract: The interaction system that causes an interaction between a first fluid and a second fluid includes a plurality of processing units configured so as to cause the second fluid separated in the separation container of each of the plurality of processing units to flow into the processing channel of the interaction unit of a processing unit that is next in flow order to the each of the plurality of processing units, the separation container of the each of the plurality of processing units is connected to the processing channel of the interaction unit of the processing unit that is next in the flow order, a first fluid feeding path that leads the first fluid separated in the separation container of a succeeding stage processing unit among the plurality of processing units from the separation container to the processing channel of the interaction unit of a preceding stage processing unit, a storage container that stores the first fluid led out from the separation container of the succeeding stage processing unit to
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Akira MATSUOKA, Koji NOISHIKI
  • Publication number: 20220331912
    Abstract: An automatic welding system, an automatic welding method, a welding assistance device, and a program wherein the amount of correction of the welding speed is determined on the basis of the distance between an arc and the tip of a molten pool when the distance between the arc and the tip of the molten pool is within a predetermined range in arc welding performed while alternately weaving a welding torch in the front downward direction and the rear upward direction when the welding progress direction is the frontward direction with respect to a horizontally extending groove formed between two members to be welded aligned in the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Keita OZAKI, Akira OKAMOTO, Naohide FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220314938
    Abstract: A compressor unit includes: a reciprocating compressor main body having a drive portion and a compression portion driven by the drive portion to compress a hydrogen gas; an electric motor that is a power source of the drive portion; a hydrogen supply flow path which is connected to a suction side flow path and to the compressor main body and through which a hydrogen gas flows; a fuel cell module that is disposed in the hydrogen station, generates electric power using a hydrogen gas guided through the hydrogen supply flow path, and supplies the generated electric power to the electric motor; and an inverter that adjusts a rotation speed of the electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Daisuke WADA, Naofumi KANEI
  • Publication number: 20220297221
    Abstract: A joining method for overlapping and joining a plate-shaped portion of a first metal member and a plate-shaped portion of a second metal member, where the first metal member and the second metal member are made of dissimilar materials, includes a first step of forming an insertion hole in each of the plate-shaped portion of the first metal member and the plate-shaped portion of the second metal member, where the insertion holes communicate with each other when the plate-shaped portions of the first metal member and the second metal member are overlapped with each other, a second step of disposing a first joining member made of a metal material on a side of the plate-shaped portion of the first metal member opposite to the second metal member, a third step of inserting a second joining member made of the same metal material as that of the first joining member into the first metal member from a side of the second metal member through the insertion holes while the plate-shaped portions of the first metal member
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Toru HASHIMURA, Ryohei IHARA, Taiki YAMAKAWA