Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
  • Publication number: 20220297218
    Abstract: In this welding control method for a portable welding robot that moves along a guide rail, for using the portable welding robot to weld a workpiece including a groove: a groove shape detection position is established in at least one location in a welding sector extending from a welding starting point to a welding end point; the groove shape at a groove shape detection position Pn is sensed by means of a detecting means of the portable welding robot, which is moving along the guide rail; groove shape information is calculated from detection data obtained by the sensing; and a welding condition is acquired on the basis of the groove shape information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.), KOBELCO ROBOTiX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi YASHIMA, Masaru KODAMA, Shinobu TODA, Hirofumi KAWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20220298592
    Abstract: A low-strength steel sheet for hot stamping according to an aspect of the present invention satisfies a predetermined chemical composition, the Ac3 point (° C.) represented by Equation (1) is 890° C. or more, and an area ratio of ferrite at a depth to be ¼ of a steel sheet thickness is 80% or more. Ac3 point (° C.)=910?203×[C]1/2+44.7×[Si]?30×[Mn]+700×[P]+400×[Al]+400×[Ti] . . . (1) In Equation (1), [C], [Si], [Mn], [P], [Al], and [Ti] are values denoting the percentage contents of C, Si, Mn, P, Al, and Ti in terms of % by mass, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Sae HAMAMOTO, Tatsuya ASAI
  • Publication number: 20220285772
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a battery case for electric vehicle includes: preparing a frame, and a blank material formed in a flat plate shape; disposing the frame and the blank material to stack the blank material on the frame; and pressurizing the blank material to press the blank material against the frame, so as to mold the blank material into a bathtub shape and joining the blank material to the frame by press-fitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventor: Hideki ISHITOBI
  • Publication number: 20220281528
    Abstract: A structural member is elongated in a longitudinal direction, and includes a first member made of a steel plate and a second member made of a steel plate, the first member and the second member being joined. In the structural member, a closed cross-sectional shape is formed by the first member and the second member in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The first member has a tensile strength of equal to or greater than 980 MPa, and includes a first hemming process part subjected to hemming bending at both end parts in a width direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. The second member has a tensile strength of equal to or greater than 980 MPa, and includes a second bonded part held in the first hemming process part at both end parts in the width direction and bonded to the first hemming process part by an adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventor: Ryohei IHARA
  • Publication number: 20220274182
    Abstract: A recoater of an additive manufacturing apparatus includes a powder retention section that defines a retention space in which a powder material is retained, and a slit part that has a slit inlet that receives the powder material retained and a slit outlet through which the powder material is discharged. The slit part includes a plate member fixed to the powder retention section by surface contact. A pair of slit inner wall surfaces that is connected to the slit outlet and faces each other is formed within a plate thickness of the plate member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Akimine HATSUDA, Takeshi YAMADA, Eisuke KUROSAWA, Yu MUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20220274199
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a dissimilar metal joint product including joining a first member made of non-ferrous metal and having an end surface and a first surface adjacent to the end surface and a second member made of steel, the method includes: spraying a metal powder capable of being joined to the second member to the end surface and the first surface of the first member at a low temperature and at a high speed to form a coating to extend over the end surface and the first surface; disposing the first member and the second member such that the coating and the second member are close to or contact with each other; and performing fillet welding between the coating and the second member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Reiichi SUZUKI, Kyohei MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20220275896
    Abstract: A joined body includes a tubular first member, and a second member including a plate-shaped wall portion in which a through-hole is formed, the first member being inserted into the through-hole. The collar member is interposed between the first member and the second member in at least a part of the hole peripheral wall of the through-hole. The first member and the second member are joined by expanding the first member at a portion corresponding to the through-hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Yasuhiro MAEDA, Toru HASHIMURA, Taiki YAMAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220269242
    Abstract: A building time for building an additively-manufactured object is calculated on the basis of the inter-pass time and the welding pass time and is compared with a preset upper limit value, and welding conditions in a depositing plan are repeatedly modified until the building time is equal to or less than the upper limit value. Alternatively, corrections are repeatedly performed until the shape difference between a building shape of built-up object shape data relating to the additively-manufactured object created on the basis of the inter-pass time and the inter-pass temperature, and a building shape of three-dimensional shape data, is smaller than a near net value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Shuo HUANG, Takeshi YAMADA, Shinji SATO, Masatoshi HIDA, Tatsuya FUJII
  • Publication number: 20220258070
    Abstract: The interaction system includes: an interaction unit internally including a process flow path that allows a first fluid and a second fluid to flow through the process flow path so as to come into contact and interact with each other; a separation container connected to an outlet of the process flow path so as to receive a mixed fluid of the first fluid and the second fluid discharged from the outlet of the process flow path to retain the received mixed fluid to separate the mixed fluid into the first fluid and the second fluid; a first fluid supply device configured to supply the first fluid to an inlet of the process flow path; a second fluid path connecting a region, where the separated second fluid is accumulated, of the separation container and the inlet of the process flow path so as to guide the second fluid separated in the separation container to the inlet of the process flow path; and a second fluid feed pump provided on the second fluid path to send the second fluid separated in the separation conta
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Akira MATSUOKA, Koji NOISHIKI, Nobumasa ICHIHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220258802
    Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes: a battery disposed at a vehicle body central lower portion, i.e., at a central lower portion of the vehicle body; a side sill of a hollow shape, the side sill disposed at an outer side of the battery in a vehicle width direction and extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction; a reinforcement member disposed inside the side sill, having a closed cross section of a polygonal shape, and having a continuous cylindrical structure where a plurality of the closed cross sections are continuous when viewed in the vehicle width direction; and a deformation control member attached to the reinforcement member and configured to control a deformation of the continuous cylindrical structure of the reinforcement member in the vehicle longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Shota TSUBAKI, Kenichi WATANABE, Kazuya YASUI, Sadao MIYAZAWA, Keisuke NAKATO
  • Publication number: 20220258225
    Abstract: This coupling device for a tubular member is provided with: a base stand for holding an inner member and an outer member in a state in which the outer member is disposed around the inner member; a plurality of pressing members that are supported by the base stand in a movable manner in the radial direction of the inner member and the outer member and have a protruding part on the tip thereof; a pressing member that make contact with the final end of the pressing member and that can press the pressing member radially inward; and a drive mechanism that drives any one among the base stand and the pressing member in a direction perpendicular to the movement direction of the pressing member so that the one member moves relative to the other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventor: Reiichi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220258290
    Abstract: A flux-cored wire may be used with an Ar—CO2 mixed gas, the wire having a steel sheath filled with a flux. Such flux-cored wires may include, as a total of the steel sheath and the flux, relative to a total wire mass: Fe in 92 mass % or more, total Si in a 0.50 mass % or more and 1.50 mass % 15 or less, Mn in 1.00 mass % or more and 3.00 mass % or less, total Li in 0.010 mass % or more and 0.10 mass % or less, and total Mg in 0.02 mass % or more and less than 0.50 mass %, C in 0.15 mass % or less, P in 0.030 mass % or less, S in 0.030 mass % or less, and a slag forming agent in 0.50 mass % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Satoshi KON, Naoya SAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220250263
    Abstract: In a suspended industrial robot, a base and a swivel section have an internal space into which a cable can be inserted. The base has an insertion opening through which at least the cable can be passed into the internal space from the outside. A first cable holding part that holds the cable is installed on at least one of a first arm and a second arm. The cable passes through the internal space of the base and the swivel section and is routed up to an end effector with a midway portion of the cable being held by the first cable holding part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Tatsuji MINATO, Tomokatsu ISOYAMA, Taichi IGARASHI
  • Publication number: 20220250141
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to improve non-defective product yield by reducing shrinkage cavities inside small-diameter ingots, in a method for casting active metals. In this Ti—Al based alloy casting method for casting an ingot of Ti—Al based alloy by tapping molten metal from a tapping hole (5) provided in a bottom portion of a water-cooled copper crucible (2), in an induction melting furnace (3) employing said crucible (2), into a casting mold (4), the degree of vacuum inside the induction melting furnace (3) when the Ti—Al based alloy is being melted or cast is in a range of 80 to 700 Torr, and the Al concentration in the cast ingot is within ±1.0 mass % of a target value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Tomohiro NISHIMURA, Daisuke MATSUWAKA, Hitoshi ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220250157
    Abstract: For a slit outlet width d and a slit inclination angle ?, the following relations (1) and (2) are satisfied: d?0.0024×(??75°)2+4.5, and d?Lc?2h/tan ?, wherein ? [°] is a slit inclination angle being an acute angle formed by at least one of slit inner wall surfaces and a slit outlet surface of a slit part, d [mm] is a slit outlet width being a width of a slit outlet formed by the pair of slit inner wall surfaces in a moving direction, h [mm] is a slit height being a shortest distance between the slit outlet and a slit inlet, and Lc [mm] is a retention section width being a width of a powder retention section in the moving direction at a position where the powder retention section is connected to the slit part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Akimine HATSUDA, Takeshi YAMADA, Eisuke KUROSAWA
  • Publication number: 20220250131
    Abstract: To establish a method for obtaining a hot-press-formed steel member, which exhibits high strength, high tensile elongation (ductility) and high bendability, thereby having excellent deformation characteristics at the time of collision crush (crashworthiness), and which is capable of ensuring excellent delayed fracture resistance. A method for producing a hot-press-formed steel member by heating a steel sheet, which has a chemical component composition containing 0.10% (% by mass, and hereinafter the same shall apply) to 0.30% (inclusive) of C, 1.0% to 2.5% (inclusive) of Si, 1.0% to 3.0% (inclusive) of Si and Al in total and 1.5% to 3.0% (inclusive) of Mn, with the balance consisting of iron and unavoidable impurities, and hot press forming the steel sheet one or more times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Takayuki YAMANO, Jiro IWAYA, Noriyuki JIMBO, Tatsuya ASAI, Naoki MIZUTA
  • Publication number: 20220251700
    Abstract: A state variable including at least one physical quantity related to performance evaluation of film formation and film formation condition is observed, a reward for a determination result of the film formation condition is calculated based on the state variable, a function for determining the film formation condition from the state variable is updated based on the reward, the film formation condition under which the reward is obtained the most is determined, the film formation condition is at least one of a first parameter related to a vacuum evacuation system, a second parameter related to a heating and cooling system, a third parameter related to an evaporation source system, a fourth parameter related to a table system, and a fifth parameter related to a process gas system, and the physical quantity is a film quality characteristic, a mechanical characteristic, and a physical characteristic that are related to the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Akinobu KUNISUE, Tetsuya TAKAHASHI, Yosuke NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220226769
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a gas treatment method including: an absorption step of bringing a gas to be treated, which contains carbon dioxide and a sulfur compound, into contact with an absorption liquid to be phase-separated by carbon dioxide absorption, to cause the absorption liquid to absorb the carbon dioxide and the sulfur compound; and a first release step of heating the absorption liquid brought into contact with the gas to be treated to a temperature equal to or higher than a temperature at which the carbon dioxide absorbed by the absorption liquid is released from the absorption liquid and lower than a temperature at which the sulfur compound absorbed by the absorption liquid is released from the absorption liquid, to release the carbon dioxide from the absorption liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.), National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education and Research System
    Inventors: Norihide MAEDA, Akira KISHIMOTO, Ken NAKANISHI, Hiroshi MACHIDA, Tsuyoshi YAMAGUCHI, Koyo NORINAGA
  • Publication number: 20220226943
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an additively-manufactured object, in which a plurality of weld beads obtained by melting and solidifying a filler metal are deposited on a base portion to build a built-up object, includes: a support bead forming step of forming a support bead on the base portion; and a depositing step of depositing a weld bead on the support bead. When the support bead is formed to be inclined from a vertical direction in the support bead forming step, a ratio H/W of a height H to a width W of the support bead is set to 0.35 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Shuo HUANG, Shinji SATO, Masatoshi HIDA
  • Publication number: 20220219266
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a flux-cored wire for positive polarity gas-shielded arc welding use, in which a flux contains a metal powder and also contains BaF2 and SrF2 and AlF3 and/or CaF2 as fluorides wherein the content of BaF2 is 1.0 to 4.5%, the content of SrF2 is 2.0% or less, the content of CaF2 is 0.45% or less and the content of AlF3 is 0.70% or less, at least one of metal elements constituting the flux and the fluorides is a strong deoxidizing metal element having a specified standard formation Gibbs energy, and the content of each of an oxide and a carbonate in the flux is 0.5% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Naoki MUKAI, Shun IZUTANI, Takashi YASHIMA