Patents Assigned to Kobe Steel, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20240001642
    Abstract: A metal-resin composite includes: a metal plate including at least one cut-and-raised portion including a cutout hole and a cut-and-raised piece; and a resin material disposed only on one surface side of the metal plate, the resin material cured by burying the cut-and-raised portion, the resin material integrated with the metal plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Shu SEKIGUCHI, Kenichi WATANABE, Hiroko KASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240003367
    Abstract: Provided is a weld joint having high strength and excellent hot crack resistance and low-temperature toughness. High Ni steel plates containing 6.5 mass % to 10.0 mass % of Ni are welded to form a weld metal to obtain a weld joint. The weld metal has a chemical composition containing Mn: 13.0% to 25.0%, Cr: 3.8% or less, Ni: 1.0% to 12.0%, Mo: 0.1% to 5.0%, N: % or less, and O: 0.100% or less, and the strength of the weld metal is adjusted so that the yield strength BYS of each steel plate and the 0.2% proof stress WPS of the weld metal satisfy [WPS]?[BYS]?100 MPa??(1) and the tensile strength BTS of the steel plate and the tensile strength WTS of the weld metal satisfy [WTS]?[BTS]+100 MPa??(2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicants: JFE STEEL CORPORATION, Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Atsushi TAKADA, Peng HAN, Masamichi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240001287
    Abstract: Provided is a regeneration device for heating a treatment liquid in a phase-separated state due to absorption of an acidic compound to release the acidic compound and regenerate the treatment liquid. The regeneration device includes a container for storing the treatment liquid, and a first wall that partitions a space in the container into a first space and a second space. The first space includes: a heating region that receives the treatment liquid supplied from an outside of the container and in which a heating unit for heating the treatment liquid is disposed; and a static region that receives the treatment liquid from the heating region, the treatment liquid having released the acidic compound by being heated by the heating unit. The second space allows the treatment liquid having released the acidic compound to be discharged. The first wall is provided with an opening through which the treatment liquid in the static region flows into the second space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Norihide MAEDA, Akira KISHIMOTO, Takuo SHIGEHISA, Ken NAKANISHI, Kunihiko SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240006623
    Abstract: A surface-treated titanium material for a fuel cell separator, including a titanium substrate having a passive film on a surface of the titanium substrate and a surface layer formed on the titanium substrate. The surface layer includes a titanium oxide layer and carbon particles, the carbon particles are dispersed in an inside of the titanium oxide layer, and a total film thickness of the titanium oxide layer and the passive film is 25 nm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.), TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiki SATO, Jun SUZUKI, Kotaro IKEDA, Yusuke WATANABE, Takuya ITAKURA, Tomoki TAMBO
  • Publication number: 20240001475
    Abstract: In each of roller groups, multiple straightening rollers include a first roller, a second roller, . . . , an n-th roller in this order in a direction in which a welding wire passes through, and the n rollers (n is an integer of 4 or more) bend the welding wire alternately in opposite directions and straighten a curl of the welding wire. The n rollers are arranged such that an entrance wire deformation amount ?in calculated by using a numerical formula of ?in={2t(?in+t)/ Lin2}×100 ranges from 0.6 to 1.0 (%), and an exit wire deformation amount tout calculated by using a numerical formula of ?out=2t(?out+t)/Lout2}×100 ranges from 0.0 to 0.3 (%) . Diameters 2r of the multiple straightening rollers are 20 mm or less. An arrangement interval L of the multiple straightening rollers is 11.5 mm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Kenta SUGIZAKI, Yu UMEHARA
  • Patent number: 11852458
    Abstract: An oxide layer thickness measurement device according to the present invention stores, for each of layer thickness measurement sub-ranges constituting a layer thickness measurement range, layer thickness conversion information representing a correlation between a layer thickness and an emissivity where a ratio of a change in the emissivity to a change in the layer thickness in the layer thickness measurement sub-range falls within a set extent. Emitting light luminances of a surface of a steel sheet are measured at respective measurement wavelengths different from each other, and a temperature of the surface of the steel sheet is measured to thereby calculate the emissivity at each of the measurement wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Inui, Hiroyuki Takamatsu, Ryota Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 11850786
    Abstract: There is provided a die plate, a resin machine, and a method of heating nozzles of the die plate that can suppress temperature unevenness of the nozzles and increase the temperature rise performance of the nozzles. The die plate includes a nozzle group including a plurality of nozzles through which molten resin passes, and a heating medium guidance part that guides a heating medium for heating a nozzle wall of each nozzle. The heating medium guidance part includes an inlet that receives the heating medium, an outlet that discharges the heating medium from a heating medium channel, and a guidance wall that defines a heating channel that causes the inlet and the outlet to be in communication with each other together with an outer peripheral surface of the nozzle wall of each of the plurality of nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: KOBE STEEL, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Shinozaki, Shin Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20230405661
    Abstract: A bumper system includes a rear wall of a bumper beam provided with hole portions, and a bumper stay including tubular portions extending in the longitudinal direction, the tubular portions being inserted into the hole portions and joined to the hole portions by pipe expansion joining. The bumper stay includes a pulling-out obstructing portion protruding from the outer surfaces of the tubular portions in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The pulling-out obstructing portion abuts on the rear wall of the bumper beam in the direction in which the bumper stay is pulled out from the hole portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Toru HASHIMURA, Artur REKETS, Yasuhiro MAEDA, Taiki YAMAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230405658
    Abstract: An extruded material includes a peripheral wall having a closed loop-shaped cross-section and defining a hollow, and a middle rib connected to an inner peripheral surface of the peripheral wall and dividing the hollow. The extruded material is provided with a corrected portion set at a predetermined portion in a longitudinal direction and subjected to correction processing, and an uncorrected portion not subjected to the correction processing. The peripheral wall is expanded outward with respect to an original shape of the uncorrected portion in the corrected portion. While the middle rib is curved with respect to an imaginary straight line connecting connecting portions connected with the peripheral wall at both end portions of the middle rib in the uncorrected portion, the middle rib has a smaller degree of curvature than the original shape of the uncorrected portion in the corrected portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Yasuhiro MAEDA, Toru HASHIMURA, Taiki YAMAKAWA
  • Patent number: 11846017
    Abstract: Provided is a hot filament CVD device capable of easily attaching, detaching, and replacing a filament. The hot filament CVD device includes a chamber, a base material support that supports multiple base materials, filament cartridges, and paired holding parts. The filament cartridges each include multiple filaments (60), a first frame, a second frame, and paired connecting members. The paired holding parts guide each of the filament cartridges when it is inserted into the chamber, and hold the filament cartridges in the chamber so that the filament cartridges face the multiple base materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: KOBE STEEL, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Takahashi, Satoshi Hirota, Rainer Cremer
  • Publication number: 20230402909
    Abstract: Provided are a magnetic field generating device and an electric motor with which it is possible to generate a large amount of magnetic flux using a simple construction. The magnetic field generating device is provided with a magnetic pole element, a facing magnetic body opposing the same in an opposing direction, and an inner support member. The magnetic pole element includes a plurality of first iron cores, a plurality of second iron cores, a plurality of third iron cores, a plurality of fourth iron cores, and a plurality of back surface permanent magnets. Each of the plurality of first to fourth iron cores has a magnetic pole surface opposing the facing magnetic body and a back surface on the opposite side thereto, and the plurality of back surface permanent magnets are disposed on the back surfaces of each of the plurality of first to fourth iron cores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventor: Shumpei HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230398688
    Abstract: A motion trajectory generation method for generating a motion trajectory of a robot having a plurality of drive axes upon carrying out work at a work position includes: an obtaining step of obtaining a motion condition identified and corresponding to the work position; and a generation step of generating a motion trajectory of the robot by carrying out a search for a plurality of motion trajectories that the robot is able to implement, on the basis of the motion condition, in which in the generation step, priority levels in the search are determined on the basis of the motion condition and work directions for a plurality of work positions, and the search for the plurality of motion trajectories is carried out on the basis of the priority levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: MASATOSHI HIDA, FUMIAKI SAWAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230398687
    Abstract: A method for generating a movement route of a robot having a plurality of motion axes includes the steps of disposing a virtual area near the robot in accordance with each of a plurality of attitudes at an operation position of the robot, determining interference between the robot and the virtual area and between the robot and a surrounding environment, and generating the movement route of the robot while evaluating each of the plurality of attitudes on a basis of a result of the step of determining. In the step of generating, an attitude with which no interference with the virtual area is caused is highly evaluated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: FUMIAKI SAWAKAWA, MASATOSHI HIDA
  • Publication number: 20230392303
    Abstract: A strand, which is a resin strand used as an additive manufacturing raw material for a 3D printer and formed in a linear shape, the strand having a spiral groove portion formed on an outer peripheral surface along an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventor: Makoto TAKENAKA
  • Patent number: 11828543
    Abstract: A stacked heat exchanger has a high temperature layer with a number of channels into which a high temperature-side fluid is introduced; and a low temperature layer superposed on the high temperature layer having a number of channels into which a low temperature-side fluid is introduced at a temperature lower than the temperature of the high temperature-side fluid. Each channel of the low temperature layer has an upstream-side part in which at least some of the low temperature-side fluid evaporates by being heated by the high temperature-side fluid flowing within the high temperature layer; and a downstream-side part in which the low temperature-side fluid that has evaporated in the upstream-side part is heated by the high temperature-side fluid flowing within the high temperature layer. The upstream-side parts of the low temperature layer occupy a total area smaller than a total area of the downstream-side parts of the low temperature layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: KOBE STEEL, LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Noishiki
  • Publication number: 20230364549
    Abstract: Provided is a gas-treating device including: an absorption device that receives an absorbent to absorb an acidic compound in a gas to be treated into the absorbent; a release device into which the absorbent having absorbed the acidic compound in the absorption device is introduced; a heater for heating the absorbent in the release device to release the acidic compound contained in the absorbent from the absorbent; and a multi-fluid heat exchanger for heating the absorbent before being supplied from the absorption device to the release device by a fluid containing the acidic compound discharged from the release device and the absorbent before being supplied from the release device to the absorption device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Norihide MAEDA, Akira KISHIMOTO, Takuo SHIGEHISA, Ken NAKANISHI, Kunihiko SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11813755
    Abstract: A robot control device according to the present invention is configured to: detect a collision of a robot with an object at a predetermined collision detection sensitivity; perform control of operating the robot, and stopping the robot when a detection part detects the collision; and decrease, when a predetermined circumstance causing the robot to have a low temperature is satisfied, the collision detection sensitivity compared to when the predetermined circumstance is unsatisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mami Yomoda, Yoshiharu Nishida, Naoki Kida, Atsushi Fukunaga, Kenichiro Kanao
  • Publication number: 20230357874
    Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet according to one aspect of the present invention contains, in % by mass: C: 0.070 to 0.140%; Si: 0.80 to 1.80%; and Mn: 1.80 to 2.80%, with the balance being iron and unavoidable impurities; in area ratio in a structure observed with a scanning electron microscope, bainite, tempered martensite, and hard phases composed of at least one of cementite and MA made up of quenched martensite and retained austenite combined together account for 85% or more in total, the hard phase that has a breadth of 0.4 ?m or less and a length of 1.2 ?m or more accounts for 0.5% or more, the hard phase that has a breadth of 1.2 ?m or more accounts for 5.0% or less, and structures other than the bainite, the tempered martensite, and the hard phase account for 15% or less; and in volume ratio measured by X-ray diffractometry, retained austenite accounts for 3.0% or more and 7.0% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Shinjiro KANETADA, Michiharu NAKAYA
  • Patent number: 11806820
    Abstract: An additively manufactured object formed by depositing weld bead layers, each of the weld bead layers being obtained by melting and solidifying a filler metal made of a mild steel, the additively manufactured object includes a plurality of the weld bead layers having a ferrite phase with an average grain diameter of 11 ?m or less in a part except for a surface oxide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: KOBE STEEL, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Sato, Takeshi Yamada, Takemasa Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20230331512
    Abstract: A kink prevention jig used in a pail pack to prevent kinks when wire is pulled out is provided with a housing that has a base plate part and a tubular outer tube part, and that accommodates a laminated wire and a wire extraction hole thereabove. This kink prevention jig is provided with an outwardly extended section above the laminated wire and that extends in the radial direction of the outer tube part, and a wire abutment section above the outwardly extended section and which abuts on a welding wire W and thereby prevents kinks when the welding wire W is pulled out from the extraction hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Ryota SHIMOZAWA, Koji SATO