Patents Assigned to Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11092887
    Abstract: Provided are: a support frame (1) for pellicle that has both low dust generation property and high light resistance, and further has an ion elution amount which is reduced to the utmost limit to an extent that haze is not generated even when a short wavelength laser is used for an exposure light source, a pellicle (8) using the support frame for pellicle, and a method for efficiently manufacturing the support frame for pellicle. A support frame for pellicle which comprises a frame member (2) comprising aluminum or aluminum alloy, an anodized film (4) formed on the surface of the frame member, and a fluororesin coating layer (6) formed on the surface of the anodized film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Ishito
  • Patent number: 11094472
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an electrode for an electrolytic capacitor, the method comprising: a hydration step in which an aluminum electrode is immersed in a hydration treatment solution having a temperature of 80° C. or higher; and a chemical conversion step in which the aluminum electrode is subjected to chemical conversion treatment up to a formation voltage of at least 400 V. The hydration treatment solution contains a hydration inhibitor. The thickness of a hydrated film formed in the hydration step satisfies the following condition, 0.6?t2/t1?1, wherein t1 is the average thickness of the hydrated film formed in a depth range of up to 100 ?m from the surface of the aluminum electrode, and t2 is the average thickness s of the hydrated film formed in a deep portion at least 100 ?m from the surface of the aluminum electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Shimizu, Masahiko Katano, Yuya Yoshida, Toshifumi Taira, Shinya Sone
  • Publication number: 20210238714
    Abstract: Aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use having suitable strength and excellent in heat radiating ability, formability, and work softenability, which aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use enabling formation of an integrated explosion-proof valve with little variation in operating pressure and excellent in cyclic fatigue resistance, and a method of production of the same are provided, the aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use for forming an integrated explosion-proof valve having a component composition containing Fe: 1.05 to 1.50 mass %, Mn: 0.15 to 0.70 mass %, Ti: 0.002 to 0.15 mass %, and B: less than 0.05 mass %, having a balance of Al and impurities, having an Fe/Mn ratio restricted to 1.8 to 7.0, restricting, as impurities, Si to less than 0.40 mass %, Cu to less than 0.03 mass %, Mg to less than 0.05 mass %, and V to less than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuichi TAMAKI, Keiji KANAMORI, Daisuke SHIMOSAKA, Toshiya ANAMI
  • Publication number: 20210238720
    Abstract: Aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use having suitable strength and excellent in deformation resistance and formability, which aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use enabling formation of an integrated explosion-proof valve with little variation in operating pressure and excellent in cyclic fatigue resistance, and a method of production of the same are provided, the aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use for forming an integrated explosion-proof valve having a component composition containing Fe: 0.85 to 1.50 mass %, Mn: 0.30 to 0.70 mass %, Ti: 0.002 to 0.15 mass %, and B: less than 0.05 mass %, having a balance of Al and impurities, having an Fe/Mn ratio restricted to 1.8 to 3.5, restricting, as impurities, Si to less than 0.40 mass %, Cu to less than 0.03 mass %, Mg to less than 0.05 mass %, and V to less than 0.03 mass %, having a tensile strength of 95 MPa or more, having a 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuichi TAMAKI, Keiji KANAMORI, Daisuke SHIMOSAKA, Toshiya ANAMI
  • Publication number: 20210213561
    Abstract: The present invention is characterized by including a heat medium pipe insertion process to insert a heat medium pipe into a concave groove; a lid plate insertion process to insert a lid plate into a lid groove; and a joining process to perform friction stirring while a primary joining rotary tool provided with a base side pin and a tip side pin is moved along a butted portion of a side wall of the lid groove and a side face of the lid plate, wherein in the joining process, friction stirring is performed while the tip side pin of the primary rotary tool which is rotating is inserted into the butted portion and an outer circumferential face of the base side pin is in contact with the base member and the lid plate, and plastically fluidized material fluidized by frictional heat is flowed into a void portion formed adjacent to the heat medium pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi HORI, Nobushiro SEO, Kosuke YAMANAKA
  • Patent number: 11062814
    Abstract: A box-type structure includes a structure having neutron beam shielding performance. It is possible to accommodate an organism to be irradiated in the structure. The box-type structure includes shielding plates, which include a lithium-fluoride sintered body having neutron shielding performance. Edge portions of the shielding plates are joined by abutting against one another. The edge portions of the shielding plates have a halving joint structure, and the halving joint structure has a stepped or inclined cutout shape. The box-type structure has a plurality of surfaces, and at least one of the faces may be removable or there may be an opening portion in part of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Usui, Hidaka Furuya, Maki Takahashi, Hidenori Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20210170521
    Abstract: A primary joining rotary tool F comprises a stirring pin F2including a circumferential face tapers to become thinner toward a tip portion of the stirring pin, a flat face F3 at the tip portion of the stirring pin F2 and a projecting portion F4 projecting from the flat face F3. Friction-stirring is performed in the primary joining process by inserting the stirring pin F2 that is rotating into an abutted portion J1 in a manner that only the stirring pin F2 is in contact with the base member 2 and the lid plate 5 with the flat face F3 being in contact with the base member 2 and the lid plate 5 and with a tip face F5 of the projecting portion F4 being in contact only with the base member 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi HORI, Nobushiro SEO
  • Patent number: 11031257
    Abstract: To provide a method for manufacturing a power device cooler, which not only can accomplish cost reduction and preferable joining between the cooler and a heating element equipped with a power device but also can improve the productivity. After first and second cases and fins that constitute a cooler are brazed by means of a non-corrosive flux and a brazing filler material, the first and second cases and the fins being made of aluminum, flux residues that are attached at least to a heat receiving surface of the first and second cases that is to be joined to a heating element equipped with a power device, are removed by a wet blasting method in which a mixture of an abrasive formed of polygonal alumina particles having a median particle diameter of 4 to 250 ?m and a liquid is projected onto the heat receiving surface by compressed air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Etsuro Kubota, Tomoyuki Hirayama, Yutaka Hirano
  • Publication number: 20210162531
    Abstract: The present invention includes: a preparation process configured to provide a first metal member including an end portion with a vertical face, and a second metal member including an end portion with an inclined face, a higher melting point and a smaller plate thickness than the first metal member; a butting process configured to butt the end portions of the first metal member and the second metal member against each other and form a butted portion with a V-shaped gap; and a joining process configured to join the first metal member and the second metal member together by inserting the rotating rotary tool from only a front face of the first metal member and relatively moving the rotary tool along the butted portion while only the stirring pin is in contact with at least the first metal member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hisashi HORI
  • Publication number: 20210146473
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a liquid-cooled jacket, to reduce the size of a recessed groove on a surface of a metal member and also to reduce roughness of an abutted surface. The method includes: a placing step of placing a jacket body and a sealing body, a first main joining step of performing friction stirring by moving a main joining rotary tool around along a first abutted portion, and a second main joining step of performing friction stirring by moving the main joining rotary tool around along a second abutted portion. The main joining rotary tool has a base-end-side pin and a tip-end-side pin. A taper angle of the base-end-side pin is grater than a taper angle of the tip-end-side pin and a stairs-like pin step portion is formed on an outer circumferential surface of the tip-end-side pin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi HORI, Nobushiro SEO, Kosuke YAMANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210146474
    Abstract: The method comprises a primary joining process in which primary joining is performed by friction stirring by moving a rotary tool (F) once around a recessed part (13) along a first overlap part (H1) in a state where only a stirring pin (F2) of the rotary tool provided with the stirring pin is inserted in the first overlap part (H1) from a front surface (3b) of a sealing body (3) and is in contact with a jacket body (2) and the sealing body (3). In the primary joining process, the rotary tool (F), which is provided with a flat surface (F4) orthogonal to a rotational axis of the stirring pin (F2) and a projection (F5) projecting from the flat surface (F4) at a tip part of the stirring pin (F2), is employed, and the first overlap part (H1) is joined by bringing the flat surface (F4) into contact with only the sealing body (3) and inserting a tip end of the projection (F5) more deeply than the first overlap part (H1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi HORI, Nobushiro SEO
  • Publication number: 20210146472
    Abstract: A first metal member (1) and a second metal member (2) are joined together using a rotary tool (F1D) comprising a base side pin (F3) and a tip side pin (F4), comprising an overlapping and abutting process of forming an overlapped portion (J1a), a top side abutted portion (J1b) and a back side abutted portion (J1c), and a friction stirring process of inserting the tip side pin (F4) that is rotating into the top side abutted portion (J1b) to join the top side abutted portion (J1b) and the overlapped portion (J1a) with a flat face (F5) vertical to a rotation axis of the rotary tool (F1D) being in contact with both the first metal member (1) and the second metal member (2) and with a tip face (f7) of a protruding portion (F6) protruding from the flat face (F5) being inserted deep over the overlapped portion (J1a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi HORI, Kosuke YAMANAKA
  • Patent number: 10955740
    Abstract: The present invention provides; a pellicle frame which can effectively inhibit distortion of the photo mask (8) caused by mounting the pellicle (1), and which does not have a complex shape, and a pellicle which uses said pellicle frame are provided, and a manufacturing method of a blackened pellicle frame is also provided which can reduce the defect of the surface flickering under concentrated light and which facilitates inspection of the foreign matter adhesion prior to use. The present invention relates to a pellicle frame with an anodized film on a surface of an aluminum alloy frame, characterized in that: the aluminum alloy frame comprises an aluminum alloy which contains Ca: 5.0 to 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignees: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD., Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Taguchi, Kazuo Kohmura, Daiki Taneichi
  • Patent number: 10948816
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pellicle frame which can effectively inhibit deformation of an exposure master plate (8) caused by affixing the pellicle (1), and which does not have a complex shape, and a pellicle which uses said pellicle frame are provided. The pellicle frame with an anodized film on a surface of an aluminum alloy frame is characterized in that: the aluminum alloy frame comprises an aluminum alloy which contains Ca: 5.0 to 10.0% by weight with the remainder aluminum and unavoidable impurities are contained, and has an area (volume) ratio of an Al4Ca phase, which is a dispersed phase, is greater than or equal to 25%, and a crystal structure of a part of the Al4Ca phase is monoclinic; wherein the anodized film contains Al4Ca particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Taguchi, Takayuki Yamaguchi, Jun Yu, Yasuo Ishiwata
  • Publication number: 20210062302
    Abstract: Aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use having suitable strength and excellent in formability and work softenability, which aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use enabling formation of an integrated explosion-proof valve with little variation in operating pressure and excellent in cyclic fatigue resistance, and a method of production of the same are provided, the aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use for forming an integrated explosion-proof valve having a component composition containing Fe: 1.05 to 1.50 mass %, Mn: 0.15 to 0.70 mass %, Ti: 0.002 to 0.15 mass %, and B: less than 0.04 mass %, having a balance of Al and impurities, having an Fe/Mn ratio restricted to 1.8 to 7.0, restricting, as impurities, Si to less than 0.40 mass %, Cu to less than 0.03 mass %, Mg to less than 0.05 mass %, and V to less than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuichi TAMAKI, Keiji KANAMORI, Daisuke SHIMOSAKA, Toshiya ANAMI
  • Publication number: 20210062316
    Abstract: Aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use having suitable strength and excellent in formability and work softenability, which aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use enabling formation of an integrated explosion-proof valve with little variation in operating pressure and excellent in cyclic fatigue resistance, and a method of production of the same are provided, the aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use for forming an integrated explosion-proof valve having a component composition containing Fe: 1.05 to 1.50 mass %, Mn: 0.15 to 0.70 mass %, Ti: 0.002 to 0.15 mass %, and B: less than 0.03 mass %, having a balance of Al and impurities, having an Fe/Mn ratio restricted to 1.8 to 7.0, restricting, as impurities, Si to less than 0.40 mass %, Cu to less than 0.03 mass %, Mg to less than 0.05 mass %, and V to less than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuichi TAMAKI, Keiji KANAMORI, Daisuke SHIMOSAKA, Toshiya ANAMI
  • Publication number: 20210053144
    Abstract: A liquid cooling jacket is produced by forming a first butted portion where a step side face of a peripheral wall portion and an outer peripheral side face of a sealing body butt each other and a third butted portion where a step side face of a support pillar portion and a hole wall of the hole portion of the sealing body portion butt each other with a gap, and friction-stirring by inserting a tip side pin and a base side pin of a primary joining rotary tool that is rotating into the sealing body and moving the primary joining rotary tool along the third butted portion with an outer circumferential face of the tip side pin being kept off the step side face while having a second aluminum alloy of the sealing body flow into the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi HORI, Nobushiro SEO, Kosuke YAMANAKA
  • Patent number: 10923288
    Abstract: A method for producing an electrode for an aluminum electrolytic capacitor is provided that can reduce defects in a chemical formation film formed at a chemical formation voltage of 500 V or higher. For producing the electrode for an aluminum electrolytic capacitor, an aluminum electrode is brought into contact with pure water having a temperature of 70° C. or higher to form a hydrated film having a suitable film thickness on the aluminum electrode at a hydration step, and then chemical formation is performed thereon at a chemical formation voltage of 500 V or higher in a chemical formation solution having a temperature of 40° C. or higher at a chemical formation step. At the chemical formation step, when the relative velocity of the chemical formation solution to the aluminum electrode is represented by a three-dimensional velocity vector B?A and the absolute value of the velocity vector B?A is represented by |B?A|, the absolute value |B?A| of the velocity vector satisfies the following conditional formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Shimizu, Shuhei Enoki, Masahiko Katano, Toshifumi Taira, Kazuya Fujimoto, Shinya Sone
  • Patent number: 10920301
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy casting excellent in high temperature strength and thermal conductivity, a method of producing the same, and an aluminum alloy piston for internal combustion engine using this casting. An aluminum alloy casting having a chemical composition comprising Si: 12.0 to 13.5 mass % Cu: 4.5 to 5.5 mass % Mg: 0.6 to 1.0 mass % Ni: 0.7 to 1.3 mass % Fe: 1.15 to 1.25 mass % Ti: 0.10 to 0.2 mass % P: 0.004 to 0.02 mass % and a balance of Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein in an observed field of view of 0.2 mm2, the major axis length of the Al—Fe—Si based crystallites is 100 ?m or less by average length of 10 crystallites from the largest down. The method for producing the casting comprising casting a melt of aluminum alloy having the above chemical composition at cooling rate of 100° C./sec or more, then performing aging treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Izumi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Oda, Hisayasu Kojima, Naoko Sato, Ryo Wakabayashi, Akito Tanihata
  • Patent number: D914775
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: NIKKEIKIN ALUMINIUM CORE TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, LTD., NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD., HORIKAWA INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsunori Kato, Toshiaki Yamazaki, Eiji Anzai, Shoichi Horikawa, Hiroyuki Horikawa