Patents by Inventor Gentaro Takeda
Gentaro Takeda has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240116536Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes a communication unit and a processor. The communication unit receives, from an in-vehicle device, vehicle identification information by which a vehicle is identifiable. The processor is configured to: detect an obstacle; and determine whether the vehicle is drivable along a driving route, according to a position of the detected obstacle and the driving route. Furthermore, the communication unit transmits a result of determination of drivability to the in-vehicle device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventor: Gentaro TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20240067206Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage that stores first detection object information; and a processor that acquires second detection object information, in which the processor determines whether an undetected object that has not been detected in the first parking is present, based on the first detection object information and the second detection object information, and changes an aspect of the notification when the undetected object is present.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruko TERAI, Akira MATSUBARA, Gentaro TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20230323501Abstract: Provided is a continuous hot-dip galvanizing apparatus comprising: a vertical annealing furnace having heating, soaking zone, and cooling zones therein; and a hot-dip galvanizing line downstream of the cooling zone. The heating, soaking, and cooling zones each have, in its upper portion, at least one upper hearth roll and, in its lower portion, at least one lower hearth roll. The soaking zone has a first and second humidified gas supply ports to supply a humidified gas having a dew point of 10° C. to 30° C. to the soaking zone. The first and second humidified gas supply ports are 1.0 m to 5.0 m lower than the center of the lower and upper hearth rolls, respectively, and overlap the steel sheet. The first humidified gas supply port is provided only for an ascending pass and the second humidified gas supply port is provided only for a descending pass.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Gentaro TAKEDA, Hideyuki TAKAHASHI, Tetsuya IWATA, Koji SAWAMURA
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Patent number: 11718889Abstract: A method for producing a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes supplying humidified gas to the soaking zone 12 in a manner such that: in passes in which the steel sheet moves upward, the humidified gas is supplied from first humidified gas supply ports 40A to 40E provided at positions higher by 1.0 m or more and 5.0 m or less than the centers of lower hearth rolls 54 and overlapping the steel sheet in the passes when viewed from the side of the soaking zone; and in passes in which the steel sheet moves downward, the humidified gas is supplied from second humidified gas supply ports 42A to 42E provided at positions lower by 1.0 m or more and 5.0 m or less than the centers of the upper hearth rolls 52 and overlapping the steel sheet in the passes when viewed from the side of the soaking zone.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Gentaro Takeda, Hideyuki Takahashi, Tetsuya Iwata, Koji Sawamura
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Patent number: 11663069Abstract: A processing system sets up two or more circuits of a plurality of circuits as two or more processing circuits. The two or more processing circuits subject respective input signals from a sensor to signal processing. The processing system sets up at least one circuit of the plurality of circuits to serve as a reference circuit. The at least one circuit being smaller in number than the two or more processing circuits and being other than the processing circuits. The determination circuit is configured to perform abnormality determination for a determination target circuit which is any one of the two or more processing circuits based on a comparison result between an output signal of the determination target circuit and an output signal of the reference circuit.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Haruko Terai, Gentaro Takeda
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Patent number: 11649520Abstract: A continuous hot-dip galvanizing apparatus has a vertical annealing furnace, one or more hearth rolls, a hot-dip galvanizing apparatus, an alloying line, and humidified gas supply ports. When the steel sheet having a Si content of 0.2 mass % or more is conveyed inside the annealing furnace, the humidified gas supply ports positioned in a latter part of the soaking zone supply the humidified gas to the soaking zone and the at least one dry gas supply port supplies the dry gas to the soaking zone. When the steel sheet having a Si content of less than 0.2 mass % is conveyed inside the annealing furnace, the plurality of the humidified gas supply ports do not supply the humidified gas to the soaking zone and the at least one dry gas supply port supplies the dry gas to the soaking zone.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Gentaro Takeda, Yoichi Makimizu, Yoshikazu Suzuki, Yoshimasa Himei, Hideyuki Takahashi
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Patent number: 11535922Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a high-strength galvanized steel sheet. Heating in a first half of oxidizing treatment is performed at a temperature of 400° C. to 750° C. in an atmosphere having a particular O2 concentration and a particular H2O concentration, and heating in a second half of the oxidizing treatment is performed at a temperature of 600° C. to 850° C. in an atmosphere having a particular O2 concentration and a particular H2O concentration. Subsequently, heating in a heating zone for reduction annealing is performed to a temperature of 650° C. to 900° C. at a particular heating rate in an atmosphere having a particular H2 concentration and a particular H2O concentration with the balance being N2 and inevitable impurities, and soaking in a soaking zone for the reduction annealing is performed in an atmosphere having a particular H2 concentration and a particular H2O concentration with the balance being N2 and inevitable impurities.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Yoichi Makimizu, Gentaro Takeda, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Yoshimasa Himei, Yoshikazu Suzuki
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Publication number: 20220403480Abstract: A continuous hot-dip galvanizing apparatus has a vertical annealing furnace, one or more hearth rolls, a hot-dip galvanizing apparatus, an alloying line, and humidified gas supply ports. When the steel sheet having a Si content of 0.2 mass % or more is conveyed inside the annealing furnace, the humidified gas supply ports positioned in a latter part of the soaking zone supply the humidified gas to the soaking zone and the at least one dry gas supply port supplies the dry gas to the soaking zone. When the steel sheet having a Si content of less than 0.2 mass % is conveyed inside the annealing furnace, the plurality of the humidified gas supply ports do not supply the humidified gas to the soaking zone and the at least one dry gas supply port supplies the dry gas to the soaking zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Gentaro TAKEDA, Yoichi MAKIMIZU, Yoshikazu SUZUKI, Yoshimasa HIMEI, Hideyuki TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 11459631Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a galvannealed steel sheet. When the steel sheet passing through the soaking zone is a type of steel containing 0.2 mass % or more of Si, both dry gas and humidified gas are supplied to the soaking zone, where the humidified gas is supplied only from the humidified gas supply port positioned in a latter part of the soaking zone among a plurality of humidified gas supply ports, where the latter part of the soaking zone is determined considering a sheet passing speed V and a target temperature T on the exit side of the soaking zone.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2018Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Gentaro Takeda, Yoichi Makimizu, Yoshikazu Suzuki, Yoshimasa Himei, Hideyuki Takahashi
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Patent number: 11447852Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet having improved post-work impact resistance, a method for producing the high-strength galvanized steel sheet, and a high-strength member produced using the steel sheet. The high-strength galvanized steel sheet includes a steel sheet having a microstructure including ferrite and carbide-free bainite, martensite and carbide-containing bainite, and retained austenite, the total area fraction of ferrite and carbide-free bainite being 0% to 55%, the total area fraction of martensite and carbide-containing bainite being 45% to 100%, and the area fraction of retained austenite being 0% to 5%. Additionally, a galvanizing layer is disposed on the steel sheet. The density of gaps that cut across the entire thickness of the galvanizing layer in a cross section of the galvanizing layer, which is taken in the thickness direction so as to be perpendicular to the rolling direction, is 10 gaps/mm or more.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Hiromi Yoshitomi, Yoichi Makimizu, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Gentaro Takeda, Yoshikazu Suzuki, Yoshimasa Himei
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Patent number: 11421312Abstract: A method comprises: annealing a steel sheet by conveying the steel sheet through a heating zone, a soaking zone, and a cooling zone in the stated order in an annealing furnace; and then applying a hot-dip galvanized coating onto the steel sheet discharged from the cooling zone. Reducing or non-oxidizing humidified gas and reducing or non-oxidizing dry gas are supplied into the soaking zone. A CO gas concentration is measured using a CO gas concentration meter provided in an exhaust portion for gas in the soaking zone. A decarburized layer thickness of the steel sheet is calculated from the measured CO gas concentration. At least one of a flow rate and a dew point of the humidified gas is controlled so that the calculated decarburized layer thickness is less than or equal to a predetermined thickness.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Gentaro Takeda, Yoichi Makimizu, Gosuke Ikeda, Hideyuki Takahashi
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Patent number: 11365489Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electroplated steel sheet by continuously performing electroplating on a steel sheet, the method including disposing a slit gas nozzle having an ejection port having a width wider than a width of the steel sheet in a width direction of the steel sheet on a side of an exit of an electroplating cell for the steel sheet to pass through, and ejecting a gas through the slit gas nozzle toward the steel sheet.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Gentaro Takeda, Yoshimichi Hino, Soshi Yoshimoto, Hideyuki Takahashi
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Patent number: 10988836Abstract: A method for producing a high-strength galvanized steel sheet having excellent fatigue resistance properties. The method includes an oxidation processing in which a steel sheet is heated at a temperature of 400 to 750° C. in an atmosphere having an O2 concentration of 1000 ppm by volume or more and a H2O concentration of 1000 ppm by volume or more, and the steel sheet is heated at a temperature of 600 to 850° C. in an atmosphere having an O2 concentration of less than 1000 ppm by volume and a H2O concentration of 1000 ppm by volume or more. The method also includes reduction-annealing in which the steel sheet is heated at a heating rate of 0.1° C./sec or more to a temperature of 650 to 900° C. in an atmosphere having a H2 concentration of 5 to 30 vol % and a H2O concentration of 10 to 1000 ppm by volume.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Makimizu, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Gentaro Takeda, Hiroshi Hasegawa
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Patent number: 10941475Abstract: A method for producing a high-strength galvanized steel sheet having excellent fatigue resistance properties. The method includes an oxidation processing in which a steel sheet is heated at a temperature of 400 to 750° C. in an atmosphere having an O2 concentration of 1000 ppm by volume or more and a H2O concentration of 1000 ppm by volume or more, and the steel sheet is heated at a temperature of 600 to 850° C. in an atmosphere having an O2 concentration of less than 1000 ppm by volume and a H2O concentration of 1000 ppm by volume or more. The method also includes reduction-annealing in which the steel sheet is heated at a heating rate of 0.1° C./sec or more to a temperature of 650 to 900° C. in an atmosphere having a H2 concentration of 5 to 30 vol % and a H2O concentration of 10 to 1000 ppm by volume.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Makimizu, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Gentaro Takeda, Hiroshi Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20200387420Abstract: A processing system sets up two or more circuits of a plurality of circuits as two or more processing circuits. The two or more processing circuits subject respective input signals from a sensor to signal processing. The processing system sets up at least one circuit of the plurality of circuits to serve as a reference circuit. The at least one circuit being smaller in number than the two or more processing circuits and being other than the processing circuits. The determination circuit is configured to perform abnormality determination for a determination target circuit which is any one of the two or more processing circuits based on a comparison result between an output signal of the determination target circuit and an output signal of the reference circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruko TERAI, Gentaro TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20200377964Abstract: A method for producing a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes supplying humidified gas to the soaking zone 12 in a manner such that: in passes in which the steel sheet moves upward, the humidified gas is supplied from first humidified gas supply ports 40A to 40E provided at positions higher by 1.0 m or more and 5.0 m or less than the centers of lower hearth rolls 54 and overlapping the steel sheet in the passes when viewed from the side of the soaking zone; and in passes in which the steel sheet moves downward, the humidified gas is supplied from second humidified gas supply ports 42A to 42E provided at positions lower by 1.0 m or more and 5.0 m or less than the centers of the upper hearth rolls 52 and overlapping the steel sheet in the passes when viewed from the side of the soaking zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2018Publication date: December 3, 2020Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Gentaro TAKEDA, Hideyuki TAKAHASHI, Tetsuya IWATA, Koji SAWAMURA
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Publication number: 20200299799Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a galvannealed steel sheet. When the steel sheet passing through the soaking zone is a type of steel containing 0.2 mass % or more of Si, both dry gas and humidified gas are supplied to the soaking zone, where the humidified gas is supplied only from the humidified gas supply port positioned in a latter part of the soaking zone among a plurality of humidified gas supply ports, where the latter part of the soaking zone is determined considering a sheet passing speed V and a target temperature T on the exit side of the soaking zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2018Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Gentaro TAKEDA, Yoichi MAKIMIZU, Yoshikazu SUZUKI, Yoshimasa HIMEI, Hideyuki TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 10760144Abstract: A method for manufacturing a metal sheet comprising pinching the metal sheet in rapid quenching between a pair of pinch rolls in the range where the temperature of the metal sheet is from (TMs+150) (° C.) to (TMf?150) (° C.), wherein the Ms temperature of the metal sheet is TMs (° C.) and the Mf temperature thereof is TMf (° C.), as well as a rapid quenching unit comprising a pair of pinch rolls capable of use in such a method.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Soshi Yoshimoto, Masaru Miyake, Gentaro Takeda
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Patent number: 10752975Abstract: A method of producing a galvannealed steel sheet includes: annealing a steel strip by conveying the steel strip through a heating zone including a direct fired furnace, a soaking zone, and a cooling zone in this order in an annealing furnace; hot-dip galvanizing the steel strip discharged from the cooling zone; and heat-alloying a galvanized coating formed on the steel strip. Mixed gas of humidified gas and dry gas is supplied into the soaking zone from at least one gas supply port located in a region of lower ½ of the soaking zone in a height direction so that a dew point measured in a region of upper ? of the soaking zone in the height direction and a dew point measured in a region of lower ? of the soaking zone in the height direction are both 20° C. or more and 0° C. or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Gentaro Takeda, Masaru Miyake, Yoichi Makimizu, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Yoshikazu Suzuki
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Publication number: 20200199726Abstract: A method for producing a high-strength galvanized steel sheet having excellent fatigue resistance properties. The method includes an oxidation processing in which a steel sheet is heated at a temperature of 400 to 750° C. in an atmosphere having an O2 concentration of 1000 ppm by volume or more and a H2O concentration of 1000 ppm by volume or more, and the steel sheet is heated at a temperature of 600 to 850° C. in an atmosphere having an O2 concentration of less than 1000 ppm by volume and a H2O concentration of 1000 ppm by volume or more. The method also includes reduction-annealing in which the steel sheet is heated at a heating rate of 0.1° C./sec or more to a temperature of 650 to 900° C. in an atmosphere having a H2 concentration of 5 to 30 vol % and a H2O concentration of 10 to 1000 ppm by volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2017Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi MAKIMIZU, Yoshitsugu SUZUKI, Gentaro TAKEDA, Hiroshi HASEGAWA