Patents by Inventor Haruo Nakamichi

Haruo Nakamichi 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).

  • Publication number: 20240068107
    Abstract: It is provided a surface-treated steel sheet that can be produced without using hexavalent chromium and has excellent sulfide staining resistance and coating secondary adhesion. It is a surface-treated steel sheet having: a Sn plating layer; a metallic Cr layer disposed on the Sn plating layer; and a Cr oxide layer disposed on the metallic Cr layer, on at least one surface of a steel sheet, and the surface-treated steel sheet has a water contact angle of 50° or less and a total atomic ratio of K, Na, Mg, and Ca adsorbed on the surface to Cr of 5% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi UENO, Yoichiro YAMANAKA, Yoshitsugu SUZUKI, Masanari TOMOZAWA, Haruo NAKAMICHI, Takashi KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20240035182
    Abstract: It is provided a surface-treated steel sheet that can be produced without using hexavalent chromium and has excellent film wet adhesion and coating secondary adhesion as well as high film corrosion resistance and coating corrosion resistance. It is a surface-treated steel sheet having: a steel sheet; a metallic Cr layer disposed on at least one surface of the steel sheet; and a Cr oxide layer disposed on the metallic Cr layer, and the surface-treated steel sheet has a water contact angle of 50° or less and a total atomic ratio of K, Na, Mg, and Ca adsorbed on the surface to Cr of 5% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi UENO, Yoichiro YAMANAKA, Yoshitsugu SUZUKI, Masanari TOMOZAWA, Haruo NAKAMICHI, Takashi KAWANO
  • Patent number: 10975450
    Abstract: A low alloy high strength thick-walled seamless steel pipe for oil country tubular goods is provided having a wall thickness of 40 mm or more and a yield strength of 758 MPa or more, the steel pipe including a composition containing, in terms of mass %, C: 0.25 to 0.31%, Si: 0.01 to 0.35%, Mn: 0.55 to 0.70%, P: 0.010% or less, S: 0.001% or less, O: 0.0015% or less, Al: 0.015 to 0.040%, Cu: 0.02 to 0.09%, Cr: 0.8 to 1.5%, Mo: 0.9 to 1.6%, V: 0.04 to 0.10%, Nb: 0.005 to 0.05%, B: 0.0015 to 0.0030%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.020%, and N: 0.005% or less, and having Ti/N of 3.0 to 4.0, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a cumulative frequency rate at a measurement point at which a Mo segregation degree by a predetermined expression is 1.5 or more is 1% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Masao Yuga, Kenichiro Eguchi, Haruo Nakamichi
  • Patent number: 10465261
    Abstract: A steel material for highly deformable line pipes that has superior strain aging resistance, superior HIC resistance, and a metallographic structure including ferrite, bainite, and martensite-austenite constituent. The area fraction of the martensite-austenite constituent is 0.5 to 5.0%, and the difference in hardness between the ferrite and the bainite is 60 or more in terms of Vickers hardness. Additionally, the steel material has a uniform elongation of 9% or more and a yield ratio of 90% or less both before a strain aging treatment at a temperature of 300° C. or lower and after the strain aging treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyono Yasuda, Daisuke Mizuno, Haruo Nakamichi, Nobuyuki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10344362
    Abstract: A steel material for highly deformable line pipes that has superior strain aging resistance, superior HIC resistance, and a metallographic structure composed mainly of ferrite and bainite. The total area fraction of the ferrite and the bainite is 90% or more, and the difference in hardness between the ferrite and the bainite is 70 or more in terms of Vickers hardness. Additionally, the steel material has a uniform elongation of 9% or more and a yield ratio of 90% or less both before a strain aging treatment at a temperature of 300° C. or lower and after the strain aging treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyono Yasuda, Daisuke Mizuno, Haruo Nakamichi, Nobuyuki Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20190055617
    Abstract: A low alloy high strength thick-walled seamless steel pipe for oil country tubular goods is provided having a wall thickness of 40 mm or more and a yield strength of 758 MPa or more, the steel pipe including a composition containing, in terms of mass %, C: 0.25 to 0.31%, Si: 0.01 to 0.35%, Mn: 0.55 to 0.70%, P: 0.010% or less, S: 0.001% or less, O: 0.0015% or less, Al: 0.015 to 0.040%, Cu: 0.02 to 0.09%, Cr: 0.8 to 1.5%, Mo: 0.9 to 1.6%, V: 0.04 to 0.10%, Nb: 0.005 to 0.05%, B: 0.0015 to 0.0030%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.020%, and N: 0.005% or less, and having Ti/N of 3.0 to 4.0, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a cumulative frequency rate at a measurement point at which a Mo segregation degree by a predetermined expression is 1.5 or more is 1% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Masao Yuga, Kenichiro Eguchi, Haruo Nakamichi
  • Publication number: 20170022590
    Abstract: A steel material for highly deformable line pipes that has superior strain aging resistance, superior HIC resistance, and a metallographic structure composed mainly of ferrite and bainite. The total area fraction of the ferrite and the bainite is 90% or more, and the difference in hardness between the ferrite and the bainite is 70 or more in terms of Vickers hardness. Additionally, the steel material has a uniform elongation of 9% or more and a yield ratio of 90% or less both before a strain aging treatment at a temperature of 300° C. or lower and after the strain aging treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyono YASUDA, Daisuke MIZUNO, Haruo NAKAMICHI, Nobuyuki ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170022583
    Abstract: A steel material for highly deformable line pipes that has superior strain aging resistance, superior HIC resistance, and a metallographic structure including ferrite, bainite, and martensite-austenite constituent. The area fraction of the martensite-austenite constituent is 0.5 to 5.0%, and the difference in hardness between the ferrite and the bainite is 60 or more in terms of Vickers hardness. Additionally, the steel material has a uniform elongation of 9% or more and a yield ratio of 90% or less both before a strain aging treatment at a temperature of 300° C. or lower and after the strain aging treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyono YASUDA, Daisuke MIZUNO, Haruo NAKAMICHI, Nobuyuki ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9234254
    Abstract: A seamless steel tube contains 0.15% to 0.50% C, 0.1% to 1.0% Si, 0.3% to 1.0% Mn, 0.015% or less P, 0.005% or less S, 0.01% to 0.1% Al, 0.01% or less N, 0.1% to 1.7% Cr, 0.4% to 1.1% Mo, 0.01% to 0.12% V, 0.01% to 0.08% Nb, and 0.0005% to 0.003% B or further contains 0.03% to 1.0% Cu on a mass basis and has a microstructure which has a composition containing 0.40% or more solute Mo and a tempered martensite phase that is a main phase and which contains prior-austenite grains with a grain size number of 8.5 or more and 0.06% by mass or more of a dispersed M2C-type precipitate with substantially a particulate shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Eguchi, Yuji Tanaka, Mitsuo Kimura, Yasuhide Ishiguro, Katsumi Yamada, Haruo Nakamichi
  • Publication number: 20150176727
    Abstract: A line pipe having a wall thickness of 20 mm or more and a tensile strength of 560 MPa or more and a production method therefor are provided. The base metal portion contains particular amounts of C, Si, Mn, P, S, Al, Nb, Ca, N, and O, one or more component selected from Cu, Ni, Cr, Mo, V, and Ti as optional components, and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities. The microstructure in the pipe thickness direction contains 90% or more bainite and 1% or less of MA in a region that extends from a position 2 mm from an inner surface to a position 2 mm from an outer surface. In a hardness distribution in the pipe thickness direction, the hardness in a region other than a center segregation area is 220 Hv10 or less and the hardness in the center segregation area is 250 Hv10 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Tanizawa, Haruo Nakamichi, Toru Kawanaka, Noriaki Uchitomi, Takafumi Ozeki
  • Publication number: 20150152982
    Abstract: A line pipe and a production method therefor are provided. The microstructure in the pipe thickness direction contains 90% or more bainite in a region that extends from a position 2 mm from an inner surface to a position 2 mm from an outer surface. In a hardness distribution in the pipe thickness direction, the hardness in a region other than a center segregation area is 220 Hv10 or less and the hardness in the center segregation area is 250 Hv0.05 or less. The major axes of pores, inclusions, and inclusion clusters that are present in a portion that extends from a position 1 mm from the inner surface to a 3/16 position of the tube thickness and in a portion that extends from a position 1 mm from the outer surface to a 13/16 position of the tube thickness in the tube thickness direction are 1.5 mm or less. A continuous casting slab having the above-described composition is hot-rolled under particular conditions and then subjected to accelerated cooling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Tanizawa, Haruo Nakamichi, Toru Kawanaka, Noriaki Uchitomi, Takafumi Ozeki
  • Publication number: 20120186704
    Abstract: A seamless steel tube contains 0.15% to 0.50% C, 0.1% to 1.0% Si, 0.3% to 1.0% Mn, 0.015% or less P, 0.005% or less S, 0.01% to 0.1% Al, 0.01% or less N, 0.1% to 1.7% Cr, 0.4% to 1.1% Mo, 0.01% to 0.12% V, 0.01% to 0.08% Nb, and 0.0005% to 0.003% B or further contains 0.03% to 1.0% Cu on a mass basis and has a microstructure which has a composition containing 0.40% or more solute Mo and a tempered martensite phase that is a main phase and which contains prior-austenite grains with a grain size number of 8.5 or more and 0.06% by mass or more of a dispersed M2C-type precipitate with substantially a particulate shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Eguchi, Yuji Tanaka, Mitsuo Kimura, Yasuhide Ishiguro, Katsumi Yamada, Haruo Nakamichi
  • Patent number: 7291402
    Abstract: The invention is to provide a surface-treated steel sheet of good white rust resistance with no chromium in its surface treatment film, and it has realized a surface-treated steel sheet of higher-level corrosion resistance by forming a reaction layer of plating metal with a barrier layer effective for anticorrosion not in a two-layered film but in a single-layered film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignees: JFE Steel Corporation, Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Okai Kazuhisa, Akira Matsuzaki, Naoto Yoshimi, Takahiro Kubota, Masaaki Yamashita, Hisato Noro, Haruo Nakamichi, Kaoru Sato, Hiroyasu Matsuki, Reijiro Nishida, Masahiro Murata, Shoichi Tanaka, Yoshikazu Morohoshi, Shingo Amaki
  • Publication number: 20050147832
    Abstract: The invention is to provide a surface-treated steel sheet of good white rust resistance with no chromium in its surface treatment film, and it has realized a surface-treated steel sheet of higher-level corrosion resistance by forming a reaction layer of plating metal with a barrier layer effective for anticorrosion not in a two-layered film but in a single-layered film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Okai, Akira Matsuzaki, Naoto Yoshimi, Takahiro Kubota, Masaaki Yamashita, Hisato Noro, Haruo Nakamichi, Kaoru Sato, Hiroyasu Matsuki, Reijiro Nishida, Masahiro Murata, Shoichi Tanaka, Yoshikazu Morohoshi, Shingo Amaki