Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Masui

Hiroaki Masui 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).

  • Patent number: 6858095
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising 2.5-4.5% Si by weight and measuring 0.36-1.00 mm in thickness is imparted with a good core loss value for its thickness by controlling its C content, flux density, grain boundary configuration, and deviation degree of crystal orientation in the grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunari Yoshitomi, Hiroaki Masui, Nobuyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20010042576
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising 2.5-4.5% Si by weight and measuring 0.36-1.00 mm in thickness is imparted with a good core loss value for its thickness by controlling its C content, flux density, grain boundary configuration, and deviation degree of crystal orientation in the grains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Inventors: Yasunari Yoshitomi, Hiroaki Masui, Nobuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5961744
    Abstract: Grain oriented silicon steel sheet on which is formed an insulating coating having a thickness that is not less than 2.5 .mu.m that imparts tension to the steel sheet which does not have an inorganic mineral layer formed during a final annealing step (glass film) and a method of forming on grain oriented silicon steel sheet an insulating coating that is not less than 2.5 .mu.m thick and which imparts tension to the steel sheet which does not have the inorganic mineral layer (glass film) that forms during finish annealing, and a method of forming a tensioning insulating coating on grain oriented silicon steel sheet which has been finish annealed and does not have an inorganic mineral surface layer (glass film), after first forming a layer of SiO.sub.2 not less than 0.001 .mu.m thick on the oriented silicon steel sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Yamazaki, Hiroyasu Fujii, Takeo Nagashima, Yoshiyuki Ushigami, Osamu Tanaka, Katsurou Kuroki, Hiroaki Masui
  • Patent number: 5565272
    Abstract: A grain oriented silicon steel sheet having excellent primary glass film property and magnetic property, comprising 2.0 to 5.0% by weight of Si, wherein a primary glass film formed during secondary recrystallization annealing is composed mainly of forsterite (Mg.sub.2 SiO.sub.4) and an oxide containing Al, mainly of spinel (MgAl.sub.2 O.sub.4), or Al and Si, mainly of cordierite (MgO.sub.2 Al.sub.4 Si.sub.5 O.sub.18) and/or sapphirine (Mg.sub.4 Al.sub.10 Si.sub.2 O.sub.23), and in an analysis of the surface of the steel sheet by glow discharge optical emission spectrometry analysis (GDS analysis), a peak derived from Al is separated from a peak derived from Mg, and, preferably, the peak derived from Al is separated from the peak derived from Mg and the distance (time) from the surface of the steel sheet at which the peak derived from Al is 1.2 times or more the distance from the surface of the steel sheet at which the peak derived from Mg appears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1996
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Masui, Morio Shiozaki, Nobuyuki Takahashi, Hisashi Kabayashi, Takeo Nagashima, Shuichi Yamazaki, Hiroyasu Fujii
  • Patent number: 5512110
    Abstract: In the present invention, grain oriented electrical steel sheets provided by heating a slab comprising, by weight percent, 0.025 to 0.075% of C, 3.4 to 5.0% of Si, 0.015 to 0.080% of sol. Al, 0.0030 to 0.013% of N, 0.014% or less of (S+0.405 Se) and 0.05 to 0.8% of Mn, sol. Al (%)/Si (%) being 0.0080 or more, the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities at a temperature below 1280.degree. C., hot-rolling the heated slab, subjecting the hot-rolled steel sheet to cold rolling, subjecting the cold-rolled steel sheet to decarbonization annealing with regulating the average diameter of primary recrystallized grains of the steel sheet subjected to decarbonization annealing to 18 to 35 .mu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1996
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunari Yoshitomi, Katsuro Kuroki, Yukio Matsuo, Hiroaki Masui, Yoshio Nakamura, Maremizu Ishibashi, Tsuyoshi Kawano, Tsutomu Haratani, Yoshiyuki Ushigami
  • Patent number: 5507883
    Abstract: A grain oriented electrical steel sheet having no significant glass film and having a high magnetic flux density and an excellent iron loss property, comprising, in terms of by weight, 2.5 to 4.5% of Si, the steel sheet having, as oxides on its surface, a glass film comprising 0.6 g/m.sup.2 or less in total of forsterite and spinel composed of MgO, SiO.sub.2 and Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 and an insulating coating having a thickness of 6 .mu.m or less, the face tension imparted on the surface of the steel sheet by the coating being in the range of from 0.5 to 2.0 kg/mm.sup.2. In the final box annealing of the steel sheet after primary recrystallization annealing, use is made of an annealing separator comprising 100 parts by weight of MgO and, added thereto, 2 to 30 parts by weight of at least one member selected from the group consisting of chlorides, carbonates, nitrates, sulfates and sulfides of Li, K, Bi, Na, Ba, Ca, Mg, Zn, Fe, Zr, Sr, Sn, Al, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Tanaka, Hiroaki Masui, Hotaka Honma, Katsuro Kuroki, Tsutomu Haratani, Yoichi Mishima, Maremizu Ishibashi, Yoshio Nakamura
  • Patent number: 5421912
    Abstract: A method of producing non-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising the steps of preparing steel comprising, by weight, up to 2.5% silicon, up to 1.0% aluminum and up to 2.5% (Si+2Al), with the remainder being iron and unavoidable impurities, hot rolling and cold rolling the steel to a final thickness and following this by finish annealing, wherein the average cooling rate between Ar.sub.3 and Ar.sub.1 during cooling transformation (.gamma..fwdarw..alpha.) of the steel is controlled to be 50.degree. C./s or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoji Kumano, Takeshi Kubota, Tadashi Nakayama, Hiroaki Masui, Yuji Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 5261972
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a process for producing a grain-oriented electrical steel strip having a high magnetic flux density. The process comprises hot-rolling a steel ingot comprising basic ingredients and, added thereto, 0.02 to 0.15% of Sn at a temperature of 1200.degree. C. or below, annealing the hot-rolled strip, cold-rolling the annealed strip with a final rolling reduction of 80% or more and subjecting the cold-rolled strip to decarburization annealing, a nitriding treatment and finish annealing, wherein the temperature, T.degree.C., of annealing of the hot-rolled strip is set so as to fall within the range 1240-2.1.times.Al.sub.R <T<1310-1.8.times.Al.sub.R (wherein Al.sub.R =acid soluble [Al]-27/14.times.[N]) and the strip is soaked for 180 sec or less, maintained at a temperature in the range of from 800.degree. to 950.degree. C. for 30 to 300 sec and then quenched.The grain-oriented electrical steel strip thus produced is not influenced by the variation in the [Al] and [N].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuro Kuroki, Yasunari Yoshitomi, Hiroaki Masui, Tsutomu Haratani
  • Patent number: 4138278
    Abstract: A method for producing a steel sheet having excellent low-temperature toughness, comprising a step of heating to a temperature not higher than 1150.degree. C., a steel slab containing 0.01 - 0.13% C, 0.05 - 0.8% Si, 0.8 - 1.8% Mn, 0.01 - 0.08% total Al, 0.08 - 0.40% Mo and not more than 0.015% S with the balance being iron and unavoidable impurities, and a step of hot rolling the steel slab thus obtained by at least three passes with a minimum reduction percentage not less than 2% by each rolling pass in a temperature range of 900 - 1050.degree. C, a total reduction percentage not less than 50%, and with a finishing temperature not higher than 820.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1979
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Nakasugi, Hiroaki Masui, Hiroshi Tamehiro, Hiroo Mazuda
  • Patent number: 4105474
    Abstract: The production process characterized in that a steel ingot or slab containing not less than 0.004% of TiN not larger than 0.02.mu. is heated to a temperature not higher than 1150.degree. C and rolled, and growth of the .gamma. grains during this heating and rolling step is prevented by TiN to improve the toughness, and the resultant steel product has an excellent low-temperature toughness with a yield point of 40 kg/mm.sup.2 or higher, and is useful as hot rolled or as heated at a temperature ranging from 300.degree. to 750.degree. C after the hot rolling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1978
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Nakasugi, Hiroaki Masui, Hiroshi Tamehiro, Tetuo Takeda, Seiji Eiro
  • Patent number: 4016740
    Abstract: A steel sheet, especially a thin one, can be manufactured from a hot rolled coil through heat treating steps by means of positively applying stress to the material. The product has excellent shape and mechanical properties such as drawability and toughness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1977
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Gondo, Hiroshi Takechi, Tsuyoshi Kawano, Hiroaki Masui, Kazuo Kovama
  • Patent number: 4011106
    Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet of high cold formability characterized in that it contains of 0.03-0.30 % C and 0.15-2.0 % Mn as the main ingredients and also by the average length of sulfide inclusions of stringer form and/or silicate inclusions of like form being less than 100 .mu..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1977
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takechi, Hiroaki Masui, Chikara Fujii, Tsuyoshi Kawano, Kazuo Koyama
  • Patent number: 3951696
    Abstract: A method for producing a cold rolled steel sheet having high strength and stretchability which comprises hot rolling a steel containing 0.03 to 0.30% C, less than 0.7% Si, 0.6 to 2.5% Mn, 0.01 to 0.20% sol.Al, not more than 0.015% O with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, cold rolling with a reduction not less than 30%, heating with an average heating rate not less than 3.degree.C/sec. annealing in a temperature range from 650.degree.C to A.sub.3 transformation point for 1 to 15 minutes, and cooling with an average cooling rate of 0.5.degree. to 30.degree.C/sec. down to 500.degree.C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1976
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Gondo, Hiroshi Takechi, Hiroaki Masui, Kazuo Namba
  • Patent number: RE31251
    Abstract: The production process characterized in that a steel ingot or slab containing not less than 0.004% of TiN not larger than 0.02.mu. is heated to a temperature not higher than 1150.degree. C. and rolled, and growth of the .gamma. grains during this heating and rolling step is prevented by TiN to improve the toughness, and the resultant steel product has an excellent low-temperature toughness with a yield point of 40 kg/mm.sup.2 or higher, and is useful as hot rolled or as heated at a temperature ranging from 300.degree. to 750.degree. C. after the hot rolling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1983
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Nakasugi, Hiroaki Masui, Hiroshi Tamehiro, Tetuo Takeda, Seiji Eiro