Patents by Inventor Kengo Hata

Kengo Hata 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: 10774412
    Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized cold-rolled steel sheet has a tensile strength of 750 MPa or higher, a composition consisting, in mass percent, C: more than 0.10% and less than 0.25%, Si: more than 0.50% and less than 2.0%, Mn: more than 1.50% and 3.0% or less, and optionally containing one or more types of Ti, Nb, V, Cr, Mo, B, Ca, Mg, REM, and Bi, P: less than 0.050%, S: 0.010% or less, sol. Al: 0.50% or less, and N: 0.010% or less, and a main phase as a low-temperature transformation product and a second phase as retained austenite. The retained austenite volume fraction is more than 4.0% and less than 25.0% of the whole structure, and has an average grain size of less than 0.80 ?m. A number density of retained austenite grains having a grain size of 1.2 ?m or more is 3.0×10?2/?m2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norio Imai, Masayuki Wakita, Takuya Nishio, Jun Haga, Kengo Hata, Yasuaki Tanaka, Mitsuru Yoshida, Hiroshi Takebayashi, Suguhiro Fukushima, Toshiro Tomida
  • Patent number: 10655200
    Abstract: The steel material according to the present invention contains, in mass %, C: 0.15 to 0.45%, Si: 0.10 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.10 to 0.8%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Al: 0.01 to 0.1%, N: 0.010% or less, Cr: 0.1 to 2.5%, Mo: 0.35 to 3.0%, Co: 0.05 to 2.0%, Ti: 0.003 to 0.040%, Nb: 0.003 to 0.050%, Cu: 0.01 to 0.50%, and Ni: 0.01 to 0.50%, and satisfies the following Formulae. A prior-austenite grain diameter of its microstructure is less than 5 ?m, and a block diameter of its microstructure is less than 2 ?m. The microstructure contains a total of 90% by volume or more of tempered martensite and tempered bainite. C+Mn/6+(Cr+Mo+V)/5+(Cu+Ni)/15?Co/6+??0.70??(1) (3C+Mo+3Co)/(3Mn+Cr)?1.0??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Arai, Kengo Hata
  • Patent number: 10526671
    Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet having excellent ductility and stretch flangeability includes: a chemical composition consisting, in mass %, C: 0.06 to 0.3, Si: 0.6 to 2.5%, Mn: 0.6 to 3.5%, P: at most 0.1%, S: at most 0.05%, Ti: 0 to 0.08%, Nb: 0 to 0.04%, total of Ti and Nb: 0 to 0.10%, sol.Al: 0 to 2.0%, Cr: 0 to 1%, Mo: 0 to 0.3%, V: 0 to 0.3%, B: 0 to 0.005%, Ca: 0 to 0.003%, REM: 0 to 0.003% and the remainder of Fe and impurities; a microstructure having a main phase including at least 40 area % in total of martensite and/or bainite; and a texture in which proportion of an average X-ray intensity in an {100}<011> to {211}<011> orientations relative to an average X-ray intensity of a random structure not having a texture is less than 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Hata, Toshiro Tomida, Norio Imai, Jun Haga, Takuya Nishio
  • Patent number: 10407749
    Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet having a composition comprising, in mass %, C: 0.06 to 0.3%, Si: 0.4 to 2.5%, Mn: 0.6 to 3.5%, P: at most 0.1%, S: at most 0.05%, Ti: 0 to 0.08%, Nb: 0 to 0.04%, a total content of Ti and Nb: 0 to 0.10%, sol.Al: 0 to 2.0%, Cr: 0 to 1%, Mo: 0 to 0.3%, V: 0 to 0.3%, B: 0 to 0.005%, Ca: 0 to 0.003%, REM: 0 to 0.003%, the remainder Fe and impurities, is cold rolled, then heated at an average heating rate of at least 15° C./sec so that a proportion of an unrecrystallization of a region not transformed to austenite at a time of reaching (Ac1 point+10° C.) is at least 30 area %, and then held for 30 seconds at temperature of at least (0.9×Ac1 point+0.1×Ac3 point) and at most (Ac3 point+100° C.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Hata, Toshiro Tomida, Norio Imai, Jun Haga, Takuya Nishio
  • Publication number: 20190226063
    Abstract: The steel material according to the present invention contains, in mass %, C: 0.15 to 0.45%, Si: 0.10 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.10 to 0.8%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Al: 0.01 to 0.1%, N: 0.010% or less, Cr: 0.1 to 2.5%, Mo: 0.35 to 3.0%, Co: 0.05 to 2.0%, Ti: 0.003 to 0.040%, Nb: 0.003 to 0.050%, Cu: 0.01 to 0.50%, and Ni: 0.01 to 0.50%, and satisfies the following Formulae. A prior-austenite grain diameter of its microstructure is less than 5 ?m, and a block diameter of its microstructure is less than 2 ?m. The microstructure contains a total of 90% by volume or more of tempered martensite and tempered bainite. C+Mn/6+(Cr+Mo+V)/5+(Cu+Ni)/15?Co/6+??0.70??(1) (3C+Mo+3Co)/(3Mn+Cr)?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Yuji Arai, Kengo Hata
  • Patent number: 10174392
    Abstract: A method for producing a high-tensile cold-rolled steel sheet includes subjecting a slab having a composition containing C: more than 0.020% and less than 0.30%, Si: more than 0.10% and 3.00% or less, and Mn: more than 1.00% and 3.50% or less to hot rolling wherein the roll draft of the final one pass is higher than 15%, and rolling is finished in the temperature region of Ar3 point or higher, optionally annealing wherein the hot-rolled steel sheet is heated to 300° C. or higher after being cooled to 780° C. or lower, coiling higher than 400° C. or lower than 400° C., cold rolling the hot-rolled steel sheet or the annealed steel sheet, and annealing wherein the cold-rolled steel sheet is soaked in the temperature region of (Ac3 point?40° C.) or higher, cooling to 500° C. or lower and 300° C. or higher, and holding in that temperature region for 30 seconds or longer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Haga, Takuya Nishio, Masayuki Wakita, Yasuaki Tanaka, Norio Imai, Toshiro Tomida, Mitsuru Yoshida, Kengo Hata
  • Publication number: 20170121788
    Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet having a composition comprising, in mass %, C: 0.06 to 0.3%, Si: 0.4 to 2.5%, Mn: 0.6 to 3.5%, P: at most 0.1%, S: at most 0.05%, Ti: 0 to 0.08%, Nb: 0 to 0.04%, a total content of Ti and Nb: 0 to 0.10%, sol.Al: 0 to 2.0%, Cr: 0 to 1%, Mo: 0 to 0.3%, V: 0 to 0.3%, B: 0 to 0.005%, Ca: 0 to 0.003%, REM: 0 to 0.003%, the remainder Fe and impurities, is cold rolled, then heated at an average heating rate of at least 15° C./sec so that a proportion of an unrecrystallization of a region not transformed to austenite at a time of reaching (Ac1 point+10° C.) is at least 30 area %, and then held for 30 seconds at temperature of at least (0.9×Ac1 point+0.1×Ac3 point) and at most (Ac3 point+100° C.).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Kengo HATA, Toshiro TOMIDA, Norio IMAI, Jun HAGA, Takuya NISHIO
  • Patent number: 9580767
    Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet includes a composition having controlled amounts of carbon, silicon, manganese, phosphorous, sulfur, titanium, niobium, sol. Aluminum, chromium, molybdenum, vanadium, boron, calcium, REM, and iron. A microstructure thereof has a main phase of ferrite of at least 40 area %, and a second phase of a low-temperature transformation phase consisting either or both of martensite and bainite, which comprises at least 10 area % in total and retained austenite (?) at least comprising 3 area % . An average grain diameter of ferrite has a tilt angle of at least 15° is at most 5.0 mm, an average grain diameter of the low-temperature transformation-produced phase is at most 2.0 mm, an average grain diameter of lump-like retained ? having an aspect ratio of less than 5 is at most 1.5 mm, and an area fraction of the lump-like retained ? relative to the retained ? is at least 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Hata, Toshiro Tomida, Norio Imai, Jun Haga, Takuya Nishio
  • Patent number: 9435013
    Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet having a refined structure in which grain growth during annealing is suppressed has a chemical composition containing, in mass percent, controlled amounts of carbon, manganese, niobium, titanium, vanadium, sol. Aluminum, chromium, molybdenum, boron, calcium, and REM and a microstructure which contains at least 50% by area of ferrite as a main phase, a second phase containing at least 10% by area of a low temperature transformation phase and 0-3% by area of retained austenite and which satisfies the following Equations (1)-(3), in addition to a particular texture, dm<2.7+10000/(5+300×C+50×Mn+4000×Nb+2000×Ti+400×V)2??(1), dm<4.0??(2), and ds?1.5??(3), wherein dm is the average grain diameter (?m) of ferrite defined by a high angle grain boundary having a tilt angle of at least 15°, and ds is the average grain diameter (?m) of the second phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Hata, Toshiro Tomida, Norio Imai
  • Publication number: 20150037610
    Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet includes a composition having controlled amounts of carbon, silicon, manganese, phosphorous, sulfur, titanium, niobium, sol. Aluminum, chromium, molybdenum, vanadium, boron, calcium, REM, and iron. A microstructure thereof has a main phase of ferrite of at least 40 area %, and a second phase of a low-temperature transformation phase consisting either or both of martensite and bainite, which comprises at least 10 area % in total and retained austenite (?) at least comprising 3 area %. An average grain diameter of ferrite has a tilt angle of at least 15° is at most 5.0 mm, an average grain diameter of the low-temperature transformation-produced phase is at most 2.0 mm, an average grain diameter of lump-like retained ? having an aspect ratio of less than 5 is at most 1.5 mm, and an area fraction of the lump-like retained ? relative to the retained ? is at least 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Kengo Hata, Toshiro Tomida, Norio Imai, Jun Haga, Takuya Nishio
  • Publication number: 20150027593
    Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet having excellent ductility and stretch flangeability includes: a chemical composition consisting, in mass %, C: 0.06 to 0.3, Si: 0.6 to 2.5%, Mn: 0.6 to 3.5%, P: at most 0.1%, S: at most 0.05%, Ti: 0 to 0.08%, Nb: 0 to 0.04%, total of Ti and Nb: 0 to 0.10%, sol.Al: 0 to 2.0%, Cr: 0 to 1%, Mo: 0 to 0.3%, V: 0 to 0.3%, B: 0 to 0.005%, Ca: 0 to 0.003%, REM: 0 to 0.003% and the remainder of Fe and impurities; a microstructure having a main phase including at least 40 area % in total of martensite and/or bainite; and a texture in which proportion of an average X-ray intensity in an {100}<011> to {211}<011> orientations relative to an average X-ray intensity of a random structure not having a texture is less than 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Kengo Hata, Toshiro Tomida, Norio Ima, Jun Haga, Takuya Nishio
  • Publication number: 20140238557
    Abstract: A method for producing a high-tensile cold-rolled steel sheet includes subjecting a slab having a composition containing C: more than 0.020% and less than 0.30%, Si: more than 0.10% and 3.00% or less, and Mn: more than 1.00% and 3.50% or less to hot rolling wherein the roll draft of the final one pass is higher than 15%, and rolling is finished in the temperature region of Ar3 point or higher, optionally annealing wherein the hot-rolled steel sheet is heated to 300° C. or higher after being cooled to 780° C. or lower, coiling higher than 400° C. or lower than 400° C., cold rolling the hot-rolled steel sheet or the annealed steel sheet, and annealing wherein the cold-rolled steel sheet is soaked in the temperature region of (Ac3 point?40° C.) or higher, cooling to 500° C. or lower and 300° C. or higher, and holding in that temperature region for 30 seconds or longer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Haga, Takuya Nishio, Masayuki Wakita, Yasuaki Tanaka, Norio Imai, Toshiro Tomida, Mitsuru Yoshida, Kengo Hata
  • Publication number: 20140212686
    Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized cold-rolled steel sheet has a tensile strength of 750 MPa or higher, a composition consisting, in mass percent, of C: more than 0.10% and less than 0.25%, Si: more than 0.50% and less than 2.0%, Mn: more than 1.50% and 3.0% or less, and optionally containing one or more types of Ti, Nb, V, Cr, Mo, B, Ca, Mg, REM, and Bi, P: less than 0.050%, S: 0.010% or less, sol. Al: 0.50% or less, and N: 0.010% or less, and a main phase as a low-temperature transformation product and a second phase as retained austenite. The retained austenite volume fraction is more than 4.0% and less than 25.0% of the whole structure, and has an average grain size of less than 0.80 ?m. A number density of retained austenite grains having a grain size of 1.2 ?m or more is 3.0?10?2/?m2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norio Imai, Masayuki Wakita, Takuya Nishio, Jun Haga, Kengo Hata, Yasuaki Tanaka, Mitsuru Yoshida, Hiroshi Takebayashi, Suguhiro Fukushima, Toshiro Tomida
  • Publication number: 20140144553
    Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet having a refined structure in which grain growth during annealing is suppressed has a chemical composition containing, in mass percent, controlled amounts of carbon, manganese, niobium, titanium, vanadium, sol. Aluminum, chromium, molybdenum, boron, calcium, and REM and a microstructure which contains at least 50% by area of ferrite as a main phase, a second phase containing at least 10% by area of a low temperature transformation phase and 0-3% by area of retained austenite and which satisfies the following Equations (1)-(3), in addition to a particular texture, dm<2.7+10000/(5+300×C+50×Mn+4000×Nb+2000×Ti+400×V)2??(1), dm<4.0??(2), and ds?1.5??(3), wherein dm is the average grain diameter (?m) of ferrite defined by a high angle grain boundary having a tilt angle of at least 15°, and ds is the average grain diameter (?m) of the second phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Inventors: Kengo Hata, Toshiro Tomida, Norio Imai