Patents by Inventor Koichi Nishizawa
Koichi Nishizawa 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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Patent number: 11591685Abstract: [Object] What is provided is a manufacturing method of a galvannealed steel sheet capable of further promoting alloying of zinc plating with the steel sheet. [Resolution Means] A manufacturing method of a galvannealed steel sheet, including: forming on a surface of a steel sheet after hot rolling and pickling which contains, by mass %, C: 0.001% to 0.350%, Si: 0.001% to 2.500% or P: 0.001% to 0.100%, or combination thereof, Mn: 0.10% to 3.00%, S: 0.001% to 0.010%, N: 0.0010% to 0.0065%, and sol. Al: 0.001% to 0.800% with a remainder being Fe and impurities, grooves having an opening surface width of 10 ?m to 25 ?m and a depth of 10 ?m to 30 ?m at intervals of 20 ?m to 500 ?m; cold rolling the steel sheet at a rolling reduction of 30% or more; reduction annealing the steel sheet after the cold rolling; immersing the steel sheet in a hot-dip galvanizing bath containing 0.10 mass % to 0.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Matsumoto, Shigeru Hashimoto, Koichi Nishizawa
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Publication number: 20200325569Abstract: [Object] What is provided is a manufacturing method of a galvannealed steel sheet capable of further promoting alloying of zinc plating with the steel sheet. [Resolution Means] A manufacturing method of a galvannealed steel sheet, including: forming on a surface of a steel sheet after hot rolling and pickling which contains, by mass %, C: 0.001% to 0.350%, Si: 0.001% to 2.500% or P: 0.001% to 0.100%, or combination thereof, Mn: 0.10% to 3.00%, S: 0.001% to 0.010%, N: 0.0010% to 0.0065%, and sol. Al: 0.001% to 0.800% with a remainder being Fe and impurities, grooves having an opening surface width of 10 ?m to 25 ?m and a depth of 10 ?m to 30 ?m at intervals of 20 ?m to 500 ?m; cold rolling the steel sheet at a rolling reduction of 30% or more; reduction annealing the steel sheet after the cold rolling; immersing the steel sheet in a hot-dip galvanizing bath containing 0.10 mass % to 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2018Publication date: October 15, 2020Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yu MATSUMOTO, Shigeru HASHIMOTO, Koichi NISHIZAWA
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Patent number: 10704131Abstract: A continuous hot-dip plating machine includes: a sink roll provided in a plating bath and configured to upwardly change a transfer direction of the steel strip; a first support roll provided in the plating bath and located above the sink roll, the first support roll being in contact with a first surface of the steel strip in contact with the sink roll; and a second support roll provided in the plating bath and located above the first support roll, the second support roll being in contact with a second surface of the steel strip opposite the first surface. A diameter of the first support roll, a diameter of the second support roll, and a vertical distance between a rotation axis of the first support roll and a rotation axis of the second support roll satisfy specific conditions.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi Nishizawa, Masaaki Omodaka
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Patent number: 10465262Abstract: A method for cooling a steel strip, comprising jetting mist to a steel strip passing through a cooling installation such that an amount of mist jetted to the steel strip is smaller in an edge portion in a width direction of the steel strip than in a center portion, sucking at least part of mist jetted to the steel strip, and cooling the steel strip at a sheet-passing speed such that, during a period between start and end of cooling, a temperature of the steel strip is within a film boiling temperature range and a temperature of the edge portion in the width direction of the steel strip is equal to or higher than a temperature of the center portion in at least a range of ? or more from the upstream side in the sheet-passing direction of a total cooling length of the cooling installation.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2015Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi Nishizawa, Hiroshi Minehara, Yasuhiro Mori, Seiji Sugiyama, Masafumi Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20190085437Abstract: A continuous hot-dip plating machine includes: a sink roll provided in a plating bath and configured to upwardly change a transfer direction of the steel strip; a first support roll provided in the plating bath and located above the sink roll, the first support roll being in contact with a first surface of the steel strip in contact with the sink roll; and a second support roll provided in the plating bath and located above the first support roll, the second support roll being in contact with a second surface of the steel strip opposite the first surface. A diameter of the first support roll, a diameter of the second support roll, and a vertical distance between a rotation axis of the first support roll and a rotation axis of the second support roll satisfy specific conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi NISHIZAWA, Masaaki OMODAKA
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Publication number: 20170211165Abstract: [Object] To provide a method for cooling a steel strip in a galvannealing furnace. The method performs mist cooling on a steel strip in a cooling zone of a galvannealing furnace and can achieve both productivity and quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi NISHIZAWA, Hiroshi MINEHARA, Yasuhiro MORI, Seiji SUGIYAMA, Masafumi MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 9068254Abstract: A flow regulating member of a hot dip coating tank which is able to suppress stir-up of bottom dross, characterized by being provided with flow regulating member horizontal plates which are respectively arranged horizontally from below two side end parts of a sink roll, which is arranged inside of a coating tank in a rotatable manner, toward outside directions of the sink roll and side members which are arranged at positions separated from the two ends of the sink roll, which extend upward from the end parts of the respective horizontal plates, and in which large numbers of dispersion holes are formed, the side members having an aperture ratio of 20 to 80%, and the dispersion holes having a hole diameter of 5 to 50 mm.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2012Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Mikio Kawamura, Yu Yamauchi, Tsukasa Oyama, Masaaki Omodaka, Noboru Furuta, Koichi Nishizawa
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Patent number: 8887661Abstract: A flow regulating member of a hot dip coating tank which can suppress stir-up of bottom dross, characterized by being provided with horizontal plates which are respectively arranged horizontally from below two side end parts of a sink roll, which is arranged inside of a coating tank in a rotatable manner, toward outside directions of the sink roll and louvers which are arranged above from the end parts of the respective horizontal plates at positions separated from the two ends of the sink roll and which have flow direction changing members which are slanted so that their heights become gradually higher toward the wall surface sides of the coating tank.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Mikio Kawamura, Yu Yamauchi, Tsukasa Oyama, Masaaki Omodaka, Makoto Kusama, Koichi Nishizawa
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Patent number: 8858735Abstract: A high-strength quenched formed article has a zinc plating layer which is formed at a post-quenching formed steel sheet surface, and which contains 30 g/m2 or more of a phase that contains 5% or more by mass but 30% or less by mass of Fe, and which also contains 0.15% or more by mass but less than 2% by mass of at least one of Al and Si in a separate fashion or a composite fashion, and contains Zn, which makes up substantially a rest portion of the zinc plating layer, and an inevitable impurity, wherein the high-strength quenched formed article has a high-strength portion having a post-quenching-formation tensile strength of 1000 MPa or more, and a low-strength portion having a post-quenching-formation tensile strength of 800 MPa or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2010Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Aisin Takaoka Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaaki Kondo, Shinichi Suzuki, Toshimasa Tomokiyo, Koichi Nishizawa, Takayuki Suzuki, Yuki Ishiguro, Hideyuki Kai
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Publication number: 20130291793Abstract: A flow regulating member of a hot dip coating tank which is able to suppress stir-up of bottom dross, characterized by being provided with flow regulating member horizontal plates which are respectively arranged horizontally from below two side end parts of a sink roll, which is arranged inside of a coating tank in a rotatable manner, toward outside directions of the sink roll and side members which are arranged at positions separated from the two ends of the sink roll, which extend upward from the end parts of the respective horizontal plates, and in which large numbers of dispersion holes are formed, the side members having an aperture ratio of 20 to 80%, and the dispersion holes having a hole diameter of 5 to 50 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2012Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL COPORATIONInventors: Mikio Kawamura, Yu Yamauchi, Tsukasa Oyama, Masaaki Omodaka, Noboru Furuta, Koichi Nishizawa
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Publication number: 20130263778Abstract: A flow regulating member of a hot dip coating tank which can suppress stir-up of bottom dross, characterized by being provided with horizontal plates which are respectively arranged horizontally from below two side end parts of a sink roll, which is arranged inside of a coating tank in a rotatable manner, toward outside directions of the sink roll and louvers which are arranged above from the end parts of the respective horizontal plates at positions separated from the two ends of the sink roll and which have flow direction changing members which are slanted so that their heights become gradually higher toward the wall surface sides of the coating tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2012Publication date: October 10, 2013Inventors: Mikio Kawamura, Yu Yamauchi, Tsukasa Oyama, Masaaki Omodaka, Makoto Kusama, Koichi Nishizawa
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Publication number: 20110303328Abstract: A high-strength quenched formed article has a zinc plating layer which is formed at a post-quenching formed steel sheet surface, and which contains 30 g/m2 or more of a phase that contains 5% or more by mass but 30% or less by mass of Fe, and which also contains 0.15% or more by mass but less than 2% by mass of at least one of Al and Si in a separate fashion or a composite fashion, and contains Zn, which makes up substantially a rest portion of the zinc plating layer, and an inevitable impurity, wherein the high-strength quenched formed article has a high-strength portion having a post-quenching-formation tensile strength of 1000 MPa or more, and a low-strength portion having a post-quenching-formation tensile strength of 800 MPa or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2010Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN TAKAOKA CO., LTD., NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masaaki Kondo, Shinichi Suzuki, Toshimasa Tomokiyo, Koichi Nishizawa, Takayuki Suzuki, Yuki Ishiguro, Hideyuki Kai
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Patent number: 5613767Abstract: The improved illuminating apparatus comprises a spheroidal mirror, a light source, a spherical mirror and a condenser lens. The spheroidal mirror has such a shape that it is deficient of a portion that would otherwise reflect light that illuminates any portions other than the object to be illuminated, and that the light from the light source which is directed toward said missing portion is reflected by the spherical mirror positioned on the rear side of said missing portion as seen from the light source and makes another reflection by that part of the spheroidal mirror which faces away said missing portion, thereby illuminating the object. The light source is positioned at the first focal point of the spheroidal mirror in such a way that it faces the mirror, and the spherical mirror is positioned in such a way that its reflecting face lies at the second focal point of the spheroidal mirror.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 1995Date of Patent: March 25, 1997Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenjiro Hamanaka, Takashi Kishimoto, Koichi Nishizawa, Kenichi Nakama
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Patent number: 5446639Abstract: The improved illuminating comprises a spheroidal mirror, a light source, a spherical mirror and a condenser lens. The spheroidal mirror has such a shape that it is deficient of a portion that would otherwise reflect light that illuminates any portions other than the object to be illuminated, and that the light from the light source which is directed toward said missing portion is reflected by the spherical mirror positioned on the rear side of said missing portion as seen from the light source and makes another reflection by that part of the spheroidal mirror which faces away said missing portion, thereby illuminating the object. The light source is positioned at the first focal point of the spheroidal mirror in such a way that it faces the mirror, and the spherical mirror is positioned in such a way that its reflecting face lies at the second focal point of the spheroidal mirror.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1993Date of Patent: August 29, 1995Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenjiro Hamanaka, Takashi Kishimoto, Koichi Nishizawa, Kenichi Nakama