Patents by Inventor Koji Iwaya

Koji Iwaya 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: 10118208
    Abstract: There are provided: a seamless steel pipe formed from a cylindrical steel material billet through a hot isostatic extrusion step, wherein a depth of a contiguous flaw formed on an inner periphery surface and an outer periphery surface of the steel pipe is 50 ?m or less; a hollow spring obtained by forming a hollow body in a shape of a coil or a bar or a bar with curved part from the seamless steel pipe made of spring steel and applying a surface treatment to the hollow body so that the hollow body has compressive residual stress; and a method for producing seamless steel pipe including: a billet molding step; a first heating step; a hot isostatic extrusion step; a second heating step; an extension step; a third heating step; and a pickling step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: SHINKO METAL PRODUCTS CO., LTD., NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro Toyotake, Koji Iwaya, Tomoyuki Minami, Noritoshi Takamura
  • Patent number: 9482302
    Abstract: There are provided: a seamless steel pipe formed from a cylindrical steel material billet through a hot isostatic extrusion step, wherein a depth of a contiguous flaw formed on an inner periphery surface and an outer periphery surface of the steel pipe is 50 ?m or less; a hollow spring obtained by forming a hollow body in a shape of a coil or a bar or a bar with curved part from the seamless steel pipe made of spring steel and applying a surface treatment to the hollow body so that the hollow body has compressive residual stress; and a method for producing seamless steel pipe including: a billet molding step; a first heating step; a hot isostatic extrusion step; a second heating step; an extension step; a third heating step; and a pickling step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignees: SHINKO METAL PRODUCTS CO., LTD., NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro Toyotake, Koji Iwaya, Tomoyuki Minami, Noritoshi Takamura
  • Publication number: 20140346721
    Abstract: There are provided: a seamless steel pipe formed from a cylindrical steel material billet through a hot isostatic extrusion step, wherein a depth of a contiguous flaw formed on an inner periphery surface and an outer periphery surface of the steel pipe is 50 nm or less; a hollow spring obtained by forming a hollow body in a shape of a coil or a bar or a bar with curved part from the seamless steel pipe made of spring steel and applying a surface treatment to the hollow body so that the hollow body has compressive residual stress; and a method for producing seamless steel pipe including: a billet molding step; a first heating step; a hot isostatic extrusion step; a second heating step; an extension step; a third heating step; and a pickling step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Kotaro TOYOTAKE, Koji IWAYA, Tomoyuki MINAMI, Noritoshi TAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20130239637
    Abstract: There are provided: a seamless steel pipe formed from a cylindrical steel material billet through a hot isostatic extrusion step, wherein a depth of a contiguous flaw formed on an inner periphery surface and an outer periphery surface of the steel pipe is 50 ?m or less; a hollow spring obtained by forming a hollow body in a shape of a coil or a bar or a bar with curved part from the seamless steel pipe made of spring steel and applying a surface treatment to the hollow body so that the hollow body has compressive residual stress; and a method for producing seamless steel pipe including: a billet molding step; a first heating step; a hot isostatic extrusion step; a second heating step; an extension step; a third heating step; and a pickling step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicants: NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Shinko Metal Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro TOYOTAKE, Koji Iwaya, Tomoyuki Minami, Noritoshi Takamura
  • Publication number: 20100037976
    Abstract: There are provided: a seamless steel pipe formed from a cylindrical steel material billet through a hot isostatic extrusion step, wherein a depth of a contiguous flaw formed on an inner periphery surface and an outer periphery surface of the steel pipe is 50 ?m or less; a hollow spring obtained by forming a hollow body in a shape of a coil or a bar or a bar with curved part from the seamless steel pipe made of spring steel and applying a surface treatment to the hollow body so that the hollow body has compressive residual stress; and a method for producing seamless steel pipe including: a billet molding step; a first heating step; a hot isostatic extrusion step; a second heating step; an extension step; a third heating step; and a pickling step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicants: Shinko Products Co., Ltd., NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro Toyotake, Koji Iwaya, Tomoyuki Minami, Noritoshi Takamura