Patents by Inventor Masao Kurosaki

Masao Kurosaki 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: 10800933
    Abstract: A surface treatment solution for a plated steel sheet to be hot-pressed comprising a ZnO aqueous dispersion (A) and a water dispersible organic resin (B), wherein the ZnO aqueous dispersion (A) comprises water and ZnO particle size having 50 to 300 nm particles, the water dispersible organic resin (B) has a 5 to 45 mgKOH/g acid value and 5 to 300 nm emulsion particle size, and a mass ratio (WA/WB) of a mass of ZnO particles in the ZnO aqueous dispersion (WA) to a mass of solid content of the water dispersible organic resin (WB) is 30/70 to 95/5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: NIHON PARKERIZING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soshi Fujita, Jun Maki, Shintaro Yamanaka, Masao Kurosaki, Tatsuya Suzuki, Kensuke Mizuno, Takumi Kozaki, Takahiro Kodama
  • Patent number: 10196717
    Abstract: To provide a plated steel sheet for hot pressing, a hot pressing method for the plated steel sheet, and an automobile part made by the hot pressing method that has an excellent lubricity with less deposition amount and can improve formability and productivity in hot pressing work and also can improve chemical conversion treatability after hot press forming, there is provided an Al plating layer formed on one side or both sides of the steel sheet, the Al plating layer containing at least Al, and further containing one or more elements, at a total content of 0.02 to 2 mass %, selected from Mg, Ca, Sr, Li, Na, and K; and a surface coating layer laminated on the Al plating layer and containing at least ZnO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Maki, Shintaro Yamanaka, Masao Kurosaki
  • Patent number: 10174413
    Abstract: An Al-based alloy plated steel material includes: a steel material and a coating layer formed on a surface of the steel material, wherein the coating layer includes an Al-based alloy plating layer containing, in mass %, not less than 10% nor more than 50% Fe and not less than 3% nor more than 15% Si, and formed on the surface of the steel material; a layer containing ZnO and formed above a surface of the Al alloy plating layer; and a ZnAl2O4 layer with a thickness of not less than 0.05 ?m nor more than 2 ?m, formed between the Al alloy plating layer and the layer containing ZnO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Yamanaka, Jun Maki, Masao Kurosaki
  • Patent number: 10092938
    Abstract: The present invention provides plated steel sheet for hot press use which is excellent in hot lubricity, coating adhesion, spot weldability, and coated corrosion resistance and a method of hot pressing plated steel sheet. The present invention is Plated steel sheet for hot press use and a method of hot pressing plated steel sheet characterized by being plated steel sheet for hot press use which contains an Al plating layer which is formed on one surface or both surfaces of said steel sheet, and a surface coating layer which is formed on said Al plating layer, said surface coating layer containing at least one Zn compound which is selected from a group comprised of Zn hydroxide, Zn phosphate, and a Zn organic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Yamanaka, Jun Maki, Masao Kurosaki, Kazuhisa Kusumi
  • Patent number: 10040270
    Abstract: A galvannealed steel sheet includes a plating layer containing 7.2-10.6 mass % of Fe, 0.2-0.4 mass % of Al, and 0.1 mass % or more of at least one of Ni, Co, Cu, and In, and the balance of Zn and impurities. In a vertical cross-section of the plating layer, an average thickness of a ? phase is 0.2 ?m or less, and an average thickness of a ? phase is 0.5 ?m or less. In the ? phase, at least one of Ni, Co, Cu, and In are contained at a ratio in the ? phase of 0.5 mass % or more. A phase existing in contact with the ? phase is a mixed phase of ?1 phase and ? phase, and a ? phase percentage defined by “(? phase/? phase contact interface length)/(? phase/? phase contact interface length+?1 phase/? phase contact interface length)×100” is 10% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Kurosaki, Jun Maki, Shintaro Yamanaka, Hiroyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10041175
    Abstract: A plated steel sheet (1) includes: a steel sheet (2); a pre-plating layer (3) on at least one surface of the steel sheet (2), the pre-plating layer (3) containing Al, Cu, In, Zn, Sn, or Sb, or any combination thereof; and a plating layer (4) of a Zn—Ni alloy on the pre-plating layer (3), a Ni content of the Zn—Ni alloy being 5 mass % to 15 mass %. A coating weight of the pre-plating layer (3) is 0.5 g/m2 or more, and a coating weight of the plating layer (4) is 5 g/m2 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Kurosaki, Shinichi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20180171164
    Abstract: A surface treatment solution excellent in stability during storage forming a coating for treatment excellent in waterproofness, solvent resistance, and adhesion with a plated steel sheet and able to provide a surface treated steel sheet with hot-pressing lubricity, chemical convertability after hot-pressing, corrosion resistance after coating, and spot weldability, that is, a surface treatment solution for a plated steel sheet to be hot-pressed comprising a ZnO aqueous dispersion (A) and a water dispersible organic resin (B), wherein the ZnO aqueous dispersion (A) comprises water and ZnO particle size having 50 to 300 nm particles, the water dispersible organic resin (B) has a 5 to 45 mgKOH/g acid value and 5 to 300 nm emulsion particle size, and a mass ratio (WA/WB) of a mass of ZnO particles in the ZnO aqueous dispersion (WA) to a mass of solid content of the water dispersible organic resin (WB) is 30/70 to 95/5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, NIHON PARKERIZING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soshi FUJITA, Jun MAKI, Shintaro YAMANAKA, Masao KUROSAKI, Tatsuya SUZUKI, Kensuke MIZUNO, Takumi KOZAKI, Takahiro KODAMA
  • Patent number: 9902134
    Abstract: A metal foil including: a steel layer whose thickness is 10 to 200 ?m; an Al-containing metal layer arranged on the steel layer; and plural granular alloys which exist in an interface between the steel layer and the Al-containing metal layer, wherein, when a cutting-plane line of a surface of the Al-containing metal layer is defined as a contour curve and an approximation straight line of the contour curve is defined as a contour average straight line, a maximum point, whose distance from the contour average straight line is more than 10 ?m, is absent on the contour curve, and wherein, when an equivalent sphere diameter of the granular alloys is x in units of ?m and a thickness of the Al-containing metal layer is T in units of ?m, the granular alloys satisfy x?0.5T.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD., NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Kobayashi, Shinichi Terashima, Masamoto Tanaka, Masami Fujishima, Masao Kurosaki, Jun Maki, Hideaki Suda, Shuji Nagasaki
  • Patent number: 9821858
    Abstract: An Al-plated steel sheet includes: a steel sheet; an Al plating layer which is formed on one surface or both surfaces of the steel sheet and contains at least 85% or more of Al by mass %; and a surface coating layer which is laminated on the surface of the Al plating layer and contains ZnO and one or more lubricity improving compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Maki, Masao Kurosaki, Kazuhisa Kusumi, Shintaro Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 9771636
    Abstract: The present invention relates to aluminum plated steel sheet which does not require coating after plating and is high in production flexibility enabling application of conventional production processes as they are or exhibits excellent corrosion resistance to flex fuels and further is excellent in appearance and to fuel tanks characterized by being produced using the steel sheet. The Si, Mg, Ca, and Ti ingredients in the aluminum plating layer are defined and the cooling method after hot dip aluminum coating is controlled to make Mg2Si particles with a long axis of 10 ?m or less and an aspect ratio of 1 to 3 finely disperse in the plating layer. Due to the Mg2Si particles, it is possible to give an excellent corrosion resistance to flex fuels and suppress the deterioration in appearance due to MgO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuto Goto, Masao Kurosaki, Shinichi Yamaguchi, Jun Maki
  • Patent number: 9758892
    Abstract: A steel sheet for electroplating includes, by mass %, C: 0.0005% to 0.0050%, Si: 0.20% to 1.0%, Mn: 0.40% to 2.5%, P: 0.05% or less, Ti: 0.010% to 0.050%, Nb: 0.010% to 0.040%, B: 0.0005% to 0.0030%, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 0.01% to 0.30%, N: 0.0010% to 0.01%, and the balance including Fe and impurities, in which when Si content is represented by [Si] and Mn content is represented by [Mn], “[Mn]+5[Si]” is 2.0 to 7.0, and the steel sheet has surface property in which an average of displacements of a measurement point obtained based on a moving average of continuous 31 points in total including 15 front points and 15 back points in a cross-sectional profile of a surface obtained by measuring the average of displacements in an evaluation length of 10 ?m or more at an interval of 0.07 ?m, is 0.005 ?m to 0.10 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Sato, Masao Kurosaki, Masahiro Fuda, Natsuko Sugiura, Yuji Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9644252
    Abstract: A hot stamped high strength part in which the propagation of cracks which form at the plating layer at the time of hot stamping when hot stamping aluminum plated steel sheet is suppressed and the post painting anticorrosion property is excellent even without adding special ingredient elements which suppress formation of cracks in an aluminum plating layer is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Maki, Kazuhisa Kusumi, Masayuki Abe, Masao Kurosaki
  • Publication number: 20170107625
    Abstract: A plated steel sheet (1) includes: a steel sheet (2); a pre-plating layer (3) on at least one surface of the steel sheet (2), the pre-plating layer (3) containing Al, Cu, In, Zn, Sn, or Sb, or any combination thereof; and a plating layer (4) of a Zn—Ni alloy on the pre-plating layer (3), a Ni content of the Zn—Ni alloy being 5 mass % to 15 mass %. A coating weight of the pre-plating layer (3) is 0.5 g/m2 or more, and a coating weight of the plating layer (4) is 5 g/m2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao KUROSAKI, Shinichi YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160312342
    Abstract: The present invention relates to aluminum plated steel sheet which does not require coating after plating and is high in production flexibility enabling application of conventional production processes as they are or exhibits excellent corrosion resistance to flex fuels and further is excellent in appearance and to fuel tanks characterized by being produced using the steel sheet. The Si, Mg, Ca, and Ti ingredients in the aluminum plating layer are defined and the cooling method after hot dip aluminum coating is controlled to make Mg2Si particles with a long axis of 10 ?m or less and an aspect ratio of 1 to 3 finely disperse in the plating layer. Due to the Mg2Si particles, it is possible to give an excellent corrosion resistance to flex fuels and suppress the deterioration in appearance due to MgO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Yasuto GOTO, Masao KUROSAKI, Shinichi YAMAGUCHI, Jun MAKI
  • Patent number: 9403343
    Abstract: The present invention relates to aluminum plated steel sheet which does not require coating after plating and is high in production flexibility enabling application of conventional production processes as they are or exhibits excellent corrosion resistance to flex fuels and further is excellent in appearance and to fuel tanks characterized by being produced using the steel sheet. The Si, Mg, Ca, and Ti ingredients in the aluminum plating layer are defined and the cooling method after hot dip aluminum coating is controlled to make Mg2Si particles with a long axis of 10 ?m or less and an aspect ratio of 1 to 3 finely disperse in the plating layer. Due to the Mg2Si particles, it is possible to give an excellent corrosion resistance to flex fuels and suppress the deterioration in appearance due to MgO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuto Goto, Masao Kurosaki, Shinichi Yamaguchi, Jun Maki
  • Patent number: 9296180
    Abstract: A metal foil including: a steel layer whose thickness is 10 to 200 ?m; an alloy layer which contains Fe and Al and which is formed on the steel layer; and an Al-containing metal layer arranged on the alloy layer, wherein, when a cutting-plane line of a surface of the Al-containing metal layer is defined as a contour curve and an approximation straight line of the contour curve is defined as a contour average straight line, a maximum point, whose distance from the contour average straight line is more than 10 ?m, is absent on the contour curve, and a thickness of the alloy layer is 0.1 to 8 ?m and the alloy layer contains an Al7Cu2Fe intermetallic compound or FeAl3 based intermetallic compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignees: NIPPON STELL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD., NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Terashima, Takayuki Kobayashi, Masamoto Tanaka, Masami Fujishima, Masao Kurosaki, Jun Maki, Hideaki Suda, Shuji Nagasaki
  • Publication number: 20160082701
    Abstract: A galvannealed steel sheet excellent in press formability including a plating layer being a plating layer containing 7.2 to 10.6 mass % of Fe, 0.2 to 0.4 mass % of Al, and 0.1 mass % of Ni and the like, and the balance being composed of Zn and impurities, in which in a vertical cross-section of the plating layer, an average thickness of a ? phase is 0.2 ?m or less and an average thickness of ? phases existing in contact with a base iron is 0.5 ?m or less, in the ? phase, Ni and the like are contained at a ratio in the ? phase of 0.5 mass % or more, a phase existing in contact with the ? phase is a mixed phase of ?1 phase and ? phase, and a ? phase percentage defined by Expression below is 10% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao KUROSAKI, Jun MAKI, Shintaro YAMANAKA, Hiroyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20160068942
    Abstract: An Al-based alloy plated steel material includes: a steel material and a coating layer formed on a surface of the steel material, wherein the coating layer includes an Al-based alloy plating layer containing, in mass %, not less than 10% nor more than 50% Fe and not less than 3% nor more than 15% Si, and formed on the surface of the steel material; a layer containing ZnO and formed above a surface of the Al alloy plating layer; and a ZnAl2O4 layer with a thickness of not less than 0.05 ?m nor more than 2 ?m, formed between the Al alloy plating layer and the layer containing ZnO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro YAMANAKA, Jun MAKI, Masao KUROSAKI
  • Publication number: 20160060735
    Abstract: To provide a plated steel sheet for hot pressing, a hot pressing method for the plated steel sheet, and an automobile part made by the hot pressing method that has an excellent lubricity with less deposition amount and can improve formability and productivity in hot pressing work and also can improve chemical conversion treatability after hot press forming, there is provided an Al plating layer formed on one side or both sides of the steel sheet, the Al plating layer containing at least Al, and further containing one or more elements, at a total content of 0.02 to 2 mass %, selected from Mg, Ca, Sr, Li, Na, and K; and a surface coating layer laminated on the Al plating layer and containing at least ZnO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun MAKI, Shintaro YAMANAKA, Masao KUROSAKI
  • Publication number: 20150191813
    Abstract: A hot stamped high strength part in which the propagation of cracks which form at the plating layer at the time of hot stamping when hot stamping aluminum plated steel sheet is suppressed and the post painting anticorrosion property is excellent even without adding special ingredient elements which suppress formation of cracks in an aluminum plating layer is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Jun Maki, Kazuhisa Kusumi, Masayuki Abe, Masao Kurosaki