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).
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Patent number: 10800933Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: NIHON PARKERIZING CO., LTD.Inventors: Soshi Fujita, Jun Maki, Shintaro Yamanaka, Masao Kurosaki, Tatsuya Suzuki, Kensuke Mizuno, Takumi Kozaki, Takahiro Kodama
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Plated steel sheet for hot pressing, hot pressing method for plated steel sheet, and automobile part
Patent number: 10196717Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 14, 2014Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Maki, Shintaro Yamanaka, Masao Kurosaki -
Patent number: 10174413Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Shintaro Yamanaka, Jun Maki, Masao Kurosaki
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Patent number: 10092938Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 8, 2013Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Shintaro Yamanaka, Jun Maki, Masao Kurosaki, Kazuhisa Kusumi
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Patent number: 10040270Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 20, 2014Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Masao Kurosaki, Jun Maki, Shintaro Yamanaka, Hiroyuki Tanaka
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Patent number: 10041175Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 8, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Masao Kurosaki, Shinichi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20180171164Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2016Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicants: 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
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Patent number: 9902134Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 16, 2011Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignees: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD., NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Kobayashi, Shinichi Terashima, Masamoto Tanaka, Masami Fujishima, Masao Kurosaki, Jun Maki, Hideaki Suda, Shuji Nagasaki
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Patent number: 9821858Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 15, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Maki, Masao Kurosaki, Kazuhisa Kusumi, Shintaro Yamanaka
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Patent number: 9771636Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 5, 2016Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuto Goto, Masao Kurosaki, Shinichi Yamaguchi, Jun Maki
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Patent number: 9758892Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 12, 2013Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori Sato, Masao Kurosaki, Masahiro Fuda, Natsuko Sugiura, Yuji Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 9644252Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Maki, Kazuhisa Kusumi, Masayuki Abe, Masao Kurosaki
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Publication number: 20170107625Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2015Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Masao KUROSAKI, Shinichi YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20160312342Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2016Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: Yasuto GOTO, Masao KUROSAKI, Shinichi YAMAGUCHI, Jun MAKI
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Patent number: 9403343Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 14, 2011Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuto Goto, Masao Kurosaki, Shinichi Yamaguchi, Jun Maki
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Patent number: 9296180Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 16, 2011Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignees: NIPPON STELL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD., NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Terashima, Takayuki Kobayashi, Masamoto Tanaka, Masami Fujishima, Masao Kurosaki, Jun Maki, Hideaki Suda, Shuji Nagasaki
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Publication number: 20160082701Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2014Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Masao KUROSAKI, Jun MAKI, Shintaro YAMANAKA, Hiroyuki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20160068942Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Shintaro YAMANAKA, Jun MAKI, Masao KUROSAKI
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PLATED STEEL SHEET FOR HOT PRESSING, HOT PRESSING METHOD FOR PLATED STEEL SHEET, AND AUTOMOBILE PART
Publication number: 20160060735Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2014Publication date: March 3, 2016Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Jun MAKI, Shintaro YAMANAKA, Masao KUROSAKI -
Publication number: 20150191813Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2015Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Jun Maki, Kazuhisa Kusumi, Masayuki Abe, Masao Kurosaki