Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiro Okatsu

Mitsuhiro Okatsu 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).

  • Publication number: 20190226039
    Abstract: Provided herein is a high-strength seamless steel pipe containing a particular chemical composition. The volume fraction of tempered martensite is 90% or more in terms of a volume fraction. The number of nitride inclusions with a particle diameter of 4 ?m or more is 50 or less per 100 mm2, the number of nitride inclusions with a particle diameter of less than 4 ?m is 500 or less per 100 mm2, the number of oxide inclusions with a particle diameter of 4 ?m or more is 40 or less per 100 mm2, and the number of oxide inclusions with a particle diameter of less than 4 ?m is 400 or less per 100 mm2 in a cross section perpendicular to a rolling direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Yuga, Mitsuhiro Okatsu
  • Publication number: 20190055617
    Abstract: A low alloy high strength thick-walled seamless steel pipe for oil country tubular goods is provided having a wall thickness of 40 mm or more and a yield strength of 758 MPa or more, the steel pipe including a composition containing, in terms of mass %, C: 0.25 to 0.31%, Si: 0.01 to 0.35%, Mn: 0.55 to 0.70%, P: 0.010% or less, S: 0.001% or less, O: 0.0015% or less, Al: 0.015 to 0.040%, Cu: 0.02 to 0.09%, Cr: 0.8 to 1.5%, Mo: 0.9 to 1.6%, V: 0.04 to 0.10%, Nb: 0.005 to 0.05%, B: 0.0015 to 0.0030%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.020%, and N: 0.005% or less, and having Ti/N of 3.0 to 4.0, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a cumulative frequency rate at a measurement point at which a Mo segregation degree by a predetermined expression is 1.5 or more is 1% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Masao Yuga, Kenichiro Eguchi, Haruo Nakamichi
  • Publication number: 20190048444
    Abstract: A low alloy high strength seamless steel pipe for oil country tubular goods is provided including a composition containing, in terms of mass %, C: 0.25 to 0.31%, Si: 0.01 to 0.35%, Mn: 0.45 to 0.70%, P: 0.010% or less, S: 0.001% or less, 0: 0.0015% or less, Al: 0.015 to 0.080%, Cu: 0.02 to 0.09%, Cr: 0.8 to 1.5%, Mo: 1.1 to 1.6%, V: 0.01 to 0.06%, Nb: 0.005 to 0.015%, B: 0.0015 to 0.0030%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.020%, and N: 0.005% or less, and having a ratio of the Ti content to the N content of 3.0 to 4.0, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, the steel pipe having a ratio of a stress at a strain of 0.7% to a stress at a strain of 0.4% in a stress-strain curve of 1.02 or less and a yield strength of 861 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Masao Yuga, Yasuhide Ishiguro, Hiroki Ota
  • Publication number: 20190048443
    Abstract: The steel pipe of the present invention is a low alloy high strength seamless steel pipe for oil country tubular goods including a composition containing, in terms of mass %, C: 0.23 to 0.27%, Si: 0.01 to 0.35%, Mn: 0.45 to 0.70%, P: 0.010% or less, S: 0.001% or less, O: 0.0015% or less, Al: 0.015 to 0.080%, Cu: 0.02 to 0.09%, Cr: 0.8 to 1.5%, Mo: 0.5 to 1.0%, Nb: 0.02 to 0.05%, B: 0.0015 to 0.0030%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.020%, and N: 0.005% or less, and having a value of a ratio of the Ti content to the N content (Ti/N) of 3.0 to 4.0, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, the steel pipe having a ratio of a stress at a strain of 0.7% to a stress at a strain of 0.4% in a stress-strain curve; of 1.02 or less and a yield strength of 655 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Masao Yuga, Hiroki Ota, Kazuki Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20190024201
    Abstract: The high-strength seamless steel pipe has a volume fraction of tempered martensite of 95% or more, and a prior austenite size number of 8.5 or more, and contains nitride inclusions having a size of 4 ?m or more and whose number is 100 or less per 100 mm2, nitride inclusions having a size of less than 4 ?m and whose number is 700 or less per 100 mm2, oxide inclusions having a size of 4 ?m or more and whose number is 60 or less per 100 mm2, and oxide inclusions having a size of less than 4 ?m and whose number is 500 or less per 100 mm2, in a cross section perpendicular to a rolling direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Masao Yuga, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Hiroki Ota
  • Publication number: 20180327881
    Abstract: A seamless steel pipe having a specific chemical composition. A ratio of Ti to N is in a range of 2.0 to 5.0. The steel pipe has a microstructure including tempered martensite having a volume ratio of 95% or more, and prior austenite grains having a grain size number of 8.5 or more. In a cross-section perpendicular to a rolling direction of the steel pipe a number of nitride-based inclusions having a particle size of 4 um or more is 100 or less per 100 mm2, a number of nitride-based inclusions having a particle size of less than 4 ?m is 1000 or less per 100 mm2, a number of oxide-based inclusions having a particle size of 4 ?m or more is 40 or less per 100 mm2, and a number of oxide-based inclusions having a particle size of less than 4 ?m is 400 or less per 100 mm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao YUGA, Yasuhide ISHIGURO, Mitsuhiro OKATSU, Seiji NABESHIMA, Hiroki OTA
  • Patent number: 9995669
    Abstract: A round bar tensile test specimen for a sulfide stress corrosion cracking test of a steel, the specimen including a parallel section, a shoulder section, and a grip section. A sectional shape of the shoulder section being formed by a curve having two or more radii of curvature. A radius of curvature R1 (mm) of a portion of the curve adjacent to the parallel section being 15 mm or more, and the radius of curvature R1 (mm) satisfying (0.22??119)?R1?100 in terms of load stress ? (MPa) of the sulfide stress corrosion cracking test. A length X1 (mm) of the portion of the curve having the radius of curvature R1 in a longitudinal direction of the test specimen satisfying X1??{(r/8)×(R1?r2/4)}. Additionally, other radii of curvature of the curve being smaller than the radius of curvature R1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Yuga, Yasuhide Ishiguro, Kazuki Fujimura, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Yoshiyuki Sugano
  • Patent number: 9896748
    Abstract: A steel composition and method from making a dual phase steel therefrom. The dual phase steel may have carbon of about 0.05% by weight to about 0.12 wt %; niobium of about 0.005 wt % to about 0.03 wt %; titanium of about 0.005 wt % to about 0.02 wt %; nitrogen of about 0.001 wt % to about 0.01 wt %; silicon of about 0.01 wt % to about 0.5 wt %; manganese of about 0.5 wt % to about 2.0 wt %; and a total of molybdenum, chromium, vanadium and copper less than about 0.15 wt %. The steel may have a first phase consisting of ferrite and a second phase having one or more of carbide, pearlite, martensite, lower bainite, granular bainite, upper bainite, and degenerate upper bainite. A solute carbon content in the first phase may be about 0.01 wt % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Jayoung Koo, Narasimha-Rao V. Bangaru, Swarupa Soma Bangaru, Hyun-Woo Jin, Adnan Ozekcin, Raghavan Ayer, Douglas P. Fairchild, Danny L. Beeson, Douglas S. Hoyt, James B. LeBleu, Jr., Shigeru Endo, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Shinichi Kakihara, Moriyasu Nagae
  • Publication number: 20170349964
    Abstract: A high-strength seamless steel pipe for oil country tubular goods comprising, by mass %, C: 0.20% to 0.50%, Si: 0.05% to 0.40%, Mn: more than 0.6% to 1.5% or less, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Al: 0.005% to 0.1%, N: 0.006% or less, Mo: more than 1.0% to 3.0% or less, V: 0.05% to 0.3%, Nb: 0.001% to 0.020%, B: 0.0003% to 0.0030%, O: 0.0030% or less, and Ti: 0.003% to 0.025%, and wherein Ti/N: 2.0 to 5.0 is satisfied, a volume fraction of a tempered martensitic is 95% or more, prior austenite grains have a grain size number of 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Yuga, Yasuhide Ishiguro, Seiji Nabeshima, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Hiroki Ota
  • Publication number: 20170349963
    Abstract: A high-strength seamless steel pipe for oil country tubular goods comprising, by mass %, C: 0.20% to 0.50%, Si: 0.05% to 0.40%, Mn: 0.3% to 0.9%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Al: 0.005% to 0.1%, N: 0.006% or less, Mo: more than 1.0% to 3.0% or less, V: 0.01% to less than 0.05%, Nb: 0.001% to less than 0.01%, B: 0.0003% to 0.0030%, O: 0.0030% or less, and Ti: 0.003% to 0.025%, and wherein Ti/N: 2.0 to 5.0 is satisfied, a volume fraction of a tempered martensitic is 95% or more, prior austenite grains have a grain size number of 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Yuga, Yasuhide Ishiguro, Seiji Nabeshima, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Hiroki Ota
  • Publication number: 20170283918
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength seamless steel pipe having the composition which contains, by mass %, 0.20 to 0.50% C, 0.05 to 0.40% Si, 0.3 to 0.9% Mn, 0.015% or less P, 0.005% or less S, 0.005 to 0.1% Al, 0.008% or less N, more than 0.6% and 1.7% or less Cr, more than 1.0% and 3.0% or less Mo, 0.01 to 0.30% V, 0.001% or more and less than 0.01% Nb, 0.0003 to 0.0030% B, and 0.0030% or less O (oxygen). The high-strength seamless steel pipe has the microstructure where a volume fraction of a tempered martensitic phase is 95% or more, and prior austenitic grains have a grain size number of 8.5 or more, and a segregation degree index Ps which is defined by a formula Ps=8.1 (XSi+XMn+XMo)+1.2XP is set to less than 65.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Yuga, Yasuhide Ishiguro, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Kazuki Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20170275715
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength seamless steel pipe having the composition which contains, by mass %, 0.20 to 0.50% C, 0.05 to 0.40% Si, 0.3 to 0.9% Mn, 0.015% or less P, 0.005% or less S, 0.005 to 0.1% Al, 0.008% or less N, 0.6 to 1.7% Cr, 0.4 to 1.0% Mo, 0.01 to 0.30% V, 0.01 to 0.06% Nb, 0.0003 to 0.0030% B, and 0.0030% or less O (oxygen). The high-strength seamless steel pipe has the microstructure where a volume fraction of a tempered martensitic phase is 95% or more, and prior austenitic grains have a grain size number of 8.5 or more, and a segregation degree index Ps which is defined by a formula Ps=8.1 (XSi+XMn+XMo)+1.2XP relating to XM which is a ratio between a segregated portion content and an average content is set to less than 65.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Yuga, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Kazuki Fujimura, Yasuhide Ishiguro
  • Publication number: 20170167968
    Abstract: A round bar tensile test specimen for a sulfide stress corrosion cracking test of a steel, the specimen including a parallel section, a shoulder section, and a grip section. A sectional shape of the shoulder section being formed by a curve having two or more radii of curvature. A radius of curvature R1 (mm) of a portion of the curve adjacent to the parallel section being 15 mm or more, and the radius of curvature R1 (mm) satisfying (0.22??119)?R1?100 in terms of load stress ? (MPa) of the sulfide stress corrosion cracking test. A length X1 (mm) of the portion of the curve having the radius of curvature R1 in a longitudinal direction of the test specimen satisfying X1??{(r/8)×(R1?r2/4)}. Additionally, other radii of curvature of the curve being smaller than the radius of curvature R1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao YUGA, Yasuhide ISHIGURO, Kazuki FUJIMURA, Mitsuhiro OKATSU, Yoshiyuki SUGANO
  • Publication number: 20150007904
    Abstract: In an abrasion resistant welded steel pipe, each of a base material and a weld metal contains specific amounts of chemical composition. The base material of the abrasion resistant welded steel pipe has a Vickers hardness within the range of 150 to 250, and the weld metal has a Vickers hardness within the range of 230 to 350. A weld heat affected zone in the abrasion resistant welded steel pipe has a Vickers hardness within the range of 150 to 350. In the weld metal, the dispersion density of a sulfide having an aspect ratio of 5 or more and containing at least one selected from Fe, Mn, and Ti is 10 grains/mm2 or less. The abrasion resistant welded steel pipe that can be produced at high productivity and low cost with no reduction in weld crack resistance can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Tanizawa, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Keiji Ueda, Kimihiro Nishimura, Shinji Mitao
  • Publication number: 20140227549
    Abstract: A welded steel pipe with excellent welded heat-affected zone toughness includes a butt weld formed by prior welding either an inner surface or an outer surface with a single layer for each of the inner and outer surfaces, wherein in the metallographic structure of a welded heat-affected zone, the martensite-austenite constituent (MA) area fraction is 4% or less, the average prior-austenite grain size is 400 ?m or less, and the following items are taken into account: the average prior-austenite grain size of a welded heat-affected zone formed by prior welding, the average prior-austenite grain size of a welded heat-affected zone formed by subsequent welding, the bead width determined at a position 5 mm apart from the tip of a weld bead formed by subsequent welding, the fusion line tilt angle of a weld bead of prior welding, and the fusion line tilt angle of a weld bead of subsequent welding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Tanizawa, Yoshiaki Ota, Noriaki Uchitomi, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Kimihiro Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8765269
    Abstract: An APIX100-grade high strength steel pipe includes a base material containing, in mass percentage, C: more than 0.03% and 0.08% or less, Si: 0.01% to 0.5%, Mn: 1.5% to 3.0%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Al: 0.01% to 0.08%, Nb: 0.005% to 0.025%, Ti: 0.005% to 0.025%, N: 0.001% to 0.010%, O: 0.005% or less, and B: 0.0003% to 0.0020%, further contains one or more of Cu, Ni, Cr, Mo, and V, satisfies 0.19?Pcm?0.25, the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and has a TS of 760 to 930 MPa, a uniform elongation of 5% or more, and a YR of 85% or less; the seam weld metal has a specific composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Junji Shimamura, Nobuyuki Ishikawa, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Nobuo Shikanai
  • Patent number: 8758528
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength steel plate having excellent resistance to cutting crack, excellent Charpy absorbed energy, excellent DWTT properties, a low yield ratio, and a tensile strength of 900 MPa or more, a method of producing the steel plate, and a high-strength steel pipe using the steel plate. As solving means, a steel plate contains, by % by mass, 0.03 to 0.12% of C, 0.01 to 0.5% of Si, 1.5 to 3% of Mn, 0.01 to 0.08% of Al, 0.01 to 0.08% of Nb, 0.005 to 0.025% of Ti, 0.001 to 0.01% of N, and at least one component of 0.01 to 2% of Cu, 0.01 to 3% of Ni, 0.01 to 1% of Cr, 0.01 to 1% of Mo, and 0.01 to 0.1% of V; wherein the contents of Ca, O, and S satisfy the equation below; the microstructure includes ferrite and a second hard phase, the area fraction of ferrite being 10 to 50%; cementite in the second phase has an average grin size of 0.5 ?m or less; and the total amount of Nb and the like contained in carbides thereof present in steel is 10% or less of the total content in steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Junji Shimamura, Shigeru Endo, Mitsuhiro Okatsu
  • Publication number: 20120125490
    Abstract: A steel composition and method from making a dual phase steel therefrom. The dual phase steel may have carbon of about 0.05% by weight to about 0.12 wt %; niobium of about 0.005 wt % to about 0.03 wt %; titanium of about 0.005 wt % to about 0.02 wt %; nitrogen of about 0.001 wt % to about 0.01 wt %; silicon of about 0.01 wt % to about 0.5 wt %; manganese of about 0.5 wt % to about 2.0 wt %; and a total of molybdenum, chromium, vanadium and copper less than about 0.15 wt %. The steel may have a first phase consisting of ferrite and a second phase having one or more of carbide, pearlite, martensite, lower bainite, granular bainite, upper bainite, and degenerate upper bainite. A solute carbon content in the first phase may be about 0.01 wt % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Jayoung Koo, Swarupa Bangaru, Hyun-Woo Jin, Adnan Ozekcin, Raghavan Ayer, Douglas P. Fairchild, Danny L. Beeson, Douglas S. Hoyt, James B. LeBleu, JR., Shigeru Endo, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Shinichi Kakihara, Moriyasu Nagae
  • Patent number: 8124247
    Abstract: A high-strength steel pipe has a tensile strength of 800 MPa or more and includes a weld metal having high cold-cracking resistance and high low-temperature toughness, wherein the weld metal contains C: 0.04% to 0.09% by mass, Si: 0.32% to 0.50% by mass, Mn: 1.4% to 2.0% by mass, Cu: less than 0.5% by mass, Ni: more than 0.9% by mass but not more than 4.2% by mass, Mo: 0.4% to 1.5% by mass, Cr: less than 0.5% by mass, V: less than 0.2% by mass, and the remainder of Fe and incidental impurities, and CS values calculated from the weld metal components using the equation CS=5.1+1.4[Mo]?[Ni]?[Mn]?36.3[C] are equal to zero or more at both an internal surface and an external surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignees: JFE Steel Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Naoya Hayakawa, Fumimaru Kawabata, Shuichi Sakaguchi, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Makoto Ota, Shigeki Nishiyama, Kaoru Nagatani, Keito Ishizaki
  • Publication number: 20120018028
    Abstract: An APIX100-grade high strength steel pipe includes a base material containing, in mass percentage, C: more than 0.03% and 0.08% or less, Si: 0.01% to 0.5%, Mn: 1.5% to 3.0%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Al: 0.01% to 0.08%, Nb: 0.005% to 0.025%, Ti: 0.005% to 0.025%, N: 0.001% to 0.010%, O: 0.005% or less, and B: 0.0003% to 0.0020%, further contains one or more of Cu, Ni, Cr, Mo, and V, satisfies 0.19?Pcm?0.25, the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and has a TS of 760 to 930 MPa, a uniform elongation of 5% or more, and a YR of 85% or less; the seam weld metal has a specific composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji Shimamura, Nobuyuki Ishikawa, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Nobuo Shikanai