Patents by Inventor Motonori Tamura

Motonori Tamura 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: 20220042175
    Abstract: [Problem] To propose a stainless steel structure excellent in hydrogen embrittlement resistance and corrosion resistance, being high in mass productivity, simple in device structure, low in equipment cost, and having a high cost advantage, and a method for manufacturing the same. [Solving means] It is stainless steel having hydrogen embrittlement resistance and corrosion resistance, a surface of electrolytically polished stainless steel being coated with a film obtained by passivating a metal oxide formed by a wet process, wherein the film thickness of the film obtained by passivating the metal oxide formed by a wet process is greater than 100 nm. A hydrogen permeability ratio (film-formed product/film-unformed product) is equal to or less than 2.0×10?2, and a relative reduction of area (under a hydrogen atmosphere of 110 MPa/under a nitrogen atmosphere of 10 MPa) in an SSRT test is equal to or greater than 0.8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicants: Asahimekki Corporation, The University of Electro-Communications, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tottori Institute of Industrial Technology
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi KAWAMI, Atsushi KINOSHITA, Takashi YAMANAKA, Yoji FUKUDA, Motonori TAMURA, Takashi IIJIMA, Hirotoshi ENOKI, Hiroyasu TAMAI, Mutsuharu IMAOKA, Takeshi FUKUTANI, Toshiyuki TANAKA, Yoshiaki SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 7601672
    Abstract: The present invention provides an Fe—Cr—Al based stainless steel sheet and double layered sheet having a high Al content of greater than 6.5%, honeycomb bodies employing the stainless steel sheet or double layered sheet, and a process for fabrication of the steel sheet or double layered sheet. The sheet is a high Al-containing Fe—Cr—Al based stainless steel sheet or high Al-containing double layered sheet characterized by comprising, by weight, Cr: 10-30% and Al: >6.5%-15%. Preferably, the steel sheet further comprises either or both Ti: 0.02-0.1% and Nb: 0.02-0.3%, and also comprises La: 0.01-0.1%, Ce: 0.01-0.1% and P: 0.01-0.05%. It also preferably comprises Cu: 0.01-1.0% by weight, and preferably further comprises Mg: 0.001-0.1% by weight. There is also provided a honeycomb body fabricated using the Fe—Cr—Al based stainless steel sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tooru Inaguma, Shogo Konya, Hiroaki Sakamoto, Motonori Tamura
  • Publication number: 20080069717
    Abstract: The present invention provides an Fe—Cr—Al based stainless steel sheet and double layered sheet having a high Al content of greater than 6.5%, honeycomb bodies employing the stainless steel sheet or double layered sheet, and a process for fabrication of the steel sheet or double layered sheet. The sheet is a high Al-containing Fe—Cr—Al based stainless steel sheet or high Al-containing double layered sheet characterized by comprising, by weight, Cr: 10-30% and Al: >6.5%-15%. Preferably, the steel sheet further comprises either or both Ti: 0.02-0.1% and Nb: 0.02-0.3%, and also comprises La: 0.01-0.1%, Ce: 0.01-0.1% and P: 0.01-0.05%. It also preferably comprises Cu: 0.01-1.0% by weight, and preferably further comprises Mg: 0.001-0.1% by weight. There is also provided a honeycomb body fabricated using the Fe—Cr—Al based stainless steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tooru Inaguma, Shogo Konya, Hiroaki Sakamoto, Motonori Tamura
  • Publication number: 20060166029
    Abstract: The present invention provides an Fe—Cr—Al based stainless steel sheet and double layered sheet having a high Al content of greater than 6.5%, honeycomb bodies employing the stainless steel sheet or double layered sheet, and a process for fabrication of the steel sheet or double layered sheet. The sheet is a high Al-containing Fe—Cr—Al based stainless steel sheet or high Al-containing double layered sheet characterized by comprising, by weight, Cr: 10-30% and Al: >6.5%-15%. Preferably, the steel sheet further comprises either or both Ti: 0.02-0.1% and Nb: 0.02-0.3%, and also comprises La: 0.01-0.1%, Ce: 0.01-0.1% and P: 0.01-0.05%. It also preferably comprises Cu: 0.01-1.0% by weight, and preferably further comprises Mg: 0.001-0.1% by weight. There is also provided a honeycomb body fabricated using the Fe—Cr—Al based stainless steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Inventors: Tooru Inaguma, Shogo Konya, Hiroaki Sakamoto, Motonori Tamura
  • Patent number: 6752708
    Abstract: A pad conditioner for semiconductor substrates for performing conditioning by slide contact with the abrasive surface of the polishing pad comprises a support member having a surface opposed to the polishing pad, a joining alloy layer covering the above surface of the support member, and a group of hard abrasive grains which are spread out and embedded in the joining alloy layer and supported by the joining alloy layer. At the contact interface between each of the hard abrasive grains and the above joining alloy, the surfaces of the hard abrasive grains are covered with either a layer of metallic carbides or a layer of metallic nitrides. Ag-base and Ag—Cu-base alloys, etc., can be used as the joining alloys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiya Kinoshita, Motonori Tamura
  • Patent number: 6190240
    Abstract: A pad conditioner for semiconductor substrates for performing conditioning by slide contact with the abrasive surface of the polishing pad comprises a support member having a surface opposed to the polishing pad, a joining alloy layer covering the above surface of the support member, and a group of hard abrasive grains which are spread out and embedded in the joining alloy layer and supported by the joining alloy layer. At the contact interface between each of the hard abrasive grains and the above joining alloy, the surfaces of the hard abrasive grains are covered with either a layer of metallic carbides or a layer of metallic nitrides. Ag-base and Ag—Cu-base alloys, etc., can be used as the joining alloys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiya Kinoshita, Motonori Tamura
  • Patent number: 4566916
    Abstract: A welding flux which forms a weld metal simultaneously satisfying low-oxygen, low-nitrogen, and low-hydrogen contents, gives weld beads in good form, and joins given metal pieces without entailing weld defects is obtained by formulating the flux in a composition such that a four-component system used therein is formed of CaO, MgO, Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, and SiO.sub.2 in the following proportions based on the total amount of the system taken as unity (100%),CaO: 10 to 60%MgO: Not more than 30%Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 : 20 to 70%SiO.sub.2 : 5 to 40%that the total amount of the four components accounts for not less than 35% of the total weight of the flux less the CO.sub.2 component thereof, that the composition incorporates therein CaF.sub.2 in an amount of from 25 to 65% of the total weight of the flux less the CO.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1986
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kyoichi Nagano, Hiroshi Naganuma, Koichi Shinada, Motonori Tamura, Shigenobu Soneda