Patents by Inventor Ryoji Hirota
Ryoji Hirota 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: 10371261Abstract: Provided is a martensitic stainless-steel sheet having a reduced anisotropy in workability and fatigue resistance which are attributable to oxide based inclusions. A martensitic stainless-steel sheet which has a steel composition that contains, in terms of mass %, 0.030 to 0.300% C, 0.20 to 2.50% Si, 0.15 to 4.00% Mn, 0.01 to 1.00% Ni, 11.00 to 15.00% Cr, 0.001 to 0.100% N, 0.0001 to 0.0350% Al, 0 to 0.50% V, 0 to 0.50% Nb, 0 to 0.50% Ti, 0 to 0.020% B, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and that has a value of ?max, determined by the following equation (1), of 80.0 or greater, and in which oxide based inclusions are observed in the metallographic structure, the oxide based inclusions having a converted composition comprising up to 30 mass % or less Al2O3, 20 to 60 mass % SiO2, and 15 to 70 mass % MnO.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL NISSHIN CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyasu Matsubayashi, Sadayuki Nakamura, Junichi Katsuki, Ryoji Hirota
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Patent number: 10125404Abstract: [Problem] To provide a raw material steel sheet for providing a high strength nonmagnetic austenitic stainless steel material that has a high elastic limit stress and excellent toughness. [Solution to Problem] An austenitic stainless steel sheet containing 0.12% or less of C, from 0.30 to 3.00% of Si, from 2.0 to 9.0% of Mn, from 7.0 to 15.0% of Ni, from 11.0 to 20.0% of Cr, and 0.30% or less of N, and further containing at least one kind of 3.0% or less of Mo, 1.0% or less of V, 1.0% or less of Nb, 1.0% or less of Ti, and 0.010% or less of B, all in terms of percentage by mass, with the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, having a component composition having a Ni equivalent of 19.0 or more, having a value of d?1/2 of 0.40 or more, wherein d (?m) represents an average austenitic crystal grain diameter, and having a property that provides a magnetic permeability ? of 1.0100 or less after subjected to cold rolling with an equivalent strain of 0.50 or more.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyasu Matsubayashi, Sadayuki Nakamura, Ryoji Hirota
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Patent number: 10060003Abstract: A hot rolled austenitic stainless steel sheet contains 0.030 to 0.300% of C, from 0.30 to 3.20% of Si, from 0.90 to 17.00% of Mn, from 1.00 to 8.00% of Ni, from 14.00 to 19.00% of Cr, from 0.50 to 3.50% of Cu, from 0.045 to 0.250% of N, from 0.0001 to 0.0300% of Al, from 0 to 0.50% of V, from 0 to 0.50% of Nb, from 0 to 0.30% of Ti, and from 0 to 0.010% of B, all in terms of percentage by mass, with the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, has a converted average composition of an oxide based inclusion that contains 30% by mass or less of Al2O3, 60% by mass or less of SiO2, and 15% by mass or more of MnO, and satisfies MnO3—3SiO2+110. Anisotropy of workability and fatigue resistance characteristics caused by an oxide based inclusion is decreased.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2015Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyasu Matsubayashi, Sadayuki Nakamura, Junichi Katsuki, Ryoji Hirota
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Patent number: 9921130Abstract: A fatigue testing device 1 comprises a fixing member 4 constituted by a lower jig 2 and an upper jig 3. The lower jig 2 and the upper jig 3 are fixed with a bolt 5, and a sheet or plate-shaped metal plate 6 is fixed in a cantilever state such that it is interposed between the lower jig 2 and the upper jig 3. The lower jig 2 has a fixing surface 2a to which the metal sheet or plate 6 is fixed, and the fixing surface 2a has a curved shape such that the space between the fixing surface 2a and the metal sheet or plate 6 increases with increasing distance from the location where the metal sheet or plate 6 is fixed to the fixing surface 2a. The upper jig 3 also has a fixing surface 3a to which the metal sheet or plate 6 is fixed, and the fixing surface 3a has a curved shape such that the space between the fixing surface 3a and the metal sheet or plate 6 increases with increasing distance from the location where the metal sheet or plate 6 is fixed to the fixing surface 3a.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Nisshin Steel Co., LTD.Inventors: Sadayuki Nakamura, Hiroyasu Matsubayashi, Akira Hironaka, Ryoji Hirota
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Publication number: 20170114900Abstract: Provided is a martensitic stainless-steel sheet having a reduced anisotropy in workability and fatigue resistance which are attributable to oxide based inclusions. A martensitic stainless-steel sheet which has a steel composition that contains, in terms of mass %, 0.030 to 0.300% C, 0.20 to 2.50% Si, 0.15 to 4.00% Mn, 0.01 to 1.00% Ni, 11.00 to 15.00% Cr, 0.001 to 0.100% N, 0.0001 to 0.0350% Al, 0 to 0.50% V, 0 to 0.50% Nb, 0 to 0.50% Ti, 0 to 0.020% B, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and that has a value of ?max, determined by the following equation (1), of 80.0 or greater, and in which oxide based inclusions are observed in the metallographic structure, the oxide based inclusions having a converted composition comprising up to 30 mass % or less Al2O3, 20 to 60 mass % SiO2, and 15 to 70 mass % MnO.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2015Publication date: April 27, 2017Inventors: Hiroyasu MATSUBAYASHI, Sadayuki NAKAMURA, Junichi KATSUKI, Ryoji HIROTA
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Publication number: 20160033357Abstract: A fatigue testing device 1 comprises a fixing member 4 constituted by a lower jig 2 and an upper jig 3. The lower jig 2 and the upper jig 3 are fixed with a bolt 5, and a sheet or plate-shaped metal plate 6 is fixed in a cantilever state such that it is interposed between the lower jig 2 and the upper jig 3. The lower jig 2 has a fixing surface 2a to which the metal sheet or plate 6 is fixed, and the fixing surface 2a has a curved shape such that the space between the fixing surface 2a and the metal sheet or plate 6 increases with increasing distance from the location where the metal sheet or plate 6 is fixed to the fixing surface 2a. The upper jig 3 also has a fixing surface 3a to which the metal sheet or plate 6 is fixed, and the fixing surface 3a has a curved shape such that the space between the fixing surface 3a and the metal sheet or plate 6 increases with increasing distance from the location where the metal sheet or plate 6 is fixed to the fixing surface 3a.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2014Publication date: February 4, 2016Applicant: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Sadayuki NAKAMURA, Hiroyasu MATSUBAYASHI, Akira HIRONAKA, Ryoji HIROTA
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Publication number: 20150376729Abstract: [Problem] To provide a raw material steel sheet for providing a high strength nonmagnetic austenitic stainless steel material that has a high elastic limit stress and excellent toughness. [Solution to Problem] An austenitic stainless steel sheet containing 0.12% or less of C, from 0.30 to 3.00% of Si, from 2.0 to 9.0% of Mn, from 7.0 to 15.0% of Ni, from 11.0 to 20.0% of Cr, and 0.30% or less of N, and further containing at least one kind of 3.0% or less of Mo, 1.0% or less of V, 1.0% or less of Nb, 1.0% or less of Ti, and 0.010% or less of B, all in terms of percentage by mass, with the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, having a component composition having a Ni equivalent of 19.0 or more, having a value of d?1/2 of 0.40 or more, wherein d (?m) represents an average austenitic crystal grain diameter, and having a property that provides a magnetic permeability of 1.0100 or less after subjected to cold rolling with an equivalent strain of 0.50 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Hiroyasu MATSUBAYASHI, Sadayuki NAKAMURA, Ryoji HIROTA
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Patent number: 6599376Abstract: A Fe-Cr soft magnetic material has electric resistivity not less than 50 &mgr;&OHgr;·cm and a metallurgical structure occupied by a ferrite phase at a surface ratio of 95% or more. A number of fine precipitates of 1 &mgr;m or less in particle size is controlled at a ratio not more than 6×105/mm2. The Fe-Cr alloy has the composition (expressed in mass or weight %) of C up to 0.05%, N up to 0.05%, Si up to 3.0%, Mn up to 1.0%, P up to 0.04%, S up to 1.0%, 5.0-20.0% Cr, Al up to 4.0%, 0-3% Mo, 0-0.5% Ti and the balance being essentially Fe under the conditions of (1) and (2). The Fe-Cr soft magnetic material is useful as a core, a yoke or the like installed in various types of magnetic sensors such as electric power steering, fuel injection systems for vehicles and A.C. magnetic circuits of solenoid valves, due to production of high magnetic induction in a high-frequency low-magnetic field: 4.3×%Cr+19.1×%Si+15.1×%Al+2.5×%Mo≧40.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2001Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Morikawa, Tomoharu Shigetomi, Ryoji Hirota, Takashi Yamauchi
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Publication number: 20020104586Abstract: A newly proposed Fe-Cr soft magnetic material has electric resistivity not less than 50 &mgr;&OHgr;·cm and a metallurgical structure occupied by a ferrite phase at a surface ratio of 95% or more. A number of fine precipitated of 1 &mgr;m or less in particle size is controlled at a ratio not more than 6×105/mm2. The Fe-Cr alloy has the composition of C up to 0.05%, N up to 0.05%, Si up to 3.0%, Mn up to 1.0%, P up to 0.04%, S up to 1.0%, 5.0-20.0% Cr, Al up to 4.0%, 0-3% Mo, 0-0.5% Ti and the balance being essentially Fe under the conditions of (1) and (2). The Fe-Cr soft magnetic material is useful as a core, a yoke or the like installed in various types of magnetic sensors such as electric power steering, fuel injection systems for vehicles and A.C magnetic circuits of solenoid valves, due to production of great magnetic induction in a high-frequency low-magnetic field.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2001Publication date: August 8, 2002Applicant: Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Morikawa, Tomoharu Shigetomi, Ryoji Hirota, Takashi Yamauchi
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Patent number: 6222286Abstract: In a stepping motor, stator yokes have a plurality of comb-tooth-shaped magnetic poles 5b, 6b, 7b and 8b in such a manner that the comb-tooth-shaped magnetic poles are opposed to each other coaxially to a rotor portion made from a permanent magnet magnetized to have multiple magnetic poles, and an excitation coil is fitted on the external circumference of the stator yokes and the excitation coil and the stator yokes are surrounded by a frame yoke. Each of the yokes is formed of an Fe—Cr alloy having a predetermined ferrite single-phase structure so that occurrence of eddy currents in an alternating-current magnetic field is suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 1996Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuyuki Watanabe, Hirofumi Nakano, Toshihiko Takemoto, Ryoji Hirota
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Patent number: 5211771Abstract: Fe-Ni, Fe-Ni-Cr or Fe-Ni-Cr-Mo magnetic alloy material, the surface roughness of which is adjusted to Rz.gtoreq.0.5 or Ra.gtoreq.0.06, is disclosed. Parts made of this material has resistance to mutual adhesion or sticking when they are subjected to anealing treatment.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 1992Date of Patent: May 18, 1993Assignee: Nisshin Steel Company, Ltd.Inventors: Takuji Okiyama, Ryoji Hirota, Takuji Hara, Yutaka Kawai, Toshihiko Takemoto