Patents by Inventor Ryuichi Honma
Ryuichi Honma 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: 10500817Abstract: A steel for electron-beam welding according to the present invention includes at least C: 0.02% to 0.10%, Si: 0.03% to 0.30%, Mn: 1.5% to 2.5%, Ti: 0.005% to 0.015%, N: 0.0020% to 0.0060%, and O: 0.0010% to 0.0035%, further includes S: limited to 0.010% or less, P: limited to 0.015% or less, and Al: limited to 0.004% or less, with a balance including iron and inevitable impurities. An index value CeEBB obtained by substituting composition of the steel into following Formula 1 falls in the range of 0.42 to 0.65%, the number of oxide having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 ?m or more is 20 pieces/mm2 or less at a thickness center portion in cross section along the thickness direction of the steel, and the number of oxide containing Ti of 10% or more and having an equivalent circle diameter of not less than 0.05 ?m or more and less than 0.5 ?m falls in the range of 1×103 to 1×105 pieces/mm2 at the thickness center portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Ryuichi Honma, Ryuji Uemori, Tadashi Ishikawa, Akihiko Kojima, Manabu Hoshino
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Patent number: 9352424Abstract: A welding joint comprises a pair of steel materials, and a welding metal that is formed with a high-energy density beam at a butt welding portion between the pair of steel materials, wherein a transformation starting temperature Ms that is calculated by a following formula: Ms(° C.)=371?353C?22Si?24.3Mn?7.7Cu?17.3Ni?17.7Cr?25.8Mo, using a composition of mass % of the welding metal is 250° C. or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2010Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Tadashi Ishikawa, Ryuichi Honma, Kazutoshi Ichikawa
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Patent number: 8992109Abstract: A butt-welded joint of a welded structure which includes a pair of target metals; a weld bead formed by irradiating a high-energy density beam to a butt portion between the pair of the target metals and has a width W on the irradiated side surface; and a pair of altered zones consisting of heat-affected zones formed by irradiating another high-energy density beam to both sides of the center of the weld bead in the weld bead width direction such that the pair of the altered zones are located on respective sides of the center of the weld bead and each has a band shape extending in the weld bead length direction and a method for manufacturing the butt-welded joint of the welded structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Tadashi Ishikawa, Ryuichi Honma, Kazutoshi Ichikawa
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Patent number: 8710405Abstract: A welding wire for austenitic stainless steel welding contains, in percent by mass, C: 0.005 through 0.05%, Si: 0.1 through 1.0%, Mn: 1.0 through 3.5%, Cr: 25.0 through 28.0%, Ni: 16.0 through 23.9%, Mo: 1.6 through 3.0%, Cu: 0.1 through 0.5%, Al: 0.001 through 0.02%, and N: more than 0.30 through 0.50%, limiting O to 0.03% or less, P to 0.03% or less, and S to 0.005% or less, and having a ratio of a Cr equivalent to Ni equivalent (Cr equivalent/Ni equivalent) within a range between 0.85 and 1.2 and a PI value of 35 or more, the remainder being iron and unavoidable impurities.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2006Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless Steel CorporationInventors: Hiroshige Inoue, Ryuichi Honma, Manabu Mizumoto, Yuusuke Oikawa, Ryo Matsuhashi, Shinji Tsuge, Shigeo Fukumoto
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Patent number: 8653403Abstract: A butt-welded joint includes a pair of steel plates, a first weld metal that is formed at a butting portion of the pair of steel plates from a side of a first surface of the butt-welded joint to a side of a second surface opposite the first surface by irradiation of a first high-energy density beam from the side of the first surface, and a second weld metal that is formed by irradiation of a second high-energy density beam to cover an end surface of the first weld metal at the side of the first surface side of the first weld metal. A width W1 of the first weld metal on the first surface and a width W2 of the second weld metal on the first surface satisfy an equation 1.2?W2/W1?3.5, and a depth of the second weld metal from the first surface is 2.0 mm to 10.0 mm.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2010Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Ryuichi Honma, Tadashi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 8623154Abstract: An electron-beam welded joint including, by mass %, C: 0.02% to 0.1%, Si: 0.03% to 0.30%, Mn: 1.5% to 2.5%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.015%, N: 0.0020 to 0.0060%, O: 0.0010% to 0.0035%, Nb: 0% to 0.020%, V: 0% to 0.030%, Cr: 0% to 0.50%, Mo: 0% to 0.50%, Cu: 0% to 0.25%, Ni: 0% to 0.50%, B: 0% to 0.0030%, S: limited to 0.010% or less, P: limited to 0.015% or less, Al: limited to 0.004% or less, and a balance consisting of iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein an index value CeEB is 0.49% to 0.60%, a number of oxides having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 ?m or more is 20 pieces/mm2 or less, and a number of oxides having an equivalent circle diameter of 0.05 ?m or more and less than 0.5 ?m is 1×103 pieces/mm2 to 1×105 pieces/mm2 at a thickness center portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Ryuichi Honma, Ryuji Uemori, Tadashi Ishikawa, Akihiko Kojima, Manabu Hoshino
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Publication number: 20130279971Abstract: An electron-beam welded joint including, by mass %, C: 0.02% to 0.1%, Si: 0.03% to 0.30%, Mn: 1.5% to 2.5%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.015%, N: 0.0020 to 0.0060%, O: 0.0010% to 0.0035%, Nb: 0% to 0.020%, V: 0% to 0.030%, Cr: 0% to 0.50%, Mo: 0% to 0.50%, Cu: 0% to 0.25%, Ni: 0% to 0.50%, B: 0% to 0.0030%, S: limited to 0.010% or less, P: limited to 0.015% or less, Al: limited to 0.004% or less, and a balance consisting of iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein an index value CeEB is 0.49% to 0.60%, a number of oxides having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 ?m or more is 20 pieces/mm2 or less, and a number of oxides having an equivalent circle diameter of 0.05 ?m or more and less than 0.5 ?m is 1×103 pieces/mm2 to 1×105 pieces/mm2 at a thickness center portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2011Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Ryuichi Honma, Ryuji Uemori, Tadashi Ishikawa, Akihiko Kojima, Manabu Hoshino
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Publication number: 20130189536Abstract: A steel for electron-beam welding according to the present invention includes at least C: 0.02% to 0.10%, Si: 0.03% to 0.30%, Mn: 1.5% to 2.5%, Ti: 0.005% to 0.015%, N: 0.0020% to 0.0060%, and O: 0.0010% to 0.0035%, further includes S: limited to 0.010% or less, P: limited to 0.015% or less, and Al: limited to 0.004% or less, with a balance including iron and inevitable impurities. An index value CeEBB obtained by substituting composition of the steel into following Formula 1 falls in the range of 0.42 to 0.65%, the number of oxide having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 ?m or more is 20 pieces/mm2 or less at a thickness center portion in cross section along the thickness direction of the steel, and the number of oxide containing Ti of 10% or more and having an equivalent circle diameter of not less than 0.05 ?m or more and less than 0.5 ?m falls in the range of 1×103 to 1×105 pieces/mm2 at the thickness center portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2011Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Ryuichi Honma, Ryuji Uemori, Tadashi Ishikawa, Akihiko Kojima, Manabu Hoshino
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Patent number: 8490600Abstract: The present invention provides a common rail formed by bonding a common rail body and a common rail holder which has a pressing surface and a convex bonding surface, by means of a heat pressure bonding process and a liquid phase diffusion bonding process, wherein the height H of the convex bonding surface satisfies 1 ?m?H?50 ?m, and the common rail holder includes a deformation introducing portion in which an area of a cross-section parallel to the pressing surface is smaller than the area of the pressing surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignees: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Fukujukogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryuichi Honma, Ryuji Uemori, Yasushi Hasegawa, Yutaka Takagi
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Publication number: 20120288324Abstract: The present invention provides a butt-welded joint of a welded structure, including: a pair of target metals; a weld bead formed by irradiating a first high-energy density beam to a butt portion between the pair of the target metals, the weld bead having a width W on an irradiated side surface; and a pair of altered zones formed, on a surface of the butt-welded joint having the first high-energy density beam irradiated thereto, by irradiating a second high-energy density beam to the surface, the pair of the altered zones having a band shape extending in parallel to the weld bead, and the pair of the altered zones consisting of a pair of heat-affected portions and molten and solidified metals located on a right side and a left side relative to the center of the weld bead in the width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2010Publication date: November 15, 2012Inventors: Tadashi Ishikawa, Ryuichi Honma, Kazutoshi Ichikawa
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Publication number: 20120241420Abstract: A welding joint comprises a pair of steel materials, and a welding metal that is formed with a high-energy density beam at a butt welding portion between the pair of steel materials, wherein a transformation starting temperature Ms that is calculated by a following formula: Ms(° C.)=371?353C?22Si?24.3Mn?7.7Cu?17.3Ni?17.7Cr?25.8Mo, using a composition of mass % of the welding metal is 250° C. or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2010Publication date: September 27, 2012Inventors: Tadashi Ishikawa, Ryuichi Honma, Kazutoshi Ichikawa
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Publication number: 20120237287Abstract: A butt-welded joint includes a pair of steel plates, a first weld metal that is formed at a butting portion of the pair of steel plates from a first surface side of the pair of steel plates to a second surface side opposite the first surface side by irradiation of a first high-energy density beam from the first surface side, and a second weld metal that is formed by a second high-energy density beam to cover an end surface of the first surface side of the first weld metal. Here, a width W1 of the first weld metal on the first surface and a width W2 of the second weld metal on the first surface satisfy a following equation (1), and a depth from the first surface of the second weld metal is 2.0 mm to 10.0 mm. 1.2?W2/W1?3.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2010Publication date: September 20, 2012Inventors: Ryuichi Honma, Tadashi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 8114528Abstract: To form a welded joint having a sufficiently high fracture toughness value ?c by butting welding high strength steel plates having a yield strength of the 355 MPa class or more and a plate thickness of over 50 mm by electron beam welding, the butt welded joint is made one where the hardness of the weld metal is 110% to 220% of the hardness of the base material and where the width of the weld metal is 20% A or less of the base material plate thickness.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2007Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Tadashi Ishikawa, Ryuichi Honma, Akihiko Kojima, Yuzuru Yoshida, Youichi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20110239989Abstract: The present invention provides a common rail formed by bonding a common rail body and a common rail holder which has a pressing surface and a convex bonding surface, by means of a heat pressure bonding process and a liquid phase diffusion bonding process, wherein the height H of the convex bonding surface satisfies 1 ?m?H?50 ?m, and the common rail holder includes a deformation introducing portion in which an area of a cross-section parallel to the pressing surface is smaller than the area of the pressing surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2010Publication date: October 6, 2011Inventors: Ryuichi Honma, Ryuji Uemori, Yasushi Hasegawa, Yutaka Takagi
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Patent number: 7900603Abstract: An automobile-use high pressure fuel injection accumulator-distributor comprised of a body of an automobile-use high pressure fuel injection accumulator-distributor to which pipe attachment holders for attaching fuel distribution pipes for distributing fuel to injection nozzles at an equal pressure are joined by liquid phase diffusion bonding etc.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Fukujukogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasushi Hasegawa, Ryuichi Honma, Yutaka Takagi
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Patent number: 7804039Abstract: A liquid phase diffusion bonding method for a metal machine part superior in the quality of the joint and the productivity enabling the bonding time to be shortened, achieving homogenization of the bonding structure and improving the tensile strength, fatigue strength, and joint quality and reliability. This liquid phase diffusion bonding method of a metal machine part is characterized interposing an amorphous alloy foil for liquid phase diffusion bonding at bevel faces of metal materials, performing primary bonding by melt bonding said amorphous alloy foil and said metal material by resistance welding to form a joint, then performing secondary bonding by liquid phase diffusion bonding by reheating said joint to at least the melting point of said amorphous alloy foil, then holding it there to complete the solidification process of said joint.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2004Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Fukuju Industry Corporation LtdInventors: Yasushi Hasegawa, Ryuichi Honma, Yutaka Takagi
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Publication number: 20100143747Abstract: A liquid phase diffusion bonding method for a metal machine part superior in the quality of the joint and the productivity enabling the bonding time to be shortened, achieving homogenization of the bonding structure and improving the tensile strength, fatigue strength, and joint quality and reliability. This liquid phase diffusion bonding method of a metal machine part is characterized interposing an amorphous alloy foil for liquid phase diffusion bonding at bevel faces of metal materials, performing primary bonding by melt bonding said amorphous alloy foil and said metal material by resistance welding to form a joint, then performing secondary bonding by liquid phase diffusion bonding by reheating said joint to at least the melting point of said amorphous alloy foil, then holding it there to complete the solidification process of said joint.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2010Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Yasushi Hasegawa, Ryuichi Honma, Yutaka Takagi
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Publication number: 20100095934Abstract: An automobile-use high pressure fuel injection accumulator-distributor comprised of a body of an automobile-use high pressure fuel injection accumulator-distributor to which pipe attachment holders for attaching fuel distribution pipes for distributing fuel to injection nozzles at an equal pressure are joined by liquid phase diffusion bonding etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2006Publication date: April 22, 2010Inventors: Yasushi Hasegawa, Ryuichi Honma, Yutaka Takagi
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Publication number: 20100028717Abstract: To form a welded joint having a sufficiently high fracture toughness value ?c by butting welding high strength steel plates having a yield strength of the 355 MPa class or more and a plate thickness of over 50 mm by electron beam welding, the butt welded joint is made one where the hardness of the weld metal is 110% to 220% of the hardness of the base material and where the width of the weld metal is 20%A or less of the base material plate thickness. More preferably, the amount of O in the weld metal of the welded joint is made 20 ppm or more and the amount of oxides of a grain size of 2.0 ?m or more is made 10/mm2 or less; the weld metal of the welded joint is made to contain Ni in an amount of 1 to 4 mass % and contain it in more than an amount of 0.2 mass % or more of the content of the base material; or, when using as the base material a steel material containing as Ni in an amount of 2.5 mass % or more, making the content of Ni contained in the weld metal of the welded joint, by mass %, over 4% to 8%.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2007Publication date: February 4, 2010Inventors: Tadashi Ishikawa, Ryuichi Honma, Akihiko Kojima, Yuzuru Yoshida, Youichi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20060243719Abstract: A welding wire for austenitic stainless steel welding contains, in percent by mass, C: 0.005 through 0.05%, Si: 0.1 through 1.0%, Mn: 1.0 through 3.5%, Cr: 25.0 through 28.0%, Ni: 16.0 through 23.9%, Mo: 1.6 through 3.0%, Cu: 0.1 through 0.5%, Al: 0.001 through 0.02%, and N: more than 0.30 through 0.50%, limiting 0 to 0.03% or less, P to 0.03% or less, and S to 0.005% or less, and having a ratio of a Cr equivalent to Ni equivalent (Cr equivalent/Ni equivalent) within a range between 0.85 and 1.2 and a PI value of 35 or more, the remainder being iron and unavoidable impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2006Publication date: November 2, 2006Inventors: Hiroshige Inoue, Ryuichi Honma, Manabu Mizumoto, Yuusuke Oikawa, Ryo Matsuhashi, Shinji Tsuge, Shigeo Fukumoto