Patents by Inventor Satoshi Uchida

Satoshi Uchida 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).

  • Patent number: 11332803
    Abstract: A high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet contains predetermined amounts of C, Si, Mn, P, S, N, O, sol. Al, Ti, and B, 0.1 to 1.5 mass % of Cr+2×Mo, and a balance in a form of Fe and inevitable impurities. A steel structure includes, in area %, ferrite: 1 to 50%, martensite: 20 to 70%, residual austenite: 0 to 5%, pearlite: 0 to 5%, MA and cementite having 0.2 ?m or more grain size: 0 to 5% in total, and a balance in a form of bainite. A number density of MA or cementite having 0.2 ?m or more grain size and isolated in ferrite or bainite grains is 100 pcs/1000 ?m2 or less, and an average hardness of martensite is in a range from 330 to 500 Hv.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Yuji Yamaguchi, Masahiro Nakata, Kunio Hayashi, Satoshi Uchida, Takuma Kawanaka
  • Publication number: 20220147780
    Abstract: An optical assembly includes a spacer layer which is translucent or transparent; an image forming reflector which has a reflective layer being formed at least in a first region of the spacer layer; and a protective layer which is laminated over the spacer layer and the image forming reflector and the protective layer being translucent or transparent. The spacer layer is made of a polyolefin or/and a polymer containing an aryl group. The image forming reflector includes a visible image which is authenticatable. The image forming reflector has an individual information record in which a code is stored in the form of a plurality of removed linear segments. The image forming reflector has white level regions and a black level region in planar view. Each of the white level regions has the removed linear segments formed therein. The black level region is interposed between the white level regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: TOPPAN INC.
    Inventors: Akihito KAGOTANI, Satoshi UCHIDA, Soko KODA
  • Publication number: 20220127709
    Abstract: Provided are a hot dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and contains ferrite: 50% or less, retained austenite: 30% or less, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 10% or less, and pearlite and cementite in total: 5% or less, remaining structures consist of bainite, and a number ratio of tempered martensite with a Mn concentration profile satisfying [Mn]b/[Mn]a>1.2 and [Mn]a/[Mn]<2.0 ([Mn] is the Mn content in the base steel sheet, [Mn]a is the average Mn concentration in the tempered martensite, and [Mn]b is the Mn concentration at the interfaces of different phases of the tempered martensite and ferrite phase and bainite phase) is 0.2 or more with respect to the total number of tempered martensite, and a method for producing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Kunio HAYASHI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220119908
    Abstract: Provided are a hot dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized layer on at least one surface of the base metal steel sheet, wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and contains, by volume fraction, ferrite: 0% to 50%, retained austenite: 0% to 30%, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite and cementite in total: 0% to 5%, when there are remaining structures, the remaining structures consist of bainite, a concentration of B atoms at prior austenite grain boundaries is 2.0 atm % or more, and an average effective crystal grain size is 7.0 ?m or less, and a method for producing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Kunio HAYASHI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220090248
    Abstract: Provided are a hot dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined composition and contains ferrite: 0% to 50%, retained austenite: 0% to 30%, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite and cementite in total: 0% to 5%, remaining structures consist of bainite, when defining a region having a hardness of 90% or less of the hardness at a position of ¼ thickness to the base steel sheet side from an interface of the base steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized layer as a “soft layer”, there is a soft layer having a thickness of 10 ?m or more at the base steel sheet side from the interface, the soft layer contains tempered martensite, and an increase rate in a thickness direction of an area % of tempered martensite from the interface to the inside of the base steel sheet inside the soft layer is 5.0%/pm or less, and a method for producing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Kunio HAYASHI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 11268181
    Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet including: a hot-dip galvanizing layer on at least one side of a base steel sheet. The hot-dip galvanizing layer has a Fe content of more than 0% to 3.0% and an Al content of more than 0% to 1.0%. The hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes a Fe—Al alloy layer provided on an interface between the hot-dip galvanizing layer and the base steel sheet and a fine-grain layer provided in the base steel sheet and directly in contact with the Fe—Al alloy layer. The Fe—Al alloy layer has a thickness of 0.1-2.0 ?m. The fine-grain layer has an average thickness of 0.1-5.0 ?m, includes a ferrite phase with an average grain diameter of 0.1-3.0 ?m, and contains oxides of one or more out of Si and Mn, a maximum diameter of the oxides being 0.01-0.4 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Morishita, Taihei Kaneto, Satoshi Uchida, Tatsuya Nakada, Yuji Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220064771
    Abstract: Provided are a hot dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized layer on at least one surface of the base metal steel sheet, wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition and contains, by volume fraction, ferrite: 0% to 50%, retained austenite: 6% to 30%, bainite: 5% or more, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite and cementite in total: 0% to 5%, a number density of tempered martensite with a circle equivalent diameter of 5.0 ?m or more is 20/1000 ?m2 or less, and an area ratio of fresh martensite with a circle equivalent diameter of 2.0 ?m or more after imparting 5% plastic strain is 10% or less, and a method for producing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Kunio HAYASHI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 11118252
    Abstract: A steel sheet includes a hot-dip galvanized layer or a galvannealed layer on a surface of the steel sheet, the steel sheet including: in mass %, C: 0.06% or more and 0.22% or less; Si: 0.50% or more and 2.00% or less; Mn: 1.50% or more and 2.80% or less; Al: 0.02% or more and 1.00% or less; P: 0.001% or more and 0.100% or less; S: 0.0005% or more and 0.0100% or less; N: 0.0005% or more and 0.0100% or less; and a balance: Fe and impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohichi Sano, Hiroyuki Kawata, Yuji Yamaguchi, Satoshi Uchida, Yoshinori Imai, Riki Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20210230712
    Abstract: A zinc-plated steel sheet of an aspect of the present invention includes a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition and a zinc-plated layer. In the steel sheet, steel microstructures in a range of ? thickness to ? thickness, having the center at ¼ thickness from a steel sheet surface, include, by vol %, ferrite: 0% to 10%, bainite: 0% to 20%, tempered martensite: 70% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, retained austenite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite: 0% to 5%. In the zinc-plated steel sheet, the amount of hydrogen emitted when the steel sheet is heated to 200° C. from a room temperature after removal of the zinc-plated layer is 0.40 ppm or less per mass of the steel sheet, the tensile strength is 1470 MPa or more, and no cracking occurs in a U-shape bending test where a stress equivalent to 1000 MPa is applied for 24 hours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Kunio HAYASHI, Masahiro NAKATA, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 11072845
    Abstract: A hot dip metal plating bath roll preventing flaws in a steel sheet due to a bath roll, realizing stable running at a high speed, and improving the productivity of a plated steel sheet, which hot dip metal plating bath roll having vertical grooves each formed on an outer circumferential surface of the roll and including two first curved parts projecting to the outside of the roll and at least one second curved part arranged between the two first curved part and projecting to the inside of the roll and horizontal grooves each formed on an outer circumferential surface of the roll along a barrel length direction of the roll, a pitch P1 (mm) and depth d1 (mm) of the vertical grooves satisfying 1.0?P1?10, 0.2?d1?5, and d1?P1/2, a depth d2 (mm) being 60% to 150% of the depth d1 of the vertical grooves, and a width w2 (mm) of the horizontal grooves being 2 times or more of the depth d2 or 2 times or more of a radius of curvature (mm) of curved surfaces forming bottom parts of the horizontal grooves and 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL HARDFACING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Kurisu, Hayato Konnai, Futoshi Nishimura, Satoshi Uchida, Atsushi Migita, Yuuki Mishima
  • Patent number: 11035021
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes: a specific chemical composition; and a microstructure represented by, in a ? thickness to ? thickness range with ¼ thickness of a sheet thickness from a surface being a center, in volume fraction, ferrite: 85% or less, bainite: 3% or more and 95% or less, tempered martensite: 1% or more and 80% or less, retained austenite: 1% or more and 25% or less, pearlite and coarse cementite: 5% or less in total, and fresh martensite: 5% or less, in which the solid-solution carbon content in the retained austenite is 0.70 to 1.30 mass %, and to all grain boundaries of retained austenite grains having an aspect ratio of 2.50 or less and a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.80 ?m or more, the proportion of interfaces with the tempered martensite or the fresh martensite is 75% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawata, Yuji Yamaguchi, Takayuki Kitazawa, Satoshi Uchida, Kohei Ueda, Naoki Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20210155999
    Abstract: A zinc-plated steel sheet of an aspect of the present invention includes a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition and a zinc-plated layer. In the steel sheet, steel microstructures in a range of ? thickness to ? thickness, having the center at ¼ thickness from a steel sheet surface, include, by vol %, ferrite: 0% to 10%, bainite: 0% to 30%, tempered martensite: 50% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, retained austenite: more than 10% and 30% or less, and pearlite: 0% to 5%. In the zinc-plated steel sheet, the amount of hydrogen emitted when the steel sheet is heated to 200° C. from room temperature after removal of the zinc-plated layer is 0.40 ppm or less per mass of the steel sheet, the tensile strength is 1470 MPa or more, and no cracking occurs in a U-shape bending test where a stress equivalent to 1000 MPa is applied for 24 hours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Kunio HAYASHI, Masahiro NAKATA, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 11002892
    Abstract: A diffraction grating display body includes: a plurality of cell sets each having a plurality of cell groups in which cells R, G, and B corresponding to red, green, and blue, respectively, in each pixel in a piece of color gradation image data, are arranged in a predetermined order, wherein the cells in the cell groups in at least one cell set among the plurality of cell sets have diffraction gratings with mutually different spatial frequencies and the same grating angle, the cell groups included in at least one cell set among the plurality of cell sets have diffraction gratings with mutually different grating angles among the cell groups, and each of the cells R, G, and B included in at least one cell set among the plurality of cell sets have a predetermined cell area so that the display body with a wide observation area is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Uchida
  • Publication number: 20210123122
    Abstract: This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a steel structure of an inside of the steel sheet contains, by volume fraction, soft ferrite: 0% to 30%, retained austenite: 3% to 40%, fresh martensite: 0% to 30%, a sum of pearlite and cementite: 0% to 10%, and a remainder includes hard ferrite, in the inside of the steel sheet, a number proportion of the retained austenite having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more in the total retained austenite is 50% or more, a soft layer having a thickness of 1 to 100 ?m from a surface in a sheet thickness direction is present, in ferrite contained in the soft layer, a volume fraction of grains having an aspect ratio of less than 3.0 is 50% or more, the volume fraction of retained austenite in the soft layer is less than 50% of the volume fraction of the retained austenite of the inside of the steel sheet, and a peak of an emission intensity at a wavelength indicating Si appears in a range of more than 0.2 ?m and 5.0 ?m or less from the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Kohichi SANO, Riki OKAMOTO, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Eisaku SAKURADA, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Kazuki SHIOKAWA, Yuichi NAKAHIRA, Kohei UEDA, Masahiro NAKATA, Satoshi UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210095356
    Abstract: A steel sheet according to an aspect of the present invention has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a steel structure of an inside of the steel sheet contains, by volume fraction, soft ferrite: 0% to 30%, retained austenite: 3% to 40%, fresh martensite: 0% to 30%, a sum of pearlite and cementite: 0% to 10%, and a remainder including hard ferrite, in the inside of the steel sheet, a number proportion of the retained austenite having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more in the total retained austenite is 50% or more, a soft layer having a thickness of 1 ?m to 100 ?m from the surface is present in a sheet thickness direction, among ferrite contained in the soft layer, a volume fraction of grains having an aspect ratio of less than 3.0 is 50% or more, a volume fraction of retained austenite in the soft layer is 50% or more of the volume fraction of the retained austenite of the inside of the steel sheet, and a peak of an emission intensity at a wavelength indicating Si appears in a range of more than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Kohichi SANO, Riki OKAMOTO, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Eisaku SAKURADA, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Kazuki SHIOKAWA, Yuichi NAKAHIRA, Kohei UEDA, Masahiro NAKATA, Satoshi UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 10953631
    Abstract: There is provided a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet with a microstructure in a ? thickness to ? thickness range whose middle is a ¼ thickness from a surface of a base steel sheet, the microstructure contains ferrite phase is 50% or more and 97% or less by volume fraction, and a predetermined phase wherein at an interface between a hot-dip galvanizing layer and the base steel sheet, a Fe—Al alloy layer has an average thickness of 0.1 ?m to 2.0 ?m, and a difference between a maximum thickness and a minimum thickness in a steel sheet width direction is within 0.5 ?m, and in a fine-grain layer directly brought into contact with the Fe—Al alloy layer, the fine-grain has a difference between a maximum thickness and a minimum thickness of the fine-grain layer in the steel sheet width direction is within 2.0 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Morishita, Taihei Kaneto, Satoshi Uchida, Tatsuya Nakada, Yuji Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20210064232
    Abstract: A control device controls display of a display device for displaying a display screen for setting operations of the control device that controls an industrial machine and soft keys for operating the display screen. The control device includes: a key input processing unit that receives input from an input device; an input content determining unit that determines a content of the input received by the key input processing unit; a storage unit that stores a soft key definition information table in which operation contents on the display screen to be allocated to the soft keys are defined in advance; a soft key allocation selecting unit that selects the operation contents to be allocated to the soft keys; and a soft key display processing unit that displays the soft keys allocated with the operation contents selected by the soft key allocation selecting unit on the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Satoshi UCHIDA, Shinichirou ITAKURA
  • Publication number: 20210064226
    Abstract: A control device includes: a screen display information acquisition unit that acquires screen display information on a screen displayed on a display device; a selectable information acquisition unit that acquires selectable information of the screen and a position of the selectable information; a mark allocation unit that allocates marks corresponding to respective pieces of acquired selectable information; a screen display processing unit that displays the screen in which the marks allocated on the basis of the position of the selectable information are superimposed on the display device; a soft key changing unit that changes marks to be appended to soft keys; and a soft key display processing unit that displays the soft keys on the display device, wherein when a hard key corresponding to the soft key is pressed, the selectable information corresponding to the mark appended to the soft key is displayed on the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventor: Satoshi UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210054491
    Abstract: A hot dip metal plating bath roll preventing flaws in a steel sheet due to a bath roll, realizing stable running at a high speed, and improving the productivity of a plated steel sheet, which hot dip metal plating bath roll having vertical grooves each formed on an outer circumferential surface of the roll and including two first curved parts projecting to the outside of the roll and at least one second curved part arranged between the two first curved part and projecting to the inside of the roll and horizontal grooves each formed on an outer circumferential surface of the roll along a barrel length direction of the roll, a pitch P1 (mm) and depth d1 (mm) of the vertical grooves satisfying 1.0?P1?10, 0.2?d1?5, and d1?P1/2, a depth d2 (mm) being 60% to 150% of the depth d1 of the vertical grooves, and a width w2 (mm) of the horizontal grooves being 2 times or more of the depth d2 or 2 times or more of a radius of curvature (mm) of curved surfaces forming bottom parts of the horizontal grooves and 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL HARDFACING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi KURISU, Hayato KONNAI, Futoshi NISHIMURA, Satoshi UCHIDA, Atsushi MIGITA, Yuuki MISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20210047716
    Abstract: A steel sheet includes a hot-dip galvanized layer or a galvannealed layer on a surface of the steel sheet, the steel sheet including: in mass %, C: 0.06% or more and 0.22% or less; Si: 0.50% or more and 2.00% or less; Mn: 1.50% or more and 2.80% or less; Al: 0.02% or more and 1.00% or less; P: 0.001% or more and 0.100% or less; S: 0.0005% or more and 0.0100% or less; N: 0.0005% or more and 0.0100% or less; and a balance: Fe and impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohichi SANO, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA, Yoshinori IMAI, Riki OKAMOTO