Patents by Inventor Shinji Kodama

Shinji Kodama 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: 20200378420
    Abstract: A lap fillet arc welded joint includes: a first steel sheet and a second steel sheet which are overlapped each other, the first steel sheet and the second steel sheet each having a tensile strength of 950 MPa or more; and a weld metal which extends along a corner formed by an upper surface of the first steel sheet and an end surface of the second steel sheet. When: a toe angle of the weld metal is defined as ?; the total number of concave portions present on the surface of the weld metal included a range of 0.4 mm or less from a fusion boundary is defined as NA; and the number of concave portions in contact with ferrite grains having a maximum grain size of 10 ?m or more is defined as NB, the weld metal satisfies the following conditional expressions (1) and (2) at the same time. 0°<?<30°??(1) NB/NA?0.70??(2) (Here, NA is 20 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki MATSUDA, Shinji KODAMA, Kotaro WATANABE, Masatoshi TOKUNAGA
  • Patent number: 10851475
    Abstract: A portable, hand-held electrospinning or electrospraying apparatus and system, method, and portions thereof, comprised of a durable portion of the hand-held apparatus and a consumable portion of the hand-held apparatus. The consumable portion of the hand-held apparatus, which may contain the solution to be output in electrospin or electrospray fashion, may be replaced in whole or in part to provide additional or alternative solution. A base station may be provided, and can output high voltage and communication signals to the hand-held apparatus to enable the electrospin or electrospray operation by the hand-held apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokatsu Sugawara, Shinji Kodama, Michael Edward Philip Russell, Carl Gordon Hewett, Joe Antony Williams
  • Patent number: 10786873
    Abstract: A fillet arc welded joint formed by fillet arc welding at least two metal members, comprising a remelted and solidified portion obtained by irradiating a laser at a weld toe portion of the fillet arc welding of at least one metal member and a region including a boundary of the heat affected zone caused by the fillet arc welding at the surface of that metal member, the remelted and solidified portion being a range from a surface of the metal member to a depth of ½ or less of the thickness of that metal member, an average effective crystal grain diameter of prior austenite at a heat affected zone from a boundary of the remelted and solidified portion at the surface of the metal member to a depth of 0.1 mm in the thickness direction of the metal member being 20 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Kodama, Yujiro Tatsumi, Shoko Oami, Yasuaki Naito
  • Patent number: 10756485
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing; and a fitting assurance member slidably attached to an outer side of the housing. The housing has a locking portion to be locked to the locked portion during a movement of the housing in a fitting direction to the counterpart housing. The fitting assurance member slides and moves relatively to the housing in the fitting direction from a temporary locking position to a formal locking position. The housing has an unlocking operation portion to apply unlocking force to the locking portion. The fitting assurance member has a pair of side walls on the outer side of the housing and a coupling portion connecting end portions of the pair of side walls. The coupling portion is located between the unlocking operation portion and the housing and separated from the unlocking operation portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Ohfuku, Takahiro Ohmoto, Masaru Shinmura, Yu Saito, Yuki Goto, Takashi Endo, Kazuyuki Iwashita, Akihiro Tsuruta, Shinji Kodama
  • Publication number: 20200203890
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing; and a fitting assurance member slidably attached to an outer side of the housing. The housing has a locking portion to be locked to the locked portion during a movement of the housing in a fitting direction to the counterpart housing. The fitting assurance member slides and moves relatively to the housing in the fitting direction from a temporary locking position to a formal locking position. The housing has an unlocking operation portion to apply unlocking force to the locking portion. The fitting assurance member has a pair of side walls on the outer side of the housing and a coupling portion connecting end portions of the pair of side walls. The coupling portion is located between the unlocking operation portion and the housing and separated from the unlocking operation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Ryosuke Ohfuku, Takahiro Ohmoto, Masaru Shinmura, Yu Saito, Yuki Goto, Takashi Endo, Kazuyuki Iwashita, Akihiro Tsuruta, Shinji Kodama
  • Patent number: 10688580
    Abstract: This welded structure member includes a base metal member including a first surface and a second surface; a joined metal member including an abutting surface of which an end surface abuts onto the first surface; a weld bead which is formed on the first surface; and a weld overlay section which is formed on the second surface of the base metal member, in which the weld bead includes a weld bead end section in a position which is separated to the front of the abutting end section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Ogawa, Shoko Oami, Shinji Kodama
  • Patent number: 10612162
    Abstract: A nanofiber producing apparatus 10 includes a spinning solution jetting means 11 having a conductive nozzle 13 for jetting a stock spinning solution for nanofiber production, an electrode 14 located away from the nozzle 13, a voltage generating means 101 generating a voltage between the nozzle 13 and the electrode 14, an air jetting means 15 located at such a position as to direct an air jet between the nozzle 13 and the electrode 14, and a nanofiber collecting means. The voltage generating means 101 generates a voltage so that the nozzle 13 serves as a positive pole and the electrode 14 as a negative pole. The electrode 14 is covered, on almost the entire area of its side facing the nozzle 13, with a covering 17 having a dielectric exposed on the surface thereof. The dielectric exposed on the surface of the covering has a thickness of 0.8 mm or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Toyoda, Shinji Kodama, Takehiko Tojo, Kenji Iwane, Tomohiro Onda
  • Publication number: 20190388995
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fillet welded joint and a manufacturing method thereof, and addresses the problem of providing a fillet welded joint having excellent weld fatigue strength while suppressing low temperature cracking. In a fillet welded joint according to the present invention, a tensile strength of a base material is 980 MPa or more, a carbon equivalent is 0.36 or more and 0.60 or less, a tensile strength [MPa] is 1950 times or more of the carbon equivalent [wt%], an average carbon equivalent of weld metal is 0.45 or more and 0.65 or less, and at a prescribed position below a surface of a weld toe, a Vickers hardness HVbond at a boundary between the weld metal and a heat affected zone, an average value HVwmt of the Vickers hardness of the weld metal in a position 0.1 mm or more and 0.3 mm or less to the weld metal side of the boundary, and an average value HVhaz of the Vickers hardness of the heat affected zone in a position 0.1 mm or more and 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji KODAMA, Kazuki MATSUDA, Yoshinari ISHIDA
  • Patent number: 10501868
    Abstract: An electrospinning device 1 includes an electrode 10 having a concave curved surface 11 and a needle-shaped spinning nozzle 20 surrounded by the concave curved surface 11 of the electrode 10. With an electric field applied between the electrode 10 and the nozzle 20, a spinning solution is jetted from the tip of the nozzle 20 to form a nanofiber. The nozzle 20 is located such that the direction in which the nozzle 20 extends passes through or near the center of a circle defined by the open end of the concave curved surface 11 of the electrode 10 and that the tip 20a of the nozzle 20 is positioned in or near the plane including the circle defined by the open end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji Kodama
  • Patent number: 10500681
    Abstract: An arc spot welding method able to give a predetermined weld bead diameter or excess metal height in a back surface weld bead of arc spot welding and able to give a welded joint excellent in both strengths of TSS and CTS and a welding apparatus for working the same are provided. Steel sheets containing carbon in 0.2 mass % or more and having sheet thicknesses “t” or more are arranged overlaid. A backing plate including a non-contact part and a contact part maintaining the back surface of the lower side steel sheet is provided. An arc generation and short-circuit conduction where the welding voltage between the welding wire and upper side steel sheet becomes 10V or less are alternately repeated so that the time period of the short-circuit conduction becomes over 30% to less than 60% per cycle to thereby weld the steel sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Kodama, Seiji Furusako, Yasunobu Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20190160575
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lap fillet arc welding joint including a first metal sheet, a second metal sheet, and a weld bead. A region of the first metal sheet on one end side is bent. In a cross-sectional view in a cross section perpendicular to a weld line of the weld bead, in a first direction, a position of a tip end of the bent region of the first metal sheet overlaps a region of the second metal sheet on one end side. In a second direction, an amount of deviation between a central axis of a region connected to the bent region of the first metal sheet and a central axis of the region of the second metal sheet on one end side is ½ times or less of the average value of sheet thicknesses of the first metal sheet and the second metal sheet. A joint portion length, which is a length from a root portion of the second metal sheet to a weld toe portion of the first metal sheet, is two times or more of the sheet thickness of the second metal sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji KODAMA, Yoshinari ISHIDA, Kazuki MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20190153623
    Abstract: A portable, hand-held electrospinning or electrospraying apparatus and system, method, and portions thereof, comprised of a durable portion of the hand-held apparatus and a consumable portion of the hand-held apparatus. The consumable portion of the hand-held apparatus, which may contain the solution to be output in electrospin or electrospray fashion, may be replaced in whole or in part to provide additional or alternative solution. A base station may be provided, and can output high voltage and communication signals to the hand-held apparatus to enable the electrospin or electrospray operation by the hand-held apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokatsu Sugawara, Shinji Kodama, Michael Edward Philip Russell, Carl Gordon Hewett, Joe Antony Williams
  • Publication number: 20180369945
    Abstract: The present invention provides a consumable electrode type gas shield arc welding method for performing arc welding of two steel sheets using a welding torch having a consumable electrode. The consumable electrode type gas shield arc welding method includes performing arc welding while a shielding gas having an oxygen potential a which is indicated by the following Expression (1) and ranges from 1.5% to 5% is supplied from the welding torch toward the consumable electrode, and blowing an oxidation promotion gas having an oxygen potential ? which is indicated by the following Expression (2) and ranges from 15% to 50% at a flow velocity ranging from 1 to 3 m/sec over a weld bead and a weld toe portion which are formed by arc welding and are in a state of 700° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji KODAMA, Tasuku ZENIYA, Shoko OAMI, Masahiro MATSUBA
  • Publication number: 20180317627
    Abstract: A film forming device 10 including a distance measurement unit 30 for measuring the distance between the skin S and the device 10, a distance decision unit 31 for deciding whether the distance measured by the distance measurement unit 30 is proper for electrostatic spraying, and a distance notification unit 32 for notifying a user of the decision by the distance decision unit 31. The film forming device 10 is of hand-held type small enough and configured to be held by the user's hand. The device 10 preferably includes an angle measurement unit 42 for measuring the angle between the electrostatic spray direction and the skin S.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo FUKUDA, Shinji KODAMA
  • Patent number: 10092982
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fillet welded joint and a method of production of a fillet welded joint which can raise the productivity of the method of production of a fillet welded joint and a fillet welded joint without sacrificing the strength against fatigue fracture of the welded structural member. The fillet welded joint of the present invention is a fillet welded joint formed by fillet welding at least two metal members, wherein, on the surface of at least one of the metal members, the fillet welded joint comprises a press bead of a rib-shaped projection provided by press-forming so as to project upward to the side having a weld bead formed by the fillet welding, and part of the press bead contacts or overlaps the weld bead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Kodama, Shoko Oami, Koichi Sato, Yoshiaki Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 10081071
    Abstract: In an arc spot welded joint manufacturing method in which two steel sheets configured by high strength steel having a component carbon content of 0.07% by mass or greater are overlapped, and the sheets are lap welded together in a spot pattern. The method includes a first welding pass in which a second steel sheet on the lower side is melted up to a back face side, and first weld metal is formed including a first reinforcement portion, and a second welding pass in which a second weld metal including a second reinforcement portion is formed over the first weld metal, such that the heights of the first reinforcement portion or the second reinforcement portion is formed at t/5 or greater with respect to the sheet thickness t of the steel sheets, and the average weld bead diameter is formed at from 3t to 10t.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Furusako, Shinji Kodama, Yasunobu Miyazaki, Hatsuhiko Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20180257160
    Abstract: A welding method for obtaining a lap fillet welded joint excellent in tensile strength, without causing an increase in welding deformation, not fracturing at the weld metal when a tensile load is applied, that is, a method of overlaying at least scheduled welding locations of a first steel sheet with a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more and a second steel sheet and fillet welding an end part of the first steel sheet and a surface of the second steel sheet, characterized by providing a reinforcing part at a surface of the first steel sheet at the opposite side to the surface to be overlaid with the second steel sheet and fillet welding one end part of the reinforcing material and the surface of the first steel sheet and by fillet welding the end part of the reinforcing part, the end part of the first steel sheet, and the surface of the second steel sheet so as to be covered by the weld metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yujiro TATSUMI, Yasunobu MIYAZAKI, Shinji KODAMA
  • Patent number: 10035208
    Abstract: Stiffening beads (55A, 55B) are formed in turned portions in a region of a fillet bead (53) formed in a single stroke manner. At this time, it is set in such a manner that welding start positions of the stiffening beads (55A, 55B) are in a region near the fillet bead and do not exist independently without mixing with other weld beads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko Tsuchiya, Shinji Kodama, Yuuichi Yosida, Yoshinari Ishida, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20180207751
    Abstract: A fillet arc welded joint formed by fillet arc welding at least two metal members, comprising a remelted and solidified portion obtained by irradiating a laser at a weld toe portion of the fillet arc welding of at least one metal member and a region including a boundary of the heat affected zone caused by the fillet arc welding at the surface of that metal member, the remelted and solidified portion being a range from a surface of the metal member to a depth of ½ or less of the thickness of that metal member, an average effective crystal grain diameter of prior austenite at a heat affected zone from a boundary of the remelted and solidified portion at the surface of the metal member to a depth of 0.1 mm in the thickness direction of the metal member being 20 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji KODAMA, Yujiro TATSUMI, Shoko OAMI, Yasuaki NAITO
  • Patent number: 9943922
    Abstract: At least one stiffening bead (32) is formed by arc welding on a surface of at least one of metal members in addition to a fillet bead (3) formed by fillet arc welding. The stiffening bead (32) is formed to have an angle of 45° to 135° with respect to the fillet bead (3) and to overlap with the fillet bead (3). The sum total l1 of lengths of stiffening beads (32) can be, for example, 0.5 times or more of a length L of the fillet bead (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinari Ishida, Shinji Kodama, Shoko Tsuchiya