Patents by Inventor Takao Tsujimura

Takao Tsujimura 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: 20220356553
    Abstract: Provided is a technique that can produce a hot dip Zn—Al—Mg-based alloy coated steel product with a good plating appearance, without the need for heating of a steel product prior to immersion in a hot dip plating bath. Flux (11) for hot dip Zn—Al—Mg-based alloy plating contains: ZnCl2; and a low-reactive chloride which has low reactivity with respect to Mg in a plating bath and contains at least two chlorides selected from the compound group consisting of alkali metal chlorides and alkaline-earth metal chlorides, and a composition of the ZnCl2 and the low-reactive chloride is adjusted so that a liquidus temperature of the flux is 450° C. or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Koutarou ISHII, Takao TSUJIMURA
  • Patent number: 9692057
    Abstract: A negative electrode collector using a copper-covered steel foil for carrying a negative electrode active material for lithium ion secondary batteries has a steel sheet as the core material thereof and has, on both surfaces thereof, a copper covering layer having a mean thickness tCu of from 0.02 to 5.0 ?m on each surface, and of which the total mean thickness, t, including the copper covering layer 7 is from 3 to 100 ?m with tCu/t of at most 0.3. The steel sheet can be common steel, austenitic stainless steel, or ferritic stainless steel. The copper covering layer can be a copper electroplating layer (including one rolled after plating). On the surface of the copper covering layer, for example, a carbon-based active material layer that has been densified through strong roll pressing is formed, and the copper-covered steel foil and the carbon-based active material layer constitute the negative electrode collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sho Majima, Takao Tsujimura, Takeshi Shimizu, Yoshikazu Morita, Takahiro Fujii, Norihiro Kon, Yoshie Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20160190598
    Abstract: A negative electrode collector using a copper-covered steel foil for carrying a negative electrode active material for lithium ion secondary batteries has a steel sheet as the core material thereof and has, on both surfaces thereof, a copper covering layer having a mean thickness tCu of from 0.02 to 5.0 ?m on each surface, and of which the total mean thickness, t, including the copper covering layer 7 is from 3 to 100 ?m with tCu/t of at most 0.3. The steel sheet can be common steel, austenitic stainless steel, or ferritic stainless steel. The copper covering layer can be a copper electroplating layer (including one rolled after plating). On the surface of the copper covering layer, for example, a carbon-based active material layer that has been densified through strong roll pressing is formed, and the copper-covered steel foil and the carbon-based active material layer constitute the negative electrode collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Sho MAJIMA, Takao Tsujimura, Takeshi Shimizu, Yoshikazu Morita, Takahiro Fujii, Norihiro Kon, Yoshie Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9368799
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a negative electrode collector for lithium ion secondary batteries, having a high strength and a large discharge capacity. [Means for Resolution] A negative electrode collector using a copper-covered steel foil 10 for carrying a negative electrode active material for lithium ion secondary batteries, which has a steel sheet 6 as the core material thereof and has, on both surfaces thereof, a copper covering layer 7 having a mean thickness tCu of from 0.02 to 5.0 ?m on each surface, and of which the total mean thickness, t, including the copper covering layer 7 is from 3 to 100 ?m with tCu/t of at most 0.3. To the steel sheet 6, for example, applicable is common steel, austenitic stainless steel or ferritic stainless steel. The copper covering layer 7 is, for example, a copper electroplating layer (including one rolled after plating).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sho Majima, Takao Tsujimura, Takeshi Shimizu, Yoshikazu Morita, Takahiro Fujii, Norihiro Kon, Yoshie Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20150367605
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a shaped and coated metallic material used in a composite having excellent performance in bonding and sealing between a shaped metallic material and a molded article of a thermoplastic resin composition. The shaped and coated metallic material has: a shaped metallic material; and, disposed above the shaped metallic material, an acid-modified polypropylene layer containing at least 40 mass % of an acid-modified polypropylene. The melt viscosity of the acid-modified polypropylene layer is 1000 to 10,000 mPa·s. The film thickness of the acid-modified polypropylene layer is at least 0.2 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Shigeyasu MORIKAWA, Takao TSUJIMURA, Takahiro FUJII
  • Publication number: 20130130119
    Abstract: A negative electrode collector using a copper-covered steel foil for carrying a negative electrode active material for lithium ion secondary batteries has a steel sheet as the core material thereof and has, on both surfaces thereof, a copper covering layer having a mean thickness tCu of from 0.02 to 5.0 ?m on each surface, and of which the total mean thickness, t, including the copper covering layer 7 is from 3 to 100 ?m with tCu/t of at most 0.3. The steel sheet can be common steel, austenitic stainless steel, or ferritic stainless steel. The copper covering layer can be a copper electroplating layer (including one rolled after plating). On the surface of the copper covering layer, for example, a carbon-based active material layer that has been densified through strong roll pressing is formed, and the copper-covered steel foil and the carbon-based active material layer constitute the negative electrode collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Sho MAJIMA, Takao Tsujimura, Takeshi Shimizu, Yoshikazu Morita, Takahiro Fujii, Norihiro Kon, Yoshie Yoshida
  • Patent number: 6677058
    Abstract: Degradation of the surface luster of a hot-dip Zn—Al—Mg plated steel sheet is inhibited by controlling the contact temperature between the plating layer and a water stream in a water cooling step after plating layer solidification, thereby suitably controlling the strip temperature during contact with the water stream, and further by incorporating a small amount of a suitable readily oxidizing element in the plating bath to stabilize the oxidation state of the plating surface layer Al and Mg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Komatsu, Takao Tsujimura, Atsushi Andoh
  • Patent number: 6379820
    Abstract: A hot-dip Zn—Al—Mg plated steel sheet good in corrosion resistance and surface appearance that is a hot-dip Zn-base plated steel sheet obtained by forming on a surface of a steel sheet a hot-dip Zn—Al—Mg plating layer composed of Al: 4.0-10 wt. %, Mg: 1.0-4.0 wt. % and the balance of Zn and unavoidable impurities, the plating layer having a metallic structure including a primary crystal Al phase or a primary crystal Al phase and a Zn single phase in a matrix of Al/Zn/Zn2Mg ternary eutectic structure. To obtain a plating layer possessing this metallic structure, the cooling rate of the plating layer adhering to a steel strip extracted from a plating bath and the plating bath temperature are appropriately controlled in a continuous hot-dip plating machine and/or appropriate amounts of Ti and B are added to the bath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Komatsu, Takao Tsujimura, Kouichi Watanabe, Nobuhiko Yamaki, Atsushi Andoh, Toshiharu Kittaka
  • Patent number: 6235410
    Abstract: A hot-dip Zn—Al—Mg plated steel sheet good in corrosion resistance and surface appearance that is a hot-dip Zn-base plated steel sheet obtained by forming on a surface of a steel sheet a hot-dip Zn—Al—Mg plating layer composed of Al: 4.0-10 wt. %, Mg: 1.0-4.0 wt. % and the balance of Zn and unavoidable impurities, the plating layer having a metallic structure including a primary crystal Al phase or a primary crystal Al phase and a Zn single phase in a matrix of Al/Zn/Zn2Mg ternary eutectic structure. To obtain a plating layer possessing this metallic structure, the cooling rate of the plating layer adhering to a steel strip extracted from a plating bath and the plating bath temperature are appropriately controlled in a continuous hot-dip plating machine and/or appropriate amounts of Ti and B are added to the bath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Komatsu, Takao Tsujimura, Kouichi Watanabe, Nobuhiko Yamaki, Atsushi Andoh, Toshiharu Kittaka