Patents by Inventor Tomohito Tanaka
Tomohito Tanaka 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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Publication number: 20240177899Abstract: This grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition, a glass coating formed on the base steel sheet, and a tension-applied insulation coating formed on the glass coating, on a front surface of the base steel sheet, a plurality of linear strains that extend continuously or intermittently in a direction intersecting with a rolling direction are present, intervals p in the rolling direction of the plurality of linear strains adjacent to each other are 3.0 to 9.0 mm, widths of the linear strains are 10 to 250 ?m, and, in an X-ray topographic spectrum in a range of 1.50 mm in the rolling direction that is obtained from an X-ray topographic image of the front surface and includes the linear strain at a center, a full width at half maximum of a peak of the X-ray topographic spectrum including a maximum value of a spectral intensity is 0.02 mm or more and 0.10 mm or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi KATAOKA, Tomohito TANAKA, Masataka IWAKI, Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Hideyuki HAMAMURA
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Publication number: 20240177901Abstract: This grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base steel sheet, a glass coating formed on the base steel sheet, and a tension-applied insulation coating formed on the glass coating, in which, in the base steel sheet, a plurality of linear strain regions that extend continuously or intermittently in a direction intersecting with a rolling direction are present, the plurality of linear strain regions are each 210 ?m or less in width in the rolling direction, the plurality of linear strain regions are parallel to each other, intervals of linear strain regions adjacent to each other in the rolling direction are 10 mm or less, and magnetostriction ?0-pb in a unit of ?m/m when the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is excited up to 1.7 T and magnetostriction ?0-pa in a unit of ?m/m when the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is heat-treated at 800° C. for 4 hours and then excited up to 1.7 T satisfy 0.02??0-pb??0-pa?0.20.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masataka IWAKI, Takashi KATAOKA, Tomohito TANAKA, Hideyuki HAMAMURA
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Publication number: 20240165891Abstract: A tubular body (1) made of a fiber-reinforced plastic and used as a structural material of a vehicle includes corners (4) extending along an axis of the tubular body (1) on an outer circumferential surface thereof. The tubular body (1) is a tubular laminate that is formed by laminating a fabric layer (12) formed by laminating fabric materials and unidirectional material layers (11, 13). Each fabric material includes a fabric in which reinforcing fibers are woven and a plastic with which the fabric is impregnated. Each unidirectional material layer (11, 13) includes reinforcing fibers oriented in one direction and a plastic with which the reinforcing fibers are impregnated. The reinforcing fibers of each unidirectional material layer (11, 13) are oriented along the axis of the tubular laminate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicants: MIZUNO TECHNICS CORPORATION, MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi SAITO, Makoto HIROSE, Takumi KASHIMA, Hiroki YANO, Chikara TANAKA, Tomohito OKUYAMA, Taei SHIBAHARA, Masaki MOTOKI
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Publication number: 20240150874Abstract: This grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base steel sheet, a glass coating formed on the base steel sheet, and a tension-applied insulation coating formed on the glass coating, in the base steel sheet, a plurality of linear strains that extend continuously or intermittently in a direction intersecting with a rolling direction are present, and intervals in the rolling direction of the plurality of linear strains adjacent to each other are 10 mm or less, in a region where the strains are present, a closure domain is present, a length d of the closure domain in a sheet thickness direction from a surface of the base steel sheet is 30 to 60 ?m, a length w in the rolling direction is 200 ?m or less, and a ratio mid of a depth m from the surface of the base steel sheet where a compressive strain in the rolling direction present in the closure domain exhibits a maximum value to the length d is in a range of more than 0.30 and less than 0.90.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohito TANAKA, Masataka IWAKI, Nobusato MORISHIGE, Takashi KATAOKA, Hideyuki HAMAMURA
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Publication number: 20240140711Abstract: A loading assistance device includes an infeed unit to which a plurality of articles are transported, a work area, a transporter that transports the plurality of articles from the infeed unit to the work area, a reader that reads identification information on the plurality of articles, a writer that writes operation assistance information on a surface of each of the plurality of articles, and a control system. The work area includes a plurality of work sections in which supports are placed. The operation assistance information includes section specification information specifying a work section of the plurality of work sections for each of the plurality of articles to undergo loading. The control system generates the section specification information to be written on each of the plurality of articles based on the identification information to allow articles in a same category to be preferentially loaded onto a same support of the supports.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Tomohito Tanaka, Makoto Sakashita, Takeshi Nakanishi
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Patent number: 11905581Abstract: A hot-stamped article according to the present invention has a plating layer being attached in an amount of 10 g/m2 or more and 90 g/m2 or less and having a Ni content of 10 mass % or more and 25 mass % or less with a remainder including Zn and an impurity on a surface of a base steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition, a surface layer region includes 90.0% or more of martensite in terms of area percentage, and a concentration of Ni in a prior austenite grain boundary in the surface layer region is 5.5 mass % or more.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Sakiyama, Yuri Toda, Tomohito Tanaka, Kazuo Hikida
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Patent number: 11884989Abstract: A hot-stamping formed body includes: a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition; and a plating layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet, the plating layer having an adhesion amount of 10 g/m2 to 90 g/m2 and a Ni content of 10 mass % to 25 mass %, and containing a remainder consisting of Zn and impurities. The hot-stamping formed body includes, in a surface layer region of the steel sheet, an average grain size of prior austenite grains to 10.0 ?m or less, a Ni concentration per unit area at grain boundaries having an average crystal orientation difference of 15° or more is 1.5 mass %/?m2 or more.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Maeda, Yuri Toda, Tomohito Tanaka, Kazuo Hikida
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Patent number: 11702726Abstract: A hot stamped article having excellent shock absorption having a predetermined chemical composition, having a microstructure containing prior austenite having an average grain size of 3 ?m or less and further containing at least one of lower bainite, martensite, and tempered martensite in an area ratio of 90% or more, and having a grain boundary solid solution ratio Z defined by Z=(mass % of one or both of Nb and Mo at grain boundaries)/(mass % of one or both of Nb and Mo at time of melting) of 0.3 or more.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri Toda, Kazuo Hikida, Shingo Fujinaka, Tomohito Tanaka
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Patent number: 11453935Abstract: A steel sheet for hot stamping use used as a material for a hot stamped article excellent in strength or bending deformability, having a predetermined chemical composition, having a microstructure containing at least one of lower bainite, martensite, and tempered martensite in an area ratio of 90% or more, having an X-ray random intensity ratio of {112}<111> of the crystal grains forming the above lower bainite, martensite, or tempered martensite of 2.8 or more, having a number density of grain size 50 nm or less cementite or epsilon carbides in the microstructure of 1×1016/cm3 or more, and having a grain boundary solid solution ratio Z defined by Z=(mass % of one or both of Nb and Mo at grain boundaries)/(mass % of one or both of Nb and Mo at time of melting) of 0.4 or more.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri Toda, Kazuo Hikida, Shingo Fujinaka, Tomohito Tanaka
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Publication number: 20220228244Abstract: A hot-stamped article according to the present invention has a plating layer being attached in an amount of 10 g/m2 or more and 90 g/m2 or less and having a Ni content of 10 mass % or more and 25 mass % or less with a remainder including Zn and an impurity on a surface of a base steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition, a surface layer region includes 90.0 % or more of martensite in terms of area percentage, and a concentration of Ni in a prior austenite grain boundary in the surface layer region is 5.5 mass % or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2020Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji SAKIYAMA, Yuri TODA, Tomohito TANAKA, Kazuo HIKIDA
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Publication number: 20220195557Abstract: A hot-stamping formed body includes: a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition; and a plating layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet, the plating layer having an adhesion amount of 10 g/m2 to 90 g/m2 and a Ni content of 10 mass % to 25 mass %, and containing a remainder consisting of Zn and impurities. The hot-stamping formed body includes, in a surface layer region of the steel sheet, an average grain size of prior austenite grains to 10.0 ?m or less, a Ni concentration per unit area at grain boundaries having an average crystal orientation difference of 15° or more is 1.5 mass %/?m2 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke MAEDA, Yuri TODA, Tomohito TANAKA, Kazuo HIKIDA
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Patent number: 11180824Abstract: A hot stamped article excellent in strength having a predetermined composition, having an average crystal grain size of prior austenite of 3 ?m or less, containing at least one of lower bainite, martensite, and tempered martensite in an area rate of 90% or more, and having a grain boundary solid solution ratio Z, defined by Z=(mass % of one or both of Nb and Mo at the grain boundaries)/(mass % of one or more of Nb and Mo at time of dissolution) of 0.3 or more.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri Toda, Kazuo Hikida, Shingo Fujinaka, Tomohito Tanaka
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Patent number: 11180837Abstract: A hot stamped article of high strength steel sheet excellent in bending deformability having a predetermined chemical composition, having an area rate of 90% or more of the microstructures of the steel sheet comprised of one or more of lower bainite, martensite, and tempered martensite, and having a ratio of the length of grain boundaries with a rotational angle about a rotational axis of the <011> direction of the crystal grains of the lower bainite, martensite, and tempered martensite of 15° or more with respect to the length of grain boundaries with a rotational angle of 5° to 75° of 80% or more.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: NIPPOS STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri Toda, Kazuo Hikida, Shingo Fujinaka, Tomohito Tanaka
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Publication number: 20210115544Abstract: A steel sheet for hot stamping use used as a material for a hot stamped article excellent in strength or bending deformability, having a predetermined chemical composition, having a microstructure containing at least one of lower bainite, martensite, and tempered martensite in an area ratio of 90% or more, having an X-ray random intensity ratio of {112}<111> of the crystal grains forming the above lower bainite, martensite, or tempered martensite of 2.8 or more, having a number density of grain size 50 nm or less cementite or epsilon carbides in the microstructure of 1×1016/cm3 or more, and having a grain boundary solid solution ratio Z defined by Z=(mass % of one or both of Nb and Mo at grain boundaries)/(mass % of one or both of Nb and Mo at time of melting) of 0.4 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2018Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri TODA, Kazuo HIKIDA, Shingo FUJINAKA, Tomohito TANAKA
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Publication number: 20210102270Abstract: A hot stamped article excellent in strength having a predetermined composition, having an average crystal grain size of prior austenite of 3 ?m or less, containing at least one of lower bainite, martensite, and tempered martensite in an area rate of 90% or more, and having a grain boundary solid solution ratio Z, defined by Z=(mass % of one or both of Nb and Mo at the grain boundaries)/(mass % of one or more of Nb and Mo at time of dissolution) of 0.3 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2018Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri TODA, Kazuo HIKIDA, Shingo FUJINAKA, Tomohito TANAKA
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Publication number: 20210040592Abstract: A hot stamped article having excellent shock absorption having a predetermined chemical composition, having a microstructure containing prior austenite having an average grain size of 3 ?m or less and further containing at least one of lower bainite, martensite, and tempered martensite in an area ratio of 90% or more, and having a grain boundary solid solution ratio Z defined by Z=(mass % of one or both of Nb and Mo at grain boundaries)/(mass % of one or both of Nb and Mo at time of melting) of 0.3 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2018Publication date: February 11, 2021Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri TODA, Kazuo HIKIDA, Shingo FUJINAKA, Tomohito TANAKA
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Publication number: 20210010118Abstract: A hot stamped article of high strength steel sheet excellent in bending deformability having a predetermined chemical composition, having an area rate of 90% or more of the microstructures of the steel sheet comprised of one or more of lower bainite, martensite, and tempered martensite, and having a ratio of the length of grain boundaries with a rotational angle about a rotational axis of the <011> direction of the crystal grains of the lower bainite, martensite, and tempered martensite of 15 or more with respect to the length of grain boundaries with a rotational angle of 5° to 75° of 80% or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2018Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri TODA, Kazuo HIKIDA, Shingo FUJINAKA, Tomohito TANAKA
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Patent number: 10081073Abstract: In a spot welded joint according to an aspect of the present invention, with respect to a rectangular planar region of 100 ?m×100 ?m which is perpendicular to a sheet surface of the plurality of the steel sheets and which centers around an inner point spaced away by 100 ?m in a direction parallel with the sheet surface from an edge of a nugget, in a case of measuring a P concentration at a pitch of 1 ?m to obtain measured values of the P concentration at 100×100 of measurement points, and in a case of repetitively calculating an average value of the measured values of the P concentration at 20 of the measurement points which are adjacent to each other and which are arranged in a row in the direction parallel with the sheet surface among the 100×100 of the measurement points while shifting each one point to obtain 81×100 of the average values, the number of the average values which are more than two times an average P concentration is 0 to 100.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2013Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Fuminori Watanabe, Tomohito Tanaka, Seiji Furusako, Yasunobu Miyazaki, Hideki Hamatani, Hatsuhiko Oikawa
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Publication number: 20150104243Abstract: In a spot welded joint according to an aspect of the present invention, with respect to a rectangular planar region of 100 ?m×100 ?m which is perpendicular to a sheet surface of the plurality of the steel sheets and which centers around an inner point spaced away by 100 ?m in a direction parallel with the sheet surface from an edge of a nugget, in a case of measuring a P concentration at a pitch of 1 ?m to obtain measured values of the P concentration at 100×100 of measurement points, and in a case of repetitively calculating an average value of the measured values of the P concentration at 20 of the measurement points which are adjacent to each other and which are arranged in a row in the direction parallel with the sheet surface among the 100×100 of the measurement points while shifting each one point to obtain 81×100 of the average values, the number of the average values which are more than two times an average P concentration is 0 to 100.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2013Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventors: Fuminori Watanabe, Tomohito Tanaka, Seiji Furusako, Yasunobu Miyazaki, Hideki Hamatani, Hatsuhiko Oikawa