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).

  • Publication number: 20240177899
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi KATAOKA, Tomohito TANAKA, Masataka IWAKI, Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Hideyuki HAMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240177901
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka IWAKI, Takashi KATAOKA, Tomohito TANAKA, Hideyuki HAMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240165891
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicants: MIZUNO TECHNICS CORPORATION, MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi SAITO, Makoto HIROSE, Takumi KASHIMA, Hiroki YANO, Chikara TANAKA, Tomohito OKUYAMA, Taei SHIBAHARA, Masaki MOTOKI
  • Publication number: 20240150874
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohito TANAKA, Masataka IWAKI, Nobusato MORISHIGE, Takashi KATAOKA, Hideyuki HAMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240140711
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Tomohito Tanaka, Makoto Sakashita, Takeshi Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 11905581
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Sakiyama, Yuri Toda, Tomohito Tanaka, Kazuo Hikida
  • Patent number: 11884989
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Maeda, Yuri Toda, Tomohito Tanaka, Kazuo Hikida
  • Patent number: 11702726
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuri Toda, Kazuo Hikida, Shingo Fujinaka, Tomohito Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11453935
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuri Toda, Kazuo Hikida, Shingo Fujinaka, Tomohito Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220228244
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji SAKIYAMA, Yuri TODA, Tomohito TANAKA, Kazuo HIKIDA
  • Publication number: 20220195557
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke MAEDA, Yuri TODA, Tomohito TANAKA, Kazuo HIKIDA
  • Patent number: 11180824
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuri Toda, Kazuo Hikida, Shingo Fujinaka, Tomohito Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11180837
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPOS STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuri Toda, Kazuo Hikida, Shingo Fujinaka, Tomohito Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210115544
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuri TODA, Kazuo HIKIDA, Shingo FUJINAKA, Tomohito TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210102270
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuri TODA, Kazuo HIKIDA, Shingo FUJINAKA, Tomohito TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210040592
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuri TODA, Kazuo HIKIDA, Shingo FUJINAKA, Tomohito TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210010118
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuri TODA, Kazuo HIKIDA, Shingo FUJINAKA, Tomohito TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10081073
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fuminori Watanabe, Tomohito Tanaka, Seiji Furusako, Yasunobu Miyazaki, Hideki Hamatani, Hatsuhiko Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20150104243
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Fuminori Watanabe, Tomohito Tanaka, Seiji Furusako, Yasunobu Miyazaki, Hideki Hamatani, Hatsuhiko Oikawa