Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Suzuma

Toshiyuki Suzuma 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: 11965856
    Abstract: A method for detecting a metal residue present in an electric-resistance-welded steel pipe includes a first step of inserting the electric-resistance-welded steel pipe into an exciting coil while relatively moving the electric-resistance-welded steel pipe in a longitudinal direction and magnetizing the electric-resistance-welded steel pipe using a direct current at a field intensity capable of magnetizing the electric-resistance-welded steel pipe and the metal residue up to a magnetic saturation state by the exciting coil and a second step of inserting the electric-resistance-welded steel pipe into a detecting coil while relatively moving the electric-resistance-welded steel pipe in the longitudinal direction, detecting an induced electromotive force generated in the detecting coil by a change in a magnetic flux caused by the direct-current magnetization by the exciting coil in the first step as an output signal of the detecting coil, and detecting the metal residue present in the electric-resistance-welded s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Suzuma, Yoshiyuki Nakao
  • Patent number: 11193910
    Abstract: A device of detecting magnetic characteristic change for a long material includes: an exciting coil into which the long material is inserted and which magnetizes the long material in a longitudinal direction; a detecting coil into which the long material is inserted and which detects a magnetic flux generated in the long material due to magnetization by the exciting coil; and a yoke member which has a first opening portion which is positioned on one side of the long material in the longitudinal direction and into which the long material is inserted and a second opening portion which is positioned on the other side of the long material in the longitudinal direction and into which the long material is inserted, and has a shape which is substantially axially symmetrical about an axis passing the first opening portion and the second opening portion, and the exciting coil and the detecting coil are surrounded by the yoke member, the first opening portion, and the second opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Suzuma, Yoshiyuki Nakao, Yoshiyuki Ota
  • Publication number: 20210116417
    Abstract: A method for detecting a metal residue present in an electric-resistance-welded steel pipe includes a first step of inserting the electric-resistance-welded steel pipe into an exciting coil while relatively moving the electric-resistance-welded steel pipe in a longitudinal direction and magnetizing the electric-resistance-welded steel pipe using a direct current at a field intensity capable of magnetizing the electric-resistance-welded steel pipe and the metal residue up to a magnetic saturation state by the exciting coil and a second step of inserting the electric-resistance-welded steel pipe into a detecting coil while relatively moving the electric-resistance-welded steel pipe in the longitudinal direction, detecting an induced electromotive force generated in the detecting coil by a change in a magnetic flux caused by the direct-current magnetization by the exciting coil in the first step as an output signal of the detecting coil, and detecting the metal residue present in the electric-resistance-welded s
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki SUZUMA, Yoshiyuki NAKAO
  • Publication number: 20200284758
    Abstract: A device of detecting magnetic characteristic change for a long material includes: an exciting coil into which the long material is inserted and which magnetizes the long material in a longitudinal direction; a detecting coil into which the long material is inserted and which detects a magnetic flux generated in the long material due to magnetization by the exciting coil; and a yoke member which has a first opening portion which is positioned on one side of the long material in the longitudinal direction and into which the long material is inserted and a second opening portion which is positioned on the other side of the long material in the longitudinal direction and into which the long material is inserted, and has a shape which is substantially axially symmetrical about an axis passing the first opening portion and the second opening portion, and the exciting coil and the detecting coil are surrounded by the yoke member, the first opening portion, and the second opening portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki SUZUMA, Yoshiyuki NAKAO, Yoshiyuki OTA
  • Patent number: 9291599
    Abstract: A magnetic testing apparatus 100 according to the present invention comprises: a first magnetizing device 1 for applying a DC bias magnetic field to a test object P in substantially parallel to the direction in which a flaw F to be detected extends; a second magnetizing device 2 for applying an AC magnetic field to the test object P substantially perpendicularly to the direction in which the flaw F to be detected extends; and a detecting device 3 for detecting leakage flux produced by the magnetization of the test object P accomplished by the first magnetizing device 1 and the second magnetizing device 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Suzuma, Yoshiyuki Nakao, Makoto Sakamoto, Yoshiyuki Oota
  • Patent number: 9121833
    Abstract: A defect inspecting apparatus includes a first light source, a first image capture device that receives the reflection light emitted from the first light source and reflected by the outer peripheral surface of a lip part to grab the image of the outer peripheral surface of the lip part, a second light source, a second image capture device 8 that receives the reflection light emitted from the second light source and reflected by a load face to grab the image of the load face, a third light source, a third image capture device that receives the reflection light emitted from the third light source and reflected by a thread bottom face inspection zone 106 to grab the image of the thread bottom face inspection zone, and an inspection device for inspecting defects by processing the captured images grabbed by the first to third image capture devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunori Anayama, Toshiyuki Suzuma, Yoshiyuki Nakao, Masami Ikeda, Kenta Sakai
  • Patent number: 8977580
    Abstract: The present invention has its objective to provide a defect classification apparatus which suppresses over-fitting and accurately classify the defect type of a defect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori Anayama, Tetsuya Yadoguchi, Toshiyuki Suzuma, Eiji Honda, Takahiro Okada, Shinya Yoshikawa, Tamotsu Nishimine
  • Publication number: 20140191751
    Abstract: A magnetic testing method and apparatus can accurately detect a flaw by magnetizing a test object to such a degree that the object becomes magnetically saturated while solving the problems of a large magnetizing device is required when only a DC magnetic field is applied and that the test object generates heat when only an AC magnetic field is applied. A magnetic testing apparatus comprises a first magnetizing device for applying a DC bias magnetic field to a test object P in substantially parallel to the direction in which a flaw F to be detected extends, a second magnetizing device for applying an AC magnetic field to the test object P substantially perpendicularly to the direction in which the flaw F to be detected extends, and a detecting device for detecting leakage flux produced by the magnetization of the test object P accomplished by the first and second magnetizing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Suzuma, Yoshiyuki Nakao, Makoto Sakamoto, Yoshiuki Oota
  • Publication number: 20130248505
    Abstract: The welding quality classification apparatus relating to the present invention is an apparatus, wherein a data point indicating feature information of a welded joint to be classified whose welding quality is unknown is mapped to a point in a mapping space which has a dimensional number higher than the number of the features constituting the feature information, and the welding quality of a welded joint to be classified is classified based on which of regions of two welding qualities, which are formed by separating the mapping space with a decision boundary, contains the mapped point, and wherein a discriminant function is determined by adopting a weight which minimizes the sum of the classification error corresponding to classification accuracy of a training dataset and a regularization term having a positive correlation with the dimensional number of the discriminant function as weight for each feature constituting the discriminant function indicating the decision boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunori Anayama, Toshiyuki Suzuma, Hitomi Nishibata, Hiroki Fujimoto, Kiyoyuki Fukui, Masato Uchihara
  • Publication number: 20130173508
    Abstract: The present invention has its objective to provide a defect classification apparatus which suppresses over-fitting and accurately classify the defect type of a defect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunori Anayama, Tetsuya Yadoguchi, Toshiyuki Suzuma, Eiji Honda, Takahiro Okada, Shinya Yoshikawa, Tamotsu Nishimine
  • Patent number: 8466674
    Abstract: A magnetic testing apparatus has a magnetizing device applying a rotating magnetic field to a material to be tested, a testing signal detecting device, and a signal processing device applying signal processing to the testing signal. The signal processing device has a first synchronous detecting device detecting a testing signal by using the first current as a reference signal, a second synchronous detecting device detecting an output signal of the first synchronous detecting device by using the second current as a reference signal to extract a candidate flaw signal, and a testing image display device displaying a testing image in which each of pixels has a gray level corresponding to an intensity of the candidate flaw signal at each of positions of the material to be tested, and a phase of the candidate flaw signal at each of the positions is capable of being identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Suzuma, Kenji Imanishi
  • Publication number: 20120327217
    Abstract: A defect inspecting apparatus includes a first light source, a first image capture device that receives the reflection light emitted from the first light source and reflected by the outer peripheral surface of a lip part to grab the image of the outer peripheral surface of the lip part, a second light source, a second image capture device 8 that receives the reflection light emitted from the second light source and reflected by a load face to grab the image of the load face, a third light source, a third image capture device that receives the reflection light emitted from the third light source and reflected by a thread bottom face inspection zone 106 to grab the image of the thread bottom face inspection zone, and an inspection device for inspecting defects by processing the captured images grabbed by the first to third image capture devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori ANAYAMA, Toshiyuki SUZUMA, Yoshiyuki NAKAO, Masami IKEDA, Kenta SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20110163741
    Abstract: A magnetic testing apparatus has a magnetizing device applying a rotating magnetic field to a material to be tested, a testing signal detecting device, and a signal processing device applying signal processing to the testing signal. The signal processing device has a first synchronous detecting device detecting a testing signal by using the first current as a reference signal, a second synchronous detecting device detecting an output signal of the first synchronous detecting device by using the second current as a reference signal to extract a candidate flaw signal, and a testing image display device displaying a testing image in which each of pixels has a gray level corresponding to an intensity of the candidate flaw signal at each of positions of the material to be tested, and a phase of the candidate flaw signal at each of the positions is capable of being identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Suzuma, Kenji Imanishi
  • Patent number: 5747988
    Abstract: A leakage flux flaw detection apparatus in which an object material is magnetized and leakage fluxes derived from a flaw are detected to thereby search for a flaw of the object material in a predetermined flaw-detection direction. The apparatus has a pair of magnet poles for magnetizing the object. material in a direction different from the flaw-detection direction, another pair of magnet poles for magnetizing the object material in a direction different from the magnetization direction and flaw-detection direction of the first pair of magnet poles at a predetermined distance in the flaw-detection direction from the magnetization area of the two magnet poles, and two leakage sensors each of which is interposed between each of the two pairs of magnet poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industires Limited
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Suzuma
  • Patent number: 5739685
    Abstract: A leakage flux flaw detection apparatus in which an object material is magnetized and leakage fluxes derived from a flaw are detected to thereby search for a flaw of the object material in a predetermined flaw-detection direction. The apparatus has a pair of magnet poles for magnetizing the object material in a direction different from the flaw-detection direction, another pair of magnet poles for magnetizing the object material in a direction different from the magnetization direction and flaw-detection direction of the first pair of magnet poles at a predetermined distance in the flaw-detection direction from the magnetization area of the two magnet poles, and two leakage sensors each of which is interposed between each of the two pairs of magnet poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries Limited
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Suzuma