Patents by Inventor Yasunobu Nagataki

Yasunobu Nagataki 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: 8784578
    Abstract: A high strength galvanized steel sheet with excellent workability, having a component composition containing C: 0.04% or more, and 0.15% or less, Si: 0.7% or more, and 2.3% or less, Mn: 0.8% or more, and 2.2% or less, P: 0.1% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.1% or less, N: 0.008% or less, and the remainder composed of iron and incidental impurities on a percent by mass basis, and a microstructure including 70% or more of ferrite phase, 2% or more, and 10% or less of bainite phase, and 0% or more, and 12% or less of pearlite phase on an area fraction basis and 1% or more, and 8% or less of retained austenite phase on a volume fraction basis, wherein an average crystal grain diameter of ferrite is 18 ?m or less and an average crystal grain diameter of retained austenite is 2 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Shinjiro Kaneko, Saiji Matsuoka, Yasunobu Nagataki
  • Publication number: 20140174608
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a high strength galvanized steel sheet has a first heating step including heating to 400° C. to 750° C. in an atmosphere containing O2: 0.1 to 20 percent and H2O: 1 to 50 percent and heating to 600° C. to 850° C. in an atmosphere containing O2: 0.01 to less than 0.1 percent and H2O: 1 to 20 percent is applied to a steel sheet, a second heating step includes holding the steel sheet in an atmosphere containing H2: 1 to 50 percent and having a dew point of 0° C. or lower at 750° C. to 900° C. for 15 to 600 s, cooling to a temperature of 450° C. to 550° C., and holding is performed at that temperature for 10 to 200 s, and a galvanization treatment is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Mai Miyata, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Shinjiro Kaneko, Yasunobu Nagataki
  • Publication number: 20140050941
    Abstract: A high strength steel sheet including, by mass, C: 0.03% or more and 0.25% or less, Si: 0.4% or more and 2.5% or less, Mn: 3.5% or more and 10.0% or less, P: 0.1% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 2.5% or less, N: 0.008% or less, Si+Al: 1.0% or more, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. The area ratio of ferrite is 30% or more and 80% or less, the area ratio of martensite is 0% or more and 17% or less, the volume fraction of retained austenite is 8% or more, and the average grain size of retained austenite is 2 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Shinjiro Kaneko, Yasunobu Nagataki
  • Publication number: 20130266821
    Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet with high yield ratio having excellent ductility and stretch flange formability, the steel sheet having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.04% or more and 0.13% or less, Si: 0.9% or more and 2.3% or less, Mn: 0.8% or more and 2.4% or less, P: 0.1% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 0.1% or less, N: 0.008% or less, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities and a microstructure including, in terms of area ratio, 94% or more of a ferrite phase and 2% or less of a martensite ferrite phase, wherein mean grain size of ferrite is 10 ?m or less, Vickers hardness of ferrite is 140 or more, mean grain size of carbide particles existing at grain boundaries of ferrite is 0.5 ?m or less, and aspect ratio of carbide particles existing at the grain boundaries of ferrite is 2.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Shinjiro Kaneko, Yasunobu Nagataki, Keisuke Fukushi
  • Publication number: 20130213529
    Abstract: A high-strength cold rolled steel sheet having excellent deep drawability and bake hardenability, with a tensile strength ?440 MPa, an average r-value ?1.20 and a bake hardening value ?40 MPa, is obtained by subjecting a steel raw material having a chemical composition including C: 0.010-0.06 mass %, Si: more than 0C:\Users\ejensen\Desktop\!TEMP\.5 mass % but not more than 1.5 mass %, Mn: 1.0-3.0 mass %, Nb: 0.010-0.090 mass %, Ti: 0.015-0.15 mass % and satisfying (Nb/93)/(C/12)<0.20 to hot rolling, cold rolling and then to annealing including steps of heating to a temperature of 800-900° C. while a temperature region of 700-800° C. is an average heating rate <3° C./s, and soaking and thereafter cooling at a rate ?5° C./s from the soaking temperature to a cooling stop temperature ?500° C. to thereby form a microstructure including ferrite phase with an area ratio ?70% and martensite phase with an area ratio ?3%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Yasunobu Nagataki
  • Publication number: 20130206288
    Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet having excellent formability and crashworthiness, including a component composition containing 0.03% to 0.13% C, 1.0% to 2.0% Si, 2.4% to 3.5% Mn, 0.001% to 0.05% P, 0.0001% to 0.01% S, 0.001% to 0.1% Al, 0.0005% to 0.01% N, and 0.0003% to 0.01% B on a mass basis, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and a microstructure containing a tempered martensitic phase and a bainitic phase such that the sum of an area fraction of the tempered martensitic phase and an area fraction of the bainitic phase is 30% or more (the area fraction of the martensitic phase is 30% or more in the absence of the bainitic phase), wherein a distance of closest approach of the tempered martensitic phase is 10 ?m or less and the contents of C, Mn, and B satisfy (1): (% Mn)+1000×(% B)?35 ×(% C) ??(1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinjiro Kaneko, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Yasunobu Nagataki
  • Publication number: 20130048155
    Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet contains C: 0.04% or more and 0.10% or less, Si: 0.7% or more and 2.3% or less, Mn: 0.8% or more and 2.0% or less, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.003% or less, Al: 0.1% or less, and N: 0.008% or less on a mass percent basis, and the remainder of iron and incidental impurities. The C content [C%] (% by mass) and the Si content [Si%] (% by mass) satisfy [C%]×[Si%]?0.20. A ferrite phase constitutes 75% or more, a bainitic ferrite phase constitutes 1% or more, a pearlite phase constitutes 1% or more and 10% or less, and a martensite phase constitutes less than 5% on an area ratio basis. The area ratio of the martensite phase/(the area ratio of the bainitic ferrite phase + the area ratio of the pearlite phase) is 0.6 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinjiro Kaneko, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Yasunobu Nagataki
  • Publication number: 20120279617
    Abstract: A steel sheet has the chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.04 to 0.13%, Si: 0.9 to 2.3%, Mn: 0.8 to 1.8%, P: 0.1% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.1% or less, N: 0.008% or less, the remainder being Fe and the inevitable impurities and a microstructure including, in terms of area ratio, a ferrite phase of 80% or more, a bainitic ferrite phase of 1.0% or more, a pearlite phase of 1.0 to 10.0%, and a martensite phase of 1.0% or more and less than 5.0%, wherein the mean grain size of ferrite is 14 ?m or less, the mean grain size of martensite is 4 ?m or less, the mean free path of martensite is 3 ?m or more, the Vickers hardness of ferrite is 140 or more, and the relationship area ratio of martensite/(area ratio of bainitic ferrite+area ratio of pearlite) 0.6 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Shinjiro Kaneko, Yasunobu Nagataki
  • Publication number: 20120037282
    Abstract: A high strength galvanized steel sheet with excellent workability, having a component composition containing C: 0.04% or more, and 0.15% or less, Si: 0.7% or more, and 2.3% or less, Mn: 0.8% or more, and 2.2% or less, P: 0.1% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.1% or less, N: 0.008% or less, and the remainder composed of iron and incidental impurities on a percent by mass basis, and a microstructure including 70% or more of ferrite phase, 2% or more, and 10% or less of bainite phase, and 0% or more, and 12% or less of pearlite phase on an area fraction basis and 1% or more, and 8% or less of retained austenite phase on a volume fraction basis, wherein an average crystal grain diameter of ferrite is 18 ?m or less and an average crystal grain diameter of retained austenite is 2 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Shinjiro Kaneko, Saiji Matsuoka, Yasunobu Nagataki
  • Patent number: 7919194
    Abstract: A high strength steel sheet and a method for manufacturing the same has superior phosphatability properties and hot-dip galvannealed properties besides a tensile strength of 950 MPa or more and a high ductility, and also having a small variation in mechanical properties with the change in annealing conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignees: JFE Steel Corporation, ThyssenKrupp Steel AG
    Inventors: Kenji Kawamura, Taro Kizu, Shusaku Takagi, Kohei Hasegawa, Hiroshi Matsuda, Akio Kobayashi, Yasunobu Nagataki, Yasushi Tanaka, Thomas Heller, Brigitte Hammer, Jian Bian, Günter Stich, Rolf Bode, Brigitte Bode, legal representative
  • Publication number: 20110048588
    Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet has a partially recrystallized grain structure with a degree of unrecrystallization of 25% to 90% and a Rockwell hardness HRB of 83 or more, the cold-rolled steel sheet containing 0.01% to 0.15% C, 0.03% or less Si, 0.10% to 0.70% Mn, 0.025% or less P, 0.025% or less S, 0.01% to 0.05% Al, and 0.008% or less N on a mass basis, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein the mean diameter of ferrite is 2 to 10 ?m and these components satisfy Formula (1): (C %)+0.15×(Mn %)+0.85×(P %)?0.21, wherein (M %) represents the content (mass percent) of an element M.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Mega, Nobuyuki Nakamura, Takashi Kobayashi, Yasunobu Nagataki, Takayoshi Kabeya
  • Patent number: 7608156
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a high strength cold rolled steel sheet composed of ferrite grains having an average grain diameter of 10 ?m or less, in which the average number per unit area of Nb(C, N) precipitates having a diameter of 50 nm or more is 7.0×10?2/?m2 or less, and a zone having a width of 0.2 to 2.4 ?m and an average area density of NbC precipitates of 60% or less of that of the central portion of the ferrite grains is formed along grain boundaries of the ferrite grains, for example, the steel sheet consisting of 0.004 to 0.02% of C, 1.5% or less of Si, 3% or less of Mn, 0.15% or less of P, 0.02% or less of S, 0.1 to 1.5% of sol.Al, 0.001 to 0.007% of N, 0.03 to 0.2% of Nb, by mass, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities. The steel sheet is most preferably used for automobile panel parts since it has the TS of 340 MPa or more and the superior surface strain resistance and press formability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Yasunobu Nagataki, Yasushi Tanaka, Kozo Harada, Hisanori Ando
  • Publication number: 20090214892
    Abstract: A high strength steel sheet and a method for manufacturing the same has superior phosphatability properties and hot-dip galvannealed properties besides a tensile strength of 950 MPa or more and a high ductility, and also having a small variation in mechanical properties with the change in annealing conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicants: JFE Steel Corporation, a corporation of Japan, ThyssenKrupp Steel AG, a corporation of Germany
    Inventors: Kenji Kawamura, Taro Kizu, Shusaku Takagi, Kohei Hasegawa, Hiroshi Matsuda, Akio Kobayashi, Yasunobu Nagataki, Yasuhi Tanaka, Thomas Heller, Brigitte Hammer, Jian Bian, Gunter Stich, Rolf Bode
  • Patent number: 7559997
    Abstract: The invention provides a high strength cold rolled steel sheet comprising ferrite phases and second phases, in which the mean grain size of the ferrite phases is 20 ?m or less, the volume fraction of the second phase is 0.1% or more to less than 10%, the absolute value |?r| of in-plane anisotropy of r value is less than 0.15, and the thickness is 0.4 mm or more. The high strength cold rolled steel sheet of the present invention has a tensile strength of 370 to 590 MPa, and has excellent stretchability, dent resistance, surface precision, secondary working embrittlement, anti-aging, and surface appearance, therefore it is suitable for outer panels of automobile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi Nakajima, Takayuki Futatsuka, Yasunobu Nagataki
  • Publication number: 20090014098
    Abstract: There is provided a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having excellent formability, the steel sheet eliminating special pre-structure control and capable of being produced by using a hot-dip galvanized steel-sheet production line that is not capable of sufficiently ensuring an austempering time after annealing. A high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes, on the basis of mass percent, 0.05-0.3% C, 1.4% or less (including 0%) Si, 0.08%-3% Mn, 0.003-0.1% P, 0.07% or less S, 0.1-2.5% Al, 0.1-0.5% Cr, and 0.007% or less N, Si+Al?0.5%, and the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, wherein the steel sheet has a retained austenite content of 3% or more by volume fraction, and wherein the average aspect ratio of retained austenite grains is 2.5 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsuda, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Takayuki Futatsuka, Shusaku Takagi, Yasunobu Nagataki
  • Publication number: 20080175743
    Abstract: An alloyed hot-dip galvanized steel sheet has a composition containing about 0.05 to about 0.25 wt % of C, about 0.5 wt % or less of Si, about 1 to about 3 wt % of Mn, about 0.1 wt % or less of P, about 0.01 wt % or less of S, about 0.1 to about 2 wt % of Al, and less than about 0.005 wt % of N, and satisfying the relations, Si+Al?0.6 wt %, (0.0006×Al) wt %?N?(0.0058?0.0026×Al) wt %, and Al?(1.25×C0.5?0.57×Si+0.625×Mn) wt %, the balance including Fe and inevitable impurities. The alloyed hot-dip galvanized steel sheet can be obtained without passing through a complicated process, has excellent surface appearance and anti-secondary work embrittlement and high strength, and is thus suitable for application to an automobile steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: JFR Steel Corporation, a corporation of Japan
    Inventors: Takayuki Futatsuka, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yasunobu Nagataki, Yutaka Awajiya
  • Publication number: 20080163961
    Abstract: A galvannealed steel sheet contains, by % by mass, about 0.05 to about 0.25% of C, about 2.0% or less of Si, about 1 to about 3% of Mn, about 0.1% or less of P, about 0.01% or less of S, about 0.3 to about 2% of Al, less than about 0.005% of N, about 1% or less of Cr, about 1% or less of V, about 1% or less of Mo, less than about 0.005% of Ti, and less than about 0.005% of Nb, and satisfies the relations, Si +Al >0.6% and Cr +V +Mo =0.1 to 2%, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Tatsuya Nakagaito, Takayuki Futatsuka, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yutaka Awajiya, Yasunobu Nagataki
  • Publication number: 20070122554
    Abstract: A galvannealed steel sheet is manufactured by preparing a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet, alloying the steel sheet, and controlling time and temperature for alloying thereof depending on Si and Al contents. The hot-dip galvanized steel sheet contains 0.05 to 0.30% C, 0.01 to 2.0% Si, 0.08 to 3.0% Mn, 0.003 to 0.1% P, 0 to 0.07% S, 0.01 to 2.5% Al, 0 to 0.007% N, by mass, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. Alloying time and temperature are controlled by the formula [Si+Al?1.5×10?7×t0.75×(T?465)3+0.117], where t is the total time (sec) of holding the sheet at 465° C. or more on alloying the coating layer thereon, and T is the average temperature (° C.) of the sheet during the total time t (sec) of holding the steel sheet at 465° C. or more on alloying the coating layer thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsuda, Shoichiro Taira, Keisuke Ono, Toshiaki Urabe, Yasunobu Nagataki, Yasushi Tanaka, Michitaka Sakurai, Yoshiharu Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20060169365
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a high strength cold rolled steel sheet composed of ferrite grains having an average grain diameter of 10 ?m or less, in which the average number per unit area of Nb(C, N) precipitates having a diameter of 50 nm or more is 7.0×10?2/?m2 or less, and a zone having a width of 0.2 to 2.4 ?m and an average area density of NbC precipitates of 60% or less of that of the central portion of the ferrite grains is formed along grain boundaries of the ferrite grains, for example, the steel sheet consisting of 0.004 to 0.02% of C, 1.5% or less of Si, 3% or less of Mn, 0.15% or less of P, 0.02% or less of S, 0.1 to 1.5% of sol.Al, 0.001 to 0.007% of N, 0.03 to 0.2% of Nb, by mass, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities. The steel sheet of the present invention is most preferably used for automobile panel parts since it has the TS of 340 MPa or more and the superior surface strain resistance and press formability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2004
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation, a corporation of Japan
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Yasunobu Nagataki, Kozo Harada, Hisanori Ando
  • Publication number: 20060065329
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a high strength steel sheet consisting essentially of 0.04 to 0.1% C, 0.5% or less Si, 0.5 to 2% Mn, 0.05% or less P, 0.005% or less O, 0.005% or less S, by weight, having 10 ?m or less of average ferritic grain size, and 20 mm/mm2 or less of generation frequency A, which generation frequency A is defined as the total length of a banded secondary phase structure observed per 1 mm2 of steel sheet cross section along the rolling direction thereof. The steel sheet is manufactured by, for example, a method comprising the steps of: hot-rolling a continuously cast slab having the composition described above at temperatures of Ar3 transformation point or above directly or after reheating thereof; and cooling the hot-rolled steel sheet within 2 seconds down to the temperatures of from 600 to 750° C. at cooling speeds of from 100 to 2,000° C./sec, followed by coiling the cooled steel sheet at temperatures of from 450 to 650° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2005
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Inoue, Yoichi Motoyashiki, Hiroyasu Kikuchi, Sadanori Imada, Takayuki Odake, Yasunobu Nagataki, Toru Inazumi