Patents by Inventor Yoshifusa Shoji
Yoshifusa Shoji 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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Patent number: 7211160Abstract: An aluminum alloy piping material for automotive tubes having excellent tube expansion formability by bulge forming at the tube end and superior corrosion resistance, which is suitably used for a tube connecting an automotive radiator and heater, or for a tube connecting an evaporator, condenser, and compressor. The aluminum alloy piping material is an annealed material of an aluminum alloy containing 0.3 to 1.5% of Mn, 0.20% or less of Cu, 0.10 to 0.20% of Ti, more than 0.20% but 0.60% or less of Fe, and 0.50% or less of Si with the balance being aluminum and unavoidable impurities, wherein the aluminum alloy piping material has an average crystal grain size of 100 ?m or less, and Ti-based compounds having a grain size (circle equivalent diameter, hereinafter the same) of 10 ?m or more do not exist as an aggregate of two or more serial compounds in a single crystal grain.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2003Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignees: Denso Corporation, Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiharu Hasegawa, Haruhiko Miyachi, Takahiro Koyama, Yoshifusa Shoji
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Patent number: 7018722Abstract: The present invention provides an aluminum alloy fin material for heat exchangers which has a thickness of 80 ?m (0.08 mm) or less and excels in joinability to a tube material and in intergranular corrosion resistance. The aluminum alloy fin material is an aluminum alloy bare fin material or a brazing fin material which has a thickness of 80 ?m or less and is incorporated into a heat exchanger made of an aluminum alloy manufactured by brazing through an Al—Si alloy filler metal. The structure of the core material before brazing is a fiber structure, and the crystal grain diameter of the structure after brazing is 50–250 ?m. The Si concentration in the Si dissolution area on the surface of the fin material and at the center of the thickness of the fin material after brazing is preferably 0.8% or more and 0.7% or less, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2003Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignees: Denso Corporation, Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Taketoshi Toyama, Koji Hirao, Takashi Hatori, Yuji Hisatomi, Yasunaga Itoh, Yoshifusa Shoji
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Publication number: 20040131495Abstract: An aluminum alloy piping material for automotive tubes having excellent tube expansion formability by bulge forming at the tube end and superior corrosion resistance, which is suitably used for a tube connecting an automotive radiator and heater, or for a tube connecting an evaporator, condenser, and compressor. The aluminum alloy piping material is an annealed material of an aluminum alloy comprising 0.3 to 1.5% of Mn, 0.20% or less of Cu, 0.10 to 0.20% of Ti, more than 0.20% but 0.60% or less of Fe, and 0.50% or less of Si with the balance being aluminum and unavoidable impurities, wherein the aluminum alloy piping material has an average crystal grain size of 100 &mgr;m or less, and Ti-based compounds having a grain size (circle equivalent diameter, hereinafter the same) of 10 &mgr;m or more do not exist as an aggregate of two or more serial compounds in a single crystal grain.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2003Publication date: July 8, 2004Inventors: Yoshiharu Hasegawa, Haruhiko Miyachi, Takahiro Koyama, Yoshifusa Shoji
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Publication number: 20040028940Abstract: The present invention provides an aluminum alloy fin material for heat exchangers which has a thickness of 80 &mgr;m (0.08 mm) or less and excels in joinability to a tube material and in intergranular corrosion resistance. The aluminum alloy fin material is an aluminum alloy bare fin material or a brazing fin material which has a thickness of 80 &mgr;m or less and is incorporated into a heat exchanger made of an aluminum alloy manufactured by brazing through an Al—Si alloy filler metal. The structure of the core material before brazing is a fiber structure, and the crystal grain diameter of the structure after brazing is 50-250 &mgr;m. The Si concentration in the Si dissolution area on the surface of the fin material and at the center of the thickness of the fin material after brazing is preferably 0.8% or more and 0.7% or less, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Taketoshi Toyama, Koji Hirao, Takashi Hatori, Yuji Hisatomi, Yasunaga Itoh, Yoshifusa Shoji
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Patent number: 6638376Abstract: An aluminum alloy piping material exhibiting good corrosion resistance and having an excellent workability, such as bulge formation capability at the pipe ends. The aluminum alloy piping material is suitably used for pipes connecting automotive radiators and heaters or pipes connecting evaporators, condensers, and compressors. The aluminum alloy material is formed from an aluminum alloy which contains 0.3-1.5% of Mn, 0.20% or less of Cu, 0.06-0.30% of Ti, 0.01-0.20% of Fe, and 0.01-0.20% of Si, with the balance being Al and impurities, wherein, among Si compounds, Fe compounds, and Mn compounds present in the matrix, the number of compounds with a particle diameter of 0.5 &mgr;m or more is 2×104 or less per mm2. The aluminum alloy piping material may further comprise 0.4% or less of Mg.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2001Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignees: Denso Corporation, Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiharu Hasegawa, Haruhiko Miyachi, Hirokazu Tanaka, Yoshifusa Shoji, Takahiro Koyama, Toshihiko Fukuda
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Patent number: 6638377Abstract: An aluminum alloy piping material for automotive piping excelling in corrosion resistance and workability and a method of fabricating the same. The aluminum alloy piping material is made of an aluminum alloy which contains 0.3-1.5% of Mn, 0.01-0.20% of Fe, and 0.01-0.20% of Si, wherein the content of Cu as impurities is limited to 0.05% or less, with the balance being Al and impurities, wherein, among Si compounds, Fe compounds, and Mn compounds present in the alloy's matrix, the number of compounds with a particle diameter (equivalent circle diameter, hereinafter the same) of 0.5 &mgr;m or more is 3×104 or less per mm2. The aluminum alloy piping material has a tensile strength of 70-130 MPa (temper: O material). An ingot of an aluminum alloy having the composition is hot extruded. The resulting extruded pipe is cold drawn at a working ratio of 30% or more and annealed.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2001Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Koyama, Hirokazu Tanaka, Yoshifusa Shoji
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Patent number: 6627330Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet has a quad-layer structure made of an outer filler material, intermediate layer material, core material, and inner filler material. The core material contains 0.5-1.6% of Mn, 0.10-0.50% of Cu, 0.05-0.50% of Mg, and 0.06-0.30% of Ti, and, as impurities, 0.5% or less of Fe, 0.5% or less of Si, and 0.1% or less of Zn, with the remainder being Al and unavoidable impurities; the intermediate layer material contains 0.2-1.5% of Mg and at least one of 0.5-4% of Zn, 0.005-0.2% of In, and 0.01-0.2% of Sn, and, as impurities, 0.3% or less of Si, 0.3% or less of Fe, 0.05% or less of Cu, 0.05% or less of Mn, and 0.3% or less of Ti, with the remainder being Al and unavoidable impurities. The thickness of the intermediate layer material is 50 &mgr;m or more and no more than the thickness of the core material. The outer filler material and the inner filler material are Al—Si—Mg alloys, the outer filler material, preferably including at least one of 0.005-0.2% of In and 0.01-0.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2000Date of Patent: September 30, 2003Assignees: Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd., Denso CorporationInventors: Masaki Shimizu, Haruhiko Miyachi, Toshihiko Fukuda, Hiroshi Ikeda, Yoshifusa Shoji
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Publication number: 20030000610Abstract: An aluminum alloy piping material for automotive piping excelling in corrosion resistance and workability and a method of fabricating the same. The aluminum alloy piping material comprises an aluminum alloy which comprises 0.3-1.5% of Mn, 0.01-0.20% of Fe, and 0.01-0.20% of Si, wherein the content of Cu as impurities is limited to 0.05% or less, with the balance consisting of Al and impurities, wherein, among Si compounds, Fe compounds, and Mn compounds present in the alloy matrix, the number of compounds with a particle diameter (equivalent circle diameter, hereinafter the same) of 0.5 &mgr;m or more is 3×104 or less per mm2. The aluminum alloy piping material has a tensile strength of 70-130 MPa (temper: O material). An ingot of an aluminum alloy having the composition is hot extruded. The resulting extruded pipe is cold drawn at a working ratio of 30% or more and annealed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2001Publication date: January 2, 2003Inventors: Takahiro Koyama, Hirokazu Tanaka, Yoshifusa Shoji
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Publication number: 20020071782Abstract: An aluminum alloy piping material exhibiting good corrosion resistance and excelling in workability such as bulge formation capability at the pipe ends. The aluminum alloy piping material is suitably used for pipes connecting automotive radiators and heaters or pipes connecting evaporators, condensers, and compressors. The aluminum alloy material comprises an aluminum alloy which comprises 0.3-1.5% of Mn, 0.20% or less of Cu, 0.06-0.30% of Ti, 0.01-0.20% of Fe, and 0.01-0.20% of Si, with the balance consisting of Al and impurities, wherein, among Si compounds, Fe compounds, and Mn compounds present in the matrix, the number of compounds with a particle diameter of 0.5 &mgr;m or more is 2×104 or less per mm2. The aluminum alloy piping material may further comprise 0.4% or less of Mg.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2001Publication date: June 13, 2002Inventors: Yoshiharu Hasegawa, Haruhiko Miyachi, Hirokazu Tanaka, Yoshifusa Shoji, Takahiro Koyama, Toshihiko Fukuda
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Patent number: 6361882Abstract: A high-strength aluminum alloy clad material for heat exchangers which excels in corrosion resistance and formability before brazing and has improved strength after brazing. The aluminum alloy clad material is made up of a core material and a brazing material, with one or both sides of the core material clad with the brazing material. The core material is made up of an aluminum alloy containing from 0.3% to less than 0.6% of Mn, from more than 0.6% to 1.0% of Cu, less than 0.1% of Si, 0.3% or less of Fe, and from 0.06% to 0.35% of Ti, with the remainder being Al and impurities; and the brazing material used to clad the core material is made up of an Al—Si aluminum alloy in which the Ca content is limited to 0.006% or less.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2000Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshifusa Shoji, Kohichi Maeda, Toshihiko Fukuda
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Patent number: 6316126Abstract: An aluminum alloy clad material for heat exchangers exhibiting excellent erosion-corrosion resistance, corrosion resistance, pitting resistance, and brazability, which is suitably used as an aluminum alloy clad sheet for forming a constituent member, in particular, a tube for an aluminum heat exchanger such as a radiator and heater, and as a pipe for circulating a working fluid in the aluminum heat exchanger or a pipe connected to the heat exchangers. The aluminum alloy clad sheet comprises a sacrificial anode material clad on one side of a core material, wherein the core material comprises an Al—Mn alloy and the sacrificial anode material comprises an aluminum alloy, for example, an aluminum alloy comprising 3.0-12.0% of Si with the remaining portion consisting of Al and impurities, or an aluminum alloy comprising 3.0-12.0% of Si, 1-10% of Zn, and 0.15-1.2% of Fe with the remaining portion consisting of Al and impurities.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1999Date of Patent: November 13, 2001Assignees: Denso Corporation, Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiharu Hasegawa, Haruhiko Miyachi, Hisao Kato, Hirokazu Tanaka, Hiroshi Ikeda, Yoshifusa Shoji
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Patent number: 6261706Abstract: An aluminum alloy clad material for heat exchangers exhibiting superior strength after brazing and excellent corrosion resistance is provided. The aluminum alloy clad material comprises a sacrificial anode material which is clad on one side of a core material, wherein the core material comprises an aluminum alloy comprising 0.3-2.0% of Mn, 0.25-1.0% of Cu, 0.3-1.1% of Si, and 0.05-0.35% of Ti with the remaining portion consisting of aluminum and impurities, the sacrificial anode material comprises an aluminum alloy comprising 1.5-8% of Zn, 0.01-0.8% of Si, and 0.01-0.3% of Fe with the remaining portion consisting of aluminum and impurities, and the total number of particles of Si compounds and Fe compounds with a particle diameter (circle equivalent diameter) of 1 &mgr;m or more present in the sacrificial anode material matrix is 2×104 or less per 1 mm2. The clad material is suitably used as a tube material or header plate material for automotive heat exchangers such as a radiator or heater core.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1999Date of Patent: July 17, 2001Assignees: Denso Corporation, Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Sunao Fukuda, Yoshihiko Kamiya, Taketoshi Toyama, Hirokazu Tanaka, Hiroshi Ikeda, Yoshifusa Shoji
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Patent number: 5292595Abstract: A clad aluminum alloy material having high strength and high corrosion resistance for a heat exchanger, which is composed of a core material made of an aluminum alloy consisting of 0.3 to 2.0% of Mn, 0.25 to 0.8% of Cu, 0.05 to 1.0% of Si and 0.5% or less of Mg with the balance consisting of Al and unavoidable impurities; a sacrificial anode material bonded to one surface of the core material, the sacrificial anode material being made of an aluminum alloy consisting of 1.0 to 2.5% of Mg and 0.05 to less than 0.20% of Si with the balance consisting of Al and unavoidable impurities; and a cladding bonded to the other surface of the core material, the cladding being made of a brazing filler metal consisting of an Al-Si-base aluminum alloy. In the clad aluminum alloy materials, the core material may further include 0.35% or less of Ti and the sacrificial anode material may further include 3.0% or less of Zn or at least one member selected from the group consisting of 0.2% or less of In, 0.2% or less of Sn and 0.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1993Date of Patent: March 8, 1994Assignee: Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shigenori Yamauchi, Yoshifusa Shoji, Kenji Kato, Yuji Suzuki, Chian T. Su, Mituo Hashiura, Sunao Fukuda
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Patent number: 5148862Abstract: Disclosed herein are aluminum alloy fin materials useful for heat exchangers which consists of, in weight percentage, 0.8 to 1.8% Fe, 0.3 to 3.0% Zn, up to 0.3% Cu and at least one element selected from the group consisting of 0.05 to 0.25% Zr and 0.05 to 0.25% Cr, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein Mn in the unavoidable impurities is 0.3% or less. The fin material being characterized, after brazing, by its superior thermal conductivity and beneficial sacrificial anode effect. The fin material is also suitable as a core of a brazing fin material in combination with an Al-Si alloy brazing material in which the Al-Si alloy brazing material is clad as an outer cladding layer onto both sides of the core. The above unclad or clad fin materials can provide heat exchangers having high corrosion resistance and good heat transfer characteristics in combination with a fluid passage material made of brazing sheet or an extruded tube of pure aluminum or an aluminum alloy with not more than 0.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 1991Date of Patent: September 22, 1992Assignees: Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd., Nippondenso Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuo Hashiura, Kenji Negura, Sadayuki Kamiya, Shigenori Yamauchi, Yuji Suzuki, Kenji Kato, Naoki Tokizane, Yoshifusa Shoji
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Patent number: 4620961Abstract: A high electrical resistance, superior formability aluminum alloy useful as structural materials used in structures suffering the action of high magnetic field, nuclear fusion reactor or the like, said aluminum alloy consisting essentially of, by weight, 1.0 to 8.0% of Mg, 0.05 to less than 1.0% of Li, at least one element selected from the group consisting of 0.05 to 0.20% of Ti, 0.05 to 0.40% of Cr, 0.05 to 0.30% of Zr, 0.05 to 0.35% of V, 0.05 to 0.30% of W and 0.05 to 2.0% of Mn, and the balance being aluminum and incidental impurities. Further, Bi in the range of 0.05 to 0.50 wt. % may be contained in said alloy.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1984Date of Patent: November 4, 1986Assignee: Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshio Baba, Teruo Uno, Hideo Yoshida, Yoshifusa Shoji