Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Arita

Yoshihiro Arita 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: 20240170190
    Abstract: A hot rolled steel sheet is for a non oriented electrical steel sheet, wherein an amount of solid-soluted Ti is 0.0005% or less, Ti carbides with an equivalent circle diameter of 10 to 50 nm exist in a grain and at a grain boundary of a ferrite grain, 10 to 100 number % of the Ti carbides which exist in the grain are compositely precipitated with a Mn sulfide, and a number density of the Ti carbides which exist at the grain boundary is 0.1 pieces/?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro ARITA
  • Patent number: 11952646
    Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including a base steel sheet, an intermediate layer which is disposed in contact with the base steel sheet and mainly includes silicon oxide, and an insulation coating which is disposed in contact with the intermediate layer and mainly includes phosphate and colloidal silica, in which the base steel sheet contains predetermined chemical composition, BN having an average particle size of 50 to 300 nm is present, when an emission intensity of B is measured using glow discharge emission analysis, predetermined conditions are satisfied, and a ratio of a major axis to a minor axis of BN is 1.5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato Yasuda, Yoshihiro Arita, Masaru Takahashi, Yoshiyuki Ushigami, Shohji Nagano
  • Publication number: 20240093322
    Abstract: A hot rolled steel sheet is for a non oriented electrical steel sheet, wherein vickers hardness at the widthwise edge is 180 Hv or more, a value obtained by subtracting a vickers hardness at the widthwise center from the vickers hardness at the widthwise edge is 10 to 100 Hv, ductile brittle transition temperature at the widthwise edge is 0° C. or less, a value obtained by subtracting the ductile brittle transition temperature at the widthwise edge from a ductile brittle transition temperature at the widthwise center is 10 to 100° C., and a value obtained by subtracting a sheet thickness at the widthwise edge from a sheet thickness at the widthwise center is 50 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro ARITA, Takeru ICHIE, Fuminobu MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20240084415
    Abstract: This non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base material having a chemical composition including Si: 3.7 to 4.8%, wherein a recrystallization rate is less than 100% in terms of an area fraction, the following Formula (i) and Formula (ii) are satisfied, and the tensile strength is more than 700 MPa. 4.3?Si+sol. Al+0.5×Mn?4.9??(i) (B50(0°)+2×B50(45°)+B50(90°))/4?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi YASHIKI, Yoshiaki NATORI, Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Ichiro TANAKA, Yoshihiro ARITA, Hiroki HORI, Wataru OHASHI
  • Patent number: 11922649
    Abstract: It provides the measurement data of each portion of the target object with a high accuracy. The measurement data calculation apparatus 1020 includes an obtaining unit 1024A, an extraction unit 1024B, a conversion unit 1024C, and a calculation unit 1024D. The obtaining unit 1024A obtains the image data in which the target object is photographed and the full length data of the target object. The extraction unit 1024B extracts the shape data indicating the shape of the target object from the image data. The conversion unit 1024C converts and silhouettes the shape data based on the full length data. The calculation unit 1024D uses the shape data converted by the conversion unit 1024C to calculate the measurement data of each portion of the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Arithmer Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Sato, Hiroki Yato, Chikashi Arita, Yoshihisa Ishibashi, Takashi Nakano, Ryosuke Sasaki, Ryosuke Tajima, Yoshihiro Ohta
  • Publication number: 20230392227
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet is provided which has a chemical composition including, in mass %, C: 0.0010 to 0.0050%, Si: 1.50% or less, Mn: 0.10 to 1.50%, sol. Al: 0.010 to 0.040%, Ti: 0.0030% or less, Nb: 0.0030% or less, V: 0.0030% or less, Zr: 0.0030% or less, N: 0.0030% or less, S: 0.0040% or less, B: 0.0045% or less, and the balance: Fe and impurities, and which satisfies [0.0020?Ti+Nb+V+Zr?0.0120], [0.5?B/N?1.5], [sol. B?0.0005], and [NAlN?0.0005].
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro ARITA
  • Publication number: 20230366058
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet is provided which has a chemical composition that contains, in mass%, C: 0.0050% or less, Si: 0.10 to 1.50%, Mn: 0.10 to 1.50%, sol. Al: 0.0050% or less, N: 0.0030% or less, S: 0.0040% or less, and O: 0.0050 to 0.0200%, and contains one or more elements selected from a group of La, Ce, Zr, Mg and Ca in a total amount of 0.0005 to 0.0200%, with the balance being Fe and impurities. A number density N of suitable oxide particles is 3.0×103 to 10×103 particles/cm2, and a number density n of oxide particles containing La and the like satisfies the expression n/N?0.01.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro ARITA, Shinichi MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20230063410
    Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet for a non-oriented electrical steel sheet according to one aspect of the present invention contains, by mass %, C: 0.0050% or less, Si: 0.5% or more and 3.5% or less, Mn: 0.1% or more and 1.5% or less, Al: 0.1% or more and 1.5% or less, Cu: 0.01% or more and 0.10% or less, Sn: 0.01% or more and 0.20% or less, and a remainder including Fe and impurities, in which the hot-rolled steel sheet has a Cu concentration peak value of 0.12% or more in a range from a surface thereof to a depth of 10 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro ARITA, Takeru ICHIE, Fuminobu MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20230013043
    Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet for non-oriented electrical steel sheets includes, by mass %: C: 0.0010% to 0.0050%; Si: 1.90% to 3.50%; Al: 0.10% to 3.00%; Mn: 0.05% to 2.00%; P: 0.100% or less; S: 0.005% or less; N: 0.0040% or less; B: 0.0060% or less; Sn: 0% to 0.50%; Sb: 0% to 0.50%; Cu: 0% to 0.50%; REM: 0% to 0.0400%; Ca: 0% to 0.0400%; Mg: 0% to 0.0400%; and a remainder including Fe and impurities, in which a hardness HD of a deformed structure of a thickness middle portion (½t position) in a sheet width direction end portion of the hot-rolled steel sheet for non-oriented electrical steel sheets is Hv 220 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeru ICHIE, Yoshihiro ARITA
  • Publication number: 20220380877
    Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet for a non-oriented electrical steel sheet containing, in mass %, components of C: 0.0010% to 0.0050%, Si: 1.90% to 3.50%, Al: 0.10% to 3.00%, Mn: 0.05% to 2.00%, P: 0.10% or less, S: 0.005% or less, N: 0.0040% or less and B: 0.0060% or less with a remainder consisting of Fe and impurities, in which, in a sheet width-direction end portion of the hot-rolled steel sheet for a non-oriented electrical steel sheet, a C concentration [atom %] in a crystal grain boundary is 3.0 or more times a P concentration [atom %], and the C concentration [atom %] in the crystal grain boundary of the hot-rolled steel sheet for a non-oriented electrical steel sheet is 3.5 or more times a C concentration in a crystal grain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeru ICHIE, Yoshihiro ARITA
  • Publication number: 20220368182
    Abstract: A rotor is a magnet-embedded rotor incorporated in a traveling motor of a vehicle, and includes: a laminated core having steel sheets laminated to each other and a bonding layer for bonding the steel sheets adjacent to each other in a laminating direction; and a magnet embedded in the laminated core. When the rotor rotates at 11000 rpm, a maximum amount of displacement of an outer edge of the laminated core of the rotor in a radial direction is 0.1 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin SUENAGA, Yoshihiro ARITA, Yoshifumi OHATA, Takashi ARAMAKI, Shuji YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220340991
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet which is further improved in terms of iron loss before magnetic domain control, while achieving a sufficient iron loss improvement effect even in the control of a heat-resistant magnetic domain where a sufficient iron loss improvement effect has not been achieved. [Solution] A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to one aspect of the present invention comprises abase steel sheet and a glass coating that is formed on the surface of the base steel sheet, and is characterized in that: the base steel sheet contains as chemical components, in mass %, 0.010% or less of C, from 2.00% to 4.00% of Si, from 0.05% to 1.00% of Mn, from 0.010% to 0.065% of Al, 0.004% or less of N and 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato YASUDA, Takeo ARAMAKI, Shinya YANO, Yoshihiro ARITA, Takashi KATAOKA, Kenichi MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20220341009
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, whereby it becomes possible to manufacture a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having further improved iron loss properties stably. (Solution) According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is provided, the method being characterized by comprising a re-heating step, a hot rolling step, a hot-rolled sheet annealing step, a cold rolling step, a decarburization annealing step and a final annealing step, wherein the decarburization annealing step includes a heating step of heating a cold-rolled sheet from an inlet side temperature T0° C. to a soaking temperature T2° C. and a soaking step of keeping the temperature of the cold-rolled sheet at the soaking temperature T2° C., and the heating rate HR1 from the time point when the temperature of the cold-rolled sheet is an inlet side temperature T0° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato YASUDA, Yoshihiro ARITA, Takashi KATAOKA, Kenichi MURAKAMI, Takeo ARAMAKI, Shinya YANO
  • Publication number: 20220119906
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet of the present invention has a base steel sheet, an amorphous oxide layer formed on the base steel sheet, and a tension-insulation coating formed on the amorphous oxide layer, in which the base steel sheet contains, as a chemical composition, by mass %, C: 0.085% or less, Si: 0.80 to 7.00%, Mn: 1.50% or less, acid-soluble Al: 0.065% or less, S: 0.013% or less, Cu: 0 to 0.80%, N: 0 to 0.012%, P: 0 to 0.50%, Ni: 0 to 1.00%, Sn: 0 to 0.30%, and Sb: 0 to 0.30%, a remainder is Fe and an impurity, a surface glossiness Gs20(A) in a direction parallel to a rolling direction is 2.0 to 70, and a surface glossiness Gs20(B) in a direction perpendicular to the rolling direction is 2.0 to 70.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke TAKATANI, Yoshihiro ARITA, Shunsuke OKUMURA, Shohji NAGANO
  • Publication number: 20220090245
    Abstract: This grain-oriented electrical steel sheet does not have a forsterite film present between a base steel sheet and a tension-insulation coating, in which the base steel sheet contains a predetermined element in a predetermined amount, and in a case in which a cross section perpendicular to a rolling direction of the base steel sheet is viewed, when a region having a length of 10 ?m from a surface of the base steel sheet toward the inside of the base steel sheet in a sheet thickness direction of the base steel sheet and a length of 20 mm in a direction perpendicular to the sheet thickness direction is an observation region, needle-like inclusions having a length of 1 ?m or more are not present in the observation region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke TAKATANI, Yoshihiro ARITA, Shunsuke OKUMURA, Shohji NAGANO
  • Publication number: 20220081744
    Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including a base steel sheet, an intermediate layer which is disposed in contact with the base steel sheet and mainly includes silicon oxide, and an insulation coating which is disposed in contact with the intermediate layer and mainly includes phosphate and colloidal silica, in which the base steel sheet contains predetermined chemical composition, BN having an average particle size of 50 to 300 nm is present, when an emission intensity of B is measured using glow discharge emission analysis, predetermined conditions are satisfied, and a ratio of a major axis to a minor axis of BN is 1.5 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato YASUDA, Yoshihiro ARITA, Masaru TAKAHASHI, Yoshiyuki USHIGAMI, Shohji NAGANO
  • Publication number: 20160273064
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes chemical compositions including, in terms of mass %: C: 0.0001% to 0.01%; Si: 0.05% to 7.0%; Mn: 0.01% to 3.0%; Al: 0.0020% to 3.0%; S: 0.0001% to 0.1%; P: 0.0010% to 0.15%; N: 0.0010% to 0.01%; Cu: 0.01% to 5.0%; and a remainder including Fe and impurities, in which I2?=46.4 which is a diffraction intensity of Cu sulfide having a hexagonal structure shown at 2?=46.4° and I2?=32.3 which is a diffraction intensity of Cu sulfide having a cubic structure shown at 2?=32.3°, which are obtained through a X-ray diffraction of an electrolytic extraction residue, satisfy I2?=46.4/I2?=32.3?0.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Takashi KATAOKA, Yoshihiro ARITA, Fumiaki TAKAHASHI, Yousuke KUROSAKI
  • Patent number: 9362032
    Abstract: A high-strength non-oriented electrical steel sheet contains: in mass %, C: 0.010% or less; Si: not less than 2.0% nor more than 4.0%; Mn: not less than 0.05% nor more than 0.50%; Al: not less than 0.2% nor more than 3.0%; N: 0.005% or less; S: not less than 0.005% nor more than 0.030%; and Cu: not less than 0.5% nor more than 3.0%, a balance being composed of Fe and inevitable impurities. An expression (1) is established where a Mn content is represented as [Mn] and a S content is represented as [S], and not less than 1.0×104 pieces nor more than 1.0×106 pieces of sulfide having a circle-equivalent diameter of not less than 0.1 ?m nor more than 1.0 ?m are contained per 1 mm2 10?[Mn]/[S]?50??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Arita, Masahiro Fujikura, Hidekuni Murakami
  • Publication number: 20140030135
    Abstract: A high-strength non-oriented electrical steel sheet contains: in mass %, C: 0.010% or less; Si: not less than 2.0% nor more than 4.0%; Mn: not less than 0.05% nor more than 0.50%; Al: not less than 0.2% nor more than 3.0%; N: 0.005% or less; S: not less than 0.005% nor more than 0.030%; and Cu: not less than 0.5% nor more than 3.0%, a balance being composed of Fe and inevitable impurities. An expression (1) is established where a Mn content is represented as [Mn] and a S content is represented as [S], and not less than 1.0×104 pieces nor more than 1.0×106 pieces of sulfide having a circle-equivalent diameter of not less than 0.1 ?m nor more than 1.0 ?m are contained per 1 mm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Arita, Masahiro Fujikura, Hidekuni Murakami
  • Patent number: 8557058
    Abstract: The invention provides a non-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in yield strength for use as an iron core material for high rpm motors that does not sacrifice yield or productivity in motor core punching or steel sheet production, which non-oriented electrical steel sheet is given a chemical composition of, in mass %, C: 0.01 to 0.05%, Si: 2.0 to 4.0%, Mn: 0.05 to 0.5%, Al: 3.0% or less and Nb: 0.01 to 0.05%, and optionally Ni at a preferable content of more than 0.5% and less than 3.0%, the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, Mn and C contents expressed in mass % are made to satisfy Mn?0.6-10×C, recrystallized portion area fraction is made 50% or greater, yield strength in tensile testing is made 650 MPa or greater, and average-grain diameter viewed in steel sheet cross-section is made 40 ?m or less, and electrical steel sheet production is conducted using a hot-rolled sheet whose transition temperature in impact testing is 70° C. or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Arita, Hidekuni Murakami, Yutaka Matsumoto, Saori Haranaka, Takeshi Kubota