Vanadium, Tantalum Or Titanium Containing Patents (Class 420/124)
  • Patent number: 9908566
    Abstract: A high strength hot rolled steel sheet with an excellent combination of tensile strength of at least 550 MPa and formability, including weight percent at most 0.15% of C, at most 0.5% of Si, between 0.5 and 2.0% of Mn, at most 0.06% of P, at most 0.008% of S, at most 0.1% of Al sol, at most 0.02% of N, between 0.02 and 0.45% of V, between 0.05 and 0.7% of Mo, optionally between 0.01 and 0.1% of Nb, balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein the steel sheet has a precipitation strengthened and substantially single-phase ferritic microstructure, wherein the volume fraction of the ferrite phase in said microstructure is not lower than 97%, and wherein the precipitates in the microstructure comprise fine precipitates of composite carbides containing Mo and V and optionally Nb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: TATA STEEL IJMUIDEN B.V.
    Inventors: Rolf Arjan Rijkenberg, David Neal Hanlon
  • Patent number: 9725783
    Abstract: Steel for machine structure use excellent in tool lifetime in a broad range of cutting speeds regardless of continuous machining, intermittent machining, or other systems and further in various machining environments such as use of a cutting fluid or a dry, semidry, and oxygen enriched environment, having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.01 to 1.2%, Si: 0.005 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.05 to 3.0%, P: 0.0001 to 0.2%, S: 0.0001 to 0.35%, N: 0.0005 to 0.035%, and Al: 0.05 to 1.0%, satisfying [Al %]?(27/14)×[N %]?0.05%, and having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities and forming an Al2O3 coating on the surface of a cutting tool by machining using a cutting tool coated on the surface contacting the machined material by metal oxides with a value of a standard free energy of formation at 1300° C. of that value of Al2O3 or more, and a machining method of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiharu Aiso, Hajime Saitoh, Atsushi Mizuno
  • Patent number: 9062356
    Abstract: The present invention provides hot rolled steel plate for spiral pipe superior in low temperature toughness, thick in gauge, for example, having a plate thickness of 14 mm or more, and having a high strength of the API-X65 standard or more spiral pipe and a method of production of the same, that is, steel plate containing, by mass %, C: 0.01 to 0.1%, Si: 0.05 to 0.5%, Mn: 1 to 2%, P?0.03%, S?0.005%, O?0.003%, Al: 0.005 to 0.05%, N: 0.0015 to 0.006%, Nb: 0.005 to 0.08%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.02%, N?14/48×Ti>0%, Nb?93/14×(N?14/48×Ti>0.005%, Mo: 0.01% to less than 0.1%, Cr: 0.01 to 0.3%, and Cu: 0.01 to 0.3%, and having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, characterized in that an elongation rate of a microstructure unit in a cross-section in the pipe circumferential direction after pipemaking is 2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuo Yokoi, Hiroshi Abe, Osamu Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20150079420
    Abstract: The steel for hot forming has the following composition in weight %: C: 0.10-0.25, Mn: 1.4-2.8, Si: ?1.0, Cr: ?1.0, Ti: ?0.05, Nb: ?0.05, V: ?0.1, Mo: ?0.1, Al: ?0.05, P: ?0.02, S: ?0.005, Ca: ?0.005, O: ?0.01, N: ?0.02, B: ?0.0004, the remainder being iron and unavoidable impurities. Also disclosed is a strip, sheet or blank produced with such a steel, a method for producing a hot formed product, such a product and the use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: David Neal HANLON, Stefanus Matheus Cornelis VAN BOHEMEN
  • Publication number: 20150044086
    Abstract: A steel wire rod or steel bar as hot-rolled, including: by mass %: C: 0.1 to 0.6%, Si: 0.01 to 1.5%, Mn: 0.05 to 2.5%, Al: 0.015 to 0.3%, and N: 0.0040 to 0.0150%, and P: limited to 0.035% or less and S: limited to 0.025% or less, and the balance substantially consisting of iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein a depth of d (mm) from the surface of the surface layer region with 20 HV 0.2 or more higher, relative to HV 0.2 that is the average hardness in the region where the depth from the surface is from sectional radius R×0.5 (mm) to the center satisfies the formula (1); the steel structure of the surface layer region has a ferrite fraction of 10% or less by area ratio, with the balance being one or two or more of martensite, bainite and pearlite; the steel structure where the depth from the surface is from the sectional radius R×0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Miyanishi, Atsushi Monden, Shingo Yamasaki, Shunta Homma
  • Publication number: 20150034049
    Abstract: A rolled steel bar for hot forging consisting, by mass percent, of C: 0.25-0.50%, Si: 0.40-1.0%, Mn: 1.0-1.6%, S: 0.005-0.035%, Al: 0.005-0.050%, V: 0.10-0.30%, and N: 0.005-0.030%, and the balance of Fe and impurities, i.e., P: 0.035% or less and O: 0.0030% or less, wherein Fn1=C+Si/10+Mn/5+5Cr/22+1.65V?5S/7 is 0.90 to 1.20. The predicted maximum width of nonmetallic inclusions at the time when a cumulative distribution function obtained by extreme value statistical processing by taking the width of nonmetallic inclusion in an R1/2 part of a longitudinal cross section of the steel bar as W (mm) is 99.99% is 100 mm or narrower. The number density of sulfides each having a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.3 to 1.0 mm observed per unit area of the R1/2 part of a transverse cross section of the steel bar is 500 pieces/mm2 or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Naoki Matsui, Masashi Higashida, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Yutaka Neishi, Talzo Makino, Kouji Morita, Yoshihiro Tanimura, Naoyuki Sashima, Toshimasa Itou
  • Publication number: 20150023834
    Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet including, in terms of % by mass, 0.030% to 0.120% of C, 1.20% or less of Si, 1.00% to 3.00% of Mn, 0.01% to 0.70% of Al, 0.05% to 0.20% of Ti, 0.01% to 0.10% of Nb, 0.020% or less of P, 0.010% or less of S, and 0.005% or less of N, and a balance consisting of Fe and impurities, in which 0.106?(C %-Ti %*12/48-Nb %*12/93)>0.012 is satisfied; a pole density of {112}(110) at a position of ¼ plate thickness is 5.7 or less; an aspect ratio (long axis/short axis) of prior austenite grains is 5.3 or less; a density of (Ti, Nb)C precipitates having a size of 20 nm or less is 109 pieces/mm3 or more; a yield ratio YR, which is the ratio of a tensile strength to a yield stress, is 0.80 or more; and a tensile strength is 590 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eisaku Sakurada, Kunio Hayashi, Koichi Sato, Shunji Hiwatashi
  • Patent number: 8828154
    Abstract: A steel sheet contains, in terms of percent by mass, C: 0.01 to 0.2%, Si: 2.0% or less, and Mn: 3.0% or less and has a martensite phase as dominant phase and ferrite with a grain size of 20 ?m or less as a second phase. The ferrite is contained in area ratio of 1% to 30% and the amount of solute carbon being 0.01 percent by mass of more. The steel sheet can provide a hot-rolled steel sheet suitable for automobile steel sheet, i.e., has excellent press workability and excellent strain aging property whereby the tensile strength significantly increases by heat treatment at about the same temperature as typical baking process after the press-working. Moreover, hardening of the ferrite phase improves the fatigue strength after the strain aging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Hoshi, Saiji Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8801872
    Abstract: A case hardened gear steel having enhanced core fracture toughness includes by weight percent about 16.3Co, 7.5Ni, 3.5Cr, 1.75Mo, 0.2W, 0.11C, 0.03Ti, and 0.02V and the balance Fe, characterized as a predominantly lath martensitic microstructure essentially free of topologically close-packed (TCP) phases and carburized to include fine M2C carbides to provide a case hardness of at least about 62 HRC and a core toughness of at least about 50 ksi?in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: QuesTek Innovations, LLC
    Inventors: James A. Wright, Jason Sebastian
  • Patent number: 8778261
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel material for automobile chassis parts, having high fatigue characteristics, without a heat treatment, and superior shapeability, and a method of production of such automobile chassis parts. The surface of the steel has a high hardness and the center has a low hardness, providing the superior characteristics. With an annealing step of the invention, it is possible to relieve internal stress and further improve fatigue characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignees: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nakamura, Isao Anai, Yasushi Yamamoto, Takaaki Fukushi, Izuru Yamamoto, Masaaki Kondo, Satoru Shimazu
  • Patent number: 8764918
    Abstract: The present invention provides high strength steel pipe for line pipe superior in low temperature toughness suppressed in drop of toughness of the HAZ and a method of production of the same, more particularly high strength steel plate for line pipe used as a material for high strength steel pipe for line pipe and a method of production of the same, in particular high strength steel pipe for line pipe superior in low temperature toughness characterized in that the chemical compositions of the base metal is, by mass %, C: 0.020 to 0.080%, Si: 0.01 to 0.50%, Mo: 0.01 to 0.15%, Al: 0.0005 to 0.030%, and Nb: 0.0001 to 0.030% contained in a range of C+0.25Si+0.1Mo+Al+Nb: 0.100% or less and the mixture of austenite and martensite present along prior austenite grain boundaries of the reheated part of the heat affected zone has a width of 10 ?m or less and a length of 50 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hara, Hitoshi Asahi, Yoshio Terada
  • Publication number: 20140161659
    Abstract: This high-strength hot-rolled steel plate contains specific amounts of C, Si, Mn, Al, V and also Ti and/or Nb so as to fulfill C?12(V/51+Ti/48+Nb/93)>0.03, and the rest consists of iron and unavoidable impurities. Ferrite is the main microstructure, the remaining microstructure is one or more selected from the group consisting of bainite, martensite and retained austenite, wherein the average particle diameter of precipitated carbides (the total content of V, Ti and Nb is 0.02% or greater) in the ferrite is less than 6 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Toshio Murakami, Masao Kinefuchi, Hideo Hata
  • Patent number: 8747578
    Abstract: A steel having excellent formability, fatigue endurance after quenching, low temperature toughness, resistance for hydrogen embrittlement, and corrosion fatigue endurance. A method includes heating a steel slab at 1160° C. to 1320° C., hot-finish-rolling the steel slab at a finisher delivery temperature of 750° C. to 980° C., and then coiling the hot-rolled steel at a coiling temperature of 560° C. to 740° C. after slow cooling for a time of 2 seconds or more to produce a hot-rolled steel strip having a structure in which the ferrite grain diameter df corresponding to a circle is 1.1 ?m to less than 1.2 ?m and the ferrite volume fraction Vf is 30% to 98%, the steel slab containing 0.18 to 0.29% of C, 0.06 to 0.45% of Si, 0.91 to 1.85% of Mn, 0.019% or less of P, 0.0029% or less of S, 0.015 to 0.075% of sol. Al, 0.0049% or less of N, 0.0049% or less of O, 0.0001 to 0.0029% of B, 0.001 to 0.019% of Nb, 0.001 to 0.029% of Ti, 0.001 to 0.195% of Cr, and 0.001 to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignees: JFE Steel Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shunsuke Toyoda, Kei Sakata, Akio Sato, Kouichi Kaneko, Hiroshi Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20140141280
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength steel sheet having good warm press formability and excellent strength and ductility after warm press forming, and a method for manufacturing such. The high-strength steel sheet has a tensile strength at room temperature not less than 780 MPa, a yield stress at a heating temperature range of 400° C. to 700° C. not more than 80% of the yield stress at room temperature, total elongation at the heating temperature range not less than 1.1 times the total elongation at room temperature, yield stress and total elongation after the steel sheet is heated to the heating temperature range, subjected to a strain of not more than 20%, and cooled from the heating temperature to room temperature, not less than 70% of the yield stress and total elongation, respectively, at room temperature before the heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Kosaka, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Masato Shigemi, Hidekazu Okubo
  • Patent number: 8721807
    Abstract: A method of making a hypereutectoid, head-hardened steel rail is provided that includes a step of head hardening a steel rail having a composition containing 0.86-1.00 wt % carbon, 0.40-0.75 wt % manganese, 0.40-1.00 wt % silicon, 0.05-0.15 wt % vanadium, 0.015-0.030 wt % titanium, and sufficient nitrogen to react with the titanium to form titanium nitride. Head hardening is conducted at a cooling rate that, if plotted on a graph with xy-coordinates with the x-axis representing cooling time in seconds, and the y-axis representing temperature in Celsius of the surface of the head of the steel rail, is maintained in a region between an upper cooling rate boundary plot defined by an upper line connecting xy-coordinates (0 s, 775° C.), (20 s, 670° C.), and (110 s, 550° C.) and a lower cooling rate boundary plot defined by a lower line connecting xy-coordinates (0 s, 750° C.), (20 s, 610° C.), and (110 s, 500° C.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Arcelormittal Investigacion Y Desarrollo, S.L.
    Inventors: Bruce L. Bramfitt, Fred B. Fletcher, John A. Davis, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8715427
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a steel composition, a process for producing a steel product having said composition, and said steel product itself. According to the invention, a cold-rolled, possibly hot dip galvanized steel sheet is produced with thicknesses lower than 1 mm, and tensile strengths between 800 MPa and 1600 MPa, while the A80 elongation is between 5 and 17%, depending on the process parameters. The composition is such that these high strength levels may be obtained, while maintaining good formability and optimal coating quality after galvanising. The invention is equally related to a hot rolled product of the same composition, with higher thickness (typically about 2 mm) and excellent coating quality after galvanising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal France SA
    Inventors: Sven Vandeputte, Christophe Mesplont, Sigrid Jacobs
  • Patent number: 8663400
    Abstract: Provided is a low alloy steel for high-pressure hydrogen gas environments, which contains, by mass percent, C: 0.15 to 0.60%, Si: 0.05 to 0.5%, Mn: 0.05 to 3.0%, P: not more than 0.025%, S: not more than 0.010%, Al: 0.005 to 0.10%, Mo: 0.5 to 3.0%, V: 0.05 to 0.30%, O (oxygen): not more than 0.01%, N: not more than 0.03%, and the balance Fe and impurities, and has tensile strength of not less than 900 MPa. This low alloy steel desirably contains B of 0.0003 to 0.003%, but in this case, N is limited to not more than 0.010%. It is desirable to contain at least one among Cr, Nb, Ti, Zr, and Ca. The contents of Mo and V desirably satisfy the following formula (1): [Mo(%)]·[V(%)]0.2?0.32??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiko Omura, Mitsuo Miyahara, Hiroyuki Semba, Masaaki Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20140056753
    Abstract: There is provided a hot press-formed product, including a steel sheet formed by a hot press-forming method, and having a metallic structure that contains ferrite at 30% to 80% by area, bainitic ferrite at lower than 30% by area (not including 0% by area), martensite at 30% by area or lower (not including 0% by area), and retained austenite at 3% to 20% by area, whereby balance between strength and elongation can be controlled in a proper range and high ductility can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Junya Naitou, Toshio Murakami, Shushi Ikeda, Keisuke Okita
  • Patent number: 8557056
    Abstract: A tool steel, in particular a hot-work steel, has the following composition: 0.26 to 0.55% by weight C; less than 2% by weight Cr; 0 to 10% by weight Mo; 0 to 15% by weight W; wherein the W and Mo contents in total amount to 1.8 to 15% by weight; carbide-forming elements Ti, Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta forming a content of from 0 to 3% by weight individually or in total; 0 to 4% by weight V; 0 to 6% by weight Co; 0 to 1.6% by weight Si; 0 to 2% by weight Mn; 0 to 2.99% by weight Ni; 0 to 1% by weight S; remainder: iron and inevitable impurities. The hot-work steel has a significantly higher thermal conductivity than known tool steels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Rovalma, S.A.
    Inventor: Isaac Valls Angles
  • Patent number: 8465600
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a high strength steel sheet, which has, for example, a tensile strength of 590 to 980 MPa or more, which has favorable workability, and which is useful for an automobile, etc. The high strength steel sheet of the present invention comprises 0.03 to 0.20% C (% by mass in chemical compositions; hereafter, the same holds true), 0.50 to 2.5% Si, 0.50 to 2.5% Mn, and further, preferably 0.02 to 0.2% Mo. Moreover, its metal structure includes ferrite and low temperature transformation phase. The mean grain size of the low temperature transformation phase is 3.0 ?m or less. Further, grains whose size is 3.0 ?m or less occupy 50% or more by area ratio of the low temperature transformation phase, and an average aspect ratio of the low temperature transformation phase is 0.35 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiko Watanabe, Masaaki Miura
  • Publication number: 20120247606
    Abstract: Steel alloy, and plate formed from a low-molybdenum, high-strength, low-alloy steel, said steel alloy consisting essentially of, in wt. %: C: 0.05-0.07; Mn: 1.5-1.7; Ti: 0.01-0.025; Al: 0.02-0.04; Nb: 0.075-0.1; P: ?0.01; S: ?0.003; Mo: 0.1-0.2; and the remainder Fe and inevitable impurities. The plate is produced by rolling from a slab without the use of accelerated cooling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventor: Amar K. De
  • Publication number: 20120132323
    Abstract: A steel product having, by weight, less than 0.25% carbon, between 0.20 and 2.0% manganese, between 0.05 and 0.50% silicon, aluminum 0.008% or less by weight, and at least one element selected from the group consisting of titanium between about 0.01% and about 0.20%, niobium between about 0.01% and about 0.20%, molybdenum between about 0.05% and about 0.50%, and vanadium between about 0.01% and about 0.20%, and having a microstructure comprised of a majority bainite, and fine oxide particles of silicon and iron distributed through the steel microstructure of average precipitate size less than 50 nanometers. The yield strength of the steel product may be at least 55 ksi (380 MPa) or the tensile strength of at least 500 MPa, or both. The steel product may have total elongation of at least 6% or 10%, and thickness less than 3.0 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: NUCOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher Ronald KILLMORE, James Geoffrey WILLIAMS
  • Publication number: 20120048427
    Abstract: Steel for nitrocarburizing includes, by mass %, C: 0% to less than 0.15%; Si: 0.01% to 1.00%; Mn: 0.01% to 1.00%; S: 0.0001% to 0.050%; Al: 0.0001% to 0.050%; Ti: more than 0.50% to 1.50%; N: 0.0005% to 0.0100%; and the balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, in which P is limited to 0.050% or less; O is limited to 0.0060% or less; and the amount of Ti [Ti %], the amount of C [C %], the amount of N [N %], and the amount of S [S %] satisfy 0.48<[Ti %]?47.9×([C %]/12+[N %]/14+[S %]/32)?1.20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventor: Manabu Kubota
  • Patent number: 8097207
    Abstract: Method for reducing the segregated seams of a steel which has high mechanical strength and high wear resistance and whose composition comprises by weight: 0.30%?C?1.42%; 0.05%?Si?1.5%; Mn?1.95%; Ni?2.9%; 1.1%?Cr?7.9%; 0.61%?Mo?4.4%; optionally V?1.45%, Nb?1.45%, Ta?1.45% and V+Nb/2+Ta/4?1.45%; less than 0.1% of boron, less than 0.19% of (S+Se/2+Te/4), less than 0.01% of calcium, less than 0.5% of rare earths, less than 1% of aluminum, less than 1% of copper; the balance being iron and impurities resulting from the production operation. The composition further complies with: 800?D?1150 with D=540(C)0.25+245(Mo+3V+1.5Nb+0.75Ta)0.30+125Cr0.20+15.8Mn+7.4Ni+18Si. According to the method, the molybdenum is completely or partially replaced with double the proportion of tungsten so that W>0.21%, and Ti, Zr, C are adjusted so that, after adjustment, Ti+Zr/2?0.2W, (Ti+Zr/2)×C?0.07, Ti+Zr/2?1.49% and D is unchanged at approximately 5%. Steel obtained and method for producing a steel workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Industeel Creusot
    Inventors: Jean Beguinot, Dominique Viale
  • Publication number: 20110318214
    Abstract: A water atomised prealloyed chromium-free, iron-based steel powder is provided which comprises by weight-%: 0.05-0.4 V, 0.09-0.3 Mn, less than 0.1 Cr, less than 0.1 Mo, less than 0.1 Ni, less than 0.2 Cu, less than 0.1 C, less than 0.25 O, and less than 0.5 of unavoidable impurities, with the balance being iron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: HOGANAS AB (PUBL)
    Inventor: Sven Bengtsson
  • Patent number: 8084143
    Abstract: High yield ratio high-strength thin steel sheet superior in weldability and ductility characterized by: being comprised of steel containing, by mass %, C: over 0.030 to less than 0.10%, Si: 0.30 to 0.80%, Mn: 1.7 to 3.2%, P: 0.001 to 0.02%, S: 0.0001 to 0.006%, Al: 0.060% or less, N: 0.0001 to 0.0070%, containing further Ti: 0.01 to 0.055%, Nb: 0.012 to 0.055%, Mo: 0.07 to 0.55%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0040%, and simultaneously satisfying 1.1 ?14×Ti(%)+20×Nb(%)+3×Mo(%)+300×B(%)?3.7, the balance comprised or iron and unavoidable impurities, and having a yield ratio of 0.64 to less than 0.92, a TS×E11/2 of 3320 or more, an YR×TS×EL1/2 of 2320 or more, and a maximum tensile strength (TS) of 780 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Yoshinaga, Shunji Hiwatashi, Yasuharu Sakuma, Atsushi Itami
  • Patent number: 8057650
    Abstract: A soft-magnetic FeCo based target material is provided which has a high saturation magnetic flux density and superior atmospheric corrosion resistance. The target material is a soft-magnetic FeCo based target material made of an FeCo based alloy. The FeCo based alloy comprises 0 to 30 at. % of one or more metal elements selected from the group consisting of B, Nb, Zr, Ta, Hf, Ti and V; and the balance being Fe and Co with unavoidable impurities. The Fe:Co atomic ratio ranges from 10:90 to 70:30. The FeCo based alloy may further comprise 0.2 at. % to 5.0 at. % of Al and/or Cr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sanyo Special Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoji Hayashi, Akihiko Yanagitani, Yoshikazu Aikawa, Toshiyuki Sawada
  • Publication number: 20110268600
    Abstract: The invention provides a steel material with satisfactory hydrogen embrittlement resistance, and particularly it relates to high-strength steel with satisfactory hydrogen embrittlement resistance and a strength of 1200 MPa or greater, as well as a process for production thereof. At least one simple or compound deposit of oxides, carbides or nitrides as hydrogen trap sites which trap hydrogen with a specific trap energy is added to steel, where the mean sizes, number densities, and length-to-thickness ratios (aspect ratio) are in specific ranges. By applying the specific steel components and production process it is possible to obtain high-strength steel with excellent hydrogen embrittlement resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo YAMASAKI, Daisuke Hirakami, Toshimi Tarui, Seiki Nishida
  • Publication number: 20110236696
    Abstract: A high mechanical strength reinforcement steel comprising, in addition to iron, at most about 0.5% by weight carbon, at most about 0.5% by weight vanadium and/or niobium, and the usual residual elements of scrap steel. A method of reinforcing a dwelling from damage resulting from seismic activity, the method comprising providing, as a component of the dwelling, at least one rebar of a composition comprising, in addition to iron, at most about 0.5% by weight carbon, at most about 0.5% by weight vanadium and/or niobium, at most 1.7% by weight of manganese, at most 0.5% by weight of silicon, and the usual residual elements of scrap steel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Winky Lai, Cameron A. Cossette, James F. Petersen
  • Patent number: 8016953
    Abstract: The invention provides a steel material with satisfactory hydrogen embrittlement resistance, and particularly it relates to high-strength steel with satisfactory hydrogen embrittlement resistance and a strength of 1200 MPa or greater, as well as a process for production thereof. At least one simple or compound deposit of oxides, carbides or nitrides as hydrogen trap sites which trap hydrogen with a specific trap energy is added to steel, where the mean sizes, number densities, and length-to-thickness ratios (aspect ratio) are in specific ranges. By applying the specific steel components and production process it is possible to obtain high-strength steel with excellent hydrogen embrittlement resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Yamasaki, Daisuke Hirakami, Toshimi Tarui, Seiki Nishida
  • Publication number: 20100247368
    Abstract: A bainitic steel alloy and a method for making such an alloy are disclosed, in which the bainite plates are particularly small, less than 50 nanometres in width. In preferred embodiments of the invention, each bainite plate is surrounded by a film of retained austenite; the level of retained austenite in the alloy is greater than 10%; and the alloy is substantially free of blocky unstable austenite and cementite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventors: Martin J. RAWSON, Mathew J. PEET, Harshad K.D.H BHADESHIA, Scott D. WOOD, Paul O. HILL, Emma E. BOOTH
  • Patent number: 7794651
    Abstract: Method for reducing the segregated seams of a steel which has high mechanical strength and high wear resistance and whose composition comprises by weight: 0.30%?C?1.42%; 0.05%?Si?1.5%; Mn?1.95%; Ni?2.9%; 1.1%?Cr?7.9%; 0.61%?Mo?4.4%; optionally V?1.45%, Nb?1.45%, Ta?1.45% and V+Nb/2+Ta/4?1.45% ; less than 0.1% of boron, less than 0.19% of (S+Se/2+Te/4), less than 0.01% of calcium, less than 0.5% of rare earths, less than 1% of aluminum, less than 1% of copper; the balance being iron and impurities resulting from the production operation. The composition further complies with: 800?D?1150 with D=540(C)0.25+245 (Mo+3 V+1.5 Nb+0.75 Ta)0.30+125 Cr0.20+15.8 Mn+7.4 Ni+18 Si. According to the method, the molybdenum is completely or partially replaced with double the proportion of tungsten so that W>0.21%, and Ti, Zr, C are adjusted so that, after adjustment, Ti+Zr/2?0.2 W, (Ti+Zr/2)×C?0.07, Ti+Zr/2?1.49% and D is unchanged at approximately 5%. Steel obtained and method for producing a steel workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Industeel Creusot
    Inventors: Jean Beguinot, Dominique Viale
  • Publication number: 20100186855
    Abstract: The invention relates to a steel and a processing method for high-strength fracture-splittable machine components that are composed of at least two fracture-splittable parts. The steel and method are characterized in that the chemical composition of the steel (expressed in percent by weight) is as follows: 0.40%?C?0.60%; 0.20%?Si?1.00%; 0.50%?Mn?1.50%; 0%?Cr?1.00%; 0%?Ni?0.50%; 0%?Mo?0.20%; 0%?Nb?0.050%; 0%?V?0.30%; 0%?Al?0.05%; 0.005%?N?0.020%, the rest being composed of iron and smelting-related impurities and residual matter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Roman Diederichs, Axel Stueber, Robert Lange
  • Publication number: 20100186856
    Abstract: A steel product or thin steel cast strip including, by weight, less than 0.25% carbon, between 0.20 and 2.0% manganese, between 0.05 and 0.50% silicon, less than 0.01% aluminum, and at least one of niobium between 0.01% and 0.20% and vanadium between 0.01% and 0.20%, and a microstructure of a majority bainite and acicular ferrite, and more than 70% niobium and/or vanadium in solid solution. The steel product may have an increase in elongation and an increase in yield strength after age hardening. The age hardened steel product may have niobium carbonitride particles with an average particle size of 10 nanometers and less, and may have substantially no niobium carbonitride particles greater than 50 nanometers. The steel product may have a yield strength of at least 380 MPa, a tensile strength of at least 410 MPa, or both. The product may have a total elongation of at least 6% or 10%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: NUCOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Geoffrey WILLIAMS, Harold Roland KAUL, Daniel Geoffrey EDELMAN, Christopher Ronald KILLMORE
  • Patent number: 7731896
    Abstract: The present invention provides a low alloy steel and a weld joint thereof excellent in hydrochloric acid corrosion resistance and sulfuric acid corrosion resistance, said low alloy steel containing, in mass, C: 0.001 to 0.2%, Si: 0.01 to 2.5%, Mn: 0.1 to 2%, Cu: 0.1 to 1%, Mo: 0.001 to 1%, Sb: 0.01 to 0.2%, P: 0.05% or less, and S: 0.05% or less, with the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities; and the acid corrosion resistance index AI of said low alloy steel being zero or positive. Here, said AI is given by the following expression, AI/10,000=0.0005+0.045×Sb %?C %×Mo %, where % means mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Usami, Shunji Sakamoto, Satoshi Nishimura, Motohiro Okushima, Takashi Kusunoki
  • Publication number: 20100092798
    Abstract: A high-quality submerged arc weld metal for 1.25 Cr-0.5 Mo steel that is obtained by carrying out multi-pass welding in a submerged arc welding process with a solid wire and a bonded flux being combined together, is produced in which a strength mismatch with a base material does not occur even after a Post Weld Heat Treatment is carried out for a short time to a long time, and which has high ductility as well as having no weld defect. The submerged arc weld metal for 1.25 Cr-0.5 Mo steel is characterized in that: the weld metal contains, per the total mass of the weld metal, C: 0.06 to 0.12 mass %, Si: 0.15 to 0.30 mass %, Mn: 0.60 to 1.10 mass %, Cr: 1.10 to 1.45 mass % and Mo: 0.45 to 0.60 mass %, wherein O is contained in an amount of 0.022 mass % or less and N is contained in an amount of 0.008 mass % or less, and wherein the balance is Fe and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Sasaki, Shinta Niimoto, Satoshi Nishimura, Yoshiaki Murata
  • Publication number: 20100086431
    Abstract: The present invention provides a non-aging enameling steel sheet having excellent fishscale resistance characteristics that is suitable for one-coat enameling and a method of producing the same. The enameling steel sheet comprises, in mass %, C: 0.010% or less, Mn: 0.03% to 1.30%, Si: 0.100% or less, Al: 0.010% or less, N: 0.0055% or less, P: 0.035% or less, S: 0.08% or less, O: 0.005% to 0.085%, Nb: 0.055% to 0.250%, and the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, in which steel sheet preferably an Fe—Nb—Mn system composite oxide is present, a distribution of Nb mass % concentrations is present in the composite oxide, and the ratio of Nb mass % concentration of a high-concentration portion (Nb max %) to Nb mass % concentration of a low-concentration portion (Nb min %) is Nb max %/Nb min % ?1.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: Hidekuni Murakami, Satoshi Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20100047107
    Abstract: A steel material superior in high temperature characteristics and toughness is provided, the fire resistant steel material containing by mass %, C: 0.001% to 0.030%, Si: 0.05% to 0.50%, Mn: 0.40% to 2.00%, Nb: 0.03% to 0.50%, Ti: 0.005% to less than 0.040%, and N: 0.0008% to less than 0.0050%, restricting P: 0.030% or less and S: 0.020% or less, and having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, where the contents of C and Nb satisfy C—Nb/7.74?0.004, and Ti-based oxides of a grain size of 0.05 to 10 ?m are present in a density of 30 to 300/mm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Suguru Yoshida, Hiroshi Kita, Teruhisa Okumura, Hirokazu Sugiyama, Teruyuki Wakatsuki
  • Publication number: 20090285713
    Abstract: Provided is a low alloy steel for high-pressure hydrogen gas environments, which contains, by mass percent, C: 0.15 to 0.60%, Si: 0.05 to 0.5%, Mn: 0.05 to 3.0%, P: not more than 0.025%, S: not more than 0.010%, Al: 0.005 to 0.10%, Mo: 0.5 to 3.0%, V: 0.05 to 0.30%, O (oxygen): not more than 0.01%, N: not more than 0.03%, and the balance Fe and impurities, and has tensile strength of not less than 900 MPa. This low alloy steel desirably contains B of 0.0003 to 0.003%, but in this case, N is limited to not more than 0.010%. It is desirable to contain at least one among Cr, Nb, Ti, Zr, and Ca. The contents of Mo and V desirably satisfy the following formula (1): [Mo(%)]·[V(%)]0.2?0.32??(1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiko Omura, Mitsuo Miyahara, Hiroyuki Semba, Masaaki Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20090277542
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel material for automobile chassis parts which has high fatigue characteristics, does not require much cost for heat treatment, and further is superior in shapeability and a method of production of automobile chassis parts using this steel material, that is, one being a steel material to which Nb and Mo have been compositely added and having a difference 50 to 150 points between a Vicker's hardness of the center of plate thickness and a maximum value of Vicker's hardness within 0.5 mm from the surface after bending by a bending R of the plate outer surface of 2 to 5 times the plate thickness. The surface is high in hardness and the center part is low in hardness, so the fatigue characteristics and shapeability are superior. Note that if annealing under conditions giving a tempering parameter ? defined by ?=T(20+log(t)) of 14000 to 19000 (where T is the absolute temperature, t is the time (h), and the temperature rise is 660° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nakamura, Isao Anai, Yasushi Yamamoto, Takaaki Fukushi, Izuru Yamamoto, Masaaki Kondo, Satoru Shimazu
  • Publication number: 20090274572
    Abstract: The invention provides a high-strength pearlitic steel rail, which is inexpensive, and has a tensile strength of 1200 MPa or more, and is excellent in delayed fracture properties. Specifically, the rail contains, in mass percent, C of 0.6 to 1.0%, Si of 0.1 to 1.5%, Mn of 0.4 to 2.0%, P of 0.035% or less, S of 0.0005 to 0.010%, and the remainder is Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein tensile strength is 1200 MPa or more, and size of a long side of an A type inclusion is 250 mm or less in at least a cross-section in a longitudinal direction of a rail head, and the number of A type inclusions, each having a size of a long side of 1 mm to 250 mm, is less than 25 per observed area of 1 mm2 in the cross-section in the longitudinal direction of the rail head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Honjo, Tatsumi Kimura, Shinichi Suzuki, Nobuo Shikanai
  • Patent number: 7572407
    Abstract: A martensitic stainless steel sheet having superior corrosion resistance, toughness at the weld zones, and workability. The composition of the steel sheet is, on a mass basis: less than about 0.02% of carbon; about 1.0% or less of silicon; less than about 1.5% of manganese; about 0.04% or less of phosphorus; about 0.01% or less of sulfur; about 0.1% or less of aluminum; about 1.5% or more and less than about 4.0% of nickel; about 11% or more and less than about 15% of chromium; about 0.5% or more and less than about 2.0% of molybdenum; and less than about 0.02% of nitrogen, the balance being iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein 15.0%?[Cr]+1.5×[Mo]+1.2×[Ni]?20.0%; [C]+[N]<0.030%; [Ni]+0.5×([Mn]+[Mo])+30×[C]>3.0%; and 8.0%?72×[C]+40×[N]+3×[Si]+2×[Mn]+4×[Ni]+[Mo]?18.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Junichiro Hirasawa, Takumi Ujiro, Osamu Furukimi
  • Publication number: 20080138234
    Abstract: A chromium-molybdenum-vanadium (Cr—Mo—V) cast steel including 0.04 to 0.08% by weight of niobium is disclosed. The cast steel may include 0.08 to 0.12% by weight carbon. The cast steel may also have a sulphur content of 0.015% by weight or less, and a phosphorus content of 0.02% by weight or less. The silicon content may be 0.30 to 0.60% by weight, the manganese content may be 0.50 to 0.80% by weight, the chromium content may be 1.20 to 1.50% by weight, the molybdenum content may be 0.90 to 1.10% by weight, and the vanadium content may be 0.20 to 0.30% by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Applicant: BHARAT HEAVY ELECTRICALS LIMITED
    Inventors: Kulvir Singh, Jaipal Reddy Gurram, Sudhakar Reddy Katam, Pashupati Nath, Mallesh Pudtha, Vishnu Kumar Agrawal
  • Patent number: 6946097
    Abstract: A high strength and creep resistant soft magnetic Fe—Co alloy includes, in weight %, Fe and Co such that the difference between the Fe and Co is at least 2%, at least 35% Co, and 2.5%?(V+Mo+Nb), wherein 0.4%?Mo and/or 0.4%?Nb. This alloy can further include B, C, W, Ni, Ti, Cr, Mn and/or Al. A vanadium-free high strength soft magnetic Fe—Co alloy includes, in weight %, Fe and Co such that the difference between the Fe and Co is at least 2%, and at least 15% Co, the alloy further satisfying (0.1%?Nb and 0.1%?W) or 0.25%?Mn. This alloy can further include B, C, Ni, Ti, Cr and/or Al.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Seetharama C. Deevi, Rangaraj S. Sundar
  • Patent number: 6942741
    Abstract: An iron alloy strip having a gage of 0.1 to 5 mm and a magnetic field strength variation within the strip of 0 to 10 Hz, made of an iron alloy consisting essentially of, in % by weight, 0.0001-0.02% of C, 0.0001-5% of Si, 0.001-0.2% of Mn, 0.0001-0.05% of P, 0.0001-0.05% of S, 0.0001-5% of Al, 0.001-0.1% of O, 0.0001-0.03% of N, 0-10% of Co, 0-10% of Cr, 0.01-5% in total of Ti, Zr, Nb, Mo, V, Ni, W, Ta and/or B, and the balance of Fe, and having a saturation magnetic flux density of 1.7-2.3 Tesla, a maximum relative permeability of 1,200-22,000 and a coercive force of 20-380 A/m is suited for use as yokes in voice coil motor magnetic circuits. The iron alloy strip is highly resistant to corrosion and eliminates a need for a corrosion resistant coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanobu Shimao, Masaaki Nishino, Takehisa Minowa
  • Patent number: 6822831
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a recording head having a magnetic pole simultaneously possessing a high saturation magnetic flux density, a high permeability and a high electric resistivity, and the magnetic pole of the recording head is a polycrystalline film comprising Fe whose content is not less than 57.5 atomic % and not more than 94.5 atomic %; one or more kinds of elements selected from the element group of Al, B, Ga, Si, Ge, Y, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W and Rh, whose whole content is not less than 1 atomic % and not more than 15 atomic %; N whose content is not less than 0.5 atomic % and not more than 10 atomic %; and O whose content is not less than 1.5 atomic % and not more than 22.5 atomic %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shoji Ikeda, Yuji Uehara, Ikuya Tagawa, Naoki Takeguchi, Masahiro Kakehi
  • Patent number: 6805757
    Abstract: A method of the production and processing of alloyed casting material for a working part of an indefinite chill roll, a corresponding casting material and a composite indefinite chill roll incorporating the casting material. The method comprises providing a melt of a certain composition, casting the melt and subjecting the resultant body to a heat treatment. The composition of the melt is adjusted so as to afford a certain graphite and carbide distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Eisenwerk Sulzau-Werfen R. & E. Weinberger AG
    Inventors: Michael Windhager, Bernhard Feistritzer, Karl-Heinrich Schröder, Karl-Heinz Ziehenberger
  • Patent number: 6746549
    Abstract: A Nickel free high manganese YW35 steel which has high strength and high tenacity at low temperature, and a fishplate made of the same. The YW35 steel for steel rail fishplate is produced by adding a selected amount of Molybdenum and microelement Vanadium and Niobium in a high Manganese steel and reducing the carbon content thereof, to thereby improve the low temperature property of the steel. The YW35 steel has (by weight percentage): C: 0.32˜0.40, MN: 1.10˜1.30, Is: 0.30˜0.50, p: <0.035, S: <0.035, MO: 0.15˜0.25, V: 0.06˜0.20, NB: 0.04˜0.07, Cu: <0.20, and a balancing amount of Fe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Inventors: Renzhen Song, Xizhe Jiang, Jinchang Chen
  • Publication number: 20040101432
    Abstract: A process for enhancing precipitation strengthening in steel and for making a high-strength micro-alloy steel, and a steel made from the process. The process includes the step of deforming the steel containing a suitable precipitate strengthening substance, at a temperature at which the microstructure of the steel is essentially stable and at which those precipitation strengthening particles that form are of a desirable particle size for precipitation strengthening. Deforming the steel introduces dislocations in the crystal structure of the steel, which increases the kinetics of precipitation by increasing the number of precipitation nucleation sites and accelerating the rate of diffusion of the precipitate material. The steel may be deformed by bending or rolling the steel. Preferably the process also includes the step of cooling the steel at a rapid rate so as to minimize the formation of precipitate particles of a larger-than-desired size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Applicant: IPSCO Enterprises Inc.
    Inventors: Dengqi Bai, Michael Ambrose Cooke, James Asante, Jonathan Dorricott
  • Patent number: 6695502
    Abstract: A method for reducing rub-off by employing a substrate having a front side and a back side with the front side bearing a toner image by depositing a phase change composition on the non-image bearing side of the substrate as a plurality of dots, with the plurality of dots cumulatively covering an area of the non-image bearing side sufficient to reduce rub-off from the image bearing side of an adjacent substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Dana G. Marsh