Rare Earth Metal Containing Patents (Class 420/83)
  • Patent number: 11780014
    Abstract: Exemplary martensitic steel alloys may be particularly suited for additive manufacturing applications. Exemplary atomized alloy powders usable in additive manufacturing may include carbon, nickel, manganese, chromium, and the balance iron and incidental impurities. Exemplary steel alloys can be molybdenum free.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUESTEK INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Amit Behera, Greg Olson
  • Patent number: 11721479
    Abstract: A rare earth magnet including a magnetic phase having the composition represented by (Nd(1?x?y)LaxCey)2(Fe(1?z)Coz)14B. When the saturation magnetization at absolute zero and the Curie temperature calculated by Kuzmin's formula based on the measured values at finite temperature and the saturation magnetization at absolute zero and the Curie temperature calculated by first principles calculation are respectively subjected to data assimilation. The saturation magnetization M(x, y, z, T=0) at absolute zero and the Curie temperature obtained by machine learning using the assimilated data group are applied again to Kuzmin's formula and the saturation magnetization at finite temperature is represented by a function M(x, y, z, T), x, y, and z of the formula in an atomic ratio are in a range of satisfying M(x, y, z, T)>M(x, y, z=0, T) and 400?T?453.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Kazuya Yokota, Tetsuya Syoji, Noritsugu Sakuma, Takashi Miyake, Yosuke Harashima, Hisazumi Akai, Naoki Kawashima, Keiichi Tamai, Munehisa Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11710587
    Abstract: An R-T-B based permanent magnet in which R is a rare earth element, T is Fe and Co, and B is boron. R at least includes Dy. The R-T-B based permanent magnet includes M, and M is at least one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Cu, Ga, Al, Mn, Zr, Ti, Cr, Ni, Nb, Ag, Hf, Ta, W, Si, Bi, and Sn. M at least includes Cu. A total content of R is 28.0 mass % to 30.2 mass %, a content of Dy is 1.0 mass % to 6.5 mass %, a content of Cu is 0.04 mass % to 0.50 mass %, a content of Co is 0.5 mass % to 3.0 mass %, and a content of B is 0.85 mass % to 0.95 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Doto, Kiyoyuki Masuzawa, Makoto Nakane
  • Patent number: 11682509
    Abstract: A multilayer film includes a substrate; a first magnetic layer disposed on the substrate and a second magnetic layer disposed on the first magnetic layer. The first magnetic layer includes Fe(50-80)N(10-20)B(1-20)M(0-10), wherein M is Si, Ta, Zr, Ti, Co, or a combination thereof. The second magnetic layer includes Fe(50-90)N(10-50) or Fe(60-90)N(1-10)Ta(5-30). The multilayer magnetic film has, over a frequency range of 50 MHz to 10 GHz, a magnetic permeability of greater than or equal to 1800 over a selected frequency band in the frequency range; a magnetic loss tangent of less than or equal to 0.3 over a selected frequency band in the frequency range; and a cutoff frequency of greater than or equal to 1 GHz, or greater than or equal to 2 GHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: ROGERS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yajie Chen, Xiaoyu Zhang, Li Zhang, Yuanyuan Xing
  • Patent number: 11682506
    Abstract: Disclosed are a rare-earth permanent magnet having improved magnetic properties and a method of manufacturing the same. A method of manufacturing a rare-earth permanent magnet may include: preparing a mixed powder including i) a first alloy represented by R1aR2bBcMdFebal and ii) a second alloy represented by R2bBcMdFebal where R1 is one or two or more of La, Ce, and Y; R2 is a rare-earth element except for La, Ce, and Y; and M is a metal element; press-forming and sintering the prepared mixed powder in a magnetic field to prepare a sintered body; and performing a heat treatment based on diffusion temperature conditions of an R1 component and an R2 component contained in the prepared sintered body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Star Group Ind. Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Do Hoon Kim, Hyung Ju Lee, Jae Hyuk Jang, Young Beom Kim, Dong Hwan Kim, Koon Seung Kong
  • Patent number: 11657933
    Abstract: A sintered magnet and method of manufacturing the same are disclosed herein. According to an exemplary embodiment, a manufacturing method of a sintered magnet includes mixing the neodymium iron boron (NdFeB)-based powders and rare-earth hydride powders to prepare a mixture, heat-treating the mixture at a temperature of 600 to 850° C., and sintering the heat-treated mixture at a temperature of 1000 to 1100° C. to prepare the sintered magnet, wherein the rare earth hydride powders are neodymium hydride (NdH2) powders or mixed powers of NdH2 and praseodymium hydride (PrH2). In an embodiment, the NdFeB-based powders are prepared by a reduction-diffusion method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventors: Ikjin Choi, Jung Goo Lee, Juneho In, Soon Jae Kwon, Hyounsoo Uh, Jinhyeok Choe, Ingyu Kim, Eunjeong Shin
  • Patent number: 11569012
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a method for improving the performance of sintered NdFeB magnet. A method of preparing a sintered NdFeB magnet therefore comprises the steps of: a) preparing alloy flakes from a raw material of the NdFeB magnet by a strip casting process; and b) preparing a coarse alloy powder from the alloy flakes by a hydrogen decrepitation process, the hydrogen decrepitation process including treatment of the alloy flakes under a hydrogen pressure of 0.10 MPa to 0.25 MPa for a duration of 1 to 3.5 hours, then degassing the hydrogen at a predetermined temperature between 300° C. to 400° C. for a duration time of 0.5 to 5 hours, and then mixing the resulting coarse alloy powder with a lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Yantai Dongxing Magnetic Materials Inc.
    Inventors: Xiulei Chen, Zhongjie Peng, Xiaonan Zhu, Chunjie Xiang, Kaihong Ding
  • Patent number: 11407948
    Abstract: A device for pyrolysis reactions includes a feeding pump, a flow meter, an atomizer, a pyrolysis reactor, electromagnetic coils, an electromagnetic induction heating power, a temperature sensor, a temperature controller, a condenser and a product tank. The feeding pump is connected with the flow meter which is connected to the inlet of the atomizer in the pyrolysis reactor. There is a port at the bottom of the pyrolysis reactor, with the port at the top of the pyrolysis reactor connected with the condenser. The condenser is connected with the product tank. The external wall of the pyrolysis reactor is surrounded by electromagnetic coils which are connected with the electromagnetic induction heating power. The temperature sensor is placed between the pyrolysis reactor and the coils, which is connected with the temperature controller. The contact resistance between the atomized material and the hot surface can be.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Zhejiang University of Technology
    Inventors: Yong Nie, Qinglong Xie, Ying Duan, Fan Xia, Meizhen Lu, Shangzhi Yu, Xiaojiang Liang, Jianbing Ji
  • Patent number: 11384416
    Abstract: This nickel-containing steel for low temperature includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %: C: 0.020% to 0.070%; Si: 0.03% to 0.30%; Mn: 0.20% to 0.80%; Ni: 12.5% to 17.4%; Al: 0.010% to 0.060%; N: 0.0015% to 0.0060%; and O: 0.0007% to 0.0030%, in which a metallographic structure contains 2.0% to 30.0% of an austenite phase by volume fraction %, in a thickness middle portion of a section parallel to a rolling direction and a thickness direction, an average grain size of prior austenite grains is 3.0 ?m to 20.0 ?m, and an average aspect ratio of the prior austenite grains is 1.0 to 2.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Hoshino, Tetsuya Namegawa, Shinichi Omiya, Takayuki Kagaya
  • Patent number: 11279993
    Abstract: A nickel-containing steel plate according to an aspect of the present invention has a chemical composition within a predetermined range, in which an average coarse grain size of prior austenite which is defined as a simple average value of maximum values of equivalent circle diameters of prior austenite grains in each of ten visual fields having an area of 200 ?m2, measured at a ¼t position of the steel plate in a section formed by a rolling direction of the steel plate and a thickness direction of the steel plate is 20 ?m or less, and a tensile strength is 690 MPa to 900 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Furuya, Kentaro Watanabe, Keisuke Mori, Masakazu Asaba, Yoshiaki Suematsu
  • Patent number: 11244777
    Abstract: An R-T-B permanent magnet comprises rare-earth elements R, transition metal elements T, and boron B; wherein at least some of the rare-earth elements R is Nd and at least one of Tb and Dy; at least some of the transition metal elements T are Fe; the R-T-B permanent magnet comprises a plurality of main phase grains and grain boundary triple points each surrounded by the main phase grains; the grain boundary triple points comprise at least one of Nd and Pr, at least one of Tb and Dy, at least one of Fe and Co, and copper; the average contents of Nd, Pr, Tb, Dy, Fe, Co and Cu each (unit: atom %) are represented by [Nd], [Pr], [Tb], [Dy], [Fe], [Co] and [Cu]; ([Fe]+[Co])/([Nd]+[Pr]) is 2 or more and 5 or less; and [Cu]/([Tb]+[Dy]) is 1 or more and 4 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Masuda, Taeko Tsubokura, Taku Murase
  • Patent number: 11242577
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rack steel plate with a thickness up to 177.8 mm by a continuous casting slab, the constituents and mass percentages including C0.11˜0.15%, Si0.15˜0.35%, Mn0.95˜1.25%, P?0.010%, S?0.002%, Cr0.45˜0.75%, Mo0.4˜0.6%, Ni1.3˜2.6%, Cu0.2˜0.4%, Al0.06˜0.09%, V0.03˜0.06%, Nb?0.04%, N?0.006%, B0.001˜0.002%, the balance is Fe and unavoidable impurity elements. The manufacture method includes, in sequence, KR molten steel pretreatment, converter smelting, LF refining, RH refining, continuous casting through a straight-arc continuous casting machine, shielding the continuous casting slab a cover and slowly cooling, cleaning the continuous casting slab, heating, high-pressure water descaling, control rolling, straightening, slowly cooling, quenching and tempering treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: JIANGYIN XING CHENG SPECIAL STEEL WORKS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Pifeng Miao, Gang Qian, Guanyou Liu, Liang Chen, Xiaolin Wu, Jingtao Li, Zhuzhong Gao, Xiaojiang Ruan
  • Patent number: 11232889
    Abstract: An A R-T-B based permanent magnet, wherein R is a rare earth element, T is Fe and Co, and B is boron. R at least includes Dy and Tb. The R-T-B based permanent magnet includes M, and M is one or more elements selected from the group made of Cu, Ga, Al, Mn, Zr, Ti, Cr, Ni, Nb, Ag, Hf, Ta, W, Si, Bi, and Sn. M at least includes Cu. A total content of R is 28.05 mass % to 30.60 mass %, a content of Dy is 1.0 mass % to 6.5 mass %, a content of Cu is 0.04 mass % to 0.50 mass %, a content of Co is 0.5 mass % to 3.0 mass %, and a content of B is 0.85 mass % to 0.95 mass %. A concentration distribution of Tb decreases from an outer side towards an inner side of the R-T-B based permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Doto, Kiyoyuki Masuzawa, Makoto Nakane
  • Patent number: 11155906
    Abstract: The present invention relates to pressure vessel steel to be used in a hydrogen sulfide atmosphere, and relates to pressure vessel steel having excellent resistance to hydrogen induced cracking (HIC), and a manufacturing method therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Dae-Woo Kim, Jong-Kyo Choi, Young-Jin Jung
  • Patent number: 11105576
    Abstract: A machine gun has a barrel, a receiver assembly comprising a cover, a receiver base and a butt; lock frame comprising an extractor and a gas piston; bolt, return mainspring with guiding bar, gas piston tube, flash absorber, trigger mechanism, gunsight, butt sighting appliances, trigger pull and loading case. A barrel is made of a preform produced of steel doped with chromium, molybdenum and vanadium or chromium, nickel, and molybdenum, or chromium, molybdenum, vanadium and nickel. The barrel is coated inside and steel comprises the additional chemical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Inventors: Kravchenko Iurii Mikhailovich, Berezin Igor Veleriyovych
  • Patent number: 11060170
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention may include, by weight, by weight, 2.0 to 3.5% of Si, 0.3 to 2.5% of Al, 0.3 to 2.5% of Mn, individually or in a total amount of 0.0005 to 0.03% of at least one of Ga and Ge, and the remainder including Fe and impurities, and may satisfy the following Formula 1. 0.2?([Si]+[Al]+0.5×[Mn])/(([Ga]+[Ge])×1000)?5.27??[Formula 1] ([Si], [Al], [Mn], [Ga] and [Ge] represent the content (% by weight) of Si, Al, Mn, Ga and Ge, respectively).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Kim, Hun Ju Lee, Yong Soo Kim, Su-Yong Shin
  • Patent number: 10988833
    Abstract: A Ni—Al-RE ternary eutectic alloy and a preparation method thereof are provided. The alloy is composed of the following elements by weight percent, aluminum (Al) of 2.50% to 19.50%, rare earth (RE) of 1.30% to 20.0%, other impurity elements being less than or equal to 0.10%, and the rest being nickel (Ni). The microstructure of the alloy is in a completely eutectic form, and the density is 6.8 to 7.1 g/cm3. Raw materials are prepared according to the ratio, and are placed into a vacuum induction smelting furnace; the smelting furnace is vacuumized to 10?5 Pa, power is increased to ensure complete melting of the raw materials, and the molten alloy melt is poured into an iron mold to obtain alloy ingots. The eutectic phase in the microstructure of the alloy in the disclosure has high hardness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jun Wang, Yun Wu, Maodong Kang, Haiyan Gao, Shuxian He, Yahui Liu
  • Patent number: 10991492
    Abstract: The present invention provides an R-T-B based permanent magnet capable of improving a coercive force HcJ while maintaining a residual magnetic flux density Br. The R-T-B based permanent magnet includes Ga. R is one or more selected from rare earth elements, T is Fe or a combination of Fe and Co, and B is boron. The R-T-B based permanent magnet has main phase grains including a crystal grain having an R2T14B crystal structure and grain boundaries formed between adjacent two or more main phase grains, and 0.030?[Ga]/[R]?0.100 is satisfied in which [Ga] represents an atomic concentration of Ga and [R] represents an atomic concentration of R in the main phase grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mariko Fujiwara, Makoto Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 10964463
    Abstract: Provided is an alloy for R-T-B based rare earth magnet. “R” is one or more of a rare earth element, ‘T’ is one or more of a transition metal element essentially including Fe or Fe and Co, and “B” is boron. The alloy includes a single or a plural number of main phase (A), having a minimum length of 10 ?m or more and a maximum length of 30 ?m or more and 300 ?m or less, in a cross section cut along a thickness direction of the alloy. The main phase (A) includes an R2T14B phase, and an area ratio of the main phase (A) to an entire cross section is 2% or more and 60% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Hayakawa, Makoto Iwasaki, Tetsuya Hidaka, Eiji Kato, Hidetake Kitaoka
  • Patent number: 10907229
    Abstract: A hot-work mold steel includes 0.37 to 0.46 wt % of carbon (C), 0.25 to 0.5 wt % of silicon (Si), 0.36 to 0.56 wt % of manganese (Mn), 2.0 to 5.0 wt % of chromium (Cr), 1.4 to 2.6 wt % of molybdenum (Mo), 0.4 to 0.8 wt % of vanadium (V), 0.0007 to 0.004 wt % of boron (B), 0.002 to 0.022 wt % of aluminum (Al), 0.001 to 0.09 wt % of titanium (Ti) and the remainder of iron (Fe) and inevitable impurities. The hot-work mold steel exhibits superior thermal conductivity, hardenability, durability, and nitriding characteristics, and increased resistance to heat check and melt-out. A die-casting mold made of the steel has improved thermal conductivity regardless of mold size and a prolonged life cycle and can improve the surface quality in manufactured parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Doosan Heavy Industries Construction Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kuk Cheol Kim, Byoung Koo Kim, Jeong Wook Kim, Jae Suk Jeong
  • Patent number: 10755840
    Abstract: An R-T-B based sintered magnet includes “R”, “T”, and “B”. “R” represents a rare earth element. “T” represents a metal element other than rare earth elements including at least Fe, Cu, Mn, Al, Co, Ga, and Zr. “B” represents boron or boron and carbon. With respect to 100 mass % of a total mass of the R-T-B based sintered magnet, a content of “R” is 28.0 to 31.5 mass %, a content of Cu is 0.04 to 0.50 mass %, a content of Mn is 0.02 to 0.10 mass %, a content of Al is 0.15 to 0.30 mass %, a content of Co is 0.50 to 3.0 mass %, a content of Ga is 0.08 to 0.30 mass %, a content of Zr is 0.10 to 0.25 mass %, and a content of “B” is 0.85 to 1.0 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Hidaka, Takuma Hayakawa, Makoto Iwasaki, Ayato Kakoki
  • Patent number: 10738371
    Abstract: An as-rolled type K55 electric resistance welded oil well pipe includes, in terms of % by mass, 0.30 to 0.50% of C, 0.05 to 0.40% of Si, 0.50 to 1.20% of Mn, 0 to 0.030% of P, 0 to 0.020% of S, 0.002 to 0.080% of Al, 0 to 0.0080% of N, 0 to 0.30% of Cu, 0 to 0.30% of Ni, 0 to 0.30% of Cr, 0 to 0.10% of Mo, 0 to 0.10% of V, 0 to 0.050% of Nb, 0 to 0.030% of Ti, 0 to 0.0100% of Ca, and the balance being Fe and impurities. In the pipe, a metallographic structure at a position of ¼ of a pipe thickness in an L cross-section at a base metal 90° position is a ferrite-pearlite structure in which prior ?-grains are flattened, includes grain boundary ferrite and intragranular ferrite, and has a rate of a total area of the grain boundary ferrite and the intragranular ferrite, of 10 to 30%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ishitsuka, Takashi Tsusue, Shuji Iwamoto, Shunichi Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Ogata, Osamu Yoshida, Hideto Kawano
  • Patent number: 10658108
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a magnet, including a step of preparing a magnet represented by the formula: uRwBxGayCuzAlqM(balance)T, where RH is 5% or less, 0.20?x?0.70, 0.07?y?0.2, 0.05?z?0.5, 0?q?0.1; when 0.40?x?0.70, v and w satisfy the following inequality expressions: 50w?18.5?v?50w?14, and ?12.5w+38.75?v??62.5w+86.125; and, when 0.20?x?0.40, v and w satisfy the following inequality expressions: 50w?18.5?v?50w?15.5 and ?12.5w+39.125?v??62.5w+86.125, and x satisfy the following inequality expression: ?(62.5w+v ?81.625)/15+0.5?x??(62.5w+v?81.625)/15+0.8; a high-temperature heat treatment step of heating the magnet to a temperature of 730° C. or higher and 1,020° C. or lower, and then cooling to 300° C. at a cooling rate of 20° C./min; and a low-temperature heat treatment step of heating the magnet to a temperature of 440° C. or higher and 550° C. or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryouichi Yamagata, Rintaro Ishii, Futoshi Kuniyoshi, Teppei Satoh
  • Patent number: 10597759
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet having a chemical composition comprising C: not more than 0.010 mass %, Si: 1.0-7.0 mass %, Mn: 0.001-3.0 mass %, sol. Al: 0.0001-3.5 mass %, P: 0.01-0.2 mass %, S: not more than 0.010 mass %, N: not more than 0.010 mass % and the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a ratio (P120/Fe700) of a peak-peak height P120 of P near to an electronic energy of 120 eV to a peak-peak height Fe700 of Fe near to an electronic energy of 700 eV in an Auger differential spectrum obtained by analyzing a broken surface of a grain boundary through Auger electron spectroscopy is not less than 0.1 and a sheet thickness is 0.10-0.50 mm, and a motor using such a non-oriented electrical steel sheet as an iron core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Nakanishi, Shinji Koseki, Yoshihiko Oda, Hiroaki Toda
  • Patent number: 10577671
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of manufacturing a hot-rolled steel product, such as a hot-rolled steel strip or plate product, wherein the microstructure of the steel product is martensitic, having Brinell hardness of at least 450 HBW. The method comprises the following steps in given sequence: a step of providing a steel slab containing, in terms of weight percentages, C: 0.25-0.45%, Si: 0.01-1.5%, Mn: 0.4-3.0%, Ni: 0.5-4.0%, Al: 0.01-1.2%, Cr: less than 2.0%, Mo: less than 1.0%, Cu: less than 1.5%, V: less than 0.5%, Nb: less than 0.2%, Ti: less than 0.2%, B: less than 0.01%, Ca: less than 0.01%, the balance being iron, residual contents and unavoidable impurities; a heating step of heating the steel slab to a temperature Theat in the range 950-1350° C.; a temperature equalizing step; a hot-rolling step in a temperature range of Ar3 to 1300° C. to obtain a hot-rolled steel material; and a step of direct quenching the hot-rolled steel material from the hot-rolling heat to a temperature of less than Ms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: RAUTARUUKKI OYJ
    Inventors: Pasi Suikkanen, Mikko Hemmila, Visa Lang, Iikka Miettunen, Olli Oja
  • Patent number: 10570475
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition, satisfying the condition that Mn content divided by B content equals 2100 or less, and a steel microstructure that contains, by area, 25-80% of ferrite and bainitic ferrite in total, 3-20% of martensite, and that contains, by volume, 10% or more of retained austenite, in which the retained austenite has a mean grain size of 2 ?m or less, a mean Mn content in the retained austenite in mass % is at least 1.2 times the Mn content in the steel sheet in mass %, and an aggregate of retained austenite formed by seven or more identically-oriented retained austenite grains accounts for 60% or more by area of the entire retained austenite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yoshie Obata, Shinjiro Kaneko, Takeshi Yokota, Kazuhiro Seto
  • Patent number: 10388442
    Abstract: To provide an R-T-B based sintered magnet having high Br and high HcJ while suppressing the content of Dy, and a method for producing the same. Disclosed is an R-T-B based sintered magnet represented by the formula: uRwBxGayCuzAlqMT, where 0.20?x?0.70, 0.07?y?0.2, 0.05?z?0.5, 0?q?0.1; v=u?(6?+10?+8?), where the amount of oxygen (% by mass) is ?, the amount of nitrogen (% by mass) is ?, and the amount of carbon (% by mass) is ?; when 0.40?x?0.70, v and w satisfy the following inequality expressions: 50w?18.5?v?50w?14, and ?12.5w+38.75?v??62.5w+86.125; and, when 0.20?x?0.40, v and w satisfy the following inequality expressions: 50w?18.5?v?50w?15.5 and ?12.5w+39.125?v??62.5w+86.125, and x satisfy the following inequality expression: ?(62.5w+v?81.625)/15+0.5?x??(62.5w+v?81.625)/15+0.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Rintaro Ishii, Futoshi Kuniyoshi, Teppei Satoh
  • Patent number: 10344363
    Abstract: There is a hot-rolled steel according to one aspect of the invention including predetermined chemical compositions including 0.0001 to 0.0050 mass % of Bi, in which 90 area % or more of a metallographic structure is configured with a ferrite and a pearlite, and an average number density of Mn sulfides extending along a rolling direction and having an aspect ratio exceeding 10 and equal to or smaller than 30, which is measured on a cross section parallel to the rolling direction, is 50 to 200 number/mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suguru Yoshida, Shinya Teramoto, Akira Shiga, Manabu Kubota, Hajime Hasegawa, Hideo Mizukami
  • Patent number: 10131117
    Abstract: A manufacturing process of a hot stamped coated part comprising the following successive steps, in this order: providing a hot rolled or cold rolled steel sheet comprising a steel substrate and an aluminium-silicon alloy precoating, the precoating containing more than 50% of free aluminium and having a thickness comprised between 15 and 50 micrometers, then cutting the steel sheet to obtain a precoated steel blank, then heating the blank under non protective atmosphere up to a temperature Ti comprised between Te?10° C. and Te, Te being the eutectic or solidus temperature of the precoating, then heating the blank from the temperature Ti up to a temperature Tm comprised between 840 and 950° C. under non protective atmosphere with a heating rate V comprised between 30° C./s and 90° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: ARCELORMITTAL INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO, S.L.
    Inventors: Isabelle Thirion, Thomas Vietoris, Raisa Grigorieva, Pascal Drillet, Ludwig Schaller, Karl Michael Bader, Uwe Paar, Michael Alsmann
  • Patent number: 10090087
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rare earth based magnet in which the demagnetization rate at a high temperature can be inhibited even if the amount of heavy rare earth element(s) such as Dy and Tb is evidently decreased compared to the past or no such heavy rare earth element is used. The rare earth based magnet of the present invention is a sintered magnet which comprises R2T14B crystal grains as the major phases and the crystal boundary phases among the R2T14B crystal grains. The microstructure of the sintered body is controlled by including crystal boundary phases containing at least R, T and M in the crystal boundary phases, wherein the relative atomic ratios of R, T and M are as follows, i.e., 60 to 80% for R, 15 to 35% for T and 1 to 20% for M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Fujikawa, Yuki Nagamine, Wakako Okawa, Chikara Ishizaka, Eiji Kato, Katsuo Sato
  • Patent number: 10026531
    Abstract: The present invention provides R-T-B based alloy powders, wherein R represents at least one rare earth element, and T represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of ferrum and cobalt. The R-T-B based alloy powders have main phase grains, grain boundary phases and additive phases. The main phase grains are composed of R2T14B and have an average grain size of 200 nm or more and 500 nm or less. The grain boundary phases are richer in R than the main phase grains. With respect to any cross section of the R-T-B based alloy powders, the coverage of the main phase grains defined by equation 1 with the grain boundary phases with a roundness defined by equation 2 being 0.1 or more and 0.6 or less, is 10% or more and 40% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Okuda
  • Patent number: 10000829
    Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet includes a specified chemical composition and includes a steel structure represented by an area ratio of ferrite being 5% to 50%, an area ratio of bainite composed of an aggregate of bainitic ferrite whose grain average misorientation is 0.4° to 3° being 50% to 90%, and a total area ratio of martensite, pearlite, and retained austenite being 5% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuri Toda, Masafumi Azuma, Akihiro Uenishi, Genichi Shigesato
  • Patent number: 9994926
    Abstract: The invention provides a wear-resistant steel plate, which has the following chemical composition (wt. %): C: 0.36-0.45%, Si: 0.10-0.30%, Mn: 0.40-1.00%, P?0.015%, S?0.010%, Nb: 0.010-0.040%, Al: 0.010-0.080%, B: 0.0010-0.0020%, Ti: 0.005-0.050%, Ca: 0.0010-0.0080%, V?0.080%, Cr?1.00%, RE?0.10%, N?0.0080%, O?0.0060%, H?0.0004%, wherein the total amount of Nb and Ti is between 0.025% and 0.080%, the total amount of Al and Ti is between 0.030% and 0.12%, and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities. The invention also provides a method of manufacturing the wear-resistant steel plate, comprising smelting, casting, rolling, post-rolling direct cooling and other steps. The wear-resistant steel plate obtained from the above composition and process has high hardness and excellent wear resistance, and is suitable for quick-wear devices in engineering machinery, such as crusher baffle, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongbin Li, Liandeng Yao, Yuchuan Miao
  • Patent number: 9774234
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a permanent magnet includes a composition represented by a composition formula: R(FepMqCur(Co1-sAs)1-p-q-r)z, where, R is at least one element selected from rare earth elements, M is at least one element selected from Ti, Zr, and Hf, A is at least one element selected from Ni, V, Cr, Mn, Al, Si, Ga, Nb, Ta, and W, 0.05?p?0.6, 0.005?q?0.1, 0.01?r?0.15, 0?s?0.2, and 4?z?9, and a two-phase structure of a Th2Zn17 crystal phase and a copper-rich phase. In a cross-section of the permanent magnet containing a crystal c axis of the Th2Zn17 crystal phase, an average distance between the copper-rich phases is 120 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yosuke Horiuchi, Shinya Sakurada, Keiko Okamoto, Masaya Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 9748027
    Abstract: Provided is a method for stably obtaining a non-oriented electrical steel sheet with high magnetic flux density and excellent productivity, at a low cost by casting in a continuous casting machine a slab having a chemical composition including by mass %, C?0.0050%, 3.0%<Si?5.0%, Mn?0.10%, Al?0.0010%, 0.040%<P?0.2%, N?0.0040%, 0.0003%?S?0.0050%, Ca?0.0015%, and total of at least one element selected from Sn and Sb: 0.01% or more and 0.1% or less, balance including Fe and incidental impurities, subjecting the slab to heating, then subjecting the slab to hot rolling to obtain a hot rolled steel sheet, then subjecting the steel sheet to hot band annealing, pickling, subsequent single cold rolling to obtain a final sheet thickness, then subjecting the steel sheet to final annealing, wherein in the hot band annealing, soaking temperature is 900° C. or higher and 1050° C. or lower, and cooling rate after soaking is 5° C/s or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Nakanishi, Yoshiaki Zaizen, Yoshihiko Oda, Hiroaki Toda
  • Patent number: 9738956
    Abstract: Disclosed is an ultra high strength steel plate with at least 1100 MPa of tensile strength that has both an excellent strength-stretch balance and excellent bending workability, and a method for producing the same. The metal structure of the steel plate has martensite, and the soft phases of bainitic ferrite and polygonal ferrite. The area of the aforementioned martensite constitutes 50% or more, the area of the aforementioned bainitic ferrite constitutes 15% or more, and the area of the aforementioned polygonal ferrite constitutes 5% or less (including 0%). When the circle-equivalent diameter of the aforementioned soft phases is measured, the coefficient of variation (standard deviation/mean value) is less or equal to 1.0. The ultra high strength steel plate has at least 1100 MPa of tensile strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Muneaki Ikeda, Yukihiro Utsumi, Masaaki Miura
  • Patent number: 9695488
    Abstract: A steel is used for providing a bolt that has a high strength and still exhibits excellent hydrogen embrittlement resistance. The steel contains C of 0.30% to 0.50%, Si of 1.0% to 2.5%, Mn of 0.1% to 1.5%, P of greater than 0% to 0.015%, S of greater than 0% to 0.015%, Cr of 0.15% to 2.4%, Al of 0.010% to 0.10%, N of 0.001% to 0.10%, Cu of 0.1% to 0.50%, Ni of 0.1% to 1.0%, Ti of 0.05% to 0.2%, and V of 0% to 0.2%, with the remainder including iron and inevitable impurities, in which a ratio [Ni]/[Cu] is 0.5 or more, and a total content [Ti]+[V] is 0.085% to 0.30%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Matsumoto, Atsushi Inada, Masamichi Chiba
  • Patent number: 9620268
    Abstract: An R-T-B based alloy strip including columnar crystals of an R2T14B phase, wherein in a cross-section along the thickness direction, columnar crystals extend out in a radial fashion from the crystal nuclei, the R-T-B based alloy strip satisfying the following inequality (1), where D1 and D2 are, respectively, the average value for the lengths of the columnar crystals on one side and the average value for the lengths on the other side that is opposite the one side, in the direction perpendicular to the thickness direction of the cross-section. 0.9/1.1?D2/D1?1.1/0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taeko Tsubokura, Eiji Kato, Tamotsu Ishiyama, Nobuhiro Jingu, Chikara Ishizaka
  • Patent number: 9613737
    Abstract: An R-T-B sintered magnet including a composition containing a rare earth element, a transition element and boron, containing essentially no dysprosium as a rare earth element, and having crystal grains with a composition containing a rare earth element, a transition element and boron, and grain boundary regions formed between the crystal grains, wherein the triple point regions which are grain boundary regions surrounded by 3 or more crystal grains have a composition containing a rare earth element, a transition element and boron and have a higher mass ratio of the rare earth element than the crystal grains, the average value of the area of the triple point regions in a cross-section being no greater than 2 ?m2 and the standard deviation of the area distribution being no greater than 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Kato, Chikara Ishizaka, Taeko Tsubokura, Tamotsu Ishiyama, Nobuhiro Jingu
  • Patent number: 9607742
    Abstract: An R-T-B based alloy strip containing dendritic crystals including a R2T14B phase, wherein on at least one surface, the average value for the widths of the dendritic crystals is no greater than 60 ?m, and the number of crystal nuclei in the dendritic crystals is at least 500 per 1 mm square area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tamotsu Ishiyama, Taeko Tsubokura, Eiji Kato, Nobuhiro Jingu, Chikara Ishizaka
  • Patent number: 9441695
    Abstract: High cleanliness spring steel useful in manufacturing a spring with SiO2-based inclusions being extremely controlled and excellent in fatigue properties is provided. High cleanliness spring steel which is steel containing; C: 1.2% (means mass %, hereafter the same with respect to the component) or below (not inclusive of 0%), Si: 1.2-4%, Mn: 0.1-2.0%, Al: 0.01% or below (not inclusive of 0%), and the balance comprising iron with inevitable impurities, wherein; the total of oxide-based inclusions of 4 or above of L (the large diameter of an inclusion)/D (the short diameter of an inclusion) and 25 ?m or above of D and oxide-based inclusions of less than 4 L/D and 25 ?m or above of L, in the oxide-based inclusions of 25 mass % or above of oxygen concentration and 70% (means mass %, hereafter the same with respect to inclusions) or above of SiO2 content when Al2O3+MgO+CaO+SiO2+MnO=100% is presumed, out of inclusions in the steel, is 20 nos./500 g or below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoko Sugimura, Sei Kimura, Koichi Sakamoto, Atsuhiko Yoshida, Takeshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 9139894
    Abstract: This steel for a machine structure contains, in mass %: C: 0.40% to less than 0.75%; Si: 0.01% to 3.0%; Mn: 0.1% to 1.8%; S: 0.001% to 0.1%; Al: more than 0.1% and not more than 1.0%; N: 0.001% to 0.02%; and P: limited to not more than 0.05%, with a balance including Fe and inevitable impurities, in which the steel satisfies 139.38?214×[C]+30.6×[Si]+42.8×[Mn]?14.7×[Al]?177 and 0.72?[C]+1/7×[Si]+1/5×[Mn]<1.539.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiharu Aiso, Suguru Yoshida, Manabu Kubota, Kei Miyanishi, Shuji Kozawa
  • Patent number: 9073114
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekuni Murakami, Satoshi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9062359
    Abstract: Provided is bearing steel having excellent fatigue life by minimizing segregation during casting of the bearing steel and reducing the generation of large carbides in a segregation band. The high-carbon chromium bearing steel includes 0.5 wt % to 1.2 wt % of carbon (C), 0.15 wt % to 2.0 wt % of silicon (Si), 0.05 wt % to 0.45 wt % of manganese (Mn), 0.025 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %) of phosphorus (P), 0.025 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %) of sulfur (S), 0.1 wt % to 1.6 wt % of chromium (Cr), 0.01 wt % to 0.3 wt % of Ce, and iron (Fe) as well as other unavoidable impurities as a remainder. A method of manufacturing the steel is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventor: Kwan-Ho Kim
  • Publication number: 20150147222
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an Ni-containing steel plate which is low in cost and has excellent low-temperature toughness. In view of the object, the Ni-containing steel plate of the present invention has a chemical composition containing by mass % C: 0.01% to 0.15%, Si: 0.02% to 0.20%, Mn: 0.45% to 2.00%, P: 0.020% or less, 5: 0.005% or less, Al: 0.005% to 0.100% Ni: 5.0 to 8.0%, and the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, and has a microstructure containing less than 1.7% by volume fraction of retained austenite when cooled to liquid nitrogen temperature, and having an average grain size of crystal grains surrounded by high-angle grain boundaries with an orientation difference of 15° or more of 5 ?m or less by equivalent circle diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Shinichi Miura, Yukio Shimbo, Nobuyuki Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20150132178
    Abstract: A R-T-B based permanent magnet which not only has equivalent magnetic properties as the existing Nd—Fe—B based permanent magnet but also has a high adhesive strength and which can be suitably used as a magnet for field system of a permanent magnet synchronous rotating machine. The magnet can be obtained in a case where the composition of the compound for forming the main phase is (R1-x(Ce1-zYz)x)2T14B (R is rare earth element(s) consisting of one or more elements selected from La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu, T is one or more transition metal elements with Fe or Fe and Co as essential element(s), 0.0<x?0.5 and 0.0?z?0.5), by making the abundance ratio of Ce4f/(Ce4f+Ce4g) satisfies 0.8?Ce4f/(Ce4f+Ce4g)?1.0 when the Ce occupying the 4f site of the tetragonal R2T14B structure is denoted Ce4f and the Ce occupying the 4g site is denoted as Ce4g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Kenichi Suzuki, Kyung-Ku Choi, Ryuji Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9023159
    Abstract: A steel for heat treatment, which exhibits high strength and high toughness even when the heat treatment (such as quenching and tempering) of the steel is conducted under conventional conditions in an after stage. The steel for heat treatment contains C: 0.10 to 0.70 mass %, Mn: 0.1 to 3.0 mass %, Al: 0.005 to 2.0 mass %, P: 0.050 mass % or less, S: 0.50 mass % or less, O: 0.0030 mass or less, N: 0.0200 mass % or less, and one or more selected from the group consisting of Ti: 0.30 mass % or less and Nb: 0.30 mass or less with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and has a TH value of 1.0 or above as calculated according to the formula: ({Ti}/48+{Nb}/93) 104 and grain diameters of 10 ?m or below. {Ti} and {Nb} refer respectively to the contents of Ti and Nb in precipitates of 5 to 100 nm in size as determined about their respective extraction residues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Hatano, Takuya Kochi
  • Publication number: 20150118097
    Abstract: High cleanliness spring steel useful in manufacturing a spring with SiO2-based inclusions being extremely controlled and excellent in fatigue properties is provided. High cleanliness spring steel which is steel containing; C: 1.2% (means mass %, hereafter the same with respect to the component) or below (not inclusive of 0%), Si: 1.2-4%, Mn: 0.1-2.0%, Al: 0.01% or below (not inclusive of 0%), and the balance comprising iron with inevitable impurities, wherein; the total of oxide-based inclusions of 4 or above of L (the large diameter of an inclusion)/D (the short diameter of an inclusion) and 25 ?m or above of D and oxide-based inclusions of less than 4 L/D and 25 ?m or above of L, in the oxide-based inclusions of 25 mass % or above of oxygen concentration and 70% (means mass %, hereafter the same with respect to inclusions) or above of SiO2 content when Al2O3 +MgO+CaO+SiO2+MnO=100% is presumed, out of inclusions in the steel, is 20 nos./500 g or below.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Tomoko SUGIMURA, Sei KIMURA, Koichi SAKAMOTO, Atsuhiko YOSHIDA, Takeshi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20150093285
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic material, which contains at least one transition metal (TM), at least one rare earth metal (RE) and tungsten, wherein the proportion of transition metal (TM) is 60 to 90% by mass, the proportion of rare earth metal (RE) is 10 to 20% by mass, and the proportion of tungsten (W) is 5 to 25% by mass, in each case in relation to the total mass of the magnetic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Stefan Hinderberger, Christian Wegierski, Peter Barth, Gerhard Schneider, Arne Huber, Juergen Oberle, Dagmar Goll, Friederike Koeppen, Lars Bommer, Roland Stein, Markus Raith, Alberto Martinez-Limia, Roman Karimi, Ingrid Wuehrl, T-akashi Shigematsu
  • Publication number: 20150090377
    Abstract: A steel sheet for hot pressing use according to the present invention has a specified chemical component composition, wherein some of Ti-containing precipitates contained in the steel sheet, each of which having an equivalent circle diameter of 30 nm or less, have an average equivalent circle diameter of 6 nm or less, the precipitated Ti amount and the total Ti amount in the steel fulfill the relationship represented by formula (1) shown below, and the sum total of the fraction of bainite and the fraction of martensite in the metal microstructure is 80 area % or more. Precipitated Ti amount (mass %)?3.4[N]?0.5×[(total Ti amount (mass %))?3.4[N]]??(1) (In the formula (1), [N] represents the content (mass %) of N in the steel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Toshio Murakami, Junya Naitou, Keisuke Okita, Shushi Ikeda