Patents Assigned to Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20220341002
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a Zr—Nb-based alloy material as a low-magnetic susceptibility alloy having a high corrosion resistance while maintaining a magnetic susceptibility equivalent to or less than the magnetic susceptibility of the biological alloy of the related art, a method for manufacturing the alloy material, and a Zr—Nb-based alloy product. The Zr—Nb-based alloy material according to the present invention includes, as a chemical composition, 3% by mass or more and 18% by mass or less of Nb, 12% by mass or less of Ti, 6% by mass or less of Cr, 6% by mass or less of Cu, 5% by mass or less of Bi, and a remainder consisting of Zr and unavoidable impurities, in which isothermal ? phase particles are dispersed and precipitated in ? phase crystal grains of a parent phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya TAMURA, Tomonori KIMURA, Yasuhisa AONO
  • Publication number: 20220339685
    Abstract: A centrifugally cast composite roll for hot rolling comprising an outer layer made of an Fe-based alloy having a chemical composition comprising by mass 2.6-3.6% of C, 0.1-3% of Si, 0.3-2% of Mn, 2.3-5.5% of Ni, 0.5-3.2% of Cr, 0.3-1.6% of Mo, 1.8-3.4% of V, and 0.7-2.4% of Nb, 1.4 ?V/Nb ?2.7, a V equivalent (Veq=V+0.55 Nb) being 2.60-4% by mass, and the balance being Fe and impurities, and an inner layer made of an iron-based alloy and integrally fused to the outer layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori NOZAKI, Nozomu ODA, Toshiyuki HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20220331858
    Abstract: A spherical Ti-based powder and a manufacturing method therefor are provided. The spherical Ti-based powder has a 50% particle size (D50) of 1 to 250 ?m in a cumulative particle size distribution based on volume, in which a total amount of oxygen and hydrogen is less than 3000 ppm by mass, an area defect rate in a cross-section of the spherical Ti-based powder is less than 0.100%, and an area circularity of the spherical Ti-based powder in a secondary projection image is 0.90 or more. The spherical Ti-based powder can be obtained by subjecting a pulverized Ti-based powder to a fusion and solidification treatment using a thermal plasma in which a flow rate of hydrogen gas as a working gas is adjusted to less than 0.3 l/min.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Sakamaki, Kazuya SAITO, KIYOMI NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11476024
    Abstract: An insulated electric wire is composed of a conductor composed of a copper material, and an electrical insulating layer provided on an outer periphery of the conductor. For the constituent conductor of the insulated electric wire, in an orientation intensity ratio obtained by X-ray diffraction of a transverse cross section of the conductor, an intensity in a [200] crystal orientation is higher than an intensity in a [111] crystal orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Fujito, Shohei Hata, Hiromitsu Kuroda, Takayuki Tuji
  • Patent number: 11471929
    Abstract: Provided is a metal gasket including, expressed in mass %, C: 0.10% or less, Si: 1.0% or less, Mn: 2.0% or less, P: 0.04% or less (including 0%), S: 0.01% or less (including 0%), Ni: 25.0-60.0%, Cr: 10.0-20.0%, either Mo or W alone, or both Mo+W/2:0.05-5.0%, Al: more than 0.8% to 3.0% or less, Ti: 1.5-4.0%, Nb: 0.05-2.5%, V: 1.0% or less (including 0%), B: 0.001-0.015%, Mg: 0.0005-0.01%, S/Mg: 1.0 or less, N: 0.01% or less (including 0%), and O: 0.005%) or less (including 0%), with the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities. The metal gasket has a metal structure in which a precipitate ?? phase having an average equivalent circle diameter of 25 nm or larger is not present within the austenite base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Uehara, Junichi Nishida
  • Patent number: 11472718
    Abstract: An adsorption structure unit prevents water leakage from an adsorption structure and improves the durability of the adsorption structure and the durability of the adsorption structure unit. An adsorption structure has a filter portion having a plurality of flow paths divided by a plurality of partition walls and a plugged portion shutting a feed water inflow or outflow end of the plurality of flow paths, a water-impermeable outer tube accommodating the filter portion, and a seal material blocking a gap between the filter portion and the outer tube in at least one end portion of the filter portion. An adsorption structure unit has the adsorption structure, a housing supplying feed water from one end of the adsorption structure, and discharging the feed water from the other end, and a ring member disposed between end portions on both sides of the outer tube and an inner surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keiko Nakano, Toshitaka Ishizawa, Yoshio Katayama, Atsuhiro Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11476014
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a cable and a holding member. The cable includes a twisted wire, and an insulation coating that coats the twisted wire. The cable has a bent portion. The holding member covers a range of the cable including the bent portion, and retains a shape of the bent portion. The twisted wire is in contact with the holding member at least in a part of the bent portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Eshima, Takahiro Futatsumori, Shingo Hatayama
  • Patent number: 11465214
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a coated cutting tool having a hard coating film on a surface of the tool. The hard coating film is a nitride, the content ratio of titanium (Ti) with respect to a total amount of metal elements (including semimetal elements) is in a range of 70 at % to 95 at %, the content ratio of silicon (Si) with respect to the total amount of metal elements (including semimetal elements) is in a range of 5 at % to 30 at %, and the content ratio of argon (Ar) with respect to the total amount of metal elements (including semimetal elements) and non-metal elements is 0.1 at % or less. The hard coating film has a NaCl type crystal structure and has an average crystal grain size in a range of 5 nm to 30 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: MOLDINO Tool Engineering, Ltd., HITACHI METALS, LTD., Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfaffikon
    Inventors: Tomoya Sasaki, Shuho Koseki, Kana Morishita, Saleh Abusuilik, Kenichi Inoue, Denis Kurapov, Wolfgang Kalss
  • Publication number: 20220316038
    Abstract: A die steel which enables manufacturing a hot stamp die that has both high hardness and high thermal conductivity, a hot stamp die, and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. This steel for a hot stamp die has a component composition, in mass% of 0.45-0.65% C, 0.1-0.6% Si, 0.1-0.3% Mn, 2.5-6.0% Cr, 1.2-2.6% Mo, and 0.4-0.8% V, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities. Further, this hot stamp die has the aforementioned component composition, and the manufacturing method is for manufacturing said hot stamp die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: TAKAYUKI HIRASHIGE, SHIHO FUKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220320413
    Abstract: This method is for manufacturing a thermoelectric conversion module in which a first conductive member, a thermoelectric conversion element, a second conductive member are joined by joining members, the method comprising: a step for, after applying on the first conductive member a first paste including metal particles, disposing the thermoelectric conversion element on the first paste, and compressing and spreading the first paste; a step for disposing the second conductive member, after applying a second paste including metal particles in a controlled amount, on the thermoelectric conversion element, and compressing and spreading the second paste; and a step for sintering the first and the second pastes to obtain joining members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomotake TOHEI, Takashi NOGAWA, Nan WANG, Michiko MATSUDA, Takeshi SHIMADA
  • Patent number: 11456093
    Abstract: A wire harness-producing device configured to produce a wire harness by displaying a wire laying-out image in a full size in a length direction on a plurality of display devices, and laying out electric wires along the wire laying-out image. The wire harness-producing device includes an electric wire-feeding device to allow the electric wires to be manually pulled out, a storage section to store operation recipe information therein, and a displaying control section to perform a displaying control on the display devices. The operation recipe information includes lengths of the electric wires. When each of the electric wires to be laid out is pulled out, the displaying control section displays, on the display devices, a starting end location indicator indicating a location for a front end portion of each of the electric wires having been pulled out, based on the lengths of the electric wires in the operation recipe information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Kawase
  • Patent number: 11456091
    Abstract: A multi-core cable includes a heat detection line including a twisted pair wire composed of a pair of heat detecting wires being twisted together, each of which includes a first conductor and a first insulator covering a periphery of the first conductor, a plurality of electric wires spirally twisted around the heat detection line, each of which includes a second conductor and a second insulator covering a periphery of the second conductor, and a sheath covering the heat detection line and the plurality of electric wires together. A melting point of the first insulator is lower than a melting point of the second insulator. The second conductor has a shape in a cross-section perpendicular to a cable longitudinal direction in which a width along a circumferential direction is gradually increased from a radially inward portion to a radially outward portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Detian Huang, Yoshinori Tsukamoto, Masashi Moriyama, Takahiro Sugiyama, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Hideki Nonen
  • Patent number: 11456461
    Abstract: A clad material for a battery current collector includes a pinhole due to falling off of an intermetallic compound containing Al and Ni or an intermetallic compound containing Al and Fe from an outer surface of a first layer. A clad material for a battery current collector includes a clad material obtained by bonding a first layer made of Al or an Al alloy and a second layer made of any one of Ni, a Ni alloy, Fe, and a Fe alloy by rolling. The clad material has a thickness of 50 ?m or less. In the clad material, an intermetallic compound layer constituted by an intermetallic compound containing Al and Ni or an intermetallic compound containing Al and Fe, the intermetallic compound layer having a thickness of 0.1 ?m or more and 1 ?m or less, is formed between the first layer and the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshimitsu Oda
  • Publication number: 20220294279
    Abstract: A magnetic wedge has high electrical resistance and bending strength, a rotary electric machine employs the magnetic wedge, and a method is for manufacturing the magnetic wedge. The magnetic wedge includes Fe-based soft magnetic particles, which contain an element M that is more readily oxidized than Fe and are bound by an oxide phase including the element M.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shin NOGUCHI, Keiko KIKUCHI, Mamoru KIMURA, Kazunori NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 11443875
    Abstract: A wire harness manufacturing system includes a display unit, a wire cutting machine that draws an electric wire from a wire feed reel and cuts the electric wire to a predetermined length, a control unit that directs the display unit to display a wire laying image and wire work identification information for identifying a work regarding each electric wire, the wire laying image including a plurality of wire images showing the plurality of electric wire in the laid state and the wire work identification information being displayed in the vicinity of the corresponding wire image, and a memory unit that stores the wire laying image and work instruction information so as to correspond to the wire work identification information, the work instruction information including cut length of the electric wire. The control unit sends the cut length information to the wire cutting machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kawase, Masaru Ishikawa, Hideki Saito, Hajime Maejo
  • Patent number: 11442476
    Abstract: In a flow controller comprising a base with a gas passage formed inside, a flow sensor which measures a flow rate of the gas flowing through the passage, and at least two flow control valves which control the flow rate of the gas flowing through the passage, the flow sensor is configured so as to detect a total flow rate of the gas flowing through the passage, a part in the middle of the passage is branched into at least two branch passages, and at least one of said flow control valves is interposed in each of these branch passages. Thereby, even when a pressure difference ?P1 between a primary side pressure P1 and a secondary side pressure P2 cannot be increased, the maximum flow rate of the gas can be made larger than before.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals Ltd.
    Inventor: Mamoru Ishii
  • Patent number: 11437692
    Abstract: A coaxial cable is composed of a conductor, an electrical insulating member covering a periphery of the conductor, a shield layer covering a periphery of the electrical insulating member, and a sheath covering a periphery of the shield layer. The shield layer is configured to include a lateral winding shielding portion with a plurality of metal wires being helically wrapped around the periphery of the electrical insulating member, and a batch plating portion made of a hot-dip plating covering respective peripheries of the lateral winding shielding portion. The shield layer includes an outer peripheral portion, in which the metal wires are covered with the batch plating portion, and an inner peripheral portion, in which the metal wires are not covered with the batch plating portion. The outer peripheral portion of the shield layer includes intermetallic compounds between the metal wires and the batch plating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Detian Huang, Takanobu Watanabe, Hideki Nonen, Masashi Arai, Hiromitsu Kuroda, Ryohei Okada, Tamotsu Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11435764
    Abstract: Mass flow controllers and methods for controlling mass flow controllers are disclosed. A method includes providing a gas through a thermal mass flow sensor of the mass flow controller and processing a sensor signal from the thermal mass flow sensor to produce a flow signal. A total nonlinearity characteristic function is determined based on nonlinearity effects on the flow signal and includes a first and second nonlinearity component function based on a first and second source of nonlinearity respectively. The total nonlinearity characteristic function is calibrated, and the first nonlinearity component function is adjusted responsive to changes in the first source of nonlinearity, after which the total nonlinearity characteristic function is updated. The flow signal is corrected to produce a corrected flow signal using the total nonlinearity characteristic function. A valve of the mass flow controller is controlled using the corrected flow signal and a setpoint signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventor: Alexei V. Smirnov
  • Patent number: 11427897
    Abstract: A production method of a maraging steel includes: the step of producing, by vacuum melting, a remelt electrode which comprises from 0.2 to 3.0% by mass of Ti and from 0.0025 to 0.0050% by mass of N; and the step of remelting the remelt electrode to produce a steel ingot having an average diameter of 650 mm or more; wherein the resulting maraging steel includes from 0.2 to 3.0% by mass of Ti.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: HITACHI METALS, LTD., SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Takahiko Kamimura, Laurent Ferrer, Pascal Poulain
  • Patent number: 11424056
    Abstract: A method for producing a sintered R-T-B based magnet includes: a step of providing a sintered R-T-B based magnet work; a step of providing an RL-RH-M based alloy; and a diffusion step. In the diffusion step, an adhering amount of the RL-RH-M based alloy to the magnet work is 4 to 15 mass %, and an adhering amount of RH is 0.1 to 0.6 mass %; in the magnet work, the R content accounts for 27 to 35 mass %, the Fe content in the entire T accounting for 80 mass % or more; and, in the RL-RH-M based alloy, the RL content accounts for 60 to 97 mass %; the RH content accounting for 1 to 8 mass %; and the M content accounts for 2 to 39 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventor: Noriyuki Nozawa