Patents Assigned to Hitachi Metals
  • Patent number: 11322281
    Abstract: A multilayer block core includes a multilayer block in which nanocrystalline alloy ribbon pieces are layered, the nanocrystalline alloy ribbon pieces having a composition represented by the following Composition Formula (A). Fe100-a-b-c-dBaSibCucMd??Composition Formula (A) In Composition Formula (A), each of a, b, c, and d is an atomic percent; the expressions 13.0?a?17.0, 3.5?b?5.0, 0.6?c?1.1, and 0?d?0.5 are satisfied; and M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, and W.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: HITACHI METALS, LTD., Metglas, Inc.
    Inventor: Motoki Ohta
  • Patent number: 11320286
    Abstract: A rotation detection device includes a sensor unit including plural magnetic sensors and a housing portion covering the magnetic sensors together. The magnetic sensors each include a plate-shaped detection portion including a magnetic detection element to detect a magnetic field from a detection target member and connection terminals extending out of the detection portion. The magnetic sensors are arranged such that the detection portions are aligned in a plate thickness direction thereof. The magnetic detection element is configured to detect a magnetic field in a direction perpendicular to the plate thickness direction. The sensor unit is positioned such that fore-end portions of the detection portions of the magnetic sensors face toward an axial end face of the detection target member, the fore-end portions being end portions located opposite to the side where the connection terminals extend out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Tomita
  • Patent number: 11319617
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a ring-rolled material of an Fe—Ni based superalloy which inhibits AGG, has a fine-grained structure having an ASTM grain size number of at least 8, and has high circularity. A method for producing a ring-rolled material of an Fe—Ni based superalloy having a composition of an Alloy 718 comprises: heating a ring-shaped material for ring rolling having the composition, in a temperature range of 900° C. to 980° C., and performing finishing ring rolling, as a finishing ring rolling step; heating the ring-rolled material that has been subjected to the finishing ring rolling, in a temperature range of 980 to 1010° C.; and correcting ellipticalness while expanding a diameter of the ring-rolled material by using a ring expander.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Chuya Aoki, Tsuyoshi Fukui, Daigo Ohtoyo, Etsuo Fujita, Naoyuki Iwasa, Taku Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 11313874
    Abstract: A rotation speed sensor, configured to detect a rotation speed of a rotating body, is composed of a cable composed of an electric wire including a conductor wire, and a sheath provided over the electric wire, a circuit substrate mounted with an integrated circuit thereon and connected to the conductor wire being exposed from the cable, and a housing including a first housing, which is configured to hold the circuit substrate therein, and a second housing, which is configured to hold the cable therein, with the first housing being welded to the second housing, and with the second housing being welded to a surface of the sheath of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Ikeda, Yuta Kataoka, Masanori Sagawa
  • Patent number: 11312319
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a plurality of insulated electric wires, a sheath covering a part in a longitudinal direction of the insulated wires, and a branching portion fixing member covering an end portion of the sheath with the insulated wires guided out therefrom, and one-parts in respective longitudinal directions of the insulated wires being guided out from the end portion of the sheath. The branching portion fixing member includes a plurality of guiding-out portions to guide out the one-parts of the plurality of insulated wires respectively. The wire harness is provided with a protective tube to cover at least one of the guiding-out portions, and the insulated wire guided out from the at least one of the guiding-out portions, and a tightening member to tighten and fix one end portion of the protective tube to an outer peripheral surface of the at least one of the guiding-out portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Eshima, Takahiro Futatsumori
  • Patent number: 11306370
    Abstract: Provided is a blade material having high strength. The blade material contains, in % by mass, 0.5 to 0.8% of C, 1.0% or less of Si, 1.0% or less of Mn, 11 to 15% of Cr, and 0.1 to 0.8% of V, the remainder includes Fe and inevitable impurities, and has a thickness of 0.5 mm or less, wherein the structure of the blade material as observed after polishing the surface thereof has ferrites and carbides, the carbides have an average particle diameter of 0.5 ?m or less, and a proportion of carbides containing V in the carbides is 50% or less in terms of a proportion in an area of a field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Yamamura
  • Publication number: 20220115656
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material for lithium ion secondary battery is provided. The positive electrode active material for lithium ion secondary batteries contains a lithium transition metal complex oxide represented by composition formula (1): Li1+aNibCocMdXeO2+? (in composition formula (1), M represents at least one selected from Al and Mn, X represents at least one metallic element other than Li, Ni, Co, Al, and Mn, and a, b, c, d, e, and ? are numbers satisfying ?0.04?a?0.08, 0.80?b<1.0, 0?c<0.2, 0?d<0.2, 0<e<0.08, b+c+d+e=1, and ?0.2<?<0.2), wherein the positive electrode active material includes secondary particles formed through aggregation of multiple primary particles, and, in the primary particles inside the secondary particles, the atomic concentration D1 of X at a depth of 1 nm from the interface between the primary particles and the atom concentration D2 of X at the central portion of each of the primary particles satisfy D1>D2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya TOYAMA, Akira GUNJI, Hisato TOKORO, Shin TAKAHASHI, Shuichi TAKANO
  • Patent number: 11302461
    Abstract: A wire harness producing method configured to produce a wire harness by arranging a plurality of display devices end to end, each including a display portion and a bezel arranged around a periphery of the display portion, displaying a wire laying-out drawing on the display devices, and laying out an electric wire along the wire laying-out drawing. The method includes compartmentalizing a two-dimensional image of the wire harness into display regions to be displayed on the display portions of the display devices respectively and non-display regions corresponding to the bezels of the display devices respectively, with the display regions and the non-display regions conforming to sizes of the display portions and the bezels respectively, trimming the two-dimensional image to create wire laying-out image data composed of only the display regions, and displaying the wire laying-out drawing on the display devices, based on the wire laying-out image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kawase, Masaru Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11295903
    Abstract: A pressure sensitive sensor is composed of a cylindrical shape body including therein an inner peripheral surface and a hollow portion along a longitudinal direction of that cylindrical shape body, and being made of an elastic electrical insulating member, and a plurality of electrode wires arranged in a helical shape along the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical shape body, and arranged in such a manner as to have no contact with each other. In the pressure sensitive sensor, in a cross-sectional view perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the cylindrical shape body, at least some part of the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical shape body lying between adjacent ones of the plurality of the electrode wires on the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical shape body is formed in an inner side in radial directions of a circle passing through centers of the plurality of the electrode wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Sugita, Masahiro Abe
  • Publication number: 20220099505
    Abstract: A torque load member has a detected surface which is configured to face a magnetostrictive torque sensor. The detected surface is a shot peened surface whose magnetic anisotropy directed in a specific direction has been reduced by performing shot peening thereto at an arc height value of 0.31 mmA or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicants: NSK LTD., HITACHI METALS LTD
    Inventors: Kota Fukuda, Junji Ono, Shinji Okada, Teruyuki Nakamura, Yuta Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11289250
    Abstract: A sintered ferrite magnet represented by the general formula of Ca1-xLaxFe2n-y-zCoyZnz expressing the atomic ratios of metal elements of Ca, La, Fe, Co and Zn, wherein x, y, z, and n [2n is a molar ratio represented by 2n=(Fe+Co+Zn)/(Ca+La)] meet 0.4<x<0.75, 0.15?y<0.4, 0.11?z<0.4, 0.26?(y+z)<0.65, and 3?n?6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Yamamoto, Yoshinori Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11286615
    Abstract: A cable includes a sheath, and a coating film covering a circumference of the sheath. The coating film adheres to the sheath. The static friction coefficient of a surface of the coating film is smaller than the static friction coefficient of a surface of the sheath. The adhesion strength between the sheath and the coating film is 0.30 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichi Kashimura, Masamichi Kishi, Takanobu Watanabe, Kimika Kudo, Masashi Arai
  • Patent number: 11278953
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a hot forged material capable of preventing the generation of double-barreling shaped forging defects. A method for producing a hot forged material, wherein both an upper die and a lower die are made of Ni-based super heat-resistant alloy, and a material for hot forging is pressed by the lower die and the upper die in the air to form the hot forged material, the method comprising: a raw material heating step of heating the material for hot forging in a furnace to a heating temperature within a range of 1000 to 1150° C.; a jig heating step of heating a holding jig for holding the material for hot forging within a temperature range of 50° C. lower than and 100° C. higher than the heating temperature of the material for hot forging; a die heating step of heating the upper die and the lower die to a heating temperature within a range of 950 to 1100° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Suzuki, Tomonori Ueno, Shinichi Kobayashi, Shoichi Takahashi, Takanori Matsui
  • Publication number: 20220082518
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a mold by a machine tool, the method including predicting a thermal fatigue life of a mold which is made of a mold material having a hardness H and on which heating during contact with a workpiece and cooling after contact with a workpiece are repeated, the method including a step for obtaining a thermal stress maximum value ?h_MAX among a plurality of thermal stress values at a position x on the mold and a temperature Th at the thermal stress maximum value, wherein the temperature at the thermal stress maximum value ?h_MAX is a temperature lower than a maximum temperature among the plurality of temperatures, the machine tool manufactures the predetermined mold shape from a mold material having one of the plurality of hardnesses in which the thermal fatigue life was obtained based on the thermal stress maximum value, the yield strength, and the contraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Haruyuki MORI, Masataka SATO, Masayuki NAGASAWA
  • Patent number: 11276812
    Abstract: A piezoelectric body that is excellent in endurance, flexibility and bendability is achieved. A piezoelectric member includes: belt type first and second conductive rubber sheets that face each other; and a piezoelectric layer formed between an upper surface of the first conductive rubber sheet and a lower surface of the second conductive rubber sheet. The piezoelectric layer is made of a piezoelectric coating material with which at least either one of the upper surface of the first conductive rubber sheet and the lower surface of the second conductive rubber sheet is coated. When a pressure is applied to the piezoelectric layer through at least either one of the first conductive rubber sheet and the second conductive rubber sheet, a potential difference is generated between the first conductive rubber sheet and the second conductive rubber sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuya Akimoto, Yukio Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11270814
    Abstract: An insulated wire includes a conductor, and an insulation layer covering an outer periphery of the conductor. The insulation layer includes a halogen-free flame-retardant resin composition including a base polymer, not less than 1 part by mass and not more than 10 parts by mass of an amorphous silica and not less than 10 parts by mass and not more than 150 parts by mass of a halogen-free flame retardant relative to 100 parts by mass of the base polymer. The base polymer includes not less than 50 parts by mass and not more than 90 parts by mass of either an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer or an ethylene-butene copolymer and not less than 10 parts by mass and not more than 50 parts by mass of a low-density polyethylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Setogawa, Makoto Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 11262217
    Abstract: A sensor device includes a first pair of connection terminals extended from a first sensor and a second pair of connection terminals extended from a second sensor. A first negative connection terminal that is a negative connection terminal of the first pair of connection terminals and a second negative connection terminal that is a negative connection terminal of the second pair of connection terminals are electrically connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Hayakawa, Tomoyuki Murayama, Yuta Sugiyama, Hirotaka Eshima
  • Patent number: 11264148
    Abstract: A composite cable includes a pair of first electric wires, a twisted pair wire formed by twisting a pair of second electric wires having a smaller outer diameter than the first electric wires, a tape member wound into a spiral around an assembly that is formed by twisting the pair of first electric wires and the twisted pair wire together, and a sheath covering an outer periphery of the tape member. The tape member and the sheath includes an inwardly projecting part formed in a spiral along a cable longitudinal direction and formed so as to enter inward at least one of a valley part between the two first electric wires and valley parts between the first electric wires and the twisted pair wire. The inwardly projecting part has a projecting length of not less than 3% of an outer diameter of the first electric wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Hayakawa, Tomoyuki Murayama, Hirotaka Eshima, Fumihito Oka, Takahiro Futatsumori
  • Patent number: 11264156
    Abstract: A magnetic core includes a nanocrystalline alloy ribbon having a composition represented by FeCuxBySizAaXb, where 0.6?x<1.2, 10?y?20, 0?(y+z)?24, and 0?a?10, 0?b?5, all numbers being in atomic percent, with the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, and where A is an optional inclusion of at least one element selected from Ni, Mn, Co, V, Cr, Ti, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta and W, and X is an optional inclusion of at least one element selected from Re, Y, Zn, As, In, Sn, and rare earth elements. The nanocrylstalline alloy ribbon has a local structure such that nanocrystals with average particle sizes of less than 40 nm are dispersed in an amorphous matrix and are occupying more than 30 volume percent of the ribbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: METGLAS, INC., HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Motoki Ohta, Naoki Ito
  • Patent number: 11261643
    Abstract: A pinch detection device, for detecting the occurrence of pinch during closing of one pair of sliding doors, is composed of a first door front edge rubber to be attached to an edge portion in a closing movement direction of one sliding door of the one pair of sliding doors, and a second door front edge rubber to be attached to an edge portion in a closing movement direction of an other sliding door of the one pair of sliding doors. The first door front edge rubber includes a recessed portion, which is open toward the second door front edge rubber, with a linear shape pressure sensitive sensor, which is sensitive to a pressure in the event of pinch, being disposed in that recessed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kawase, Shuichi Suzuki