Patents Assigned to JFE Steel Corporation
  • Publication number: 20240003491
    Abstract: To alleviate stress exerted on a thread portion of a high pressure gas container including a metallic container to prevent fatigue fracture, there is provided a high pressure gas container comprising a metallic container, wherein the metallic container includes: a metallic cylinder; a female thread portion on an inner peripheral surface of the metallic cylinder at at least one end; and a lid having, on an outer peripheral surface, a male thread portion configured to screw into the female thread portion, and a maximum value of residual compressive stress at a position of 0.4 mm in a depth direction from a plurality of thread bottoms of the female thread portion and the male thread portion is 100 MPa or more, less than or equal to tensile strength of a material of the metallic cylinder, and less than or equal to tensile strength of a material of the lid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi OKANO, Kazuki MATSUBARA, Shusaku TAKAGI, Nobuyuki ISHIKAWA, Toshio TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20230415215
    Abstract: A press forming part includes: a top portion; a side wall portion continuous from the top portion via a punch shoulder; and a flange portion continuous from the side wall portion via a die shoulder, the press forming part having a curved portion curved in a recessed manner in a top view, wherein a bending radius of the die shoulder in the curved portion is increased from an end side toward a middle portion of the curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke FUJII, Masaki URABE
  • Patent number: 11856807
    Abstract: Provided is a novel method for producing a laminate that serves as an electron transport layer and an optically transparent electrode layer of a perovskite solar cell having, in the following order, an optically transparent electrode layer, an electron transport layer, a perovskite crystal layer, a hole transport layer, and a current collecting layer. The method involves forming a titanium oxide layer that serves as the electron transport layer on a member that serves as the optically transparent electrode layer by utilizing said member for cathode polarization in a treatment liquid containing a Ti component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mikito Suto, Hiroyuki Masuoka, Akira Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 11850821
    Abstract: A hot-pressed member has a predetermined chemical composition. In the hot-pressed member, a steel sheet has a microstructure in which a prior austenite average grain diameter is 8 ?m or less, and martensite is present in a volume fraction of 95% or greater in a region within 30 ?m of a surface; a Ni diffusion region having a thickness of 0.5 ?m or greater exists in a surface layer; a standard deviation of Vickers hardness values is 35 or less; Mndif (mass %) in a sheet thickness direction ?0.20, where Mndif (mass %) is a degree of Mn segregation; and a tensile strength is 1780 MPa or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Takashima, Minoru Tanaka, Kenji Tsuzumi, Shingo Arakawa, Michitaka Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11850647
    Abstract: A punch and a pad sandwiching a top sheet portion, bending blades for bend-forming the vertical wall portions, and stoppers facing the bending blades are provided. The punch is supported by a first cushion component. The bending blades each have an upper die component and a lower die component disposed facing each other in the press direction with an interval equal to a set compression amount in the range of 2% or more and 6% or less of the heights of the vertical wall portions and a second cushion component interposed between the upper die component and the lower die component, maintaining the interval, and contractible in the press direction. The cushion pressure of the second cushion component is lower than the cushion pressure of the first cushion component and has such cushion pressure that the second cushion component does not contract during the bend-forming of the vertical wall portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: JFE Steel Corporation, H-One Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroto Miyake, Toyohisa Shinmiya, Daisuke Toyoda, Hiroyuki Takebe, Youichi Konkawa
  • Publication number: 20230407485
    Abstract: Provided is an alloyed galvanized steel sheet with excellent resistance to cracking in resistance welding at a welded portion, even if crystal orientations of an Fe-based electroplating layer and a cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a high ratio at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the cold-rolled steel sheet. The alloyed galvanized steel sheet has a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % to 3.0 mass %; an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet with a coating weight per surface exceeding 20.0 g/m2, and an alloyed galvanized layer formed on the Fe-based electroplating layer, where crystal orientations of the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a ratio of more than 50% at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke YAMAMOTO, Katsutoshi TAKASHIMA, Mai AOYAMA, Yusuke OKUMURA, Tomomi KANAZAWA, Katsuya HOSHINO, Hiroshi MATSUDA, Ei OKUMURA, Yoichi MAKIMIZU, Masaki KOBA
  • Publication number: 20230407447
    Abstract: Provided is a galvanized steel sheet with excellent resistance to cracking in resistance welding at a welded portion, even if crystal orientations of an Fe-based electroplating layer and a cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a high ratio at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the cold-rolled steel sheet. The galvanized steel sheet has a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % to 3.0 mass %; an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet with a coating weight per surface of more than 20.0 g/m2, and a galvanized layer formed on the Fe-based electroplating layer, where crystal orientations of the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a ratio of more than 50 % at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke YAMAMOTO, Katsutoshi TAKASHIMA, Mai AOYAMA, Yusuke OKUMURA, Tomomi KANAZAWA, Katsuya HOSHINO, Hiroshi MATSUDA, Ei OKUMURA, Yoichi MAKIMIZU, Masaki KOBA
  • Publication number: 20230407449
    Abstract: A hot-pressed member having excellent post-coating corrosion resistance and excellent resistance spot weldability, a method for manufacturing the hot-pressed member, and a steel sheet for hot pressing suitable for a hot-pressed member having excellent post-coating corrosion resistance and excellent resistance spot weldability. The hot-pressed member includes a Zn-based coated layer on a first side of a steel sheet, and a Zn-based coated layer on a second side of the steel sheet. A coating weight of Zn in the Zn-based coated layer on the first side of the steel sheet is 5 to 35 g/m2, and an average line roughness Ra of a surface of the Zn-based coated layer on the first side is less than or equal to 2.5 ?m. The average line roughness Ra of a surface of the Zn-based coated layer on the second side of the steel sheet is greater than or equal to 3.5 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rinta SATO, Minoru TANAKA, Daisuke MIZUNO, Ryoto NISHIIKE
  • Publication number: 20230407484
    Abstract: Disclosed is a galvannealed steel sheet including: a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less; an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet; and a galvannealed layer formed on the Fe-based electroplating layer, in which in an intensity profile measured by glow discharge optical emission spectrometry, ISi,Fe/ISi,bulk is 0.30 or more, and an average value of C concentration in a region ranging from 10 ?m to 20 ?m in the thickness direction from the interface between the galvannealed layer and the Fe-based electroplating layer towards the Fe-based electroplating layer is 0.10 mass % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke YAMAMOTO, Katsutoshi TAKASHIMA, Yusuke OKUMURA, Tomomi KANAZAWA, Katsuya HOSHINO, Takashi KAWANO, Takako YAMASHITA, Hiroshi MATSUDA, Yoichi MAKIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20230411055
    Abstract: Provided is a technique that can achieve both magnetic properties and machinability by cutting at a high level, which has been impossible with only the conventional techniques of improving the machinability by cutting using MnS or the like. A soft magnetic iron comprises a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: less than 0.02%, Si: less than 0.05%, Mn: more than 0.03% and 0.50% or less, P: 0.002% or more and less than 0.006%, S: 0.013 % or more and 0.050% or less, Al: 0.010% or less, N: 0.0010% or more and 0.0100% or less, and B: 0.0003% or more and 0.0065% or less, with a balance consisting of iron and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuyuki ICHIMIYA, Koichi NAKASHIMA, Yuta IMANAMI
  • Publication number: 20230407506
    Abstract: Provided is a steel sheet with excellent resistance to cracking in resistance welding at a welded portion, even if the crystal orientations of an Fe-based electroplating layer and a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a high ratio at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet. Provided is an Fe-based electroplated steel sheet having a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less; and an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet with a coating weight per surface of more than 20.0 g/m2, where the crystal orientations of the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a ratio of more than 50% at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke YAMAMOTO, Katsutoshi TAKASHIMA, Mai AOYAMA, Yusuke OKUMURA, Tomomi KANAZAWA, Katsuya HOSHINO, Hiroshi MATSUDA, Ei OKUMURA, Yoichi MAKIMIZU, Masaki KOBA
  • Publication number: 20230407511
    Abstract: A method includes: manufacturing an automotive crashworthiness energy absorbing part; and assembling an automotive body by attaching the manufactured automotive crashworthiness energy absorbing part to the automotive body, wherein the manufacturing the automotive crashworthiness energy absorbing part includes: manufacturing a pre-coated part including a tubular member formed using a hat-shaped section member including a top portion and a side wall portion, and a coating part having quality of material with a strength lower than that of the tubular member, the coating part being disposed with a gap of 0.2 mm to 3 mm on an outer surface of a portion including a corner connecting the top portion and the side wall portion in the tubular member to form a coating film; and forming a coating film by forming a coating layer by electrodeposition coating in at least the gap in the pre-coated part, and thermally curing the coating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko HIGAI, Tsuyoshi SHIOZAKI, Yoshikiyo TAMAI
  • Patent number: 11846002
    Abstract: The high-strength steel sheet according to the present invention includes a specific chemical composition, a steel structure in which a total area fraction of martensite and bainite in a position of ΒΌ of a sheet thickness is 92% or more and 100% or less, the balance in a case where the total area fraction is not 100% contains retained austenite, and an area fraction of ferrite in a region extending up to 10 ?m in a sheet thickness direction from a surface is 10% or more and 40% or less, in which a tensile strength is 1320 MPa or more, and a Vickers hardness in a position of 15 ?m in the sheet thickness direction from the surface satisfies a specified formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shimpei Yoshioka, Yoshihiko Ono, Yuma Honda, Nobuyuki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11846003
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having high delayed fracture resistance and a method for manufacturing the high-strength steel sheet. The high-strength steel sheet has a specified chemical composition. Relative to the whole microstructure of the steel sheet, the total area fraction of at least one of (i) bainite containing carbide grains having an average grain size of 50 nm or less and (ii) martensite containing carbide grains having an average grain size of 50 nm or less is 90% or more. The average number of inclusions having an average grain size of 5 ?m or more that are present in a section of the steel sheet perpendicular to a rolling direction is 5.0/mm2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Hirashima, Shimpei Yoshioka, Shinjiro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20230398593
    Abstract: A press forming method of press forming a press forming part that includes a top portion, a side wall portion continuous from the top portion via a punch shoulder, and a flange portion continuous from the side wall portion via a die shoulder, the press forming part having a curved portion curved in a recessed manner in a top view, the press forming method includes: making a bending radius of the die shoulder in the curved portion increased from an end side toward a middle portion of the curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke FUJII, Masaki URABE
  • Patent number: 11840452
    Abstract: Provided is spherically-shaped coated graphite exhibiting excellent cycle capacity-maintaining property when used as a negative electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery. The spherically-shaped coated graphite includes: spherically-shaped graphite in which primary particles with an equivalent spherical diameter of not more than 0.8 ?m have a volume ratio of more than 40.0% and not more than 70.0%, and primary particles with an equivalent spherical diameter of not less than 1.5 ?m and not more than 3.0 ?m have a volume ratio of not less than 3.0% and not more than 17.0%, in a particle size distribution of primary particles obtained using X-ray computed tomography; and a carbonaceous substance covering the spherically-shaped graphite, and a pore volume of pores with a pore size of 7.8 nm to 36.0 nm is not more than 0.017 cm3/g, and a mass of infiltrated dibutyl phthalate is less than 0.70 g/cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: JFE Chemical Corporation, JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota Yamaji, Yasushi Madokoro, Akira Matsuzaki, Yusuke Fushiwaki, Mikito Suto
  • Publication number: 20230391398
    Abstract: A vehicle: finds a common central point at which a difference between a distance from a current position of a first tire and a distance from a target position of the first tire is within a predetermined range and a difference between a distance from a current position of a second tire and a distance from a target position of the second tire is within a predetermined range; and sets a steering angle of each of a plurality of tires so that the tire will be oriented in a direction of a tangent to a clearance circle whose center is the common central point or oriented in a direction whose angle difference from the direction of the tangent is within a predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki HIRAYAMA, Yusuke KANETA, Shinji NANBA, Haruhisa SAKAI, Toshiyuki KOHARA
  • Publication number: 20230392223
    Abstract: A grain oriented electrical steel sheet has excellent insulation property and includes: a steel sheet; and a coating disposed on each of both surfaces of the steel sheet, wherein an interlaminar current value after a rubbing test is not more than 0.10 A, the rubbing test being conducted by stacking two sheets of the grain oriented electrical steel sheet and rubbing the two sheets against each other to make 90 reciprocations under conditions of a surface pressure of 200 Pa, a rubbing speed of 0.10 m/s, and a reciprocating stroke of 50 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto WATANABE, Takashi TERASHIMA, Karin KOKUFU
  • Patent number: D1009912
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Matsushita, Takehide Hirata, Kei Shomura
  • Patent number: D1009913
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Matsushita, Takehide Hirata, Kei Shomura