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.
Abstract: Provided is a wound core having a flat portion and corner portions adjacent to the flat portion, the flat portion including a lap portion, the corner portions including bent portions. A non-heat-resistant magnetic domain refined material is used for at least a part of the materials forming the wound core. Closure domains are formed in the non-heat-resistant magnetic domain refined material so as to extend in a direction intersecting a longitudinal direction of the non-heat-resistant magnetic domain refined material, an area of each of the closure domains in a cross section that is taken in the longitudinal direction being more than 7500 ?m2. In the lap portion, the ratio of the number of lap joint portions having a lap length of from 3.0 mm to 30 mm to the total number of lap joint portions is 50% or more.
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
Abstract: A device for determining sound source direction includes an array sensor including a plurality of microphones that measures a sound wave, and a processor for calculating a sound pressure in each direction based on sound pressure information of the sound wave obtained by the array sensor and for determining a direction in which the sound pressure is maximum as a direction of sound wave arrival. The plurality of microphones is provided at vertices of two or more concyclic polygons that are on a same plane and that have a same center and are arranged so as to be non-rotationally symmetric as a whole array sensor.
Abstract: A meandering control method for steel strip includes: an imaging step of imaging the surface of a traveling steel strip using a line sensor camera installed between adjacent rolling mills; a meandering amount calculation step of calculating the meandering amount of the steel strip by detecting the positions of both end portions in the width direction of the steel strip from a one-dimensional brightness distribution based on the captured image; and a leveling control arithmetic operation step of arithmetically operating a roll opening difference between the operation and drive sides of the rolling mill located on the immediately downstream side of the line sensor camera based on the calculated meandering amount. The imaging is performed in a period of 5 msec or less.
Abstract: A cold rolling facility includes: a cold tandem mill including rolling stands; and a rolling supply system including a first rolling oil supply system configured to supply first emulsion rolling oil, and a second rolling oil supply system configured to supply second emulsion rolling oil, wherein mixed rolling oil obtained by mixing the first and the second emulsion rolling oil is supplied at least to a specific rolling stand among the rolling stands in such a manner as to satisfy the following formula (1), 0.6?F2/F1?1.4 (1), where F1 denotes first horizontal force acting in a rolling direction on a roll included in the specific rolling stand, and F2 denotes second horizontal force acting in a rolling direction on a roll included in an upstream side rolling stand arranged on an upstream side of the specific rolling stand and neighboring with the specific rolling stand.
Abstract: A threaded joint wherein a relationship between shoulder angle parameters and thread taper angle parameters for a coupling and a pair of pins inserted from both ends of the coupling is defined by the following expression (1), and a tightening torque with which the threaded joint is tightened is 60% or more and 85% or less of a yield torque determined by the following expression (2): - 1.5 ? ° ? ? ? ? - ? ? ? ? 2. ° , ( 1 ) T = ( T S + T D ) ? 1 12 ( 2 ) T S = f t ? P c ? E 7 2 ? ( 2 ? ? ? E 7 ) ? L 4 ? 1 2 P c = E ? ? m 2 ? ( ( W 2 ) 2 - ( E 7 2 ) 2 ) ? ( ( E 7 2 ) 2 - ( d 2 ) 2 ) 2 ? ( E 7 2 ) 3 ? ( ( W 2 ) 2 - ( d 2 ) 2 ) T D = Y m ? A S ( P 2 ? ? + R t ? f s cos ? ? + R s ? f s ) .
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 30, 2020
Publication date:
November 30, 2023
Applicant:
JFE STEEL CORPORATION
Inventors:
Masaki YOSHIKAWA, Seigo GOTO, Seiji OZAKI, Hideo SATO
Abstract: A construction method of an abnormality diagnosis model for diagnosing an abnormality of a process, the construction method includes: creating a first regression model that sets a regression coefficient regarding an explanatory variable with a small influence on a response variable to zero by using all operational data in normal times collected in advance; dividing the operational data into a plurality of segments determined in advance and determining an explanatory variable candidate for each of the segments within a range of the explanatory variable used in the first regression model; and creating a second regression model that sets a regression coefficient regarding an explanatory variable candidate with a small influence on a response variable to zero by using the operational data included in the segment.
Abstract: The invention provides a martensitic stainless steel seamless pipe for oil country tubular goods having high strength, and excellent sulfide stress corrosion cracking resistance and a method for manufacturing the same. The martensitic stainless steel seamless pipe for oil country tubular goods has a yield stress of 655 to 758 MPa, and has a composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.10% or less, Si: 0.5% or less, Mn: 0.05 to 2.0%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Ni: 4.0 to 8.0%, Cu: 0.02% or more and less than 1.0%, Cr: 10.0 to 14.0%, Mo: 1.0 to 3.5%, V: 0.003 to 0.2%, Co: 0.02% or more and less than 1.0%, Al: 0.1% or less, N: 0.1% or less, Ti: 0.50% or less, and the balance Fe and incidental impurities, wherein C, Mn, Cr, Cu, Co, Ni, Mo, W, Nb, N, and Ti satisfy the predetermined relations.
Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet comprises: a chemical composition that contains C, Si, Mn, P, S, N, Al, Ti, Nb, and B with a balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, and satisfies [mol % N]/[mol % Ti]<1; and a steel microstructure in which: an area fraction of ferrite is 12% or more and less than 30%; a total area fraction of tempered martensite and bainite is 55% or more and 85% or less; an area fraction of quenched martensite is 15% or less; an area fraction of retained austenite is 1% or more and 10% or less; an area fraction of low-Mn ferrite having a Mn concentration of 0.8×[% Mn] or less is 5% or more and 20% or less; a result of subtracting the area fraction of the low-Mn ferrite from the area fraction of the ferrite is 10% or more; an area fraction of a residual microstructure is less than 3%; and an average grain size of the low-Mn ferrite is 10 ?m or less.
Abstract: To provide a steel sheet with excellent resistance to cracking in resistance welding at a welded portion. Disclosed is a galvanized 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 with a coating weight per surface of 5.0 g/m2 or more; and a galvanized 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 0.50 or more, and an average value of C concentration in a region ranging from 10 ?m to 20 ?m from an interface between the galvanized layer and the Fe-based electroplating layer towards the Fe-based electroplating layer is 0.10 mass % or less.
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: 0.02% or less, Si: 0.15% or less, Mn: 0.01% or more and 0.50% or less, P: 0.002% or more and 0.020% or less, S: 0.001% or more and 0.050% or less, Al: 0.05% or less, N: 0.0100% or less, and Se: 0.001% or more and 0.30% or less, with a balance consisting of iron and inevitable impurities.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 22, 2021
Publication date:
November 23, 2023
Applicant:
JFE STEEL CORPORATION
Inventors:
Katsuyuki ICHIMIYA, Koichi NAKASHIMA, Yuta IMANAMI
Abstract: The method for manufacturing a high-manganese steel cast slab according to the present invention includes manufacturing a cast slab by continuously casting a molten high-manganese steel having a specific chemical composition. In the manufacture, in a continuous-casting machine or during transportation before subsequent charging into a heating furnace for hot rolling, a processing strain is applied to the cast slab having a surface temperature of 600° C. or higher and 1100° C. or lower in such an amount that a processing strain amount calculated by a certain formula is 3.0% or more and 10.0% or less.
Abstract: An apparatus line for manufacturing seamless steel pipes and tubes includes: a heating apparatus for heating a steel raw material; a piercing apparatus for piercing the heated steel raw material thus forming a hollow material; and a rolling apparatus for applying working to the hollow material to form a seamless steel pipe having a predetermined shape. A cooling apparatus is arranged on an exit side of the rolling apparatus. A heated steel raw material is worked by the rolling apparatus after being pierced by the piercing apparatus, and thereafter, using a surface temperature of a hollow piece before being cooled by the cooling apparatus as a cooling start temperature, the hollow piece is cooled to a cooling stop temperature differing by 50° C. or more from the cooling start temperature and being equal to or above 600° C. at an average cooling speed of 1.0° C./s or more in terms of an outer surface temperature.
Abstract: A hole-opening bit that can simplify an operation for opening a tap hole for installing a burner lance for raising the temperature of a furnace bottom of a blast furnace, which allows the blast furnace to be started up in a relatively short time after long-time blast stoppage or after a furnace cooling accident, by efficiently heating the furnace bottom, and a tap hole opening method using the hole-opening bit. A hole-opening bit used to open the tap hole in the furnace bottom of the blast furnace including chips on rear surfaces of a furnace drilling surface of the hole-opening bit such that outermost ends of the chips are located inside of an outermost end of the hole-opening bit.
Abstract: A gas injection nozzle refractory with one or more gas injection small metal tubes buried therein has improved durability. The gas injection nozzle refractory includes a MgO—C central refractory with a small metal tube buried therein, and a MgO—C peripheral refractory surrounding the central refractory. The central refractory on a plane of the gas injection nozzle refractory has an external shape of a circle with a radius in the range of R+10 to R+150 mm concentric with a virtual circle with a minimum radius surrounding all buried small metal tubes, R mm being a radius of the virtual circle.
Abstract: A press formed article is manufactured from a metal sheet, the press formed article including a top sheet portion, a vertical wall portion continuous to end portions in the width direction of the top sheet portion via a protruding ridge portion, and an outward flange portion continuous to longitudinal end portions of the top sheet portion, longitudinal end portions of the protruding ridge portion, and longitudinal end portions of the vertical wall portion via a recessed ridge portion. The metal sheet is bent at the position of the protruding ridge portion and formed into an L-shape in cross section, and then bent at the position of the recessed ridge portion and the outward flange portion is formed in a state where an area to be the outward flange portion is released.
Abstract: A surface temperature measuring method includes: acquiring a radiation light amount of a surface of a measurement object; irradiating the surface of the measurement object with light under a specular reflection condition to acquire a specular reflection light amount; irradiating the surface of the measurement object with light under a diffuse reflection condition to acquire a diffuse reflection light amount; calculating an emissivity of the surface of the measurement object by using a model indicating a relationship between an emissivity and a specular reflectance, and a relationship between the emissivity and a diffuse reflectance of the surface of the measurement object, the acquired specular reflection light amount, and the acquired diffuse reflection light amount; and calculating a surface temperature of the measurement object using the acquired radiation light amount and the calculated emissivity.
Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet with extremely excellent magnetic properties by removing an etching resist coating well to form narrow grooves on a metal strip surface even with low-output laser, while reducing thermal effects on the metal strip caused by laser irradiation, and a method for forming grooves on a metal strip surface, having forming an etching resist coating with 0 to 70 lightness L* on at least one side of the metal strip, irradiating laser with less than 1.5 kW output on the etching resist coating while scanning the laser in a direction that intersects a rolling direction of the metal strip to remove a portion of the etching resist coating irradiated by the laser, and etching a portion of the metal strip below the removed portion of the etching resist coating to form grooves, the lightness L* being a L* value in a CIELAB color space (CIE1976L*a*b* color space).
Abstract: A press forming method for an automotive outer panel according to the present invention is a method for press forming a metal sheet 51 into an automotive outer panel 61 having a character line 63 and panel surface portions 65a and 65b by using a punch 3, a die 5, and a blank holder 7. The press forming method includes: a step of providing an elastic body 9 protruding toward the punch 3 side on a die-side forming surface portion 5b forming the panel surface portion 65a, and bringing the elastic body 9 into contact with the metal sheet 51 prior to the die 5; and a step of press forming while crushing the elastic body 9 and pressing the metal sheet 51, and the elastic body 9 is caused to protrude from the die-side forming surface portion 5b so that a frictional force of the crushed elastic body 9 and the metal sheet 51 is equal to or greater than an absolute value of a difference between tensions acting on both sides of a portion 53 corresponding to the character line 63.