Patents Assigned to Nippon Steel Corporation
  • Publication number: 20230366058
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet is provided which has a chemical composition that contains, in mass%, C: 0.0050% or less, Si: 0.10 to 1.50%, Mn: 0.10 to 1.50%, sol. Al: 0.0050% or less, N: 0.0030% or less, S: 0.0040% or less, and O: 0.0050 to 0.0200%, and contains one or more elements selected from a group of La, Ce, Zr, Mg and Ca in a total amount of 0.0005 to 0.0200%, with the balance being Fe and impurities. A number density N of suitable oxide particles is 3.0×103 to 10×103 particles/cm2, and a number density n of oxide particles containing La and the like satisfies the expression n/N?0.01.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro ARITA, Shinichi MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20230366065
    Abstract: A titanium alloy member by mass %, Al: 4.0% to 9.0%, one or more selected from the group consisting of Fe, Cr, and Ni: 0.5% to 2.5% in total, C: 0% to 0.100%, N: 0% to 0.100%, H: 0% to 0.100%, O: 0% to 0.500%, and a remainder including Ti and impurities, in which the titanium alloy member includes a hard part having a Vickers hardness of 350 HV or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki OKUI, Tomonori KUNIEDA, Kenichi MORI
  • Patent number: 11814708
    Abstract: Provided are a hot dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized layer on at least one surface of the base metal steel sheet, wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition and contains, by volume fraction, ferrite: 0% to 50%, retained austenite: 6% to 30%, bainite: 5% or more, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite and cementite in total: 0% to 5%, a number density of tempered martensite with a circle equivalent diameter of 5.0 ?m or more is 20/1000 ?m2 or less, and an area ratio of fresh martensite with a circle equivalent diameter of 2.0 ?m or more after imparting 5% plastic strain is 10% or less, and a method for producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Kawata, Kunio Hayashi, Yuji Yamaguchi, Satoshi Uchida
  • Patent number: 11814710
    Abstract: A non oriented electrical steel sheet includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %, 1.0% or more and 5.0% or less of Si, wherein a sheet thickness is 0.10 mm or more and 0.35 mm or less, an average grain size is 30 ?m or more and 200 ?m or less, an X value defined by X=(2×B50L+B50C)/(3×IS) is 0.800 or more, and an iron loss W10/1k is 80 W/kg or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Tanaka, Takeaki Wakisaka
  • Patent number: 11814703
    Abstract: Provided is a titanium composite material 1 including: a first surface layer portion 2; an inner layer portion 4; and a second surface layer portion 3; wherein: the first surface layer portion 2 and the second surface layer portion 3 are composed of a titanium alloy; the inner layer portion 4 is composed of a commercially pure titanium including pores; a thickness of at least one of the first surface layer portion 2 and the second surface layer portion 3 is 2 ?m or more, and a proportion of the thickness with respect to an overall thickness of the titanium composite material 1 is 40% or less; and a porosity in a cross section perpendicular to a sheet thickness direction is more than 0% and 30% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kitaura, Yoshihisa Shirai, Hideki Fujii
  • Patent number: 11814732
    Abstract: A hot-dip plated steel includes a base steel and a hot-dip plating layer on a surface of the base steel, a chemical composition of the hot-dip plating layer contains, by mass %, Al: 10.00% to 30.00%, Mg: 3.00% to 12.00%, Sn: 0% to 2.00%, Si: 0% to 2.50%, Ca: 0% to 3.00%, Ni: 0% or more and less than 0.25%, Fe: 0% to 5.00%, and the like, a remainder includes Zn and impurities, a metallographic structure of the hot-dip plating layer contains 5 to 45 area % of an ? phase having a grain diameter of 0.5 to 2 ?m, the metallographic structure of the hot-dip plating layer contains 15 to 70 area % of a MgZn2 phase, and, among the ? phases having the grain diameter of 0.5 to 2 ?m, an area ratio of an ? phase having a (111)?//(0001)MgZn2 orientation relationship to the adjacent MgZn2 phase is 25% to 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Mitsunobu, Mamoru Saito, Kohei Tokuda, Hiroshi Takebayashi
  • Publication number: 20230357908
    Abstract: In a hot-rolled steel sheet, a microstructure contains, in area ratio, at a location at ¼ a sheet thickness, a total amount of 90% or more of one or more of martensite and tempered martensite and a total amount of 10% or less of one or more of ferrite, bainite, and pearlite, at a location of 200 ?m from the surface, a total amount of 70% or more and less than 90% of one or more of martensite and tempered martensite and a total amount of more than 10% and 30% or less of one or more of ferrite, bainite, and pearlite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke ITO, Akifumi SAKAKIBARA, Teruki HAYASHIDA, Tatsuo YOKOI
  • Publication number: 20230356680
    Abstract: There is provided an impact absorbing member that absorbs an impact by being crushed in an axial direction, the impact absorbing member having a cylindrical shape extending along the axial direction, in which when a cross section perpendicular to the axial direction of the impact absorbing member is set to a first cross section, and a cross section defined by extension lines of a plurality of sides in the first cross section is set to a second cross section, the second cross section is a polygon, the first cross section includes a shared vertex that is shared by the second cross section, and a recessed groove that is positioned to correspond to a vertex of the second cross section, and an interior angle of at least one vertex of the first cross section is 100° or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yutaka MIKAZUKI
  • Publication number: 20230357893
    Abstract: In a titanium material, when a chemical composition of a surface is analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, the titanium material contains, as a composition of the surface, Zn: 0.1 atom% or more and Ca: 0.5 atom% or more, and the titanium material contains, as a composition of a surface oxide film, C: 20.0 atom% or less and F: 5.0 atom% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minami MATSUMOTO, Kazuhiro TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11807924
    Abstract: An Al plated electric resistance welded steel pipe for hardening use suppressing the formation of scale to the inside of the plating layer while performing hot forming and an Al plated hollow member using that Al plated electric resistance welded steel pipe, wherein the Al plated electric resistance welded steel pipe for hardening use is comprised of a base material made of a tubular steel plate and having a predetermined chemical composition and an electric resistance welded zone provided at a seam portion of the steel plate and extending in a longitudinal direction of the steel plate, the base material is further provided with an intermetallic compound layer positioned on the surface of the steel plate and including an Al—Fe—Si-based intermetallic compound and an Al plating layer positioned on the surface of the intermetallic compound layer and containing Al and Si, and 70×X/D?Y/t?30 is satisfied, wherein X (?m) is a thickness of the intermetallic compound layer, Y (?m) is a thickness of the Al plating laye
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Maki, Soshi Fujita, Toyomitsu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11806773
    Abstract: This press-formed article includes: a top sheet portion; a sidewall continuing to the top sheet portion via a convex ridge line portion; a flange continuing to the sidewall via a concaved ridge line portion; and an outward flange continuing from an edge portion of the top sheet portion to an edge portion of the flange, via an edge portion of the convex ridge line portion, an edge portion of the sidewall, and an edge portion of the concaved ridge line portion, wherein in the same unit, an average thickness TAve, a minimum thickness TMin, and a maximum thickness TMax of the outward flange satisfy Equation 1 and Equation 2. 0.8×TAve?TMin<TAve??(Equation 1) TAve<TMax?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuharu Tanaka, Misao Ogawa, Takashi Miyagi, Toshimitsu Aso, Hiroyuki Tanoue, Ryo Kuroda
  • Patent number: 11807910
    Abstract: Provided is an austenitic alloy pipe, which has high yield strength, excellent SCC resistance, suppressed strength anisotropy, and high detectability in ultrasonic flaw detection. The austenitic alloy pipe according to the present embodiment has a chemical composition consisting of: in mass %, C: 0.004 to 0.030%, Si: 1.00% or less, Mn: 0.30 to 2.00%, P: 0.030 or less, S: 0.0020% or less, Al: 0.001 to 0.100%, Cu: 0.50 to 1.50%, Ni: 25.00 to 55.00%, Cr: 20.00 to 30.00%, Mo: 2.00 to 10.00%, and N: 0.005 to 0.100%, with the balance being Fe and impurities. A grain size number of austenite crystal grain is 2.0 to 7.0 and a mixed grain ratio is not more than 5%. Tensile YS is not less than 758 MPa, compressive YS/tensile YS is 0.85 to 1.10, and an outer diameter is not less than 170 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Ueyama, Yusaku Tomio, Yuhei Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11807940
    Abstract: A plated steel material comprising a steel base material and an Al—Zn—Mg-based plating layer formed on a surface of the steel base material, wherein the plating layer has a predetermined chemical composition, and in a surface structure of the plating layer, there is, by area ratio, 2.0% or more of an acicular Al—Zn—Si—Ca phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Mitsunobu, Takehiro Takahashi, Jun Maki
  • Publication number: 20230349017
    Abstract: This hot-rolled steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, the number % of crystal grains of bainite that are in contact with both tempered martensite and residual austenite is 80% or more of all crystal grains of the bainite, a C concentration in the residual austenite is 0.80 mass % or more, an average crystal grain size of the residual austenite is 0.70 ?m or less, and a standard deviation of Vickers hardness is 25 HV0.01 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mutsumi SAKAKIBARA, Hiroshi SHUTO, Hiroshi TANEI, Takaaki TSUTSUMI, Shota ISHITSUKA, Shinsuke KAI, Akifumi SAKAKIBARA
  • Publication number: 20230353023
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a stator, a rotor, and a casing that accommodates the stator and the rotor, in which a {111}<211> orientation intensity (A) of a core material of the stator is in a range of 2 to 30, a {111}<211> orientation intensity (B) of a core material of the rotor is in a range of 1 to 15, and both the orientation intensities satisfy a relationship of an expression (1) A>B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tesshu MURAKAWA, Yoshiaki NATORI
  • Publication number: 20230349030
    Abstract: A coated steel member includes: a steel sheet substrate containing, as a chemical composition, by mass %, C: 0.25% to 0.65%, Si: 0.10% to 1.00%, Mn: 0.30% to 1.00%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, N: 0.010% or less, Ti: 0.010% to 0.100%, B: 0.0005% to 0.0100%, Nb: 0.02% to 0.10%, Mo: 0.10% to 1.00%, Cu: 0.15% to 1.00%, and Ni: 0.05% to 0.25%; and a coating formed on a surface of the steel sheet substrate and containing Al and Fe. The maximum Cu content in a range from the surface to a depth of 5.0 ?m is 150% or more of the Cu content of the steel sheet substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichiro TABATA
  • Publication number: 20230349032
    Abstract: A non oriented electrical steel sheet includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %, 1.0% or more and 5.0% or less of Si, wherein a sheet thickness is 0.10 mm or more and 0.35 mm or less, an average grain size is 30 ?m or more and 200 ?m or less, an X1 value defined by X=(2×B50L+B50C)/(3×IS) is less than 0.845, an X2 value defined by X2=(B50L+2×B50D+B50C)/(4×IS) is 0.800 or more, and an iron loss W10/1k is 80 W/kg or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro TANAKA, Takeaki WAKISAKA, Shun OTA
  • Publication number: 20230349022
    Abstract: A steel sheet according to an aspect of the present invention has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a metallographic structure at a ¼ thickness portion includes, by volume percentage, a total of 50% or more of one or both of martensite and bainite and 8% or more of residual austenite, an average value of aspect ratios of prior austenite grains is 5.0 or more, number density of AlN is 3000 pieces/mm2 or more and less than 6000 pieces/mm2 at a depth position of 30 ?m from a sheet surface, an internal oxidation layer in which at least a part of a crystal grain boundary is coated with an oxide is provided from the sheet surface to a depth of 5.0 ?m or more, grain boundary coverage of the oxide is 60% or more in a region from the sheet surface to a depth of 5.0 ?m, and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya SUZUKI, Kengo TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20230349027
    Abstract: A high-Ni alloy having excellent weld-hot-cracking resistance includes, in mass %, Cr: 16-30%, Ni: 18-50%, Al: 0.01-1.0%, and Ti: 0.01-1.5%. In a first aspect of the invention, a relationship between number density of TiC precipitates having 1.0 ?m or more of equivalent circle diameter and Mg content in steel satisfies formula (1) below. In a second aspect of the invention, S average concentration in oxide- and sulfide-inclusions is 0.70 mass % or more. In a third aspect of the invention, mass ratios of CaO, MgO, and Al2O3 in inclusions, where O or S is detected, satisfy formula (2), the mass ratios being respectively calculated from average concentrations of Ca, Mg and Al in the inclusions, (1) number density of TiC (number of pieces/mm2)?463?9.5×Mg concentration in steel (mass ppm) and (2) [CaO?0.6×MgO] (mass %)/[CaO+MgO+Al2O3] (mass %)?0.20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL Stainless Steel Corporation, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukihiro NISHIDA, Shinji TSUGE, Takahiro OSUKI
  • Patent number: 11801897
    Abstract: In a frame member, the hardness of a sheet-thickness-direction central section in a portion where a softening layer is provided is greater than or equal to 400 Hv, the softening layer has hardness smaller by at least 10 Hv than the hardness of the sheet-thickness-direction central section in the portion where the softening layer is provided, the thickness of the softening layer is greater than or equal to 2% of the sheet thickness but smaller than 20% of the sheet thickness, the hardness of the softening layer at the surface is greater than or equal to 0.5 times the hardness of the sheet-thickness-direction central section but smaller than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuri Toda, Hiroaki Kubota, Hiroyuki Kawata, Daisuke Maeda