Patents Assigned to Nippon Steel Corporation
  • Publication number: 20230304119
    Abstract: This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a microstructure at a ¼ depth position of a sheet thickness from a surface of the steel sheet contains, by volume fraction, ferrite: 0% to 50%, residual austenite: 6% to 30%, bainite: 5% to 60%, tempered martensite: 5% to 50%, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite: 0% to 5%, at the ¼ depth position of the sheet thickness from the surface, a number proportion of the residual austenite having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more to an entire residual austenite is 50% or more, and a number density of inclusions and precipitates having a grain size of 1 ?m or more is 30/mm2 or less, and at a 1/20 depth position of the sheet thickness from the surface, an average interval between Mn-concentrated portions in a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction is 300 ?m or less, and a standard deviation of Mn concentrations in the residual austenite is 0.40% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya KUWAYAMA, Kunio HAYASHI, Takafumi YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230304112
    Abstract: This hot rolled steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which the microstructure contains, by area%, polygonal ferrite: 2.0% or more and less than 10.0% and the remainder in the microstructure: more than 90.0% and 98.0% or less, and a correlation value that is obtained by analyzing the remainder in the microstructure in a SEM image of the microstructure is 0.82 to 0.95, and a maximum probability value is 0.0040 to 0.0200.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei YABU, Kazumasa TSUTSUI, Takuya KUWAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230295761
    Abstract: This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, at a depth position of ¼ of a sheet thickness from a surface, an area fraction of GAM0.5-1.7 is 50% or more and 100% or less, an area fraction of GAM>1.7 is 0% or more and 20% or less, an area fraction of GAM?0.5 is 0% or more and less than 50%, an area fraction of residual austenite is 0% or more and less than 4%, a total area fraction of the residual austenite, fresh martensite, cementite and pearlite is 0% or more and 10% or less, an average grain size is 15.0 ?m or less, an average dislocation density is 1.0×1014/m2 or more and 4.0×1015/m2 less, a total of pole densities of {211}<011> and {332}<113> in a thickness middle portion is 12.0 or less, and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuru YOSHIDA, Tsuyoshi YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230295760
    Abstract: This high-strength steel sheet contains predetermined chemical components, in a range from a surface to 1/10 of a sheet thickness in a sheet thickness direction, an average pole density of an orientation group 1 that is an orientation group expressed by ?1=0° to 90°, ?=50° to 60° and ?2=45° in terms of an Euler angle is 1.5 or less, an average pole density of an orientation group 2 that is an orientation group expressed by ?1=450 to 85°, ?=85° to 90° and ?2=45° in terms of the Euler angle is 1.5 or more, an S value that indicates a degree of randomness of surface properties is 7.5 or less, an E value that indicates a degree of concentration of the surface properties is 0.04 or more, and a tensile strength is 590 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Genki ABUKAWA, Hiroyuki TANAKA, Masafumi AZUMA, Kazumasa TSUTSUI
  • Publication number: 20230298800
    Abstract: This wound core (10) is a wound core (10) including a portion in which grain-oriented electrical steel sheets (1) in which planar'portions (4) and bent portions (5) are alternately continuous in a longitudinal direction are stacked in a sheet thickness direction and formed by stacking the grain-oriented electrical steel sheets (1) that have been individually bent in layers and assembled into a wound shape, wherein, when an average height of a roughness curve element in a width direction intersecting the longitudinal direction forming a surface of the bent portion (5) of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet (1) is Ra(b) and an average height of a roughness curve element in a width direction forming ,a surface of the planar portion (4) of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet (1) is Ra(s), the relationship of 1.00<Ra(b)/Ra(s)?5.00 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka IWAKI, Takahito MIZUMURA, Hisashi MOGI
  • Publication number: 20230295783
    Abstract: This hot-rolled steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in a microstructure, in terms of area %, residual austenite is less than 3.0%, ferrite is 15.0% or more and less than 60.0%, and pearlite is less than 5.0%, an E value that indicates periodicity of the microstructure is 10.7 or more, and an I value that indicates uniformity of the microstructure is 1.020 or more, a standard deviation of a Mn concentration is 0.60 mass % or less, and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHUTO, Kazumasa TSUTSUI, Koutarou HAYASHI, Akifumi SAKAKIBARA, Jun ANDO, Toshiki SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230296579
    Abstract: An internal oxidation starting temperature, estimation device estimates an internal oxidation starting temperature which is a minimum temperature required for an internal oxide layer to grow on a surface of an easily oxidizable element-containing hot-rolled steel sheet including Si, Mn, or Al or any combination thereof. The internal oxidation starting temperature estimation device includes an internal, oxidation starting temperature estimation unit that estimates the internal oxidation starting temperature on the basis of concentrations of the Si, the Mn, and the Al included in the easily oxidizable element-containing hot-rolled steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita IKEDA, Tooru AKASHI, Yasumitsu KONDO
  • Patent number: 11764661
    Abstract: The eddy current deceleration device according to the present disclosure includes: a stator including a cylindrical body and a plurality of magnets disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical body; and a rotor including a cylindrical part that houses the cylindrical body, wherein the cylindrical part of the rotor includes, on an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical part, in order closest to the inner circumferential surface: a first layer consisting of one of an Ni—P alloy that is an Ni alloy consisting of P with the balance being Ni and impurities and an Ni—B alloy that is an Ni alloy consisting of B with the balance being Ni and impurities; a second layer consisting of nickel; a third layer consisting of one of copper and copper alloy; a fourth layer consisting of nickel alloy; and a fifth layer consisting of nickel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu Okada, Yasutaka Noguchi, Nao Otaki, Tetsuya Yamada
  • Patent number: 11764368
    Abstract: A titanium material including a base metal made of pure titanium or a titanium alloy and a titanium oxide film formed on the base metal. Peak intensities obtained by thin-film X-ray diffraction analysis performed on an outer layer of the titanium material using an incident angle of 0.3° satisfy (I(104)+I(200))/I(101)?0.08?0.004×I(200), where I(104) is the peak intensity resulting from a plane (104) of a Ti2O3 phase, I(200) is the peak intensity resulting from a plane (200) of a TiO phase, I(101) is the peak intensity resulting from a plane (101) of an ?-Ti phase, and 0<I(104), 0?I(200), and 0<I(101). The titanium material is inexpensive and has both the electrical conductivity and corrosion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hideya Kaminaka, Yoshitaka Nishiyama, Koichi Nose, Junko Imamura, Haruka Sato
  • Patent number: 11760887
    Abstract: The titanium material includes a titanium oxide layer formed on a surface of titanium being a base material, the titanium oxide layer having a thickness measured by a glow discharge spectrometry of 60 to 300 nm, wherein: the titanium oxide layer contains 0.5 to 7.0 at % of nitrogen, and an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of a surface thereof is 2.0 to 4.0 ?m; and a power spectrum of a surface roughness of the titanium material has a peak of an amplitude height of 0.005 to 0.020 ?m in a range of a wavelength of 1.1 to 2.5 ?m and has a peak of an amplitude height of 0.0010 to 0.0030 ?m in a range of a wavelength of 0.80 to 0.98 ?m. An L*a*b* color space may be L*: 30 to 40, a*: 2.0 to 9.0, and b*: ?7.0 to 18.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michio Kaneko, Kiyonori Tokuno, Takao Wada, Mitsuyuki Hasegawa, Kazuo Yamagishi, Mitsuru Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11760423
    Abstract: To improve the collision performance of a panel member of an automobile. A panel member 1 includes a plurality of circular recessed parts 10 linearly arranged, wherein: when it is assumed that a portion where three recessed parts 10 are linearly aligned is called a recessed part group G, there are at least a first recessed part group G1 and a second recessed part group G2 arranged in parallel with the first recessed part group G1; and an angle formed between a first straight line L1 linking a center of the recessed part 10 in the first recessed part group G1 and a center of the recessed part 10 in the second recessed part group G2 located at a position closest to the recessed part 10, and, a second straight line L2 linking centers of the recessed parts 10 in the first recessed part group G1 is 80 degrees or more and 100 degrees or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Hirose, Keiichi Sato, Yoshimichi Kawai
  • Patent number: 11761053
    Abstract: A railway wheel having, in mass %, C: 0.80 to 1.15%, Si: 1.00% or less, Mn: 0.10 to 1.25%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.030% or less, Al: 0.025 to 0.650%, N: 0.0030 to 0.0200%, Cr: 0 to 0.60%, and V: 0 to 0.12%, with the balance being Fe and impurities. The railway wheel has a hub part, a rim part including a tread and a flange, and a web part disposed between the hub part and the rim part. The area fraction of pearlite in the hub, web, and rim parts is 95% or more, and the amount of pro-eutectoid cementite is not more than 1.0 pieces/100 ?m. The amount of pro-eutectoid cementite is calculated as (pieces/100 ?m)=a total sum of the number of pieces of pro-eutectoid cementite which intersect with two diagonal lines in a square visual field of 200 ?m×200 ?m/(5.66×100 ?m).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taketo Maejima, Manabu Kubota
  • Publication number: 20230290569
    Abstract: A wound core (10) is a wound core having a wound shape (10) including a rectangular hollow portion (15) in a center and a portion in which grain-oriented electrical steel sheets (1) in which planar portions (4) and bent portions (5) are alternately continuous in a longitudinal direction are stacked in a sheet thickness direction, which is a wound core formed by stacking the grain-oriented electrical steel sheets(1) that have been individually bent in layers and assembled into a wound shape and in which the plurality of grain-oriented electrical steel sheets are connected to each other via at least one joining part (6) for each roll, wherein the bent portion (5) of the laminated grain-oriented electrical steel sheet (1) has an average Vickers hardness of 190 to 250 HV in an L cross section in the longitudinal direction which is a cross section of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet (1) in a thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahito MIZUMURA, Hisashi MOGI, Masato MIZOKAMI, Masaru TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11753878
    Abstract: A two-step threaded connection for steel pipe includes an intermediate seal and intermediate shoulders. A pin 2 has an inner male-threaded section 23 and an outer male-threaded section 26. A box 3 has an inner female-threaded section 33 and an outer female-threaded section 36. The pin 2 has a pin intermediate critical cross section PICCS located near an end of the first male-threaded section 23. The box 3 has a box critical cross section BCCS located near an end of the inner female-threaded section 33 and a box intermediate critical cross section BICCS located near an end of the outer female-threaded section 36. The pin 2 and the box 3 satisfy the following relationships: PICCSA+BICCSA>BCCSA, and 0.70?PICCSA/BICCSA?0.95.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Keita Inose, Masaaki Sugino, Shin Ugai, Hikari Nakano
  • Patent number: 11753877
    Abstract: A threaded tubular connection includes a tubular female end extending from a main body of a first tubular member, and a tubular male end extending from a main body of a second tubular member, such that the tubular male end includes a first machined inner surface close to the male free end and a second machined inner cylindrical surface above a threaded portion of the male end such that a second inner diameter of the second machined inner cylindrical surface is smaller than a first inner diameter of the first machined inner surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Benoit Briane, Alan Fothergill, Satoshi Maruta, Yosuke Oku
  • Patent number: 11753691
    Abstract: A grain oriented electrical steel sheet includes the texture aligned with Goss orientation. In the grain oriented electrical steel sheet, when (?1 ?1 ?1) and (?2 ?2 ?2) represent deviation angles of crystal orientations measured at two measurement points which are adjacent on the sheet surface and which have an interval of 1 mm, the boundary condition BA is defined as |?2??1|?0.5°, and the boundary condition BB is defined as [(?2??1)2+(?2??1)2+(?2??1)2]1/2?2.0°, the boundary which satisfies the boundary condition BA and which does not satisfy the boundary condition BB is included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakamura, Yusuke Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20230279532
    Abstract: This hot-rolled steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in a microstructure, in terms of area %, martensite and tempered martensite are more than 92.0% and 100.0% or less in total, residual austenite is less than 3.0%, and ferrite is less than 5.0%, an E value that indicates periodicity of the microstructure is 11.0 or more, the I value that indicates uniformity of the microstructure is less than 1.020, a standard deviation of a Mn concentration is 0.60 mass % or less, and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumasa TSUTSUI, Hiroshi SHUTO, Koutarou HAYASHI, Mitsuru YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230278634
    Abstract: Disclosed is a structural member for an automobile body includes: a hat channel member that has a top sheet portion, a pair of side wall portions extending via first corner portions, and a pair of flange portions extending via second corner portions; and a joining member that has a pair of joining portions and a top sheet facing portion, wherein a first bead extending in the longitudinal direction is formed on the top sheet facing portion, and wherein two or more second beads extending in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction are formed on the pair of side wall portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiya SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11749429
    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 X1=(2×B50L+B50C)/(3×IS) is less than 0.845, an E1 value defined by E1=EL/EC is 0.930 or more, and an iron loss W10/1k is 80 W/kg or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeaki Wakisaka, Ichiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11749431
    Abstract: This electrical steel sheet includes a base steel sheet, a first insulation coating formed on a first surface of the base steel sheet and having adhesiveness, and a second insulation coating formed on a second surface of the base steel sheet which is a back surface to the first surface and having adhesiveness, in which an average pencil hardness of the first insulation coating is HB or higher and 3 H or lower, and an average pencil hardness of the second insulation coating is higher than the average pencil hardness of the first insulation coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Tanaka, Kazutoshi Takeda, Minako Fukuchi, Shinsuke Takatani, Shuichi Yamazaki