Patents Assigned to Nippon Steel Corporation
  • Publication number: 20230275292
    Abstract: A novel battery container that can be obtained by welding plated steel sheets, has sufficient sealing ability over a long period of time, and is able to keep the base material of the plated steel sheets from being exposed and eluting into the electrolyte solution is provided. That is, a battery case comprised of a container body and a container lid, wherein the container body and the container lid are each comprised of a plated steel sheet, a joint part between the container and the container lid is comprised of a plating welded part containing a main constituent component of the plating of the plated steel sheet in 60 mass% or more and a steel sheet welded part containing the main constituent component of the plating in less than 60 mass%, and the plating welded part has a length of 0.5 µm or more and less than 1.0 mm in a joint longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinobu KOBAYASHI, Takehiro TAKAHASHI, Yasuto GOTO
  • Publication number: 20230271649
    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 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: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiya SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11739866
    Abstract: An electric resistance welded steel pipe for a torsion beam, in which a chemical composition of a base metal portion contains, in terms of % by mass, 0.05 to 0.30% of C, 0.03 to 1.20% of Si, 0.30 to 2.50% of Mn, 0.010 to 0.200% of Ti, 0.005 to 0.500% of Al, 0.010 to 0.040% of Nb, and 0.0005 to 0.0050 % of B, the balance containing Fe and impurities, wherein: Vc90, defined by the following Formula (i), is from 2 to 150, a mass ratio Ti/N is 3.4 or more, a microstructure of a wall thickness central portion in an L cross section at a base metal 1800 position is a tempered martensite, an average aspect ratio of prior ? grains in the tempered martensite is 2.0 or less, and a tensile strength in the pipe axis direction is from 750 to 980 MPa: log Vc90=2.94?0.75?a??Formula (i) ?a=2.7C+0.4Si+Mn+0.45Ni+0.8Cr+2Mo??Formula (ii).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Fukushi, Noboru Hasegawa, Manabu Wada
  • Patent number: 11742140
    Abstract: Provided is a wound core formed by laminating a plurality of bent bodies obtained by forming a coated grain-oriented electrical steel sheet in which a coating is formed on at least one surface of a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet so that the coating is on an outside, in a sheet thickness direction, in which the bent body has a bent region obtained by bending the coated grain-oriented electrical steel sheet and a flat region adjacent to the bent region, the number of deformation twins present in the bent region in a side view is five or less per 1 mm of a length of a center line in the sheet thickness direction in the bent region, and when a region extending 40 times a sheet thickness to both sides in a circumferential direction from a center of the bent region on an outer circumferential surface of the bent body is defined as a strain affected region, a proportion of an area where the coating is not damaged at any position along the circumferential direction in a flat region within the strain affected r
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahito Mizumura, Masato Mizokami, Hisashi Mogi, Fumiaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11739407
    Abstract: The production method of a Ni-based alloy according to the present embodiment includes: a casting step of casting a liquid alloy which is a raw material of the Ni-based alloy to produce a Ni-based alloy starting material; and a segregation reducing step of performing, on the Ni-based alloy starting material produced by the casting step, heat treatment, or the heat treatment and complex treatment including hot working and heat treatment after the hot working, to satisfy Formula (1): where, each symbol in Formula (1) is as follows: V R - 0.294 ? 1.27 × 10 3 ? ? n = 1 N ( 1 - Rd n - 1 100 ) - 1 · exp ? ( - 2.89 × 10 4 T n + 273 ) · t n ( 1 ) VR: Solidification cooling rate (° C./min) of the liquid alloy, Tn: Holding temperature (° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamitsu Takagi, Masaaki Terunuma, Kiyoko Takeda
  • Patent number: 11739788
    Abstract: A crankshaft with improved seizure resistance is provided. A crankshaft includes a journal and a pin, each of the journal and pin having such a surface geometry that the arithmetical mean height of the primary profile, Pa, is 0.090 ?m or smaller and the reduced peak height Rpk is 0.070 ?m or smaller. As used herein, arithmetical mean height of a primary profile Pa is defined in JIS B 0601 (2001), and reduced peak height Rpk is defined in JIS B 0671 (2002).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Abe, Manabu Kubota
  • Patent number: 11742129
    Abstract: An adhesively-laminated core includes: a plurality of electrical steel sheets which are stacked on each other and of which both surfaces are coated with an insulation coating; and an adhesion part which is provided between the electrical steel sheets adjacent to each other in a stacking direction and adheres the electrical steel sheets to each other, wherein an adhesive forming the adhesion part contains an organic resin and an inorganic filler, wherein a 50% particle size of the inorganic filler is 0.2 to 3.5 ?m, wherein a 90% particle size of the inorganic filler is 10.0 ?m or less, and wherein an amount of the inorganic filler is 5 to 50 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the organic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Fujii, Shinsuke Takatani, Kazutoshi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20230264154
    Abstract: To realize excellent durability of an apparatus, realize a dissolved gas amount suitable for propagation of ultrasonic waves, and stably generate fine bubbles that further comply with a treatment using ultrasonic waves. An ultrasonic treatment apparatus according to the present invention includes: a treatment part capable of accommodating a treatment liquid and an object to be treated; an ultrasonic generator that is provided in the treatment part and applies ultrasonic waves to the object to be treated; and a circulation path for circulating the treatment liquid in the treatment part, in which a fine bubble generator which performs deaeration on an extracted treatment liquid and generates fine bubbles in the treatment liquid, is provided to the circulation path, in series with a treatment liquid extraction pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eri HOSHIBA, Hiromitsu DATE
  • Publication number: 20230265548
    Abstract: Provided is a hot rolled steel sheet having a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more, a sheet thickness of 1.2 to 4.0 mm, and a sheet width of 750 mm or more, and satisfying -15?(?W 1 +?W2)/2-?C ?15 (where ?W1 and ?W2 respectively indicate hole expansion ratios (%) at ? positions of the sheet width from one end of the hot rolled steel sheet in a sheet width direction perpendicular to a rolling direction and the other end at an opposite side, and ?C indicates a hole expansion ratio (%) of a sheet width center part).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi TOYODA, Eisaku SAKURADA
  • Patent number: 11731392
    Abstract: A panel structure includes: a panel made of metal; and a reinforcement joined to the panel and made of a plurality of FRP layers including continuous fibers, in which each of the plurality of FRP layers has a single fiber direction, at least one layer out of the plurality of FRP layers has a fiber direction different from that of another layer, in the plurality of FRP layers, a proportion of layers having an angular difference in the fiber direction of 30° or more is 15% or more of all of the layers, and when calculating, by defining a long side direction being a long direction of a long edge of the panel as a 90° direction and a direction orthogonal to the 90° direction as a 0° direction, each of a 90° direction component and a 0° direction component regarding the fiber direction of each FRP layer of the reinforcement joined to the panel, by using a trigonometric function, an expression (1) is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Aitoh, Yasuhiro Ito
  • Patent number: 11732321
    Abstract: Provided are: a steel sheet having a high strength and excellent stretch formability; and a method of producing the same. The steel sheet has prescribed chemical composition and structure, in which the integration degree of the (111)<112> orientation of ferrite is 3.0 or higher, and the integration degree of the (252)<2-11> orientation of martensite and tempered martensite is 5.0 or lower. The method of producing the steel sheet includes: the step of continuously casting a molten steel having the prescribed chemical composition, and performing 5 to 40% rolling reduction at a temperature of 800° C. to lower than 1,200° C. in a period after the continuous casting until cooling to room temperature; the hot rolling step of performing hot rolling with a finishing temperature of 650 to 950° C.; the step of coiling the resulting hot-rolled steel sheet at a coiling temperature of 400 to 700° C.; the step of retaining the hot-rolled steel sheet at (coiling start temperature+20° C. to 100° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Takeda, Hitoshi Nikaido, Hiroyuki Kawata, Takafumi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11732341
    Abstract: In a metal coated steel sheet, a chemical composition contains, in mass %, at least C: 0.03% to 0.70%, Si: 0.25% to 2.50%, Mn: 1.00% to 5.00%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.010% or less, sol. Al: 0.001% to 2.500, N: 0.020% or less, and a balance composed of iron and impurities, a metal structure contains greater than 5.0 vol % of retained austenite and greater than 5.0 vol % of tempered martensite, and satisfies a C content in the retained austenite being 0.85 mass % or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Haga, Kohichi Sano, Koutarou Hayashi, Kunio Hayashi, Masaharu Kameda, Akihiro Uenishi, Hiroyuki Kawata
  • Publication number: 20230257622
    Abstract: An electrical steel sheet used for a laminated core is an electrical steel sheet including an insulation coating 3 on a surface of a base steel sheet 2, the insulation coating being coated with a coating composition for an electrical steel sheet. The coating composition for an electrical steel sheet contains an epoxy resin, a first curing agent including an alkylphenol, and a second curing agent including either one or both of a phenol resol resin and a phenol novolac resin formulated in specific proportions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Shinsuke TAKATANI, Minako FUKUCHI, Ichiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230257841
    Abstract: A new and improved method for producing electrical steel sheet enabling production of electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic characteristics and coating film adhesion, the method for producing electrical steel sheet containing a process of bringing an electrical steel sheet containing, by mass %, C: more than 0% and 0.10% or less, Si: 2.5% or more and 4.5% or less, Mn: 0.01% or more and 5.0% or less, a total of one or more of S, Se, and Te: more than 0% and 0.050% or less, acid soluble Al: more than 0% and 5.0% or less, N: more than 0% and 0.015% or less, and P: more than 0% and 1.0% or less and having a balance of Fe and impurities into contact with a solution, the solution containing one or more elements from among Cu, Hg, Ag, Pb, Cd, Co, Zn, and Ni, a total of concentrations of the elements being 0.00001% or more and 1.0000% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobusato MORISHIGE, Kazumi MIZUKAMI, Daisuke ITABASHI
  • Publication number: 20230257844
    Abstract: Provided is a steel sheet comprising a sheet thickness center part and a first surface layer softened part and a second surface layer softened part respectively arranged at two sides of the sheet thickness center part, wherein the first surface layer softened part and second surface layer softened part have 10 ?m or more average thicknesses and have average Vickers hardnesses of 0.90 time or less of the average Vickers hardness of a sheet thickness ½ position, and the first surface layer softened part has an average Vickers hardness of 1.05 times or more the average Vickers hardness of the second surface layer softened part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya NAKANO, Yuji SAKIYAMA, Takashi YASUTOMI, Yoshiaki HONDA, Masahiro NAKATA
  • Publication number: 20230257843
    Abstract: This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, the metallurgical structure at a thickness ¼ portion is, by area ratio, martensite: 40% to 97%, ferrite+bainite: 50% or less, residual austenite: 3% to 20% and a remainder in microstructure: 5% or less, the aspect ratio of residual austenite having an aspect ratio of 3 or more is 80% or more with respect to the total area of residual austenite, and the number of carbides having a grain diameter of 8 to 40 nm per square micrometer is five or more in the residual austenite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eriko TSUKAMOTO, Kengo TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20230257845
    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 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: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHUTO, Kazumasa TSUTSUI, Koutarou HAYASHI, Akifumi SAKAKIBARA, Jun ANDO, Mitsuru YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230257621
    Abstract: A coating composition for an electrical steel sheet including an epoxy resin, an epoxy resin by latent curing agent, and a thermoplastic elastomer, wherein the thermoplastic elastomer has a melting point of 100° C. or higher and 200° C. or lower and a bending elastic modulus of more than 5 MPa and 100 MPa or less, and wherein the amount of the thermoplastic elastomer with respect to a total amount of 100 parts by mass of the epoxy resin and the epoxy resin by latent curing agent is 10 parts by mass or more and less than 40 parts by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Shinsuke TAKATANI, Minako FUKUCHI, Ichiro TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11725259
    Abstract: A plated steel sheet having excellent chemical convertibility includes: a steel; and a plating layer that is provided on a surface of the steel, in which the plating layer includes, by mass %, Al: 5.00% to 35.00%, Mg: 2.50% to 13.00%, Fe: 5.00% to 35.00%, Si: 0% to 2.00%, Ca: 0.03% to 2.00%, and a remainder consisting of Zn and impurities, and in a surface of the plating layer, the area fraction of a Fe—Al phase is 0% to 30%, the area fraction of a rod-like lamellar structure of Zn and MgZn2 is 5% to 90%, the area fraction of a massive MgZn2 phase is 10% to 70%, and the area fraction of a remainder is 10% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Mitsunobu, Jun Maki, Hiroshi Takebayashi, Takehiro Takahashi, Kohei Tokuda
  • Publication number: 20230250323
    Abstract: This coating composition for an electrical steel sheet contains an epoxy resin, a phenolic curing agent (A) and one or more amine-based curing agents (B) selected from the group consisting of an aromatic amine and dicyandiamide, the amount of the phenolic curing agent (A) is 1 to 40 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the epoxy resin, and the amount of the amine-based curing agents (B) is 0.5 to 5 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the epoxy resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Shinsuke TAKATANI, Minako FUKUCHI, Ichiro TANAKA