Patents Assigned to Nippon Steel Corporation
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Publication number: 20230175090Abstract: This grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including a base steel sheet and a tension coating, in which, when an average coating thickness of a flat surface coating portion is referred to as t1 (?m), a minimum coating thickness of a groove forming surface coating portion is referred to as t2Min (?m), and a maximum coating thickness of the groove forming surface coating portion is referred to as t2Max (?m), Expressions (1) and (2) are satisfied, and when a value of 0.95 times a distance D of the tension coating along a sheet thickness direction from a bottom surface position of the groove forming surface coating portion to a bottom surface position of the flat surface coating portion is referred to as an effective depth d (?m), Expression (3) is satisfied. t2Min/t1?0.4??(1) t2Max/t1?3.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2020Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventor: Masataka IWAKI
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Patent number: 11667107Abstract: This metal-carbon fiber reinforced resin material composite includes a metal member, a coating layer that is disposed on at least a part of a surface of the metal member and contains a resin, a carbon fiber reinforced resin material layer that is disposed on at least a part of a surface of the coating layer and contains a matrix resin and a carbon fiber material that is present in the matrix resin, and an electrodeposition film disposed so as to cover at least all of surfaces of the carbon fiber reinforced resin material layer, an interface between the metal member and the coating layer, and an interface between the coating layer and the carbon fiber reinforced resin material layer, in which an average film thickness A of the electrodeposition film formed on the surface of the carbon fiber reinforced resin material layer is 0.3 to 1.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuaki Kawamura, Kohei Ueda, Masumi Koori
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Patent number: 11666965Abstract: Provided is a slab warpage detection apparatus detecting warpage of a slab drawn from a mold in continuous casting equipment. The slab warpage detection apparatus includes a pair of pressing roils that pinches the slab on a rear side of a roll segment, supporting the slab drawn from the mold, in a slab drawing direction, a movement unit that supports the pair of pressing rolls to be movable in a thickness direction of the slab, and a position detecting unit that detects positions of the pressing rolls in the thickness direction of the slab.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2017Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shuntaro Imai, Ryousuke Takata, Mitsutoshi Jotoku, Hiroaki Uchiyama, Mitsutaka Hattori
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Patent number: 11671049Abstract: The iron loss of an iron core excited by an inverter power supply is reduced. A modulation operation-setting device 1430 for the inverter power supply controls a maximum value Hmax and a minimum value Hmin of a field intensity H in at least one minor loop such that the loss (iron loss, copper loss, and switching loss) of the entire system is less than the loss of the entire system when an electric device is operated with a target waveform (excluding harmonics).Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuo Ohsugi
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Patent number: 11667987Abstract: This coated steel member includes: a steel sheet substrate having a predetermined chemical composition; and a coating formed on a surface of the steel sheet substrate and containing Al and Fe, in which the coating has a low Al content region having an Al content of 3 mass % or more and less than 30 mass % and a high Al content region formed on a side closer to a surface than the low Al content region and having an Al content of 30 mass % or more, a maximum C content of the high Al content region is 25% or less of a C content of the steel sheet substrate, a maximum C content of the low Al content region is 40% or less of the C content of the steel sheet substrate, and a maximum C content in a range from an interface between the steel sheet substrate and the coating to a depth of 10 ?m on a side of the steel sheet substrate is 80% or less of the C content of the steel sheet substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichiro Tabata, Daisuke Maeda
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Publication number: 20230167517Abstract: A method for producing reduced iron that produces reduced iron by reducing iron oxide charged in a shaft furnace, in which a heated gas mixture which contains a reducing gas and a nitrogen gas, the reducing gas containing 90 volume % or more of a hydrogen gas, is blown into the shaft furnace from a tuyere equipped at a lower portion of a reduction zone of the shaft furnace, at least part of the reducing gas is blown into a cooling zone of the reduced iron provided at a lower portion of the shaft furnace at normal temperature, and the reducing gas that has flowed up in the cooling zone is used for reduction of the iron oxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takanobu INADA, Moritoshi MIZUTANI, Yutaka UJISAWA, Naoto YASUDA, Hitoshi FUNAGANE
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Publication number: 20230167516Abstract: A method for producing reduced iron that produces reduced iron by reducing iron oxide charged in a shaft furnace, in which a gas mixture which contains a reducing gas and a nitrogen gas, and has a predetermined temperature, is blown into the shaft furnace. The reducing gas contains 90 volume% or more of a hydrogen gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2021Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takanobu INADA, Moritoshi MIZUTANI, Yutaka UJISAWA
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Publication number: 20230166314Abstract: This manufacturing method of a hot press-formed article includes a heating step of heating an Al-plated steel sheet and a forming step of obtaining a hot press-formed article using a die after the heating step, the Al-plated steel sheet has a base steel sheet, an Al plating layer, and a coating layer, the coating layer is a metal layer containing at least one metal of Mg, Ca, V, Ti, and Zn, a metal oxide layer containing an oxide of one or more of Mg, Ca, V, Ti, and Zn, or a mixed layer including the metal layer and the metal oxide layer, the die has a hard layer on a surface, HVDie that is a surface hardness of the die at a position of the hard layer is HV1500 or more and HV3800 or less, and a temperature Tm of the Al-plated steel sheet at a start of forming and an average movement velocity V of the die in the forming step satisfy 800?(HVDie/40)?Tm?850?(V/4)?(HVDie/100).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2021Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Soshi FUJITA, Yuki SUZUKI, Masahiro FUDA, Hideaki IRIKAWA, Masahiro KUBO, Naruhiko NOMURA
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Patent number: 11661636Abstract: A method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an aspect of the present invention includes a step of obtaining a hot-rolled steel sheet by carrying out hot rolling on a slab containing a predetermined component composition with a remainder including Fe and impurities, a step of obtaining a hot-rolled annealed sheet by carrying out hot-rolled sheet annealing as necessary, a step of carrying out pickling to obtain a pickled sheet, a step of carrying out cold rolling to obtain a cold-rolled steel sheet, a step of carrying out primary recrystallization annealing, a step of applying an annealing separating agent including MgO to a surface and then carrying out final annealing to obtain a final-annealed sheet, and a step of applying an insulating coating and then carrying out flattening annealing.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Nobusato Morishige, Takashi Kataoka, Haruhiko Atsumi, Yasuhiro Mayumi, Toshiya Takechi, Naoto Masumitsu, Tomoya Suenaga, Masamitsu Kubota, Hideyuki Hamamura, Kazuhiko Fukutani
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Publication number: 20230160034Abstract: Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic properties and excellent in adhesion of a primary coating to the steel sheet is provided. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is provided with a base steel sheet having a chemical composition containing C: 0.005% or less, Si: 2.5 to 4.5%, Mn: 0.050 to 1.000%, a total of S and Se: 0.005% or less, sol. Al: 0.005% or less, and N: 0.005% or less and having a balance of Fe and impurities and a primary coating having Mg2 SiO4 as a main constituent formed on a surface of the base steel sheet. A peak position of Al emission intensity obtained when conducting elemental analysis by glow discharge spectrometry from a surface of the primary coating in a thickness direction is present in a range of 2.0 to 12.0 µm from a surface of the primary coating to the thickness direction. A sum of perimeters of the Al oxides at the peak position of Al emission intensity is 0.20 to 1.00 µm/µm2, and a number density of Al oxides is 0.02 to 0.20 /µm2.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2023Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro TANAKA, Ryutaro YAMAGATA, Nobusato MORISHIGE, Takashi KATAOKA, Masaru TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20230159768Abstract: To retain voids in a paint film even if the paint film is subjected to pressure during storage, transportation, and press working. A pre-painted metal sheet according to the present invention includes: a metal sheet; and a void-containing paint film, which is located on at least one surface of the metal sheet, with dispersed fine particles and voids, wherein when a cross-section of the void-containing paint film cut in a thickness direction of the void-containing paint film is observed, the voids are present in 40 to 95 area % of a total area of the cross-section of the void-containing paint film when an average particle diameter of the fine particles is t [?m] and an average film thickness of the void-containing paint film is T [?m], a ratio t/T is in a range of 0.7 to 3.0, and an elastic modulus of the fine particles, when compressed by 10% from the thickness direction, is 30 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2021Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventor: Fumio SHIBAO
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Publication number: 20230158560Abstract: A hot press line (100) includes: a heating device (30); a first press device (10) having first die parts (1A, 1B); a second press device (20) having second die parts (2A, 2B); a first transportation device (41) that transports a metal sheet (B) to the first press device; and a second transportation device (42) that transports the metal sheet (B) to the second press device. One of the pair of first die parts and the pair of second die parts includes a clearance portion (1Ac) recessed inwardly, whereas the other pair of die parts includes an abutment surface (2At) in at least part of the portion corresponding to the clearance portion (1Ac) of the one pair of die parts, where the abutment surface abuts the metal sheet (B) when the die is at the bottom-dead center.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2021Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kenta UENISHI, Toshiya SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20230158928Abstract: An impact absorbing member able to absorb the energy at the time of impact using a smaller space is provided. The impact absorbing member 10 comprises a sheet member 12 having bent parts 12a and a plurality of sheet parts 12b connected through the bent parts 12a and a restraining member 14 restraining the plurality of sheet parts 12b, the plurality of sheet parts 12b being superposed in a state folded back at the bent parts 12a in a first direction, the restraining member 14 restraining the superposed plurality of sheet parts 12b from both sides in a second direction, the first direction being a direction connecting one end part 12c among two end parts 12c of the sheet member 12 and the bent part 12a adjoining the sheet part at which the end part 12c is positioned, the second direction being a direction perpendicular to the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2021Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventor: Shuntaro MATSUYAMA
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Publication number: 20230160046Abstract: This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and, on a surface parallel to a surface at a ¼ position of a sheet thickness in a sheet thickness direction from the surface, with respect to a total area of three types of oxides of MnO, Cr2O3 and Al2O3 having a major axis of more than 1.0 ?m, a total area ratio of the MnO and the Cr2O3 is 98.0% or more, and an area ratio of the Al2O3 is 2.0% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuo YOSHIKAWA, Takashi ARAMAKI, Tetsuji FUKUZATO, Kazuhisa KUSUMI, Hisayoshi YATOH, Yoshinari YANO
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Publication number: 20230151467Abstract: This slab is a slab of high-Al steel containing C: 0.02 mass% to 0.50 mass% and Al: 0.20 mass% to 2.00 mass%, in which, in a case where [Zr], [Al], and [N] each represent a content (mass%) in the slab, a Zr content satisfies a relationship of [Zr] ? 4/3 × [Al] × [N].Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shin TAKAYA, Yuichiro KATO, Kenji TAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230150004Abstract: A hot press apparatus includes a first die part 2 and a second die part 3, and a control unit 9. At least one of the first and second die parts 2 and 3 includes a recess 3a in the surface facing the other die part in the direction of pressing. A movable die part 4 is provided in the recess 3a. The control unit 9 controls the movable die part 4 such that the bottom-dead-center holding period, for which the first and second die parts 2 and 3 are at the bottom-dead center, includes an abutment period for which the movable die part 4 abuts the metal sheet B and a non-abutment period for which the movable die part does not abut the metal sheet B.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kenta UENISHI, Toshiya SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20230150006Abstract: The die includes a die base, a die body, and an opening/closing member. In the die base, a storage portion for storing refrigerant is formed. The die body includes a mounting surface, a forming surface, and a plurality of flow channels. The mounting surface is located on the storage portion side of the die base. The forming surface is located on the opposite side of the mounting surface. The flow channels pass through the die body from the mounting surface to the forming surface. The opening/closing member is disposed between the die base and the die body. The opening/closing member includes a plurality of through holes corresponding to the plurality of flow channels. The opening/closing member is configured to be movable with respect to the die base and the die body such that each of the through holes brings the corresponding flow channel and the storage portion into communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Naruhiko NOMURA, Toshiya SUZUKI, Kenta UENISHI, Tohru YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 11651878Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present invention has a steel sheet surface provided with grooves and includes two or more broken lines including the grooves having a length of 5 to 10 mm on a straight line intersecting a rolling direction on the steel sheet surface. In each of the broken lines including the grooves, the grooves are arranged at equal intervals, and a ratio of the length of the groove to a length of a non-groove is in a range of 1:1 to 1.5:1.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hisashi Mogi, Fumiaki Takahashi, Hideyuki Hamamura, Satoshi Arai
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Patent number: 11649531Abstract: A steel sheet has a specific chemical composition and has a structure represented by, by area ratio, ferrite: 5 to 60%, and bainite: 40 to 95%. When a region that is surrounded by a grain boundary having a misorientation of 15° or more and has a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.3 ?m or more is defined as a crystal grain, the proportion of crystal grains each having an intragranular misorientation of 5 to 14° to all crystal grains is 20 to 100% by area ratio. A precipitate density of Ti(C,N) and Nb(C,N) each having a circle-equivalent diameter of 10 nm or less is 1010 precipitates/mm3 or more. A ratio (Hvs/Hvc) of a hardness at 20 ?m in depth from a surface (Hvs) to a hardness of the center of a sheet thickness (Hvc) is 0.85 or more.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2017Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kohichi Sano, Makoto Uno, Ryoichi Nishiyama, Yuji Yamaguchi, Natsuko Sugiura, Masahiro Nakata
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Publication number: 20230141963Abstract: There is provided a steel sheet including a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %: C: 0.03 to 0.25%, Si: 0.1 to 2.0%, Mn: 1.0 to 3.0%, P: 0.200% or less, S: 0.0500% or less, Al: 0.01 to 1.00%, N: 0.0100% or less, and Ti: 0.01 to 0.25%, with the balance: Fe and impurities, and a steel micro-structure containing, in area %: ferrite: 50 to 85%, the balance being one or more kinds selected from martensite, bainite, and retained austenite, and an intensity of ?-fiber is more than 4.0 times in terms of random intensity ratio, and an average KAM value of grains having crystal orientations that form angles within 10° from ?-fiber is 1.30° or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuaki TANAKA, Hitoshi NIKAIDO, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Natsuko SUGIURA