Patents Assigned to Nippon Steel Corporation
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Patent number: 11942246Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet of the present invention has a chemical composition capable of causing ?-? transformation, and contains 0.0005% to 0.0050% of Ti, in which, in a case where an area ratio of grains having a crystal orientation of an {hkl}<uvw> orientation (within a tolerance of 10°) when measured by EBSD is denoted as Ahkl-uvw, A411-011 is 15.0% or more, and the non-oriented electrical steel sheet has an average grain size of 10.0 ?m to 40.0 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Minako Fukuchi, Yoshiaki Natori, Tesshu Murakawa
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Patent number: 11939641Abstract: 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)2+(?2??1)2+(?2??1)2]1/2?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: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shuichi Nakamura, Yusuke Kawamura, Shota Morimoto
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Patent number: 11939650Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet includes, as chemical composition, C, Si, Mn, and sol.Al. In the hot-rolled steel sheet, an average of pole densities in crystal orientation group consisting of {110}<110> to {110}<001> in surface region is 0.5 to 3.0, a standard deviation of the pole densities in the crystal orientation group is 0.2 to 2.0, and the tensile strength is 780 to 1370 MPa.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shohei Yabu, Kunio Hayashi, Yuji Yamaguchi, Marina Mori, Naoki Inoue, Genki Abukawa
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Publication number: 20240093708Abstract: The present disclosure inhibits liquid metal embrittlement (LME) cracking and improves corrosion resistance in a welded joint obtained by spot welding a first steel sheet and a second steel sheet. In the welded joint of the present disclosure, a first plating layer is provided on a surface of the first steel sheet facing the second steel sheet, no plating layer is present on or a second plating layer is provided on a surface of the second steel sheet facing the first steel sheet, and a boundary plating layer is provided between the first steel sheet and the second steel sheet in a range of 0.5 mm from an end part of the corona bond toward an outside of the spot welded part. A higher tensile strength of a tensile strength of the first steel sheet and a tensile strength of the second steel sheet is 780 MPa or more, an area ratio of a MgZn2 phase at the cross-section of the boundary plating layer is 10% or more, and the first plating layer and the second plating layer satisfy a predetermined Relation I.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI, Takehiro TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20240093322Abstract: A hot rolled steel sheet is for a non oriented electrical steel sheet, wherein vickers hardness at the widthwise edge is 180 Hv or more, a value obtained by subtracting a vickers hardness at the widthwise center from the vickers hardness at the widthwise edge is 10 to 100 Hv, ductile brittle transition temperature at the widthwise edge is 0° C. or less, a value obtained by subtracting the ductile brittle transition temperature at the widthwise edge from a ductile brittle transition temperature at the widthwise center is 10 to 100° C., and a value obtained by subtracting a sheet thickness at the widthwise edge from a sheet thickness at the widthwise center is 50 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro ARITA, Takeru ICHIE, Fuminobu MURAKAMI
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Publication number: 20240093340Abstract: The hot-dip plated steel material includes a steel material and a hot-dip plated layer disposed on a surface of the steel material, the hot-dip plated layer has a certain chemical composition, and the hot-dip plated layer has a diffraction intensity obtained from a result of X-ray diffraction measurement, the diffraction intensity satisfying a certain relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Kohei TOKUDA, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20240091842Abstract: A plated steel sheet for hot stamping according to one aspect of the present invention includes a steel sheet, a plating layer formed on either surface or both surfaces of the steel sheet and having an Al content of 60 mass % or more, and a surface film layer formed on the plating layer. A thickness t of the plating layer is 10 to 60 ?m. An average crystal grain diameter of the plating layer in a thickness range from an interface between the plating layer and the surface film layer to a position at ? of the thickness t is 2t/3 or less and 15.0 ?m or less. A surface film layer contains particles containing one or more elements selected from A group elements consisting of Sc, V, Mn, Fe, Co, Ce, Nb, Mo, and W. A total content of the A group elements is 0.01 to 10.0 g/m2. An average grain diameter of the particles containing the A group elements is 0.05 to 3.0 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2019Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki SUZUKI, Soshi FUJITA, Jun MAKI, Kazuhisa KUSUMI, Masahiro FUDA
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Publication number: 20240096531Abstract: There is provided a non-oriented electrical steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition, in which an area fraction of a crystal structure A composed of crystal grains having a grain size of 100 ?m or more is 1% to 30% in a cross section parallel to a rolled plane of the non-oriented electrical steel sheet, an average grain size of a crystal structure B which is a crystal structure other than the crystal structure A is 40 ?m or less, and a Vickers hardness HvA of the crystal structure A and a Vickers hardness HvB of the crystal structure B satisfy Equation 1 ((HvA2+HvB2)/2?(HvA+HvB)2/4?7.0).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro TANAKA, Takeaki WAKISAKA, Tesshu MURAKAWA, Yoshiaki NATORI, Hiroshi FUJIMURA
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Publication number: 20240096540Abstract: This wound core is a wound core including a wound core main body obtained by stacking a plurality of polygonal annular grain-oriented electrical steel sheets in a side view, and the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet has planar portions and bent portions that are alternately continuous in a longitudinal direction, and in at least one bent portion, the crystal grain size Dpx (mm) of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is FL/4 or more. Here, FL the an average length (mm) of the planar portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke KAWAMURA, Takahito MIZUMURA
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Publication number: 20240097256Abstract: A battery case includes: a battery tray; a plurality of cross frame parts; and an impact absorbing member, wherein the impact absorbing member includes a corrugated portion, wherein the corrugated portion has a plurality of bottom surfaces and a plurality of convex portions; the bottom surfaces of the corrugated portion are each between the convex portions; the convex portion has a top surface, two side surfaces, and two ridge lines; the two side surfaces of the convex portion face each other; the two ridge lines of the convex portion are ridge lines connecting the top surface of the convex portion and the two side surfaces of the convex portion; and the two ridge lines of the convex portion extend in a direction from a second side portion toward a first side portion of the battery tray.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventor: Soma SONOBE
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Patent number: 11932104Abstract: A fuel tank (10) includes: a lower panel (12) made of steel and an upper panel (11) made of steel; and at least one pillar (100) made of steel which is disposed in an interior space (V) formed by the lower panel (12) and the upper panel (11) facing each other and of which a first end portion is fixed to the lower panel (12) and a second end portion is fixed to the upper panel (11) in a state where the second end portion is disposed in a hole formed in the upper panel (11).Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Toshinori Mizuguchi, Masahiro Fuda, Akiyoshi Inoue, Junji Nakano, Yasuaki Naito
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Patent number: 11933431Abstract: A threaded connection for pipes includes a pin, a box, a shoulder part plating layer, and a non-shoulder part plating layer. The shoulder part plating layer has an outermost layer formed of a high friction coefficient plating layer, and is arranged on a pin side shoulder part and/or a box side shoulder part. The non-shoulder part plating layer has an outermost layer formed of a low friction coefficient plating layer having a coefficient of friction lower than a coefficient of friction of the high friction coefficient plating layer, and the non-shoulder part plating layer is arranged on at least one of a pin side thread part, a pin side metal seal part, a box side thread part, and a box side metal seal part.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Kazuya Ishii, Kunio Goto, Masaaki Sugino, Yousuke Oku
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Publication number: 20240082900Abstract: Provided is a welding monitoring apparatus that monitors a welding state of a V-convergence region in which a strip-shaped metal sheet is converged in a V-shape, when the metal sheet is cylindrically formed while being conveyed, and both side edges of the metal sheet are heated and melted in a manner of being butted each other while being converged in the V-shape, such that an electric resistance welded steel pipe is manufactured. This welding monitoring apparatus includes an image capturing unit that captures images of a region including the V-convergence region in time series; and an image processing unit that extracts a welding point based on the images captured in time series and detects the presence or absence and a position of irregular arcing at the welding point or on an upstream side of the welding point.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Noboru HASEGAWA, Michitoshi TANIMOTO, Michimasa MUKAI
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Publication number: 20240084833Abstract: The present disclosure inhibits liquid metal embrittlement (LME) cracking and improves corrosion resistance in a welded joint obtained by spot welding a first steel sheet and a second steel sheet. In the welded joint of the present disclosure, a first plating layer is provided on a surface of the first steel sheet facing the second steel sheet, no plating layer is present on or a second plating layer is provided on a surface of the second steel sheet facing the first steel sheet, a boundary plating layer is provided between the first steel sheet and the second steel sheet in a range of 0.5 mm from an end part of the corona bond of the spot welded part toward an outside of the spot welded part, and a Zn penetrated part is present at least at one of the first steel sheet and the second steel sheet adjoining the boundary plating layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI, Takehiro TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20240084415Abstract: This non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base material having a chemical composition including Si: 3.7 to 4.8%, wherein a recrystallization rate is less than 100% in terms of an area fraction, the following Formula (i) and Formula (ii) are satisfied, and the tensile strength is more than 700 MPa. 4.3?Si+sol. Al+0.5×Mn?4.9??(i) (B50(0°)+2×B50(45°)+B50(90°))/4?1.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyoshi YASHIKI, Yoshiaki NATORI, Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Ichiro TANAKA, Yoshihiro ARITA, Hiroki HORI, Wataru OHASHI
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Publication number: 20240084427Abstract: A steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, when a sheet thickness is denoted by t, a metallographic structure at a t/4-position, which is a position t/4 away from a surface, in a cross section in a sheet thickness direction includes, by volume percentage, martensite: 70% or greater and residual austenite: 10% or greater, the maximum grain diameter of the residual austenite is less than 5.0 ?m when a Mn concentration is measured at a plurality of measurement points at intervals of 1 ?m in a square region with a side length of t/4 centered at the t/4-position in the cross section in the sheet thickness direction, a proportion of measurement points at which the Mn concentration is 1.1 times or greater than the average of the Mn concentrations at all of the plurality of measurement points is less than 10.0%, and the tensile strength is 1,470 MPa or greater.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventor: Yuya SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20240084422Abstract: The hot-dip plated steel material includes a steel material and a hot-dip plated layer disposed on a surface of the steel material, the hot-dip plated layer has a certain chemical composition, and the hot-dip plated layer has a diffraction intensity obtained from a result of X-ray diffraction measurement, the diffraction intensity satisfying a certain relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Kohei TOKUDA, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11926120Abstract: This steel sheet for hot stamping includes a base material, an Al—Si alloy plating layer in which the Al content is 75 mass % or more, the Si content is 3 mass % or more and the total of the Al content and the Si content is 95 mass % or more and a Ni plating layer in which the Ni content is more than 90 mass % in this order, the chemical composition of the base material is, by mass %, C: 0.01% or more and less than 0.70%, Si: 0.005% to 1.000%, Mn: 0.40% to 3.00%, Nb: 0.010% to 0.200%, a solid solution of Nb: 0.010% to 0.150%, sol. Al: 0.00020% to 0.50000%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.1000% or less, N: 0.0100% or less, Cu: 0% to 1.00%, Ni: 0% to 1.00%, V: 0% to 1.00%, Ti: 0% to 0.150%, Mo: 0% to 1.000%, Cr: 0% to 1.000%, B: 0% to 0.0100%, Ca: 0% to 0.010%, REM: 0% to 0.300%, and a remainder: Fe and an impurity, the Al—Si alloy plating layer has a thickness of 7 to 148 ?m, and the Ni plating layer has a thickness of more than 200 nm and 2500 nm or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Harano, Yuji Sakiyama, Akinobu Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11925968Abstract: A method for manufacturing a press-formed article (100) includes a first step for forming a base sheet portion, a first rising portion, and a first strip portion from a sheet-shaped workpiece having a first edge portion and a second edge portion; and a second step for forming a second rising portion by causing a strip-shaped first zone including the second edge portion to be disposed between a first upper die and a first lower die from both sides, causing a second zone adjacent to the first zone to be disposed between a second upper die and a second lower die from both sides, and moving the first upper die and the first lower die relative to the second upper die and the second lower die, wherein, in the second step, a part of the second rising portion which is connected to a vertical ridge line (108) is shear-deformed.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Kuroda, Yasuharu Tanaka, Takashi Miyagi, Misao Ogawa
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Patent number: 11920703Abstract: A threaded connection for pipes according to the present embodiment includes a pin, a box, and a Zn—Ni alloy plating layer. The pin has a pin contact surface that includes an external thread part. The box has a box contact surface that includes an internal thread part. The Zn—Ni alloy plating layer is disposed on or above at least one of the pin contact surface and the box contact surface. The Zn—Ni alloy plating layer contains graphite.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Kazuya Ishii, Kunio Goto