Patents Assigned to Nippon Steel Corporation
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Patent number: 12247291Abstract: Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having an aluminum borate coating able to impart larger tension that the past and a method for manufacturing grain-oriented electrical steel sheet are formed. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present invention has a steel sheet and an insulating coating formed on the steel sheet and containing aluminum and boron, where the oxides contain crystalline oxides and a maximum value of an emission intensity ratio of boron with respect to aluminum at an interface between the insulating coating and the steel sheet, analyzed by glow discharge optical emission spectrometry, is 2.5 times or more and 4.0 times or less of the emission intensity ratio of boron with respect to aluminum in the insulating coating.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventor: Fumiaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 12247293Abstract: This hot-dip Zn-based plated steel sheet includes a steel sheet and a plating layer formed on at least part of a surface of the steel sheet, in which the plating layer has a chemical composition that includes, by mass %, Al: 6.00% to 35.00%, Mg: 2.00% to 12.00%, Ca: 0.005% to 2.00%, Si: 0% to 2.00%, Fe: 0% to 2.00%, Sb: 0% to 0.50%, Sr: 0% to 0.50%, Pb: 0% to 0.50%, Sn; 0% to 1.00%, Cu: 0% to 1.00%, Ti: 0% to 1.00%, Ni: 0% to 1.00%, Mn: 0% to 1.00%, Cr: 0% to 1.00%, and a remainder: Zn and impurities; the plating layer has an area ratio of a MgZn2 phase in a range of 15% to 60% in a cross section in a thickness direction, and the MgZn2 phase includes a Ca-based intermetallic compound having a circle equivalent diameter of 0.10 ?m or smaller.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya Mitsunobu, Makoto Akahoshi, Hiroshi Takebayashi, Takehiro Takahashi
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Patent number: 12246772Abstract: An automobile suspension structure includes: a subframe; a first link; and a second link, in which the subframe includes: a pair of side members; a pair of cross members; and a link attachment part, the link attachment part is arranged to be continuous with an end of the cross member, the link attachment part includes: a first link attachment part; and a second link attachment part, the link attachment part is joined to an upper surface and a lower surface of the side member in an automobile height direction and an outer surface of the side member in an automobile width direction, the first link attachment part and the second link attachment part are arranged with the side member sandwiched therebetween in the automobile height direction, the first link is attached to the first link attachment part, and the second link is attached to the second link attachment part.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Soma Sonobe, Naoki Kimoto, Takeshi Kawachi
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Patent number: 12247358Abstract: A rail including a predetermined chemical composition is provided, in which 90 area % or greater of a metallographic structure in a cross section of a rail web portion is a pearlite structure, a minimum value of a hardness in the cross section of the rail web portion is Hv 300 or greater, and a difference between a maximum value and the minimum value of the hardness in the cross section of the rail web portion is Hv 40 or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masaharu Ueda, Teruhisa Miyazaki, Takuya Tanahashi, Yusuke Maeda
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Publication number: 20250075291Abstract: Provided is a welded joint comprising a plurality of steel sheets stacked together, a spot weld having a nugget joining the plurality of steel sheets, and a pressure weld and heat affected zone formed around the nugget, and a separation part positioned around the pressure weld, wherein one or more of the plurality of steel sheets is a plated steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet and a plating layer formed on at least a surface corresponding to a stacking surface of the plurality of steel sheets of surfaces of the base steel sheet, the plating layer at the separation part at an outside of the heat affected zone has a predetermined chemical composition, and at the plating layer of the separation part of a region up to 500 m from an end of the pressure weld, a ratio of an area ratio of an ? phase with respect to a total of area ratios of the ? phase and ? phase is 10 to 100%.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: March 6, 2025Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20250075283Abstract: A steel sheet excellent in shapeability and bending strength is disclosed. The steel sheet of the present disclosure has a predetermined chemical composition, has a predetermined microstructure, has a difference of within 10.0% between a number density of precipitates in the tempered martensite at a first surface at a front side of the steel sheet and a number density of precipitates in the tempered martensite at a second surface at a back side of the steel sheet, and has a yield strength of 600 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2022Publication date: March 6, 2025Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo TAKEDA, Katsuya NAKANO
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Patent number: 12241148Abstract: An alloy material is provided that has a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: 0.030% or less, Si: 0.01 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.01 to 2.0%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.0050% or less, Cr: 28.0 to 40.0%, Ni: 32.0 to 55.0%, sol. Al: 0.010 to 0.30%, N: more than 0.30% and not more than 0.000214×Ni2?0.03012×Ni+0.00215×Cr2?0.08567×Cr+1.927, O: 0.010% or less, Mo: 0 to 6.0%, W: 0 to 12.0%, Ca: 0 to 0.010%, Mg: 0 to 0.010%, V: 0 to 0.50%, Ti: 0 to 0.50%, Nb: 0 to 0.50%, Co: 0 to 2.0%, Cu: 0 to 2.0%, REM: 0 to 0.10%, and the balance: Fe and impurities, and in which Fn1=Mo+(½)W is 1.0 to 6.0, and a yield strength at a 0.2% proof stress is 1103 MPa or more.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Takabe, Yusaku Tomio, Masayuki Sagara
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Patent number: 12240199Abstract: To obtain a welded member using a steel sheet less expensive than a pure Ni sheet as a raw material and excellent in corrosion resistance. A welded member according to the present invention is made by connecting a Ni plated steel sheet having a Ni plating layer and a Fe—Ni diffusion alloy layer and another steel sheet via a welded part, wherein: a Ni concentration is 70 mass % or more and a Fe concentration is 30 mass % or less in a surface layer of each of a toe, a toe near area, and the welded part; and a thickness of the Fe—Ni diffusion alloy layer is 0.5 to 1.5 ?m and a total thickness of the Ni plating layer and the Fe—Ni diffusion alloy layer is 2.7 to 14.0 ?m at a non-welded part, and a total concentration of S and C in the Ni plating layer at the non-welded part is less than 20 ppm.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Misaki Asada, Hiroki Fujimoto, Takehiro Takahashi
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Patent number: 12240312Abstract: A tray (20) including a bottom wall (21) and a peripheral side wall (22) erected from an outer periphery of the bottom wall (21) includes a high-strength portion HT having a high tensile strength; and a low-strength portion LT having a tensile strength lower than that of the high-strength portion HT. The low-strength portion LT includes a recessed portion (C) having a corner portion (22C) in a first side wall inner surface (221a) and a second side wall inner surface (222a) which are adjacent to each other at a minor angle and a corner section (21C) on an upper surface (21a) of the bottom wall (21) having a minor angle to each of the first side wall inner surface (221a) and the second side wall inner surface (222a).Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromi Asama, Junichiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 12240200Abstract: To provide a metal-fiber reinforced resin material (FRP) composite having a good appearance even when used as an automobile outer panel and not deformed even after a coating and baking process. The metal-FRP composite of the invention has a laminated structure of three or more layers, having at least a metal layer, a fiber-reinforced resin material layer holding a reinforced fiber material in a layer constituted by a matrix resin, and a resin layer located between the metal layer and the fiber-reinforced resin material layer. The resin layer is a layer constituted by a room temperature curing adhesive or by a predetermined resin and the room temperature curing adhesive. An elastic modulus E of the resin layer is more than 0.1 MPa and 1000 MPa or less, and a thickness of the resin layer is 0.005 times or more and less than 7.500 times a thickness of the metal layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masako Nakai, Masaharu Ibaragi, Noriyuki Negi, Masafumi Usui
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Publication number: 20250067614Abstract: An arithmetic processing unit of a balance inspection apparatus generates three-dimensional point cloud data based on measurement results of surface shape measuring parts, generates surface data based on the three-dimensional point cloud data that have been aligned with a surface shape model defined in a coordinate system in which a designed rotation center axis of a crankshaft is an X axis, extracts evaluation object data, which are surface data of an evaluation object portion including an arm of the crankshaft, calculates gravitational centers and areas of cross sections orthogonal to the X axis at a plurality of positions along the X axis of the evaluation object data, calculates a gravitational center and a weight of the evaluation object data based on the gravitational centers of the cross sections and predetermined weights set according to the areas of the cross sections, and calculates an imbalance amount of the crankshaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2022Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshito ISEI, Ryusuke NAKANO, Ryota OHASHI
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Publication number: 20250066887Abstract: This steel sheet for hot-stamping includes: a base steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition; and a galvanized layer formed on a surface of the base steel sheet, in which a microstructure at a position at ¼ depth which is in a range of ? to ? of a sheet thickness in a sheet thickness direction from the surface of the base steel sheet contains, in volume fraction, ferrite: 20% to 95% and pearlite: 5% to 80%, the remaining structure including bainite, the galvanized layer has a coating amount of 90 g/m2 or more, and when the maximum value of the B content in the galvanized layer is Bps and the B content at the position at ¼ depth of the base steel sheet is Bqs, Bps is 1.2 times or more Bqs.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2023Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi AZUMA, Akihiro SENGOKU, Shota KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20250065389Abstract: A burring structural member resistant to fracture even if the burring structural part is bent back is provided. In the burring structural member of the present disclosure, a thickness T of the sheet-shaped part is 2.0 mm or more, a Charpy impact value vE(0) of the sheet-shaped part at 0° C. is 50 J/cm2 or more, a BCI value calculated by BCI=vE(0)/Lc based on the Charpy impact value vE(0) (J/cm2) and a maximum length Lc (?m) of a crack at the inside bend of the bent wall part of the burring structural parts is 2.5 or more, and a curvature radius R (mm) of the inside bend of the bent wall part is larger than R1 calculated by R1=25/BCI?1.5.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2023Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shunsuke KOBAYASHI, Ryoma KATO, Hiroshi SHUTO
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Publication number: 20250065450Abstract: To further improve electrodeposition coating properties in a weld bead zone. A welded joint according to the present invention includes: a first steel sheet and a second steel sheet; and a weld bead zone formed by arc welding or laser welding, wherein at least one of the first steel sheet or the second steel sheet has a plating layer composed of a predetermined component and an oxide layer located on the plating layer in a non-heat-affected zone, and the weld bead zone has a weld metal and a slag layer formed on part of a surface of the weld metal, and the slag layer contains, by mass % when oxygen is excluded, Al: 1.0 to 45.0% and Mg: 1.0 to 30.0%, with the balance composed of Fe, easily oxidizable metallic elements, and impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2023Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro MATSUBA, Takuya MITSUNOBU, Masaaki URANAKA, Toyomitsu NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20250065835Abstract: A top sheet (210), two walls (221, 222), and two ridge portions (231, 232) are provided, tensile strengths of the top sheet (210) and the walls (221, 222) are 1470 MPa or more, each of the two ridge portions (231, 232) extend between the top sheet (210) and the walls (221, 222), in a longitudinal direction of the top sheet (210), and a cross section of a center portion in the longitudinal direction is an open cross section having a groove shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2023Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro SAITO, Yasuhiro ITO, Hiroshi YOSHIDA, Junichiro SUZUKI, Susumu YUASA
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Patent number: 12233950Abstract: According to the present invention, provided are a joint structure (100) which joins a plurality of overlapped steel members (110, 120) using a connecting element (130) having a shaft portion (131), the joint structure including: a first steel member (110); and one or more of second steel members (120) overlapping the first steel member (110), in which the shaft portion (131) of the connecting element (130) is penetrated through the second steel member (120), and the shaft portion (131) of the connecting element (130) and the second steel member (120) are joined by friction welding, and the shaft portion (131) and the first steel member (110) are joined by friction welding, and a joining method for obtaining the joint structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Sho Matsui, Chisato Yoshinaga
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Patent number: 12234538Abstract: This aluminum-plated steel sheet has a steel sheet and a plating layer formed on a surface of the steel sheet, the plating layer contains one or more A group elements selected from a group consisting of Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn, a remainder of Al, Fe, and impurities, a thickness t of the plating layer is 10 to 60 ?m, and an average grain size is 2t/3 or less and 15 ?m or less in a thickness range from an outermost surface of the plating layer to a ? thickness t position.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Suzuki, Soshi Fujita, Masahiro Fuda, Hideaki Irikawa, Takeshi Imai, Fumio Eihara
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Patent number: 12233623Abstract: A metal-fiber reinforced resin material composite body is provided with: a metal member; a fiber-reinforced resin material which is superposed on at least one surface of the metal member so as to be complexed with the metal member; and a bonding resin layer which is interposed between the metal member and the fiber-reinforced resin material. The fiber-reinforced resin material includes a matrix resin that contains 50 parts by mass or more of a phenoxy resin in 100 parts by mass of the resin component and a reinforcing fiber material that is contained in the matrix resin; the concentration of the phenoxy resin in the resin component of the bonding resin layer is lower than the concentration of the phenoxy resin in the resin component of the matrix resin; and the shear strength between the metal member and the fiber-reinforced resin material is 0.8 MPa or more.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masaharu Ibaragi, Noriyuki Negi, Masafumi Usui, Masako Nakai
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Publication number: 20250059631Abstract: An ?+? titanium alloy shape includes an acicular microstructure, wherein a 0.2% proof stress is 830 MPa or more, an elongation is 10% or more, a fatigue strength is 450 MPa or more, an area fraction of voids is 1.0×10?5 % or less, a twist angle from one end to the other end is within ±3.0°, and a warpage height (mm)/total length (m) is within ±2.17.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: February 20, 2025Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya NISHIYAMA, Tomoyuki KITAURA
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Publication number: 20250059635Abstract: An arc weld metal according to an aspect of the present invention contains, in a unit mass %, 0.10% or more and 0.30% or less of C, 0.30% or more and 1.00% or less of Si, 1.30% or more and 3.00% or less of Mn, 0.0500% or less of P, 0.0100% or less of S, 0.01% or less of N, and 0.02% or more and 0.07% or less of O, a remainder including iron and impurities, and the residual austenite volume percentage being 3.0% or more and 16.0% or less, in a unit mass %.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2022Publication date: February 20, 2025Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuki MATSUDA, Shinji KODAMA, Masahiro MATSUBA, Yoshinari ISHIDA