Patents Assigned to Nippon Steel Corporation
  • Patent number: 11851764
    Abstract: The plated steel material is a plated steel material including a steel material and a plating layer provided on the surface of the steel material, wherein the plating layer has a predetermined average chemical composition, when the amount of Mg is % Mg and the amount of Al is % Al, % Mg/% Al is 0.80 or more, and a metal structure in a total field of view of 25,000 ?m2 in a vertical cross section which is a cross section in a thickness direction of the plating layer includes 10 to 40 area % of a MgZn2 phase, 10 to 30 area % of an Al—Zn phase with a Zn content of 10% or more, 0 to 15 area % of an Al phase with a Zn content of less than 10%, and 25 area % or more of an Al/MgZn2/Zn ternary eutectic structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kotaro Ishii, Kohei Tokuda, Yoshinari Ishida, Yasuto Goto, Mamoru Saito
  • Patent number: 11851726
    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: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakamura, Yusuke Kawamura, Shingo Okada, Tomoaki Ito, Shinya Yano
  • Patent number: 11850924
    Abstract: A reinforcing structure of an automobile exterior panel improving performance in absorbing an impact load, the reinforcing structure of an automobile exterior panel including an outer panel of a sheet shape, a plurality of first and second reinforcing members of long shapes arranged at a vehicle inner side from the outer panel the second reinforcing members crossing the first reinforcing members, an inner panel of a sheet shape arranged at a vehicle inner side from the first and second reinforcing members, and support members provided at a vehicle outer side from the inner panel and supporting the first or the second reinforcing members from a vehicle inner side, the support members supporting first or the second reinforcing members at a plurality of crossing parts where the first and the second reinforcing members cross or between adjoining crossing parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Sawa, Toshiya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11855485
    Abstract: A laminated core includes a plurality of electrical steel sheets which are stacked on each other and of each of which both surfaces are coated with an insulation coating; and an adhesion part which is provided between the electrical steel sheets adjacent in the stacking direction and adheres the electrical steel sheets to each other, wherein an adhesive for forming the adhesion part includes a first phase and a second phase, wherein the adhesion part has a sea-island structure of the first phase which is a sea structure portion and the second phase which is an island structure portion, wherein the first phase contains an epoxy resin, an acrylic resin, and a curing agent, wherein the first phase has an SP value of 8.5 to 10.7 (cal/cm3)1/2, wherein the second phase contains an elastomer, and wherein the second phase has an SP value of 7.5 to 8.4 (cal/cm3)1/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke Takatani, Hiroyasu Fujii, Kazutoshi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20230407628
    Abstract: A load-bearing panel and a building frame structure is provided, in which an initial stiffness and a yield strength are enhanced while appropriately reducing the maximum strength after yielding. Thus, it is possible to avoid generating excessive stress in adjacent building frames. The load-bearing panel includes: a rectangular-shaped base frame 2 formed by joining a pair of horizontal base materials 21 and 22 to a pair of vertical base materials 23 and 23; and a composite surface material 3 made of wooden plywood 31 and a metal plate 32 stacked on each other. Four side edges of the composite surface material 3 are attached to a base frame 2 by driving nails. The spacing between the nails in a center part of each side edge in the length direction is smaller than the spacing between the nails in both end parts of the side edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicants: SEKISUI HOUSE, LTD., NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiki FUKUMOTO, Kazumi HIJIKATA, Ayana HISAZUMI, Keiichi SATO, Kazunori FUJIHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230407509
    Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet of the present disclosure includes a steel sheet, and an alloy layer containing Ni and Co on a surface of the steel sheet. A surface roughness Ra1 of the surface of the alloy layer over a sampling length of 5.0 mm in the width direction of the steel sheet is 2.0 ?m or less. Ra2 that denotes the arithmetic mean height of a roughness curve of the surface of the alloy layer over a sampling length of 10 ?m in the width direction of the steel sheet is 20 nm or less, and RSm that denotes the mean length of roughness curve elements over the sampling length of 10 ?m in the width direction of the steel sheet is 700 nm or more, Ra2 and RSm being measured using an atomic force microscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke KAWAMOTO, Yasuto GOTO, Yuta DAIROKUNO, Koki SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20230407510
    Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet includes a steel sheet, and an Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer containing Ni, Co, and Fe on the steel sheet surface. In the thickness direction of the Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer, a Co concentration in the Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer is highest at a position which is on an outermost surface side of the Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer relative to a position where the Ni concentration is highest in the Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer, and which is between the outermost surface of the Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer and a depth of 100 nm from the outermost surface. In the Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer, an Ni-concentrated region in which the Ni concentration increases toward the outermost surface of the Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer is formed between the outermost surface of the Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer and the position where the Co concentration is highest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuto GOTO, Kosuke KAWAMOTO, Yuta DAIROKUNO, Yuji KAJII, Koki SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20230407430
    Abstract: This steel sheet has predetermined chemical composition and microstructure, in a crystal orientation distribution function of a texture at a sheet thickness ¼ position, when A/B that is a ratio of a maximum value A of pole densities at ?=20° to 60° and ?1=30° to 90° in a cross section of ?2=45° to a maximum value B of pole densities at ?=120° to 60° and ?1=30° to 90° in the cross section of ?2=45° is 1.50 or less, a total of the maximum value A and the maximum value B is 6.00 or less, and a tensile strength is 1030 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi YASUTOMI, Eisaku SAKURADA
  • Publication number: 20230407428
    Abstract: This steel has a steel sheet substrate and a protective film formed on at least a part of a surface of the steel sheet substrate, the chemical composition of the steel sheet substrate is, by mass %, C: 0.25% to 0.65%, Si: 0.05% to 2.00%, Mn: 0.30% to 3.00%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.0100% or less. N: 0.010% or less, O: 0.010% or less, Cr: 0.05% to 1.00%, and Cu: 0.10% to 1.00%, in an X-ray analysis in which measurement is carried out using a CuK? radiation, in a case where a peak intensity at a diffraction angle (2?) position of 36.6±0.5° is regarded as 100%, the protective film has a peak having a peak intensity of more than 250% at a diffraction angle (2?) position of 35.5±0.5° and a tensile strength is more than 1,500 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro TABATA, Kazuhisa KUSUMI, Yuki SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20230405957
    Abstract: A press apparatus 1 includes: a first die part 2 having a first working surface 2a; a second die part 3 having a second working surface 3a; a first support member 4 that supports the first die part 2; and a second support member 5 that supports the second die part 3. At least one of the first and second die parts 2 and 3 provides a clearance S1, S2 present in at least a portion of an overlap region R1, the overlap region being overlapped by the first and second working surfaces 2a and 3a as viewed in the press direction, the dimension of the clearance in the press direction in a no-load condition being non-uniform along two orthogonal directions as viewed in the press direction. The minimum dimension of the clearance Si within an inner region R1u in the no-load condition is smaller than the minimum dimension of the clearance S1 within an outer region R1s in the no-load condition, the inner region defined by, and located inward of, the middle line between the centroid G and edge of the overlap region R1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi NISIMURA, Yoshiyuki KASHIWARA, Yoshiyuki KASEDA
  • Patent number: 11846027
    Abstract: A hot stamped component, includes: a base material; and a Zn-based plating layer provided in contact with the base material as a layer above the base material and containing Zn. A base material side of the Zn-based plating layer is a Fe—Zn solid solution, and two or more twins exist in 10 crystal grains of the Fe—Zn solid solution adjacent to an interface between the base material and the Zn-based plating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Sengoku, Kojiro Akiba, Toshiki Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20230399729
    Abstract: As a burring processed member able to suppress the formation of fatigue cracks in a burring part, one having a structure satisfying the following relations (1) to (3) is disclosed: 3?Ra?100 . . . (1), 3.0<h . . . (2), 24+r?[TS/(40+0.28×Ra)]<h . . . (3), where, “Ra” is an arithmetic mean roughness (?m) of the burring end face, “h” is a height (mm) from the first surface to the burring end face, “r” is a radius of curvature (mm) of the curved wall part, and “TS” is the tensile strength (MPa) of the sheet-shaped part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei NAKADA, Ryo TABATA, Takeshi KAWACHI, Takeshi TOYODA
  • Publication number: 20230400298
    Abstract: This internal oxide layer thickness estimation device estimates a thickness of an internal oxide layer formed in a hot-rolled steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tooru AKASHI, Keita IKEDA, Yasumitsu KONDO, Naoki INOUE, Akinobu MINAMI
  • Publication number: 20230402221
    Abstract: A wound core (10) is a wound core 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 length 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 RSm(b), and an average length of the roughness curve element in the width direction forming a surface of the planar portion 4 of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet (1) is RSm(s), the relationship of 1.00<RSm(b)/RSm(s)?5.00 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka IWAKI, Takahito MIZUMURA, Hisashi MOGI
  • Publication number: 20230398590
    Abstract: A rolling control device (10) updates a preset load value Pset based on operation actual results at timings ta to tb. The rolling control device (10) derives a plasticity coefficient Qchk based on operation actual results at timings tb to tc. When the determining that it is necessary to re-update the updated preset load value Pset based on the plasticity coefficient Qchk, the rolling control device (10) updates the preset load value Pset again based on the operation actual results at the timings tb to tc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji SORAO
  • Publication number: 20230399727
    Abstract: High strength steel sheet and plated steel sheet having high plateability, LME resistance, and hydrogen embrittlement resistance, that is, steel sheet containing C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, and sol. Al: 0.4 to 1.50%, having an internal oxidation layer including fine granular oxides, coarse granular oxides, and grain boundary oxides in a surface layer of the steel sheet, a number density of fine granular oxides in the internal oxidation layer being 4.0/?m2 or more, a number density of coarse granular oxides in the internal oxidation layer being 4.0/25 ?m2 or more, having a Ratio A of the length of the grain boundary oxides projected on the surface of the steel sheet to the length of the surface of the steel sheet when examining a cross-section of the surface layer of the steel sheet being 50% or more and 100% or less, and including a surface depleted layer with a steel composition not including oxides which satisfies, by mass %, Si?0.6% and Al?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keitaro MATSUDA, Takuya MITSUNOBU, Masaaki URANAKA, Jun MAKI, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230399750
    Abstract: A surface-treated metal sheet includes a steel sheet, a coating layer containing zinc formed on the steel sheet and a conversion coating formed on the coating layer, wherein the conversion coating contains an organosilicon compound, a phosphate compound and a fluorine compound, and when the surface roughness in a rectangular area with a side of 1 ?m on the surface of the conversion coating is represented by an arithmetic mean height of the scale limited surface Sa, a maximum height of the scale limited surface Sz, and a root mean square height of the scale limited surface Sq, one or more conditions of an arithmetic mean height of the scale limited surface Sa being 0.1 to 10 nm, a maximum height of the scale limited surface Sz being 1 to 1,000 nm, and a root mean square height of the scale limited surface Sq being 0.1 to 100 nm are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa SHOJI, Kohei UEDA, Satoru YONETANI, Tomokazu SUGITANI, Nobuki SHIRAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20230402220
    Abstract: This wound core is a wound core including: a substantially rectangular wound core main body in a side view in which first planar portions and corner portions are alternately continuous and at least one of two or more bent portions existing in at least one corner portion satisfies Equations (1) to (3) below. Tave?40 nm??(1) (To?Tu)/Tave?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki USHIGAMI, Shinji YAMAMOTO, Takeo ARAMAKI, Yuki KUNITA, Satoshi ARAI
  • Publication number: 20230400126
    Abstract: A flush self-locking threaded connection partially in a non-locking engagement comprises a first and a second tubular component provided respectively with male and female threaded zone at their respective ends. First portions of the male and female threaded zones with varying thread width and root cooperate along a self-locking tightening arrangement. A locking region within the threaded connection is located in the middle of non-locking regions, and radially centered to the pipe body API tolerances in order to withstand high torque and seal performances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicants: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wesley OTT, Logan VAN GORP, Scott GRANGER
  • Publication number: 20230399712
    Abstract: Provided are a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition, and a steel microstructure comprising, by vol %, ferrite: 1 to 50%, ratio of nonrecrystallized ferrite in the ferrite: 0 to 50%, tempered martensite: 1% or more, retained austenite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0 to 10%, total of pearlite and cementite: 0 to 5%, and balance: bainite, and, when analyzing the surface by an EPMA, an area ratio of regions with an AlS/SiS ratio of 0.2 or less is 50% or less, and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or more, and a method for producing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Yusuke TSUNEMI, Tatsuya OBUCHI, Akinobu MINAMI, Takuya KUWAYAMA