Patents Assigned to Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
  • Patent number: 10094008
    Abstract: A seamless steel pipe has a yield strength of 400 MPa or less and excellent HIC resistance. The seamless steel pipe includes: a chemical composition consisting, in mass %, of, C: 0.01 to 0.20%, Si: 0.05 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.3 to 2.0%, P: 0.02% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Cr: 0.02 to 0.2%, sol.Al: 0.001 to 0.100%, O: 0.0050% or less, N: 0.0100% or less, Ca: 0 to 0.0050%, Ti: 0 to 0.012%, and Nb: 0 to 0.012%, the balance being Fe and impurities; and a structure consisting, in area ratio, of 10 to 50% of ferrite and 0 to less than 5% of pearlite, the balance being tempered bainite and/or tempered martensite, and the number of inclusions each having a grain diameter of 50 mm or more is not more than 15 per 100 mm2, and the seamless steel pipe has a yield strength of 400 MPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Kondo, Yuji Arai, Kenji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10092982
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fillet welded joint and a method of production of a fillet welded joint which can raise the productivity of the method of production of a fillet welded joint and a fillet welded joint without sacrificing the strength against fatigue fracture of the welded structural member. The fillet welded joint of the present invention is a fillet welded joint formed by fillet welding at least two metal members, wherein, on the surface of at least one of the metal members, the fillet welded joint comprises a press bead of a rib-shaped projection provided by press-forming so as to project upward to the side having a weld bead formed by the fillet welding, and part of the press bead contacts or overlaps the weld bead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Kodama, Shoko Oami, Koichi Sato, Yoshiaki Nakazawa
  • Publication number: 20180282830
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including: a heating process of heating a slab having a predetermined chemical composition at T1° C. of 1150° C. to 1300° C., retaining the slab for 5 minutes to 30 hours, lowering the temperature of the slab to T2° C. of T1?50° C. or lower, heating the slab at T3° C. of 1280° C. to 1450° C., and retaining the slab for 5 minutes to 60 minutes; a hot-rolling process of hot-rolling the slab that is heated to obtain a hot-rolled steel sheet; a cold-rolling process; an intermediate annealing process of performing intermediate annealing with respect to the hot-rolled steel sheet at least one time before the cold-rolling process or before a final pass of the cold-rolling process after interrupting the cold-rolling; an annealing separating agent applying process; and a secondary film applying process. In the cold-rolling process, a retention treatment is performed during a plurality of passes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotoshi TADA, Nobusato MORISHIGE, Naoto MASUMITSU, Junichi TAKAOBUSHI, Shin FURUTAKU, Masaru TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20180283850
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a shape measurement apparatus that is capable of measuring the amount of warpage in the width direction of a strip-shaped body with higher sensitivity. [Solution] Provided is a shape measurement apparatus including: a light source configured to irradiate a surface of a moving strip-shaped body with linear light at a prescribed angle of incidence; a screen configured such that reflected light of the linear light on the surface of the strip-shaped body is projected on the screen; an imaging unit configured to image the reflected light of the linear light projected on the screen; and an arithmetic processing unit configured to acquire the amount of warpage in a width direction of the strip-shaped body on the basis of a line length of the reflected light of the linear light imaged by the imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsuhiro HIBI, Yusuke KONNO, Toshio AKAGI, Nobuhiro FURUYA, Tomohiro KUROIWA, Akihito NAKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20180282877
    Abstract: A steel sheet for a container includes a steel sheet, a Sn coated layer which is provided as an upper layer of the steel sheet and contains Sn in an amount of 560 to 5600 mg/m2 in terms of Sn metal, and a chemical treatment layer which is provided as an upper layer of the Sn coated layer and contains a Zr compound in an amount of 3.0 to 30.0 mg/m2 in terms of Zr metal and a Mg compound in an amount of 0.50 to 5.00 mg/m2 in terms of Mg metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira TACHIKI, Shigeru HIRANO, Yoshiaki TANI, Hirokazu YOKOYA, Morio YANAGIHARA, Makoto KAWABATA
  • Publication number: 20180282231
    Abstract: In a monolithic refractory, in terms of a proportion in 100 mass % of a refractory raw material having a grain size of 8 mm or smaller, an amount of CaXSr1?XAl2O4 (where, 0?X?0.5) is 0.5 mass % or more and 10 mass % or less, and a polyvalent metal salt of oxycarboxylic acid is 0.05 mass % or more and 1.0 mass % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi MATSUI, Koji GODA, Atsunori KOYAMA, Yoshitaka SADATOMI, Tsubasa NAKAMICHI
  • Publication number: 20180283109
    Abstract: A threaded tubular connection includes male and female threaded elements. The male threaded element includes outer and inner male threadings, a first outer peripheral surface disposed between the male threadings, a first male sealing surface on the outer peripheral surface, a second outer peripheral surface, a male axial abutment surface disposed at the end of the male threaded element, and a second male sealing surface provided on the second outer peripheral surface between the inner threading and the male axial abutment surface. The female threaded element includes outer and inner female threadings, an inner peripheral surface disposed between the female threadings, at least one first female sealing surface on the inner peripheral surface, a female axial abutment surface, and a second female sealing surface provided between the female axial abutment surface and the inner female threading. Threads of the male and female outer threadings are engaged in a coupled state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicants: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Pierre MARTIN
  • Patent number: 10087510
    Abstract: Non-post-heat treated steel contains: in mass %, C: 0.27 to 0.40%, Si: 0.15 to 0.70%, Mn: 0.55 to 1.50%, P: 0.010 to 0.070%, S: 0.05 to 0.15%, Cr: 0.10 to 0.60%, V: 0.030% or more and less than 0.150%, Ti: more than 0.10%, not more than 0.200%, Al: 0.002 to 0.050%, and N: 0.002 to 0.020%, and optionally one or more of Cu?0.40% and Ni?0.30%; the balance being Fe and impurities, wherein [Ti]?3.4[N]?1.5[S]<0, and 0.60<[C]+([Si]/10)+([Mn]/5)+(5[Cr]/22)+(33[V]/20) ?(5[S]/7)<0.80. The steel can be used to make a high fatigue strength connecting rod for automobile engines which is fracture-split from a hot forged shape. The non-post-heat treated steel member can have vERT of 1.0 to 7.0 J/cm2, and ?w?450 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sano, Tatsuya Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10087499
    Abstract: There are provided a high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet securing low-temperature toughness and having excellent stretch flangeability by controlling a structural fraction and a hardness difference among structures, and a manufacturing method thereof. A hot-rolled steel sheet contains: C: 0.01 to 0.2%; Si: 0.001 to 2.5% or less; Mn: 0.10 to 4.0% or less; P: 0.10% or less; S: less than 0.03%; Al: 0.001 to 2.0%; N: less than 0.01%; Ti: (0.005+48/14[N]+48/32[S]) % or more and 0.3% or less; Nb: 0 to 0.06%; Cu: 0 to 1.2%; Ni: 0 to 0.6%; Mo: 0 to 1%; V: 0 to 0.2%; Cr: 0 to 2%; Mg: 0 to 0.01%; Ca: 0 to 0.01%; REM: 0 to 0.1%; and B: 0 to 0.002%, and has: an texture in which, at a central portion of a sheet thickness located between ? to ? thickness positions of the sheet thickness from a surface of the steel sheet, an average value of X-ray random intensity ratios of a group of {100}<011> to {223}<110> orientations of a sheet plane is 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shuto, Tatsuo Yokoi, Yuuki Kanzawa, Nobuhiro Fujita, Ryohta Niiya, Shinya Saitoh
  • Patent number: 10088236
    Abstract: A hearth roll includes a base roll, a thermally sprayed coating formed on the base roll, and a modified coating formed on the thermally sprayed coating. The modified coating is formed by modifying a part or the whole of a surface of the thermally sprayed coating by melting and solidification of the thermally sprayed coating, by irradiating a part or the whole of the surface of the thermally sprayed coating with an energy beam. The thickness of the modified coating is from 2 to 20 ?m, and the Vickers hardness HV of the modified coating is from 1.2 to 1.4 times larger than the Vickers hardness HV of the thermally sprayed coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, TOCALO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Kurisu, Tatsuo Suidzu
  • Patent number: 10086425
    Abstract: A method for producing a forged crankshaft includes a die forging step, a trimming step, and an excess projecting portion crushing step. The die forging step forms a finish forged blank with flash, the finish forged blank including a shape of the crankshaft, in which crank arms have excess projecting portions at outer peripheries of side portions thereof near a crank pin, the excess projecting portions projecting from the outer peripheries. The trimming step removes the flash from the finish forged blank formed in the die forging step. The excess projecting portion crushing step crushes the excess projecting portions of the crank arms by pressing the crankshaft using a pair of first dies, the crankshaft being obtained by removing the flash in the trimming step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Tamura, Junichi Okubo, Koichiro Ishihara, Ken Yoshino, Kunihiro Yabuno, Hiroyuki Kurokawa, Tomohisa Yamashita, Sho Takamoto
  • Publication number: 20180274703
    Abstract: A threaded joint (1) for pipes disclosed herein includes a pin (5) and a box (8). The pin (5) and the box (8) each include a contact surface including a threaded portion (4, 7) and a metal contact portion. The threaded joint (1) for pipes includes a solid lubricant coating (21) on at least one of the contact surfaces of the pin (5) and the box (8), the solid lubricant coating (21) including a binder, a lubricant additive, an anti-rust additive, and a plasticizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventor: Kunio Goto
  • Publication number: 20180274069
    Abstract: A steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and a surface exhibits an absorption peak at which a reflectance is not less than 50% nor more than 85% in a range of wave numbers of 1200 cm?1 to 1300 cm?1 by a Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy analysis by a reflection absorption spectrometry method, and does not exhibit an absorption peak in a range of wave numbers of 1000 cm?1 to 1100 cm?1, or exhibits an absorption peak at which a reflectance is 85% or more in the range of wave numbers of 1000 cm?1 to 1100 cm?1, wherein Ni of 3 mg/m2 to 100 mg/m2 adheres to the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei UEDA, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Takayuki KITAZAWA, Takeshi YASUI, Hiroyuki BAN
  • Publication number: 20180272407
    Abstract: This cutting device is a device for obtaining a processed material by cutting off an end portion of a plate material by a first cutting blade and a second cutting blade which relatively approach each other, and includes: a first contact part and the first cutting blade which clamp a processed material portion of the plate material from front and back surfaces thereof; the second cutting blade and a second contact part which clamp an end material portion of the plate material from front and back surfaces thereof; and a drive part which causes the first cutting blade and the second cutting blade to start relative approach while maintaining a flat state where the processed material portion and the end material portion are on the same plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi NISHIMURA, Yasuhiro ITO, Yoshiaki NAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20180272408
    Abstract: A cutting method using a stamping press according to the present disclosure is a method to cut a workpiece that is configured from a first metal sheet and a second metal sheet joined at a weld portion and that has a heat-affected zone around the weld portion, in which the workpiece is cut using a punch. The punch includes a flat portion and a projecting portion projected more toward the workpiece than a flat portion of the punch. The workpiece is positioned with respect to the punch at a position such that the projecting portion starts cutting at least at one out of the heat-affected zone or the weld portion before the flat portion cuts the workpiece. The workpiece is then cut by moving the punch and a die relative to each other in this state of positioning so as to shear across the weld portion on the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi YASUTOMI, Takashi MATSUNO, Tohru YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 10081042
    Abstract: Electric resistance welded steel pipe excellent in weld zone quality suitable for oil country tubular goods and line pipe wherein steel plate forming the base metal of the electric resistance welded steel pipe has a predetermined chemical composition, the contents of Ca, O, S, Ce, La, and Al satisfy XCASO = ( Ca O + Ca S + 0.285 ? Ce + La O + 0.285 ? Ce + La S ) × ( Al Ca ) > 78 the oxide-based inclusions in the weld zone of the electric resistance welded steel pipe contains one or both of Ce and La, and the long axis/short axis of the oxide-based inclusions is 2.5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Hamatani, Kenichi Yamamoto, Masafumi Miyazaki, Masaki Ina, Takaaki Fukushi
  • Patent number: 10081073
    Abstract: In a spot welded joint according to an aspect of the present invention, with respect to a rectangular planar region of 100 ?m×100 ?m which is perpendicular to a sheet surface of the plurality of the steel sheets and which centers around an inner point spaced away by 100 ?m in a direction parallel with the sheet surface from an edge of a nugget, in a case of measuring a P concentration at a pitch of 1 ?m to obtain measured values of the P concentration at 100×100 of measurement points, and in a case of repetitively calculating an average value of the measured values of the P concentration at 20 of the measurement points which are adjacent to each other and which are arranged in a row in the direction parallel with the sheet surface among the 100×100 of the measurement points while shifting each one point to obtain 81×100 of the average values, the number of the average values which are more than two times an average P concentration is 0 to 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fuminori Watanabe, Tomohito Tanaka, Seiji Furusako, Yasunobu Miyazaki, Hideki Hamatani, Hatsuhiko Oikawa
  • Patent number: 10081071
    Abstract: In an arc spot welded joint manufacturing method in which two steel sheets configured by high strength steel having a component carbon content of 0.07% by mass or greater are overlapped, and the sheets are lap welded together in a spot pattern. The method includes a first welding pass in which a second steel sheet on the lower side is melted up to a back face side, and first weld metal is formed including a first reinforcement portion, and a second welding pass in which a second weld metal including a second reinforcement portion is formed over the first weld metal, such that the heights of the first reinforcement portion or the second reinforcement portion is formed at t/5 or greater with respect to the sheet thickness t of the steel sheets, and the average weld bead diameter is formed at from 3t to 10t.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Furusako, Shinji Kodama, Yasunobu Miyazaki, Hatsuhiko Oikawa
  • Patent number: 10085306
    Abstract: The transverse flux induction heating device allows an alternating magnetic field to intersect the sheet face of a conductive sheet which is conveyed in one direction, thereby inductively heating the conductive sheet. The transverse flux induction heating device includes a heating coil disposed such that a coil face faces the sheet face of the conductive sheet; a core around which the heating coil is coiled; and a shielding plate formed of a conductor and disposed between the core and a side end portion in a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction of the conductive sheet, wherein the shielding plate has a protruded portion, and the side surface of the protruded portion represents a closed loop when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the coil face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Umetsu, Tsutomu Ueki, Yasuhiro Mayumi, Toshiya Takechi
  • Patent number: 10081846
    Abstract: A steel wire according to an aspect of the present invention includes a predetermined chemical composition, in which a wire diameter R of the steel wire is 1.0 mm to 3.5 mm, a soft portion is formed along an outer circumference of the steel wire, the Vickers hardness of the soft portion is lower than that of a position of the steel wire at a depth of ¼ of the wire diameter R by Hv 30 or higher, the thickness of the soft portion is 5 ?m to 0.1×R mm, the metallographic structure of a center portion of the steel wire contains 95% to 100% of pearlite by area %, the average lamellar spacing of pearlite in a portion from a surface of the steel wire to a depth of 5 ?m is less than that of pearlite at the center of the steel wire, the difference between the average lamellar spacing of pearlite in the portion from the surface of the steel wire to the depth of 5 ?m and the average lamellar spacing of pearlite at the center of the steel wire is 3 nm to 60 nm, and the tensile strength is 1100 MPa or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Hirakami, Makoto Okonogi