Patents Assigned to Sumitomo Metal Corporation
  • Patent number: 10273555
    Abstract: A hot-pressed steel sheet member includes a specific chemical composition and further includes a steel structure in which an area ratio of ferrite in a surface layer portion ranging from a surface to 15 ?m in depth is greater than 1.20 times an area ratio of ferrite in an inner layer portion being a portion excluding the surface layer portion, and the inner layer portion contains a steel structure represented, in area %, ferrite: 10% to 70%, martensite: 30% to 90%, and a total area ratio of ferrite and martensite: 90% to 100%. A tensile strength of the hot-pressed steel sheet member is 980 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koutarou Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10273566
    Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %, C: 0.030% to 0.10%, Mn: 0.5% to 2.5%, and Si+Al: 0.100% to 2.5%, in which the steel sheet has a microstructure including, by area fraction, ferrite: 80% or more, martensite: 3% to 15.0%, and pearlite: less than 3.0%, in which a number density of martensite having an equivalent circle diameter of 3 ?m or more at a position which is at a depth of ¼ of the steel sheet thickness from the surface of the steel sheet, is 5.0 pieces/10000 ?m2 or less, and the following Expression (1) is satisfied. R/DM2?1.00??Expression (1) Here, R is an average martensite interval (?m) defined by the following Expression (2), and DM is a martensite average diameter (?m). R={12.5×(?/6VM)0.5?(?)0.5}×DM??Expression (2) Here, VM is a martensite area fraction (%) and DM is the martensite average diameter (?m).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Maeda, Osamu Kawano, Junji Haji, Fuminori Tasaki
  • Patent number: 10274314
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a shape inspection method, a shape inspection apparatus, and a program capable of adjusting the brightness and the thickness of a light-section line in a light-section image more simply and objectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Hibi, Yusuke Konno, Nobuhiro Furuya, Tomohiro Kuroiwa
  • Patent number: 10272954
    Abstract: To provide a panel whose surface rigidity can be improved appropriately in accordance with a load. Provided is a panel including: a load point to which a load is applied from the outside; and a protrusion that protrudes from a surface of the panel and is formed continuously or discontinuously around the load point. The protrusion intersects, at a plurality of positions, each of a plurality of virtual straight lines extending radially from the load point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Yonebayashi, Yoshiaki Nakazawa
  • Publication number: 20190118238
    Abstract: A pressed component includes an elongated top plate; ridge line portions at both short direction ends of the top plate; and vertical walls that face each other in a state extending from the ridge line portions, and the top plate includes a minimum portion, at which the Vickers hardness value is a minimum value, between one end and another end in the short direction of the top plate, and maximum portions, at which the Vickers hardness value is a maximum value, in each of a first range between the minimum portion and the one end, and a second range between the minimum portion and the other end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro KUBO, Hiroshi YOSHIDA, Takashi MIYAGI, Toshiya SUZUKI, Yoshiaki NAKAZAWA
  • Patent number: 10270092
    Abstract: Provided is a negative electrode active material that can improve the discharge capacity per volume and charge-discharge cycle characteristics. The negative electrode active material according to the present embodiment contains an alloy phase. The alloy phase undergoes thermoelastic diffusionless transformation when releasing metal ions or occluding metal ions. The oxygen content of the negative electrode active material is not more than 5000 ppm in mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sukeyoshi Yamamoto, Tatsuo Nagata, Noriyuki Negi
  • Patent number: 10266909
    Abstract: There is provided an austenitic stainless steel for high-pressure hydrogen gas consisting, by mass percent, of C: 0.10% or less, Si: 1.0% or less, Mn: 3% or more to less than 7%, Cr: 15 to 30%, Ni: 10% or more to less than 17%, Al: 0.10% or less, N: 0.10 to 0.50%, and at least one kind of V: 0.01 to 1.0% and Nb: 0.01 to 0.50%, the balance being Fe and impurities, wherein in the impurities, the P content is 0.050% or less and the S content is 0.050% or less, the tensile strength is 800 MPa or higher, the grain size number (ASTM E112) is No. 8 or higher, and alloy carbo-nitrides having a maximum diameter of 50 to 1000 nm are contained in the number of 0.4/?m2 or larger in cross section observation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiko Omura, Jun Nakamura, Hirokazu Okada, Hiroyuki Semba, Yusaku Tomio, Hiroyuki Hirata, Masaaki Igarashi, Kazuhiro Ogawa, Masaaki Terunuma
  • Patent number: 10266908
    Abstract: A rolled steel bar for machine structural use includes a predetermined chemical composition comprising, by mass %, C: 0.45% to 0.65%, Si: higher than 1.00% to 1.50%, Mn: higher than 0.40% to 1.00%, P: 0.005% to 0.050%, S: 0.020% to 0.100%, V: 0.08% to 0.20%, Ti: 0% to 0.050%; Ca: 0% to 0.0030%, Zr: 0% to 0.0030%, Te: 0% to 0.0030%, and a remainder including Fe and impurities, wherein the impurities include: Cr: 0.10% or lower, Al: lower than 0.01%, and N: 0.0060% or lower. In the rolled steel bar for machine structural use, K1 obtained from “K1=C+Si/7+Mn/5+1.54×V” is 0.95 to 1.05, K2 obtained from “K2=139?28.6×Si+105×Mn?833×S?13420×N” is more than 35, a Mn content and a S content satisfy Mn/S?8.0, and a total decarburized depth of a surface layer is 500 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Takada, Shinya Teramoto, Osamu Ohyama
  • Patent number: 10266928
    Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet satisfies that an average pole density of an orientation group of {100}<011> to {223}<110> is 1.0 to 5.0, a pole density of a crystal orientation {332}<113> is 1.0 to 4.0, a Lankford-value rC in a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction is 0.70 to 1.50, and a Lankford-value r30 in a direction making an angle of 30° with the rolling direction is 0.70 to 1.50. Moreover, the cold-rolled steel sheet includes, as a metallographic structure, by area %, a ferrite and a bainite of 30% to 99% in total and a martensite of 1% to 70%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuri Toda, Riki Okamoto, Nobuhiro Fujita, Kohichi Sano, Hiroshi Yoshida, Toshio Ogawa, Kunio Hayashi, Kazuaki Nakano
  • Patent number: 10265752
    Abstract: In forming a press-formed product that is made of a high-tensile steel sheet having a tensile strength of 390 MPa or more, and has a substantially gutter-shaped cross section and an outward continuous flange, wrinkling in ridges and cracking in the outward continuous flange are reduced. A method for manufacturing a press-formed product that is made of a high-tensile steel sheet of 390 MPa or more, and has a substantially gutter-shaped cross section and an outward continuous flange in at least one end in a predetermined direction includes a first step in which, after a first pad restrains at least a part of a portion to be formed into a gutter bottom in a forming material, a second pad restrains at least a part of the end of portions to be formed into ridges and subsequently carries out press forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Otsuka, Yoshiaki Nakazawa, Ryuichi Nishimura, Yasuhiro Ito
  • Patent number: 10270087
    Abstract: Provided is a composite particle which can improve the capacity per volume and charge-discharge cycle characteristics. The composite particle includes a plurality of specific particles and a binding material. The specific particle contains an alloy phase. The alloy phase undergoes thermoelastic diffusionless transformation when releasing metal ions or occluding metal ions. The binding material contains at least one of non-graphite carbon and a carbon precursor. The plurality of specific particles bind with each other via the binding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Usui, Sukeyoshi Yamamoto, Noriyuki Negi
  • Patent number: 10265797
    Abstract: A resistance spot welding method including: a pulsation process of clamping a sheet assembly of two or more overlapped steel sheets including at least one high tensile steel sheet using a pair of welding electrodes that are connected to a spot welding power source employing an inverter direct current method, and performing plural repetitions of current passing and current pass stopping, while pressing the steel sheets with the welding electrodes; and a continuous current pass process in which, after the pulsation process, current is passed continuously for a longer period of time than a maximum current pass time of the pulsation process, while pressing the steel sheets with the welding electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Fujimoto, Hatsuhiko Oikawa, Shintaro Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 10266911
    Abstract: Provided is a hot-formed member according to the present invention, having a predetermined chemical composition and having a metallographic microstructure containing austenite at an area ratio of 10 area % to 40 area % and in which total number density of particles of the austenite and martensite is equal to or greater than 1.0 number/?m2, in which tensile strength is from 900 MPa to 1300 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koutarou Hayashi, Akira Seki
  • Patent number: 10260585
    Abstract: A brake disc of the present invention is a brake disc that stops the rotation of an axle when a brake pad is pressed on a surface of the brake disc, including a disc main body that is attached to a rotary body integrally rotating with the axle; and a plurality of build-up layers laminated on a surface of the disc main body, in which the build-up layers are laminated on the surface of the disc main body by means of laser metal deposition welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignees: RAILWAY TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Saga, Yasushi Karino, Kazutaka Asabe, Atsushi Sakaguchi, Mikio Yoneyama, Yoshihiro Tatsumi
  • Patent number: 10260125
    Abstract: There is provided an austenitic stainless steel for high-pressure hydrogen gas consisting, by mass percent, of C: 0.10% or less, Si: 1.0% or less, Mn: 3% or more to less than 7%, Cr: 15 to 30%, Ni: 10% or more to less than 17%, Al: 0.10% or less, N: 0.10 to 0.50%, and at least one kind of V: 0.01 to 1.0% and Nb: 0.01 to 0.50%, the balance being Fe and impurities, wherein in the impurities, the P content is 0.050% or less and the S content is 0.050% or less, the tensile strength is 800 MPa or higher, the grain size number (ASTM E112) is No. 8 or higher, and alloy carbo-nitrides having a maximum diameter of 50 to 1000 nm are contained in the number of 0.4/?m2 or larger in cross section observation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiko Omura, Jun Nakamura, Hirokazu Okada, Hiroyuki Semba, Yusaku Tomio, Hiroyuki Hirata, Masaaki Igarashi, Kazuhiro Ogawa, Masaaki Terunuma
  • Patent number: 10262412
    Abstract: A welded state monitoring system according to an aspect of the present invention is a welded state monitoring system used for plasma shielded electric resistance welding in which electric resistance welding is performed while irradiating a weld zone of a steel sheet with plasma, and is provided with a plasma irradiation device which irradiates the weld zone with plasma, a first image capturing device which captures an image of the weld zone from above and has an image sensor capable of detecting light having a wavelength of 850 nm or more, a first wavelength region limiting device which limits light incident on the first image capturing device to a wavelength region of 850 nm or more, and an image processing device which subjects the image captured by the first image capturing device to image processing and analyzes the welded state of the weld zone thereby being able to analyze the welded state without being affected by the plasma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noboru Hasegawa, Hideki Hamatani, Yoshifumi Karube, Manabu Ueda, Michitoshi Tanimoto, Takashi Oosawa
  • Patent number: 10262086
    Abstract: An analyzing apparatus generates first displacement distribution data indicating a displacement distribution of a member caused by springback based on finite element model data, material physical property data, and stress distribution data; generates second displacement distribution data indicating an amount of displacement of the member in each of a plurality of, for example, all, natural vibration deformation modes based on the finite element model data and the material physical property data; obtains a degree of coincidence between the first displacement distribution data and each of the second displacement distribution data, and selects one or more natural vibration deformation modes based on the degree of coincidence, to determine a modified shape in which natural vibrations are increased, thereby bringing the member closer to a target shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Niwa, Noriyuki Suzuki, Shunji Hiwatashi, Shin Toyokawa
  • Patent number: 10260123
    Abstract: A rolled steel bar for machine structural use includes a predetermined chemical composition comprising, by mass %, C: 0.45% to 0.65%, Si: higher than 1.00% to 1.50%, Mn: higher than 0.40% to 1.00%, P: 0.005% to 0.050%, S: 0.020% to 0.100%, V: 0.08% to 0.20%, Ti: 0% to 0.050%; Ca: 0% to 0.0030%, Zr: 0% to 0.0030%, Te: 0% to 0.0030%, and a remainder including Fe and impurities, wherein the impurities include: Cr: 0.10% or lower, Al: lower than 0.01%, and N: 0.0060% or lower. In the rolled steel bar for machine structural use, K1 obtained from “K1=C+Si/7+Mn/5+1.54×V” is 0.95 to 1.05, K2 obtained from “K2=139?28.6×Si+105×Mn?833×S?13420×N” is more than 35, K3 obtained from “K3=137×C?44.0×Si” is 10.7 or more, a Mn content and a S content satisfy Mn/S?8.0, and a total decarburized depth in a surface layer is 500 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Takada, Shinya Teramoto, Osamu Ohyama
  • Patent number: 10259475
    Abstract: A railway wheel includes: a wheel including a plate portion; and a brake disc including a circular plate portion whose front face side is a sliding surface, and a plurality of fin portions which are radially projected on a back face of the circular plate portion, wherein two of the brake discs are fastened in a region within the sliding surface. Regarding an area of a section crossing a space between the brake disc and the wheel along a circumferential direction, a minimum section portion in which the sectional area is minimum is present in a region formed by an outer peripheral surface of the circular plate portion and an inner peripheral surface of the rim portion, and the outer peripheral surface of the circular plate portion follows the inner peripheral surface of the rim portion in a region extending to the outer side from the minimum section portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nogami, Takahiro Fujimoto, Yuiko Sakayama, Atsushi Sakaguchi, Kazutaka Asabe
  • Patent number: 10260124
    Abstract: There is provided a hot-rolled steel sheet in which a composition contains: in mass %, C: 0.01% to 0.2%; Si: 2.5% or less; Mn: 4.0% or less; P: 0.10% or less; S: 0.03% or less; Al: 0.001% to 2.0%; N: 0.01% or less; O: 0.01% or less; Ti: 0.01 to 0.30%; and the balance being composed of iron and impurities and a structure is composed of by volume fraction, 90% or more of tempered martensite with an average aspect ratio of 2 or less, or 90% or more in total of both tempered martensite and lower bainite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akifumi Sakakibara, Tatsuo Yokoi, Hiroshi Shuto, Yuuki Kanzawa, Masafumi Azuma