Patents Assigned to Sumitomo Metal Corporation
  • Publication number: 20190186018
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a steel sheet and an insulation coating, in which the insulation coating contains a first metal phosphate, which is a metal phosphate of one or two more metals selected from Al, Fe, Mg, Mn, Ni, and Zn; a second metal phosphate, which is a metal phosphate of one or two more metals selected from Co, Mo, V, W, and Zr; and colloidal silica, the insulation coating does not contain chromate, and an elution amount of phosphoric acid of the insulation coating as determined by boiling the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet in a boiled pure water for 10 minutes, then measuring an elution amount of phosphoric acid into the pure water, and dividing the amount of phosphoric acid by the area of the insulation coating of the boiled grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is 30 mg/m2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Fumikazu ANDOU, Tomoya SUENAGA, Shuichi YAMAZAKI, Masaru TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20190190021
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material is provided that is utilized in a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and that can improve the capacity per volume and charge-discharge cycle characteristics. The negative electrode active material according to the present embodiment contains an alloy having a chemical composition consisting of, in at %, Sn: 13.0 to 24.5% and Si: 3.0 to 15.0%, with the balance being Cu and impurities. The alloy particles contain a phase with a peak of the most intense diffraction line appearing in a range of 42.0 to 44.0 degrees of a diffraction angle 2?, the most intense diffraction line being a diffraction line having the largest integrated diffraction intensity in an X-ray diffraction profile. A half-width of the most intense diffraction line of the alloy particles is in a range of 0.15 to 2.5 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Sukeyoshi YAMAMOTO, Tatsuo NAGATA, Koji MORIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190185070
    Abstract: [Object] An issue is to provide a member that exhibits high load capacity and rigidity when joined to another member. [Solution] Provided is a member 1 having a transverse cross section that includes a top sheet 2, upper ridgelines 4, vertical walls 3, lower ridgelines 5, and floor flanges 9, and including, on at least one end portions in the extending directions of the upper ridgelines 4, a top sheet flange 11 via a top sheet ridgeline 6 and vertical wall flanges 10 via vertical wall ridgelines 7, in which the vertical wall flange 10 and the floor flange 9 are continuous, and in end portions of the upper ridgelines 4 and the lower ridgelines 5, the sum total ?R of the radii of curvature of corner portions of the vertical walls and the sum total ?L of the widths of the top sheet 2 and the vertical walls 3 in an end portion of the member have the relation of ?R/?L?0.13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro ITO
  • Publication number: 20190184924
    Abstract: This supporting structure for an underrun protector includes a stay body that connects a beam and a frame to each other; a stay reinforcing body that reinforces the stay body from an outside in a vehicle width direction; and a gusset provided between the stay reinforcing body and the beam. A stay body web face of the stay body is provided with an opening part. A pair of wall face parts provided to extend outward in the vehicle width direction from both ends of the opening part in a vehicle forward-rearward direction is provided so as to face each other. Each of the wall face parts is provided at a height corresponding to an installation position of the gusset and abuts against an inner surface of the stay reinforcing body in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka MIKAZUKI, Eiji ISOGAI, Masahiro NAKATA, Kenji YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10327287
    Abstract: The transverse flux induction heating device is 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; a shielding plate formed of a conductor and disposed between the core and a side end portion in the direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the conductive sheet; and a non-conductive 10 soft magnetic material which is attached to the shielding plate, wherein the shielding plate is interposed between the core and the non-conductive soft magnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Umetsu, Tsutomu Ueki, Yasuhiro Mayumi, Toshiya Takechi
  • Publication number: 20190177822
    Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet includes, by mass %, C: 0.030% or more and less than 0.075%, Si+Al: 0.08% to 0.40%, Mn: 0.5% to 2.0%, and Ti: 0.020% to 0.150%, and includes a microstructure having a ferrite and a martensite. The hot-rolled steel sheet includes a microstructure having, by area %, 90% to 98% of the ferrite, 2% to 10% of the martensite. 0% to 3% of a bainite, and 0% to 3% of a pearlite. In the martensite, the number proportion of martensite grains having a hardness of 10.0 GPa or more is 10% or less, and a ratio N1/N2 of the number N1 of martensite grains having a hardness of 8.0 GPa or more and less than 10.0 GPa to the number N2 of martensite grains having a hardness of less than 8.0 GPa is 0.8 to 1.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke MAEDA, Hiroshi SHUTO, Kazuya OOTSUKA, Akifumi SAKAKIBARA, Shinsuke KAI
  • Publication number: 20190177808
    Abstract: An austenitic stainless steel includes base metal and a coating film formed on at least part of a surface of the base metal, a chemical composition of the base metal containing, in mass percent: C: 0.05% or less; Si: 1.0% or less; Mn: 2.0% or less; P: 0.040% or less; S: 0.010% or less; O: 0.020% or less; N: less than 0.050%; Ni: 12.0 to 27.0%; Cr: 15.0% or more to less than 20.0%; Cu: more than 3.5% to 8.0% or less; Mo: more than 2.0% to 5.0% or less; Co: 0.05% or less; Sn: 0.05% or less, V: 0 to 0.5%, Nb: 0 to 1.0%, Ti: 0 to 0.5%, W: 0 to 5.0%, Zr: 0 to 1.0%, Al: 0 to 0.5%, Ca: 0 to 0.01%, B: 0 to 0.01%, REM: 0 to 0.01%, and the balance: Fe and impurities, wherein a chemical composition at a maximum-Cr depth where a concentration of Cr in the coating film reaches a maximum satisfies, in at %, [(Cr+Ni+Cu+Mo)/Fe?1.0].
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Shinnosuke KURIHARA, Masayuki SAGARA, Takahiro OSUKI
  • Publication number: 20190176894
    Abstract: [Object] Provided is a press-molded product capable of improving the bonding strength between a vehicle body reinforcing member and the other member or the rigidity of a vehicle body by enlarging a cross-section of a member to a fullest extent of a design cross-section without forming a notch for preventing a press-molding failure in a ridge-portion flange. [Solution] A press-molded product is formed by a steel plate having a tensile strength of 340 MPa or more, and includes an inward continuous flange in at least one end portion in a predetermined direction, the inward continuous flange being obtained by continuously forming a ridge-portion flange formed inward in the end portion of the ridge portion, a first flange formed inward in at least a part of an area of the end portion of a first surface portion, and a second flange formed inward in at least a part of an area of the end portion of a second surface portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro ITO, Yoshiaki NAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20190178961
    Abstract: In the present invention, a non-uniform applied magnetic field is used to magnetize a bulk magnet structure with a magnetic field having high uniformity. Provided is a bulk magnet structure that comprises at least one ring-shaped oxide superconducting bulk body, that is configured by layering ring-shaped oxide superconducting bulk bodies or columnar oxide superconducting bulk bodies, and that has fitted thereto at least one outer circumferential reinforcing ring covering the outer circumferential surface of the bulk magnet structure. Also provided is a magnetization method for a bulk magnet structure including a basic magnetization step in which the strength of a magnetic field applied to the aforementioned bulk magnet structure is decreased while the bulk magnet structure is held in a superconducting state by a temperature controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuru MORITA
  • Publication number: 20190176893
    Abstract: [Object] Provided is a press-molded product capable of improving the bonding strength between a vehicle body reinforcing member and the other member or the rigidity of a vehicle body by enlarging a cross-section of a member to a fullest extent of a design cross-section without forming a notch for preventing a press-molding failure in a ridge-portion flange. [Solution] A press-molded product is formed by a steel plate having a tensile strength of 340 MPa or more, and includes an inward continuous flange in at least one end portion in a predetermined direction, the inward continuous flange being obtained by continuously forming a ridge-portion flange formed inward in the end portion of the ridge portion, a first flange formed inward in at least a part of an area of the end portion of a first surface portion, and a second flange formed inward in at least a part of an area of the end portion of a second surface portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro ITO, Yoshiaki NAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20190176204
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method to manufacture a pressed component from an intermediate stock, which includes two bent portions with a spacing thereof narrower than a width of a top plate of the pressed component, by employing a press including a die having a die pad and a punch having an inner pad, the method including: gripping a portion between the bent portions with the inner pad and the die pad in a state in which the inner pad projects from the punch and the die pad projects from the die; moving the die toward the punch side to form vertical walls of the pressed component with the die and the punch; and integrating the die and the die pad and then moving the die, the die pad and the inner pad toward the punch side to form the top plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya SUZUKI, Yoshiaki NAKAZAWA, Masahiro NAKATA
  • Publication number: 20190176211
    Abstract: A drawn body for a vehicle structural member has a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more, radii of curvature of two first convex ridge portions, a second convex ridge portion, and a concave ridge portion are each 30 mm or less, a corner radius of a corner wall is 30 mm or less, and a forming depth which is a separation distance between a top sheet portion and an outwardly-extending flange is 40 mm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro OTSUKA, Takashi MIYAGI
  • Publication number: 20190177810
    Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet includes, by mass %: C: 0.020% or more and 0.080% or less; Si: 0.20% or more and 1.00% or less; Mn: 0.80% or more and 2.30% or less; and Al: 0.010% or more and 0.100% or less; and further includes: one or more of Nb and Ti which satisfy a requirement of 0.005%?Nb+Ti<0.030%, in which a structure consists of, ferrite, bainite, and other phases, an area ratio of the ferrite is 80% or more and less than 95%, an area ratio of a non-recrystallization ferrite in the ferrite is 1% or more and less than 10%, an area ratio of the bainite is 5% or more and 20% or less, a total amount of the other phases is less than 8%, an equivalent circle diameter of a carbonitride including one or both of Nb and Ti is 1 nm or more and 10 nm or less, and a tensile strength is 590 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke KONDO, Kunio HAYASHI, Toshio OGAWA, Naoki MATSUTANI, Koichi GOTO
  • Patent number: 10316383
    Abstract: There is provided an austenitic stainless steel having a high strength and an excellent hydrogen brittleness resistance and further having an excellent machinability. The austenitic stainless steel of the present embodiment has a chemical composition including: in mass %, C: 0.10% or less; Si: 1.0% or less; Mn: 2.1 to 6.0%; P: 0.045% or less; S: 0.1% or less; Ni: 8.0 to 16.0%; Cr: 15.0 to 30.0%; Mo: 1.0 to 5.0%; N: 0.05 to 0.45%; Nb: 0 to 0.50%; and V: 0 to 0.50%, with the balance being Fe and impurities, and satisfying Formula (1). The austenitic stainless steel of the present embodiment has a grain size number of less than 8.0 and a tensile strength of 690 MPa or more. 15?12.6C+1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Etsuo Dan, Masaaki Terunuma, Takahiro Osuki, Tomohiko Omura, Jun Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10316995
    Abstract: A sealed threaded tubular connection resistant to successive pressure loads includes a male element including a male threading and a female element including a female threading corresponding to the male threading. At least one of the elements includes a lip extending beyond the threading to the free end of the element and the other element includes a recess for the lip. The lip includes a first zone with a peripheral surface turned towards the other element on which a first sealing surface is disposed that can be radially interference fitted against a corresponding second sealing surface disposed on the peripheral surface of the recess of the other element. The lip includes a second axially located zone between the first zone and the free end of the element that includes a first radial bearing surface turned towards the other element in contact with a corresponding second radial bearing surface disposed on the peripheral surface of the recess of the other element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Laurent Gillot
  • Patent number: 10315245
    Abstract: Provided is mold flux that can prevent longitudinal cracks from forming on a surface of a slab upon continuous-casting hypo-peritectic steel, wherein CaO, SiO2, an alkali metal oxide and a fluorine compound are contained, 1.1?(CaO)h/(SiO2)h?1.9, 0.10?(CaF2)h/((CaO)h+(SiO2)h+(CaF2)h)?0.40 and 0?(alkali metal fluoride)h/((CaO)h+(SiO2)h+(alkali metal fluoride)h)?0.10 are satisfied, a solidification temperature is no less than 1300° C., and viscosity at 1450° C. is no more than 0.1 Pa·s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahito Hanao
  • Publication number: 20190169729
    Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes: a predetermined chemical composition; and a steel structure represented by: in terms of area ratio, polygonal ferrite: 10% or less; upper bainite: 20% or less; retained austenite: 5% or less; and martensite: 70% or more, in which: martensite having Fe carbides at a number density of 1×106/mm2 or more is contained by 50% or more, in terms of area ratio, with respect to the entire amount of martensite; and the steel structure has an average effective crystal grain diameter of 5.0 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Kunio HAYASHI, Masafumi AZUMA, Eisaku SAKURADA, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Genki ABUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190168588
    Abstract: [Object] Provided is a configuration that makes up for a lack of tensile rigidity and a lack of collision properties at the same time. [Solution] An automotive exterior panel according to the present invention: an exterior material 110; and a reinforcing member 120 that is in contact along an automobile inside surface of the exterior material 110 and of which a second moment of area in a direction orthogonal to the exterior material is less than or equal to 15,000 mm4 in a cross section orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the reinforcing member. By this configuration, the second moment of area in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the reinforcing member 120 is made less than or equal to 15,000 mm4, and hence a lack of tensile rigidity can be made up for at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya SUZUKI, Yoshiaki NAKAZAWA, Yasuhiro ITO, Satoshi SHIRAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20190168822
    Abstract: A structural member of an integral shaped article using steel sheet having a tensile strength of 590 MPa or more improved in formability, produced using a die or blank holder provided with a space at least at part of a position contacting a blank at the time of pressing it. The structural member comprises a top sheet part including at least one recessed part at an outside edge part in a plan view, a first vertical wall part extending bent from a part or all of an outside edge part including the recessed part in the top sheet part, a first flange part extending bent from an edge of the first vertical wall part at an opposite side to the top sheet part, and a second vertical wall part extending bent from an edge of the top sheet part different from the outside edge part including the recessed part, and at least one projecting part on the top sheet part, the first vertical wall part, or the first flange part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20190169707
    Abstract: A steel sheet for hot pressing includes: a specific chemical composition; and a steel structure comprising ferrite and cementite and represented, in area %: a total area ratio of bainite and martensite: 0% to 10%; and an area ratio of cementite: 1% or more; and a concentration of Mn in the cementite is 5% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koutarou HAYASHI, Toshinobu NISHIBATA