Patents Assigned to UACJ CORPORATION
  • Patent number: 11482251
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy substrate for a magnetic disk including an aluminum alloy containing 0.1 to 3.0 mass % of Fe, 0.005 to 1.000 mass % of Cu, and 0.005 to 1.000 mass % of Zn, with a balance of Al and inevitable impurities, wherein in an outer peripheral surface thereof, the number of holes having maximum diameters of 10 ?m or more is 200/mm2 or less, an aluminum alloy base disk for a magnetic disk and a magnetic disk, using the aluminum alloy substrate, and methods for manufacturing these.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: UACJ CORPORATION, FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Murata, Kotaro Kitawaki, Makoto Yonemitsu, Hideyuki Hatakeyama, Ryo Sakamoto, Hiroki Ota
  • Patent number: 11458577
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet for a heat exchanger includes a three-layer material in which a brazing material layer, an intermediate layer, and a core material are cladded and stacked, the intermediate layer is formed of an aluminum alloy which can include Mn, Si, Fe, and Cu, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, the core material is formed of an aluminum alloy which can include Si, Fe, Cu, and Mn, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, and the brazing material layer is formed of an aluminum alloy including Si, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukie Kitada, Naoki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11459642
    Abstract: The present disclosure shows a superplastic-forming aluminum alloy plate that has excellent properties for superplastic-forming, such as blow forming, and that has excellent surface properties after forming. Shown is a superplastic-forming aluminum alloy plate and a production method therefor, the superplastic-forming aluminum alloy plate being characterized by comprising an aluminum alloy which contains 2.0 to 6.0 mass % Mg, 0.5 to 1.8 mass % Mn and 0.40 mass % or less Cr and in which the balance consists of Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein the unavoidable impurities are restricted to have 0.20 mass % or less Fe and 0.20 mass % or less Si, the 0.2% proof stress is 340 MPa or more, and the density of intermetallic compounds having an equivalent circular diameter of 5 to 15 ?m at the RD-TD plane which extends along the center of the plate cross-section is 50 to 400 pieces/mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kudo, Yoshifumi Shinzato, Ryo Kuramoto
  • Patent number: 11447653
    Abstract: The present invention provides a coating material that can improve gravure printing characteristics of the printing surface of a printing substrate to favorably transfer an ink fed in the cell of a gravure printing roll to the printing surface of the printing substrate, thereby achieving the beautiful gravure printing. The coating material of the present invention is a coating material for forming a surface layer, serving as a printing surface, on a printing substrate on which gravure printing is to be performed, and the coating material is characterized by including a vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate-unsaturated fatty acid copolymer that includes 80 to 90% by mass of a component of vinyl chloride, 9.2 to 19.5% by mass of a component of vinyl acetate, and 0.1 to 0.8% by mass of a component of an unsaturated fatty acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nishio, Osamu Katoh, Yukie Kitada
  • Publication number: 20220290304
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy material having a base material formed from an aluminum alloy, and a chemical treatment film on the surface of the base material. In a cathode polarization curve obtained by measuring the aluminum alloy material at a sweeping speed of 20 mV/min by using a saturated KCl silver-silver chloride electrode as a reference electrode in a 5 wt % NaCl static aqueous solution at a temperature of 25° C. and a pH of 5.5, the electrode potential at which the absoute value of the current density reaches 10 ?A/cm2 is ?1350 to ?1150 mV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: YOSHIHIKO KYO, MIHOKO KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220281040
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet is formed of a four-layer material formed of a brazing material, an intermediate material, a core material, and a. brazing material. The intermediate material comprises Mg of 0.40 to 6.00 mass %, and has a total of contents of Mn, Cr, and Zr being 0.10 mass % or more. The core material comprises Mg of 0.20 to 2.00 mass % and comprises one or two or more of Mn of 1.80 mass % or less, Si of 1.05 mass % or less, Fe of 1.00 mass % or less, Cu of 1.20 mass % or less, Ti of 0.30 mass % or less, Zr of 0.30 mass % or less, and Cr of 0.30 mass % or less. Each of the core material and the intermediate material has a grain size of 20 to 300 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: UACJ Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki Yamayoshi, Hidetoshi Kumagai, Hirokazu Tanaka, Taketoshi Toyama, Naoki Sugimoto, Nobuhiro Honma, Shogo Yamada, Takahiro Shinoda
  • Patent number: 11423937
    Abstract: There are provided: an aluminum alloy substrate for a magnetic disk, the aluminum alloy substrate including an aluminum alloy including 0.4 to 3.0 mass % (hereinafter, “%”) of Fe, less than 0.10% of Si, less than 0.10% of Mg, and the balance of Al and unavoidable impurities, in which an Al—Fe-based intermetallic compound having a longest diameter of 2 ?m or more and less than 3 ?m is dispersed at a distribution density of 1000 particles/mm2 or more, and a Mg—Si-based intermetallic compound having a longest diameter of 1 ?m or more is dispersed at a distribution density of 1 particle/mm2 or less; a method for producing the same; and a magnetic disk in which an electroless Ni—P plating treatment layer and a magnetic layer thereon are disposed on a surface of the aluminum alloy substrate for a magnetic disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignees: UACJ CORPORATION, FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro Kitawaki, Hideyuki Hatakeyama, Takashi Nakayama, Yasuo Fujii, Wataru Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20220250195
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet used for brazing of an aluminum material in an inert gas atmosphere or in vacuum is formed of a two-layer material in which a brazing material and a core material are stacked in this order. The core material is formed of an aluminum alloy and has a grain size of 20 to 300 ?m, and the aluminum alloy includes Mn of 0.50 to 2.00 mass %, Mg of 0.40 to 2.00 mass %, Si of 1.50 mass % or less, and Fe of 1.00 mass % or less. The brazing material is formed of an aluminum alloy including Si of 4.00 to 13.00 mass % and one or two or more of Mn of 2.00 mass or less, Ti of 0.30 mass % or less, Zr of 0.30 mass % or less, and Cr of 0.30 mass % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: UACJ Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki Yamayoshi, Hidetoshi Kumagai, Hirokazu Tanaka, Taketoshi Toyama, Naoki Sugimoto, Nobuhiro Honma, Shogo Yamada, Takahiro Shinoda
  • Patent number: 11410850
    Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing method by a semiconductor manufacturing device includes: positioning an anode, which causes an oxidation reaction, in a first end of a base material containing an aluminum oxide and a cathode, which causes a reduction reaction, in a second end of the base material; heating the base material to melt it with the anode being in contact with the first end of the base material and the cathode being in contact with the second end of the base material; causing a current to flow between the anode and the cathode to cause a molten salt electrolysis reaction for a whole of or a part of a period in which the base material is at least partially melted; and after the molten salt electrolysis reaction, cooling the base material to form a p-type aluminum oxide semiconductor layer and an n-type aluminum oxide semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Arima, Koichi Ashizawa
  • Patent number: 11408690
    Abstract: A method for producing an aluminum alloy clad material having a core material and a sacrificial anode material clad on at least one surface of the core material, wherein the core material comprises an aluminum alloy comprising 0.050 to 1.5 mass % (referred to as “%” below) Si, 0.050 to 2.0% Fe and 0.50 to 2.00% Mn; the sacrificial anode material includes an aluminum alloy containing 0.50 to 8.00% Zn, 0.05 to 1.50% Si and 0.050 to 2.00% Fe; the grain size of the sacrificial anode material is 60 ?m or more; and a ratio R1/R2 is 0.30 or less, wherein R1 (?m) is a grain size in a thickness direction and R2 (?m) is a grain size in a rolling direction in a cross section of the core material along the rolling direction; a production method thereof; and a heat exchanger using the clad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Ando, Atsushi Fukumoto, Akio Niikura
  • Patent number: 11404082
    Abstract: Provided is an aluminium alloy substrate for a magnetic disk, a method for fabricating the substrate, and a magnetic disk composed of the aluminium alloy substrate for a magnetic disk. The substrate contains an aluminium alloy composed of one or more elements selected from a group comprising 0.05 to 3.00 mass % (hereinafter abbreviated as “%”) of Fe, 0.05% to 3.00% of Mn, 0.05% to 18.00% of Si, 0.05% to 8.00% of Ni, 0.05% to 3.00% of Cr, and 0.05% to 3.00% of Zr, with a balance of Al and unavoidable impurities. The substrate has a Young modulus of 67 GPa or more in each of the 0° direction, 45° direction, and 90° direction relative to the rolling direction of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: UACJ CORPORATION, FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro Kitawaki, Makoto Yonemitsu, Takashi Nakayama, Kimie Imakawa, Hideyuki Hatakeyama
  • Patent number: 11401091
    Abstract: A coated aluminum sheet includes an aluminum alloy sheet including a first surface and a second surface situated opposite to the first surface and first and second coating films formed on the first and second surfaces, respectively. The first and second coating films each have a mass of 0.1 to 20 g/m2 per unit area. The first coating film includes 0.1 to 1.5% by mass of a polyethylene wax and 0.1 to 1.5% by mass of a carnauba wax. The second coating film includes 0.4 to 0.8% by mass of a polyethylene wax and 0.4 to 0.8% by mass of a carnauba wax. Respective contents of another wax in the first and second coating films are 1.5% by mass or less and 0.7% by mass or less respectively. Post-lubrication including a petrolatum wax on the second coating film is 10 mg/m2 or less in amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ichio Takeda
  • Publication number: 20220220588
    Abstract: Shown is a superplastic-forming aluminum alloy plate and a production method therefor, the superplastic-forming aluminum alloy plate being characterized by comprising an aluminum alloy which contains 2.0 to 6.0 mass % Mg, 1.2 to 1.5 mass % Mn and 0.001 to 0.05 mass % Cr and in which the balance consists of Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein the unavoidable impurities are restricted to have 0.20 mass % or less Fe and 0.20 mass % or less Si, the 0.2% proof stress is 340 MPa or more, and the density of intermetallic compounds having an equivalent circular diameter of 5 to 15 ?m at the RD-TD plane which extends along the center of the plate cross-section is 50 to 400 pieces/mm2, and a frequency of Kernel Average Misorientation of 15° or less at the RD-TD plane which extends along the center of the plate cross-section is 0.34 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki KUDO, Yoshifumi SHINZATO, Ryo KURAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11370067
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet includes a four-layer material containing an intermediate layer formed of an aluminum alloy including Mn of from 0.2 to less than 0.35 mass %, Si of 0.6 mass % or less, Fe of 0.7 mass % or less, and Cu of 0.1 mass % or less, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, a core material formed of an aluminum alloy including Si of 1.2 mass % or less, Fe of 1.0 mass % or less, Cu of from 0.3 to 1.0 mass %, and Mn of from 0.5 to 2.0 mass %, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, and each of an air-side brazing material layer and an internal brazing material layer is formed of an aluminum alloy including Si of from 4 to 13 mass %, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukie Kitada, Naoki Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20220184750
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet used for brazing in an inert gas atmosphere without using a flux includes a brazing material cladded onto at least one side surface of a core material. An oxide is formed on a surface of the aluminum alloy brazing sheet by brazing heating, the oxide including any one or two or more of Mg, Li, and Ca and having a volume change ratio of 0.990 or less to a surface oxide film formed before brazing heating, and an atomic molar ratio of Mg, Li, and Ca to Al in the oxide formed on the surface of the aluminum alloy brazing sheet before brazing heating is 0.50 or less. The present invention provides an aluminum alloy brazing sheet having excellent brazability in brazing in an inert gas atmosphere without using a flux, and a method for manufacturing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: UACJ Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki Yamayoshi, Taichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11361791
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet for a magnetic disk includes an aluminum alloy comprising 0.10 to 3.00 mass % (hereafter simply “%”) of Fe, 0.1 to 3.0% of Mn, 0.003 to 1.000% of Cu, and 0.005 to 1.000 s % of Zn, wherein second phase particles having a maximum diameter of 100 ?m or more and 300 ?m or less are dispersed at a distribution density of 50 particles/mm2 or less in a region (A) occupying 25% or less of a sheet thickness from a sheet thickness center plane to opposite surfaces of the sheet, second phase particles having a maximum diameter of 100 ?m or more and 300 ?m or less are 0 particles/mm2 in a region (C) that is obtained by excluding the region (A) from a region (B) occupying 50% or less of the sheet thickness from the sheet thickness center plane to the opposite surfaces of the sheet, and the amount of Mn solid solution is 0.03 mass % or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: UACJ CORPORATION, FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro Kitawaki, Makoto Yonemitsu, Hideyuki Hatakeyama, Sadayuki Toda, Ryo Sakamoto, Yasuo Fujii
  • Patent number: 11358406
    Abstract: The present invention provides a coating material that can improve gravure printing characteristics of the printing surface of a printing substrate to favorably transfer an ink fed in the cell of a gravure printing roll to the printing surface of the printing substrate, thereby achieving the beautiful gravure printing. The coating material of the present invention is a coating material for forming a surface layer serving as a printing surface on a printing substrate to which gravure printing is to be applied, and the coating material is characterized by including a pigment including an inorganic particulate and a skin layer that is formed on a surface of the inorganic particulate and includes an organic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nishio, Osamu Katoh, Yukie Kitada
  • Patent number: 11341995
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet for a magnetic disk, a method for manufacturing same, and a magnetic disk using same. The aluminum alloy sheet is made of an aluminum alloy comprising 0.10 to 3.00 mass % of Fe, 0.003 to 1.000 mass % of Cu, and 0.005 to 1.000 mass % of Zn, with a balance of Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein a value obtained by dividing a difference in an area ratio (%) of second phase particles between a region (A) and a region (B) by an average value of area ratios (%) of second phase particles in the regions (A) and (B) is 0.05 or less, the region (A) being a region from a sheet thickness center plane to a front surface of the sheet, and the region (B) being a region from the sheet thickness center plane to a rear surface of the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: UACJ CORPORATION, FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO.. LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro Kitawaki, Yu Igarashi, Keisuke Kamiya, Yu Matsui, Makoto Yonemitsu, Ryo Sakamoto, Hideyuki Hatakeyama, Hiroki Ota
  • Patent number: 11335367
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy substrate (1) for magnetic disk satisfies at least two of three inequalities of an inequality group [A] and satisfies all of four inequalities of an inequality group [B], or satisfies at least two of the three inequalities of the inequality group [A] and satisfies all of four inequalities of an inequality group [C], when a plate thickness of the disk at a position (b1) is defined as tb1, a plate thickness at a position (b2) is defined as tb2, a plate thickness at a position (b3) is defined as tb3, a plate thickness at a position (a1) is defined as ta1, a plate thickness at a position (a2) is defined as ta2, and a plate thickness at a position (a3) is defined as ta3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimie Imakawa, Toshihiro Nakamura, Hideki Takahashi, Keita Yoshimura, Wataru Kumagai, Naoki Kitamura, Kotaro Kitawaki
  • Patent number: 11320217
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a heat exchanger (1) includes joining an inner fin (3) to a hollow structure (20) formed from at least two clad plates (200a, 200b) by heating and brazing a filler metal layer (B). Each clad plate has a core layer (A) composed of an aluminum alloy that contains Mg: 0.40-1.0 mass %. The filler metal layer is composed of an aluminum alloy that contains Si: 4.0-13.0 mass %, and further contains Li: 0.0040-0.10 mass %, Be: 0.0040-0.10 mass %, and/or Bi: 0.01-0.30 mass %. The inner fin is composed of an aluminum alloy that contains Si: 0.30-0.70 mass % and Mg: 0.35-0.80 mass %. A flux (F) that contains cesium (Cs) is applied along a contact part (201), and the vicinity thereof, of the at least two clad plates prior to the heating. A heat exchanger (1) may be manufactured according to this method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Yanagawa, Norihisa Isomura, Yuki Totani, Yasuhiro Yagita, Tetsuro Hata