Patents Examined by Adil A. Siddiqui
  • Patent number: 11885025
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes a chemical composition including: by mass %, C: 0.080 to 0.500%, Si: 2.50% or less, Mn: 0.50 to 5.00%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.001 to 2.500%, N: 0.0150% or less, O: 0.0050% or less, and the balance: Fe and inevitable impurities. The high-strength steel sheet satisfying a predetermined formula has a microstructure in a region from ?t to ?t from a steel sheet surface. The microstructure includes: by volume %, 20% or more of acicular ferrite, 20% or more of an island-shaped hard structure including residual austenite, 2% to 25% of residual austenite, and 20% or less of aggregated ferrite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawata, Eisaku Sakurada, Kohichi Sano, Takafumi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11878348
    Abstract: A three-dimensional powder bed fusion additive manufacturing apparatus includes a powder application device that includes a squeegee and applies a powder material to a build plate to form a powder layer, a camera that photographs a manufactured surface of the powder layer, and a determination unit that determines whether powder application failure of the powder material has occurred using an image photographed by the camera while or immediately after the squeegee passes through the manufactured surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventors: Taku Hisaki, Shinichi Kitamura, Takashi Sato, Ayumu Miyakita, Kozo Koiwa, Yohei Daino, Masahiko Kawakami, Nari Tsutagawa
  • Patent number: 11873545
    Abstract: A casting of a hypereutectic white iron that, in an as-cast form of the casting, has a microstructure that includes a ferrous matrix that contains 12-20 wt. % chromium in solution in the matrix, eutectic chromium carbides dispersed in the matrix, primary chromium carbides dispersed in the matrix, and optionally secondary carbides dispersed in the matrix. The eutectic carbides are 15-25 vol. % of the casting and the primary carbides are 25-35 vol. % of the casting. When present, the secondary carbides are up to 6 vol. % of the casting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Francis Dolman, Timothy Justin Lucey
  • Patent number: 11866798
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a magnetostrictive torque sensor shaft mounting a sensor portion of a magnetostrictive torque sensor. The method includes conducting heat treatment on a shaft material including chrome steel or chrome-molybdenum steel by carburizing, quenching and tempering, and conducting shot peening on the shaft material after the heat treatment at least on a position where the sensor portion is to be mounted. The shot peening is conducted by firing shot with a particle size of not less than 0.6 mm and a Rockwell hardness of not less than 60 at a jet pressure of not less than 0.4 MPa for a jet exposure time of not less than 2 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventor: Teruyuki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11839938
    Abstract: Disclosed is a metal mixture composition containing lead and tin, and comprising by weight at least 10% tin and 45% lead, at least 90% of tin and lead together, more lead than tin, from 1-5000 ppm of copper, at least 0.42% antimony and at least 0.0001 % wt of sulphur, at most 0.1% of the total of chromium, manganese, vanadium, titanium and tungsten, and at most 0.1% of each one of aluminium, nickel, iron and zinc. Disclosed is also a process comprising a pre-treatment step for producing this metal mixture composition, followed by a vacuum distillation step wherein lead is removed by evaporation and a bottom stream is obtained comprising at least 0.6% wt of lead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: METALLO BELGIUM
    Inventors: Koen Govaerts, Pelle Lemmens, Kris Mannaerts, Jan Dirk A. Goris, Yves De Visscher, Charles Geenen, Bert Coletti
  • Patent number: 11794252
    Abstract: A lamination molding method, which repeats a material layer forming step of forming a material layer and a solidifying step of irradiating an irradiation region of the material layer with laser beams scanned by n scanners to form a solidified layer, includes: a first dividing step and an irradiation order deciding step. In the first dividing step, the irradiation region is divided to 2n-1 or more divided regions by a plurality of first dividing lines in a manner that irradiation time of each of the divided regions to which the laser beams are simultaneously irradiated becomes equal. In the irradiation order deciding step, an irradiation order of the divided regions in the solidifying step is decided in a manner that the laser beams are simultaneously irradiated to the divided regions that are not adjacent, and the laser beams are not simultaneously irradiated to the divided regions that are adjacent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Araie, Toshio Kaji, Yasuyuki Miyashita, Katsuhiko Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11738390
    Abstract: An application step of applying an adhesive agent to an application area of a surface of a sintered R-T-B based magnet work, an adhesion step of allowing a particle size-adjusted powder that is composed of a powder of an alloy or a compound of a Pr—Ga alloy which is at least one of Dy and Tb to the application area of the surface of the sintered R-T-B based magnet work, and a diffusing step of heating it at a temperature which is equal to or lower than a sintering temperature of the sintered R-T-B based magnet work to allow the Pr—Ga alloy contained in the particle size-adjusted powder to diffuse from the surface into the interior of the sintered R-T-B based magnet work are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi Kuniyoshi, Shuji Mino
  • Patent number: 11715592
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a magnet includes a three-dimensional structure with nanoscale features, where the three-dimensional structure has a near net shape corresponding to a predefined shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Sarah Baker, Joshua Kuntz, Scott K. Mccall, Christine A. Orme, Alexander A. Baker, Jonathan R. I. Lee
  • Patent number: 11685975
    Abstract: A magnesium alloy containing, in % by mass, 0.95 to 2.00% of Zn, 0.05% or more and less than 0.30% of Zr, 0.05 to 0.20% of Mn, and the balance consisting of Mg and unavoidable impurities, wherein the magnesium alloy has a particle size distribution with an average crystal particle size from 1.0 to 3.0 ?m and a standard deviation of 0.7 or smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Medical Device Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Ueda, Masashi Inoue, Makoto Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11682510
    Abstract: A composite magnetic material includes a powder and a resin. The powder has a main component containing Fe or Fe and Co. An average minor axis length in primary particles of the powder is 100 nm or less. A point satisfying (X, Y)=(?/Av (%), (Av-?)) on an XY coordinate plane is present within a region (including a boundary) surrounded by three points ?(24.5, 6.7), ?(72.0, 1.2), and ?(24.5, 1.2), in which an average of aspect ratios in the primary particles of the powder is set to Av, and a standard deviation of the aspect ratios in the primary particles of the powder is set to ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Kanada, Yu Yonezawa
  • Patent number: 11657934
    Abstract: An R-T-B based permanent magnet, excellent in magnetic properties relatively reducing amount of heavy rare earth element used, wherein R represents rare earth element, T iron group element and B boron, includes main phase grains including R2T14B crystal phase and grain boundaries between main phase grains. Grain boundaries include R—O—C—N concentrated parts where concentrations of R, O, C and N are all higher than in main phase grains. O/R(S)>O/R(C) wherein O/R(S) represents O/R ratio (atomic ratio) in R—O—C—N concentrated parts in a surface of an R-T-B based permanent magnet and O/R(C) represents O/R ratio (atomic ratio) in R—O—C—N concentrated parts in a center of an R-T-B based permanent magnet. A heavy rare earth element RH is in a surface of an R-T-B based permanent magnet as R. R—O—C—N concentrated parts in a surface of an R-T-B based permanent magnet have RH/R ratio (atomic ratio) of 0.2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Nagamine, Masashi Miwa, Yoshinori Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 11654215
    Abstract: The present invention is an embolization coil having an optimum morphological stability. The embolization coil includes a wire material made of an Au—Pt alloy. The wire material constituting the embolization coil has such a composition that a Pt concentration is 24 mass % or more and less than 34 mass %, with the balance being Au. The wire material has such a material structure that a Pt-rich phase of an Au—Pt alloy having a Pt concentration of 1.2 to 3.8 times a Pt concentration of an ? phase is distributed in an ? phase matrix. The wire material has a bulk susceptibility of ?13 ppm or more and ?5 ppm or less. In a material structure of a transverse cross-section of the wire material, an average value of two or more average crystal particle diameters measured by a linear intercept method is 0.20 ?m or more and 0.35 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TANAKA KIKINZOKU KOGYO K.K.
    Inventors: Michimasa Okubo, Kenji Goto
  • Patent number: 11649517
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a high-strength Fe—Cr—Al—Ni multiplex stainless steel and a manufacturing method therefor. The multiplex stainless steel comprises 35 to 67 wt % of iron (Fe), 13 to 30 wt % of chrome (Cr), 15 to 30 wt % of nickel (Ni), and 5 to 15 wt % of aluminum (Al) and has a multiplex structure in which an austenite phase accounting for high ductility, a ferrite phase accounting for high strength, and an NiAl(B2) phase providing both strength and high-temperature steam oxidation resistance, exist in combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Changheui Jang, Hyunmyung Kim, Gokul Obulan Subramanian, Jin Woo Heo, Ho Jung Lee, Sunghoon Hong, Chaewon Kim
  • Patent number: 11633808
    Abstract: An oriented silicon steel product with a low iron loss for a low-noise transformer, and manufacturing method thereof are provided. The oriented silicon steel product comprises: a silicon steel substrate, a magnesium silicate bottom layer formed on a surface of the silicon steel substrate, and an insulation coating applied on the magnesium silicate bottom layer. The magnesium silicate bottom layer has a visible light normal reflectivity (R) of 40-60% for. By strictly controlling the visible light normal reflectivity of the magnesium silicate bottom layer of the silicon steel substrate and the evenness of the gloss of magnesium silicate bottom layer, lower iron loss, and reduced magnetostriction can be achieved, and thus a silicon steel product with low noise and particularly suitable for transformers can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zipeng Zhao, Changjun Hou, Banglin Xiang, Kanyi Shen, Guobao Li, Chen Ling, Weiyong Xie, Yanli Song
  • Patent number: 11629394
    Abstract: In a method for preparing a gradient hardened titanium alloy. A steel momentum block and a cleaned titanium alloy plate are sequentially placed into a steel base with a through hole from bottom to top, a cross sectional size of the through hole is matched with cross sectional sizes of the steel momentum block and the titanium alloy plate, and a height of the through hole is matched with a total thickness of the steel momentum block and the titanium alloy plate. An explosive frame is fixed on a top edge of the steel base, a high explosion velocity explosive with an explosion velocity of 7000 m/s or more pressed into a plate-shaped structure is placed in the explosive frame, and detonation is caused at one end of a top surface of the explosive to perform impact treatment on the titanium alloy plate, thereby obtaining the gradient hardened titanium alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Pengwan Chen, Yansong Guo, Qiang Zhou, Rui Liu
  • Patent number: 11624104
    Abstract: A multicomponent alloy coating is provided. The multicomponent alloy coating includes a hard layer and a plurality of nickel-based particles dispersed in the hard layer. The composition of the multicomponent alloy coating is represented by the following formula (I): AldCoeCrgFehNiiSijCkOm??formula (I), wherein 1<d<2, 0.5<e<0.8, 2<g<3.2, 0.05<h<0.3, 2<i<3, j=1, k?0, m?0, and iron is present in the amount of less than 3 wt % of the composition of the multicomponent alloy coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Wu-Han Liu, Wei-Tien Hsiao, Chang-Chih Hsu, Mao-Shin Liu, Zhong-Ren Wu, Shih-Hsiang Chou, Chin-An Wang
  • Patent number: 11559837
    Abstract: A powder production method includes providing an elongated workpiece and repeatedly contacting an outer surface of the elongated workpiece with a reciprocating cutter according to a predetermined at least one frequency to produce a powder. The powder includes a plurality of particles, wherein at least 95% of the produced particles have a diameter or maximum dimension ranging from about 10 ?m to about 200 ?m. A system for producing powders having a plurality of particles including a cutter and at least one controller is also provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Metal Powder Works, LLC
    Inventors: John E. Barnes, Christopher B. Aldridge
  • Patent number: 11555227
    Abstract: Disclosed is a Ni—Cr-based brazing alloy including, on the basis of mass %: 15%<Cr<30%; 3%<P<12%; 0%?Si<8%; 0.01%<C<0.06%; 0%?Ti+Zr<0.1%; 0.01%<V<0.1%; 0%?Al<0.01%; 0.005%<O<0.025%; 0.001%<N<0.050%; 0%?Nb<0.1%; and the balance being Ni and incidental impurities. Inequality (1): 0.2?0.24V %/C %?1.0 is satisfied if the alloy contains no Nb, and Inequality (2): 0.2?(0.24V %+0.13Nb %)/C %?1.0 is satisfied if the alloy contains Nb. Also disclosed is an inexpensive Ni—Cr-based brazing alloy containing a trace amount of V for use in the production of stainless steel heat exchangers and other steel articles. The alloy has a low liquidus temperature and high corrosion resistance, and achieves high brazing strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Sanyo Special Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Sawada, Shingo Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 11549161
    Abstract: A graphene-reinforced alloy composite material and a preparation method thereof are disclosed. The method includes preparing a porous graphene colloid, smelting a first-part alloy, pouring it into the porous graphene colloid to be formed, subjecting the formed product to a hot extrusion, and pulverizing into a powder I; smelting a second-part alloy into an alloy melt II, adding a high-purity silicon powder therein, mixing by stirring, and atomizing to obtain a powder II; mixing the powder I and the powder II, to obtain a pretreated alloy powder; placing the pretreated alloy powder in a high-purity ark, transferring the high-purity ark to a high-temperature tubular furnace, subjecting the pretreated alloy powder to a redox treatment, and introducing methane and hydrogen to grow graphene, to obtain a coated alloy powder; subjecting the coated alloy powder to a pre-compressing molding and sintering, to obtain the graphene-reinforced alloy composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Feilixin Information Security Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keqing Luo, Yongquan Zhu, Bo Du, Xuquan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11534873
    Abstract: A self-shielded flux-cored welding wire with a special protective slag coating formed in situ and a manufacture method thereof. The self-shielded flux-cored welding wire includes a low-carbon steel belt and a flux core powder, the flux core powder is filled in the low-carbon steel belt, the flux core powder includes the following ingredients in percentage by mass: 60-80% glass powder, 2-8% zirconium oxide powder, 0.05-0.85% graphene powder, 2-8% potassium carbonate sodium powder, 1-3% potassium titanate powder, 2-5% rutile powder, 1-5% corundum powder, 1-3% sodium fluorosilicate powder, and the balance of iron powder, and a weight of the flux core powder accounts for 13-25% of a total weight of the welding wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, CHINA INNOVATION ACADEMY OF INTELLIGENT EQUIPMENT (NINGBO) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dashuang Liu, Weimin Long, Yucheng Wu, Ping Wei, Huawei Sun, Yafang Cheng