Patents Examined by Deborah Yee
  • Patent number: 9890446
    Abstract: A steel for an induction hardening including, by mass %, C: more than 0.75% to 1.20%, Si: 0.002 to 3.00%, Mn: 0.20 to 2.00%, S: 0.002 to 0.100%, Al: more than 0.050% to 3.00%. P: limited to 0.050% or less, N: limited to 0.0200% or less, O: limited to: 0.0030% or less, and the balance composing of iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein an Al content and a N content satisfy, by mass %, Al?(27/14)×N>0.050%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Kubota, Toshiharu Aiso, Kei Miyanishi
  • Patent number: 9873932
    Abstract: An austenitic stainless steel composition including relatively low nickel and molybdenum levels, and exhibiting corrosion resistance, resistance to elevated temperature deformation, and formability properties comparable to certain alloys including higher nickel and molybdenum levels. Embodiments of the austenitic stainless steel include, in weight %, up to 0.20 C, 2.0 to 9.0 Mn, up to 2.0 Si, 16.0 to 23.0 Cr, 1.0 to 7.0 Ni, up to 3.0 Mo, up to 3.0 Cu, 0.05 to 0.35 N, up to 4.0 W, (7.5(C))?(Nb+Ti+V+Ta+Zr)?1.5, up to 0.01 B, up to 1.0 Co, iron and impurities. Additionally, embodiments of the steel may include 0.5?(Mo+W/2)?5.0 and/or 1.0?(Ni+Co)?8.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: ATI PROPERTIES LLC
    Inventors: David S. Bergstrom, James M. Rakowski, Charles P. Stinner, John J. Dunn, John F. Grubb
  • Patent number: 9873924
    Abstract: A ferritic stainless steel sheet of a composition, expressed in weight percentages: trace amounts?C?0.03%; 0.2%?Mn?1%; 0.2%?Si?1%; trace amounts?S?0.01%; trace amounts?P?0.04%; 15%?Cr?22%; trace amounts?Ni?0.5%; trace amounts?Mo?2%; trace amounts?Cu?0.5%; 0.160%?Ti?1%; 0.02%?Al?1%; 0.2%?Nb?1%; trace amounts?V?0.2%; 0.009%?N?0.03%; trace amounts?Co?0.2%; trace amounts?Sn?0.05%; rare earths (REE)?0.1%; trace amounts?Zr?0.01%; the remainder of the composition consisting of iron and of inevitable impurities resulting from the elaboration; the Al and rare earth (REE) contents satisfying the relationship: Al+30×REE?0.15%; the Nb, C, N and Ti contents in % satisfy the relationship: 1/[Nb+(7/4)×Ti?7×(C+N)]?3; said metal sheet having an entirely recrystallized structure and an average ferritic grain size comprised between 25 and 65 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: APERAM STAINLESS FRANCE
    Inventors: Pierre-Olivier Santacreu, Claudine Miraval, Saghi Saedlou
  • Patent number: 9874273
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a flexible externally toothed gear includes: a first step (ST1) for producing a primary molded article by performing near-net-shape plastic working on a material comprising a nickel-free low-alloy steel having a silicon content of 1.45-1.5 wt %; a second step (ST2) for martempering the primary molded article; a third step (ST3) for producing a secondary molded article from the primary molded article; and a fourth step (ST4) for shot-peening the secondary molded article to change the surface portions of the tooth part and other parts to martensite. A flexible externally toothed gear can be obtained in which the surface hardness is kept within a prescribed range and the fatigue strength and abrasion resistance are high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Masaru Kobayashi, Daisuke Orii
  • Patent number: 9869000
    Abstract: Methods of making bainitic steels may involve austenitizing a quantity of steel by exposing the quantity of steel to a first temperature. A composition of the quantity of steel may be configured to impede formation of non-bainite ferrite, pearlite, and Widmanstätten ferrite. The quantity of steel may be heat-treated to form bainite by exposing the quantity of steel to a second, lower temperature. The second, lower temperature may be stabilized by exposing the quantity of steel to the second, lower temperature in the presence of a thermal ballast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Paul Bakas, Henry Shiu-Hung Chu, Thomas Andrew Zagula, Benjamin Robert Langhorst
  • Patent number: 9863026
    Abstract: A dual phase steel sheet including: in mass %, C: 0.01 to 0.1%; Mn: 0.2 to 3%; Al: 0.04 to 1.5%; Ti: 0.015 to 0.2%; P: 0.01% or less; S: 0.005% or less; N: 0.01% or less, in which [Ti]?48/14×[N]?48/32×[S]?0% is satisfied and when Ex.C (%)=[C]?12/48×{[Ti]+48/93×[Nb]?48/14×[N]?48/32×[S]} is set, 0.001?Ex.C (%)/fsd (%)?0.01 is satisfied, and a balance being composed of Fe and impurities, in which at the position of ¼ thickness of a sheet thickness, a microstructure is a dual phase with its main phase composed of polygonal ferrite precipitation-strengthened by carbide of Ti and its second phase composed of 1 to 10% in area fraction (fsd (%)) of low-temperature transformation products dispersed plurally, and an average crystal diameter of the low-temperature transformation product is 3 to 15 ?m and an average value of a distance of closest approach between the low-temperature transformation products is 10 to 20 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuo Yokoi, Hiroshi Shuto, Eisaku Sakurada, Hiroyuki Okada
  • Patent number: 9863023
    Abstract: Provided are a ferritic stainless steel having a corrosion resistance at a certain level or more and a temper-color removal performance at a certain level or more and a method for manufacturing the ferritic stainless steel. A ferritic stainless steel has a composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.001% to 0.030%, Si: 0.03% to 0.30%, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Cr: more than 22.0% to 28.0%, Mo: 0.2% to 3.0%, Al: 0.01% to 0.15%, Ti: more than 0.30% to 0.80%, V: 0.001% to 0.080%, and N: 0.001% to 0.050%; Mn: 0.05% to 0.30% and Ni: 0.01% to 5.00%, or Mn: 0.05% to 2.00% and Ni: 0.01% to 0.30%; Nb: 0.05% or less as an optional component; and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and the steel has a surface where TiN having a grain diameter of 1 ?m or more is distributed at a density of 30 particles/mm2 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ishii, Shin Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Ogata, Hiroki Ota
  • Patent number: 9863016
    Abstract: This super non-magnetic soft stainless steel wire rod includes, in mass %, C: 0.08% or less, Si: 0.05% to 2.0%, Mn: more than 8.0% to 25.0% or less, P: 0.06% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Ni: more than 6.0% to 30.0% or less, Cr: 13.0% to 25.0%, Cu: 0.2% to 5.0%, N: less than 0.20%, Al: 0.002% to 1.5%, and C+N: less than 0.20%, with the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, in which Md30, which is expressed as Equation (a) described below, is ?150 or less. Md30=413?462(C+N)?9.2Si?8.1Mn?9.5Ni?13.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN STAINLESS STEEL CORPORATION, SUZUKI-SUMIDEN STAINLESS STEEL WIRE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohji Takano, Yuya Hikasa, Masayuki Tendo, Yoshinori Tada, Koichi Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 9863028
    Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet contains specific amounts of C, Si, Mn, P, S, Ti, Al, and N with the remainder being iron and unavoidable impurities. Bainitic ferrite, martensite, retained ?, and ferrite (?) are present each in a specific area ratio. The remainder ? has a specific C concentration. Sub-grains in the recrystallized ? and un-recrystallized ? have a specific grain diameter. The surface area ratio of ? and worked ? having a grain diameter of 5 ?m or more is 5% or less. The average particle diameter of TiC particles inside ? grains is 10 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Elijah Kakiuchi, Toshio Murakami, Katsura Kajihara, Tatsuya Asai, Naoki Mizuta
  • Patent number: 9856542
    Abstract: Provided is a ferritic lightweight high-strength steel sheet having excellent stiffness and ductility and a method of manufacturing the same. The steel sheet including 0.02 wt % to 0.1 wt % of carbon (C), 4 wt % to 15 wt % of manganese (Mn), 4 wt % to 10 wt % of aluminum (Al), 2.0 wt % or less (excluding 0) of silicon (Si), 0.01 wt % to 0.3 wt % of titanium (Ti), 0.005 wt % to 0.2 wt % of antimony (Sb), and iron (Fe) as well as unavoidable impurities as a remainder, and having a value of 0.25×Ti/C ranging from 0.17 to 1.0 and a value of Mn/Al×Log(C×Ti×10000) ranging from 1.0 to 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Jai-Hyun Kwak, Kyoo-Young Lee, Kwang-Geun Chin
  • Patent number: 9856541
    Abstract: Disclosed are a heat-resistant alloy used in a heat-resistant bolt and the like for fastening high temperature parts of an engine in a vehicle and the like, and a method of manufacturing a heat-resistant bolt using the heat-resistant alloy. Particularly, the austenitic heat-resistant alloy includes, based on a total weight of the heat-resistant alloy, carbon (C) in an amount of about 0.01 to about 0.08 wt %, silicon (Si) in an amount of about 0.01 to about 1.00 wt %, manganese (Mn) in an amount of about 0.01 to about 2.00 wt %, nickel (Ni) in an amount of about 17 to about 22 wt %, titanium (Ti) in an amount of about 2.7 to about 3.2 wt %, chromium (Cr) in an amount of about 11 to 16 wt %, molybdenum (Mo) in an amount of about 0.3 to about 1.0 wt %, vanadium (V) in an amount of about 0.1 to about 0.4 wt %, and a remainder of iron (Fe) and optionally an inevitable impurity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Bo-Kyung Sa, Ho-Chul Shin, Jung-Suk Lee
  • Patent number: 9850565
    Abstract: A galvannealed steel sheet includes: a scale-removed rolled steel sheet; and a galvannealed layer arranged on the scale-removed rolled steel sheet. When ten measurement points of the galvannealed steel sheet are set in a transverse direction by equally dividing a line-segment having a reference length of 50 mm by 10, a minimum P content of the galvannealed layer in the ten measurement points is 50% or more as compared with a maximum P content therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Sato, Jun Maki
  • Patent number: 9840759
    Abstract: A rolled round steel material for a steering rack bar, having a chemical composition consisting of C: 0.38 to 0.55%, Si: not more than 1.0%, Mn: 0.20 to 2.0%, S: 0.005 to 0.10%, Cr: 0.01 to 2.0%, Al: 0.003 to 0.10%, and N: 0.003 to 0.03%, with the balance being Fe and impurities, and P being not more than 0.030% in the impurities, and a microstructure consisting of ferrite (F), lamellar pearlite (LP), and cementite (C). The average grain diameter of (F), an area fraction of (LP), and the number of particles of spheroidal cementite (SC) among C are controlled in a region from the surface to a position at ½ radius and in a central part of the material. An average aspect ratio of F is controlled in a region from a surface to a position at ½ radius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sadanori Horikami, Masashi Higashida, Takahiro Okada, Makoto Egashira, Yutaka Neishi, Tatsuya Hasegawa, Hitoshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9835194
    Abstract: A steel wire for high-strength bolts is used for a non heat-treatment bolt with an excellent cold forgeability for which quenching and tempering steps have been omitted after bolt formation, and which has a tensile strength of 1200 MPa or more and an excellent delayed fracture resistance. The steel wire includes C, Si, Mn, P, S, Cr, Al, N, and B, at least one selected from the group consisting of Ti, V, and Nb with the balance consisting of iron and inevitable impurities. The steel wire has a microstructure wherein ferrite and perlite have a total area rate of 98% or more, perlite lamellar spacing is 250 nm or less, and an area rate of the perlite is more than 40%, and 80% or less. The steel wire has a tensile strength of 1300 MPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., SUGITA WIRE, LTD.
    Inventors: Masamichi Chiba, Yousuke Matsumoto, Ichiro Sugita, Masaru Tanimoto
  • Patent number: 9834931
    Abstract: An H-section steel has a predetermined chemical composition in which a thickness of a flange is 100 mm to 150 mm, at a strength evaluation position an area fraction of bainite in a steel structure is 80% or more, yield strength or 0.2% proof strength is 450 MPa or more, tensile strength is 550 MPa or more and 680 MPa or less, at a toughness evaluation position an average austenite grain size in the steel structure is 150 ?m or less, and (Mg, Mn)S having a particle size of 0.005 ?m to 0.5 ?m is included at a density of 1.0×105 pieces/mm2 to 1.0×107 pieces/mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Mizoguchi, Kazutoshi Ichikawa, Manabu Hoshino, Kazuaki Mitsuyasu, Hirokazu Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 9822435
    Abstract: An austenitic stainless steel composition including relatively low Ni and Mo levels, and exhibiting corrosion resistance, resistance to elevated temperature deformation, and formability properties comparable to certain alloys including higher Ni and Mo levels. Embodiments of the austenitic stainless steel include, in weight percentages, up to 0.20 C, 2.0-9.0 Mn, up to 2.0 Si, 15.0-23.0 Cr, 1.0-9.5 Ni, up to 3.0 Mo, up to 3.0 Cu, 0.05-0.35 N, (7.5(C))?(Nb+Ti+V+Ta+Zr)?1.5, Fe, and incidental impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: ATI PROPERTIES LLC
    Inventors: David S. Bergstrom, James M. Rakowski
  • Patent number: 9816565
    Abstract: Provided is a cage (5, 65, 95) for a constant velocity universal joint, which is formed into a ring shape with a substantially uniform thickness, including a plurality of pockets (20, 80, 110) formed in a circumferential direction of the cage (5, 65, 95), for receiving torque transmitting balls, respectively, the cage (5, 65, 95) being formed of carbon steel including 0.41 to 0.51 mass % of C, 0.10 to 0.35 mass % of Si, 0.60 to 0.90 mass % of Mn, 0.005 to 0.030 mass % of P, and 0.002 to 0.035 mass % of S, with the balance being Fe and an element inevitably remaining at the time of steelmaking and refining, the cage (5, 65, 95) being subjected to carburizing, quenching, and tempering as heat treatment, each of the plurality of pockets (20, 80, 110) having a side surface (23, 83, 113) finished after the heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshida, Masafumi Osugi, Kenta Yamazaki, Masato Chokyu, Rikuou Takagi
  • Patent number: 9809875
    Abstract: A case hardening steel includes as a chemical composition, by mass %, C: 0.10% to 0.40%, Si: 0.01% to 0.80%, Mn: 0.1% to 1.5%, Cr: 0.35% to 2.0%, Al: 0.01% to 0.05%, REM: 0.0001% to 0.050%, O: 0.0001% to 0.0030%, Ca: 0.0050% or less as necessary, Ti: less than 0.005%, N: 0.015% or less, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.01% or less, and the balance consists of Fe and impurities. The case hardening steel also includes a composition inclusion which is an inclusion containing REM, O, S, and Al, or an inclusion containing REM, Ca, O, S, and Al, to which TiN is adhered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Hashimura, Masafumi Miyazaki, Takashi Fujita, Hideaki Yamamura
  • Patent number: 9803266
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet containing, by mass %, C: 0.050 to 0.200%, Si: 0.01 to 1.5%, Mn: 1.0 to 3.0%, B: 0.0002 to 0.0030%, Ti: 0.03 to 0.20%, P: limited to 0.05% or less, S: limited to 0.005% or less, Al: limited to 0.5% or less, N: limited to 0.009% or less, and one or more of Nb: 0.01 to 0.20%, V: 0.01 to 0.20%, and Mo: 0.01 to 0.20%, with the balance being composed of Fe and inevitable impurities. In the high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet, a ratio of a length of small-angle crystal grain boundaries that are boundaries having a crystal orientation angle of 5° or more but less than 15° to a length of large-angle crystal grain boundaries that are boundaries having a crystal orientation angle of 15° or more is 1:1 to 1:4, an total segregation amount of C and B in the large-angle grain boundaries is 4 to 20 atoms/nm2, tensile strength is 850 MPa or higher, and a hole expansion ratio is 25% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukiko Kobayashi, Eisaku Sakurada, Kunio Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9803267
    Abstract: Austenitic stainless steel is disclosed herein. In the described embodiments, the austenitic stainless steel comprises 16.00 wt % of Chromium to 30.00 wt % of Chromium; 8.00 wt % of Nickel to 27.00 wt % of Nickel; no more than 7.00 wt % of Molybdenum; 0.40 wt % of Nitrogen to 0.70 wt % of Nitrogen, 1.0 wt % of Manganese to 4.00 wt % of Manganese, and less than 0.10 wt % of Carbon, wherein the ratio of the Manganese to the Nitrogen is controlled to less than or equal to 10.0. Austenitic stainless steel based on specified minimum PREN (Pitting Resistance Equivalent Number) values is also disclosed. (1) PRE=wt % Cr+3.3×wt % (Mo)+16 wt % N>=25 for N in range of 0.40-0.70. (2) PRE=wt % Cr+3.3×wt % (Mo+W)+16 wt % N>=27 for N in range of 0.40-0.70 with W present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: UPL, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Cecil Vernon Roscoe