Patents Examined by Katherine A Christy
  • Patent number: 11492679
    Abstract: This hot-rolled steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which in a case where the thickness is denoted by t, a metallographic structure at a t/4 position from the surface includes, by area fraction, 77.0% to 97.0% of bainite or tempered martensite, 0% to 5.0% of ferrite, 0% to 5.0% of pearlite, 3.0% or more of residual austenite, and 0% to 10.0% of martensite, in the metallographic structure, the average grain size excluding the residual austenite is 7.0 ?m or less, the average number density of iron-based carbides having a diameter of 20 nm or more is 1.0×106 carbides/mm2 or more, a tensile strength is 980 MPa or more, and an average Ni concentration on the surface is 7.0% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuo Yokoi, Hiroshi Shuto, Teruki Hayashida, Jun Ando, Mutsumi Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 11492690
    Abstract: A terrific stainless steel alloy and turbocharger kinematic components are provided. A ferritic stainless steel alloy includes or consists of, by weight, about 20% to about 35% chromium, less than about 2% nickel (i.e., from 0% to about 2%), about 1% to about 4% carbon, about 1.5% to about 1.9% silicon, less than about 0.4% nitrogen (i.e., from 0% to about 0.4%), about 0.5% to about 15% molybdenum, less than about 1% niobium (i.e., from 0% to about 1%) and a balance of iron, and other inevitable/unavoidable impurities that are present in trace amounts. The turbocharger kinematic components are made at least in part using this stainless steel alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: GARRETT TRANSPORTATION I INC
    Inventor: Marc Wilson
  • Patent number: 11493957
    Abstract: An enclosure for a portable electronic device includes a titanium substrate having a textured surface that includes peaks separated by valleys, where the textured surface is characterized as having (i) an Sdq (root mean square gradient) that is greater than 0.2 micrometers, and (ii) a gloss value that is greater than 90 gloss units as measured at 60 degrees by a gloss meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: James A. Curran, Sonja R. Postak, Todd S. Mintz
  • Patent number: 11491764
    Abstract: The present invention provides an iron-aluminum-based plated steel sheet, and a manufacturing method therefor, the iron-aluminum-based plated steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet and a plated layer formed on the surface of the base steel sheet, wherein the alloy plated layer comprises: a diffusion layer comprising an Fe—Al-based intermetallic compound having a cubic structure; and an alloyed layer formed on the diffusion layer and composed of an alloy phase differing from that of the cubic structure, the thickness of the diffusion layer is 3-20 ?m, and the thickness of the diffusion layer is greater than 50% of the total thickness of the plated layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Jin-Keun Oh, Seong-Woo Kim, Sang-Heon Kim, Yeol-Rae Cho
  • Patent number: 11485687
    Abstract: To form, on a ceramic member or a metal member, a thermal spray ceramic coating film which achieves both the quality of a ceramic coating film and gas barrier property, and with which a composite oxide having a melting point lower than the ambient temperature will not form when used as a coating film on a ceramic member or a metal member constituting a glass article manufacturing apparatus. A ceramic coating film-provided member comprising a ceramic member or a metal member and a thermal spray ceramic coating film formed on at least a part of the surface of the ceramic member or the metal member, wherein the thermal spray ceramic coating film contains Al2O3 and 12CaO.7Al2O3, and the weight ratio of CaO to Al2O3 (CaO/Al2O3) is more than 0.11 to 0.50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuo Hamashima, Mizuki Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 11473622
    Abstract: A bearing component such as a bearing ring includes a metallic base body and at least one alloy steel coating on the base body, the coating being applied to the base body by deposition welding. The base body is preferably non-alloy steel or cast iron, and the alloy includes at least one carbide-forming transition metal such as niobium, tantalum, zirconium, titanium, hafnium, tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, or manganese. The coating can form a raceway of the bearing component or a structural element such as a flange. Also a method of forming such a bearing component is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventor: Juergen Gegner
  • Patent number: 11472159
    Abstract: A high strength steel sheet comprising a center part of sheet thickness and a surface soft part formed at one side or two sides of the center part of sheet thickness, having metal structures of the center part of sheet thickness comprising, by area ratio, tempered martensite: 85% or more, one or more of ferrite, bainite, pearlite, and retained austenite: total of less than 15%, and as-quenched martensite: less than 5%, and additionally having metal structures of the surface soft part comprising, by area ratio, ferrite: 65% or more, pearlite: 5% or more and less than 20%, one or more of tempered martensite, bainite, and retained austenite: total of less than 10%, and as-quenched martensite: less than 5%, wherein a Vickers hardness (Hc) of the center part of sheet thickness and a Vickers hardness (Hs) of the surface soft part satisfy 0.50?Hs/Hc?0.75.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya Nakano, Kengo Takeda, Hiroyuki Kawata
  • Patent number: 11459630
    Abstract: A bearing steel part having a predetermined chemical composition, in which the number density of oxide particles having an equivalent circle diameter of 5 ?m or more, and containing CaO, Al2O3 and SiO2, such that the content ratio of Al2O3 with respect to the total mass of CaO, Al2O3, and SiO2 is 50% by mass or more, is 3.0/cm2 or less in an arbitrary cross section of the part, and in which the Vickers hardness at a depth of 50 ?m from a rolling surface is 750 or more, and in which the compressive residual stress at the rolling surface is 900 MPa or more. Also provided is a steel bar for a bearing steel part that is suitable for obtaining the foregoing bearing steel part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Koyama, Kei Miyanishi, Yutaka Neishi
  • Patent number: 11459644
    Abstract: A copper-coated steel wire includes: a core wire made of steel having a pearlite structure; and a coating layer covering a surface of the core wire and made of Cu or a Cu alloy. The steel contains C by greater than or equal to 0.5% by mass and less than or equal to 1.0% by mass, Si by greater than or equal to 0.1% by mass and less than or equal to 2.5% by mass, Mn by greater than or equal to 0.3% by mass and less than or equal to 0.9% by mass, and the balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities. In a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction, a value of surface roughness Ra of the core wire is greater than or equal to 25% and less than or equal to 70% of a thickness of the coating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi Akada, Hiromu Izumida
  • Patent number: 11459668
    Abstract: An enclosure for a portable electronic device can include a titanium substrate defining a textured surface and a nominal surface. The titanium substrate can include a first region that extends above the nominal surface and a second region adjacent to the first region and extending below the nominal surface. A separation distance between an apex of the first region and a bottom of a trough defined by the second region can be at least 1 micrometer. A metal oxide layer can overlay the trough defined by the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE, INC.
    Inventors: Zechariah D. Feinberg, James A. Curran, Todd S. Mintz, Justin Memar-Makhsous
  • Patent number: 11453924
    Abstract: Provided herein is a low-alloy high-strength seamless steel pipe. The steel pipe of the present invention has a composition that contains, in mass %, C: 0.25 to 0.50%, Si: 0.01 to 0.40%, Mn: 0.3 to 1.5%, P: 0.010% or less, S: 0.001% or less, O: 0.0015% or less, Al: 0.015 to 0.080%, Cu: 0.02 to 0.09%, Cr: 0.5 to 0.8%, Mo: 0.5 to 1.3%, Nb: 0.005 to 0.05%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0040%, Ca: 0.0010 to 0.0020%, Mg: 0.001% or less, and N: 0.005% or less, and in which the balance is Fe and incidental impurities. The steel pipe has a microstructure in which the number of oxide-base nonmetallic inclusions satisfying the composition ratios represented by predefined formulae is 10 or less per 100 mm2, and in which the number of oxide-base nonmetallic inclusions satisfying the composition ratios represented by other predefined formulae is 30 or less per 100 mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Masao Yuga, Yoichi Ito
  • Patent number: 11453203
    Abstract: This invention provides a metal laminate that maintains functionality such as radiation performance and is excellent in dimensional accuracy after press work. Such metal laminate is a roll-bonded laminate composed of 2 or more metal layers, which exhibits a ratio ?/T of the standard deviation ? of thickness T1 of the outermost layer to thickness T of the roll-bonded laminate of 0% of 4.0%, the thickness T of 2 mm or less, and the deviation of the thickness T of 4.0% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Inventors: Kota Sadaki, Teppei Kurokawa, Yusuke Hashimoto, Takafumi Hatakeda
  • Patent number: 11446773
    Abstract: A Super304H steel welding wire capable of resisting high-temperature creep and aging embrittlement, includes the following chemical components in percentage by mass: 0.04-0.1% of C, 0.4-1.5% of Mn, 7.5-12.5% of Ni, ?0.5% of Si, 17.0-19.0% of Cr, ?0.4% of Mo, 2.5-3.5% of Cu, 0.3-0.6% of Nb, 0.05-0.12% of N, ?0.01% of S, ?0.02% of P and the balance of Fe and other inevitable impurity elements. The welding wire can be used for welding of Super304H steel used in ultra super critical thermal power stations, has a weld being in a double-phase structure of austenite and a small amount of ferrite (volume fraction is 3-12%), and has good hot cracking resistance capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignees: WUHAN UNIVERSITY, POWER CHINA HENAN ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xue Wang, You Li, Yucheng Chen, Dongxu Chen, Jianhua Sun, Liquan Li, Meihua Guo
  • Patent number: 11452204
    Abstract: A ceramic circuit substrate and power module with excellent heat cycle resistance characteristics, which is formed by bonding a ceramic substrate and a copper plate via a brazing material including Ag, Cu, and an active metal, wherein the bond void fraction is no greater than 1.0% and the diffusion distance of the Ag, which is a brazing material component, is 5-20 ?m. Also, a method for manufacturing a ceramic circuit substrate characterized in that the heating time in a temperature range 400-700° C. in a process for raising the temperature to a bonding temperature is 5-30 minutes and bonding is performed by maintaining the bonding temperature at 720-800° C. for 5-30 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: DENKA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yusaku Harada, Akimasa Yuasa, Takahiro Nakamura, Shuhei Morita, Kouji Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11434542
    Abstract: A high-carbon hot-rolled steel sheet has a composition containing, on a percent by mass basis, C: 0.10% or more and less than 0.20%, Si: 0.5% or less, Mn: 0.25% to 0.65%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.010% or less, sol. Al: 0.10% or less, N: 0.0065% or less, Cr: 0.05% to 0.50%, and B: 0.0005% to 0.005%, the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, the high-carbon hot-rolled steel sheet having a microstructure containing ferrite and cementite, in which the percentage of the number of cementite grains having an equivalent circular diameter of 0.1 ?m or less is 12% or less based on the total number of cementite grains, the amount of Cr dissolved in the steel sheet is 0.03% to 0.50%, and the high-carbon hot-rolled steel sheet has a hardness of 73 or less in terms of HRB and a total elongation of 37% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yuka Miyamoto, Takashi Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Sakurai, Takeshi Yokota
  • Patent number: 11426975
    Abstract: In a thickness range of which center is a ¼ thickness from the surface of a base steel sheet, a volume fraction of a ferrite phase is 0% to less than 50%, a volume fraction of the total of a hard structure composed of one or more of a bainite structure, a bainitic ferrite phase, a fresh martensite phase, and a tempered martensite phase is 50% or more, a volume fraction of a retained austenite phase is 0-8%, and a volume fraction of the total of a pearlite phase and a coarse cementite phase is 0-8%, at an interface between a plating layer and the base steel sheet, a Fe—Al alloy layer is provided, the Fe—Al alloy layer having an average thickness of 0.1-2.0 ?m and a difference between a maximum thickness and a minimum thickness in the width direction of the steel sheet being within 0.5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Morishita, Taihei Kaneto, Satoshi Uchida, Tatsuya Nakada, Yuji Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11414735
    Abstract: A heat-resistant cast steel contains 0.55 mass % or more and 1.0 mass % or less C, 1.5 mass % or more and 3.5 mass % or less Si, more than 0 mass % and 2 mass % or less Mn, 6 mass % or more and 11 mass % or less Ni, 22 mass % or more and 27 mass % or less Cr, and more than 0 mass % and 0.6 mass % or less Mo, and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Kurebayashi, Yasuo Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 11401593
    Abstract: The invention relates to a maraging steel containing C: 0.02% (mass %, hereinafter the same) or less, Si: 0.3% or less, Mn: 0.3% or less, Ni: 7.0 to 15.0%, Cr: 5.0% or less, Co: 8.0 to 12.0%, Mo: 0.1 to 2.0%, Ti: 1.0 to 3.0%, and Sol.Al: 0.01 to 0.2%, where the balance includes Fe and unavoidable impurities of P: 0.01% or less, S: 0.01% or less, N: 0.01% or less, and O: 0.01% or less. The parent phase of the maraging steel includes a martensitic phase. The parent phase contains a martensitic phase obtained by reverse transformation from a martensitic phase to an austenitic phase and then transformation from the austenitic phase, in an area fraction of 25% to 75%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhuyao Chen, Takeo Miyamura, Shigenobu Namba
  • Patent number: 11390932
    Abstract: A high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet has a hot-dip galvanized layer on a surface of the steel sheet, a specific component composition, and a steel microstructure containing, on an area percentage basis, 0% to 15% of ferrite and upper bainite in total, 80% to 100% of lower bainite and martensite in total, and 0% to 10% of retained austenite, and containing precipitates having a particle size of 100 to 2,000 nm in an amount of 109 to 1012 particles/m2 in a region extending to a position 100 to 300 ?m from the surface layer of the steel sheet, in which the ratio of the average amount of C at a position 5 ?m from the surface layer of the steel sheet to the average amount of C at a position 70 ?m from the surface layer of the steel sheet in the thickness direction is 0.20 to 0.80.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Tatsuya Nakagaito
  • Patent number: 11393612
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present embodiment is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a groove formed on a surface, in which, in a cross section of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet orthogonal to the groove, a KAM value is 0.1 or more and 3.0 or less in a region on a central side in a thickness direction of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet with respect to the groove, the region being surrounded by a square having one side in contact with a groove bottom of the groove and having a length of 50 ?m in each side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Hamamura, Satoshi Arai, Takashi Kataoka, Shunsuke Okumura