Patents by Inventor Akio Niikura
Akio Niikura has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11408690Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: UACJ CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Ando, Atsushi Fukumoto, Akio Niikura
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Publication number: 20190323788Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: UACJ CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto ANDO, Atsushi FUKUMOTO, Akio NIIKURA
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Patent number: 10436528Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet which is thin but has excellent weldability and post-brazing strength. An aluminum alloy brazing sheet having a core material comprising an aluminum alloy, an Al—Si based brazing filler metal clad on one surface of the core material and a sacrificial anode material clad on the other surface of the core material: wherein the core material comprises certain amounts of Si, Fe, Cu and Mn and certain amounts of one, two or more selected from Ti, Zr, Cr and V; the sacrificial anode material comprises certain amounts of Si, Fe, Mg and Zn; in a cross section parallel to the longitudinal direction and along the thickness direction, the interface between the core material and the sacrificial anode material includes 300 pieces/mm or less of an Al—Mg—Cu based intermetallic compound; and the core material and the sacrificial anode material have an unrecrystallized structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: UACJ CorporationInventors: Atsushi Fukumoto, Akio Niikura
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Patent number: 10161693Abstract: An aluminum alloy fin material for heat exchangers, containing 0.5 to 1.5 mass % of Si; more than 1.0 mass % but not more than 2.0 mass % of Fe; 0.4 to 1.0 mass % of Mn; and 0.4 to 1.0 mass % of Zn, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein a metallographic microstructure before braze-heating is such that a density of second phase particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of less than 0.1 ?m is less than 1×107 particles/mm2, and that a density of second phase particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.1 ?m or more is 1×105 particles/mm2 or more, wherein a tensile strength before braze-heating, TSB (N/mm2), a tensile strength after braze-heating, TSA (N/mm2), and a fin sheet thickness, t (?m), satisfy: 0.4?(TSB?TSA)/t?2.1, and wherein the sheet thickness is 150 ?m or less; and a method of producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: UACJ CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Fukumoto, Junichi Mochizuki, Akio Niikura
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Patent number: 10145630Abstract: An aluminum alloy fin material for heat exchangers, containing 0.5 to 1.5 mass % of Si; 0.1 to 1.0 mass % of Fe; 0.8 to 1.8 mass % of Mn; and 0.4 to 2.5 mass % of Zn, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein a metallographic microstructure before braze-heating is such that a density of second phase particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of less than 0.1 ?m is less than 1×107 particles/mm2, and that a density of second phase particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.1 ?m or more is 5×104 particles/mm2 or more, wherein a tensile strength before braze-heating, TSB (N/mm2), a tensile strength after braze-heating, TSA (N/mm2), and a sheet thickness of the fin material, t (?m), satisfy a relationship: 0.4?(TSB?TSA)/t?2.1, and wherein the sheet thickness is 150 ?m or less; and a method of producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: UACJ CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Fukumoto, Junichi Mochizuki, Akio Niikura
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Patent number: 10099320Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet having high corrosion resistance is provided, which develops the sacrificial anticorrosion effect in both surfaces of the sheet, which has the brazing function in one of both the surfaces, and which prevents the occurrence of preferential corrosion. A channel forming component for a vehicular heat exchanger is also provided by utilizing the aluminum alloy brazing sheet. An aluminum alloy brazing sheet having high corrosion resistance includes an aluminum alloy core, a filler material clad on one surface of the core, and a sacrificial anode material clad on the other surface of the core, wherein the filler material, the sacrificial anode material, and the core have respective predetermined alloy compositions. A channel forming component for a vehicular heat exchanger is manufactured using the aluminum alloy brazing sheet having high corrosion resistance.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2013Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignees: Denso Corporation, UACJ CorporationInventors: Sadayuki Kamiya, Shota Terachi, Kenji Negura, Makoto Ando, Atsushi Fukumoto, Yoshiyuki Oya, Akio Niikura
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Patent number: 10024611Abstract: Disclosed is an aluminum alloy material for a heat exchanger fin, the aluminum alloy material containing Si: 1.0% to 5.0% by mass, Fe: 0.1% to 2.0% by mass, and Mn: 0.1% to 2.0% by mass with balance being Al and inevitable impurities, wherein 250 pieces/mm2 or more to 7×104 pieces/mm2 or less of Si-based intermetallic compound particles having equivalent circle diameters of 0.5 to 5 ?m are present in a cross-section of the aluminum alloy material; and wherein 10 pieces/mm2 or more and 1000 pieces/mm2 or less of the Al—Fe—Mn—Si-based intermetallic compounds having equivalent circle diameters of more than 5 ?m are present in a cross-section of the aluminum alloy material. The aluminum alloy material may further contain one or more additive elements of Mg, Cu, Zn, In, Sn, Ti, V, Zr, Cr, Ni, Be, Sr, Bi, Na, and Ca.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: UACJ CorporationInventors: Kazuko Fujita, Akio Niikura, Takashi Murase
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Patent number: 9999946Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet having a good brazing property that prevents diffusion of molten filler material in a core material of the aluminum alloy brazing sheet during a brazing process and which has a superior corrosion resistance to an exhaust gas condensate water after the brazing process is disclosed. A method of manufacturing of the aluminum alloy brazing sheet also is disclosed. A high corrosion-resistant heat exchanger that employs the aluminum alloy brazing sheet also is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: UACJ CorporationInventors: Sadayuki Kamiya, Masaki Harada, Masafumi Saito, Taketoshi Toyoma, Makoto Ando, Yoshiyuki Oya, Akio Niikura, Yoichi Kojima
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Patent number: 9976200Abstract: A highly corrosion resistant and highly formable cladded aluminum-alloy material, a method for producing the same, a heat exchanger using the same and a method for producing the same are shown. The present cladded aluminum-alloy material has an aluminum alloy core material, an intermediate layer material clad on one surface of the core material and a brazing filler metal clad on the intermediate layer material surface which is not at the core material side, wherein a crystal grain size of the intermediate layer material before brazing heating is 60 ?m or more, and in a cross section of the core material in a rolling direction before brazing heating, when R1 (?m) represents the crystal grain size in a plate thickness direction, and R2 (?m) represents the crystal grain size in the rolling direction, R1/R2 is 0.30 or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: UACJ CorporationInventors: Makoto Ando, Yutaka Yanagawa, Akio Niikura
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Patent number: 9976201Abstract: A highly corrosion resistant and highly formable aluminum-alloy clad material, a method for producing the same, a heat exchanger using the same and a method for producing the same are shown. The present aluminum-alloy clad material has an aluminum alloy core material, an intermediate layer material clad on one surface of the core material and a brazing filler metal clad on the surface of the intermediate layer material that is not on the core material side, wherein a crystal grain size of the intermediate layer material before brazing heating is 60 ?m or more, and in a cross section of the core material in a rolling direction before brazing heating, when R1 (?m) represents the crystal grain size in a plate thickness direction, and R2 (?m) represents the crystal grain size in the rolling direction, R1/R2 is 0.30 or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: UACJ CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Ando, Takuya Murata, Akio Niikura
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Patent number: 9903008Abstract: Aluminum alloy material containing Si: 1.0 to 5.0 mass % and Fe: 0.01 to 2.0 mass % with balance being Al and inevitable impurities, wherein 250 pcs/mm2 or more to 7×105 pcs/mm2 or less of Si-based intermetallic compound particles having equivalent circle diameters of 0.5 to 5 ?m are present in a cross-section of the aluminum alloy material, while 100 pcs/mm2 or more to 7×105 pcs/mm2 or less of Al-based intermetallic compound particles having equivalent circle diameters of 0.5 to 5 ?m are present in a cross-section of the aluminum alloy material. An aluminum alloy structure is manufactured by bonding two or more members in vacuum or a non-oxidizing atmosphere at temperature at which a ratio of a mass of a liquid phase generated in the aluminum alloy material to a total mass of the aluminum alloy material is 5% or more and 35% or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: UACJ CorporationInventors: Akio Niikura, Kazuko Fujita, Takashi Murase, Yoshiyuki Oya, Tomohito Kurosaki
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Patent number: 9878402Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet having a core material of an aluminum alloy, and a filler material cladded on the core is disclosed. The core material is an aluminum alloy having about 0.05 to about 1.2 mass Si, about 0.05-about 1.0 mass % Fe, about 0.05-about 1.2 mass % Cu, and about 0.6-about 1.8 mass % Mn, balance Al and the inevitable impurities. The filler material includes an aluminum alloy having about 2.5-about 13.0 mass % Si. Also, there is provided a method of manufacturing such an aluminum alloy brazing sheet.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: UACJ CorporationInventors: Makoto Ando, Akio Niikura, Yoichiro Bekki
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Patent number: 9802273Abstract: A first layer (11) and a second layer (12) are layered with an intermediate layer (21) therebetween. A clad material (1) is manufactured by heating and bonding the layered body at a temperature, at which the ratio of the mass of a liquid phase generated from the intermediate layer (21) is 5% or more and 35% or less, and by rolling the body. The clad material may comprise the clad material (1) which is a two-layer material formed of the first layer (11) and the second layer (12) as described above, as well as a third layer, a fourth layer, a fifth layer, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2011Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: UACJ CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuko Fujita, Takashi Murase, Akio Niikura
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Publication number: 20170137919Abstract: Aluminum alloy material containing Si: 1.0 to 5.0 mass % and Fe: 0.01 to 2.0 mass % with balance being Al and inevitable impurities, wherein 250 pcs/mm2 or more to 7×105 pcs/mm2 or less of Si-based intermetallic compound particles having equivalent circle diameters of 0.5 to 5 ?m are present in a cross-section of the aluminum alloy material, while 100 pcs/mm2 or more to 7×105 pcs/mm2 or less of Al-based intermetallic compound particles having equivalent circle diameters of 0.5 to 5 ?m are present in a cross-section of the aluminum alloy material. An aluminum alloy structure is manufactured by bonding two or more members in vacuum or a non-oxidizing atmosphere at temperature at which a ratio of a mass of a liquid phase generated in the aluminum alloy material to a total mass of the aluminum alloy material is 5% or more and 35% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2017Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventors: Akio NIIKURA, Kazuko FUJITA, Takashi MURASE, Yoshiyuki OYA, Tomohito KUROSAKI
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Publication number: 20170113305Abstract: This cladded aluminum-alloy material is provided with: an aluminum alloy core material, a coating material used to clad both surfaces of the core material; and a brazing material used to clad both of the coating material surfaces, or one of the coating material surfaces which is not at the core material side. The core material, the coating material and brazing filler material have described alloy compositions. The crystal grain size of the coating material before brazing heating is at least 60 ?m. In a cross section of the core material in the rolling direction before brazing heating, when R1 (?m) represents the crystal grain size in the plate thickness direction, and R2 (?m) represents the crystal grain size in the rolling direction, R1/R2 is not more than 0.50. As a result, the cladded aluminum-alloy material exhibits excellent mouldability, and the coating material after brazing heating exhibits excellent corrosion resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2015Publication date: April 27, 2017Applicant: UACJ CorporationInventors: Makoto ANDO, Akio NIIKURA
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Patent number: 9574253Abstract: An aluminum alloy material contains Si: 1.0 mass % to 5.0 mass % and Fe: 0.01 mass % to 2.0 mass % with balance being Al and inevitable impurities, wherein 250 pcs/mm2 or more to 7×105 pcs/mm2 or less of Si-based intermetallic compound particles having equivalent circle diameters of 0.5 to 5 ?m are present in a cross-section of the aluminum alloy material, while 100 pcs/mm2 to 7×105 pcs/mm2 of Al-based intermetallic compound particles having equivalent circle diameters of 0.5 to 5 ?m are present in a cross-section of the aluminum alloy material. An aluminum alloy structure is manufactured by bonding two or more members in vacuum or a non-oxidizing atmosphere at temperature at which a ratio of a mass of a liquid phase generated in the aluminum alloy material to a total mass of the aluminum alloy material is 5% or more and 35% or less.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2012Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: UACJ CorporationInventors: Akio Niikura, Kazuko Fujita, Takashi Murase, Yoshiyuki Oya, Tomohito Kurosaki
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Publication number: 20170003085Abstract: A heat exchanger aluminum alloy fin material, comprising Si 0.5 to 1.5 mass %; Fe 0.1 to 1.0 mass %; Mn 0.8 to 2.2 mass %; Zn 0.4 to 2.5 mass %; and further at least one selected from Cu, Ti, Zr, Cr, and V each in 0.02 to 0.3 mass %, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein a metallographic microstructure before braze-heating is such that a density of second phase particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of less than 0.1 ?m is less than 1×107 particles/mm2, and that a density of second phase particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.1 ?m or more is 5×104 particles/mm2 or more, wherein a tensile strength before braze-heating, TSB, a tensile strength after braze-heating, TSA, and a sheet thickness of the fin material, t, satisfy: 0.4?(TSB?TSA)/t?2.1, and wherein the sheet thickness is 150 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Applicant: UACJ CorporationInventors: Atsushi FUKUMOTO, Junichi MOCHIZUKI, Akio NIIKURA
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Publication number: 20160319401Abstract: A highly corrosion resistant and highly formable aluminum-alloy clad material, a method for producing the same, a heat exchanger using the same and a method for producing the same are shown. The present aluminum-alloy clad material has an aluminum alloy core material, an intermediate layer material clad on one surface of the core material and a brazing filler metal clad on the surface of the intermediate layer material that is not on the core material side, wherein a crystal grain size of the intermediate layer material before brazing heating is 60 ?m or more, and in a cross section of the core material in a rolling direction before brazing heating, when R1 (?m) represents the crystal grain size in a plate thickness direction, and R2 (?m) represents the crystal grain size in the rolling direction, R1/R2 is 0.30 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2014Publication date: November 3, 2016Applicant: UACJ CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto ANDO, Takuya MURATA, Akio NIIKURA
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Publication number: 20160319399Abstract: A highly corrosion resistant and highly formable cladded aluminum-alloy material, a method for producing the same, a heat exchanger using the same and a method for producing the same are shown. The present cladded aluminum-alloy material has an aluminum alloy core material, an intermediate layer material clad on one surface of the core material and a brazing filler metal clad on the intermediate layer material surface which is not at the core material side, wherein a crystal grain size of the intermediate layer material before brazing heating is 60 ?m or more, and in a cross section of the core material in a rolling direction before brazing heating, when R1 (?m) represents the crystal grain size in a plate thickness direction, and R2 (?m) represents the crystal grain size in the rolling direction, R1/R2 is 0.30 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2014Publication date: November 3, 2016Applicant: UACJ CorporationInventors: Makoto ANDO, Yutaka YANAGAWA, Akio NIIKURA
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Publication number: 20160167177Abstract: Problem To provide an aluminum alloy brazing sheet, featuring a good brazing property that prevents diffusion of molten filler material in a core material of the aluminum alloy brazing sheet during a brazing process and exhibiting a superior corrosion resistance to an exhaust gas condensate water after the brazing process, a method of manufacturing the aluminum alloy brazing sheet, and a high corrosion-resistant heat exchanger using the aluminum alloy brazing sheet. Resolving Means A high corrosion-resistant aluminum alloy brazing sheet comprises a core material composed of an aluminum alloy, a sacrificial anode material cladded on one surface of the core material, and a filler material composed of an Al/Si-based alloy and cladded on another surface of said core material, and is characterized in that the sacrificial anode material is composed of an aluminum alloy which contains Si falling within a range of 2.5-7.0 mass %, Zn falling a range of 1.0-5.5 mass %, Fe falling within a range of 0.05-1.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Sadayuki Kamiya, Masaki Harada, Masafumi Saito, Taketoshi Toyoma, Makoto Ando, Yoshiyuki Oya, Akio Niikura, Yoichi Kojima