Patents by Inventor Atsuhiro SHIRAKI

Atsuhiro SHIRAKI 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).

  • Publication number: 20230040459
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet with excellent delayed fracture resistance, having a tensile strength of 1700 MPa or larger, including a predetermined component composition, having a martensite structure whose ratio accounts for 95 area % or more of the entire metallographic structure, and having a transition metal carbide whose ratio accounts for 0.8 volume % or more of the entire metallographic structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Kosuke SHIBATA, Junichiro KINUGASA, Keisuke NAKATA, Atsuhiro SHIRAKI
  • Patent number: 10526687
    Abstract: Provided is an ultra-high-strength steel sheet having a component composition that includes specific amounts of each of C, Mn, and Al and a remainder of iron and unavoidable impurities, and in which the amounts of each of P, S, and N among the unavoidable impurities are limited to a specific amount. The ultra-high-strength steel sheet includes 2 area% or more of a region having a structure that includes 90% or more of martensite and 0.5% or more of residual austentite by area ratio relative to the entire structure, the local Mn concentration in said region being at least 1.1 times that of the Mn content of the entire steel sheet. The ultra-high-strength steel sheet has a tensile strength of 1470 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: KOBE STEEL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Shibata, Toshiya Nakata, Toshio Murakami, Takahiro Ozawa, Fumio Yuse, Atsuhiro Shiraki, Kenji Saito, Yukihiro Utsumi
  • Publication number: 20190153575
    Abstract: Provided is an ultra-high-strength steel sheet having a component composition that includes specific amounts of each of C, Mn, and Al and a remainder of iron and unavoidable impurities, and in which the amounts of each of P, S, and N among the unavoidable impurities are limited to a specific amount. The ultra-high-strength steel sheet includes 2 area % or more of a region having a structure that includes 90% or more of martensite and 0.5% or more of residual austentite by area ratio relative to the entire structure, the local Mn concentration in said region being at least 1.1 times that of the Mn content of the entire steel sheet. The ultra-high-strength steel sheet has a tensile strength of 1470 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Kosuke SHIBATA, Toshiya NAKATA, Toshio MURAKAMI, Takahiro OZAWA, Fumio YUSE, Atsuhiro SHIRAKI, Kenji SAITO, Yukihiro UTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20190032166
    Abstract: An ultra-high-strength steel sheet having a component composition that includes specific amounts of each of C, Si, Mn, and Al and a remainder of iron and unavoidable impurities, and in which the amounts of each of P, S, and N among the unavoidable impurities are limited to a specific amount. The ultra-high-strength steel sheet includes 1 area % or more of a region in which martensite constitutes 90 area % or more, residual austentite constitutes 0.5 area % or more, and the local Mn concentration is at least 1.2 times that of the Mn content of the entire steel sheet. The ultra-high-strength steel sheet has a tensile strength of 1470 MPa or more, a yield ratio of 0.75 or more, and a total elongation of 10% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Kosuke SHIBATA, Toshiya NAKATA, Toshio MURAKAMI, Takahiro OZAWA, Fumio YUSE, Atsuhiro SHIRAKI, Kenji SAITO, Yukihiro UTSUMI
  • Patent number: 10030291
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength steel sheet having a tensile strength of 1180 MPa or more and having satisfactory seam weldability. The steel sheet has a chemical composition of C: 0.12% to 0.40%, Si: 0.003% to 0.5%, Mn 0.01% to 1.5%, Al: 0.032% to 0.15%, N: 0.01% or less, P: 0.02% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Ti: 0.01% to 0.2% or less, and B: 0.0001% to 0.01%, with the remainder including iron and inevitable impurities, has a Ceq1 (=C+Mn/5+Si/13) of 0.50% or less, and has a steel structure of a martensite single-phase structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Shiraki, Yukihiro Utsumi
  • Publication number: 20160369367
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet contains, by mass %, C: 0.12% to 0.40%, Si: 0% to 0.6%, Mn: more than 0% to 1.5%, Al: more than 0% to 0.15%, N: more than 0% to 0.01%, P: more than 0% to 0.02%, S: more than 0% to 0.01%, and has a martensite single-phase structure, wherein a region having a KAM value (Kernel Average Misorientation value) of 1° or more occupies 50% or more, and a maximum residual tensile stress in a surface layer region from a surface to a position at a depth of ¼ the sheet thickness is 80 MPa or less. As a result, the high-strength steel sheet excels in the resistance to delayed fracture of the cut end surface and the steel sheet base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Atsuhiro SHIRAKI, Yukihiro UTSUMI
  • Patent number: 8449988
    Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet has a chemical composition of C: 0.12% to 0.3%, Si: 0.5% or less, Mn: less than 1.5%, Al: 0.15% or less, N: 0.01% or less, P: 0.02% or less, and S: 0.01% or less, with the remainder including iron and inevitable impurities and has a martensite single-phase structure as its steel microstructure. In a surface region of the steel sheet from the surface to a depth one-tenth the gauge, the number density of n-ary groups of inclusions determined by specific n-th determinations is 120 or less per 100 cm2 of a rolling plane, where the distance in steel sheet rolling direction between outermost surfaces of two outermost particles of the group of inclusions is 100 ?m or more. The steel sheet is a high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet which has a sufficiently minimized rate of bending fracture starting from inclusions and thereby has excellent bending workability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Shiraki, Sae Hamamoto, Yukihiro Utsumi, Tetsuji Hoshika, Yuichi Futamura
  • Publication number: 20130040165
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength steel sheet having a tensile strength of 1180 MPa or more and having satisfactory seam weldability. The steel sheet has a chemical composition of C: 0.12% to 0.40%, Si: 0.003% to 0.5%, Mn 0.01% to 1.5%, Al: 0.032% to 0.15%, N: 0.01% or less, P: 0.02% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Ti: 0.01% to 0.2% or less, and B: 0.0001% to 0.01%, with the remainder including iron and inevitable impurities, has a Ceq1 (=C+Mn/5+Si/13) of 0.50% or less, and has a steel structure of a martensite single-phase structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Atsuhiro SHIRAKI, Yukihiro Utsumi
  • Publication number: 20110287280
    Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet has a chemical composition of C: 0.12% to 0.3%, Si: 0.5% or less, Mn: less than 1.5%, Al: 0.15% or less, N: 0.01% or less, P: 0.02% or less, and S: 0.01% or less, with the remainder including iron and inevitable impurities and has a martensite single-phase structure as its steel microstructure. In a surface region of the steel sheet from the surface to a depth one-tenth the gauge, the number density of n-ary groups of inclusions determined by specific n-th determinations is 120 or less per 100 cm2 of a rolling plane, where the distance in steel sheet rolling direction between outermost surfaces of two outermost particles of the group of inclusions is 100 ?m or more. The steel sheet is a high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet which has a sufficiently minimized rate of bending fracture starting from inclusions and thereby has excellent bending workability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Atsuhiro SHIRAKI, Sae Hamamoto, Yukihiro Utsumi, Tetsuji Hoshika, Yuichi Futamura