Patents by Inventor Atsushi Sugama

Atsushi Sugama 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: 20220097118
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a tubular rotary component from a donut-shaped metal disc, wherein the generation of wrinkles or cracks due to a drawing process can be suppressed. This method for manufacturing a tubular rotary component 100B includes: an intermediate molding step in which the entirety of both surfaces of a donut-shaped metal disc 100 having a prescribed inner diameter D1 and outer diameter D2 are pressed by the respective tapered surfaces of a punch 10A and a die 20A provided with a prescribed taper to carry out bore-expansion drawing, thereby obtaining a frustoconical intermediate molded article 100A; and a final molding step in which the intermediate molded article 100A is pressed by a punch 10B and a die 20B having a desired shape to carry out bore-expansion drawing again, thereby obtaining a tubular rotary component 100B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGAMA, Takatsugu KITORA
  • Patent number: 10502507
    Abstract: A plate-type heat exchanger may include a housing. The housing may include a plurality of rectangular plate-like components that are box-like components each having the same shape and having a standing wall section along a peripheral edge. One of the box-like components may be layered on another components reversed in the horizontal direction to form a layered structure having an upper layer component and a lower layer component such that an upper portion of a standing wall section of the lower layer component of the layered structure is fit into a lower portion of a standing wall section of the upper layer component of the layered structure. The angle (?) of the standing wall sections may be ??30°, and at least a portion of a contact region between the upper portion and the lower portion may be joined by solid phase diffusion bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL NISSHIN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sugama, Manabu Oku, Yoshiaki Hori, Kazunari Imakawa
  • Patent number: 9987706
    Abstract: A method for producing a stainless steel diffusion-bonded product provides a stainless steel material diffusion-bonded product having excellent reliability of the bonded portion by using a direct method, which includes directly contacting stainless steel materials with each other to unify the materials together by diffusion bonding. At least one of the stainless steel materials to be contacted is dual-phase steel having an austenite transformation starting temperature Ac1 point of 650 to 950° C. during the temperature elevation and having an austenite+ferrite dual-phase temperature region in the range of 880° C. or higher. Diffusion bonding is advanced under conditions such that the contact surface pressure is in the range of 1.0 MPa or less and the heating temperature is in the range of from 880 to 1,080° C. while being accompanied by the movement of grain boundary caused when the ferrite phase in the dual-phase steel undergoes transformation to an austenite phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sugama, Yukihiro Nishida, Kazuyuki Kageoka, Yoshiaki Hori, Manabu Oku
  • Publication number: 20170321311
    Abstract: Provided is a stainless steel material suitable for diffusion bonded moldings in which diffusion bondability has been further improved without being affected by the extent of surface roughness. The present invention is a stainless steel material for diffusion bonding in which the metal structure before diffusion bonding has a multi-phase structure obtained from two or more of a ferrite phase, a martensite phase and an austenite phase, wherein: the mean crystal grain diameter in the multi-phase structure is not more than 20 ?m; ?max represented by formula (a) is 10-90; and creep elongation when a 1.0 MPa load is applied at 1000° C. for 0.5 his at least 0.2%. ?max=420C?11.5Si+7Mn+23Ni?11.5Cr?12Mo+9Cu?49Ti?47Nb?52Al+470N+189 . . . Formula (a) The element notations in formula (a) represent the contents (mass %) of the respective elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGAMA, Kazuyuki KAGEOKA, Yoshiaki HORI, Kazunari IMAKAWA, Manabu OKU
  • Publication number: 20170067700
    Abstract: A plate-type heat exchanger may include a housing. The housing may include a plurality of rectangular plate-like components that are box-like components each having the same shape and having a standing wall section along a peripheral edge. One of the box-like components may be layered on another components reversed in the horizontal direction to form a layered structure having an upper layer component and a lower layer component such that an upper portion of a standing wall section of the lower layer component of the layered structure is fit into a lower portion of a standing wall section of the upper layer component of the layered structure. The angle (?) of the standing wall sections may be ??30°, and at least a portion of a contact region between the upper portion and the lower portion may be joined by solid phase diffusion bonding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGAMA, Manabu OKU, Yoshiaki HORI, Kazunari IMAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160114423
    Abstract: A method for producing a stainless steel diffusion-bonded product provides a stainless steel material diffusion-bonded product having excellent reliability of the bonded portion by using a direct method, which includes directly contacting stainless steel materials with each other to unify the materials together by diffusion bonding. At least one of the stainless steel materials to be contacted is dual-phase steel having an austenite transformation starting temperature Ac1 point of 650 to 950° C. during the temperature elevation and having an austenite+ferrite dual-phase temperature region in the range of 880° C. or higher. Diffusion bonding is advanced under conditions such that the contact surface pressure is in the range of 1.0 MPa or less and the heating temperature is in the range of from 880 to 1,080° C. while being accompanied by the movement of grain boundary caused when the ferrite phase in the dual-phase steel undergoes transformation to an austenite phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGAMA, Yukihiro NISHIDA, Kazuyuki KAGEOKA, Yoshiaki HORI, Manabu OKU
  • Patent number: 9197840
    Abstract: Disclosed is a head mount display including: a display section displaying video pictures for the left and right eyes; an audio output section outputting sound accompanying the video pictures; a user operation section operated by the user to adjust the volume of the sound outputted by the audio output section; a mounting sensor detecting whether or not the user has worn the head mount display; and a control section controlling the operation to adjust the volume requested by the user by operating the user operation section in accordance with a detection result from the mounting sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Yamamoto, Atsushi Sugama, Naomasa Takahashi, Ayataka Nishio
  • Publication number: 20130300949
    Abstract: Disclosed is a head mount display including: a display section displaying video pictures for the left and right eyes; an audio output section outputting sound accompanying the video pictures; a user operation section operated by the user to adjust the volume of the sound outputted by the audio output section; a mounting sensor detecting whether or not the user has worn the head mount display; and a control section controlling the operation to adjust the volume requested by the user by operating the user operation section in accordance with a detection result from the mounting sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Masaaki Yamamoto, Atsushi Sugama, Naomasa Takahashi, Ayataka Nishio
  • Publication number: 20090217167
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus for executing control such that one of image data and audio data is made subject to reproduction and the other data made subject to accompanying reproduction to reproduce both the subject to reproduction and the subject to accompanying reproduction, including a comparing section configured to unify a form of a feature of the subject to reproduction and a form of a feature of the subject to accompanying reproduction and make a comparison between these features; and a selecting section configured to select, on the basis of a result of comparison made by the comparing section, the subject to accompanying reproduction for the subject to reproduction from candidates of at least one subject to accompanying reproduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Sugama, Masakazu Osawa
  • Publication number: 20090214176
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus for use when a content and first navigation data defining a first reproduction pattern for the content are recorded on a first recording medium subject to edit constraints, the information processing apparatus including: a creation section configured to create second navigation data defining a second reproduction pattern for the content; and a recording control section configured to exercise control in order to record the second navigation data created by the creation section as meta data to a second recording medium separate from the first recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Sugama