Patents by Inventor Eiichiro Ishimaru

Eiichiro Ishimaru 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: 20140216614
    Abstract: The present invention focuses on Sn and has as its problem to not only improve the corrosion resistance and rust resistance of Cr-containing ferritic stainless steel but also improve the ridging resistance. The present invention derives the relationship between Ap, which shows the ?-phase rate at 1100° C. due to a predetermined ingredient, and Sn in ferritic stainless steel which becomes a dual phase structure of ?+? in the hot rolling temperature region, applies and adds Sn, and hot rolls the steel to give a total rolling rate of 15% or more in 1100° C. or higher hot rolling to thereby obtain ferritic stainless steel sheet which has good ridging resistance, which also has excellent corrosion resistance and rust resistance, and which can be applied to general durable consumer goods: 0.060?Sn?0.634?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Masaharu Hatano, Eiichiro Ishimaru, Akihiko Takahashi, Ken Kimura, Shinichi Teraoka
  • Patent number: 8721960
    Abstract: The present invention provides a ferritic stainless steel comprised of, by mass %, C: 0.001 to 0.02%, Si: 0.01 to 0.6%, Mn: 0.01 to 0.6%, P: 0.005 to 0.04%, S: 0.0001 to 0.01%, Cr: 13 to 22%, N: 0.001 to 0.02%, Al: 0.005 to 0.05%, Sn: 0.001 to 1%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, which steel satisfies the following formulae: 0<I(Fe)/I(Cr)<5 and 0<I(O)/I(Sn)<3, where I(Fe), I(Cr), I(Sn), and I(O) are the X-ray intensities of the Fe oxides, Cr oxides, Sn oxides, and the sum of X-ray intensities other detected oxides at the steel surface measured by an X-ray photoelectron spectrometer. The present invention also provides a method of producing the ferritic stainless steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Hatano, Akihiko Takahashi, Eiichiro Ishimaru, Shigenori Takahata
  • Publication number: 20130337289
    Abstract: The present invention provides an alloy-saving type high purity ferritic stainless steel sheet not relying on high alloying of addition giving a large content of at least one of Cr and No and further not limited to a surface film by bright annealing and utilizing addition of Sn to doubly provide an anti-glare property and corrosion resistance, comprising steel sheet which contains, by mass %, C: 0.001 to 0.03%, Si: 0.01 to 1%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.5%, P: 0.005 to 0.05%, S: 0.0001 to 0.01%, Cr: 13 to 30%, N: 0.001 to 0.03%, Al: 0.005 to 1%, and Sn: 0.01 to 1% and has a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities and which has a surface film, the surface film containing one or both of Al and Si in a total of 5 to 50 at % and Sn and an average concentration of Cr in the surface film being 1.1 to 3 times the concentration of Cr inside the steel sheet, and the surface film having a surface roughness of an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 0.1 to 1.5 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN STAINLESS STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Hatano, Hiroyuki Matsuyama, Akihito Yamagishi, Naoto Hansaki, Eiichiro Ishimaru
  • Publication number: 20130319583
    Abstract: The present invention provides a low-alloy high-purity ferritic stainless steel sheet provided with improved oxidation resistance and high-temperature strength by utilizing Sn addition in trace amounts without relying on excessive alloying of Al and Si which reduces fabricability and weldability or addition of rare elements such as Nb, Mo, W, and rare earths, and a process for producing the same. The high-purity ferritic stainless steel sheet includes C: 0.001 to 0.03%, Si: 0.01 to 2%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.5%, P: 0.005 to 0.05%, S: 0.0001 to 0.01%, Cr: 16 to 30%, N: 0.001 to 0.03%, Al: 0.05 to 3%, and Sn: 0.01 to 1% (% by mass), with the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities. A stainless steel slab having such steel components is heated, wherein an extraction temperature is 1100 to 1250° C., and a winding temperature after hot rolling is 650° C. or lower. A hot-rolled sheet is annealed at 900 to 1050° C., and cooled at 10° C./sec or less over a temperature range of 550 to 850° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN STAINLESS STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Hatano, Eiichiro Ishimaru, Akihiko Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20130118650
    Abstract: The present invention relates to ferritic-austenitic stainless steel oriented to have low Ni which is excellent in corrosion resistance, particularly in corrosion resistance in a neutral chloride environment, and has high “uniform elongation”—a factor governing workability—and a method of production for the same. There are independently provided ferritic-austenitic stainless steels and methods of production for the same particularly having a corrosion resistance in a neutral chloride environment satisfying PI value(=Cr+3Mo+10N?Mn)?18% and having a uniform elongation satisfying ?10?Md?110 (where Md=551?462({C}+[N])?9.2[Si]?8.1[Mn]?13.7[Cr]?29[Ni]?29[Cu]?18.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Hatano, Akihiko Takahashi, Eiichiro Ishimaru, Ken Kimura
  • Patent number: 8432244
    Abstract: Disclosed is a power distribution transformer having a body of the transformer, the body consisting of a coil and an iron core; a tank containing the body of the transformer and an insulation substance which fills an inner space of the tank; and an upper lid of the tank. The tank and/or the upper lid is made of a ferritic stainless steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd., Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless Steel Corp.
    Inventors: Masao Hosokawa, Mitsuaki Kawashima, Kazuyuki Fukui, Kouji Yamashita, Izumi Muto, Eiichiro Ishimaru, Hiroshige Inoue
  • Publication number: 20130017116
    Abstract: The stainless steel sheet according to the present invention is a ferritic stainless steel which is comprised of, by mass %, C: 0.001 to 0.03%, Si: 0.01 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.5%, P: 0.005 to 0.05%, S: 0.0001 to 0.01%, Cr: 12 to 16%, N: 0.001 to 0.03%, Nb: 0.05 to 0.3%, Ti: 0.03 to 0.15%, Al: 0.005 to 0.5%, Sn: 0.01 to 1.0%, and has the remainder of Fe and unavoidable impurities and satisfies the relationship of 1?Nb/Ti?3.5. The method comprises heating a slab of stainless steel which contains the above steel ingredients, setting the extraction temperature 1080 to 1190° C., and setting the coiling temperature after the end of hot rolling 500 to 700° C. After hot rolling, the method comprises annealing the hot rolled sheet, which can be omitted, cold rolling once or cold rolling twice or more which includes processing annealing, and finish annealing the steel sheet at 850 to 980° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Masaharu Hatano, Akihito Yamagishi, Shigenori Takahata, Eiichiro Ishimaru
  • Patent number: 8303733
    Abstract: This stainless steel sheet includes, in terms of mass %, C: 0.001 to 0.1%, N: 0.01 to 0.15%, Si: 0.01 to 2%, Mn: 0.1 to 10%, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Ni: 0.5 to 5%, Cr: 10 to 25%, and Cu: 0.5 to 5%, with a remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and contains a ferrite phase as a main phase and 10% or more of an austenite phase, wherein a work-hardening rate in a strain range of up to 30% is 1000 MPa or more which is measured by a static tensile testing and a difference between static and dynamic stresses which occur when 10% of deformation is caused is 150 MPa or more. This method for producing a stainless steel includes annealing a cold-rolled steel sheet under conditions where a holding temperature is set to be in a range of 950 to 1150° C. and a cooling rate until 400° C. is set to be in a range of 3° C./sec or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Hamada, Haruhiko Kajimura, Eiichiro Ishimaru
  • Patent number: 8226780
    Abstract: This ferrite-austenite stainless steel sheet includes: in terms of mass %, C: 0.1% or less; Cr: 17 to 25%; Si: 1% or less; Mn: 3.7% or less; Ni: 0.6 to 3%; Cu: 0.1 to 3%; and N: 0.06% or more and less than 0.15%, with the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein the steel sheet has a two-phase structure consisting of a ferrite phase and an austenite phase, a volume fraction of the austenite phase is in a range of 15 to 70%, and in a sheet plane (ND) of a center of a sheet thickness, grains of the ferrite phase having a crystal orientation satisfying ND//{111}±10° and grains of the ferrite phase having a crystal orientation satisfying ND//{101}±10° are present in a total content of 10% by area or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignees: Nippon Steel, Sumikin Stainless Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Hatano, Akihiko Takahashi, Eiichiro Ishimaru, Ken Kimura
  • Publication number: 20120146754
    Abstract: Disclosed is a power distribution transformer having a body of the transformer, the body consisting of a coil and an iron core; a tank containing the body of the transformer and an insulation substance which fills an inner space of the tank; and an upper lid of the tank. The tank and/or the upper lid is made of a ferritic stainless steel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Masao HOSOKAWA, Mitsuaki Kawashima, Kazuyuki Fukui, Kouji Yamashita, Izumi Muto, Eiichiro Ishimaru, Hiroshige Inoue
  • Patent number: 8143985
    Abstract: Disclosed is a power distribution transformer having a body of the transformer, the body consisting of a coil and an iron core; a tank containing the body of the transformer and an insulation substance which fills an inner space of the tank; and an upper lid of the tank. The tank and/or the upper lid is made of a ferritic stainless steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd., Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless Steel Corp.
    Inventors: Masao Hosokawa, Mitsuaki Kawashima, Kazuyuki Fukui, Kouji Yamashita, Izumi Muto, Eiichiro Ishimaru, Hiroshige Inoue
  • Publication number: 20120009433
    Abstract: The present invention provides a duplex stainless steel sheet with excellent press-formability which defines the ingredients of the steel, Ni balance, and austenite phase rate to obtain a 0.2% proof stress and Erichsen value equal to that of SUS304 or another austenitic stainless steel, that is, a duplex stainless steel sheet which contains, by mass %, C: 0.05% or less, Si: 0.5 to 3%, Mn: 1 to 5%, Cr: 16 to 21%, Ni: 1 to 6%, Cu: 0.5 to 3%, and N: 0.07% or less, has an Ni-bal. value given by the following formula <1> of ?7.5 to ?3.5, has a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, has an austenite phase rate of 50% to 95%, and has a balance of ferrite phases: Ni-bal.=30(C+N)+Ni+0.5Mn+0.3Cu?1.1(Cr+1.5Si)+8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventors: Masaharu Hatano, Akihiko Takahashi, Eiichiro Ishimaru, Ken Kimura
  • Publication number: 20110265920
    Abstract: The present invention provides an alloy-saving type of high purity ferritic stainless steel excellent in corrosion resistance and a method of production of the same. A high purity ferritic stainless steel excellent in corrosion resistance comprised of, by mass %, C: 0.001 to 0.02%, Si: 0.01 to 0.6%, Mn: 0.01 to 0.6%, P: 0.005 to 0.04%, S: 0.0001 to 0.01%, Cr: 13 to 22%, N: 0.001 to 0.02%, Al: 0.005 to 0.05%, Sn: 0.001 to 1%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, said steel characterized by satisfying the two relations of the following formula (1) and formula (2) where I(Fe), I(Cr), I(Sn), and I(O) are the X-ray intensities of the Fe oxides, Cr oxides, Sn oxides, and other detected oxides at the steel surface measured by an X-ray photoelectron spectrometer: 0<I(Fe)/I(Cr)<5??formula (1) and 0<I(O)/I(Sn)<3??formula (2) To improve the effect of modification of the coating by addition of Sn, the method comprises annealing at a temperature higher than 800° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Inventors: Masaharu Hatano, Akihiko Takahashi, Eiichiro Ishimaru, Shigenori Takahata
  • Publication number: 20110043313
    Abstract: Disclosed is a power distribution transformer having a body of the transformer, the body consisting of a coil and an iron core; a tank containing the body of the transformer and an insulation substance which fills an inner space of the tank; and an upper lid of the tank. The tank and/or the upper lid is made of a ferritic stainless steel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Inventors: Masao Hosokawa, Mitsuaki Kawashima, Kazuyuki Fukui, Kouji Yamashita, Izumi Muto, Eiichiro Ishimaru, Hiroshige Inoue
  • Publication number: 20110000589
    Abstract: This ferrite-austenite stainless steel sheet includes: in terms of mass %, C: 0.1% or less; Cr: 17 to 25%; Si: 1% or less; Mn: 3.7% or less; Ni: 0.6 to 3%; Cu: 0.1 to 3%; and N: 0.06% or more and less than 0.15%, with the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein the steel sheet has a two-phase structure consisting of a ferrite phase and an austenite phase, a volume fraction of the austenite phase is in a range of 15 to 70%, and in a sheet plane (ND) of a center of a sheet thickness, grains of the ferrite phase having a crystal orientation satisfying ND//{111}±10° and grains of the ferrite phase having a crystal orientation satisfying ND//{101}±10° are present in a total content of 10% by area or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Hatano, Akihiko Takahashi, Eiichiro Ishimaru, Ken Kimura
  • Patent number: 7843298
    Abstract: Disclosed is a power distribution transformer having a body of the transformer, the body consisting of a coil and an iron core; a tank containing the body of the transformer and an insulation substance which fills an inner space of the tank; and an upper lid of the tank. The tank and/or the upper lid is made of a ferritic stainless steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignees: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd, Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless Steel Corp.
    Inventors: Masao Hosokawa, Mitsuaki Kawashima, Kazuyuki Fukui, Kouji Yamashita, Izumi Muto, Eiichiro Ishimaru, Hiroshige Inoue
  • Publication number: 20100294402
    Abstract: This stainless steel sheet includes, in terms of mass %, C: 0.001 to 0.1%, N: 0.01 to 0.15%, Si: 0.01 to 2%, Mn: 0.1 to 10%, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Ni: 0.5 to 5%, Cr: 10 to 25%, and Cu: 0.5 to 5%, with a remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and contains a ferrite phase as a main phase and 10% or more of an austenite phase, wherein a work-hardening rate in a strain range of up to 30% is 1000 MPa or more which is measured by a static tensile testing and a difference between static and dynamic stresses which occur when 10% of deformation is caused is 150 MPa or more. This method for producing a stainless steel includes annealing a cold-rolled steel sheet under conditions where a holding temperature is set to be in a range of 950 to 1150° C. and a cooling rate until 400° C. is set to be in a range of 3° C./sec or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventors: Junichi Hamada, Haruhiko Kajimura, Eiichiro Ishimaru
  • Publication number: 20100126644
    Abstract: The present invention relates to ferritic-austenitic stainless steel oriented to have low Ni which is excellent in corrosion resistance, particularly in corrosion resistance in a neutral chloride environment, and has high “uniform elongation”—a factor governing workability—and a method of production for the same. There are independently provided ferritic-austenitic stainless steels and methods of production for the same particularly having a corrosion resistance in a neutral chloride environment satisfying PI value(=Cr+3Mo+10N—Mn)?18% and having a uniform elongation satisfying ?10?Md?110 (where Md=551?462({C}+[N])?9.2[Si]?8.1[Mn]?13.7[Cr]?29[Ni]?29[Cu]?18.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Masaharu Hatano, Akihiko Takahashi, Eiichiro Ishimaru, Ken Kimura
  • Patent number: 7214277
    Abstract: A quench solidification method, wherein a steel cast strip having a mean grain size 50 ?m or more is prepared and then the steel cast strip is rolled to produce a non-oriented electrical steel sheet having high magnetic flux density in both L and C directions. However the magnetic flux density reduces when the cold reduction rate exceeds 70%. To avoid this problem the non-oriented electrical steel sheet is manufactured with a ratio of at least 4 of the integrated intensity of the {100} plane for a given sample of steel to the integrated intensity of {100} plane for a “random” sample in which crystal grains have random orientations; and a cold reduction rate of the cold-rolling is between 70% and 85%. The superheating degree of the molten steel can be 70° C. or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yousuke Kurosaki, Takeshi Kubota, Hideaki Yamamura, Takashi Arai, Eiichiro Ishimaru, Yoshihiro Arita, Isao Suichi, Kenji Kosuge
  • Patent number: 7159641
    Abstract: A cooling drum for metal cast strip by continuous casting has dimples 40 to 200 ?m in average depth and 0.5 to 3 mm in diameter of circle equivalent formed on a plated peripheral surface of the cooling drum, adjacent to each other at rims of the dimples; and a film, containing oxides of at least one member selected from the group consisting of Ni—W, Ni—Co—W, Cr, Ni—Fe and Ni—Al, is formed on the peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Yamamura, Naoya Hamada, Tadahiro Izu, Yasushi Kurisu, Isao Suichi, Masafumi Miyazaki, Kazumi Seki, Eiichi Takeuchi, Mamoru Yamada, Hideki Oka, Yasuo Maruki, Eiichiro Ishimaru, Mitsuru Nakayama