Patents by Inventor Eiji Iizuka

Eiji Iizuka 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).

  • Patent number: 11931788
    Abstract: Provided is a technology capable of suppressing an edge crack occurring due to stretch flange deformation without being constrained by a target pressed component shape. The technology includes two-stage cutting processing of, when it is estimated that there is concern about risk of occurrence of an edge crack due to stretch flange deformation on an edge of a material (1) to be pressed in press forming, performing twice cutting processing on an edge including at least a site where there is concern about risk of occurrence of the edge crack as pre-processing for press forming in which there is concern about risk of occurrence of the edge crack. In the two-stage cutting processing, cutting to form a partial, beam-shaped overhang portion at a position including a site where there is concern about risk of occurrence of the edge crack is performed in the first cutting and the overhang portion is cut in the second cutting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogawa, Eiji Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20230113628
    Abstract: A technology capable of suppressing end cracking due to a delayed fracture without restrictions on the target pressed component shape. When it is estimated that the end cracking due to the delayed fracture in an end of a material to be pressed is concerned, double cutting processing including performing cutting processing of the end containing at least a place where the end cracking is concerned twice is provided as preprocessing for the press forming causing the concern about the end cracking. The double cutting processing includes performing, in first cutting, cutting to form a partial beam-shaped projection portion at a position containing the place where the end cracking is concerned, and cutting the projection portion in second cutting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji IIZUKA, Toyohisa SHINMIYA, Takeshi OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220222398
    Abstract: A method and device for specifying a portion causing a discrepancy in springback amount between CAE analysis and an actual formed product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi OGAWA, Masaki URABE, Eiji IIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20220219217
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for identifying a portion that is a factor causing a discrepancy in springback amount between a press-formed product and a CAE analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi OGAWA, Masaki URABE, Eiji IIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20220040748
    Abstract: Provided is a technology capable of suppressing an edge crack occurring due to stretch flange deformation without being constrained by a target pressed component shape. The technology includes two-stage cutting processing of, when it is estimated that there is concern about risk of occurrence of an edge crack due to stretch flange deformation on an edge of a material (1) to be pressed in press forming, performing twice cutting processing on an edge including at least a site where there is concern about risk of occurrence of the edge crack as pre-processing for press forming in which there is concern about risk of occurrence of the edge crack. In the two-stage cutting processing, cutting to form a partial, beam-shaped overhang portion at a position including a site where there is concern about risk of occurrence of the edge crack is performed in the first cutting and the overhang portion is cut in the second cutting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogawa, Eiji Iizuka
  • Patent number: 10639695
    Abstract: A method is provided for press forming a product having a shape of a top board portion, a vertical wall portion continuously formed from the top board portion and a flange portion continuously formed from the vertical wall portion at a press process of two or more stages, wherein a convex or concave bead shape is preformed in a position of a flat metal sheet as a raw material corresponding to a neighborhood of a position generating breakage or flange wrinkles when the raw material is formed into a product shape, and thereafter a product shape is press formed from the raw material having the preformed bead shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Toyohisa Shinmiya, Tsuyoshi Shiozaki, Eiji Iizuka, Yuji Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 10413956
    Abstract: There is provided a press forming method capable of suppressing a camber back, which occurs in a hat-shaped member while reducing a restriction on a shape of the hat-shaped member. At a time of the press forming, a blank material (4) in which a longitudinal line length is at least longer than a longitudinal line length of a top plate portion of a hat-shaped member (5) is fixed between a pair of press dies (lower die (2), upper die (3)), which have bent surfaces (convex surface (2a), concave surface (3a)), while being warped upward, that is, in a bending direction of the lower die (2) and the upper die (3). Subsequently, for the fixed blank material (4), a bent portion of the hat-shaped member (5) is press formed by using the convex surface (2a) and the concave surface (3a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: JFE Corporation
    Inventors: Toyohisa Shinmiya, Yuji Yamasaki, Eiji Iizuka
  • Patent number: 10226807
    Abstract: A press forming method includes portions of a blank corresponding to straight portions of product is press formed to a hat or channel cross-sectional shape prior to a portion of the blank corresponding to a curved portion of the product at an approached state of the both ends to thereby leave a surplus in a length of the portion of the blank corresponding to the curved portion of the product as compared to a length of the curved portion; then the portion of the blank corresponding to the curved portion of the product is press formed to a longitudinal curved shape at a state of leaving the surplus while forming the hat or channel cross-sectional shape to thereby apply a longitudinal compression stress to the portion of the blank corresponding to curved portion of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Toyohisa Shinmiya, Yuji Yamasaki, Eiji Iizuka
  • Patent number: 10220428
    Abstract: A press forming method forms a metal plate into the part shape having at least a top surface portion and side wall portions continuous with both left and right sides of the top surface portion, the part shape having a U-shaped or hat-shaped cross section and having one or two or more bent portions bent in a longitudinal direction that is a direction intersecting the cross section. The press forming method includes: a first step of applying in-plane shear deformation to a plate portion on both sides or one side of the bent portions in the longitudinal direction of the metal plate, the in-plane shear deformation corresponding to a direction of bending the portion of the part shape; and a second step of implementing press forming for the metal plate into the part shape, the metal plate to which the in-plane shear deformation has been applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: JFC STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Fujii, Toyohisa Shinmiya, Eiji Iizuka, Yuji Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 10022766
    Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a curved channel part having a curved portion in a vertical wall portion by press forming, the method restricting stretch flange deformation, which occurs in the vertical wall portion and a flange portion. The method includes a shear deformation step as a step of forming the vertical wall portion. In the shear deformation step, a boundary-side portion of a base section of a blank with respect to a deformation section, and an outer portion of the deformation section are individually restrained, a portion to be a vertical wall portion of the deformation section is shear-deformed in a sheet face, and a material is caused to flow from a portion separated from a curved portion toward the curved portion in an outer edge portion of the portion to be the vertical wall portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Fujii, Toyohisa Shinmiya, Yasuhiro Kishigami, Eiji Iizuka, Yuji Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20170165735
    Abstract: There is provided a press forming method capable of suppressing a camber back, which occurs in a hat-shaped member while reducing a restriction on a shape of the hat-shaped member. At a time of the press forming, a blank material (4) in which a longitudinal line length is at least longer than a longitudinal line length of a top plate portion of a hat-shaped member (5) is fixed between a pair of press dies (lower die (2), upper die (3)), which have bent surfaces (convex surface (2a), concave surface (3a)), while being warped upward, that is, in a bending direction of the lower die (2) and the upper die (3). Subsequently, for the fixed blank material (4), a bent portion of the hat-shaped member (5) is press formed by using the convex surface (2a) and the concave surface (3a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toyohisa Shinmiya, Yuji Yamasaki, Eiji Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20170028455
    Abstract: A press forming method forms a metal plate into the part shape having at least a top surface portion and side wall portions continuous with both left and right sides of the top surface portion, the part shape having a U-shaped or hat-shaped cross section and having one or two or more bent portions bent in a longitudinal direction that is a direction intersecting the cross section. The press forming method includes: a first step of applying in-plane shear deformation to a plate portion on both sides or one side of the bent portions in the longitudinal direction of the metal plate, the in-plane shear deformation corresponding to a direction of bending the portion of the part shape; and a second step of implementing press forming for the metal plate into the part shape, the metal plate to which the in-plane shear deformation has been applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke FUJII, Toyohisa SHINMIYA, Eiji IIZUKA, Yuji YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20170014886
    Abstract: A press forming method includes portions of a blank corresponding to straight portions of product is press formed to a hat or channel cross-sectional shape prior to a portion of the blank corresponding to a curved portion of the product at an approached state of the both ends to thereby leave a surplus in a length of the portion of the blank corresponding to the curved portion of the product as compared to a length of the curved portion; then the portion of the blank corresponding to the curved portion of the product is press formed to a longitudinal curved shape at a state of leaving the surplus while forming the hat or channel cross-sectional shape to thereby apply a longitudinal compression stress to the portion of the blank corresponding to curved portion of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Toyohisa Shinmiya, Yuji Yamasaki, Eiji Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20160354825
    Abstract: A method is provided for press forming a product having a shape of a top board portion, a vertical wall portion continuously formed from the top board portion and a flange portion continuously formed from the vertical wall portion at a press process of two or more stages, wherein a convex or concave bead shape is preformed in a position of a flat metal sheet as a raw material corresponding to a neighborhood of a position generating breakage or flange wrinkles when the raw material is formed into a product shape, and thereafter a product shape is press formed from the raw material having the preformed bead shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toyohisa Shinmiya, Tsuyoshi Shiozaki, Eiji Iizuka, Yuji Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20160158821
    Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a curved channel part having a curved portion in a vertical wall portion by press forming, the method restricting stretch flange deformation, which occurs in the vertical wall portion and a flange portion. The method includes a shear deformation step as a step of forming the vertical wall portion. In the shear deformation step, a boundary-side portion of a base section of a blank with respect to a deformation section, and an outer portion of the deformation section are individually restrained, a portion to be a vertical wall portion of the deformation section is shear-deformed in a sheet face, and a material is caused to flow from a portion separated from a curved portion toward the curved portion in an outer edge portion of the portion to be the vertical wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke FUJII, Toyohisa SHINMIYA, Yasuhiro KISHIGAMI, Eiji IIZUKA, Yuji YAMASAKI
  • Patent number: 7406886
    Abstract: An injector has a sample chamber for retaining a small amount of sample, wherein a position of the sample chamber is controlled by transmitting light through the sample chamber and detecting the transmitted light so as to recognize the position of the sample chamber. It is possible to reduce detection error compared to the conventional injectors that indirectly control the position of the sample chamber by transmitting light through the light passage which is adjacent to the sample chamber. A method for injecting a sample comprising the steps of: providing an injector which has a sample chamber for retaining a sample with an open month; transmitting light through the sample chamber; detecting the transmitted light so as to recognize a position of the sample chamber; and controlling the position of the sample chamber by using the detection result to connect the open month of the sample chamber to an open month of a sample receiving member in order to inject the sample into the sample receiving member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignees: Chemco Scientific Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Tsuda, Eiji Iizuka, Motonori Munesue
  • Publication number: 20070278434
    Abstract: An injector has a sample chamber for retaining a small amount of sample, wherein a position of the sample chamber is controlled by transmitting light through the sample chamber and detecting the transmitted light so as to recognize the position of the sample chamber. It is possible to reduce detection error compared to the conventional injectors that indirectly control the position of the sample chamber by transmitting light through the light passage which is adjacent to the sample chamber. A method for injecting a sample comprising the steps of: providing an injector which has a sample chamber for retaining a sample with an open month; transmitting light through the sample chamber; detecting the transmitted light so as to recognize a position of the sample chamber; and controlling the position of the sample chamber by using the detection result to connect the open month of the sample chamber to an open month of a sample receiving member in order to inject the sample into the sample receiving member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Applicants: CHEMCO SCIENTIFIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao TSUDA, Eiji IIZUKA, Motonori MUNESUE
  • Patent number: 7252016
    Abstract: An injector has a sample chamber for retaining a small amount of sample, wherein a position of the sample chamber is controlled by transmitting light through the sample chamber and detecting the transmitted light so as to recognize the position of the sample chamber, and it is possible to reduce detection error compared to the conventional injectors that indirectly control the position of the sample chamber by transmitting light through the light passage which is adjacent to the sample chamber. A method for injecting a sample comprising the steps of: providing an injector which has a sample chamber for retaining a sample with an open month; transmitting light through the sample chamber; detecting the transmitted light so as to recognize a position of the sample chamber; and controlling the position of the sample chamber by using the detection result to connect the open month of the sample chamber to an open month of a sample receiving member in order to inject the sample into the sample receiving member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignees: Chemco Scientific Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Tsuda, Eiji Iizuka, Motonori Munesue
  • Publication number: 20050118072
    Abstract: An injector has a sample chamber for retaining a small amount of sample, wherein a position of the sample chamber is controlled by transmitting light through the sample chamber and detecting the transmitted light so as to recognize the position of the sample chamber, and it is possible to reduce detection error compared to the conventional injectors that indirectly control the position of the sample chamber by transmitting light through the light passage which is adjacent to the sample chamber. A method for injecting a sample comprising the steps of: providing an injector which has a sample chamber for retaining a sample with an open month; transmitting light through the sample chamber; detecting the transmitted light so as to recognize a position of the sample chamber; and controlling the position of the sample chamber by using the detection result to connect the open month of the sample chamber to an open month of a sample receiving member in order to inject the sample into the sample receiving member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: Takao Tsuda, Eiji Iizuka, Motonori Munesue