Patents by Inventor Eisaku Sakurada
Eisaku Sakurada 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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Publication number: 20240068066Abstract: There is provided a steel sheet having a chemical composition comprising, in mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.25%, Si: 0.2 to 2.0%, Mn: 1.2 to 3.0%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.050% or less, Al: 0.01 to 0.55%, N: 0.0100% or less, and Ti: 0.010 to 0.250%, with the balance: Fe and impurities, wherein a random intensity ratio of a texture in a near-surface portion of the steel sheet is 8.0 or less, and a minimum angle formed between a maximum strength orientation in a {110} pole figure of the texture and a normal direction of a rolled surface of the steel sheet is 10° or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuaki TANAKA, Shohei YABU, Hiroshi SHUTO, Koutarou HAYASHI, Takashi YASUTOMI, Eisaku SAKURADA
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Patent number: 11885025Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes a chemical composition including: by mass %, C: 0.080 to 0.500%, Si: 2.50% or less, Mn: 0.50 to 5.00%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.001 to 2.500%, N: 0.0150% or less, O: 0.0050% or less, and the balance: Fe and inevitable impurities. The high-strength steel sheet satisfying a predetermined formula has a microstructure in a region from ?t to ?t from a steel sheet surface. The microstructure includes: by volume %, 20% or more of acicular ferrite, 20% or more of an island-shaped hard structure including residual austenite, 2% to 25% of residual austenite, and 20% or less of aggregated ferrite.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Kawata, Eisaku Sakurada, Kohichi Sano, Takafumi Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20230416859Abstract: This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, has a microstructure in which a number density of alloy carbides present at grain boundaries and having a major axis of 10 to 100 nm is 1.0×108 to 1.0×1011/cm2 and a number density of alloy carbides present in grains and having a major axis of 10 nm or less is 1.0×1016 to 1.0×1019/cm3, and has a tensile strength of 1,030 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hideto HIROSHIMA, Takashi YASUTOMI, Eisaku SAKURADA
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Publication number: 20230416856Abstract: This steel sheet for gas soft nitriding has a predetermined chemical composition and metallographic structure, in which, when a sheet thickness is indicated as t, a sheet width, which is a width in a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction, is indicated as w, and effective grain sizes are measured at seven positions of w/8, w/4, 3w/8, w/2, 5w/8, 3w/4, and 7w/8 in a width direction from an end portion in the width direction at a t/4 depth position from a surface, an average effective grain size, which is an average of the effective grain sizes at the seven positions, is 8.0 to 35.0 ?m, and an effective grain size difference, which is a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value among the effective grain sizes at the seven positions, is 10.0 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi AZUMA, Shinya SAITOH, Eisaku SAKURADA
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Publication number: 20230407430Abstract: This steel sheet has predetermined chemical composition and microstructure, in a crystal orientation distribution function of a texture at a sheet thickness ¼ position, when A/B that is a ratio of a maximum value A of pole densities at ?=20° to 60° and ?1=30° to 90° in a cross section of ?2=45° to a maximum value B of pole densities at ?=120° to 60° and ?1=30° to 90° in the cross section of ?2=45° is 1.50 or less, a total of the maximum value A and the maximum value B is 6.00 or less, and a tensile strength is 1030 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi YASUTOMI, Eisaku SAKURADA
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Publication number: 20230265548Abstract: Provided is a hot rolled steel sheet having a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more, a sheet thickness of 1.2 to 4.0 mm, and a sheet width of 750 mm or more, and satisfying -15?(?W 1 +?W2)/2-?C ?15 (where ?W1 and ?W2 respectively indicate hole expansion ratios (%) at ? positions of the sheet width from one end of the hot rolled steel sheet in a sheet width direction perpendicular to a rolling direction and the other end at an opposite side, and ?C indicates a hole expansion ratio (%) of a sheet width center part).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2021Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi TOYODA, Eisaku SAKURADA
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Patent number: 11680303Abstract: This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a steel structure of an inside of the steel sheet contains, by volume fraction, soft ferrite: 0% to 30%, retained austenite: 3% to 40%, fresh martensite: 0% to 30%, a sum of pearlite and cementite: 0% to 10%, and a remainder includes hard ferrite, a number proportion of the retained austenite having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more in the total retained austenite is 50% or more, a soft layer having a thickness of 1 to 100 ?m from a surface in a sheet thickness direction is present, in ferrite contained in the soft layer, a volume fraction of grains having an aspect ratio of 3.0 or more is 50% or more, a volume fraction of retained austenite in the soft layer is 80% or less of the volume fraction of the retained austenite in the inside of the steel sheet, and a peak of an emission intensity at a wavelength indicating Si appears in a range of more than 0.2 ?m and 10.0 ?m or less from the surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Riki Okamoto, Kohichi Sano, Hiroyuki Kawata, Kohei Ueda, Eisaku Sakurada
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Publication number: 20230140766Abstract: This hot-rolled steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition and predetermined metallographic structure, a ratio between a maximum depth of a region where, on one surface, a rotation angle between a normal line of the one surface and a (011) pole near the normal line of the one surface is 5° or less and a maximum depth of a region where, on the other surface, a rotation angle between a normal line of the other surface and a (011) pole near the normal line of the other surface is 5° or less is 1.00 to 1.20, and a tensile strength is 1150 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Eisaku SAKURADA, Takashi YASUTOMI, Genki ABUKAWA
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Publication number: 20230097055Abstract: Adopted are a hot-rolled steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition, in which a region, where a rotation angle between a normal line of a surface and a (011) pole near the normal line becomes 5° or less, is 0.150 or less from the surface in terms of a sheet thickness direction position standardized by a sheet thickness, and a region, where the rotation angle becomes 20° or more, is 0.250 or more from the surface in terms of the sheet thickness direction position standardized by the sheet thickness and a manufacturing method thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Eisaku SAKURADA, Takashi YASUTOMI, Genki ABUKAWA
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Patent number: 11572610Abstract: A steel sheet includes a predetermined chemical composition and a metal structure represented by, in area fraction, ferrite: 50% to 95%, granular bainite: 5% to 48%, martensite: 2% to 30%, and upper bainite, lower bainite, tempered martensite, retained austenite, and pearlite: 5% or less in total.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuya Nakano, Kunio Hayashi, Yuri Toda, Eisaku Sakurada, Akihiro Uenishi
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Publication number: 20230002848Abstract: This hot-rolled steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, a microstructure includes 80% or more of tempered martensite by a volume percentage and a remainder consisting of one or more of ferrite, pearlite, bainite, fresh martensite, and residual austenite, the tempered martensite includes 5×109 pieces/mm3 or more of precipitates containing Ti and having an equivalent circle diameter of 5 nm or less per unit volume, in a surface layer region that is a range from a surface to a 1/10 position of a sheet thickness, a sum of an average pole density of a crystal orientation group consisting of {211}<111> to {111}<112> and a pole density in a crystal orientation of {110}<001> is 6.0 or less, and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Genki ABUKAWA, Masafumi AZUMA, Eisaku SAKURADA, Shohei YABU
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Patent number: 11492687Abstract: A steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition and a metal structure represented by, in area fraction, polygonal ferrite: 40% or less, martensite: 20% or less, bainitic ferrite: 50% to 95%, and retained austenite: 5% to 50%. In area fraction, 80% or more of the bainitic ferrite is composed of bainitic ferrite grains that have an aspect ratio of 0.1 to 1.0 and have a dislocation density of 8×102 (cm/cm3) or less in a region surrounded by a grain boundary with a misorientation angle of 15° or more. In area fraction, 80% or more of the retained austenite is composed of retained austenite grains that have an aspect ratio of 0.1 to 1.0, have a major axis length of 1.0 ?m to 28.0 ?m, and have a minor axis length of 0.1 ?m to 2.8 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri Toda, Eisaku Sakurada, Kunio Hayashi, Akihiro Uenishi
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Patent number: 11447848Abstract: A steel sheet wherein a steel structure of an inside of the steel sheet contains, by volume fraction, soft ferrite: 0% to 30%, retained austenite: 3% to 40%, fresh martensite: 0% to 30%, a sum of pearlite and cementite: 0% to 10%, and a remainder including hard ferrite. In the steel sheet, in a ? to ? thickness range, a proportion of retained austenite having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more is 50% or more, and a soft layer having a thickness of 1 to 100 ?m from a surface in a sheet thickness direction is present. When an emission intensity at a wavelength indicating Si is analyzed in the sheet thickness direction from the surface by a radio-frequency glow discharge analysis method, a peak of the emission intensity appears in a range of more than 0.2 ?m and 5.0 ?m or less from the surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Kohichi Sano, Riki Okamoto, Hiroyuki Kawata, Eisaku Sakurada, Yuji Yamaguchi, Kazuki Shiokawa, Yuichi Nakahira, Kohei Ueda, Masahiro Nakata, Satoshi Uchida
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Patent number: 11427900Abstract: A steel sheet includes a predetermined chemical composition and a metal structure represented by, in area fraction, ferrite: 50% to 95%, granular bainite: 5% to 48%, tempered martensite: 2% to 30%, upper bainite, lower bainite, fresh martensite, retained austenite, and pearlite: 5% or less in total, and the product of the area fraction of the tempered martensite and a Vickers hardness of the tempered martensite: 800 to 10500.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuya Nakano, Kunio Hayashi, Yuri Toda, Eisaku Sakurada, Akihiro Uenishi
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Patent number: 11377710Abstract: A steel sheet has a chemical composition with a steel structure containing, by volume fraction, soft ferrite: 0-30%, retained austenite: 3-40%, fresh martensite: 0-30%, pearlite and cementite: 0-10%, and a remainder including hard ferrite. In the steel sheet, a number proportion of retained austenite having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more in the total retained austenite is 50% or more, and a soft layer having a thickness of 1-100 ?m is present. In the soft layer, a volume fraction of ferrite grains having an aspect ratio of less than 3.0 is 50% or more, and a volume fraction of retained austenite is 50% or more of the volume fraction of the retained austenite of the inside of the steel sheet. A peak of an emission intensity at a wavelength indicating Si appears in a range of more than 0.2 ?m to 5 ?m or less from the surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Kohichi Sano, Riki Okamoto, Hiroyuki Kawata, Eisaku Sakurada, Yuji Yamaguchi, Kazuki Shiokawa, Yuichi Nakahira, Kohei Ueda, Masahiro Nakata, Satoshi Uchida
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Publication number: 20220186333Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes a predetermined chemical composition, a microstructure contains, by volume percentage, 95% or more of tempered martensite and bainite in total, and a remainder consists of ferrite and pearlite, the microstructure contains 5.0×109 pieces/mm or more of, per unit volume, precipitate having an equivalent circle diameter of 5.0 nm or less and containing Ti, Hvs/Hvc which is a ratio of an average hardness Hvs at a position of a depth of 20 ?m from a surface to an average hardness Hvc at a position of 0.20 to 0.50 mm from the surface is 0.85 or more, a tensile strength is 980 MPa or more, and a product of the tensile strength and elongation is 12,000 MPa×% or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi AZUMA, Eisaku SAKURADA, Genki ABUKAWA, Kenichiro OTSUKA, Takeshi TOYODA
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Publication number: 20220127691Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes a chemical composition including: by mass %, C: 0.080 to 0.500%, Si: 2.50% or less, Mn: 0.50 to 5.00%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.001 to 2.500%, N: 0.0150% or less, O: 0.0050% or less, and the balance: Fe and inevitable impurities. The high-strength steel sheet satisfying a predetermined formula has a microstructure in a region from ?t to ?t from a steel sheet surface. The microstructure includes: by volume %, 20% or more of acicular ferrite, 20% or more of an island-shaped hard structure including residual austenite, 2% to 25% of residual austenite, and 20% or less of aggregated ferrite.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2018Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki KAWATA, Eisaku SAKURADA, Kohichi SANO, Takafumi YOKOYAMA
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Publication number: 20220112574Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes a predetermined chemical composition, a microstructure contains, by volume percentage, 80% or more of tempered martensite, and a remainder consists of ferrite and bainite, the microstructure contains 5.0×1011 pieces/mm3 or more of, per unit volume, precipitate containing Ti and having an equivalent circle diameter of 5.0 nm or less, Hvs/Hvc which is a ratio of an average hardness Hvs at a position of a depth of 20 ?m from a surface to an average hardness Hvc at a position of 0.20 to 0.50 mm from the surface is 0.85 or more, and the tensile strength is 1,180 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi AZUMA, Eisaku SAKURADA, Genki ABUKAWA, Kenichiro OTSUKA, Takeshi TOYODA
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Patent number: 11208705Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet which is a steel sheet having a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more has a predetermined chemical component composition, a metallographic microstructure of the steel sheet contains, by area ratio, ferrite and granular bainite: 10% or more and 50% or less in total, one or both of upper bainite and lower bainite: 10% or more and 50% or less in total, tempered martensite: more than 0% and 30% or less, retained austenite: 5% or more, and one or more of pearlite, cementite, and martensite: 0% to 10% in total, and an area ratio of the ferrite with respect to a total area ratio of the ferrite and the granular bainite is 25% or less.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri Toda, Kunio Hayashi, Katsuya Nakano, Eisaku Sakurada, Akihiro Uenishi, Kengo Takeda
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Publication number: 20210340653Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet excellent in formability, toughness and weldability has a chemical composition including: by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.30%, Si: 2.50% or less, Mn: 0.50 to 3.50%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.001 to 2.500%, N: 0.0150% or less, O: 0.0050% or less, and the balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities. The high-strength steel sheet has a microstructure in a region from ?t (t: sheet thickness) to ?t (t: sheet thickness) from a steel sheet surface, the microstructure including: by volume %, acicular ferrite (3): 20% or more, and martensite (4):10% or more, aggregated ferrite: 20% or less, residual austenite: 2.0% or less, and the martensite satisfies a formula (A), ? i = 1 5 ? ? d i a i 1.5 ? 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2018Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki KAWATA, Eisaku SAKURADA, Kohichi SANO, Takafumi YOKOYAMA