Patents by Inventor Fumiaki Takahashi

Fumiaki Takahashi 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: 11898215
    Abstract: The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present invention is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a base steel sheet (1), an intermediate layer (4) disposed to be in contact with the base steel sheet (1), and an insulation coating (3) disposed to be in contact with the intermediate layer (4), and the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a surface of the base steel sheet (1) having a groove (G) which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction of the base steel sheet (1), in which in a cross-sectional view of a plane parallel to the rolling direction and a sheet thickness direction of the base steel sheet (1), when a region between end portions of the groove (G) is defined as a groove part (RG), an average thickness of the intermediate layer (4) of the groove part (RG) is 0.5 times or more and 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Ushigami, Shinji Yamamoto, Fumiaki Takahashi, Hideyuki Hamamura, Shinsuke Takatani, Masaru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11869697
    Abstract: When joining end faces of a plurality of soft magnetic sheets which are superposed in the sheet thickness direction and which are bent at parts forming corner areas of a core, offset of positions of the end faces from the desired positions is suppressed. In a region of a window part comprised of a region inside of a first part 110 and second part 120, a third part 130 with a length in a longitudinal direction (X-axial direction) the same as a length in the X-axial direction of the window part at the position where the third part 130 is arranged is arranged so as to contact the region of the inner circumferential surface between the first corner area 101 and third corner area 103.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahito Mizumura, Masato Mizokami, Fumiaki Takahashi, Hisashi Mogi
  • Patent number: 11742140
    Abstract: Provided is a wound core formed by laminating a plurality of bent bodies obtained by forming a coated grain-oriented electrical steel sheet in which a coating is formed on at least one surface of a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet so that the coating is on an outside, in a sheet thickness direction, in which the bent body has a bent region obtained by bending the coated grain-oriented electrical steel sheet and a flat region adjacent to the bent region, the number of deformation twins present in the bent region in a side view is five or less per 1 mm of a length of a center line in the sheet thickness direction in the bent region, and when a region extending 40 times a sheet thickness to both sides in a circumferential direction from a center of the bent region on an outer circumferential surface of the bent body is defined as a strain affected region, a proportion of an area where the coating is not damaged at any position along the circumferential direction in a flat region within the strain affected r
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahito Mizumura, Masato Mizokami, Hisashi Mogi, Fumiaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11697856
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present invention includes a base steel sheet having plural grooves on a surface and a glass film formed on the surface of the base steel sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiaki Takahashi, Hideyuki Hamamura, Satoshi Arai
  • Patent number: 11680302
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a chemical composition represented by, in mass %, Si: 2.0% to 5.0%, Mn: 0.03% to 0.12%, Cu: 0.10% to 1.00%, sb or Sn, or both thereof: 0.000% to 0.3% in total, Cr: 0% to 0.3%, P: 0% to 0.5%, Ni: 0% to 1%, and the balance: Fe and impurities, in which an L-direction average diameter of crystal grains observed on a surface of the steel sheet in an L direction parallel to a rolling direction is equal to or more than 3.0 times a C-direction average diameter in a C direction vertical to the rolling direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimura, Fumiaki Takahashi, Takashi Kataoka
  • Patent number: 11651878
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present invention has a steel sheet surface provided with grooves and includes two or more broken lines including the grooves having a length of 5 to 10 mm on a straight line intersecting a rolling direction on the steel sheet surface. In each of the broken lines including the grooves, the grooves are arranged at equal intervals, and a ratio of the length of the groove to a length of a non-groove is in a range of 1:1 to 1.5:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Mogi, Fumiaki Takahashi, Hideyuki Hamamura, Satoshi Arai
  • Publication number: 20220199320
    Abstract: Provided is a wound core formed by laminating a plurality of bent bodies obtained by forming a coated grain-oriented electrical steel sheet in which a coating is formed on at least one surface of a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet so that the coating is on an outside, in a sheet thickness direction, in which the bent body has a bent region obtained by bending the coated grain-oriented electrical steel sheet and a flat region adjacent to the bent region, the number of deformation twins present in the bent region in a side view is five or less per 1 mm of a length of a center line in the sheet thickness direction in the bent region, and when a region extending 40 times a sheet thickness to both sides in a circumferential direction from a center of the bent region on an outer circumferential surface of the bent body is defined as a strain affected region, a proportion of an area where the coating is not damaged at any position along the circumferential direction in a flat region within the strain affected r
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahito MIZUMURA, Masato MIZOKAMI, Hisashi MOGI, Fumiaki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220145472
    Abstract: A coating agent for forming a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet coating able to form an aluminum borate coating high in adhesion and large in tension and a method for manufacturing the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet are provided. The coating agent for forming a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet coating of the present invention comprises an aluminum source containing aluminum oxide and/or an aluminum oxide precursor compound, a boron source containing a borate of an alkali metal, and silicon oxide and/or a silicon oxide precursor in an amount, converted to silicon oxide, of 5 mass % or more and 10 mass % or less with respect to a total solids concentration of the aluminum source and boron source, the aluminum source and the boron source contained so that, by molar ratio, Al/B: 0.5 to 2.0, a solids concentration of a total of the aluminum source and the boron source being 20 mass % or more and 38 mass % or less, and pH being 2.0 or more and 6.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fumiaki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220106658
    Abstract: The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present invention is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a base steel sheet (1), an intermediate layer (4) disposed to be in contact with the base steel sheet (1), and an insulation coating (3) disposed to be in contact with the intermediate layer (4), and the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a surface of the base steel sheet (1) having a groove (G) which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction of the base steel sheet (1), in which in a cross-sectional view of a plane parallel to the rolling direction and a sheet thickness direction of the base steel sheet (1), when a region between end portions of the groove (G) is defined as a groove part (RG), an average thickness of the intermediate layer (4) of the groove part (RG) is 0.5 times or more and 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki USHIGAMI, Shinji YAMAMOTO, Fumiaki TAKAHASHI, Hideyuki HAMAMURA, Shinsuke TAKATANI, Masaru TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220056585
    Abstract: Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having an aluminum borate coating able to impart larger tension that the past and a method for manufacturing grain-oriented electrical steel sheet are formed. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present invention has a steel sheet and an insulating coating formed on the steel sheet and containing aluminum and boron, where the oxides contain crystalline oxides and a maximum value of an emission intensity ratio of boron with respect to aluminum at an interface between the insulating coating and the steel sheet, analyzed by glow discharge optical emission spectrometry, is 2.5 times or more and 4.0 times or less of the emission intensity ratio of boron with respect to aluminum in the insulating coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fumiaki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20210327631
    Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic core and transformer which are reduced in core loss. The magnetic core according to the present invention comprises a core member which is formed by winding first electrical steel sheets, which is ring shaped seen from a side surface, and which has one or more bent parts seen from a side surface and one or more stacks of second electrical steel sheets stacked together, each the stack being arranged at least at one of the surfaces formed by side surfaces of the first electrical steel sheets at a bent part of the core member so that a surface formed by side surfaces of the second electrical steel sheets runs along it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi MOGI, Takahito MIZUMURA, Fumiaki TAKAHASHI, Teruyuki TAMAKI
  • Publication number: 20210319943
    Abstract: When joining end faces of a plurality of soft magnetic sheets which are superposed in the sheet thickness direction and which are bent at parts forming corner areas of a core, offset of positions of the end faces from the desired positions is suppressed. In a region of a window part comprised of a region inside of a first part 110 and second part 120, a third part 130 with a length in a longitudinal direction (X-axial direction) the same as a length in the X-axial direction of the window part at the position where the third part 130 is arranged is arranged so as to contact the region of the inner circumferential surface between the first corner area 101 and third corner area 103.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahito MIZUMURA, Masato MIZOKAMI, Fumiaki TAKAHASHI, Hisashi MOGI
  • Publication number: 20210082606
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present invention has a steel sheet surface provided with grooves and includes two or more broken lines including the grooves having a length of 5 to 10 mm on a straight line intersecting a rolling direction on the steel sheet surface. In each of the broken lines including the grooves, the grooves are arranged at equal intervals, and a ratio of the length of the groove to a length of a non-groove is in a range of 1:1 to 1.5:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi MOGI, Fumiaki TAKAHASHI, Hideyuki HAMAMURA, Satoshi ARAI
  • Patent number: 10906134
    Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including a steel sheet having a steel sheet surface in which a groove, which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction and of which a groove depth direction matches a sheet thickness direction, is formed. In a case where the steel sheet surface is seen from the sheet thickness direction, the steel sheet surface is provided with a groove group that is constituted by a plurality of the grooves arranged in a sheet width direction, the grooves, which constitute the groove group, are arranged in such a manner that adjacent grooves overlap each other on a projection plane perpendicular to the rolling direction, and a plurality of the groove groups are arranged with an interval in the rolling direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Hamamura, Tatsuhiko Sakai, Hisashi Mogi, Fumiaki Takahashi, Hirofumi Imai, Shunsuke Okumura
  • Patent number: 10907234
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a chemical composition represented by, in mass %, Si: 1.8% to 7.0%, Cu: 0.03% to 0.60%, and the balance: Fe and impurities; and a primary coating film containing forsterite on a surface of the steel sheet, in which a Cu/Fe light-emitting intensity ratio at an interface region between the primary coating film and the surface of the steel sheet is 0.30 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimura, Fumiaki Takahashi, Takashi Kataoka
  • Patent number: 10886055
    Abstract: A wound core is formed by laminating a plurality of bent bodies formed from a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a coating containing phosphorus formed on a surface, in a sheet thickness direction of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, in which the bent body is formed in a rectangular shape by having four flat portions and four corner portions adjacent to the flat portions, the corner portion has a bent region having a total bending angle of approximately 90° in a side view, the number of deformation twins present in the bent region in the side view is five or less per 1 mm of a length of a center line in the bent region in the sheet thickness direction, and the amount of phosphorus eluted from the corner portion in a case of being boiled in water for 30 minutes is 6.0 mg or less per 1 m2 of a surface area of the corner portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahito Mizumura, Masato Mizokami, Masao Yabumoto, Toshihiko Uemura, Eisuke Minematsu, Fumiaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200362431
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present invention includes a base steel sheet having plural grooves on a surface and a glass film formed on the surface of the base steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiaki TAKAHASHI, Hideyuki HAMAMURA, Satoshi ARAI
  • Patent number: 10789716
    Abstract: An apparatus captures an image of a measuring instrument that is captured by an imaging apparatus, sets an area in the image as an edge detection processing target in response to a user operation, and executes edge detection processing on the set area in the image. Further, the image processing apparatus sets a value for correcting a position of a detected edge portion. The image processing apparatus corrects the position of the detected edge portion based on the set value and calculates a value indicated by a pointer of the measuring instrument according to the corrected position of the edge portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chiaki Mikawa, Yosato Hitaka, Fumiaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10675714
    Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including a steel sheet having a steel sheet surface in which a groove, which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction and of which a groove depth direction matches a sheet thickness direction, is formed. An average depth D of the groove is greater than 10 ?m and equal to or less than 40 ?m in a case where the groove is seen on a groove-width-direction cross-section that is perpendicular to a groove extension direction, when a center of the groove in the groove width direction is defined as a groove width center, a deepest portion of the groove deviates from the groove width center toward one side in the groove width direction, and a cross-sectional shape of the groove is asymmetric with respect to the groove width center as a reference in the groove width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Sakai, Hideyuki Hamamura, Hisashi Mogi, Fumiaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10662491
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a steel sheet having a surface on which grooves, in which an extending direction crosses a rolling direction and a depth direction is parallel to a sheet thickness direction, are formed, and wherein a molten solidified substance ranging in parallel to the groove exists on both sides of the groove on the surface of the steel sheet, and a height becoming a maximum frequency in a height distribution of height data in which the surface of the steel sheet in a specific area including the groove is measured at regular intervals is set as a virtual plane, and a value of V2/V1 is more than 0.10 and less than 0.80, wherein V1 is a space volume of recess parts recessed from the virtual plane and V2 is a volume of projection parts projected from the virtual plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahito Mizumura, Fumiaki Takahashi, Masato Mizokami, Hisashi Mogi, Hideyuki Hamamura, Hirofumi Imai, Shinya Hayashi, Kenichi Murakami