Patents by Inventor Genki ABUKAWA

Genki ABUKAWA 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: 20230295760
    Abstract: This high-strength steel sheet contains predetermined chemical components, in a range from a surface to 1/10 of a sheet thickness in a sheet thickness direction, an average pole density of an orientation group 1 that is an orientation group expressed by ?1=0° to 90°, ?=50° to 60° and ?2=45° in terms of an Euler angle is 1.5 or less, an average pole density of an orientation group 2 that is an orientation group expressed by ?1=450 to 85°, ?=85° to 90° and ?2=45° in terms of the Euler angle is 1.5 or more, an S value that indicates a degree of randomness of surface properties is 7.5 or less, an E value that indicates a degree of concentration of the surface properties is 0.04 or more, and a tensile strength is 590 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Genki ABUKAWA, Hiroyuki TANAKA, Masafumi AZUMA, Kazumasa TSUTSUI
  • Publication number: 20230140766
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eisaku SAKURADA, Takashi YASUTOMI, Genki ABUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230107809
    Abstract: This hot-rolled steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, the microstructure includes, by volume percentage, 70% or more of martensite, tempered martensite, and bainite in total and 5% to 20% of residual austenite, in a surface layer region that is a range from a surface to a position at 1/10 of a sheet thickness, a sum of an average pole density of an orientation group consisting of {211}<111> to {111}<112> and a pole density of a crystal orientation of {110}<001> is 6.0 or less, a concentration of solid solution carbon in the residual austenite is 0.5 mass % or more, and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Genki ABUKAWA, Masafumi AZUMA, Shohei YABU
  • Publication number: 20230097055
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eisaku SAKURADA, Takashi YASUTOMI, Genki ABUKAWA
  • Patent number: 11591675
    Abstract: Steel sheet low in cost and improved in fatigue characteristics without causing a drop in the cold formability, characterized in that it comprises an inner layer and a hard layer on one or both surfaces of the inner layer, a thickness of the hard layer is 20 ?m or more and 40% or less of the thickness of the steel sheet, an average micro-Vickers hardness of the hard layer is 240 HV or more and less than 400 HV, an amount of C of the hard layer is 0.4 mass % or less, an amount of N is 0.02 mass % or less, a variation of hardness measured by a nanoindenter at a depth of 10 from the surface of the hard layer is a standard deviation of 2.0 or less, an average micro-Vickers hardness of the inner layer is 80 HV or more and less than 400 HV, a volume rate of carbides contained in the inner layer is less than 2.00%, and the average micro-Vickers hardness of the hard layer is 1.05 times or more the average micro-Vickers hardness of the inner layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Takeda, Riki Okamoto, Kazuo Hikida, Katsuya Nakano, Yuya Suzuki, Genki Abukawa
  • Publication number: 20230002848
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Genki ABUKAWA, Masafumi AZUMA, Eisaku SAKURADA, Shohei YABU
  • Publication number: 20220389545
    Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet includes, as chemical composition, C, Si, Mn, and sol.Al. In the hot-rolled steel sheet, an average of pole densities in crystal orientation group consisting of {110}<110> to {110}<001> in surface region is 0.5 to 3.0, a standard deviation of the pole densities in the crystal orientation group is 0.2 to 2.0, and the tensile strength is 780 to 1370 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei YABU, Kunio HAYASHI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Marina MORI, Naoki INOUE, Genki ABUKAWA
  • Patent number: 11505846
    Abstract: A blank material is formed from a steel sheet, a first quenching of the blank material is performed, and a second quenching of the blank material is performed after the first quenching. When the first quenching is performed, the blank material is heated to a first temperature of not lower than (Ac3 point—50)° C. nor higher than 1200° C. at an average heating rate of 2° C./sec or more, and the blank material is cooled from the first temperature to a second temperature of 250° C. or lower. When the second quenching is performed, the blank material is heated from the second temperature to a third temperature of not lower than (Ac3 point—50)° C. nor higher than 1200° C. at an average heating rate of 2° C./sec or more, and the blank material is cooled from the third temperature to a fourth temperature of 250° C. or lower. Forming of the blank material is performed in the first quenching or the second quenching or both of the above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Genki Abukawa, Kunio Hayashi, Kazuo Hikida, Kaoru Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 11408046
    Abstract: High strength steel sheet having a tensile strength of 800 MPa or more comprising a middle part in sheet thickness and a soft surface layer arranged at one side or both sides of the middle part in sheet thickness, wherein each soft surface layer has a thickness of more than 10 ?M and 30% or less of the sheet thickness, the soft surface layer has an average Vickers hardness of more than 0.60 time and 0.90 time or less the average Vickers hardness of the sheet thickness 1/2 position, and the soft surface layer has a nano-hardness standard deviation of 0.8 or less is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya Suzuki, Katsuya Nakano, Genki Abukawa, Kunio Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11408045
    Abstract: There is provided a steel sheet including an inner layer and a hard layer formed on one or both surfaces of the inner layer, wherein each content of C and Mn in the hard layer is more than each content of C and Mn in the inner layer, a thickness of the hard layer is 20 ?m or more and a total of the thickness of the hard layer is ? or less of the entire sheet thickness, an average micro-Vickers hardness of the hard layer is 400 HV or more and less than 800 HV, an average micro-Vickers hardness of the inner layer is 350 HV or more and is 50 HV or more smaller than a hardness of the hard layer, and a screw dislocation density of the inner layer is 2.0×1013 m/m3 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Takeda, Riki Okamoto, Kazuo Hikida, Katsuya Nakano, Yuya Suzuki, Genki Abukawa
  • Publication number: 20220195554
    Abstract: A high strength steel sheet according to the present invention contains a predetermined chemical composition, in a metallographic structure, the total area ratio of tempered martensite and bainite is 80% or more, at a sheet thickness ¼ position of a cross section parallel to a rolling direction and perpendicular to a rolled surface, the standard deviation of number densities of precipitates having a diameter of 10 nm or less and including one or both of Ti and Nb is less than 5×1010 numbers/mm3, and the tensile strength is 780 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Genki ABUKAWA, Hiroshi SHUTO
  • Publication number: 20220186333
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi AZUMA, Eisaku SAKURADA, Genki ABUKAWA, Kenichiro OTSUKA, Takeshi TOYODA
  • Publication number: 20220177995
    Abstract: A high strength steel sheet according to the present invention contains a predetermined chemical composition, a metallographic structure includes, by an area ratio, ferrite: 20% to 70%, residual austenite: 5% to 40%, fresh martensite: 0% to 30%, tempered martensite and bainite: 20% to 75% in total, and pearlite and cementite: 0% to 10% in total, in a range of a ? thickness to a ? thickness from a surface, a number proportion of residual austenite having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more with respect to the number of all residual austenite is 50% or more, at a sheet thickness ¼ position of a cross section parallel to a rolling direction and perpendicular to the surface, a standard deviation of area ratios of ferrite measured at 10 points every 50 mm along a width direction is less than 10%, and a tensile strength is 780 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Genki ABUKAWA, Hiroshi SHUTO
  • Publication number: 20220112574
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi AZUMA, Eisaku SAKURADA, Genki ABUKAWA, Kenichiro OTSUKA, Takeshi TOYODA
  • Publication number: 20220090228
    Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet according to the present invention includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %: C: 0.030% to 0.250%; Si: 0.05% to 2.50%; Mn: 1.00% to 4.00%; Sol. Al: 0.001% to 2.000%; P: 0.100% or less; S: 0.0200% or less; N: 0.01000% or less; Ti: 0% to 0.20%; Nb: 0% to 0.20; B: 0% to 0.010%; V: 0% to 1.0%; Cr: 0% to 1.0%; Mo: 0% to 1.0%; Cu: 0% to 1.0%; Co: 0% to 1.0%; W: 0% to 1.0%; Ni: 0% to 1.0%; Ca: 0% to 0.01%; Mg: 0% to 0.01%; REM: 0% to 0.01%; Zr: 0% to 0.01%; and a remainder consisting of Fe and impurities, in which an area ratio of a scale damage portion, which is a portion lower than an average height of a surface of the steel sheet by 10 ?m or more, is 20% or less, and a tensile strength of the hot-rolled steel sheet is 780 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Genki ABUKAWA, Hiroshi SHUTO, Kenta MORISAWA, Shohei YABU
  • Patent number: 11261505
    Abstract: High strength steel sheet having a tensile strength of 800 MPa or more comprising a middle part in sheet thickness and a soft surface layer arranged at one side or both sides of the middle part in sheet thickness, wherein each soft surface layer has a thickness of more than 10 ?m and 30% or less of the sheet thickness, the soft surface layer has an average Vickers hardness of 0.60 time or less the average Vickers hardness of the sheet thickness ½ position, and the soft surface layer has a nano-hardness standard deviation of 0.8 or less is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya Nakano, Yuya Suzuki, Genki Abukawa, Kunio Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20220042147
    Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet according to the present invention has a predetermined chemical composition, in which, when a height profile of a surface of the hot-rolled steel sheet is measured in each of five measurement ranges in a rolling direction and a direction perpendicular to the rolling direction, a distance in a height direction from an average height position which is an average of a height position of a point having a highest height position and a height position of a recessed part which is a point having a lowest height position to the recessed part is indicated as R1 (?m) in each of the height profiles, and an average of heights of two measurement points away from the recessed part in the rolling direction or the direction perpendicular to the rolling direction by 5 ?m is indicated as R2 (?m), an average value of radii of curvature r represented by Expression (1) is 10 ?m or more, and a tensile strength of the hot-rolled steel sheet is 500 MPa or more. r=(25+|R2?R1|2)/2|R2?R1| . . .
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHUTO, Genki ABUKAWA, Akifumi SAKAKIBARA, Jun ANDO, Tetsu ASATO, Shota ENDO
  • Publication number: 20210404040
    Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet includes, as chemical composition, C, Si, Mn, and sol.Al. In the hot-rolled steel sheet, a sum of an average of pole densities in a crystal orientation group consisting of {211}<111> to {111}<112> and a pole density in a crystal orientation of {110}<001> is 0.5 to 6.0 in the surface region, and the tensile strength is 780 to 1370 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Genki ABUKAWA, Shohei YABU
  • Patent number: 11027522
    Abstract: A steel sheet for hot stamping includes a steel structure represented by an area fraction of bainite, fresh martensite and tempered martensite: 80% or more in total, and a product of a number density (pieces/?m2) of carbides and a proportion of carbides precipitated into prior austenite grains in carbides: 0.50 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Genki Abukawa, Kunio Hayashi, Kazuo Hikida, Kaoru Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 10858719
    Abstract: A steel sheet including an inner layer and a hard layer at one or both surfaces of the inner layer wherein the hard layer and the inner layer have predetermined compositions, each hard layer has a thickness of 20 ?m or more and ? of the total sheet thickness or less, the hard layer has an average micro-Vickers hardness of 400 HV or more and less than 700 HV, the hard layer has an N amount of 0.02% or less, the inner layer has an average micro-Vickers hardness of 80 HV or more and less than 400 HV, the inner layer has a carbide volume ratio of less than 2.00%, and the hard layer has a nanohardness standard deviation of 2.00 or less is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Takeda, Riki Okamoto, Katsuya Nakano, Yuya Suzuki, Genki Abukawa