Patents by Inventor Hidekazu Ookubo
Hidekazu Ookubo 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: 20170314108Abstract: A method of manufacturing a high strength steel sheet includes subjecting a steel having a chemical composition including C: 0.08% to 0.20%, Si: 0.3% or less, Mn: 0.1% to 3.0%, P: 0.10% or less, S: 0.030% or less, Al: 0.10% or less, N: 0.010% or less, V: 0.20% to 0.80%, and the remainder composed of Fe and incidental impurities on a percent by mass basis to a hot rolling process composed of heating, rough rolling, finish rolling, cooling, and coiling into the shape of a coil at a predetermined coiling temperature, wherein the heating is performed at a temperature of 1,100° C. or higher for 10 min or more, the rough rolling is performed at a finish rough rolling temperature of 1,000° C. or higher, the finish rolling is performed at a finishing temperature of 850° C. or higher, in which a reduction ratio in a temperature range of 1,000° C. or lower is 96% or less, a reduction ratio in a temperature range of 950° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Taro Kizu, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Hidekazu Ookubo, Tokunori Kanemura, Masato Shigemi, Shoji Kasai, Shinji Yamazaki, Yusuke Yasufuku
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Patent number: 9738960Abstract: The high strength steel sheet has a chemical composition including 0.08% to 0.20% of C, 0.3% or less of Si, 0.1% to 3.0% of Mn, 0.10% or less of P, 0.030% or less of S, 0.10% or less of Al, 0.010% or less of N, 0.20% to 0.80% of V, and the remainder composed of Fe and incidental impurities on a percent by mass basis, and a microstructure which includes 95% or more of ferrite phase on an area percentage basis, in which fine precipitates are dispersed having a distribution in such a way that the number density of precipitates having a particle size of less than 10 nm is 1.0×105/?m3 or more and the standard deviation of natural logarithm values of precipitate particle sizes with respect to precipitates having a particle size of less than 10 nm is 1.5 or less.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2013Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Taro Kizu, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Hidekazu Ookubo, Tokunori Kanemura, Masato Shigemi, Shoji Kasai, Shinji Yamazaki, Yusuke Yasufuku
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Patent number: 9534271Abstract: A semi-manufactured steel material has a chemical composition including, by mass %, C: 0.055% to 0.15%, Si: not more than 0.2%, Mn: not more than 1.3%, P: not more than 0.03%, S: not more than 0.007%, Al: not more than 0.1%, N: not more than 0.01%, and Ti: 0.14% to 0.30%, the balance comprising Fe and inevitable impurities. In the composition, 1.0?([C]/12)/([Ti*]/48) is satisfied ([C], [S], [N] and [Ti]: contents (mass %) of the respective elements, and [Ti*]=[Ti]?3.4×[N]?1.5×[S]), and the contents of niobium and boron as impurities are limited to Nb: less than 0.03% and B: less than 0.0005%.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2012Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Noriaki Kosaka, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Masato Shigemi, Hidekazu Ookubo, Tokunori Kanemura
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Publication number: 20150056468Abstract: The high strength steel sheet has a chemical composition including 0.08% to 0.20% of C, 0.3% or less of Si, 0.1% to 3.0% of Mn, 0.10% or less of P, 0.030% or less of S, 0.10% or less of Al, 0.010% or less of N, 0.20% to 0.80% of V, and the remainder composed of Fe and incidental impurities on a percent by mass basis, and a microstructure which includes 95% or more of ferrite phase on an area percentage basis, in which fine precipitates are dispersed having a distribution in such a way that the number density of precipitates having a particle size of less than 10 nm is 1.0×105/?m3 or more and the standard deviation of natural logarithm values of precipitate particle sizes with respect to precipitates having a particle size of less than 10 nm is 1.5 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Taro Kizu, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Hidekazu Ookubo, Tokunori Kanemura, Masato Shigemi, Shoji Kasai, Shinji Yamazaki, Yusuke Yasufuku
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Publication number: 20150030879Abstract: A semi-manufactured steel material has a chemical composition including, by mass %, C: 0.055% to 0.15%, Si: not more than 0.2%, Mn: not more than 1.3%, P: not more than 0.03%, S: not more than 0.007%, Al: not more than 0.1%, N: not more than 0.01%, and Ti: 0.14% to 0.30%, the balance comprising Fe and inevitable impurities. In the composition, 1.0 ([C]/12)/([Ti*]/48) is satisfied ([C], [S], [N] and [Ti]: contents (mass %) of the respective elements, and [Ti*]=[Ti]?3.4×[N]?1.5×[S]), and the contents of niobium and boron as impurities are limited to Nb: less than 0.03% and B: less than 0.0005%.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2012Publication date: January 29, 2015Inventors: Noriaki Kosaka, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Masato Shigemi, Hidekazu Ookubo, Tokunori Kanemura
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Publication number: 20150030880Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet having both excellent strength and excellent workability (particularly, bending workability), and a method of producing the same. The steel sheet of the present invention has a certain composition as well as microstructures such that an area ratio of ferrite phase is 95% or more, an average grain size of the ferrite phase is 8 ?m or less, and carbides in grains of the ferrite phase have an average particle size of less than 10 nm. The steel sheet of the present invention also has a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2013Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: JEF STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Noriaki Kosaka, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Masato Shigemi, Hidekazu Ookubo, Tokunori Kanemura
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Patent number: 8071018Abstract: A high carbon hot-rolled steel sheet which is a hot-rolled spheroidizing annealed material, including 0.2 to 0.7% C, 2% or less Si, 2% or less Mn, 0.03% or less P, 0.03% or less S, 0.08% or less Sol.Al., and 0.01% or less N, by mass, which contains carbide having a particle size of smaller than 0.5 ?m in a content of 15% or less by volume to the total amount of carbide, and the difference between the maximum hardness Hv max and the minimum hardness Hv min, ?Hv (=Hv max?Hv min), in the sheet thickness direction being 10 or smaller.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2010Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Nobusuke Kariya, Norio Kanamoto, Hidekazu Ookubo, Yoshiharu Kusumoto, Takeshi Fujita
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Patent number: 8052812Abstract: A high carbon cold-rolled steel sheet having both excellent stretch-flange formability and excellent homogeneity of hardness in the sheet thickness direction is provided by a manufacturing method having the steps of: hot-rolling a steel containing 0.2 to 0.7% C by mass at finishing temperatures of (Ar3 transformation point ?20° C.) or above to prepare a hot-rolled sheet; cooling the hot-rolled sheet to temperatures of 650° C. or below at cooling rates from 60° C./s or larger to smaller than 120° C./s; coiling the hot-rolled sheet after cooling at coiling temperatures of 600° C. or below; cold-rolling the coiled hot-rolled sheet at rolling reductions of 30% or more to prepare a cold-rolled sheet; and annealing the cold-rolled sheet at annealing temperatures from 600° C. or larger to Ac1 transformation point or lower.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2006Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Nobusuke Kariya, Norio Kanamoto, Hidekazu Ookubo, Yoshiharu Kusumoto, Takeshi Fujita
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Publication number: 20100266441Abstract: A high carbon hot-rolled steel sheet which is a hot-rolled spheroidizing annealed material, including 0.2 to 0.7% C, 2% or less Si, 2% or less Mn, 0.03% or less P, 0.035 or less S, 0.08% or less Sol.Al., and 0.01% or less N, by mass, which contains carbide having a particle size of smaller than 0.5 ?m in a content of 15% or less by volume to the total amount of carbide, and the difference between the maximum hardness Hv max and the minimum hardness Hv min, ?Hv (=Hv max?Hv min), in the sheet thickness direction being 10 or smaller.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2010Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Nobusuke Kariya, Norio Kanamoto, Hidekazu Ookubo, Yoshiharu Kusumoto, Takeshi Fujita
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Publication number: 20090126836Abstract: A high carbon hot-rolled steel sheet, as a hot-rolled spheroidizing annealed material, having both excellent stretch-flange formability and excellent homogeneity of hardness in the sheet thickness direction is provided by a manufacturing method having the steps of: hot-rolling a steel containing 0.2 to 0.7% C by mass at finishing temperatures of (Ar3 transformation point?20° C.) or above to prepare a hot-rolled sheet; cooling the hot-rolled sheet to temperatures of 650° C. or below at cooling rates from 60° C./s or larger to smaller than 120° C./s; coiling the hot-rolled sheet after cooling at coiling temperatures of 600° C. or below; and annealing the coiled hot-rolled sheet at annealing temperatures from 640° C. or larger to Ac1 transformation point or lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2006Publication date: May 21, 2009Inventors: Nobusuke Kariya, Norio Kanamoto, Hidekazu Ookubo, Yoshiharu Kusumoto, Takeshi Fujita
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Publication number: 20090095382Abstract: A high carbon cold-rolled steel sheet having both excellent stretch-flange formability and excellent homogeneity of hardness in the sheet thickness direction is provided by a manufacturing method having the steps of: hot-rolling a steel containing 0.2 to 0.7% C by mass at finishing temperatures of (Ar3 transformation point ?20° C.) or above to prepare a hot-rolled sheet; cooling the hot-rolled sheet to temperatures of 650° C. or below at cooling rates from 60° C./s or larger to smaller than 120° C./s; coiling the hot-rolled sheet after cooling at coiling temperatures of 600° C. or below; cold-rolling the coiled hot-rolled sheet at rolling reductions of 30% or more to prepare a cold-rolled sheet; and annealing the cold-rolled sheet at annealing temperatures from 600° C. or larger to Ac1 transformation point or lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2006Publication date: April 16, 2009Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Nobusuke Kariya, Norio Kanamoto, Hidekazu Ookubo, Yoshiharu Kusumoto, Takeshi Fujita