Patents by Inventor Hideyuki Kimura

Hideyuki Kimura 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: 12590344
    Abstract: After low-temperature finish rolling has been performed on a steel material having a certain chemical composition, cooling is performed at an average cooling rate of 10° C./s or higher to a temperature of 500° C., rapid cooling is further performed in a temperature range from a Ms temperature to a temperature of (Ms temperature-200° C.), coiling is thereafter performed in a low temperature range of 250° C. or lower, and the coiled steel sheet is uncoiled and further subjected to rolling with a certain amount or more of rolling load per unit width and the like. Consequently, it is possible to obtain a high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet having a microstructure including, in terms of area fraction, 95% or more of a martensite phase at a position located at ¼ of the thickness of the steel sheet, in which an average aspect ratio of prior austenite grains is 3.0 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hideyuki Kimura, Noriaki Moriyasu, Sota Goto
  • Publication number: 20260078462
    Abstract: A steel sheet is disclosed. A related member, and methods for manufacturing them are also disclosed. The steel sheet has a specific chemical composition and a specific steel microstructure and is such that the total area fraction of quenched martensite and retained austenite each having an aspect ratio of 3 or less and an equivalent circular diameter of 2.0 ?m or more is 20% or less relative to the total area fraction of quenched martensite and retained austenite, and the area fraction of a C-enriched region with a C concentration of 0.5 mass % or more (Sc?0.5) is 20% or less relative to the entire microstructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 19, 2026
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATON
    Inventors: Tadachika CHIBA, Hideyuki KIMURA, Yuma HONDA, Yoichiro MATSUI, Kotomi NOGUCHI, Shuto OZONO
  • Patent number: 12392006
    Abstract: The high-strength steel sheet has a chemical composition with MSC value in the range of 2.7% to 3.8% by mass defined by a specific formula, wherein the high-strength steel sheet has a microstructure including specific microstructures in a surface layer region extending from the surface of the steel sheet to a depth of 100 ?m and in an inner region other than the surface layer region. The high-strength steel sheet has the maximum height of the surface roughness of 30 ?m or less, a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more, a uniform elongation of 6% or more, and a ratio of 107-cycle plane bending fatigue strength to tensile strength (fatigue limit ratio) of 0.45 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2025
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Thi Huyen Doan, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hideyuki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20250188558
    Abstract: Provided is a steel sheet having a chemical composition with Si content of 1.0 mass % or less, where there is little concern about LME cracking, that simultaneously achieves a TS of 1470 MPa or more, excellent formability, and excellent delayed fracture resistance. The steel sheet has a defined chemical composition, a complex microstructure consisting mainly of martensite and bainite, the maximum size of carbides inside martensite is 400 nm or less, a number density of bainite is 120×10?4/?m2 or more, and a number ratio of bainite having an aspect ratio of 1.8 or more is 60% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shimpei YOSHIOKA, Katsuya HATA, Hideyuki KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20250179603
    Abstract: Provided is a steel sheet that simultaneously achieves a strength of TS: 1310 MPa or more and excellent formability. The steel sheet has a defined chemical composition and a complex structure consisting mainly of martensite and bainite, where carbides in the grains of martensite and bainite are 5% or more and 25% or less, and the dispersion interval of carbides satisfies Expression (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shimpei YOSHIOKA, Hideyuki KIMURA, Yuma HONDA
  • Publication number: 20250179602
    Abstract: Provided is a steel sheet that simultaneously achieves a strength of TS: 1310 MPa or more and excellent delayed fracture resistance. The steel sheet has a defined chemical composition and a complex structure consisting mainly of martensite and bainite, where carbides in the grains of martensite and bainite are 5% or more and 25% or less, the average circle equivalent diameter of carbides is 10 nm or more and 80 nm or less, and the particle size distribution of carbides satisfies Expression (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shimpei YOSHIOKA, Hideyuki KIMURA, Yuma HONDA
  • Publication number: 20240254584
    Abstract: A high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet according to the present invention has a specific chemical composition and a steel microstructure including, as main phases, 80% to 100% of martensite and bainite in terms of total area fraction. An entire area fraction of the martensite dispersed in the bainite is 2% to 20%. Among the martensite dispersed in the bainite, an area fraction of martensite each having an orientation difference of less than 15° between a crystal orientation of the martensite and a crystal orientation of at least one of bainite adjacent to the martensite is 50% or more relative to the whole martensite dispersed in the bainite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hideyuki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20240247332
    Abstract: A high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet according to the present invention has a specific chemical composition and a steel microstructure including, as main phases, 80% to 100% of martensite and bainite in terms of total area fraction. An entire area fraction of the martensite dispersed in the bainite is 2% to 20%. Among the martensite dispersed in the bainite, an area fraction of martensite each having an orientation difference of 15° or more between a crystal orientation of the martensite and a crystal orientation of at least one of bainite adjacent to the martensite is more than 50% relative to the whole martensite dispersed in the bainite. When regions surrounded by boundaries between adjacent crystals having an orientation difference of 15° or more are defined as crystal grains, an average aspect ratio of the crystal grains present in a region extending from a surface of the steel sheet to a depth of 5 ?m is 2.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hideyuki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20240167114
    Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.10% or less, Si: 2.0% or less, Mn: 2.0% or less, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 1.5% or less, and O: 0.0025% or less, the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, in which a main phase is ferrite, and a maximum orientation density of grains is 2.1 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hideyuki Kimura, Yukio Tatara
  • Publication number: 20240167129
    Abstract: A high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.02% to 0.23%, Si: 0.10% to 3.00%, Mn: 0.5% to 3.5%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.02% or less, and Al: 1.5% or less, the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, in which the total area fraction of martensite and bainite is 80% to 100%, the maximum orientation density of grains is less than 2.5 in a region extending from a position of 5 ?m to a position of 10 ?m from a surface in the thickness direction, and the maximum orientation density of grains is 2.5 or more in a region extending from a position of 50 ?m to a position of 100 ?m from the surface in the thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hideyuki Kimura, Takanori Umino, Noriaki Moriyasu
  • Publication number: 20240158881
    Abstract: The high-strength steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition and has a microstructure containing a specific microstructure in a surface layer region and in an inner region. The surface layer region has an average grain size of 6 ?m or less. A difference between a hardness of the surface layer region extending from the surface of the steel sheet to the position of one-tenth of the thickness of the steel sheet and a hardness of the inner region is 5% or more and 15% or less of [0.3×tensile strength (MPa)], and the steel sheet has a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more, a uniform elongation of 6% or more, and a ratio of a critical bending radius to a thickness of 1.5 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Thi Huyen Doan, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hideyuki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20240141452
    Abstract: The high-strength steel sheet has a chemical composition with MSC value in the range of 2.7% to 3.8% by mass defined by a specific formula, wherein the high-strength steel sheet has a microstructure including specific microstructures in a surface layer region extending from the surface of the steel sheet to a depth of 100 ?m and in an inner region other than the surface layer region. The high-strength steel sheet has the maximum height of the surface roughness of 30 ?m or less, a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more, a uniform elongation of 6% or more, and a ratio of 107-cycle plane bending fatigue strength to tensile strength (fatigue limit ratio) of 0.45 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Thi Huyen Doan, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hideyuki Kimura
  • Patent number: 11763728
    Abstract: There are provided an image display device, a display control method, and a cradle that are capable of adjusting display image quality with a simple configuration. An image display device according to the present embodiment includes a tablet terminal having a display, a cradle holding the tablet terminal, and an optical sensor provided on the cradle and capable of receiving display light from the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Makoto Kitou, Hiroshi Takeshita
  • Publication number: 20230140191
    Abstract: After low-temperature finish rolling has been performed on a steel material having a certain chemical composition, cooling is performed at an average cooling rate of 10° C./s or higher to a temperature of 500° C., rapid cooling is further performed in a temperature range from a Ms temperature to a temperature of (Ms temperature - 200° C.), coiling is thereafter performed in a low temperature range of 250° C. or lower, and the coiled steel sheet is uncoiled and further subjected to rolling with a certain amount or more of rolling load per unit width and the like. Consequently, it is possible to obtain a high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet having a microstructure including, in terms of area fraction, 95% or more of a martensite phase at a position located at ¼ of the thickness of the steel sheet, in which an average aspect ratio of prior austenite grains is 3.0 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hideyuki Kimura, Noriaki Moriyasu, Sota Goto
  • Publication number: 20220301485
    Abstract: There are provided an image display device, a display control method, and a cradle that are capable of adjusting display image quality with a simple configuration. An image display device according to the present embodiment includes a tablet terminal having a display, a cradle holding the tablet terminal, and an optical sensor provided on the cradle and capable of receiving display light from the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Hideyuki KIMURA, Makoto KITOU, Hiroshi TAKESHITA
  • Patent number: 11401594
    Abstract: Provided are a hot-rolled steel sheet for coiled tubing and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a yield strength of 480 MPa or more, a tensile strength of 600 MPa or more, a yield-strength difference (?YS) of 100 MPa or more, where the yield-strength difference is defined as a difference in yield strength between before and after a prestrain-heat treatment performed for simulation of a tube-making process and a stress-relief annealing heat treatment which are currently implemented, and a yield strength of 620 MPa or more after the prestrain-heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Shuji Kawamura, Ichiro Sugimoto, Makoto Asai, Takeshi Yokota
  • Patent number: 11390931
    Abstract: A hot-rolled steel plate has a predetermined chemical composition and a microstructure. In the microstructure, in a plate thickness 1/2 position, an area fraction of martensite is less than 3%, an area fraction of bainitic ferrite is 95% or greater, the bainitic ferrite has an average grain diameter of 6.0 ?m or less, an amount of Nb precipitated as Nb carbonitride is 0.025 mass % or greater, and an amount of Nb precipitated as Nb carbonitride having a grain diameter of 20 nm or greater constitutes 50% or greater of a total mass of the Nb precipitated as Nb carbonitride. The hot-rolled steel plate has a tensile strength of 640 MPa or greater, a yield ratio of 85% or less, a Charpy impact absorbed energy at ?40° C. of 300 J or greater, and a percent ductile fracture (SA value) of 85% or greater as determined by a DWTT test at ?40° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Takeshi Yokota, Satoshi Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 11236405
    Abstract: A steel plate for high-strength and high-toughness steel pipes has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.03% or more and 0.08% or less, Si: more than 0.05% and 0.50% or less, Mn: 1.5% or more and 2.5% or less, P: 0.001% or more and 0.010% or less, S: 0.0030% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 0.08% or less, Nb: 0.010% or more and 0.080% or less, Ti: 0.005% or more and 0.025% or less, and N: 0.001% or more and 0.006% or less, and further containing, by mass %, at least one selected from Cu: 0.01% or more and 1.00% or less, Ni: 0.01% or more and 1.00% or less, Cr: 0.01% or more and 1.00% or less, Mo: 0.01% or more and 1.00% or less, V: 0.01% or more and 0.10% or less, and B: 0.0005% or more and 0.0030% or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. The steel plate has a microstructure in which an area fraction of ferrite at a ½ position of a thickness of the steel plate is 20% or more and 80% or less and deformed ferrite constitutes 50% or more and 100% or less of the ferrite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Ryo Nagao, Nobuyuki Ishikawa, Kazukuni Hase
  • Publication number: 20210054487
    Abstract: Provided are a hot-rolled steel sheet for coiled tubing and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a yield strength of 480 MPa or more, a tensile strength of 600 MPa or more, a yield-strength difference (AYS) of 100 MPa or more, where the yield-strength difference is defined as a difference in yield strength between before and after a prestrain-heat treatment performed for simulation of a tube-making process and a stress-relief annealing heat treatment which are currently implemented, and a yield strength of 620 MPa or more after the prestrain-heat treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Shuji Kawamura, Ichiro Sugimoto, Makoto Asai, Takeshi Yokota
  • Patent number: D967088
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Hideyuki Kimura