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).

  • Publication number: 20150017472
    Abstract: There is provided a high-strength galvanized steel sheet including, on a mass percent basis, C: more than 0.060% and 0.13% or less, Si: 0.01% or more and 0.7% or less, Mn: 1.0% or more and 3.0% or less, P: 0.005% or more and 0.100% or less, S: 0.010% or less, sol.Al: 0.005% or more and 0.100% or less, N: 0.0100% or less, Nb: 0.005% or more and 0.10% or less, Ti: 0.03% or more and 0.15% or less, and the balance comprising Fe and incidental impurities, satisfying the relationship of (Nb/93+Ti*/48)/(C/12)>0.08 (wherein Ti*=Ti?(48/14)N?(48/32)S). The high-strength galvanized steel sheet has a structure including ferrite and martensite. The ferrite has an average grain diameter of 15 ?m or less and an area percentage of 80% or more. The martensite has an area percentage of 1% or more and 15% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Katsutoshi Takashima, Shinjiro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20140363695
    Abstract: A high strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet has TS of 440 MPa or more and an average r value of 1.30 or more, where the absolute value of the planar anisotropy of the r value (?r) is 0.20 or less. A chemical composition contains C: 0.010% or more and 0.04% or less, Si: more than 1.0% and 1.5% or less, Mn: 1.0% or more and 3.0% or less, P: 0.005% or more and 0.1% or less, S: 0.01% or less, sol. Al: 0.005% or more and 0.5% or less, N: 0.01% or less, Nb: 0.010% or more and less than 0.05%, Ti: 0.015% or more and 0.120% or less, and the remainder composed of Fe and incidental impurities, wherein (Nb/93)/(C/12)<0.20 and 0.005<C*?0.020 are satisfied, a steel sheet microstructure includes 80% or more of ferrite and 3% or more of martensite on an area ratio basis, and C*=C-(12/93)Nb-(12/48){Ti-(48/14)N-(48/32)S}.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: JFE Stell Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Kaneharu Okuda, Yasunobu Nagataki, Kenji Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20140290810
    Abstract: A high strength cold rolled steel sheet includes a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.010% or more and 0.060% or less, Si: more than 0.5% and 1.5% or less, Mn: 1.0% or more and 3.0% or less, P: 0.005% or more and 0.100% or less, S: 0.010% or less, sol.Al: 0.005% or more and 0.500% or less, N: 0.0100% or less, Nb: 0.010% or more and 0.100% or less, Ti: 0.015% or more and 0.150% or less and the balance comprising Fe and inevitable impurities. The microstructure includes, in area fraction, 70% or more of a ferrite phase and 3% or more of a martensite phase. The tensile strength is 440 MPa or more and an average r value is 1.20 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Yasunobu Nagataki, Kaneharu Okuda, Kenji Kawamura
  • Patent number: 8604690
    Abstract: A top emission organic EL device includes a substrate; a reflective layer formed on the substrate; a transparent first electrode formed on the reflective layer; a functional layer containing an organic light-emitting layer and formed on the transparent first electrode; a transparent second electrode formed on the functional layer; an optical length adjustment layer formed on the transparent second electrode; and a transflective layer formed on the optical length adjustment layer. In the organic EL device, an optical resonator is formed between the reflective layer and the transflective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Sonoyama, Hideyuki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20130292010
    Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet contains C: 0.010% or more and 0.06% or less, Si: more than 0.5% and 1.5% or less, Mn: 1.0% or more and 3.0% or less, P: 0.005% or more and 0.1% or less, S: 0.01% or less, sol.Al: 0.005% or more and 0.5% or less, N: 0.01% or less, Nb: 0.010% or more and 0.090% or less, and Ti: 0.015% or more and 0.15% or less, on a mass percent basis. The Nb and C contents of the steel satisfy the relation of (Nb/93)/(C/12)<0.20. C* satisfies 0.005?C*?0.025. Ferrite constitutes 70% by area ratio or more of the steel sheet. Martensite constitutes 3% by area ratio or more of the steel sheet. C*=C?(12/93)Nb?(12/48){Ti?(48/14)N}, wherein C, Nb, Ti, and N denote the C, Nb, Ti, and N contents of the steel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Kaneharu Okuda, Reiko Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20130213529
    Abstract: A high-strength cold rolled steel sheet having excellent deep drawability and bake hardenability, with a tensile strength ?440 MPa, an average r-value ?1.20 and a bake hardening value ?40 MPa, is obtained by subjecting a steel raw material having a chemical composition including C: 0.010-0.06 mass %, Si: more than 0C:\Users\ejensen\Desktop\!TEMP\.5 mass % but not more than 1.5 mass %, Mn: 1.0-3.0 mass %, Nb: 0.010-0.090 mass %, Ti: 0.015-0.15 mass % and satisfying (Nb/93)/(C/12)<0.20 to hot rolling, cold rolling and then to annealing including steps of heating to a temperature of 800-900° C. while a temperature region of 700-800° C. is an average heating rate <3° C./s, and soaking and thereafter cooling at a rate ?5° C./s from the soaking temperature to a cooling stop temperature ?500° C. to thereby form a microstructure including ferrite phase with an area ratio ?70% and martensite phase with an area ratio ?3%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Yasunobu Nagataki
  • Patent number: 8048237
    Abstract: An ultra soft high carbon hot-rolled steel sheet has excellent workability. The steel sheet is a high carbon hot-rolled steel sheet containing 0.2 to 0.7% C, and has a structure in which mean grain size of ferrite is 20 ?m or larger, the volume percentage of ferrite grains having 10 ?m or smaller size is 20% or less, mean diameter of carbide is in a range from 0.10 ?m to smaller than 2.0 ?m, the percentage of carbide grains having 5 or more of aspect ratio is 15% or less, and the contact ratio of carbide is 20% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Takeshi Fujita, Nobuyuki Nakamura, Naoya Aoki, Masato Sasaki, Satoshi Ueoka, Shunji Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20110192504
    Abstract: A method for producing a galvanized steel sheet including (a) melting a steel having a steel composition comprising 0.005 to 0.04 mass % C, 1.5 mass % or lower Si, 1.0 to 2.0 mass % Mn, 0.10 mass % or lower P, 0.03 mass % or lower S, 0.01 to 0.1 mass % Al, less than 0.008 mass % N and 0.2 to 1.0 mass % Cr, wherein Mn (mass %)+1.29 Cr (mass %) is 2.1 to 2.8, and the balance being iron and unavoidable impurities, (b) hot rolling and cold rolling the steel from step (a) to provide a steel sheet, and (c) annealing the steel sheet from step (c) at an annealing temperature of at least the Ac1 point and not more than the Ac3 point, wherein the galvanized steel sheet has a structure which includes a ferrite phase and a martensite phase with a volume fraction being at least 3.0% and less than 10%, the average particle diameter of the ferrite is larger than 6 ?m and not more than 15 ?m, and 90% or more of the martensite phase exists in a ferrite grain boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Yoshihiko Ono, Takeshi Fujita, Takayuki Futatsuka, Saiji Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 7972190
    Abstract: A method for producing an organic electroluminescent device includes forming a first electrode configured to partially cover a substrate, forming an organic light-emitting layer configured to cover the first electrode, forming an optically transparent second electrode that lies on a side of the organic light-emitting layer opposite the side adjacent to the first electrode and is superposed on a current-carrying portion of the first electrode in plan, forming a third electrode in at least part of a region that is not superposed on the current-carrying portion in plan, the third electrode being electrically connected to part of the second electrode, forming an optically transparent protective layer configured to cover at least a region of the second electrode where the second electrode is not superposed on the third electrode in plan, and removing part of the organic light-emitting layer with the third electrode and the protective layer serving as a mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Uchida, Hideyuki Kimura
  • Patent number: 7909950
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ultra soft high carbon hot-rolled steel sheet. The ultra soft high carbon hot-rolled steel sheet contains 0.2% to 0.7% of C, 0.01% to 1.0% of Si, 0.1% to 1.0% of Mn, 0.03% or less of P, 0.035% or less of S, 0.08% or less of Al, 0.01% or less of N, and the balance being Fe and incidental impurities and further contains 0.0010% to 0.0050% of B and 0.05% to 0.30% of Cr in some cases. In the texture of the steel sheet, an average ferrite grain diameter is 20 ?m or more, a volume ratio of ferrite grains having a grain diameter of 10 ?m or more is 80% or more, and an average carbide grain diameter is in the range of 0.10 to less than 2.0 ?m. In addition, the steel sheet is manufactured by the steps, after rough rolling, performing finish rolling at a reduction ratio of 10% or more and at a finish temperature of (Ar3?20° C.) or more in a final pass, then performing first cooling within 2 seconds after the finish rolling to a cooling stop temperature of 600° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Takeshi Fujita, Nobuyuki Nakamura, Satoshi Ueoka, Naoya Aoki, Kenichi Mitsuzuka
  • Patent number: 7892612
    Abstract: A molten resin is prevented from entering between a surface of a sheet-shaped insert such as a label including a printed film or the like and a surface of an outer mold unit and the insert is prevented from being downwardly pushed, when a synthetic article in which the insert is bonded to the outer peripheral surface of the thin cylindrical molded body is injection molded by the insertion molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Tsugio Nomoto
  • Publication number: 20100330392
    Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet has a steel composition which contains, by % by mass, 0.01 to 0.12% of C, 0.2% or less of Si, less than 2% of Mn, 0.04% or less of P, 0.02% or less of S, 0.3% or less of sol. Al, 0.01% or less of N, and over 0.3% to 2% of Cr, and which satisfies 2.1?[Mneq]?3 and 0.24?[% Cr]/[% Mn], the balance being composed of iron and inevitable impurities, and has a steel microstructures containing ferrite and a second phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Hideyuki Kimura, Kaneharu Okuda, Takeshi Fujita, Michitaka Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20100326572
    Abstract: A method produces a high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet includes hot-rolling and cold-rolling steel having a composition which contains, by % by mass, over 0.01% to less than 0.08% of C, 0.2% or less of Si, 0.8% to less than 1.7% of Mn, 0.03% or less of P, 0.02% or less of S, 0.3% or less of sol. Al, 0.01% or less of N, and over 0.4% to 2% of Cr, and which satisfies 1.9<[Mneq]<3 and 0.34?[% Cr]/[% Mn], the balance being composed of iron and inevitable impurities; heating at an average heating rate of less than 3° C./sec in a temperature range of 680° C. to 740° C.; annealing at an annealing temperature of over 740° C. to less than 820° C.; cooling at an average cooling rate of 2 to 30° C./sec in a temperature range of the annealing temperature to 650° C.; cooling at an average cooling rate of 10° C./sec or more in the temperature range of 650° C. to Tc° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Hideyuki Kimura, Kaneharu Okuda, Takeshi Fujita, Michitaka Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20100282376
    Abstract: An ultra soft high carbon hot-rolled steel sheet has excellent workability. The steel sheet is a high carbon hot-rolled steel sheet containing 0.2 to 0.7% C, and has a structure in which mean grain size of ferrite is 20 ?m or larger, the volume percentage of ferrite grains having 10 ?m or smaller size is 20% or less, mean diameter of carbide is in a range from 0.10 ?m to smaller than 2.0 ?m, the percentage of carbide grains having 5 or more of aspect ratio is 15% or less, and the contact ratio of carbide is 20% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION, A CORPORATION OF JAPAN
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Takeshi Fujita, Nobuyuki Nakamura, Naoya Aoki, Masato Sasaki, Satoshi Ueoka, Shunji Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20100132850
    Abstract: A high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet that even on the premise of ordinary CGL heat cycle, has a low yield stress and excels in resistance to natural aging and baking hardenability without reliance on the use of expensive Mo; and a process for producing the same. The constituent composition thereof comprises 0.01 to less than 0.08% C, 0.2% or less Si, more than 1.0 to 1.8% Mn, 0.10% or less P, 0.03% or less S, 0.1% or less Al, 0.008% or less N and more than 0.5% Cr so that the relationship 1.95?Mn(mass %)+1.3Cr(mass %)?2.8 is satisfied and comprising the balance iron and unavoidable impurities. The structure thereof has a ferrite phase and a martensite phase of 2 to 15% area ratio, and the cumulative area ratio of pearlite phase and/or bainite phase is 1.0% or less. In the production of this hot-dip galvanized steel sheet, the temperature and cooling rate are controlled during the annealing/plating operation subsequent to cold rolling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Hideyuki Kimura, Kaneharu Okuda, Takeshi Fujita, Michitaka Sakurai
  • Patent number: 7713040
    Abstract: A rotor shaft sealing method for an oil-free rotary compressor is provided, with which occurrence of lubrication oil intrusion into the compression chamber of the compressor which is liable to occur when negative pressure is produced in the compression chamber, is prevented. With a rotor shaft sealing structure composed such that two shaft seal means are provided in the rotor casing between the oil lubricated bearing and the compression chamber such that an annular airspace is formed between the two shaft seal means, at least one communicating hole is provided to communicate the annular airspace to the outside of the rotor casing, and the annular airspace of the male rotor shaft sealing part and the annular airspace of the female rotor shaft sealing part are connected by a between-rotor shaft communication passage, pressurized air is supplied to the annular airspaces by which lubrication oil intrusion into the compression chamber is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Anest Iwata Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Masami Muto
  • Patent number: D645464
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventor: Hideyuki Kimura
  • Patent number: D671906
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: JVC Kenwood Corporation
    Inventor: Hideyuki Kimura
  • Patent number: D704696
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: JVC Kenwood Corporation
    Inventor: Hideyuki Kimura
  • Patent number: D741834
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideyuki Kimura