Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Taniguchi

Hirokazu Taniguchi 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: 20110139317
    Abstract: The present invention provides hot dip galvanized high strength steel sheet excellent in plating adhesion and hole expandability and a method of production of the same, that is, hot dip galvanization steel sheet excellent in plating adhesion and hole expandability containing, by mass %, C: 0.08 to 0.35%, Si: 1.0% or less, Mn: 0.8 to 3.5%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.03% or less, Al: 0.25 to 1.8%, Mo: 0.05 to 0.35%, and N: 0.010% or less and having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, said hot dip galvanized high strength steel characterized in that the steel sheet has a metal structure having ferrite, bainite, by area percent, 0.5% to 10% of tempered martensite, and, by volume percent, 5% or more of residual austenite, and a method of production comprising annealing by a continuous annealing process at 680 to 930° C. in temperature, then cooling to the martensite transformation point or less, then hot dip galvanizing the steel during which heating the steel to 250 to 600° C., then hot dip galvanizing it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu Taniguchi, Kenichiro Matsumura, Toshiki Hattori, Satoshi Kato
  • Publication number: 20110120598
    Abstract: Steel sheets containing residual austenite of not more than 7 vol. %, crystallized and/or precipitated compounds with particle diameters of 0.01 to 5.0 ?m of 100 to 100000 particle/mm2 and C of 0.05 to 0.3 mass %, Si of not more than 3.0 mass %, Mn of 0.01 to 3.0 mass %, P of not more than 0.02 mass %, S of not more than 0.02 mass %, Al of 0.01 to 3.0 mass %, N of not more than 0.01 mass % and Mg of 0.0002 to 0.01 mass %, with the remainder comprising iron and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiki Nonaka, Nobuhiro Fujita, Hirokazu Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 7938917
    Abstract: A method for controlling the cooling of a steel sheet characterized by controlling the end-of-cooling temperature in a cooling process from the Ae3 or above temperature of the steel sheet, during which; preliminarily obtaining enthalpies (H? and H?) of an austenite phase and ferrite phase respectively at some temperature, obtaining a gynamic enthalpy (Hsys) defined by formula (1) with an untransformed fraction (X?) of austenite in accordance with a target temperature pattern, predicting the temperature by using a gradient of this dynamic enthalpy with respect to temperature as a dynamic specific heat and controlling the cooling of the steel sheet: Hsys=H?(X?)+H?(1?X?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Riki Okamoto, Noriyuki Hishinuma, Hidenori Miyata, Hirokazu Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 7922835
    Abstract: A high strength steel sheet excellent in formability which has a chemical composition in mass %: C: 0.03 to 0.20%, Si: 0.005 to 0.3%, Mn: 1.0 to 3.1%, P: 0.001 to 0.06%, S: 0.001 to 0.01%, N: 0.0005 to 0.01%, Al: 0.2 to 1.2%, Mo?0.5%, and the balance: Fe and inevitable impurities, with the proviso that the values of mass % for Si and Al satisfy the following formula (1): (0.0012×[objective value of TS]?0.29?[Si])/2.45<Al<1.5?3×[Si] . . . (1) wherein [objective value of TS] represents a design strength value for the steel sheet in an Mpa unit, and has a metal structure containing ferrite and martensite. The above high strength steel sheet is also excellent in formability and the capability of being chemically treated and that of being hot-dip zinc sheeted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiki Nonaka, Hirokazu Taniguchi, Masaaki Mizutani, Nobuhiro Fujita
  • Publication number: 20110079042
    Abstract: Disclosed is a non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture containing tetrafluoropropane as a high-boiling refrigerant and a refrigeration cycle apparatus in which a non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture containing tetrafluoropropane as a high-boiling refrigerant circulates through a refrigeration cycle so as to avoid occurrence of negative pressure in a low-pressure circuit. The non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture is characterized in that a mixing ratio of a high-boiling refrigerant and a low-boiling refrigerant is determined so that a saturated vapor line where pressure is 0.00 MPa is not higher than ?45° C. in a low-pressure circuit formed between the decompressor to the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamashita, Akihiro Nishida, Hirokazu Taniguchi, Takashi Okazaki, Yoshihiro Sumida, Masato Yosomiya, Kazuhiko Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20110082284
    Abstract: Disclosed are a protein encoded by a gene having a nucleotide sequence represented by any of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 65 or a fragment thereof, an antibody recognizing the protein or antigen-binding fragment thereof, and a polynucleotide having a sequence comprising at least 12 consecutive nucleotides of a nucleotide sequence represented by any of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 65 or a nucleotide sequence complementary thereto. The gene and the protein of the invention is useful for diagnosing and treating cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicants: ABURANTAI, Hiroyuki, Perseus Proteomics Inc., Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Aburatani, Yoshitaka Hippo, Hirokazu Taniguchi, Yong xin Chen, Shumpei Ishikawa, Shin-ichi Fukumoto, Takahiro Shimamura, Naoko Kamimura, Ying qiu Guo, Shogo Yamamoto, Yukio Ito, Hirotaka Ito, Toshihiko Ohtomo
  • Publication number: 20110067421
    Abstract: A ventilation and air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle includes: a ventilator that sucks air from outside the vehicle; an air conditioner that conditions air inside the vehicle; a duct for fresh outside air that connects the ventilator with the air conditioner so as to supply the air that the ventilator has sucked from outside the vehicle to the air conditioner; and a duct for conditioned air that supplies the conditioned air blown out from the air conditioner to inside the vehicle. The duct for fresh outside air is branched so as to be connected to the duct for conditioned air. With this configuration, even if the operation of the air conditioner is stopped due to, e.g., a leakage of a flammable refrigerant, an amount of ventilation can be secured in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Shiraishi, Hirokazu Taniguchi, Yoshihiro Sumida, Akihiro Nishida, Masato Yosomiya, Tetsuya Yamashita, Takashi Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20100326259
    Abstract: In an electronic keyboard instrument, a first switch board 11 and a second switch board 12 are independently provided in a keyboard chassis 1 separated from each other. The first switch board 11 has a first switch that is turned ON by a key 2 arranged on the keyboard chassis 1 in a manner to be rotatable in a vertical direction upon the depression of the key 2. The second switch board 12 has a second switch 5 that is turned ON by a hammer member 3 that rotates to be displaced in response to the depression of the key 2 and applies action load to the key 2. Accordingly, even if the second switch board 12 receives an impact from the hammer member 3 when the hammer member 3 turns ON the second switch 5, the impact is not easily transmitted to the first switch 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20100314642
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting diode element 1 includes a nitride semiconductor layer 12 having a bottom surface and an upper surface and containing a light emitting layer 12b inside, and a supporting substrate 11 made from a metal is bonded to the bottom surface of the nitride semiconductor layer 12. A light reflecting depression A1 to reflect light generated in the light emitting layer 12b is formed in the bottom surface of the nitride semiconductor layer 12. According to the nitride semiconductor light-emitting diode element 1, since the light generated from the light emitting layer 12b and propagated in the nitride semiconductor layer 12 in a layer direction is reflected by the light reflecting depression A1 and its travel direction is changed, the ratio of the light incident upon the upper surface of the nitride semiconductor layer 12 within a critical angle is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Kudo, Hirokazu Taniguchi, Hiroaki Okagawa, Shin Hiraoka, Takahide Joichi, Toshihiko Shima
  • Patent number: 7828912
    Abstract: This invention provides a high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet having strength of at least 980 N/mm2 at a sheet thickness of from about 1.0 to about 6.0 mm and excellent in hole expandability, ductility and ability of phosphate coating, which steel sheet is directed to automotive suspension components that are subjected to pressing. The high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet contains, in terms of a mass %, C: 0.01 to 0.09%, Si: 0.05 to 1.5%, Mn: 0.5 to 3.2%, Al: 0.003 to 1.5%, P: 0.03% or below, S: 0.005% or below, Ti: 0.10 to 0.25%, Nb: 0.01 to 0.05% and the balance consisting of iron and unavoidable impurities; satisfies all of the following formulas <1> to <3>: 0.9?48/12×C/Ti<1.7??<1> 50,227×C?4,479×Mn>?9,860??<2> 811×C+135×Mn+602×Ti+794×Nb>465??<3>, and has strength of at least 980 N/mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Riki Okamoto, Hirokazu Taniguchi, Masashi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 7812128
    Abstract: Disclosed are a protein encoded by a gene having a nucleotide sequence represented by any of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 65 or a fragment thereof, an antibody recognizing the protein or antigen-binding fragment thereof, and a polynucleotide having a sequence comprising at least 12 consecutive nucleotides of a nucleotide sequence represented by any of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 65 or a nucleotide sequence complementary thereto. The gene and the protein of the invention is useful for diagnosing and treating cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Aburatani, Yoshitaka Hippo, Hirokazu Taniguchi, Yong xin Chen, Shumpei Ishikawa, Shin-ichi Fukumoto, Takahiro Shimamura, Naoko Kamimura, Ying qiu Guo, Shogo Yamamoto, Yukio Ito, Hirotaka Ito, Toshihiko Ohtomo
  • Patent number: 7780799
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet and a high-strength surface treated steel sheet 780 MPa or more in tensile strength, said steel sheets having excellent local formability and suppressed weld hardness increase and being characterized by: said steel sheets containing, in weight, C: 0.05 to 0.09%, Si: 0.4 to 1.3%, Mn: 2.5 to 3.2%, P: 0.001 to 0.05%, N: 0.0005 to 0.006%, Al: 0.005 to 0.1%, Ti: 0.001 to 0.045%, and S in the range stipulated by the following expression (A), with the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities; the microstructures of said steel sheets being composed of bainite of 7% or more in terms of area percentage and the balance consisting of one or more of ferrite, martensite, tempered martensite and retained austenite; and said components in said steel sheets satisfying the following expressions (C) and (D) when Mneq. is defined by the following expression (B); S?0.08×(Ti(%)?3.43×N(%)+0.004 . . . (A), where, when a value of the member Ti(%)?3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Goto, Riki Okamoto, Hirokazu Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 7780797
    Abstract: High strength hot rolled steel sheet having at least a 590 N/mm2 tensile strength and excellent in elongation and ability of phosphate coating, that is, high strength hot rolled steel sheet excellent in burring, elongation, and ability of phosphate coating having a tensile strength of 590 N/mm2 or more comprising a steel composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.02 to 0.08%, Si: 0.50% or less, Mn: 0.50 to 3.50%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.15 to 2.0%, and the balance of iron and unavoidable impurities, satisfying Mn+0.5×Al<4, having a microstructure of the steel sheet having a ratio of ferrite having a grain size of 2 ?m or more of 40% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Riki Okamoto, Hirokazu Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20100111749
    Abstract: High-strength steel sheet excellent in hole-expandability and ductility, characterized by; comprising, in mass %, C: not less than 0.01% and not more than 0.20%, Si: not more than 1.5%, Al: not more than 1.5%, Mn: not less than 0.5% and not more than 3.5%, P: not more than 0.2%, S: not less than 0.0005% and not more than 0.009%, N: not more than 0.009%, Mg: not less than 0.0006% and not more than 0.01%, O: not more than 0.005% and Ti: not less than 0.01% and not more than 0.20% and/or Nb: not less than 0.01% and not more than 0.10%, with the balance consisting iron and unavoidable impurities, having Mn %, Mg %, S % and O % satisfying equations (1) to (3), and having the structure primarily comprising one or more of ferrite, bainite and martensite. [Mg %]?([O %]/16×0.8)×24??(1) [S %]?([Mg %]/24?[O %]/16×0.8+0.00012)×32??(2) [S %]?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Riki Okamoto, Hirokazu Taniguchi, Masashi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20100019247
    Abstract: A light emitting device is constituted by flip-chip mounting a GaN-based LED chip 100 of the following (a): (a) the a GaN-based LED chip 100 comprising a light-transmissive substrate 101 and GaN-based semiconductor layer L formed on the light-transmissive substrate 101, wherein the GaN-based semiconductor layer L has a laminate structure containing n-type layer 102, light emitting layer 103 and p-type layer 104 in this order from the light-transmissive substrate 101 side, wherein a positive electrode E101 is formed on the p-type layer 104, said electrode E101 containing a light-transmissive electrode E101a of an oxide semiconductor and a positive contact electrode E101b electrically connected to the light-transmissive electrode, and the area of the positive contact electrode E101b is less than ½ of the area of the upper surface of the p-type layer 104.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Takahide Joichi, Hiroaki Okagawa, Shin Hiraoka, Toshihiko Shima, Hirokazu Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20100014814
    Abstract: A fixing structure of an exterior member to an optical fiber cable containing an optical fiber cable having a coating layer formed on an outer circumference of a bare optical fiber, and the exterior member having a through-hole through which the optical fiber cable can be inserted, wherein the exterior member of the optical fiber cable has a light shielding member to cover an outer circumference of the optical fiber cable, the light shielding member is fixed at a part where the exterior member is externally mounted, and an inner surface of the through-hole of the exterior member is bonded to the light shielding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: Hirokazu TANIGUCHI, Shigeru SASAKI, Takeshi SATAKE
  • Publication number: 20090314395
    Abstract: The present invention provides high strength thin-gauge steel sheet with excellent elongation and hole expandability having a tensile strength of 500 MPa or more and a method of production of high strength thin-gauge steel sheet with excellent elongation and hole expandability enabling production of this on an industrial scale, that is, high strength thin-gauge steel sheet comprised of, by mass %, C: 0.03 to 0.25%, Si: 0.4 to 2.0%, Mn: 0.8 to 3.1%, P?0.02%, S?0.02%, Al?2.0%, N?0.01%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities and having a microstructure comprised of ferrite with an area fraction of 10 to 85% and residual austenite with a volume fraction of 1 to 10%, an area fraction of 10% to 60% of tempered martensite, and a balance of bainite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiki Nonaka, Hirokazu Taniguchi, Koichi Goto
  • Publication number: 20090226918
    Abstract: Disclosed are a protein encoded by a gene having a nucleotide sequence represented by any of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 65 or a fragment thereof, an antibody recognizing the protein or antigen-binding fragment thereof, and a polynucleotide having a sequence comprising at least 12 consecutive nucleotides of a nucleotide sequence represented by any of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 65 or a nucleotide sequence complementary thereto. The gene and the protein of the invention is useful for diagnosing and treating cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicants: Perseus Proteomics Inc, Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Aburatani, Yoshitaka Hippo, Hirokazu Taniguchi, Yong xin Chen, Shumpei Ishikawa, Shin-ichi Fukumoto, Takahiro Shimamura, Naoka Kamimura, Ying qiu Guo, Shogo Yamamoto, Yukio Ito, Hirotaka Ito, Toshihiko Ohtomo
  • Publication number: 20090205755
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of a facility or an arrangement capable of producing a high strength steel sheet or a hot dip zinc coated high strength steel sheet according to the present invention are provided which can make a quenching facility and tempering facility continuous treatment facilities. For example, an improvement in the material quality can be effectuated due to tempering enable improvement of the hole expandability. In addition, an elongation of the sheet can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Taniguchi, Toshiki Nonaka, Hiroki Murayama, Koji Yanaba, Satoshi Kato
  • Publication number: 20090192108
    Abstract: Disclosed are a protein encoded by a gene having a nucleotide sequence represented by any of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 65 or a fragment thereof, an antibody recognizing the protein or antigen-binding fragment thereof, and a polynucleotide having a sequence comprising at least 12 consecutive nucleotides of a nucleotide sequence represented by any of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 65 or a nucleotide sequence complementary thereto. The gene and the protein of the invention is useful for diagnosing and treating cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicants: Perseus Proteomics Inc., Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Aburatani, Yoshitaka Hippo, Hirokazu Taniguchi, Yong xin Chen, Shumpei Ishikawa, Shin-ichi Fukumoto, Takahiro Shimamura, Naoko Kamimura, Ying qiu Guo, Shogo Yamamoto, Yukio Ito, Hirotaka Ito, Toshihiko Ohtomo