Patents by Inventor Hiromichi Hori

Hiromichi Hori 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: 11440125
    Abstract: There are provided an electric resistance welded steel pipe for producing a high strength hollow stabilizer excellent in fatigue resistance and a high strength hollow stabilizer. In an electric resistance welded steel pipe (5) for producing a hollow stabilizer, an internal weld bead cut portion (30) has a three-peak shape and a depth (H) of a trough portion (30a) of the three-peak shape is 0.3 mm or less and an angle (?) formed by a central portion in the circumferential direction of the trough portion (30a) and the top of right and left peak portions (30b, 30c) located on both the right and left sides of the trough portion (30a) is 160° or more and less than 180°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Aratani, Ryoji Matsui, Hiroshi Nakata, Tomonori Kondo, Hiromichi Hori
  • Patent number: 11332812
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electric resistance welded steel tube for high-strength thin hollow stabilizers is provided. A steel with a certain chemical composition is heated to a temperature of 1000 to 1300° C., hot rolled under conditions where the rolling finish temperature is 750 to 950° C., cooled, coiled into a coil at 500 to 650° C., and skin pass rolled with a rolling reduction ratio of not less than 0.3%. The resultant hot rolled sheet is electric resistance welded into an electric resistance welded steel tube, which is then reheated to a temperature of 800 to 1100° C. and hot stretch-reducing rolled under conditions where the rolling finish temperature is not more than 850° C. and the cumulative diameter reduction is not more than 75%. Consequently, a thin electric resistance welded steel tube is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Aratani, Shinsaku Kokubo, Hiromichi Hori, Yoshikazu Kawabata, Ryoji Matsui
  • Publication number: 20210277507
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electric resistance welded steel tube for high-strength thin hollow stabilizers is provided. A steel with a certain chemical composition is heated to a temperature of 1000 to 1300° C., hot rolled under conditions where the rolling finish temperature is 750 to 950° C., cooled, coiled into a coil at 500 to 650° C., and skin pass rolled with a rolling reduction ratio of not less than 0.3%. The resultant hot rolled sheet is electric resistance welded into an electric resistance welded steel tube, which is then reheated to a temperature of 800 to 1100° C. and hot stretch-reducing rolled under conditions where the rolling finish temperature is not more than 850° C. and the cumulative diameter reduction is not more than 75%. Consequently, a thin electric resistance welded steel tube is produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Aratani, Shinsaku Kokubo, Hiromichi Hori, Yoshikazu Kawabata, Ryoji Matsui
  • Patent number: 11045896
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electric resistance welded steel pipe having an identifiable seam portion. The method includes electric resistance welding a steel pipe, cutting an inner surface bead and an outer surface bead of the steel pipe in such a manner so as to cut: (i) a whole the outer surface bead and a part of the inner surface bead to leave an uncut portion in the inner surface bead, or (ii) a whole of the inner surface bead and a part of the outer surface bead to leave an uncut portion in the outer surface bead, coating the steel pipe with zinc phosphate, and cold drawing the steel pipe using a plug and a die to make the seam portion of the steel pipe identifiable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsaku Kokubo, Kenichi Iwazaki, Hiromichi Hori
  • Publication number: 20210001425
    Abstract: There are provided an electric resistance welded steel pipe for producing a high strength hollow stabilizer excellent in fatigue resistance and a high strength hollow stabilizer. In an electric resistance welded steel pipe (5) for producing a hollow stabilizer, an internal weld bead cut portion (30) has a three-peak shape and a depth (H) of a trough portion (30a) of the three-peak shape is 0.3 mm or less and an angle (?) formed by a central portion in the circumferential direction of the trough portion (30a) and the top of right and left peak portions (30b, 30c) located on both the right and left sides of the trough portion (30a) is 160° or more and less than 180°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Aratani, Ryoji Matsui, Hiroshi Nakata, Tomonori Kondo, Hiromichi Hori
  • Publication number: 20190255646
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electric resistance welded steel pipe having an identifiable seam portion. The method includes electric resistance welding a steel pipe, cutting an inner surface bead and an outer surface bead of the steel pipe in such a manner so as to cut: (i) a whole the outer surface bead and a part of the inner surface bead to leave an uncut portion in the inner surface bead, or (ii) a whole of the inner surface bead and a part of the outer surface bead to leave an uncut portion in the outer surface bead, coating the steel pipe with zinc phosphate, and cold drawing the steel pipe using a plug and a die to make the seam portion of the steel pipe identifiable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsaku KOKUBO, Kenichi IWAZAKI, Hiromichi HORI
  • Patent number: 10369655
    Abstract: An electric resistance welded steel pipe having an identifiable seam portion and a method for manufacturing the same. The electric resistance welded steel pipe includes a steel pipe portion with a seam portion, which is formed by electric resistance welding, and a coating portion of zinc phosphate. The coating portion covers at least an outer surface side of the steel pipe portion. A part of the coating portion that is immediately above the seam portion forms a color difference portion that has a width W along a pipe circumferential direction of greater than or equal to 0.1 times a wall thickness of the pipe and less than or equal to the wall thickness of the pipe. The color difference portion has a visually identifiable color difference from the other parts of the coating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsaku Kokubo, Kenichi Iwazaki, Hiromichi Hori
  • Publication number: 20180036830
    Abstract: An electric resistance welded steel pipe having an identifiable seam portion and a method for manufacturing the same. The electric resistance welded steel pipe includes a steel pipe portion with a seam portion, which is formed by electric resistance welding, and a coating portion of zinc phosphate. The coating portion covers at least an outer surface side of the steel pipe portion. A part of the coating portion that is immediately above the seam portion forms a color difference portion that has a width W along a pipe circumferential direction of greater than or equal to 0.1 times a wall thickness of the pipe and less than or equal to the wall thickness of the pipe. The color difference portion has a visually identifiable color difference from the other parts of the coating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsaku KOKUBO, Kenichi IWAZAKI, Hiromichi HORI
  • Publication number: 20150368768
    Abstract: An electric resistance welded steel pipe excellent in terms of fatigue strength. The steel pipe including a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.35% or more and 0.55% or less, Si: 0.01% or more and 1.0% or less, Mn: 1.0% or more and 3.0% or less, P: 0.02% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.005% or less, N: 0.0050% or less, Cr: 0.1% or more and 0.5% or less, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities and a metallic microstructure including pearlite, ferrite, and bainite, in which the area ratio of the pearlite is 85% or more, the total of the area ratios (including 0) of the ferrite and the bainite is 15% or less, and in which a prior austenite grain size is 25 ?m or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi ARATANI, Takatoshi OKABE, Shunsuke TOYODA, Yoshikazu KAWABATA, Hiromichi HORI
  • Publication number: 20130126036
    Abstract: A base material portion of an electric resistance welded steel pipe has a composition including C at 0.25 to 0.55%, Si at 0.01 to 1.0%, Mn at 0.2 to 3.0%, Al at not more than 0.1% and N at 0.0010 to 0.0100%, with the balance being represented by Fe and inevitable impurities, and the weld defect area, which is a projected area of a weld defect in an electric resistance weld zone, is less than 40000 ?m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi Aratani, Yoshikazu Kawabata, Takatoshi Okabe, Yukinori Iizuka, Hiromichi Hori, Gunji Makio, Kenichi Iwazaki