Patents by Inventor Hironori KAMOSHIDA

Hironori KAMOSHIDA 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: 20200131614
    Abstract: To provide a manufacturing process of a Ni based superalloy and a member of the Ni based superalloy which achieves both of excellent workability in a manufacturing step of the Ni based superalloy of the precipitation strengthening type which contains much amount of the gamma prime phase and excellent high temperature strength of the Ni based superalloy. The manufacturing process of a Ni based superalloy includes a step for working the Ni based superalloy softening material into a desired shape and a solution-aging step for obtaining a Ni based superalloy member. The composition of the Ni based superalloy contains, in mass %, 10% or more and 25% or less of Cr, 30% or less of Co, 3% or more and 9% or less of the total of Ti, Nb and Ta, 1% or more and 6% or less of Al, 10% or less of Fe, 10% or less of Mo, 8% or less of W, 0.03% or less of B, 0.1% or less of C, 0.08% or less of Zr, 2.0% or less of Hf, and 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Atsuo Ota, Shinya Imano, Hironori Kamoshida
  • Publication number: 20200048750
    Abstract: There are provided: an Ni-based alloy member including a ?? phase precipitation with 36 to 60 volume % and exhibiting a high durable temperature and good cold workability; a method for producing the member; an Ni-based alloy product to be used as a precursor of the member; and a method for producing the product. The Ni-based alloy product has a two-phase structure composed of a ? phase and a ?? phase being incoherent to the ? phase, the incoherent ?? phase being present at a ratio of 20 volume % or higher. The Ni-based alloy member produced by cold working the Ni-based alloy product and subsequently by conducting heat treatment comprises a ? phase and a ?? phase being coherent to the ? phase, the coherent ?? phase being present at a ratio of 36 to 60 volume %, and has a predetermined shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Shinya IMANO, Hironori KAMOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 10557189
    Abstract: To provide a manufacturing process of a Ni based superalloy and a member of the Ni based superalloy which achieves both of excellent workability in a manufacturing step of the Ni based superalloy of the precipitation strengthening type which contains much amount of the gamma prime phase and excellent high temperature strength of the Ni based superalloy. The manufacturing process of a Ni based superalloy includes a step for softening the Ni based superalloy and improving the workability, in which the step for softening the Ni based superalloy and improving the workability is a step for precipitating the gamma prime phase that is incoherent with a gamma phase that is a matrix by 20 vol % or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuo Ota, Shinya Imano, Hironori Kamoshida
  • Patent number: 10487384
    Abstract: There are provided: an Ni-based alloy member including a ?? phase precipitation with 36 to 60 volume % and exhibiting a high durable temperature and good cold workability; a method for producing the member; an Ni-based alloy product to be used as a precursor of the member; and a method for producing the product. The Ni-based alloy product has a two-phase structure composed of a ? phase and a ?? phase being incoherent to the ? phase, the incoherent ?? phase being present at a ratio of 20 volume % or higher. The Ni-based alloy member produced by cold working the Ni-based alloy product and subsequently by conducting heat treatment comprises a ? phase and a ?? phase being coherent to the ? phase, the coherent ?? phase being present at a ratio of 36 to 60 volume %, and has a predetermined shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Imano, Hironori Kamoshida
  • Patent number: 10415423
    Abstract: Provided herein are an austenite steel that satisfies desirable strength and desirable castability at the same time, and an austenite steel casting using same. The austenite steel according to an embodiment of the present invention contains Ni: 25 to 50%, Nb: 3.8 to 6.0%, Zr: 0.5% or less, B: 0.001 to 0.05%, Cr: 12 to 25%, Ti: 1.6% or less, Mo: 4.8% or less, and W: 5.2% or less in mass %, and the balance Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein the parameter Ps represented by the following formula (1) satisfies Ps?38, Ps=8.3[Nb]?7.5[Ti]+2.4[Mo]+3.5[W]??formula (1), where [Nb], [Ti], [Mo], and [W] represent the contents of Nb, Ti, Mo, and W, respectively, in mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Kamoshida, Shinya Imano, Masao Takeyama
  • Publication number: 20170130603
    Abstract: Provided herein are an austenite steel that satisfies desirable strength and desirable castability at the same time, and an austenite steel casting using same. The austenite steel according to an embodiment of the present invention contains Ni: 25 to 50%, Nb: 3.8 to 6.0%, Zr: 0.5% or less, B: 0.001 to 0.05%, Cr: 12 to 25%, Ti: 1.6% or less, Mo: 4.8% or less, and W: 5.2% or less in mass %, and the balance Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein the parameter Ps represented by the following formula (1) satisfies Ps?38, Ps=8.3[Nb]?7.5[Ti]+2.4[Mo]+3.5[W]??formula (1), where [Nb], [Ti], [Mo], and [W] represent the contents of Nb, Ti, Mo, and W, respectively, in mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD., Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Hironori KAMOSHIDA, Shinya IMANO, Masao TAKEYAMA
  • Patent number: 9617856
    Abstract: An Ni base forged alloy is easy to make hot forging and miniaturization of crystal grains while excellent high-temperature strength and segregation property are compatible. The Ni base forged alloy has solid solution temperature of a precipitation strengthening phase lower than or equal to 970° C., difference in the solid solution temperature between a ?-phase and the precipitation strength phase larger than or equal to 50° C., Al of 0.5 to 1.0%, Cr of 17 to 21%, Fe of 17 to 19%, Nb of 4.5 to 5.5%, Ti of 0.8 to 1.3%, W of 3.0 to 6.0%, B of 0.001 to 0.03%, C of 0.001 to 0.1% and Mo of 1.0% or less in mass percentage [%] and remainder made of Ni and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Shibayama, Shinya Imano, Hironori Kamoshida, Hidetoshi Kuroki, Jun Sato
  • Patent number: 9464343
    Abstract: To provide, in producing a large product through casting, a Ni-based alloy with a composition that minimizes variations in strength at different locations even when the solidification rate becomes slow and the amount of micro segregation increases. The Ni-based casting alloy of the present invention has a composition of, in mass %, 0.001% to 0.1% C, 15% to 23% Cr, 0% to 11.5% Mo, 3% to 18% W, 5 or less % Fe, 10 or less % Co, 0.4 or less % Ti, 0.4 or less % Al, and Nb and Ta (where 0.5%?Nb+Ta?4.15%), in which 7%?Mo+1/2W?13% is satisfied, and the composition also contains inevitable impurities and Ni.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Kamoshida, Shinya Imano, Kenichi Murata
  • Patent number: 9457422
    Abstract: A heat resistant alloy member that maintains the creep strength and improves the fatigue characteristics is provided. The heat resistant alloy member according to the present invention includes a recrystallized structure layer including finer grains on the surface of the member than those inside of the member. The recrystallized structure layer is formed by forming a stirred layer by giving processing strain to the surface of the member using a friction stir processing, and applying recrystallization heat treatment to the stirred layer for recrystallization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Kamoshida, Shinya Imano, Takehiko Yoshida, Seunghwan Park
  • Publication number: 20160160334
    Abstract: There are provided: an Ni-based alloy member including a ?? phase precipitation with 36 to 60 volume % and exhibiting a high durable temperature and good cold workability; a method for producing the member; an Ni-based alloy product to be used as a precursor of the member; and a method for producing the product. The Ni-based alloy product has a two-phase structure composed of a ? phase and a ?? phase being incoherent to the ? phase, the incoherent ?? phase being present at a ratio of 20 volume % or higher. The Ni-based alloy member produced by cold working the Ni-based alloy product and subsequently by conducting heat treatment comprises a ? phase and a ?? phase being coherent to the ? phase, the coherent ?? phase being present at a ratio of 36 to 60 volume %, and has a predetermined shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya IMANO, Hironori KAMOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20150368774
    Abstract: To provide a manufacturing process of a Ni based superalloy and a member of the Ni based superalloy which achieves both of excellent workability in a manufacturing step of the Ni based superalloy of the precipitation strengthening type which contains much amount of the gamma prime phase and excellent high temperature strength of the Ni based superalloy. The manufacturing process of a Ni based superalloy includes a step for softening the Ni based superalloy and improving the workability, in which the step for softening the Ni based superalloy and improving the workability is a step for precipitating the gamma prime phase that is incoherent with a gamma phase that is a matrix by 20 vol % or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Atsuo OTA, Shinya IMANO, Hironori KAMOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20140127525
    Abstract: To provide, in producing a large product through casting, a Ni-based alloy with a composition that minimizes variations in strength at different locations even when the solidification rate becomes slow and the amount of micro segregation increases. The Ni-based casting alloy of the present invention has a composition of, in mass %, 0.001% to 0.1% C, 15% to 23% Cr, 0% to 11.5% Mo, 3% to 18% W, 5 or less % Fe, 10 or less % Co, 0.4 or less % Ti, 0.4 or less % Al, and Nb and Ta (where 0.5%?Nb+Ta?4.15%), in which 7%?Mo+1/2W?13% is satisfied, and the composition also contains inevitable impurities and Ni.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori KAMOSHIDA, Shinya IMANO, Kenichi MURATA
  • Publication number: 20140064981
    Abstract: An Ni base forged alloy is easy to make hot forging and miniaturization of crystal grains while excellent high-temperature strength and segregation property are compatible. The Ni base forged alloy has solid solution temperature of a precipitation strengthening phase lower than or equal to 970° C., difference in the solid solution temperature between a ?-phase and the precipitation strength phase larger than or equal to 50° C., Al of 0.5 to 1.0%, Cr of 17 to 21%, Fe of 17 to 19%, Nb of 4.5 to 5.5%, Ti of 0.8 to 1.3%, W of 3.0 to 6.0%, B of 0.001 to 0.03%, C of 0.001 to 0.1% and Mo of 1.0% or less in mass percentage [%] and remainder made of Ni and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi SHIBAYAMA, Shinya IMANO, Hironori KAMOSHIDA, Hidetoshi KUROKI, Jun SATO
  • Publication number: 20140064982
    Abstract: An Ni base alloy uses GTD-111 as a base to improve high-temperature strength while maintaining the weldability and corrosion resistance and a gas turbine blade utilizes the Ni base alloy. The Ni base alloy contains Al of 2.5 to 3.5%, Co of 1.5 to 5.5%, Cr of 11.8 to 13.8%, Mo of 0.4 to 1.4%, Ta of 3.0 to 5.0%, Ti of 5.1 to 6.1%, W of 3.3 to 4.3%, B of 0.01 to 0.02%, C of 0.08 to 0.12% in mass % and remainder containing Ni and inevitable impurities and does not substantially contain Nb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi SHIBAYAMA, Shinya IMANO, Hironori KAMOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 8656723
    Abstract: An operation control method for a gas turbine includes making a molten salt map of molten salt for causing high-temperature corrosion on high-temperature components of the turbine due to impurities using a thermodynamic equilibrium calculation on the basis of the impurities contained in low-quality fuel and operation data of the gas turbine, indicating a surface temperature and a pressure of the high-temperature components of the turbine on the molten salt map , predicting a lifetime of the high-temperature components of the gas turbine by estimating a corrosion rate thereof, and controlling the flow rate of the low-quality fuel supplied to a combustor so that an area of surface temperature and pressure regions of the high-temperature components superposing on the region of molten salt in the liquid phase on the molten salt map is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Haruyama, Hideki Tamaki, Yoshitaka Kojima, Hironori Kamoshida
  • Publication number: 20130052474
    Abstract: A Ni-base alloy large-size member comprises a base material having strip-shaped carbide segregation, and a homogeneous modified layer formed on a welding groove surface by treatment using Friction stir processing and solution treatment. In addition, a Ni-base alloy welded structure is manufactured by welding the Ni-base alloy large-size member with other member constituting the Ni-base alloy welded structure, such as a member formed of ferrite steel or another Ni-base alloy large-size member under the condition that weld penetration depth is shallower than the thickness of the modified layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Shinya IMANO, Hironori Kamoshida, Satoshi Hirano, Park Seunghwan, Takehiko Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20120325380
    Abstract: A heat resistant alloy member that maintains the creep strength and improves the fatigue characteristics is provided. The heat resistant alloy member according to the present invention includes a recrystallized structure layer including finer grains on the surface of the member than those inside of the member. The recrystallized structure layer is formed by forming a stirred layer by giving processing strain to the surface of the member using a friction stir processing, and applying recrystallization heat treatment to the stirred layer for recrystallization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori KAMOSHIDA, Shinya IMANO, Takehiko YOSHIDA, Seunghwan PARK
  • Publication number: 20120183410
    Abstract: It is an objective of the present invention to provide an effective use of the friction stir processing (FSP) technology for Ti-alloy turbine blades with a long radial length, and provide a Ti-alloy turbine blade having both high erosion resistance and high long term reliability. There is provided a turbine blade made of an ?-? titanium alloy having an average Vickers hardness of 320 Hv or less, the turbine blade having a leading edge, in which: the turbine blade includes, at the leading edge thereof, a first hardened surface region having a thickness of from 0.5 to 3.0 mm and having an average Vickers hardness of 340 Hv or more; and the first hardened surface region is formed by friction stir processing a surface region of the leading edge of the turbine blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventors: Shinya IMANO, Hironori Kamoshida, Satoshi Hirano, Kenichi Murata, Seunghwan Park, Kunio Asai, Takehiko Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20120102966
    Abstract: An operation control method for a gas turbine comprising the steps of: making a molten salt map in a liquid phase state by calculating a dew point and a solidus temperature of molten salt for causing high-temperature corrosion on high-temperature components of the turbine due to impurities using a thermodynamic equilibrium calculation on the basis of the impurities contained in low-quality fuel and operation data of the gas turbine, indicating a surface temperature and a pressure of the high-temperature components of the turbine on the molten salt map to determine a superposition state thereof on a region of molten salt in a liquid phase, predicting a lifetime of the high-temperature components of the gas turbine by estimating a corrosion rate thereof, and controlling the flow rate of the low-quality fuel supplied to a combustor on the basis of the prediction of the lifetime of the high-temperature components so that an area of surface temperature and pressure regions of the high-temperature components superp
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Hiroshi Haruyama, Hideki Tamaki, Yoshitaka Kojima, Hironori Kamoshida
  • Publication number: 20100193083
    Abstract: A hydrogen-resistant high strength material made of a Ni-based alloy or an Fe—Ni-based alloy includes an aged portion and a hydrogen embrittlement suppressing layer that is to be exposed to hydrogen. The hydrogen embrittlement suppressing layer has a hydrogen embrittlement index of not less than 0.9, wherein the hydrogen embrittlement index is defined as a ratio of an elongation after hydrogen charging in relation to an elongation before hydrogen charging. The aged portion has a tensile strength exceeding 1000 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori KAMOSHIDA, Shinya IMANO