Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Takebayashi

Hiroshi Takebayashi 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: 20250027186
    Abstract: Provided is a plated steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet and a plating layer formed on a surface of the base steel sheet, wherein the plating layer has a predetermined chemical composition, and when measuring the plating layer by glow discharge spectroscopy (GDS), a ratio of “Al concentration at center of plating layer”/“Al concentration at position of plating layer where Fe concentration is 50% of base steel sheet” is 0.10 to 1.50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12204277
    Abstract: Provided is a toner including toner base particles and resin particles. Each toner base particle includes a binder resin, a colorant, and wax. Each resin particle e has a core-shell structure including a core and a shell, where a glass transition temperature TgA of the shell is higher than a glass transition temperature TgB of the core. A surface of each toner base particle is covered with the resin particles. A storage elastic modulus G?1 of the toner at 70° C. during heating is 1.0×105 Pa or greater but 1.0×103 Pa or less, and a storage elastic modulus G?2 of the toner at 100° C. during heating is 1.0×104 Pa or greater but 5.0×104 Pa or less, as the toner is measured by a rheometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kamada, Hiroshi Yamada, Toma Takebayashi, Akio Takei
  • Patent number: 12191123
    Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a ceramic base including an electrode, a cooling base including a coolant flow path formed therein, a bonding layer bonding the ceramic base and the cooling base, a stepped hole penetrating the bonding layer and the cooling base and including an upper hole portion with a small diameter, a lower hole portion with a large diameter, and a hole stepped portion between the upper hole portion and the lower hole portion, the upper hole portion passing through a region in which the coolant flow path is formed, a stepped insulating pipe inserted through the stepped hole and including an upper pipe portion with a small diameter, a lower pipe portion with a large diameter, and a pipe stepped portion between the upper pipe portion and the lower pipe portion; and a connection terminal bonded to the electrode and inserted through the stepped insulating pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takebayashi, Tatsuya Kuno, Seiya Inoue
  • Publication number: 20250003047
    Abstract: This plated steel sheet includes a base steel sheet, a plated layer formed on a surface of the base steel sheet, and an oxide film formed on a surface of the plated layer, the plated layer has a chemical composition containing Sc: 0.000010 to 4.0% in mass %, and has a cross section, in the thickness direction, in which the area fraction of an intermetallic compound phase containing Sc and having an equivalent circle diameter of 5.0 ?m or less is 0.1 to 10.0%, and the oxide film has a thickness of 10 nm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota HAYASHIDA, Takuya MITSUNOBU, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12180564
    Abstract: A plated steel sheet comprises a plated layer on a surface of a steel sheet, in which in the plated layer, the total amount ?A of Sn, Bi, and In is less than 0.75%, the total amount ?B of Ca, Y, La, and Ce is 0.03 to 0.60%, the total amount ?C of Cr, Ti, Ni, Co, V, Nb, Cu, and Mn is 0 to 1.00%, Sn?Si, and 20.0?Mg/Si are satisfied, and in an X-ray diffraction pattern of a surface of the plated layer, an X-ray diffraction peak of Al2.15Zn1.85Ca, an X-ray diffraction peak of CaZn2, and an X-ray diffraction peak of ??-MgZn2 satisfy a predetermined relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Tokuda, Mamoru Saito, Yuto Fukuda, Yasuto Goto, Yasuhiro Majima, Naoyuki Yamato, Fumiaki Nakamura, Hidetoshi Shindo, Koji Kawanishi, Kenichiro Matsumura, Hiroshi Takebayashi
  • Publication number: 20240425962
    Abstract: The hot-dip plated steel material includes a steel material and a hot-dip plated layer disposed on a surface of the steel material, the hot-dip plated layer has a certain chemical composition, and the hot-dip plated layer has a diffraction intensity obtained from a result of X-ray diffraction measurement, the diffraction intensity satisfying a certain relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Kohei TOKUDA, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12173391
    Abstract: High strength steel sheet and plated steel sheet having high plateability, LME resistance, and hydrogen embrittlement resistance, that is, steel sheet containing C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, and sol. Al: 0.4 to 1.50%, having an internal oxidation layer including fine granular oxides, coarse granular oxides, and grain boundary oxides in a surface layer of the steel sheet, a number density of fine granular oxides in the internal oxidation layer being 4.0/?m2 or more, a number density of coarse granular oxides in the internal oxidation layer being 4.0/25 ?m2 or more, having a Ratio A of the length of the grain boundary oxides projected on the surface of the steel sheet to the length of the surface of the steel sheet when examining a cross-section of the surface layer of the steel sheet being 50% or more and 100% or less, and including a surface depleted layer with a steel composition not including oxides which satisfies, by mass %, Si?0.6% and Al?0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keitaro Matsuda, Takuya Mitsunobu, Masaaki Uranaka, Jun Maki, Hiroshi Takebayashi
  • Patent number: 12138886
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a plated steel sheet for hot stamping comprising a steel sheet and a Zn—Ni plating layer formed on at least one surface of the steel sheet, wherein the Zn—Ni plating layer has an Ni concentration of 8 mass % or more, a plating deposition amount of 10 g/m2 or more and 90 g/m2 or less per surface, and an average grain size of 50 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiro Takahashi, Daisuke Maeda, Hiroshi Takebayashi
  • Publication number: 20240359252
    Abstract: A steel welded member having a high LME resistance of a spot weld, i.e., a steel welded member comprised of a plurality of Zn-based plated steel materials, each comprised of a steel material and a Zn-based plating layer on its surface, joined by at least one spot weld, in which at least one of the Zn-based plated steel materials has a 780 MPa or more tensile strength, that steel material has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, sol. Al: 0.4 to 1.50%, etc. and having a balance of Fe and impurities, and, in a region of 10 to 300 ?m from an end of a pressure weld of the spot weld, a difference of a Zn penetration depth of Zn from a Zn-based plating layer penetrating a steel material minus a depth of an internal oxidation layer formed at the steel material is within 0.1 to 10.0 ?m in range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI, Keitaro MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 12120783
    Abstract: A ceramic heater including a heater electrode embedded in a plate made of ceramic, wherein, of the heater electrode, a specific area surrounding portion surrounding a specific temperature area in which temperature of the plate becomes low has a smaller thickness than a normal portion of the heater electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takebayashi, Joyo Ito, Daisuke Inoue
  • Publication number: 20240336996
    Abstract: A plated steel sheet comprises a plated layer on a surface of a steel sheet, in which in the plated layer, the total amount ?A of Sn, Bi, and In is less than 0.75%, the total amount ?B of Ca, Y, La, and Ce is 0.03 to 0.60%, the total amount ?C of Cr, Ti, Ni, Co, V, Nb, Cu, and Mn is 0 to 1.00%, Sn?Si, and 20.0?Mg/Si are satisfied, and in an X-ray diffraction pattern of a surface of the plated layer, an X-ray diffraction peak of Al2.15Zn1.85Ca, an X-ray diffraction peak of CaZn2, and an X-ray diffraction peak of ??-MgZn2 satisfy a predetermined relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei TOKUDA, Mamoru SAITO, Yuto FUKUDA, Yasuto GOTO, Yasuhiro MAJIMA, Naoyuki YAMATO, Fumiaki NAKAMURA, Hidetoshi SHINDO, Koji KAWANISHI, Kenichiro MATSUMURA, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12110595
    Abstract: The hot-dip plated steel material includes a steel material and a hot-dip plated layer disposed on a surface of the steel material, the hot-dip plated layer has a certain chemical composition, and the hot-dip plated layer has a diffraction intensity obtained from a result of X-ray diffraction measurement, the diffraction intensity satisfying a certain relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Mitsunobu, Kohei Tokuda, Hiroshi Takebayashi
  • Patent number: 12108499
    Abstract: A ceramic heater with a shaft includes: a ceramic plate in which a resistance heating element is embedded; a hollow ceramic shaft having an upper end bonded to a surface on an opposite side of a wafer placement surface of the ceramic plate; and a shaft heater embedded in a side wall near an upper end of the ceramic shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aikawa, Hiroshi Takebayashi, Tatsuya Kuno
  • Publication number: 20240318288
    Abstract: High strength plated steel sheet excellent in LME resistance, that is, plated steel sheet comprising steel sheet and a plating layer containing Zn on the same, in which the steel sheet has a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more, the steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, sol. Al: 0.4 to 1.50%, etc. and having a balance of Fe and impurities, and, in any vertical cross section of the steel sheet, ferrite phases with a circle equivalent diameter of 1 ?m or less are contained in a region from a surface layer down to a depth of 2 ?m in a number density of 2 to 30/?m2 and the ferrite phases include internal oxides with a circle equivalent diameter of 2 to 100 nm in a number density of 3/?m2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Keitaro MATSUDA, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12087613
    Abstract: A wafer placement table is a ceramic sintered body with a surface provided with multiple projections that support a wafer. Of the surface of the ceramic sintered body, the area provided with no projection is a mirror surface which has a surface roughness Ra of 0.1 ?m or less. The projections are formed of an aerosol deposition film or a thermal spray film made of the same material as for the ceramic sintered body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takebayashi, Kenichiro Aikawa, Tatsuya Kuno
  • Patent number: 12071691
    Abstract: A plated steel sheet for automobile structural members has a steel sheet, a plating layer formed on at least a part of a surface of the steel sheet, and an oxide layer formed on at least a part of a surface of the plating layer, the plating layer has a predetermined chemical composition, and when measurement by XPS is performed at a position 5.0 nm below a surface of the oxide layer in a thickness direction, IMg/IMgOx, which is the ratio of a maximum detected intensity of Mg to a maximum detected intensity of an oxide or hydroxide of Mg, is 0.00 or greater and 1.20 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Mitsunobu, Takehiro Takahashi, Hiroshi Takebayashi
  • Publication number: 20240240278
    Abstract: A steel sheet comprising, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, and Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, wherein a surface layer of the steel sheet contains granular oxides, an average grain size of the granular oxides is 300 nm or less, a number density of granular oxides is 4.0/?m2 or more, the steel sheet comprises an Si—Mn depleted layer having a thickness of 3.0 ?m or more from the surface of the steel sheet, and Si and Mn contents of the Si—Mn depleted layer not containing oxides at the ½ position of the thickness are respectively less than 10% of the Si and Mn contents at the sheet thickness center part of the steel sheet, and a plated steel sheet using the same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Keitaro MATSUDA, Jun MAKI, Takehiro TAKAHASHI, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12040165
    Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a ceramic base having a wafer placement surface on its top surface and incorporating an electrode, a cooling base in which a refrigerant flow channel is formed, and a metal bonding layer that bonds the ceramic base with the cooling base. The cooling base includes a ceiling base made of a metal matrix composite material or a low thermal expansion metal material and defining a ceiling of the refrigerant flow channel, a grooved base of which a main component is made of the same ceramic material as a main component of the ceramic base and on a top surface of which a flow channel groove defining a bottom and a side wall of the refrigerant flow channel is provided, and a metal ceiling bonding layer that bonds a bottom surface of the ceiling base with the top surface of the grooved base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kuno, Seiya Inoue, Hiroshi Takebayashi
  • Publication number: 20240227354
    Abstract: A steel welded member comprising a plurality of Zn-based plated steel materials, each having a Zn-based plating layer on a surface of a steel material, joined together through at least one spot weld, wherein the steel material contains, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, and Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, the steel welded member includes, by area ratio, 20 to 80% of a ? phase (Fe3 Zn1 0) and at least one oxide with a long axis of 0.5 ?m or more in a region up to 0.5 mm from an end part of a pressure weld of the spot weld.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Keitaro MATSUDA, Jun MAKI, Takehiro TAKAHASHI, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12031201
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a plated steel sheet for hot stamping comprising a steel sheet and a Zn—Ni plating layer formed on at least one surface of the steel sheet, wherein the Zn—Ni plating layer has an Ni concentration of 8 mass % or more, a plating deposition amount of 10 g/m2 or more and 90 g/m2 or less per surface, and an average grain size of 50 nm or more, and a difference between a diffraction peak of the Zn—Ni plating layer after heat treating the plated steel sheet for hot stamping at 200° C. for 1 hour, and a diffraction peak of the Zn—Ni plating layer before heat treating it, is 0.3° or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiro Takahashi, Daisuke Maeda, Hiroshi Takebayashi