Patents by Inventor Hiroyasu Fujii

Hiroyasu Fujii 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: 11948710
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention is a non-oriented electrical steel sheet including a base metal steel sheet and a composite coating film that is formed on surfaces of the base metal steel sheet and includes Zn-containing phosphate and an organic resin, wherein the non-oriented electrical steel sheet contains crystalline aluminum phosphate showing diffraction lines belonging to ICDD No. 01-074-3256 when the composite coating film is measured by a wide-angle X-ray diffraction method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Fujii, Jun Maki, Kazutoshi Takeda, Akira Akagi, Yuya Fujii
  • Publication number: 20240047107
    Abstract: This non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base steel sheet (10); and an insulation coating (20) formed on a surface of the base steel sheet (10), in which the insulation coating (20) contains a metal phosphate and an organic resin, an arithmetic mean of a center line average roughness Ra75 of the insulation coating (20) in a rolling direction of the base steel sheet (10) and a center line average roughness Ra75 of the insulation coating (20) in a direction perpendicular to the rolling direction is 0.20 to 0.50 ?m, and the amount of nitrogen in the insulation coating (20) is 0.05 to 5.00 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Minako FUKUCHI, Yoshiaki NATORI, Hiroyasu FUJII, Shinsuke TAKATANI
  • Patent number: 11884988
    Abstract: In a base sheet for a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet of the present invention, an amount of surface oxygen x per one surface of the base sheet and a value y of a peak (?R/R0 @1250 cm?1) of SiO2 on the surface of the base sheet obtained by infrared reflection spectroscopy satisfy y?1500x2.5 and y?0.24. A method of manufacturing the base sheet for a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet of the present invention includes: adjusting the amount of surface oxygen per one surface of a final-annealed grain-oriented silicon steel sheet to more than 0.01 g/m2 and 0.05 g/m2 or less, or more than 0.05 g/m2 and 0.10 g/m2 or less; and performing thermal oxidation annealing in an atmosphere in which an oxidation potential represented by a ratio PH2O/PH2 of water vapor pressure to hydrogen pressure is 0.0081 or less in a case where the amount of surface oxygen is more than 0.01 g/m2 and 0.05 g/m2 or less, or in an atmosphere in which the oxidation potential is 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakamura, Seiki Takebayashi, Yoshiyuki Ushigami, Shinsuke Takatani, Hiroyasu Fujii
  • Patent number: 11855485
    Abstract: A laminated core includes a plurality of electrical steel sheets which are stacked on each other and of each of which both surfaces are coated with an insulation coating; and an adhesion part which is provided between the electrical steel sheets adjacent in the stacking direction and adheres the electrical steel sheets to each other, wherein an adhesive for forming the adhesion part includes a first phase and a second phase, wherein the adhesion part has a sea-island structure of the first phase which is a sea structure portion and the second phase which is an island structure portion, wherein the first phase contains an epoxy resin, an acrylic resin, and a curing agent, wherein the first phase has an SP value of 8.5 to 10.7 (cal/cm3)1/2, wherein the second phase contains an elastomer, and wherein the second phase has an SP value of 7.5 to 8.4 (cal/cm3)1/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke Takatani, Hiroyasu Fujii, Kazutoshi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20230395291
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention is a non-oriented electrical steel sheet including a base metal steel sheet and a composite coating film that is formed on surfaces of the base metal steel sheet and includes Zn-containing phosphate and an organic resin, wherein the non-oriented electrical steel sheet contains crystalline aluminum phosphate showing diffraction lines belonging to ICDD No. 01-074-3256 when the composite coating film is measured by a wide-angle X-ray diffraction method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyasu FUJII, Jun MAKI, Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Akira AKAGI, Yuya FUJII
  • Patent number: 11742129
    Abstract: An adhesively-laminated core includes: a plurality of electrical steel sheets which are stacked on each other and of which both surfaces are coated with an insulation coating; and an adhesion part which is provided between the electrical steel sheets adjacent to each other in a stacking direction and adheres the electrical steel sheets to each other, wherein an adhesive forming the adhesion part contains an organic resin and an inorganic filler, wherein a 50% particle size of the inorganic filler is 0.2 to 3.5 ?m, wherein a 90% particle size of the inorganic filler is 10.0 ?m or less, and wherein an amount of the inorganic filler is 5 to 50 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the organic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Fujii, Shinsuke Takatani, Kazutoshi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20230033301
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a base metal steel sheet, and a composite coating film composed of a Zn-containing phosphate and an organic resin, the composite coating film being formed on a surface of the base metal steel sheet, wherein: a content of Zn in the composite coating film is 10 mg/m2 or more per side; and the product of an amount of oxygen in the base metal steel sheet and a sheet thickness of the base metal steel sheet is 50 ppm·mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyasu FUJII, Jun MAKI, Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Akira AKAGI, Hiroyuki MIMURA
  • Patent number: 11499055
    Abstract: A coating solution for forming an insulating film for a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet which contains one or more types of hydrous silicate powders having an average particle size of 2 ?m or less, and one or more types of phosphoric acids and phosphates satisfying a relation of ?niMi/?Pi?0.5, and satisfies (Formula 1). 1.5?(?niMi+?n?jM?j)/?Pi?15??(Formula 1) (P represents the number of moles of phosphorus, M represents the number of moles of metal ions derived from the phosphate, n represents the valence of the metal ions derived from the phosphate, i represents the number of types of phosphates, M? represents the number of moles of metal elements in the hydrous silicate, n? represents the valence of the metal elements in the hydrous silicate, and j represents the number of types of hydrous silicates).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Yamazaki, Hiroyasu Fujii, Kazutoshi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20220341043
    Abstract: There is provided a non-oriented electrical steel sheet that includes a base metal steel sheet and an insulating coating film that is formed on a surface of the base metal steel sheet, wherein the insulating coating film mainly contains metal phosphate, organic resin, and water-soluble organic compound, the water-soluble organic compound has an SP value that is within a range of 10.0 to 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Shuichi YAMAZAKI, Takuya MATSUMOTO, Hiroyasu FUJII, Masaru TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220336129
    Abstract: There is provided a non-oriented electrical steel sheet that includes a base metal steel sheet and an insulating coating film that is formed on a surface of the base metal steel sheet, wherein the insulating coating film mainly contains metal phosphate, organic resin, and water-soluble organic compound, the metal phosphate contains at least aluminum as a metallic element, the organic resin has an SP value being within a range of 18.0 (MPa)0.5 or more to less than 24.0 (MPa)0.5, the water-soluble organic compound has an SP value being within a range of 19.0 (MPa)0.5 or more to less than 35.0 (MPa)0.5, and when measurement by X-ray diffractometry is performed on the insulating coating film, a degree of crystallinity of aluminum phosphate calculated from a peak from the metal phosphate is within a range of 0.5 to 5.0%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Shuichi YAMAZAKI, Takuya MATSUMOTO, Hiroyasu FUJII, Masaru TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220316022
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet according to one embodiment of this invention includes a base metal steel sheet and a composite coating film composed of a Zn-containing phosphate and an organic resin, the composite coating film being formed on a surface of the base metal steel sheet. A molar ratio of Zn to all metal components in the composite coating film is 10 mol % or more, and after the non-oriented electrical steel sheet is boiled for 20 minutes in boiled distilled water, an amount of soluble Zn in the distilled water is 1.0 mg/m2 or more. The method for determining the amount of soluble Zn is in accordance with JIS K 0102: 2016 “Testing Methods for Industrial Wastewater”, 53.3 “ICP Emission Spectroscopy”.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyasu FUJII, Jun MAKI, Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Hiroyuki MIMURA, Yusuke KANTO, Shuichi YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11450460
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a base steel sheet; an intermediate layer arranged in contact with the base steel sheet; and an insulation coating arranged in contact with the intermediate layer to be an outermost surface, in which the intermediate layer has a local oxidized area when viewing a cross section whose cutting direction is parallel to a thickness direction, and a thickness of the intermediate layer in an area where the local oxidized area is included is 50 nm or more, and a thickness of the intermediate layer in an area where the local oxidized area is not included is less than 50 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiki Takebayashi, Shuichi Nakamura, Hiroyasu Fujii, Yoshiyuki Ushigami, Shinsuke Takatani
  • Patent number: 11346005
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a base steel sheet; an intermediate layer arranged in contact with the base steel sheet; and an insulation coating arranged in contact with the intermediate layer to be an outermost surface, in which the insulation coating has a crystalline phosphide-containing layer containing a crystalline phosphide in an area in contact with the intermediate layer when viewing a cross section whose cutting direction is parallel to a thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiki Takebayashi, Shuichi Nakamura, Hiroyasu Fujii, Yoshiyuki Ushigami, Shinsuke Takatani
  • Patent number: 11332831
    Abstract: An insulating coating for an electrical steel sheet is provided that is formed on a surface of a base metal of the electrical steel sheet and that contains a polyvalent metal phosphate of one or more elements selected from Al, Zn, Mg and Ca, and has an enriched layer of a divalent metal at an interface with the surface of the base metal. An enrichment of the divalent metal contained in the enriched layer is 0.01 g/m2 or more and less than 0.2 g/m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Yamazaki, Masaru Takahashi, Kazutoshi Takeda, Hiroyasu Fujii, Akira Akagi, Hiroki Hori
  • Publication number: 20220119958
    Abstract: This grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a steel sheet, an insulation coating disposed on the steel sheet, and a spinel present at a part on the steel sheet at an interface between the steel sheet and the insulation coating by being fitted into the insulation coating, in which an amount of the spinel is 5 to 50 mg/m2 per unit area of a surface of the steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyasu FUJII, Seiki TAKEBAYASHI, Yoshiyuki USHIGAMI, Takashi KATAOKA, Shunsuke OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20220098694
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a silicon steel material production process of producing a silicon steel material; a hot rolling process of obtaining a hot rolled sheet by subjecting the silicon steel material to hot rolling; a cold rolling process of obtaining a steel sheet of a final sheet thickness by subjecting the hot rolled sheet to a single cold rolling process or multiple cold rolling processes having intermediate annealing performed between the cold rolling processes; a decarburization annealing process of subjecting the steel sheet to decarburization annealing; and a final annealing process of applying an annealing separator containing alumina as a main component to the steel sheet and subjecting the steel sheet to final annealing. The silicon steel material contains: in terms of mass %, Si: 0.8 to 7.0%; C: 0.085% or less; acid-soluble Al: 0.010 to 0.065%; N: 0.004 to 0.012%; Mn: 1.00% or less; S: 0.050% or less; a total of 0.01 to 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki USHIGAMI, Shuichi NAKAMURA, Hiroyasu FUJII, Norikazu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20220102035
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an aspect of the present invention includes an underlying steel sheet and a tension-insulation coating arranged on the surface of the underlying steel sheet, and a ten-point average roughness RzL in an L direction obtained when the tension-insulation coating is removed from the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet with an alkaline solution, and then the surface of the underlying steel sheet is measured in a rolling direction is 6.0 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi NAKAMURA, Yoshiyuki USHIGAMI, Hiroyasu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20220081749
    Abstract: This manufacturing method of a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is a manufacturing method of a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having no forsterite film, in which in a decarburization annealing process, a cold-rolled steel sheet is (i-1) heated at an average heating rate (HR1) of 40 to 500° C./sec in a temperature range of 550° C. or higher and lower than 720° C., (i-2) heated at an average heating rate (HR2), which is 5 to 50° C./sec, in a temperature range of 720° C. to T1° C. (770° C.?T1 (° C.)?900° C.), and (ii) retained at the temperature of T1° C. for 50 to 1000 seconds to make an amount of C 25 ppm or less in an atmosphere of an oxygen partial pressure (P1) which is 0.0010 to 0.20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke TAKATANI, Takashi KATAOKA, Yoshiyuki USHIGAMI, Kenichi MURAKAMI, Hiroyasu FUJII, Shingo OKADA, Seiki TAKEBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220052570
    Abstract: An adhesively-laminated core for a stator capable of suppressing an iron loss of an electric motor and also having excellent productivity is provided. The adhesively-laminated core for a stator includes a plurality of electrical steel sheets which are stacked on one another and of which both surfaces are coated with insulation coatings, and adhesion parts which are disposed between the electrical steel sheets adjacent to each other in a stacking direction and cause the electrical steel sheets to be adhered to each other. All sets of the electrical steel sheets adjacent to each other in the stacking direction are adhered via the adhesion parts. An adhesive forming the adhesion parts is a two-agent type acrylic-based adhesive (SGA) which includes an acrylic-based compound, an oxidizer, and a reducer and in which a portion of the acrylic-based compound and the oxidizer are assigned to a first agent and the remaining portion of the acrylic-based compound and the reducer are assigned to a second agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Hiroyasu FUJII, Shinsuke TAKATANI
  • Publication number: 20220037939
    Abstract: Provided is an electric motor which includes an adhesively-laminated core for a stator having excellent productivity and high mechanical strength and that is thus capable of reducing vibration and noise of an electric motor and suppressing iron loss. The adhesively-laminated core for a stator includes electrical steel sheets laminated on each other and each coated on both sides with an insulation coating, and an adhesion part disposed between the electrical steel sheets adjacent to each other in a stacking direction and configured to cause the electrical steel sheets to be adhered to each other. All sets of the electrical steel sheets adjacent to each other in the stacking direction are adhered by the adhesion part, an adhesive forming the adhesion part includes a fast-curing type adhesive and a thermosetting adhesive, and the adhesion part is partially provided between the electrical steel sheets adjacent to each other in the stacking direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Hiroyasu FUJII, Shinsuke TAKATANI