Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Kawata
Hiroyuki Kawata 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).
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Patent number: 12247263Abstract: A steel sheet of the present invention is a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition and containing at least ferrite, residual austenite, and/or martensite in a microstructure, and furthermore, is a steel sheet in which, in a plane parallel to a rolled surface, an average distance between centers of high Mn regions adjacent to each other is 1.00 mm or less, a density DA of the high Mn regions at a sheet width center portion and a density DB of the high Mn regions at a ¼ position from a sheet width end portion satisfy a relationship of 0.77?DA/DB?1.30, a ratio of an average hardness of the high Mn regions to an average hardness of the low Mn regions is 1.1 to 2.0, and a difference between an average of a top 5% and an average of a bottom 5% of Mn contents in the low Mn regions is 0.3% or more.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kohichi Sano, Hiroyuki Kawata
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Patent number: 12221661Abstract: A steel sheet includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %: C: 0.0015% to 0.0400%; Mn: 0.20% to 1.50%; P: 0.010% to 0.100%; Cr: 0.001% to 0.500%; Si: 0.200% or less; S: 0.020% or less; sol. Al: 0.200% or less; N: 0.0150% or less; Mo: 0% to 0.500%; B: 0% to 0.0100%; Nb: 0% to 0.200%; Ti: 0% to 0.200%; Ni: 0% to 0.200%; Cu: 0% to 0.100%; and a remainder including iron and impurities, in which a metallographic structure in a surface layer region includes ferrite having a volume fraction of 90% or more, and in the surface layer region, an average grain size of the ferrite is 1.0 ?m to 15.0 ?m, and a texture in which an XODF{001}/{111}, S as a ratio of an intensity of {001} orientation to an intensity of {111} orientation in the ferrite is 0.30 or more and less than 3.50 is included.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Kubo, Hiroyuki Kawata, Kenichiro Otsuka, Masafumi Azuma
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Patent number: 12214703Abstract: A conveyance seat capable of suppressing wrinkles or saggings from occurring on a surface of a seat main body is provided. A conveyance seat includes a seat back and a movable body which is attached inside the seat back, is disposed at an outer position in relation to a center portion of the seat back, and is operated so that a side portion of the seat back protrudes toward a seated occupant side (seat front side). The movable body is disposed on a back surface of a cushion material in the side portion. An end portion (rear end portion) on the side opposite to the seated occupant side of the movable body is disposed on the seated occupant side (seat front side) in relation to a seating surface of the center portion of the seat back.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Takanori Yamaguchi, Masahito Tashiro, Katsuya Kawata, Kazuya Miyawaki, Heehyeok Park, Kenta Kikuchi, Naoto Yamauchi, Naoya Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Kaku, Hiroshi Baba, Jinichi Tanabe
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Publication number: 20240425960Abstract: The steel sheet contains, as a chemical composition, by mass %, C: 0.040% to 0.100%, Mn: 1.00% to 2.00%, Si: 0.005% to 1.500%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.0200% or less, Al: 0.005% to 0.700%, N: 0.0150% or less, O: 0.0100% or less, and a remainder: Fe and impurities, in which an arithmetic mean waviness Wa is in a range of 0.10 to 0.30 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2021Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro ITO, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Mai NAGANO, Satoshi HIRONAKA
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Publication number: 20240344165Abstract: Adopted are a steel sheet contains, as a chemical composition, by mass %, C: 0.040% to 0.105%, Mn: 1.00% to 2.30%, Si: 0.005% to 1.500%, Al: 0.005% to 0.700%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.0200% or less, N: 0.0150% or less, O: 0.0100% or less, and a remainder: Fe and impurities, in which ?C that is calculated from C20, which is a C content at a 20 ?m depth position from a surface, C60, which is a C content at a 60 ?m depth position from the surface, and the following expression (1) is in a range of 0.20 to 0.90 mass %/mm, and a press-formed article that is obtained by press-forming the steel sheet. ? ? C = ( C 60 - C 2 ? 0 ) / ( 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2021Publication date: October 17, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro ITO, Mai NAGANO, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Satoshi HIRONAKA
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Publication number: 20240247357Abstract: The present invention relates to a galvanized steel sheet comprising steel sheet containing C: 0.05 to 0.30%, Si: 0.01 to 3.00%, Mn: 0.80 to 3.00%, and Al: 0.010 to 2.000% and having a thickness of 0.10 to 0.95 mm, and a galvanized layer on the steel sheet, wherein a tensile strength is 550 to 1500 MPa, and, when defining a thickness of an internal oxide layer per surface of the steel sheet as “A” (?m), a thickness of a decarburized layer per surface of the steel sheet as “B” (?m), and a thickness of the steel sheet as “t” (?m), A/B: 0.01 to 0.50 and B/t: 0.001 to 0.200.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2021Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Jun MAKI, Keitaro MATSUDA, Hiroyuki KAWATA
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Patent number: 12024752Abstract: This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which the area ratio of plate martensite is 10% or more, the average grain size of prior austenite grains is 2.0 ?m to 10.0 ?m, the maximum diameter thereof is 20.0 ?m or less, the amount of solid solution C in martensite is 0.20 mass % or less, the average carbide size is 0.25 ?m or less, the crystal orientation difference between plate martensite and another martensite adjacent thereto in the same prior austenite grain is 10.0° or less, and the P concentration at grain boundaries of the prior austenite grains is 4.0 at % or less.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kohichi Sano, Hiroyuki Kawata, Kengo Takeda
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Patent number: 12006562Abstract: Provided are a hot dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined composition and contains ferrite: 0% to 50%, retained austenite: 0% to 30%, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite and cementite in total: 0% to 5%, remaining structures consist of bainite, when defining a region having a hardness of 90% or less of the hardness at a position of ¼ thickness to the base steel sheet side from an interface of the base steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized layer as a “soft layer”, there is a soft layer having a thickness of 10 ?m or more at the base steel sheet side from the interface, the soft layer contains tempered martensite, and an increase rate in a thickness direction of an area % of tempered martensite from the interface to the inside of the base steel sheet inside the soft layer is 5.0%/?m or less, and a method for producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Kawata, Kunio Hayashi, Yuji Yamaguchi, Satoshi Uchida
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Publication number: 20240182997Abstract: A hot dip galvanized steel sheet includes a base steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized layer on at least one surface of the base metal steel sheet, wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and contains, by volume fraction, ferrite: 0% to 50%, retained austenite: 0% to 30%, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite and cementite in total: 0% to 5%, when there are remaining structures, the remaining structures consist of bainite, a concentration of B atoms at prior austenite grain boundaries is 2.0 atm % or more, and an average effective crystal grain size is 7.0 ?m or less, and a method for producing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2024Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Kunio HAYASHI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA
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Patent number: 11970752Abstract: Provided are: a steel sheet having a high strength and excellent hydrogen embrittlement resistance; and a method of producing the same. The steel sheet has prescribed chemical composition and structure, in which a standard deviation ? of Mn concentration satisfies ??0.15 Mnave (wherein, Mnave represents an average Mn concentration) and a region with a Mn concentration of higher than (Mnave+1.3?) has a circle-equivalent diameter of less than 10.0 ?m. The method of producing the steel sheet includes: the hot rolling step that includes finish rolling a slab having a prescribed chemical composition under prescribed conditions; the step of coiling the thus obtained hot-rolled steel sheet at a coiling temperature of 450 to 700° C.; and the step of cold rolling the hot-rolled steel sheet and subsequently annealing this steel sheet at 800 to 900° C.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo Takeda, Hiroyuki Kawata, Takafumi Yokoyama, Katsuya Nakano
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Patent number: 11905570Abstract: A hot dip galvanized steel sheet includes a base steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized layer on at least one surface of the base metal steel sheet, wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and contains, by volume fraction, ferrite: 0% to 50%, retained austenite: 0% to 30%, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite and cementite in total: 0% to 5%, when there are remaining structures, the remaining structures consist of bainite, a concentration of B atoms at prior austenite grain boundaries is 2.0 atm % or more, and an average effective crystal grain size is 7.0 ?m or less, and a method for producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Kawata, Kunio Hayashi, Yuji Yamaguchi, Satoshi Uchida
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Patent number: 11898219Abstract: A steel sheet including a steel micro-structure containing, in volume fraction, tempered martensite: 85% or more, retained austenite: 5% or more to less than 15%, and ferrite, pearlite, bainite, and as-quenched martensite being less than 10% in total, when contents of Mn and C in the retained austenite are denoted by MnA and CA, and when contents of Mn and C in a matrix are denoted by MnM and CM, respectively, following Formulas (1) to (3) are satisfied, and the number of carbides having an equivalent circle radius of 0.1 ?m or more is 100 or less in a region measuring 20000 ?m2, and the steel sheet has a tensile strength of 1100 MPa or more. The steel sheet is excellent in crash resistance and formability. MnA/MnM?1.2??(1) CA/CM?5.0??(2) CA?1.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuya Nakano, Kengo Takeda, Hiroyuki Kawata, Akihiro Uenishi
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Patent number: 11885025Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes a chemical composition including: by mass %, C: 0.080 to 0.500%, Si: 2.50% or less, Mn: 0.50 to 5.00%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.001 to 2.500%, N: 0.0150% or less, O: 0.0050% or less, and the balance: Fe and inevitable impurities. The high-strength steel sheet satisfying a predetermined formula has a microstructure in a region from ?t to ?t from a steel sheet surface. The microstructure includes: by volume %, 20% or more of acicular ferrite, 20% or more of an island-shaped hard structure including residual austenite, 2% to 25% of residual austenite, and 20% or less of aggregated ferrite.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Kawata, Eisaku Sakurada, Kohichi Sano, Takafumi Yokoyama
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Patent number: 11866800Abstract: A steel sheet includes a predetermined composition satisfying Expression (1), in which the microstructure at the ¼ thickness position from the surface in the sheet thickness direction includes, by vol %, ferrite: 95% or more and a remainder of the microstructure: 5% or less, has a proportion of unrecrystallized ferrite in the ferrite of 5% or less, and a half width w and an X-ray wavelength ? at a peak of (200) plane of the ferrite satisfy Expression (2). 0.80?{(Ti/48?N/14)+Nb/93}/(C/12)?5.00??(1) w×??0.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Kawata, Kengo Takeda, Mai Nagano
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Patent number: 11859260Abstract: A steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a metallographic structure in a surface layer region ranging from a surface to a position of 20 ?m from the surface in a sheet thickness direction consists of ferrite and a secondary phase having a volume fraction of 1.0% to 15.0%, the metallographic structure in an internal region ranging from a position of more than 20 ?m from the surface in the sheet thickness direction to a ¼ thickness position from the surface in the sheet thickness direction consists of ferrite and a secondary phase having a volume fraction of 5.0% to 25.0%, the volume fraction of the secondary phase in the surface layer region is less than the volume fraction of the secondary phase in the internal region, and in the surface layer region, the average grain size of the secondary phase is 0.5 ?m to 4.0 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Kubo, Hiroyuki Kawata, Masahiro Saito, Kenichiro Otsuka, Masafumi Azuma
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Patent number: 11814708Abstract: Provided are a hot dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized layer on at least one surface of the base metal steel sheet, wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition and contains, by volume fraction, ferrite: 0% to 50%, retained austenite: 6% to 30%, bainite: 5% or more, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite and cementite in total: 0% to 5%, a number density of tempered martensite with a circle equivalent diameter of 5.0 ?m or more is 20/1000 ?m2 or less, and an area ratio of fresh martensite with a circle equivalent diameter of 2.0 ?m or more after imparting 5% plastic strain is 10% or less, and a method for producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Kawata, Kunio Hayashi, Yuji Yamaguchi, Satoshi Uchida
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Patent number: 11801897Abstract: In a frame member, the hardness of a sheet-thickness-direction central section in a portion where a softening layer is provided is greater than or equal to 400 Hv, the softening layer has hardness smaller by at least 10 Hv than the hardness of the sheet-thickness-direction central section in the portion where the softening layer is provided, the thickness of the softening layer is greater than or equal to 2% of the sheet thickness but smaller than 20% of the sheet thickness, the hardness of the softening layer at the surface is greater than or equal to 0.5 times the hardness of the sheet-thickness-direction central section but smaller than 0.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri Toda, Hiroaki Kubota, Hiroyuki Kawata, Daisuke Maeda
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Patent number: 11732341Abstract: In a metal coated steel sheet, a chemical composition contains, in mass %, at least C: 0.03% to 0.70%, Si: 0.25% to 2.50%, Mn: 1.00% to 5.00%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.010% or less, sol. Al: 0.001% to 2.500, N: 0.020% or less, and a balance composed of iron and impurities, a metal structure contains greater than 5.0 vol % of retained austenite and greater than 5.0 vol % of tempered martensite, and satisfies a C content in the retained austenite being 0.85 mass % or more.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Haga, Kohichi Sano, Koutarou Hayashi, Kunio Hayashi, Masaharu Kameda, Akihiro Uenishi, Hiroyuki Kawata
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Patent number: 11732321Abstract: Provided are: a steel sheet having a high strength and excellent stretch formability; and a method of producing the same. The steel sheet has prescribed chemical composition and structure, in which the integration degree of the (111)<112> orientation of ferrite is 3.0 or higher, and the integration degree of the (252)<2-11> orientation of martensite and tempered martensite is 5.0 or lower. The method of producing the steel sheet includes: the step of continuously casting a molten steel having the prescribed chemical composition, and performing 5 to 40% rolling reduction at a temperature of 800° C. to lower than 1,200° C. in a period after the continuous casting until cooling to room temperature; the hot rolling step of performing hot rolling with a finishing temperature of 650 to 950° C.; the step of coiling the resulting hot-rolled steel sheet at a coiling temperature of 400 to 700° C.; the step of retaining the hot-rolled steel sheet at (coiling start temperature+20° C. to 100° C.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo Takeda, Hitoshi Nikaido, Hiroyuki Kawata, Takafumi Yokoyama
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Patent number: 11718347Abstract: The frame member has a flat sheet portion with a recessed portion having a pair of wall portions and a bottom portion extending between tip portions in an extending direction of the pair of wall portions, in which a Vickers hardness of a region of the flat sheet portion excluding the recessed portion is 330 Hv or more, a depth of the recessed portion is 5 mm or more, when a width of the recessed portion is L0 and a cross-sectional length of an inner peripheral wall of the recessed portion consisting of the pair of wall portions and the bottom portion is L1, a value of (L1?L0)/L0 is 0.18 or more and 2.8 or less, and a Vickers hardness of a ridgeline portion extending between the flat sheet portion and the recessed portion is 1.06 times or more and 1.20 times or less the Vickers hardness of the region of the flat sheet portion excluding the recessed portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Kubota, Yuri Toda, Hiroyuki Kawata