Patents by Inventor Hotaka Honma

Hotaka Honma 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: 8591671
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet contains Cr: 0.3 mass % to 5.3 mass %, Si: 1.5 mass % to 4 mass %, Al: 0.4 mass % to 3 mass %, and W: 0.0003 mass % to 0.01 mass %. A C content is 0.006 mass % or less, a Mn content is 1.5 mass % or less, a S content is 0.003 mass % or less, and a N content is 0.003 mass % or less, and the balance is composed of Fe and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Takahide Shimazu, Hotaka Honma, Yousuke Kurosaki, Hisashi Mogi, Kenji Kosuge, Takeaki Wakisaka
  • Patent number: 8384897
    Abstract: A method according to the present invention has: isolating, by extraction, particles contained in a metal material to be analyzed in a solution using a particle isolator; dispersing the particles isolated by extraction into a solvent to prepare a dispersion, and fractionating the dispersion into a plurality of particle dispersions based on particle sizes, using a field flow fractionator; and irradiating laser light on each of the particle dispersions separated based on predetermined particle sizes, to thereby measure absolute values of the particle size based on angular dependence of reflection intensity, and also to thereby measure the number density based on magnitude of reflection intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumi Mizukami, Kenichi Murakami, Satoshi Arai, Nobusato Morishige, Yuji Kubo, Hotaka Honma, Eiichi Nanba
  • Publication number: 20120321502
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet contains Cr: 0.3 mass % to 5.3 mass %, Si: 1.5 mass % to 4 mass %, Al: 0.4 mass % to 3 mass %, and W: 0.0003 mass % to 0.01 mass %. A C content is 0.006 mass % or less, a Mn content is 1.5 mass % or less, a S content is 0.003 mass % or less, and a N content is 0.003 mass % or less, and the balance is composed of Fe and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: Takahide Shimazu, Hotaka Honma, Yousuke Kurosaki, Hisashi Logi, Kenji Kosuge, Takeaki Wakisaka
  • Publication number: 20120013430
    Abstract: A slab having a predetermined composition is heated to 1280° C. or more. The slab is hot-rolled to obtain a hot-rolled steel sheet. The hot-rolled steel sheet is annealed to obtain an annealed steel sheet. The annealed steel sheet is cold-rolled to obtain a cold-rolled steel sheet. The cold-rolled steel sheet is decarburization annealed to obtain a decarburization annealed steel sheet. The decarburization annealed steel sheet is coiled in a coil state. The coil-state decarburization annealed steel sheet is finish-annealed. The cold-rolled steel sheet is heated to a temperature of 800° C. or more at a rate of 30° C./sec or more and 100° C./sec or less during increasing temperature of the cold-rolled steel sheet in the decarburization annealing or before the decarburization annealing. The decarburization annealed steel sheet is heated at a rate of 20° C./h or less within a temperature range of 750° C. or more and 1150° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: Nobusato Morishige, Kenichi Murakami, Hotaka Honma, Yuji Kubo, Kazumi Mizukami, Koki Tanaka, Seiki Takebayashi
  • Patent number: 7942982
    Abstract: Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in coating adhesion is provided. The steel sheet contains Si: 2 to 7% mass % and has a primary coating composed mainly of forsterite on its surface. A compound (A) containing one or more elements selected from among Ca, Sr and Ba, at least one rare earth metal, and sulfur is incorporated in the primary coating so as to reside in the interface layer between the primary coating and the steel sheet. As a result, occurrence of primary coating exfoliation at regions that are strongly worked during manufacture of a wound core transformer or the like is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Kubo, Eiichi Nanba, Satoshi Arai, Hotaka Honma, Kazumi Mizukami, Koki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7887646
    Abstract: The present invention provides oriented magnetic steel plate with excellent coating adhesion, in particular coating edge peeling resistance, that is, oriented magnetic steel plate with excellent coating adhesion containing, by mass %, Si: 1.8 to 7% and having a primary coating having forsterite as its main ingredient on its surface, said oriented magnetic steel plate characterized in that said primary coating contains one or more of Ce, La, Pr, Nd, Sc, and Y in an areal weight per side of 0.001 to 1000 mg/m2; characterized in that said primary coating contains Ti in an areal weight per side of 1 to 800 mg/m2; and characterized in that said primary coating contains one or more of Sr, Ca, and Ba in an areal weight per side of 0.01 to 100 mg/m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichi Nanba, Yuji Kubo, Kazutoshi Takeda, Satoshi Arai, Hotaka Honma, Kenichi Murakami, Hideyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20110019187
    Abstract: A method according to the present invention has: isolating, by extraction, particles contained in a metal material to be analyzed in a solution using a particle isolator; dispersing the particles isolated by extraction into a solvent to prepare a dispersion, and fractionating the dispersion into a plurality of particle dispersions based on particle sizes, using a field flow fractionator; and irradiating laser light on each of the particle dispersions separated based on predetermined particle sizes, to thereby measure absolute values of the particle size based on angular dependence of reflection intensity, and also to thereby measure the number density based on magnitude of reflection intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Kazumi Mizukami, Kenichi Murakami, Satoshi Arai, Nobusato Morishige, Yuji Kubo, Hotaka Honma, Eiichi Nanba
  • Publication number: 20100055481
    Abstract: Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in coating adhesion is provided. The steel sheet contains Si: 2 to 7% mass % and has a primary coating composed mainly of forsterite on its surface. A compound (A) containing one or more elements selected from among Ca, Sr and Ba, at least one rare earth metal, and sulfur is incorporated in the primary coating so as to reside in the interface layer between the primary coating and the steel sheet. As a result, occurrence of primary coating exfoliation at regions that are strongly worked during manufacture of a wound core transformer or the like is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Yuji Kubo, Eiichi Nanba, Satoshi Arai, Hotaka Honma, Kazumi Mizukami, Koki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20090047537
    Abstract: The present invention provides oriented magnetic steel plate with excellent coating adhesion, in particular coating edge peeling resistance, that is, oriented magnetic steel plate with excellent coating adhesion containing, by mass %, Si: 1.8 to 7% and having a primary coating having forsterite as its main ingredient on its surface, said oriented magnetic steel plate characterized in that said primary coating contains one or more of Ce, La, Pr, Nd, Sc, and Y in an areal weight per side of 0.001 to 1000 mg/m2; characterized in that said primary coating contains Ti in an areal weight per side of 1 to 800 mg/m2; and characterized in that said primary coating contains one or more of Sr, Ca, and Ba in an areal weight per side of 0.01 to 100 mg/m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: Eiichi Nanba, Yuji Kubo, Kazutoshi Takeda, Satoshi Arai, Hotaka Honma, Kenichi Murakami, Hideyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5840131
    Abstract: A process for producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in the glass film and the magnetic properties by coating a steel sheet with an annealing separator, finish annealing the steel sheet, and baking an insulating coating agent, which comprises coating the steel sheet having been decarburization annealed with an annealing separator prepared by allowing 100 parts by weight of MgO to contain, in the course from the step of producing MgO to the stage of preparing a slurry in the step of coating the steel sheet with MgO, halogens selected from F, Cl, Br and I or compounds of the halogens in an amount of 0.015 to 0.120 part by weight in terms of F, Cl, Br and I, and finish annealing the steel sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Yakashiro, Hotaka Honma, Maremizu Ishibashi, Akira Sakaida, Tomoji Kumano, Koji Yamasaki, Katsuro Kuroki, Osamu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5685920
    Abstract: Disclosed is an annealing separator for production for grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, containing one or more compound selected from the following general formula;?Mg.sub.1-x M.sup.3+.sub.x !O ?Mg.sub.1-x M.sup.2+.sub.x !O or ?Mg.sub.1-x M.sup.2+.sub.x1 M.sup.3+.sub.x2 !OwhereM.sup.2+ is at least one bivalent element selected from the group consisting of Be, Ca, Ba, Sr, Sn, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn;M.sup.3+ is at least one tervalent element selected from the group consisting of Al, Fe, Cr, Co, B, Ti, Sb;0.01.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.0.40; x=x1+x2This annealing separator having a lower melting point and higher degree of reactivity is applied on the decarburization annealed strip, and improves the properties of the glass film, especially uniform film appearance and good sealing effect, and magnetic properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Tanaka, Maremizu Ishibashi, Tsuyoshi Hamaya, Tsutomu Haratani, Tomoji Kumano, Koji Yamasaki, Akira Sakaida, Chihiro Sakurai, Hotaka Honma
  • Patent number: 5614034
    Abstract: The present invention provides a thin sheet product having a combination of excellent magnetic properties inherent in the steel having a silicon content of 6.5% or near 6.5% with a further lowered iron loss property, particularly in a high frequency region, through the production of a magnetic thin steel sheet having a thickness of 0.23 mm or less by cold-rolling a steel sheet comprising by weight not more than that 0.006% of carbon, 5.0 to 7.1% of silicon, 0.07 to 0.30% of manganese, not more than 0.007% of sulfur, 0.006 to 0.038% of acid soluble aluminum and 8 to 30 ppm of total nitrogen with the balance consisting of iron and unavoidable impurities at a sheet temperature in the range of from 120.degree. to 350.degree. C. optionally after annealing the sheet at a temperature in the range of from 750.degree. to 1020.degree. C., and annealing the cold-rolled sheet at a temperature in the range of from 800.degree. to 1020.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yozo Suga, Hotaka Honma, Yoshiyuki Ushigami, Syuji Kitahara
  • Patent number: 5507883
    Abstract: A grain oriented electrical steel sheet having no significant glass film and having a high magnetic flux density and an excellent iron loss property, comprising, in terms of by weight, 2.5 to 4.5% of Si, the steel sheet having, as oxides on its surface, a glass film comprising 0.6 g/m.sup.2 or less in total of forsterite and spinel composed of MgO, SiO.sub.2 and Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 and an insulating coating having a thickness of 6 .mu.m or less, the face tension imparted on the surface of the steel sheet by the coating being in the range of from 0.5 to 2.0 kg/mm.sup.2. In the final box annealing of the steel sheet after primary recrystallization annealing, use is made of an annealing separator comprising 100 parts by weight of MgO and, added thereto, 2 to 30 parts by weight of at least one member selected from the group consisting of chlorides, carbonates, nitrates, sulfates and sulfides of Li, K, Bi, Na, Ba, Ca, Mg, Zn, Fe, Zr, Sr, Sn, Al, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Tanaka, Hiroaki Masui, Hotaka Honma, Katsuro Kuroki, Tsutomu Haratani, Yoichi Mishima, Maremizu Ishibashi, Yoshio Nakamura