Patents by Inventor Ichiro Tanaka

Ichiro Tanaka 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: 20230113209
    Abstract: A non oriented electrical steel sheet includes, as a chemical composition, by mass%, 1.0% or more and 5.0% or less of Si, wherein a sheet thickness is 0.10 mm or more and 0.35 mm or less, an average grain size is 30 µm or more and 200 µm or less, an X1 value defined by X = (2 × B50L + B50C) / (3 × Is) is less than 0.845, an X2 value defined by X2 = (B50L + 2 × B50D + B50C) / (4 × Is) is 0.800 or more, and an iron loss W10/1k is 80 W/kg or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro TANAKA, Takeaki WAKISAKA, Shun OTA
  • Publication number: 20230113264
    Abstract: This electrical steel sheet is an electrical steel sheet in which at least part of either or both surfaces of a base steel sheet is coated with an insulation coating having an adhesive ability, wherein a logarithmic decrement of the insulation coating in a temperature range of 25 to 100° C. is 0.3 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke TAKATANI, Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Ichiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230110399
    Abstract: A non oriented electrical steel sheet includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %, 1.0% or more and 5.0% or less of Si, wherein a sheet thickness is 0.10 mm or more and 0.35 mm or less, an average grain size is 30 ?m or more and 200 ?m or less, an X1 value defined by X1=(2×B50L+B50C)/(3×IS) is less than 0.845, an E1 value defined by E1=EL/EC is 0.930 or more, and an iron loss W10/1k is 80 W/kg or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeaki WAKISAKA, Ichiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230106099
    Abstract: A non oriented electrical steel sheet includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %, 1.0% or more and 5.0% or less of Si, wherein a sheet thickness is 0.10 mm or more and 0.35 mm or less, an average grain size is 30 ?m or more and 200 ?m or less, an X value defined by X=(2×B50L+B50C)/(3×IS) is 0.800 or more, and an iron loss W10/1k is 80 W/kg or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro TANAKA, Takeaki WAKISAKA
  • Publication number: 20230106818
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition. The chemical composition satisfies (2×[Mn]+2.5×[Ni]+[Cu])?([Si]+2×[sol.Al]+4×[P])?1.50%. In a case where Ahkl-uvw represents the area ratio of crystal grains in an {hkl}<uvw> orientation to the entire visual field when a plane at a depth of ½ of a sheet thickness from a surface parallel to a rolled surface is measured by SEM-EBSD, A411-011 is 15.0% or more, and the average grain size is 50 ?m to 150 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minako FUKUCHI, Ichiro TANAKA, Miho TOMITA, Tesshu MURAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230080376
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a laminated core by punching electrical steel strips including an insulation coating to obtain core single sheets and laminating the core single sheets, the method including: pressurizing two or more electrical steel strips using a guide roller to temporarily bond the electrical steel strips immediately before the punching; and obtaining the core single sheets by performing the punching after inserting the two or more electrical steel strips after the temporary bonding into a punching die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro TANAKA, Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Minako FUKUCHI, Shinsuke TAKATANI, Shuichi YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230064468
    Abstract: This electrical steel sheet includes a base steel sheet, a first insulation coating formed on a first surface of the base steel sheet and having adhesiveness, and a second insulation coating formed on a second surface of the base steel sheet which is a back surface to the first surface and having adhesiveness, in which an average pencil hardness of the first insulation coating is HB or higher and 3H or lower, and an average pencil hardness of the second insulation coating is higher than the average pencil hardness of the first insulation coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro TANAKA, Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Minako FUKUCHI, Shinsuke TAKATANI, Shuichi YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11591668
    Abstract: Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic properties and excellent in adhesion of a primary coating to the steel sheet is provided. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is provided with a base steel sheet having a chemical composition containing C: 0.005% or less, Si: 2.5 to 4.5%, Mn: 0.050 to 1.000%, a total of S and Se: 0.005% or less, sol. Al: 0.005% or less, and N: 0.005% or less and having a balance of Fe and impurities and a primary coating having Mg2 SiO4 as a main constituent formed on a surface of the base steel sheet. A peak position of Al emission intensity obtained when conducting elemental analysis by glow discharge spectrometry from a surface of the primary coating in a thickness direction is present in a range of 2.0 to 12.0 ?m from a surface of the primary coating to the thickness direction. A sum of perimeters of the Al oxides at the peak position of Al emission intensity is 0.20 to 1.00 ?m/?m2, and a number density of Al oxides is 0.02 to 0.20/?m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Tanaka, Ryutaro Yamagata, Nobusato Morishige, Takashi Kataoka, Masaru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11562840
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a base steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition; a glass coating provided on the surface of the base steel sheet; and a tension-applying insulation coating provided on the surface of the glass coating, in which linear thermal strains having, a predetermined angle (?) with respect to a transverse direction which is a direction orthogonal to a rolling direction are periodically formed on the surface of the tension-applying insulation coating at predetermined intervals along the rolling direction, a full width at half maximum F1 on the linear thermal strain and a full width at half maximum F2 at an intermediate position between the two linear thermal strains adjacent to each other satisfy 0.00<(F1?F2)/F2?0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Kataoka, Ichiro Tanaka, Haruhiko Atsumi, Kazutoshi Takeda, Hirotoshi Tada
  • Publication number: 20230002849
    Abstract: Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic properties and adhesion of a primary coating to a base steel sheet and with few defects where the base metal is exposed in point defects and a method for manufacturing grain-oriented electrical steel sheet are provided. This is characterized by being provided with a base steel sheet and a primary coating. The primary coating satisfies (1) Number density D3 of Al concentrated regions: 0.015 to 0.150/?m2 (2) (Area S5 of regions comprised of anchoring oxide layer regions and Al concentrated regions)/(area S3 of Al concentrated regions)?0.30, (3) Distance H5 of mean value of heights in thickness direction of regions of comprised of anchoring oxide layer regions and Al concentrated regions minus HO: 0.4 to 4.0 ?m, (4) (Perimeter L5 of regions comprised of anchoring oxide layer regions and Al concentrated regions)/(observed area S0): 0.020 to 0.500 ?m/?2, and (5) (Area S1 of anchoring oxide layer regions)/(observed area S0)?0.15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryutaro YAMAGATA, Nobusato MORISHIGE, Ichiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220344084
    Abstract: A grain oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base steel sheet, a glass film, and a tension-insulation coating. When a glow discharge emission spectroscopy is conducted from a surface of the glass film toward a depth direction, an analysis starting time Ts, a time TAlp at which Al shows a maximum emission intensity, an Al emission intensity F(TAlp) at the TAlp, a time TSip at which Si shows a maximum emission intensity, and an Al emission intensity F(TSip) at the TSip satisfy 0.05?F(TSip)/F(TAlp)?0.50 and 2.0?(TAlp?Ts)/(TSip?Ts)?5.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi KATAOKA, Ichiro TANAKA, Haruhiko ATSUMI, Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Ryutaro YAMAGATA, Nobusato MORISHIGE
  • Patent number: 11441215
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a base steel sheet including, as a chemical composition, by mass %, C: 0.010% or less, Si: 2.50% to 4.00%, Mn: 0.050% to 1.000%, S+Se: 0.005% or less in total, Sol. Al: 0.005% or less, N: 0.005% or less, Bi+Te+Pb: 0% to 0.0300% in total, Sb: 0% to 0.50%, Sn: 0% to 0.50%, Cr: 0% to 0.50%, Cu: 0% to 1.0%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities; and a tension-applying insulation coating provided on a surface of the base steel sheet, in which, on the surface of the base steel sheet, an arithmetic average roughness Ra along a rolling 90° direction that is a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction is 0.60 ?m or less, and when a cross section of the base steel sheet is observed along the rolling 90° direction, recessed parts having a depth of 0.1 ?m or more and 2.0 ?m or less are present on the surface of the base steel sheet in 1.0/100 ?m or more and 6.0/100 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Tanaka, Takashi Kataoka, Noriyoshi Kubota, Kazutoshi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20220243315
    Abstract: A grain oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base steel sheet, an oxide layer, and a tension-insulation coating. When a glow discharge spectroscopy is conducted in a region from a surface of the tension-insulation coating to an inside of the base steel sheet, a sputtering time Fe0.5 at which a Fe emission intensity becomes 0.5 times as compared with a saturation value thereof and a sputtering time Fe0.05 at which a Fe emission intensity becomes 0.05 times as compared with the saturation value satisfy 0.01<(Fe0.5?Fe0.05)/Fe0.5<0.35. Moreover, a magnetic flux density B8 in a rolling direction of the grain oriented electrical steel sheet is 1.90 T or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro TANAKA, Takashi KATAOKA, Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Masamitsu KUBOTA, Hirotoshi TADA
  • Patent number: 11396681
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes C: 0 to 0.0050 mass %, Si: 0.50 to 2.70 mass %, Mn: 0.10 to 3.00 mass %, Al: 1.00 to 2.70 mass %, and P: 0.050 to 0.100 mass %. In the non-oriented electrical steel sheet, Al/(Si+Al+0.5×Mn) is 0.50 to 0.83, Si+Al/2+Mn/4+5×P is 1.28 to 3.90, Si+Al+0.5×Mn is 4.0 to 7.0, the ratio of the intensity of {100} plane I{100} to the intensity of {111} plane I{111} is 0.50 to 1.40, the specific resistance is 60.0×10?8 ?·m or higher at room temperature, and the thickness is 0.05 mm to 0.40 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Kano, Takeaki Wakisaka, Ichiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220119904
    Abstract: Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic properties and excellent in adhesion of the primary coating to the steel sheet is provided. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present invention is provided with a base metal steel sheet containing a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.005% or less, Si: 0.5 to 7.0%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.00%, a total of S and Se: 0.005% or less, sol. Al: 0.005% or less, and N: 0.005% or less and having a balance comprised of Fe and impurities and with a primary coating formed on a surface of the base metal steel sheet and containing Mg2SiO4as a main constituent, wherein a peak position of Al emission intensity obtained when performing elemental analysis by glow discharge optical emission spectrometry from a surface of the primary coating in a thickness direction of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is arranged within a range of 2.0 to 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryutaro YAMAGATA, Ichiro TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11293547
    Abstract: A rotation position detection device includes a change drum, a magnetic field generator, and a magnetic field detector. The magnetic field generator is fixed to the change drum and rotates along with the change drum to differentiate an ambient magnetic field. The magnetic field detector is formed separately from the magnetic field generator and fixed to a position at which a magnetic field changes in response to rotation of the magnetic field generator so as to detect the magnetic field and output a signal that depends on the rotational position of the change drum on the basis of the detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Kawasaki Motors, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Ono, Ichiro Tanaka, Kyohei Izumi
  • Publication number: 20220098692
    Abstract: The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet which does not have an inorganic coating containing forsterite as a main component, including a base steel sheet having a predetermined chemical component, a silicon-containing oxide layer provided on the base steel sheet, an iron-based oxide layer provided on the silicon-containing oxide layer, and a tension-insulation coating provided on the iron-based oxide layer, having a thickness of 1 to 3 ?m, and containing phosphate and colloidal silica as main components. When elemental analysis is performed from a surface of the tension-insulation coating in a sheet thickness direction by glow discharge optical emission spectrometry, predetermined requirements are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Ichiro TANAKA, Tomoya SUENAGA, Takashi KATAOKA, Yuki KUNITA
  • Publication number: 20220098688
    Abstract: Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic properties and excellent in adhesion of a primary coating to the steel sheet is provided. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is provided with a base steel sheet having a chemical composition containing C: 0.005% or less, Si: 2.5 to 4.5%, Mn: 0.050 to 1.000%, a total of S and Se: 0.005% or less, sol. Al: 0.005% or less, and N: 0.005% or less and having a balance of Fe and impurities and a primary coating having Mg2 SiO4 as a main constituent formed on a surface of the base steel sheet. A peak position of Al emission intensity obtained when conducting elemental analysis by glow discharge spectrometry from a surface of the primary coating in a thickness direction is present in a range of 2.0 to 12.0 ?m from a surface of the primary coating to the thickness direction. A sum of perimeters of the Al oxides at the peak position of Al emission intensity is 0.20 to 1.00 ?m/?m2, and a number density of Al oxides is 0.02 to 0.20/?m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro TANAKA, Ryutaro YAMAGATA, Nobusato MORISHIGE, Takashi KATAOKA, Masaru TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220090241
    Abstract: A grain oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base steel sheet, an oxide layer, and a tension-insulation coating. When the iron oxide layer is analyzed by a fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, an absorbance A650 at 650 cm?1 and an absorbance A1250 at 1250 cm?1 satisfy 0.2?A650/A1250?5.0. Moreover, a magnetic flux density B8 in a rolling direction of the grain oriented electrical steel sheet is 1.90 T or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro TANAKA, Takashi KATAOKA, Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Tomoya SUENAGA, Yuki KUNITA
  • Publication number: 20220090242
    Abstract: A grain oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base steel sheet, an oxide layer, and a tension-insulation coating. When a glow discharge spectroscopy is conducted in a region from a surface of the tension-insulation coating to an inside of the base steel sheet, a sputtering time Fe0.5 at which a Fe emission intensity becomes 0.5 times as compared with a saturation value thereof and a sputtering time Fe0.05 at which a Fe emission intensity becomes 0.05 times as compared with the saturation value satisfy (Fe0.5?Fe0.05)/Fe0.5?0.35. A maximal point of a Cr emission intensity is included between the Fe0.05 and the Fesat. Moreover, a magnetic flux density B8 in a rolling direction of the grain oriented electrical steel sheet is 1.90 T or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro TANAKA, Takashi KATAOKA, Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Masamitsu KUBOTA, Hirotoshi TADA