Patents by Inventor Jun Maki

Jun Maki 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: 20240117475
    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 and coarse granular 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 and 30.0/25 ?m2 or less, and including a surface depleted layer with a steel composition not including oxides which satisfies, by mass %, Si?0.6% and Al?0.05% at a depth of ½ of the average depth of the internal oxidation layer calculated from the cross-sectional SEM image of the steel sheet, and a plated steel sheet using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Masaaki URANAKA, Keitaro MATSUDA, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI, Jun MAKI
  • Publication number: 20240117476
    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 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, and including a surface depleted layer with a steel composition not including oxides which satisfies, by mass %, Si?0.6% and Al?0.05% at a depth of ½ of the average depth of the internal oxidation layer calculated from the cross-sectional SEM image of the steel sheet, and a plated steel sheet using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki URANAKA, Takuya MITSUNOBU, Keitaro MATSUDA, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI, Jun MAKI
  • 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: 20240091842
    Abstract: A plated steel sheet for hot stamping according to one aspect of the present invention includes a steel sheet, a plating layer formed on either surface or both surfaces of the steel sheet and having an Al content of 60 mass % or more, and a surface film layer formed on the plating layer. A thickness t of the plating layer is 10 to 60 ?m. An average crystal grain diameter of the plating layer in a thickness range from an interface between the plating layer and the surface film layer to a position at ? of the thickness t is 2t/3 or less and 15.0 ?m or less. A surface film layer contains particles containing one or more elements selected from A group elements consisting of Sc, V, Mn, Fe, Co, Ce, Nb, Mo, and W. A total content of the A group elements is 0.01 to 10.0 g/m2. An average grain diameter of the particles containing the A group elements is 0.05 to 3.0 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki SUZUKI, Soshi FUJITA, Jun MAKI, Kazuhisa KUSUMI, Masahiro FUDA
  • Publication number: 20240018617
    Abstract: A thin steel sheet having a chemical composition satisfying 0.0001?[Sn]+0.3[Cu]+0.1[Cr]?0.2000 ([Sn], [Cu], and [Cr] respectively being the contents (mass %) of Sn, Cu, and Cr), having an oxide film of a thickness of 50 nm or less on the surface, and satisfying A/C<0.30 and B/C<3.0 when measuring the oxide film by the FT-IR reflectance method (A is an area of a peak derived from SiO2, B is an area of a peak derived from MnSiO3, and C is an area of a peak derived from Mn2 SiO4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun MAKI, Masaharu FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20230416888
    Abstract: An Al plated electric resistance welded steel pipe for hardening use suppressing the formation of scale to the inside of the plating layer while performing hot forming and an Al plated hollow member using that Al plated electric resistance welded steel pipe, wherein the Al plated electric resistance welded steel pipe for hardening use is comprised of a base material made of a tubular steel plate and having a predetermined chemical composition and an electric resistance welded zone provided at a seam portion of the steel plate and extending in a longitudinal direction of the steel plate, the base material is further provided with an intermetallic compound layer positioned on the surface of the steel plate and including an Al—Fe—Si-based intermetallic compound and an Al plating layer positioned on the surface of the intermetallic compound layer and containing Al and Si, and 70×X/D?Y/t?30 is satisfied, wherein X (?m) is a thickness of the intermetallic compound layer, Y (?m) is a thickness of the Al plating laye
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun MAKI, Soshi FUJITA, Toyomitsu NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230399727
    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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keitaro MATSUDA, Takuya MITSUNOBU, Masaaki URANAKA, Jun MAKI, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
  • 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: 11807924
    Abstract: An Al plated electric resistance welded steel pipe for hardening use suppressing the formation of scale to the inside of the plating layer while performing hot forming and an Al plated hollow member using that Al plated electric resistance welded steel pipe, wherein the Al plated electric resistance welded steel pipe for hardening use is comprised of a base material made of a tubular steel plate and having a predetermined chemical composition and an electric resistance welded zone provided at a seam portion of the steel plate and extending in a longitudinal direction of the steel plate, the base material is further provided with an intermetallic compound layer positioned on the surface of the steel plate and including an Al—Fe—Si-based intermetallic compound and an Al plating layer positioned on the surface of the intermetallic compound layer and containing Al and Si, and 70×X/D?Y/t?30 is satisfied, wherein X (?m) is a thickness of the intermetallic compound layer, Y (?m) is a thickness of the Al plating laye
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Maki, Soshi Fujita, Toyomitsu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11807940
    Abstract: A plated steel material comprising a steel base material and an Al—Zn—Mg-based plating layer formed on a surface of the steel base material, wherein the plating layer has a predetermined chemical composition, and in a surface structure of the plating layer, there is, by area ratio, 2.0% or more of an acicular Al—Zn—Si—Ca phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Mitsunobu, Takehiro Takahashi, Jun Maki
  • Patent number: 11725259
    Abstract: A plated steel sheet having excellent chemical convertibility includes: a steel; and a plating layer that is provided on a surface of the steel, in which the plating layer includes, by mass %, Al: 5.00% to 35.00%, Mg: 2.50% to 13.00%, Fe: 5.00% to 35.00%, Si: 0% to 2.00%, Ca: 0.03% to 2.00%, and a remainder consisting of Zn and impurities, and in a surface of the plating layer, the area fraction of a Fe—Al phase is 0% to 30%, the area fraction of a rod-like lamellar structure of Zn and MgZn2 is 5% to 90%, the area fraction of a massive MgZn2 phase is 10% to 70%, and the area fraction of a remainder is 10% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Mitsunobu, Jun Maki, Hiroshi Takebayashi, Takehiro Takahashi, Kohei Tokuda
  • Patent number: 11697266
    Abstract: A plated steel includes: a steel; and a plating layer that is provided on a surface of the steel, in which the plating layer includes, by mass %, Al: 5.00% to 35.00%, Mg: 2.50% to 13.00%, Fe: 5.00% to 40.00%, Si: 0% to 2.00%, Ca: 0% to 2.00%, and a remainder of Zn and impurities, and in a cross section of the plating layer, the area fraction of a Zn solid-solution Fe2Al5 phase in which 5% or more of Zn is solid-soluted is 10% to 60% and the area fraction of a MgZn2 phase is 10% to 90%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Mitsunobu, Jun Maki, Hiroshi Takebayashi, Takehiro Takahashi, Kohei Tokuda
  • Patent number: 11692249
    Abstract: A hot stamped body comprising a steel base material and an Al—Zn—Mg-based plating layer formed on a surface of the steel base material, wherein the plating layer has a predetermined chemical composition, the plating layer comprises an interfacial layer positioned at an interface with the steel base material and containing Fe and Al and a main layer positioned on the interfacial layer, the main layer comprises, by area ratio, 10.0 to 85.0% of an Mg—Zn containing phase and 15.0 to 90.0% of an Fe—Al containing phase, the Mg—Zn containing phase comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of an MgZn phase, Mg2 Zn3 phase, and MgZn2 phase, and the Fe—Al containing phase comprises at least one of an FeAl phase and Fe—Al—Zn phase and an area ratio of the Fe—Al—Zn phase in the main layer is 10.0% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Mitsunobu, Takehiro Takahashi, Jun Maki
  • Publication number: 20230193443
    Abstract: A plated steel material comprising a steel base material and an Al—Zn—Mg-based plating layer formed on a surface of the steel base material, wherein the plating layer has a predetermined chemical composition, and in a surface structure of the plating layer, there is, by area ratio, 2.0% or more of an acicular Al—Zn—Si—Ca phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Takehiro TAKAHASHI, Jun MAKI
  • Publication number: 20230147056
    Abstract: A hot stamped body comprising a steel base material and an Al-Zn-Mg-based plating layer formed on a surface of the steel base material, wherein the plating layer has a predetermined chemical composition, the plating layer comprises an interfacial layer positioned at an interface with the steel base material and containing Fe and Al and a main layer positioned on the interfacial layer, the main layer comprises, by area ratio, 10.0 to 85.0% of an Mg—Zn containing phase and 15.0 to 90.0% of an Fe—Al containing phase, the Mg—Zn containing phase comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of an MgZn phase, Mg2 Zn3 phase, and MgZn2 phase, and the Fe—Al containing phase comprises at least one of an FeAl phase and Fe—Al—Zn phase and an area ratio of the Fe—Al—Zn phase in the main layer is 10.0% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Takehiro TAKAHASHI, Jun MAKI
  • Patent number: 11634791
    Abstract: A hot-dip coated steel product including: a steel product; and a coating layer including a Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer disposed on a surface of the steel product, in which the Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer includes a Zn phase, an Al phase, and a MgZn2 phase, and contains a Mg—Sn intermetallic compound phase in the Zn phase, and the coating layer has a chemical composition satisfying a predetermined average composition, a total area proportion of the Al phase and the MgZn2 phase is 70% or more, an area proportion of the Zn phase is 30% or less, an average value of cumulative circumferential lengths of the Al phase is less than 88 mm/mm2, and a total frequency in number of the Al phase having a circumferential length of 50 ?m or more is less than 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Tokuda, Mamoru Saito, Jun Maki, Takuya Mitsunobu, Yasuto Goto
  • Patent number: 11634790
    Abstract: A plated steel sheet includes: a steel sheet; and a plating layer that is formed on at least a part of a surface of the steel sheet, in which a chemical composition of the plating layer includes, by mass %, Al: more than 5.00% and 35.00% or less, Mg: 3.00% to 15.00%, Si: 0% to 2.00%, Ca: 0% to 2.00%, and a remainder of Zn and impurities, in which in a cross section of the plating layer in a thickness direction, the area ratio of a lamellar structure in which an (Al—Zn) phase and a MgZn2 phase are arranged in layers is 10% to 90%, a lamellar spacing of the lamellar structure is 2.5 ?m or less, and the area ratio of an (Al—Zn) dendrite is 35% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Mitsunobu, Jun Maki, Hiroshi Takebayashi, Takehiro Takahashi, Kohei Tokuda
  • Publication number: 20230121606
    Abstract: A hot stamped body comprising a steel base material and an Al—Zn—Mg-based plating layer formed on a surface of the steel base material, wherein the plating layer has a predetermined chemical composition, the plating layer comprises an interfacial layer positioned at an interface with the steel base material and containing Fe and Al and a main layer positioned on the interfacial layer, the main layer comprises, by area ratio, 10.0 to 70.0% of an Mg—Zn containing phase and 30.0 to 90.0% of an Fe—Al containing phase, the Mg—Zn containing phase comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of an MgZn phase, Mg2Zn3 phase, and MgZn2 phase, and the Fe—Al containing phase comprises an FeAl phase and Fe—Al—Zn phase and an area ratio of the Fe—Al—Zn phase in the main layer is more than 10.0 to 75.0%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Takehiro TAKAHASHI, Jun MAKI
  • Publication number: 20230116894
    Abstract: Provided is a hot stamped body comprising a steel base material, an Al-plating layer formed on at least one surface of the steel base material, a coating formed on the Al-plating layer and containing ZnO particles and CeO2 particles having an average particle size smaller than an average particle size of the ZnO particles, and a Zn- and Al-containing complex oxide layer formed between the Al-plating layer and the coating. Further, provided is a method for producing a hot stamped body comprising forming an Al-plating layer on at least one side of a steel sheet, coating a surface of the Al-plating layer with an aqueous solution containing ZnO particles and CeO2 particles, then heating it to form a coating containing ZnO particles and CeO2 particles on the Al-plating layer, and hot pressing the steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michiko KONNO, Jun MAKI, Shinichi YAMAGUCHI, Soshi FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20230088501
    Abstract: A hot stamped body comprising a steel base material and an Al—Zn—Mg-based plating layer formed on a surface of the steel base material, wherein the plating layer has a predetermined chemical composition, the plating layer comprises an interfacial layer positioned at an interface with the steel base material and containing Fe and Al and a main layer positioned on the interfacial layer, the main layer comprises, by area ratio, 10.0 to 90.0% of an Mg—Zn containing phase, 5.0 to less than 30.0% of an Fe—Al containing phase, and 2.0 to 25.0% of an Al—Si containing oxide phase, the Mg—Zn containing phase comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of an MgZn phase, Mg2 Zn3 phase, and MgZn2 phase, and the Fe—Al containing phase comprises at least one of an FeAl phase and Fe—Al—Zn phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Takehiro TAKAHASHI, Jun MAKI