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: 20200283867
    Abstract: Provided are a stainless steel sheet with good corrosion resistance, low contact resistance and good press workability without the use of expensive materials such as gold or rare metals, and a method of manufacture the same. A method of manufacturing a stainless steel sheet includes: preparing a slab having a chemical composition including, in mass %: 20 to 26% Cr, up to 0.1% N, up to 2.0% Si, etc. (step S1); performing hot rolling and cold rolling on the slab to produce a rolled steel sheet with a thickness of 50 to 200 ?m (step S2); an annealing step in which the rolled steel sheet is annealed and cooled in a gas atmosphere containing nitrogen (step S3); and pickling the rolled steel sheet after the annealing step with a solution containing a non-oxidizing acid (step S4). The stainless steel sheet has an N content of 0.6 to 2.0% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL STAINLESS STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideya KAMINAKA, Yoshitaka NISHIYAMA, Koichi NOSE, Jun MAKI, Junko IMAMURA, Kohei MAEJIMA, Yuya TAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20200232077
    Abstract: A sheet includes: a base; an Al-plating layer on at least one of opposite surfaces of the base; an intermediate coating layer on a surface of the Al-plating layer; and a surface coating layer formed on a surface of the intermediate coating layer and containing ZnO particles with a mean particle size of 0.10 ?m or more and 5.00 ?m or less and an organic resin such that an amount of coating of the ZnO particles is 0.5 g/m2 or more and 10.0 g/m2 or less in terms of metallic zinc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi YAMAGUCHI, Jun MAKI, Soshi FUJITA, Shintaro YAMANAKA, Michiko KONNO, Tetsuya TOBA
  • Publication number: 20200189233
    Abstract: A hot stamped member has a steel, an Al—Fe intermetallic compound layer formed on the steel, and an oxide film layer formed on the Al—Fe intermetallic compound layer, in which the oxide film layer is made up of one or more A group elements selected from the group consisting of Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn, Al, oxygen, and impurities, a proportion of the A group element in the oxide film layer excluding the oxygen is 0.01 atom % or more and 80 atom % or less, a thickness t of the oxide film layer is 0.1 to 10.0 ?m, and, in the case of measuring the A group element in the oxide film layer in a thickness direction from a surface of the oxide film layer using a GDS, a maximum value of a detection intensity of the A group element in a range from the surface to one-third of the thickness t is 3.0 times or more an average value of detection intensities of the A group element in a range from two thirds of the thickness t to t.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki SUZUKI, Soshi FUJITA, Jun MAKI, Kazuhisa KUSUMI, Masahiro FUDA, Hideaki IRIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190390303
    Abstract: There is provided a coated steel product having 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 has a Zn phase, the Zn phase contains a Mg—Sn intermetallic compound phase, and the coating layer consists of Zn: more than 65.0%, Al: from more than 5.0% to less than 25.0%, Mg: from more than 3.0% to less than 12.5%, Sn: 0.1% to 20.0% in terms of percent (%) by mass, given amounts of optional elements, and impurities, and has a chemical composition that satisfies the following Formulas 1 to 5: Bi+In<Sn??Formula 1: Y+La+Ce?Ca??Formula 2: Si<Sn??Formula 3: 0?Cr+Ti+Ni+Co+V+Nb+Cu+Mn<0.25??Formula 4: 0?Sr+Sb+Pb+B<0.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei TOKUDA, Jun MAKI, Yasuto GOTO, Takuya MITSUNOBU
  • Patent number: 10505205
    Abstract: A titanium product for a separator of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell according to the present invention includes: a base material that consists of commercially pure titanium; a first oxide layer that is formed in a surface layer of the titanium product, consists of TiO2 of a rutile crystallinity, and has a thickness of 0.1 to 1.5 nm; and a second oxide layer that is formed between the base material and the first oxide layer, consists of TiOx (1<x<2), and has a thickness of 3 to 20 nm. This titanium product is suitable to be used as a separator of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell that has a high corrosion resistance in an environment in a fuel cell, is capable of keeping a low contact resistance with an electrode consisting of carbon fiber and the like, and is inexpensive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junko Imamura, Yoshitaka Nishiyama, Yasuhiro Masaki, Jun Maki, Shunsuke Taniguchi, Hideya Kaminaka
  • Publication number: 20190366686
    Abstract: The present invention provides an alloyed Al plated steel sheet for hot stamping, which is a steel sheet having, on the surface, an Al—Fe alloyed layer that includes an A phase (Fe—Al-based alloy phase including 45% to 85% of Fe and 4% to 13% of Si) and has a thickness of 15 ?m or more, in which a proportion of a length occupied by the A phase in an uppermost surface of a cross section perpendicular to the surface of the steel sheet is 10% or more and 50% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro FUDA, Jun MAKI, Soshi FUJITA, Kazuhisa KUSUMI, Shinichiro TABATA
  • Publication number: 20190271063
    Abstract: The present invention has as its object the provision of steel sheet for hot stamping use which is excellent in part strength after hot stamping and delayed fracture resistance comprised of large C content high strength steel sheet in which effective hydrogen traps are formed in the steel material. The steel sheet of the present invention solves this problem by forming Fe—Mn-based composite oxides in the steel sheet and trapping hydrogen at the interfaces of the composite oxides and matrix steel and in the voids around the composite oxides. Specifically, it provides steel sheet for hot stamping use which is comprised of chemical ingredients which contain, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.02% or less, Mn: 0.1 to 3%, S: 0.02% or less, P: 0.03% or less, Al: 0.005% or less, Ti: 0.01% or less, N: 0.01% or less, one or both of Cr and Mo in a total of 0.005 to 1%, and O: 0.003 to 0.03% and which have a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities and which contains average diameter 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhisa KUSUMI, Yuji OGAWA, Masayuki ABE, Hidekuni MURAKAMI, Kengo TAKEDA, Jun MAKI
  • Patent number: 10344360
    Abstract: The present invention has as its object the provision of steel sheet for hot stamping use which is excellent in part strength after hot stamping and delayed fracture resistance comprised of large C content high strength steel sheet in which effective hydrogen traps are formed in the steel material. The steel sheet of the present invention solves this problem by forming Fe—Mn-based composite oxides in the steel sheet and trapping hydrogen at the interfaces of the composite oxides and matrix steel and in the voids around the composite oxides. Specifically, it provides steel sheet for hot stamping use which is comprised of chemical ingredients which contain, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.02% or less, Mn: 0.1 to 3%, S: 0.02% or less, P: 0.03% or less, Al: 0.005% or less, Ti: 0.01% or less, N: 0.01% or less, one or both of Cr and Mo in a total of 0.005 to 1%, and O: 0.003 to 0.03% and which have a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities and which contains average diameter 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Kusumi, Yuji Ogawa, Masayuki Abe, Hidekuni Murakami, Kengo Takeda, Jun Maki
  • Publication number: 20190160519
    Abstract: [Object] There are provided automobile parts and a method for manufacturing the automobile parts. The automobile parts have an excellent corrosion resistance after coated with a electrodeposition paint with smaller thickness, improve formability and productivity in hot pressing, and also improve chemical conversion treatability after hot press-forming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun MAKI, Shintaro YAMANAKA, Hideaki IRIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10232426
    Abstract: [Object] There are provided automobile parts and a method for manufacturing the automobile parts. The automobile parts have an excellent corrosion resistance after coated with a electrodeposition paint with smaller thickness, improve formability and productivity in hot pressing, and also improve chemical conversion treatability after hot press-forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Maki, Shintaro Yamanaka, Hideaki Irikawa
  • Patent number: 10196717
    Abstract: To provide a plated steel sheet for hot pressing, a hot pressing method for the plated steel sheet, and an automobile part made by the hot pressing method that has an excellent lubricity with less deposition amount and can improve formability and productivity in hot pressing work and also can improve chemical conversion treatability after hot press forming, there is provided an Al plating layer formed on one side or both sides of the steel sheet, the Al plating layer containing at least Al, and further containing one or more elements, at a total content of 0.02 to 2 mass %, selected from Mg, Ca, Sr, Li, Na, and K; and a surface coating layer laminated on the Al plating layer and containing at least ZnO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Maki, Shintaro Yamanaka, Masao Kurosaki
  • Publication number: 20190010565
    Abstract: Provided is an austenitic heat resistant alloy having high creep strength and high toughness even in a high temperature environment. This austenitic heat resistant alloy has a chemical composition consisting of: in mass %, C: 0.03 to less than 0.25%, Si: 0.01 to 2.0%, Mn: not more than 2.0%, Cr: 10 to less than 30%, Ni: more than 25 to 45%, Al: more than 2.5 to less than 4.5%, Nb: 0.2 to 3.5%, N: not more than 0.025%, with the balance being Fe and impurities, wherein P and S in the impurities are respectively, P: not more than 0.04% and S: not more than 0.01%. In the structure, a total volume ratio of precipitates having a circle equivalent diameter of not less than 6 ?m is not more than 5%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Norifumi Kochi, Jun Maki, Yoshitaka Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 10174413
    Abstract: An Al-based alloy plated steel material includes: a steel material and a coating layer formed on a surface of the steel material, wherein the coating layer includes an Al-based alloy plating layer containing, in mass %, not less than 10% nor more than 50% Fe and not less than 3% nor more than 15% Si, and formed on the surface of the steel material; a layer containing ZnO and formed above a surface of the Al alloy plating layer; and a ZnAl2O4 layer with a thickness of not less than 0.05 ?m nor more than 2 ?m, formed between the Al alloy plating layer and the layer containing ZnO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Yamanaka, Jun Maki, Masao Kurosaki
  • Publication number: 20180323447
    Abstract: This titanium product includes a base metal, and a complex oxide film formed on the surface of the base metal. The base metal has a chemical composition consisting of, by mass %, platinum group elements: 0 to 0.15%, rare earth elements: 0 to 0.1%, and a balance: Ti and impurities. The complex oxide film contains a complex oxide of Ti and one or more elements selected from La, Ce, Nd, Sr and Ca, and has a thickness of 1 to 20 nm. The average grain size at the base metal surface is preferably from 20 to 300 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Junko IMAMURA, Jun MAKI, Koichi NOSE, Hideya KAMINAKA
  • Patent number: 10092938
    Abstract: The present invention provides plated steel sheet for hot press use which is excellent in hot lubricity, coating adhesion, spot weldability, and coated corrosion resistance and a method of hot pressing plated steel sheet. The present invention is Plated steel sheet for hot press use and a method of hot pressing plated steel sheet characterized by being plated steel sheet for hot press use which contains an Al plating layer which is formed on one surface or both surfaces of said steel sheet, and a surface coating layer which is formed on said Al plating layer, said surface coating layer containing at least one Zn compound which is selected from a group comprised of Zn hydroxide, Zn phosphate, and a Zn organic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Yamanaka, Jun Maki, Masao Kurosaki, Kazuhisa Kusumi
  • Patent number: 10040270
    Abstract: A galvannealed steel sheet includes a plating layer containing 7.2-10.6 mass % of Fe, 0.2-0.4 mass % of Al, and 0.1 mass % or more of at least one of Ni, Co, Cu, and In, and the balance of Zn and impurities. In a vertical cross-section of the plating layer, an average thickness of a ? phase is 0.2 ?m or less, and an average thickness of a ? phase is 0.5 ?m or less. In the ? phase, at least one of Ni, Co, Cu, and In are contained at a ratio in the ? phase of 0.5 mass % or more. A phase existing in contact with the ? phase is a mixed phase of ?1 phase and ? phase, and a ? phase percentage defined by “(? phase/? phase contact interface length)/(? phase/? phase contact interface length+?1 phase/? phase contact interface length)×100” is 10% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Kurosaki, Jun Maki, Shintaro Yamanaka, Hiroyuki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20180201123
    Abstract: A hot stamp molded body includes: a steel sheet (30); a first plating layer (10) on a first surface (31) of the steel sheet (30); and a second plating layer (20) on a second surface (32) of the steel sheet (30). The first plating layer (10) includes: a first Al—Fe—Si alloy layer (11) on the first surface (31); and a first Al—Si alloy layer (12) on the first Al—Fe—Si alloy layer (11). The second plating layer (20) includes: a second Al—Fe—Si alloy layer (21) on the second surface (32); and a second Al—Si alloy layer (22) on the second Al—Fe—Si alloy layer (21). A coating weight of the first plating layer (10) is 31 g/m2 to 60 g/m2 and a coating weight of the second plating layer (20) is 5 g/m2 to 29 g/m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun MAKI, Shinichi YAMAGUCHI, Kunio NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20180171164
    Abstract: A surface treatment solution excellent in stability during storage forming a coating for treatment excellent in waterproofness, solvent resistance, and adhesion with a plated steel sheet and able to provide a surface treated steel sheet with hot-pressing lubricity, chemical convertability after hot-pressing, corrosion resistance after coating, and spot weldability, that is, a surface treatment solution for a plated steel sheet to be hot-pressed comprising a ZnO aqueous dispersion (A) and a water dispersible organic resin (B), wherein the ZnO aqueous dispersion (A) comprises water and ZnO particle size having 50 to 300 nm particles, the water dispersible organic resin (B) has a 5 to 45 mgKOH/g acid value and 5 to 300 nm emulsion particle size, and a mass ratio (WA/WB) of a mass of ZnO particles in the ZnO aqueous dispersion (WA) to a mass of solid content of the water dispersible organic resin (WB) is 30/70 to 95/5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, NIHON PARKERIZING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soshi FUJITA, Jun MAKI, Shintaro YAMANAKA, Masao KUROSAKI, Tatsuya SUZUKI, Kensuke MIZUNO, Takumi KOZAKI, Takahiro KODAMA
  • Patent number: 9970116
    Abstract: Provided is an Al-plated steel sheet used for hot pressing that has excellent lubricity in hot state, corrosion resistance after paint coating, and spot weldability. An Al-plated steel sheet used for hot pressing includes: a steel sheet; an Al plating layer formed on one surface or both surfaces of the steel sheet; and a surface coating layer formed on the Al plating layer. The surface coating layer contains a zinc compound, and the zinc compound is deposited on the Al-plated steel sheet in an amount of equal to or greater than 0.3 g/m2 and equal to or less than 1.5 g/m2 as an amount of metallic zinc per one surface, and a zinc deposition amount in any continuous 1 mm2 region is 1.5 g/m2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soshi Fujita, Shintaro Yamanaka, Jun Maki, Hiroki Fujimoto, Hatsuhiko Oikawa, Hideaki Irikawa
  • Patent number: 9902134
    Abstract: A metal foil including: a steel layer whose thickness is 10 to 200 ?m; an Al-containing metal layer arranged on the steel layer; and plural granular alloys which exist in an interface between the steel layer and the Al-containing metal layer, wherein, when a cutting-plane line of a surface of the Al-containing metal layer is defined as a contour curve and an approximation straight line of the contour curve is defined as a contour average straight line, a maximum point, whose distance from the contour average straight line is more than 10 ?m, is absent on the contour curve, and wherein, when an equivalent sphere diameter of the granular alloys is x in units of ?m and a thickness of the Al-containing metal layer is T in units of ?m, the granular alloys satisfy x?0.5T.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD., NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Kobayashi, Shinichi Terashima, Masamoto Tanaka, Masami Fujishima, Masao Kurosaki, Jun Maki, Hideaki Suda, Shuji Nagasaki