Patents by Inventor Junichi Hamada

Junichi Hamada 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: 9639021
    Abstract: The image forming system having an image forming apparatus and a charge adjusting apparatus has a decision unit that decides an amount of charge to be applied to a recording sheet from coverages of toner images of both surfaces of the recording sheet, the image forming apparatus has a fixing unit that heats and presses a recording sheet to which a toner image is transferred, thereby fixing the toner image to the recording sheet, and the charge adjusting apparatus has a voltage applying unit that applies a voltage to the recording sheet to which the toner image is fixed by the fixing unit, thereby applying charge with the amount decided by the decision unit to the recording sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Sachie Matsudaira, Satoshi Nishida, Junichi Hamada
  • Publication number: 20170107593
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rolled ferritic stainless steel material excellent in corrosion resistance and toughness, in particular suitable as a material for a flange and a method for producing the same and flange part. The rolled ferritic stainless steel material contains, by mass %, C: 0.001 to 0.08%, Si: 0.01 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.0%, P: 0.01 to 0.05%, S: 0.0002 to 0.01%, Cr: 10.0 to 25.0%, and N: 0.001 to 0.05%, has a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, has a thickness of 5 mm or more, and has an area ratio of crystal grains with a <011> direction within 15° from the rolling direction of 20% or more in a cross-section parallel to the rolling direction at any location between the left and right ends of the steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN STAINLESS STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi HAMADA, Koji ITO
  • Patent number: 9399809
    Abstract: This hot-rolled ferritic stainless steel sheet has a steel composition containing, in terms of % by mass: 0.02% or less of C; 0.02% or less of N; 0.1% to 1.5% of Si; 1.5% or less of Mn; 0.035% or less of P; 0.010% or less of S; 1.5% or less of Ni; 10% to 20% of Cr; 1.0% to 3.0% of Cu; 0.08% to 0.30% of Ti; and 0.3% or less of Al, with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and the hot-rolled ferritic stainless steel sheet has a Vickers hardness of less than 235 Hv.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN STAINLESS STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Teraoka, Masaaki Kobayashi, Yuuji Koyama, Junichi Hamada, Norihiro Kanno, Yoshiharu Inoue, Ken Kimura, Jun Takahashi, Shigeyuki Gotoh
  • Publication number: 20160187803
    Abstract: The image forming system having an image forming apparatus and a charge adjusting apparatus has a decision unit that decides an amount of charge to be applied to a recording sheet from coverages of toner images of both surfaces of the recording sheet, the image forming apparatus has a fixing unit that heats and presses a recording sheet to which a toner image is transferred, thereby fixing the toner image to the recording sheet, and the charge adjusting apparatus has a voltage applying unit that applies a voltage to the recording sheet to which the toner image is fixed by the fixing unit, thereby applying charge with the amount decided by the decision unit to the recording sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Sachie MATSUDAIRA, Satoshi NISHIDA, Junichi HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20160097114
    Abstract: A heat-resistant cold rolled ferritic stainless steel sheet containing, in mass %, 0.02% or less of C, 0.1% to 1.0% of Si, greater than 0.6% to 1.5% of Mn, 0.01% to 0.05% of P, 0.0001% to 0.0100% of S, 13.0% to 20.0% of Cr, 0.1% to 3.0% of Mo, 0.005% to 0.20% of Ti, 0.3% to 1.0% of Nb, 0.0002% to 0.0050% of B, 0.005% to 0.50% of Al, 0.02% or less of N, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, in which {111}-oriented grains are present at an area ratio of 20% or greater in a region from a surface layer to t/4 (t is a sheet thickness), {111}-oriented grains are present at an area ratio of 40% or greater in a region from t/4 to t/2, and {011}-oriented grains are present at an area ratio of 15% or less in the entire region in a thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi HAMADA, Yuji KOYAMA, Yoshiharu INOUE, Tadashi KOMORI, Fumio FUDANOKI, Toshio TANOUE, Naoto ONO
  • Publication number: 20160024627
    Abstract: This hot-rolled ferritic stainless steel sheet has a steel composition containing, in terms of % by mass: 0.02% or less of C; 0.02% or less of N; 0.1% to 1.5% of Si; 1.5% or less of Mn; 0.035% or less of P; 0.010% or less of S; 1.5% or less of Ni; 10% to 20% of Cr; 1.0% to 3.0% of Cu; 0.08% to 0.30% of Ti; and 0.3% or less of Al, with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and the hot-rolled ferritic stainless steel sheet has a Vickers hardness of less than 235 Hv.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Shinichi TERAOKA, Masaaki KOBAYASHI, Yuuji KOYAMA, Junichi HAMADA, Norihiro KANNO, Yoshiharu INOUE, Ken KIMURA, Jun TAKAHASHI, Shigeyuki GOTOH
  • Patent number: 9243306
    Abstract: Ferritic stainless steel sheet which has a high oxidation resistance and scale spallation resistance even at a high temperature near 1000° C., characterized by containing C: 0.020% or less, N: 0.020% or less, Si: over 0.10 to 0.35%, Mn: 0.10 to 0.60%, Cr: 16.5 to 20.0%, Nb: 0.30 to 0.80%, Mo: over 2.50 to 3.50%, and Cu: 1.00 to 2.50%, having an amount of increase of oxidation after a continuous oxidation test in the air at 1000° C. for 200 hours of 4.0 mg/cm2 or less, and having an amount of scale spallation of 1.0 mg/cm2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN STAINLESS STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiro Kanno, Yoshiharu Inoue, Junichi Hamada
  • Publication number: 20160017451
    Abstract: A ferritic stainless steel sheet exhibiting small increase in strength after aging heat treatment in the present invention contains, by mass %, C: 0.020% or less, Cr: 10.0% to 25.0%, N: 0.020% or less, Sn: 0.010% to 0.50%, and one or more of Ti: 0.60% or less, Nb: 0.60% or less, V: 0.60% or less, and Zr: 0.60% or less so as to satisfy the following Equation (1), in which the difference between stress ?1 (N/mm2) after prestrain imparting tensile deformation with 7.5% of strain, and upper yield stress ?2 (N/mm2) when the steel sheet is subjected to heat treatment at 200° C. for 30 minutes and then to tension again after the tensile deformation is 8 or less. (Ti/48+V/51+Zr/91+Nb/93)/(C/12+N/14)?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN STAINLESS STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken KIMURA, Junichi HAMADA, Eiichiro ISHIMARU, Akihito YAMAGISHI, Naoto HANSAKI
  • Publication number: 20150376732
    Abstract: Ferritic stainless steel sheet which is excellent in ridging resistance which comprises, by mass %, Cr: 10 to 30%, Sn: 0.005 to 1%, C: 0.001 to 0.1%, N: 0.001 to 0.1%, Si: 0.01 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.01 to 3.0%, P: 0.005 to 0.1%, and S: 0.0001 to 0.01% and has a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities and which has an X-ray diffraction strength in the {100}<012> orientation from a surface layer to t/4 (“t” is sheet thickness) of 2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN STAINLESS STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi HAMADA, Eiichiro ISHIMARU
  • Publication number: 20150376733
    Abstract: This ferritic stainless steel sheet contains, in terms of % by mass, 0.02% or less of C, 0.02% or less of N, 0.10% to 0.60% of Si, 0.10% to 0.80% of Mn, 15.0% to 21.0% of Cr, more than 2.00% to 3.50% or less of Cu, 0.30% to 0.80% of Nb, 1.00% to 2.50% of Mo, and 0.0003% to 0.0030% of B, with a remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein a maximum particle size of ?-Cu that is present in a structure is 20 nm to 200 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN STAINLESS STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiro KANNO, Junichi HAMADA, Yoshiharu INOUE
  • Patent number: 9113065
    Abstract: To provide a network camera and a network camera system in which an image can be securely distributed to a designated distribution recipient. A network camera system 100 connected to a communication network 130 and having a network camera 110 and a plurality of PCs 120, the network camera 110 comprising an image pickup section 111 for picking up the image, a sending and receiving section 115 for distributing the picked up image to the PC 120, an image sending monitoring section 116 for monitoring whether or not the picked up image is distributed to the designated PC 120 among the plurality of PCs 120, and an accumulation memory 119 for accumulating the picked up image when the distribution of the image to the designated PC 120 is interrupted, and the PC 120 comprising an image receiving section 121 for receiving the picked up image distributed thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ogata, Yasuji Nakamura, Hirotaka Fujimura, Junichi Hamada
  • Publication number: 20150083283
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a heat-resistant austenitic stainless steel sheet comprising, by mass %, C: 0.03% to 0.06%, N: 0.1% to 0.3%, Si: 1% or less Mn: 3% or less, P: 0.04% or less, S: 0.03% or less, Ni: 5 to 12%, Cr: 15 to 20%, Al: 0.01% to 0.1%, Nb: 0.05% to 0.3%, V: 0.05% to 0.30%, Ti: 0.03% or less, (Nb+V)/(C+N):2 or less and further a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and wherein an amount of precipitates mainly comprised of carbonitrides is 1% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN STAINLESS STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Inoue, Fumio Fudanoki, Junichi Hamada
  • Patent number: 8980018
    Abstract: Ferritic stainless steel sheet for an exhaust part which has little deterioration in strength even if undergoing long term heat history and is low in cost, excellent in heat resistance and workability characterized by containing, characterized by containing, by mass %, C: less than 0.010%, N: 0.020% or less, Si: over 0.1% to 2.0%, Mn: 2.0% or less, Cr: 12.0 to 25.0%, Cu: over 0.9 to 2%, Ti: 0.05 to 0.3%, Nb: 0.001 to 0.1%, Al: 1.0% or less, and B: 0.0003 to 0.003%, having a Cu/(Ti+Nb) of 5 or more, and having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Hamada, Shinichi Teraoka, Yoshiharu Inoue, Norihiro Kanno
  • Publication number: 20150044085
    Abstract: To provide a ferritic stainless steel sheet which has high scale spalling even at a high temperature around 1000° C. Provided is a ferritic stainless steel sheet having excellent Mn-containing oxide film-forming ability and scale spalling ability, containing, in terms of mass %: C: 0.001 to 0.020%, N: 0.001 to 0.020%, Si: 0.10 to 0.40%, Mn: 0.20 to 1.00%, Cr: 16.0 to 20.0%, Nb: 0.30 to 0.80%, Mo: 1.80 to 2.40%, W: 0.05 to 1.40%, Cu: 1.00 to 2.50%, and B: 0.0003 to 0.0030%, in which the above-mentioned components are contained satisfying the formula (1) below, and the balance is composed of Fe and inevitable impurities. At least one of N, Al, V, Mg, Sn, Co, Zr, Hf, and Ta may be added in a predetermined content range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN STAINLESS STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiro Kanno, Junichi Hamada, Yoshiharu Inoue
  • Publication number: 20150020933
    Abstract: Provided is a heat-resistant cold rolled ferritic stainless steel sheet containing, in terms of mass %, 0.02% or less of C, 0.1% to 1.0% of Si, greater than 0.6% to 1.5% of Mn, 0.01% to 0.05% of P, 0.0001% to 0.0100% of S, 13.0% to 20.0% of Cr, 0.1% to 3.0% of Mo, 0.005% to 0.20% of Ti, 0.3% to 1.0% of Nb, 0.0002% to 0.0050% of B, 0.005% to 0.50% of Al, and 0.02% or less of N, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, in which {111}-oriented grains are present at an area ratio of 20% or greater in a region from a surface layer to t/4 (t is a sheet thickness), {111}-oriented grains are present at an area ratio of 40% or greater in a region from t/4 to t/2, and {011}-oriented grains are present at an area ratio of 15% or less in the entire region in a thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Hamada, Yuji Koyama, Yoshiharu Inoue, Tadashi Komori, Fumio Fudanoki, Toshio Tanoue, Naoto Ono
  • Publication number: 20140294660
    Abstract: This hot-rolled ferritic stainless steel sheet contains, in terms of % by mass: 0.0150% or less of C, 0.01% to 2.00% of Si, 0.01% to 2.00% of Mn, less than 0.040% of P, 0.010% or less of S, 10.0% to 30.0% of Cr, 0.001% to 0.100% of Al, and 0.0200% or less of N, with a balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein in a cross section in a range of ¼ to ¾ of a sheet thickness, a length L of all crystal grain boundaries having orientation differences of 1° or more to less than 180° and a length La of subgrain boundaries having orientation differences of 1° or more to less than 15° satisfy a relation of La/L?0.20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Ken Kimura, Junichi Hamada, Jun Takahashi, Yuuji Koyama, Shigeyuki Gotoh
  • Publication number: 20140023550
    Abstract: The present invention provides ferritic stainless steel sheet which is excellent in heat resistance at 950° C. and workability at ordinary temperature, that is, ferritic stainless steel sheet excellent in heat resistance and workability which is characterized by containing, by mass %, C: 0.02% or less, N: 0.02% or less, Si: over 0.1 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.5% or less, P: 0.020 to 0.10%, Cr: 13.0 to 20.0%, Nb: 0.5 to 1.0%, Cu: 1.0 to 3.0%, Mo: 1.5 to 3.5%, W: 2.0% or less, B: 0.0001 to 0.0010%, and Al: 0.01 to 1.0% and having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, where Mo+W is made 2.0 to 3.5%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Junichi Hamada, Norihiro Kanno, Yoshiharu Inoue
  • Patent number: 8628631
    Abstract: The present invention provides a ferritic stainless steel casting and a sheet thereof excellent in deep drawability, punch stretchability and ridging resistance and a method for producing the casting and the sheet. In the present invention, a chemical composition is controlled so that the amounts of C, N, Si, Mn, P and Ti may be reduced to the utmost for securing high workability and, on the basis of the chemical composition, the roping and ridging of a steel sheet product is reduced by adding Mg, thus dispersing Mg containing oxides that accelerate the formation of nuclei for solidification and, resultantly, suppressing the development of coarse columnar crystals in a casting. The present invention is characterized in that the average composition of the Mg containing oxides dispersing in a casting satisfies the following expressions <2> and <3>, 17.4(Al2O3)+3.9(MgO)+0.3(MgAl2O4)+18.7(CaO)?500??<2>, (Al2O3)+(MgO)+(MgAl2O4)+(CaO)?95??<3>.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Takahashi, Junichi Hamada, Ken Kimura, Takashi Morohoshi, Yoshihito Yamada, Toyohiko Kakihara, Satoshi Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20130306204
    Abstract: This hot-rolled ferritic stainless steel sheet has a steel composition containing, in terms of % by mass: 0.02% or less of C; 0.02% or less of N; 0.1% to 1.5% of Si; 1.5% or less of Mn; 0.035% or less of P; 0.010% or less of S; 1.5% or less of Ni; 10% to 20% of Cr; 1.0% to 3.0% of Cu; 0.08% to 0.30% of Ti; and 0.3% or less of Al, with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and the hot-rolled ferritic stainless steel sheet has a Vickers hardness of less than 235 Hv.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Teraoka, Masaaki Kobayashi, Yuuji Koyama, Junichi Hamada, Norihiro Kanno, Yoshiharu Inoue, Ken Kimura, Jun Takahashi, Shigeyuki Gotoh
  • Publication number: 20130149187
    Abstract: A heat-resistant ferritic stainless steel sheet having excellent oxidation resistance while being low in cost and optimal for use in exhaust system components, wherein mass % falls within the following ranges: C: 0.015% or less, N: 0.020% or less, P: 0.04% or less, S: 0.001% or less, Si: 0.3-1.5% or less, Mn: 0.3-0.7% or less, Cr: 11.0-17.0%, Cu: 0.8-1.5%, Ni: 0.05-1.0%, V: 0.5% or less, Al: over 0.01 up to 0.1%, Ti: 10(C+N) to 0.3%. Also, the element content of the elements in the ferritic stainless steel sheet having excellent oxidation and thermal resistance has been mutually adjusted in a manner such that the value of ? defined in formula (1) is 35 or less. ?=23[% Ni]+9[% Cu]+7[% Mn]?11.5[% Cr]?11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN STAINLESS STEEL SHEET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Inoue, Junichi Hamada, Norihiro Kanno, Shinichi Teraoka