Patents by Inventor Katsuhiko Ohishi
Katsuhiko Ohishi 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).
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Patent number: 10316377Abstract: The invention provides a maraging steel production method in which an oxide is added during an Mg oxide formation step, the production method including: the Mg oxide formation step in which Mg is added to molten steel and MgO is formed in the molten steel, during primary melting; a consumable electrode production step in which, after the Mg oxide formation step, the molten steel is solidified and a consumable electrode having residual MgO is obtained; and a vacuum arc re-melting step in which the consumable electrode is used and vacuum arc re-melting is performed.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2015Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Takahiko Kamimura, Yuuichi Hadano, Kenta Imazeki, Katsuhiko Ohishi
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Publication number: 20170159140Abstract: The invention provides a maraging steel production method in which an oxide is added during an Mg oxide formation step, the production method including: the Mg oxide formation step in which Mg is added to molten steel and MgO is formed in the molten steel, during primary melting; a consumable electrode production step in which, after the Mg oxide formation step, the molten steel is solidified and a consumable electrode having residual MgO is obtained; and a vacuum arc re-melting step in which the consumable electrode is used and vacuum arc re-melting is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2015Publication date: June 8, 2017Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Takahiko KAMIMURA, Yuuichi HADANO, Kenta IMAZEKI, Katsuhiko OHISHI
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Publication number: 20140230968Abstract: Provided is maraging steel with which maraging steel that has been subjected to nitriding treatment has excellent fatigue strength and stable high strength. Maraging steel that has been subjected to nitriding treatment to a thickness of 0.5 mm or less and comprises, by mass %, 0.008% or less of C, 0.5% or less of Si, 0.5% or less of Mn, 0.5 to 1.5% of Cr, 16.0 to 22.0% of Ni, 3.0 to 7.0% of Co, and 3.0 to 7.0% of Mo is maraging steel further comprising, by mass %, 0.6 to 1.3% of Al and Fe and impurities as the balance, wherein the impurities are maintained at 0.01% or less of Ti, 0.01% or less of Nb, 0.01% or less of Ta, and 0.01% or less of W, the ratio of Al and Ti is Al/Ti>250, and by Vickers hardness, the surface hardness of the maraging steel is 800 to 1,050 HV and internal hardness of the maraging steel is 570 HV or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Katsuhiko Ohishi, Toshihiro Uehara, Ichiro Kishigami
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Patent number: 8747574Abstract: Provided is a maraging steel strip which has such a composition that can reduce the content of TiN acting as the starting point of fatigue fracture in a high-cycle region, and the bending fatigue strength of which has been improved by the precipitation hardening effect yielded by precipitating coherent nitrides in the nitrided structure. A maraging steel strip produced by nitriding a managing steel which contains by mass, C: 0.01% or less, Si: 0.1% or less, Mn: 0.1% or less, P: 0.01% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Ni: 8.0 to 22.0%, Cr: 0.1 to 8.0%, Mo: 2.0 to 10.0%, Co: 2.0 to 20.0%, Ti: 0.1% or less, Al: 2.5% or less, N: 0.03% or less, and O: 0.005% or less, with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein Baker-Nutting orientation relationship with an orientation difference within 10° exists between the Cr nitride precipitated in the nitrided layer and the matrix martensite.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2010Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhiko Ohishi, Toshihiro Uehara
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Patent number: 8741215Abstract: To provide an inexpensive heat-resisting steel for engine valves by causing Fe-based heat-resisting steel to exhibit high temperature strength not inferior to that of Ni-based heat-resisting steel. A heat-resisting steel for engine valves excellent in high temperature strength containing, in % by mass, C: 0.20 to 0.50%, Si: 1.0% or less, Mn: 5.0% or less, P: 0.1 to 0.5%, Ni: 8.0 to 15.0%, Cr: 16.0 to 25.0%, Mo: 2.0 to 5.0%, Cu: 0.5% or less, Nb: 1.0% or less (including 0%), W: 8.0% or less (including 0%), N: 0.02 to 0.2%, B: 0.01% or less, and remnants of Fe and impurities, wherein the heat-resisting steel for engine valves satisfies formulae below: 442P(%)+12Mo(%)+5W(%)+7Nb(%)+328N(%)+171?300??Formula (1) ?38.13P(%)+1.06Mo(%)+0.13W(%)+9.64Nb(%)+13.52N(%)+4.83?0.12??Formula (2).Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignees: Hitachi Metals, Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhiko Ohishi, Takehiro Ohno, Toshihiro Uehara
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Patent number: 8663549Abstract: To provide an inexpensive heat-resisting steel for engine valves by causing Fe-based heat-resisting steel to exhibit high temperature strength not inferior to that of Ni-based heat-resisting steel. A heat-resisting steel for engine valves excellent in high temperature strength containing, in % by mass, C: 0.20 to 0.50%, Si: 1.0% or less, Mn: 5.0% or less, P: 0.1 to 0.5%, Ni: 8.0 to 15.0%, Cr: 16.0 to 25.0%, Mo: 2.0% or less (including 0%), Cu: 0.5% or less, Nb: 1.0% or less (including 0%), W: 2.0% or less (including 0%), N: 0.02 to 0.30%, B: 0.01% or less, and remnants of Fe and impurities, wherein the heat-resisting steel for engine valves satisfies formulae below: 156.42P(%)+0.91Mo(%)+0.73W(%)?12.27Nb(%)+220.96N(%)+120.59?170??Formula (1) 13.70P(%)?6.97Mo(%)?4.32W(%)?3.29Nb(%)+119.10N(%)+27.75?25??Formula (2).Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignees: Hitachi Metals, Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhiko Ohishi, Akihiro Toji
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Patent number: 8480821Abstract: A piston ring material is provided which retains excellent mechanical properties and processability, which are required of piston ring materials, and has wearing resistance and scuffing resistance, which are sliding properties required of piston rings. The piston ring material, which is for use in internal combustion engines, contains, in terms of mass %, 0.3-0.8% carbon, 0.1-3.0% silicon, 0.1-3.0% manganese, 0.01-0.3% sulfur, 0.1-2.0% chromium, and 0.05-2.0% the sum of titanium and/or zirconium, with the remainder being iron and incidental impurities. The titanium and/or zirconium contained in the piston ring material and the sulfur contained therein satisfy the following relationship. [Ti (%)+½Zr (%)]/S (%)?5.0 Preferably, the material may contain one or more members selected from up to 1.0% copper, less than 3.0% molybdenum, up to 1.0% aluminum, and less than 2.0% nickel, in terms of mass %.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2009Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Hitachi Metals Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhiko Ohishi, Toshihiro Uehara, Kunichika Kubota
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Patent number: 8409712Abstract: An alloy to be surface-coated, which can keep excellent hardness of 58HRC or above even when the amount of an alloying element added is reduced or even when the alloy is heated to a temperature of as high as 400 to 500° C.; and sliding members produced by forming a hard film on the surface of the alloy. An alloy to be surface-coated, the surface of which is to be covered with a hard film, which alloy contains by mass C: 0.5 to 1.2%, Si: 2.0% or below, Mn: 1.0% or below, Cr: 5.0 to 14.0%, Mo+1/2 W: 0.5 to 5.0%, and N: more than 0.015 to 0.1% with the balance being Fe and impurities, preferably such an alloy which contains by mass C: 0.6 to 0.85%, Si: 0.1 to 1.5%, Mn: 0.2 to 0.8%, Cr: 7.0 to 11.0%, Mo+1/2 W: 1.0 to 4.0%, and N: 0.04 to 0.08%.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2009Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Hitachi Metals Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Yokoyama, Kunichika Kubota, Toshihiro Uehara, Takehiro Ohno, Katsuhiko Ohishi
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Publication number: 20120145289Abstract: A piston ring material that when formed into a piston ring product, maintains excellent properties, and that at the production of piston ring rod, realizes excellent processability and shape stability. There is provided a piston ring material for internal combustion engine comprising, by mass, 0.5 to less than 0.7% C, 1.0% or less Si, 1.0% or less Mn, 12.0 to 16.0% Cr, 3.0% or less Mo and/or W (Mo+½W), 0.02 to 0.14% N and the balance Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein the relationship of contained C, N and Cr satisfies the formulae: 25?43.22C (%)+42.45N (%)?0.02Cr (%)?40, and 0.15?0.92C (%)+0.67N (%)?0.03Cr (%)?0.30.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2012Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Katsuhiko OHISHI, Toshihiro Uehara, Kunichika Kubota
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Publication number: 20120114964Abstract: Provided is a coated-surface sliding part having excellent adhesion of a hard coating, and a method for producing the same part. The coated-surface sliding part is a sliding part wherein a hard coating is formed by physical deposition on the surface of a base material formed from, by mass percent, C 0.5 to 0.8%, Si 0.1 to 1.5%, Mn 0.2 to 1.0%, Cr 8.0 to 13.5%, Mo and/or W 0.5 to 4.0% in terms of (Mo+ 1/2 W), and N 0.01 to 0.1%, with the remainder being Fe and impurities. The physically deposited coating is a titanium metal coating further covered by a diamond-like carbon coating. The method for producing a coated-surface part involves sputtering in order to apply the physically deposited coating, which consists of the titanium metal coating and then the diamond-like carbon coating which forms the surface layer, to the surface of the base material having the aforementioned composition. The base material is preferably subjected to argon gas bombardment prior to application of the physically deposited coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2010Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicants: HITACHI METALS, LTD., HITACHI TOOL ENGINEERING, LTD.Inventors: Fumiaki Honda, Kenji Yokoyama, Kenichi Inoue, Kunichika Kubota, Toshihiro Uehara, Takehiro Ohno, Katsuhiko Ohishi
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Publication number: 20120107169Abstract: To provide an inexpensive heat-resisting steel for engine valves by causing Fe-based heat-resisting steel to exhibit high temperature strength not inferior to that of Ni-based heat-resisting steel. A heat-resisting steel for engine valves excellent in high temperature strength containing, in % by mass, C: 0.20 to 0.50%, Si: 1.0% or less, Mn: 5.0% or less, P: 0.1 to 0.5%, Ni: 8.0 to 15.0%, Cr: 16.0 to 25.0%, Mo: 2.0 to 5.0%, Cu: 0.5% or less, Nb: 1.0% or less (including 0%), W: 8.0% or less (including 0%), N: 0.02 to 0.2%, B: 0.01% or less, and remnants of Fe and impurities, wherein the heat-resisting steel for engine valves satisfies formulae below: 442P(%)+12Mo(%)+5W(%)+7Nb(%)+328N(%)+171?300??Formula (1) ?38.13P(%)+1.06Mo(%)+0.13W(%)+9.64Nb(%)+13.52N(%)+4.83?0.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventors: Katsuhiko Ohishi, Takehiro Ohno, Toshihiro Uehara
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Publication number: 20120031529Abstract: Provided is a maraging steel strip which has such a composition that can reduce the content of TiN acting as the starting point of fatigue fracture in a high-cycle region, and the bending fatigue strength of which has been improved by the precipitation hardening effect yielded by precipitating coherent nitrides in the nitrided structure. A maraging steel strip produced by nitriding a managing steel which contains by mass, C: 0.01% or less, Si: 0.1% or less, Mn: 0.1% or less, P: 0.01% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Ni: 8.0 to 22.0%, Cr: 0.1 to 8.0%, Mo: 2.0 to 10.0%, Co: 2.0 to 20.0%, Ti: 0.1% or less, Al: 2.5% or less, N: 0.03% or less, and O: 0.005% or less, with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein Baker-Nutting orientation relationship with an orientation difference within 10° exists between the Cr nitride precipitated in the nitrided layer and the matrix martensite.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2010Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Katsuhiko Ohishi, Toshihiro Uehara
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Publication number: 20110182764Abstract: To provide an inexpensive heat-resisting steel for engine valves by causing Fe-based heat-resisting steel to exhibit high temperature strength not inferior to that of Ni-based heat-resisting steel. A heat-resisting steel for engine valves excellent in high temperature strength containing, in % by mass, C: 0.20 to 0.50%, Si: 1.0% or less, Mn: 5.0% or less, P: 0.1 to 0.5%, Ni: 8.0 to 15.0%, Cr: 16.0 to 25.0%, Mo: 2.0% or less (including 0%), Cu: 0.5% or less, Nb: 1.0% or less (including 0%), W: 2.0% or less (including 0%), N: 0.02 to 0.30%, B: 0.01% or less, and remnants of Fe and impurities, wherein the heat-resisting steel for engine valves satisfies formulae below: 156.42P(%)+0.91Mo(%)+0.73W(%)?12.27Nb(%)+220.96N(%)+120.59?170??Formula (1) 13.70P(%)?6.97Mo(%)?4.32W(%)?3.29Nb(%)+119.10N(%)+27.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2010Publication date: July 28, 2011Inventors: Katsuhiko Ohishi, Akihiro Toji
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Publication number: 20110018207Abstract: A piston ring material is provided which retains excellent mechanical properties and processability, which are required of piston ring materials, and has wearing resistance and scuffing resistance, which are sliding properties required of piston rings. The piston ring material, which is for use in internal combustion engines, contains, in terms of mass %, 0.3-0.8% carbon, 0.1-3.0% silicon, 0.1-3.0% manganese, 0.01-0.3% sulfur, 0.1-2.0% chromium, and 0.05-2.0% the sum of titanium and/or zirconium, with the remainder being iron and incidental impurities. The titanium and/or zirconium contained in the piston ring material and the sulfur contained therein satisfy the following relationship. [Ti (%)+½Zr (%)]/S (%)?5.0 Preferably, the material may contain one or more members selected from up to 1.0% copper, less than 3.0% molybdenum, up to 1.0% aluminum, and less than 2.0% nickel, in terms of mass %.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2009Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Katsuhiko Ohishi, Toshihiro Uehara, Kunichika Kubota
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Publication number: 20100291407Abstract: An alloy to be surface-coated, which can keep excellent hardness of 58HRC or above even when the amount of an alloying element added is reduced or even when the alloy is heated to a temperature of as high as 400 to 500° C.; and sliding members produced by forming a hard film on the surface of the alloy. An alloy to be surface-coated, the surface of which is to be covered with a hard film, which alloy contains by mass C: 0.5 to 1.2%, Si: 2.0% or below, Mn: 1.0% or below, Cr: 5.0 to 14.0%, Mo+1/2 W: 0.5 to 5.0%, and N: more than 0.015 to 0.1% with the balance being Fe and impurities, preferably such an alloy which contains by mass C: 0.6 to 0.85%, Si: 0.1 to 1.5%, Mn: 0.2 to 0.8%, Cr: 7.0 to 11.0%, Mo+1/2 W: 1.0 to 4.0%, and N: 0.04 to 0.08%.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2009Publication date: November 18, 2010Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Kenji Yokoyama, Kunichika Kubota, Toshihiro Uehara, Takehiro Ohno, Katsuhiko Ohishi
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Publication number: 20100189590Abstract: A maraging steel for metallic belts which has a composition capable of being reduced in the content of TiN serving as a starting point for fatigue fracture in a high-cycle-rate region. The composition facilitates nitriding to heighten the surface hardness. The steel has a nitrided surface layer having increased compressive residual stress and hence improved flexural fatigue strength. In the steel, former austenite crystal grains have been reduced in size in order to secure higher strength and higher ductility. The maraging steel consists of, by mass %, up to 0.01% C, up to 0.1% Si, up to 0.1% Mn, up to 0.01% P, up to 0.005% S, 17.0-22.0% Ni, 0.1-4.0% Cr, 3.0-7.0% Mo, from more than 7.0 to 20.0% Co, up to 0.1% Ti, up to 2.5% Al, up to 0.03% N, up to 0.005% 0, up to 0.01% B (exclusive zero), and the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein Co/3+Mo+4Al is 8.0-15.0%.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2007Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhiko Ohishi, Toshihiro Uehara
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Publication number: 20100158745Abstract: A piston ring material that when formed into a piston ring product, maintains excellent properties, and that at the production of piston ring rod, realizes excellent processability and shape stability. There is provided a piston ring material for internal combustion engine comprising, by mass, 0.5 to less than 0.7% C, 1.0% or less Si, 1.0% or less Mn, 12.0 to 16.0% Cr, 3.0% or less Mo and/or W (Mo+1/2W), 0.02 to 0.14% N and the balance Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein the relationship of contained C, N and Cr satisfies the formulae: 25?43.22C (%)+42.45N (%)?0.02Cr (%)<40, and 0.15 <0.92C (%)+0.67N (%)?0.03Cr (%)<0.30.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2007Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Katsuhiko Ohishi, Toshihiro Uehara, Kunichika Kubota
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Publication number: 20090196782Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a porous liquid absorbing-and-holding member having a high absorbing capacity for a liquid owing to capillarity and having in itself a structure capable of holding a large amount of the liquid, a process for producing this member, and a member for absorbing and holding an alcohol used as a fuel for a fuel cell. The porous liquid absorbing-and-holding member provided by the present invention is that including a porous sintered product having a skeleton formed by sintering of metal powder around voids and subjected to hydrophilicity-imparting treatment. The hydrophilicity-imparting treatment is preferably the formation of one or more substances selected from the group consisting of silicon oxides, titanium oxides, chromium oxides and aluminum oxide on the skeleton.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2009Publication date: August 6, 2009Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Kenji Date, Kiyoshi Tatsugawa, Katsuhiko Ohishi, Noriyuki Nakaoka
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Publication number: 20060188741Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a porous liquid absorbing-and-holding member having a high absorbing capacity for a liquid owing to capillarity and having in itself a structure capable of holding a large amount of the liquid, a process for producing this member, and a member for absorbing and holding an alcohol used as a fuel for a fuel cell. The porous liquid absorbing-and-holding member provided by the present invention is that including a porous sintered product having a skeleton formed by sintering of metal powder around voids and subjected to hydrophilicity-imparting treatment. The hydrophilicity-imparting treatment is preferably the formation of one or more substances selected from the group consisting of silicon oxides, titanium oxides, chromium oxides and aluminum oxide on the skeleton.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2006Publication date: August 24, 2006Inventors: Kenji Date, Kiyoshi Tatsugawa, Katsuhiko Ohishi, Noriyuki Nakaoka