Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Seto

Kazuhiro Seto 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: 8182621
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a hot-rolled thin steel sheet includes: hot-rolling a steel base material having a composition containing, as mass %, C: 0.10 to 0.20%, Si: 0.01 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.5 to 2.0%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.01 to 0.10%, N: 0.005% or less, Ti: 0.01 to 0.15%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0050%, the balance of Fe, and unavoidable impurities at a finishing temperature of finish rolling of 820 to 880° C. to produce a hot-rolled steel sheet with a thickness of less than 6 mm; cooling the hot-rolled steel sheet to a temperature range on a surface of the hot-rolled steel sheet to 550 to 650° C. at a surface cooling rate of 15 to 50° C. per second; and coiling the hot-rolled steel sheet at the temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nakamura, Kazuhiro Seto
  • Publication number: 20120107633
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes a composition containing, in mass percent, 0.08% to 0.20% of carbon, 0.2% to 1.0% of silicon, 0.5% to 2.5% of manganese, 0.04% or less of phosphorus, 0.005% or less of sulfur, 0.05% or less of aluminum, 0.07% to 0.20% of titanium, and 0.20% to 0.80% of vanadium, the balance being iron and incidental impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Nakagawa, Takeshi Yokota, Kazuhiro Seto, Satoshi Kinoshiro, Yuji Tanaka, Katsumi Yamada, Tetsuya Mega, Katsumi Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20120018062
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a hot-rolled thin steel sheet includes: hot-rolling a steel base material having a composition containing, as mass %, C: 0.10 to 0.20%, Si: 0.01 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.5 to 2.0%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.01 to 0.10%, N: 0.005% or less, Ti: 0.01 to 0.15%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0050%, the balance of Fe, and unavoidable impurities at a finishing temperature of finish rolling of 820 to 880° C. to produce a hot-rolled steel sheet with a thickness of less than 6 mm; cooling the hot-rolled steel sheet to a temperature range on a surface of the hot-rolled steel sheet to 550 to 650° C. at a surface cooling rate of 15 to 50° C. per second; and coiling the hot-rolled steel sheet at the temperature range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nakamura, Kazuhiro Seto
  • Patent number: 8062438
    Abstract: Provided is a hot-rolled thin steel sheet having a thickness of less than 6 mm and having high strength showing a tensile strength of 440 MPa or more, excellent formability, and excellent strength and toughness after heat treatment and a method of manufacturing the same. A steel base material containing 0.10 to 0.20% of C, and Si, Mn, Al, P, S, and N adjusted to suitable amount ranges, and 0.01 to 0.15% of Ti and 0.0005 to 0.0050% of B is hot rolled so as to have a finishing temperature of finish rolling of 820 to 880° C.; after the completion of the rolling, the hot-rolled thin steel sheet is cooled to a surface temperature range of 550 to 650° C. at a surface cooling rate of 15 to 50° C./s; and the hot-rolled thin steel sheet is coiled at the temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nakamura, Kazuhiro Seto
  • Publication number: 20110271733
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a high strength hot rolled steel sheet includes heating a slab to a temperature in the range of 1150 to 1300° C.; hot rolling the slab with a finishing rolling temperature being in the range of 800 to 1000° C.; cooling the steel sheet at a mean cooling rate of 30° C./s or higher to a cooling termination temperature in the range of 525 to 625° C.; suspending cooling for a time period in the range of 3 to 10 seconds; cooling the steel sheet in such a manner that cooling of the steel sheet is nucleate boiling; and coiling the steel sheet at a temperature in the range of 400 to 550° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Yokota, Kazuhiro Seto, Satoshi Ueoka, Nobuo Nishiura, Yoichi Tominaga
  • Patent number: 7955444
    Abstract: A high tensile steel sheet having 980 MPa or higher tensile strength with excellent elongation and stretch-flange formability, suitable for the press-forming of complex cross sectional shape such as automobile parts, is manufactured by adjusting the steel to consist essential of a ferrite single phase structure, to precipitate carbide containing Ti, Mo, and V, of smaller than 10 nm of average particle size, in dispersed state, and to have an average composition of the carbide containing Ti, Mo, and V satisfying [V/(Ti+Mo+V)?0.3 (atomic ratio].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tamako Ariga, Takeshi Yokota, Akio Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Seto
  • Publication number: 20100206439
    Abstract: A high strength hot rolled thick steel sheet has a tensile strength of 440 to 640 MPa, preferably 490 to 590 MPa, and an elongation of 20% or more; is excellent in uniformity in a sheet thickness direction and in strength and toughness after heat treatment; and is suitably used for structural components of automobiles, construction machines, and the like, and a method for manufacturing the hot rolled thick steel sheet. A steel material having a composition including C: 0.10 to 0.20%, Ti: 0.01 to 0.15%, B: 0.0010 to 0.0050%, and proper amounts of Si, Mn, Al, P, S, and N is hot-rolled at a finisher delivery temperature of 820 to 880° C. in finish rolling, is cooled at a cooling rate of 15 to 50° C./s until a temperature reaches a cooling stop temperature of 500 to 600° C., and is coiled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Seto, Nobuyuki Nakamura, Akio Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20100196189
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet has high stretch flangeability after working and corrosion resistance after painting. The steel sheet contains, on the basis of mass percent, C: 0.02% to 0.20%, Si: 0.3% or less, Mn: 0.5% to 2.5%, P: 0.06% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.1% or less, Ti: 0.05% to 0.25%, and V: 0.05% to 0.25%, the remainder being Fe and incidental impurities. The steel sheet has a substantially ferritic single phase, the ferritic single phase containing precipitates having a size of less than 20 nm, the precipitates containing 200 to 1750 mass ppm Ti and 150 to 1750 mass ppm V, V dissolved in solid solution being 200 or more but less than 1750 mass ppm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Nakagawa, Takeshi Yokota, Nobuyuki Nakamura, Kazuhiro Seto, Satoshi Kinoshiro, Katsumi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20090308504
    Abstract: A steel sheet excellent in FB performance and also excellent in fabrication performance after FB working and a manufacturing method of the same are provided. The steel sheet is a steel sheet having a composition containing from 0.1 to 0.5% of C, not more than 0.5% of Si and from 0.2 to 1.5% of Mn in terms of % by mass, with P and S being adjusted at proper ranges and having a structure having a ferrite having an average grain size of more than 10 ?m and less than 20 ?m and a cementite present in the ferrite grain having an average particle size of from 0.3 to 1.5 ?m. In this way, the steel sheet becomes a steel sheet excellent in FB performance, mold life and performance (side bend elongation) after FB working.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: JFT Steel corporation, a corporation of Japan
    Inventors: Nobusuke Kariya, Takeshi Yokota, Nobuyuki Nakamura, Kazuhiro Seto
  • Publication number: 20090260729
    Abstract: A high-carbon hot-rolled steel sheet with excellent width-direction homogeneity is provided. The steel sheet contains 0.2% to 0.7% carbon, 0.01% to 1.0% silicon, 0.1% to 1.0% manganese, 0.03% or less phosphorus, 0.035% or less sulfur, 0.08% or less aluminum, and 0.01% or less nitrogen, and the balance is iron and incidental impurities. The structure is such that the average ferrite grain size of edge parts of the steel sheet is less than 35 ?m, the average ferrite grain size of a part closer to the center of the steel sheet than the edge parts is less than 20 ?m, and the average carbide grain size is 0.10 ?m or more and less than 2.0 ?m. The steel sheet is produced by roughly rolling the steel, finish-rolling the steel at a finishing temperature of more than (Ar3+40° C.), cooling the steel at a cooling rate of more than 120° C./s within two seconds after the finish rolling to a cooling termination temperature of more than 550° C. and less than 650° C., coiling the steel at a temperature of 550° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventors: Shunji Iizuka, Kazuhiro Seto, Akio Kobayashi, Kenichi MItsuzuka, Naoya Aoki, Hideyuki Kimura, Nobuyuki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20090205756
    Abstract: Provided is a hot-rolled thin steel sheet having a thickness of less than 6 mm and having high strength showing a tensile strength of 440 MPa or more, excellent formability, and excellent strength and toughness after heat treatment and a method of manufacturing the same. A steel base material containing 0.10 to 0.20% of C, and Si, Mn, Al, P, S, and N adjusted to suitable amount ranges, and 0.01 to 0. 15% of Ti and 0.0005 to 0.0050% of B is hot rolled so as to have a finishing temperature of finish rolling of 820 to 880° C.; after the completion of the rolling, the hot-rolled thin steel sheet is cooled to a surface temperature range of 550 to 650° C. at a surface cooling rate of 15 to 50° C./s; and the hot-rolled thin steel sheet is coiled at the temperature range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nakamura, Kazuhiro Seto
  • Publication number: 20090173415
    Abstract: A steel sheet excellent in FB performance-and also excellent in fabrication performance after FB working and a manufacturing method of the same are provided. The steel sheet is a steel sheet having a composition containing from 0.1 to 0.5% of C, not more than 0.5% of Si and from 0.2 to 1.5% of Mn in terms of % by mass, with P and S being adjusted at proper ranges, and having a structure in which a ferrite has an average grain size of from 1 to 10 ?m, cementite has a spheroidization ratio of 80% or more, and of the cementite, an amount Sgb of ferrite intergranular cementite which is defined by the following expression (1): Sgb(%)={Son/(Son+Sin)}×100 (wherein Son represents a total occupied area of cementite present on the ferrite grain boundary of the cementite present per unit area; and Snin represents a total occupied area of cementite present in a ferrite grain of the cementite present per unit area) is 40% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Seto, Takeshi Yokota, Nobuyuki Nakamura, Nobusuke Kariya
  • Publication number: 20090095381
    Abstract: A high tensile steel sheet having 980 MPa or higher tensile strength with excellent elongation and stretch-flange formability, suitable for the press-forming of complex cross sectional shape such as automobile parts, is manufactured by adjusting the steel to consist essential of a ferrite single phase structure, to precipitate carbide containing Ti, Mo, and V, of smaller than 10 nm of average particle size, in dispersed state, and to have an average composition of the carbide containing Ti, Mo, and V satisfying [V/(Ti+Mo+V)?0.3 (atomic ratio].
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tamako Ariga, Takeshi Yokota, Akio Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Seto
  • Patent number: 7347902
    Abstract: According to the invention, a high-strength hot rolled steel sheet having an excellent shape fixability as hot-rolled and an excellent fatigue durability after the forming, excellent weldability and phosphatability and a tensile strength of not less than 590 MPa level can be obtained by comprising C: not less than 0.02 mass % but not more than 0.2 mass %, Si: not less than 0.5 mass % but not more than 2.0 mass %, Mn: not less than 1.0 mass % but not more than 3.0 mass %, Al: not less than 0.01 mass % but not more than 0.1 mass %, N: not less than 0.002 mass % but not more than 0.006 mass %, P: not more than 0.03 mass %, S: not more than 0.01 mass % and solid-soluted (C+N): not less than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Mega, Kei Sakata, Kazuhiro Seto
  • Publication number: 20070119521
    Abstract: A high strength steel, including about 0.05 to about 0.25% of C, less than about 0.5% of Si, about 0.5 to about 3.0% of Mn, not more than about 0.06% of P, not more than about 0.01% of S, about 0.50 to about 3.0% of Sol. Al, not more than about 0.02% of N, about 0.1 to about 0.8% of Mo, about 0.02 to about 0.40% of Ti, and the balance of iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein the steel has a structure formed of at least three phases including a bainite phase, and a retained austenite phase in addition to a ferrite phase having a composite carbide containing Ti and Mo dispersed and precipitated therein, wherein the total volume of the ferrite phase and the bainite phase is not smaller than 80%, the volume of the bainite phase is about 5% to about 60%, and the volume of the retained austenite phase is about 3 to about 20%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicants: JFE Steel Corporation, a corporation of Japan, ThyssenKrupp Steel AG, a corporation of Germany
    Inventors: Takeshi Yokota, Akio Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Seto, Yoshihiro Hosoya, Thomas Heller, Brigitte Hammer, Rolf Bode, Gunter Stich
  • Publication number: 20040238084
    Abstract: According to the invention, a high-strength hot rolled steel sheet having an excellent shape fixability as hot-rolled and an excellent fatigue durability after the forming, excellent weldability and phosphatability and a tensile strength of not less than 590 MPa level can be obtained by comprising C: not less than 0.02 mass % but not more than 0.2 mass %, Si: not less than 0.5 mass % but not more than 2.0 mass %, Mn: not less than 1.0 mass % but not more than 3.0 mass %, Al: not less than 0.01 mass % but not more than 0.1 mass %, N: not less than 0.002 mass % but not more than 0.006 mass %, P: not more than 0.03 mass %, S: not more than 0.01 mass % and solid-soluted (C+N): not less than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Tetsuya Mega, Kei Sakata, Kazuhiro Seto
  • Publication number: 20030201039
    Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet having an ultrafine grain structure including a ferrite phase is provided. The cold-rolled steel sheet contains C, Si, Mn, Ni, Ti, Nb, Al, P, S, N and Fe and incidental impurities. The ferrite phase has a content of 65 percent by volume or more and an average grain size of 3.5 &mgr;m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Mochida, Kazuhiro Seto, Kei Sakata, Tomohisa Oonishi
  • Patent number: 6638371
    Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet having an ultrafine grain structure including a ferrite phase provided. The cold-rolled steel sheet contains C, Si, Mn, Ni, Ti, Nb, Al, P, S, N and Fe and incidental impurities. The ferrite phase has a content of 65 percent by volume or more and an average grain size of 3.5 &mgr;m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Mochida, Kazuhiro Seto, Kei Sakata, Tomohisa Oonishi
  • Patent number: 6392297
    Abstract: An electronic component comprises an insulator substrate (11), a layered member composed of a plurality of insulator resin layers (12a-12f) and a plurality of conductor pattern layers (13a-13f) alternately stacked on the insulator substrate to form a first conductor line and a second conductor line each of which comprises at least one conductor layer, first and second external electrode terminal portions connected to opposite ends of the first conductor line and covering first and second areas of side surfaces of said layered member and the insulator substrate, respectively, and a third external electrode terminal portion connected to one end of the second conductor line and covering a third area of the side surfaces of the layered member and the insulator substrate. The second conductor lines have magnetic and electrocapacitive coupling with respect to the first conductor line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Tokin Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Seto
  • Patent number: 6376912
    Abstract: An electronic component comprises an insulator substrate (11), a layered member composed of a plurality of insulator resin layers (12a-12f) and a plurality of conductor pattern layers (13a-13f) alternately stacked on the insulator substrate to form a first conductor line and a second conductor line each of which comprises at least one conductor layer, first and second external electrode terminal portions connected to opposite ends of the first conductor line and covering first and second areas of side surfaces of said layered member and the insulator substrate, respectively, and a third external electrode terminal portion connected to one end of the second conductor line and covering a third area of the side surfaces of the layered member and the insulator substrate. The second conductor lines have magnetic and electrocapacitive coupling with respect to the first conductor line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Tokin Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Seto