Patents by Inventor Kazumasa KAITOKU

Kazumasa KAITOKU 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: 10076799
    Abstract: A joined body of dissimilar metals, in which a flared joint is formed and which have a high joint strength, is provided. The joined body contains a first metal member having a curved surface portion, a second metal member having a higher melting point than the first metal member and joined to the first metal member to form the flared joint, and a joining metal portion formed by irradiating the first metal member and a filler material disposed between the first and second metal members with a laser. An intermetallic compound formed at the interface between the second metal member and the joining metal portion has a thickness of at most 3 ?m. A melted portion and a non-melted portion are formed in the curved surface portion of the first metal member in which the flared joint is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Kaitoku, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Noritaka Eguchi, Toru Hashimura
  • Publication number: 20160297020
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a joined body of dissimilar metals, in which a flared joint is formed and which have a high joint strength. The present invention is provided with a first metal member (11) having a curved surface portion (15), a second metal member (12) having a higher melting point than the first metal member (11) and joined to the first metal member (11) to form a flared joint, and a joining metal portion (13) formed by irradiating with a laser a filler material, disposed at the joint portion between the first metal member (11) and the second metal member (12), and the first metal member (11). The maximum thickness of an intermetallic compound (14) formed at the interface between the second metal member (12) and the joining metal portion (13) is at most 3 [mu]m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Kazumasa KAITOKU, Tsuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Noritaka EGUCHI, Toru HASHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20160221059
    Abstract: An electromagnetic forming coil device includes a conductor coil; and a magnetic field shaper including a tubular portion disposed in the conductor coil, and an end wall portion that extends from a base end portion thereof, which is at one end of the tubular portion in a longitudinal direction, to an extended end toward an axis of the conductor coil, the end wall portion having a cavity surface at the extended end, the cavity surface surrounding a workpiece. The tubular portion and the end wall portion are each divided into sections in the longitudinal direction, and the magnetic field shaper includes insulating layers disposed on the divided sections of each of the tubular portion and the end wall portion and on the cavity surface. The extended end of the end wall portion is disposed at a position protruding outward from a position of the conductor coil in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Takashi GOTO, Kazumasa KAITOKU, Yoshihaya IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20160001403
    Abstract: Provided are a welding filler material for bonding different kind materials that improves joint strength and reduces cracks at the bonded part in different kind material bonding of an aluminum material or an aluminum alloy material and a steel material and has difficulty to break at the time of the wire drawing process, and a method for producing a different kind material welded structure. The welding filler material is formed by containing at least 1.0% by mass to 6.0% by mass of Si and 0.01% by mass to 0.30% by mass of Ti with a remainder being aluminum and inevitable impurities. Alternatively, the welding filler material is formed by filling a flux into a sheath material so that the filling rate is 2.0% by mass to 20.0% by mass relative to the mass of the whole wire, where the sheath material is formed of an aluminum alloy that contains at least 1.0% by mass to 6.0% by mass of Si and 0.01% by mass to 0.30% by mass of Ti with the remainder being aluminum and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Kazumasa KAITOKU