Patents by Inventor Keitaro MATSUDA

Keitaro MATSUDA 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: 20240247357
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a galvanized steel sheet comprising steel sheet containing C: 0.05 to 0.30%, Si: 0.01 to 3.00%, Mn: 0.80 to 3.00%, and Al: 0.010 to 2.000% and having a thickness of 0.10 to 0.95 mm, and a galvanized layer on the steel sheet, wherein a tensile strength is 550 to 1500 MPa, and, when defining a thickness of an internal oxide layer per surface of the steel sheet as “A” (?m), a thickness of a decarburized layer per surface of the steel sheet as “B” (?m), and a thickness of the steel sheet as “t” (?m), A/B: 0.01 to 0.50 and B/t: 0.001 to 0.200.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun MAKI, Keitaro MATSUDA, Hiroyuki KAWATA
  • Publication number: 20240240278
    Abstract: A steel sheet comprising, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, and Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, wherein a surface layer of the steel sheet contains granular oxides, an average grain size of the granular oxides is 300 nm or less, a number density of granular oxides is 4.0/?m2 or more, the steel sheet comprises an Si—Mn depleted layer having a thickness of 3.0 ?m or more from the surface of the steel sheet, and Si and Mn contents of the Si—Mn depleted layer not containing oxides at the ½ position of the thickness are respectively less than 10% of the Si and Mn contents at the sheet thickness center part of the steel sheet, and a plated steel sheet using the same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Keitaro MATSUDA, Jun MAKI, Takehiro TAKAHASHI, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240227354
    Abstract: A steel welded member comprising a plurality of Zn-based plated steel materials, each having a Zn-based plating layer on a surface of a steel material, joined together through at least one spot weld, wherein the steel material contains, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, and Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, the steel welded member includes, by area ratio, 20 to 80% of a ? phase (Fe3 Zn1 0) and at least one oxide with a long axis of 0.5 ?m or more in a region up to 0.5 mm from an end part of a pressure weld of the spot weld.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Keitaro MATSUDA, Jun MAKI, Takehiro TAKAHASHI, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240218491
    Abstract: A steel sheet comprising, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, and Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, wherein a surface layer of the steel sheet contains grain boundary oxides, a Ratio A of a length of the grain boundary oxides projected on a surface of the steel sheet to a length of the surface of the steel sheet is 50% or more and 100% or less, a number density of granular oxides is less than 4.0/?m2, the steel sheet comprises an Si—Mn depleted layer having a thickness of 3.0 ?m or more from the surface of the steel sheet, and Si and Mn contents of the Si—Mn depleted layer at the ½ position of the thickness and not containing oxides are respectively less than 10% of the Si and Mn contents at a sheet thickness center part of the steel sheet, and a plated steel sheet using the same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keitaro MATSUDA, Takuya MITSUNOBU, Jun MAKI, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240141469
    Abstract: High strength plated steel sheet having high hydrogen embrittlement resistance, that is, alloyed hot dip galvannealed steel sheet including steel sheet containing C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, and sol. Al: 0.4 to 1.50% and a alloyed hot dip galvannealed layer deposited on at least one surface of the steel sheet to 10 to 100 g/m2 and containing Fe: 5.0 to 15.0% and Al: 0.01 to 1.0%, having an internal oxidation layer including grain boundary oxides in a surface layer of the steel sheet, when examining a cross-section of a surface layer of the steel sheet, a Ratio A of the length of the grain boundary oxides projected an interface of the steel sheet and the alloyed hot dip galvannealed layer to the length of interface is 50% or more and 100% or less, and a surface depleted layer with a steel composition not including the grain boundary oxides which satisfies, by mass %, Si?0.6% and Al?0.05% is included at a depth of ½ of the average depth of the internal oxidation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keitaro MATSUDA, Takuya MITSUNOBU, Masaaki URANAKA, Jun MAKI, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240117475
    Abstract: High strength steel sheet and plated steel sheet having high plateability, LME resistance, and hydrogen embrittlement resistance, that is, steel sheet containing C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, and sol. Al: 0.4 to 1.50%, having an internal oxidation layer including fine granular oxides and coarse granular oxides in a surface layer of the steel sheet, a number density of fine granular oxides in the internal oxidation layer being 4.0/?m2 or more, a number density of coarse granular oxides in the internal oxidation layer being 4.0/25 ?m2 or more and 30.0/25 ?m2 or less, and including a surface depleted layer with a steel composition not including oxides which satisfies, by mass %, Si?0.6% and Al?0.05% at a depth of ½ of the average depth of the internal oxidation layer calculated from the cross-sectional SEM image of the steel sheet, and a plated steel sheet using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Masaaki URANAKA, Keitaro MATSUDA, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI, Jun MAKI
  • Publication number: 20240117476
    Abstract: High strength steel sheet and plated steel sheet having high plateability, LME resistance, and hydrogen embrittlement resistance, that is, steel sheet containing C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, and sol. Al: 0.4 to 1.50%, having an internal oxidation layer including fine granular oxides in a surface layer of the steel sheet, a number density of fine granular oxides in the internal oxidation layer being 4.0/?m2 or more, and including a surface depleted layer with a steel composition not including oxides which satisfies, by mass %, Si?0.6% and Al?0.05% at a depth of ½ of the average depth of the internal oxidation layer calculated from the cross-sectional SEM image of the steel sheet, and a plated steel sheet using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki URANAKA, Takuya MITSUNOBU, Keitaro MATSUDA, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI, Jun MAKI
  • Publication number: 20230399727
    Abstract: High strength steel sheet and plated steel sheet having high plateability, LME resistance, and hydrogen embrittlement resistance, that is, steel sheet containing C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, and sol. Al: 0.4 to 1.50%, having an internal oxidation layer including fine granular oxides, coarse granular oxides, and grain boundary oxides in a surface layer of the steel sheet, a number density of fine granular oxides in the internal oxidation layer being 4.0/?m2 or more, a number density of coarse granular oxides in the internal oxidation layer being 4.0/25 ?m2 or more, having a Ratio A of the length of the grain boundary oxides projected on the surface of the steel sheet to the length of the surface of the steel sheet when examining a cross-section of the surface layer of the steel sheet being 50% or more and 100% or less, and including a surface depleted layer with a steel composition not including oxides which satisfies, by mass %, Si?0.6% and Al?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keitaro MATSUDA, Takuya MITSUNOBU, Masaaki URANAKA, Jun MAKI, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI