Patents by Inventor Kison NISHIHARA

Kison NISHIHARA 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: 11827963
    Abstract: Provided are a roughly-shaped steel material for a nitrided part, and a nitrided part obtained by nitriding the roughly-shaped steel material for a nitrided part, having a determined chemical composition, in which the portion with a diameter or width ranging from 60 to 130 mm of the roughly-shaped steel material for a nitrided part has a microstructure at a depth of 14.5 mm from a surface including, in terms of area fraction: tempered martensite and tempered bainite in total: from 70 to 100%; remaining austenite: from 0 to 5%; and a balance: ferrite and perlite; and has a microstructure at a depth of 15 mm or more from the surface including, in terms of area fraction: tempered martensite and tempered bainite in total: from 0 to less than 50%; remaining austenite: from 0 to 5%; and a balance: ferrite and perlite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato Yuya, Hiroaki Tahira, Kison Nishihara, Satoru Okawa
  • Publication number: 20220177991
    Abstract: The steel shaft component consists of C: 0.40 to 0.60%, Si: 0.05 to 1.00%, Mn: 1.00 to 2.00%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.005 to 0.100%, Cr: 0.10 to 0.50%, V: 0.10 to 0.30%, Al: 0.005 to 0.050%, N: 0.0050 to 0.0200%, Ti: 0 to 0.050%, and the balance: Fe and impurities. A Vickers hardness Hs of the surface of the shaft part is 620 HV or more. A Vickers hardness Hb at an R/2 position satisfies Formula (1). A depth of the hardened layer Hr (mm) having a Vickers hardness of 620 HV or more satisfies Formula (2). The microstructure at the R/2 position is composed of ferrite and pearlite. Within the hardened layer, the number of density of V-containing precipitates having an equivalent circular diameter of more than 100 nm is 10 particles/276 ?m2 or less. Hs/2.3?Hb?350??(1) 0.05?Hr/R?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Kison NISHIHARA, Hiroaki TAHIRA, Yoko SUEYASU
  • Patent number: 11261511
    Abstract: A hot forged steel material in the present embodiment includes a chemical composition that consists of, in mass %, C: 0.14 to 0.20%, Si: 0.20 to 1.00%, Mn: 1.00 to 1.90%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.030% or less, V: 0.16 to 0.30%, Al: 0.015 to 0.050%, N: 0.0050 to 0.0250%, Cr: 0.10 to 0.30%, Cu: 0 to 0.10%, and Nb: 0 to 0.10%, with the balance being Fe and impurities, and that satisfies Formula (1) and Formula (2), wherein a grain size number of ferrite in the steel is 9.0 or more, and an absorbed energy at ?30° C. is 100 J or more in the Charpy impact test using a V notch specimen. 0.36?C+(Si+Mn)/6+(Cr+V)/5+Cu/15<0.68??(1) 51/12×C?V?0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoko Sueyasu, Hiroaki Tahira, Ken Yoshino, Kison Nishihara
  • Publication number: 20220010416
    Abstract: Provided are a roughly-shaped steel material for a nitrided part, and a nitrided part obtained by nitriding the roughly-shaped steel material for a nitrided part, having a determined chemical composition, in which the portion with a diameter or width ranging from 60 to 130 mm of the roughly-shaped steel material for a nitrided part has a microstructure at a depth of 14.5 mm from a surface including, in terms of area fraction: tempered martensite and tempered bainite in total: from 70 to 100%; remaining austenite: from 0 to 5%; and a balance: ferrite and perlite; and has a microstructure at a depth of 15 mm or more from the surface including, in terms of area fraction: tempered martensite and tempered bainite in total: from 0 to less than 50%; remaining austenite: from 0 to 5%; and a balance: ferrite and perlite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Masato YUYA, Hiroaki TAHIRA, Kison NISHIHARA, Satoru OKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210189532
    Abstract: A hot forged steel material in the present embodiment includes a chemical composition that consists of, in mass %, C: 0.14 to 0.20%, Si: 0.20 to 1.00%, Mn: 1.00 to 1.90%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.030% or less, V: 0.16 to 0.30%, Al: 0.015 to 0.050%, N: 0.0050 to 0.0250%, Cr: 0.10 to 0.30%, Cu: 0 to 0.10%, and Nb: 0 to 0.10%, with the balance being Fe and impurities, and that satisfies Formula (1) and Formula (2), wherein a grain size number of ferrite in the steel is 9.0 or more, and an absorbed energy at ?30° C. is 100 J or more in the Charpy impact test using a V notch specimen. 0.36?C+(Si+Mn)/6+(Cr+V)/5+Cu/15<0.68??(1) 51/12×C?V?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Yoko SUEYASU, Hiroaki TAHIRA, Ken YOSHINO, Kison NISHIHARA
  • Patent number: 10975452
    Abstract: There is provided a hot forged product having excellent wear resistance and fatigue strength even when the hot forged product is produced with a thermal refining treatment and a case hardening thermal treatment after hot forging omitted, and having a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: 0.45 to 0.70%, Si: 0.01 to 0.70%, Mn: 1.0 to 1.7%, S: 0.01 to 0.1%, Cr: 0.05 to 0.25%, Al: 0.003 to 0.050%, N: 0.003 to 0.02% with the balance being Fe and impurities. The matrix at the depth of 500 ?m to 5 mm from an unmachined surface of the forged product is a ferrite-pearlite structure, in which a pro-eutectoid ferrite area fraction is 3% or less or a pearlite structure, and the average diameter of pearlite colonies in the pearlite structure at the depth of 500 ?m to 5 mm from the unmachined surface is 5.0 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kison Nishihara, Yoshiyuki Kashiwara, Hiroaki Tahira
  • Publication number: 20190127817
    Abstract: There is provided a hot forged product having excellent wear resistance and fatigue strength even when the hot forged product is produced with a thermal refining treatment and a case hardening thermal treatment after hot forging omitted, and having a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: 0.45 to 0.70%, Si: 0.01 to 0.70%, Mn: 1.0 to 1.7%, S: 0.01 to 0.1%, Cr: 0.05 to 0.25%, Al: 0.003 to 0.050%, N: 0.003 to 0.02% with the balance being Fe and impurities. The matrix at the depth of 500 ?m to 5 mm from an unmachined surface of the forged product is a ferrite-pearlite structure, in which a pro-eutectoid ferrite area fraction is 3% or less or a pearlite structure, and the average diameter of pearlite colonies in the pearlite structure at the depth of 500 ?m to 5 mm from the unmachined surface is 5.0 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Kison NISHIHARA, Yoshiyuki KASHIWARA, Hiroaki TAHIRA