Patents by Inventor Kiyokazu Ishizuka

Kiyokazu Ishizuka 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: 9512511
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention can provide a galvanization method for hot-rolled steel sheet, cold-rolled steel sheet, or plating sheet of various compositions, which can avoid nonplating defects by using an Ni preplating procedure. For example, an exemplary galvanization method can be provided for pickled hot-rolled steel sheet or annealed cold-rolled steel sheet which is free from non-plating defects which includes cleaning the surface of the plating sheet, preplating it with Ni, rapidly heating the sheet in a nonoxidizing or reducing atmosphere to a sheet temperature of about 430 to 500° C. at a heating a rate of about 20° C./sec or more, and then hot dip plating the sheet in a galvanization bath. The exemplary amount of Ni preplating can be determined based on the plate type and amount of Si in the sheet steel to produce a hot dip galvanization that is free from non-plating defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Kazumi Nishimura, Ikuo Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9499894
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention can provide a method for producing hot dip galvannealed steel sheet which exhibits high strength, high ductility, and a significant degree of alloying. Such exemplary method can be applied to, e.g., a pickled hot rolled steel sheet or an annealed and pickled cold rolled steel sheet containing between about 0.02% and about 0.2% C and between about 0.15% and about 2.5% Mn, and may include one or more procedures for rinsing the sheet, preplating the sheet with Ni, rapidly heating the sheet in a nonoxidizing atmosphere to a sheet temperature of about 430° C. to 500° C., then hot dip plating the sheet in a galvanizing bath containing between about 0.05% and about 0.2% Al, and then immediately heating the sheet rapidly for an alloying treatment. Such exemplary method can provide an improved alloying speed, improved plating appearance and better plating adhesion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Kazumi Nishimura, Ikuo Kikuchi, Kaoru Kawasaki, Junji Haji
  • Publication number: 20160284455
    Abstract: A treatment solution is applied on a surface of a base iron; and the treatment solution is baked and dried. The treatment solution contains a first component: 100 parts by mass in solid content, and a second component composed of particles of one or more kinds selected from a group consisting of a polyolefin wax, an epoxy resin and an acrylic resin, the particles having an average particle size of 2.0 ?m to 15.0 ?m and a melting point of 60° C. to 140° C.: 5 parts by mass to 45 parts by mass in resin solid content. The first component contains a colloidal silica: 100 parts by mass, and an emulsion of one kind selected from a group consisting of an acrylic resin, an epoxy resin and a polyester resin which have an average particle size of 0.05 ?m to 0.50 ?m, or an emulsion of a mixture or copolymer of two or three kinds selected from the group: 40 parts by mass to 400 parts by mass in resin solid content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Kenji Kosuge, Satoshi Arai, Kiyokazu Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 9334555
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention can provide a hot dip galvannealed steel sheet which has excellent corrosion resistance, workability, coatability and appearance. The exemplary galvannealed sheet can include an ultra-low carbon steel sheet having a plating layer which includes about 8 to 13% Fe, about 0.05 to 1.0% Ni, about 0.15 to 1.5% Al, and a balance of Zn and unavoidable impurities. An exemplary method for producing a hot dip galvannealed steel sheet is also provided which can include cleaning an annealed ultra-low carbon steel sheet, preplating it with Ni, rapidly heating the sheet in a nonoxidizing or reducing atmosphere, plating the sheet in a galvanization bath containing Al, wiping it, then rapidly reheating it and either cooling the sheet without any soaking time or soaking and holding it for less than 15 seconds and then cooling it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: NIPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Kazumi Nishimura, Ikuo Kikuchi, Akihiro Miyasaka
  • Publication number: 20150329946
    Abstract: A galvannealed steel sheet includes: a steel sheet; a coating layer on a surface of the steel sheet; and a mixed layer formed between the steel sheet and the coating layer, in which the mixed layer includes a base iron portion having fine grains having a size of greater than 0 ?m and equal to or smaller than 2 ?m, a Zn—Fe alloy phase, and oxides containing one or more types of Mn, Si, Al, and Cr, and in the mixed layer, the oxides and the Zn—Fe alloy phase are present in grain boundaries that form the fine grains and the Zn—Fe alloy phase is tangled with the base iron portion. [Mn]+[Si]+[Al]+[Cr]?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi YASUI, Kojiro AKIBA, Kiyokazu ISHIZUKA, Koki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 9051622
    Abstract: A non-oriented magnetic steel sheet contains, by mass %, C: 0.005% or less; Si: 2% to 4%; Mn and V: totally 11% or less; and Al: 3% or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a Mn concentration (mass %) and a V concentration (mass %) in a thickness direction satisfy the following formula. 0.1<(XsMn,V?XcMn,V)/tMn,V<100, where XsMn,V: a sum of the Mn concentration (mass %) and the V concentration (mass %) at a surface of the steel sheet, XcMn,V: a sum of the Mn concentration (mass %) and the V concentration (mass %) at a center of the steel sheet, and tMn,V: a depth (mm), from the surface of the steel sheet, of a position where the sum of the Mn concentration (mass %) and the V concentration (mass %) is equal to XcMn,V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Arai, Yasuhide Morimoto, Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Kazutoshi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20150037684
    Abstract: A steel foil according to an aspect of the present invention includes, by mass %, C: 0.0001 to 0.02%; Si: 0.001 to 0.01%; Mn: 0.01 to 0.3%; P: 0.001 to 0.02%; S: 0.0001 to 0.01%; Al: 0.0005 to 0.1%; N: 0.0001 to 0.004%; and a balance consisting of Fe and impurities, wherein a thickness is 5 to 15 ?m, and a tensile strength is more than 900 MPa and 1.200 MPa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Yuji Kubo, Jun Nakatsuka, Shuji Nagasaki
  • Publication number: 20140287259
    Abstract: A steel foil according to an aspect of the present invention includes a rolled steel foil; and a Ni having <111>//RD texture plated on an outermost layer of the rolled steel foil. Regarding the steel foil, a <111> pole density in an inverse pole figure of a rolling direction may be 3.0 or more and 6.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Yuji Kubo, Jun Nakatsuka, Shuji Nagasaki
  • Publication number: 20140199487
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention can provide a method for producing hot dip galvannealed steel sheet which exhibits high strength, high ductility, and a significant degree of alloying. Such exemplary method can be applied to, e.g., a pickled hot rolled steel sheet or an annealed and pickled cold rolled steel sheet containing between about 0.02% and about 0.2% C and between about 0.15% and about 2.5% Mn, and may include one or more procedures for rinsing the sheet, preplating the sheet with Ni, rapidly heating the sheet in a nonoxidizing atmosphere to a sheet temperature of about 430° C. to 500° C., then hot dip plating the sheet in a galvanizing bath containing between about 0.05% and about 0.2% Al, and then immediately heating the sheet rapidly for an alloying treatment. Such exemplary method can provide an improved alloying speed, improved plating appearance and better plating adhesion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: KIYOKAZU ISHIZUKA, KAZUMI NISHIMURA, IKUO KIKUCHI, KAORU KAWASAKI, JUNJI HAJI
  • Patent number: 8617324
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention can provide a method for producing hot dip galvannealed steel sheet which exhibits high strength, high ductility, and a significant degree of alloying. Such exemplary method can be applied to, e.g., a pickled hot rolled steel sheet or an annealed and pickled cold rolled steel sheet containing between about 0.02% and about 0.2% C and between about 0.15% and about 2.5% Mn, and may include one or more procedures for rinsing the sheet, preplating the sheet with Ni, rapidly heating the sheet in a nonoxidizing atmosphere to a sheet temperature of about 430° C. to 500° C., then hot dip plating the sheet in a galvanizing bath containing between about 0.05% and about 0.2% Al, and then immediately heating the sheet rapidly for an alloying treatment. Such exemplary method can provide an improved alloying speed, improved plating appearance and better plating adhesion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Kazumi Nishimura, Ikuo Kikuchi, Kaoru Kawasaki, Junji Haji
  • Publication number: 20130008569
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention can provide a method for producing hot dip galvannealed steel sheet which exhibits high strength, high ductility, and a significant degree of alloying. Such exemplary method can be applied to, e.g., a pickled hot rolled steel sheet or an annealed and pickled cold rolled steel sheet containing between about 0.02% and about 0.2% C and between about 0.15% and about 2.5% Mn, and may include one or more procedures for rinsing the sheet, preplating the sheet with Ni, rapidly heating the sheet in a nonoxidizing atmosphere to a sheet temperature of about 430° C. to 500° C., then hot dip plating the sheet in a galvanizing bath containing between about 0.05% and about 0.2% Al, and then immediately heating the sheet rapidly for an alloying treatment. Such exemplary method can provide an improved alloying speed, improved plating appearance and better plating adhesion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: KIYOKAZU ISHIZUKA, Kazumi Nishimura, Ikuo Kikuchi, Kaoru Kawasaki, Junji Haji
  • Patent number: 8303739
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention can provide a method for producing hot dip galvannealed steel sheet which exhibits high strength, high ductility, and a significant degree of alloying. Such exemplary method can be applied to, e.g., a pickled hot rolled steel sheet or an annealed and pickled cold rolled steel sheet containing between about 0.02% and about 0.2% C and between about 0.15% and about 2.5% Mn, and may include one or more procedures for rinsing the sheet, preplating the sheet with Ni, rapidly heating the sheet in a nonoxidizing atmosphere to a sheet temperature of about 430° C. to 500° C., then hot dip plating the sheet in a galvanizing bath containing between about 0.05% and about 0.2% Al, and then immediately heating the sheet rapidly for an alloying treatment. Such exemplary method can provide an improved alloying speed, improved plating appearance and better plating adhesion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Kazumi Nishimura, Ikuo Kikuchi, Kaoru Kawasaki, Junji Haji
  • Publication number: 20120171467
    Abstract: An electrical steel sheet (10) is provided with a base iron (1) and an insulating film (2) formed on a surface of the base iron (1). The insulating film (2) includes 100 parts by mass of a first component containing a metal phosphate, and 5 parts by mass to 45 parts by mass of a second component composed of particles of one or more kinds selected from a group consisting of a polyolefin wax, an epoxy resin and an acrylic resin, the particles having an average particle size of 2.0 ?m to 15.0 ?m and a melting point of 60° C. to 140° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Takeda, Kenji Kosuge, Satoshi Arai, Kiyokazu Ishizuka
  • Publication number: 20120009436
    Abstract: A non-oriented magnetic steel sheet contains, by mass %, C: 0.005% or less; Si: 2% to 4%; Mn and V: totally 11% or less; and Al: 3% or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a Mn concentration (mass %) and a V concentration (mass %) in a thickness direction satisfy the following formula. 0.1<(XsMn,V?XcMn,V)/tMn,V<100, where XsMn,V: a sum of the Mn concentration (mass %) and the V concentration (mass %) at a surface of the steel sheet, XcMn,V: a sum of the Mn concentration (mass %) and the V concentration (mass %) at a center of the steel sheet, and tMn,V: a depth (mm), from the surface of the steel sheet, of a position where the sum of the Mn concentration (mass %) and the V concentration (mass %) is equal to XcMn,V.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Arai, Yasuhide Morimoto, Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Kazutoshi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20090211668
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention can provide a method for producing hot dip galvannealed steel sheet which exhibits high strength, high ductility, and a significant degree of alloying. Such exemplary method can be applied to, e.g., a pickled hot rolled steel sheet or an annealed and pickled cold rolled steel sheet containing between about 0.02% and about 0.2% C and between about 0.15% and about 2.5% Mn, and may include one or more procedures for rinsing the sheet, preplating the sheet with Ni, rapidly heating the sheet in a nonoxidizing atmosphere to a sheet temperature of about 430° C. to 500° C., then hot dip plating the sheet in a galvanizing bath containing between about 0.05% and about 0.2% Al, and then immediately heating the sheet rapidly for an alloying treatment. Such exemplary method can provide an improved alloying speed, improved plating appearance and better plating adhesion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Kazumi Nishimura, Ikuo Kikuchi, Kaoru Kawasaki, Junji Haji
  • Publication number: 20090200174
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention can provide a galvanization method for hot-rolled steel sheet, cold-rolled steel sheet, or plating sheet of various compositions, which can avoid nonplating defects by using an Ni preplating procedure. For example, an exemplary galvanization method can be provided for pickled hot-rolled steel sheet or annealed cold-rolled steel sheet which is free from non-plating defects which includes cleaning the surface of the plating sheet, preplating it with Ni, rapidly heating the sheet in a nonoxidizing or reducing atmosphere to a sheet temperature of about 430 to 500° C. at a heating a rate of about 20° C./sec or more, and then hot dip plating the sheet in a galvanization bath. The exemplary amount of Ni preplating can be determined based on the plate type and amount of Si in the sheet steel to produce a hot dip galvanization that is free from non-plating defects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Kazumi Nishimura, Ikuo Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20090162691
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention can provide a hot dip galvannealed steel sheet which has excellent corrosion resistance, workability, coatability and appearance. The exemplary galvannealed sheet can include an ultra-low carbon steel sheet having a plating layer which includes about 8 to 13% Fe, about 0.05 to 1.0% Ni, about 0.15 to 1.5% Al, and a balance of Zn and unavoidable impurities. An exemplary method for producing a hot dip galvannealed steel sheet is also provided which can include cleaning an annealed ultra-low carbon steel sheet, preplating it with Ni, rapidly heating the sheet in a nonoxidizing or reducing atmosphere, plating the sheet in a galvanization bath containing Al, wiping it, then rapidly reheating it and either cooling the sheet without any soaking time or soaking and holding it for less than 15 seconds and then cooling it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Kazumi Nishimura, Ikuo Kikuchi, Akihiro Miyasaka
  • Publication number: 20090151820
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of production of hot dip galvannealed steel sheet with excellent workability compared with the Sendzimir method or non-oxidizing furnace method and further with excellent powdering or slidability, that is, a method of production of hot dip galvannealed steel sheet with excellent workability, powdering, and slidability characterized by processing a slab containing, by mass %, C: 0.01 to 0.12%, Mn: 0.05 to 0.6%, Si: 0.002 to 0.1%, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.03% or less, sol. Al: 0.005 to 0.1%, and N: 0.01% or less and having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities by hot rolling, pickling, cold rolling, then annealing at 650 to 900° C., cooling to 250 to 450° C., holding at said temperature range for 120 seconds or more, then cooling to room temperature, pickling, preplating Ni or Ni—Fe without intermediate temper rolling, heating by 5° C./sec or more down to 430 to 500° C., galvanizing in a galvanization bath, wiping, then heating by a rate of temperature rise of 20° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Junji Haji, Kaoru Kawasaki, Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Teruaki Yamada
  • Patent number: 7029762
    Abstract: The present invention provides an inorganic-organic composite-treated zinc-plated steel sheet whose treated coatings do not contain any chromium and which is excellent in corrosion resistance after degreasing, coating adhesion and electrodeposition coating performance. The inorganic-organic composite-treated zinc-plated steel sheet, which is obtained by forming a zinc phosphate coating, in a coating weight of 0.3 to 5 g/m2, on the zinc-plated steel sheet surface and forming thereon a post-treatment coating, in a coating weight of 0.01 to 1 g/m2, by using a post-treatment composition containing at least one compound (A) selected from the group consisting of thiocarbonyl group-containing compounds, sulfide group-containing compounds and guanidyl group-containing compounds, an organic resin (B), a crosslinking agent (C) and an inorganic corrosion inhibitor (D).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Hidetoshi Shindo, Atsushi Morishita, Koichi Saito, Motohiro Sasaki, Atsuhiko Tounaka
  • Patent number: 7011895
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide an inorganic-organic composite-treated zinc-plated steel sheet whose treated coatings do not contain any hazardous chromate and which is excellent in corrosion resistance after alkaline degreasing and coating adhesion. An inorganic-organic composite-treated zinc-plated steel sheet which has a zinc phosphate coating, in a coating weight of 0.3 to 5 g/m2, on the zinc-plated steel sheet surface and, thereon, a post-treatment coating, in a coating weight of 0.01 to 1 g/m2, containing an organic resin (A), a zirconium compound (B), an inorganic corrosion inhibitor (C) and an organic corrosion inhibitor (D).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Hidetoshi Shindo, Koichi Saito, Motohiro Sasaki, Atsuhiko Tounaka