Patents by Inventor Koichi Hamada

Koichi Hamada 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: 12623270
    Abstract: Provided is a burring processing method, which is a method for forming a buffing processed portion including a raised portion and a curved portion in a metal component having a pilot hole formed therein, the method being characterized by including: a preforming step of enlarging a diameter of the pilot hole, moving an edge portion of the pilot hole relative to the metal component in a first direction of a thickness direction of the metal component in a first range around the pilot hole of the metal component, and forming the whole first range into a preformed portion raised from the metal component in the first direction; and a main forming step of deforming the preformed portion in a second direction opposite to the first direction, forming a second range on an outer diameter side of the preformed portion to have the same height as the first range in the first direction, and forming part of a third range on an inner diameter side of the preformed portion from the second range to be part of the curved portion
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Otsuka, Masafumi Azuma, Koichi Hamada, Ryo Tabata, Ryo Urushibata, Yuuki Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20260115597
    Abstract: A non-limiting example information processing system comprises a game apparatus, a game history server, a recommendation server and a user terminal respectively connected communicably with each other via a network. If a user executes a game on the game apparatus, game execution information is generated and registered in the game history server. The game history server transmits a game history of a data format to the recommendation server. The recommendation server generates recommendation information of music content based on the game history and transmits the recommendation information to the user terminal. The user terminal displays music content that is recommended based on the recommendation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2025
    Publication date: April 30, 2026
    Inventors: Tetsuo HATANAKA, Satoru MIYAHARA, Shoma SAITO, Toshifumi SAWAMURA, Masayuki SENOO, Yuki BANNO, Koichi HAMADA, Yoshikazu KAMOSHIDA, Yutaka IMOTO, Bruno L. WATANABE, Taku TAKENAGA, Eigo HARA, Rin SATO
  • Patent number: 12576443
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a press-formed product includes: a heating step; a transportation step; and a pressing step. The transportation step includes: using claws of a pair of first arms to support the lower surface, at both ends, of a first heated workpiece and lift the workpiece; using claws of a pair of second arms to support the lower surface, at both ends, of a second heated workpiece and lift the workpiece; transporting the first heated workpiece with the lower surface supported, at both ends, by the claws of the pair of first arms and the second heated workpiece with the lower surface supported, at both ends, by the claws of the pair of second arms, where the first and second heated workpieces overlap each other in the direction normal to the sheet surfaces; driving the pair of first arms to lower the first heated workpiece to a pressing location on a press machine; and driving the pair of second arms to lower the second heated workpiece to a pressing location on the press machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya Suzuki, Naruhiko Nomura, Koichi Hamada, Yujiro Tatsumi
  • Patent number: 12522907
    Abstract: A blank sheet which is a material for an outer plate component for an automobile includes a steel sheet. A rolling direction of the steel sheet extends along a longitudinal direction of the blank sheet, and a thickness is 0.6 mm or less. The steel sheet may have a chemical composition in which arithmetic average waviness Wa is 0.10 to 0.30 ?m. The steel sheet may have a chemical composition in which ?C calculated from C20 that is a C content at a depth position of 20 ?m from a surface, C60 that is a C content at a depth position of 60 ?m from the surface, and Expression (1) is 0.20 to 0.90 mass %/mm, and a tensile strength is 500 MPa or greater, ?C=(C60?C20)/(0.04)??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2026
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi Nishimura, Yasuhiro Ito, Yasunori Sawa, Koichi Hamada, Satoshi Hironaka
  • Patent number: 12515273
    Abstract: A joint structure includes a first sheet member, a second sheet member, a third sheet member, and plural joining parts formed at locations where the first sheet member, the second sheet member, and the third sheet member overlap, so as to join the first sheet member, the second sheet member, and the third sheet member together. The plural joining parts are formed at an interval along an edge of the first sheet member and an edge of the second sheet member. The third sheet member includes a fold-back portion provided at least between the plural joining parts by folding the third sheet member back around the edge of the first sheet member and the edge of the second sheet member such that the fold-back portion is disposed on an opposite side of the first sheet member from a side overlapped with the second sheet member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Fujimoto, Koichi Hamada, Atsushi Ono, Yasunori Sawa, Toshiya Suzuki, Tohru Okada
  • Patent number: 12403524
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a press-formed product includes a heating step, a transportation step, and a pressing step. At the heating step, workpieces are heated while a first workpiece W1 is placed on a first group of struts 3 extending upward from a tray body 2, and a second workpiece W2 is placed on a second group of struts 3 to be located above the first workpiece W1 and overlap it. At the transportation step, the second workpiece W2, while located above the first workpiece W1 and overlapping it, is transported, together with the tray body 2, from the heating device 14 to the lifting location. At the lifting location, the second workpiece W2 is lifted upward by the transportation device 46 and the first workpiece W1 is lifted by the transportation device 46 before they are transported to their respective pressing locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya Suzuki, Naruhiko Nomura, Koichi Hamada, Yujiro Tatsumi
  • Patent number: 12194806
    Abstract: A suspension arm includes a main body. The main body includes a curved portion curved along a longitudinal direction and has a closed section. The main body includes an inner side wall, an outer side wall, a first side wall, and a second side wall. The inner side wall corresponds to an inner side of a curve of the curved portion. The outer side wall corresponds to an outer side of the curve of the curved portion. A thickness of the inner side wall is larger than a thickness of the outer side wall. In sectional view of the main body perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, each of a length of the first side wall and a length of the second side wall is longer than each of a length of the inner side wall and a length of the outer side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Otsuka, Masafumi Azuma, Koichi Hamada, Ryo Tabata, Ryo Urushibata, Yuki Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20250016402
    Abstract: An information processing method in a content viewing system that includes: a first display apparatus and a second display apparatus configured to communicate with each other via a home network, receive and reproduce contents of a content distribution service from a server on a network; and a mobile terminal configured to communicate with each of the display apparatus, includes: a first step of obtaining account information, which the mobile terminal has, from the mobile terminal by the first display apparatus, the account information being associated with the content distribution service; a second step of transferring the account information to the second display apparatus by the first display apparatus; and a third step of receiving the contents from the server by using the account information by the second display apparatus to reproduce the contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Koichi HAMADA, Nobuaki KABUTO, Junji SHIOKAWA, Takashi MATSUBARA
  • Patent number: 12157430
    Abstract: An automobile hood 1 has an inner panel 2, an outer panel 3, and a plurality of linear sealer regions A in which joints 21 are arranged. A region which includes the linear sealer region A and in which both ends in a longitudinal direction L of the linear sealer region A reach the outer circumferential edge of the inner panel 2 is defined as an end-to-end region B. Each of three longest linear sealer regions A2, A4 and A3 among the plurality of linear sealer regions A is a length that is 40% or more of the length of an end-to-end region B2, B4 or B3 to which the linear sealer regions A2, A4 or A3 belongs, respectively. These three end-to-end regions B2, B4 and B3 do not intersect with each other within a region surrounded by the outer circumferential edge of the inner panel 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi Nishimura, Koichi Hamada, Yasunori Sawa, Tohru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20240375717
    Abstract: A vehicle frame includes an elongated main body member, a reinforcing member along the main body member, and an adhesive layer that joins the main body member and the reinforcing member. The main body member includes a main body first wall portion and two main body side wall portions. The reinforcing member includes a reinforcing first wall portion and two reinforcing side wall portions. The adhesive layer is formed such that a thickness between the main body side wall portion and the reinforcing side wall portion at a reinforcing side end portion is larger than a thickness between the main body first wall portion and the reinforcing first wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chikara KAWAMURA, Kenichi YAMAMOTO, Masanori HONDA, Toshiyuki GENDO, Tetsuya SUGIYAMA, Masaki SHIMADA, Masumi HASEGAWA, Koichi HAMADA
  • Patent number: 12132951
    Abstract: An information processing method in a content viewing system that includes: a first display apparatus and a second display apparatus configured to communicate with each other via a home network, receive and reproduce contents of a content distribution service from a server on a network; and a mobile terminal configured to communicate with each of the display apparatus, includes: a first step of obtaining account information, which the mobile terminal has, from the mobile terminal by the first display apparatus, the account information being associated with the content distribution service; a second step of transferring the account information to the second display apparatus by the first display apparatus; and a third step of receiving the contents from the server by using the account information by the second display apparatus to reproduce the contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Hamada, Nobuaki Kabuto, Junji Shiokawa, Takashi Matsubara
  • Publication number: 20240352565
    Abstract: This outer plate component for an automobile includes a steel sheet, and a rolling direction of the steel sheet extends along a vehicle body left-right direction in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi NISHIMURA, Yasuhiro ITO, Yasunori SAWA, Koichi HAMADA, Satoshi HIRONAKA
  • Patent number: 12109601
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a press-formed product suppresses occurrence of a forming defect such as a crack in a starting material during press forming, and also suppresses occurrence of problems when transferring a starting material during press forming. A manufacturing intermediate is formed by forming, in a flat-sheet shaped blank sheet, a planned outline portion including an undulating shape which is used for forming an outline of an outer circumferential portion of a press-formed product. The flat shape of the blank sheet is maintained in a region from the planned outline portion toward the center of the manufacturing intermediate, or an intermediate stretch-formed portion having a predetermined intermediate forming height is formed in the manufacturing intermediate in the region. A through-hole is formed by piercing a flat portion at which the flat shape is maintained or a stretch-formed-side top portion of the intermediate stretch-formed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei Yamazaki, Ryuichi Nishimura, Koichi Hamada, Takuya Oishi, Tohru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20240246134
    Abstract: This structural member design method is a method for designing a structural member obtained by forming a tailored blank. The method includes: a weld setting step of performing crash analysis by numerical simulation on an analytical model of the structural member, and setting the position of the weld such that a fracture index of a first region is equal to or more than a specified value and the fracture indices of all remaining regions other than the first region are less than the specified value; and a removal region setting step of setting, after the weld setting step, a region including a portion corresponding to the first region in the joined end portion as a removal region where the exposed portion is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi HAMADA, Toshiya SUZUKI, Yujiro TATSUMI, Naruhiko NOMURA
  • Patent number: 12030131
    Abstract: This spot welded joint includes a first steel sheet having tensile strength of 1100 MPa or higher and hard martensitic structure as main structure, a second steel sheet stacked on the first steel sheet, a nugget having diameter D at an interface between the first and second steel sheets and formed between the first and second steel sheets, and a hardness control region occupying, in a cross section of the first steel sheet in sheet thickness direction that passes a nugget center, a region that is the first steel sheet in sheet thickness direction and is from 0.5×D to 1.0×D from the nugget center in sheet surface direction and in which difference between maximum value and minimum value in hardness in the region is 80 HV or less, and the maximum hardness value in the region is lower than the maximum hardness value of the first steel sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tasuku Zeniya, Satoshi Hirose, Atsuo Koga, Koichi Hamada, Masanori Yasuyama
  • Publication number: 20240207967
    Abstract: A method of designing the width of the weld bead in a tailored blank includes: a model acquisition step for acquiring analysis model data containing elements for the first sheet, elements for the second sheet, and elements for the weld bead; a press-forming analysis step for performing press-forming analysis using the analysis model data to calculate deformation of the various elements when the tailored blank is press formed; and a bead-width designing step for deciding on a design value of the width of the weld bead for each of positions along the longitudinal direction of the weld bead in the tailored blank prior to press forming based on a press-forming-induced change in the width relating to the elements for the weld bead obtained through calculation, to generate bead-width design data indicating the relationship between a position along the longitudinal direction of the weld bead and the design value of the width of the weld bead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naruhiko NOMURA, Toshiya SUZUKI, Koichi HAMADA, Yujiro TATSUMI, Masanori YASUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240200587
    Abstract: A joint structure according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a first metal sheet on which a cylindrical first rising portion is formed; at least one target material in which a through hole into which the first rising portion is inserted is formed and which is joined to the first metal sheet; and a joint member which is inserted into the first rising portion and joins the first metal sheet and the target material which are superimposed on each other to each other, wherein the joint member has a shaft portion which is inserted inside the first rising portion, and a first surface which is a surface opposite to a surface facing the first metal sheet of both surfaces of the target material and a tip end portion of the first rising portion are at different positions in an axial direction of the first rising portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi ONO, Hiroki FUJIMOTO, Koichi HAMADA, Masanobu KAMO, Takashi IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 12012148
    Abstract: A vehicle skeleton member 10 includes: a hat-shaped member 1; a closing plate 2; a reinforcement member 6; and a plurality of welds 31. The hat-shaped member 1 includes a first top plate 1a, two first walls 1b, and two flanges 1c. The reinforcement member 6 includes a second top plate 6a and two second walls 6b. The welds 31 join the first and second walls 1b and 6b. The welds 31 joining the first and second walls 1b and 6b are located at positions on the first walls 1b closer to the closing plate 2 than the middle surface C1 between the first top plate 1a and closing plate 2 is. Edge segments 4 of the reinforcement member 6 are located between the welds 31.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koichi Hamada
  • Publication number: 20240196056
    Abstract: A television receiver 101 is connected to two or more wireless terminals via a communication line. A controller 214 and a network I/F 212 in the television receiver 101 send pieces of login information entered from the two or more wireless terminals to the content distribution server and obtain pieces of content list information each generated by the content distribution server based on the pieces of login information. An aggregated content list in which the obtained pieces of content list information are aggregated is generated. The display 210 displays the aggregated content list. The content list information includes content available for viewing on the information terminal connected to the communication line. The aggregated content list includes content available for viewing on the two or more information terminals in which the pieces of content list information are aggregated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Masahiro KAGEYAMA, Takashi MATSUBARA, Koichi HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20240190514
    Abstract: An automobile hood 1 has joints 20. The inner panel 2 includes, for example, units 8 and 9 arranged in plurality in an aligned relationship in a cross direction X and arranged in plurality in an aligned relationship in a longitudinal direction Y. The plurality of units 8 and 9 include a plurality of joint-equipped units. In the first form, in some of the joint-equipped units, namely, joint-equipped units 84, 89, and 9, the joints 20 are arranged in an arrangement including a predetermined pattern P1, and in the remaining joint-equipped units 81, 85, 86, 810, 811, and 812, the joints 20 are arranged in an arrangement including a part of the predetermined pattern P1. In the second form, in each of the joint-equipped units 8 and 9, a plurality of the joints 20 are arranged in an arrangement including the predetermined pattern P1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi NISHIMURA, Yasunori SAWA, Koichi HAMADA