Patents by Inventor Koichi Sugimoto

Koichi Sugimoto 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: 7907505
    Abstract: A code disk for a high-resolution encoder that can detect an absolute position and a method for manufacturing a mold to produce the code disk are provided. The code disk is formed by using transparent substrate. The code disk includes a plurality of tracks provided on the transparent substrate and an area provided between the plurality of tracks. Each surface of the plurality of tracks has a different pattern. A level of the area is different from that of the each surface of the plurality of tracks. The method for manufacturing the mold includes steps of processing a plurality of tracks with a flat surface on material; processing an area with a level different from that of each surface, between the plurality of tracks; forming different patterns on the each surface; plating the first material; and peeling plating from the first material to obtain a mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiko Sakamoto, Katsutoshi Kamakura, Masahiro Otani, Yasushi Kawashima, Isamu Higashioka, Masaru Imaizumi, Osamu Murakami, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 7887648
    Abstract: The invention relates to an ultrahigh-strength thin steel sheet excellent in the hydrogen embrittlement resistance, the steel sheet including, by weight %, 0.10 to 0.60% of C, 1.0 to 3.0% of Si, 1.0 to 3.5% of Mn, 0.15% or less of P, 0.02% or less of S, 1.5% or less of Al, 0.003 to 2.0% of Cr, and a balance including iron and inevitable impurities; in which grains of residual austenite have an average axis ratio (major axis/minor axis) of 5 or more, the grains of the residual austenite have an average minor axis length of 1 ?m or less, and the grains of the residual austenite have a nearest-neighbor distance between the grains of 1 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichiro Kinugasa, Fumio Yuse, Yoichi Mukai, Shinji Kozuma, Hiroshi Akamizu, Kouji Kasuya, Muneaki Ikeda, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20100221138
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength composite steel sheet which has a tensile strength of 980 MPa class as well as excellent and excellent anti-delayed fraction property, and also has excellent spot-weldability. The high-strength composite steel sheet comprises a steel satisfying: C: 0.10 to 0.25% (% by mass in case of a chemical component, the same shall apply hereinafter), Si: 1.0 to 3.0%, Mn: 1.5 to 3.0%, P: 0.15% or less, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 0.4% or less, and comprising the remnant made from iron and unavoidable impurities; the contents of Si, Al, Mn and Cr satisfy the relationship of “(Si+Al)/Mn or (Si+Al)/(Mn+Cr)=0.74 to 1.26”; and microstructure is specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho, Shinshu TLO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiharu Nakaya, Yoichi Mukai, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 7767036
    Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet exhibiting an excellent strength-workability balance, including in percent by mass: 0.10-0.25% of C; 1.0-2.0% of Si; 1.5-3.0% of Mn; 0.01% or less (not including 0%) of P; 0.005% or less (not including 0%) of S; 0.01-3.0% of Al; and remaining part consisting of iron and inevitable impurities, wherein the space factor of bainitic ferrite to the entire structure is 70% or more, the space factor of residual austenite to the entire structure is 5-20%, the hardness (HV) is 270 or greater, and the half-value width of an X-ray diffraction peak on a (200)-surface of ?-iron is 0.220 degrees or smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Takahiro Kashima, Yoichi Mukai, Hiroshi Akamizu, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20100172786
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength steel sheet which has a 980 MPa class tensile strength as well as has excellent elongation, stretch flangeability and weldability, and also has excellent anti-delayed fraction property. The high-strength steel sheet comprises steel satisfying: C: 0.12 to 0.25%, Si: 1.0 to 3.0%, Mn: 1.5 to 3.0%, P: 0.15% or less, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 0.4% or less, and comprising the remnant made from iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein a ratio of the contents of Si and C (Si/C) is within the range from 7 to 14 in terms of a mass ratio, and a microstructure in a longitudinal section comprises, by an occupancy ratio based on the entire structure, 1) bainitic ferrite: 50% or more, 2) lath-type residual austenite: 3% or more, and 3) block-type residual austenite: 1% or more to ½×occupancy ratio of lath-type residual austenite, and 4) average size of block-type second phase is 10 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO, SHINSHU TLO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michiharu Nakaya, Yoichi Mukai, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20100166539
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor having a wide operating range, being economically efficient and high reliability in terms of a stable operation is provided. A centrifugal compressor including a partition wall 37 for dividing a flow channel in the diffuser section 15 and the volute section 16 into a plurality of channels in the direction of circulation of the fluid so as to define a hub-side flow channel A and a shroud-side flow channel B; and a flow rate adjusting valve 36 for lowering the flow rate of the fluid flowing in the shroud-side flow channel B to increase the flow rate in the hub-side flow channel A when the flow rate of the fluid compressed by an impeller 13 is low and not lowering the flow rate of the fluid flowing the shroud-side flow channel B to allow the fluid to flow both in the shroud-side flow channel B and the hub-side flow channel A when the flow rate of the fluid compressed by the impeller 13 is high is employed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Inventors: Seiichi Ibaraki, Isao Tomita, Yasuaki Jinnai, Takashi Shiraishi, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20100143095
    Abstract: A radial compressor is capable of preventing the occurrence of separation caused by a flow which goes beyond the front end of a blade and turns onto a negative pressure plane from a pressure plane, thereby reducing a surging flow rate to a smaller flow rate. The radial compressor includes an impeller which is rotatively driven, axially introduces air taken in through an air inlet passage formed in a housing, pressurizes the introduced air, and discharges the pressurized air in a radial direction, wherein an annular concave groove is formed in a peripheral wall of the air inlet passage of the housing, a rear end portion of an opening of the annular concave groove, which rear end portion meets the housing peripheral wall, is provided in the vicinity of a blade front end surface of the impeller, and the rear end portion of the opening of the annular concave groove is formed such that an axial projecting amount X thereof relative to the blade front end surface of the impeller is set to ?1T?X?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Higashimori, Koichi Sugimoto, Hideyoshi Isobe, Takashi Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20100129209
    Abstract: There is provided a centrifugal compressor having a diffuser structure in which airflow is unlikely to separate from a hub side wall surface on a hub side wall surface downstream side within a diffuser passage. In a centrifugal compressor provided with a diffuser passage 15 for recovering static pressure by slowing down discharged air from an outer circumferential end of an impeller that rotates within a housing 11, a hub side wall surface 15b of the diffuser passage 15 is provided with an inclined plane 20 that approaches toward a shroud side, in a position on a downstream side of a portion parallel with a normal line direction of a section surface of an impeller exit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Koichi Sugimoto, Takashi Shiraishi, Hirotaka Higashimori, Hideyoshi Isobe
  • Publication number: 20100092332
    Abstract: To provide a high-strength cold rolled steel sheet that has well-balanced tensile strength and elongation as well as well-balanced tensile strength and stretch-flangeability, and a plated steel sheet manufactured by plating the steel sheet. The high-strength cold rolled steel sheet contains: 0.10 to 0.28% of C, 1.0 to 2.0% of Si, 1.0 to 3.0% of Mn, and 0.03 to 0.10% of Nb in terms of % by mass, wherein the content of Al is controlled to 0.5 or less, the content of P is controlled to 0.15% or less, and the content of S is controlled to 0.02% or less, and wherein residual austenite accounts for 5 to 20%, bainitic ferrite accounts for 50% or more, and polygonal ferrite accounts for 30% or less (containing 0%), of the entire structure, and wherein a mean number of residual austenite blocks is 20 or more as determined when the random area (15 ?m×15 ?m) is observed by EBSP (electron back scatter diffraction pattern).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho(Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Shushi IKEDA, Yoichi Mukai, Hiroshi Akamizu, Koichi Makii, Koichi Sugimoto, Shunichi Hashimoto, Kenji Saito
  • Publication number: 20100009072
    Abstract: A code disk for a high-resolution encoder that can detect an absolute position and a method for manufacturing a mold to produce the code disk are provided. The code disk is formed by using transparent substrate. The code disk includes a plurality of tracks provided on the transparent substrate and an area provided between the plurality of tracks. Each surface of the plurality of tracks has a different pattern. A level of the area is different from that of the each surface of the plurality of tracks. The method for manufacturing the mold includes steps of processing a plurality of tracks with a flat surface on material; processing an area with a level different from that of each surface, between the plurality of tracks; forming different patterns on the each surface; plating the first material; and peeling plating from the first material to obtain a mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiko Sakamoto, Koichi Sugimoto, Katsutoshi Kamakura, Masahiro Otani, Yasushi Kawashima, Isamu Higashioka, Masaru Imaizumi, Osamu Murakami
  • Patent number: 7612331
    Abstract: A code disk for a high-resolution encoder that can detect an absolute position and a method for manufacturing a mold to produce the code disk are provided. The code disk is formed by using transparent substrate. The code disk includes a plurality of tracks provided on the transparent substrate and an area provided between the plurality of tracks. Each surface of the plurality of tracks has a different pattern. A level of the area is different from that of the each surface of the plurality of tracks. The method for manufacturing the mold includes steps of processing a plurality of tracks with a flat surface on material; processing an area with a level different from that of each surface, between the plurality of tracks; forming different patterns on the each surface; plating the first material; and peeling plating from the first material to obtain a mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiko Sakamoto, Koichi Sugimoto, Katsutoshi Kamakura, Masahiro Otani, Yasushi Kawashima, Isamu Higashioka, Masaru Imaizumi, Osamu Murakami
  • Publication number: 20090265917
    Abstract: By the method of manufacturing a thin film magnetic head, a magnetic material having a suitable characteristic can be used for manufacturing a magnetic pole and corrosion of the magnetic pole can be prevented. The method comprises: a step of forming a multilayered magnetic pole; a step of forming a stopper layer on the magnetic pole; a step of forming an insulating layer on the stopper layer; a step of polishing the insulating layer, by chemical mechanical polishing process, until an upper face of the stopper layer is exposed; a step of removing the stopper layer, by dry etching process with a reactive gas, until an upper face of the magnetic head is exposed; a step of removing the upper face of the magnetic pole, by dry etching process with an inert gas, until reaching a prescribed depth; and a step of polishing the upper face of the magnetic pole, by chemical mechanical polishing process, until the upper face of the magnetic pole is flattened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Koichi Sugimoto, Masanori Tachibana, Kazuaki Satoh, Yoshiyuki Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20090238713
    Abstract: The invention relates to an ultrahigh-strength thin steel sheet excellent in the hydrogen embrittlement resistance, the steel sheet including, by weight %, 0.10 to 0.60% of C, 1.0 to 3.0% of Si, 1.0 to 3.5% of Mn, 0.15% or less of P, 0.02% or less of S, 1.5% or less of Al, 0.003 to 2.0% of Cr, and a balance including iron and inevitable impurities; in which grains of residual austenite have an average axis ratio (major axis/minor axis) of 5 or more, the grains of the residual austenite have an average minor axis length of 1 ?m or less, and the grains of the residual austenite have a nearest-neighbor distance between the grains of 1 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.), Shinshu TLO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichiro Kinugasa, Fumio Yuse, Yoichi Mukai, Shinji Kozuma, Hiroshi Akamizu, Kouji Kasuya, Muneaki Ikeda, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 7591977
    Abstract: To provide a high strength and low yield ratio cold rolled steel sheet having high elongation property and high flange drawing property, or a plated steel sheet made by plating the same. The high strength and low yield ratio cold rolled steel sheet or the plated steel sheet made by plating the same has such a constitution as 0.10 to 0.25% of C, 1.0 to 2.0% of Si and 1.5 to 3.0% of Mn, are contained in terms of weight percentage, while other elements are controlled such as Al within 0.2%, P within 0.15% and S within 0.02%, with residual austenite occupying at least 5%, bainitic ferrite occupying at least 60% (preferably 80% or more), and polygonal ferrite within 20% (containing 0%), so that a tensile strength is 980 MPa or higher, while an elongation (El in %), a flange drawing property (?in %), a tensile strength (TS in MPa) and a yield strength (YP in MPa) satisfy the following inequality (1): [(El ×?×TS)/YP]?645.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Kabuhsiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Shushi Ikeda, Hiroshi Akamizu, Koichi Makii, Yoichi Mukai, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 7455736
    Abstract: A high tensile strength steel sheet excellent in processibility which can satisfy a strength, a total elongation, and stretch-flanging property (hole enlarging rate) at a further high level. and comprises a matrix microstructure of tempered martensite or tempered bainite and, if necessary, ferrite, and a second phase of retained austenite, wherein (1) the steel comprising C: 0.10 to 0.6 mass %, Si: 1.0 mass % or smaller, Mn: 1.0 to 3 ,mass %, Al: 0.3 to 2.0 mass %, P: 0.02 mass % or smaller, S: 0.03 mass % or smaller, (2) a volume rate of retained austenite obtained by a saturated magnetization measuring method is 5 to 40% by area (whole field is 100%), and (3) a relationship of a carbon amount (C: weight %) in the steel, a volume rate (f?R) of retained austenite and a carbon concentration (C?R) of the retained austenite satisfies the equation: (f?R×C?R)/C?50 .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho, Shinshu University
    Inventors: Takahiro Kashima, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 7438770
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high strength steel used for spring steel that has excellent hydrogen embrittlement resistance. The high strength steel which spring steel having excellent hydrogen embrittlement resistance comprises 0.20 to 0.60% of C, 1.0 to 3.0% of Si, 1.0 to 3.5% of Mn, higher than 0% and not higher than 1.5% of Al, 0.15% or less P, 0.02% or less S, and balance of iron and inevitable impurities and the structure includes: 1% or more residual austenite; 80% or more in total of bainitic ferrite and martensite; and 10% or less (may be 0%) in total content of ferrite and pearlite in the proportion of area to the entire structure, and also the mean axis ratio (major axis/minor axis) of the residual austenite grains is 5 or higher and the steel tensile strength is 1860 MPa or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., Shinshu TLO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Yuse, Kenji Saito, Shushi Ikeda, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20080251161
    Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet exhibiting an excellent strength-workability balance, including in percent by mass: 0.10-0.25% of C; 1.0-2.0% of Si; 1.5-3.0% of Mn; 0.01% or less (not including 0%) of P; 0.005% or less (not including 0%) of S; 0.01-3.0% of Al; and remaining part consisting of iron and inevitable impurities, wherein the space factor of bainitic ferrite to the entire structure is 70% or more, the space factor of residual austenite to the entire structure is 5-20%, the hardness (HV) is 270 or greater, and the half-value width of an X-ray diffraction peak on a (200)-surface of ?-iron is 0.220 degrees or smaller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.), Shinshu TLO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kashima, Yoichi Mukai, Hiroshi Akamizu, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20080251160
    Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet excellent in uniform elongation, including in percent by mass: 0.10-0.28% of C; 1.0-2.0% of Si; and 1.0-3.0% of Mn, and the structures of the same having the space factors below to the entire structure: 30-65% of bainitic ferrite; 30-50% of polygonal ferrite; and 5-20% of residual austenite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd), Shinshu Tlo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Akamizu, Yoichi Mukai, Shushi Ikeda, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 7413617
    Abstract: The present invention provide a TRIP-type composite structure steel plate of the TPF steel type in which elongation and stretch flange formability at room temperature are improved by controlling the morphology of the second-phase structure. In a composite structure sheet steel comprising 0.02 to 0.12% C, 0.5 to 2.0% Si+Al and 1.0 to 2.0% Mn, with the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and comprising 80% or more polygonal ferrite (steel structure space factor) and 1 to 7% retained austenite, with the remainder being bainite and/or martensite, wherein the elongation and stretch flange formability of the composite sheet steel are improved by reducing the number of bulky, massive second phases with an aspect ratio of 1:3 or less and a mean grain size of 0.5 ?m or more in the second phase of this composite structure, which comprises retained austenite and martensite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho, Shinshu TLO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shushi Ikeda, Koichi Sugimoto, Yoichi Mukai, Hiroshi Akamizu
  • Patent number: 7355591
    Abstract: The invention provides an information processing apparatus wherein playback of display data and playback of audio data relating to the display data are changed over in an associated relationship with each other in response to an open or closed state of a lid with respect to a housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koichi Sugimoto