Patents by Inventor Kojiro AKIBA

Kojiro AKIBA 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: 11878488
    Abstract: A hot stamped component, includes: a base material; and a Zn-based plating layer provided in contact with the base material as an upper layer of the base material and containing Zn and Ni. A region of the Zn-based plating layer on a base material side is a Fe—Zn solid solution containing Ni, and two or more twins exist in 10 crystal grains of the Fe—Zn solid solution containing Ni adjacent to an interface between the base material and the Zn-based plating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Sengoku, Kojiro Akiba, Satoshi Kato
  • Patent number: 11866828
    Abstract: A plated steel sheet for hot stamping including a base metal and a galvanized layer that is formed on a surface of the base metal, wherein the galvanized layer includes a galvannealed layer, a solidified zinc layer, and an oxide layer containing Al, in this order from the base metal, and a proportion of a content of Zn (g/m2) in the solidified zinc layer to a content of Zn (g/m2) in the galvanized layer is 10 to 95%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takebayashi, Kojiro Akiba, Akihiro Sengoku
  • Patent number: 11846027
    Abstract: A hot stamped component, includes: a base material; and a Zn-based plating layer provided in contact with the base material as a layer above the base material and containing Zn. A base material side of the Zn-based plating layer is a Fe—Zn solid solution, and two or more twins exist in 10 crystal grains of the Fe—Zn solid solution adjacent to an interface between the base material and the Zn-based plating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Sengoku, Kojiro Akiba, Toshiki Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20230220557
    Abstract: This Zn-plated hot stamped product includes a steel, a Zn-based plating layer, and an oxide layer, in which an upper layer which is a region on a surface side of the Zn-based plating layer has a two-phase structure of a ? phase and an Fe—Zn solid solution, and a lower layer which is a region of the Zn-based plating layer excluding the upper layer has a single-phase structure of an Fe—Zn solid solution, an upper layer thickness and a lower layer thickness satisfy the following expression, a Mn content ratio of Max. Mn/Min. Mn, which is a ratio of a maximum value Max. Mn to a minimum value Min. Mn of an Mn content on a surface of the Zn-plated hot stamped product, is 10.0 or less, and an average value Ave. Mn is 0.5 to 7.5% by mass %. 0.20?upper layer thickness/(upper layer thickness+lower layer thickness)?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro SENGOKU, Kojiro AKIBA, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI, Toshiki NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20230073024
    Abstract: A plated steel sheet for hot stamping including a base metal and a galvanized layer that is formed on a surface of the base metal, wherein the galvanized layer includes a galvannealed layer, a solidified zinc layer, and an oxide layer containing Al, in this order from the base metal, and a proportion of a content of Zn (g/m2) in the solidified zinc layer to a content of Zn (g/m2) in the galvanized layer is 10 to 95%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI, Kojiro AKIBA, Akihiro SENGOKU
  • Publication number: 20230041452
    Abstract: A hot stamped component, includes: a base material; and a Zn-based plating layer provided in contact with the base material as an upper layer of the base material and containing Zn and Ni. A region of the Zn-based plating layer on a base material side is a Fe—Zn solid solution containing Ni, and two or more twins exist in 10 crystal grains of the Fe—Zn solid solution containing Ni adjacent to an interface between the base material and the Zn-based plating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro SENGOKU, Kojiro AKIBA, Satoshi KATO
  • Publication number: 20230023145
    Abstract: A hot stamped component, includes: a base material; and a Zn-based plating layer provided in contact with the base material as a layer above the base material and containing Zn. A base material side of the Zn-based plating layer is a Fe—Zn solid solution, and two or more twins exist in 10 crystal grains of the Fe—Zn solid solution adjacent to an interface between the base material and the Zn-based plating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro SENGOKU, Kojiro AKIBA, Toshiki NONAKA
  • Patent number: 11473164
    Abstract: This high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, wherein a microstructure at a ¼ position of a sheet thickness from a surface includes predetermined ranges of volume percentages of tempered martensite, residual austenite, ferrite and bainite, and martensite, wherein a microstructure at a position 25 ?m from the surface includes, predetermined ranges of volume percentage of ferrite and bainite, and martensite and tempered martensite, wherein in the position 25 ?m from the surface, an average grain size of the martensite and the tempered martensite is 5.0 ?m or less, a tensile strength is 1,310 MPa or more, and a uniform elongation is 5.0% or more, and R/t is 5.0 or less, the R/t being a ratio of a limit bend radius R in 90° V-bending to a sheet thickness t.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Nishio, Kojiro Akiba, Yoshimasa Narita, Kotaro Ohno, Satoshi Kato, Masafumi Azuma
  • Publication number: 20210062288
    Abstract: This high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, a microstructure at a ¼ position of a sheet thickness from a surface includes, by a volume percentage, 70.0% or more of tempered martensite, more than 3.0% and less than 10.0% of residual austenite, a total of 25.0% or less of ferrite and bainite, and 5.0% or less of martensite, a microstructure at a position 25 ?m from the surface includes, by the volume percentage, a total of 70% or more of ferrite and bainite and a total of 30% or less of martensite and tempered martensite, in the position 25 ?m from the surface, an average grain size of the martensite and the tempered martensite is 5.0 ?m or less, a tensile strength is 1,310 MPa or more, a uniform elongation is 5.0% or more, and Rh is 5.0 or less, the Rh/t being a ratio of a limit bend radius R in 90° V-bending to a sheet thickness t.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya NISHIO, Kojiro AKIBA, Yoshimasa NARITA, Kotaro OHNO, Satoshi KATO, Masafumi AZUMA
  • Patent number: 10464116
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a method of manufacturing a plate-like molded body having a thickened portion in a region spaced apart from an edge in a substantially flat plate-like portion. [Solution] Provided is a method of manufacturing a plate-like molded body having a plurality of thickened portions, including at least a drawing step of obtaining by a drawing process a cylindrical drawn molded body including a flat plate portion and a cylindrical drawn portion that swells in such a manner as to project from the flat plate portion and has a circular top portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Nakazawa, Koichi Sato, Kojiro Akiba
  • Patent number: 10358687
    Abstract: A hot stamp molded body that can be produced highly efficiently without causing sticking of plating to a mold, when an electrogalvanized steel sheet with a light plating weight is hot-stamped using a rapidly heating method such as Joule heating and induction heating, and can secure favorable paint adhesiveness without a posttreatment such as shotblasting after hot stamping, as well as a method for producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kojiro Akiba, Yusuke Kondo, Yoshitaka Kikuchi, Satoshi Kato
  • Patent number: 9725795
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Yasui, Kojiro Akiba, Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Koki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20160332205
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a method of manufacturing a plate-like molded body having a thickened portion in a region spaced apart from an edge in a substantially flat plate-like portion. [Solution] Provided is a method of manufacturing a plate-like molded body having a plurality of thickened portions, including at least a drawing step of obtaining by a drawing process a cylindrical drawn molded body including a flat plate portion and a cylindrical drawn portion that swells in such a manner as to project from the flat plate portion and has a circular top portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki NAKAZAWA, Koichi SATO, Kojiro AKIBA
  • Publication number: 20160122845
    Abstract: A hot stamp molded body that can be produced highly efficiently without causing sticking of plating to a mold, when an electrogalvanized steel sheet with a light plating weight is hot-stamped using a rapidly heating method such as Joule heating and induction heating, and can secure favorable paint adhesiveness without a posttreatment such as shotblasting after hot stamping, as well as a method for producing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Kojiro AKIBA, Yusuke KONDO, Yoshitaka KIKUCHI, Satoshi KATO
  • 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