Patents by Inventor Kunichika Kubota
Kunichika Kubota 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).
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Patent number: 8815147Abstract: A cold die steel excellent in the characteristic of suppressing dimensional change, which has a chemical composition in mass %: C: 0.7% or more and less than 1.6%, Si: 0.5 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 3.0%, P: less than 0.05% including 0%, S: 0.01 to 0.12%, Cr: 7.0 to 13.0%, one or two elements selected from the group consisting of Mo and W: amounts satisfying the formula (Mo+(W/2))=0.5 to 1.7%, V: less than 0.7% including 0, Ni: 0.3 to 1.5%, Cu: 0.1 to 1.0% and Al: 0.1 to 0.7%. Preferably, the die steel satisfies the formula in mass %: Ni/Al=1 to 3.7. It is preferred that the die steel also satisfies the following formula in mass %: (Cr?4.2×C)=5 or less and (Cr?6.3×C)=1.4 or more and that it contains 0.3% or less of Nb.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2008Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Kunichika Kubota, Hideshi Nakatsu, Shugo Komatsubara
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Patent number: 8480821Abstract: A piston ring material is provided which retains excellent mechanical properties and processability, which are required of piston ring materials, and has wearing resistance and scuffing resistance, which are sliding properties required of piston rings. The piston ring material, which is for use in internal combustion engines, contains, in terms of mass %, 0.3-0.8% carbon, 0.1-3.0% silicon, 0.1-3.0% manganese, 0.01-0.3% sulfur, 0.1-2.0% chromium, and 0.05-2.0% the sum of titanium and/or zirconium, with the remainder being iron and incidental impurities. The titanium and/or zirconium contained in the piston ring material and the sulfur contained therein satisfy the following relationship. [Ti (%)+½Zr (%)]/S (%)?5.0 Preferably, the material may contain one or more members selected from up to 1.0% copper, less than 3.0% molybdenum, up to 1.0% aluminum, and less than 2.0% nickel, in terms of mass %.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2009Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Hitachi Metals Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhiko Ohishi, Toshihiro Uehara, Kunichika Kubota
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Patent number: 8409712Abstract: An alloy to be surface-coated, which can keep excellent hardness of 58HRC or above even when the amount of an alloying element added is reduced or even when the alloy is heated to a temperature of as high as 400 to 500° C.; and sliding members produced by forming a hard film on the surface of the alloy. An alloy to be surface-coated, the surface of which is to be covered with a hard film, which alloy contains by mass C: 0.5 to 1.2%, Si: 2.0% or below, Mn: 1.0% or below, Cr: 5.0 to 14.0%, Mo+1/2 W: 0.5 to 5.0%, and N: more than 0.015 to 0.1% with the balance being Fe and impurities, preferably such an alloy which contains by mass C: 0.6 to 0.85%, Si: 0.1 to 1.5%, Mn: 0.2 to 0.8%, Cr: 7.0 to 11.0%, Mo+1/2 W: 1.0 to 4.0%, and N: 0.04 to 0.08%.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2009Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Hitachi Metals Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Yokoyama, Kunichika Kubota, Toshihiro Uehara, Takehiro Ohno, Katsuhiko Ohishi
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Publication number: 20120145289Abstract: A piston ring material that when formed into a piston ring product, maintains excellent properties, and that at the production of piston ring rod, realizes excellent processability and shape stability. There is provided a piston ring material for internal combustion engine comprising, by mass, 0.5 to less than 0.7% C, 1.0% or less Si, 1.0% or less Mn, 12.0 to 16.0% Cr, 3.0% or less Mo and/or W (Mo+½W), 0.02 to 0.14% N and the balance Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein the relationship of contained C, N and Cr satisfies the formulae: 25?43.22C (%)+42.45N (%)?0.02Cr (%)?40, and 0.15?0.92C (%)+0.67N (%)?0.03Cr (%)?0.30.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2012Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Katsuhiko OHISHI, Toshihiro Uehara, Kunichika Kubota
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Publication number: 20120114964Abstract: Provided is a coated-surface sliding part having excellent adhesion of a hard coating, and a method for producing the same part. The coated-surface sliding part is a sliding part wherein a hard coating is formed by physical deposition on the surface of a base material formed from, by mass percent, C 0.5 to 0.8%, Si 0.1 to 1.5%, Mn 0.2 to 1.0%, Cr 8.0 to 13.5%, Mo and/or W 0.5 to 4.0% in terms of (Mo+ 1/2 W), and N 0.01 to 0.1%, with the remainder being Fe and impurities. The physically deposited coating is a titanium metal coating further covered by a diamond-like carbon coating. The method for producing a coated-surface part involves sputtering in order to apply the physically deposited coating, which consists of the titanium metal coating and then the diamond-like carbon coating which forms the surface layer, to the surface of the base material having the aforementioned composition. The base material is preferably subjected to argon gas bombardment prior to application of the physically deposited coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2010Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicants: HITACHI METALS, LTD., HITACHI TOOL ENGINEERING, LTD.Inventors: Fumiaki Honda, Kenji Yokoyama, Kenichi Inoue, Kunichika Kubota, Toshihiro Uehara, Takehiro Ohno, Katsuhiko Ohishi
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Publication number: 20110018207Abstract: A piston ring material is provided which retains excellent mechanical properties and processability, which are required of piston ring materials, and has wearing resistance and scuffing resistance, which are sliding properties required of piston rings. The piston ring material, which is for use in internal combustion engines, contains, in terms of mass %, 0.3-0.8% carbon, 0.1-3.0% silicon, 0.1-3.0% manganese, 0.01-0.3% sulfur, 0.1-2.0% chromium, and 0.05-2.0% the sum of titanium and/or zirconium, with the remainder being iron and incidental impurities. The titanium and/or zirconium contained in the piston ring material and the sulfur contained therein satisfy the following relationship. [Ti (%)+½Zr (%)]/S (%)?5.0 Preferably, the material may contain one or more members selected from up to 1.0% copper, less than 3.0% molybdenum, up to 1.0% aluminum, and less than 2.0% nickel, in terms of mass %.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2009Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Katsuhiko Ohishi, Toshihiro Uehara, Kunichika Kubota
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Publication number: 20100291407Abstract: An alloy to be surface-coated, which can keep excellent hardness of 58HRC or above even when the amount of an alloying element added is reduced or even when the alloy is heated to a temperature of as high as 400 to 500° C.; and sliding members produced by forming a hard film on the surface of the alloy. An alloy to be surface-coated, the surface of which is to be covered with a hard film, which alloy contains by mass C: 0.5 to 1.2%, Si: 2.0% or below, Mn: 1.0% or below, Cr: 5.0 to 14.0%, Mo+1/2 W: 0.5 to 5.0%, and N: more than 0.015 to 0.1% with the balance being Fe and impurities, preferably such an alloy which contains by mass C: 0.6 to 0.85%, Si: 0.1 to 1.5%, Mn: 0.2 to 0.8%, Cr: 7.0 to 11.0%, Mo+1/2 W: 1.0 to 4.0%, and N: 0.04 to 0.08%.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2009Publication date: November 18, 2010Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Kenji Yokoyama, Kunichika Kubota, Toshihiro Uehara, Takehiro Ohno, Katsuhiko Ohishi
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Publication number: 20100158745Abstract: A piston ring material that when formed into a piston ring product, maintains excellent properties, and that at the production of piston ring rod, realizes excellent processability and shape stability. There is provided a piston ring material for internal combustion engine comprising, by mass, 0.5 to less than 0.7% C, 1.0% or less Si, 1.0% or less Mn, 12.0 to 16.0% Cr, 3.0% or less Mo and/or W (Mo+1/2W), 0.02 to 0.14% N and the balance Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein the relationship of contained C, N and Cr satisfies the formulae: 25?43.22C (%)+42.45N (%)?0.02Cr (%)<40, and 0.15 <0.92C (%)+0.67N (%)?0.03Cr (%)<0.30.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2007Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Katsuhiko Ohishi, Toshihiro Uehara, Kunichika Kubota
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Publication number: 20090120540Abstract: A cold die steel excellent in the characteristic of suppressing dimensional change, which has a chemical composition in mass %: C: 0.7% or more and less than 1.6%, Si: 0.5 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 3.0%, P: less than 0.05% including 0%, S: 0.01 to 0.12%, Cr: 7.0 to 13.0%, one or two elements selected from the group consisting of Mo and W: amounts satisfying the formula (Mo+(W/2))=0.5 to 1.7%, V: less than 0.7% including 0, Ni: 0.3 to 1.5%, Cu: 0.1 to 1.0% and Al: 0.1 to 0.7%. Preferably, the die steel satisfies the formula in mass %: Ni/Al=1 to 3.7. It is preferred that the die steel also satisfies the following formula in mass %: (Cr?4.2×C)=5 or less and (Cr?6.3×C)=1.4 or more and that it contains 0.3% or less of Nb.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2008Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Kunichika Kubota, Hideshi Nakatsu, Shugo Komatsubara
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Publication number: 20060251537Abstract: A cold die steel excellent in the characteristic of suppressing dimensional change, which has a chemical composition in mass %: C: 0.7% or more and less than 1.6%, Si: 0.5 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 3.0%, P: less than 0.05% including 0%, S: 0.01 to 0.12%, Cr: 7.0 to 13.0%, one or two elements selected from the group consisting of Mo and W: amounts satisfying the formula (Mo+(W/2))=0.5 to 1.7%, V: less than 0.7% including 0, Ni: 0.3 to 1.5%, Cu: 0.1 to 1.0% and Al: 0.1 to 0.7%. Preferably, the die steel satisfies the formula in mass %: Ni/Al=1 to 3.7. It is preferred that the die steel also satisfies the following formula in mass %: (Cr?4.2 ×C)=5 or less and (Cr?6.3×C)=1.4 or more and that it contains 0.3% or less of Nb.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2003Publication date: November 9, 2006Inventors: Kunichika Kubota, Hideshi Nakatsu, Shugo Komatsubara
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Publication number: 20060048865Abstract: A material for use as self-lubricating sliding parts, which consists of a steel containing, by mass, from not less than 0.4% to less than 1.5% of C (carbon), 0.1 to 3.0% of Si, 0.1 to 3.0% of Mn, from inclusive zero to 0.5% of Cr, 0.05 to 3.0% of Ni, 0.3 to 2.0% of Al, 0.3 to 20% in total (Mo+W+V) of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mo, W (tungsten) and V (vanadium), and 0.05 to 3.0% of Cu, wherein there can be observed graphite particles having an average particle size of not more than 3 ?m in a section of the metal structure of the steel. The steel is also used as piston rings. In the steel, the graphite particles observed in the structural section occupy an area rate of not less than 1% in the overall area of the structural section, and have an average particle size of not more than 3 ?m. The steel may further contain not more than 0.3% of S and/or not more than 0.01% of Ca. The steel is subjected to nitriding treatment for use.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2003Publication date: March 9, 2006Inventors: Etsuo Fujita, Kunichika Kubota, Yoshiki Masugata, Yoshihiro Minagi
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Patent number: 6527879Abstract: There are disclosed a piston ring material and a piston ring both having such superior properties contradictory each other as the sliding property required in a piston ring and the mechanical properties of a steel wire material subjected to a manufacture process. The piston ring material or the piston ring consists essentially, by mass, of not less than 0.3% but less than 0.8% C, 0.1 to 3.0% Si, 0.1 to 3.0% Mn, 0.03 to 0.3% S, 0.3 to 6.0% Cr, preferably 3.0 to 6.0% or 0.3 to 1.0% Cr, 0 to 3.0% Cu, and the balance Fe, and the distribution state of sulfide inclusions with a maximum diameter/minimum size≧3 observed on structure parallel to the outer peripheral surface of the formed piston ring is such that an intersecting angle made between straight lines passing the maximum size of two of the sulfide inclusions is not more than 30 degrees. Further, the area ratio of nonmetallic inclusions occupying the structure is 2.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2001Date of Patent: March 4, 2003Assignee: Hitachi Metals Ltd.Inventors: Kunichika Kubota, Takehiro Ohno, Yoshiki Masugata
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Publication number: 20020005616Abstract: There are disclosed a piston ring material and a piston ring both having such superior properties contradictory each other as the sliding property required in a piston ring and the mechanical properties of a steel wire material subjected to a manufacture process. The piston ring material or the piston ring consists essentially, by mass, of not less than 0.3% but less than 0.8% C, 0.1 to 3.0% Si, 0.1 to 3.0% Mn, 0.03 to 0.3% S, 0.3 to 6.0% Cr, preferably 3.0 to 6.0% or 0.3 to 1.0% Cr, 0 to 3.0% Cu, and the balance Fe, and the distribution state of sulfide inclusions with a maximum diameter/minimum size≧3 observed on structure parallel to the outer peripheral surface of the formed piston ring is such that an intersecting angle made between straight lines passing the maximum size of two of the sulfide inclusions is not more than 30 degrees. Further, the area ratio of nonmetallic inclusions occupying the structure is 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2001Publication date: January 17, 2002Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Kunichika Kubota, Takehiro Ohno, Yoshiki Masugata
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Patent number: 5489367Abstract: A target for use in reactive sputtering for forming a film by a reaction with nitrogen, which is a target being composed substantially of titanium and nitrogen and having a nitrogen/titanium atomic ratio, N/Ti, of 0.20 to 0.95, and is used for forming a film whose nitrogen ratio is greater than a ratio of nitrogen to titanium in the target by a reaction with a sputtering gas containing nitrogen, and a method for forming a film, which uses the target.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1994Date of Patent: February 6, 1996Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Kunichika Kubota, Akitoshi Hiraki