Patents by Inventor Kunio Goto

Kunio Goto 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: 11987765
    Abstract: The composition according to the present disclosure is a composition for forming a lubricant coating layer on or above a threaded connection for pipes, and contains polyisobutylene, a metal soap, a wax and a basic metal salt of an aromatic organic acid. The threaded connection for pipes according to the present disclosure includes: a pin having a pin-side contact surface which includes a pin-side threaded portion; a box having a box-side contact surface which includes a box-side threaded portion; and a lubricant coating layer formed from the aforementioned composition as an outermost layer on or above at least one of the pin-side contact surface and the box-side contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Kunio Goto, Tomoka Abe
  • Patent number: 11933431
    Abstract: A threaded connection for pipes includes a pin, a box, a shoulder part plating layer, and a non-shoulder part plating layer. The shoulder part plating layer has an outermost layer formed of a high friction coefficient plating layer, and is arranged on a pin side shoulder part and/or a box side shoulder part. The non-shoulder part plating layer has an outermost layer formed of a low friction coefficient plating layer having a coefficient of friction lower than a coefficient of friction of the high friction coefficient plating layer, and the non-shoulder part plating layer is arranged on at least one of a pin side thread part, a pin side metal seal part, a box side thread part, and a box side metal seal part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Kazuya Ishii, Kunio Goto, Masaaki Sugino, Yousuke Oku
  • Patent number: 11920703
    Abstract: A threaded connection for pipes according to the present embodiment includes a pin, a box, and a Zn—Ni alloy plating layer. The pin has a pin contact surface that includes an external thread part. The box has a box contact surface that includes an internal thread part. The Zn—Ni alloy plating layer is disposed on or above at least one of the pin contact surface and the box contact surface. The Zn—Ni alloy plating layer contains graphite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Kazuya Ishii, Kunio Goto
  • Publication number: 20240067227
    Abstract: A vehicle control device has a processor configured to calculate an average speed of a vehicle traveling in a traffic lane and another vehicle in a predetermined range from the vehicle, for each of multiple traffic lanes of a traveling road on which the vehicle is traveling, as a traffic lane average speed, to determine whether the traffic lanes are congested based on the traffic lane average speed for each of the multiple traffic lanes of the traveling road and to estimate whether the traveling road as a whole is congested based on a proportion of traffic lanes of the traveling road that are congested, and to decide to drive the vehicle by automatic control when the traveling road as a whole is congested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Kunio Goto, Ryusuke Kuroda, Takuya Fujiki
  • Publication number: 20240067231
    Abstract: A travel controller of a vehicle that can travel on a road under autonomous driving control detecting two-wheelers, including bicycles, located in surroundings of the vehicle from surrounding data representing the surroundings of the vehicle generated by a surrounding sensor mounted on the vehicle, determining whether a target road on which the vehicle was traveling when the surrounding data in which a two-wheeler was detected was generated is a shared road on which travel by bicycles is permitted, when it is determined that the target road is a shared road, notifying a driver of the vehicle of a transition demand demanding transition in control of the vehicle from autonomous driving control to manual driving control requiring driving operations by the driver of the vehicle, and when it is determined that the target road is not a shared road, not notifying the driver of the transition demand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Ryusuke Kuroda, Kenichiro Aoki, Tadashi Okubo, Takuya Fujiki, Tetsuro Sugiura, Kunio Goto
  • Publication number: 20230059150
    Abstract: A threaded connection for pipes according to the present embodiment includes a pin, a box, and a Zn—Ni alloy plating layer. The pin has a pin contact surface that includes an external thread part. The box has a box contact surface that includes an internal thread part. The Zn—Ni alloy plating layer is disposed on or above at least one of the pin contact surface and the box contact surface. The Zn—Ni alloy plating layer contains graphite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuya ISHII, Kunio GOTO
  • Patent number: 11435014
    Abstract: This invention provides a threaded connection for pipes or tubes having high over-torque performance, and a method for producing the threaded connection for pipes or tubes. A threaded connection for pipes or tubes according to the present embodiment includes a pin and a box. The pin and the box include a contact surface including a threaded portion and a metal contact portion. The threaded connection for pipes or tubes includes a solid lubricant coating layer on at least one of the contact surfaces of the pin and the box, the solid lubricant coating layer including a resin, a solid lubricant powder, and Cr2O3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Vallourec Oil and Gas France
    Inventor: Kunio Goto
  • Patent number: 11396961
    Abstract: A threaded joint for pipes disclosed herein includes a pin and a box. The pin and the box each include a contact surface including a threaded portion and a metal contact portion. The threaded joint for pipes includes a solid lubricant coating on at least one of the contact surfaces of the pin and the box, the solid lubricant coating including a binder, a lubricant additive, an anti-rust additive, and a plasticizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Vallourec Oil and Gas France
    Inventor: Kunio Goto
  • Patent number: 11391400
    Abstract: This invention provides a threaded connection for pipes or tubes having excellent misalignment resistance and high torque on shoulder resistance, and also having excellent corrosion resistance properties, as well as a method for producing the threaded connection for pipes or tubes. The threaded connection for pipes or tubes includes a pin and a box. The pin and the box include contact surfaces having threaded portions and unthreaded metal contact portions. The threaded connection for pipes or tubes includes, on at least one of the contact surfaces of the pin and the box, surface roughness, a Zn—Ni alloy plating layer, a Cu—Sn—Zn alloy plating layer and a solid lubricant coating layer. These are deposited from the contact surface side in the order of: surface roughness, the Zn—Ni alloy plating layer, the Cu—Sn—Zn alloy plating layer and the solid lubricant coating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Vallourec Oil and Gas France
    Inventor: Kunio Goto
  • Publication number: 20220128178
    Abstract: A threaded connection for pipes includes a pin, a box, a shoulder part plating layer, and a non-shoulder part plating layer. The shoulder part plating layer has an outermost layer formed of a high friction coefficient plating layer, and is arranged on a pin side shoulder part and/or a box side shoulder part. The non-shoulder part plating layer has an outermost layer formed of a low friction coefficient plating layer having a coefficient of friction lower than a coefficient of friction of the high friction coefficient plating layer, and the non-shoulder part plating layer is arranged on at least one of a pin side thread part, a pin side metal seal part, a box side thread part, and a box side metal seal part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuya ISHII, Kunio GOTO, Masaaki SUGINO, Yousuke OKU
  • Patent number: 11268043
    Abstract: The composition according to the present embodiment is a composition for forming a lubricant coating layer on a threaded connection for pipes or tubes, and contains Cr2O3, a metal soap, a wax and a basic metal salt of an aromatic organic acid. The threaded connection for pipes or tubes according to the present embodiment includes a pin and a box. The pin and the box each include a contact surface including a threaded portion. The threaded connection for pipes or tubes includes, as an outermost layer, a lubricant coating layer formed from the aforementioned composition on at least one of the contact surfaces of the pin and the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Vallourec Oil and Gas France
    Inventor: Kunio Goto
  • Publication number: 20220064561
    Abstract: The composition according to the present disclosure is a composition for forming a lubricant coating layer on or above a threaded connection for pipes, and contains polyisobutylene, a metal soap, a wax and a basic metal salt of an aromatic organic acid. The threaded connection for pipes according to the present disclosure includes: a pin having a pin-side contact surface which includes a pin-side threaded portion; a box having a box-side contact surface which includes a box-side threaded portion; and a lubricant coating layer formed from the aforementioned composition as an outermost layer on or above at least one of the pin-side contact surface and the box-side contact surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Kunio GOTO, Tomoka ABE
  • Publication number: 20210388549
    Abstract: A sheet-like fiber structure (101) includes a plurality of first resin fibers with a plurality of gap portions, in which the plurality of first resin fibers each contain fine particles of tungsten-based oxide in a dispersed form. The content of the fine particles of tungsten-based oxide is preferably 0.5 wt % or more and 6 wt % or less relative to a total weight of the plurality of first resin fibers. By dispersing, into each of the plurality of first resin fibers that constitute the fiber structure (101), the fine particles of tungsten-based oxide having an optical wavelength-selective reflectivity of transmitting visible light and reflecting infrared light, it is possible to achieve both of high transmittance of visible light and high heat shielding performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kousuke YAMAKI, Kunio GOTO
  • Publication number: 20210364119
    Abstract: This invention provides a threaded connection for pipes or tubes having excellent misalignment resistance and high torque on shoulder resistance, and also having excellent corrosion resistance properties, as well as a method for producing the threaded connection for pipes or tubes. The threaded connection for pipes or tubes includes a pin and a box. The pin and the box include contact surfaces having threaded portions and unthreaded metal contact portions. The threaded connection for pipes or tubes includes, on at least one of the contact surfaces of the pin and the box, surface roughness, a Zn—Ni alloy plating layer, a Cu—Sn—Zn alloy plating layer and a solid lubricant coating layer. These are deposited from the contact surface side in the order of: surface roughness, the Zn—Ni alloy plating layer, the Cu—Sn—Zn alloy plating layer and the solid lubricant coating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicants: Nippon Steel Corporation, Vallourec Oil and Gas France
    Inventor: Kunio Goto
  • Publication number: 20210198591
    Abstract: The composition according to the present embodiment is a composition for forming a lubricant coating layer on a threaded connection for pipes or tubes, and contains Cr2O3, a metal soap, a wax and a basic metal salt of an aromatic organic acid. The threaded connection for pipes or tubes according to the present embodiment includes a pin and a box. The pin and the box each include a contact surface including a threaded portion. The threaded connection for pipes or tubes includes, as an outermost layer, a lubricant coating layer formed from the aforementioned composition on at least one of the contact surfaces of the pin and the box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventor: Kunio Goto
  • Publication number: 20200166163
    Abstract: This invention provides a threaded connection for pipes or tubes having high over-torque performance, and a method for producing the threaded connection for pipes or tubes. A threaded connection for pipes or tubes according to the present embodiment includes a pin and a box. The pin and the box include a contact surface including a threaded portion and a metal contact portion. The threaded connection for pipes or tubes includes a solid lubricant coating layer on at least one of the contact surfaces of the pin and the box, the solid lubricant coating layer including a resin, a solid lubricant powder, and Cr2O3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventor: Kunio Goto
  • Patent number: 10626345
    Abstract: In a threaded joint for pipes constituted by a pin and a box, each having a contact surface comprising a threaded portion and an unthreaded metal contact portion, the contact surface of the pin has a solid corrosion protective, preferably transparent coating based on a UV-curable resin and the contact surface of the box has a solid lubricating coating having plastic or viscoplastic rheological behavior which is preferably formed by the hot melt technique from a composition comprising a thermoplastic polymer, a wax, a metal soap, a corrosion inhibitor, a water-insoluble liquid resin, and a solid lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC MANNESMANN OIL & GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Kunio Goto, Takayuki Kamimura, Masaru Takahashi, Keishi Matsumoto, Michihiko Iwamoto, Ryuichi Imai, Stephanie Rai
  • Patent number: 10494545
    Abstract: A composition for solid coating formation, includes a mixed solvent including water and a dipolar aprotic solvent, a powdery organic resin which is partially soluble at least in the dipolar aprotic solvent. The powdery organic resin is dissolved or dispersed in the mixed solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kunio Goto
  • Patent number: 10480259
    Abstract: The present invention has an objective to provide a threaded connection for pipe or tube including a pin and a box, having excellent galling resistance, torque property, and anticorrosion property, and still having an excellent adhesiveness with a lubricating coating even when being repeatedly exposed to high temperature and very low temperature, and to provide a method for producing the threaded connection for pipe or tube. The threaded connection for pipe or tube according to the present embodiment includes a pin and a box. The pin and the box have contact surfaces including a thread portions and and unthreaded metal contact portions, respectively. The threaded connection for pipe or tube comprises an electroplating layer consisting of a Zn—Ni alloy, a mechanical plating layer consisting of Zn or a Zn alloy, and a lubricating coating, on the contact surface of at least one of the pin and the box, in this order from a contact surface side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Vallourec Oil and Gas France
    Inventor: Kunio Goto
  • Publication number: 20190331262
    Abstract: There is provided a threaded connection for pipe the tightening torque of which is easy to adjust. A threaded connection for pipe according to the present embodiment includes a pin and a box. The pin and the box have contact surfaces that include a thread part, a metal seal part, and a shoulder part, respectively. The threaded connection for pipe includes a Zn—Ni alloy plating layer on the contact surface of one of the pin and the box, and includes a Cu—Sn—Zn alloy plating layer on the contact surface of the other one. The threaded connection for pipe further includes a lubricating coating in a liquid state or a semisolid state on at least one of the Zn—Ni alloy plating layer and the Cu—Sn—Zn alloy plating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventor: Kunio GOTO