Patents by Inventor Kunio Hayashi
Kunio Hayashi 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: 12006562Abstract: Provided are a hot dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined composition and contains ferrite: 0% to 50%, retained austenite: 0% to 30%, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite and cementite in total: 0% to 5%, remaining structures consist of bainite, when defining a region having a hardness of 90% or less of the hardness at a position of ¼ thickness to the base steel sheet side from an interface of the base steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized layer as a “soft layer”, there is a soft layer having a thickness of 10 ?m or more at the base steel sheet side from the interface, the soft layer contains tempered martensite, and an increase rate in a thickness direction of an area % of tempered martensite from the interface to the inside of the base steel sheet inside the soft layer is 5.0%/?m or less, and a method for producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Kawata, Kunio Hayashi, Yuji Yamaguchi, Satoshi Uchida
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Publication number: 20240182997Abstract: A hot dip galvanized steel sheet includes a base steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized layer on at least one surface of the base metal steel sheet, wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and contains, by volume fraction, ferrite: 0% to 50%, retained austenite: 0% to 30%, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite and cementite in total: 0% to 5%, when there are remaining structures, the remaining structures consist of bainite, a concentration of B atoms at prior austenite grain boundaries is 2.0 atm % or more, and an average effective crystal grain size is 7.0 ?m or less, and a method for producing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2024Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Kunio HAYASHI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA
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Patent number: 11939650Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet includes, as chemical composition, C, Si, Mn, and sol.Al. In the hot-rolled steel sheet, an average of pole densities in crystal orientation group consisting of {110}<110> to {110}<001> in surface region is 0.5 to 3.0, a standard deviation of the pole densities in the crystal orientation group is 0.2 to 2.0, and the tensile strength is 780 to 1370 MPa.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shohei Yabu, Kunio Hayashi, Yuji Yamaguchi, Marina Mori, Naoki Inoue, Genki Abukawa
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Patent number: 11905570Abstract: A hot dip galvanized steel sheet includes a base steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized layer on at least one surface of the base metal steel sheet, wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and contains, by volume fraction, ferrite: 0% to 50%, retained austenite: 0% to 30%, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite and cementite in total: 0% to 5%, when there are remaining structures, the remaining structures consist of bainite, a concentration of B atoms at prior austenite grain boundaries is 2.0 atm % or more, and an average effective crystal grain size is 7.0 ?m or less, and a method for producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Kawata, Kunio Hayashi, Yuji Yamaguchi, Satoshi Uchida
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Patent number: 11859259Abstract: A zinc-plated steel sheet includes a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition and a zinc-plated layer. In the steel sheet, steel microstructures in a range of ? thickness to ? thickness, having the center at ¼ thickness from a steel sheet surface, include, by vol %, ferrite: 0% to 10%, bainite: 0% to 30%, tempered martensite: 50% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, retained austenite: more than 10% and 30% or less, and pearlite: 0% to 5%. In the zinc-plated steel sheet, the amount of hydrogen emitted when the steel sheet is heated to 200° C. from room temperature after removal of the zinc-plated layer is 0.40 ppm or less per mass of the steel sheet, the tensile strength is 1470 MPa or more, and no cracking occurs in a U-shape bending test where a stress equivalent to 1000 MPa is applied for 24 hours.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Kunio Hayashi, Masahiro Nakata, Yuji Yamaguchi, Satoshi Uchida
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Patent number: 11814708Abstract: Provided are a hot dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized layer on at least one surface of the base metal steel sheet, wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition and contains, by volume fraction, ferrite: 0% to 50%, retained austenite: 6% to 30%, bainite: 5% or more, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite and cementite in total: 0% to 5%, a number density of tempered martensite with a circle equivalent diameter of 5.0 ?m or more is 20/1000 ?m2 or less, and an area ratio of fresh martensite with a circle equivalent diameter of 2.0 ?m or more after imparting 5% plastic strain is 10% or less, and a method for producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Kawata, Kunio Hayashi, Yuji Yamaguchi, Satoshi Uchida
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Publication number: 20230304119Abstract: This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a microstructure at a ¼ depth position of a sheet thickness from a surface of the steel sheet contains, by volume fraction, ferrite: 0% to 50%, residual austenite: 6% to 30%, bainite: 5% to 60%, tempered martensite: 5% to 50%, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite: 0% to 5%, at the ¼ depth position of the sheet thickness from the surface, a number proportion of the residual austenite having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more to an entire residual austenite is 50% or more, and a number density of inclusions and precipitates having a grain size of 1 ?m or more is 30/mm2 or less, and at a 1/20 depth position of the sheet thickness from the surface, an average interval between Mn-concentrated portions in a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction is 300 ?m or less, and a standard deviation of Mn concentrations in the residual austenite is 0.40% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya KUWAYAMA, Kunio HAYASHI, Takafumi YOKOYAMA
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Patent number: 11732341Abstract: In a metal coated steel sheet, a chemical composition contains, in mass %, at least C: 0.03% to 0.70%, Si: 0.25% to 2.50%, Mn: 1.00% to 5.00%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.010% or less, sol. Al: 0.001% to 2.500, N: 0.020% or less, and a balance composed of iron and impurities, a metal structure contains greater than 5.0 vol % of retained austenite and greater than 5.0 vol % of tempered martensite, and satisfies a C content in the retained austenite being 0.85 mass % or more.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Haga, Kohichi Sano, Koutarou Hayashi, Kunio Hayashi, Masaharu Kameda, Akihiro Uenishi, Hiroyuki Kawata
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Patent number: 11685963Abstract: A zinc-plated steel sheet of an aspect of the present invention includes a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition and a zinc-plated layer. In the steel sheet, steel microstructures in a range of ? thickness to ? thickness, having the center at ¼ thickness from a steel sheet surface, include, by vol %, ferrite: 0% to 10%, bainite: 0% to 20%, tempered martensite: 70% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, retained austenite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite: 0% to 5%. In the zinc-plated steel sheet, the amount of hydrogen emitted when the steel sheet is heated to 200° C. from a room temperature after removal of the zinc-plated layer is 0.40 ppm or less per mass of the steel sheet, the tensile strength is 1470 MPa or more, and no cracking occurs in a U-shape bending test where a stress equivalent to 1000 MPa is applied for 24 hours.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Kunio Hayashi, Masahiro Nakata, Yuji Yamaguchi, Satoshi Uchida
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Patent number: 11572610Abstract: A steel sheet includes a predetermined chemical composition and a metal structure represented by, in area fraction, ferrite: 50% to 95%, granular bainite: 5% to 48%, martensite: 2% to 30%, and upper bainite, lower bainite, tempered martensite, retained austenite, and pearlite: 5% or less in total.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuya Nakano, Kunio Hayashi, Yuri Toda, Eisaku Sakurada, Akihiro Uenishi
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Publication number: 20220389545Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet includes, as chemical composition, C, Si, Mn, and sol.Al. In the hot-rolled steel sheet, an average of pole densities in crystal orientation group consisting of {110}<110> to {110}<001> in surface region is 0.5 to 3.0, a standard deviation of the pole densities in the crystal orientation group is 0.2 to 2.0, and the tensile strength is 780 to 1370 MPa.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2019Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shohei YABU, Kunio HAYASHI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Marina MORI, Naoki INOUE, Genki ABUKAWA
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Patent number: 11505846Abstract: A blank material is formed from a steel sheet, a first quenching of the blank material is performed, and a second quenching of the blank material is performed after the first quenching. When the first quenching is performed, the blank material is heated to a first temperature of not lower than (Ac3 point—50)° C. nor higher than 1200° C. at an average heating rate of 2° C./sec or more, and the blank material is cooled from the first temperature to a second temperature of 250° C. or lower. When the second quenching is performed, the blank material is heated from the second temperature to a third temperature of not lower than (Ac3 point—50)° C. nor higher than 1200° C. at an average heating rate of 2° C./sec or more, and the blank material is cooled from the third temperature to a fourth temperature of 250° C. or lower. Forming of the blank material is performed in the first quenching or the second quenching or both of the above.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2017Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Genki Abukawa, Kunio Hayashi, Kazuo Hikida, Kaoru Kawasaki
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Patent number: 11492687Abstract: A steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition and a metal structure represented by, in area fraction, polygonal ferrite: 40% or less, martensite: 20% or less, bainitic ferrite: 50% to 95%, and retained austenite: 5% to 50%. In area fraction, 80% or more of the bainitic ferrite is composed of bainitic ferrite grains that have an aspect ratio of 0.1 to 1.0 and have a dislocation density of 8×102 (cm/cm3) or less in a region surrounded by a grain boundary with a misorientation angle of 15° or more. In area fraction, 80% or more of the retained austenite is composed of retained austenite grains that have an aspect ratio of 0.1 to 1.0, have a major axis length of 1.0 ?m to 28.0 ?m, and have a minor axis length of 0.1 ?m to 2.8 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri Toda, Eisaku Sakurada, Kunio Hayashi, Akihiro Uenishi
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Publication number: 20220275493Abstract: Provided are a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition and having the following steel structure, and a method of manufacturing the steel sheet. (1) In area ratio %, ferrite: 0 to 5%, martensite: 90 to 100%, a ratio of tempered martensite to total martensite: 80 to 100%, and retained austenite: 0.5 to 6.0% are contained. (2) The number density of inclusions satisfying the maximum diameter?3 ?m is 40 inclusions/mm2 or less. (3) When the number density of the inclusions satisfying the maximum diameter?3 ?m in each section is calculated, the number density in the section where the number density of inclusions is in the top 10% is 80 inclusions/mm2 or less. (4) Formula (A) is satisfied. V??/V??0.1??(A) V?: Initial retained austenite, V??: Retained austenite after deep cooling at ?196° C. (5) The tensile strength is 1470 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Kazuki SHIOKAWA, Tatsuya OBUCHI, Kunio HAYASHI
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Patent number: 11427900Abstract: A steel sheet includes a predetermined chemical composition and a metal structure represented by, in area fraction, ferrite: 50% to 95%, granular bainite: 5% to 48%, tempered martensite: 2% to 30%, upper bainite, lower bainite, fresh martensite, retained austenite, and pearlite: 5% or less in total, and the product of the area fraction of the tempered martensite and a Vickers hardness of the tempered martensite: 800 to 10500.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuya Nakano, Kunio Hayashi, Yuri Toda, Eisaku Sakurada, Akihiro Uenishi
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Publication number: 20220259692Abstract: This hot-rolled steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a microstructure contains, by area %, bainite: 80.0% or more, ferrite: 10.0% or less, and a remainder in the microstructure: 10.0% or less, a total density of a length L7 of a grain boundary having a crystal orientation difference of 7° and a length L68 of a grain boundary having a crystal orientation difference of 68° about a <110> direction in the bainite is 0.35 to 0.60 ?m/?m2, and a tensile strength is 780 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shohei YABU, Kunio HAYASHI, Koutarou HAYASHI, Kazumasa TSUTSUI
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Patent number: 11408046Abstract: High strength steel sheet having a tensile strength of 800 MPa or more comprising a middle part in sheet thickness and a soft surface layer arranged at one side or both sides of the middle part in sheet thickness, wherein each soft surface layer has a thickness of more than 10 ?M and 30% or less of the sheet thickness, the soft surface layer has an average Vickers hardness of more than 0.60 time and 0.90 time or less the average Vickers hardness of the sheet thickness 1/2 position, and the soft surface layer has a nano-hardness standard deviation of 0.8 or less is provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuya Suzuki, Katsuya Nakano, Genki Abukawa, Kunio Hayashi
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Patent number: 11332803Abstract: A high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet contains predetermined amounts of C, Si, Mn, P, S, N, O, sol. Al, Ti, and B, 0.1 to 1.5 mass % of Cr+2×Mo, and a balance in a form of Fe and inevitable impurities. A steel structure includes, in area %, ferrite: 1 to 50%, martensite: 20 to 70%, residual austenite: 0 to 5%, pearlite: 0 to 5%, MA and cementite having 0.2 ?m or more grain size: 0 to 5% in total, and a balance in a form of bainite. A number density of MA or cementite having 0.2 ?m or more grain size and isolated in ferrite or bainite grains is 100 pcs/1000 ?m2 or less, and an average hardness of martensite is in a range from 330 to 500 Hv.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Yuji Yamaguchi, Masahiro Nakata, Kunio Hayashi, Satoshi Uchida, Takuma Kawanaka
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Publication number: 20220127709Abstract: Provided are a hot dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and contains ferrite: 50% or less, retained austenite: 30% or less, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 10% or less, and pearlite and cementite in total: 5% or less, remaining structures consist of bainite, and a number ratio of tempered martensite with a Mn concentration profile satisfying [Mn]b/[Mn]a>1.2 and [Mn]a/[Mn]<2.0 ([Mn] is the Mn content in the base steel sheet, [Mn]a is the average Mn concentration in the tempered martensite, and [Mn]b is the Mn concentration at the interfaces of different phases of the tempered martensite and ferrite phase and bainite phase) is 0.2 or more with respect to the total number of tempered martensite, and a method for producing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Kunio HAYASHI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA
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Publication number: 20220119908Abstract: Provided are a hot dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized layer on at least one surface of the base metal steel sheet, wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and contains, by volume fraction, ferrite: 0% to 50%, retained austenite: 0% to 30%, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite and cementite in total: 0% to 5%, when there are remaining structures, the remaining structures consist of bainite, a concentration of B atoms at prior austenite grain boundaries is 2.0 atm % or more, and an average effective crystal grain size is 7.0 ?m or less, and a method for producing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2020Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Kunio HAYASHI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA