Patents by Inventor Mamoru Saito
Mamoru Saito 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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Publication number: 20240043980Abstract: A plated steel material having a plating layer having an average chemical composition containing, in mass %, Zn: more than 50.00%, Al: more than 15.0% and less than 30.0%, Mg: more than 5.0% and less than 15.0%, and Si: 0.25% or more and less than 3.50%, and impurities, and wherein a total amount (?A) of at least one selected from the group consisting of Sn, Bi and In is less than 1.00%, a total amount (?B) of at least one selected from the group consisting of Ca, Y, La, Ce and Sr is 0.02% or more and less than 0.60%, 2.0?SMg/Si<20.0 (Formula 1), 3.0?Si/?B<24.0 (Formula 2), and 26.0?(Si/?B)×(Mg/Si)<375.0 (Formula 3) are satisfied, and in an X-ray diffraction pattern of the surface of the plating layer, a diffraction intensity ratio R1 defined by R1={I(16.18°)+I(32.69°)}/I(27.0°) (Formula 4) satisfies 2.5<R1 (Formula 5) is used.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei TOKUDA, Mamoru SAITO, Takuya MITSUNOBU, Tetsuya TOBA, Yasuto GOTO, Atsushi MORISHITA, Yasuaki KAWAMURA, Fumiaki NAKAMURA, Koji KAWANISHI
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Patent number: 11851764Abstract: The plated steel material is a plated steel material including a steel material and a plating layer provided on the surface of the steel material, wherein the plating layer has a predetermined average chemical composition, when the amount of Mg is % Mg and the amount of Al is % Al, % Mg/% Al is 0.80 or more, and a metal structure in a total field of view of 25,000 ?m2 in a vertical cross section which is a cross section in a thickness direction of the plating layer includes 10 to 40 area % of a MgZn2 phase, 10 to 30 area % of an Al—Zn phase with a Zn content of 10% or more, 0 to 15 area % of an Al phase with a Zn content of less than 10%, and 25 area % or more of an Al/MgZn2/Zn ternary eutectic structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kotaro Ishii, Kohei Tokuda, Yoshinari Ishida, Yasuto Goto, Mamoru Saito
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Patent number: 11827984Abstract: A coated steel product including a base steel, and a coating layer containing a Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer disposed on a surface of the base steel, in which the coating layer has a predetermined chemical composition, the coated steel product including dendrite-shaped MgZn2 phase having a surface roughness Sa of 50 nm or less on a surface of the Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer, an area ratio of the dendrite-shaped MgZn2 phase having a surface roughness Sa of 50 nm or less being from 30% to 80% within a region of an observable field of view of 5 mm2, and among the dendrite-shaped MgZn2 phase having a surface roughness Sa of 50 nm or less, a number of dendrite-shaped MgZn2 phase having an area of 0.1 mm2 or more being from 5 to 100 within a region of an observable field of view of 25 mm2.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Mamoru Saito, Yasuto Goto
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Patent number: 11814732Abstract: A hot-dip plated steel includes a base steel and a hot-dip plating layer on a surface of the base steel, a chemical composition of the hot-dip plating layer contains, by mass %, Al: 10.00% to 30.00%, Mg: 3.00% to 12.00%, Sn: 0% to 2.00%, Si: 0% to 2.50%, Ca: 0% to 3.00%, Ni: 0% or more and less than 0.25%, Fe: 0% to 5.00%, and the like, a remainder includes Zn and impurities, a metallographic structure of the hot-dip plating layer contains 5 to 45 area % of an ? phase having a grain diameter of 0.5 to 2 ?m, the metallographic structure of the hot-dip plating layer contains 15 to 70 area % of a MgZn2 phase, and, among the ? phases having the grain diameter of 0.5 to 2 ?m, an area ratio of an ? phase having a (111)?//(0001)MgZn2 orientation relationship to the adjacent MgZn2 phase is 25% to 100%.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Takuya Mitsunobu, Mamoru Saito, Kohei Tokuda, Hiroshi Takebayashi
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Patent number: 11794449Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet of the present invention includes a base steel sheet and a Ni—Co—Fe alloy-plated layer on at least one surface of the base steel sheet, in which, in the alloy-plated layer, a Ni coating weight is 7.1 to 32.5 g/m2, a Co coating weight is 0.65 to 5.2 g/m2, and a total of the Ni coating weight and the Co coating weight is in a range of 9.0 to 35.0 g/m2. In an outermost layer of the alloy-plated layer, a Co concentration is in a range of 20 to 60 atom %, and a Fe concentration is in a range of 5 to 30 atom %. In the alloy-plated layer, a region having a thickness of 2 ?m or more, in which a total of a Ni concentration and the Co concentration is 10 atom % or more and the Fe concentration is 5 atom % or more, is present, and the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and a ferrite grain size number is 9.0 or more.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takehiro Takahashi, Mamoru Saito, Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Yasuto Goto
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Patent number: 11787156Abstract: A coated steel material including: a base steel, and a coating layer containing a Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer disposed on a surface of the base steel, wherein the coating layer has a predetermined chemical composition, and, in a backscattered electron image of the Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer that is obtained at a time of observing the surface of the Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer after polishing to ½ of the layer thickness, under a scanning electron microscope at a magnification of 100×, Al crystals are present, and the average value of the cumulative circumferential length of the Al crystals is 88 to 195 mm/mm2.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Mamoru Saito, Yasuto Goto, Kiyokazu Ishizuka
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Publication number: 20230323521Abstract: A coated steel product including a base steel, and a coating layer containing a Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer disposed on a surface of the base steel, in which the coating layer has a predetermined chemical composition, the coated steel product including dendrite-shaped MgZn2 phase having a surface roughness Sa of 50 nm or less on a surface of the Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer, an area ratio of the dendrite-shaped MgZn2 phase having a surface roughness Sa of 50 nm or less being from 30% to 80% within a region of an observable field of view of 5 mm2, and among the dendrite-shaped MgZn2 phase having a surface roughness Sa of 50 nm or less, a number of dendrite-shaped MgZn2 phase having an area of 0.1 mm2 or more being from 5 to 100 within a region of an observable field of view of 25 mm2.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2021Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Mamoru SAITO, Yasuto GOTO
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Patent number: 11781200Abstract: A plated steel including a plated layer on a surface of a steel, in which Expression 1 of 0?Cr+Ti+Ni+Co+V+Nb+Cu+Mn?0.25 and Expression 2 of 0?Sr+Sb+Pb+B+Li+Zr+Mo+W+Ag+P?0.50 are satisfied, and Expression 3 of I(MgZn2 (41.31°))/I?(MgZn2)?0.265 and Expression 6 of 0.150?{I(MgZn2 (20.79°))+I(MgZn2 (42.24°))}/I?(MgZn2) are further satisfied in an X-ray diffraction pattern of a surface of the plated layer measured using Cu-K? rays under a condition that an X-ray output is 40 kV and 150 mA.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei Tokuda, Takuya Mitsunobu, Mamoru Saito, Yuto Fukuda, Yasuto Goto, Hidetoshi Shindo, Fumiaki Nakamura, Koji Kawanishi, Ryohei Mimura
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Publication number: 20230304136Abstract: The plated steel material is a plated steel material including a steel material and a plating layer provided on the surface of the steel material, wherein the plating layer has a predetermined average chemical composition, when the amount of Mg is % Mg and the amount of Al is % Al, % Mg/% Al is 0.80 or more, and a metal structure in a total field of view of 25,000 ?m2 in a vertical cross section which is a cross section in a thickness direction of the plating layer includes 10 to 40 area % of a MgZn2 phase, 10 to 30 area % of an Al—Zn phase with a Zn content of 10% or more, 0 to 15 area % of an Al phase with a Zn content of less than 10%, and 25 area % or more of an Al/MgZn2/Zn ternary eutectic structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kotaro ISHII, Kohei TOKUDA, Yoshinari ISHIDA, Yasuto GOTO, Mamoru SAITO
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Patent number: 11713513Abstract: To provide a surface-treated steel sheet for battery containers excellent in workability while maintaining battery characteristics and liquid leakage resistance, and a manufacturing method thereof. A surface-treated steel sheet for battery containers according to the present invention includes a Ni—Co—Fe-based diffusion alloy plating layer on at least one surface of a base steel sheet, in which the diffusion alloy plating layer is consisted of a Ni—Fe alloy layer and a Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer, which are arranged sequentially from the base steel sheet side, the diffusion alloy plating layer has a Ni coating weight within a range of 3.0 g/m2 or more and less than 8.74 g/m2 and a Co coating weight within a range of 0.26 g/m2 or more and 1.6 g/m2 or less, with a total of the Ni coating weight and the Co coating weight being less than 9.0 g/m2, when a surface of the diffusion alloy plating layer is analyzed by an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Co: 19.5 to 60%, Fe: 0.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Mamoru Saito, Takehiro Takahashi, Kiyokazu Ishizuka
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Publication number: 20230203635Abstract: A hot-dip plated steel according to one aspect includes a base steel and a hot-dip plating layer disposed on a surface of the base steel, a chemical composition of the hot-dip plating layer contains, by mass%, Al: 10.00% to 30.00%, Mg: 3.00% to 12.00%, Sn: 0% to 2.00%, Si: 0% to 2.50%, Ca: 0% to 3.00%, Ni: 0% or more and less than 0.25%, Fe: 0% to 5.00%, and the like, a remainder consists of Zn and impurities, a metallographic structure of the hot-dip plating layer contains 5 to 45 area% of an ? phase having a grain diameter of 0.5 to 2 µm, the metallographic structure of the hot-dip plating layer contains 15 to 70 area% of a MgZn2 phase, and, among the ? phases having the grain diameter of 0.5 to 2 µm, an area ratio of an ? phase having a (111)?//(0001)MgZn2 orientation relationship to the adjacent MgZn2 phase is 25% to 100%.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Mamoru SAITO, Kohei TOKUDA, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230193425Abstract: A plated steel including a plated layer on a surface of a steel, in which Expression 1 of 0?Cr+Ti+Ni+Co+V+Nb+Cu+Mn 0.25 and Expression 2 of 0?Sr+Sb+Pb+B+Li+Zr+Mo+W+Ag+P?0.50 are satisfied, and Expression 3 of I(MgZn2 (41.31°))/I?(MgZn2)?0.265 and Expression 6 of 0.150?{I(MgZn2 (20.79°))+I(MgZn2 (42.24°))}/I?(MgZn2) are further satisfied in an X-ray diffraction pattern of a surface of the plated layer measured using Cu-K? rays under a condition that an X-ray output is 40 kV and 150 mA.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei TOKUDA, Takuya MITSUNOBU, Mamoru SAITO, Yuto FUKUDA, Yasuto GOTO, Hidetoshi SHINDO, Fumiaki NAKAMURA, Koji KAWANISHI, Ryohei MIMURA
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Patent number: 11634791Abstract: A hot-dip coated steel product including: a steel product; and a coating layer including a Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer disposed on a surface of the steel product, in which the Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer includes a Zn phase, an Al phase, and a MgZn2 phase, and contains a Mg—Sn intermetallic compound phase in the Zn phase, and the coating layer has a chemical composition satisfying a predetermined average composition, a total area proportion of the Al phase and the MgZn2 phase is 70% or more, an area proportion of the Zn phase is 30% or less, an average value of cumulative circumferential lengths of the Al phase is less than 88 mm/mm2, and a total frequency in number of the Al phase having a circumferential length of 50 ?m or more is less than 100.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei Tokuda, Mamoru Saito, Jun Maki, Takuya Mitsunobu, Yasuto Goto
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Patent number: 11585898Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a signal processing device that enables detection of the distance between an imaging device and a subject using an imaging device with high versatility, a signal processing method, and a program. A determination part classifies pixels to a plurality of pixel groups, and determines a pair of a first pixel group and a second pixel group using for detection of distance between the imaging device and the subject from a plurality of pixel groups on the basis of a charge accumulation period for each pixel group of the imaging device in which charge accumulation period is controlled, and a light projection period of pulse light projected toward the subject of the imaging device, for each pixel group. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a distance detection device or the like.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Mamoru Saito
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Publication number: 20220371302Abstract: A coated steel material including: a base steel, and a coating layer containing a Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer disposed on a surface of the base steel, wherein the coating layer has a predetermined chemical composition, and, in a backscattered electron image of the Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer that is obtained at a time of observing the surface of the Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer after polishing to ½ of the layer thickness, under a scanning electron microscope at a magnification of 100×, Al crystals are present, and the average value of the cumulative circumferential length of the Al crystals is 88 to 195 mm/mm2.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Mamoru SAITO, Yasuto GOTO, Kiyokazu ISHIZUKA
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Publication number: 20220356547Abstract: A hot-dip coated steel product including: a steel product; and a coating layer including a Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer disposed on a surface of the steel product, in which the Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer includes a Zn phase, an Al phase, and a MgZn2 phase, and contains a Mg—Sn intermetallic compound phase in the Zn phase, and the coating layer has a chemical composition satisfying a predetermined average composition, a total area proportion of the Al phase and the MgZn2 phase is 70% or more, an area proportion of the Zn phase is 30% or less, an average value of cumulative circumferential lengths of the Al phase is less than 88 mm/mm2, and a total frequency in number of the Al phase having a circumferential length of 50 ?m or more is less than 100.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Kohei TOKUDA, Mamoru SAITO, Jun MAKI, Takuya MITSUNOBU, Yasuto GOTO
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Patent number: 11352682Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet of the present invention includes a base steel sheet and a Ni—Co—Fe alloy-plated layer on at least one surface of the base steel sheet, in which, in the alloy-plated layer, a Ni coating weight is 7.1 to 18.5 g/m2, a Co coating weight is 0.65 to 3.6 g/m2, and a total of the Ni coating weight and the Co coating weight is in a range of 9.0 to 20.0 g/m2. In a surface layer of the alloy-plated layer, a Co concentration is in a range of 20 to 60 atom %, and a Fe concentration is in a range of 5 to 30 atom %. In the alloy-plated layer, a region having a thickness of 2 ?m or more, in which a total of a Ni concentration and the Co concentration is 10 atom % or more and the Fe concentration is 5 atom % or more, is present. The base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and a ferrite grain size number is 10 or more.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takehiro Takahashi, Mamoru Saito, Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Yasuto Goto
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Publication number: 20220145473Abstract: A surface-treated metal material includes a metal sheet, a plating layer formed on the metal sheet and containing aluminum, magnesium, and zinc, and a composite coating formed on a surface of the plating layer, the composite coating including an organic silicon compound, one or two of a zirconium compound and a titanium compound, a phosphoric acid compound, a fluorine compound, and a vanadium compound, wherein, when a surface of the composite coating is analyzed at a spot size of ?30 ?m using micro-fluorescent X-rays, a maximum value of V/Zn, which is a mass ratio of a V content to a Zn content, is 0.010 to 0.100.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromasa SHOJI, Kiyokazu ISHIZUKA, Kohei TOKUDA, Mamoru SAITO, Yasuto GOTO, Ikumi TOKUDA
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Publication number: 20210269929Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet of the present invention includes a base steel sheet and a Ni—Co—Fe alloy-plated layer on at least one surface of the base steel sheet, in which, in the alloy-plated layer, a Ni coating weight is 7.1 to 32.5 g/m2, a Co coating weight is 0.65 to 5.2 g/m2, and a total of the Ni coating weight and the Co coating weight is in a range of 9.0 to 35.0 g/m2. In an outermost layer of the alloy-plated layer, a Co concentration is in a range of 20 to 60 atom %, and a Fe concentration is in a range of 5 to 30 atom %. In the alloy-plated layer, a region having a thickness of 2 ?m or more, in which a total of a Ni concentration and the Co concentration is 10 atom % or more and the Fe concentration is 5 atom % or more, is present, and the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and a ferrite grain size number is 9.0 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takehiro TAKAHASHI, Mamoru SAITO, Kiyokazu ISHIZUKA, Yasuto GOTO
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Publication number: 20210269932Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet of the present invention includes a base steel sheet and a Ni—Co—Fe alloy-plated layer on at least one surface of the base steel sheet, in which, in the alloy-plated layer, a Ni coating weight is 7.1 to 18.5 g/m2, a Co coating weight is 0.65 to 3.6 g/m2, and a total of the Ni coating weight and the Co coating weight is in a range of 9.0 to 20.0 g/m2. In a surface layer of the alloy-plated layer, a Co concentration is in a range of 20 to 60 atom %, and a Fe concentration is in a range of 5 to 30 atom %. In the alloy-plated layer, a region having a thickness of 2 ?m or more, in which a total of a Ni concentration and the Co concentration is 10 atom % or more and the Fe concentration is 5 atom % or more, is present. The base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and a ferrite grain size number is 10 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takehiro TAKAHASHI, Mamoru SAITO, Kiyokazu ISHIZUKA, Yasuto GOTO