Patents by Inventor Manabu Kubota

Manabu 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).

  • Patent number: 9506137
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel product for gas carburizing used for manufacturing a carburized steel part. In the above steel product for gas carburizing, a composition of a base metal contains, in mass %, C: 0.1 to 0.4%, Si: exceeding 1.2 to 4.0%, Mn: 0.2 to 3.0%, Cr: 0.5 to 5.0%, Al: 0.005 to 0.1%, S: 0.001 to 0.3%, N: 0.003 to 0.03%, and O: limited to 0.0050% or less, and P: limited to 0.025% or less, and when the contents of Si, Mn, and Cr (mass %) are set to [Si %], [Mn %], and [Cr %], Expression (1) below is satisfied, and an alloy shortage layer satisfying Expression (2) below exists in a range from its surface to 2 to 50 ?m in depth. 32?3.5[Si %]+[Mn %]+3[Cr %]>9??(1) 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Koyama, Manabu Kubota
  • Patent number: 9469883
    Abstract: A carburized steel part having excellent low cycle bending fatigue strength which is comprised of a steel material which contains, by mass %, C: 0.1 to 0.6%, Si: 0.01 to 1.5%, Mn: 0.3 to 2.0, P: 0.02% or less, S: 0.001 to 0.15%, N: 0.001 to 0.03%, Al: 0.001 to 0.06%, and O: 0.005% or less and has a balance of substantially iron and unavoidable impurities and which is carburized and quenched, and then tempered, which steel part has a surface hardness of HV550 to HV800 and a core hardness of HV400 to HV500.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, SANYO SPECIAL STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuji Kozawa, Manabu Kubota, Osamu Kada, Motohiro Nishikawa, Takashi Tanaka, Norimasa Tsunekage
  • Publication number: 20160298224
    Abstract: A production method of a carburized steel, which improves a gas carburizing property of a steel having a high Si content and suppresss deterioration of productivity, includes preliminary and main gas carburizing processes. In the preliminary gas carburizing process, a steel having a chemical composition that contains C, Si, Mn, and Cr and, in mass %, satisfies Formula (1) is subjected to a gas carburizing treatment at a carburizing temperature Tp° C. that satisfies Formula (A) for 10 minutes to less than 20 hours. In the main gas carburizing process, a gas carburizing treatment is performed at a carburizing temperature Tr(° C.) that satisfies Formula (B) for a carburizing time tr minutes. 6.5<3.5[Si % ]+[Mn % ]+3[Cr % ]?18 ??(1) 800?Tp<163×ln(CP+0.6)?41×ln(3.5×[Si % ]+[Mn % ]+3×[Cr % ])+950 ??(A) 4<13340/(Tr+273.15)?ln(tr)<7 ??(B) Where, CP in the formula is substituted by a carbon potential during carburization in the preliminary carburizing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Tatsuya KOYAMA, Manabu KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 9436465
    Abstract: A processor, which executes m number of arithmetic operations in parallel, executes a partial sum instruction which takes an i-th to (i+m?1)-th elements of an input data series as input elements, so as to obtain first vector data, executes the partial sum instruction which takes a (i+x)-th to (i+x+m?1)-th elements of the input data series as the input elements, so as to obtain second vector data, and performs operations to subtract the p-th element of the first vector data and add the p-th element of the second vector data from and to a sum of the i-th to (i+x?1)-th elements of the input data series in parallel for each of the 0-th to (m?1)-th elements, so as to calculate sums of elements for m sections different from each other in parallel, and moving average processing to calculate a moving average from the sums of elements of the sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Makiko Ito, Manabu Kubota, Kazuhiro Nomoto
  • Publication number: 20160160327
    Abstract: Steel for nitrocarburizing includes, by mass %, C: 0% to less than 0.15%; Si: 0.01% to 1.00%; Mn: 0.01% to 1.00%; S: 0.0001% to 0.050%; Al: 0.0001% to 0.050%; Ti: more than 0.50% to 1.50%; N: 0.0005% to 0.0100%; and the balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, in which P is limited to 0.050% or less; O is limited to 0.0060% or less; and the amount of Ti [Ti %], the amount of C [C %], the amount of N [N %], and the amount of S [S %] satisfy 0.48<[Ti %]?47.9×([C %]/12+[N %]/14+[S %]/32)?1.20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventor: Manabu Kubota
  • Patent number: 9284632
    Abstract: Steel for nitrocarburizing includes, by mass %, C: 0% to less than 0.15%; Si: 0.01% to 1.00%; Mn: 0.01% to 1.00%; S: 0.0001% to 0.050%; Al: 0.0001% to 0.050%; Ti: more than 0.50% to 1.50%; N: 0.0005% to 0.0100%; and the balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, in which P is limited to 0.050% or less; O is limited to 0.0060% or less; and the amount of Ti [Ti %], the amount of C [C %], the amount of N [N %], and the amount of S [S %] satisfy 0.48<[Ti %]?47.9×([C %]/12+[N %]/14+[S %]/32)?1.20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Kubota
  • Publication number: 20160060744
    Abstract: There is provided a case-hardening steel in which in inclusion evaluation using an extreme value statistical method, when an estimated area S is 30,000 mm2, an estimated value of the maximum size (?area)S of sulfide-based inclusions present in the estimated area S is 49 ?m or less and an estimated value of the maximum size (?area)Ox of oxide-based inclusions present in the estimated area S is 80 ?m or less, and the number of sulfide-based inclusions having a length of more than 20 ?m and a thickness of more than 2 ?m per 1 mm2 is limited to 200 or less,
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu KUBOTA, Shuji KOZAWA
  • Patent number: 9255314
    Abstract: The invention provides a hot-forging micro-alloyed steel which achieves excellent fracture-splitability and machinability, without impairing productivity or mechanical properties and without the addition of Pb or the like. It also provides a component made of hot-forged micro-alloyed steel. The hot-forging micro-alloyed steel contains, in mass %, C: from 0.35 to 0.60%, Si: 0.50 to 2.50%, Mn: 0.20 to 2.00%, P: 0.010 to 0.150%, S: 0.040 to 0.150%, V: 0.10 to 0.50%, Zr: over 0.0023 to 0.0050%, Ca: 0.0005 to 0.0050% and N: 0.0069 to 0.0200%, Al being limited to less than 0.010%, and a balance substantially of Fe and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Kubota, Shinya Teramoto
  • Patent number: 9187797
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel part for machine structural use whose fatigue strength and toughness are improved and a manufacturing method thereof. A steel part made of a steel containing, in mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.20%, Si: 0.10 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.75 to 3.00%, P: 0.001 to 0.050%, S: 0.001 to 0.200%, V: exceeding 0.20 to 0.25%, Cr: 0.01 to 1.00%, Al: 0.001 to 0.500%, and N: 0.0080 to 0.0200%, and a balance being composed of Fe and inevitable impurities, in which a steel structure contains a bainite structure having an area ratio of 95% or more, a bainite lath width is 5 ?m or less, V carbide having an average grain diameter of not less than 4 nm nor more than 7 nm dispersedly exists in the bainite structure, and an area ratio of V carbide in the bainite structure is 0.18% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL AND SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Teramoto, Hiromasa Takada, Manabu Kubota, Yoichi Taniguchi, Junichi Nakatsuka, Kazuhiro Fujimura, Satoshi Koganemaru
  • Patent number: 9139894
    Abstract: This steel for a machine structure contains, in mass %: C: 0.40% to less than 0.75%; Si: 0.01% to 3.0%; Mn: 0.1% to 1.8%; S: 0.001% to 0.1%; Al: more than 0.1% and not more than 1.0%; N: 0.001% to 0.02%; and P: limited to not more than 0.05%, with a balance including Fe and inevitable impurities, in which the steel satisfies 139.38?214×[C]+30.6×[Si]+42.8×[Mn]?14.7×[Al]?177 and 0.72?[C]+1/7×[Si]+1/5×[Mn]<1.539.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiharu Aiso, Suguru Yoshida, Manabu Kubota, Kei Miyanishi, Shuji Kozawa
  • Publication number: 20150240335
    Abstract: A steel for an induction hardening including, by mass %, C: more than 0.75% to 1.20%, Si: 0.002 to 3.00%, Mn: 0.20 to 2.00%, S: 0.002 to 0.100%, Al: more than 0.050% to 3.00%. P: limited to 0.050% or less, N: limited to 0.0200% or less, O: limited to: 0.0030% or less, and the balance composing of iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein an Al content and a N content satisfy, by mass %, Al?(27/14)×N>0.050%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Manabu KUBOTA, Toshiharu AISO, Kei MIYANISHI
  • Publication number: 20150218685
    Abstract: A non-heat treated steel according to the present invention includes, as steel composition, by mass %, 0.20 to 0.60% of C, 0.50 to 2.0% of Si, 0.20 to 2.0% of Mn, 0.010 to 0.15% of P, 0.010 to 0.15% of S, 0.10 to 0.50% of V. 0.002 to 0.02% of N, and a balance consisting of Fe and impurities, in which, when a ratio of a maximum value of a V content in the steel to an average value of the V content in the steel in a cross section of the steel is defined as a segregation ratio of V, the segregation ratio of V is 1.0 or more and less than 3.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Shinya Teramoto, Manabu Kubota
  • Patent number: 9100965
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a size of free space provided in each of a plurality of data transmission units of a first layer; an allocation unit that allocates to data of a second layer a contiguous sequence of free space from among the free space whose size is acquired by the acquisition unit, the contiguous sequence of free space being equal in size to the data of the second layer and provided in one data transmission unit of the first layer; and a multiplexing unit that multiplexes a plurality of pieces of data of the second layer into the plurality of data transmission units of the first layer according to the allocation of the free space by the allocation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Chiaki Shinohara, Kazuhisa Obuchi, Akihide Otonari, Yoshinori Soejima, Manabu Kubota, Miki Yamasaki, Shinya Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9039962
    Abstract: A steel for an induction hardening including, by mass %, C: more than 0.75% to 1.20%, Si: 0.002 to 3.00%, Mn: 0.20 to 2.00%, S: 0.002 to 0.100%, Al: more than 0.050% to 3.00%, P: limited to 0.050% or less, N: limited to 0.0200% or less, O: limited to: 0.0030% or less, and the balance composing of iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein an Al content and a N content satisfy, by mass %, Al?(27/14)×N>0.050%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Kubota, Toshiharu Aiso, Kei Miyanishi
  • Patent number: 8980022
    Abstract: This case hardening steel has a chemical composition including, by mass %: C: 0.1 to 0.6%; Si: 0.02 to 1.5%; Mn: 0.3 to 1.8%; P: 0.025% or less; S: 0.001 to 0.15%; Al: over 0.05 to 1.0%; Ti: 0.05 to 0.2%; N: 0.01% or less; and O: 0.0025% or less, and further including, by mass %, one or more of Cr: 0.4 to 2.0%, Mo: 0.02 to 1.5%, Ni: 0.1 to 3.5%, V: 0.02 to 0.5%, and B: 0.0002 to 0.005%, and the balance consisting of iron and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Miyanishi, Masayuki Hashimura, Shuuji Kozawa, Manabu Kubota, Tatsuro Ochi
  • Patent number: 8926767
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel part for machine structural use whose fatigue strength and toughness are improved and a manufacturing method thereof. A steel part made of a steel containing, in mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.20%, Si: 0.10 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.75 to 3.00%, P: 0.001 to 0.050%, S: 0.001 to 0.200%, V: exceeding 0.25 to 0.50%, Cr: 0.01 to 1.00%, Al: 0.001 to 0.500%, and N: 0.0080 to 0.0200%, and a balance being composed of Fe and inevitable impurities, in which a steel structure contains a bainite structure having an area ratio of 95% or more, a bainite lath width is 5 ?m or less, V carbide having an average grain diameter of not less than 4 nm nor more than 7 nm dispersedly exists in the bainite structure, and an area ratio of V carbide in the bainite structure is 0.18% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Teramoto, Hiromasa Takada, Manabu Kubota
  • Patent number: 8916008
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel part for machine structural use whose fatigue strength and toughness are improved and a manufacturing method thereof. A steel part made of a steel containing, in mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.20%, Si: 0.10 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.75 to 3.00%, P: 0.001 to 0.050%, S: 0.001 to 0.200%, V: 0.05 to 0.20%, Cr: 0.01 to 1.00%, Al: 0.001 to 0.500%, and N: 0.0080 to 0.0200%, and a balance being composed of Fe and inevitable impurities, in which a steel structure contains a bainite structure having an area ratio of 95% or more, a bainite lath width is 5 ?m or less, V carbide having an average grain diameter of not less than 4 nm nor more than 7 nm dispersedly exists in the bainite structure, and an area ratio of V carbide in the bainite structure is 0.18% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Teramoto, Hiromasa Takada, Manabu Kubota
  • Publication number: 20140351566
    Abstract: A processor, which executes m number of arithmetic operations in parallel, executes a partial sum instruction which takes an i-th to (i+m?1)-th elements of an input data series as input elements, so as to obtain first vector data, executes the partial sum instruction which takes a (i+x)-th to (i+x+m?1)-th elements of the input data series as the input elements, so as to obtain second vector data, and performs operations to subtract the p-th element of the first vector data and add the p-th element of the second vector data from and to a sum of the i-th to (i+x?1)-th elements of the input data series in parallel for each of the 0-th to (m?1)-th elements, so as to calculate sums of elements for m sections different from each other in parallel, and moving average processing to calculate a moving average from the sums of elements of the sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: MAKIKO ITO, Manabu KUBOTA, Kazuhiro Nomoto
  • Patent number: 8876988
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel for nitriding with a composition including, by mass %: C: 0.10% to 0.20%; Si: 0.01% to 0.7%; Mn: 0.2% to 2.0%; Cr: 0.2% to 2.5%; Al: 0.01% to less than 0.19%; V: over 0.2% to 1.0%; Mo: 0% to 0.54%; N: 0.001% to 0.01%; P limited to not more than 0.05%; S limited to not less than 0.2%; and a balance including Fe and inevitable impurities, the composition satisfying 2?[V]/[C]?10, where [V] is an amount of V by mass % and [C] is an amount of C by mass %, in which the steel for nitriding has a microstructure containing bainite of 50% or more in terms of an area percentage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsushi Chida, Manabu Kubota, Toshimi Tarui, Daisuke Hirakami, Masayuki Hashimura
  • Patent number: 8821652
    Abstract: Steel for induction hardening wherein coarsening of austenite crystal grains can be prevented even at a high temperature of over 1100° C. such as which occurs at projecting parts of steel parts at the time of induction hardening, the steel for induction hardening characterized by containing, by mass %, C: 0.35 to 0.6%, Si: 0.01 to 1%, Mn: 0.2 to 1.8%, S: 0.001 to 0.15%, Al: 0.001 to 1%, Ti: 0.05 to 0.2%, and Nb: 0.001 to 0.04%, restricting N: 0.0060% or less, P: 0.025% or less, and O: 0.0025% or less, satisfying Nb/Ti?0.015, and having a balance of iron and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Kozawa, Manabu Kubota