Patents by Inventor Manabu Takahashi

Manabu Takahashi 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).

  • Publication number: 20110112245
    Abstract: It is to provide an aqueous polyurethane dispersion which gives a coating film excellent in abrasion resistance. It is an aqueous polyurethane resin dispersion which comprises a polyurethane resin obtained by reacting (A) a polyurethane prepolymer which is obtained by reacting (a) a polyisocyanate compound, (b) a polyol compound containing a polycarbonate polyol having an alicyclic structure, and (c) a polyol compound having an acidic group, and (B) a chain elongating agent having a reactivity with the isocyanate group of (A) the polyurethane prepolymer, being dispersed in an aqueous medium, a content of an alicyclic structure is 26.0 to 60.0% by weight in terms of a solid component(s), and a sum of a content of an urethane boding and a content of a urea bonding is 17.7 to 30.0% by weight in terms of a solid component(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Taku Nakamura, Masahiro Naiki, Afsushi Morikami, Fumio Adachi, Manabu Takahashi, Teruaki Fujii
  • Publication number: 20110077352
    Abstract: Disclosed is an aqueous polyurethane resin dispersion which comprises a polyurethane resin which is obtained by reacting (A) a polyurethane prepolymer obtained by reacting (a) a polycarbonate polyol having an alicyclic structure in the main chain, (b) an acidic group-containing polyol compound and (d) a polyisocyanate, and (B) a chain-elongating agent, being dispersed in an aqueous medium, a carboxylic acid group content of the above-mentioned (A) polyurethane prepolymer based on a solid component of (A) the polyurethane prepolymer is 2.0 to 13.0% by weight, and a number of a hydroxyl equivalent of a mixture of the above-mentioned (a) polycarbonate polyol having an alicyclic structure in the main chain, the above-mentioned (b) acidic group-containing polyol compound, and, if necessary, (c) a polyol other than (a) and (b) is 70 to 270.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Taku Nakamura, Masahiro Naiki, Atsushi Morikami, Fumio Adachi, Manabu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20110040908
    Abstract: A character conversion apparatus makes a predictive search of a conversion database for conversion candidates on the basis of one or more characters inputted by use of a character input key. The apparatus obtains, in reference to a table, the total number of times the character input key is to be pressed down before inputting an unconverted character included in each of the searched conversion candidates and immediately following the one or more characters. The table contains characters assigned to the total numbers of times the character input key is pressed down. The apparatus determines the order of display, on a screen of a display device, of the conversion candidates to align with a descending order of the total number of times the character input key is to be pressed down before inputting the unconverted character. On the screen, the conversion candidates are displayed in the determined order of display. The apparatus receives confirmation of one of the conversion candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hitoshi IKEDA, Masao Iseki, Manabu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7842142
    Abstract: High-strength parts and a method for producing them can be provided, where such parts exhibit hydrogen embrittlement resistance and strength after high-temperature forming. For example, the atmosphere in a heating furnace can contain less than about 10% hydrogen and/or have a dew point of about 30° C. or less. The amount of hydrogen penetrating a steel sheet during heating can thereby be reduced. After forming, quench hardening in a die assembly and post-working can be performed. Post-working can include shearing followed by re-shearing or compression forming; punching with a cutting blade having a continuously reduced base width; punching with a tool having a curved blade and a protrusion at the tip of the cutting blade, where the curved blade may include a shoulder portion of given radius and/or angle; fusion cutting; etc. Tensile residual stresses after punching can be reduced and resistance to hydrogen embrittlement can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Kusumi, Hironori Sato, Masayuki Abe, Nobuhiro Fujita, Noriyuki Suzuki, Kunio Hayashi, Shinya Nakajima, Jun Maki, Masahiro Oogami, Toshiyuki Kanda, Manabu Takahashi, Yuzo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7824509
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a high-strength high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having high fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance; a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet excellent in ductility, which improves non-plating defects and plating adhesion after severe deformation, and a method of producing the same; a high-strength and high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having high fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance; a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having superior appearance and workability, which suppresses the generation of non-plating defects, and a method of producing the same; and a high-strength hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet and a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet, which suppress non-plating defects and surface defects and have both corrosion resistance, in particular corrosion resistance in an environment containing chlorine ion, and high ductility, and a meth
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Fujita, Masafumi Azuma, Manabu Takahashi, Yasuhide Morimoto, Masao Kurosaki, Akihiro Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 7776161
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel sheet excellent in workability, which may be used for components of an automobile or the like, and a method for producing the same. More specifically, according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a steel sheet excellent in workability, including in mass, 0.08 to 0.25% C, 0.001 to 1.5% Si, 0.01 to 2.0% Mn, 0.001 to 0.06% P, at most 0.05% S, 0.001 to 0.007% N, 0.008 to 0.2% Al, at least 0.01% Fe. The steel sheet having an average r-value of at least 1.2, an r-value in the rolling direction of at least 1.3, an r-value in the direction of 45 degrees to the rolling direction of at least 0.9, and an r-value in the direction of a right angle to the rolling direction of at least 1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Yoshinaga, Nobuhiro Fujita, Manabu Takahashi, Koji Hashimoto, Shinya Sakamoto, Kaoru Kawasaki, Yasuhiro Shinohara, Takehide Senuma
  • Patent number: 7749343
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel sheet excellent in workability, which may be used for components of an automobile or the like, and a method for producing the same. More specifically, according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a steel sheet excellent in workability, including in mass, 0.08 to 0.25% C, 0.001 to 1.5% Si, 0.01 to 2.0% Mn, 0.001 to 0.06% P, at most 0.05% S, 0.001 to 0.007% N, 0.008 to 0.2% Al, at least 0.01% Fe. The steel sheet having an average r-value of at least 1.2, an r-value in the rolling direction of at least 1.3, an r-value in the direction of 45 degrees to the rolling direction of at least 0.9, and an r-value in the direction of a right angle to the rolling direction of at least 1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Yoshinaga, Nobuhiro Fujita, Manabu Takahashi, Koji Hashimoto, Shinya Sakamoto, Kaoru Kawasaki, Yasuhiro Shinohara, Takehide Senuma
  • Patent number: 7732082
    Abstract: A fuel cell module, wherein slopes of a same angle ? relative to a bottom face are formed on both side faces to form a recessed groove in a tapered shape. Since the angle ? is provided to the side faces of the recessed groove, the exhaustion of gases from the accumulation of gasses to the outside can be assisted by the side faces with the angle ? more than in a case where the side faces of the recessed groove are formed in right angled shapes even if the accumulation of gases is produced between an adhesive agent and the inner surfaces of the recessed groove when first and second separators are joined to each other for modularization by covering the first separator on the second separator. Thus, the accumulation of the gases can be prevented from occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomokazu Hayashi, Iwao Myojin, Tsutomu Ochi, Chisato Kato, Koichiro Kawakami, Hiroo Yoshikawa, Manabu Takahashi, Yasuyuki Asai
  • Publication number: 20100047617
    Abstract: Steel sheet having a composition of ingredients containing substantially, by mass %, C: 0.005 to 0.200%, Si: 2.50% or less, Mn: 0.10 to 3.00%, N: 0.0100% or less, Nb: 0.005 to 0.100%, and Ti: 0.002 to 0.150% and satisfying the relationship of Ti-48/14×N?0.0005, having a sum of the X-ray random intensity ratios of the {100}<001> orientation and the {110}<001> orientation of a ? sheet thickness part of 5 or less, having a sum of the maximum value of the X-ray random intensity ratios of the {110}<111> to {110}<112> orientation group and the X-ray random intensity ratios of the {211}<111> orientation of 5 or more, and having a high rolling direction Young's modulus measured by the static tension method and a method of production of the same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Natsuko Sugiura, Naoki Maruyama, Manabu Takahashi, Yohji Nakamura, Koji Hanya
  • Publication number: 20090272467
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a high-strength high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having high fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance; a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet excellent in ductility, which improves non-plating defects and plating adhesion after severe deformation, and a method of producing the same; a high-strength and high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having high fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance; a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having superior appearance and workability, which suppresses the generation of non-plating defects, and a method of producing the same; and a high-strength hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet and a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet, which suppress non-plating defects and surface defects and have both corrosion resistance, in particular corrosion resistance in an environment containing chlorine ion, and high ductility, and a meth
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Fujita, Masafumi Azuma, Manabu Takahashi, Yasuhide Morimoto, Masao Kurosaki, Akihiro Miyasaka
  • Publication number: 20090255610
    Abstract: The invention provides a cold-rolled steel sheet excellent in paint bake hardenability and ordinary-temperature non-aging property comprising, in mass %, C: 0.0005-0.0040%, Si: 0.8% or less, Mn: 2.2% or less, S: 0.0005-0.009%, Cr: 0.4-1.3%, O: 0.003-0.020%, P: 0.045-0.12%, B: 0.0002-0.0010%, Al: 0.008% or less, N: 0.001-0.007%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities. Ultra-low-carbon steel retaining solute N and containing added Cr, P, B and O is used to produce hot-rolled and cold-rolled steel sheet and hot-dip galvanized cold-rolled steel sheet that exhibit both high paint bake hardenability and ordinary-temperature non-aging property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Inventors: Naoki Yoshinaga, Naoki Maruyama, Manabu Takahashi, Natsuko Sugiura
  • Patent number: 7534312
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel sheet excellent in workability, which may be used for components of an automobile or the like, and a method for producing the same. More specifically, according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a steel sheet excellent in workability, including in mass, 0.08 to 0.25% C, 0.001 to 1.5% Si, 0.01 to 2.0% Mn, 0.001 to 0.06% P, at most 0.05% S, 0.001 to 0.007% N, 0.008 to 0.2% Al, at least 0.01% Fe. The steel sheet having an average r-value of at least 1.2, an r-value in the rolling direction of at least 1.3, an r-value in the direction of 45 degrees to the rolling direction of at least 0.9, and an r-value in the direction of a right angle to the rolling direction of at least 1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Yoshinaga, Nobuhiro Fujita, Manabu Takahashi, Koji Hashimoto, Shinya Sakamoto, Kaoru Kawasaki, Yasuhiro Shinohara, Takehide Senuma
  • Patent number: 7485195
    Abstract: A high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet excellent in shape fixability having ferrite or bainite as the phase of the largest volume percentage, satisfying all of the following at least at ½ sheet thickness: a mean value of X-ray random intensity ratio in the orientation component group of {100}<011> to {223}<110> to X-ray random diffraction intensity ratio of at least 2.5; a mean value of X-ray random intensity ratio in the three crystal orientation components of {554}<225>, {111}<112>, and {111}<110> to X-ray random diffraction intensity ratio of 3.5 or less; an X-ray intensity ratio to X-ray random diffraction intensity ratio at {100}<011> of at least the X-ray random intensity to X-ray random diffraction intensity ratio at {211}<011>; and an X-ray random intensity ratio to X-ray random intensity ratio diffraction intensity ratio at {100}<011> of at least 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Arcelor France
    Inventors: Natsuko Sugiura, Manabu Takahashi, Naoki Yoshinaga, Ken Kimura
  • Publication number: 20080308200
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel sheet excellent in workability, which may be used for components of an automobile or the like, and a method for producing the same. More specifically, according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a steel sheet excellent in workability, including in mass, 0.08 to 0.25% C, 0.001 to 1.5% Si, 0.01 to 2.0% Mn, 0.001 to 0.06% P, at most 0.05% S, 0.001 to 0.007% N, 0.008 to 0.2% Al, at least 0.01% Fe. The steel sheet having an average r-value of at least 1.2, an r-value in the rolling direction of at least 1.3, an r-value in the direction of 45 degrees to the rolling direction of at least 0.9, and an r-value in the direction of a right angle to the rolling direction of at least 1.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Naoki Yoshinaga, Nobuhiro Fujita, Manabu Takahashi, Koji Hashimoto, Shinya Sakamoto, Kaoru Kawasaki, Yasuhiro Shinohara, Takehide Senuma
  • Publication number: 20080295924
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel sheet excellent in workability, which may be used for components of an automobile or the like, and a method for producing the same. More specifically, according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a steel sheet excellent in workability, including in mass, 0.08 to 0.25% C, 0.001 to 1.5% Si, 0.01 to 2.0% Mn, 0.001 to 0.06% P, at most 0.05% S, 0.001 to 0.007% N, 0.008 to 0.2% Al, at least 0.01% Fe. The steel sheet having an average r-value of at least 1.2, an r-value in the rolling direction of at least 1.3, an r-value in the direction of 45 degrees to the rolling direction of at least 0.9, and an r-value in the direction of a right angle to the rolling direction of at least 1.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: Naoki Yoshinaga, Nobuhiro Fujita, Manabu Takahashi, Koji Hashimoto, Shinya Sakamoto, Kaoru Kawasaki, Yasuhiro Shinohara, Takehide Senuma
  • Publication number: 20080166608
    Abstract: In a fuel cell having a separator in which main cooling water channels are formed, a separator for another unit cell stacked on the cooling water channel formation surface side of the separator, and a second sealing member interposed between the separators and to seal a cooling medium flowing in the main cooling water channels, an outer peripheral rib for regulating the flow of cooling water to the second sealing member side is provided inside relative to the second sealing member in the separator surface direction in order to improve the efficiency of cooling with the cooling medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Hiroya Nakaji, Tsutomu Ochi, Chisato Kato, Tsunemasa Nishida, Manabu Takahashi, Yasuyuki Asai
  • Publication number: 20080166257
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel sheet excellent in workability, which may be used for components of an automobile or the like, and a method for producing the same. More specifically, according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a steel sheet excellent in workability, including in mass, 0.08 to 0.25% C, 0.001 to 1.5% Si, 0.01 to 2.0% Mn, 0.001 to 0.06% P, at most 0.05% S, 0.001 to 0.007% N, 0.008 to 0.2% Al, at least 0.01% Fe. The steel sheet having an average r-value of at least 1.2, an r-value in the rolling direction of at least 1.3, an r-value in the direction of 45 degrees to the rolling direction of at least 0.9, and an r-value in the direction of a right angle to the rolling direction of at least 1.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Naoki Yoshinaga, Nobuhiro Fujita, Manabu Takahashi, Koji Hashimoto, Shinya Sakamoto, Kaoru Kawasaki, Yasuhiro Shinohara, Takehide Senuma
  • Publication number: 20080035247
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a high-strength high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having high fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance; a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet excellent in ductility, which improves non-plating defects and plating adhesion after severe deformation, and a method of producing the same; a high-strength and high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having high fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance; a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having superior appearance and workability, which suppresses the generation of non-plating defects, and a method of producing the same; and a high-strength hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet and a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet, which suppress non-plating defects and surface defects and have both corrosion resistance, in particular corrosion resistance in an environment containing chlorine ion, and high ductility, and a meth
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Fujita, Masafumi Azuma, Manabu Takahashi, Yasuhide Morimoto, Masao Kurosaki, Akihiro Miyasaka
  • Publication number: 20080026281
    Abstract: A fuel cell module, wherein slopes of a same angle ? relative to a bottom face are formed on both side faces to form a recessed groove in a tapered shape. Since the angle ? is provided to the side faces of the recessed groove, the exhaustion of gases from the accumulation of gasses to the outside can be assisted by the side faces with the angle ? more than in a case where the side faces of the recessed groove are formed in right angled shapes even if the accumulation of gases is produced between an adhesive agent and the inner surfaces of the recessed groove when first and second separators are joined to each other for modularization by covering the first separator on the second separator. Thus, the accumulation of the gases can be prevented from occurring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomokazu Hayashi, Iwao Myojin, Tsutomu Ochi, Chisato Kato, Koichiro Kawakami, Hiroo Yoshikawa, Manabu Takahashi, Yasuyuki Asai
  • Publication number: 20080008901
    Abstract: One aspect of the steel sheet having high Young's modulus includes in terms of mass %, C: 0.0005 to 0.30%, Si: 2.5% or less, Mn: 2.7 to 5.0%, P: 0.15% or less, S: 0.015% or less, Mo: 0.15 to 1.5%, B: 0.0006 to 0.01%, and Al: 0.15% or less, with the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein one or both of {110}<223> pole density and {110}<111> pole density in the ? sheet thickness layer is 10 or more, and a Young's modulus in a rolling direction is more than 230 GPa. Another aspect of the steel sheet having high Young's modulus includes, in terms of mass %, C: 0.0005 to 0.30%, Si: 2.5% or less, Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, P: 0.15% or less, S: 0.015% or less, Al: 0.15% or less, N: 0.01% or less, and further comprises one or two or more of Mo: 0.005 to 1.5%, Nb: 0.005 to 0.20%, Ti: at least 48/14×N (mass %) and 0.2% or less, and B: 0.0001 to 0.01%, at a total content of 0.015 to 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Natsuko Sugiura, Naoki Yoshinaga, Shunji Hiwatashi, Manabu Takahashi, Koji Hanya, Nobuyoshi Uno, Ryoich Kanno, Akihiro Miyasaka, Takehide Senuma