Patents by Inventor Masaharu Ueda

Masaharu Ueda 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: 11969969
    Abstract: What is provided is a new and improved metal-carbon fiber reinforced resin material composite in which the galvanic corrosion of dissimilar materials of a metal member is suppressed and electrodeposition coatability is excellent and a method for manufacturing the metal-carbon fiber reinforced resin material composite. A metal-carbon fiber reinforced resin material composite according to the present invention has a metal member, a resin coating layer disposed on at least a part of a surface of the metal member, and a carbon fiber reinforced resin material containing a matrix resin and a carbon fiber material present in the matrix resin, the resin coating layer contains any one or more kinds selected from the group consisting of metal particles, intermetallic compound particles, conductive oxide particles, and conductive non-oxide ceramic particles as conductive particles and further contains a binder resin, and the conductive particles have a powder resistivity at 23° C. to 27° C. of 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Ueda, Yasuaki Kawamura, Masumi Koori, Masaharu Ibaragi
  • Publication number: 20230193438
    Abstract: A welded rail according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a plurality of rail portions having a head portion and a web portion and having a height h; and a welded joint portion that joins the rail portions together, in which the rail portion has a predetermined chemical composition, a HAZ width of the welded joint portion is 60 mm or less, in a region of 0 to (?)×h from a head top portion outer surface in a cross section of the welded joint portion which is parallel to a longitudinal direction and an up-down direction of the welded rail and passes through a center of the welded joint portion and of ±5 mm in the longitudinal direction from a welding center, an area ratio of a martensite structure is 0.0006% or more and 0.1000% or less, and in the region, the number of martensite structures having a grain size of 20 to 200 ?m is 3 to 80.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu UEDA, Kenji SAITA, Teruhisa MIYAZAKI, Takuya TANAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220120039
    Abstract: A rail including a predetermined chemical composition is provided, in which 90 area % or greater of a metallographic structure in a cross section of a rail web portion is a pearlite structure, a minimum value of a hardness in the cross section of the rail web portion is Hv 300 or greater, and a difference between a maximum value and the minimum value of the hardness in the cross section of the rail web portion is Hv 40 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu UEDA, Teruhisa MIYAZAKI, Takuya TANAHASHI, Yusuke MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20210395847
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, what is provided is a rail including, by mass %: C: 0.75% to 1.20%; Si: 0.10% to 2.00%; Mn: 0.10% to 2.00%; Cr: 0.10% to 1.20%; V: 0.010% to 0.200%; N: 0.0030% to 0.0200%; P?0.0250%; S?0.0250%; Mo: 0% to 0.50%, Co: 0% to 1.00%; B: 0% to 0.0050%; Cu: 0% to 1.00%; Ni: 0% to 1.00%; Nb: 0% to 0.0500%; Ti: 0% to 0.0500%; Mg: 0% to 0.0200%; Ca: 0% to 0.0200%; REM: 0% to 0.0500%; Zr: 0% to 0.0200%; Al: 0% to 1.00%; and a remainder consisting of Fe and impurities, in which a structure ranging from an outer surface of a head portion as an origin to a depth of 25 mm includes 95% or greater of a pearlite structure by area ratio, the hardness of the structure is in a range of Hv 360 to 500, and in ferrite of the pearlite structure at a position at a depth of 25 mm from the outer surface of the head portion as the origin, the number density of a V nitride having a grain size of 0.5 to 4.0 nm and including Cr is in a range of 1.0×1017 to 5.0×1017 cm?3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu UEDA, Jun TAKAHASHI, Teruhisa MIYAZAKI, Takuya TANAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10995396
    Abstract: A rail according to an aspect of the present invention is manufactured by melting steel using an electric furnace, satisfies a predetermined range as a chemical composition and particularly includes Pb: 0.0003% to 0.0020%, 95 area % or more of a region from an outer surface of a head portion to a depth of 20 mm is a pearlite structure, and a hardness in the region from the outer surface of the head portion to the depth of 20 mm is in a range of Hv 300 to Hv 500.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Ueda, Teruhisa Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 10563357
    Abstract: A rail provided by the present invention includes: has a predetermined chemical components, wherein, in a region from a head surface constituted of a surface of a top head portion and a surface of a corner head portion to a depth of 10 mm, a total amount of pearlite structures and bainite structures is 95% by area or more, and an amount of the bainite structures is 20% by area or more and less than 50% by area, and an average hardness of the region from the head surface to a depth of 10 mm is in a range of Hv 400 to Hv 500.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Ueda, Teruhisa Miyazaki, Takuya Tanahashi
  • Patent number: 10544479
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a heat treatment device, a heat treatment method, and a rail steel which are suitable for preventing the occurrence of brittle fractures which originate in a base portion of a weld of the rail steel. A heat treatment device of the present invention includes a coil and heats a bottom surface of the base portion of the weld of the rail steel by induction heating. When a region in the weld which is heated to an Ac1 point or higher during welding is represented by HAZ, and the length of the HAZ in a length direction of the rail on the bottom surface of the base portion is represented by Lh, and a width of the rail steel is represented by W, the length of an outer region of the coil in the length direction of the rail is 1.2 times or more Lh and the length of the outer region of the coil in a width direction of the rail is 1.1 times or more W when viewed from opposite the bottom surface of the base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Karimine, Masaharu Ueda, Kenji Saita
  • Patent number: 10526674
    Abstract: A stress-relief heat treatment method for stress-relief heat-treating a rail which is welded includes arranging at least one pair of an induction heating coil to face the rail at both sides of a welding center along the longitudinal direction of the rail while being separated from the welding center of the rail by 20 mm to 300 mm in a longitudinal direction of the rail and being an axial direction of the induction heating coil parallel to the longitudinal direction of the rail. The method further includes flowing a current to the induction heating coil arranged at one side of the welding center and to the induction heating coil arranged at the other side of the welding center being opposite to each other, and induction heating the rail to a heating temperature of 400° C. or higher and 750° C. or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Karimine, Masaharu Ueda
  • Patent number: 10494704
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rail which has a predetermined chemical composition and satisfies expressions of 1.00<Mn/Cr?4.00 and 0.30?0.25×Mn+Cr?1.00 and in which a structure to a depth of 25 mm from an outer surface of a head portion as the origin includes 95% or greater of a pearlite structure, the hardness of the structure is in a range of Hv 350 to 480, 50 to 500 V carbonitride having an average grain size of 5 to 20 nm are present per 1.0 ?m2 of an area to be inspected in a transverse cross section at a position having a depth of 25 mm from the outer surface of the head portion, and the value obtained by subtracting the hardness of the position having the depth of 25 mm from the outer surface of the head portion from the hardness of the position having a depth of 2 mm from the outer surface of the head portion is in a range of Hv 0 to Hv 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Ueda, Takuya Tanahashi, Teruhisa Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20190272089
    Abstract: Efficient handwriting input is performed. A character input device includes: a handwritten character input unit that receives a handwritten character input operation; a controller that outputs a prediction candidate in which a replacement character is replaced, the prediction candidate corresponding to a series of handwritten characters, when the replacement character exists in the series of handwritten characters input to the handwritten character input unit; and a candidate display that displays the prediction candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kei ICHIKAWA, Masaharu Ueda
  • Publication number: 20190161839
    Abstract: A rail according to an aspect of the present invention is manufactured by melting steel using an electric furnace, satisfies a predetermined range as a chemical composition and particularly includes Pb: 0.0003% to 0.0020%, 95 area % or more of a region from an outer surface of a head portion to a depth of 20 mm is a pearlite structure, and a hardness in the region from the outer surface of the head portion to the depth of 20 mm is in a range of Hv 300 to Hv 500.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu UEDA, Teruhisa MIYAZAKI
  • Patent number: 10233512
    Abstract: A rail provided by the present invention includes: has a predetermined chemical components, wherein a value of Mn/Cr, which is a ratio of Mn content with respect to Cr content, is within a range of 0.30 to 1.00, structures in a region from a head surface constituted of a surface of a top head portion and a surface of a corner head portion to a depth of 10 mm is 98% by area or more of bainite structures, and an average hardness of the region from the head surface to a depth of 10 mm is in a range of Hv 380 to Hv 500.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Ueda, Teruhisa Miyazaki, Takuya Tanahashi
  • Patent number: 10144983
    Abstract: A method of reheating a rail weld zone after rails were welded, a distance C between a reheating region P of a rail web portion 2 and a welding center Q is set to more than or equal to 0.2 times and less than or equal to three times a HAZ length Lh of the rail weld zone. A length B of the reheating region P may be more than or equal to 0.5 times and less than or equal to five times the HAZ length Lh of the rail weld zone. A height A of the reheating region P may be more than or equal to 0.2 times a height Hw of the rail web portion 2. A temperature Th reached in a reheating process at a center of the reheating region P may be higher than or equal to 400° C. and lower than or equal to 750° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL AND SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Karimine, Masaharu Ueda, Katsuya Iwano, Hideo Tottori, Takeshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10047411
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rail which has a predetermined chemical composition and in which at least 90% of a metallographic structure from an outer surface of the rail bottom portion, as the origin, to a depth of 5 mm is a pearlite structure, a surface hardness HC of a foot-bottom central portion is in a range of Hv 360 to 500, a surface hardness HE of a foot-edge portion is in a range of Hv 260 to 315, and HC, HE, and a surface hardness HM of a middle portion positioned between the foot-bottom central portion and the foot-edge portion satisfy HC?HM?HE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Ueda, Takeshi Yamamoto, Teruhisa Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20180094333
    Abstract: A stress-relief heat treatment apparatus according to the present invention for stress-relief heat-treating a rail which is welded includes an induction heating coil, and the induction heating coil is arranged at a lateral face of a web of the rail while being separated from a welding center of the rail by 20 mm to 300 mm in a longitudinal direction of the rail. The stress-relief heat treatment apparatus may include a plurality of the induction heating coils, and the induction heating coils may be arranged at both sides of the welding center. The stress-relief heat treatment apparatus may include a plurality of the induction heating coils, an axial direction of the induction heating coil may be vertical to a lateral surface of the rail, and a plurality of the induction heating coils, of which distances from the welding center along the longitudinal direction of the rail are the same, may be arranged to cover a whole circumference of the rail while being separated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi KARIMINE, Masaharu UEDA
  • Publication number: 20170369975
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rail which has a predetermined chemical composition and satisfies expressions of 1.00<Mn/Cr?4.00 and 0.30?0.25×Mn+Cr?1.00 and in which a structure to a depth of 25 mm from an outer surface of a head portion as the origin includes 95% or greater of a pearlite structure, the hardness of the structure is in a range of Hv 350 to 480, 50 to 500 V carbonitride having an average grain size of 5 to 20 nm are present per 1.0 ?m2 of an area to be inspected in a transverse cross section at a position having a depth of 25 mm from the outer surface of the head portion, and the value obtained by subtracting the hardness of the position having the depth of 25 mm from the outer surface of the head portion from the hardness of the position having a depth of 2 mm from the outer surface of the head portion is in a range of Hv 0 to Hv 40.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu UEDA, Takuya TANAHASHI, Teruhisa MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20170369961
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rail which has a predetermined chemical composition and in which at least 90% of a metallographic structure from an outer surface of the rail bottom portion, as the origin, to a depth of 5 mm is a pearlite structure, a surface hardness HC of a foot-bottom central portion is in a range of Hv 360 to 500, a surface hardness HE of a foot-edge portion is in a range of Hv 260 to 315, and HC, HE, and a surface hardness HM of a middle portion positioned between the foot-bottom central portion and the foot-edge portion satisfy HC?HM?HE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu UEDA, Takeshi YAMAMOTO, Teruhisa MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20170073793
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a heat treatment device, a heat treatment method, and a rail steel which are suitable for preventing the occurrence of brittle fractures which originate in a base portion of a weld of the rail steel. A heat treatment device of the present invention includes a coil and heats a bottom surface of the base portion of the weld of the rail steel by induction heating. When a region in the weld which is heated to an Ac1 point or higher during welding is represented by HAZ, and the length of the HAZ in a length direction of the rail on the bottom surface of the base portion is represented by Lh, and a width of the rail steel is represented by W, the length of an outer region of the coil in the length direction of the rail is 1.2 times or more Lh and the length of the outer region of the coil in a width direction of the rail is 1.1 times or more W when viewed from opposite the bottom surface of the base portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi KARIMINE, Masaharu UEDA, Kenji SAITA
  • Publication number: 20170051373
    Abstract: A rail provided by the present invention includes: has a predetermined chemical components, wherein, in a region from a head surface constituted of a surface of a top head portion and a surface of a corner head portion to a depth of 10 mm, a total amount of pearlite structures and bainite structures is 95% by area or more, and an amount of the bainite structures is 20% by area or more and less than 50% by area, and an average hardness of the region from the head surface to a depth of 10 mm is in a range of Hv 400 to Hv 500.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu UEDA, Teruhisa MIYAZAKI, Takuya TANAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20170044634
    Abstract: A rail provided by the present invention includes: has a predetermined chemical components, wherein a value of Mn/Cr, which is a ratio of Mn content with respect to Cr content, is within a range of 0.30 to 1.00, structures in a region from a head surface constituted of a surface of a top head portion and a surface of a corner head portion to a depth of 10 mm is 98% by area or more of bainite structures, and an average hardness of the region from the head surface to a depth of 10 mm is in a range of Hv 380 to Hv 500.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu UEDA, Teruhisa MIYAZAKI, Takuya TANAHASHI