Patents by Inventor Masaki KOBA
Masaki KOBA 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: 20240035105Abstract: Provided is a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having both high strength and good workability, as well as excellent coating quality. The chemical composition of the base steel sheet is set within a specified range, the steel microstructure of the base steel sheet is a complex structure of ferrite, martensite and bainite, oxygen is present as oxides in the surface layer of the base steel sheet in an amount of 0.05 g/m2 or more and 0.50 g/m2 or less per surface, and the hot-dip galvanized layer contains Fe in an amount of 0.40 mass % or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya HIRASHIMA, Tatsuya NAKAGAITO, Masaki KOBA, Yoichi MAKIMIZU, Katsuya HATA, Shotaro TERASHIMA
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Publication number: 20240026481Abstract: Provided is a steel sheet having excellent workability while ensuring excellent strength. The steel sheet comprises: a predetermined chemical composition; and a steel microstructure that contains ferrite: 45% to 90%, martensite: 5% to 30%, bainite: 1% to 25%, and retained austenite: 3% or more and in which [Mn]M/[Mn] is 1.00 to 1.15 and [Mn]M/[Mn]F is 1.00 to 1.30, wherein TS×El is 16000 MPa·% or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya HIRASHIMA, Tatsuya NAKAGAITO, Masaki KOBA, Kyoko NAITO, Seisuke TSUDA, Katsuya HATA, Shotaro TERASHIMA
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Publication number: 20230407447Abstract: Provided is a galvanized steel sheet with excellent resistance to cracking in resistance welding at a welded portion, even if crystal orientations of an Fe-based electroplating layer and a cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a high ratio at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the cold-rolled steel sheet. The galvanized steel sheet has a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % to 3.0 mass %; an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet with a coating weight per surface of more than 20.0 g/m2, and a galvanized layer formed on the Fe-based electroplating layer, where crystal orientations of the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a ratio of more than 50 % at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shunsuke YAMAMOTO, Katsutoshi TAKASHIMA, Mai AOYAMA, Yusuke OKUMURA, Tomomi KANAZAWA, Katsuya HOSHINO, Hiroshi MATSUDA, Ei OKUMURA, Yoichi MAKIMIZU, Masaki KOBA
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Publication number: 20230407506Abstract: Provided is a steel sheet with excellent resistance to cracking in resistance welding at a welded portion, even if the crystal orientations of an Fe-based electroplating layer and a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a high ratio at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet. Provided is an Fe-based electroplated steel sheet having a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less; and an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet with a coating weight per surface of more than 20.0 g/m2, where the crystal orientations of the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a ratio of more than 50% at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shunsuke YAMAMOTO, Katsutoshi TAKASHIMA, Mai AOYAMA, Yusuke OKUMURA, Tomomi KANAZAWA, Katsuya HOSHINO, Hiroshi MATSUDA, Ei OKUMURA, Yoichi MAKIMIZU, Masaki KOBA
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Publication number: 20230407485Abstract: Provided is an alloyed galvanized steel sheet with excellent resistance to cracking in resistance welding at a welded portion, even if crystal orientations of an Fe-based electroplating layer and a cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a high ratio at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the cold-rolled steel sheet. The alloyed galvanized steel sheet has a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % to 3.0 mass %; an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet with a coating weight per surface exceeding 20.0 g/m2, and an alloyed galvanized layer formed on the Fe-based electroplating layer, where crystal orientations of the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a ratio of more than 50% at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shunsuke YAMAMOTO, Katsutoshi TAKASHIMA, Mai AOYAMA, Yusuke OKUMURA, Tomomi KANAZAWA, Katsuya HOSHINO, Hiroshi MATSUDA, Ei OKUMURA, Yoichi MAKIMIZU, Masaki KOBA
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Patent number: 11560614Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet includes a steel sheet having a chemical composition containing a predetermined component element, a mass ratio of a content of Si to a content of Mn in the steel (Si/Mn) being 0.1 or more and less than 0.2, and the balance: Fe and incidental impurities, and a steel structure in which an average grain size of inclusions containing at least one of Al, Si, Mg, and Ca and existing in an area extending from a surface to a position of ? of a sheet thickness is 50 ?m or less, and an average nearest distance between ones of the inclusions is 20 ?m or more; and a galvanized layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet, in which an amount of diffusible hydrogen contained in the steel is less than 0.25 mass ppm, and a tensile strength is 1100 MPa or more.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Hiromi Yoshitomi, Masaki Koba, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Yoshitsugu Suzuki
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Patent number: 11530463Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet includes a steel sheet containing a predetermined component element, a mass ratio of a content amount of Si to a content amount of Mn in the steel (Si/Mn) being 0.2 or more, and a steel structure in which an average grain size of inclusions existing in an area extending from a surface to a position of ? of a sheet thickness is 50 ?m or less, and an average nearest distance between ones of the inclusions is 20 ?m or more; and a galvanized layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet, in which an amount of diffusible hydrogen contained in the steel is less than 0.25 mass ppm, oxides containing predetermined elements in an outer layer portion of the steel sheet account for 0.010 g/m2 or more per one surface, and a tensile strength is 1100 MPa or more.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Hiromi Yoshitomi, Masaki Koba, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Yoshitsugu Suzuki
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Patent number: 11473180Abstract: Provided are a high-yield-ratio high-strength galvanized steel sheet and a method for manufacturing thereof. The high-yield-ratio high-strength galvanized steel sheet has a steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a metallographic structure including, in terms of area ratio, in terms of area ratio, 15% or less of ferrite, 20% or more and 50% or less of martensite, and bainite and tempered martensite in a total amount of 30% or more, and a galvanized layer formed on the steel sheet having a coating weight of 20 g/m2 to 120 g/m2 per side, in which a yield strength ratio is 65% or more, a tensile strength is 950 MPa or more, and Mn oxides are contained in the galvanized layer in an amount of 0.015 g/m2 to 0.050 g/m2.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromi Yoshitomi, Hiroyuki Masuoka, Seisuke Tsuda, Yasuhiro Nishimura, Masaki Koba
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Patent number: 11473165Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet of the present invention includes a steel sheet having a chemical composition containing a predetermined component element, and a steel structure in which an average grain size of inclusions containing at least one of Al, Si, Mg, and Ca and existing in an area extending from a surface to a position of ? of a sheet thickness is 50 ?m or less, and an average nearest distance between ones of the inclusions is 20 ?m or more; and a galvanized layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet and having a coating weight per one surface of 20 g/m2 or more and 120 g/m2 or less, in which an amount of diffusible hydrogen contained in the steel is less than 0.25 mass ppm, and a tensile strength is 1100 MPa or more.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Hiromi Yoshitomi, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Masaki Koba, Yoshitsugu Suzuki
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Patent number: 11427880Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet is excellent in the external appearance of plating and the hydrogen brittleness resistance, and has a high yield ratio, and a method for manufacturing the same. The high-strength galvanized steel sheet including a steel sheet having a specific component composition and a specific steel structure, the amount of diffusible hydrogen in the steel sheet being 0.20 mass ppm or less; and a galvanizing layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet, the galvanizing layer having a content amount of Fe of 8 to 15% in mass %, and an attachment amount of plating per one surface of 20 to 120 g/m2, wherein the amount of Mn oxides contained in the galvanizing layer is 0.050 g/m2 or less; and the high-strength galvanized steel sheet has a yield strength of 700 MPa or more and a yield strength ratio of 65% or more and less than 85%.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromi Yoshitomi, Yasuaki Okita, Masaki Koba, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yoshihiko Ono
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Patent number: 11408059Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet includes a steel sheet having a steel composition having a specific component composition, a steel structure containing martensite and bainite at more than or equal to 70% (including 100%), ferrite at less than 20% (including 0%), and retained austenite at less than 5% (including 0%) in terms of area ratio, the amount of diffusible hydrogen in steel being less than or equal to 0.20 mass ppm; and a galvanizing layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet, having a content amount of Fe of 8 to 15% in mass %, and having an coating weight per one surface of 20 to 120 g/m2, wherein the amount of Mn oxides contained in the galvanizing layer is less than or equal to 0.050 g/m2, and a tensile strength is more than or equal to 1100 MPa and a yield ratio is more than or equal to 0.85.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromi Yoshitomi, Yasuaki Okita, Masaki Koba, Yoshihiko Ono, Hiroshi Matsuda
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Patent number: 11180823Abstract: Provided are a high-strength galvanized steel sheet having excellent delayed fracture resistance by reducing the diffusible hydrogen content in the steel and a method for producing the same. The high-strength galvanized steel sheet includes a steel sheet having a prescribed composition and a microstructure including martensite and tempered martensite, the total area fraction of the martensite and the tempered martensite being 30% or more, and a galvanizing layer formed on the surface of the steel sheet. The diffusible hydrogen content in the high-strength galvanized steel sheet is 0.50 wt. ppm or less. The half-width of the hydrogen release peak of the high-strength galvanized steel sheet is 70° C. or less. The diffusible hydrogen content and the half-width of the hydrogen release peak are determined by a prescribed analysis method.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2017Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya Hirashima, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Masaki Koba, Tatsuya Ehashi, Makoto Imamura
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Patent number: 11148395Abstract: There is provided a high-strength hot-dipped steel sheet having excellent coating adhesion and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a chemical composition, and a coating layer is disposed on the steel sheet. The chemical composition includes, by mass %, C: 0.02% or greater and 0.30% or less, Si: 0.01% or greater and 2.0% or less, Mn: 0.2% or greater and 3.0% or less, P: 0.08% or less, S: 0.02% or less, and Al: 0.001% or greater and 0.40% or less, with the balance being Fe and incidental impurities. The coating layer has a coating weight per side of 30 to 90 g/m2 and contains exfoliated base steel in an amount of 0.3 to 1.5 g/m2.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Koba, Yusuke Fushiwaki, Yasunobu Nagataki
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Patent number: 11066721Abstract: A high-strength hot-dip coated hot-rolled steel sheet excellent in terms of surface appearance quality and coating adhesiveness and a method for manufacturing. The method includes performing hot rolling followed by pickling on steel to form a pickled steel sheet, the steel having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.02% or more and 0.30% or less, Si: 0.01% or more and 1.0% or less, Mn: 0.3% or more and 2.5% or less, P: 0.08% or less, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 0.001% or more and 0.20% or less, and Fe and inevitable impurities. The method further includes performing rolling with a rolling reduction ratio of 1% or more and 10% or less, and a hot-dip coating treatment. The obtained steel sheet has an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 2.0 ?m or less on the surface of the steel sheet, and a tensile strength of 590 MPa or more.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Koba, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Hiroyuki Masuoka
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Publication number: 20210130920Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet of the present invention includes a steel sheet having a chemical composition containing a predetermined component element, and a steel structure in which an average grain size of inclusions containing at least one of Al, Si, Mg, and Ca and existing in an area extending from a surface to a position of ? of a sheet thickness is 50 ?m or less, and an average nearest distance between ones of the inclusions is 20 ?m or more; and a galvanized layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet and having a coating weight per one surface of 20 g/m2 or more and 120 g/m2 or less, in which an amount of diffusible hydrogen contained in the steel is less than 0.25 mass ppm, and a tensile strength is 1100 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2019Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Hiromi YOSHITOMI, Tatsuya NAKAGAITO, Masaki KOBA, Yoshitsugu SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20210115529Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet includes a steel sheet containing a predetermined component element, a mass ratio of a content amount of Si to a content amount of Mn in the steel (Si/Mn) being 0.2 or more, and a steel structure in which an average grain size of inclusions existing in an area extending from a surface to a position of ? of a sheet thickness is 50 ?m or less, and an average nearest distance between ones of the inclusions is 20 ?m or more; and a galvanized layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet, in which an amount of diffusible hydrogen contained in the steel is less than 0.25 mass ppm, oxides containing predetermined elements in an outer layer portion of the steel sheet account for 0.010 g/m2 or more per one surface, and a tensile strength is 1100 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2019Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Hiromi Yoshitomi, Masaki Koba, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Yoshitsugu Suzuki
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Patent number: 10927441Abstract: Provided are a high-strength galvanized hot-rolled steel sheet and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet. A steel sheet has a chemical composition, and a galvanized layer is disposed on the steel sheet. The chemical composition includes, in mass %, C: 0.02% or greater and 0.30% or less, Si: 0.01% or greater and 2.5% or less, Mn: 0.3% or greater and 3.0% or less, P: 0.08% or less, S: 0.02% or less, and Al: 0.001% or greater and 0.20% or less. The galvanized layer has a coating weight per side of 20 to 120 g/m2. A surface of the steel sheet has a specific surface area ratio, r, of 2.5 or less, and an amount of Si present in the galvanized layer and an amount of Mn present in the galvanized layer respectively satisfy: amount of Si×r?0.06, and amount of Mn×r?0.10.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Koba, Yusuke Fushiwaki, Yasunobu Nagataki
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Publication number: 20210025045Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet includes a steel sheet having a chemical composition containing a predetermined component element, a mass ratio of a content of Si to a content of Mn in the steel (Si/Mn) being 0.1 or more and less than 0.2, and the balance: Fe and incidental impurities, and a steel structure in which an average grain size of inclusions containing at least one of Al, Si, Mg, and Ca and existing in an area extending from a surface to a position of ? of a sheet thickness is 50 ?m or less, and an average nearest distance between ones of the inclusions is 20 ?m or more; and a galvanized layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet, in which an amount of diffusible hydrogen contained in the steel is less than 0.25 mass ppm, and a tensile strength is 1100 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Hiromi Yoshitomi, Masaki Koba, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Yoshitsugu Suzuki
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Publication number: 20200377978Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet includes a steel sheet having a steel composition having a specific component composition, a steel structure containing martensite and bainite at more than or equal to 70% (including 100%), ferrite at less than 20% (including 0%), and retained austenite at less than 5% (including 0%) in terms of area ratio, the amount of diffusible hydrogen in steel being less than or equal to 0.20 mass ppm; and a galvanizing layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet, having a content amount of Fe of 8 to 15% in mass %, and having an coating weight per one surface of 20 to 120 g/m2, wherein the amount of Mn oxides contained in the galvanizing layer is less than or equal to 0.050 g/m2, and a tensile strength is more than or equal to 1100 MPa and a yield ratio is more than or equal to 0.85.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2018Publication date: December 3, 2020Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Hiromi Yoshitomi, Yasuaki Okita, Masaki Koba, Yoshihiko Ono, Hiroshi Matsuda
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Publication number: 20200291499Abstract: There is provided a high-strength galvanized steel sheet excellent in the external appearance of plating and the hydrogen brittleness resistance, and has a high yield ratio suitable for building materials and automotive collision-resistant parts, and a method for manufacturing the same. Provided is a high-strength galvanized steel sheet including a specific component composition and a specific steel structure, the amount of diffusible hydrogen in the steel being 0.20 mass ppm or less; and a galvanizing layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet, having a content amount of Fe of 8 to 15% in mass %, and an attachment amount of plating per one surface of 20 to 120 g/m2, wherein the amount of Mn oxides contained in the galvanizing layer is 0.050 g/m2 or less, and a yield strength is 700 MPa or more and a yield strength ratio is 65% or more and less than 85%.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2018Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Hiromi Yoshitomi, Yasuaki Okita, Masaki Koba, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yoshihiko Ono