Patents by Inventor Michio Kaneko
Michio Kaneko 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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Patent number: 11760887Abstract: The titanium material includes a titanium oxide layer formed on a surface of titanium being a base material, the titanium oxide layer having a thickness measured by a glow discharge spectrometry of 60 to 300 nm, wherein: the titanium oxide layer contains 0.5 to 7.0 at % of nitrogen, and an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of a surface thereof is 2.0 to 4.0 ?m; and a power spectrum of a surface roughness of the titanium material has a peak of an amplitude height of 0.005 to 0.020 ?m in a range of a wavelength of 1.1 to 2.5 ?m and has a peak of an amplitude height of 0.0010 to 0.0030 ?m in a range of a wavelength of 0.80 to 0.98 ?m. An L*a*b* color space may be L*: 30 to 40, a*: 2.0 to 9.0, and b*: ?7.0 to 18.0.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2018Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Michio Kaneko, Kiyonori Tokuno, Takao Wada, Mitsuyuki Hasegawa, Kazuo Yamagishi, Mitsuru Nakayama
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Publication number: 20210347011Abstract: A manufacturing method of a material, including: a first process of placing a blast transfer material on a surface of a base material, and a second process of blasting to the surface of the base material through the blast transfer material, wherein the blast transfer material is nonuniform in one or more of density, thickness, and hardness.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: November 11, 2021Applicants: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, JAPAN BLAST PROCESS RESEARCHES CO.,LTDInventors: Michio KANEKO, Kiyonori TOKUNO, Satoshi SHIMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20210189144Abstract: The titanium material includes a titanium oxide layer formed on a surface of titanium being a base material, the titanium oxide layer having a thickness measured by a glow discharge spectrometry of 60 to 300 nm, wherein: the titanium oxide layer contains 0.5 to 7.0 at % of nitrogen, and an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of a surface thereof is 2.0 to 4.0 ?m; and a power spectrum of a surface roughness of the titanium material has a peak of an amplitude height of 0.005 to 0.020 ?m in a range of a wavelength of 1.1 to 2.5 ?m and has a peak of an amplitude height of 0.0010 to 0.0030 ?m in a range of a wavelength of 0.80 to 0.98 ?m. An L*a*b* color space may be L*: 30 to 40, a*: 2.0 to 9.0, and b*: ?7.0 to 18.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2018Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Michio KANEKO, Kiyonori TOKUNO, Takao WADA, Mitsuyuki HASEGAWA, Kazuo YAMAGISHI, Mitsuru NAKAYAMA
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Patent number: 9885102Abstract: The present invention provides colored pure titanium or titanium alloy having low susceptibility to discoloration in an atmospheric environment exhibiting a superior resistance to discoloration even when the titanium is used in an environment of harsh acid rain such as a roof or wall material and free from deterioration of the aesthetic appearance over a long period of time, that is, colored pure titanium obtained by the anodic oxidation method, that is, colored pure titanium or titanium alloy having low susceptibility to discoloration in an atmospheric environment characterized by having an average phosphorus content in a range of 40 nm from a surface of a titanium oxide layer formed on the titanium surface of 5.5 atomic % or less and by having an average carbon concentration in a range of a depth of 100 nm from the titanium surface of 3 to 15 atomic %.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2006Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Michio Kaneko, Kiyonori Tokuno, Takao Wada, Mitsuyuki Hasegawa, Kazuo Yamagishi
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Patent number: 8865612Abstract: The provision of beautiful colored titanium which is excellent in adhesion of the pure titanium or a titanium alloy with the base material, is excellent in photocatalytic activity, and further is excellent in design properties and a method of production of the same which is excellent in productivity and uses an anodic oxidation process is made the object. A titanium-based material having visible light response and excellent in photocatalytic activity characterized in that the material has pure titanium or titanium alloy as a base material, a thickness of a titanium oxide layer which is present on its surface is 0.1 ?m to 5.0 ?m in range, said titanium oxide layer contains anatase-type titanium dioxide and titanium bonded with hydroxy groups, and further said titanium oxide layer contains nitrogen and carbon respectively in 0.5 to 30 mass %.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2010Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Michio Kaneko, Kiyonori Tokuno, Hiroshi Shimizu, Kazuo Yamagishi, Asami Shimomura, Mituyuki Hasegawa, Ruriko Yokoyama
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Patent number: 8785031Abstract: The present invention provides a polymer electrolyte fuel cell separator made of pure titanium or a titanium alloy superior in contact resistance with carbon paper and a method of production of the same, that is, a separator having a surface layer part to which conductive compound particles are affixed, characterized in that the surface oxide has a thickness of 3 to 15 nm in range, an average carbon concentration in a range from an outermost surface, including the oxide layer, to a depth of 100 nm is 0.02 to 6 at %, and the conductive compound particles have an average particle size of 0.01 to 20 ?m. Further, the method of production of the present invention is characterized by forming, blast treating a surface of the formed article by particles comprised of conductive compound particles of an average particle size of 0.01 to 20 ?m covering a surface of superhard core particles, impregnating it by a nitric acid aqueous solution of a concentration of 15 to 71 mass % and a temperature of 40 to 100° C.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2007Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Michio Kaneko, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Kiyonori Tokuno, Hiroshi Kihira, Wataru Hisada
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Patent number: 8603268Abstract: A titanium material for a solid polymer fuel cell separator having a low contact resistance and a method of production of the same, the titanium material having at its surface a surface layer structure in which particles of a Ti compound containing either C or N are dispersed, the particles of Ti compound being covered by titanium oxide and/or metal Ti, characterized in that, when analyzed from the surface by XPS, a Ti2p spectrum of TiO2 is detected, further, at a Ti2p spectral energy range of TiO and/or a Ti2p spectral energy range of metal Ti, a Ti maximum detection peak height is at least 3 times the standard deviations of the background at the respective spectral energy ranges, and at a C1s spectral energy range and N1s spectral energy range, a maximum detection peak height is less than 3 times the standard deviations of the background at the respective spectral energy ranges of C1s and N1s, are provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2009Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Takahashi, Kiyonori Tokuno, Hiroshi Kihira, Koki Tanaka, Michio Kaneko
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Patent number: 8361676Abstract: The present invention provides a method of production of a separator for a solid polymer type fuel cell characterized by shaping a substrate comprised of stainless steel, titanium, or a titanium alloy and then spraying the substrate surface with superhard core particles comprised of conductive compound particles of an average particle size of 0.01 to 20 ?m mixed with a coating material and coated on their surfaces under conditions of a spray pressure of 0.4 MPa or less and a spray amount per cm2 of the substrate of 10 to 100 g in blast treatment. The ratio of the conductive compound to the mass of the core particles is 0.5 to 15 mass %.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2011Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Koki Tanaka, Youichi Ikematsu, Hiroshi Kihira, Michio Kaneko, Wataru Hisada, Tamotsu Itoh
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Patent number: 8352571Abstract: Local concentration of accessing loads on a data buffer during data cell reading is reduced. Also, by providing sufficient time for a data cell reading operation with respect to data cell transmission timing, transmission rate fluctuation of CBR data cells in a transmitting side is reduced. When transmission of a new data stream is added, controller in a cell control unit refers to a transmitted data cell count of VC information processed through a slot immediately before. The controller determines whether a data cell transmitted through the slot immediately before is a head portion of a packet or not. If the data cell transmitted through the slot immediately before is the head portion of the packet, the controller only adds the VC information of the data stream to a shaper link list, and withholds transmission of the data cell.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventor: Michio Kaneko
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Patent number: 8304141Abstract: The present invention releases a method of producing a metal separator for a solid polymer fuel cell by stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy during which securing lower cost and mass producibility by using a material having a high workability to form a complicated shape by a high productivity, then using an inexpensive blast process to drive a conductive substance into the surface of the metal separator member, that is, provides a stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy solid polymer fuel cell separator comprised of stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy in the surface of which a low ion release conductive substance is buried, having an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) of the separator surface of 0.5 to 5.0 ?m, having a 10-point mean roughness (Rz) of 3 to 20 ?m, having an average spacing of surface relief shapes (Sm) of 300 ?m or less, having values of a warp rate and twist rate of a separator of 0.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Sintokogio Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Kihira, Michio Kaneko, Mitsuharu Yamagata, Koki Tanaka, Yoichi Ikematsu, Yoichi Matsuzaki, Kazuto Kawakami, Wataru Hisada, Suguru Suzuki
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Publication number: 20120135855Abstract: The provision of beautiful colored titanium which is excellent in adhesion of the pure titanium or a titanium alloy with the base material, is excellent in photocatalytic activity, and further is excellent in design properties and a method of production of the same which is excellent in productivity and uses an anodic oxidation process is made the object. A titanium-based material having visible light response and excellent in photocatalytic activity characterized in that the material has pure titanium or titanium alloy as a base material, a thickness of a titanium oxide layer which is present on its surface is 0.1 ?m to 5.0 ?m in range, said titanium oxide layer contains anatase-type titanium dioxide and titanium bonded with hydroxy groups, and further said titanium oxide layer contains nitrogen and carbon respectively in 0.5 to 30 mass %.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2010Publication date: May 31, 2012Inventors: Michio Kaneko, Kiyonori Tokuno, Hiroshi Shimizu, Kazuo Yamagishi, Asami Shimomura, Mituyuki Hasegawa, Ruriko Yokoyama
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Patent number: 8182961Abstract: The present invention provides a separator for a solid polymer type fuel cell superior in low contact resistance of the fuel cell separator surface with carbon paper and flatness and a method of production of the same, that is, a separator for a solid polymer type fuel cell comprising a substrate of stainless steel or titanium or a titanium alloy having a surface layer part on which conductive compound particles are fixed, wherein said conductive compound particles are comprised of one or more types of metal borides, metal carbides, and metal nitrides with an average particle size of 0.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2007Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Koki Tanaka, Youichi Ikematsu, Hiroshi Kihira, Michio Kaneko, Wataru Hisada, Tamotsu Itoh
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Patent number: 8114527Abstract: A highly corrosion-resistant, rust-prevention coating material comprising: an inorganic binder; and Zn metal particles comprised of Zn and unavoidable impurities and dispersed in the binder at the rate of 30 mass % or greater based on a dry coating film, wherein (i) the Zn metal particles include (i-1) fine-grain Zn metal particles of 0.05 to 5 ?m peak grain diameter whose grain-diameter distribution has a grain-diameter frequency distribution with a single peak and a tail on either side of the peak and (i-2) coarse-grain Zn metal particles of 6 to 100 ?m peak grain diameter whose grain-diameter distribution has a grain-diameter frequency distribution with another single peak and a tail on either side of the peak, and wherein (ii) the percentage of all Zn metal particles accounted for by Zn metal particles of 0.05 to 5 ?m grain diameter expressed in volume percentage is 5 to 99%.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2007Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Makoto Nagasawa, Minoru Ito, Michio Kaneko, Kenji Katoh, Shiro Imai, Masatoshi Kominami, Toshiro Terakawa, Takashi Kumai
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Publication number: 20120034372Abstract: The present invention provides a method of production of a separator for a solid polymer type fuel cell characterized by shaping a substrate comprised of stainless steel, titanium, or a titanium alloy and then spraying the substrate surface with superhard core particles comprised of conductive compound particles of an average particle size of 0.01 to 20 ?m mixed with a coating material and coated on their surfaces under conditions of a spray pressure of 0.4 MPa or less and a spray amount per cm2 of the substrate of 10 to 100 g in blast treatment. The ratio of the conductive compound to the mass of the core particles is 0.5 to 15 mass %.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Inventors: Koki Tanaka, Youichi Ikematsu, Hiroshi Kihira, Michio Kaneko, Wataru Hisada, Tamotsu Itoh
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Patent number: 8105699Abstract: Zn alloy particles for high corrosion resistance rust prevention paint containing, by mass %, Mg: 0.01 to 30% and having a balance of Zn and unavoidable impurities, having physical fracture facets and/or cracks of a length of 0.01 ?m or more or cracks of a depth of 0.01 ?m or more, having an average particle size of 0.05 to 200 ?m, and having an aspect ratio of maximum size and minimum size (maximum size/minimum size) of an average value of 1 to 1.5. Also, a high corrosion resistance rust prevention paint containing these Zn alloy particles and a high corrosion resistance steel material and steel structure coated with that paint.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2007Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Kenji Katoh, Makoto Nagasawa, Minoru Ito, Michio Kaneko, Shiro Imai, Masatoshi Kominami, Toshiro Terakawa, Takashi Kumai
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Publication number: 20110177430Abstract: A titanium material for a solid polymer fuel cell separator having a low contact resistance and a method of production of the same, the titanium material having at its surface a surface layer structure in which particles of a Ti compound containing either C or N are dispersed, the particles of Ti compound being covered by titanium oxide and/or metal Ti, characterized in that, when analyzed from the surface by XPS, a Ti2p spectrum of TiO2 is detected, further, at a Ti2p spectral energy range of TiO and/or a Ti2p spectral energy range of metal Ti, a Ti maximum detection peak height is at least 3 times the standard deviations of the background at the respective spectral energy ranges, and at a C1s spectral energy range and N1s spectral energy range, a maximum detection peak height is less than 3 times the standard deviations of the background at the respective spectral energy ranges of C1s and N1s, are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2009Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventors: Kazuhiro Takahashi, Kiyonori Tokuno, Hiroshi Kihira, Koki Tanaka, Michio Kaneko
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Publication number: 20110032537Abstract: The present invention releases a method of producing a metal separator for a solid polymer fuel cell by stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy during which securing lower cost and mass producibility by using a material having a high workability to form a complicated shape by a high productivity, then using an inexpensive blast process to drive a conductive substance into the surface of the metal separator member, that is, provides a stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy solid polymer fuel cell separator comprised of stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy in the surface of which a low ion release conductive substance is buried, having an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) of the separator surface of 0.5 to 5.0 ?m, having a 10-point mean roughness (Rz) of 3 to 20 ?m, having an average spacing of surface relief shapes (Sm) of 300 ?m or less, having values of a warp rate and twist rate of a separator of 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2010Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicants: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, SINTOBRATOR, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Kihira, Michio Kaneko, Mitsuharu Yamagata, Koki Tanaka, Yoichi Ikematsu, Yoichi Matsuzaki, Kazuto Kawakami, Wataru Hisada, Suguru Suzuki
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Patent number: 7807281Abstract: The present invention releases a method of producing a metal separator for a solid polymer fuel cell by stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy during which securing lower cost and mass producibility by using a material having a high workability to form a complicated shape by a high productivity, then using an inexpensive blast process to drive a conductive substance into the surface of the metal separator member, that is, provides a stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy solid polymer fuel cell separator comprised of stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy in the surface of which a low ion release conductive substance is buried, having an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) of the separator surface of 0.5 to 5.0 ?m, having a 10-point mean roughness (Rz) of 3 to 20 ?m, having an average spacing of surface relief shapes (Sm) of 300 ?m or less, having values of a warp rate and twist rate of a separator of 0.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2006Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Sintokogio Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Kihira, Michio Kaneko, Mitsuharu Yamagata, Koki Tanaka, Yoichi Ikematsu, Yoichi Matsuzaki, Kazuto Kawakami, Wataru Hisada, Suguru Suzuki
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Publication number: 20100247956Abstract: Zn alloy particles for high corrosion resistance rust prevention paint containing, by mass %, Mg: 0.01 to 30% and having a balance of Zn and unavoidable impurities, having physical fracture facets and/or cracks of a length of 0.01 ?m or more or cracks of a depth of 0.01 ?m or more, having an average particle size of 0.05 to 200 ?m, and having an aspect ratio of maximum size and minimum size (maximum size/minimum size) of an average value of 1 to 1.5. Also, a high corrosion resistance rust prevention paint containing these Zn alloy particles and a high corrosion resistance steel material and steel structure coated with that paint.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2007Publication date: September 30, 2010Inventors: Kenji Katoh, Makoto Nagasawa, Minoru Ito, Michio Kaneko, Shiro Imai, Masatoshi Kominami, Toshiro Terakawa, Takashi Kumai
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Patent number: 7803462Abstract: The titanium materials of the present invention have an oxide film on the surface and an interference color of the oxide film. In forming a transparent coating layer on the surface of the titanium materials, provisions are made so that the oxide film has an thickness of 150 nm to 600 nm, or the interference color due to the anodic oxide film is developed by the actions of both wavelengths strengthened and weakened by interference and the color phases of the color developed by the wavelength strengthened by interference and that of complementary colors of the color developed by the wavelength weakened by interference are as close to each as not more than 90 degrees apart on the color wheel, or the L* value on the L*a*b* calorimetric system is not less than 33. The laminated glasses of the present invention having excellent ornamentality comprise at least said titanium sheet interposed between multiple sheet glasses layered together by means of adhesive layers.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2003Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Takehiro Takahashi, Michio Kaneko, Hiroshi Osawa, Hiroshi Kanai