Patents by Inventor Motofumi Koyuba

Motofumi Koyuba 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: 20150176101
    Abstract: A hollow stabilizer having an excellent fatigue property and higher strength compared to the conventional ones has a chemical composition containing 0.26% to 0.30% of C, 0.05% to 0.35% of Si, 0.5% to 1.0% of Mn, 0.05% to 1.0% of Cr, 0.005% to 0.05% of Ti, 0.0005% to 0.005% of B, and 0.0005% to 0.005% of Ca, wherein; Al, P, S, N, and O are limited to 0.08% or less, 0.05% or less, less than 0.0030%, 0.006% or less, and 0.004% or less, respectively, a remainder of the chemical composition consists of Fe and unavoidable impurities, a value of a product of the Mn content and the S content is 0.0025 or less, and a critical cooling rate Vc90 represented by a predetermined equation is 40° C./s or less; and wherein a metallic structure comprises a tempered martensite, a length of elongated MnS present at a center part in a thickness direction of the hollow stabilizer is 150 ?m or less, a HRC is from 40 to 50, a thickness to outer diameter ratio is 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ishitsuka, Motofumi Koyuba, Masamichi Iwamura, Akira Tange, Ken Takahashi, Kiyoshi Kurimoto, Yutaka Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 8920583
    Abstract: The invention provides a steel pipe excellent in deformation characteristics, most notably a steel pipe for expandable-pipe oil well and a low-yield-ratio line pipe, and a method of producing the same without conducting water cooling requiring large-scale heat treatment equipment, namely a method of producing a steel pipe excellent in deformation characteristics whose microstructure is a two-phase structure including a martensite-austenite constituent at an area fraction of 2 to 10% and a soft phase, which method comprises: heating at Ac1+10° C. to Ac1+60° C. and thereafter cooling a precursor steel pipe which contains, in mass %, C: 0.04 to 0.10% and Mn: 1.00 to 2.50%, is limited to Si: 0.80% or less, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.10% or less and N: 0.01% or less, further contains one or more of Ni: 1.00% or less, Mo: 0.60% or less, Cr: 1.00% or less and Cu: 1.00% or less, where content of Mn and content of one or more of Cr, Ni, Mo and Cu satisfy Mn+Cr+Ni+2Mo+Cu?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Asahi, Tetsuo Ishitsuka, Motofumi Koyuba, Toshiyuki Ogata
  • Publication number: 20100119860
    Abstract: The invention provides a steel pipe excellent in deformation characteristics, most notably a steel pipe for expandable-pipe oil well and a low-yield-ratio line pipe, and a method of producing the same without conducting water cooling requiring large-scale heat treatment equipment, namely a method of producing a steel pipe excellent in deformation characteristics whose microstructure is a two-phase structure including a martensite-austenite constituent at an area fraction of 2 to 10% and a soft phase, which method comprises: heating at Ac1+10° C. to Ac1+60° C. and thereafter cooling a precursor steel pipe which contains, in mass %, C: 0.04 to 0.10% and Mn: 1.00 to 2.50%, is limited to Si: 0.80% or less, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.10% or less and N: 0.01% or less, further contains one or more of Ni: 1.00% or less, Mo: 0.60% or less, Cr: 1.00% or less and Cu: 1.00% or less, where content of Mn and content of one or more of Cr, Ni, Mo and Cu satisfy Mn+Cr+Ni+2Mo+Cu?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Asahi Hitoshi, Tetsuo Ishitsuka, Motofumi Koyuba, Toshiyuki Ogata
  • Patent number: 7648191
    Abstract: An automobile strength member, having a cross-sectional shape giving a high bending repulsion at the beginning of impact and able to reduce the production cost and lighten the weight and achieve a greater improvement in safety and a reduction of cost of an automobile, that is, an automobile strength member comprised of a rectangular steel tube with a square cross-section, simultaneously satisfying the following relations (1) to (3), and having a strength of at least 690 MPa in terms of tensile strength: R1?1.5t??(1) tR?1.1t??(2) R1?R2??(3) where, t: thickness of side (mm) tR: thickness of corner (mm) R1: outside corner R (mm) R2: inside corner R (mm) where both a maximum value and minimum value of hardness at a cross-section of the rectangular steel tube are in the range of within ±30% of the average value of the entire cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Sakamoto, Yoshio Terada, Motofumi Koyuba, Fumihiko Niiyama, Eizaburo Nakanishi, Masamoto Ono
  • Publication number: 20090250146
    Abstract: The present invention provides high strength thick-gauge electric-resistance welded steel pipe excellent in hardenability, hot workability, and fatigue strength and a method of production of the same, that is, thick-gauge electric-resistance welded steel pipe containing, by mass %, C: 0.25 to 0.4%, Si: 0.01 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.8 to 1.5%, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.05% or less, Al: 0.05% or less, Ti: 0.005 to 0.05%, B: 0.0005 to 0.01%, N: 0.001 to 0.05%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, having a critical cooling rate Vc expressed by equation <1> of less than 30° C./s, and having a ratio of thickness t and outside diameter D, t/D, of over 0.15 to 0.30 in range: log Vc=2.94?0.75???<1> where, ?=2.7C+0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2006
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ishitsuka, Hiroyuki Mimura, Motofumi Koyuba, Naoki Takasugi, Takahiro Ichiyama
  • Publication number: 20050073170
    Abstract: An automobile strength member, having a cross-sectional shape giving a high bending repulsion at the beginning of impact and able to reduce the production cost and lighten the weight and achieve a greater improvement in safety and a reduction of cost of an automobile, that is, an automobile strength member comprised of a rectangular steel tube with a square cross-section, simultaneously satisfying the following relations (1) to (3), and having a strength of at least 690 MPa in terms of tensile strength: R1?5t ??(1) tR?1.1t ??(2) R1?R2 ??(3) where, t: thickness of side (mm) tR: thickness of corner (mm) R1: outside corner R (mm) R2: inside corner R (mm) where both a maximum value and minimum value of hardness at a cross-section of the rectangular steel tube are in the range of within ±30% of the average value of the entire cross-section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: April 7, 2005
    Inventors: Shinya Sakamoto, Yoshio Terada, Motofumi Koyuba, Fumihiko Niiyama, Eizaburo Nakanishi, Masamoto Ono
  • Patent number: 5538044
    Abstract: Welded steel pipe having wear resistance properties, corrosion resistance and low-temperature toughness is provided by preparing welded steel pipe formed of composite steel material comprised of an outer layer of high-carbon, low-alloy steel and an inner layer having a relatively low carbon content, heating the pipe to a temperature that is not less than 800.degree. C. and not more than 900.degree. C. and then quenching the pipe so as to harden just the high-carbon outer layer, and if necessary this can be followed by reheating at a temperature of not less than 200.degree. C. and not more than 600.degree. C. to thereby produce a pipe with an inner layer having high corrosion resistance and low temperature toughness and an outer layer having high hardness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Motofumi Koyuba, Naoki Konno, Noriaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5275893
    Abstract: Line pipe having good corrosion-resistance and weldability, in which at least the inner surface of the pipe that is in direct contact with the fluid moved through the pipe is formed of high chromium steel that contains, by weight percent, 7.5 to 16 percent chromium, a carbon content reduced to no more than 0.03 percent and a nitrogen content reduced to no more than 0.02 percent, and a substrate that is not in direct contact with the fluid and is formed of steel that contains 0.02 to 0.25 percent carbon, 0.1 to 1.0 percent silicon, 0.05 to 2.0 percent manganese and 0.005 to 0.1 percent aluminum, a phosphorus impurity content reduced to no more than 0.015 percent and a sulfur impurity content reduced to no more than 0.005 percent, and in which the thickness of the high chromium steel portion does not exceed 25 percent of the total thickness of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1994
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Miyasaki, Motofumi Koyuba
  • Patent number: 4772771
    Abstract: A method for the production of an electric seam welded steel pipe for oil-well use which has good resistance to collapse pressure and souring, by providing a steel containing 0.08-0.26% C by weight, 0.8-1.9% Mn by weight, 0.5% or less Si by weight, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, subjecting the steel to hot rolling, and hardening, and coiling the treated steel at a temperature not exceeding 250.degree. C., after which the steel is then formed into tubular form and welded by electric resistance welding to produce an electric seam welded pipe, and the weld heat affected zones of the pipe are subjected to heating to a temperature of 900.degree. C. or more to effect hardening, and then the whole pipe is tempered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Murayama, Youji Yamamoto, Motofumi Koyuba