Patents by Inventor Naoya Hirase

Naoya Hirase 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: 11965495
    Abstract: A working vehicle includes: a vehicle body provided with a traveling device; a hydraulic pump including a swashplate configured to change an output of the hydraulic pump according to a swashplate angle; a traveling motor including an output shaft having a rotation speed variable according to the output of the hydraulic pump and capable of transmitting power of the output shaft to the traveling device; an angle detector configured to detect the swashplate angle that is an angle of the swashplate; and a swashplate control unit configured to control the swashplate angle on the basis of control information relating to control of the swashplate angle and an actual swashplate angle that is the swashplate angle detected by the angle detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Gono, Naoya Nihei, Yuji Hirase, Susumu Takeoka, Keiji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9468959
    Abstract: A continuously cast slab with a rectangular cross section, and made of high alloy containing Cr of 20 to 30 mass %, Ni of 30 to 50 mass %, and at least one of Mo and W as Mo+0.5W of 1.5 mass % or more is subjected to blooming and billet-making to yield a round bar having a diameter of 150 to 400 mm as a starting material of the seamless tube. The blooming and billet-making process is performed under a condition satisfying a relation of 1.3?H/D?1.8 where a short side length of the cross section of the cast slab is defined as H (mm), and the diameter of the round bar is defined as D (mm). The round bar is pierced-rolled to make a hollow blank; the hollow blank tube is elongation-rolled, and then diameter-adjusting-rolled to make the seamless tube, thereby preventing end cracking during piercing-rolling, and increasing yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya Hirase, Takanori Satou
  • Patent number: 8863564
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lubricant composition for hot metal working which is capable of inhibiting generation of flaws on the surface of materials to be provided for hot metal working, and provides a method of hot metal working. The invention provides a lubricant composition for hot metal working comprising a plurality of glass frits respectively having different softening point from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimoda, Tomio Yamakawa, Kazutaka Asabe, Hirokazu Okada, Yasuyoshi Hidaka, Sumio Iida, Naoya Hirase, Kenji Takeuchi, Shuichi Akiyama
  • Patent number: 8613817
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a method for producing duplex stainless steel seamless pipe in which a duplex stainless steel billet can be inhibited from generating an oxide scale on the surface thereof during heating and the generation of outer surface flaw can also be prevented. The billet is heated in the a heating furnace for 1.5 hours or more and 4.0 hours or less at a heating temperature of 1250° C. or more and 1320° C. or less while regulating the average concentration of sulfur dioxide (SO2) gas in the atmosphere within the furnace to 0.01 volume % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya Hirase, Tetsuya Nakanishi, Kazuhiro Shimoda, Hirokazu Okada, Tomio Yamakawa, Yasuyoshi Hidaka
  • Publication number: 20130263436
    Abstract: A continuously cast slab with a rectangular cross section, and made of high alloy containing Cr of 20 to 30 mass %, Ni of 30 to 50 mass %, and at least one of Mo and W as Mo+0.5W of 1.5 mass % or more is subjected to blooming and billet-making to yield a round bar having a diameter of 150 to 400 mm as a starting material of the seamless tube. The blooming and billet-making process is performed under a condition satisfying a relation of 1.3?H/D?1.8 where a short side length of the cross section of the cast slab is defined as H (mm), and the diameter of the round bar is defined as D (mm). The round bar is pierced-rolled to make a hollow blank; the hollow blank tube is elongation-rolled, and then diameter-adjusting-rolled to make the seamless tube, thereby preventing end cracking during piercing-rolling, and increasing yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya Hirase, Takanori Satou
  • Patent number: 8104316
    Abstract: A piercing mill includes a plurality of inclined rolls, a plug, a pusher, and an undriven guide roll. The pusher pushes a round billet from the rear end at least until the round billet advances for a prescribed distance after contacting the inclined rolls. The guide roll is between the inclined rolls and the pusher and includes a roll shaft and a roll surface, with the roll shaft arranged obliquely with respect to a pass line PL. The sectional shape of the roll surface is a concave arch shape. The round billet is rotated by the guide roll and the friction force generated when the round billet contacts the inclined rolls is reduced. Consequently, the wear of the inclined rolls can be restrained if the round billet is pierced and rolled while it is pushed in between the inclined rolls using the pusher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoya Hirase, Tomio Yamakawa, Kazuhiro Shimoda
  • Patent number: 8082768
    Abstract: A piercing and rolling plug has a film composed of oxides such as Fe3O4 and FeO and Fe (metal) as being formed on the surface of the base metal by electric arc spraying using an iron wire whose main component is Fe and, owing to this film, a plug excellent in heat-shielding and seizure-preventing effects can be realized and the lifetime of the plug can be prolonged. Further, in regenerating this plug, a film can be re-formed via the steps of shot blasting of the as-used plug in piercing and rolling and electric arc spraying in that order; thus, it is possible to regenerate the plug at low cost and in a short period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Hidaka, Kazuhiro Shimoda, Kouji Nakaike, Naoya Hirase, Yasuto Higashida, Takateru Inage, Jyun Nagakita, Masaharu Nakamori, Fumihito Yoshikawa, Yoshihiko Hayashi, Takayuki Aisaka
  • Patent number: 8065900
    Abstract: A plug material having a prescribed shape is prepared, the prepared plug material is thermally treated in a heat treatment atmosphere that contains at least 1.0 vol. % oxygen at a heat treatment temperature of at least 950° C. and less than 1050° C. and thus a plug having an oxide scale layer 30 on the surface is manufactured. According to the manufacturing method, pores PO that extend along the surface SF of the plug material are formed under outer scale layer 20 in the oxide scale layer 30, which allows cracks to be more easily propagated in the outer scale layer 20. Therefore, the outer scale layer 20 is more easily peeled off than the conventional one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Hidaka, Naoya Hirase, Yasuhiro Kouchi
  • Patent number: 7866199
    Abstract: a billet made of high Cr-high Ni alloy, which contains, by mass percent, 20 to 30% of Cr, 30 to 50% of Ni, and at least one element selected from Mo and W with a value “Mo+0.5W” of 1.5% or more is heated under conditions satisfying the following formula (1), and then the billet is pierced and rolled using an inclined roll type piercing mill with a roll gouge circumferential speed of 2.28 m/sec or higher. This prevents melted rash on the inner surface and lengthens the plug life. T?1575?4.45×Vf?104.7×{?ln(th/ro)}??(1) wherein T indicates a heating temperature (° C.) of the billet, Vf indicates the roll gouge circumferential speed (m/sec), ro indicates a radius (mm) of a billet at an entry-side, and th indicates a radial thickness (mm) of a pipe after piercing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoya Hirase, Tomio Yamakawa, Kazuhiro Shimoda
  • Patent number: 7814771
    Abstract: By using a plating bath containing chromic acid: 100 to 250 g/L, sulfate radical: 3.0 to 5.5 g/L, and a catalyst: 100 to 200% (a weight ratio to the chromic acid content) for conducting electroplating, a Cr-plating film which has an increased film crack density is formed on the surface of a mandrel bar base metal, whereby peeling-off of the Cr-plating film can be suppressed in mandrel mill rolling for extending the service life of the mandrel bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoya Hirase, Masaya Kimoto
  • Publication number: 20100139352
    Abstract: By using a plating bath containing chromic acid: 100 to 250 g/L, sulfate radical: 3.0 to 5.5 g/L, and a catalyst: 100 to 200% (a weight ratio to the chromic acid content) for conducting electroplating, a Cr-plating film which has an increased film crack density is formed on the surface of a mandrel bar base metal, whereby peeling-off of the Cr-plating film can be suppressed in mandrel mill rolling for extending the service life of the mandrel bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2010
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya Hirase, Masaya Kimoto
  • Publication number: 20100050723
    Abstract: A piercing and rolling plug has a film composed of oxides such as Fe3O4 and FeO and Fe (metal) as being formed on the surface of the base metal by electric arc spraying using an iron wire whose main component is Fe and, owing to this film, a plug excellent in heat-shielding and seizure-preventing effects can be realized and the lifetime of the plug can be prolonged. Further, in regenerating this plug, a film can be re-formed via the steps of shot blasting of the as-used plug in piercing and rolling and electric arc spraying in that order; thus, it is possible to regenerate the plug at low cost and in a short period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Hidaka, Kazuhiro Shimoda, Kouji Nakaike, Naoya Hirase, Yasuto Higashida, Takateru Inage, Jyun Nagakita, Masaharu Nakamori, Fumihito Yoshikawa, Yoshihiko Hayashi, Takayuki Aisaka
  • Publication number: 20100018281
    Abstract: A plug material having a prescribed shape is prepared, the prepared plug material is thermally treated in a heat treatment atmosphere that contains at least 1.0 vol. % oxygen at a heat treatment temperature of at least 950° C. and less than 1050° C. and thus a plug having an oxide scale layer 30 on the surface is manufactured. According to the manufacturing method, pores PO that extend along the surface SF of the plug material are formed under outer scale layer 20 in the oxide scale layer 30, which allows cracks to be more easily propagated in the outer scale layer 20. Therefore, the outer scale layer 20 is more easily peeled off than the conventional one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: YASUYOSHI HIDAKA, Naoya Hirase, Yasuhiro Kouchi
  • Publication number: 20100011831
    Abstract: A piercing mill includes a plurality of inclined rolls, a plug, a pusher, and an undriven guide roll. The pusher pushes a round billet from the rear end at least until the round billet advances for a prescribed distance after contacting the inclined rolls. The guide roll is between the inclined rolls and the pusher and includes a roll shaft and a roll surface, with the roll shaft arranged obliquely with respect to a pass line PL. The sectional shape of the roll surface is a concave arch shape. The round billet is rotated by the guide roll and the friction force generated when the round billet contacts the inclined rolls is reduced. Consequently, the wear of the inclined rolls can be restrained if the round billet is pierced and rolled while it is pushed in between the inclined rolls using the pusher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: Naoya Hirase, Tomio Yamakawa, Kazuhiro Shimoda
  • Publication number: 20100000281
    Abstract: a billet made of high Cr-high Ni alloy, which contains, by mass percent, 20 to 30% of Cr, 30 to 50% of Ni, and at least one element selected from Mo and W with a value “Mo+0.5W” of 1.5% or more is heated under conditions satisfying the following formula (1), and then the billet is pierced and rolled using an inclined roll type piercing mill with a roll gouge circumferential speed of 2.28 m/sec or higher. This prevents melted rash on the inner surface and lengthens the plug life. T?1575?4.45×Vf?104.7×{?ln(th/ro)}??(1) wherein T indicates a heating temperature (° C.) of the billet, Vf indicates the roll gouge circumferential speed (m/sec), ro indicates a radius (mm) of a billet at an entry-side, and th indicates a radial thickness (mm) of a pipe after piercing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventors: Naoya Hirase, Tomio Yamakawa, Kazuhiro Shimoda
  • Publication number: 20090301151
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lubricant composition for hot metal working which is capable of inhibiting generation of flaws on the surface of materials to be provided for hot metal working, and provides a method of hot metal working. The invention provides a lubricant composition for hot metal working comprising a plurality of glass frits respectively having different softening point from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimoda, Tomio Yamakawa, Kazutaka Asabe, Hirokazu Okada, Yasuyoshi Hidaka, Sumio Iida, Naoya Hirase, Kenji Takeuchi, Suichi Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20090218014
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a method for producing duplex stainless steel seamless pipe in which a duplex stainless steel billet can be inhibited from generating an oxide scale on the surface thereof during heating and the generation of outer surface flaw can also be prevented. The billet is heated in the a heating furnace for 1.5 hours or more and 4.0 hours or less at a heating temperature of 1250° C. or more and 1320° C. or less while regulating the average concentration of sulfur dioxide (SO2) gas in the atmosphere within the furnace to 0.01 volume % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventors: Naoya Hirase, Tetsuya Nakanishi, Kazuhiro Shimoda, Hirokazu Okada, Tomio Yamakawa, Yasuyoshi Hidaka