Patents by Inventor Noriaki Onodera

Noriaki Onodera 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: 10071406
    Abstract: In a steel sheet pile according to the present invention, a carbon equivalent CEN is 0.260 to 0.500, a structure includes a ferrite, a pearlite, a Widmanstätten ferrite, and a precipitate, the precipitate is one or both of Nb carbonitride and V carbonitride, a total number density of the precipitate is 0.10 to 0.30 pieces/?m2, a total area ratio of the ferrite and the pearlite is 70% or more, an area ratio of the Widmanstätten ferrite is 1% or more, an average grain size of the ferrite and the pearlite is 10 to 80 ?m, and a yield strength is 460 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ichikawa, Hidetoshi Ito, Noriaki Onodera
  • Patent number: 9644372
    Abstract: This H-beam steel contains, in mass %, C, Si, Mn, Al, Ti, N, O, Nb, and B. The H-beam steel has composition in which the amount of Nb and the amount of B satisfy, in mass %, 0.070?Nb+125B?0.155, and has a metal structure in which, in a microstructure, an area fraction of bainite is not less than 70%, a total of an area fraction of pearlite and an area fraction of cementite is not more than 15%, and the remainder is at least one of ferrite and island martensite. The effective crystalline-grain size of the bainite is not more than 40 ?m, and the thickness of a flange falls in a range of 12 to 40 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ichikawa, Teruyuki Wakatsuki, Noriaki Onodera, Kohichi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20150361664
    Abstract: An H-section steel has a predetermined chemical composition, an Nb content and a B content satisfy Nb+125×B?0.075%, a thickness of a flange is 12 mm to 40 mm, and in a thickness center portion and ¼ flange width portion of the flange, a metallographic structure of a cross-section perpendicular to a rolling direction contains pearlite having a distribution density of 3.2×10?3 units/?m2 or lower and the remainder is formed of ferrite and bainite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi ICHIKAWA, Hidetoshi ITO, Noriaki ONODERA, Kazuaki MITSUYASU, Kohichi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150314345
    Abstract: In a steel sheet pile according to the present invention, a carbon equivalent CEN is 0.260 to 0.500, a structure includes a ferrite, a pearlite, a Widmanstätten ferrite, and a precipitate, the precipitate is one or both of Nb carbonitride and V carbonitride, a total number density of the precipitate is 0.10 to 0.30 pieces/?m2, a total area ratio of the ferrite and the pearlite is 70% or more, an area ratio of the Widmanstätten ferrite is 1% or more, an average grain size of the ferrite and the pearlite is 10 to 80 ?m, and a yield strength is 460 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi ICHIKAWA, Hidetoshi ITO, Noriaki ONODERA
  • Publication number: 20140301888
    Abstract: This H-beam steel contains, in mass %, C, Si, Mn, Al, Ti, N, O, Nb, and B. The H-beam steel has composition in which the amount of Nb and the amount of B satisfy, in mass %, 0.070?Nb+125B?0.155, and has a metal structure in which, in a microstructure, an area fraction of bainite is not less than 70%, a total of an area fraction of pearlite and an area fraction of cementite is not more than 15%, and the remainder is at least one of ferrite and island martensite. The effective crystalline-grain size of the bainite is not more than 40 ?m, and the thickness of a flange falls in a range of 12 to 40 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ichikawa, Teruyuki Wakatsuki, Noriaki Onodera, Kohichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7828917
    Abstract: A rail manufacturing method is provided, in which a billet is hot-rolled into a rail form and the rail is cooled to ambient temperature. The foot part of the rail can be mechanically restrained to improve the straightness of the rail during at least the period of cooling where the surface temperature is between 800° C. and 400° C. In the subsequent cooling process, at least while the surface temperature of the foot of the rail is between 400° C. and 250° C., the rail is kept in an upright state, and cooled naturally without using insulation or accelerated cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Onodera, Takuya Satoh, Masaharu Ueda, Kazuo Fujita, Akira Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20090014099
    Abstract: A rail manufacturing method is provided, in which a billet is hot-rolled into a rail form and the rail is cooled to ambient temperature. The foot part of the rail can be mechanically restrained to improve the straightness of the rail during at least the period of cooling where the surface temperature is between 800° C. and 400° C. In the subsequent cooling process, at least while the surface temperature of the foot of the rail is between 400° C. and 250° C., the rail is kept in an upright state, and cooled naturally without using insulation or accelerated cooling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventors: Noriaki Onodera, Takuya Satoh, Masaharu Ueda, Kazuo Fujita, Akira Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6957019
    Abstract: A stabilized optical pulse generator using RHML-FRL is provided. The stabilized optical pulse generator comprises an optical fiber ring composed of optical fibers, an optical amplifier and a modulator for optical modulation, an electric signal generator generating high frequency signals and an optical pulse stabilizer. The device generates an optical pulse train of repeating frequency of fm, when applying electric signals of frequency of fm to the modulator. Wherein, for a resonance frequency of the optical fibers of fc, the modulating frequency applying to the modulator is detuned from the electric signal of the frequency of fm by frequency of the resonance frequency fc divided by integer of p. Optical pulse trains of repeating frequency of p times of fm+fc/p or fm?fc/p are generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Kamal Kant Gupta, Noriaki Onodera
  • Patent number: 6931703
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and equipment for producing a rail, the method and equipment being capable of lowering a bend at an end of a rail effectively and the truncation amount thereof. The present invention is a method for producing a rail, characterized by: cooling a hot-rolled mother rail to an ordinary temperature substantially while the length thereof after the hot rolling is maintained; and thereafter cutting the mother rail simultaneously in a predetermined length with at least three cold-sawing machines. Further, the present invention is equipment for producing a rail, characterized by equipped with: a transfer bed capable of moving a mother rail cooled to an ordinary temperature substantially while the length thereof after hot rolling is maintained in the rolling direction and/or in the direction perpendicular to the rolling direction; and at least three cold-sawing machines disposed in parallel with each other on said transfer bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Onodera, Masafumi Shibata, Masanori Miwa, Kazuo Fujita
  • Publication number: 20030168135
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and equipment for producing a rail, the method and equipment being capable of lowering a bend at an end of a rail effectively and the truncation amount thereof. The present invention is a method for producing a rail, characterized by: cooling a hot-rolled mother rail to an ordinary temperature substantially while the length thereof after the hot rolling is maintained; and thereafter cutting the mother rail simultaneously in a predetermined length with at least three cold-sawing machines. Further, the present invention is equipment for producing a rail, characterized by equipped with: a transfer bed capable of moving a mother rail cooled to an ordinary temperature substantially while the length thereof after hot rolling is maintained in the rolling direction and/or in the direction perpendicular to the rolling direction; and at least three cold-sawing machines disposed in parallel with each other on said transfer bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Inventors: Noriaki Onodera, Masafumi Shibata, Masanori Miwa, Kazuo Fujita
  • Publication number: 20030063837
    Abstract: A stabilized optical pulse generator using RHML-FRL is provided. The stabilized optical pulse generator comprises an optical fiber ring composed of optical fibers, an optical amplifier and a modulator for optical modulation, an electric signal generator generating high frequency signals and an optical pulse stabilizer. The device generates an optical pulse train of repeating frequency of fm, when applying electric signals of frequency of fm to the modulator. Wherein, for a resonance frequency of the optical fibers of fc, the modulating frequency applying to the modulator is detuned from the electric signal of the frequency of fm by frequency of the resonance frequency fc divided by integer of p. Optical pulse trains of repeating frequency of p times of fm+fc/p or fm−fc/p are generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: Communications Research Laboratory, Independent Administrative Institution
    Inventors: Kamal Kant Gupta, Noriaki Onodera
  • Patent number: 5509022
    Abstract: A self-tuning mode locked semi-conductor laser automatically adjusts itself to produce short (less than 200 ps and preferably less than 50 ps) stable optical pulses. Tuning is achieved by means of a feedback loop which includes a spectrum analyzer (18) which receives a small amount of the optical output of the laser and monitors the spectral wavelength, spectral width or spectral shape of the output. A controller (19) is connected to said analyzer and produces a control signal based on said spectral information. The control signal causes adjustment of one or more parameters influencing operation of said laser, such as frequency or power of an RF drive signal, level of dc bias, cavity length, for example, in order to produce said short stable pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: The University of Melbourne
    Inventors: Arthur J. Lowery, Rodney S. Tucker, Noriaki Onodera
  • Patent number: 5101246
    Abstract: A photo-functional device has a semiconductor substrate, a light emitting section laminated on one surface of the semiconductor substrate and formed into a semiconductor laminate, a light receiving section laminated on the one surface of the semiconductor substrate, formed into a semiconductor laminate and electrically connected in series to the light emitting section, and a coupling rate conversion section disposed between the light emitting section and the light receiving section for converting a coupling rate of light coupled from the light emitting section to the light receiving section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1992
    Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., Ricoh Research Institute of General Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Noriaki Onodera
  • Patent number: 5061974
    Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a pair of clad layers and an active layer sandwiched thereby which together are disposed between a substrate and a cap layer so as to form a monolithic array of double-heterojunction regions each including therein a plurality of light-emitting portions of the active layer for emitting light from the end face thereof so that the light-emitting portions are arrayed in a row and electrically separated from each other. The substrate is formed at one side thereof with a concave and convex configuration following a stripe pattern so that the clad layers, active layers and the cap layers are each arranged in the form of a corrugated configuration following the concave and convex configuration of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1991
    Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., Ricoh Research Institute of General Electronics Co.
    Inventors: Noriaki Onodera, Saburo Saski, Hiroyuki Iechi
  • Patent number: 4990972
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device comprises a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; an electric current blocking layer formed on one main face of the substrate and including a semiconductor of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type and having an opening reaching the main face; a first semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type formed on the electric current blocking layer and a portion of the main face on which the opening is disposed; a second semiconductor layer stacked on the first semiconductor layer and forming a hetero-junction together with the first semiconductor layer; a semiconductor layer for electrode of the second conductivity type formed on the second semiconductor layer and having a window reaching the second conductor layer in a position corresponding to the opening; a first electrode metallic layer formed on the electrode semiconductor layer except for the window; and a second electrode metallic layer formed on the other main face of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiro Satoh, Noriaki Onodera
  • Patent number: 4797890
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device, such as a light emitting diode or laser, includes a substrate which is provided with a hole and a pn junction extending adjacent to and in parallel with the side wall of the hole. Thus, the side wall of the hole extends in a direction perpendicular to a main surface of the substrate. A pair of electrodes is provided such that current flows across the pn junction so that light emitted in a vertical direction which is perpendicular to the main surface of the substrate. The hole may be either a through hole or a bore hole. With the additional provision of a pair of resonators, there is provided a semiconductor laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd., Ricoh Company, Ltd., Ricoh Research Institute of General Electronics, Fumio Inaba, Hiromasa Ito
    Inventors: Fumio Inaba, Hiromasa Ito, Noriaki Onodera, Akira Mizuyoshi