Patents by Inventor Reiko Sugihara

Reiko Sugihara 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: 20240072266
    Abstract: Disclosed is a component for solid oxide fuel cells that is excellent in both electrical conductivity and chromium poisoning resistance. As a substrate, a ferritic stainless steel having a chemical composition containing, in mass %, Cr: 14.0% to 32.0% and Al: 2.50% to 7.00% is used. Precious metal particles are coated on a surface of the substrate. The precious metal particles have: an average particle size of 1 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less; a coating thickness of 0.5 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less; and a surface coverage of 1.0% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: JFE STEEL CORPORATION, TreadStone Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad FEBRY, Takayoshi YANO, Tetsuyuki NAKAMURA, Akito MIZUTANI, Masataka YOSHINO, Reiko SUGIHARA, Conghua WANG
  • Publication number: 20230119504
    Abstract: Having a chemical composition (1) containing 0.15 mass % to 1.00 mass % of Nb, and (2) containing 0.0005 mass % to 0.0100 mass % of Mg, where (3) the Al content is controlled in a range of 0.55 mass % to 2.00 mass %, and (4) a relationship of 0.0004?[Mg]/[Al]?0.0050 is further satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Muhammad FEBRY, Tetsuyuki NAKAMURA, Takayoshi YANO, Masataka YOSHINO, Reiko SUGIHARA
  • Patent number: 11560604
    Abstract: Provided is a ferritic stainless steel in which cracking is unlikely to be caused in the vicinity of a weld zone by the stress due to expansion, contraction, and deformation due to the thermal effect of welding in the case of performing welding after deep drawing and which is excellent in corrosion resistance in the vicinity of the weld zone. The ferritic stainless steel has a composition containing C: 0.001% to 0.020%, Si: 0.01% to 0.30%, Mn: 0.01% to 0.50%, P: 0.04% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Cr: 18.0% to 24.0%, Ni: 0.01% to 0.40%, Mo: 0.30% to 3.0%, Al: 0.01% to 0.15%, Ti: 0.01% to 0.50%, Nb: 0.01% to 0.50%, V: 0.01% to 0.50%, Co: 0.01% to 6.00%, B: 0.0002% to 0.0050%, and N: 0.001% to 0.020% on a mass basis, the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities. The composition satisfies 0.30%?Ti+Nb+V?0.60%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ishii, Mitsuyuki Fujisawa, Reiko Sugihara, Chikara Kami
  • Patent number: 11401595
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having a TS of 780 MPa or more, excellent stretch flangeability, and excellent in-plane anisotropy of TS is provided. A high-strength steel sheet comprises: a predetermined chemical composition; a steel microstructure including, in area fraction, ferrite: 20% or more and 50% or less, lower bainite: 5% or more and 40% or less, martensite: 1% or more and 20% or less, and tempered martensite: 20% or less, and including, in volume fraction, retained austenite: 5% or more, the retained austenite having an average grain size of 2 ?m or less; and a texture having an inverse intensity ratio of ?-fiber to ?-fiber of 3.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu Minami, Shinjiro Kaneko, Reiko Sugihara, Kazunori Tahara, Kazuma Mori
  • Patent number: 11365467
    Abstract: Provided is a ferritic stainless steel having excellent brazability and excellent corrosion resistance to condensed water in an environment in which the ferritic stainless steel is used for an exhaust heat recovery device or an EGR cooler. The ferritic stainless steel has a composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.025% or less, Si: 0.01% or more and less than 0.40%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.5%, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Cr: 17.0 to 30.0%, Mo: 1.10 to 3.0%, Ni: more than 0.80% and 3.0% or less, Nb: 0.20 to 0.80%, Al: 0.001 to 0.10%, and N: 0.025% or less, with the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, and satisfying the following expression (1) and expression (2): C+N?0.030%??(1) Cr+Mo?19.0%??(2) where C, N, Cr, and Mo in expression (1) and expression (2) represent the contents (mass %) of the corresponding elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manami Ichikawa, Tetsuyuki Nakamura, Kunio Fukuda, Shin Ishikawa, Reiko Sugihara
  • Patent number: 11261512
    Abstract: Provided is ferritic stainless steel having excellent brazeability and excellent corrosion resistance to condensed water in an environment in which the steel is used for an exhaust heat recovery device or an EGR cooler. A ferritic stainless steel has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.025% or less, Si: 0.40% to 2.0%, Mn: 0.05% to 1.5%, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Cr: 16.0% to 30.0%, Mo: 0.60% to 3.0%, Ni: 0.10% to 2.5%, Nb: 0.20% to 0.80%, Al: 0.001% to 0.15%, N: 0.025% or less, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, in which relational expressions (1) and (2) below are satisfied. C+N?0.030%??(1), 2Si+Ni?1.0%??(2), (in relational expressions (1) and (2), C, N, Si, and Ni each denote the contents (mass %) of the corresponding elements).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Manami Ichikawa, Tetsuyuki Nakamura, Kunio Fukuda, Shin Ishikawa, Reiko Sugihara
  • Patent number: 11230756
    Abstract: Provided is a ferritic stainless steel that has good corrosion resistance and which exhibits good brazeability when subjected to high-temperature brazing with a Ni-containing brazing filler metal. The ferritic stainless steel has a composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.003 to 0.020%, Si: 0.05 to 0.60%, Mn: 0.05 to 0.50%, P: 0.04% or less, S: 0.02% or less, Cr: 17.0 to 24.0%, Ni: 0.20 to 0.80%, Cu: 0.01 to 0.80%, Mo: 0.01 to 2.50%, Al: 0.001 to 0.015%, Nb: 0.25 to 0.60%, and N: 0.020% or less, with the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, the composition satisfying formula (1) below and formula (2) below, Cu+Mo?0.30??(1) 4Ni?(Si+Mn)?0??(2) (wherein Cu and Mo in formula (1) and Ni, Si, and Mn in formula (2) each represent the content (mass %) of the corresponding element).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi Yano, Kunio Fukuda, Shin Ishikawa, Katsuhisa Yamauchi, Reiko Sugihara, Hideya Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20210277494
    Abstract: Provided is a ferritic stainless steel in which cracking is unlikely to be caused in the vicinity of a weld zone by the stress due to expansion, contraction, and deformation due to the thermal effect of welding in the case of performing welding after deep drawing and which is excellent in corrosion resistance in the vicinity of the weld zone. The ferritic stainless steel has a composition containing C: 0.001% to 0.020%, Si: 0.01% to 0.30%, Mn: 0.01% to 0.50%, P: 0.04% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Cr: 18.0% to 24.0%, Ni: 0.01% to 0.40%, Mo: 0.30% to 3.0%, Al: 0.01% to 0.15%, Ti: 0.01% to 0.50%, Nb: 0.01% to 0.50%, V: 0.01% to 0.50%, Co: 0.01% to 6.00%, B: 0.0002% to 0.0050%, and N: 0.001% to 0.020% on a mass basis, the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities. The composition satisfies 0.30%?Ti+Nb+V?0.60%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ishii, Mitsuyuki Fujisawa, Reiko Sugihara, Chikara Kami
  • Patent number: 11072837
    Abstract: A martensitic stainless steel sheet comprises a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.035% to 0.090%, Si: 0.01% to 1.0%, Mn: 0.01% to 0.90%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.050% or less, Cr: 10.0% to 14.0%, Ni: 0.01% to 0.40%, Al: 0.001% to 0.50%, V: 0.05% to 0.50%, and N: 0.050% to 0.20%, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a content of C and a content of N in the chemical composition satisfy C %+N % 0.10% and N % C %, the number of precipitates with a major axis length of 200 nm or more in a surface layer of the martensitic stainless steel sheet is 25 or less per 100 ?m2, and the martensitic stainless steel sheet has a tensile strength of 1300 MPa or more, a proof stress of 1100 MPa or more, and an elongation of 8.0% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Nakamura, Shin Ishikawa, Reiko Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20210102279
    Abstract: A ferritic stainless steel having good corrosion resistance and good brazability in the case where brazing is performed with a Ni-containing brazing filler metal at a high temperature. The ferritic stainless steel has a chemical composition comprising, by mass %, C: 0.003% to 0.020%, Si: 0.05% to 0.60%, Mn: 0.05% to 0.30%, P: 0.040% or less, S: 0.020% or less, Cr: 17.0% to 22.0%, Ni: 0.20% to 0.80%, Cu: 0.30% to 0.80%, Mo: 0.01% to 0.10%, Al: 0.001% to 0.015%, Nb: 0.25% to 0.60%, N: 0.020% or less, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. The expression 4Ni?(Si+Mn)?0.00% is satisfied, where each of Ni, Si, and Mn denotes a content, by mass %, of a corresponding element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayoshi YANO, Manami ICHIKAWA, Tetsuyuki NAKAMURA, Kunio FUKUDA, Shin ISHIKAWA, Reiko SUGIHARA, Katsuhisa YAMAUCHI, Hideya MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210032731
    Abstract: A ferritic stainless steel having excellent creep resistance and thermal fatigue resistance. The ferritic stainless steel has a chemical composition comprising, by mass %, C: 0.020% or less, Si: 0.1 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.05 to 0.60%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.008% or less, Ni: 0.02 to 0.60%, Al: 0.001 to 0.25%, Cr: 18.0 to 20.0%, Nb: 0.30 to 0.80%, Mo: 1.80 to 2.50%, N: 0.015% or less, Sb: 0.002 to 0.50%, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. The expression Nb+Mo: 2.3 to 3.0% is satisfied, where Nb and Mo in the expression represent the contents, by mass %, of the respective elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki NAKAMURA, Shin ISHIKAWA, Reiko SUGIHARA
  • Patent number: 10760142
    Abstract: Provided are a high-strength steel sheet and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet. The high-strength steel sheet has a specified chemical composition with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, a microstructure including, in terms of area ratio, 30% or more of a ferrite phase, 40% to 65% of a bainite phase and/or a martensite phase, and 5% or less of cementite, in which, in a surface layer that is a region within 50 ?m from the surface in the thickness direction, the area ratio of a ferrite phase is 40% to 55% and the total area ratio of a bainite phase having a grain diameter of more than 5 ?m and/or a martensite phase having a grain diameter of more than 5 ?m is 20% or less, and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Nobusuke Kariya, Yoshihiko Ono, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Kazuma Mori, Reiko Sugihara, Kenji Kawamura
  • Patent number: 10697039
    Abstract: Provided are a high-strength steel sheet and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet. The high-strength steel sheet has a specified chemical composition with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, a microstructure including, in terms of area ratio, 25% or less of a ferrite phase, 75% or more of a bainite phase and/or a martensite phase, and 5% or less of cementite, in which, in a surface layer that is a region within 50 ?m from the surface in the thickness direction, the area ratio of a ferrite phase is 5% to 20%, and a tensile strength is 1180 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Nobusuke Kariya, Yoshihiko Ono, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Kazuma Mori, Reiko Sugihara, Kenji Kawamura
  • Patent number: 10655201
    Abstract: A high-strength, cold-rolled steel sheet having a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more, the steel sheet having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.070% to 0.100%, Si: 0.50% to 0.70%, Mn: 2.40% to 2.80%, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.0020% or less, Al: 0.020% to 0.060%, N: 0.0050% or less, Nb: 0.010% to 0.060%, Ti: 0.010% to 0.030%, B: 0.0005% to 0.0030%, Sb: 0.005% to 0.015%, Ca: 0.0015% or less, Cr: 0.01% to 2.00%, Mo: 0.01% to 1.00%, Ni: 0.01% to 5.00%, Cu: 0.01% to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobusuke Kariya, Yoshihiko Ono, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Kazuma Mori, Reiko Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20200080181
    Abstract: Provided is a ferritic stainless steel having excellent brazability and excellent corrosion resistance to condensed water in an environment in which the ferritic stainless steel is used for an exhaust heat recovery device or an EGR cooler. The ferritic stainless steel has a composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.025% or less, Si: 0.01% or more and less than 0.40%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.5%, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Cr: 17.0 to 30.0%, Mo: 1.10 to 3.0%, Ni: more than 0.80% and 3.0% or less, Nb: 0.20 to 0.80%, Al: 0.001 to 0.10%, and N: 0.025% or less, with the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, and satisfying the following expression (1) and expression (2): C+N?0.030% ??(1) Cr+Mo?19.0% ??(2) where C, N, Cr, and Mo in expression (1) and expression (2) represent the contents (mass %) of the corresponding elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Manami Ichikawa, Tetsuyuki Nakamura, Kunio Fukuda, Shin Ishikawa, Reiko Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20190316236
    Abstract: Provided is a ferritic stainless steel sheet. The steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.010% or less, Si: 1.0% or less, Mn: 1.0% or less, P: 0.040% or less, S: 0.030% or less, Cr: 17.0% or more and 18.5% or less, N: 0.015% or less, Nb: 0.40% or more and 0.80% or less, Ti: 0.10% or more and 0.40% or less, Al: 0.20% or less, Ni: 0.05% or more and 0.40% or less, Co: 0.01% or more and 0.30% or less, Mo: 0.02% or more and 0.30% or less, Cu: 0.02% or more and 0.40% or less, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, in which expression (1) below is satisfied. C %+N %: 0.018% or less??(1) In expression (1), C % and N % respectively denote the contents (mass %) of C and N.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Nakamura, Shin Ishikawa, Reiko Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20190264298
    Abstract: A martensitic stainless steel sheet comprises a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.035% to 0.090%, Si: 0.01% to 1.0%, Mn: 0.01% to 0.90%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.050% or less, Cr: 10.0% to 14.0%, Ni: 0.01% to 0.40%, Al: 0.001% to 0.50%, V: 0.05% to 0.50%, and N: 0.050% to 0.20%, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a content of C and a content of N in the chemical composition satisfy C %+N % 0.10% and N % C %, the number of precipitates with a major axis length of 200 nm or more in a surface layer of the martensitic stainless steel sheet is 25 or less per 100 ?m2, and the martensitic stainless steel sheet has a tensile strength of 1300 MPa or more, a proof stress of 1100 MPa or more, and an elongation of 8.0% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki NAKAMURA, Shin ISHIKAWA, Reiko SUGIHARA
  • Publication number: 20190226067
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having a TS of 780 MPa or more, excellent stretch flangeability, and excellent in-plane anisotropy of TS is provided. A high-strength steel sheet comprises: a predetermined chemical composition; a steel microstructure including, in area fraction, ferrite: 20% or more and 50% or less, lower bainite: 5% or more and 40% or less, martensite: 1% or more and 20% or less, and tempered martensite: 20% or less, and including, in volume fraction, retained austenite: 5% or more, the retained austenite having an average grain size of 2 ?m or less; and a texture having an inverse intensity ratio of ?-fiber to ?-fiber of 3.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu MINAMI, Shinjiro KANEKO, Reiko SUGIHARA, Kazunori TAHARA, Kazuma MORI
  • Publication number: 20190177824
    Abstract: Provided is ferritic stainless steel having excellent brazeability and excellent corrosion resistance to condensed water in an environment in which the steel is used for an exhaust heat recovery device or an EGR cooler. A ferritic stainless steel has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.025% or less, Si: 0.40% to 2.0%, Mn: 0.05% to 1.5%, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Cr: 16.0% to 30.0%, Mo: 0.60% to 3.0%, Ni: 0.10% to 2.5%, Nb: 0.20% to 0.80%, Al: 0.001% to 0.15%, N: 0.025% or less, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, in which relational expressions (1) and (2) below are satisfied. C+N?0.030%??(1), 2Si+Ni?1.0%??(2), (in relational expressions (1) and (2), C, N, Si, and Ni each denote the contents (mass %) of the corresponding elements).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Manami Ichikawa, Tetsuyuki Nakamura, Kunio Fukuda, Shin Ishikawa, Reiko Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20190177825
    Abstract: Provided is a ferritic stainless steel that has good corrosion resistance and which exhibits good brazeability when subjected to high-temperature brazing with a Ni-containing brazing filler metal. The ferritic stainless steel has a composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.003 to 0.020%, Si: 0.05 to 0.60%, Mn: 0.05 to 0.50%, P: 0.04% or less, S: 0.02% or less, Cr: 17.0 to 24.0%, Ni: 0.20 to 0.80%, Cu: 0.01 to 0.80%, Mo: 0.01 to 2.50%, Al: 0.001 to 0.015%, Nb: 0.25 to 0.60%, and N: 0.020% or less, with the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, the composition satisfying formula (1) below and formula (2) below, Cu+Mo?0.30??(1) 4Ni?(Si+Mn)?0??(2) (wherein Cu and Mo in formula (1) and Ni, Si, and Mn in formula (2) each represent the content (mass %) of the corresponding element).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi Yano, Kunio Fukuda, Shin Ishikawa, Katsuhisa Yamauchi, Reiko Sugihara, Hideya Matsumoto