Patents by Inventor Sae Hamamoto
Sae Hamamoto 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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Publication number: 20260234769Abstract: A steel sheet for hot stamping, including: C: 0.050 to 0.12 mass %; Si: 0.50 to 2.0 mass %; Mn: 2.1 to 3.0 mass %; P: 0.10 mass % or less (including 0 mass %); S: 0.010 mass % or less (including 0 mass %); Al: 0.01 to 0.10 mass %; Ti: 0.010 to 0.100 mass %; B: 0.0010 to 0.0100 mass %; and N: 0.010 mass % or less (including 0 mass %), and Fe, and satisfying the following formula: ?=[% C]/21?[% Si]/334+[% Mn]/81?[% Ti]/11+10×<% B>?0.03, where [% C], [% Si], [% Mn], and [% Ti] are the contents of C, Si, Mn, and Ti in mass %, respectively, and <% B> is the amount of solid solution B in mass %.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2024Publication date: August 13, 2026Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Soh MATSUMOTO, Sae HAMAMOTO, Kazuyuki HAMADA, Shota IWAMOTO
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Galvanized steel sheet for hot stamping, hot stamped part, and method for producing hot-stamped part
Patent number: 12559828Abstract: A zinc-plated steel sheet for hot stamping according to an aspect of the present invention includes a base steel sheet satisfying a predetermined composition of chemical components, wherein an amount of solid-soluted B is 10 ppm or more and the base steel sheet has a hot-dip galvannealed layer or a hot dip galvanized layer on at least one face thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 24, 2026Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Sae Hamamoto, Keisuke Nakata, Tatsuya Asai, Kenji Saito -
Publication number: 20250389004Abstract: A steel plate for hot stamping contains, in % by mass, C: 0.25% or more and 0.4% or less, Si: 1.05% or more and 1.4% or less, Mn: 0% or more and 1.4% or less, Cr: 0.6% or more and 3.0% or less, P: 0% or more and 0.03% or less, S: 0% or more and 0.02% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 1% or less, N: 0% or more and 0.01% or less, B: 0.0005% or more and 0.005% or less, Ti: 0.005% or more and 0.1% or less, and iron and inevitable impurities as remainder. This steel plate for hot stamping exhibits excellent hardness stability in addition to a balance between strength and toughness as a relational expression of [C]+2/9[Si]+7/9[Mn]+8/9[Cr]?7/4>0 is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2025Publication date: December 25, 2025Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Haruka ARAKI, Sae HAMAMOTO, Tatsuya ASAI
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Publication number: 20240240298Abstract: A high-strength hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet may include a plating layer on a surface of a base steel sheet. The base steel sheet may satisfy a predetermined chemical composition, in a metallographic structure of the base steel sheet, wherein a volume ratio of martensite (including tempered martensite and self-tempered martensite) is 82 vol % or more, a volume ratio of ferrite, pearlite and bainite is 13 vol % or less in total, and volume ratio of retained austenite is 5 vol % or less, in an image obtained by observing the metallographic structure of the base steel sheet with a scanning electron microscope, the number of laths at a total length of 300 ?m, the number being measured by an intercept method is 200 or more, a yield strength is 970 MPa or more, and a tensile strength is 1,470 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2022Publication date: July 18, 2024Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Sae HAMAMOTO, Haruka ARAKI, Michitaka TSUNEZAWA
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GALVANIZED STEEL SHEET FOR HOT STAMPING, HOT STAMPED PART, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING HOT-STAMPED PART
Publication number: 20230125053Abstract: A zinc-plated steel sheet for hot stamping according to an aspect of the present invention includes a base steel sheet satisfying a predetermined composition of chemical components, wherein an amount of solid-soluted B is 10 ppm or more and the base steel sheet has a hot-dip galvannealed layer or a hot dip galvanized layer on at least one face thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Sae HAMAMOTO, Keisuke NAKATA, Tatsuya ASAI, Kenji SAITO -
Publication number: 20220298592Abstract: A low-strength steel sheet for hot stamping according to an aspect of the present invention satisfies a predetermined chemical composition, the Ac3 point (° C.) represented by Equation (1) is 890° C. or more, and an area ratio of ferrite at a depth to be ¼ of a steel sheet thickness is 80% or more. Ac3 point (° C.)=910?203×[C]1/2+44.7×[Si]?30×[Mn]+700×[P]+400×[Al]+400×[Ti] . . . (1) In Equation (1), [C], [Si], [Mn], [P], [Al], and [Ti] are values denoting the percentage contents of C, Si, Mn, P, Al, and Ti in terms of % by mass, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2020Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Sae HAMAMOTO, Tatsuya ASAI
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Publication number: 20210054488Abstract: A steel plate for hot stamping contains, in % by mass, C: 0.25% or more and 0.4% or less, Si: 1.05% or more and 1.4% or less, Mn: 0% or more and 1.4% or less, Cr: 0.6% or more and 3.0% or less, P: 0% or more and 0.03% or less, S: 0% or more and 0.02% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 1% or less, N: 0% or more and 0.01% or less, B: 0.0005% or more and 0.005% or less, Ti: 0.005% or more and 0.1% or less, and iron and inevitable impurities as remainder. This steel plate for hot stamping exhibits excellent hardness stability in addition to a balance between strength and toughness as a relational expression of [C]2/9[Si]+7/9[Mn]+8/9[Cr]?7/4>0 is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2019Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Haruka ARAKI, Sae HAMAMOTO, Tatsuya ASAI
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Publication number: 20190017142Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a steel sheet for quench hardening, satisfying a prescribed composition and having a Mn concentration satisfying the formula (1): S1+S2<?10×[Mn]+44 (1), where [Mn] is Mn concentration in a steel sheet analyzed by inductively coupled plasma emission spectrography (% by mass); S1 is an area % of the region where the Mn concentration analyzed by an electron beam microprobe analyzer in the structure at a position of ¼ of the steel sheet thickness is two times or more the [Mn]; and S2 is an area % of the region where the Mn concentration analyzed by an electron beam microprobe analyzer in the structure at a position of ¼ of the steel sheet thickness is 0.5 times or less the [Mn].Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2017Publication date: January 17, 2019Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Sae HAMAMOTO, Tatsuya ASAI, Hiroyuki OMORI
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Patent number: 8449988Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet has a chemical composition of C: 0.12% to 0.3%, Si: 0.5% or less, Mn: less than 1.5%, Al: 0.15% or less, N: 0.01% or less, P: 0.02% or less, and S: 0.01% or less, with the remainder including iron and inevitable impurities and has a martensite single-phase structure as its steel microstructure. In a surface region of the steel sheet from the surface to a depth one-tenth the gauge, the number density of n-ary groups of inclusions determined by specific n-th determinations is 120 or less per 100 cm2 of a rolling plane, where the distance in steel sheet rolling direction between outermost surfaces of two outermost particles of the group of inclusions is 100 ?m or more. The steel sheet is a high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet which has a sufficiently minimized rate of bending fracture starting from inclusions and thereby has excellent bending workability.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2011Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Atsuhiro Shiraki, Sae Hamamoto, Yukihiro Utsumi, Tetsuji Hoshika, Yuichi Futamura
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Publication number: 20110287280Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet has a chemical composition of C: 0.12% to 0.3%, Si: 0.5% or less, Mn: less than 1.5%, Al: 0.15% or less, N: 0.01% or less, P: 0.02% or less, and S: 0.01% or less, with the remainder including iron and inevitable impurities and has a martensite single-phase structure as its steel microstructure. In a surface region of the steel sheet from the surface to a depth one-tenth the gauge, the number density of n-ary groups of inclusions determined by specific n-th determinations is 120 or less per 100 cm2 of a rolling plane, where the distance in steel sheet rolling direction between outermost surfaces of two outermost particles of the group of inclusions is 100 ?m or more. The steel sheet is a high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet which has a sufficiently minimized rate of bending fracture starting from inclusions and thereby has excellent bending workability.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Atsuhiro SHIRAKI, Sae Hamamoto, Yukihiro Utsumi, Tetsuji Hoshika, Yuichi Futamura