Patents by Inventor Satoshi Kano

Satoshi Kano 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: 20240047105
    Abstract: What is provided is a non-oriented electrical steel sheet having a chemical composition in which, by mass %, C: 0.010% or less, Si: 1.50% to 4.00%, sol. Al: 0.0001% to 1.0%, S: 0.010% or less, N: 0.010% or less and one or a plurality of elements selected from the group consisting of Mn, Ni, Co, Pt, Pb, Cu and Au: 2.50% to 5.00% in total with a remainder including Fe and impurities, in which a recrystallization rate is 1% to 99% in a metallographic structure, a sheet thickness is 0.50 mm or less, and, in the case of measuring a magnetic flux density B50 after annealing the non-oriented electrical steel sheet at 800° C. for two hours, a magnetic flux density B50 in a 45° direction with respect to a rolling direction is 1.75 T or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tesshu MURAKAWA, Miho TOMITA, Hiroshi FUJIMURA, Satoshi KANO
  • Patent number: 11795518
    Abstract: Provided are a non-oriented electrical steel sheet with which it is possible to improve steel sheet transferability even when punching is performed successively at high speed, and a method of manufacturing a stacked core using the same. The non-oriented electrical steel sheet contains, by mass percent, Si: 2.0 to 5.0%, Mn: 0.4 to 5.0%, Al?3.0%, C: 0.0008 to 0.0100%, N?0.0030%, S?0.0030%, and Ti?0.0060%, wherein the product of the contents of Mn and C is 0.004 to 0.05 mass %2, the yield strength in rolling direction is more than or equal to 600 MPa, and the Young's modulus is more than or equal to 200 GPa. In the method of manufacturing a stacked core, when manufacturing a stacked core using a progressive die, the steel sheet transfer speed V (m/s) satisfies expression (1). V: VMIN to VMAX (1) VMAX=( 1/25)?(t2×E×YS) (2) VMIN=( 1/25)?(t2×120000) (3) t: Steel sheet thickness (mm), E: Young's ratio (GPa), YS: Yield strength (MPa).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimura, Satoshi Kano, Miho Tomita
  • Patent number: 11782216
    Abstract: An optical connector includes: at least a ferrule and n self-forming optical waveguides, wherein the ferrule includes n optical fiber insertion holes, and optical fibers are each inserted into and included in the optical fiber insertion holes, the number n indicates a natural number not including zero, there are variations in an angle of each optical fiber in a core axial direction and a core gap between adjacent ones of the optical fibers, an end surface of the ferrule is formed with roundness, and end portions of the self-forming optical waveguides are each optically connected to the optical fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Orbray Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Namekawa, Masahiro Abumi, Satoshi Kano, Keishiro Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20230086127
    Abstract: A surgery assistance device includes a battery, loads, a manual switch, a power supply, and a backup power supply. The power supply is connected to a mains power supply and to the loads, and outputs a first power supply voltage to the loads. The manual switch is connected to a portion of the loads. The backup power supply is connected to the battery and to the manual switch, and outputs a second power supply voltage to the portion of the loads when the manual switch is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: RIVERFIELD INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro ISHIKAWA, Satoshi KANO
  • Publication number: 20220378531
    Abstract: A surgical robot includes an operating section that receives a pressure from a gas, a pressure generating device that generates the pressure, a pressure detector that detects a pressure supplied from the pressure generating device to the operating section, and a control device configured to implement an operation diagnosis device that makes a determination, using the pressure detected by the pressure detector, whether the operating section is operable, and that notifies a result of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: RIVERFIELD INC.
    Inventors: Masao KANAZAWA, Satoshi KANO, Nobuaki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220356549
    Abstract: What is provided is a non-oriented electrical steel sheet having a chemical composition in which, by mass %, C: 0.010% or less, Si: 1.50% to 4.00%, sol. Al: 0.0001% to 1.0%, S: 0.010% or less, N: 0.010% or less, one or a plurality of elements selected from the group consisting of Mn, Ni, Co, Pt, Pb, Cu and Au: 2.50% to 5.00% in total are contained and a remainder includes Fe and impurities, in which a sheet thickness is 0.50 mm or less, and, in an arbitrary cross section, when an area ratio of {100} crystal grains is indicated by Sac, an area ratio of {110} crystal grains is indicated by Sag, and an area ratio of the {100} crystal grains in a region of up to 20% from a side where a KAM value is high is indicated by Sbc, Sac>Sbc>Sag and 0.05>Sag are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tesshu MURAKAWA, Miho TOMITA, Hiroshi FUJIMURA, Satoshi KANO
  • Publication number: 20220349037
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a step of obtaining a hot-rolled steel sheet by performing hot rolling on a steel material having a predetermined chemical composition, a step of performing first cold rolling on the hot-rolled steel sheet, and a step of performing first annealing after the first cold rolling. A final pass of finish rolling is performed in a temperature range equal to or higher than an Ar1 temperature, and cooling of which an average cooling rate is in a range of 50 to 500° C./sec is started in 0.1 sec from completion of rolling of the final pass of the finish rolling and is performed up to a temperature range higher than 250° C. and equal to or lower than 700° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tesshu MURAKAWA, Miho TOMITA, Satoshi KANO
  • Patent number: 11396681
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes C: 0 to 0.0050 mass %, Si: 0.50 to 2.70 mass %, Mn: 0.10 to 3.00 mass %, Al: 1.00 to 2.70 mass %, and P: 0.050 to 0.100 mass %. In the non-oriented electrical steel sheet, Al/(Si+Al+0.5×Mn) is 0.50 to 0.83, Si+Al/2+Mn/4+5×P is 1.28 to 3.90, Si+Al+0.5×Mn is 4.0 to 7.0, the ratio of the intensity of {100} plane I{100} to the intensity of {111} plane I{111} is 0.50 to 1.40, the specific resistance is 60.0×10?8 ?·m or higher at room temperature, and the thickness is 0.05 mm to 0.40 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Kano, Takeaki Wakisaka, Ichiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220026641
    Abstract: An optical connector includes: at least a ferrule and n self-forming optical waveguides, wherein the ferrule includes n optical fiber insertion holes, and optical fibers are each inserted into and included in the optical fiber insertion holes, the number n indicates a natural number not including zero, there are variations in an angle of each optical fiber in a core axial direction and a core gap between adjacent ones of the optical fibers, an end surface of the ferrule is formed with roundness, and end portions of the self-forming optical waveguides are each optically connected to the optical fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi NAMEKAWA, Masahiro ABUMI, Satoshi KANO, Keishiro KOMATSU
  • Publication number: 20210292863
    Abstract: Provided are a non-oriented electrical steel sheet with which it is possible to improve steel sheet transferability even when punching is performed successively at high speed, and a method of manufacturing a stacked core using the same. The non-oriented electrical steel sheet contains, by mass percent, Si: 2.0 to 5.0%, Mn: 0.4 to 5.0%, Al?3.0%, C: 0.0008 to 0.0100%, N?0.0030%, S?0.0030%, and Ti?0.0060%, wherein the product of the contents of Mn and C is 0.004 to 0.05 mass %2, the yield strength in rolling direction is more than or equal to 600 MPa, and the Young's modulus is more than or equal to 200 GPa. In the method of manufacturing a stacked core, when manufacturing a stacked core using a progressive die, the steel sheet transfer speed V (m/s) satisfies expression (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi FUJIMURA, Satoshi KANO, Miho TOMITA
  • Patent number: 11111567
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet including, as a chemical composition, by mass %: C: 0.0030 % or less; Si: 2.00 % to 4.00 %; Al: 0.01 % to 3.00 %; Mn: 0.10 % to 2.00 %; P: 0.005 % to 0.200 %; S: 0.0030 % or less; Cu: more than 1.0 % and 3.0 % or less; Ni: 0.10 % to 3.0 %; one or more coarse precipitate forming element: more than 0.0005 % and 0.0100 % or less in total; a parameter Q (Q=[Si] +2 [Al] [Mn]) is 2.00 or more; Sn: 0.00 % to 0.40 %; Cr: 0.0 % to 10.0 %, and a remainder: Fe and impurities, wherein a number of Cu particles having a diameter of less than 100 nm is 5 or more per 10 ?m2, a {100} crystal orientation intensity is 2.4 or more, a thickness is 0.10 mm to 0.60 mm, and an average grain size is 70 ?m to 200 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tesshu Murakawa, Hiroshi Fujimura, Satoshi Kano
  • Publication number: 20210108296
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %: C: 0.0030% or less; Si: 2.00% to 4.00%; Al: 0.01% to 3.00%; Mn: 0.10% to 2.00%; P: 0.005% to 0.200%; S: 0.0030% or less; Cu: more than 1.0% and 3.0% or less; Ni: 0.10% to 3.0%; one or more coarse precipitate forming element: more than 0.0005% and 0.0100% or less in total; a parameter Q (Q=[Si]+2[Al]?[Mn]) where a Si content (mass %) is set as [Si], an Al content (mass %) is set as [Al], and a Mn content (mass %) is set as [Mn]: 2.00 or more; Sn: 0.00% to 0.40%; Cr: 0.0% to 10.0%, and a remainder: Fe and impurities, in which a number of particles of a simple Cu having a diameter of less than 100 nm is 5 or more per 10 ?m2, a {100} crystal orientation intensity is 2.4 or more, a thickness is 0.10 mm to 0.60 mm, and an average grain size is 70 ?m to 200 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tesshu MURAKAWA, Hiroshi FUJIMURA, Satoshi KANO
  • Patent number: 10541071
    Abstract: An electrical steel sheet includes: a specific chemical composition; a crystal grain diameter of 20 ?m to 300 ?m; and a texture satisfying Expression 1, Expression 2, and Expression 3 when the accumulation degree of the (001)[100] orientation is represented as ICube and the accumulation degree of the (011)[100] orientation is represented as IGoss. IGoss+ICube?10.5??Expression 1 IGoss/ICube?0.50??Expression 2 ICube?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Tada, Satoshi Kano, Ichiro Tanaka, Hiroyoshi Yashiki
  • Publication number: 20180002776
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes C: 0 to 0.0050 mass %, Si: 0.50 to 2.70 mass %, Mn: 0.10 to 3.00 mass %, Al: 1.00 to 2.70 mass %, and P: 0.050 to 0.100 mass %. In the non-oriented electrical steel sheet, Al/(Si+Al+0.5×Mn) is 0.50 to 0.83, Si+Al/2+Mn/4+5×P is 1.28 to 3.90, Si+Al+0.5×Mn is 4.0 to 7.0, the ratio of the intensity of {100} plane I{100} to the intensity of {111} plane I{111} is 0.50 to 1.40, the specific resistance is 60.0×10?8 ?·m or higher at room temperature, and the thickness is 0.05 mm to 0.40 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi KANO, Takeaki WAKISAKA, Ichiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20170098498
    Abstract: An electrical steel sheet includes: a specific chemical composition; a crystal grain diameter of 20 ?m to 300 ?m; and a texture satisfying Expression 1, Expression 2, and Expression 3 when the accumulation degree of the (001)[100] orientation is represented as ICube and the accumulation degree of the (011)[100] orientation is represented as IGoss. IGoss+ICube?10.5??Expression 1 IGoss/ICube?0.50??Expression 2 ICube?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotoshi TADA, Satoshi KANO, Ichiro TANAKA, Hiroyoshi YASHIKI
  • Patent number: 9229173
    Abstract: Provided are an optical fiber connector component which holds an optical fiber and is capable of being inserted through a thin pipe and capable of being inserted smoothly through a pipe, and an optical fiber connector provided with the optical fiber connector component. The optical fiber connector component comprises a ferrule having a fiber hole to hold an inserted coaxially disposed optical fiber, a stop ring arranged on the base end side of the ferrule, and an urging means arranged in between the ferrule and the stop ring; the optical fiber connector is characterized by having a housing and cover member coaxially connected to the optical fiber, and the cover member being fixed to the stop ring of the optical fiber component by means of a fixing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: ADAMANT KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Isao Yamauchi, Yasuhiro Hyakutake, Satoshi Kano
  • Publication number: 20130216191
    Abstract: Provided are an optical fiber connector component which holds an optical fiber and is capable of being inserted through a thin pipe and capable of being inserted smoothly through a pipe, and an optical fiber connector provided with the optical fiber connector component. The optical fiber connector component comprises a ferrule having a fiber hole to hold an inserted coaxially disposed optical fiber, a stop ring arranged on the base end side of the ferrule, and an urging means arranged in between the ferrule and the stop ring; the optical fiber connector is characterized by having a housing and cover member coaxially connected to the optical fiber, and the cover member being fixed to the stop ring of the optical fiber component by means of a fixing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: ADAMANT KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Isao Yamauchi, Yasuhiro Hyakutake, Satoshi Kano
  • Patent number: D665744
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Adamant Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Yamauchi, Yasuhiro Hyakutake, Satoshi Kano
  • Patent number: D665745
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Adamant Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Yamauchi, Yasuhiro Hyakutake, Satoshi Kano
  • Patent number: D680081
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Adamant Kogyo Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Yamauchi, Shinichi Takeda, Satoshi Kano