Patents by Inventor Seiju Suzuki
Seiju Suzuki 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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Patent number: 12110409Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a painted metal plate having rain-streak-stain resistance and a good appearance, and a method for producing the same. To solve this problem, the method for producing a painted metal plate includes a step for forming a coating by applying a paint containing a silicone resin and a fluorine-containing resin to the surface of a metal plate and curing the paint, and a step for performing flame treatment on the coating. The silicone resin contains 5 to 50 mol % of a silanol group with respect to the total molar mass of Si atoms.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Keiko Takiguchi, Masaki Satou, Seiju Suzuki, Shuichi Sugita
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Publication number: 20230183513Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a metal plate coating material with which it is possible to form a coating film that has extremely high storage stability, that does not exhibit yellowing, and that is not prone to staining with rain streaks; and a method for producing a coated metal plate using the metal plate coating material. The metal plate coating material for solving the problem contains: at least one of a mixture of a fluorine-containing resin and a (meth)acrylic resin and a copolymer of a fluorine-containing monomer and a (meth)acrylic group-containing monomer; a silicone resin; and a zinc carboxylate salt catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Keiko TAKIGUCHI, Masaki SATOU, Seiju SUZUKI, Takafumi KAWAGOE
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Patent number: 11241714Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a flame treatment device which is capable of performing a flame treatment on a metal-based base material without requiring a preheat treatment. For the purpose of solving the above-described problem, a flame treatment device according to the present invention comprises: a first temperature measurement unit which measures the temperature of a metal-based base material before a flame treatment; a control unit which determines the combustion energy of flame on the basis of the temperature before a flame treatment, said temperature having been measured by the first temperature measurement unit, so that the surface temperature of the metal-based base material during the flame treatment is 56° C. or higher; and a flame treatment unit which performs a flame treatment on the metal-based base material on the basis of the combustion energy, which has been determined by the control unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Satou, Seiju Suzuki, Shuichi Sugita
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Publication number: 20210340400Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a painted metal plate having rain-streak-stain resistance and a good appearance, and a method for producing the same. To solve this problem, the method for producing a painted metal plate includes a step for forming a coating by applying a paint containing a silicone resin and a fluorine-containing resin to the surface of a metal plate and curing the paint, and a step for performing flame treatment on the coating. The silicone resin contains 5 to 50 mol % of a silanol group with respect to the total molar mass of Si atoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Keiko TAKIGUCHI, Masaki SATOU, Seiju SUZUKI, Shuichi SUGITA
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Patent number: 11091669Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a coating material that is for a coated metal plate, that has high storage stability, that is less likely to contaminate a heating device, and that can be used to produce a coated metal plate having a surface on which rain streaks are less likely to occur and having high scratch resistance. The coating material contains a silicone resin including 5-50 mol % of a silanol group with respect to the total number of moles of Si atoms.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: NIPPON STEEL NISSHIN CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Satou, Seiju Suzuki, Shuichi Sugita
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Publication number: 20210039132Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a flame treatment device which is capable of performing a flame treatment on a metal-based base material without requiring a preheat treatment. For the purpose of solving the above-described problem, a flame treatment device according to the present invention comprises: a first temperature measurement unit which measures the temperature of a metal-based base material before a flame treatment; a control unit which determines the combustion energy of flame on the basis of the temperature before a flame treatment, said temperature having been measured by the first temperature measurement unit, so that the surface temperature of the metal-based base material during the flame treatment is 56° C. or higher; and a flame treatment unit which performs a flame treatment on the metal-based base material on the basis of the combustion energy, which has been determined by the control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2019Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Masaki SATOU, Seiju SUZUKI, Shuichi SUGITA
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Patent number: 10751751Abstract: A method for treating a metal substrate surface before coating or printing thereof, the method including: preheating to 40° C. or above a specific metal substrate having a thermal conductivity of 10 W/mK or higher, and thereafter continuously performing a flame treatment on the substrate surface, prior to coating or printing of the surface of the substrate with a coating material or an ink.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2016Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Satou, Seiju Suzuki, Masaru Hiraku, Shuichi Sugita
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Patent number: 10737293Abstract: A method for treating a metal substrate surface before coating or printing thereof, the method including preheating to 40° C. or above a specific metal substrate having a thermal conductivity of 10 W/mK or higher, and thereafter performing a flame treatment on the substrate surface, prior to coating or printing of the surface of the substrate with a coating material or an ink.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2016Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Satou, Seiju Suzuki, Masaru Hiraku, Shuichi Sugita
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Publication number: 20200087537Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a coating material that is for a coated metal plate, that has high storage stability, that is less likely to contaminate a heating device, and that can be used to produce a coated metal plate having a surface on which rain streaks are less likely to occur and having high scratch resistance. The coating material contains a silicone resin including 5-50 mol % of a silanol group with respect to the total number of moles of Si atoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2017Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: Masaki SATOU, Seiju SUZUKI, Shuichi SUGITA
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Publication number: 20200024476Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a production method for a coated metal plate which has superior rain-streak stain resistance and scratch resistance and which further provides favorable appearance. In order to address this problem, this coated metal plate production method comprises: a step for forming a coating film on the surface of a metal plate by applying and curing a silicone resin-containing coating; and a step for applying a flame treatment to the coating film. The silicone resin contains silanol groups in an amount of 5-50 mol % with respect to the total molar number of Si atoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2018Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Masaki SATOU, Seiju SUZUKI, Shuichi SUGITA
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Patent number: 10507489Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a decorative construction plate, the method including subjecting a metal siding material including: a metallic substrate on which a recess-projection pattern having a height difference of 0.5 mm or more is formed and on which an ink receiving layer formed from a resin composition is provided; a core material; and a back-side material, to flame treatment by exposing the metal siding material to flame with an output of 250 kJ/h to 12000 kJ/h per 10-mm width of a flame port of a burner so that the surface temperature of the substrate does not exceed 300° C., followed by performing inkjet printing using an active ray curable ink.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Satou, Seiju Suzuki, Masaru Hiraku, Shuichi Sugita
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Publication number: 20190168256Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a painted metal plate which is resistant to surface stain due to rain streaks. The painted metal plate manufacturing method comprises: a step of forming a coating film on a surface of a metal plate, the coating film having an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 0.3 to 3.0 ?m as calculated according to JIS B0601:2013, and a surface Si atomic concentration of less than 1.0 atm % as measured by X-ray electron spectroscopy using an AlK? beam as an X-ray source; and a step of subjecting the coating film to flame processing at 30 to 1000 kJ/m2.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2017Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventors: Masaki SATOU, Seiju SUZUKI, Masaru HIRAKU, Shuichi SUGITA
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Patent number: 10156789Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for stripping a resist film, which includes a cured resin having a phosphate ester group or a carboxyl group, by using a resist stripping solution having high strippability, the method being characterized in that deterioration of the strippability of the resist stripping solution is suppressed and the phosphorus concentration in the resist stripping solution is not substantially increased. In this method, a resist stripping solution is brought into contact with a resist film, which includes a cured resin having a phosphate ester group or a carboxyl group and is disposed on a metal plate, and the resist film is stripped from the metal plate. In this method, the resist stripping solution contains a benzyl alcohol, water in a mass ratio to the benzyl alcohol of 0.3-2.5, and a surfactant, and is substantially free of caustic alkali components.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2016Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Satou, Seiju Suzuki, Shuichi Sugita
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Publication number: 20180253009Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for stripping a resist film, which includes a cured resin having a phosphate ester group or a carboxyl group, by using a resist stripping solution having high strippability, the method being characterized in that deterioration of the strippability of the resist stripping solution is suppressed and the phosphorus concentration in the resist stripping solution is not substantially increased. In this method, a resist stripping solution is brought into contact with a resist film, which includes a cured resin having a phosphate ester group or a carboxyl group and is disposed on a metal plate, and the resist film is stripped from the metal plate. In this method, the resist stripping solution contains a benzyl alcohol, water in a mass ratio to the benzyl alcohol of 0.3-2.5, and a surfactant, and is substantially free of caustic alkali components.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2016Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: Masaki SATOU, Seiju SUZUKI, Shuichi SUGITA
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Publication number: 20180169695Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a decorative construction plate, the method including subjecting a metal siding material including: a metallic substrate on which a recess-projection pattern having a height difference of 0.5 mm or more is formed and on which an ink receiving layer formed from a resin composition is provided; a core material; and a back-side material, to flame treatment by exposing the metal siding material to flame with an output of 250 kJ/h to 12000 kJ/h per 10-mm width of a flame port of a burner so that the surface temperature of the substrate does not exceed 300° C., followed by performing inkjet printing using an active ray curable ink.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2015Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: Masaki SATOU, Seiju SUZUKI, Masaru HIRAKU, Shuichi SUGITA
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Publication number: 20180161809Abstract: A method for treating a metal substrate surface before coating or printing thereof, the method including: preheating to 40° C. or above a specific metal substrate having a thermal conductivity of 10 W/mK or higher, and thereafter continuously performing a flame treatment on the substrate surface, prior to coating or printing of the surface of the substrate with a coating material or an ink.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2016Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki SATOU, Seiju SUZUKI, Masaru HIRAKU, Shuichi SUGITA
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Publication number: 20180154391Abstract: A method for treating a metal substrate surface before coating or printing thereof, the method including preheating to 40° C. or above a specific metal substrate having a thermal conductivity of 10 W/mK or higher, and thereafter performing a flame treatment on the substrate surface, prior to coating or printing of the surface of the substrate with a coating material or an ink.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2016Publication date: June 7, 2018Applicant: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki SATOU, Seiju SUZUKI, Masaru HIRAKU, Shuichi SUGITA
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Patent number: 9931876Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a decorative building board, including: ejecting active ray-curable ink from an ink jet recording head onto a building board that includes a base material selected from a metallic base material and a ceramic base material and an ink receiving layer arranged on the base material, the ink receiving layer being obtained by curing a resin composition and having an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) specified under JIS B 0601:2001 of from 0.4 ?m to 3 ?m, to thereby perform printing on the ink receiving layer; and irradiating the active ray-curable ink with an active ray from 2.2 seconds to 30 seconds after the active ray-curable ink lands on the ink receiving layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2013Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Satou, Seiju Suzuki, Hidenori Yoshida, Shuichi Sugita, Yuuichi Okada
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Publication number: 20170028758Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a decorative building board, including: ejecting active ray-curable ink from an ink jet recording head onto a building board that includes a base material selected from a metallic base material and a ceramic base material and an ink receiving layer arranged on the base material, the ink receiving layer being obtained by curing a resin composition and having an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) specified under JIS B 0601:2001 of from 0.4 ?m to 3 ?m, to thereby perform printing on the ink receiving layer; and irradiating the active ray-curable ink with an active ray from 2.2 seconds to 30 seconds after the active ray-curable ink lands on the ink receiving layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2013Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: NISSHIN STEEL HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki SATOU, Seiju SUZUKI, Hidenori YOSHIDA, Shuichi SUGITA, Yuuichi OKADA
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Publication number: 20160318328Abstract: This printing material has: a substrate; an ink-accepting layer that is disposed on the substrate and is the cured product of a resin composition; and an ink layer that is disposed on the ink-accepting layer and is the cured product of an active-light-ray-curable cationic polymerizable ink. The ink-accepting layer is impermeable with respect to the active-light-ray-curable cationic polymerizable ink. Also, the active-light-ray-curable cationic polymerizable ink contains: a cationic polymerizable compound; 0.5-10.0 mass % of an epoxy-group-containing silane coupling agent; 10-50 mass % of a hydroxyl-group-containing oxetane compound; and a photoinitiator.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2014Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Masaki SATOU, Seiju SUZUKI, Masaru HIRAKU, Shuichi SUGITA, Akira NAKAGAWA