Patents by Inventor Shigeki Kitsuya
Shigeki Kitsuya 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: 11959157Abstract: Provided is a high-Mn steel having excellent low-temperature toughness and excellent surface characteristics. A high-Mn steel comprises: a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.100 to 0.700%, Si: 0.05 to 1.00%, Mn: 20.0 to 35.0%, P: ?0.030%, S: ?0.0070%, Al: 0.010 to 0.070%, Cr: 0.50 to 5.00%, N: 0.0050 to 0.0500%, O: ?0.0050%, Ti: ?0.005%, and Nb: ?0.005%, with a balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities; and a microstructure having austenite as a matrix, wherein in the microstructure, a Mn concentration of a Mn-concentrated portion is 38.0% or less, and an average KAM value is 0.3 or more, yield stress is 400 MPa or more, absorbed energy vE?196 in a Charpy impact test at ?196° C. is 100 J or more, and percent brittle fracture is less than 10%.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Daichi Izumi, Shigeki Kitsuya, Keiji Ueda, Koichi Nakashima
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Patent number: 11819909Abstract: The method for manufacturing a high-manganese steel cast slab according to the present invention includes manufacturing a cast slab by continuously casting a molten high-manganese steel having a specific chemical composition. In the manufacture, in a continuous-casting machine or during transportation before subsequent charging into a heating furnace for hot rolling, a processing strain is applied to the cast slab having a surface temperature of 600° C. or higher and 1100° C. or lower in such an amount that a processing strain amount calculated by a certain formula is 3.0% or more and 10.0% or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Ito, Norichika Aramaki, Koichi Nakashima, Shigeki Kitsuya
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Publication number: 20230203614Abstract: Provided is an abrasion-resistant steel plate excellent in both abrasion resistance and wide bending workability. An abrasion-resistant steel plate comprises a specific chemical composition, wherein a volume fraction of martensite at a depth of 1 mm from a surface of the abrasion-resistant steel plate is 90 % or more, hardness at a depth of 1 mm from the surface is 500 HBW 10/3000 to 650 HBW 10/3000 in Brinell hardness, and a transverse direction hardness difference is 30Hv10 or less in Vickers hardness, the transverse direction hardness difference being defined as a difference in the hardness at a depth of 1 mm from the surface between two points adjacent at intervals of 10 mm in a transverse direction of the abrasion-resistant steel plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki KITSUYA, Hitoshi SUEYOSHI, Tomoyuki YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20230183845Abstract: Provided is an abrasion-resistant steel plate excellent in both abrasion resistance and wide bending workability. An abrasion-resistant steel plate comprises a specific chemical composition, wherein a volume fraction of martensite at a depth of 1 mm from a surface of the abrasion-resistant steel plate is 90% or more, hardness at a depth of 1 mm from the surface is 420 HBW 10/3000 to 560 HBW 10/3000 in Brinell hardness, and a transverse direction hardness difference is 30Hv10 or less in Vickers hardness, the transverse direction hardness difference being defined as a difference in the hardness at a depth of 1 mm from the surface between two points adjacent at intervals of 10 mm in a transverse direction of the abrasion-resistant steel plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki KITSUYA, Naoki TAKAYAMA, Tomoyuki YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20230175091Abstract: Provided is an abrasion-resistant steel plate excellent in both abrasion resistance and wide bending workability. An abrasion-resistant steel plate comprises a specific chemical composition, wherein a volume fraction of martensite at a depth of 1 mm from a surface of the abrasion-resistant steel plate is 90% or more, a number density of TiC precipitates of 0.5 ?m or more in equivalent circular diameter at a depth of 1 mm from the surface is 400/mm2 or more, hardness at a depth of 1 mm from the surface is 360 HBW 10/3000 or more in Brinell hardness, and a transverse direction hardness difference is 30Hv10 or less in Vickers hardness, the transverse direction hardness difference being defined as a difference in the hardness at a depth of 1 mm from the surface between two points adjacent at intervals of 10 mm in a transverse direction of the abrasion-resistant steel plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki KITSUYA, Hitoshi SUEYOSHI, Tomoyuki YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20220333227Abstract: The steel plate has a specific chemical composition, and a microstructure where a volume fraction of martensite at a depth of 1 mm from a surface of the steel plate is 95% or more, and at a depth of 1 mm from a surface of the steel plate, a Vickers hardness at 400° C. is 288 or more, and a Brinell hardness at 25° C. is 360 HBW10/3000 to 490 HBW10/3000.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2020Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki TAKAYAMA, Shigeki KITSUYA, Yoshiaki MURAKAMI
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Publication number: 20220154303Abstract: An object is to provide a steel plate having excellent deformability in the central portion in the thickness direction and a method for manufacturing the steel plate. A steel plate having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.01% to 0.15%, Si: 0.01% to 1.00%, Mn: 0.10% to 2.00%, P: 0.010% or less, S: 0.0050% or less, Al: 0.002% to 0.100%, Ni: 5.0% to 10.0%, N: 0.0010% to 0.0080%, and with a balance being Fe and incidental impurities and a percentage reduction of area of 30% or more in a tensile test in the thickness direction performed on the central portion in the thickness direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuya SATO, Shigeki KITSUYA, Shusaku OTA, Tomoyuki YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20220118508Abstract: The method for manufacturing a high-manganese steel cast slab according to the present invention includes manufacturing a cast slab by continuously casting a molten high-manganese steel having a specific chemical composition. In the manufacture, in a continuous-casting machine or during transportation before subsequent charging into a heating furnace for hot rolling, a processing strain is applied to the cast slab having a surface temperature of 600° C. or higher and 1100° C. or lower in such an amount that a processing strain amount calculated by a certain formula is 3.0% or more and 10.0% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2020Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Yoichi Ito, Norichika Aramaki, Koichi Nakashima, Shigeki Kitsuya
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Publication number: 20210301378Abstract: Provided is a high-Mn steel having excellent low-temperature toughness and excellent surface characteristics. A high-Mn steel comprises: a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.100 to 0.700%, Si: 0.05 to 1.00%, Mn: 20.0 to 35.0%, P: ?0.030%, S: ?0.0070%, Al: 0.010 to 0.070%, Cr: 0.50 to 5.00%, N: 0.0050 to 0.0500%, O: ?0.0050%, Ti: ?0.005%, and Nb: ?0.005%, with a balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities; and a microstructure having austenite as a matrix, wherein in the microstructure, a Mn concentration of a Mn-concentrated portion is 38.0% or less, and an average KAM value is 0.3 or more, yield stress is 400 MPa or more, absorbed energy vE?196 in a Charpy impact test at ?196° C. is 100 J or more, and percent brittle fracture is less than 10%.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2019Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Daichi IZUMI, Shigeki KITSUYA, Keiji UEDA, Koichi NAKASHIMA
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Publication number: 20210164067Abstract: Provided is a high-Mn steel which not only has high strength and excellent low-temperature toughness but also has excellent CTOD property at low temperatures. The high-Mn steel has a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.10-0.70%, Si: 0.05-0.50%, Mn: 20-30%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.0070% or less, Al: 0.01-0.07%, Cr: 0.5-7.0%, Ni: 0.01% or more and less than 0.1%, Ca: 0.0005-0.0050%, N: 0.0050-0.0500%, O: 0.0050% or less, Ti: less than 0.0050%, and Nb: less than 0.0050%, the balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, and a microstructure having austenite as a base phase, where the austenite has a grain size of 1 ?m or more and a standard deviation of 9 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi NAKASHIMA, Keiji UEDA, Shigeki KITSUYA, Ryo ARAO, Daichi IZUMI, Satoshi IGI, Tomohiro ONO
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Patent number: 10443110Abstract: A high toughness and high tensile strength thick steel plate has a plate thickness of 100 mm or more, wherein a reduction of area in a center of the plate thickness by tension in a plate thickness direction is 40% or more. Thus, a high tensile strength thick steel plate with excellent strength and toughness in a center of the plate thickness can be obtained with no need for a larger production line, even in the case of producing a high strength thick steel plate for which the addition amount of alloying element needs to be increased.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Shigeki Kitsuya, Katsuyuki Ichimiya, Kazukuni Hase, Teruhisa Kinugawa, Naoki Matsunaga, Kenji Hayashi, Masayuki Horie, Yusuke Terazawa, Shigeru Endo
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Patent number: 10358688Abstract: A steel plate has excellent strength and toughness in a mid-thickness part thereof, despite having a plate thickness of 100 mm or greater. The steel plate has a chemical composition containing specific amounts of C, Si, Mn, P, S, Cr, Ni, Al, N, B, and O, with the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, and having an equivalent carbon content CeqIIW of 0.65 or greater. The steel plate has a yield strength of 620 MPa or greater, a plate thickness of 100 mm or greater, and has a microstructure in which prior ? grain size in a mid-thickness part of the steel plate has a maximum value, expressed as an equivalent circle diameter, of 150 ?m or less, and a total area ratio of martensite and bainite in the mid-thickness part is 80% or greater.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Shigeki Kitsuya, Katsuyuki Ichimiya, Kazukuni Hase, Shigeru Endo
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Patent number: 10351926Abstract: A thick steel plate is provided by heating a continuously-cast slab, hot forging the continuously-cast slab using opposing dies having respective short sides differing such that when a short side length of a die having a shorter one of the short sides is taken to be 1, a short side length of a die having a longer one of the short sides is 1.1 to 3.0, allowing cooling to obtain a steel raw material, reheating the steel raw material, performing hot rolling of the steel raw material including at least two passes carried out, allowing cooling to obtain a thick steel plate, reheating the thick steel plate to at least the Ac3 temperature and no higher than 1050° C., rapidly cooling the thick steel plate to 350° C. or lower, and tempering the thick steel plate at at least 550° C. and no higher than 700° C.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yota Kuronuma, Hirofumi Ohtsubo, Shigeki Kitsuya, Katsuyuki Ichimiya, Kazukuni Hase
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Patent number: 10000833Abstract: A thick, high-toughness high-strength steel plate has excellent strength and toughness in the central area through the plate thickness. The thick steel plate has a specific chemical composition and includes a microstructure having, throughout an entire region in the plate thickness direction, an average prior austenite grain size of not more than 50 ?m and a martensite and/or bainite phase area fraction of not less than 80%. A continuously cast slab having the specific chemical composition is heated to 1200° C. to 1350° C., hot worked with a strain rate of not more than 3/s and a cumulative working reduction of not less than 15%, and thereafter hot rolled and heat treated.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki Kitsuya, Naoki Matsunaga, Katsuyuki Ichimiya, Kazukuni Hase, Shigeru Endo
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Publication number: 20180155805Abstract: A thick steel plate is provided by heating a continuously-cast slab, hot forging the continuously-cast slab using opposing dies having respective short sides differing such that when a short side length of a die having a shorter one of the short sides is taken to be 1, a short side length of a die having a longer one of the short sides is 1.1 to 3.0, allowing cooling to obtain a steel raw material, reheating the steel raw material, performing hot rolling of the steel raw material including at least two passes carried out, allowing cooling to obtain a thick steel plate, reheating the thick steel plate to at least the Ac3 temperature and no higher than 1050° C., rapidly cooling the thick steel plate to 350° C. or lower, and tempering the thick steel plate at at least 550° C. and no higher than 700° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2015Publication date: June 7, 2018Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yota KURONUMA, Hirofumi OHTSUBO, Shigeki KITSUYA, Katsuyuki ICHIMIYA, Kazukuni HASE
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Patent number: 9945015Abstract: A high-tensile steel plate has a chemical composition containing, by mass, specific amounts of C, Mn, Si, P, S, Al, Ni, B, N, one or more elements selected from Cr, Mo, V, Cu, Ti, and Ca as needed, Ceq?0.80, and a center-segregation zone hardness index HCS satisfying 5.5[C]4/3+15[P]+0.90[Mn]+0.12[Ni]+0.53[Mo]?2.5. The hardness of a center-segregation zone satisfies HVmax/HVave?1.35+0.006/C?t/750. A steel having the above-described chemical composition is subjected to hot rolling at a specific slab-heating temperature at a specific rolling reduction ratio, subsequently reheated, cooled at a cooling rate of 0.3° C./s or more until the temperature of a central portion in a plate-thickness direction reaches 350° C. or less, and tempered to a specific temperature range.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2012Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Masao Yuga, Shigeki Kitsuya, Kenji Hayashi, Minoru Suwa
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Publication number: 20170369958Abstract: A thick-walled, high-toughness, high-strength steel plate manufactured from steel having a particular composition and casted under conditions where the cooling rate of a surface during solidification is 1° C./s or less. The surface of the steel plate has a toughness (vE-40) of 70 J or more, and the steel plate has a thickness of 100 mm or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2016Publication date: December 28, 2017Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki KITSUYA, Katsuyuki ICHIMIYA, Kazukuni HASE
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Patent number: 9790579Abstract: The present invention provides a high tensile strength steel plate having a chemical composition containing, in percent by mass, 0.03% to 0.12% of C, 0.01% to 0.30% of Si, 0.5% to 1.95% of Mn, 0.008% or less of P, 0.005% or less of S, 0.015% to 0.06% of Al, 0.011% to 0.05% of Nb, 0.005% to 0.02% of Ti, 0.001% to 0.006% of N, 0.0005% to 0.003% of Ca, optionally, one or two or more of Cr, Mo, V, Cu, and Ni, in which Ceq is 0.44 or less, Ti/N is 1.5 to 3.5, and parameter formulas composed of specific elements for controlling the sulfide morphology and the degree of center segregation in the steel are satisfied, and the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, in which the hardness of the center segregation area of the steel sheet is further specified.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2012Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Masao Yuga, Shigeki Kitsuya, Yusuke Terazawa, Minoru Suwa, Kenji Hayashi
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Publication number: 20170088913Abstract: A high toughness and high tensile strength thick steel plate has a plate thickness of 100 mm or more, wherein a reduction of area in a center of the plate thickness by tension in a plate thickness direction is 40% or more. Thus, a high tensile strength thick steel plate with excellent strength and toughness in a center of the plate thickness can be obtained with no need for a larger production line, even in the case of producing a high strength thick steel plate for which the addition amount of alloying element needs to be increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2014Publication date: March 30, 2017Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki Kitsuya, Katsuyuki Ichimiya, Kazukuni Hase, Teruhisa Kinugawa, Naoki Matsunaga, Kenji Hayashi, Masayuki Horie, Yusuke Terazawa, Shigeru Endo
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Publication number: 20170044639Abstract: A steel plate has excellent strength and toughness in a mid-thickness part thereof, despite having a plate thickness of 100 mm or greater. The steel plate has a chemical composition containing specific amounts of C, Si, Mn, P, S, Cr, Ni, Al, N, B, and 0, with the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, and having an equivalent carbon content Cer of 0.65 or greater. The steel plate has a yield strength of 620 MPa or greater, a plate thickness of 100 mm or greater, and has a microstructure in which prior ? grain size in a mid-thickness part of the steel plate has a maximum value, expressed as an equivalent circle diameter, of 150 ?m or less, and a total area ratio of martensite and bainite in the mid-thickness part is 80% or greater.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2015Publication date: February 16, 2017Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki Kitsuya, Katsuyuki Ichimiya, Kazukuni Hase, Shigeru Endo