Patents by Inventor Shinji Kodama

Shinji Kodama 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: 20250059635
    Abstract: An arc weld metal according to an aspect of the present invention contains, in a unit mass %, 0.10% or more and 0.30% or less of C, 0.30% or more and 1.00% or less of Si, 1.30% or more and 3.00% or less of Mn, 0.0500% or less of P, 0.0100% or less of S, 0.01% or less of N, and 0.02% or more and 0.07% or less of O, a remainder including iron and impurities, and the residual austenite volume percentage being 3.0% or more and 16.0% or less, in a unit mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki MATSUDA, Shinji KODAMA, Masahiro MATSUBA, Yoshinari ISHIDA
  • Patent number: 12209300
    Abstract: An automobile undercarriage part of the present invention has a welded joint formed by base steel plate, wherein the chemical composition of a weld metal contains, with respect to a total mass of the weld metal, by mass %, C: 0.02% to 0.30%, Si: 0.10% to less than 1.0%, Mn: 1.2% to 3.0%, Al: 0.002% to 0.30%, Ti: 0.005% to 0.30%, P: more than 0% to 0.015%, and S: more than 0% to 0.030%, the following formula (1A), formula (1B), formula (2), and formula (3) are satisfied, and slag in a toe portion of the fillet weld satisfies a formula (4). [Al]+[Ti]>0.05??Formula (1A) [Ti]/[Al]>0.9??Formula(1B) 7×[Si]+7×[Mn]?112×[Ti]?30×[Al]?12??Formula (2) 2.0<[Si]+[Mn]??Formula (3) [Ti content on slag surface]>[Si content on slag surface]??Formula (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Otsuka, Masafumi Azuma, Yoichiro Mori, Shinji Kodama, Masahiro Matsuba
  • Patent number: 12202075
    Abstract: A welded joint comprising: a pair of steel base materials having a sheet thickness of 0.4 to 4.0 mm, and at least one of which has a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more; and a weld metal that welds the pair of steel base materials, wherein, when the weld metal is seen in plan view, a weld toe of the weld metal has peaks and valleys, an average distance in a direction orthogonal to a weld line direction between a top point of a peak and a bottom point of a valley that are adjacent to one another is 3.0 mm or less, and an average number of a total of peaks and valleys, at which the distance in the direction orthogonal to the weld line direction between the top point of the peak and the bottom point of the valley that are adjacent to one another is 0.1 mm to 3.0 mm, is 2 to 30/15 mm, and an automobile component having the welded joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Matsuda, Shinji Kodama
  • Publication number: 20250017221
    Abstract: A meat separator separates meat part attached to bone part by coming into contact with outer peripheral surface of the bone part of bone-in meat that moves relatively with respect to the meat separator. The meat separator includes a plurality of clamp blocks. The clamp blocks each include scraping contact portion that comes into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the bone part, and the scraping contact portions cooperate with each other so as to clamp the outer peripheral surface of the bone part. At least one of the clamp blocks is configured so that at least a part of the scraping contact portion of the clamp block is displaceable in a plurality of directions along outer surface shape of the bone part, and the at least one of the clamp blocks includes biasing function portion that elastically pushes back the displacement in direction moving away from bone part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: MAYEKAWA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Hane, Tomotaka Kajiyama, Kenichi Oka, Yusuke Koyama, Ryuji Kodama
  • Patent number: 12163209
    Abstract: An automobile undercarriage part of the present invention is an automobile undercarriage part including a welded joint in which a first steel sheet and a second steel sheet are overlapped and a fillet weld is formed between an end surface of the first steel sheet and a surface of the second steel sheet, in which a chemical composition of a weld metal that forms the welded joint contains, with respect to a total mass of the weld metal, by mass %, C: 0.02% to 0.20%, Si: more than 0% to less than 0.10%, Mn: 0.3% to 2.0%, Al: 0.002% to 0.30%. Ti: 0.005% to 0.30%, P: more than 0% to 0.015%, and S: more than 0% to 0.030%, and the following formula (1) and formula (2) are satisfied. [Al]+[Ti]>0.05??Formula (1) 7×[Mn]?112×[Ti]?30×[Al]?4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Otsuka, Masafumi Azuma, Yoichiro Mori, Shinji Kodama, Masahiro Matsuba
  • Publication number: 20240351134
    Abstract: Provided are: a method for friction-joining galvanized steel sheets in which admixture of zinc into a joined part is effectively suppressed, and with which it is possible to obtain a joined part that is coated with a galvanized layer; and a joined structure obtained through the aforementioned joining method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Hidetoshi FUJII, Yoshiaki MORISADA, Hiroki FUJIMOTO, Hiroyuki HIRATA, Shinji KODAMA
  • Publication number: 20240250336
    Abstract: A cooling structure according to an aspect of the present invention includes a press forming member including a groove part and a bank part provided around the groove part, a flow path upper lid positioned on a position covering the groove part of the press forming member, and a joint portion which joins opposing surfaces of the flow path upper lid and the bank part to form a flow path through which a cooling liquid is capable of flowing, in which the press forming member and the flow path upper lid are plated steel sheets having a base steel sheet and having an Al-based plating having a film thickness of 10.0 ?m or more or a Zn-based plating having a film thickness of 5.0 ?m or more, in which a sheet thickness of the plated steel sheets 0.3 mm to 1.2 mm, the joint portion is formed of a joining metal brazing the base steel sheets of the press forming member and the flow path upper lid, and a partial flow path interval is 20 mm or less and a joining width is 3 mm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji KODAMA, Sho MATSUI, Kyohei MIYAKE, Yutaka MIKAZUKI, Takashi OKE, Katsunari NORITA
  • Publication number: 20240243386
    Abstract: A cooling structure according to an aspect of the present invention includes a press forming member including a groove part and a bank part provided around the groove part, a flow path upper lid which is a flat sheet overlapped at a position covering the groove part of the press forming member and forms a flat cooling surface, and a laser weld which joins opposing surfaces of the flow path upper lid and the bank part to form a flow path through which a cooling liquid is capable of flowing, in which the press forming member and the flow path upper lid are plated steel sheets including a base steel sheet and an Al-based plating, the flow path has a parallel flow path portion in which a plurality of partial flow paths extending along a first direction are arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and in the parallel flow path portion, an interval between adjacent partial flow paths is 20 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho MATSUI, Shinji KODAMA, Kyohei MIYAKE, Yutaka MIKAZUKI, Takashi OKE, Katsunari NORITA
  • Publication number: 20230287601
    Abstract: A portable, hand-held electrospinning or electrospraying apparatus and system, method, and portions thereof, comprised of a durable portion of the hand-held apparatus and a consumable portion of the hand-held apparatus. The consumable portion of the hand-held apparatus, which may contain the solution to be output in electrospin or electrospray fashion, may be replaced in whole or in part to provide additional or alternative solution. A base station may be provided, and can output high voltage and communication signals to the hand-held apparatus to enable the electrospin or electrospray operation by the hand-held apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokatsu SUGAWARA, Shinji KODAMA, Michael Edward Philip RUSSELL, Carl Gordon HEWETT, Joe Antony WILLIAMS
  • Patent number: 11697890
    Abstract: A portable, hand-held electrospinning or electrospraying apparatus and system, method, and portions thereof, comprised of a durable portion of the hand-held apparatus and a consumable portion of the hand-held apparatus. The consumable portion of the hand-held apparatus, which may contain the solution to be output in electrospin or electrospray fashion, may be replaced in whole or in part to provide additional or alternative solution. A base station may be provided, and can output high voltage and communication signals to the hand-held apparatus to enable the electrospin or electrospray operation by the hand-held apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokatsu Sugawara, Shinji Kodama, Michael Edward Philip Russell, Carl Gordon Hewett, Joe Antony Williams
  • Patent number: 11592045
    Abstract: A lap fillet arc welded joint includes: a first steel sheet and a second steel sheet which are overlapped each other, the first steel sheet and the second steel sheet each having a tensile strength of 950 MPa or more; and a weld metal which extends along a corner formed by an upper surface of the first steel sheet and an end surface of the second steel sheet. When: a toe angle of the weld metal is defined as ?; the total number of concave portions present on the surface of the weld metal included a range of 0.4 mm or less from a fusion boundary is defined as NA; and the number of concave portions in contact with ferrite grains having a maximum grain size of 10 ?m or more is defined as NB, the weld metal satisfies the following conditional expressions (1) and (2) at the same time. 0°<?<30°??(1) NB/NA?0.70??(2) (Here, NA is 20 or more).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Matsuda, Shinji Kodama, Kotaro Watanabe, Masatoshi Tokunaga
  • Publication number: 20220379409
    Abstract: A welded joint comprising: a pair of steel base materials having a sheet thickness of 0.4 to 4.0 mm, and at least one of which has a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more; and a weld metal that welds the pair of steel base materials, wherein, when the weld metal is seen in plan view, a weld toe of the weld metal has peaks and valleys, an average distance in a direction orthogonal to a weld line direction between a top point of a peak and a bottom point of a valley that are adjacent to one another is 3.0 mm or less, and an average number of a total of peaks and valleys, at which the distance in the direction orthogonal to the weld line direction between the top point of the peak and the bottom point of the valley that are adjacent to one another is 0.1 mm to 3.0 mm, is 2 to 30/15 mm, and an automobile component having the welded joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuki MATSUDA, Shinji KODAMA
  • Patent number: 11498143
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lap fillet arc welding joint including a first metal sheet, a second metal sheet, and a weld bead. A region of the first metal sheet on one end side is bent. In a first direction, a position of a tip end of the bent region of the first metal sheet overlaps a region of the second metal sheet on one end side. In a second direction, an amount of deviation between a central axis of a region connected to the bent region of the first metal sheet and a central axis of the region of the second metal sheet on one end side is ½ times or less of average sheet thicknesses of the first metal sheet and the second metal sheet. A joint portion length is two times or more of the sheet thickness of the second metal sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Kodama, Yoshinari Ishida, Kazuki Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20220220595
    Abstract: An automobile undercarriage part of the present invention is an automobile undercarriage part including a welded joint in which a first steel sheet and a second steel sheet are overlapped and a fillet weld is formed between an end surface of the first steel sheet and a surface of the second steel sheet, in which a chemical composition of a weld metal that forms the welded joint contains, with respect to a total mass of the weld metal, by mass %, C: 0.02% to 0.20%, Si: more than 0% to less than 0.10%, Mn: 0.3% to 2.0%, Al: 0.002% to 0.30%, Ti: 0.005% to 0.30%, P: more than 0% to 0.015%, and S: more than 0% to 0.030%, and the following formula (1) and formula (2) are satisfied. [Al]+[Ti]>0.05 ??Formula (1) 7×[Mn]?112×[Ti]?30×[Al]?4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro OTSUKA, Masafumi AZUMA, Yoichiro MORI, Shinji KODAMA, Masahiro MATSUBA
  • Publication number: 20220161282
    Abstract: Provided is a hand-held type electrostatic spray device (1) spraying an electrically charged liquid, the electrostatic spray device (1) comprising: a voltage source; a needle-shaped electrode (53: a base electrode) for electrically charging the liquid to which a voltage is applied from the voltage source and which includes a linear tip portion; a second bottom portion (32: an additional electrode) of a second electrode member (3) to which a voltage is applied from the voltage source; and a conductor (6) which is electrically isolated from the second bottom portion (32) and the needle-shaped electrode (53) and is disposed on a spray side of the liquid from the second bottom portion (32), at least a part of the conductor (6) overlapping with the second bottom portion (32) in a direction orthogonal to a spray direction of the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji KODAMA
  • Publication number: 20220154319
    Abstract: An automobile undercarriage part of the present invention has a welded joint formed by base steel plate, wherein the chemical composition of a weld metal contains, with respect to a total mass of the weld metal, by mass %, C: 0.02% to 0.30%, Si: 0.10% to less than 1.0%, Mn: 1.2% to 3.0%, Al: 0.002% to 0.30%, Ti: 0.005% to 0.30%, P: more than 0% to 0.015%, and S: more than 0% to 0.030%, the following formula (1A), formula (1B), formula (2), and formula (3) are satisfied, and slag in a toe portion of the fillet weld satisfies a formula (4). [Al]+[Ti]>0.05??Formula (1A) [Ti]/[Al]>0.9??Formula(1B) 7×[Si]+7×[Mn]?112×[Ti]?30×[Al]?12??Formula (2) 2.0<[Si]+[Mn]??Formula (3) [Ti content on slag surface]>[Si content on slag surface]??Formula (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro OTSUKA, Masafumi AZUMA, Yoichiro MORI, Shinji KODAMA, Masahiro MATSUBA
  • Patent number: 11235415
    Abstract: In a fillet welded joint a base material tensile strength is 980 MPa or more, a carbon equivalent is 0.36 or more and 0.60 or less, a tensile strength [MPa] is 1950 times or more of the carbon equivalent [wt %], a weld metal average carbon equivalent is 0.45 or more and 0.65 or less, and at a prescribed position below a surface of a weld toe, a Vickers hardness HVbond at a boundary between the weld metal and a heat affected zone, an average value HVwmt of the Vickers hardness of the weld metal in a position 0.1-mm or more and 0.3-mm or less to the weld metal side of the boundary, and an average value HVhaz of the Vickers hardness of the heat affected zone in a position 0.1-mm or more and 0.3-mm or less to the heat affected zone side of the boundary satisfy HVbond?HVwmt, HVbond?HVhaz-50, and HVhaz?350.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Kodama, Kazuki Matsuda, Yoshinari Ishida
  • Patent number: D941679
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Susumu Fujinami, Shinji Kodama, Shuhei Matsumoto
  • Patent number: D977974
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Kodama, Haruomi Enomoto
  • Patent number: D977975
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Kodama, Haruomi Enomoto