Patents by Inventor Tadachika Chiba

Tadachika Chiba 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: 20240425943
    Abstract: A steel sheet; a related member; and methods for manufacturing them are disclosed. The steel sheet has a chemical composition including specific amounts of C, Si, Mn, P, S, sol. Al, and N in mass %. The steel sheet has a specific ratio of the total of polygonal ferrite, upper bainite, retained ?, fresh martensite, tempered martensite, and lower bainite, and a specific ratio of a remaining microstructure. The steel sheet has a specific ratio of the number of fresh martensite grains and retained ? grains having an equivalent circular diameter of less than 1.2 ?m, and has a specific ratio of the number of fresh martensite grains and retained ? grains having an aspect ratio of 2.5 or more and an equivalent circular diameter of 1.2 ?m or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tadachika Chiba, Yoichiro Matsui, Fangyi Wang, Shinjiro Kaneko, Takeshi Yokota, Shuto Ozono
  • Publication number: 20240384379
    Abstract: A steel sheet; a related member; and methods for manufacturing them are disclosed. The steel sheet has a chemical composition including specific amounts of C, Si, Mn, P, S, sol. Al, and N in mass %. The steel sheet has a specific ratio of the total of polygonal ferrite, upper bainite, retained ?, fresh martensite, tempered martensite, and lower bainite, and a specific ratio of a remaining microstructure. The steel sheet has a specific ratio of the number of fresh martensite grains and retained ? grains having an equivalent circular diameter of less than 0.8 ?m, and has a specific ratio of the number of fresh martensite grains and retained ? grains having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more and an equivalent circular diameter of 0.8 ?m or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tadachika Chiba, Fangyi Wang, Yoichiro Matsui, Shinjiro Kaneko, Takeshi Yokota, Shuto Ozono
  • Publication number: 20240368722
    Abstract: Provided are a steel sheet; a related member; and methods for manufacturing the same. The steel sheet has a chemical composition including, in mass %, C: 0.06 to 0.25%, Si: 0.4 to 2.5%, Mn: 1.5 to 3.5%, P: 0.02% or less, S: 0.01% or less, sol. Al: less than 1.0%, and N: less than 0.015%, the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, the steel sheet being such that the steel sheet includes a steel microstructure including, in area fraction, polygonal ferrite: 10% or less (including 0%), tempered martensite: 30% or more, fresh martensite: 20% or less (including 0%), lower bainite: 5 to 50%, and, in volume fraction, retained austenite: 5 to 20%, and the steel sheet has SC?0.5/SC?0.3×100 of 15% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Matsui, Tadachika Chiba, Shinjiro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20230203615
    Abstract: A steel sheet has a specified chemical composition and a specified steel microstructure. An average grain size of ferrite and/or bainitic ferrite is 7.0 ?m or less. On the basis of a distribution in the width direction of the steel sheet, a ratio of a deviation of the grain size of the ferrite and/or the bainitic ferrite to the average grain size of the ferrite and/or the bainitic ferrite is 10% or less. On the basis of a distribution in the width direction of the steel sheet, a ratio of a deviation of the area fraction of as-quenched martensite to the area fraction of the as-quenched martensite is 10% or less. On the basis of a distribution in the width direction of the steel sheet, a ratio of a deviation of the area fraction of retained austenite to the area fraction of the retained austenite is 10% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tadachika Chiba, Shinjiro Kaneko, Yoichiro Matsui, Noriaki Kosaka
  • Publication number: 20210381076
    Abstract: A thin steel sheet has a specific chemical composition. The thin steel sheet has a microstructure in which ferrite is present in an area fraction of 5% or more and 60% or less, as-quenched martensite is present in an area fraction of 10% or less (including 0%), retained austenite is present in an area fraction of 5% or more and 20% or less, and upper bainite, lower bainite, and tempered martensite are present in a total area fraction of more than 15% and less than 85%; BCC iron that has a misorientation of 1° or less and surrounds retained austenite having an aspect ratio of 2.5 or higher is present in an area fraction of 5% or more and 70% or less; and a top 10% of retained austenite in terms of an equivalent circular diameter has an average aspect ratio of 2.5 or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Kohsaka, Shinjiro Kaneko, Akinori Nakamura, Yuma Honda, Tadachika Chiba, Yoshihiko Ono
  • Publication number: 20210381077
    Abstract: A thin steel sheet has a specific chemical composition. The thin steel sheet has a microstructure in which ferrite is present in an area fraction of 4% or less (including 0%), as-quenched martensite is present in an area fraction of 10% or less (including 0%), retained austenite is present in an amount of 7% or more and 20% or less, and upper bainite, lower bainite, and tempered martensite are present in a total area fraction of more than 71% and less than 93%; and BCC iron that has a misorientation of 1° or less and surrounds retained austenite having an equivalent circular diameter of 1 ?m or less is present in an area fraction of 4% or more and 50% or less, and BCC iron that has a misorientation of more than 1° is present in an area fraction of 25% or more and 85% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Kohsaka, Junya Tobata, Shinjiro Kaneko, Yasushi Kitani, Yoshihiko Ono, Tadachika Chiba