Patents by Inventor Takafumi Yokoyama
Takafumi Yokoyama 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: 11332803Abstract: A high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet contains predetermined amounts of C, Si, Mn, P, S, N, O, sol. Al, Ti, and B, 0.1 to 1.5 mass % of Cr+2×Mo, and a balance in a form of Fe and inevitable impurities. A steel structure includes, in area %, ferrite: 1 to 50%, martensite: 20 to 70%, residual austenite: 0 to 5%, pearlite: 0 to 5%, MA and cementite having 0.2 ?m or more grain size: 0 to 5% in total, and a balance in a form of bainite. A number density of MA or cementite having 0.2 ?m or more grain size and isolated in ferrite or bainite grains is 100 pcs/1000 ?m2 or less, and an average hardness of martensite is in a range from 330 to 500 Hv.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Yuji Yamaguchi, Masahiro Nakata, Kunio Hayashi, Satoshi Uchida, Takuma Kawanaka
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Publication number: 20220145417Abstract: Provided are: a steel sheet having a high strength and excellent stretch formability; and a method of producing the same. The steel sheet has prescribed chemical composition and structure, in which the integration degree of the (111)<112> orientation of ferrite is 3.0 or higher, and the integration degree of the (252)<2-11> orientation of martensite and tempered martensite is 5.0 or lower. The method of producing the steel sheet includes: the step of continuously casting a molten steel having the prescribed chemical composition, and performing 5 to 40% rolling reduction at a temperature of 800° C. to lower than 1,200° C. in a period after the continuous casting until cooling to room temperature; the hot rolling step of performing hot rolling with a finishing temperature of 650 to 950° C.; the step of coiling the resulting hot-rolled steel sheet at a coiling temperature of 400 to 700° C.; the step of retaining the hot-rolled steel sheet at (coiling start temperature+20° C. to 100° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo TAKEDA, Hitoshi NIKAIDO, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Takafumi YOKOYAMA
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Patent number: 11326234Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet is provided that has a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more, and has a prescribed chemical composition. The microstructure is composed of, in area %, ferrite: 1 to 29%, retained austenite: 5 to 20%, martensite: less than 10%, pearlite: less than 5%, and the balance: bainite and/or tempered martensite. The total sum of the lengths of phase boundaries where ferrite comes in contact with martensite or retained austenite having a circle-equivalent radius of 1 ?m or more is 100 ?m or less per 1000 ?m2. The cold-rolled steel sheet is excellent in workability and low-temperature toughness, and in particular is excellent in low-temperature toughness after introduction of plastic strain.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Riki Okamoto, Yuji Yamaguchi, Kazuki Shiokawa, Yuichi Nakahira, Hiroyuki Kawata
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Publication number: 20220127709Abstract: Provided are a hot dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and contains ferrite: 50% or less, retained austenite: 30% or less, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 10% or less, and pearlite and cementite in total: 5% or less, remaining structures consist of bainite, and a number ratio of tempered martensite with a Mn concentration profile satisfying [Mn]b/[Mn]a>1.2 and [Mn]a/[Mn]<2.0 ([Mn] is the Mn content in the base steel sheet, [Mn]a is the average Mn concentration in the tempered martensite, and [Mn]b is the Mn concentration at the interfaces of different phases of the tempered martensite and ferrite phase and bainite phase) is 0.2 or more with respect to the total number of tempered martensite, and a method for producing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Kunio HAYASHI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA
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Publication number: 20220127691Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes a chemical composition including: by mass %, C: 0.080 to 0.500%, Si: 2.50% or less, Mn: 0.50 to 5.00%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.001 to 2.500%, N: 0.0150% or less, O: 0.0050% or less, and the balance: Fe and inevitable impurities. The high-strength steel sheet satisfying a predetermined formula has a microstructure in a region from ?t to ?t from a steel sheet surface. The microstructure includes: by volume %, 20% or more of acicular ferrite, 20% or more of an island-shaped hard structure including residual austenite, 2% to 25% of residual austenite, and 20% or less of aggregated ferrite.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2018Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki KAWATA, Eisaku SAKURADA, Kohichi SANO, Takafumi YOKOYAMA
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Publication number: 20220119908Abstract: Provided are a hot dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized layer on at least one surface of the base metal steel sheet, wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and contains, by volume fraction, ferrite: 0% to 50%, retained austenite: 0% to 30%, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite and cementite in total: 0% to 5%, when there are remaining structures, the remaining structures consist of bainite, a concentration of B atoms at prior austenite grain boundaries is 2.0 atm % or more, and an average effective crystal grain size is 7.0 ?m or less, and a method for producing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2020Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Kunio HAYASHI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA
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Publication number: 20220090248Abstract: Provided are a hot dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined composition and contains ferrite: 0% to 50%, retained austenite: 0% to 30%, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite and cementite in total: 0% to 5%, remaining structures consist of bainite, when defining a region having a hardness of 90% or less of the hardness at a position of ¼ thickness to the base steel sheet side from an interface of the base steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized layer as a “soft layer”, there is a soft layer having a thickness of 10 ?m or more at the base steel sheet side from the interface, the soft layer contains tempered martensite, and an increase rate in a thickness direction of an area % of tempered martensite from the interface to the inside of the base steel sheet inside the soft layer is 5.0%/pm or less, and a method for producing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2020Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Kunio HAYASHI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA
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Publication number: 20220064771Abstract: Provided are a hot dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized layer on at least one surface of the base metal steel sheet, wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition and contains, by volume fraction, ferrite: 0% to 50%, retained austenite: 6% to 30%, bainite: 5% or more, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite and cementite in total: 0% to 5%, a number density of tempered martensite with a circle equivalent diameter of 5.0 ?m or more is 20/1000 ?m2 or less, and an area ratio of fresh martensite with a circle equivalent diameter of 2.0 ?m or more after imparting 5% plastic strain is 10% or less, and a method for producing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2020Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Kunio HAYASHI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA
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Patent number: 11174529Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having a microstructure represented by, in area %, martensite: 5% or more; ferrite: 20% or more; and pearlite: 5% or less. A ratio of the number of bulging type martensite grains to the number of martensite grains on grain boundary triple points of a matrix is 70% or more, wherein: the bulging type martensite grain is on one of the grain boundary triple points of the matrix; and at least one of grain boundaries of the bulging type martensite grain, the grain boundaries connecting two adjacent grain boundary triple points of the bulging type martensite grain and grains of the matrix, has a convex curvature to an outer side with respect to line segments connecting the two adjacent grain boundary triple points. An area ratio VM/A0 is 1.0 or more.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Riki Okamoto, Yoshinari Ishida, Yoshihiro Suwa, Takafumi Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20210340653Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet excellent in formability, toughness and weldability has a chemical composition including: by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.30%, Si: 2.50% or less, Mn: 0.50 to 3.50%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.001 to 2.500%, N: 0.0150% or less, O: 0.0050% or less, and the balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities. The high-strength steel sheet has a microstructure in a region from ?t (t: sheet thickness) to ?t (t: sheet thickness) from a steel sheet surface, the microstructure including: by volume %, acicular ferrite (3): 20% or more, and martensite (4):10% or more, aggregated ferrite: 20% or less, residual austenite: 2.0% or less, and the martensite satisfies a formula (A), ? i = 1 5 ? ? d i a i 1.5 ? 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2018Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki KAWATA, Eisaku SAKURADA, Kohichi SANO, Takafumi YOKOYAMA
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Publication number: 20210230712Abstract: A zinc-plated steel sheet of an aspect of the present invention includes a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition and a zinc-plated layer. In the steel sheet, steel microstructures in a range of ? thickness to ? thickness, having the center at ¼ thickness from a steel sheet surface, include, by vol %, ferrite: 0% to 10%, bainite: 0% to 20%, tempered martensite: 70% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, retained austenite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite: 0% to 5%. In the zinc-plated steel sheet, the amount of hydrogen emitted when the steel sheet is heated to 200° C. from a room temperature after removal of the zinc-plated layer is 0.40 ppm or less per mass of the steel sheet, the tensile strength is 1470 MPa or more, and no cracking occurs in a U-shape bending test where a stress equivalent to 1000 MPa is applied for 24 hours.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2019Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Kunio HAYASHI, Masahiro NAKATA, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA
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Publication number: 20210155999Abstract: A zinc-plated steel sheet of an aspect of the present invention includes a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition and a zinc-plated layer. In the steel sheet, steel microstructures in a range of ? thickness to ? thickness, having the center at ¼ thickness from a steel sheet surface, include, by vol %, ferrite: 0% to 10%, bainite: 0% to 30%, tempered martensite: 50% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, retained austenite: more than 10% and 30% or less, and pearlite: 0% to 5%. In the zinc-plated steel sheet, the amount of hydrogen emitted when the steel sheet is heated to 200° C. from room temperature after removal of the zinc-plated layer is 0.40 ppm or less per mass of the steel sheet, the tensile strength is 1470 MPa or more, and no cracking occurs in a U-shape bending test where a stress equivalent to 1000 MPa is applied for 24 hours.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Kunio HAYASHI, Masahiro NAKATA, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA
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Publication number: 20210123122Abstract: This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a steel structure of an inside of the steel sheet contains, by volume fraction, soft ferrite: 0% to 30%, retained austenite: 3% to 40%, fresh martensite: 0% to 30%, a sum of pearlite and cementite: 0% to 10%, and a remainder includes hard ferrite, in the inside of the steel sheet, a number proportion of the retained austenite having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more in the total retained austenite is 50% or more, a soft layer having a thickness of 1 to 100 ?m from a surface in a sheet thickness direction is present, in ferrite contained in the soft layer, a volume fraction of grains having an aspect ratio of less than 3.0 is 50% or more, the volume fraction of retained austenite in the soft layer is less than 50% of the volume fraction of the retained austenite of the inside of the steel sheet, and a peak of an emission intensity at a wavelength indicating Si appears in a range of more than 0.2 ?m and 5.0 ?m or less from the surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Kohichi SANO, Riki OKAMOTO, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Eisaku SAKURADA, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Kazuki SHIOKAWA, Yuichi NAKAHIRA, Kohei UEDA, Masahiro NAKATA, Satoshi UCHIDA
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Publication number: 20210095356Abstract: A steel sheet according to an aspect of the present invention has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a steel structure of an inside of the steel sheet contains, by volume fraction, soft ferrite: 0% to 30%, retained austenite: 3% to 40%, fresh martensite: 0% to 30%, a sum of pearlite and cementite: 0% to 10%, and a remainder including hard ferrite, in the inside of the steel sheet, a number proportion of the retained austenite having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more in the total retained austenite is 50% or more, a soft layer having a thickness of 1 ?m to 100 ?m from the surface is present in a sheet thickness direction, among ferrite contained in the soft layer, a volume fraction of grains having an aspect ratio of less than 3.0 is 50% or more, a volume fraction of retained austenite in the soft layer is 50% or more of the volume fraction of the retained austenite of the inside of the steel sheet, and a peak of an emission intensity at a wavelength indicating Si appears in a range of more than 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: April 1, 2021Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Kohichi SANO, Riki OKAMOTO, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Eisaku SAKURADA, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Kazuki SHIOKAWA, Yuichi NAKAHIRA, Kohei UEDA, Masahiro NAKATA, Satoshi UCHIDA
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Publication number: 20210017620Abstract: This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a steel structure of an inside of the steel sheet contains, by volume fraction, soft ferrite: 0% to 30%, retained austenite: 3% to 40%, fresh martensite: 0% to 30%, a sum of pearlite and cementite: 0% to 10%, and a remainder includes hard ferrite, a number proportion of the retained austenite having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more in the total retained austenite is 50% or more, a soft layer having a thickness of 1 to 100 ?m from a surface in a sheet thickness direction is present, in ferrite contained in the soft layer, a volume fraction of grains having an aspect ratio of 3.0 or more is 50% or more, a volume fraction of retained austenite in the soft layer is 80% or less of the volume fraction of the retained austenite in the inside of the steel sheet, and a peak of an emission intensity at a wavelength indicating Si appears in a range of more than 0.2 ?m and 10.0 ?m or less from the surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Riki OKAMOTO, Kohichi SANO, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Kohei UEDA, Eisaku SAKURADA
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Patent number: 10724114Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet is provided that has a chemical composition that consists of, by mass %, C: 0.050 to 0.40%, Si: 0.01 to 3.0%, Mn: 1.0 to 5.0%, sol. Al: 0.001 to 1.0%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.20%, B: 0.0005 to 0.010%, P: 0.1% or less, S: 0.01% or less, O: 0.1% or less, N: 0.01% or less, Cr: 0 to 1.0%, Mo: 0 to 1.0%, Ni: 0 to 1.0%, Cu: 0 to 1.0%, Sn: 0 to 0.50%, Nb: 0 to 0.20%, V: 0 to 0.50%, W: 0 to 0.50%, Ca: 0 to 0.01%, Mg: 0 to 0.01%, Bi: 0 to 0.01%, Sb: 0 to 0.10%, Zr: 0 to 0.01%, and REM: 0 to 0.01%, with the balance being Fe and impurities, and that satisfies the formulas [sol. Bs/B?0.50] and [sol. Bq/B>0.50] (where, B: B amount in the steel; sol. Bs: soluble B amount in a surface layer portion of the steel; and sol. Bq: soluble B amount in the steel interior).Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Kawata, Riki Okamoto
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Patent number: 10718044Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes: a predetermined chemical composition; and a steel structure represented by: in terms of area ratio, polygonal ferrite: 10% or less; upper bainite: 20% or less; retained austenite: 5% or less; and martensite: 70% or more, in which: martensite having Fe carbides at a number density of 1×106/mm2 or more is contained by 50% or more, in terms of area ratio, with respect to the entire amount of martensite; and the steel structure has an average effective crystal grain diameter of 5.0 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Kunio Hayashi, Masafumi Azuma, Eisaku Sakurada, Hiroyuki Kawata, Genki Abukawa
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Publication number: 20200115771Abstract: A high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet contains predetermined amounts of C, Si, Mn, P, S, N, O, sol. Al, Ti, and B, 0.1 to 1.5 mass % of Cr+2×Mo, and a balance in a form of Fe and inevitable impurities. A steel structure includes, in area %, ferrite: 1 to 50%, martensite: 20 to 70%, residual austenite: 0 to 5%, pearlite: 0 to 5%, MA and cementite having 0.2 ?m or more grain size: 0 to 5% in total, and a balance in a form of bainite. A number density of MA or cementite having 0.2 ?m or more grain size and isolated in ferrite or bainite grains is 100 pcs/1000 ?m2 or less, and an average hardness of martensite is in a range from 330 to 500 Hv.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2018Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Masahiro NAKATA, Kunio HAYASHI, Satoshi UCHIDA, Takuma KAWANAKA
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Publication number: 20200024709Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet is provided that has a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more, and has a prescribed chemical composition. The microstructure is composed of, in area %, ferrite: 1 to 29%, retained austenite: 5 to 20%, martensite: less than 10%, pearlite: less than 5%, and the balance: bainite and/or tempered martensite. The total sum of the lengths of phase boundaries where ferrite comes in contact with martensite or retained austenite having a circle-equivalent radius of 1 ?m or more is 100 ?m or less per 1000 ?m2. The cold-rolled steel sheet is excellent in workability and low-temperature toughness, and in particular is excellent in low-temperature toughness after introduction of plastic strain.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2017Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi YOKOYAMA, Riki OKAMOTO, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Kazuki SHIOKAWA, Yuichi NAKAHIRA, Hiroyuki KAWATA
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Patent number: 10351942Abstract: In a high strength hot-dip galvannealed hot-rolled steel sheet that has an excellent hole expansibility suitable for a stretch flanging and preferably has a high yield ratio and a tensile strength of at least 650 MPa, a hot-rolled steel sheet used as a base material for plating has a chemical composition comprising: in mass %, C: from at least 0.01 and at most 0.20%; Si: at most 0.50%; Mn: from at least 0.01% to at most 1.30%; P: at most 0.05%; S: at most 0.01%; N: at most 0.01%; Al: at most 0.50%; and Ti: from at least 0.05% to at most 0.50%, and a steel structure consisting of a polygonal ferrite having at least 80 area % and the remainder containing one kind or two or more kinds selected from bainitic ferrite, bainite, pearlite, and cementite.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2012Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Shigeki Nomura