Patents by Inventor Takuya Hirashima

Takuya Hirashima 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).

  • Patent number: 11965223
    Abstract: A thin steel sheet has a steel structure which has a ferrite area fraction of 30% or less, a bainite area fraction of 5% or less, a martensite and tempered martensite area fraction of 70% or more, and a retained austenite area fraction of 2.0% or less and in which the ratio of the dislocation density in the range of 0 ?m to 20 ?m from a surface of the steel sheet to the dislocation density of a through-thickness central portion of the steel sheet is 90% to 110% and the average of the top 10% of the sizes of cementite grains located in a depth of up to 100 ?m from a surface of the steel sheet is 300 nm or less. The maximum camber of the steel sheet sheared to a length of 1 m in a longitudinal direction of the steel sheet is 15 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Kohsaka, Soshi Yoshimoto, Tomohiro Hashimukai, Takuya Hirashima
  • Publication number: 20240035105
    Abstract: Provided is a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having both high strength and good workability, as well as excellent coating quality. The chemical composition of the base steel sheet is set within a specified range, the steel microstructure of the base steel sheet is a complex structure of ferrite, martensite and bainite, oxygen is present as oxides in the surface layer of the base steel sheet in an amount of 0.05 g/m2 or more and 0.50 g/m2 or less per surface, and the hot-dip galvanized layer contains Fe in an amount of 0.40 mass % or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya HIRASHIMA, Tatsuya NAKAGAITO, Masaki KOBA, Yoichi MAKIMIZU, Katsuya HATA, Shotaro TERASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240026481
    Abstract: Provided is a steel sheet having excellent workability while ensuring excellent strength. The steel sheet comprises: a predetermined chemical composition; and a steel microstructure that contains ferrite: 45% to 90%, martensite: 5% to 30%, bainite: 1% to 25%, and retained austenite: 3% or more and in which [Mn]M/[Mn] is 1.00 to 1.15 and [Mn]M/[Mn]F is 1.00 to 1.30, wherein TS×El is 16000 MPa·% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya HIRASHIMA, Tatsuya NAKAGAITO, Masaki KOBA, Kyoko NAITO, Seisuke TSUDA, Katsuya HATA, Shotaro TERASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11846003
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having high delayed fracture resistance and a method for manufacturing the high-strength steel sheet. The high-strength steel sheet has a specified chemical composition. Relative to the whole microstructure of the steel sheet, the total area fraction of at least one of (i) bainite containing carbide grains having an average grain size of 50 nm or less and (ii) martensite containing carbide grains having an average grain size of 50 nm or less is 90% or more. The average number of inclusions having an average grain size of 5 ?m or more that are present in a section of the steel sheet perpendicular to a rolling direction is 5.0/mm2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Hirashima, Shimpei Yoshioka, Shinjiro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11603574
    Abstract: A high-ductility, high-strength steel sheet having excellent close-contact bendability and a method for producing the same. The steel sheet has a specified chemical composition and a microstructure comprising, by area percentage, 50% or more of a ferrite phase, 5% to 30% of a pearlite phase, and 15% or less in total of bainite, martensite, and retained austenite, in which the area percentage of ferrite grains each containing three or more cementite grains having an aspect ratio of 1.5 or less is 30% or less, and the number of inclusions having a particle size of 10 ?m or more present in a portion extending from a surface to a ¼ thickness position is 2.0 particles/mm2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Hirashima, Yoshihiko Ono
  • Publication number: 20220372590
    Abstract: The steel sheet of the present invention has a steel microstructure containing, in area fraction, martensite: from 20% to 100%, ferrite: from 0% to 80%, and another metal phase: 5% or less, and in which a ratio of a dislocation density in metal phases on a surface of the steel sheet to a dislocation density in the metal phases in a thicknesswise central portion of the steel sheet is from 30% to 80%. The maximum amount of warpage of the steel sheet when the steel sheet is sheared to a length of 1 m in a rolling direction is 15 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hirashima, Shimpei Yoshioka, Shinjiro Kaneko, Soshi Yoshimoto, Tomohiro Hashimukai
  • Publication number: 20220364198
    Abstract: The steel sheet of the present invention has a steel microstructure containing, in area fraction, martensite: 20% to 100%, ferrite: 0% to 80%, and another metal phase: 5% or less, in which, on a surface of the steel sheet, a ratio of dislocation density in metal phases at a widthwise edge of the steel sheet to dislocation density in the metal phases at a widthwise center of the steel sheet is 100% to 140%, and, at a thicknesswise center of the steel sheet, a ratio of dislocation density in the metal phases at the widthwise edge of the steel sheet to dislocation density in the metal phases at the widthwise center of the steel sheet is 100% to 140%. The maximum amount of warpage of the steel sheet when the steel sheet is sheared to a length of 1 m in a rolling direction is 15 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hirashima, Shimpei Yoshioka, Shinjiro Kaneko, Soshi Yoshimoto, Tomohiro Hashimukai
  • Publication number: 20220298594
    Abstract: A steel sheet having a steel microstructure including, by area %, martensite in a range of 20% or more and 100% or less, ferrite in a range of 0% or more and 80% or less, and the balance being 5% or less. A residual stress generated at the transverse center of the steel sheet when the steel sheet is subjected to a V-bending process is 800 MPa or less. A residual stress generated at the transverse end of the steel sheet when the steel sheet is subjected to a V-bending process is 90% or more and 110% or less of the residual stress generated at the transverse center of the steel sheet. The maximum amount of warpage of the steel sheet sheared to a length of 1 m in the longitudinal direction is 15 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya HIRASHIMA, Shimpei YOSHIOKA, Shinjiro KANEKO, Soshi YOSHIMOTO, Tomohiro HASHIMUKAI, Yoshihiko ONO
  • Publication number: 20220282353
    Abstract: The high strength steel sheet of the present invention has a specific chemical composition, and contains, in terms of area fraction relative to an entire steel microstructure, 30% or more and 100% or less ferrite, 0% or more and 70% or less martensite, and less than 20% in total of pearlite, bainite and retained austenite, and the ferrite contains, in terms of area fraction relative to an entire microstructure, 0% or more and 10% or less non-recrystallized ferrite, with a difference of the area fraction of the non-recrystallized ferrite in the longitudinal direction of the steel sheet of 5% or smaller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hirashima, Yu Hashimoto, Shinjiro Kaneko, Yoshihiko Ono
  • Publication number: 20220275469
    Abstract: The high strength steel sheet of the present invention has a specific chemical composition, and contains, in terms of area fraction relative to an entire steel microstructure, 30% or more and 100% or less ferrite, 0% or more and 70% or less martensite, and less than 20% in total of pearlite, bainite and retained austenite, a total content of Nb and Ti contained in a precipitate having a particle size of smaller than 20 nm is 25 mass ppm or more and 220 mass ppm or less, and the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the total content of Nb and Ti contained in the precipitate having a particle size of smaller than 20 nm, in the longitudinal direction of the steel sheet, is smaller than 20 mass ppm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hirashima, Yu Hashimoto, Shinjiro Kaneko, Yoshihiko Ono
  • Publication number: 20220220577
    Abstract: A high strength member according to the present invention is the high strength member having a bending ridge line portion formed from a steel sheet, the member having a tensile strength of 1470 MPa or higher, a residual stress of 300 MPa or lower in an end surface of the bending ridge line portion, and a Vickers hardness (HV) of 200 or higher and 450 or lower in the end surface of the bending ridge line portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hirashima, Shinjiro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20220098698
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having a low yield ratio and a method for producing the same. The high-strength steel sheet has a specified chemical composition and a microstructure in which ferrite is present as a major phase, and martensite is present in an area fraction of 10% or greater and less than 50% relative to an entire area of the microstructure. The martensite has an average grain diameter of 3.0 ?m or less, in an entirety of the martensite, a proportion of martensite having an aspect ratio of 3 or less is 60% or greater, and the martensite having an aspect ratio of 3 or less has a carbon concentration of 0.30% or greater and 0.90% or less in mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya HIRASHIMA, Yuma HONDA, Akinori NAKAMURA, Shinjiro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20220010414
    Abstract: A high-strength member having excellent delayed fracture resistance, a method for manufacturing the high-strength member, and a method for manufacturing a steel sheet for the high-strength member. The high-strength member has a bent ridge portion obtained by using a steel sheet having a tensile strength of 1470 MPa or more, an edge surface of the bent ridge portion has a residual stress of 800 MPa or less, and a longest crack among cracks that extend from the edge surface of the bent ridge portion in a bent ridge direction D1 has a length of 10 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya HIRASHIMA, Shimpei YOSHIOKA, Shinjiro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20220002827
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having high delayed fracture resistance and a method for manufacturing the high-strength steel sheet. The high-strength steel sheet has a specified chemical composition. Relative to the whole microstructure of the steel sheet, the total area fraction of at least one of (i) bainite containing carbide grains having an average grain size of 50 nm or less and (ii) martensite containing carbide grains having an average grain size of 50 nm or less is 90% or more. The average number of inclusions having an average grain size of 5 ?m or more that are present in a section of the steel sheet perpendicular to a rolling direction is 5.0/mm2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya HIRASHIMA, Shimpei YOSHIOKA, Shinjiro KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11208704
    Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet has a component composition containing, on a percent by mass basis, C: 0.12% or more and 0.25% or less, Si: less than 0.5%, Mn: 2.0% or more and 3.0% or less, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 0.10% or less, and N: 0.010% or less, the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, the total area percentage of martensite and tempered martensite satisfying 20% or more and 90% or less, the area percentage of ferrite satisfying 10% or less, the area percentage of bainite satisfying 10% or more and 80% or less, the area percentage of a martensite-austenite constituent in the bainite being 1% or more and 10% or less, the area percentage of cementite having an average grain size of 1 ?m or less in the bainite being 0.1% or more and 5.0% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hirashima, Hiromi Yoshitomi
  • Publication number: 20210381085
    Abstract: A high-yield-ratio high-strength electrogalvanized steel sheet having an electrogalvanized coating layer formed on a surface of a base steel sheet, in which the base steel sheet has a certain chemical composition, and a steel microstructure, in which a total area fraction of one or both of bainite containing carbides having an average grain diameter of 50 nm or less and tempered martensite containing carbides having an average grain diameter of 50 nm or less is 90% or more in the whole of the steel microstructure, and in which a total area fraction of one or both of the bainite containing and the tempered martensite containing carbides is 80% or more in a region from the surface of the base steel sheet to a position located at ? of a thickness of the base steel sheet, and diffusible hydrogen in steel in an amount of 0.20 mass ppm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hirashima, Yoshihiko Ono
  • Patent number: 11186900
    Abstract: A high-strength cold rolled steel sheet having mechanical characteristics having a tensile strength of not less than 780 MPa, a yield ratio of not more than 70%, and a small in-plane anisotropy of a tensile characteristicis obtained by hot rolling a steel slab comprising by mass % C: 0.07 to 0.12%, Si: not more than 0.7%, Mn: 2.2 to 2.8% and Ti and Nb: 0.02 to 0.08% in total, and cold rolling the sheet, followed by continuous annealing to form a steel texture comprised of ferrite having an area ratio of 40 to 80% with respect to the whole texture, and a second phase constituted by tempered martensite, fresh martensite and bainite, wherein the total area ratio of the bainite and the tempered martensite to the second phase is 50 to 80%, and the aspect ratio of the fresh martensite is in the range of 1.0 to 1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Hirashima, Kenji Kawamura, Yoshihiko Ono, Yuma Honda
  • Patent number: 11180823
    Abstract: Provided are a high-strength galvanized steel sheet having excellent delayed fracture resistance by reducing the diffusible hydrogen content in the steel and a method for producing the same. The high-strength galvanized steel sheet includes a steel sheet having a prescribed composition and a microstructure including martensite and tempered martensite, the total area fraction of the martensite and the tempered martensite being 30% or more, and a galvanizing layer formed on the surface of the steel sheet. The diffusible hydrogen content in the high-strength galvanized steel sheet is 0.50 wt. ppm or less. The half-width of the hydrogen release peak of the high-strength galvanized steel sheet is 70° C. or less. The diffusible hydrogen content and the half-width of the hydrogen release peak are determined by a prescribed analysis method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Hirashima, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Masaki Koba, Tatsuya Ehashi, Makoto Imamura
  • Publication number: 20210324504
    Abstract: A high-ductility, high-strength electrolytic zinc-based coated steel sheet includes an electrolytic zinc-based coating on a base steel sheet, in which the base steel sheet has a predetermined composition and a steel microstructure in which the total area percentage of one or two of martensite containing a carbide having an average particle size of 50 nm or less and bainite containing a carbide having an average particle size of 50 nm or less is 90% or more in the entire steel microstructure, the total area percentage of one or two of the martensite containing a carbide having an average particle size of 50 nm or less and the bainite containing a carbide having an average particle size of 50 nm or less is 80% or more in a region extending from the surface of the base steel sheet to a depth of ? of the thickness of the base steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hirashima, Shinjiro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20210310092
    Abstract: A thin steel sheet has a steel structure which has a ferrite area fraction of 30% or less, a bainite area fraction of 5% or less, a martensite and tempered martensite area fraction of 70% or more, and a retained austenite area fraction of 2.0% or less and in which the ratio of the dislocation density in the range of 0 ?m to 20 ?m from a surface of the steel sheet to the dislocation density of a through-thickness central portion of the steel sheet is 90% to 110% and the average of the top 10% of the sizes of cementite grains located in a depth of up to 100 ?m from a surface of the steel sheet is 300 nm or less. The maximum camber of the steel sheet sheared to a length of 1 m in a longitudinal direction of the steel sheet is 15 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Kohsaka, Soshi Yoshimoto, Tomohiro Hashimukai, Takuya Hirashima