Patents by Inventor Toma KITAGAWA

Toma KITAGAWA 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: 20240216967
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a steel sheet for cold rolling, including hot-rolling a slab so that an outlet temperature of a finishing rolling mill is 800° C. or higher and 940° C. or lower, cooling at least a portion of the hot-rolled steel sheet, at a water volume density of 100 L/min/m2 or more for 0.1 seconds or more, within 3.0 seconds after passing through a final stand of the finishing rolling mill and being sent out on a run-out table, and coiling, at a coiling temperature of 550° C. or higher, the cooled hot-rolled steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Toma KITAGAWA, Toshio MURAKAMI, Takashi TERAOKA, Takuma YONEDA, Shun HARADA, Keita NAKAYAMA, Katsuma ISHITOBI, Masanori KOBAYASHI, Koki FUKUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240167117
    Abstract: A method for producing a hot-rolled steel sheet which enables predicting a temperature history of unevenness of the end face of a coil includes: measuring a surface temperature of hot-rolled strip-shaped steel; calculating a temperature history in a natural cooling state after coiling, assuming that the strip-shaped steel has been coiled without unevenness on an end face, based on the surface temperature measured in the measurement step; actually coiling the strip-shaped steel after the measurement step; scanning with a displacement meter, an end face of a coil formed in the coiling step, and deriving a size of the unevenness of the end face over a radius of the coil; and predicting a temperature history of the unevenness in a natural cooling state using: the temperature history calculated in the first calculation step; and the size of the unevenness derived in the derivation step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Koki FUKUSHIMA, Yuta SANO, Masanori KOBAYASHI, Toma KITAGAWA, Toshio MURAKAMI, Takahiro OHARA, Masahiro INUI, Takeshi IIJIMA, Takashi TERAOKA, Takuma YONEDA, Kohei ODO, Shun HARADA
  • Publication number: 20230295764
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength steel sheet having predetermined chemical components, and microstructures of the steel sheet satisfies that: a fraction of MA in all steel microstructures being more than 0% and 15.0% or less by area ratio; a fraction of a soft ?-phase microstructure in the all steel microstructures being 0% or more and 50% or less by area ratio; and a standard deviation of an equivalent circle diameter of retained austenite being greater than 0.155 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Toma KITAGAWA, Toshio MURAKAMI, Kosuke SHIBATA