Patents by Inventor Tomofumi Shigekuni

Tomofumi Shigekuni 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: 9534136
    Abstract: A semi-organic insulation coating includes an inorganic component and an organic resin, a Zr compound and an Si compound contains a plate-like silica as an inorganic component and are included in a ratio in a dry coating of 20 to 70 mass % of Zr compound (converted to ZrO2) and 10 to 50 mass % of Si compound containing plate-like silica (converted to SiO2), and the remainder is substantially an organic resin, whereby a magnetic steel sheet with a semi-organic insulation coating has no deterioration of corrosion resistance and water resistance without containing a chromium compound and being excellent in powdering resistance, scratch resistance, sticking resistance, TIG weldability, punchability and coating appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumichi Sashi, Hiroyuki Ogata, Chiyoko Tada, Nobuko Nakagawa, Nobue Fujibayashi, Tomofumi Shigekuni, Kenichi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9011585
    Abstract: A treatment solution for an insulation coating of grain-oriented electrical steel sheets includes at least one selected from phosphates of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al and Mn; colloidal silica in a proportion of 0.5 to 10 mol in terms of SiO2; and a water-soluble vanadium compound in a proportion of 0.1 to 2.0 mol in terms of V, relative to PO4:1 mol in the phosphates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Mineo Muraki, Minoru Takashima, Tomofumi Shigekuni
  • Publication number: 20150044475
    Abstract: The present invention includes an electrical steel sheet with an insulation coating having a large interlaminar insulation resistance when laminated; a coating material for forming the insulation coating that is used for the electrical steel sheet and the coating material for forming the insulation coating, which includes apart from a solvent an aqueous carboxy group-containing resin as component (A), an aluminum-containing oxide as component (B), and at least one crosslinking agent as component (C) selected from the group consisting of melamine, isocyanate and oxazoline. There are component (A); 100 parts by mass; 40 parts by mass<component (B)<150 parts by mass; 20 parts by mass<component (C)<100 parts by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicants: JFE STEEL CORPORATION, DAI NIPPON TORYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuko Nakagawa, Tomofumi Shigekuni, Takahiro Kubota, Osamu Tanida
  • Publication number: 20140245926
    Abstract: A treatment solution for an insulation coating of grain-oriented electrical steel sheets includes at least one selected from phosphates of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al and Mn; colloidal silica in a proportion of 0.5 to 10 mol in terms of SiO2; and a water-soluble vanadium compound in a proportion of 0.1 to 2.0 mol in terms of V, relative to PO4:1 mol in the phosphates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Mineo Muraki, Minoru Takashima, Tomofumi Shigekuni
  • Patent number: 8771795
    Abstract: A treatment solution for insulation coating for grain-oriented electrical steel sheets contains at least one selected from phosphates of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, and Mn; colloidal silica in a proportion of 0.5 to 10 mol in terms of SiO2 and a water-soluble vanadium compound in a proportion of 0.1 to 2.0 mol in terms of V, relative to PO4:1 mol in the phosphates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Mineo Muraki, Minoru Takashima, Tomofumi Shigekuni
  • Patent number: 8535455
    Abstract: A treatment solution for an insulation coating for a grain oriented electrical steel sheet includes at least one member selected from phosphates of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, and Mn, and colloidal silica in a proportion of 0.5 to 10 mol in terms of SiO2 and at least one member selected from permanganates of Mg, Sr, Zn, Ba, and Ca in a proportion of 0.02 to 2.5 mol in terms of metal elements in the permanganates, relative to PO4:1 mol in the phosphates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Takashima, Mineo Muraki, Makoto Watanabe, Tomofumi Shigekuni
  • Publication number: 20130115444
    Abstract: A semi-organic insulation coating includes an inorganic component and an organic resin, a Zr compound and an Si compound contains a plate-like silica as an inorganic component and are included in a ratio in a dry coating of 20 to 70 mass % of Zr compound (converted to ZrO2) and 10 to 50 mass % of Si compound containing plate-like silica (converted to SiO2), and the remainder is substantially an organic resin, whereby a magnetic steel sheet with a semi-organic insulation coating has no deterioration of corrosion resistance and water resistance without containing a chromium compound and being excellent in powdering resistance, scratch resistance, sticking resistance, TIG weldability, punchability and coating appearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumichi Sashi, Hiroyuki Ogata, Chiyoko Tada, Nobuko Nakagawa, Nobue Fujibayashi, Tomofumi Shigekuni, Kenichi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8409370
    Abstract: A treatment solution for insulation coating for grain oriented electrical steel sheet includes at least one member selected from phosphates of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, and Mn, and colloidal silica in a proportion of 0.2 to 10 mol in terms of SiO2 and a titanium chelate compound in a proportion of 0.01 to 4.0 mol in terms of Ti, relative to PO4: 1 mol in the phosphates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Takashima, Mineo Muraki, Makoto Watanabe, Tomofumi Shigekuni
  • Publication number: 20120301744
    Abstract: An electrical steel sheet is provided with an insulating coating which has inorganic with some organic materials, the insulating coating including inorganic components and an organic resin, the insulating coating contains, as the inorganic components, a Zr compound, a B compound, and a Si compound, specifically, when expressed as percentages in the dry coating, 20% to 70% by mass of the Zr compound (in terms of ZrO2), 0.1% to 5% by mass of the B compound (in terms of B2O3), and 10% to 50% by mass of the Si compound (in terms of SiO2), and the balance containing the organic resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumichi Sashi, Hiroyuki Ogata, Chiyoko Tada, Nobuko Nakagawa, Nobue Fujibayashi, Tomofumi Shigekuni, Kenichi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8147983
    Abstract: A tin-plated steel sheet includes a plating layer containing tin on at least one surface of a steel sheet, and a chemical conversion coating containing P and tin on the plating layer is provided. In the steel sheet, a coated amount of the chemical conversion coating per surface is 1.0 to 50 mg/m2 in terms of P, an atomic ratio Sn/P obtained from the intensity of a P2p peak and that of a Sn3d peak is 1.0 to 1.5, the intensities being measured at the surface using an x-ray photoelectron spectroscopic method, and an atomic ratio O/P obtained from the intensity of the P2p peak and that of an O1s peak is 4.0 to 9.0. The phosphoric acid-based chemical conversion coating of the tin-plated steel sheet can suppress degradation in performance, which is caused by the growth of a tin oxide layer on the surface, instead of a conventional chromate coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Suzuki, Noriko Makiishi, Hiroki Iwasa, Takumi Tanaka, Tomofumi Shigekuni
  • Publication number: 20110236581
    Abstract: A treatment solution for insulation coating for grain-oriented electrical steel sheets contains at least one selected from phosphates of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, and Mn; colloidal silica in a proportion of 0.5 to 10 mol in terms of SiO2 and a water-soluble vanadium compound in a proportion of 0.1 to 2.0 mol in terms of V, relative to PO4:1 mol in the phosphates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mineo Muraki, Minoru Takashima, Tomofumi Shigekuni
  • Publication number: 20110067786
    Abstract: A treatment solution for an insulation coating for a grain oriented electrical steel sheet includes at least one member selected from phosphates of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, and Mn, and colloidal silica in a proportion of 0.5 to 10 mol in terms of SiO2 and at least one member selected from permanganates of Mg, Sr, Zn, Ba, and Ca in a proportion of 0.02 to 2.5 mol in terms of metal elements in the permanganates, relative to PO4:1 mol in the phosphates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Takashima, Mineo Muraki, Makoto Watanabe, Tomofumi Shigekuni
  • Publication number: 20100233484
    Abstract: An electrical steel sheet has an insulation coating having excellent corrosion resistance and punchability even without containing chromium and is prepared by applying a coating liquid on the surface of an electrical steel sheet, followed by baking the applied coating liquid, which coating liquid contains 100 parts by weight of polysiloxane polymer prepared by copolymerizing polysiloxane with one or more resins selected from acrylic resin, styrene resin, vinyl acetate resin, polyester resin, urethane resin, polyethylene resin, polypropylene resin, polyamide resin, polycarbonate resin, phenol resin, alkyd resin, and epoxy resin, and 1 to 50 parts by weigh of one or more compounds selected from melamine, isocyanate, silane coupling agent, and oxazoline, as a cross-linking agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomofumi Shigekuni, Kazumichi Sashi, Masaaki Kohno, Yuka Komori
  • Publication number: 20100221549
    Abstract: An insulation coating containing a composite resin composed of polysiloxane and a polymer containing carbon is formed on the surface of an electrical steel sheet, thus obtaining an electrical steel sheet having an insulation coating that gives corrosion resistance and punchability equivalent to or higher than those of Cr-containing insulation coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation,
    Inventors: Tomofumi Shigekuni, Kazumichi Sashi, Masaaki Kohno, Yuka Komori
  • Publication number: 20100206437
    Abstract: A treatment solution for insulation coating for grain oriented electrical steel sheet includes at least one member selected from phosphates of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, and Mn, and colloidal silica in a proportion of 0.2 to 10 mol in terms of SiO2 and a titanium chelate compound in a proportion of 0.01 to 4.0 mol in terms of Ti, relative to PO4: 1 mol in the phosphates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Takashima, Mineo Muraki, Makoto Watanabe, Tomofumi Shigekuni
  • Publication number: 20090155621
    Abstract: A tin-plated steel sheet includes a plating layer containing tin on at least one surface of a steel sheet, and a chemical conversion coating containing P and tin on the plating layer is provided. In the steel sheet, a coated amount of the chemical conversion coating per surface is 1.0 to 50 mg/m2 in terms of P, an atomic ratio Sn/P obtained from the intensity of a P2p peak and that of a Sn3d peak is 1.0 to 1.5, the intensities being measured at the surface using an x-ray photoelectron spectroscopic method, and an atomic ratio O/P obtained from the intensity of the P2p peak and that of an O1s peak is 4.0 to 9.0. The phosphoric acid-based chemical conversion coating of the tin-plated steel sheet can suppress degradation in performance, which is caused by the growth of a tin oxide layer on the surface, instead of a conventional chromate coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Takeshi Suzuki, Noriko Makiishi, Hiroki Iwasa, Takumi Tanaka, Tomofumi Shigekuni
  • Patent number: 6749952
    Abstract: The tin-plated steel sheet includes a base steel sheet; a tin plating layer coating approximately more than 97.0% of the base steel sheet; and a chemical conversion coating having approximately 0.5 to 100 mg/m2 phosphorus and approximately 0.1 to 250 mg/m2 silicon formed on the tin plating layer and an unplated region corresponding to approximately less than 3.0%. The tin-plated steel sheet does not contain chromium which is harmful to the environment but has superior overcoat adhesion property, discoloration resistance, and rust resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tomofumi Shigekuni, Hisatada Nakakoji, Chiaki Kato
  • Patent number: 6673470
    Abstract: A surface treated tin-plated steel sheet which has an alloy layer formed on the surface of a steel sheet, a tin plating layer being formed on said alloy layer with a remaining exposed portion of the alloy layer having an area of 30% or more of that of the alloy layer and, formed on said tin plating layer and said exposed portion of the alloy layer, a coating film containing P and Si in an amount of 0.5 to 100 mg/m2 and 0.1 to 250 mg/m2, respectively; and a chemical treatment solution for use in preparing the steel sheet which comprises a phosphate ion, a tin ion and a silane coupling agent and has a pH of 1.5 to 5.5. The surface treated tin-plated steel sheet is free from chromium which causes problems from an environmental view point, and also is excellent in adhesion with a paint, corrosion resistance after being coated, rust resistance, and formability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tomofumi Shigekuni, Hisatada Nakakoji, Kazuo Mochizuki, Chiaki Kato
  • Publication number: 20030129442
    Abstract: A surface treated tin-plated steel sheet which has (1) an alloy layer formed on the surface of a steel sheet, (2) a tin plating layer being formed on said alloy layer with a remaining exposed portion of the alloy layer having an area of 30% or more of that of said alloy layer and, formed on said tin plating layer and said exposed portion of the alloy layer, (3) a coating film containing P and Si in an amount of 0.5 to 100 mg/m2 and 0.1 to 250 mg/m2, respectively: and a chemical treatment solution for use in preparing the steel sheet which comprises a phosphate ion, a tin ion and a silane coupling agent and has a pH of 1.5 to 5.5. The surface treated tin-plated steel sheet is free from chromium which causes problems from an environmental view point, and also is excellent in adhesion with a paint, corrosion resistance after being coated, rust resistance, and formability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Inventors: Tomofumi Shigekuni, Hisatada Nakakoji, Kazuo Mochizuki, Chiaki Kato
  • Publication number: 20020197505
    Abstract: The tin-plated steel sheet includes a base steel sheet; a tin plating layer coating approximately more than 97.0% of the base steel sheet; and a chemical conversion coating having approximately 0.5 to 100 mg/m2 phosphorus and approximately 0.1 to 250 mg/m2 silicon formed on the tin plating layer and an unplated region corresponding to approximately less than 3.0%. The tin-plated steel sheet does not contain chromium which is harmful to the environment but has superior overcoat adhesion property, discoloration resistance, and rust resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Applicant: KAWASAKI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomofumi Shigekuni, Hisatada Nakakoji, Chiaki Kato