Patents by Inventor Tomokazu Nobutoki

Tomokazu Nobutoki 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: 10975899
    Abstract: A welded member includes a hot dip Zn-based alloy coated steel sheet as a base material and has excellent corrosion resistance and weld bead shear strength. In the welded member in which a lower sheet and an upper sheet, which are hot dip Zn-based alloy coated steel sheets, are stacked and arc-welded together, a weld bead is formed so that a cross-sectional width W satisfies the following formula 2T?W?6T, and a blowhole occupancy Br represented by the following formula becomes not more than 50%: Br=(?di/L)×100, where T represents a thickness of the hot dip Zn-based alloy coated steel sheet, di represents a length of an i-th blowhole observed in X-ray radiography, and L represents a length of the weld bead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL NISSHIN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Hosomi, Tomokazu Nobutoki, Takefumi Nakako
  • Patent number: 10906113
    Abstract: Hot dip Zn-based alloy coated steel sheets (1, 1?) are arc-weld in such a way that (a) a current waveform is a pulsed current waveform in which (i) a peak current and a base current alternate with each other at a pulse period of 1 ms to 50 ms and (ii) an average welding current is 100 A to 350 A and (b) an average welding voltage is 20 V to 35 V. Each of the hot dip Zn-based alloy coated steel sheets (1, 1?) includes a coating layer that contains Zn as a main component and that contains Al at a concentration of 1.0% by mass to 22.0% by mass, and has a coating weight W of 15 g/m2 to 250 g/m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Hosomi, Tomokazu Nobutoki, Takefumi Nakako
  • Patent number: 10603733
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a TIG-welded stainless steel tube without adding H2 to a shielding gas, while inhibiting generation of a weld defect. The method is a method for producing a TIG-welded stainless steel tube and includes the steps of bending a stainless steel strip in a width direction so as to butt both edges against each other and TIG-welding the both edges thus butted. A pulse waveform of a pulse frequency of 40 Hz to 300 Hz is used as a current waveform of a welding power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Nisshin Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takefumi Nakako, Tomokazu Nobutoki, Hiroshi Asada
  • Publication number: 20200056643
    Abstract: A welded member includes a hot dip Zn-based alloy coated steel sheet as a base material and has excellent corrosion resistance and weld bead shear strength. In the welded member in which a lower sheet and an upper sheet, which are hot dip Zn-based alloy coated steel sheets, are stacked and arc-welded together, a weld bead is formed so that a cross-sectional width W satisfies the following formula 2T?W?6T, and a blowhole occupancy Br represented by the following formula (2) becomes not more than 50%: Br=(?di/L)×100, where T represents a thickness of the hot dip Zn-based alloy coated steel sheet, di represents a length of an i-th blowhole observed in X-ray radiography, and L represents a length of the weld bead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuaki Hosomi, Tomokazu Nobutoki, Takefumi Nakako
  • Patent number: 10518351
    Abstract: Provided are: an arc welding method that suppresses occurrences of blow holes in initial parts and final parts in a Zn plated steel sheet and reduces the occupancy ratio for blow holes in the welded part as a whole; and a welded joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL NISSHIN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Nobutoki, Kazuaki Hosomi
  • Publication number: 20190134731
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a TIG-welded stainless steel tube without adding H2 to a shielding gas, while inhibiting generation of a weld defect. The method is a method for producing a TIG-welded stainless steel tube and includes the steps of bending a stainless steel strip in a width direction so as to butt both edges against each other and TIG-welding the both edges thus butted. A pulse waveform of a pulse frequency of 40 Hz to 300 Hz is used as a current waveform of a welding power source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Takefumi Nakako, Tomokazu Nobutoki, Hiroshi Asada
  • Publication number: 20180354049
    Abstract: Hot dip Zn-based alloy coated steel sheets (1, 1?) are arc-weld in such a way that (a) a current waveform is a pulsed current waveform in which (i) a peak current and a base current alternate with each other at a pulse period of 1 ms to 50 ms and (ii) an average welding current is 100 A to 350 A and (b) an average welding voltage is 20 V to 35 V. Each of the hot dip Zn-based alloy coated steel sheets (1, 1?) includes a coating layer that contains Zn as a main component and that contains Al at a concentration of 1.0% by mass to 22.0% by mass, and has a coating weight W of 15 g/m2 to 250 g/m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Hosomi, Tomokazu Nobutoki, Takefumi Nakako
  • Publication number: 20180071852
    Abstract: Provided is a welded joint that suppresses occurrences of blow holes in initial parts and final parts in a Zn plated steel sheet and reduces the occupancy ratio for blow holes in the welded part as a whole. The arc welded joint is obtained by the method of arc-welding Zn-based plated steel sheets, in which a blowhole occupancy over the entirety of the welding length is less than 30%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Tomokazu NOBUTOKI, Kazuaki HOSOMI
  • Publication number: 20170326672
    Abstract: Provided are: an arc welding method that suppresses occurrences of blow holes in initial parts and final parts in a Zn plated steel sheet and reduces the occupancy ratio for blow holes in the welded part as a whole; and a welded joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Tomokazu NOBUTOKI, Kazuaki HOSOMI
  • Publication number: 20150231726
    Abstract: A method for producing an arc-welded Zn—Al—Mg alloy coated steel plate structural member excellent in liquid metal embrittlement cracking resistance is provided. The method contains a step of joining steel members by gas-shielded arc-welding to produce a welded structural member, at least one of the steel members to be used is a hot dip Zn—Al—Mg alloy coated steel plate member, and the shield gas contains an Ar gas, a He gas or an Ar—He mixed gas as a base gas with a CO2 concentration controlled in a range of from 0 to 7% by volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Hosomi, Tomokazu Nobutoki, Hiroshi Asada
  • Publication number: 20150136741
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide excellent liquid metal embrittlement cracking resistance to an arc-welded structural member using a Zn—Al—Mg based alloy coated steel plate member without restriction of the species of steel for a base steel for coating and without much increase in cost. [Solution to Problem] In a method for producing an arc-welded structural member containing a step of joining steel members by gas-shielded arc-welding to manufacture a welded structural member, at least one of the members to be joined is a hot dip Zn—Al—Mg based alloy coated steel plate member, and a shielding gas is a gas that is based on an Ar gas, a He gas or an Ar—He mixed gas and has a CO2 concentration CCO2 (% by volume) satisfying the following expression (2) in relation to a welding heat input Q (J/cm): 0?CCO2?2900Q?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Hosomi, Tomokazu Nobutoki, Hiroshi Asada