Patents by Inventor Toshiharu Aiso
Toshiharu Aiso 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: 10793937Abstract: A steel for induction hardening according to an aspect includes, as a chemical composition, predetermined amounts of alloy elements and a remainder including Fe and impurities, in which Al×N is 0.000330 to 0.000825, Mn/S is 4.6 to 14.0, a machinability index M is 15.5 to 25.65, an area fraction of AlN having an equivalent circle diameter of more than 200 nm at a ¼ position of a diameter of the steel is 20% or less of an area fraction of all AlN having an equivalent circle diameter of 40 nm or more, and a number density of Mn sulfide-based inclusions having a maximum diameter of 0.3 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less at the ¼ position of the diameter is 100 pieces/mm2 or more and 2500 pieces/mm2 or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2015Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiharu Aiso, Suguru Yoshida, Kei Miyanishi
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Patent number: 9890446Abstract: A steel for an induction hardening including, by mass %, C: more than 0.75% to 1.20%, Si: 0.002 to 3.00%, Mn: 0.20 to 2.00%, S: 0.002 to 0.100%, Al: more than 0.050% to 3.00%. P: limited to 0.050% or less, N: limited to 0.0200% or less, O: limited to: 0.0030% or less, and the balance composing of iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein an Al content and a N content satisfy, by mass %, Al?(27/14)×N>0.050%.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu Kubota, Toshiharu Aiso, Kei Miyanishi
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Patent number: 9725783Abstract: Steel for machine structure use excellent in tool lifetime in a broad range of cutting speeds regardless of continuous machining, intermittent machining, or other systems and further in various machining environments such as use of a cutting fluid or a dry, semidry, and oxygen enriched environment, having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.01 to 1.2%, Si: 0.005 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.05 to 3.0%, P: 0.0001 to 0.2%, S: 0.0001 to 0.35%, N: 0.0005 to 0.035%, and Al: 0.05 to 1.0%, satisfying [Al %]?(27/14)×[N %]?0.05%, and having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities and forming an Al2O3 coating on the surface of a cutting tool by machining using a cutting tool coated on the surface contacting the machined material by metal oxides with a value of a standard free energy of formation at 1300° C. of that value of Al2O3 or more, and a machining method of the same.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2010Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiharu Aiso, Hajime Saitoh, Atsushi Mizuno
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Publication number: 20170067140Abstract: A steel for induction hardening according to an aspect includes, as a chemical composition, predetermined amounts of alloy elements and a remainder including Fe and impurities, in which Al×N is 0.000330 to 0.000825, Mn/S is 4.6 to 14.0, a machinability index M is 15.5 to 25.65, an area fraction of AlN having an equivalent circle diameter of more than 200 nm at a ¼ position of a diameter of the steel is 20% or less of an area fraction of all AlN having an equivalent circle diameter of 40 nm or more, and a number density of Mn sulfide-based inclusions having a maximum diameter of 0.3 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less at the ¼ position of the diameter is 100 pieces/mm2 or more and 2500 pieces/mm2 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2015Publication date: March 9, 2017Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiharu AISO, Suguru YOSHIDA, Kei MIYANISHI
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Patent number: 9156117Abstract: In the method of cutting steel for machine structural use, steel for machine structural use, in which chemical components contain, by mass %, 0.01% to 1.2% of C, 0.005% to 3.0% of Si, 0.05% to 3.0% of Mn, 0.001% to 0.2% of P, 0.001% to 0.35% of S, 0.002% to 0.035% of N and 0.05% to 1.0% of Al, in a case in which [Al%] and [N%] represent the mass % of Al and N in the steel respectively, [Al%]?(27/14)×[N%]?0.05% is satisfied, is the other elements are included as necessary, and a balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, is used, and a cutting process is carried out on the steel for machine structural use using water-insoluble cutting oil in which the amount of dissolved oxygen is 4 volume % to 16 volume %.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2011Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiharu Aiso, Suguru Yoshida
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Patent number: 9139894Abstract: This steel for a machine structure contains, in mass %: C: 0.40% to less than 0.75%; Si: 0.01% to 3.0%; Mn: 0.1% to 1.8%; S: 0.001% to 0.1%; Al: more than 0.1% and not more than 1.0%; N: 0.001% to 0.02%; and P: limited to not more than 0.05%, with a balance including Fe and inevitable impurities, in which the steel satisfies 139.38?214×[C]+30.6×[Si]+42.8×[Mn]?14.7×[Al]?177 and 0.72?[C]+1/7×[Si]+1/5×[Mn]<1.539.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2011Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiharu Aiso, Suguru Yoshida, Manabu Kubota, Kei Miyanishi, Shuji Kozawa
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Publication number: 20150240335Abstract: A steel for an induction hardening including, by mass %, C: more than 0.75% to 1.20%, Si: 0.002 to 3.00%, Mn: 0.20 to 2.00%, S: 0.002 to 0.100%, Al: more than 0.050% to 3.00%. P: limited to 0.050% or less, N: limited to 0.0200% or less, O: limited to: 0.0030% or less, and the balance composing of iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein an Al content and a N content satisfy, by mass %, Al?(27/14)×N>0.050%.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Manabu KUBOTA, Toshiharu AISO, Kei MIYANISHI
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Patent number: 9039962Abstract: A steel for an induction hardening including, by mass %, C: more than 0.75% to 1.20%, Si: 0.002 to 3.00%, Mn: 0.20 to 2.00%, S: 0.002 to 0.100%, Al: more than 0.050% to 3.00%, P: limited to 0.050% or less, N: limited to 0.0200% or less, O: limited to: 0.0030% or less, and the balance composing of iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein an Al content and a N content satisfy, by mass %, Al?(27/14)×N>0.050%.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2011Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu Kubota, Toshiharu Aiso, Kei Miyanishi
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Patent number: 8801873Abstract: The present invention provides a carburized steel part obtained by subjecting a base material to a cutting operation and a carburizing operation, in which the base material includes chemical components of: C: greater than 0.3 but less than or equal to 0.6% by mass; Si: 0.01 to 1.5% by mass; Mn: 0.3 to 2.0% by mass; P: 0.0001 to 0.02% by mass; S: 0.001 to 0.15% by mass; N: 0.001 to 0.03% by mass; Al: greater than 0.06 but less than or equal to 0.3% by mass; and, O: 0.0001 to 0.005% by mass, with a balance including iron and inevitable impurities, and in which the carburized steel part has a hardness of HV550 to HV800 in a surface layer portion, and a hardness of HV400 to HV550 in a core portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2010Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Kei Miyanishi, Toshiharu Aiso
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Patent number: 8545137Abstract: The cutting method of steel for machine structural use includes: forming a mist by mixing a cutting fluid supplied at a supply rate of 0.01 ml/hour to 200 ml/hour and an oxidizing gas containing, by volume %, 21% to 50% of oxygen; and cutting the steel for machine structural use while the mist is blown on the cutting edge surface of a tool and the surface of the steel for machine structural use, wherein the steel for machine structural use includes, by mass %: C: 0.01% to 1.2%, Si: 0.005% to 3.0%, Mn: 0.05% to 3.0%, P: 0.001% to 0.2%, S: 0.001% to 0.35%, N: 0.002% to 0.035%, Al: 0.05% to 1.0%, and the balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities in which O is limited to 0.003% or less, and the amount of Al [Al %] and the amount of N [N %] satisfy [Al %]?(27/14)×[N %]?0.05.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2011Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Toshiharu Aiso, Kei Miyanishi, Suguru Yoshida
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Publication number: 20130213199Abstract: In the method of cutting steel for machine structural use, steel for machine structural use, in which chemical components contain, by mass %, 0.01% to 1.2% of C, 0.005% to 3.0% of Si, 0.05% to 3.0% of Mn, 0.001% to 0.2% of P, 0.001% to 0.35% of S, 0.002% to 0.035% of N and 0.05% to 1.0% of Al, in a case in which [Al%] and [N%] represent the mass % of Al and N in the steel respectively, [Al%]?(27/14)×[N%]?0.05% is satisfied, is the other elements are included as necessary, and a balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, is used, and a cutting process is carried out on the steel for machine structural use using water-insoluble cutting oil in which the amount of dissolved oxygen is 4 volume % to 16 volume %.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2011Publication date: August 22, 2013Inventors: Toshiharu Aiso, Suguru Yoshida
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Publication number: 20130101457Abstract: This steel for a machine structure contains, in mass %: C: 0.40% to less than 0.75%; Si: 0.01% to 3.0%; Mn: 0.1% to 1.8%; S: 0.001% to 0.1%; Al: more than 0.1% and not more than 1.0%; N: 0.001% to 0.02%; and P: limited to not more than 0.05%, with a balance including Fe and inevitable impurities, in which the steel satisfies 139.38 ?214×[C]+30.6×[Si]+42.8×[Mn]?14.7×[Al]?177 and 0.72?[C]+1/7×[Si]+1/5×[Mn]<1.539.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2011Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiharu Aiso, Suguru Yoshida, Manabu Kubota, Kei Miyanishi, Shuji Kozawa
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Publication number: 20130025747Abstract: A steel for an induction hardening including, by mass %, C: more than 0.75% to 1.20%, Si: 0.002 to 3.00%, Mn: 0.20 to 2.00%, S: 0.002 to 0.100%, Al: more than 0.050% to 3.00%, P: limited to 0.050% or less, N: limited to 0.0200% or less, O: limited to: 0.0030% or less, and the balance composing of iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein an Al content and a N content satisfy, by mass %, Al?(27/14)×N>0.050%.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Inventors: Manabu Kubota, Toshiharu Aiso, Kei Miyanishi
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Publication number: 20120085209Abstract: The cutting method of steel for machine structural use includes: forming a mist by mixing a cutting fluid supplied at a supply rate of 0.01 ml/hour to 200 ml/hour and an oxidizing gas containing, by volume %, 21% to 50% of oxygen; and cutting the steel for machine structural use while the mist is blown on the cutting edge surface of a tool and the surface of the steel for machine structural use, wherein the steel for machine structural use includes, by mass %: C: 0.01% to 1.2%, Si: 0.005% to 3.0%, Mn: 0.05% to 3.0%, P: 0.001% to 0.2%, S: 0.001% to 0.35%, N: 0.002% to 0.035%, Al: 0.05% to 1.0%, and the balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities in which O is limited to 0.003% or less, and the amount of Al [Al %] and the amount of N [N %] satisfy [Al %]?(27/14)×[N %]?0.05.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2011Publication date: April 12, 2012Inventors: Toshiharu Aiso, Kei Miyanishi, Suguru Yoshida
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Publication number: 20110239835Abstract: Steel for machine structure use excellent in tool lifetime in a broad range of cutting speeds regardless of continuous machining, intermittent machining, or other systems and further in various machining environments such as use of a cutting fluid or a dry, semidry, and oxygen enriched environment, having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.01 to 1.2%, Si: 0.005 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.05 to 3.0%, P: 0.0001 to 0.2%, S: 0.0001 to 0.35%, N: 0.0005 to 0.035%, and Al: 0.05 to 1.0%, satisfying [Al %]?(27/14)×[N %]?0.05%, and having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities and forming an Al2O3 coating on the surface of a cutting tool by machining using a cutting tool coated on the surface contacting the machined material by metal oxides with a value of a standard free energy of formation at 1300° C. of that value of Al2O3 or more, and a machining method of the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2010Publication date: October 6, 2011Inventors: Toshiharu Aiso, Hajime Saitoh, Atsushi Mizuno
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Publication number: 20110036463Abstract: The present invention provides a carburized steel part obtained by subjecting a base material to a cutting operation and a carburizing operation, in which the base material includes chemical components of: C: greater than 0.3 but less than or equal to 0.6% by mass; Si: 0.01 to 1.5% by mass; Mn: 0.3 to 2.0% by mass; P: 0.0001 to 0.02% by mass; S: 0.001 to 0.15% by mass; N: 0.001 to 0.03% by mass; Al: greater than 0.06 but less than or equal to 0.3% by mass; and, 0: 0.0001 to 0.005% by mass, with a balance including iron and inevitable impurities, and in which the carburized steel part has a hardness of HV550 to HV800 in a surface layer portion, and a hardness of HV400 to HV550 in a core portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Inventors: Kei Miyanishi, Toshiharu Aiso
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Publication number: 20110002807Abstract: This steel for induction hardening includes: in terms of mass %, C: 0.40% or more to 0.75% or less; Si: 0.002% or more to 3.0% or less; Mn: 0.20% or more to 2.0% or less; S: 0.002% or more to 0.1% or less; Al: more than 0.10% to 3.0% or less; P: 0.030% or less; and N: 0.035% or less, with the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hajime Saitoh, Toshiharu Aiso, Masayuki Hashimura, Atsushi Mizuno, Manabu Kubota