Patents by Inventor Toshio Murakami
Toshio Murakami 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: 12084739Abstract: Disclosed is a steel sheet including predetermined elements in each predetermined amount, with the balance consisting of iron and inevitable impurities, wherein a total area ratio of bainite, bainitic ferrite, martensite, residual austenite, and a martensite-austenite mixed structure is 95% or more and 100% or less, a total area ratio of ferrite and pearlite is less than 5%, an area ratio of the martensite-austenite mixed structure is 5% or more and 30% or less, an average section length of the martensite-austenite mixed structure is 0.32 ?m or less, and a proportion of an area of a region in ferrite, bainitic ferrite, and martensite where no cementite is present to the total area of ferrite, bainitic ferrite, and martensite is 3.0% or more and 5.0% or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Murakami, Keita Nakayama
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Publication number: 20240216967Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2022Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: 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
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Publication number: 20240167117Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2021Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: 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
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Patent number: 11913088Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength steel sheet, which can be used in various applications including automobile parts and exhibits excellent collision safety and excellent moldability, and a method for manufacturing the high-strength steel sheet. The high-strength steel sheet according to an aspect of the present invention satisfies a predetermined chemical composition and has a metallographic microstructure having ferrite fraction: 0% to 10%, MA fraction: 0% to 30%, hard phase other than ferrite and MA: 70% to 100% in terms of area proportion and retained austenite fraction: 5% to 30% in terms of volume proportion, and in the high-strength steel sheet, the skewness of IQ as analyzed by the EBRD method is ?1.2 to ?0.3 when the skewness is expressed by a predetermined relational expression in a case where crystal grains having a bcc structure and a bct structure are regarded as an aggregation of regions having an area of 0.05 ?m2.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Tadao Murata, Muneaki Ikeda, Toshio Murakami
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Publication number: 20230295764Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Toma KITAGAWA, Toshio MURAKAMI, Kosuke SHIBATA
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Publication number: 20220349020Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength steel sheet, which can be used in various applications including automobile parts and exhibits excellent collision safety and excellent moldability, and a method for manufacturing the high-strength steel sheet. The high-strength steel sheet according to an aspect of the present invention satisfies a predetermined chemical composition and has a metallographic microstructure having ferrite fraction: 0% to 10%, MA fraction: 0% to 30%, hard phase other than ferrite and MA: 70% to 100% in terms of area proportion and retained austenite fraction: 5% to 30% in terms of volume proportion, and in the high-strength steel sheet, the skewness of IQ as analyzed by the EBRD method is ?1.2 to ?0.3 when the skewness is expressed by a predetermined relational expression in a case where crystal grains having a bcc structure and a bct structure are regarded as an aggregation of regions having an area of 0.05 ?m2.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2020Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Tadao MURATA, Muneaki IKEDA, Toshio MURAKAMI
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Patent number: 11466337Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength sheet containing: C: 0.15% by mass to 0.35% by mass, a total of Si and Al: 0.5% by mass to 3.0% by mass, Al: 0.01% by mass or more, N: 0.01% by mass or less, Mn: 1.0% by mass to 4.0% by mass, P: 0.05% by mass or less, and S: 0.01% by mass or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein the steel structure satisfies that: a ferrite fraction is 5% or less, the total fraction of tempered martensite and tempered bainite is 60% or more, the amount of retained austenite is 10% or more, MA has an average size of 1.0 ?m or less, retained austenite has an average size of 1.0 ?m or less, retained austenite having a size of 1.5 ?m or more accounts for 2% or more of the total amount of retained austenite, and the amount of solute nitrogen in a steel sheet is 0.002% by mass or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Hirokazu Natsumeda, Toshio Murakami, Kenji Saito, Tadao Murata
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Publication number: 20220275347Abstract: Provided is an oncolytic virus having both improved safety and productivity. Provided are: a conditionally replicating vaccinia virus which lacks the functions of a vaccinia virus growth factor (VGF), an extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) activation protein, and a ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), is not replicated in a normal cell, is selectively replicable in a proliferative cell, and has improved safety; and a conditionally replicating vaccinia virus which lacks the functions of a VGF, an ERK activation protein, and an RNR, is not replicated in a normal cell, is selectively replicable in a proliferative cell, and has improved safety and productivity, and in which a gene encoding an extracellular enveloped virus (EEV)-related protein is substituted with a gene corresponding to another vaccinia virus strain having a high EEV-producing ability.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: KM Biologics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshio MURAKAMI, Go OKITA, Yui KAMIZURU
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Patent number: 11359740Abstract: An electromagnetic valve includes a sleeve having a valve hole at a central portion thereof, a spool, and an electromagnetic solenoid. The sleeve has plural ports penetrating the sleeve between inner and outer peripheral surfaces thereof and disposed side by side in a central axis direction of the valve hole. In the spool, plural lands having an outer peripheral surface facing an inner peripheral surface of the valve hole are provided side by side in the central axis direction. The electromagnetic solenoid is configured to move the spool in the central axis direction in the valve hole. The ports have one or plural recessed portions in which working oil is stored. When the spool is decentered with respect to the sleeve, a pressure of the working oil stored is increased.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kaori Fujita, Toshihiko Shima, Teppei Morita, Toshio Murakami, Shungo Kamigaichi, Tomohiro Shiromaru
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Patent number: 11332805Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength sheet containing: C: 0.15% by mass to 0.35% by mass, a total of Si and Al: 0.5% by mass to 3.0% by mass, Mn: 1.0% by mass to 4.0% by mass, P: 0.05% by mass or less (including 0% by mass), S: 0.01% by mass or less (including 0% by mass), and Ti: 0.01% by mass to 0.2% by mass, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein the steel structure satisfies that: a ferrite fraction is 5% or less, a total fraction of tempered martensite and tempered bainite is 60% or more, a retained austenite fraction is 10% or more, a fresh martensite fraction is 5% or less, retained austenite has an average grain size of 0.5 ?m or less, retained austenite having a grain size of 1.0 ?m or more accounts for 2% or more of the total amount of retained austenite, and a prior austenite grain size is 10 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Hirokazu Natsumeda, Toshio Murakami, Kenji Saito, Tadao Murata
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Publication number: 20220098695Abstract: Disclosed is a steel sheet including predetermined elements in each predetermined amount, with the balance consisting of iron and inevitable impurities, wherein a total area ratio of bainite, bainitic ferrite, martensite, residual austenite, and a martensite-austenite mixed structure is 95% or more and 100% or less, a total area ratio of ferrite and pearlite is less than 5%, an area ratio of the martensite-austenite mixed structure is 5% or more and 30% or less, an average section length of the martensite-austenite mixed structure is 0.32 ?m or less, and a proportion of an area of a region in ferrite, bainitic ferrite, and martensite where no cementite is present to the total area of ferrite, bainitic ferrite, and martensite is 3.0% or more and 5.0% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Toshio MURAKAMI, Keita NAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20210033210Abstract: An electromagnetic valve includes a sleeve having a valve hole at a central portion thereof, a spool, and an electromagnetic solenoid. The sleeve has plural ports penetrating the sleeve between inner and outer peripheral surfaces thereof and disposed side by side in a central axis direction of the valve hole. In the spool, plural lands having an outer peripheral surface facing an inner peripheral surface of the valve hole are provided side by side in the central axis direction. The electromagnetic solenoid is configured to move the spool in the central axis direction in the valve hole. The ports have one or plural recessed portions in which working oil is stored. When the spool is decentered with respect to the sleeve, a pressure of the working oil stored is increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kaori FUJITA, Toshihiko Shima, Teppei Morita, Toshio Murakami, Shungo Kamigaichi, Tomohiro Shiromaru
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Patent number: 10829840Abstract: A steel sheet for hot pressing includes in a chemical composition, in percent by mass, C of 0.1% to 0.4%, Si of greater than 0% to 2.0%, Mn of 0.5% to 3.0%, P of greater than 0% to 0.015%, S of greater than 0% to 0.01%, B of 0.0003% to 0.01%, N of greater than 0% to 0.05%, Al in a content of 2×[N]% to 0.3% at a Si content of greater than 0.5% to 2.0%; or Al in a content of (0.20+2×[N]?0.40×[Si]N)% to 0.3% at a Si content of 0% to 0.5%, where [N] and [Si] are contents of N and Si, respectively, in mass percent, with the remainder being iron and inevitable impurities, where contents of Ti, Zr, Hf, and Ta, of the inevitable impurities, are each controlled to 0.005% or lower. The steel sheet includes nitride-based inclusions with an equivalent circle diameter of 1 ?m or more in a number density of 0.10 per square millimeter.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignees: voestalpine Stahl GmbH, Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Murakami, Junya Naitou, Keisuke Okita, Shushi Ikeda, Shinji Sato, Andreas Pichler, Thomas Kurz
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Publication number: 20200190619Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength sheet containing: C: 0.15% by mass to 0.35% by mass, a total of Si and Al: 0.5% by mass to 3.0% by mass, Al: 0.01% by mass or more, N: 0.01% by mass or less, Mn: 1.0% by mass to 4.0% by mass, P: 0.05% by mass or less, and S: 0.01% by mass or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein the steel structure satisfies that: a ferrite fraction is 5% or less, the total fraction of tempered martensite and tempered bainite is 60% or more, the amount of retained austenite is 10% or more, MA has an average size of 1.0 ?m or less, retained austenite has an average size of 1.0 ?m or less, retained austenite having a size of 1.5 ?m or more accounts for 2% or more of the total amount of retained austenite, and the amount of solute nitrogen in a steel sheet is 0.002% by mass or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2018Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Hirokazu NATSUMEDA, Toshio MURAKAMI, Kenji SAITO, Tadao MURATA
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Publication number: 20200071787Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength sheet containing: C: 0.15% by mass to 0.35% by mass, a total of Si and Al: 0.5% by mass to 3.0% by mass, Mn: 1.0% by mass to 4.0% by mass, P: 0.05% by mass or less (including 0% by mass), S: 0.01% by mass or less (including 0% by mass), and Ti: 0.01% by mass to 0.2% by mass, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein the steel structure satisfies that: a ferrite fraction is 5% or less, a total fraction of tempered martensite and tempered bainite is 60% or more, a retained austenite fraction is 10% or more, a fresh martensite fraction is 5% or less, retained austenite has an average grain size of 0.5 ?m or less, retained austenite having a grain size of 1.0 ?m or more accounts for 2% or more of the total amount of retained austenite, and a prior austenite grain size is 10 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2018Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Hirokazu NATSUMEDA, Toshio MURAKAMI, Kenji SAITO, Tadao MURATA
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Patent number: 10544489Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet has a chemical composition including 0.05% to 0.3% of C, 1% to 3% of Si, 0.5% to 3% of Mn, 0% to 0.1% of P, 0.001% to 0.1% of Al, and 0.002% to 0.03% of N, in mass percent; further includes iron and impurities; and has a structure including 50% to 90% of bainitic ferrite, 5% to 20% of retained austenite (?R), a total of 10% to 50% of martensite and the retained austenite, and 0% to 40% of polygonal ferrite, in area percent based on the entire structure. The retained austenite has a carbon content (C?R) of 0.5% to 1.2% by mass, an average equivalent circle diameter of 0.2 to 2 ?m, and an average aspect ratio (maximum diameter/minimum diameter) of less than 3.0. The high-strength steel sheet excels both in elongation and deep drawability while having a strength of 980 MPa or more.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Elijah Kakiuchi, Toshio Murakami, Hideo Hata, Tatsuya Asai, Naoki Mizuta
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Patent number: 10526687Abstract: Provided is an ultra-high-strength steel sheet having a component composition that includes specific amounts of each of C, Mn, and Al and a remainder of iron and unavoidable impurities, and in which the amounts of each of P, S, and N among the unavoidable impurities are limited to a specific amount. The ultra-high-strength steel sheet includes 2 area% or more of a region having a structure that includes 90% or more of martensite and 0.5% or more of residual austentite by area ratio relative to the entire structure, the local Mn concentration in said region being at least 1.1 times that of the Mn content of the entire steel sheet. The ultra-high-strength steel sheet has a tensile strength of 1470 MPa or more.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: KOBE STEEL, LTD.Inventors: Kosuke Shibata, Toshiya Nakata, Toshio Murakami, Takahiro Ozawa, Fumio Yuse, Atsuhiro Shiraki, Kenji Saito, Yukihiro Utsumi
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Patent number: 10470262Abstract: The invention is to provide an electrical circuit and a control method remotely controlling LED brightness adjustment and color temperature adjustment, and the electrical circuit includes a voltage stabilizing circuit, a microprocessor MCU, a receiving module, an LED constant current driving circuit, an LED light adjustment and color temperature adjustment separation circuit, a bicolor temperature LED light source and system processing software.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Inventors: Osamu Murakami, Toshio Murakami, Taku Murakami
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Publication number: 20190241988Abstract: A steel sheet for hot-pressing includes a specific chemical component composition. In the steel sheet, an average equivalent-circle diameter of a Ti-containing precipitate having an equivalent-circle diameter of 30 nm or less among Ti-containing precipitates contained in the steel sheet is 3 nm or more. A precipitated Ti amount and a total Ti amount in the steel satisfy the relationship of: Precipitated Ti amount (mass %)?3.4[N]?0.5×[(total Ti amount (mass %))?3.4[N]], in which [N] indicates the content (mass %) of N in the steel. A ferrite fraction in the metal microstructure of the steel sheet is 30 area % or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)Inventors: Toshio MURAKAMI, Junya NAITOU, Keisuke OKITA, Shushi IKEDA
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Publication number: 20190230760Abstract: The invention is to provide an electrical circuit and a control method remotely controlling LED brightness adjustment and color temperature adjustment, and the electrical circuit includes a voltage stabilizing circuit, a microprocessor MCU, a receiving module, an LED constant current driving circuit, an LED light adjustment and color temperature adjustment separation circuit, a bicolor temperature LED light source and system processing software.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Osamu MURAKAMI, Toshio MURAKAMI, Taku MURAKAMI