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).

  • Patent number: 11913088
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadao Murata, Muneaki Ikeda, Toshio Murakami
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20220349020
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Tadao MURATA, Muneaki IKEDA, Toshio MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 11466337
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Natsumeda, Toshio Murakami, Kenji Saito, Tadao Murata
  • Publication number: 20220275347
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: KM Biologics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio MURAKAMI, Go OKITA, Yui KAMIZURU
  • Patent number: 11359740
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori Fujita, Toshihiko Shima, Teppei Morita, Toshio Murakami, Shungo Kamigaichi, Tomohiro Shiromaru
  • Patent number: 11332805
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Natsumeda, Toshio Murakami, Kenji Saito, Tadao Murata
  • Publication number: 20220098695
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Toshio MURAKAMI, Keita NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210033210
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori FUJITA, Toshihiko Shima, Teppei Morita, Toshio Murakami, Shungo Kamigaichi, Tomohiro Shiromaru
  • Patent number: 10829840
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignees: voestalpine Stahl GmbH, Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Murakami, Junya Naitou, Keisuke Okita, Shushi Ikeda, Shinji Sato, Andreas Pichler, Thomas Kurz
  • Publication number: 20200190619
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Hirokazu NATSUMEDA, Toshio MURAKAMI, Kenji SAITO, Tadao MURATA
  • Publication number: 20200071787
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Hirokazu NATSUMEDA, Toshio MURAKAMI, Kenji SAITO, Tadao MURATA
  • Patent number: 10544489
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Elijah Kakiuchi, Toshio Murakami, Hideo Hata, Tatsuya Asai, Naoki Mizuta
  • Patent number: 10526687
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: KOBE STEEL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Shibata, Toshiya Nakata, Toshio Murakami, Takahiro Ozawa, Fumio Yuse, Atsuhiro Shiraki, Kenji Saito, Yukihiro Utsumi
  • Patent number: 10470262
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Inventors: Osamu Murakami, Toshio Murakami, Taku Murakami
  • Publication number: 20190241988
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Toshio MURAKAMI, Junya NAITOU, Keisuke OKITA, Shushi IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20190230760
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Osamu MURAKAMI, Toshio MURAKAMI, Taku MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20190218640
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength sheet including: C: 0.15% to 0.35% by mass, total of Si and Al: 0.5% to 3.0% by mass, Mn: 1.0% 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 a scattering intensity at the q value of 1 nm?1 in X-ray small angle scattering is 1.0 cm1 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Elijah KAKIUCHI, Toshio MURAKAMI, Shigeo OTANI, Yuichi FUTAMURA, Tadao MURATA
  • Patent number: 10329635
    Abstract: A high strength cold-rolled steel sheet has a component composition containing specific amounts of C, Si, Mn, P, S, N and Al, respectively with a remainder being iron and inevitable impurities. The steel sheet contains 95% or more of martensite in terms of area ratio, and contains 5% or less (inclusive of 0%) of residual austenite and ferrite in terms of a total area ratio. An average size of a carbide is 60 nm or less in terms of an equivalent circle diameter, and a number density of the carbide having the equivalent circle diameter of 25 nm or more is 5.0×105 pieces or less per mm2. The steel sheet has a yield strength of 1,180 MPa or more and a tensile strength of 1,470 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kosuke Shibata, Toshio Murakami, Elijah Kakiuchi, Katsura Kajihara
  • Publication number: 20190185958
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength sheet including: C: 0.15% by mass to 0.35% by mass, 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, 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, a half-width of the concentration distribution of Mn in the carbon-concentrated region that is equal to the amount of retained austenite is 0.3% by mass or more, and a scattering intensity at the q value of 1 nm?1 in X-ray small angle scattering is 1.0 cm?1 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Elijah KAKIUCHI, Toshio MURAKAMI, Shigeo OTANI, Yuichi FUTAMURA, Tadao MURATA