Patents by Inventor Toshiya Anami
Toshiya Anami 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: 11401584Abstract: Aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use having suitable strength and excellent in formability and work softenability, which aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use enabling formation of an integrated explosion-proof valve with little variation in operating pressure and excellent in cyclic fatigue resistance, and a method of production of the same are provided, the aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use for forming an integrated explosion-proof valve having a component composition containing Fe: 1.05 to 1.50 mass %, Mn: 0.15 to 0.70 mass %, Ti: 0.002 to 0.15 mass %, and B: less than 0.04 mass %, having a balance of Al and impurities, having an Fe/Mn ratio restricted to 1.8 to 7.0, restricting, as impurities, Si to less than 0.40 mass %, Cu to less than 0.03 mass %, Mg to less than 0.05 mass %, and V to less than 0.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuichi Tamaki, Keiji Kanamori, Daisuke Shimosaka, Toshiya Anami
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Publication number: 20210363622Abstract: Aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use excellent in heat radiation ability, formability, and work softenability, which aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use enabling formation of an integrated explosion-proof valve with little variation in operating pressure and excellent in cyclic fatigue resistance, and a method of production of the same are provided, the aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use for forming an integrated explosion-proof valve having a component composition containing Fe: 1.05 to 1.50 mass %, Mn: 0.15 to 0.70 mass %, Ti: 0.002 to 0.15 mass %, and B: less than 0.03 mass %, having a balance of Al and impurities, having an Fe/Mn ratio restricted to 1.8 to 7.0, restricting, as impurities, Si to less than 0.40 mass %, Cu to less than 0.03 mass %, Mg to less than 0.05 mass %, and V to less than 0.03 mass %, having a conductivity of 53.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2018Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuichi TAMAKI, Keiji KANAMORI, Daisuke SHIMOSAKA, Toshiya ANAMI
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Publication number: 20210363616Abstract: Aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use excellent in deformation resistance, formability, and heat radiation ability, which aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use enabling formation of an integrated explosion-proof valve with little variation in operating pressure and excellent in cyclic fatigue resistance, and a method of production of the same are provided, the aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use for forming an integrated explosion-proof valve having a component composition containing Fe: 0.85 to 1.50 mass %, Mn: 0.30 to 0.70 mass %, Ti: 0.002 to 0.15 mass %, and B: less than 0.05 mass %, having a balance of Al and impurities, having an Fe/Mn ratio restricted to 1.8 to 3.5, restricting, as impurities, Si to less than 0.40 mass %, Cu to less than 0.03 mass %, Mg to less than 0.05 mass %, and V to less than 0.03 mass %, having a 0.2% yield strength of 40 MPa or more, having a value of elongation of 40% or more, having a conductivity of 53.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2018Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuichi TAMAKI, Keiji KANAMORI, Daisuke SHIMOSAKA, Toshiya ANAMI
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Publication number: 20210340646Abstract: Aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use excellent in heat radiation ability, formability, and work softenability, which aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use enabling formation of an integrated explosion-proof valve with little variation in operating pressure and excellent in cyclic fatigue resistance, and a method of production of the same are provided, the aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use for forming an integrated explosion-proof valve having a component composition containing Fe: 1.05 to 1.50 mass %, Mn: 0.15 to 0.70 mass %, Ti: 0.002 to 0.15 mass %, and B: less than 0.04 mass %, having a balance of Al and impurities, having an Fe/Mn ratio restricted to 1.8 to 7.0, restricting, as impurities, Si to less than 0.40 mass %, Cu to less than 0.03 mass %, Mg to less than 0.05 mass %, and V to less than 0.03 mass %, having a conductivity of 53.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2018Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuichi TAMAKI, Keiji KANAMORI, Daisuke SHIMOSAKA, Toshiya ANAMI
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Publication number: 20210262064Abstract: An aluminum alloy fin material for heat exchanger use excellent in buckling resistance which, even if the fin material is reduced to a final sheet thickness of 30 to 80 ?m, is excellent in formability at the time of corrugation, has a suitable strength before brazing enabling easy fin formation, exhibits a suitable self corrosion resistance and sacrificial anode effect, and is high in strength as a material for forming working fluid passages is provided. By mass %, Si: 1.3% to 1.6%, Fe: 0.30% to 0.70%, Mn: 1.8% to 2.3%, Zn: 0.5% to 2.0%, and Ti: 0.002% to 0.10% are contained, as impurities, Mg is limited to 0.05% or less and Cu is limited to 0.06% or less, and the balance is unavoidable impurities and Al, a final sheet thickness is 30 to 80 ?m, a tensile strength is 260 MPa or less, a solidus temperature is 615° C. or more, and further a tensile strength when measured after brazing heating then cooling, is 170 MPa or more and a spontaneous potential is ?780 mV to ?700 mV.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2019Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicants: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD., DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takanori KOKUBO, Toshiya ANAMI, Daisuke SHIMOSAKA, Takahiro SHINODA, Koichi NAKASHITA, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210238714Abstract: Aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use having suitable strength and excellent in heat radiating ability, formability, and work softenability, which aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use enabling formation of an integrated explosion-proof valve with little variation in operating pressure and excellent in cyclic fatigue resistance, and a method of production of the same are provided, the aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use for forming an integrated explosion-proof valve having a component composition containing Fe: 1.05 to 1.50 mass %, Mn: 0.15 to 0.70 mass %, Ti: 0.002 to 0.15 mass %, and B: less than 0.05 mass %, having a balance of Al and impurities, having an Fe/Mn ratio restricted to 1.8 to 7.0, restricting, as impurities, Si to less than 0.40 mass %, Cu to less than 0.03 mass %, Mg to less than 0.05 mass %, and V to less than 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2019Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuichi TAMAKI, Keiji KANAMORI, Daisuke SHIMOSAKA, Toshiya ANAMI
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Publication number: 20210238720Abstract: Aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use having suitable strength and excellent in deformation resistance and formability, which aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use enabling formation of an integrated explosion-proof valve with little variation in operating pressure and excellent in cyclic fatigue resistance, and a method of production of the same are provided, the aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use for forming an integrated explosion-proof valve having a component composition containing Fe: 0.85 to 1.50 mass %, Mn: 0.30 to 0.70 mass %, Ti: 0.002 to 0.15 mass %, and B: less than 0.05 mass %, having a balance of Al and impurities, having an Fe/Mn ratio restricted to 1.8 to 3.5, restricting, as impurities, Si to less than 0.40 mass %, Cu to less than 0.03 mass %, Mg to less than 0.05 mass %, and V to less than 0.03 mass %, having a tensile strength of 95 MPa or more, having a 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2019Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuichi TAMAKI, Keiji KANAMORI, Daisuke SHIMOSAKA, Toshiya ANAMI
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Publication number: 20210062316Abstract: Aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use having suitable strength and excellent in formability and work softenability, which aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use enabling formation of an integrated explosion-proof valve with little variation in operating pressure and excellent in cyclic fatigue resistance, and a method of production of the same are provided, the aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use for forming an integrated explosion-proof valve having a component composition containing Fe: 1.05 to 1.50 mass %, Mn: 0.15 to 0.70 mass %, Ti: 0.002 to 0.15 mass %, and B: less than 0.03 mass %, having a balance of Al and impurities, having an Fe/Mn ratio restricted to 1.8 to 7.0, restricting, as impurities, Si to less than 0.40 mass %, Cu to less than 0.03 mass %, Mg to less than 0.05 mass %, and V to less than 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuichi TAMAKI, Keiji KANAMORI, Daisuke SHIMOSAKA, Toshiya ANAMI
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Publication number: 20210062302Abstract: Aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use having suitable strength and excellent in formability and work softenability, which aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use enabling formation of an integrated explosion-proof valve with little variation in operating pressure and excellent in cyclic fatigue resistance, and a method of production of the same are provided, the aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use for forming an integrated explosion-proof valve having a component composition containing Fe: 1.05 to 1.50 mass %, Mn: 0.15 to 0.70 mass %, Ti: 0.002 to 0.15 mass %, and B: less than 0.04 mass %, having a balance of Al and impurities, having an Fe/Mn ratio restricted to 1.8 to 7.0, restricting, as impurities, Si to less than 0.40 mass %, Cu to less than 0.03 mass %, Mg to less than 0.05 mass %, and V to less than 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuichi TAMAKI, Keiji KANAMORI, Daisuke SHIMOSAKA, Toshiya ANAMI
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Publication number: 20200091483Abstract: Aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use excellent in heat radiation ability, deformation resistance, and formability, which aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use enabling formation of an integrated explosion-proof valve with little variation in operating pressure and excellent in cyclic fatigue resistance, and a method of production of the same are provided, the aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use for forming an integrated explosion-proof valve having a component composition containing Fe: 1.05 to 1.50 mass %, Mn: 0.30 to 0.70 mass %, Ti: 0.002 to 0.15 mass %, and B: less than 0.04 mass %, having a balance of Al and impurities, having an Fe/Mn ratio restricted to 1.8 to 3.5, restricting, as impurities, Si to less than 0.20 mass %, Cu to less than 0.03 mass %, Mg to less than 0.05 mass %, and V to less than 0.03 mass %, having a conductivity of 53.0% IACS or more, having a 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2018Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuichi TAMAKI, Keiji KANAMORI, Daisuke SHIMOSAKA, Toshiya ANAMI
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Patent number: 10280495Abstract: An aluminum alloy fin material for heat exchanger use having a 35 to 50 ?m thickness, a small springback at the time of corrugation, a suitable strength before brazing enabling easy fin formation, a high strength after brazing, and excellent erosion resistance, self corrosion resistance, and sacrificial anodic effect and a method of production of the same are provided. A fin material containing, by mass %, Si: 0.9 to 1.2%, Fe: 0.8 to 1.1%, Mn: 1.1 to 1.4%, and Zn: 0.9 to 1.1%, further limiting the impurity Mg to 0.05% or less, Cu to 0.03% or less, and ([Si]+[Fe]+2[Mn])/3 to 1.4% to 1.6%, and having a balance of unavoidable impurities and Al. A method of production prescribing hot rolling, cold rolling, intermediate annealing, and final cold rolling.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2013Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, NOVELIS INC., NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Takanori Kokubo, Toshiya Anami, Hayaki Teramoto, Hideyuki Ota, Toshihide Ninagawa
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Patent number: 10221471Abstract: 3000-series aluminum alloy sheet which has a high strength enabling application to automobile body panel and excellent in bendability and shape freezability is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2014Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Handa, Kiyomi Tsuchiya, Toshiya Anami
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Patent number: 10041154Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet includes an aluminum alloy substrate having a composition containing, by mass percentage, 3.0 to 4.0% of magnesium, 0.2 to 0.4% of manganese, 0.1 to 0.5% of iron, not less than 0.03% but less than 0.10% of copper, and less than 0.20% of silicon, with the remainder being aluminum and unavoidable impurities. A peak concentration of a copper concentration distribution in a thickness direction in a region at a depth of 15 nm to 200 nm from the surface of the aluminum alloy substrate is equal to or more than 0.15%, and the aluminum alloy substrate has a recrystallized structure with an average grain size of 15 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2012Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignees: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoyuki Hirayama, Pizhi Zhao, Takeshi Handa, Toshiya Anami, Yusuke Nagaishi, Koji Itakura, Hirokazu Miyagawa, Tsutomu Hattori, Shigenori Yoshizawa, Akio Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 9896754Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet which has high strength enabling application to automobile body sheet and which is excellent in press-formability and shape fixability and a method of production of the same are provided. Aluminum alloy sheet having a composition of ingredients which contains Mg, Fe, and Ti, restricts the impurity Si to less than 0.20 mass %, and has a balance of Al and unavoidable impurities and a metal structure with an average grain size of less than 15 ?m and having second phase particles with a circle equivalent diameter of 3 ?m or more in a number of less than 300/mm2 and having a tensile strength of 240 MPa or more, a yield strength of less than 130 MPa, an elongation of 30% or more, and a plane strain fracture limit at a strain rate of 20/sec of 0.20 or more.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2013Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Tomoyuki Hirayama, Takeshi Handa, Toshiya Anami
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Patent number: 9695495Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet for motor vehicles is produced by casting a melt, containing 3.0-3.5 mass % Mg, 0.05-0.3 mass % Fe, 0.05-0.15 mass % Si, and less than 0.1 mass % Mn, a balance substantially being inevitable impurities and Al, into a slab having a thickness of 5 to 15 mm in a twin-belt caster so that cooling rate at ¼ depth of thickness of the slab is 20 to 200° C./sec; winding the cast thin slab into a coiled thin slab subjected to cold rolling with a roll having a surface roughness of 0.2 to 0.7 ?m Ra at a cold rolling reduction of 50 to 98%; subjecting the cold rolled sheet to final annealing either continuously in a CAL at a holding temperature of 400 to 520° C. within 5 minutes or in a batch annealing furnace at a holding temperature of 300 to 400° C. for 1 to 8 hours; and subjecting the resulting sheet to straightening with a leveler.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: NIPPON LIGHT METAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Pizhi Zhao, Toshiya Anami, Kazumitsu Mizushima, Akira Goto, Hitoshi Kazama, Kunihiro Yasunaga
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Publication number: 20160265095Abstract: 3000-series aluminum alloy sheet which has a high strength enabling application to automobile body panel and excellent in bendability and shape freezability is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi HANDA, Kiyomi TSUCHIYA, Toshiya ANAMI
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Publication number: 20150252461Abstract: An aluminum alloy fin material for heat exchanger use having a 35 to 50 ?m thickness, a small springback at the time of corrugation, a suitable strength before brazing enabling easy fin formation, a high strength after brazing, and excellent erosion resistance, self corrosion resistance, and sacrificial anodic effect and a method of production of the same are provided. A fin material containing, by mass %, Si: 0.9 to 1.2%, Fe: 0.8 to 1.1%, Mn: 1.1 to 1.4%, and Zn: 0.9 to 1.1%, further limiting the impurity Mg to 0.05% or less, Cu to 0.03% or less, and ([Si]+[Fe]+2[Mn])/3 to 1.4% to 1.6%, and having a balance of unavoidable impurities and Al. A method of production prescribing hot rolling, cold rolling, intermediate annealing, and final cold rolling.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2013Publication date: September 10, 2015Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, NOVELIS INC., NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Takanori Kokubo, Toshiya Anami, Hayaki Teramoto, Hideyuki Ota, Toshihide Ninagawa
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Publication number: 20150114523Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet for motor vehicles is produced by casting a melt, containing 3.0-3.5 mass % Mg, 0.05-0.3 mass % Fe, 0.05-0.15 mass % Si, and less than 0.1 mass % Mn, a balance substantially being inevitable impurities and Al, into a slab having a thickness of 5 to 15 mm in a twin-belt caster so that cooling rate at ¼ depth of thickness of the slab is 20 to 200° C./sec; winding the cast thin slab into a coiled thin slab subjected to cold rolling with a roll having a surface roughness of 0.2 to 0.7 ?m Ra at a cold rolling reduction of 50 to 98%; subjecting the cold rolled sheet to final annealing either continuously in a CAL at a holding temperature of 400 to 520° C. within 5 minutes or in a batch annealing furnace at a holding temperature of 300 to 400° C. for 1 to 8 hours; and subjecting the resulting sheet to straightening with a leveler.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: NIPPON LIGHT METAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Pizhi ZHAO, Toshiya ANAMI, Kazumitsu MIZUSHIMA, Akira GOTO, Hitoshi KAZAMA, Kunihiro YASUNAGA
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Publication number: 20150075677Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet which has high strength enabling application to automobile body sheet and which is excellent in press-formability and shape fixability and a method of production of the same are provided. Aluminum alloy sheet having a composition of ingredients which contains Mg, Fe, and Ti, restricts the impurity Si to less than 0.20 mass %, and has a balance of Al and unavoidable impurities and a metal structure with an average grain size of less than 15 ?m and having second phase particles with a circle equivalent diameter of 3 ?m or more in a number of less than 300/mm2 and having a tensile strength of 240 MPa or more, a yield strength of less than 130 MPa, an elongation of 30% or more, and a plane strain fracture limit at a strain rate of 20/sec of 0.20 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Tomoyuki Hirayama, Takeshi Handa, Toshiya Anami
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Publication number: 20140166162Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet includes an aluminum alloy substrate having a composition containing, by mass percentage, 3.0 to 4.0% of magnesium, 0.2 to 0.4% of manganese, 0.1 to 0.5% of iron, not less than 0.03% but less than 0.10% of copper, and less than 0.20% of silicon, with the remainder being aluminum and unavoidable impurities. A peak concentration of a copper concentration distribution in a thickness direction in a region at a depth of 15 nm to 200 nm from the surface of the aluminum alloy substrate is equal to or more than 0.15%, and the aluminum alloy substrate has a recrystallized structure with an average grain size of 15 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Inventors: Tomoyuki Hirayama, Pizhi Zhao, Takeshi Handa, Toshiya Anami, Yusuke Nagaishi, Koji Itakura, Hirokazu Miyagawa, Tsutomu Hattori, Shigenori Yoshizawa, Akio Yoshizawa