Patents by Inventor Toyomitsu Nakamura
Toyomitsu Nakamura 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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Publication number: 20230416888Abstract: An Al plated electric resistance welded steel pipe for hardening use suppressing the formation of scale to the inside of the plating layer while performing hot forming and an Al plated hollow member using that Al plated electric resistance welded steel pipe, wherein the Al plated electric resistance welded steel pipe for hardening use is comprised of a base material made of a tubular steel plate and having a predetermined chemical composition and an electric resistance welded zone provided at a seam portion of the steel plate and extending in a longitudinal direction of the steel plate, the base material is further provided with an intermetallic compound layer positioned on the surface of the steel plate and including an Al—Fe—Si-based intermetallic compound and an Al plating layer positioned on the surface of the intermetallic compound layer and containing Al and Si, and 70×X/D?Y/t?30 is satisfied, wherein X (?m) is a thickness of the intermetallic compound layer, Y (?m) is a thickness of the Al plating layeType: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Jun MAKI, Soshi FUJITA, Toyomitsu NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 11807924Abstract: An Al plated electric resistance welded steel pipe for hardening use suppressing the formation of scale to the inside of the plating layer while performing hot forming and an Al plated hollow member using that Al plated electric resistance welded steel pipe, wherein the Al plated electric resistance welded steel pipe for hardening use is comprised of a base material made of a tubular steel plate and having a predetermined chemical composition and an electric resistance welded zone provided at a seam portion of the steel plate and extending in a longitudinal direction of the steel plate, the base material is further provided with an intermetallic compound layer positioned on the surface of the steel plate and including an Al—Fe—Si-based intermetallic compound and an Al plating layer positioned on the surface of the intermetallic compound layer and containing Al and Si, and 70×X/D?Y/t?30 is satisfied, wherein X (?m) is a thickness of the intermetallic compound layer, Y (?m) is a thickness of the Al plating layeType: GrantFiled: November 20, 2017Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Maki, Soshi Fujita, Toyomitsu Nakamura
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Patent number: 11401567Abstract: A manufacturing method of a steel sheet includes: a step of performing continuous casting of molten steel having a Si content of 0.4 mass % to 3.0 mass % to obtain a slab; a step of performing hot rolling of the slab to obtain a hot-rolled steel sheet; a step of performing cold rolling of the hot-rolled steel sheet to obtain a cold-rolled steel sheet; a step of performing cold-rolled sheet annealing of the cold-rolled steel sheet; a step of performing pickling after the cold-rolled sheet annealing; a step of performing water washing after the pickling; and a step of performing drying after the water washing. A dew point is set to ?35° C. or lower in the cold-rolled sheet annealing, an electrical conductivity of a rinse water to be used in the water washing is set to 5.0 mS/m or less, a water-washing time is set to 15 seconds or less in the water washing, and the drying is started within 60 seconds from an end of the water washing.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Toyomitsu Nakamura, Kenichiro Matsumura
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Publication number: 20220177994Abstract: Provided is a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition and structure wherein (Fe, Mn)2 B precipitates having a circle equivalent diameter of 50 to 300 nm are present in a number density of 1/500 ?m2 or more in a surface layer region down to a depth of 100 ?m from the surface in the sheet thickness direction. Further, provided is a method for producing a steel sheet comprising continuously casting a molten steel having a predetermined chemical composition to form a steel slab, wherein the continuously casting includes introducing more than 10 ppm and less than 100 ppm of oxygen into the surface layer of the steel slab, hot rolling including finish rolling the steel slab, wherein a completion temperature of the finish rolling is 650 to 950° C., coiling the obtained hot rolled steel sheet at a coiling temperature of 400 to 700° C., and cold rolling the hot rolled steel sheet, then annealing it.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2019Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo TAKEDA, Yuya SUZUKI, Toyomitsu NAKAMURA, Seiji FURUSAKO
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Patent number: 11274356Abstract: A steel sheet having a chemical composition of the base metal including, in mass %, C: 0.17 to 0.40%, Si: 0.10 to 2.50%, Mn: 1.00 to 10.00%, P: 0.001 to 0.03%, S: 0.0001 to 0.02%, Al: 0.001 to 2.50%, N: 0.0001 to 0.010%, O: 0.0001 to 0.010%, Ti: 0 to 0.10%, Nb: 0 to 0.10%, V: 0 to 0.10%, B: 0 to 0.010%, Cr: 0 to 2.00%, Ni: 0 to 2.00%, Cu: 0 to 2.00%, Mo: 0 to 2.00%, Ca: 0 to 0.50%, Mg: 0 to 0.50%, REM: 0 to 0.50%, the balance: Fe and impurities, wherein the steel sheet has an internal oxidized layer in which at least one part of a crystal grain boundary is covered by oxides, and in which a grain boundary coverage ratio of oxides is 60% or more in a region from the surface of the base metal to a depth of 5.0 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo Takeda, Kunio Hayashi, Akihiro Uenishi, Hiroyuki Kawata, Chisato Yoshinaga, Yasunobu Miyazaki, Toyomitsu Nakamura
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Publication number: 20200347489Abstract: An Al plated electric resistance welded steel pipe for hardening use suppressing the formation of scale to the inside of the plating layer while performing hot forming and an Al plated hollow member using that Al plated electric resistance welded steel pipe, wherein the Al plated electric resistance welded steel pipe for hardening use is comprised of a base material made of a tubular steel plate and having a predetermined chemical composition and an electric resistance welded zone provided at a seam portion of the steel plate and extending in a longitudinal direction of the steel plate, the base material is further provided with an intermetallic compound layer positioned on the surface of the steel plate and including an Al-Fe-Si-based intermetallic compound and an Al plating layer positioned on the surface of the intermetallic compound layer and containing Al and Si, and 70×X/D?Y/t?30 is satisfied, wherein X (?m) is a thickness of the intermetallic compound layer, Y (?m) is a thickness of the Al plating layeType: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2017Publication date: November 5, 2020Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Jun MAKI, Soshi FUJITA, Toyomitsu NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 10822683Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes a base steel sheet and a hot-dip galvanized layer formed on at least one surface of the base steel sheet, in which the hot-dip galvanized layer includes Fe in a content of more than 0% to 5% or less, Al in a content of more than 0% to 1.0% or less, and columnar grains formed by a ? phase on the surface of the steel sheet, further, 20% or more of the entire interface between the hot-dip galvanized layer and the base steel sheet is coated with the ? phase, and a ratio of an interface formed between ? grains in which coarse oxides are present among grains and the base steel sheet with respect to the entire interface between the ? phase and the base steel sheet in the hot-dip galvanized layer is 50% or less, the base steel sheet has predetermined chemical components and a refined layer in direct contact with the interface between the base steel sheet and the hot-dip galvanized layer, an average thickness of the refined layer is 0.1 to 5.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Kawata, Takeshi Yasui, Kohei Ueda, Naoki Maruyama, Yuji Yamaguchi, Satoshi Uchida, Ryosuke Komami, Hayato Arai, Toyomitsu Nakamura
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Patent number: 10822684Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes a base steel sheet and a hot-dip galvanized layer formed on at least one surface of the base steel sheet, in which the hot-dip galvanized layer includes Fe in a content of more than 0% to 5% or less, Al in a content of more than 0% to 1.0% or less, and columnar grains formed by a ? phase on the surface of the steel sheet, further, 20% or more of the entire interface between the hot-dip galvanized layer and the base steel sheet is coated with the ? phase, and a ratio of an interface formed between ? grains in which coarse oxides are present among ? grains and the base steel sheet with respect to the entire interface between the ? phase and the base steel sheet in the hot-dip galvanized layer is 50% or less, the base steel sheet has predetermined chemical components and a refined layer in direct contact with the interface between the base steel sheet and the hot-dip galvanized layer, an average thickness of the refined layer is 0.1 to 5.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Kawata, Takeshi Yasui, Kohei Ueda, Naoki Maruyama, Yuji Yamaguchi, Satoshi Uchida, Ryosuke Komami, Hayato Arai, Toyomitsu Nakamura
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Publication number: 20200325554Abstract: A steel sheet having a chemical composition of the base metal including, in mass %, C: 0.17 to 0.40%, Si: 0.10 to 2.50%, Mn: 1.00 to 10.00%, P: 0.001 to 0.03%, S: 0.0001 to 0.02%, Al: 0.001 to 2.50%, N: 0.0001 to 0.010%, O: 0.0001 to 0.010%, Ti: 0 to 0.10%, Nb: 0 to 0.10%, V: 0 to 0.10%, B: 0 to 0.010%, Cr: 0 to 2.00%, Ni: 0 to 2.00%, Cu: 0 to 2.00%, Mo: 0 to 2.00%, Ca: 0 to 0.50%, Mg: 0 to 0.50%, REM: 0 to 0.50%, the balance: Fe and impurities, wherein the steel sheet has an internal oxidized layer in which at least one part of a crystal grain boundary is covered by oxides, and in which a grain boundary coverage ratio of oxides is 60% or more in a region from the surface of the base metal to a depth of 5.0 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2017Publication date: October 15, 2020Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo TAKEDA, Kunio HAYASHI, Akihiro UENISHI, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Chisato YOSHINAGA, Yasunobu MIYAZAKI, Toyomitsu NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20200190610Abstract: A manufacturing method of a steel sheet includes: a step of performing continuous casting of molten steel having a Si content of 0.4 mass % to 3.0 mass % to obtain a slab; a step of performing hot rolling of the slab to obtain a hot-rolled steel sheet; a step of performing cold rolling of the hot-rolled steel sheet to obtain a cold-rolled steel sheet; a step of performing cold-rolled sheet annealing of the cold-rolled steel sheet; a step of performing pickling after the cold-rolled sheet annealing; a step of performing water washing after the pickling; and a step of performing drying after the water washing. A dew point is set to ?35° C. or lower in the cold-rolled sheet annealing, an electrical conductivity of a rinse water to be used in the water washing is set to 5.0 mS/m or less, a water-washing time is set to 15 seconds or less in the water washing, and the drying is started within 60 seconds from an end of the water washing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2017Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Toyomitsu NAKAMURA, Kenichiro MATSUMURA
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Publication number: 20200109459Abstract: To provide a technique capable of preventing or suppressing fatigue failure of a vehicle underbody part material by 3DQ. A vehicle underbody part material relating to this disclosure includes: a quenched and bent steel pipe; and a plating film layer provided on a surface of the steel pipe and containing 30 mass % or more of Al and having an Al—Fe alloy existing in a surface thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2018Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventor: Toyomitsu NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 10507629Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet wherein the hot-dip galvanized steel sheet comprises a base steel sheet and a hot-dip galvanized layer, a ferrite phase is, by volume fraction, 40% or more and 97% or less in a range of ? thickness to ? thickness centered at a position of ¼ thickness from the surface of the base steel sheet, a hard structure is 3% or more in total, wherein the hot-dip galvanized steel sheet has the hot-dip galvanized layer in which Fe is 5.0% or less and Al is 1.0% or less, and columnar grains formed of a ? phase is 20% or more in an entire interface between the plated layer and the base steel sheet on the surface of the base steel sheet in which a ratio of a volume fraction of the hard structure in a surface layer range of 20 ?m depth in a steel sheet direction from an interface between the hot-dip galvanized layer and the base steel sheet is 0.10 times or more to 0.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Kawata, Takeshi Yasui, Kohei Ueda, Naoki Maruyama, Yuji Yamaguchi, Satoshi Uchida, Ryosuke Komami, Hayato Arai, Yasuhiro Nakashima, Toyomitsu Nakamura
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Patent number: 10113223Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having a base steel sheet and a hot-dip galvanized layer, a ferrite phase is, by volume fraction, 50% or less in a range of ? thickness to ? thickness centered at a position of ¼ thickness from the surface of the base steel sheet, a hard structure is 50% or more, wherein the hot-dip galvanized steel sheet has the hot-dip galvanized layer in which Fe is 5.0% or less and Al is 1.0% or less, and columnar grains formed of a ? phase is 20% or more in an entire interface between the plated layer and the base steel sheet. On the surface of the base steel sheet, a volume fraction of a residual austenite is 3% or less.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Kawata, Takeshi Yasui, Kohei Ueda, Naoki Maruyama, Yuji Yamaguchi, Satoshi Uchida, Ryosuke Komami, Hayato Arai, Toyomitsu Nakamura
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Publication number: 20170313028Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet wherein the hot-dip galvanized steel sheet comprises a base steel sheet and a hot-dip galvanized layer, a ferrite phase is, by volume fraction, 40% or more and 97% or less in a range of ? thickness to ? thickness centered at a position of ¼ thickness from the surface of the base steel sheet, a hard structure is 3% or more in total, wherein the hot-dip galvanized steel sheet has the hot-dip galvanized layer in which Fe is 5.0% or less and Al is 1.0% or less, and columnar grains formed of a ? phase is 20% or more in an entire interface between the plated layer and the base steel sheet on the surface of the base steel sheet in which a ratio of a volume fraction of the hard structure in a surface layer range of 20 ?m depth in a steel sheet direction from an interface between the hot-dip galvanized layer and the base steel sheet is 0.10 times or more to 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki KAWATA, Takeshi YASUI, Kohei UEDA, Naoki MARUYAMA, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA, Ryosuke KOMAMI, Hayato ARAI, Yasuhiro NAKASHIMA, Toyomitsu NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20170314116Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet wherein the hot-dip galvanized steel sheet comprises a base steel sheet and a hot-dip galvanized layer, a ferrite phase is, by volume fraction, 50% or less in a range of ? thickness to ? thickness centered at a position of ¼ thickness from the surface of the base steel sheet, a hard structure is 50% or more, wherein the hot-dip galvanized steel sheet has the hot-dip galvanized layer in which Fe is 5.0% or less and Al is 1.0% or less, and columnar grains formed of a ? phase is 20% or more in an entire interface between the plated layer and the base steel sheet, on the surface of the base steel sheet in which a volume fraction of a residual austenite is 3% or less and a ratio of a volume fraction of the hard structure is 0.10 times or more to 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki KAWATA, Takeshi YASUI, Kohei UEDA, Naoki MARUYAMA, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA, Ryosuke KOMAMI, Hayato ARAI, Toyomitsu NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20170314115Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes a base steel sheet and a hot-dip galvanized layer formed on at least one surface of the base steel sheet, in which the hot-dip galvanized layer includes Fe in a content of more than 0% to 5% or less, Al in a content of more than 0% to 1.0% or less, and columnar grains formed by a ? phase on the surface of the steel sheet, further, 20% or more of the entire interface between the hot-dip galvanized layer and the base steel sheet is coated with the ? phase, and a ratio of an interface formed between ? grains in which coarse oxides are present among ? grains and the base steel sheet with respect to the entire interface between the ? phase and the base steel sheet in the hot-dip galvanized layer is 50% or less, the base steel sheet has predetermined chemical components and a refined layer in direct contact with the interface between the base steel sheet and the hot-dip galvanized layer, an average thickness of the refined layer is 0.1 to 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki KAWATA, Takeshi YASUI, Kohei UEDA, Naoki MARUYAMA, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA, Ryosuke KOMAMI, Hayato ARAI, Toyomitsu NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20170305114Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes a base steel sheet and a hot-dip galvanized layer formed on at least one surface of the base steel sheet, in which the hot-dip galvanized layer includes Fe in a content of more than 0% to 5% or less, Al in a content of more than 0% to 1.0% or less, and columnar grains formed by a ? phase on the surface of the steel sheet, further, 20% or more of the entire interface between the hot-dip galvanized layer and the base steel sheet is coated with the ? phase, and a ratio of an interface formed between grains in which coarse oxides are present among grains and the base steel sheet with respect to the entire interface between the ? phase and the base steel sheet in the hot-dip galvanized layer is 50% or less, the base steel sheet has predetermined chemical components and a refined layer in direct contact with the interface between the base steel sheet and the hot-dip galvanized layer, an average thickness of the refined layer is 0.1 to 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki KAWATA, Takeshi YASUI, Kohei UEDA, Naoki MARUYAMA, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi UCHIDA, Ryosuke KOMAMI, Hayato ARAI, Toyomitsu NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 9045817Abstract: A heat treated galvannealed steel material having excellent post-painting corrosion resistance and a high strength which is suitable for use as an automotive part and a method for its manufacture are provided. A galvannealed steel material having a galvannealed coating on at least one side thereof is heat treated by heating at least a portion thereof to a temperature range in which hardening is possible. The coating remaining on the surface of at least a part of the portion which underwent heat treatment has a coating weight of at least 20 g/m2 and at most 80 g/m2 per side and an Fe content of at least 15% and at most 35%, an ? phase is present in the coating, and the centerline average roughness Ra of the surface of the coating is at most 1.5 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2010Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Tamotsu Toki, Atsushi Tomizawa, Nobusato Kojima, Kazuya Ishii, Kazuhito Imai, Toyomitsu Nakamura, Naoaki Shimada
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Publication number: 20130280548Abstract: A bent metal member has a body formed from a tubular metal material and has a shape which is bent two-dimensionally or three-dimensionally. The surface of the body has a Zn-based coating which contains an ? phase and which satisfies the following condition: coating weight: at most 90 g/m2 per side, Fe content: 8-35 mass %, and a surface roughness Ra prescribed by WS B 0601: at most 2.0 ?m. The bent metal member can have a closed cross section, an open cross section, or a shaped cross section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Inventors: Toyomitsu NAKAMURA, Atsushi Tomizawa, Naoaki Shimada, Nobusato Kojima, Kazuya Ishii, Kazuhito Imai, Tamotsu Toki
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Patent number: 8490457Abstract: A method of manufacturing a bent metal member comprises supporting the outer surface of a tubular metal material having a Zn-Fe alloy coating layer at two locations spaced in the axial direction of the metal material. The metal material is fed in its axial direction and heated at a position between the two locations to a temperature range of at least the Ac3 point at a heating speed such that the rate of temperature increase is at least 3.0×102° C. per second, held so that the time for which the surface of the metal material is at a temperature of 8.0×102° C. or higher is at most 2 seconds, and then rapid cooled. A bending moment is imparted to the healed portion in two or three dimensions to manufacture a bent metal member having on its surface a Zn-based layer which contains an ?, phase.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2011Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Toyomitsu Nakamura, Atsushi Tomizawa, Naoaki Shimada, Nobusato Kojima, Kazuya Ishii, Kazuhito Imai, Tamotsu Toki