Patents by Inventor Yasuhide Ishiguro

Yasuhide Ishiguro 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: 10472690
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength seamless steel pipe having the composition which contains, by mass %, 0.20 to 0.50% C, 0.05 to 0.40% Si, 0.3 to 0.9% Mn, 0.015% or less P, 0.005% or less S, 0.005 to 0.1% Al, 0.008% or less N, 0.6 to 1.7% Cr, 0.4 to 1.0% Mo, 0.01 to 0.30% V, 0.01 to 0.06% Nb, 0.0003 to 0.0030% B, and 0.0030% or less O (oxygen). The high-strength seamless steel pipe has the microstructure where a volume fraction of a tempered martensitic phase is 95% or more, and prior austenitic grains have a grain size number of 8.5 or more, and a segregation degree index Ps which is defined by a formula Ps=8.1 (XSi+XMn+XMo)+1.2XP relating to XM which is a ratio between a segregated portion content and an average content is set to less than 65.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Yuga, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Kazuki Fujimura, Yasuhide Ishiguro
  • Publication number: 20190292618
    Abstract: Provided herein is a high-strength seamless stainless steel pipe. The high-strength seamless stainless steel pipe contains, in mass %, C: 0.05% or less, Si: 0.5% or less, Mn: 0.15 to 1.0%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Cr: 14.5 to 17.5%, Ni: 3.0 to 6.0%, Mo: 2.7 to 5.0%, Cu: 0.3 to 4.0%, W: 0.1 to 2.5%, V: 0.02 to 0.20%, Al: 0.10% or less, N: 0.15% or less, and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities. C, Si, Mn, Cr, Ni, Mo, Cu, and N satisfy a specific formula. Cu, Mo, W, Cr, and Ni satisfy another specific formula. The high-strength seamless stainless steel pipe has more than 45% martensite phase, 10 to 45% ferrite phase, and 30% or less retained austenite phase. The total amount of precipitated Cr, precipitated Mo, and precipitated W is 0.75 mass % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro EGUCHI, Yasuhide ISHIGURO
  • Patent number: 10329633
    Abstract: A high-strength seamless stainless steel pipe for oil country tubular goods that is excellent in terms of hot workability, sulfide stress cracking resistance, and corrosion resistance, and a method for manufacturing the steel pipe. The steel pipe has a chemical composition containing Cr and Ni so that the relationship Cr/Ni?5.3 is satisfied. A microstructure of the steel pipe includes mainly a tempered martensite phase. Additionally, a surface layer microstructure of the steel pipe includes a phase which looks white when subjected to etching with a Vilella etching solution, the phase having a thickness in the wall thickness direction from the outer surface of the pipe of 10 ?m or more and 100 ?m or less and dispersing in the outer surface of the pipe in an amount of 50% or more in terms of area fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Fujimura, Yasuhide Ishiguro, Tetsu Nakahashi, Hideo Sato
  • Publication number: 20190136337
    Abstract: A high strength stainless steel seamless pipe for oil country tubular goods which is excellent in hot workability, has a high strength, suppresses scattering in the strength, and has excellent carbon dioxide corrosion resistance. The steel pipe has a yield strength of 655 MPa or more, and a chemical composition comprising, by mass%, C: 0.005 to 0.05%, Si: 0.05 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.20 to 1.80%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Cr: 12.0 to 17.0%, Ni: 4.0 to 7.0%, Mo: 0.5 to 3.0%, Al: 0.005 to 0.10%, V: 0.005 to 0.20%, Co: 0.01 to 1.0%, N: 0.005 to 0.15%, and 0: 0.010% or less with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. Cr, Ni, Mo, Cu, and C satisfy a specified expression, and Cr, Mo, Si, C, Mn, Ni, Cu, and N satisfy another specified expression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro EGUCHI, Yasuhide ISHIGURO
  • Publication number: 20190100821
    Abstract: A high-strength seamless stainless steel pipe has a composition including, by mass %, 0.05% or less C, 1.0% or less Si, 0.1 to 0.5% Mn, 0.05% or less P, 0.005% or less S, more than 16.0% to 18.0% or less Cr, more than 2.0% to 3.0% or less Mo, 0.5 to 3.5% Cu, 3.0% or more and less than 5.0% Ni, 0.01 to 3.0% W, 0.01 to 0.5% Nb, 0.001 to 0.3% Ti, 0.001 to 0.1% Al, less than 0.07% N, 0.01% or less O, and Fe and unavoidable impurities as a balance, wherein the steel pipe has a microstructure including a tempered martensite phase forming a main phase, 20 to 40% of a ferrite phase in terms of volume ratio, and 25% or less of a residual austenite phase in terms of volume ratio, an average grain size of the ferrite phase is 40 ?m or less, and a sum of amounts of Ti and Nb precipitated as precipitates having a grain size of 2 ?m or less is 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Kenichiro Eguchi, Yasuhide Ishiguro, Takeshi Suzuki, Kazuki Fujimura, Hiroki Ota
  • Patent number: 10240221
    Abstract: A steel pipe is formed by performing pipe making of a raw material having a composition containing C: 0.05% or less, Si: 0.50% or less, Mn: 0.20% to 1.80%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Cr: 14.0% to 18.0%, Ni: 5.0% to 8.0%, Mo: 1.5% to 3.5%, Cu: 0.5% to 3.5%, Al: 0.10% or less, Nb: more than 0.20% and 0.50% or less, V: 0.20% or less, N: 0.15% or less, and O: 0.010% or less, on a percent by mass basis, wherein Cr+0.65Ni+0.6Mo+0.55Cu?20C?18.5 and Cr+Mo+0.3Si?43.3C?0.4Mn?Ni?0.3Cu?9N?11 are satisfied and subjecting the resulting steel pipe to a quenching treatment to heat to a temperature higher than or equal to the Ac3 transformation temperature and, subsequently, cool to a temperature of 100° C. or lower at a cooling rate higher than or equal to the air cooling rate and a tempering treatment to temper at a temperature lower than or equal to the Ac1 transformation temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Eguchi, Yasuhide Ishiguro
  • Publication number: 20190048444
    Abstract: A low alloy high strength seamless steel pipe for oil country tubular goods is provided including a composition containing, in terms of mass %, C: 0.25 to 0.31%, Si: 0.01 to 0.35%, Mn: 0.45 to 0.70%, P: 0.010% or less, S: 0.001% or less, 0: 0.0015% or less, Al: 0.015 to 0.080%, Cu: 0.02 to 0.09%, Cr: 0.8 to 1.5%, Mo: 1.1 to 1.6%, V: 0.01 to 0.06%, Nb: 0.005 to 0.015%, B: 0.0015 to 0.0030%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.020%, and N: 0.005% or less, and having a ratio of the Ti content to the N content of 3.0 to 4.0, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, the steel pipe having a ratio of a stress at a strain of 0.7% to a stress at a strain of 0.4% in a stress-strain curve of 1.02 or less and a yield strength of 861 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Masao Yuga, Yasuhide Ishiguro, Hiroki Ota
  • Patent number: 10151012
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a high-strength stainless steel pipe includes forming a steel pipe having a predetermined size, the steel having a composition comprising by mass % 0.005 to 0.05% C, 0.05 to 1.0% Si, 0.2 to 1.8% Mn, 0.03% or less P, 0.005% or less S, 14 to 20% Cr, 1.5 to 10% Ni, 1 to 5% Mo, 0.5% or less V, 0.15% or less N, 0.01% or less O, 0.002 to 0.1% Al, and Fe and unavoidable impurities as a balance; applying a quenching treatment two times or more to the steel pipe where the steel pipe is quenched by reheating to a temperature of 750° C. or above and cooling to a temperature of 100° C. or below at a cooling rate equal to or higher than an air-cooling rate; and applying a tempering treatment where the steel pipe is tempered at a temperature of 700° C. or below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Eguchi, Yasuhide Ishiguro, Takeshi Suzuki, Hideo Sato, Tetsu Nakahashi
  • Patent number: 10151011
    Abstract: A high-strength stainless steel seamless tube or pipe has excellent corrosion resistance, where excellent carbon dioxide gas corrosion resistance in high-temperature environments containing CO2 and Cl? at high temperatures up to 200° C. and excellent sulfide stress cracking resistance and excellent sulfide stress corrosion cracking resistance at corrosive environments further containing H2S are ensured based on a composition of C: 0.05% or less, Si: 0.5% or less, Mn: 0.15% to 1.0%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Cr: 15.5% to 17.5%, Ni: 3.0% to 6.0%, Mo: 1.5% to 5.0%, Cu: 4.0% or less, W: 0.1% to 2.5%, and N: 0.15% or less such that ?5.9×(7.82+27C-0.91Si+0.21Mn?0.9Cr+Ni-1.1Mo+0.2Cu+11N)?13.0 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Eguchi, Yasuhide Ishiguro
  • Publication number: 20180327881
    Abstract: A seamless steel pipe having a specific chemical composition. A ratio of Ti to N is in a range of 2.0 to 5.0. The steel pipe has a microstructure including tempered martensite having a volume ratio of 95% or more, and prior austenite grains having a grain size number of 8.5 or more. In a cross-section perpendicular to a rolling direction of the steel pipe a number of nitride-based inclusions having a particle size of 4 um or more is 100 or less per 100 mm2, a number of nitride-based inclusions having a particle size of less than 4 ?m is 1000 or less per 100 mm2, a number of oxide-based inclusions having a particle size of 4 ?m or more is 40 or less per 100 mm2, and a number of oxide-based inclusions having a particle size of less than 4 ?m is 400 or less per 100 mm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao YUGA, Yasuhide ISHIGURO, Mitsuhiro OKATSU, Seiji NABESHIMA, Hiroki OTA
  • Patent number: 10023930
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a high strength stainless steel tube or pipe includes using an online heat treatment equipment line for a seamless steel tube or pipe in which a heating furnace for quenching, equipment for quenching, and a tempering furnace are used in the lower process of a rolling line, arranging cooling facilities capable of cooling a heat treated steel tube or pipe to a temperature of 20° C. or lower between the equipment for quenching and the tempering furnace, and cooling the heat treated steel tube or pipe to a temperature of 20° C. or lower before a tempering treatment is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Eguchi, Yasuhide Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 9995669
    Abstract: A round bar tensile test specimen for a sulfide stress corrosion cracking test of a steel, the specimen including a parallel section, a shoulder section, and a grip section. A sectional shape of the shoulder section being formed by a curve having two or more radii of curvature. A radius of curvature R1 (mm) of a portion of the curve adjacent to the parallel section being 15 mm or more, and the radius of curvature R1 (mm) satisfying (0.22??119)?R1?100 in terms of load stress ? (MPa) of the sulfide stress corrosion cracking test. A length X1 (mm) of the portion of the curve having the radius of curvature R1 in a longitudinal direction of the test specimen satisfying X1??{(r/8)×(R1?r2/4)}. Additionally, other radii of curvature of the curve being smaller than the radius of curvature R1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Yuga, Yasuhide Ishiguro, Kazuki Fujimura, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Yoshiyuki Sugano
  • Patent number: 9932651
    Abstract: A heavy wall and high strength seamless steel pipe having high sour resistance is provided. In particular, a quenching and tempering treatment is conducted to adjust the yield strength to be higher than 450 MPa and adjust the Vickers hardness HV5 that can be measured at an outermost side or an innermost side of the pipe under a 5 kgf load (test load: 49 N) to be 250 HV5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhide Ishiguro, Mitsuo Kimura, Kenichiro Eguchi, Hiroshi Yokogawa, Tadao Katagiri, Masahito Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20170369963
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a seamless stainless steel pipe for Oil Country Tubular Goods by heating a billet having a specified chemical composition including forming the billet into a seamless steel pipe by applying hot working to the billet, cooling the seamless steel pipe to a room temperature at a cooling rate of air cooling or more, thereafter, performing quenching by heating the seamless steel pipe to a temperature of 850° C. or above, subsequently, cooling the seamless steel pipe to a temperature of 100° C. or below at a cooling rate of air cooling or more, and subsequently, applying tempering to the seamless steel pipe at a temperature of 700° C. or below for a specific holding time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki FUJIMURA, Yasuhide ISHIGURO, Seigo GOTO
  • Publication number: 20170349964
    Abstract: A high-strength seamless steel pipe for oil country tubular goods comprising, by mass %, C: 0.20% to 0.50%, Si: 0.05% to 0.40%, Mn: more than 0.6% to 1.5% or less, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Al: 0.005% to 0.1%, N: 0.006% or less, Mo: more than 1.0% to 3.0% or less, V: 0.05% to 0.3%, Nb: 0.001% to 0.020%, B: 0.0003% to 0.0030%, O: 0.0030% or less, and Ti: 0.003% to 0.025%, and wherein Ti/N: 2.0 to 5.0 is satisfied, a volume fraction of a tempered martensitic is 95% or more, prior austenite grains have a grain size number of 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Yuga, Yasuhide Ishiguro, Seiji Nabeshima, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Hiroki Ota
  • Publication number: 20170349963
    Abstract: A high-strength seamless steel pipe for oil country tubular goods comprising, by mass %, C: 0.20% to 0.50%, Si: 0.05% to 0.40%, Mn: 0.3% to 0.9%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Al: 0.005% to 0.1%, N: 0.006% or less, Mo: more than 1.0% to 3.0% or less, V: 0.01% to less than 0.05%, Nb: 0.001% to less than 0.01%, B: 0.0003% to 0.0030%, O: 0.0030% or less, and Ti: 0.003% to 0.025%, and wherein Ti/N: 2.0 to 5.0 is satisfied, a volume fraction of a tempered martensitic is 95% or more, prior austenite grains have a grain size number of 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Yuga, Yasuhide Ishiguro, Seiji Nabeshima, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Hiroki Ota
  • Publication number: 20170283918
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength seamless steel pipe having the composition which contains, by mass %, 0.20 to 0.50% C, 0.05 to 0.40% Si, 0.3 to 0.9% Mn, 0.015% or less P, 0.005% or less S, 0.005 to 0.1% Al, 0.008% or less N, more than 0.6% and 1.7% or less Cr, more than 1.0% and 3.0% or less Mo, 0.01 to 0.30% V, 0.001% or more and less than 0.01% Nb, 0.0003 to 0.0030% B, and 0.0030% or less O (oxygen). The high-strength seamless steel pipe has the microstructure where a volume fraction of a tempered martensitic phase is 95% or more, and prior austenitic grains have a grain size number of 8.5 or more, and a segregation degree index Ps which is defined by a formula Ps=8.1 (XSi+XMn+XMo)+1.2XP is set to less than 65.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Yuga, Yasuhide Ishiguro, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Kazuki Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20170275715
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength seamless steel pipe having the composition which contains, by mass %, 0.20 to 0.50% C, 0.05 to 0.40% Si, 0.3 to 0.9% Mn, 0.015% or less P, 0.005% or less S, 0.005 to 0.1% Al, 0.008% or less N, 0.6 to 1.7% Cr, 0.4 to 1.0% Mo, 0.01 to 0.30% V, 0.01 to 0.06% Nb, 0.0003 to 0.0030% B, and 0.0030% or less O (oxygen). The high-strength seamless steel pipe has the microstructure where a volume fraction of a tempered martensitic phase is 95% or more, and prior austenitic grains have a grain size number of 8.5 or more, and a segregation degree index Ps which is defined by a formula Ps=8.1 (XSi+XMn+XMo)+1.2XP relating to XM which is a ratio between a segregated portion content and an average content is set to less than 65.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Yuga, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Kazuki Fujimura, Yasuhide Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 9758850
    Abstract: A pipe having chemical composition contains, by mass %, C: 0.05% or less, Si: 0.5% or less, Mn: 0.15% or more and 1.0% or less, Cr: 13.5% or more and 15.4% or less, Ni: 3.5% or more and 6.0% or less, Mo: 1.5% or more and 5.0% or less, Cu: 3.5% or less, W: 2.5% or less, and N: 0.15% or less so that the relationship ?5.9×(7.82+27C?0.91 Si+0.21Mn?0.9Cr+Ni?1.1Mo?0.55W+0.2Cu+11N)?13.0 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Eguchi, Yasuhide Ishiguro, Yukio Miyata, Mitsuo Kimura
  • Patent number: 9708681
    Abstract: A seamless steel pipe has a composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.15 to 0.50%, Si: 0.1 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.3 to 1.0%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Al: 0.01 to 0.1%, N: 0.01% or less, Cr: 0.1 to 1.7%, Mo: 0.40 to 1.1%, V: 0.01 to 0.12%, Nb: 0.01 to 0.08%, Ti: 0.03% or less, and B: 0.0005 to 0.003%, a structure composed of a tempered martensite phase as a main phase with a prior austenite grain size of 8.5 or more, and a hardness distribution in which in four portions 90° apart from each other in the circumferential direction, hardness is 295 HV10 or less in any one of an inner surface-side region at 2.54 to 3.81 mm from the inner surface of the pipe, an outer surface side-region at the same distance from the outer surface of the pipe, and a center of the thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Eguchi, Yasuhide Ishiguro, Yukio Miyata