Patents by Inventor Yasuhide Morimoto

Yasuhide Morimoto 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: 9187814
    Abstract: The hot-dip aluminum alloy plated steel has a base steel and a plated layer, in which the composition of the plated layer contains, by % by mass, Fe: 25% to 75%, Mg: 2% to 20%, and Ca: 0.02% to 2% with a remainder of Al and inevitable impurities, the plated layer contains one or both of an ?-Mg phase and an Al3Mg2 phase, and the sum of the partial volume fraction of the ?-Mg phase and the partial volume fraction of the Al3Mg2 phase in a range of a depth of 5 ?m from a surface of the plated layer is 1% to 40%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Nose, Yasuhide Morimoto, Kohei Tokuda
  • Patent number: 9109275
    Abstract: Provided is a galvanized steel sheet having a tensile strength of 770 MPa or more including a steel sheet portion, and a plated layer formed on the surface of the steel sheet portion, in which the plated layer is a galvanized plated layer or an galvannealed plated layer, the steel sheet portion has a soft layer that directly adjoins the interface with the plated layer and an inside layer that is other than the soft layer, the thickness D of soft layer is 0.001% to 5% of thickness t of the steel sheet portion, and, when the hardness of the soft layer measured by nano-indentation method is indicated by H1, and the representative hardness of the steel sheet portion measured by the nano-indentation method is indicated by Ha in cross section that goes along the thickness direction of the steel sheet portion, H1 is 5% to 75% of Ha.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhide Morimoto, Nobuhiro Fujita, Akihiro Miyasaka, Kazuhiko Honda, Masafumi Azuma, Noriyuki Suzuki, Toshiki Nonaka
  • Patent number: 9080231
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hot-dipped steel 1 that demonstrates favorable corrosion resistance and formability, and has a favorable appearance of a plating layer. The hot-dipped steel of the present invention includes a steel substrate formed thereon with an aluminum-zinc alloy plating layer. The aluminum-zinc alloy plating layer contains Al, Zn, Si and Mg as constituent elements thereof and the Mg content is 0.1% to 10% by weight. The aluminum-zinc alloy plating layer contains 0.2% to 15% by volume of an Si—Mg phase, and the weight ratio of Mg in the Si—Mg phase to the total weight of Mg is 3% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN COATED SHEET CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shiro Fujii, Yoshikazu Yamanaka, Nobuki Shiragaki, Hiroshi Kanai, Nobuyuki Shimoda, Yasuhide Morimoto, Yoshihiro Suemune, Tooru Oohashi
  • Patent number: 9051622
    Abstract: A non-oriented magnetic steel sheet contains, by mass %, C: 0.005% or less; Si: 2% to 4%; Mn and V: totally 11% or less; and Al: 3% or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a Mn concentration (mass %) and a V concentration (mass %) in a thickness direction satisfy the following formula. 0.1<(XsMn,V?XcMn,V)/tMn,V<100, where XsMn,V: a sum of the Mn concentration (mass %) and the V concentration (mass %) at a surface of the steel sheet, XcMn,V: a sum of the Mn concentration (mass %) and the V concentration (mass %) at a center of the steel sheet, and tMn,V: a depth (mm), from the surface of the steel sheet, of a position where the sum of the Mn concentration (mass %) and the V concentration (mass %) is equal to XcMn,V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Arai, Yasuhide Morimoto, Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Kazutoshi Takeda
  • Patent number: 8911879
    Abstract: The present invention provides a Zn—Al—Mg—Cr alloy-coated steel material with excellent corrosion resistance. A molten Zn—Al—Mg—Si—Cr alloy-coated steel material which is a steel material having a Zn—Al—Mg—Cr alloy coating layer and which has an interfacial alloy layer formed of coating layer components and Fe at the coating layer-steel material interface, wherein the interfacial alloy layer has a multilayer structure consisting of an Al—Fe-based alloy layer and an Al—Fe—Si-based alloy layer and furthermore, the Al—Fe—Si-based alloy layer contains Cr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Shimoda, Yasuhide Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20120295130
    Abstract: The hot-dip aluminum alloy plated steel has a base steel and a plated layer, in which the composition of the plated layer contains, by % by mass, Fe: 25% to 75%, Mg: 2% to 20%, and Ca: 0.02% to 2% with a remainder of Al and inevitable impurities, the plated layer contains one or both of an ?-Mg phase and an Al3Mg2 phase, and the sum of the partial volume fraction of the ?-Mg phase and the partial volume fraction of the Al3Mg2 phase in a range of a depth of 5 ?m from a surface of the plated layer is 1% to 40%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventors: Koichi Nose, Yasuhide Morimoto, Kohei Tokuda
  • Publication number: 20120282488
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hot-dipped steel 1 that demonstrates favorable corrosion resistance and formability, and has a favorable appearance of a plating layer. The hot-dipped steel of the present invention includes a steel substrate formed thereon with an aluminum-zinc alloy plating layer. The aluminum-zinc alloy plating layer contains Al, Zn, Si and Mg as constituent elements thereof and the Mg content is 0.1% to 10% by weight. The aluminum-zinc alloy plating layer contains 0.2% to 15% by volume of an Si—Mg phase, and the weight ratio of Mg in the Si—Mg phase to the total weight of Mg is 3% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicants: Nippon Steel Corporation, Nippon Steel & Sumikin Coated Sheet Corporation
    Inventors: Shiro Fujii, Yoshikazu Yamanaka, Nobuki Shiragaki, Hiroshi Kanai, Nobuyuki Shimoda, Yasuhide Morimoto, Yoshihiro Suemune, Tooru Oohashi
  • Patent number: 8216397
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a high-strength high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having high fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance; a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet excellent in ductility, which improves non-plating defects and plating adhesion after severe deformation, and a method of producing the same; a high-strength and high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having high fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance; a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having superior appearance and workability, which suppresses the generation of non-plating defects, and a method of producing the same; and a high-strength hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet and a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet, which suppress non-plating defects and surface defects and have both corrosion resistance, in particular corrosion resistance in an environment containing chlorine ion, and high ductility, and a meth
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Fujita, Masafumi Azuma, Manabu Takahashi, Yasuhide Morimoto, Masao Kurosaki, Akihiro Miyasaka
  • Publication number: 20120152411
    Abstract: Provided is a galvanized steel sheet having a tensile strength of 770 MPa or more including a steel sheet portion, and a plated layer formed on the surface of the steel sheet portion, in which the plated layer is a galvanized plated layer or an galvannealed plated layer, the steel sheet portion has a soft layer that directly adjoins the interface with the plated layer and an inside layer that is other than the soft layer, the thickness D of soft layer is 0.001% to 5% of thickness t of the steel sheet portion, and, when the hardness of the soft layer measured by nano-indentation method is indicated by H1, and the representative hardness of the steel sheet portion measured by the nano-indentation method is indicated by Ha in cross section that goes along the thickness direction of the steel sheet portion, H1 is 5% to 75% of Ha.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Yasuhide Morimoto, Nobuhiro Fujita, Akihiro Miyasaka, Masafumi Azuma, Noriyuki Suzuki, Toshiki Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20120009436
    Abstract: A non-oriented magnetic steel sheet contains, by mass %, C: 0.005% or less; Si: 2% to 4%; Mn and V: totally 11% or less; and Al: 3% or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a Mn concentration (mass %) and a V concentration (mass %) in a thickness direction satisfy the following formula. 0.1<(XsMn,V?XcMn,V)/tMn,V<100, where XsMn,V: a sum of the Mn concentration (mass %) and the V concentration (mass %) at a surface of the steel sheet, XcMn,V: a sum of the Mn concentration (mass %) and the V concentration (mass %) at a center of the steel sheet, and tMn,V: a depth (mm), from the surface of the steel sheet, of a position where the sum of the Mn concentration (mass %) and the V concentration (mass %) is equal to XcMn,V.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Arai, Yasuhide Morimoto, Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Kazutoshi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20110274945
    Abstract: The present invention provides a Zn—Al—Mg—Cr alloy-coated steel material with excellent corrosion resistance. A molten Zn—Al—Mg—Si—Cr alloy-coated steel material which is a steel material having a Zn—Al—Mg—Cr alloy coating layer and which has an interfacial alloy layer formed of coating layer components and Fe at the coating layer-steel material interface, wherein the interfacial alloy layer has a multilayer structure consisting of an Al—Fe-based alloy layer and an Al—Fe—Si-based alloy layer and furthermore, the Al—Fe—Si-based alloy layer contains Cr.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Shimoda, Yasuhide Morimoto
  • Patent number: 7824509
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a high-strength high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having high fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance; a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet excellent in ductility, which improves non-plating defects and plating adhesion after severe deformation, and a method of producing the same; a high-strength and high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having high fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance; a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having superior appearance and workability, which suppresses the generation of non-plating defects, and a method of producing the same; and a high-strength hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet and a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet, which suppress non-plating defects and surface defects and have both corrosion resistance, in particular corrosion resistance in an environment containing chlorine ion, and high ductility, and a meth
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Fujita, Masafumi Azuma, Manabu Takahashi, Yasuhide Morimoto, Masao Kurosaki, Akihiro Miyasaka
  • Publication number: 20090272467
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a high-strength high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having high fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance; a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet excellent in ductility, which improves non-plating defects and plating adhesion after severe deformation, and a method of producing the same; a high-strength and high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having high fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance; a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having superior appearance and workability, which suppresses the generation of non-plating defects, and a method of producing the same; and a high-strength hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet and a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet, which suppress non-plating defects and surface defects and have both corrosion resistance, in particular corrosion resistance in an environment containing chlorine ion, and high ductility, and a meth
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Fujita, Masafumi Azuma, Manabu Takahashi, Yasuhide Morimoto, Masao Kurosaki, Akihiro Miyasaka
  • Publication number: 20080035247
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a high-strength high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having high fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance; a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet excellent in ductility, which improves non-plating defects and plating adhesion after severe deformation, and a method of producing the same; a high-strength and high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having high fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance; a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having superior appearance and workability, which suppresses the generation of non-plating defects, and a method of producing the same; and a high-strength hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet and a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet, which suppress non-plating defects and surface defects and have both corrosion resistance, in particular corrosion resistance in an environment containing chlorine ion, and high ductility, and a meth
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Fujita, Masafumi Azuma, Manabu Takahashi, Yasuhide Morimoto, Masao Kurosaki, Akihiro Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 7267890
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a high-strength high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having high fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance; a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet excellent in ductility, which improves non-plating defects and plating adhesion after severe deformation, and a method of producing the same; a high-strength and high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having high fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance; a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having superior appearance and workability, which suppresses the generation of non-plating defects, and a method of producing the same; and a high-strength hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet and a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet, which suppress non-plating defects and surface defects and have both corrosion resistance, in particular corrosion resistance in an environment containing chlorine ion, and high ductility, and a meth
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Fujita, Masafumi Azuma, Manabu Takahashi, Yasuhide Morimoto, Masao Kurosaki, Akihiro Miyasaka
  • Publication number: 20040202889
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a high-strength high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having high fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance; a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet excellent in ductility, which improves non-plating defects and plating adhesion after severe deformation, and a method of producing the same; a high-strength and high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having high fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance; a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having superior appearance and workability, which suppresses the generation of non-plating defects, and a method of producing the same; and a high-strength hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet and a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet, which suppress non-plating defects and surface defects and have both corrosion resistance, in particular corrosion resistance in an environment containing chlorine ion, and high ductility, and a meth
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Fujita, Masafumi Azuma, Manabu Takahashi, Yasuhide Morimoto, Masao Kurosaki, Akihiro Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 6635359
    Abstract: A Zn—Al—Mg—Si alloy-plated steel material with excellent corrosion resistance, characterized by comprising, in terms of wt %, Al: at least 45% and no greater than 70%, Mg: at least 3% and less than 10%, Si: at least 3% and less than 10%, with the remainder Zn and unavoidable impurities, wherein the Al/Zn ratio is 0.89-2.75 and the plating layer contains a bulky Mg2Si phase; also, a Zn—Al—Mg—Si alloy-plated steel material with excellent corrosion resistance, characterized by comprising, in terms of wt %, Al: at least 45% and no greater than 70%, Mg: at least 1% and less than 5%, Si: at least 0.5% and less than 3%, with the remainder Zn and unavoidable impurities, wherein the Al/Zn ratio is 0.89-2.75 and the plating layer contains a scaly Mg2Si phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Daido Steel Sheet Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Kurosaki, Jun Maki, Yasuhide Morimoto, Kazumi Nishimura, Osamu Goto
  • Patent number: 6465114
    Abstract: A coated steel material excellent in corrosion resistance and a method of producing the same, wherein a coated steel material has on the surface of the steel sheet a Zn-alloy coating layer containing 1-10 wt % of Mg, 2-19 wt % of Al and 0.01-2 wt % of Si, where Mg and Al satisfy Mg (%)+Al (%)≦20%, the balance being Zn and unavoidable impurities, and has a coating layer structure of a Mg intermetallic compound or the like. As a base metal treatment, it is preferably provided with a Ni coating layer. The coated Zn-alloy coated steel sheet may have provided on the coating layer, as an intermediate layer, a chromate film layer, and, as an upper layer, an organic coating layer. The Zn-alloy coating layer may further contain one or more of 0.01-1 wt % of In, 0.01-1 wt % of Bi and 1-10 wt % of Sn. The coated steel material may be painted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Honda, Kazumi Nishimura, Yasuhide Morimoto, Satoru Tanaka, Yoshihiro Suemune, Jun Maki, Hidetoshi Shindo, Masaaki Sugiyama, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Masao Kurosaki, Hiromasa Nomura, Hiroshi Kanai, Kohei Ueda