Patents by Inventor Yasuto Goto
Yasuto Goto 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).
-
Publication number: 20250109475Abstract: This metallic coated steel includes a steel material and a metallic coating layer. The metallic coating layer has an average chemical composition including Al: 0.2% to less than 4.0%, Mg: more than 4.0% and less than 12.5%, Ca: 0.15% to less than 3.00%, Zn: 65% or more, and impurities. In an any perpendicular cross section (in a thickness direction) in the metallic coating layer, a metallurgical structure observed in a scanning electron microscope observed visual field contains, in terms of area fraction, an MgZn2 phase: 10 to 40%, an Al—Zn phase: 0 to 15%, an Al phase: (Zn<10%): 0 to 5%, a CaZn13 phase: 1.0 to 15%, and a total of a [ternary eutectic structure of Al/MgZn2/Zn] and a [binary eutectic structure of MgZn2/Zn]: 30% or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2023Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kotaro ISHII, Kohei TOKUDA, Yasuto GOTO, Mamoru SAITO
-
Publication number: 20250109474Abstract: A hot-dip plated steel material has a plating layer on a surface of a steel material, in which the plating layer contains Al: more than 22.5% and 50.0% or less, Mg: more than 3.0% and 15.0% or less, Ca: 0.03 to 0.6%, Si: 0.03 to 1.0%, Fe: 2 to 25%, and a remainder consisting of Zn and impurities, and, in an X-ray diffraction pattern of a surface of the plating layer, measured under conditions in which an X-ray output is a voltage of 50 kV and a current of 300 mA using a Cu-K? ray, I1 obtained from an X-ray diffraction peak of Al0.5Fe1.5 is 1.1 or more, and I2 obtained from X-ray diffraction peaks of Zn, Al, and MgZn2 is 0.25 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2023Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei TOKUDA, Mamoru SAITO, Yasuto GOTO, Fumiaki NAKAMURA
-
Patent number: 12252802Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet of the present disclosure includes a steel sheet, and an alloy layer containing Ni and Co on a surface of the steel sheet. A surface roughness Ra1 of the surface of the alloy layer over a sampling length of 5.0 mm in the width direction of the steel sheet is 2.0 ?m or less. Ra2 that denotes the arithmetic mean height of a roughness curve of the surface of the alloy layer over a sampling length of 10 ?m in the width direction of the steel sheet is 20 nm or less, and RSm that denotes the mean length of roughness curve elements over the sampling length of 10 ?m in the width direction of the steel sheet is 700 nm or more, Ra2 and RSm being measured using an atomic force microscope.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kosuke Kawamoto, Yasuto Goto, Yuta Dairokuno, Koki Shimada
-
Patent number: 12187009Abstract: The surface-treated steel sheet includes an alloy layer containing Ni and Co. In a case where, in a cross section obtained by cutting the alloy layer in the thickness direction, a range having a width of 2000 nm and extending from the surface of the alloy layer to a depth of 100 nm is partitioned into regions each having a width of 100 nm and a depth of 100 nm, within the range the alloy layer includes a plurality of high Co concentration regions in each of which the ratio of a Co concentration to a sum of the Co concentration and a Ni concentration within the partitioned region is 0.8 or more, and a plurality of alloyed regions in each of which a ratio of the Co concentration to a sum of the Co concentration and the Ni concentration within the partitioned region is less than 0.8.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kosuke Kawamoto, Yasuto Goto
-
Patent number: 12180564Abstract: A plated steel sheet comprises a plated layer on a surface of a steel sheet, in which in the plated layer, the total amount ?A of Sn, Bi, and In is less than 0.75%, the total amount ?B of Ca, Y, La, and Ce is 0.03 to 0.60%, the total amount ?C of Cr, Ti, Ni, Co, V, Nb, Cu, and Mn is 0 to 1.00%, Sn?Si, and 20.0?Mg/Si are satisfied, and in an X-ray diffraction pattern of a surface of the plated layer, an X-ray diffraction peak of Al2.15Zn1.85Ca, an X-ray diffraction peak of CaZn2, and an X-ray diffraction peak of ??-MgZn2 satisfy a predetermined relationship.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei Tokuda, Mamoru Saito, Yuto Fukuda, Yasuto Goto, Yasuhiro Majima, Naoyuki Yamato, Fumiaki Nakamura, Hidetoshi Shindo, Koji Kawanishi, Kenichiro Matsumura, Hiroshi Takebayashi
-
Patent number: 12129568Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet includes a steel sheet, and an Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer containing Ni, Co, and Fe on the steel sheet surface. In the thickness direction of the Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer, a Co concentration in the Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer is highest at a position which is on an outermost surface side of the Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer relative to a position where the Ni concentration is highest in the Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer, and which is between the outermost surface of the Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer and a depth of 100 nm from the outermost surface. In the Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer, an Ni-concentrated region in which the Ni concentration increases toward the outermost surface of the Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer is formed between the outermost surface of the Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer and the position where the Co concentration is highest.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuto Goto, Kosuke Kawamoto, Yuta Dairokuno, Yuji Kajii, Koki Shimada
-
Patent number: 12116688Abstract: A Ni-plated steel sheet includes a base steel sheet and a Ni-based coating layer that is disposed on a surface of the base steel sheet. The distribution of carbon concentration in a depth direction obtained by performing GDS analysis on the Ni-plated steel sheet has a peak indicating the carbon concentration that is equal to or more than twice the carbon concentration of a thickness middle portion of the base steel sheet in the vicinity of an interface between the base steel sheet and the Ni-based coating layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuto Goto, Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Takehiro Takahashi
-
Publication number: 20240336996Abstract: A plated steel sheet comprises a plated layer on a surface of a steel sheet, in which in the plated layer, the total amount ?A of Sn, Bi, and In is less than 0.75%, the total amount ?B of Ca, Y, La, and Ce is 0.03 to 0.60%, the total amount ?C of Cr, Ti, Ni, Co, V, Nb, Cu, and Mn is 0 to 1.00%, Sn?Si, and 20.0?Mg/Si are satisfied, and in an X-ray diffraction pattern of a surface of the plated layer, an X-ray diffraction peak of Al2.15Zn1.85Ca, an X-ray diffraction peak of CaZn2, and an X-ray diffraction peak of ??-MgZn2 satisfy a predetermined relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2022Publication date: October 10, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei TOKUDA, Mamoru SAITO, Yuto FUKUDA, Yasuto GOTO, Yasuhiro MAJIMA, Naoyuki YAMATO, Fumiaki NAKAMURA, Hidetoshi SHINDO, Koji KAWANISHI, Kenichiro MATSUMURA, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
-
Patent number: 12043900Abstract: A plated steel material having a plating layer having an average chemical composition containing, in mass %, Zn: more than 50.00%, Al: more than 15.0% and less than 30.0%, Mg: more than 5.0% and less than 15.0%, and Si: 0.25% or more and less than 3.50%, and impurities, and wherein a total amount (?A) of at least one selected from the group consisting of Sn, Bi and In is less than 1.00%, a total amount (?B) of at least one selected from the group consisting of Ca, Y, La, Ce and Sr is 0.02% or more and less than 0.60%, 2.0?SMg/Si<20.0 (Formula 1), 3.0?Si/?B<24.0 (Formula 2), and 26.0?(Si/?B)×(Mg/Si)<375.0 (Formula 3) are satisfied, and in an X-ray diffraction pattern of the surface of the plating layer, a diffraction intensity ratio R1 defined by R1={I(16.18°)+I(32.69°)}/I(27.0°) (Formula 4) satisfies 2.5<R1 (Formula 5) is used.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei Tokuda, Mamoru Saito, Takuya Mitsunobu, Tetsuya Toba, Yasuto Goto, Atsushi Morishita, Yasuaki Kawamura, Fumiaki Nakamura, Koji Kawanishi
-
Patent number: 12031225Abstract: A Ni diffusion-plated steel sheet of the present invention includes a base steel sheet and a Fe—Ni diffusion alloy-plating layer positioned on at least one surface of the base steel sheet, an Ni coating weight of the Fe—Ni diffusion alloy-plating layer is 9.0 to 20 g/m2, a Fe concentration Cs of an outermost layer of the Fe—Ni diffusion alloy-plating layer is 10 to 55 mass %, the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and a ferrite grain size number specified by JIS G 0551 (2013) of the base steel sheet is 11.0 or more.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takehiro Takahashi, Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Yasuto Goto
-
Patent number: 12021249Abstract: A novel battery container that can be obtained by welding plated steel sheets, has sufficient sealing ability over a long period of time, and is able to keep the base material of the plated steel sheets from being exposed and eluting into the electrolyte solution is provided. That is, a battery case comprised of a container body and a container lid, wherein the container body and the container lid are each comprised of a plated steel sheet, a joint part between the container and the container lid is comprised of a plating welded part containing a main constituent component of the plating of the plated steel sheet in 60 mass % or more and a steel sheet welded part containing the main constituent component of the plating in less than 60 mass %, and the plating welded part has a length of 0.5 ?m or more and less than 1.0 mm in a joint longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Akinobu Kobayashi, Takehiro Takahashi, Yasuto Goto
-
Publication number: 20240183013Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet is provided that has excellent strength even when the surface-treated steel sheet is provided with a Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer. A surface-treated steel sheet of the present disclosure includes a steel sheet, and a Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer on a steel sheet surface. The steel sheet has a microstructure containing: ferrite, and one or more kinds selected from the group consisting of cementite, pearlite, and bainite having an area fraction of 1.2 to 5.0% in total. The Ni—Co—Fe alloy layer contains Ni, Co and Fe.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kosuke KAWAMOTO, Yasuto GOTO, Masaharu OKA, Yuta DAIROKUNO, Yuji KAJII, Koki SHIMADA
-
Publication number: 20240183018Abstract: Provided is a Zn—Al—Mg alloy coated checkered steel sheet having on the sheet surface thereof convex part and flat part, wherein: the coating layer has a predetermined chemical composition, and when observing a cross section of cutting edge orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the convex part and taken along a sheet thickness direction at a central part in the longitudinal direction of the convex part, a layer thickness ratio of the coating layer of the flat part on left and right of the convex part (layer thickness of left coating layer/layer thickness of right coating layer) is from 0.2 to 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Mamoru SAITO, Yasuto GOTO
-
Publication number: 20240167184Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a base steel sheet and a plating layer containing Ni and W which is provided on the surface of the base steel sheet, and in a region from the outmost surface of the plating layer to a depth of 150 nm, a proportion (unit atomic %) of the average W concentration with respect to a total of the average Ni concentration, the average W concentration, and the average Fe concentration is 2.0 to 20.0 atomic %, and in a region of the plating layer from a depth of 150 nm to a depth of 300 nm, the proportion (unit atomic %) of the average W concentration with respect to the total of the average Ni concentration, the average W concentration, and the average Fe concentration is 0.7 times or less the proportion in the region from the outmost surface of the plating layer to a depth of 150 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kosuke KAWAMOTO, Yasuto GOTO, Katsumasa MATSUMOTO, Tatsuo NAGATA
-
Patent number: 11981108Abstract: A Ni-plated steel sheet according to one aspect of the present invention includes a base steel sheet; and a Ni plating layer provided on a surface of the base steel sheet, wherein the Ni plating layer includes a Ni—Fe alloy layer formed on the surface of the base steel sheet, and a ratio of a Sn content to a Ni content in the Ni plating layer is 0.0005% to 0.10%.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuto Goto, Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Tatsuo Nagata, Katsumasa Matsumoto
-
Patent number: 11982010Abstract: A Ni-plated steel sheet according to one aspect of the present invention includes a base steel sheet and a Ni plating layer provided on a surface of the base steel sheet, the Ni plating layer has a Ni—Fe alloy layer formed on a surface of the base steel sheet, and a ratio of a Zn content to a Ni content in the Ni plating layer is 0.0005% to 0.10%. A manufacturing method of the Ni-plated steel sheet according to one aspect of the present invention has electroplating a base steel sheet using a Ni plating bath in which [Zn2+]/[Ni2+] is set to 0.0005% to 0.10% to obtain a material Ni-plated steel sheet, and annealing the material Ni-plated steel sheet.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kosuke Kawamoto, Yasuto Goto
-
Patent number: 11965249Abstract: A surface-treated metal material includes a metal sheet, a plating layer formed on the metal sheet and containing aluminum, magnesium, and zinc, and a composite coating formed on a surface of the plating layer, the composite coating including an organic silicon compound, one or two of a zirconium compound and a titanium compound, a phosphoric acid compound, a fluorine compound, and a vanadium compound, wherein, when a surface of the composite coating is analyzed at a spot size of ?30 ?m using micro-fluorescent X-rays, a maximum value of V/Zn, which is a mass ratio of a V content to a Zn content, is 0.010 to 0.100.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromasa Shoji, Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Kohei Tokuda, Mamoru Saito, Yasuto Goto, Ikumi Tokuda
-
Publication number: 20240043980Abstract: A plated steel material having a plating layer having an average chemical composition containing, in mass %, Zn: more than 50.00%, Al: more than 15.0% and less than 30.0%, Mg: more than 5.0% and less than 15.0%, and Si: 0.25% or more and less than 3.50%, and impurities, and wherein a total amount (?A) of at least one selected from the group consisting of Sn, Bi and In is less than 1.00%, a total amount (?B) of at least one selected from the group consisting of Ca, Y, La, Ce and Sr is 0.02% or more and less than 0.60%, 2.0?SMg/Si<20.0 (Formula 1), 3.0?Si/?B<24.0 (Formula 2), and 26.0?(Si/?B)×(Mg/Si)<375.0 (Formula 3) are satisfied, and in an X-ray diffraction pattern of the surface of the plating layer, a diffraction intensity ratio R1 defined by R1={I(16.18°)+I(32.69°)}/I(27.0°) (Formula 4) satisfies 2.5<R1 (Formula 5) is used.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei TOKUDA, Mamoru SAITO, Takuya MITSUNOBU, Tetsuya TOBA, Yasuto GOTO, Atsushi MORISHITA, Yasuaki KAWAMURA, Fumiaki NAKAMURA, Koji KAWANISHI
-
Publication number: 20230415453Abstract: The surface-treated steel sheet includes an alloy layer containing Ni and Co. In a case where, in a cross section obtained by cutting the alloy layer in the thickness direction, a range having a width of 2000 nm and extending from the surface of the alloy layer to a depth of 100 nm is partitioned into regions each having a width of 100 nm and a depth of 100 nm, within the range the alloy layer includes a plurality of high Co concentration regions in each of which the ratio of a Co concentration to a sum of the Co concentration and a Ni concentration within the partitioned region is 0.8 or more, and a plurality of alloyed regions in each of which a ratio of the Co concentration to a sum of the Co concentration and the Ni concentration within the partitioned region is less than 0.8.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kosuke KAWAMOTO, Yasuto GOTO
-
Patent number: 11851764Abstract: The plated steel material is a plated steel material including a steel material and a plating layer provided on the surface of the steel material, wherein the plating layer has a predetermined average chemical composition, when the amount of Mg is % Mg and the amount of Al is % Al, % Mg/% Al is 0.80 or more, and a metal structure in a total field of view of 25,000 ?m2 in a vertical cross section which is a cross section in a thickness direction of the plating layer includes 10 to 40 area % of a MgZn2 phase, 10 to 30 area % of an Al—Zn phase with a Zn content of 10% or more, 0 to 15 area % of an Al phase with a Zn content of less than 10%, and 25 area % or more of an Al/MgZn2/Zn ternary eutectic structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kotaro Ishii, Kohei Tokuda, Yoshinari Ishida, Yasuto Goto, Mamoru Saito