Patents by Inventor Yoichiro MATSUI

Yoichiro MATSUI 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: 20230203615
    Abstract: A steel sheet has a specified chemical composition and a specified steel microstructure. An average grain size of ferrite and/or bainitic ferrite is 7.0 ?m or less. On the basis of a distribution in the width direction of the steel sheet, a ratio of a deviation of the grain size of the ferrite and/or the bainitic ferrite to the average grain size of the ferrite and/or the bainitic ferrite is 10% or less. On the basis of a distribution in the width direction of the steel sheet, a ratio of a deviation of the area fraction of as-quenched martensite to the area fraction of the as-quenched martensite is 10% or less. On the basis of a distribution in the width direction of the steel sheet, a ratio of a deviation of the area fraction of retained austenite to the area fraction of the retained austenite is 10% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tadachika Chiba, Shinjiro Kaneko, Yoichiro Matsui, Noriaki Kosaka
  • Publication number: 20220235442
    Abstract: The steel sheet has a steel microstructure containing ferrite: 6% to 90% by area, a microstructure composed of one or more of upper bainite, fresh martensite, tempered martensite, lower bainite, and retained ?: 10% to 94% by area in total, and retained ?: 3% to 20% by volume, a ratio (SUB/S2nd)×100(%) of an area ratio SUB of an upper bainite with a width in the range of 0.8 to 7 ?m, a length in the range of 2 to 15 ?m, and an aspect ratio of 2.2 or more in contact with retained ?UB with a grain width in the range of 0.17 to 0.80 ?m and an aspect ratio in the range of 4 to 25 to an area ratio S2nd of the microstructure composed of one or more of upper bainite, fresh martensite, tempered martensite, lower bainite, and retained ? ranges from 2.0% to 15%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Yasushi Kitani, Hiroyuki Akimoto, Yoichiro Matsui
  • Patent number: 11365460
    Abstract: A high-carbon cold rolled steel sheet having a specified chemical composition, and a method for manufacturing the same. The method includes forming a hot rolled steel sheet, performing cooling at an average cooling rate of 30° C./s or more and 70° C./s or less through a temperature range of a finish rolling end temperature to 660° C., coiling a hot rolled steel sheet at a temperature of 500° C. or more and 660° C. or less, and, optionally, pickling the coiled hot rolled steel sheet, and then performing a first box-annealing of holding at an annealing temperature in a temperature range of 650 to 720° C., then performing cold rolling at a rolling reduction ratio of 20 to 50%, and then performing a second box-annealing of holding at an annealing temperature in a temperature range of 650 to 720° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuka Miyamoto, Yoichiro Matsui, Shogo Sato, Takeshi Yokota
  • Publication number: 20220154301
    Abstract: A steel sheet and a member excellent in cold workability, hardenability, and post-quenching surface layer hardness, and methods for manufacturing the steel sheet and the member. The steel sheet has a specified chemical composition and a microstructure containing ferrite and carbides, a ratio of the volume of ferrite and carbides to the volume of the entire microstructure is 90% or more, a ratio of the volume of proeutectoid ferrite to the volume of the entire microstructure is 20% or more and 80% or less, a Mn concentration in the carbides is 0.10 mass % or more and 0.50 mass % or less, and a ratio of the number of carbides with particle diameters of 1 ?m or more to the total number of carbides is 30% or more and 60% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro MATSUI, Yuka MIYAMOTO, Takeshi YOKOTA
  • Publication number: 20220010397
    Abstract: A steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a method for producing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a microstructure comprising ferrite: 5% or less, and at least one of upper bainite, fresh martensite, tempered martensite, lower bainite, and retained ?: 95% to 100%, and retained ?: 5% to 20%. Retained ?UB has a specified area percentage S?UB, retained ?LB has a specified distribution number N?LB, and at least one of (i) fresh martensite has a specified equivalent circular grain diameter and aspect ratio and (ii) retained ? grains has a specified equivalent circular grain diameter and aspect ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko ONO, Junya TOBATA, Hiroyuki AKIMOTO, Yoichiro MATSUI, Shinjiro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20210355559
    Abstract: A steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a method for producing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a microstructure comprising ferrite: 5% or less, and at least one of upper bainite, fresh martensite, tempered martensite, lower bainite, and retained ?: 95% to 100% by area percentage, and retained ?: 4% to 15% by volume percentage. Retained ?UB has a specified area percentage S?UB, retained ?LB has a specified distribution number N?LB, and at least one of (i) fresh martensite has a specified equivalent circular grain diameter and aspect ratio and (ii) retained ? grains has a specified equivalent circular grain diameter and aspect ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko ONO, Junya TOBATA, Hiroyuki AKIMOTO, Yoichiro MATSUI, Shinjiro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20210324492
    Abstract: A steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a method for producing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a microstructure comprising ferrite: 6 to 90% in terms of an area fraction, and a constituent formed of at least one of upper bainite, fresh martensite, tempered martensite, lower bainite, and retained ?: 10 to 94% in terms of an area fraction, and retained ?: 3 to 15% in terms of a volume fraction. A total area fraction of SC-enriched is 0.1 to 5%, a total area fraction of S?Block of at least one of (i) fresh martensite having a specified equivalent circular grain diameter and aspect ratio and (ii) retained ? grains having a specified equivalent circular grain diameter and aspect ratio is 5% or less, and prior ? in a surface layer has a grain diameter of 2 to 12 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko ONO, Katsutoshi TAKASHIMA, Junya TOBATA, Yoichiro MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20200392600
    Abstract: A high-carbon cold rolled steel sheet having a specified chemical composition, and a method for manufacturing the same. The method includes forming a hot rolled steel sheet, performing cooling at an average cooling rate of 30° C./s or more and 70° C./s or less through a temperature range of a finish rolling end temperature to 660° C., coiling a hot rolled steel sheet at a temperature of 500° C. or more and 660° C. or less, and, optionally, pickling the coiled hot rolled steel sheet, and then performing a first box-annealing of holding at an annealing temperature in a temperature range of 650 to 720° C., then performing cold rolling at a rolling reduction ratio of 20 to 50%, and then performing a second box-annealing of holding at an annealing temperature in a temperature range of 650 to 720° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuka MIYAMOTO, Yoichiro MATSUI, Shogo SATO, Takeshi YOKOTA