Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Hori

Yoshiaki Hori 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: 20240084415
    Abstract: This non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base material having a chemical composition including Si: 3.7 to 4.8%, wherein a recrystallization rate is less than 100% in terms of an area fraction, the following Formula (i) and Formula (ii) are satisfied, and the tensile strength is more than 700 MPa. 4.3?Si+sol. Al+0.5×Mn?4.9??(i) (B50(0°)+2×B50(45°)+B50(90°))/4?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi YASHIKI, Yoshiaki NATORI, Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Ichiro TANAKA, Yoshihiro ARITA, Hiroki HORI, Wataru OHASHI
  • Patent number: 10695874
    Abstract: Provided is a stainless steel material for a diffusion bonding jig in which deformation of bonding members is suppressed while maintaining diffusion bonding properties of the bonding members, and in which releasability (detachability of a bonding member from a release member) after diffusion bonding treatment is excellent. An embodiment of the present invention provides a stainless steel material for a diffusion bonding jig having excellent deformation suppressibility and releasability, the material being a stainless steel material including 1.5 mass % or more of Si, and a ratio (Fr/Fp) of the high-temperature strength (Fr) of the stainless steel material at 1000° C. to the high-temperature strength (Fp) of a bonding member at 1000° C. being 0.9 or more, the bonding member to be bonded by diffusion bonding. The stainless steel material preferably includes C: 0.1 mass % or less, Si: 1.5 to 5.0 mass %, Mn: 2.5 mass % or less, P: 0.06 mass % or less, S: 0.02 mass % or less, Ni: 8.0 to 15.0 mass %, Cr: 13.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Hori, Kazunari Imakawa
  • Patent number: 10670350
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a heat exchanger by diffusion bonding in which deformation of bonding members as stainless steel plates is suppressed, and releasability (detachability of a bonding member from a release member) after diffusion bonding treatment is excellent. Provided is a method of manufacturing a heat exchanger, the method including layering a plurality of bonding members 1 made of stainless steel, and applying heat and pressure to effect diffusion bonding of the bonding members 1, in which release members 3 are arranged on the both surface sides of the bonding members 1, and holding jigs 4 are arranged so as to sandwich the bonding members 1 through the release members 3, and pressing is then performed through the holding jigs 4 with a pressure device, and in which the diffusion bonding is performed using a combination of the release members 3 and the bonding members 1, the release members 3 including a steel material containing 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL NISSHIN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Hori, Kazunari Imakawa
  • Patent number: 10570979
    Abstract: A ferritic stainless steel material excellent in vibration damping capability has a composition containing, by mass %, from 0.001 to 0.04% of C, from 0.1 to 2.0% of Si, from 0.1 to 1.0% of Mn, from 0.01 to 0.6% of Ni, from 10.5 to 20.0% of Cr, from 0.5 to 5.0% of Al, from 0.001 to 0.03% of N, from 0 to 0.8% of Nb, from 0 to 0.5% of Ti, from 0 to 0.3% of Cu, from 0 to 0.3% of Mo, from 0 to 0.3% of V, from 0 to 0.3% of Zr, from 0 to 0.6% of Co, from 0 to 0.1% of REM, from 0 to 0.1% of Ca, the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and has ferrite single phase matrix with crystal grains of average crystal grain diameter of from 0.3 to 3.0 mm and a residual magnetic flux density of 45 mT or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL NISSHIN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Hori, Kazunari Imakawa, Satoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10502507
    Abstract: A plate-type heat exchanger may include a housing. The housing may include a plurality of rectangular plate-like components that are box-like components each having the same shape and having a standing wall section along a peripheral edge. One of the box-like components may be layered on another components reversed in the horizontal direction to form a layered structure having an upper layer component and a lower layer component such that an upper portion of a standing wall section of the lower layer component of the layered structure is fit into a lower portion of a standing wall section of the upper layer component of the layered structure. The angle (?) of the standing wall sections may be ??30°, and at least a portion of a contact region between the upper portion and the lower portion may be joined by solid phase diffusion bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL NISSHIN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sugama, Manabu Oku, Yoshiaki Hori, Kazunari Imakawa
  • Publication number: 20190285367
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a heat exchanger by diffusion bonding in which deformation of bonding members as stainless steel plates is suppressed, and releasability (detachability of a bonding member from a release member) after diffusion bonding treatment is excellent. Provided is a method of manufacturing a heat exchanger, the method including layering a plurality of bonding members 1 made of stainless steel, and applying heat and pressure to effect diffusion bonding of the bonding members 1, in which release members 3 are arranged on the both surface sides of the bonding members 1, and holding jigs 4 are arranged so as to sandwich the bonding members 1 through the release members 3, and pressing is then performed through the holding jigs 4 with a pressure device, and in which the diffusion bonding is performed using a combination of the release members 3 and the bonding members 1, the release members 3 including a steel material containing 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiaki HORI, Kazunari IMAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190283189
    Abstract: Provided is a stainless steel material for a diffusion bonding jig in which deformation of bonding members is suppressed while maintaining diffusion bonding properties of the bonding members, and in which releasability (detachability of a bonding member from a release member) after diffusion bonding treatment is excellent. An embodiment of the present invention provides a stainless steel material for a diffusion bonding jig having excellent deformation suppressibility and releasability, the material being a stainless steel material including 1.5 mass % or more of Si, and a ratio (Fr/Fp) of the high-temperature strength (Fr) of the stainless steel material at 1000° C. to the high-temperature strength (Fp) of a bonding member at 1000° C. being 0.9 or more, the bonding member to be bonded by diffusion bonding. The stainless steel material preferably includes C: 0.1 mass % or less, Si: 1.5 to 5.0 mass %, Mn: 2.5 mass % or less, P: 0.06 mass % or less, S: 0.02 mass % or less, Ni: 8.0 to 15.0 mass %, Cr: 13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiaki HORI, Kazunari IMAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180238410
    Abstract: A ferritic stainless steel material excellent in vibration damping capability has a composition containing, by mass %, from 0.001 to 0.04% of C, from 0.1 to 2.0% of Si, from 0.1 to 1.0% of Mn, from 0.01 to 0.6% of Ni, from 10.5 to 20.0% of Cr, from 0.5 to 5.0% of Al, from 0.001 to 0.03% of N, from 0 to 0.8% of Nb, from 0 to 0.5% of Ti, from 0 to 0.3% of Cu, from 0 to 0.3% of Mo, from 0 to 0.3% of V, from 0 to 0.3% of Zr, from 0 to 0.6% of Co, from 0 to 0.1% of REM, from 0 to 0.1% of Ca, the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and has ferrite single phase matrix with crystal grains of average crystal grain diameter of from 0.3 to 3.0 mm and a residual magnetic flux density of 45 mT or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshiaki HORI, Kazunari IMAKAWA, Satoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20180237891
    Abstract: A ferritic stainless steel material excellent in vibration damping capability has a composition containing, by mass %, from 0.001 to 0.03% of C, from 0.1 to 1.0% of Si, from 0.1 to 2.0% of Mn, from 0.01 to 0.6% of Ni, from 10.5 to 24.0% of Cr, from 0.001 to 0.03% of N, from 0 to 0.8% of Nb, from 0 to 0.5% of Ti, from 0 to 2.0% of Cu, from 0 to 2.5% of Mo, from 0 to 1.0% of V, from 0 to 0.3% of Al, from 0 to 0.3% of Zr, from 0 to 0.6% of Co, from 0 to 0.1% of REM, from 0 to 0.1% of Ca, the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and has ferrite single phase matrix with crystal grains of average crystal grain diameter of from 0.3 to 3.0 mm and a residual magnetic flux density of 45 mT or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshiaki HORI, Kazunari IMAKAWA, Satoshi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 9987706
    Abstract: A method for producing a stainless steel diffusion-bonded product provides a stainless steel material diffusion-bonded product having excellent reliability of the bonded portion by using a direct method, which includes directly contacting stainless steel materials with each other to unify the materials together by diffusion bonding. At least one of the stainless steel materials to be contacted is dual-phase steel having an austenite transformation starting temperature Ac1 point of 650 to 950° C. during the temperature elevation and having an austenite+ferrite dual-phase temperature region in the range of 880° C. or higher. Diffusion bonding is advanced under conditions such that the contact surface pressure is in the range of 1.0 MPa or less and the heating temperature is in the range of from 880 to 1,080° C. while being accompanied by the movement of grain boundary caused when the ferrite phase in the dual-phase steel undergoes transformation to an austenite phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sugama, Yukihiro Nishida, Kazuyuki Kageoka, Yoshiaki Hori, Manabu Oku
  • Patent number: 9932650
    Abstract: A ferritic stainless steel material for brazing without grain coarsening has a partially recrystallized structure and composition comprising, in % by mass, C:0.03% or less, Si: more than 0.1 to 3%, Mn: 0.1 to 2%, Cr: 10 to 35%, Nb: 0.2 to 0.8%, N: 0.03% or less, if necessary, at least one of Mo, Cu, V and W: 4% or less in total, at least one of Ti and Zr: 0.5% or less in total, at least one of Ni and Co: 5% or less in total, or at least one of Al: 6% or less, REM (rare earth metal): 0.2% or less and Ca: 0.1% or less, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein area ratio in percentage of recrystallized grains formed by heating after cold working is from 10 to 80%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Oku, Sadayuki Nakamura, Yoshiaki Hori
  • Publication number: 20170321311
    Abstract: Provided is a stainless steel material suitable for diffusion bonded moldings in which diffusion bondability has been further improved without being affected by the extent of surface roughness. The present invention is a stainless steel material for diffusion bonding in which the metal structure before diffusion bonding has a multi-phase structure obtained from two or more of a ferrite phase, a martensite phase and an austenite phase, wherein: the mean crystal grain diameter in the multi-phase structure is not more than 20 ?m; ?max represented by formula (a) is 10-90; and creep elongation when a 1.0 MPa load is applied at 1000° C. for 0.5 his at least 0.2%. ?max=420C?11.5Si+7Mn+23Ni?11.5Cr?12Mo+9Cu?49Ti?47Nb?52Al+470N+189 . . . Formula (a) The element notations in formula (a) represent the contents (mass %) of the respective elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGAMA, Kazuyuki KAGEOKA, Yoshiaki HORI, Kazunari IMAKAWA, Manabu OKU
  • Publication number: 20170067700
    Abstract: A plate-type heat exchanger may include a housing. The housing may include a plurality of rectangular plate-like components that are box-like components each having the same shape and having a standing wall section along a peripheral edge. One of the box-like components may be layered on another components reversed in the horizontal direction to form a layered structure having an upper layer component and a lower layer component such that an upper portion of a standing wall section of the lower layer component of the layered structure is fit into a lower portion of a standing wall section of the upper layer component of the layered structure. The angle (?) of the standing wall sections may be ??30°, and at least a portion of a contact region between the upper portion and the lower portion may be joined by solid phase diffusion bonding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGAMA, Manabu OKU, Yoshiaki HORI, Kazunari IMAKAWA
  • Patent number: 9515486
    Abstract: An output control device for a wind farm which includes n number of wind turbines includes a WTG output obtaining unit for obtaining a current output Pi of each of the wind turbines; an extractable output calculation unit for calculating an extractable output Pmaxi for each of the wind turbines; a potential output calculation unit for calculating a potential output Ppoti of each of the wind turbines based on a difference between the extractable output Pmaxi and the current output Pi of each of the wind turbines; and a WTG output determination unit for determining an output command value of each of the wind turbines so that a total output PWF of the wind farm becomes closer to an output target value PWF*. The WTG output determination unit assigns an output increase amount to each of the wind turbines and to determine the output command value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Yasugi, Tsutomu Kii, Mitsuya Baba, Yoshiaki Hori
  • Publication number: 20160114423
    Abstract: A method for producing a stainless steel diffusion-bonded product provides a stainless steel material diffusion-bonded product having excellent reliability of the bonded portion by using a direct method, which includes directly contacting stainless steel materials with each other to unify the materials together by diffusion bonding. At least one of the stainless steel materials to be contacted is dual-phase steel having an austenite transformation starting temperature Ac1 point of 650 to 950° C. during the temperature elevation and having an austenite+ferrite dual-phase temperature region in the range of 880° C. or higher. Diffusion bonding is advanced under conditions such that the contact surface pressure is in the range of 1.0 MPa or less and the heating temperature is in the range of from 880 to 1,080° C. while being accompanied by the movement of grain boundary caused when the ferrite phase in the dual-phase steel undergoes transformation to an austenite phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGAMA, Yukihiro NISHIDA, Kazuyuki KAGEOKA, Yoshiaki HORI, Manabu OKU
  • Publication number: 20140152105
    Abstract: An output control device for a wind farm which includes n number of wind turbines includes a WTG output obtaining unit for obtaining a current output Pi of each of the wind turbines; an extractable output calculation unit for calculating an extractable output Pmaxi for each of the wind turbines; a potential output calculation unit for calculating a potential output Ppoti of each of the wind turbines based on a difference between the extractable output Pmaxi and the current output Pi of each of the wind turbines; and a WTG output determination unit for determining an output command value of each of the wind turbines so that a total output PWF of the wind farm becomes closer to an output target value PWF*. The WTG output determination unit assigns an output increase amount to each of the wind turbines and to determine the output command value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Inventors: Akira YASUGI, Tsutomu KII, Mitsuya BABA, Yoshiaki HORI
  • Publication number: 20140117948
    Abstract: Provided are a control-amount separating section that separates, when it is determined that an interconnection-point voltage (Vr) at an interconnection point where a wind turbine is connected to a utility grid deviates from a target value, a target control amount for reactive power for matching the interconnection-point voltage (Vr) with the target value into a first control amount serving as a control amount for reactive power that is caused by a fluctuation in active power at the interconnection point and a second control amount serving as a control amount for reactive power that is caused by a change in a power flow in the utility grid; a wind-turbine control device that controls the switching device on the basis of the first control amount; and a capacitor-bank control device that controls the capacitor bank on the basis of the second control amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira YASUGI, Tsutomu Kii, Yoshiaki Hori
  • Patent number: 8206091
    Abstract: In a turbocharger equipped with a nozzle vane for changing the speed of exhaust gas running through a turbine in accordance with the speed of engine revolution, the member to constitute the nozzle vane and to constitute an exhaust guide for guiding exhaust gas to the turbine is characterized in that the exhaust guide member of a nozzle vane-type turbocharge is formed of an austenite stainless steel containing, in terms of % by mass, at most 0.08% of C, from 2.0 to 4.0% of Si, at most 2.0% of Mn, from 8.0 to 16.0% of Ni, from 18.0 to 20.0% of Cr and at most 0.04% of N and containing these ingredients in such a manner that they satisfy a DE value of the specified formula to be from 5.0 to 12.0, with a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadayuki Nakamura, Manabu Oku, Yoshiaki Hori
  • Publication number: 20120111529
    Abstract: A ferritic stainless steel suitable for use as an EGR cooler member, which can be Ni-brazed into an EGR cooler, contains, by mass, C: at most 0.03%, Si: from more than 0.1 to 3%, Mn: from 0.1 to 2%, Cr: from 10 to 25%, Nb: from 0.3 to 0.8%, and N: at most 0.03%, and optionally selectively contains (a) one or more of Mo, Cu, V and W in a total amount of at most 4%, (b) one or more of Ti, Al and Zr in a total amount of at most 0.3%, (c) one or more of Ni and Co in a total amount of at most 5%, and (d) one or more of REMs (rare earth metals) and Ca in a total amount of at most 0.2%, with a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Oku, Sadayuki Nakamura, Yoshiaki Hori
  • Publication number: 20120085513
    Abstract: A ferritic stainless steel material for brazing without grain coarsening has a partially recrystallized structure and composition comprising, in % by mass, C:0.03% or less, Si: more than 0.1 to 3%, Mn: 0.1 to 2%, Cr: 10 to 35%, Nb: 0.2 to 0.8%, N: 0.03% or less, if necessary, at least one of Mo, Cu, V and W: 4% or less in total, at least one of Ti and Zr: 0.5% or less in total, at least one of Ni and Co: 5% or less in total, or at least one of Al: 6% or less, REM (rare earth metal): 0.2% or less and Ca: 0.1% or less, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein area ratio in percentage of recrystallized grains formed by heating after cold working is from 10 to 80%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Oku, Sadayuki Nakamura, Yoshiaki Hori