Patents by Inventor Yoshihiko Oda

Yoshihiko Oda 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: 20180030558
    Abstract: In the production of a non-oriented electrical stress sheet by hot rolling a steel slab containing, by mass %, C: not more than 0.005%, Si: not more than 8.0%, Mn: 0.03-3.0%, P: not more than 0.2%, S: not more than 0.005%, Al: not more than 3.0%, N: not more than 0.005%, Ni: not more than 3%, Cr: not more than 5%, Ti: not more than 0.005%, Nb: not more than 0.003%, As: not more than 0.005% and O: not more than 0.005%, subjecting to one cold rolling or two or more cold rollings interposing an intermediate annealing therebetween after conducting a hot band annealing or without conducting a hot band annealing and subjecting to a finish annealing, an average heating rate from 600° C. to 700° C. during the heating process in the finish annealing is set to not less than 50° C./sec.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki OKUBO, Kohei KURIHARA, Yoshihiko ODA, Hiroaki NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20180001369
    Abstract: A punching method includes: punching out a plurality of electrical steel sheets in a stacked state by a mold, wherein sheet thicknesses of the electrical steel sheets are set to be 0.35 mm or less, a Vickers hardness (test force 1 kg) of the sheets is set to be 150 to 400, and an average crystal grain size of the sheets is set to be 50 to 250 ?m, a clearance of the mold is set to be 7% or more of a minimum sheet thickness of the sheet thicknesses of the electrical steel sheets and equal to or lower than 7% of a total sheet thickness of the electrical steel sheets, and a pressure that a sheet presser of the mold applies to the electrical steel sheets is set to be 0.10 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kunihiro SENDA, Masanori UESAKA, Yoshihiko ODA
  • Publication number: 20180002789
    Abstract: When a non-oriented electrical steel sheet is produced by hot rolling a slab containing, by mass %, C: not more than 0.0050%, Si: 1.5-5.0%, Mn: 0.20-3.0%, sol. Al: not more than 0.0050%, P: not more than 0.2%, S: not more than 0.0050% and N: not more than 0.0040% to form a hot rolled sheet, cold rolling the hot rolled sheet without conducting a hot band annealing and then subjecting to a finish annealing, a compositional ratio of CaO in oxide-based inclusions existing in the slab defined by CaO/(SiO2+Al2O3+CaO) is set to not less than 0.4 and/or a compositional ratio of Al2O3 defined by Al2O3/(SiO2+Al2O3+CaO) is set to not less than 0.3, and a coiling temperature in the hot rolling is set to not lower than 650° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Nakanishi, Hiroaki Nakajima, Tomoyuki Okubo, Yoshihiko Oda
  • Publication number: 20170368590
    Abstract: A punch processing method for a laminated iron core includes sequentially feeding the steel sheets to a mold; and performing a plurality of processes in the mold, the plurality of processes includes fixing the steel sheets being stacked to each other at a first fixing part that is positioned outside a closed curved line corresponding to an outermost periphery of the laminated iron core and a second fixing part that is positioned in a portion that finally serves as the laminated iron core; and performing punch processing on the outermost periphery of the laminated iron core while the steel sheets are stacked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kunihiro Senda, Masanori Uesaka, Yoshihiko Oda
  • Publication number: 20170342519
    Abstract: A material for laminated iron cores is used as plural steel sheets to be overlapped with one another and punched when a laminated iron core is manufactured. A surface roughness of the steel sheets forming the material for laminated iron cores is at an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 0.40 [?m] or less, and a sheet thickness deviation in a sheet width direction of at least a portion used as the laminated iron core is 3 [?m] or less per 500 [mm], the portion being of the steel sheets forming the material for laminated iron cores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: MASANORI UESAKA, Kunihiro Senda, Yoshihiko Oda
  • Publication number: 20170314090
    Abstract: Disclosed is a non-oriented electrical steel sheet that is low in iron loss and exhibits excellent magnetic properties even when subjected to final annealing at high temperature. The non-oriented electrical steel sheet can be obtained from a steel (low-Al steel) having a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.005% or less, Si: 1.0% to 4.5%, Mn: 0.02% to 2.0%, Sol.Al: 0.001% or less, P: 0.2% or less, S+Se: 0.0010% or less, N: 0.005% or less, O: 0.005% or less, and Cu: 0.02% to 0.30%, and the balance consisting of Fe and incidental impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki OKUBO, Yoshihiko ODA, Tadashi NAKANISHI
  • Publication number: 20170274432
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet with lower iron loss than conventional non-oriented electrical steel sheets is provided. The non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, in mass %: C: 0.05% or less; Si: 0.1% or more and 7.0% or less; Al: 0.1% or more and 3.0% or less; Mn: 0.03% or more and 3.0% or less; P: 0.2% or less; S: 0.005% or less; N: 0.005% or less; and O: 0.01% or less, and further optionally containing a predetermined amount of one or more of Sn, Sb, Ca, Mg, REM, Cr, Ti, Nb, V, and Zr, with the balance consisting of Fe and incidental impurities, wherein a sheet thickness is less than 0.30 mm, and arithmetic mean roughness Ra of a steel substrate surface at cutoff wavelength ?c=20 ?m is 0.2 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Okubo, Yoshihiko Oda, Hiroaki Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9767946
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a chemical composition having C: not more than 0.005 mass %, Si: 2-7 mass %, Mn: 0.033 mass %, Al: not more than 3 mass %, P: not more than 0.2 mass %, S: not more than 0.005 mass %, N: not more than 0.005 mass %, Se: 0.0001˜0.0005 mass %, As: 0.0005˜0.005 mass % and the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, and an iron loss W15/50 in excitation at 50 Hz and 1.5 T of not more than 3.5 W/kg and a ratio (x/t) of amount of shear drop x (mm) to thickness t (mm) in punching of steel sheet of not more than 0.15 and is excellent in the iron loss property before punching and less in the deterioration of the iron loss property by punching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Zaizen, Yoshihiko Oda, Hiroaki Toda
  • Publication number: 20170260600
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet is obtained by subjecting a slab containing C: not more than 0.005 mass %, Si: 1.0-5.0 mass %, Mn: 0.04-3.0 mass %, sol. Al: not more than 0.005 mass %, P: 0.03-0.2 mass %, S: not more than 0.005 mass %, N: not more than 0.005 mass %, B: not more than 0.001 mass %, and Se: not more than 0.001 mass % and satisfying sol. Al+C+5B+5Se?0.005 mass % to hot rolling, cold rolling and finish annealing. A sheet temperature at the outlet side of the rolling machine in at least one pass of the final cold rolling is set to a range of 100-300° C. to provide S/2M of not less than 1.0 and S/5C of not less than 1.0 when X-ray intensity ratios of {001}<250>, {111}<112> and {001}<100> in a central layer in a thickness direction are S, M and C, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki OKUBO, Tadashi NAKANISHI, Yoshihiko ODA, Shinji KOSEKI
  • Patent number: 9761359
    Abstract: A method produces a high strength electrical steel sheet in which a cumulative rolling reduction ratio in rough rolling is 73.0% or more, in which in a hot band annealing step, an annealing condition is selected that satisfies an area ratio of recrystallized grains after hot band annealing of 100%, and a recrystallized grain size of 80 ?m to 300 ?m, under a condition where annealing temperature is 850° C. to 1000° C., and annealing duration is 10 seconds to 10 minutes, and in which in a final annealing step, an annealing condition is selected that satisfies an area ratio of recrystallized grains after the final annealing of 30% to 95%, and a length in the rolling direction of a connected non-recrystallized grain group of 2.5 mm or less, under a condition where annealing temperature is 670° C. to 800° C., and annealing duration is 2 seconds to 1 minute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Nakanishi, Yoshiaki Zaizen, Yoshihiko Oda, Hiroaki Toda
  • Patent number: 9748027
    Abstract: Provided is a method for stably obtaining a non-oriented electrical steel sheet with high magnetic flux density and excellent productivity, at a low cost by casting in a continuous casting machine a slab having a chemical composition including by mass %, C?0.0050%, 3.0%<Si?5.0%, Mn?0.10%, Al?0.0010%, 0.040%<P?0.2%, N?0.0040%, 0.0003%?S?0.0050%, Ca?0.0015%, and total of at least one element selected from Sn and Sb: 0.01% or more and 0.1% or less, balance including Fe and incidental impurities, subjecting the slab to heating, then subjecting the slab to hot rolling to obtain a hot rolled steel sheet, then subjecting the steel sheet to hot band annealing, pickling, subsequent single cold rolling to obtain a final sheet thickness, then subjecting the steel sheet to final annealing, wherein in the hot band annealing, soaking temperature is 900° C. or higher and 1050° C. or lower, and cooling rate after soaking is 5° C/s or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Nakanishi, Yoshiaki Zaizen, Yoshihiko Oda, Hiroaki Toda
  • Publication number: 20170241002
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet has excellent magnetic properties and a chemical composition including C: not more than 0.01 mass %, Si: not more than 6 mass %, Mn: 0.05-3 mass %, P: not more than 0.2 mass %, Al: not more than 2 mass % but preferably not more than 0.005 mass %, N: not more than 0.005 mass %, S: not more than 0.01 mass %, Ga: not more than 0.0005 mass % even if hot band annealing is omitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakajima, Tomoyuki Okubo, Tadashi Nakanishi, Yoshihiko Oda
  • Publication number: 20170229222
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet having a high magnetic flux density and a low iron loss includes C: not more than 0.01 mass %, Si: 1.3-5.0 mass %, Mn: 0.001-3 mass %, sol. Al: not more than 0.004 mass %, P: 0.03-0.20 mass %, S: not more than 0.005 mass %, N: not more than 0.005 mass %, Ti: more than 0.0020 mass % but not more than 0.1 mass %, and further contains one or more selected from Sn: 0.001-0.1 mass %, Sb: 0.001-0.1 mass %, Ca: 0.001-0.02 mass % and Mg: 0.001-0.02 mass % as required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Nakanishi, Shinji Koseki, Yoshihiko Oda, Tomoyuki Okubo
  • Publication number: 20170211161
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet with excellent recyclability whose magnetic property is prevented from becoming unstable in the case of reducing the Al content in order to reuse the non-oriented electrical steel sheet as iron scrap is provided. The non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, in mass %: C: 0.0050% or less; Si: 1.0% or more and 4.0% or less; Mn: 0.10% or more and 3.0% or less; Sol. Al: less than 0.0050%; P: more than 0.01% and 0.20% or less; S: 0.0050% or less; N: 0.0050% or less; Cu: 0.02% or more and less than 0.10%; and Ca: 0.0005% or more and 0.0100% or less, with a balance being Fe and incidental impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi NAKANISHI, Hiroaki NAKAJIMA, Tomoyuki OKUBO, Yoshihiko ODA
  • Publication number: 20160351308
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a high magnetic flux density and a low iron loss contains in terms of mass %, C: not more than 0.010%, Si: 1-4%, Mn: 0.05-3%, Al: not more than 0.004%, N: not more than 0.005%, P: 0.03-0.20%, S: not more than 0.01% and Se: not more than 0.002% or contains in terms of mass, C: not more than 0.01%, Si: 1-4%, Mn: 0.05-3%, Al: not more than 0.004%, N: not more than 0.005%, P: 0.03-0.20%, S: not more than 0.01%, Se: not more than 0.003% and further contains one or two selected from Sn: 0.001-0.1 mass % and Sb: 0.001-0.1 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Oda, Tadashi Nakanishi, Shinji Koseki, Tomoyuki Okubo
  • Patent number: 9466411
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a chemical composition including, in mass %, C: 0.005% or less, Si: 5% or less, Al: 3% or less, Mn: 5% or less, S: 0.005% or less, P: 0.2% or less, N: 0.005% or less, Mo: 0.001 to 0.04%, Ti: 0.0030% or less, Nb: 0.0050% or less, V: 0.0050% or less, Zr: 0.0020% or less, one or both of Sb and Sn: 0.001 to 0.1% in total, and the balance being iron and incidental impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Oda, Hiroaki Toda, Tadashi Nakanishi, Yoshiaki Zaizen
  • Publication number: 20160203895
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet having a high magnetic flux density and a low iron loss at not only a commercial frequency but also a high frequency zone, which has a chemical composition including C: not more than 0.0050 mass %, Si: more than 1.5 mass % but not more than 5.0 mass %, Mn: not more than 0.10 mass %, sol. Al: not more than 0.0050 mass, P: more than 0.040 mass % but not more than 0.2 mass %, S: not more than 0.0050 mass %, N: not more than 0.0040 mass % and Ca: 0.001-0.01 mass % and the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities and a compositional ratio of CaO in oxide-based inclusions existing in a steel sheet of not less than 0.4 and/or a compositional ratio of Al2O3 of not less than 0.3, and a hot rolled steel sheet used as a raw steel material thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi NAKANISHI, Shinji KOSEKI, Yoshihiko ODA, Hiroaki TODA
  • Publication number: 20160203896
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet having a chemical composition comprising C: not more than 0.010 mass %, Si: 1.0-7.0 mass %, Mn: 0.001-3.0 mass %, sol. Al: 0.0001-3.5 mass %, P: 0.01-0.2 mass %, S: not more than 0.010 mass %, N: not more than 0.010 mass % and the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a ratio (P120/Fe700) of a peak-peak height P120 of P near to an electronic energy of 120 eV to a peak-peak height Fe700 of Fe near to an electronic energy of 700 eV in an Auger differential spectrum obtained by analyzing a broken surface of a grain boundary through Auger electron spectroscopy is not less than 0.1 and a sheet thickness is 0.10-0.50 mm, and a motor using such a non-oriented electrical steel sheet as an iron core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi NAKANISHI, Shinji KOSEKI, Yoshihiko ODA, Hiroaki TODA
  • Publication number: 20160076125
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a chemical composition that includes C: not more than 0.005%, Si: 1.5-4%, Mn: 1.0-5%, P: not more than 0.1%, S: not more than 0.005%, Al: not more than 3 mass %, N: not more than 0.005 mass %, Bi: not more than 0.0030% as mass % and the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities or a chemical composition containing C: not more than 0.005%, Si: 1.5-4%, Mn: 1.0-5%, P: not more than 0.1%, S: not more than 0.005%, Al: not more than 3 mass %, N: not more than 0.005 mass %, Bi: not more than 0.0030% and further one or two of Ca: 0.0005-0.005% and Mg: 0.0002-0.005%, and is stably excellent in the high-frequency iron loss property even if a great amount of Mn is included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Shinji Koseki, Yoshihiko Oda, Hiroaki Toda, Tatsuhiko Hiratani, Tadashi Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20160042850
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet having a high magnetic flux density and a low anisotropy contains C: not more than 0.01 mass %, Si: 1-4 mass %, Mn: 0.05-3 mass %, P: 0.03-0.2 mass %, S: not more than 0.01 mass %, Al: not more than 0.004 mass %, N: not more than 0.005 mass %, As: not more than 0.003 mass %, and preferably further contains one or two of Sb: 0.001-0.1 mass % and Sn: 0.001-0.1 mass % or further contains one or two of Ca: 0.001-0.005 mass % and Mg: 0.001-0.005 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Oda, Hiroaki Toda, Shinji Koseki, Tatsuhiko Hiratani, Tadashi Nakanishi, Tomoyuki Okubo