Patents by Inventor Yoshihiko Ono

Yoshihiko Ono 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: 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: 20210310094
    Abstract: The high-strength steel sheet according to the present invention includes a specific chemical composition, a steel structure in which a total area fraction of martensite and bainite in a position of ¼ of a sheet thickness is 92% or more and 100% or less, the balance in a case where the total area fraction is not 100% contains retained austenite, and an area fraction of ferrite in a region extending up to 10 ?m in a sheet thickness direction from a surface is 10% or more and 40% or less, in which a tensile strength is 1320 MPa or more, and a Vickers hardness in a position of 15 ?m in the sheet thickness direction from the surface satisfies a specified formula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shimpei Yoshioka, Yoshihiko Ono, Yuma Honda, Nobuyuki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11111553
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having a tensile strength (TS) of 1,320 MPa or more and good workability. The high-strength steel sheet has a specific component composition and a steel microstructure containing, on an area-percentage basis with respect to the entire steel microstructure, 40% or more and less than 85% of a lower bainite, 5% or more and less than 40% martensite including tempered martensite, 10% or more and 30% or less retained austenite, and 10% or less (including 0%) polygonal ferrite, the retained austenite having an average C content of 0.60% by mass or more. Additionally, a Mn segregation value at a surface of the steel sheet is 0.8% or less, the ratio R/t of a limit bending radius (R) to a thickness (t) of the steel sheet is 2.0 or less, and tensile strength×total elongation of the steel sheet is 15,000 MPa % or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Kimata, Yoshihiko Ono, Kenji Kawamura
  • Patent number: 11085099
    Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet has a composition that contains, in terms of mass %, C: 0.10% or more and 0.50% or less, Si: 1.0% or more and 3.0% or less, Mn: 1.0% or more and 2.5% or less, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 1.5% or less, N: 0.005% or less, Cu: 0.05% or more and 0.50% or less, and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein a proportion of a steel sheet surface covered with oxides mainly composed of Si is 1% or less, a proportion of the steel sheet surface covered with Fe oxides is 40% or less, CuS/CuB is 4.0 or less, and a tensile strength is 1180 MPa or more, when CuS denotes the Cu content in a steel sheet surface layer and CuB denotes the Cu content in a base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shimpei Yoshioka, Yoshihiko Ono, Hiroyuki Masuoka
  • Publication number: 20210238719
    Abstract: The high-strength hot-rolled coated steel sheet includes a steel sheet having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.03% to 0.09%, Si: 0.01% to 1.60%, Mn: 2.20% to 3.60%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Ti: 0.05% to 0.18%, B: 0.0005% to 0.0050%, Al: 0.005% to 0.40%, N: 0.010% or less, and a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, in which a CSM value expressed by the equation 33.8[% C][% Mn]+12.4[% Si]/[% Mn] is 3.3 to 12.0, and a steel microstructure containing bainite in an amount of 85% or more in terms of area fraction and martensite in an amount of 2.0% or more and 15.0% or less in terms of area fraction and includes a coating layer or an alloyed coating layer on a surface of the steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Sota Goto, Kazuhiko Yamazaki, Thi Huyen Doan, Yoshihiko Ono
  • Publication number: 20210180163
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet according to the present invention includes a specific chemical composition, and a steel structure in which a total area fraction of martensite and bainite in a position of ¼ of a sheet thickness is 95% or more and 100% or less, the balance in a case where the total area fraction is not 100% contains retained austenite, and an area fraction of ferrite in a region extending up to 10 ?m in a sheet thickness direction from a surface is 10% or more and 40% or less, in which a tensile strength is 1320 MPa or more, and a Vickers hardness in a position of 15 ?m in the sheet thickness direction from the surface satisfies a specified formula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shimpei Yoshioka, Yoshihiko Ono
  • Patent number: 11008635
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.10% or more and 0.6% or less, Si: 1.0% or more and 3.0% or less, Mn: more than 2.5% and 10.0% or less, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 1.5% or less, N: 0.005% or less, Cu: 0.05% or more and 0.50% or less, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and a tensile strength of 1180 MPa or more, in which a steel sheet surface coverage of oxides mainly containing Si is 1% or less, a steel sheet surface coverage of iron-based oxides is 40% or less, CuS/CuB is 4.0 or less, and a tensile strength is 1180 MPa or more, where CuS denotes a Cu concentration in a surface layer of a steel sheet and CuB denotes a Cu concentration in base steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shimpei Yoshioka, Yoshihiko Ono, Yusuke Kimata, Hiroyuki Masuoka
  • Publication number: 20210130919
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hot-pressed steel sheet member having a tensile strength of 1780 MPa or more and excellent bending collapsibility. The hot-pressed steel sheet member includes: a specific chemical composition; a microstructure in which an average grain size of prior austenite grains is 8 ?m or less, a volume fraction of martensite is 90% or more, and a solute C content is 25% or less of a total C content; and a tensile strength of 1780 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsutoshi TAKASHIMA, Takayuki FUTATSUKA, Kentaro SATO, Shimpei YOSHIOKA, Yoshihiko ONO, Yoshimasa FUNAKAWA
  • Patent number: 10982297
    Abstract: A steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a method for producing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a microstructure including martensite and bainite. The total area fraction of the martensite and the bainite to the entirety of the microstructure is more than 90% and 100% or less. The microstructure includes inclusion clusters A and B, the content of the clusters A in the microstructure being 2 clusters/mm2 or less, and the content of the clusters B in the microstructure being 5 clusters/mm2 or less. The microstructure includes carbide particles including Fe as a main constituent which have an aspect ratio of 2.0 or less and a major axis of 0.30 ?m or more and 2 ?m or less. The content of the carbide particles in the microstructure is 4000 particles/mm2 or less. The microstructure includes prior ? grains having an average size of 6 to 15 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Shimpei Yoshioka, Nobuyuki Nakamura, Hiroshi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10961601
    Abstract: A steel sheet has a composition comprising, in mass %, C: 0.0008 to 0.0024%, Si: less than 0.15%, Mn: more than 0.55% and less than 0.90%, P: more than 0.025% and less than 0.050%, S: 0.015% or less, sol. Al: 0.01% or more and 0.1% or less, N: 0.01% or less, B: more than 0.0003% and less than 0.0035%, Nb: more than 0.005% and less than 0.016%, Ti: 0.009% or less, and Sb: 0.002 to 0.030%, in which C and Nb satisfy the following formula (1), and the balance is Fe and unavoidable impurities, and in which a ds/d ratio of an average crystal grain diameter, at a ¼ thickness position of the sheet (d), to that at a steel sheet surface layer (ds), is 0.40 to 1.20, where d is 8 to 18 ?m, and where ?10?([% C]?([% Nb]/93)×12)×10,000?14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Yoshimasa Funakawa
  • Patent number: 10941471
    Abstract: Provided are a high-strength steel sheet having a specified chemical composition, in which a Mn-segregation degree in a region within 100 ?m from a surface thereof in a thickness direction is 1.5 or less, in a plane parallel to the surface of the steel sheet in a region within 100 ?m from the surface of the steel sheet in the thickness direction, the number of oxide-based inclusion grains having a grain long diameter of 5 ?m or more is 1000 or less/100 mm2, a proportion of the number of oxide-based inclusion grains having a chemical composition containing alumina of 50 mass % or more, silica of 20 mass % or less, and calcia of 40 mass % or less to the total number of oxide-based inclusions having a grain long diameter of 5 ?m or more is 80% or more, a specified metallographic structure, and a TS of 980 MPa or more, a high-strength galvanized steel sheet, and a manufacturing method thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Kawamura, Yoshihiko Ono, Nobusuke Kariya, Shinichi Furuya, Kohei Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20210054478
    Abstract: A high-ductility, high-strength steel sheet having excellent close-contact bendability and a method for producing the same. The steel sheet has a specified chemical composition and a microstructure comprising, by area percentage, 50% or more of a ferrite phase, 5% to 30% of a pearlite phase, and 15% or less in total of bainite, martensite, and retained austenite, in which the area percentage of ferrite grains each containing three or more cementite grains having an aspect ratio of 1.5 or less is 30% or less, and the number of inclusions having a particle size of 10 ?m or more present in a portion extending from a surface to a ¼ thickness position is 2.0 particles/mm2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya HIRASHIMA, Yoshihiko ONO
  • Publication number: 20210010115
    Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet of the present invention includes a steel sheet having a specific chemical composition, and a steel structure containing, in terms of area ratio, 4% or more and 20% or less of retained austenite, 30% or less (including 0%) of ferrite, 40% or more of martensite, and 10% or more and 50% or less of bainite; and a galvanized layer provided on the steel sheet, in which an amount of diffusible hydrogen in the steel is less than 0.20 mass ppm, a tensile strength is 1100 MPa or more, a relationship between a tensile strength TS (MPa), an elongation El (%), and a sheet thickness t (mm) satisfies a (1) formula below, and a yield ratio YR is 67% or more. TS×(El+3?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromi Yoshitomi, Yoshihiko Ono, Tatsuya Nakagaito
  • Patent number: 10870902
    Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet has: a predetermined chemical composition; and a microstructure in which tempered martensite and bainite are contained in a total area ratio of 95-100% with respect to a whole volume of the microstructure; a number of predetermined inclusion groups is at most 0.8/mm2, the inclusion groups being formed by one or more inclusion particles, the one or more inclusion particles having a major axis length of 0.3 ?m or more and extending and/or distributed in a dot-sequence manner along a rolling direction; a number of carbides mainly composed of Fe having a predetermined size is at most 3,500/mm2; a number of carbides that are distributed in the tempered martensite and/or in the bainite and that have a diameter of 10 nm to 50 nm is at least 0.7×107/mm2; and prior ? grains have a mean grain size of 18 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Ryosuke Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20200377978
    Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet includes a steel sheet having a steel composition having a specific component composition, a steel structure containing martensite and bainite at more than or equal to 70% (including 100%), ferrite at less than 20% (including 0%), and retained austenite at less than 5% (including 0%) in terms of area ratio, the amount of diffusible hydrogen in steel being less than or equal to 0.20 mass ppm; and a galvanizing layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet, having a content amount of Fe of 8 to 15% in mass %, and having an coating weight per one surface of 20 to 120 g/m2, wherein the amount of Mn oxides contained in the galvanizing layer is less than or equal to 0.050 g/m2, and a tensile strength is more than or equal to 1100 MPa and a yield ratio is more than or equal to 0.85.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromi Yoshitomi, Yasuaki Okita, Masaki Koba, Yoshihiko Ono, Hiroshi Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20200332382
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hot-pressed steel sheet member having a tensile strength of 1780 MPa or more and excellent bending collapsibility. The hot-pressed steel sheet member has: a specific chemical composition where a ratio of a C content in mass % to a Nb content in mass %, C/Nb, is from 22 to 100; a microstructure in which an average grain size of prior austenite grains is 8 ?m or less, a volume fraction of martensite is 90% or more, and a solute C content is 25% or less of a total C content; and a tensile strength of 1780 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsutoshi TAKASHIMA, Takayuki FUTATSUKA, Kentaro SATO, Shimpei YOSHIOKA, Yoshihiko ONO, Yoshimasa FUNAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200299798
    Abstract: A steel sheet has a composition comprising, in mass %, C: 0.0008 to 0.0024%, Si: less than 0.15%, Mn: more than 0.55% and less than 0.90%, P: more than 0.025% and less than 0.050%, S: 0.015% or less, sol. Al: 0.01% or more and 0.1% or less, N: 0.01% or less, B: more than 0.0003% and less than 0.0035%, Nb: more than 0.005% and less than 0.016%, Ti: 0.009% or less, and Sb: 0.002 to 0.030%, in which C and Nb satisfy the following formula (1), and the balance is Fe and unavoidable impurities, and in which a ds/d ratio of an average crystal grain diameter, at a ¼ thickness position of the sheet (d), to that at a steel sheet surface layer (ds), is 0.40 to 1.20, where d is 8 to 18 ?m, and where ?10?([% C]?([% Nb]/93)×12)×10,000?14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Yoshimasa Funakawa
  • Publication number: 20200291499
    Abstract: There is provided a high-strength galvanized steel sheet excellent in the external appearance of plating and the hydrogen brittleness resistance, and has a high yield ratio suitable for building materials and automotive collision-resistant parts, and a method for manufacturing the same. Provided is a high-strength galvanized steel sheet including a specific component composition and a specific steel structure, the amount of diffusible hydrogen in the steel being 0.20 mass ppm or less; and a galvanizing layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet, having a content amount of Fe of 8 to 15% in mass %, and an attachment amount of plating per one surface of 20 to 120 g/m2, wherein the amount of Mn oxides contained in the galvanizing layer is 0.050 g/m2 or less, and a yield strength is 700 MPa or more and a yield strength ratio is 65% or more and less than 85%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromi Yoshitomi, Yasuaki Okita, Masaki Koba, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yoshihiko Ono
  • Patent number: 10760142
    Abstract: Provided are a high-strength steel sheet and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet. The high-strength steel sheet has a specified chemical composition with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, a microstructure including, in terms of area ratio, 30% or more of a ferrite phase, 40% to 65% of a bainite phase and/or a martensite phase, and 5% or less of cementite, in which, in a surface layer that is a region within 50 ?m from the surface in the thickness direction, the area ratio of a ferrite phase is 40% to 55% and the total area ratio of a bainite phase having a grain diameter of more than 5 ?m and/or a martensite phase having a grain diameter of more than 5 ?m is 20% or less, and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Nobusuke Kariya, Yoshihiko Ono, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Kazuma Mori, Reiko Sugihara, Kenji Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20200270717
    Abstract: A steel sheet having excellent fatigue resistance as a material for automobile parts and a TS of 590 MPa or more, and a method for producing the same. The steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a microstructure of 50% or more and 90% or less of martensite, 10% to 50% of ferrite and bainite in total, in terms of an area ratio, and an average concentration of solute Mn in ferrite in a region from a surface of a base steel to a depth of 0.5 ?m is 60% or more relative to an average concentration of solute Mn in ferrite at a location of ¼ in the thickness of the steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya NAKAGAITO, Yoshimasa FUNAKAWA, Yoshihiko ONO, Hiroshi HASEGAWA