Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Okitsu

Yoshitaka Okitsu 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).

  • Patent number: 11413673
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a body frame includes a pre-strain step of press molding a wavy shape portion in the body frame to apply pre-strain after any press molding to mold the body frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Hayashi, Yoshitaka Okitsu, Akira Takikawa
  • Publication number: 20200290104
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a body frame includes a pre-strain step of press molding a wavy shape portion in the body frame to apply pre-strain after any press molding to mold the body frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Seiji Hayashi, Yoshitaka Okitsu, Akira Takikawa
  • Patent number: 9452792
    Abstract: A vehicle collision energy absorbing member is excellent in collision energy absorbing performance in the axial direction upon collision. The vehicle collision energy absorbing member is formed of a high strength thin steel sheet having TS of at least 980 MPa and having an n-value and a limit bending radius Rc satisfying the following Formula: Rc/t?1.31×ln(n)+5.21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignees: JFE Steel Corporation, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shusaku Takagi, Kaneharu Okuda, Yoshikiyo Tamai, Takeshi Fujita, Yoshitaka Okitsu, Tadashi Naito, Naoki Takaki, Tomoaki Sugiura
  • Patent number: 9267193
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet comprises, by weight, not less than 0.25% and not more than 0.5% of C, not less than 4% and not more than 14% of Mn, not less than 6.5% and not more than 9.5% of Cr, and not less than 0.3% and not more than 3% of Si. The high-strength steel sheet satisfies formulas 1 and 2, formula (1) being 12?2.0Si+5.5Al+Cr+1.5Mo?25 and formula (2) being 13?30C+0.5Mn+0.3Cu+Ni+25N?17, and mainly consists of austenite, and the high-strength steel sheet has yield strength of not less than 1000 MPa and total elongation of not less than 20%. In formulas 1 and 2, each element in the above formulas indicates the content, in weight %, of the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Masashi Ishii, Sven Leonhardt, Yoshitaka Okitsu, Klaus Brokmeier, Georg Frommeyer, Ursula Frommeyer, Astrid Frommeyer
  • Publication number: 20150274218
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle collision energy absorbing member formed by shaping a thin steel sheet. At least one of the thin steel sheet and the vehicle collision energy absorbing member has tensile properties of a tensile strength TS of 980 MPa or more and a yield point elongation Y-El of 2% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicants: JFE STEEL CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shusaku Takagi, Kaneharu Okuda, Yoshikiyo Tamai, Takeshi Fujita, Yoshitaka Okitsu, Tomoaki Sugiura, Naoki Takaki
  • Publication number: 20140103684
    Abstract: A vehicle collision energy absorbing member is excellent in collision energy absorbing performance in the axial direction upon collision. The vehicle collision energy absorbing member is formed of a high strength thin steel sheet having TS of at least 980 MPa and having an n-value and a limit bending radius Rc satisfying the following Formula: Rc/t?1.31×ln(n)+5.21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventors: Shusaku Takagi, Kaneharu Okuda, Yoshikiyo Tamai, Takeshi Fujita, Yoshitaka Okitsu, Tadashi Naito, Naoki Takaki, Tomoaki Sugiura
  • Patent number: 8263234
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes a stress-strain diagram obtained by a tensile test of the steel, and a gradient of stress in the stress-strain diagram, wherein the gradient d?/d? in 3 to 7% of true strain is 5000 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Okitsu
  • Patent number: 8252428
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having high strength and ability to absorb impact energy to a high degree is formed into a strengthening member for an vehicle, having both superior energy absorption efficiency and bonding properties. The high-strength member has a high-strength steel sheet having not less than 5000 MPa of gradient du/de of a stress-strain diagram in a range of 3 to 7% of true strain obtained in a tension test, and a steel sheet having 0.3 to 0.85 of tension strength ratio against tension strength of the high-strength steel sheet, the steel sheets bonded at their ends with space extending in a prescribed direction between the steel sheets, and a load is to be applied on the member from the prescribed direction when the member is acted upon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Takaki, Yoshitaka Okitsu
  • Patent number: 8177924
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet comprises a metallic structure consisting of a ferrite phase and a hard second phase dispersed in the ferrite phase, the hard second phase in the metallic structure having an area ratio of 30 to 70%, and the ferrite of which grain sizes are not more than 1.2 ?m having an area ratio of 15 to 90% in the ferrite phase. The term ds is an average grain size of the ferrite of which grain sizes are not more than 1.2 ?m, the term dL is an average grain size of ferrite of which grain sizes are more than 1.2 ?m, and the ds and the dL satisfy the following equation (1): dL/ds?3??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Okitsu
  • Publication number: 20120070330
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet comprises, by weight, not less than 0.25% and not more than 0.5% of C, not less than 4% and not more than 14% of Mn, not less than 6.5% and not more than 9.5% of Cr, and not less than 0.3% and not more than 3% of Si. The high-strength steel sheet satisfies the following formulas 1 and 2 and mainly consists of austenite, and the high-strength steel sheet has yield strength of not less than 1000 MPa and total elongation of not less than 20%. 12?2.0Si+5.5Al+Cr+1.5Mo?25 ??(1) 13 ?30C+0.5Mn+0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Masashi Ishii, Sven Leonhardt, Yoshitaka Okitsu, Klaus Brokmeier, Georg Frommeyer, Ursula Frommeyer, Astrid Frommeyer
  • Publication number: 20110008648
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes a stress-strain diagram obtained by a tensile test of the steel, and a gradient of stress in the stress-strain diagram, wherein the gradient d?/d? in 3 to 7% of true strain is 5000 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Okitsu
  • Publication number: 20100310897
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having high strength and ability to absorb impact energy to a high degree is formed into a strengthening member for an vehicle, having both superior energy absorption efficiency and bonding properties. The high-strength member has a high-strength steel sheet having not less than 5000 MPa of gradient du/de of a stress-strain diagram in a range of 3 to 7% of true strain obtained in a tension test, and a steel sheet having 0.3 to 0.85 of tension strength ratio against tension strength of the high-strength steel sheet, the steel sheets bonded at their ends with space extending in a prescribed direction between the steel sheets, and a load is to be applied on the member from the prescribed direction when the member is acted upon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Takaki, Yoshitaka Okitsu
  • Patent number: 7754030
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet has a metal structure consisting of a ferrite phase in which a hard second phase is dispersed and has 3 to 30% of an area ratio of the hard second phase. In the ferrite phase, the area ratio of nanograins of which grain sizes are not more than 1.2 ?m is 15 to 90%, and dS as an average grain size of nanograins of which grain sizes are not more than 1.2 ?m and dL as an average grain size of micrograins of which grain sizes are more than 1.2 ?m satisfy an equation (dL/dS?3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Okitsu
  • Patent number: 7678204
    Abstract: The present invention: provides a good-workability and high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet excellent in post-painting corrosion resistance to the extent of securing excellent resistance to salt warm water immersion which is a good-workability and high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet excellent in post-painting corrosion resistance characterized in that: said steel sheet contains, in mass, 0.16 to 0.19% C, 1.10 to 1.30% Si, 1.50 to 1.60% Mn, not more than 0.1% P and 0.015 to 0.050% Al, with the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities; the average of the amount of Si incrassating on the surface of said steel sheet is not more than 20 times the Si concentration in said steel sheet; and the area percentage of the portions where the ratio of the Si concentration on the surface of said steel sheet to the Si concentration in said steel sheet is not less than 10 is not more than 95%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Katsumi, Kazuhiko Honda, Koki Tanaka, Kaoru Yamazaki, Takahiro Tanae, Katsuyoshi Kaneko, Yoshikazu Umeno, Yoshitaka Okitsu
  • Publication number: 20090188589
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet comprises a metallic structure consisting of a ferrite phase and a hard second phase dispersed in the ferrite phase, the hard second phase in the metallic structure having an area ratio of 30 to 70%, and the ferrite of which grain sizes are not more than 1.2 ?m having an area ratio of 15 to 90% in the ferrite phase. The term ds is an average grain size of the ferrite of which grain sizes are not more than 1.2 ?m, the term dL is an average grain size of ferrite of which grain sizes are more than 1.2 ?m, and the ds and the dL satisfy the following equation (1): dL/ds?3??(1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Okitsu
  • Publication number: 20080131305
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet has a metal structure consisting of a ferrite phase in which a hard second phase is dispersed and has 3 to 30% of an area ratio of the hard second phase. In the ferrite phase, the area ratio of nanograins of which grain sizes are not more than 1.2 ?m is 15 to 90%, and dS as an average grain size of nanograins of which grain sizes are not more than 1.2 ?m and dL as an average grain size of micrograins of which grain sizes are more than 1.2 ?m satisfy an equation (dL/dS?3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Okitsu
  • Publication number: 20040144452
    Abstract: The present invention: provides a good-workability and high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet excellent in post-painting corrosion resistance to the extent of securing excellent resistance to salt warm water immersion which is a good-workability and high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet excellent in post-painting corrosion resistance characterized in that: said steel sheet contains, in mass, 0.16 to 0.19% C, 1.10 to 1.30% Si, 1.50 to 1.60% Mn, not more than 0.1% P and 0.015 to 0.050% Al, with the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities; the average of the amount of Si incrassating on the surface of said steel sheet is not more than 20 times the Si concentration in said steel sheet; and the area percentage of the portions where the ratio of the Si concentration on the surface of said steel sheet to the Si concentration in said steel sheet is not less than 10 is not more than 95%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Katsumi, Kazuhiko Honda, Koki Tanaka, Kaoru Yamazaki, Takahiro Tanae, Katsuyoshi Kaneko, Yoshikazu Umeno, Yoshitaka Okitsu