Patents by Inventor Yoshiyasu Kawasaki

Yoshiyasu Kawasaki 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: 20250108434
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing product including a steel matrix and ceramic particles dispersed in the steel matrix. The steel matrix has a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.030% or more and 0.800% or less, Si: 0.01% or more and 2.50% or less, Mn: 0.10% or more and 8.00% or less, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.0200% or less, Al: 0.100% or less, N: 0.1000% or less, and O: 0.5000% or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurity. The steel matrix has a steel microstructure where area fraction of pores is 0.50% or less, area fraction of martensite in a region excluding pores is 90% or more, average aspect ratio of prior austenite grains is 1.5 or more, and LHA/L is 2.0 or more. Melting point of the ceramic particles is 2000° C. or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki ENDOH, Yoshiyasu KAWASAKI, Masaki TADA, Takuya TAKASHITA, Jun HORIUCHI, Hiroyuki MASUOKA
  • Patent number: 12264378
    Abstract: Provided is a high strength steel sheet that has a predetermined chemical composition and is manufactured under optimum conditions, the high strength steel sheet having a steel microstructure including, by area, ferrite: 30% or more and 80% or less, tempered martensite: 3.0% or more and 35% or less, and retained austenite: 8% or more, wherein the quotient of the area fraction of grains of the retained austenite, the grains having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more and a minor axis length of 1 ?m or less, divided by the total area fraction of the retained austenite is 0.3 or more, wherein the quotient of the average Mn content (mass %) in the retained austenite divided by the average Mn content (mass %) in the ferrite is 1.5 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Endoh, Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Yuki Toji
  • Publication number: 20250084501
    Abstract: Provided is a galvanized steel sheet having high strength, excellent ductility, excellent strain hardenability in a low strain range, and excellent strain hardenability in a high strain range. A base steel sheet has a defined chemical composition and a steel microstructure as follows: area fraction of ferrite: 20.0% or more and 90.0% or less, area fraction of bainitic ferrite: 4.0 % or more and 60.0% or less, area fraction of tempered martensite: 20.0% or less (including 0%), area fraction of retained austenite: 3.0% or more, area fraction of fresh martensite: 20.0% or less (including 0%), SF+SBF: 55.0% or more and 95.0% or less, SMA1: 4.0% or more, and SMA2: 1.5% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho HIGUCHI, Yoshiyasu KAWASAKI, Tatsuya NAKAGAITO, Takako YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 12241875
    Abstract: A collision performance evaluation test with few variations in test results with high accuracy in which a complicated phenomenon that actually occurs can be reproduced in a simple manner by considering the history of deformation in both the press forming and a collision. A collision performance evaluation test method for a metal sheet material for an automobile body is characterized in that a press working apparatus first forms a flat test specimen made of a metal sheet material to be tested into a V shape by primary bending, a bending test apparatus then deforms, by secondary bending, the test specimen formed by the primary bending in a direction intersecting with the primary bending direction, and a bending load and a bending stroke for the test specimen during the secondary bending deformation are recorded and evaluated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Sato, Takayuki Futatsuka, Tomohiro Sakaidani, Shinsuke Komine, Yoshiyasu Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 12221668
    Abstract: Provided is a high strength steel sheet that has a predetermined chemical composition and is manufactured under optimum conditions, the high strength steel sheet having a steel microstructure including, by area, ferrite: 30% or more and 80% or less, martensite: 5% or more and 35% or less, and retained austenite: 8% or more, wherein the quotient of the area fraction of grains of the retained austenite, the grains having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more and a minor axis length of 1 ?m or less, divided by the total area fraction of the retained austenite is 0.3 or more, wherein the quotient of the average Mn content (mass %) in the retained austenite divided by the average Mn content (mass %) in the ferrite is 1.5 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Endoh, Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Yuki Toji
  • Patent number: 12188103
    Abstract: Provided is a high strength steel sheet that has a predetermined chemical composition and is manufactured under optimum conditions, the high strength steel sheet having a steel microstructure including, by area, ferrite: 30% or more and 80% or less, martensite: 5% or more and 35% or less, and retained austenite: 8% or more, wherein the quotient of the area fraction of grains of the retained austenite, the grains having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more and a minor axis length of 1 ?m or less, divided by the total area fraction of the retained austenite is 0.3 or more, wherein the quotient of the average Mn content (mass %) in the retained austenite divided by the average Mn content (mass %) in the ferrite is 1.5 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Endoh, Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Yuki Toji
  • Patent number: 12180593
    Abstract: A high strength steel sheet has a yield-point elongation of 1% or greater and a tensile strength of 980 MPa or greater. The high strength steel sheet has a specific chemical composition and microstructure. A ratio of retained austenite grains adjoining a retained austenite grain having a different crystal orientation to total retained austenite grains is 0.60 or greater, the ferrite has an average grain size of 5.0 ?m or less, and the retained austenite has an average grain size of 2.0 ?m or less. A value obtained by dividing a volume fraction V?a by a volume fraction V?b is 0.40 or greater, where the volume fraction V?a is a volume fraction of retained austenite in a fractured portion of a tensile test specimen after a warm tensile test at 150° C., and the volume fraction V?b is a volume fraction of retained austenite before the warm tensile test at 150° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Yuki Toji, Muneka Iwasawa, Takayuki Futatsuka, Kentaro Sato
  • Publication number: 20240318287
    Abstract: A galvanized steel sheet combining high strength with excellent formability, specifically, excellent ductility, hole expansion formability, local ductility, strain hardenability, and dimensional accuracy when forming a member. The base steel sheet has a defined chemical composition and a steel microstructure as follows: ferrite area ratio: 35.0% or more and 95.0% or less, bainitic ferrite area ratio: 1.0% or more and 40.0% or less, tempered martensite area ratio: 50.0% or less (including 0%), retained austenite area ratio: 1.5% or more, fresh martensite area ratio: 20.0% or less (including 0 %), SBF+STM+2×SMA: 10.0% or more and less than 65.0%, SBF+STM: 3.0 % or more and 60.0% or less, SMA1/SMA: 0.40 or less, IDR [% C?]: 0.16% or more, and tensile strength: 590 MPa or more and less than 980 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho HIGUCHI, Yoshiyasu KAWASAKI, Tatsuya NAKAGAITO, Takako YAMASHITA, Tomomi KANAZAWA, Shunsuke YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12098439
    Abstract: A steel sheet having a tensile strength (TS) of 1180 MPa or more, high LME resistance, and good weld fatigue properties. The steel sheet has a specific chemical composition and a specific steel microstructure. Crystal grains containing an oxide of Si and/or Mn in a region within 4.9 ?m in a thickness direction from a surface of the steel sheet have an average grain size in the range of 3 to 10 ?m, the lowest Si concentration LSi and the lowest Mn concentration LMn in the region within 4.9 ?m in the thickness direction from the surface of the steel sheet and a Si concentration TSi and a Mn concentration TMn at a quarter thickness position of the steel sheet satisfy a specified formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lingling Yang, Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Shotaro Terashima, Shunsuke Yamamoto, Katsuya Hoshino, Yuki Takeda
  • Publication number: 20240167128
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet is disclosed having a specified chemical composition and a steel microstructure composed of, on an area fraction basis, ferrite: 1% to 40%, fresh martensite: less than 1.0%, bainite and tempered martensite in total: 40% to 90%, and retained austenite: 6% or more, wherein a value obtained by dividing an average Mn content (% by mass) of the retained austenite by an average Mn content (% by mass) of the ferrite is 1.1 or more, and a value obtained by dividing an average C content (% by mass) of retained austenite with an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more by an average C content (% by mass) of the ferrite is 3.0 or more, and a diffusible hydrogen content of steel is 0.3 ppm by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Endoh, Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Yuki Toji
  • Publication number: 20240167127
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet is disclosed having a specified chemical composition and a steel microstructure composed of, on an area fraction basis, ferrite: 1% to 40%, fresh martensite: 1% to 20%, bainite and tempered martensite in total: 35% to 90%, and retained austenite: 6% or more, wherein a value obtained by dividing an average Mn content (% by mass) of the retained austenite by an average Mn content (% by mass) of the ferrite is 1.1 or more, and a value obtained by dividing an average C content (% by mass) of retained austenite with an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more by an average C content (% by mass) of the ferrite is 3.0 or more, and a value obtained by dividing a C content of all retained austenite by a C content of a T0 composition is 1.0 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Endoh, Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Yuki Toji
  • Publication number: 20240158884
    Abstract: A clad steel plate having tensile strength (TS) of 780 MPa or more, excellent ductility, bendability, collision resistance, and LME resistance. The clad steel plate having a base metal and a cladding metal on front and back surfaces of the base metal, and the chemical composition and microstructure of the base metal and the cladding metal being appropriately controlled so that the average Vickers hardness (HVL) of the cladding metal is 260 or less, the average Vickers hardness (HVL) of the cladding metal divided by the average Vickers hardness (HVB) of the base metal is 0.80 or less, the boundary roughness between the base metal and the cladding metal is 50 ?m or less at the maximum height Ry, and the number of voids at the boundary between the base metal and the cladding metal is controlled to 20 or fewer per 10 mm length of the boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu KAWASAKI, Yuki TOJI, Tatsuya NAKAGAITO, Shinya YAMAGUCHI, Masayasu UENO, Katsutoshi TAKASHIMA, Tomohiro ONO
  • Publication number: 20240150876
    Abstract: A clad steel plate having tensile strength (TS) of 780 MPa or more, excellent bendability, collision resistance, and LME resistance. The clad steel plate having a base metal and a cladding metal on front and back surfaces of the base metal, and the chemical composition and microstructure of the base metal and the cladding metal being appropriately controlled so that the average Vickers hardness (HVL) of the cladding metal is 260 or less, the average Vickers hardness (HVL) of the cladding metal divided by the average Vickers hardness (HVB) of the base metal is 0.80 or less, the boundary roughness between the base metal and the cladding metal is 50 ?m or less at the maximum height Ry, and the number of voids at the boundary between the base metal and the cladding metal is controlled to 20 or fewer per 10 mm length of the boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu KAWASAKI, Yuki TOJI, Tatsuya NAKAGAITO, Shinya YAMAGUCHI, Masayasu UENO, Katsutoshi TAKASHIMA, Tomohiro ONO
  • Publication number: 20240124964
    Abstract: Provided is a galvanized steel sheet having a TS of 980 MPa or more, high YS, excellent ductility, strain hardenability, and hole expansion formability. A base steel sheet has a defined chemical composition and a steel microstructure as follows: area ratio of ferrite: 65.0% or less (including 0%), area ratio of bainitic ferrite: 5.0% or more and 40.0% or less, area ratio of tempered martensite: 0.5% or more and 80.0% or less, area ratio of retained austenite: 3.0% or more, area ratio of fresh martensite: 20.0% or less (including 0%), SBF+STM+2×SMA: 65.0% or more, SMA1/SMA: 0.80 or less, and SMA2/SMA: 0.20 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho HIGUCHI, Yoshiyasu KAWASAKI, Tatsuya NAKAGAITO, Tomomi KANAZAWA, Shunsuke YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240052449
    Abstract: A high strength steel sheet has a yield-point elongation of 1% or greater and a tensile strength of 980 MPa or greater. The high strength steel sheet has a specific chemical composition and microstructure. A ratio of retained austenite grains adjoining a retained austenite grain having a different crystal orientation to total retained austenite grains is 0.60 or greater, the ferrite has an average grain size of 5.0 ?m or less, and the retained austenite has an average grain size of 2.0 ?m or less. A value obtained by dividing a volume fraction V?a by a volume fraction V?b is 0.40 or greater, where the volume fraction V?a is a volume fraction of retained austenite in a fractured portion of a tensile test specimen after a warm tensile test at 150° C., and the volume fraction V?b is a volume fraction of retained austenite before the warm tensile test at 150° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Yuki Toji, Muneka Iwasawa, Takayuki Futatsuka, Kentaro Sato
  • Publication number: 20240052464
    Abstract: A high strength steel sheet has a yield-point elongation of 1.0% or greater and a tensile strength of 980 MPa or greater. The high strength steel sheet has a specific chemical composition and microstructure. The ferrite has an average grain size of 5.0 ?m or less, the retained austenite has an average grain size of 2.0 ?m or less, a value obtained by dividing a Mn content of the retained austenite by a Mn content of steel is 1.50 or greater, 15% or more of all retained austenite grains in the retained austenite have an aspect ratio of 3.0 or greater, and 15% or more of all the retained austenite grains in the retained austenite have an aspect ratio of less than 2.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Muneka Iwasawa, Yuki Toji, Yoshimasa Funakawa
  • Publication number: 20240026477
    Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet is disclosed which has a specified chemical composition, has a steel microstructure including, in terms of area fraction, 35% or more and 80% or less of ferrite, 0.1% or more and less than 5.0% of as-quenched martensite, 3.0% or more and 35% or less of tempered martensite, and 8% or more of retained austenite, in which an average grain diameter of the ferrite is 6 ?m or less, in which an average grain diameter of the retained austenite is 3 ?m or less, in which a value calculated by dividing an average Mn content (mass %) in the retained austenite by an average Mn content (mass %) in the ferrite is 1.5 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Endoh, Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Yuki Toji, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Mai Aoyama
  • Patent number: 11814695
    Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet and a method for producing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a composition that includes C: 0.030% to 0.250%, Si: 0.01% to 3.00%, Mn: 2.00% to 10.00%, P: 0.001% to 0.100%, S: 0.0001% to 0.0200%, N: 0.0005% to 0.0100%, Ti: 0.005% to 0.200%, on a mass basis, and Fe and inevitable impurities. Additionally, the steel sheet has concentration of solute Mn at a depth of 5 ?m or less from a surface of the steel sheet that is 1.50% by mass or less, and a value obtained by dividing the average mass percentage of Mn in retained austenite by the average mass percentage of Mn in ferrite is 2.0 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mai Aoyama, Minoru Tanaka, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Hideyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11788163
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes a steel structure with: ferrite being 35% to 80% and tempered martensite being greater than 5% and 20% or less in terms of area fraction; retained austenite being 8% or more in terms of volume fraction; an average grain size of: the ferrite being 6 ?m or less; and the retained austenite being 3 ?m or less; a value obtained by dividing an area fraction of blocky austenite by a sum of area fractions of lath-like austenite and the blocky austenite being 0.6 or more; a value obtained by dividing, by mass %, an average Mn content in the retained austenite by an average Mn content in the ferrite being 1.5 or more; and a value obtained by dividing, by mass %, an average C content in the retained austenite by an average C content in the ferrite being 3.0 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Endo, Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Yuki Toji, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Mai Aoyama
  • Patent number: 11661642
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes a steel structure with: ferrite being 35% to 80%, martensite being 5% to 35%, and tempered martensite being 0% to 5% in terms of area fraction; retained austenite being 8% or more in terms of volume fraction; an average grain size of: the ferrite being 6 ?m or less; and the retained austenite being 3 ?m or less; a value obtained by dividing an area fraction of blocky austenite by a sum of area fractions of lath-like austenite and the blocky austenite being 0.6 or more; a value obtained by dividing, by mass %, an average Mn content in the retained austenite by an average Mn content in the ferrite being 1.5 or more; and a value obtained by dividing, by mass %, an average C content in the retained austenite by an average C content in the ferrite being 3.0 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Endo, Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Yuki Toji, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Mai Aoyama