Patents by Inventor Yuji Arai

Yuji Arai 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: 20220136469
    Abstract: A steel pipe for a fuel injection pipe has a chemical composition consisting of, by mass %: C: 0.17 to 0.27%, Si: 0.05 to 0.40%, Mn: 0.30 to 2.00%, P: 0.020% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, O: 0.0040% or less, Ca: 0.0010% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.060%, N: 0.0020 to 0.0080%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.015%, Nb: 0.015 to 0.045%, Cr: 0 to 1.00%, Mo: 0 to 1.00%, Cu: 0 to 0.50%, Ni: 0 to 0.50%, V: 0 to 0.15%, and the balance: Fe and impurities. The metal micro-structure consists substantially of tempered martensite, or tempered martensite and tempered bainite. The hardness is within the range of 350 to 460 HV1. A lattice spacing of a (211) diffraction plane measured by CoK? characteristic X-ray diffraction is 1.1716 ? or less, and a half-value width of the (211) diffraction plane is 1.200° or less. The number density of cementite having a diameter of 50 nm or more is 20/?m2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Taizo MAKINO, Masahiro YAMAZAKI, Tomohiko OMURA, Yuji ARAI, Osamu ENDO, Naoki SERIZAWA, Tatsuya MASUDA
  • Patent number: 11313005
    Abstract: The seamless steel pipe of the present embodiment consists of in mass %, C: 0.21 to 0.35%, Si: 0.10 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.00%, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, N: 0.010% or less, Cr: 0.05 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.10 to 1.50%, Nb: 0.010 to 0.050%, B: 0.0003 to 0.0050%, and Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%, the balance being Fe and impurities. In a main body region of the seamless steel pipe, a grain size number of prior-austenite grain conforming to ASTM E112 is 7.0 or more, a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the grain size number is 1.0 or less, yield strength is 655 to less than 862 MPa, and a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of tensile strength is 27.6 MPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Soma, Yuji Arai, Yosuke Tatebayashi, Keisuke Furo, Takenori Kuramoto, Hiroki Kamitani, Kouji Yamane
  • Publication number: 20220112572
    Abstract: A steel pipe for a fuel injection pipe has a chemical composition consisting of, by mass %: C: 0.17 to 0.27%, Si: 0.05 to 0.40%, Mn: 0.30 to 2.00%, P: 0.020% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, O: 0.0040% or less, Ca: 0.0010% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.060%, N: 0.0020 to 0.0080%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.015%, Nb: 0.015 to 0.045%, Cr: 0 to 1.00%, Mo: 0 to 1.00%, Cu: 0 to 0.50%, Ni: 0 to 0.50%, V: 0 to 0.15%, and the balance: Fe and impurities. The metal micro-structure consists substantially of tempered martensite, or tempered martensite and tempered bainite. A prior-austenite grain size number is 9.0 or more. The hardness is within the range of 350 to 460 HV1. When a maximum value of a square root of an area of inclusions observed in a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the steel pipe is taken as an (n=1 to 20), a maximum value amax of an is 30.0 ?m or less, and an average value aav of an is 40% or more of amax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Taizo MAKINO, Masahiro YAMAZAKI, Yuji ARAI, Osamu ENDO, Naoki SERIZAWA, Tatsuya MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20220098712
    Abstract: A steel material according to the present disclosure has a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %: C: 0.20 to 0.45%, Si: 0.05 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.00%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.0050% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, Cr: 0.60 to 1.50%, Mo: more than 1.00 to 2.00%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.020%, V: 0.05 to 0.30%, Nb: 0.005 to 0.100%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0040%, N: 0.0100% or less, O: less than 0.0020%, and the balance being Fe and impurities, and satisfying Formula (1) described in the specification. A grain diameter of a prior-austenite grain is 11.0 ?m or less, and an average area of precipitate which is precipitated in a prior-austenite grain boundary is 10.0×10?3 ?m2 or less. A yield strength is 758 to 862 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki KAMITANI, Yohei OTOME, Atsushi SOMA, Taro OE, Nobuaki KOMATSUBARA, Shinji YOSHIDA, Yuji ARAI
  • Publication number: 20220042148
    Abstract: A steel material according to the present disclosure has a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %: C: 0.15 to 0.45%, Si: 0.05 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.00%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.0050% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, Cr 0.55 to 1.10%, Mo: 0.70 to 1.00%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.020%, V: 0.05 to 0.30%, Nb: 0.002 to 0.100%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0040%, N: 0.0100% or less, O: less than 0.0020%, and the balance being Fe and impurities, and satisfying Formula (1) described in the specification. A grain diameter of a prior-austenite grain is 15.0 ?m or less, and an average area of precipitate which is precipitated in a prior-austenite grain boundary is 12.5×10?3 ?m2 or less. A yield strength is 758 to 862 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Yohei OTOME, Hiroki KAMITANI, Atsushi SOMA, Taro OE, Nobuaki KOMATSUBARA, Yuji ARAI, Hideki TAKABE
  • Publication number: 20210371961
    Abstract: The steel material according to the present disclosure has a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: 0.10 to 0.60%, Si: 0.05 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.00%, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, Cr: 0.20 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.25 to 1.50%, V: 0.01 to 0.60%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%, B: 0.0001 to 0.0050%, N: 0.0020 to 0.0100%, and O: 0.0100% or less, with the balance being Fe and impurities. A dislocation density ? is 3.5×1015 m?2 or less. Among fine precipitates, the numerical proportion of precipitates for which a ratio of the Mo content is not more than 50% is 15% or more. The yield strength is in a range of 655 to 1172 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Shinji YOSHIDA, Yuji ARAI
  • Patent number: 11174539
    Abstract: The steel material according to the present disclosure contains a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: 0.20 to 0.50%, Si: 0.05 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.00%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, Cr: 0.10 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.25 to 1.50%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%, N: 0.0100% or less and O: 0.0100% or less, with the balance being Fe and impurities. The steel material contains an amount of dissolved C within a range of 0.010 to 0.050 mass %. The steel material also has a yield strength within a range of 655 to less than 862 MPa, and a yield ratio of the steel material is 85% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Kamitani, Atsushi Soma, Shinji Yoshida, Yuji Arai, Seiya Okada
  • Patent number: 11155893
    Abstract: The steel material according to the present disclosure contains a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: 0.20 to 0.50%, Si: 0.05 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.00%, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, Cr: 0.20 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.25 to 1.50%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%, B: 0.0001 to 0.0050%, N: 0.0100% or less and O: 0.0100% or less, with the balance being Fe and impurities. The steel material contains an amount of dissolved C within a range of 0.010 to 0.050 mass %. The steel material also has a yield strength within a range of 965 to 1069 MPa, and a yield ratio of the steel material is 90% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Yoshida, Yuji Arai, Atsushi Soma, Hiroki Kamitani
  • Publication number: 20210317553
    Abstract: The seamless steel pipe according to the present disclosure has a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: 0.15 to 0.45%, Si: 0.05 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.00%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.0050% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.070%, Cr: 0.30 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.25 to 2.00%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.020%, Nb: 0.002 to 0.100%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0040%, rare earth metal: 0.0001 to 0.0015%, Ca: 0.0001 to 0.0100%, N: 0.0100% or less and O: 0.0020% or less, with the balance being Fe and impurities, and satisfying Formula (1) described in the description. A predicted maximum major axis of inclusions is 150 ?m or less, the predicted maximum major axis being predicted by means of extreme value statistical processing. The yield strength is within a range of 758 to 862 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroki KAMITANI, Nobuaki KOMATSUBARA, Seiya OKADA, Atsushi SOMA, Yuji ARAI, Shinji YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210269902
    Abstract: The steel material according to the present disclosure has a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: 0.20 to 0.35%, Si: 0.05 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.00%, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, Cr 0.25 to 0.80%, Mo: 0.20 to 2.00%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%, B: 0.0001 to 0.0050%, N: 0.0020 to 0.0100% and O: 0.0100% or less, with the balance being Fe and impurities, and satisfying Formula (1). A number density of precipitates having an equivalent circular diameter of 400 nm or more is 0.150 particles/?m2 or less. The yield strength is within a range of 655 to 965 MPa. A dislocation density ? is 7.0×1014 m?2 or less. 5×Cr—Mo-2×(V+Ti)?3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Shinji YOSHIDA, Yuji ARAI
  • Publication number: 20210262051
    Abstract: The steel material according to the present disclosure has a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: 0.15 to 0.45%, Si: 0.05 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.00%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.0050% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, Cr 0.60 to 1.80%, Mo: 0.80 to 2.30%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.020%, V: 0.05 to 0.30%, Nb: 0.002 to 0.100%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0040%, Cu: 0.01 to 0.50%, Ni: 0.01 to 0.50%, N: 0.0020 to 0.0100% and O: 0.0020% or less, with the balance being Fe and impurities. The number density of BN in the steel material is 10 to 100 particles/100 ?m2. The yield strength of the steel material is 758 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji ARAI, Shinji YOSHIDA, Hiroki KAMITANI, Yohei OTOME
  • Patent number: 11078558
    Abstract: The steel material according to the present invention contains a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: 0.25 to 0.50%, Si: 0.05 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.00%, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, Cr: 0.30 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.25 to 1.50%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%, B: 0.0001 to 0.0050%, N: 0.002 to 0.010% and O: 0.0100% or less, with the balance being Fe and impurities. The steel material also contains an amount of dissolved C within a range of 0.010 to 0.050 mass%. The steel material also contains an yield strength is in a range of 862 to less than 965 MPa, and an yield ratio is 90% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Arai, Shinji Yoshida, Atsushi Soma, Hiroki Kamitani
  • Patent number: 11060160
    Abstract: A low-alloy steel has a composition including, by mass %, C: more than 0.45 and up to 0.65%; Si: 0.05 to 0.50%; Mn: 0.10 to 1.00%; P: up to 0.020%; S: up to 0.0020%; Cu: up to 0.1%; Cr: 0.40 to 1.50%; Ni: up to 0.1%; Mo: 0.50 to 2.50%; Ti: up to 0.01%; V: 0.05 to 0.25%; Nb: 0.005 to 0.20%; Al: 0.010 to 0.100%; B: up to 0.0005%; Ca: 0 to 0.003%; 0: up to 0.01%; N: up to 0.007%; and other elements. A microstructure consists of tempered martensite and retained austenite <2% in volume fraction, crystal grain size number being 9.0 or larger, number density of carbonitride-based inclusions with grain diameter of 50 ?m or larger being 10 inclusions/100 mm2 or smaller, and yield strength being 965 MPa or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Kondo, Yuji Arai, Takanori Sato
  • Publication number: 20210198775
    Abstract: The steel material according to the present disclosure contains a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: 0.20 to 0.50%, Si: 0.05 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.00%, P: 0.030% or less, S: less than 0.0050%, Al: 0.005 to 0.050%, Cr: 0.10 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.25 to 1.80%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%, Nb: 0.002 to 0.100%, B: 0.0001 to 0.0050%, N: 0.0070% or less and O: less than 0.0050% with the balance being Fe and impurities. A yield strength is within a range of 655 to 1069 MPa, and a yield ratio is 85% or more. A proportion of KAM values of 1° or less is 30 area % or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroki KAMITANI, Atsushi SOMA, Keiichi KONDO, Shinji YOSHIDA, Yuji ARAI
  • Publication number: 20210180149
    Abstract: The steel pipe according to the present disclosure contains a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: 0.25 to 0.50%, Si: 0.05 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.00%, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.0050% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, Cr: 0.30 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.25 to 3.00%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%, N: 0.0010 to 0.0100% and O: 0.0030% or less, with the balance being Fe and impurities. The steel pipe contains an amount of dissolved C within a range of 0.010 to 0.050 mass %. The tensile yield strength in the axial direction and the circumferential direction is 862 to 965 MPa, and the yield ratio in the axial direction is 90% or more. The tensile yield strength in the circumferential direction is 30 to 80 MPa higher than the compressive yield strength in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji ARAI, Shinji YOSHIDA, Atsushi SOMA, Hiroki KAMITANI
  • Patent number: 10988819
    Abstract: A high-strength steel material that has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.30 to 1.0%, Si: 0.05 to 1.0%, Mn: 16.0 to 35.0%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.030% or less, Al: 0.003 to 0.06%, N: 0.1% or less, V: 0 to 3.0%, Ti: 0 to 1.5%, Nb: 0 to 1.5%, Cr: 0 to 5.0%, Mo: 0 to 3.0%, Cu: 0 to 1.0%, Ni: 0 to 1.0%, B: 0 to 0.02%, Zr: 0 to 0.5%, Ta: 0 to 0.5%, Ca: 0 to 0.005%, Mg: 0 to 0.005%, and the balance: Fe and impurities, and that satisfies [V+Ti+Nb>2.0], in which: a number density of carbides/carbo-nitrides having a circle-equivalent diameter of 5 to 30 nm precipitating in the steel is 50 to 700/?m2, and a number density of carbides/carbo-nitrides having a circle-equivalent diameter of more than 100 nm precipitating in the steel is less than 10/?m2; a yield stress is 758 MPa or more; and a KISSC value obtained in a DCB test is 33.7 MPa·m0.5 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Yoshida, Yuji Arai
  • Publication number: 20210047714
    Abstract: The steel material according to the present disclosure contains a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: more than 0.50 to 0.80%, Si: 0.05 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.00%, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, Cr: 0.20 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.25 to 1.50%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%, B: 0.0001 to 0.0050%, N: 0.0100% or less and O: 0.0100% or less, with the balance being Fe and impurities. The steel material contains an amount of dissolved C within a range of 0.010 to 0.060 mass %. The steel material also has a yield strength within a range of 862 to less than 965 MPa, and a yield ratio of the steel material is 90% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Shinji YOSHIDA, Yuji ARAI, Atsushi SOMA, Hiroki KAMITANI
  • Publication number: 20210032734
    Abstract: The steel pipe according to the present disclosure contains a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: more than 0.50 to 0.65%, Si: 0.05 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.00%, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.0050% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, Cr: 0.30 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.25 to 3.00%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%, N: 0.0010 to 0.0100% and O: 0.0030% or less, with the balance being Fe and impurities. The steel pipe contains an amount of dissolved C within a range of 0.010 to 0.060 mass %. The tensile yield strength in the axial direction and the circumferential direction is 862 to 1069 MPa, and the yield ratio in the axial direction is 90% or more. The tensile yield strength in the circumferential direction is 30 to 80 MPa higher than the compressive yield strength in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji ARAI, Shinji YOSHIDA, Atsushi SOMA, Hiroki KAMITANI
  • Publication number: 20210025021
    Abstract: A seamless steel pipe heat-treatment-finishing-treatment continuous facility includes: a heat treatment apparatus; a steel pipe inspection apparatus which performs a test for a surface defect and/or an inner defect of the seamless steel pipe, the steel pipe inspection apparatus being disposed downstream of the heat treatment apparatus; a main transfer mechanism which forms a main transfer path MT for transferring the seamless steel pipe, discharged from the heat treatment apparatus, to the steel pipe inspection apparatus disposed downstream of the heat treatment apparatus; and a first forced steel pipe-temperature reduction apparatus which forcibly reduces a temperature of the seamless steel pipe on the main transfer path MT, the first forced steel pipe-temperature reduction apparatus being disposed on the main transfer path MT at a position downstream of the heat treatment apparatus and upstream of the steel pipe inspection apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroki KAMITANI, Takanori TANAKA, Atsushi SOMA, Keiichi KONDO, Hideki MITSUNARI, Seiya OKADA, Takuya MATSUMOTO, Shinji YOSHIDA, Yuji ARAI
  • Publication number: 20210017635
    Abstract: The steel material according to the present disclosure contains a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: 0.20 to 0.50%, Si: 0.05 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.00%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, Cr: 0.10 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.25 to 1.50%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%, N: 0.0100% or less and O: 0.0100% or less, with the balance being Fe and impurities. The steel material contains an amount of dissolved C within a range of 0.010 to 0.050 mass %. The steel material also has a yield strength within a range of 655 to less than 862 MPa, and a yield ratio of the steel material is 85% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroki KAMITANI, Atsushi SOMA, Shinji YOSHIDA, Yuji ARAI, Seiya OKADA