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: 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
  • Publication number: 20210010099
    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: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Shinji YOSHIDA, Yuji ARAI, Atsushi SOMA, Hiroki KAMITANI
  • Publication number: 20200384514
    Abstract: The production method of a seamless steel pipe includes a heating step of heating an Nb-containing steel material to 800 to 1030° C., a pipe-making step of producing a hollow shell by performing piercing-rolling or elongation-rolling on the Nb-containing steel material, by using a piercing mill including a plurality of skewed rolls, a plug disposed between the plurality of skewed rolls, and a mandrel bar, and a cooling step immediately after rolling, of carrying out cooling using a cooling liquid on a hollow shell portion that passes between rear ends of the plurality of skewed rolls, in the hollow shell, so as to reduce an outer surface temperature of the hollow shell portion to 700 to 1000° C. within 15.0 seconds after the hollow shell portion passes between the rear ends of the plurality of skewed rolls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Kouji YAMANE, Kazuhiro SHIMODA, Yuji ARAI, Akihiro SAKAMOTO, Yasuhiko DAIMON, Haruka OBE
  • Patent number: 10752979
    Abstract: Provided is a low alloy oil-well steel pipe having a yield strength of 793 MPa or more, and an excellent SSC resistance. A low alloy oil-well steel pipe according to the present invention includes a chemical composition consisting of: in mass %, C: 0.25 to 0.35%; Si: 0.05 to 0.50%; Mn: 0.10 to 1.50%; Cr: 0.40 to 1.50%; Mo: 0.40 to 2.00%; V: 0.05 to 0.25%; Nb: 0.010 to 0.040%; Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%; sol. Al: 0.005 to 0.10%; N: 0.007% or less; B: 0.0001 to 0.0035%; and Ca: 0 to 0.005%; and a balance being Fe and impurities. In a microstructure of the low alloy oil-well steel pipe, a number of cementite particles each of which has an equivalent circle diameter of 200 nm or more is 100 particles/100 ?m2 or more. The above low alloy oil-well steel pipe has a yield strength of 793 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Kondo, Yuji Arai
  • Patent number: 10655200
    Abstract: The steel material according to the present invention contains, in mass %, C: 0.15 to 0.45%, Si: 0.10 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.10 to 0.8%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Al: 0.01 to 0.1%, N: 0.010% or less, Cr: 0.1 to 2.5%, Mo: 0.35 to 3.0%, Co: 0.05 to 2.0%, Ti: 0.003 to 0.040%, Nb: 0.003 to 0.050%, Cu: 0.01 to 0.50%, and Ni: 0.01 to 0.50%, and satisfies the following Formulae. A prior-austenite grain diameter of its microstructure is less than 5 ?m, and a block diameter of its microstructure is less than 2 ?m. The microstructure contains a total of 90% by volume or more of tempered martensite and tempered bainite. C+Mn/6+(Cr+Mo+V)/5+(Cu+Ni)/15?Co/6+??0.70??(1) (3C+Mo+3Co)/(3Mn+Cr)?1.0??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Arai, Kengo Hata
  • Publication number: 20200123624
    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: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Shinji Yoshida, Yuji Arai
  • Patent number: 10563793
    Abstract: Provided is a low alloy oil-well steel pipe having a yield strength of 827 MPa or more, and an excellent SSC resistance. The low alloy oil-well steel pipe according to the present invention consisting of: in mass %, C: more than 0.35 to 0.65%; Si: 0.05 to 0.50%; Mn: 0.10 to 1.00%; Cr: 0.40 to 1.50%; Mo: 0.50 to 2.00%; V: 0.05 to 0.25%; Nb: 0.01 to 0.040%; sol.Al: 0.005 to 0.10%; N: 0.007% or less; Ti: 0 to 0.012%; Ca: 0 to 0.005%; and a balance being Fe and impurities, the impurities including: P: 0.020% or less; S: 0.002% or less; O: 0.006% or less; Ni: 0.10% or less; Cu: 0.03% or less; and B: 0.0005% or less, wherein in a microstructure, a number of cementite particles each of which has an equivalent circle diameter of 200 nm or more is 200 particles/100 ?m2 or more, and a yield strength is 827 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Kondo, Yuji Arai
  • Publication number: 20200040436
    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: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Arai, Shinji Yoshida, Atsushi Soma, Hiroki Kamitani
  • Patent number: 10550962
    Abstract: The steel material according to this invention contains, in mass %, C: 0.15 to 0.45%, Si: 0.10 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.10 to less than 0.90%, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.01 to 0.1%, N: 0.01% or less, Cr: 0.1 to 2.5%, Mo: 0.35 to 3.0%, and Co: 0.50 to 3.0%, and satisfies expressions (1) and (2), and contains 90% or more of tempered martensite by volume ratio: C+Mn/6+(Cr+Mo+V)/5+(Cu+Ni)/15?Co/6+??0.50??(1 ) (3C+Mo+3Co)/(3Mn+Cr)?1.0??(2 ) Effective B=B?11(N?Ti/3.4)/14??(3 ) where, ? in expression (1) is 0.250 when effective B (mass %) defined by expression (3) is 0.0003% or more, and is 0 when the effective B is less than 0.0003.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji Arai
  • Patent number: 10514564
    Abstract: A display unit (1) includes a transparent plate (11) and a display body. The transparent plate has a first surface and a second surface that are opposite to each other, and is disposed to allow substantially an entire region of the first surface to be exposed. The transparent plate has a curved shape that is bent in an arc shape in a first direction. The display body is joined to side of the second surface of the transparent plate to follow the curved shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunobu Kawasaki, Yuki Takano, Hisanori Tsuboi, Yuji Arai
  • Publication number: 20190376167
    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: 0.002 to 0.010% 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 965 to 1069 MPa, and a yield ratio of the steel material is 90% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Shinji Yoshida, Yuji Arai, Atsushi Soma, Hiroki Kamitani
  • Patent number: 10487373
    Abstract: A steel pipe for line pipe has a composition of, in mass %: C: 0.02 to 0.11%; Si: 0.05 to 1.0%; Mn: 0.30 to 2.5%; P: up to 0.030%; S: up to 0.006%; Cr: 0.05 to 0.36%; Mo: 0.02 to 0.33%; V: 0.02 to 0.20%; Ti: 0.001 to 0.010%; Al: 0.001 to 0.100%; N: up to 0.008%; Ca: 0.0005 to 0.0040%; and other elements and satisfies Cr+Mo+V?0.40, the chemical symbols in the equation substituted by the content of the corresponding element in mass %. The pipe contains tempered martensite and/or tempered bainite and further contains ferrite in at least one of a portion between a steel pipe outer surface and a depth of 1 mm from the outer surface, and a portion between a steel pipe inner surface and a depth of 1 mm from the inner surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taro Oe, Keiichi Kondo, Hiroki Kamitani, Yuji Arai
  • Patent number: 10480043
    Abstract: A seamless steel pipe for line pipe has a chemical composition consisting, by mass percent, of C: 0.03-0.15%, Si: ?0.50%, Mn: 1.0-2.0%, P: ?0.050%, S: ?0.005%, Cr: 0.1-1.0%, Al: 0.001-0.10%, N: ?0.01%, Ni: 0.05-2.0%, B: 0.0003-0.0015%, Ca: 0.0002-0.0050%, Mo: 0.10-0.50%, Ti: 0.001-0.05%, Cu: 0-2.0%, Nb: 0-0.05%, V: 0-0.10%, the balance: Fe and impurities, and satisfying the conditions of 2Nb+4V+Mo?0.50, wherein a metal micro-structure of the steel pipe contains 50% or more of bainite, in an area fraction, a wall thickness of the steel pipe is 25 mm or larger, and in a scale formed on the surface of the steel pipe, metal particles consisting mainly of Ni or Cu having an average circle-equivalent diameter of 0.1-5 mm exist. A distance from a boundary between the base metal of the steel pipe and the scale to a region in which the metal particles do not exist is 20 mm or longer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Arai, Yukimasa Ueda
  • Patent number: 10443114
    Abstract: A steel material for oil country tubular goods that has a high strength and excellent SSC resistance is provided. The steel material according to this invention contains, in mass %, C: more than 0.45 to 0.65%, Si: 0.10 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 1.0%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Al: 0.01 to 0.1%, N: 0.01% or less, Cr: 0.1 to 2.5%, Mo: 0.25 to 5.0%, and Co: 0.05 to 5.0%, and satisfies expressions (1) and (2), and contains 90% or more of tempered martensite by volume ratio: C+Mn/6+(Cr+Mo+V)/5+(Cu+Ni)/15?Co/6+??0.70??(1) (3C+Mo+3Co)/(3Mn+Cr)?1.0??(2) Effective B=B?11(N?Ti/3.4)/14??(3) where, ? in expression (1) is 0.250 when effective B (mass %) defined by expression (3) is 0.0003% or more, and is 0 when effective B is less than 0.0003%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji Arai
  • Publication number: 20190300979
    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: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Atsushi Soma, Yuji Arai, Yosuke Tatebayashi, Keisuke Furo, Takenori Kuramoto, Hiroki Kamitani, Kouji Yamane
  • Patent number: 10415125
    Abstract: A thick-wall oil-well steel pipe has a wall thickness of 40 mm or more, excellent SSC resistance and high strength. The thick-wall oil-well steel pipe has a composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.40 to 0.65%, Si: 0.05 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.10 to 1.0%, P: 0.020% or less, S: 0.0020% or less, sol. Al: 0.005 to 0.10%, Cr more than 0.40 to 2.0%, Mo: more than 1.15 to 5.0%, Cu: 0.50% or less, Ni: 0.50% or less, N: 0.007% or less, and O: 0.005% or less. The number of carbide which has a circle equivalent diameter of 100 nm or more and contains 20 mass % or more of Mo is 2 or less per 100 mm2. The thick-wall oil-well steel pipe has yield strength of 827 MPa or more. A difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the yield strength in the wall-thickness direction is 45 MPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Arai, Keiichi Kondo, Koji Nagahashi
  • Patent number: 10407758
    Abstract: A steel for oil country tubular goods includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %, C, Si, Mn, Al, Mo, P, S, O, N, and a balance containing Fe and impurities, wherein a full width at half maximum HW of a crystal plane corresponding to a (211) crystal plane of an ? phase and a carbon content expressed in mass % in the chemical composition satisfy HW×C1/2?0.38, the carbon content and a molybdenum content expressed in mass % in the chemical composition satisfy C×Mo?0.6, a number of M2C carbides having a hexagonal crystal structure and having an equivalent circle diameter of 1 nm or more is 5 pieces or more per one square micron, and an yield strength is 758 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiko Omura, Yuji Arai, Kaori Kawano, Akihiro Sakamoto, Kazuo Okamura, Kenji Yamamoto, Keiichi Kondo, Koji Nagahashi, Masanao Seo
  • Patent number: 10392675
    Abstract: There is provided a seamless steel pipe having high strength and high toughness even if having a thick wall. A seamless steel pipe according to the present embodiment consists of: in mass %, C: 0.03 to 0.08%, Si: not more than 0.25%, Mn: 0.3 to 2.0%, P: not more than 0.05%, S: not more than 0.005%, Al: 0.001 to 0.10%, Cr: 0.02 to 1.0%, Ni: 0.02 to 1.0%, Mo: 0.02 to 0.8%, N: 0.002 to 0.008%, Ca: 0.0005 to 0.005%, and Nb: 0.01 to 0.1%, the balance being Fe and impurities, and has a wall thickness of not less than 50 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukimasa Ueda, Yuji Arai
  • Publication number: 20190226063
    Abstract: The steel material according to the present invention contains, in mass %, C: 0.15 to 0.45%, Si: 0.10 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.10 to 0.8%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Al: 0.01 to 0.1%, N: 0.010% or less, Cr: 0.1 to 2.5%, Mo: 0.35 to 3.0%, Co: 0.05 to 2.0%, Ti: 0.003 to 0.040%, Nb: 0.003 to 0.050%, Cu: 0.01 to 0.50%, and Ni: 0.01 to 0.50%, and satisfies the following Formulae. A prior-austenite grain diameter of its microstructure is less than 5 ?m, and a block diameter of its microstructure is less than 2 ?m. The microstructure contains a total of 90% by volume or more of tempered martensite and tempered bainite. C+Mn/6+(Cr+Mo+V)/5+(Cu+Ni)/15?Co/6+??0.70??(1) (3C+Mo+3Co)/(3Mn+Cr)?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Yuji Arai, Kengo Hata