Patents by Inventor Yukihiro Nishida
Yukihiro Nishida 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).
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Patent number: 11873542Abstract: A high-Ni alloy having excellent weld-hot-cracking resistance includes, in mass %, Cr: 16-30%, Ni: 18-50%, Al: 0.01-1.0%, and Ti: 0.01-1.5%. In a first aspect of the invention, a relationship between number density of TiC precipitates having 1.0 ?m or more of equivalent circle diameter and Mg content in steel satisfies formula (1) below. In a second aspect of the invention, S average concentration in oxide- and sulfide-inclusions is 0.70 mass % or more. In a third aspect of the invention, mass ratios of CaO, MgO, and Al2O3 in inclusions, where O or S is detected, satisfy formula (2), the mass ratios being respectively calculated from average concentrations of Ca, Mg and Al in the inclusions, (1) number density of TiC (number of pieces/mm2)?463?9.5×Mg concentration in steel (mass ppm) and (2) [CaO?0.6×MgO] (mass %)/[CaO+MgO+Al2O3] (mass %)?0.20.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignees: NIPPON STEEL STAINLESS STEEL CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yukihiro Nishida, Shinji Tsuge, Takahiro Osuki
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Publication number: 20240011137Abstract: A bar-shaped stainless steel product having a chemical composition that contains, by mass %: 0.001 to 0.030% of C; 0.01 to 4.00% of Si; 0.01 to 2.00% of Mn; 0.01 to 4.00% of Ni; 8.0 to 35.0% of Cr; 0.01 to 5.00% of Mo; 0.01 to 2.00% of Cu; 0.001 to 0.030% of N; 7.000% or less of Al; 0 to 2.00% of Ti; 0 to 2.00% of Nb; and 0 to 0.1% of B; one or more elements selected from 0.001% or more of Ti, 0.001% or more of Nb, and 0.0001% or more of B being contained, a balance consisting of Fe and impurities, an average particle size of nitrides being 10 ?m or less, and a solute N content in steel being 0.020 mass % or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL Stainless Steel CorporationInventors: Shota YAMASAKI, Kohji TAKANO, Yukihiro NISHIDA, Kisuke TANAKA, Masayuki TOHJOH
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Publication number: 20230349027Abstract: A high-Ni alloy having excellent weld-hot-cracking resistance includes, in mass %, Cr: 16-30%, Ni: 18-50%, Al: 0.01-1.0%, and Ti: 0.01-1.5%. In a first aspect of the invention, a relationship between number density of TiC precipitates having 1.0 ?m or more of equivalent circle diameter and Mg content in steel satisfies formula (1) below. In a second aspect of the invention, S average concentration in oxide- and sulfide-inclusions is 0.70 mass % or more. In a third aspect of the invention, mass ratios of CaO, MgO, and Al2O3 in inclusions, where O or S is detected, satisfy formula (2), the mass ratios being respectively calculated from average concentrations of Ca, Mg and Al in the inclusions, (1) number density of TiC (number of pieces/mm2)?463?9.5×Mg concentration in steel (mass ppm) and (2) [CaO?0.6×MgO] (mass %)/[CaO+MgO+Al2O3] (mass %)?0.20.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2022Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicants: NIPPON STEEL Stainless Steel Corporation, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yukihiro NISHIDA, Shinji TSUGE, Takahiro OSUKI
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Publication number: 20230143965Abstract: An alloy material is provided which contains elements including, in mass %, C: 0.010 to 0.10%, Si: more than 0.10% to 0.50% or less, Mn:0.05 to 0.50%, Ni:34.5 to 37.0%, and Nb:0.001 to 1.0%, and which satisfies [T0?T1-2], [C—Nb/7.7-Ta/15?0.045], [Nb-7.7C?0.30], and [Ta-15C?0.30]. Where, each symbol of an element in the above formulas represents a content (mass %) of the corresponding element, T0 represents a Curie temperature (° C.) of the alloy material, and T1 represents a Curie temperature (° C.) of the alloy material after the alloy material is held at 900° C. for one minute and thereafter is cooled under conditions such that an average cooling rate in a temperature range from 600 to 300° C. is 0.2° C./s.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Shinji TSUGE, Masatomo KAWA, Yukio NAKAMURA, Kenichiro KUSUNOKI, Yukihiro NISHIDA
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Patent number: 10224941Abstract: An oscillation apparatus includes: an oscillation circuit; a timing control circuit that generates a timing signal using an output clock of the oscillation circuit; an integration circuit that cyclically integrates a reference current based on the timing signal to output an output voltage value; a comparison circuit that compares the output voltage value of the integration circuit with predetermined threshold voltage and outputs a comparison result; a steady voltage changing circuit that, when it is shown by the comparison result of the comparison circuit that the output voltage value of the integration circuit exceeds the threshold voltage, returns the output voltage value of the integration circuit by a predetermined amount; and a frequency adjustment circuit that generates a control signal for adjusting an oscillation frequency of the oscillation circuit based on a value obtained by averaging the comparison result in plurality of the comparison circuit.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Yukihiro Nishida
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Patent number: 9987706Abstract: A method for producing a stainless steel diffusion-bonded product provides a stainless steel material diffusion-bonded product having excellent reliability of the bonded portion by using a direct method, which includes directly contacting stainless steel materials with each other to unify the materials together by diffusion bonding. At least one of the stainless steel materials to be contacted is dual-phase steel having an austenite transformation starting temperature Ac1 point of 650 to 950° C. during the temperature elevation and having an austenite+ferrite dual-phase temperature region in the range of 880° C. or higher. Diffusion bonding is advanced under conditions such that the contact surface pressure is in the range of 1.0 MPa or less and the heating temperature is in the range of from 880 to 1,080° C. while being accompanied by the movement of grain boundary caused when the ferrite phase in the dual-phase steel undergoes transformation to an austenite phase.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2013Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Sugama, Yukihiro Nishida, Kazuyuki Kageoka, Yoshiaki Hori, Manabu Oku
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Publication number: 20170257103Abstract: An oscillation apparatus includes: an oscillation circuit; a timing control circuit that generates a timing signal using an output clock of the oscillation circuit; an integration circuit that cyclically integrates a reference current based on the timing signal to output an output voltage value; a comparison circuit that compares the output voltage value of the integration circuit with predetermined threshold voltage and outputs a comparison result; a steady voltage changing circuit that, when it is shown by the comparison result of the comparison circuit that the output voltage value of the integration circuit exceeds the threshold voltage, returns the output voltage value of the integration circuit by a predetermined amount; and a frequency adjustment circuit that generates a control signal for adjusting an oscillation frequency of the oscillation circuit based on a value obtained by averaging the comparison result in plurality of the comparison circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2017Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventor: Yukihiro Nishida
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Patent number: 9696554Abstract: A color separation optical assembly (3) of an image capture device (1) includes, in order from a light incidence side, a first prism (10) which has a first dichroic film (D1) and extracts blue light (LB) reflected by the first dichroic film, a second prism (20) which has a second dichroic film (D2) and extracts red light (LR) transmitted through the first dichroic film and reflected by the second dichroic film, and a third prism (30) which extracts green light (LG) transmitted through the first and second dichroic films. The first dichroic film is a multiband dichroic film which reflects light of an infrared region from a long wavelength side of a red region.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignees: FUJIFILM Corporation, JAPAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, IKEGAMI TSUSHINKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Arihiro Saita, Yuichi Sawahata, Kenichiro Masaoka, Yukihiro Nishida, Osamu Ozawa
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Patent number: 9641875Abstract: In a video signal transmitting device, a basic image generation unit extracts, for each of the color signal component, pixels constituting a frame of the color signal component at a uniform interval two-dimensionally and two-dimensionally arranges the extracted pixels in a prescribed arrangement to generate a prescribed number of color signal basic images. A basic stream generation unit extracts, for each of the color signal basic images, pixels of the color signal basic image generated by the basic image generation unit in a prescribed sequence to generate a basic stream. A link signal generation unit synthesizes a prescribed number of basic streams in the same or different color signal components generated by the basic stream generation unit, encodes bit-length units of the synthesized basic streams to a different bit length, and generates a link signal having a prescribed speed.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: NIPPON HOSO KYOKAIInventors: Yukihiro Nishida, Ryohei Funatsu, Yuichi Kusakabe, Takayuki Yamashita, Makoto Okui, Takuji Soeno
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Publication number: 20160178917Abstract: A color separation optical assembly (3) of an image capture device (1) includes, in order from a light incidence side, a first prism (10) which has a first dichroic film (D1) and extracts blue light (LB) reflected by the first dichroic film, a second prism (20) which has a second dichroic film (D2) and extracts red light (LR) transmitted through the first dichroic film and reflected by the second dichroic film, and a third prism (30) which extracts green light (LG) transmitted through the first and second dichroic films. The first dichroic film is a multiband dichroic film which reflects light of an infrared region from a long wavelength side of a red region.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2016Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicants: FUJIFILM Corporation, Japan Broadcasting Corporation, IKEGAMI TSUSHINKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Arihiro SAITA, Yuichi SAWAHATA, Kenichiro MASAOKA, Yukihiro NISHIDA, Osamu OZAWA
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Publication number: 20160114423Abstract: A method for producing a stainless steel diffusion-bonded product provides a stainless steel material diffusion-bonded product having excellent reliability of the bonded portion by using a direct method, which includes directly contacting stainless steel materials with each other to unify the materials together by diffusion bonding. At least one of the stainless steel materials to be contacted is dual-phase steel having an austenite transformation starting temperature Ac1 point of 650 to 950° C. during the temperature elevation and having an austenite+ferrite dual-phase temperature region in the range of 880° C. or higher. Diffusion bonding is advanced under conditions such that the contact surface pressure is in the range of 1.0 MPa or less and the heating temperature is in the range of from 880 to 1,080° C. while being accompanied by the movement of grain boundary caused when the ferrite phase in the dual-phase steel undergoes transformation to an austenite phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2013Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Atsushi SUGAMA, Yukihiro NISHIDA, Kazuyuki KAGEOKA, Yoshiaki HORI, Manabu OKU
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Publication number: 20150237382Abstract: In a video signal transmitting device, a basic image generation unit extracts, for each of the color signal component, pixels constituting a frame of the color signal component at a uniform interval two-dimensionally and two-dimensionally arranges the extracted pixels in a prescribed arrangement to generate a prescribed number of color signal basic images. A basic stream generation unit extracts, for each of the color signal basic images, pixels of the color signal basic image generated by the basic image generation unit in a prescribed sequence to generate a basic stream. A link signal generation unit synthesizes a prescribed number of basic streams in the same or different color signal components generated by the basic stream generation unit, encodes bit-length units of the synthesized basic streams to a different bit length, and generates a link signal having a prescribed speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2013Publication date: August 20, 2015Inventors: Yukihiro Nishida, Ryohei Funatsu, Yuichi Kusakabe, Takayuki Yamashita, Makoto Okui, Takuji Soeno
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Patent number: 7789364Abstract: The display monitor of a rear projection system is pivotally connected to the projector body and provided with a resilient member that permits opening of the monitor in a vertical direction by the application of a small force during maintenance of the system.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2007Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Simotec Inc.Inventors: Tsutomu Katsumata, Yukihiro Nishida
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Publication number: 20100122800Abstract: Provided is a ferritic stainless steel for heat pipes of high-temperature exhaust heat recovery systems, which comprises, in terms of % by mass, from 16 to 32% of Cr, at most 0.03% of C, at most 0.03% of N, at most 3% of Si, at most 2% of Mn, at most 0.008% of S, from 0 to 0.3% of Al, and at least one of at most 0.7% of Nb, at most 0.3% of Ti, at most 0.5% of Zr and at most 1% of V, and optionally at least one of at most 3% of Mo, at most 3% of W, at most 3% of Cu, at most 0.1% of Y, at most 0.1% of REM (rare earth metal) and at most 0.01% of Ca, with a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, and which satisfies at least the following formula (1), formula (2) and formula (5): Cr+3(Mo+Cu)?20??(1) Cr+3(Si+Mn+Al?Ti)?20??(2) 0.037{(C+N)/(V+Ti+0.5Nb+0.5Zr)}+0.001?0.01??(5).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2009Publication date: May 20, 2010Inventors: Yukihiro Nishida, Yoshitomo Fujimura, Manabu Oku, Yuki Mukobara, Kimio Kohara, Kazuaki Kafuku
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Publication number: 20070252059Abstract: The display monitor of a rear projection system is pivotally connected to the projector body and provided with a resilient member that permits opening of the monitor in a vertical direction by the application of a small force during maintenance of the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2007Publication date: November 1, 2007Applicant: Simotec Inc.Inventors: Tsutomu Katsumata, Yukihiro Nishida
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Publication number: 20070240282Abstract: A hinge member 3 that is attached to a document pressing plate 2 and includes a tubular supporting leg 5, in which a projection member 7 is incorporated so that a tip 71a of the projection member 7 appears and disappears in an opening part 6, and a spring member 8 for always biasing the projection member so that the tip 71a of the projection member 7 projects from the opening part 6 is also incorporated. Thus, by attaching the tip 71a that projects from the opening part 6 of the projection member 7 to an inner wall surface 4a of the supporting hole 4, the tubular supporting leg 5 of the hinge member 3 can be securely fixed in the supporting hole 4 without jouncing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2007Publication date: October 18, 2007Inventor: Yukihiro Nishida
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Patent number: 7167393Abstract: A plurality of dummy cells which generate reference potential corresponding to a capacitance of a bit line each have a floating gate, control gate and first and second diffusion layers. The first and second diffusion layers of each dummy cell are commonly connected by use of a wiring.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2004Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kiyoharu Oikawa, Yukihiro Nishida, Masaya Kubota, Junji Morita
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Publication number: 20060203280Abstract: There is provided an image printing apparatus having color materials of a plurality of colors including black and performing color printing using the plurality of color materials. The image printing apparatus includes a data acquisition interface that acquires color printing data (PDL data, etc.), a residual amount detection unit that detects the residual amount of the plurality of color materials, a drawing unit that draws the color printing data acquired by the data acquisition interface as printing data that is printable with a color material of black when the residual amount detection unit has detected that the residual amount of at least one color material excluding black is a predetermined amount or less, and a recording unit that executes printing processing on the basis of the printing data drawn by the drawing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2006Publication date: September 14, 2006Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masa-aki Kobayashi, Yukihiro Nishida
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Patent number: 6950360Abstract: A memory circuit device comprising a plurality of memory cells connected to a plurality of bit lines and word lines, an access circuit connected to the plurality of bit lines and word lines to select predetermined memory cells from the plurality of memory cells in response to an address signal, a precharge circuit which precharges the bit lines connected to the memory cells selected by the access circuit at the time of a read mode, a common source line connected to a plurality of selected memory cells selected by the access circuit, a source line potential control circuit to connect the common source line to a ground node at a predetermined timing, and a discharge circuit which discharges the bit lines connected to non-selected memory cells other than the selected memory cells.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2003Date of Patent: September 27, 2005Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yukihiro Nishida, Kiyoharu Oikawa
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Patent number: 6924819Abstract: An image processor includes: a color conversion unit for converting an input signal to color signals of at least four colors; a gamma correction unit for performing gamma correction on the color signals; a binarization unit for binarizing the color signals through comparison with a threshold value; a superimposing unit for superimposing a color signal of at least one color but of the binarized color signals on another color signal to convert the signals to a superimposed color signal; logical operation unit for performing a logical operation previously defined for an image of three or fewer colors on the superimposed color signal; and a separator for separating color signals as an output of the logical operation unit into separated color signals of at least four colors.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2003Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukihiro Nishida, Seiichiro Hiratsuka