Patents by Inventor Yuma HONDA

Yuma HONDA 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: 11946112
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet of the present invention has a specific chemical composition. Furthermore, in the steel sheet, a degree of Mn segregation in a specific region is 1.5 or less; a maximum P concentration in a specific region is 0.08 mass % or less; in a specific region, at least one specific MnS particle group is present, the number of specific MnS particle groups is 2.0 or fewer per 1 mm2, and the number of specific oxide-based inclusions is 8 or fewer per 1 mm2; of all oxide-based inclusions, oxide-based inclusions having a specific composition are present in a number ratio of 80% or greater; the microstructure includes, in terms of a volume fraction, 30 to 95% martensite, 5 to 70% ferrite phase, less than 30% (and 0% or greater) bainite, and less than 2.0% (and 0% or greater) austenite phase; and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Yuma Honda, Shimpei Yoshioka, Koichi Taniguchi, Hiroshi Matsuda, Takeshi Murai, Nobuyuki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11846002
    Abstract: The high-strength steel sheet according to the present invention includes a specific chemical composition, a steel structure in which a total area fraction of martensite and bainite in a position of ¼ of a sheet thickness is 92% or more and 100% or less, the balance in a case where the total area fraction is not 100% contains retained austenite, and an area fraction of ferrite in a region extending up to 10 ?m in a sheet thickness direction from a surface is 10% or more and 40% or less, in which a tensile strength is 1320 MPa or more, and a Vickers hardness in a position of 15 ?m in the sheet thickness direction from the surface satisfies a specified formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shimpei Yoshioka, Yoshihiko Ono, Yuma Honda, Nobuyuki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20230100311
    Abstract: A steel sheet has a tensile strength of 1310 MPa or higher, a specified chemical composition, and a steel microstructure containing martensite at an area ratio of 70% or more, bainite at an area ratio of 30% or less, and ferrite and retained austenite at a total area ratio of 10% or less, in which, at a ¼ thickness position of the steel sheet, a number density of carbides having long axes of 0.5 ?m or more is 60000 carbides/mm2 or less, in a ¼-to-¾ thickness region of the steel sheet, a number density of inclusion grains having equivalent circle diameters of 4.0 ?m or more is 10 grains/mm2 or more and 30 grains/mm2 or less, and, in a surface-to-¼ thickness region of the steel sheet, a number density of inclusion grains having equivalent circle diameters of 4.0 ?m or more is 27 grains/mm2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shimpei Yoshioka, Shinjiro Kaneko, Yuma Honda
  • Publication number: 20230069838
    Abstract: A steel sheet has a tensile strength of 1310 MPa or higher, a specified chemical composition, and a steel microstructure containing martensite at an area ratio of 70% or more, bainite at an area ratio of 30% or less, and ferrite and retained austenite at a total area ratio of 5% or less, in which, at a ¼ thickness position of the steel sheet, a number density of carbides having long axes of 0.5 ?m or more is 60000 carbides/mm2 or less, in a ¼-to-¾ thickness region of the steel sheet, a number density of inclusion grains having equivalent circle diameters of 4.0 ?m or more is 10 grains/mm2 or more and 30 grains/mm2 or less, and, in a surface-to-¼ thickness region of the steel sheet, a number density of inclusion grains having equivalent circle diameters of 4.0 ?m or more is 27 grains/mm2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shimpei Yoshioka, Shinjiro Kaneko, Yuma Honda
  • Patent number: 11453927
    Abstract: A cold rolled steel sheet having a high strength, an aging resistance, a high yield ratio and a small anisotropy of tensile strength is obtained by hot rolling and cold rolling a steel material containing in percent by mass C: 0.06-0.14%, Si: less than 0.50%, Mn: 1.6-2.5%, Nb: not more than 0.080% (including 0%), Ti: not more than 0.080% (including 0%), provided that Nb and Ti are contained in an amount of 0.020-0.080% in total, subjecting a cold rolled steel sheet continuous annealing including steps of soaking-annealing at a temperature of 840-940° C. for a holding time of 30-120 seconds, cooling from the soaking temperature to 600° C. at a rate of not less than 5° C./s, retaining in a temperature range of 600-500° C. for 30-300 seconds and then conducting a secondary cooling to apply such a steel structure that martensite is finely dispersed into ferrite base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yuma Honda, Yoshihiko Ono
  • Publication number: 20220098698
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having a low yield ratio and a method for producing the same. The high-strength steel sheet has a specified chemical composition and a microstructure in which ferrite is present as a major phase, and martensite is present in an area fraction of 10% or greater and less than 50% relative to an entire area of the microstructure. The martensite has an average grain diameter of 3.0 ?m or less, in an entirety of the martensite, a proportion of martensite having an aspect ratio of 3 or less is 60% or greater, and the martensite having an aspect ratio of 3 or less has a carbon concentration of 0.30% or greater and 0.90% or less in mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya HIRASHIMA, Yuma HONDA, Akinori NAKAMURA, Shinjiro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20220090247
    Abstract: A steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a tensile strength of 1,320 MPa or more, and methods for producing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a specified microstructure including martensite and bainite, the total area fraction of the martensite and the bainite being 92% or more and 100% or less, the balance being one or more selected from ferrite and retained austenite. The forumulae [%Ti]+[%Nb]>0.007 and [%Ti]×[%Nb]2?7.5×10?6 are satisfied in the chemical composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shimpei YOSHIOKA, Yoshihiko ONO, Yuma HONDA, Nobuyuki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220056549
    Abstract: A steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a tensile strength of 1,320 MPa or more, and methods for producing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a specified microstructure including martensite and bainite, the total area fraction of the martensite and the bainite being 95% or more and 100% or less, the balance being one or more selected from ferrite and retained austenite. The forumulae [% Ti]+[% Nb]>0.007 and [% Ti]×[% Nb]2?7.5×10?6 are satisfied in the chemical composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shimpei YOSHIOKA, Yoshihiko ONO, Yuma HONDA, Nobuyuki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210381076
    Abstract: A thin steel sheet has a specific chemical composition. The thin steel sheet has a microstructure in which ferrite is present in an area fraction of 5% or more and 60% or less, as-quenched martensite is present in an area fraction of 10% or less (including 0%), retained austenite is present in an area fraction of 5% or more and 20% or less, and upper bainite, lower bainite, and tempered martensite are present in a total area fraction of more than 15% and less than 85%; BCC iron that has a misorientation of 1° or less and surrounds retained austenite having an aspect ratio of 2.5 or higher is present in an area fraction of 5% or more and 70% or less; and a top 10% of retained austenite in terms of an equivalent circular diameter has an average aspect ratio of 2.5 or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Kohsaka, Shinjiro Kaneko, Akinori Nakamura, Yuma Honda, Tadachika Chiba, Yoshihiko Ono
  • Patent number: 11186900
    Abstract: A high-strength cold rolled steel sheet having mechanical characteristics having a tensile strength of not less than 780 MPa, a yield ratio of not more than 70%, and a small in-plane anisotropy of a tensile characteristicis obtained by hot rolling a steel slab comprising by mass % C: 0.07 to 0.12%, Si: not more than 0.7%, Mn: 2.2 to 2.8% and Ti and Nb: 0.02 to 0.08% in total, and cold rolling the sheet, followed by continuous annealing to form a steel texture comprised of ferrite having an area ratio of 40 to 80% with respect to the whole texture, and a second phase constituted by tempered martensite, fresh martensite and bainite, wherein the total area ratio of the bainite and the tempered martensite to the second phase is 50 to 80%, and the aspect ratio of the fresh martensite is in the range of 1.0 to 1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Hirashima, Kenji Kawamura, Yoshihiko Ono, Yuma Honda
  • Publication number: 20210340641
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet of the present invention has a specific chemical composition. Furthermore, in the steel sheet, a degree of Mn segregation in a specific region is 1.5 or less; a maximum P concentration in a specific region is 0.08 mass % or less; in a specific region, the number of specific MnS particle groups is 2.0 or fewer per 1 mm2, and the number of specific oxide-based inclusions is 8 or fewer per 1 mm2; of all of the oxide-based inclusions, oxide-based inclusions having a specified composition are present in a number ratio of 80% or greater; the microstructure includes, in terms of a volume fraction, 30 to 95% martensite and bainite in total, 5 to 70% ferrite phase, and less than 3% (and 0% or greater) austenite phase; and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Yuma Honda, Shimpei Yoshioka, Koichi Taniguchi, Nobuyuki Nakamura, Takeshi Murai
  • Publication number: 20210332454
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet of the present invention has a specific chemical composition. Furthermore, in the steel sheet, a degree of Mn segregation in a specific region is 1.5 or less; a maximum P concentration in a specific region is 0.08 mass % or less; in a specific region, at least one specific MnS particle group is present, the number of specific MnS particle groups is 2.0 or fewer per 1 mm2, and the number of specific oxide-based inclusions is 8 or fewer per 1 mm2; of all oxide-based inclusions, oxide-based inclusions having a specific composition are present in a number ratio of 80% or greater; the microstructure includes, in terms of a volume fraction, 30 to 95% martensite, 5 to 70% ferrite phase, less than 30% (and 0% or greater) bainite, and less than 2.0% (and 0% or greater) austenite phase; and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Yuma Honda, Shimpei Yoshioka, Koichi Taniguchi, Hiroshi Matsuda, Takeshi Murai, Nobuyuki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210310094
    Abstract: The high-strength steel sheet according to the present invention includes a specific chemical composition, a steel structure in which a total area fraction of martensite and bainite in a position of ¼ of a sheet thickness is 92% or more and 100% or less, the balance in a case where the total area fraction is not 100% contains retained austenite, and an area fraction of ferrite in a region extending up to 10 ?m in a sheet thickness direction from a surface is 10% or more and 40% or less, in which a tensile strength is 1320 MPa or more, and a Vickers hardness in a position of 15 ?m in the sheet thickness direction from the surface satisfies a specified formula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shimpei Yoshioka, Yoshihiko Ono, Yuma Honda, Nobuyuki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10801085
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having high yield ratio, excellent stretch flange formability, and resistance to secondary working embrittlement. The steel sheet has a composition containing C: 0.02% to less than 0.10%, Si: less than 0.3%, Mn: less than 1.0%, P: 0.10% or less, S: 0.020% or less, Al: 0.01% to 0.10%, N: 0.010% or less, and Nb: 0.003% to less than 0.070% on a mass basis, the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities. A steel microstructure of the steel sheet contains ferrite: 90% or more and a total of pearlite, martensite, retained austenite, and cementite: 0% to 10% on an area fraction basis, in which the average grain size of the ferrite is 15.0 ?m or less, and in which the average aspect ratio of the ferrite is 1.2 or more; and a tensile strength of 500 MPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuma Honda, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Kozo Harada
  • Patent number: 10655194
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having a high yield ratio and excellent stretch flangeability, and a method for producing the high-strength steel sheet. The high-strength steel sheet has a composition containing, by mass: C: 0.02% or more and less than 0.10%, Si: less than 0.10%, Mn: less than 1.0%, P: 0.10% or less, S: 0.020% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 0.10% or less, N: 0.010% or less, Nb: 0.005% or more and less than 0.070%, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities; and a microstructure including, by area: ferrite: 85% or more, pearlite: 0% to 15%, and a total of martensite, retained austenite and cementite: 0% to 3%. The average crystal grain diameter of the ferrite is 15.0 ?m or less. The grain diameter of a Nb carbide is 5 to 50 nm. The amount of Nb carbide precipitate is 0.005% to 0.050% in terms of volume fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuma Honda, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Kozo Harada
  • Publication number: 20200071802
    Abstract: A high-strength cold rolled steel sheet having mechanical characteristics having a tensile strength of not less than 780 MPa, a yield ratio of not more than 70%, and a small in-plane anisotropy of a tensile characteristicis obtained by hot rolling a steel slab comprising by mass % C: 0.07 to 0.12%, Si: not more than 0.7%, Mn: 2.2 to 2.8% and Ti and Nb: 0.02 to 0.08% in total, and cold rolling the sheet, followed by continuous annealing to form a steel texture comprised of ferrite having an area ratio of 40 to 80% with respect to the whole texture, and a second phase constituted by tempered martensite, fresh martensite and bainite, wherein the total area ratio of the bainite and the tempered martensite to the second phase is 50 to 80%, and the aspect ratio of the fresh martensite is in the range of 1.0 to 1.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hirashima, Kenji Kawamura, Yoshihiko Ono, Yuma Honda
  • Publication number: 20200017933
    Abstract: A cold rolled steel sheet having a high strength, an aging resistance, a high yield ratio and a small anisotropy of tensile strength is obtained by hot rolling and cold rolling a steel material containing in percent by mass C: 0.06-0.14%, Si: less than 0.50%, Mn: 1.6-2.5%, Nb: not more than 0.080% (including 0%), Ti: not more than 0.080% (including 0%), provided that Nb and Ti are contained in an amount of 0.020-0.080% in total, subjecting a cold rolled steel sheet continuous annealing including steps of soaking-annealing at a temperature of 840-940° C. for a holding time of 30-120 seconds, cooling from the soaking temperature to 600° C. at a rate of not less than 5° C./s, retaining in a temperature range of 600-500° C. for 30-300 seconds and then conducting a secondary cooling to apply such a steel structure that martensite is finely dispersed into ferrite base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Yuma Honda, Yoshihiko Ono
  • Patent number: 10494693
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having a high yield ratio and a reduced difference in strength between the center and edges of the steel sheet in the width direction. The high-strength steel sheet includes a composition containing, by mass, C: 0.02% or more and less than 0.10%, Si: less than 0.10%, Mn: less than 1.0%, P: 0.10% or less, S: 0.020% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 0.10% or less, N: 0.010% or less, Nb: 0.005% or more and less than 0.070%, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. Additionally, the steel sheet has a microstructure including, by area, ferrite: 90% or more, pearlite: 0% to 10%, and the total of martensite, retained austenite, and cementite: 0% to 3%. The average crystal grain diameter dC of the ferrite at the center of the steel sheet in the width direction is 15.0 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuma Honda, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Kozo Harada
  • Publication number: 20180291476
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having high yield ratio, excellent stretch flange formability, and resistance to secondary working embrittlement. The steel sheet has a composition containing C: 0.02% to less than 0.10%, Si: less than 0.3%, Mn: less than 1.0%, P: 0.10% or less, S: 0.020% or less, Al: 0.01% to 0.10%, N: 0.010% or less, and Nb: 0.003% to less than 0.070% on a mass basis, the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities. A steel microstructure of the steel sheet contains ferrite: 90% or more and a total of pearlite, martensite, retained austenite, and cementite: 0% to 10% on an area fraction basis, in which the average grain size of the ferrite is 15.0 ?m or less, and in which the average aspect ratio of the ferrite is 1.2 or more; and a tensile strength of 500 MPa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuma HONDA, Yoshimasa FUNAKAWA, Kozo HARADA
  • Publication number: 20180080099
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having a high yield ratio and excellent stretch flangeability, and a method for producing the high-strength steel sheet. The high-strength steel sheet has a composition containing, by mass: C: 0.02% or more and less than 0.10%, Si: less than 0.10%, Mn: less than 1.0%, P: 0.10% or less, S: 0.020% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 0.10% or less, N: 0.010% or less, Nb: 0.005% or more and less than 0.070%, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities; and a microstructure including, by area: ferrite: 85% or more, pearlite: 0% to 15%, and a total of martensite, retained austenite and cementite: 0% to 3%. The average crystal grain diameter of the ferrite is 15.0 ?m or less. The grain diameter of a Nb carbide is 5 to 50 nm. The amount of Nb carbide precipitate is 0.005% to 0.050% in terms of volume fraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuma HONDA, Yoshimasa FUNAKAWA, Kozo HARADA