Patents by Inventor Yuri Toda
Yuri Toda 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: 12180573Abstract: A hot-stamping formed body has a predetermined chemical composition, in which an average grain size of prior austenite grains in a microstructure is 5.0 ?m or less, and an average Mn concentration at grain boundaries of the prior austenite grains is 1.0 mass % or less. The hot-stamping formed body may be provided with a plating layer on the surface thereof, or may have a softened region in a portion thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo Fujinaka, Yuri Toda, Daisuke Maeda
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Patent number: 12157286Abstract: A steel sheet for hot stamping according to the present invention has a plating layer being attached in an amount of 10 g/m2 or more and 90 g/m2 or less and having a Ni content of 10 mass % or more and 25 mass % or less with a remainder including Zn and impurities on a surface of a base steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition, in a surface layer region, 15.0% or more of the crystal grains of one or two kinds of unauto-tempered martensite and lower bainite are included in terms of area percentage, and the average dislocation density is 4×1015 m/m3.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Sakiyama, Yuri Toda, Kazuo Hikida
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Patent number: 12157513Abstract: This frame member includes a corner section extending along the longitudinal direction; a first wall section extending from an end portion of the corner section in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction; and a second wall section extending from an opposite end portion of the corner section, wherein the corner section is formed with a deformation starting portion from which a deformation starts when a load is input to the frame member in the longitudinal direction, the deformation starting portion having a shape protruding to an inner bending side or an outer bending side of the corner section, and an average hardness value H(K1) at a first region is equal to or greater than 330 Hv in Vickers hardness, and a 3-sigma range of a standard deviation ? in a frequency distribution of the hardness at the first region is equal to or greater than 60, the first region being located at a portion outwardly apart from an end portion of the deformation starting portion in the longitudinal direction by 10 mm inType: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri Toda, Hiroaki Kubota
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Patent number: 12134810Abstract: These steel sheet for hot stamping and hot-stamping formed body have predetermined chemical composition and metallographic structures, and, in textures of a surface layer region and an inside region, ratios between a pole density of an orientation group consisting of {001}<1-10> to {001}<?1-10> and a pole density of an orientation group consisting of {111}<1-10> to {111}<?1-12> are controlled.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Maeda, Yuri Toda, Shingo Fujinaka
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Patent number: 12134808Abstract: A hot-stamping formed body includes: a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition; and a plating layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet, the plating layer having an adhesion amount of 10 g/m2 to 90 g/m2 and a Ni content of 10 mass % to 25 mass %, and containing a remainder consisting of Zn and impurities.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Maeda, Yuri Toda, Kazuo Hikida
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Patent number: 12129534Abstract: This hot-stamping formed body has a predetermined chemical composition and has a metallographic structure consisting of, by area ratio, a total of 10% to 30% of ferrite and granular bainite and a remainder in microstructure consisting of one or more of martensite, bainite, and tempered martensite, and, in textures of a surface layer region and an inside region, ratios between a pole density of an orientation group consisting of {001}<1-10> to {001}<?1-10> and a pole density of an orientation group consisting of {111}<1-10> to {111}<?1-12> are controlled.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri Toda, Daisuke Maeda, Shingo Fujinaka
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Patent number: 12116043Abstract: This vehicle body structure includes a frame member with a first top section, a corner section, a vertical wall section, and a second top section, and a first support section and a second support section provided at the second top section. L/h?6.7 is satisfied where the h represents a length between an outer surface of the first top section and an outer surface of the second top section, and the L represents a length between the first support section and the second support section.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiko Abe, Hiroaki Kubota, Daisuke Maeda, Yuri Toda
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Publication number: 20240270325Abstract: What is provided is an automobile body in which batteries, tires, and liquids containing water and oil are removed from a public road vehicle with superior collision safety, the public road vehicle comprising at least a steel material containing a steel sheet with a tensile strength of 1180 MPa or higher, a non-ferrous metal material, and a resin material, wherein the ratio of a mass mh (kg) of the steel sheet having a tensile strength of 1180 MPa or higher to a mass m (kg) of the automobile body is 9% or higher, and a mass m (kg) of the automobile body and a projected area s (m2) of the automobile body from an upper side satisfy a formula (1) and a formula (2) 6 < s < 11 ( 1 ) m < ( 2 ? 7 ? 2 . 3 ? 7 × s - 8 ? 3 ? 5 ) × 0 ? .98 .Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2022Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro KUBO, Shunji HIWATASHI, Yutaka MIKAZUKI, Koichi SATO, Takahiro AITOH, Kengo TAKEDA, Katsuya NAKANO, Yuri TODA, Shinichiro TABATA, Kodai MURASAWA, Daisuke MAEDA, Kazuo HIKIDA, Kazuhisa KUSUMI, Shingo FUJINAKA, Jun HAGA, Ryo TABATA, Ryoma KATO, Mitsuharu YAMAGATA, Toshiyuki NIWA, Hiromi ASAMA, Junichiro SUZUKI, Yasunori ITO
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Patent number: 12054800Abstract: A steel sheet for hot stamping includes: a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition; and a plating layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet, the plating layer having an adhesion amount of 10 g/m2 to 90 g/m2 and a Ni content of 10 mass % to 25 mass %, and containing a remainder consisting of Zn and impurities. The steel sheet for hot stamping includes, in a surface layer region of the steel sheet, 80% or more by area % of grains having an average crystal orientation difference of 0.4° to 3.0° inside grains surrounded by grain boundaries having an average crystal orientation difference of 5° or more.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Maeda, Yuri Toda, Kazuo Hikida
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Publication number: 20240208575Abstract: Provided is a frame member formed by hot-stamping a steel sheet. The frame member has a closed cross section portion in which a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction is a closed cross section, and the closed cross section portion has at least one flat part having a radius of curvature larger than a maximum external dimension of the cross section. A Vickers hardness of a thickness middle portion in a reference flat part is 300 Hv or greater, a width of the reference flat part is 2.0 times or less the effective width, and a standard deviation ratio obtained by dividing a standard deviation of hardness frequency distribution in a surface layer portion in the reference flat part by a standard deviation of hardness frequency distribution in the thickness middle portion in the reference flat part is less than 1.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro AITOH, Yuri TODA
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Publication number: 20240183017Abstract: This hot-stamping formed body has a predetermined chemical composition and has a microstructure in which an average grain size of prior austenite grains is 5 to 25 ?m, and a standard deviation of grain sizes of the prior austenite grains is 0.1 to 2.0 ?m. In addition, this steel sheet for hot stamping has a predetermined chemical composition and has a microstructure in which an average value of the pole densities of ferrite in the orientation group consisting of {100}<011> to {223}<110> is 10.0 or less, in entire ferrite, a number proportion of ferrite containing a carbide having an equivalent circle diameter of 0.2 ?m or more in grains is 20% or more, and the steel sheet for hot stamping has a microstructure in which an area ratio of pearlite is 10% to 90% and an ratio of ferrite is 10% to 90%.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri TODA, Daisuke MAEDA, Tamaki SUZUKI, Ko SATAKE, Yuma ASADA
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Publication number: 20240183015Abstract: This steel sheet for hot stamping has a predetermined chemical composition and has a microstructure in which S?+SGB, which is a total of an area ratio S? of ferrite and an area ratio SGB of a granular bainite, is 10% or more and less than 50% and SGB/S?, which is a ratio between the area ratio SGB of the granular bainite and the area ratio S? of the ferrite, is 0.30 to 0.70. In addition, a hot-stamping formed body manufactured using this steel sheet for hot stamping has a predetermined chemical composition and a microstructure in which an average grain size of prior austenite grains is 5 to 25 ?m, and a standard deviation of grain sizes of the prior austenite grains is 0.1 to 2.0 ?m, and a tensile strength of the hot-stamping formed body is 2,200 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri TODA, Daisuke MAEDA, Tamaki SUZUKI, Yuma ASADA, Takuya TAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20240158011Abstract: Provided is a frame member formed by cold-pressing a steel sheet. The frame member has a closed cross section portion in which a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction is a closed cross section, and the closed cross section portion has at least one flat part having a radius of curvature larger than a maximum external dimension of the cross section. A Vickers hardness of a thickness middle portion in a reference flat part is 300 Hv or greater, a width of the reference flat part is 2.0 times or less the effective width, and a standard deviation ratio obtained by dividing a standard deviation of hardness frequency distribution in a surface layer portion in the reference flat part by a standard deviation of hardness frequency distribution in the thickness middle portion in the reference flat part is greater than 1.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro AITOH, Kengo TAKEDA, Katsuya NAKANO, Yuri TODA
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Publication number: 20240117477Abstract: This hot-stamping formed body includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %: C: 0.15% or more and 0.50% or less; Si: 0.10% or more and 3.00% or less; Mn: 0.10% or more and 3.00% or less; P: less than 0.10%; S: less than 0.10%; N: less than 0.10%; Ti: 0.020% or more and 0.150% or less; B: 0.002% or more and 0.010% or less; optionally Al, Cr, Mo, Co, Ni, Cu, V, W, Ca, Mg, and REM; and a remainder including Fe and impurities, in which a microstructure of the hot-stamping formed body includes, by volume fraction, 85% or more of martensite and less than 15% of retained austenite, and in the microstructure, a standard deviation of a frequency distribution of nanohardnesses is 0.70 GPa or less, and an average grain size is 4.0 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kodai MURASAWA, Shingo FUJINAKA, Yuri TODA
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Publication number: 20240058887Abstract: Provided is a frame member obtained by joining a first steel sheet member and a second steel sheet member at a spot-welding portion by spot welding. A cross-sectional region in which a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the frame member is a closed cross section is formed, the first steel sheet member has a tensile strength of 1,900 MPa or more, and the spot-welding portion has a molten metal portion formed by the spot welding and a heat-affected portion adjacent to an outside of the molten metal portion. Average Vickers hardness HvAve at a measurement position corresponding to the first region on the virtual straight line and minimum Vickers hardness HvMin at a measurement position corresponding to the third region on the virtual straight line satisfy HvAve?HvMin?100.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2022Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoma KATO, Takahiro AITOH, Shingo FUJINAKA, Yuri TODA
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Patent number: 11904573Abstract: A hot-stamped article according to the present invention has a plating layer being attached to a single surface in an amount of 10 g/m2 or more and 90 g/m2 or less and having a Ni content of 10 mass % or more and 25 mass % or less with a remainder including Zn and impurities on a surface of a base steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition, in a surface layer region, a metallographic structure includes 80.0% or more of martensite and 8.0% or more of residual austenite in terms of area percentage, and the concentration of Ni in the surface layer region is 8 mass % or more.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Sakiyama, Yuri Toda, Kazuo Hikida
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Patent number: 11905581Abstract: A hot-stamped article according to the present invention has a plating layer being attached in an amount of 10 g/m2 or more and 90 g/m2 or less and having a Ni content of 10 mass % or more and 25 mass % or less with a remainder including Zn and an impurity on a surface of a base steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition, a surface layer region includes 90.0% or more of martensite in terms of area percentage, and a concentration of Ni in a prior austenite grain boundary in the surface layer region is 5.5 mass % or more.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Sakiyama, Yuri Toda, Tomohito Tanaka, Kazuo Hikida
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Patent number: 11884989Abstract: A hot-stamping formed body includes: a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition; and a plating layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet, the plating layer having an adhesion amount of 10 g/m2 to 90 g/m2 and a Ni content of 10 mass % to 25 mass %, and containing a remainder consisting of Zn and impurities. The hot-stamping formed body includes, in a surface layer region of the steel sheet, an average grain size of prior austenite grains to 10.0 ?m or less, a Ni concentration per unit area at grain boundaries having an average crystal orientation difference of 15° or more is 1.5 mass %/?m2 or more.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Maeda, Yuri Toda, Tomohito Tanaka, Kazuo Hikida
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Publication number: 20240011113Abstract: A steel sheet for hot stamping includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %: C: 0.060% to 0.120%; Si: 0% to 0.70%; Mn: 1.60% to 3.00%; P: 0.100% or less; S: 0.0100% or less; N: 0.0100% or less; Al: 0.001% to 0.100%; Ti: 0.005% to 0.050%; and B: 0.0005% to 0.0100%. If necessary, the chemical composition contains one or two or more selected from the group consisting of Nb, V, W, Ni, Cu, Mo, Sn, Ca, Mg, and REM and a remainder of Fe and impurities, A microstructure includes 70% or more of upper bainite by area ratio, and a number density of iron carbides having a major axis of 0.01 ?m or more included in the upper bainite is equal to or greater than 4/?m2.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi AZUMA, Yuri TODA, Kenichiro OTSUKA
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Patent number: 11801897Abstract: In a frame member, the hardness of a sheet-thickness-direction central section in a portion where a softening layer is provided is greater than or equal to 400 Hv, the softening layer has hardness smaller by at least 10 Hv than the hardness of the sheet-thickness-direction central section in the portion where the softening layer is provided, the thickness of the softening layer is greater than or equal to 2% of the sheet thickness but smaller than 20% of the sheet thickness, the hardness of the softening layer at the surface is greater than or equal to 0.5 times the hardness of the sheet-thickness-direction central section but smaller than 0.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri Toda, Hiroaki Kubota, Hiroyuki Kawata, Daisuke Maeda