Patents by Inventor Yutaka MIKAZUKI
Yutaka MIKAZUKI 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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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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Publication number: 20240250336Abstract: A cooling structure according to an aspect of the present invention includes a press forming member including a groove part and a bank part provided around the groove part, a flow path upper lid positioned on a position covering the groove part of the press forming member, and a joint portion which joins opposing surfaces of the flow path upper lid and the bank part to form a flow path through which a cooling liquid is capable of flowing, in which the press forming member and the flow path upper lid are plated steel sheets having a base steel sheet and having an Al-based plating having a film thickness of 10.0 ?m or more or a Zn-based plating having a film thickness of 5.0 ?m or more, in which a sheet thickness of the plated steel sheets 0.3 mm to 1.2 mm, the joint portion is formed of a joining metal brazing the base steel sheets of the press forming member and the flow path upper lid, and a partial flow path interval is 20 mm or less and a joining width is 3 mm or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2022Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji KODAMA, Sho MATSUI, Kyohei MIYAKE, Yutaka MIKAZUKI, Takashi OKE, Katsunari NORITA
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Publication number: 20240243386Abstract: A cooling structure according to an aspect of the present invention includes a press forming member including a groove part and a bank part provided around the groove part, a flow path upper lid which is a flat sheet overlapped at a position covering the groove part of the press forming member and forms a flat cooling surface, and a laser weld which joins opposing surfaces of the flow path upper lid and the bank part to form a flow path through which a cooling liquid is capable of flowing, in which the press forming member and the flow path upper lid are plated steel sheets including a base steel sheet and an Al-based plating, the flow path has a parallel flow path portion in which a plurality of partial flow paths extending along a first direction are arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and in the parallel flow path portion, an interval between adjacent partial flow paths is 20 mm or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2022Publication date: July 18, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Sho MATSUI, Shinji KODAMA, Kyohei MIYAKE, Yutaka MIKAZUKI, Takashi OKE, Katsunari NORITA
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Patent number: 12024229Abstract: A lateral surface member structure (100) of a vehicle body (1) includes a tubular body (110) extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body (1) and an impact absorbing member (120) disposed inside the tubular body (110). The impact absorbing member (120) includes a web (121) extending along the front-rear direction and flat in a vehicle width direction, a vehicle outer flange (122) joined to a vehicle outer end portion of the web (121) and extending along the front-rear direction, and a vehicle inner flange (123) joined to a vehicle inner end portion of the web (121) and extending along the front-rear direction. The vehicle outer flange (122) and the vehicle inner flange (123) each include a rib (122R, 123R) disposed so as to sandwich the web (121) from above and below and extending along the front-rear direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori Ito, Yutaka Mikazuki, Mitsuharu Yamagata, Toshiyuki Niwa
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Publication number: 20240154208Abstract: This battery unit is a battery unit including a battery pack that houses a battery cell, and a water-cooling medium flow path formed outside a bottom surface of the battery pack, in which the water-cooling medium flow path of the battery pack is made of an Al-based plated steel sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei MIYAKE, Atsuo KOGA, Kohei UEDA, Yutaka MIKAZUKI, Katsunari NORITA, Sho MATSUI, Takashi OKE
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Publication number: 20240120595Abstract: This battery unit is a battery unit including a battery pack that houses a battery cell, and a water-cooling medium flow path formed outside a bottom surface of the battery pack, in which the water-cooling medium flow path is made of a Zn-based plated steel sheet, an inorganic film or a resin film is formed as a chemical conversion coating film on a surface of the Zn-based plated steel sheet, and the inorganic film contains a Si-based component or a Zr-based component as a main component.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei MIYAKE, Atsuo KOGA, Kohei UEDA, Yutaka MIKAZUKI, Katsunari NORITA, Sho MATSUI, Takashi OKE
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Publication number: 20240025480Abstract: An automobile underbody structure includes: a plurality of first frame parts; a second frame part; and an impact absorbing member, wherein: the second frame part has a first wall portion and a second wall; the impact absorbing member includes a first beam portion, a second beam portion, and a corrugated plate portion; the corrugated plate portion includes a first diagonal portion, a second diagonal portion, a first top portion, and a second top portion; and the corrugated plate portion is provided in at least respective regions, in the second frame part, to which the two adjacent first frame parts are connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2021Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka MIKAZUKI, Yoshimitsu YAMAZAKI, Yasunori ITO, Atsushi YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20230356680Abstract: There is provided an impact absorbing member that absorbs an impact by being crushed in an axial direction, the impact absorbing member having a cylindrical shape extending along the axial direction, in which when a cross section perpendicular to the axial direction of the impact absorbing member is set to a first cross section, and a cross section defined by extension lines of a plurality of sides in the first cross section is set to a second cross section, the second cross section is a polygon, the first cross section includes a shared vertex that is shared by the second cross section, and a recessed groove that is positioned to correspond to a vertex of the second cross section, and an interior angle of at least one vertex of the first cross section is 100° or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventor: Yutaka MIKAZUKI
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Publication number: 20230023627Abstract: A lateral surface member structure (100) of a vehicle body (1) includes a tubular body (110) extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body (1) and an impact absorbing member (120) disposed inside the tubular body (110). The impact absorbing member (120) includes a web (121) extending along the front-rear direction and flat in a vehicle width direction, a vehicle outer flange (122) joined to a vehicle outer end portion of the web (121) and extending along the front-rear direction, and a vehicle inner flange (123) joined to a vehicle inner end portion of the web (121) and extending along the front-rear direction. The vehicle outer flange (122) and the vehicle inner flange (123) each include a rib (122R, 123R) disposed so as to sandwich the web (121) from above and below and extending along the front-rear direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2021Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori ITO, Yutaka MIKAZUKI, Mitsuharu YAMAGATA, Toshiyuki NIWA
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Publication number: 20220363122Abstract: An under body structure of an automobile enabling batteries to be mounted on an automobile by a simple configuration and efficiently transferring load at the time of a collision, that is, an under body structure 100 of an automobile provided with a body floor 110 forming a floor part of the automobile and batteries 50 (battery cells or battery modules) directly suspended from and fastened to a bottom side of the body floor 110.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2020Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka MIKAZUKI, Yasunori ITO
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Patent number: 11414032Abstract: A closed cross-sectional structure member includes a hollow member, the hollow member having a collision side wall part located on a collision side, an opposed collision side wall part opposing the collision side wall part, a pair of first side wall part and second side wall part connecting with end portions of the collision side wall part and end portions of the opposed collision side wall part, a first inner wall part extending from the first side wall part to an inside of the hollow member, a second inner wall part extending from the second side wall part to the inside of the hollow member, a third inner wall part connecting with the first inner wall part and the collision side wall part, and a fourth inner wall part connecting with the second inner wall part and the collision side wall part.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Soma Sonobe, Atsushi Ono, Yutaka Mikazuki
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Publication number: 20210162940Abstract: A closed cross-sectional structure member includes a hollow member, the hollow member having a collision side wall part located on a collision side, an opposed collision side wall part opposing the collision side wall part, a pair of first side wall part and second side wall part connecting with end portions of the collision side wall part and end portions of the opposed collision side wall part, a first inner wall part extending from the first side wall part to an inside of the hollow member, a second inner wall part extending from the second side wall part to the inside of the hollow member, a third inner wall part connecting with the first inner wall part and the collision side wall part, and a fourth inner wall part connecting with the second inner wall part and the collision side wall part.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2019Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Soma SONOBE, Atsushi ONO, Yutaka MIKAZUKI
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Patent number: 10981601Abstract: In an impact-absorbing member which extends in a vehicle length direction of an automobile and whose both end portions in the vehicle length direction have a collision-side end portion and a non-collision-side end portion whose positions become mutually different when seen from the vehicle length direction, an outer member and an inner member of the impact-absorbing member are formed so that a position of a gravity center at the collision-side end portion and a position of a gravity center at the non-collision-side end portion become mutually different according to a positional relationship between the collision-side end portion and the non-collision-side end portion in order to suppress a tensile stress generated at the collision-side end portion and suppress a compressive stress generated at the non-collision-side end portion in a collision.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka Mikazuki, Eiji Isogai, Seiya Ishii
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Patent number: 10787142Abstract: This supporting structure for an underrun protector includes a stay body that connects a beam and a frame to each other; a stay reinforcing body that reinforces the stay body from an outside in a vehicle width direction; and a gusset provided between the stay reinforcing body and the beam. A stay body web face of the stay body is provided with an opening part. A pair of wall face parts provided to extend outward in the vehicle width direction from both ends of the opening part in a vehicle forward-rearward direction is provided so as to face each other. Each of the wall face parts is provided at a height corresponding to an installation position of the gusset and abuts against an inner surface of the stay reinforcing body in the vehicle width direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka Mikazuki, Eiji Isogai, Masahiro Nakata, Kenji Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10661328Abstract: A production method of a wheel rim includes: a step of forming a cylindrical rim material into a rim shape; and a step of increasing a sheet thickness of at least one opening end edge of the rim material at least one of before and after the step of forming of the cylindrical rim material. In addition, in the step of increasing of the sheet thickness, in a state in which the opening end edge is inserted into an annular groove of a die provided with the annular groove which is wider than the sheet thickness of the opening end edge, a thickened portion is formed by exerting a compressive load in an axial direction of the rim material on the opening end edge.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Kaseda, Yutaka Mikazuki
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Patent number: 10603703Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a press-formed product. The method includes: a first process of preparing a material that is long in a first direction, and when viewed in a cross-section perpendicular to the first direction, the cross-section is a hollow cross-section that is long in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and a second process of bending the material in a direction intersecting the second direction when viewed from the first direction, by pressing the material along the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Eiji Isogai, Nobusato Kojima, Riki Okamoto, Yutaka Mikazuki
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Publication number: 20200039585Abstract: In an impact-absorbing member which extends in a vehicle length direction of an automobile and whose both end portions in the vehicle length direction have a collision-side end portion and a non-collision-side end portion whose positions become mutually different when seen from the vehicle length direction, an outer member and an inner member of the impact-absorbing member are formed so that a position of a gravity center at the collision-side end portion and a position of a gravity center at the non-collision-side end portion become mutually different according to a positional relationship between the collision-side end portion and the non-collision-side end portion in order to suppress a tensile stress generated at the collision-side end portion and suppress a compressive stress generated at the non-collision-side end portion in a collision.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2017Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka MIKAZUKI, Eiji ISOGAI, Seiya ISHII
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Patent number: 10427633Abstract: [Object] To improve load resistance performance in response to collision. [Solution] An end structure of a vehicle according to the present invention includes: a beam 2 that extends in a vehicle width direction; and a connecting structure 3 that connects the beam 2 to a vehicle body frame. In a cross-sectional view perpendicular to the vehicle width direction, the beam 2 includes a first top surface part 2a and a first bottom surface part 2b which face each other, a first side surface part 2c that connects one ends of the first top surface part 2a and the first bottom surface part 2b, and first flange parts 2d that are formed to protrude vertically outwardly at the other ends of the first top surface part 2a and the first bottom surface part 2b.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka Mikazuki, Eiji Isogai, Kenji Yamamoto, Takashi Ariga, Seiya Ishii
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Patent number: 10384251Abstract: In performing burring processing on a sheet-like member, the following processes are performed: a punching process of performing punching processing of the sheet-like member; a hole expansion process of performing hole expansion processing of a punched hole formed by the punching process; a re-punching process of performing punching processing again on a portion surrounding the punched hole expanded by force in the hole expansion process; and a burring process of pushing a portion surrounding a re-punched hole that is a punched hole formed by the re-punching process and forming a vertical wall.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Eiji Isogai, Yutaka Mikazuki, Riki Okamoto
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Publication number: 20190184924Abstract: This supporting structure for an underrun protector includes a stay body that connects a beam and a frame to each other; a stay reinforcing body that reinforces the stay body from an outside in a vehicle width direction; and a gusset provided between the stay reinforcing body and the beam. A stay body web face of the stay body is provided with an opening part. A pair of wall face parts provided to extend outward in the vehicle width direction from both ends of the opening part in a vehicle forward-rearward direction is provided so as to face each other. Each of the wall face parts is provided at a height corresponding to an installation position of the gusset and abuts against an inner surface of the stay reinforcing body in the vehicle width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka MIKAZUKI, Eiji ISOGAI, Masahiro NAKATA, Kenji YAMAMOTO