Brazed, Soldered Or Welded Patents (Class 138/171)
  • Patent number: 11505841
    Abstract: A high-strength steel product is described that includes a composition consisting of, in terms of weight percentages, 0.02% to 0.05% C, 0.1% to 0.6% Si, 1.1% to 2.0% Mn, 0.01% to 0.15% Al, 0.01% to 0.08% Nb, 0.5% or less Cu, 0.5% or less Cr, 0.7% or less Ni, 0.03% or less Ti, 0.1% or less Mo, 0.1% or less V, 0.0005% or less B, 0.015% or less P, 0.005% or less S, and the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein the steel product has a microstructure comprising a matrix consisting of, in terms of volume percentages, 40% to 80% quasi-polygonal ferrite, 20% to 40% polygonal ferrite, 20% or less bainite, and the remainder being pearlite and martensite of 20% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SSAB TECHNOLOGY AB
    Inventors: Jouni Tast, Teppo Pikkarainen, Tommi Liimatainen, Kati Rytinki
  • Patent number: 11478970
    Abstract: A housing component, for the production of a housing of a multi-shaft screw machine, includes a base body, in which at least two bores interpenetrating each other are configured. The bores extend in a conveying direction through the base body and are limited transversely to the conveying direction by an inner wall. The inner wall configures at least one first wall section and at least one second wall section such that the at least one first wall section is harder than the at least one second wall section. The wall sections, for example, are generated by material application. The housing component allows for a reliable wear protection and a positive influence on the material processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Coperion GmbH
    Inventor: Karl-Conrad Polzer
  • Patent number: 10625559
    Abstract: A tubular type torsion beam is manufactured by bending and welding and coupling a plate material. The plate material has a plurality of protrusions disposed on a plurality of side surfaces in a width direction of the vehicle. The torsion beam is manufactured by molding the plate material in a pipe shape by bending the plate material in the width direction and molding the plate material to dispose the plurality of protrusions to contact each other to form a gap between the plurality of side surfaces of the plate material and then welding and coupling the plurality of side surfaces of the plate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, HWASHIN CO., LTD
    Inventors: Nam Ho Kim, Byong Cheol Kim, Jong Kyu Park
  • Patent number: 10584405
    Abstract: A resistance welded steel pipe is provided. A hot-rolled steel sheet having a composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.025 to 0.168%, Si: 0.10 to 0.30%, Mn: 0.60 to 1.90%, and one or at least two selected from Ca, Nb, V, and Ti such that Pcm is 0.20 or less is subjected to continuous cold roll forming to obtain a pipe-shaped body. Tapered grooves are formed in the steel sheet such that the ratio of the tapered portions to the wall thickness of the steel sheet is 10 to 80%. Then end surfaces of the pipe-shaped body are butted against each other and subjected to electric resistance welding. Ultrasonic waves are transmitted toward the electric resistance weld surface such that a beam width is within the range of 0.1 to 4.0 mm, and the reflected waves are used for ultrasonic flaw detection using an ultrasonic flaw detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Toyoda, Takatoshi Okabe, Sota Goto, Yutaka Matsui, Satoru Yabumoto
  • Patent number: 10184160
    Abstract: A dual phase stainless steel pipe includes tensile yield strength YSLT of 689.1 MPa to 1000.5 MPa in a pipe axis direction of the dual phase stainless steel pipe, in which the tensile yield strength YSLT, a compressive yield strength YSLC in the pipe axis direction, a tensile yield strength YSCT in a pipe circumferential direction of the dual phase stainless steel pipe, and a compressive yield strength YSCC in the pipe circumferential direction satisfy all Expressions (1) to (4), 0.90?YSLC/YSLT?1.11??(1) 0.90?YSCC/YSCT?1.11??(2) 0.90?YSCC/YSLT?1.11??(3) 0.90?YSCT/YSLT?1.11??(4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Sawawatari, Koichi Kuroda, Masaki Ueyama, Yusuke Ugawa
  • Patent number: 10065271
    Abstract: A method for producing a roll-clad aluminum workpiece and an associated roll-clad aluminum workpiece are provided, wherein a core ingot is produced from an aluminum alloy and at least one cladding piece is produced from a cladding material, wherein at least one groove is introduced into the core ingot and/or into a layer applied to the core ingot, wherein the cladding piece is inserted into the groove, and wherein the core ingot is hot-rolled after the cladding piece has been inserted, the width of the groove being equal to or less than the core ingot width. A use of such a roll-clad aluminum workpiece is also provided for producing a soldered workpiece, in particular a folding tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Hydro Aluminium Rolled Products GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Mrotzek, Marcel Lansing
  • Patent number: 10002698
    Abstract: A magnetic actuator, which is used particularly for devices of internal combustion engines, includes a magnetic coil and at least one ferromagnetic component. In this instance, a magnetic flux caused by the magnetic coil is able to be guided via the component. On ferromagnetic component, a magnetic choke point is provided, which is used to adjust the magnetic flux. The magnetic choke point may be formed by a local microstructural modification of a ferromagnetic material of the ferromagnetic component. Furthermore, a valve having such a magnetic actuator and a method for producing such a magnetic actuator are indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Axel Bormann, Thorsten Bauer, Juergen Graner
  • Patent number: 9937837
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat frame. The seat frame has a hollow deformable portion that is bent, and linear recessed portions formed by partially recessing an inner side of the deformable portion. The deformable portion has a linear separation portion formed in a projecting manner relative to the recessed portions and extending on the inner side of the deformable portion. A plurality of recessed portions is formed on each of one side and the other side of the separation portion so as to sandwich the separation portion, and placed independently from each other such that adjacent recessed portions are not connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tsuji, Fumitoshi Akaike
  • Patent number: 9862014
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electric resistance welded steel tube including: forming a steel tube material into an almost cylindrical open pipe, the steel tube material being a steel sheet wherein Ti and N satisfy (N/14)<(Ti/47.9); forming an electric resistance welded steel tube by bonding ends of the open pipe to each other by induction resistance welding with heat input controlled so that the bond width is 30 to 65 ?m; heating the electric resistance welded steel tube to a temperature equal to or higher than the Ac3 transformation temperature; and diameter-reducing rolling the heated electric resistance welded steel tube with rolling reduction expressed by an outer diameter ratio greater than (1?25/the bond width before diameter-reducing rolling (?m))×100% such that the bond width is 25 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Kawabata, Masayuki Sakaguchi, Kei Sakata
  • Patent number: 9718111
    Abstract: A fintube includes a body having a first fin, a second fin and a tube section. A first overlap fold is provided between the first fin and the tube section. The first overlap fold includes an open groove. A second overlap fold is provided between the second fin and the tube section. A seam includes a second overlap fold received and held in the groove of the first overlap fold. Methods for making a fintube are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Inventor: Douglas W. Eaton
  • Patent number: 9599951
    Abstract: A roller is provided includes a cylindrical shaft supported by a main assembly of an image forming apparatus or a detachable cartridge. The cylindrical shaft includes a separation region on a circumference of the cylindrical shaft, where a pair of end portions of the cylindrical shaft oppose each other or are in contact with each other with respect to a circumferential direction relative to the circumference of the cylindrical shaft, and wherein the separation region extends in an axial direction of the cylindrical shaft. In addition, a rotatable cylindrical member is mounted around an outer circumference of the cylindrical shaft and is rotatable about the cylindrical shaft while an inner peripheral surface of the rotatable cylindrical member is in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical shaft in a region of the cylindrical shaft other than the separation region with respect to the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noritomo Yamaguchi, Yoichiro Iizuka
  • Patent number: 9533343
    Abstract: An extruded aluminum alloy tube for hydroforming into an automotive body component includes a wall defining a closed perimeter. The wall includes weld seams disposed in the wall and running longitudinally along the tube. An extruded pip is disposed on the wall and runs longitudinally along the tube. The pip is parallel to the seams and is configured to identify a location of the seams for alignment of the tube during manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher John May, S. George Luckey, Jr., Andrey M. Ilinich, Stephen Kernosky, Kiran Kumar Mallela, Brett D. Irick
  • Patent number: 9500977
    Abstract: A roller member used in an image forming apparatus including: a metallic shaft; and a covering layer, wherein the metallic shaft has a cylindrical shape formed so that one end portion and the other end portion of the metallic plate oppose each other, the one end portion and the other end portion each include a straight portion, a projection, and a depression, the projections on the one end portion engage the depressions on the other end portion, a straight area is located outside a projection and depression area in which the projection on the one end portion and the projection on the other end portion are aligned in an axial direction of the metallic shaft, and the projection and depression area is entirely covered with the covering layer and at least part of the straight area is exposed from the covering layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroomi Matsuzaki, Koji Yamaguchi, Kohki Kamata, Motomi Suzuki, Yoshiyuki Beniya, Yukinori Nagata, Satoru Yamada
  • Patent number: 9429254
    Abstract: There is provided an austenitic alloy pipe that is durable even if a stress distribution different according to usage environment is applied. The austenitic alloy pipe in accordance with the present invention has a tensile yield strength YSLT of at least 689.1 MPa. The tensile yield strength YSLT, a compressive yield strength YSLC in a pipe axial direction, a tensile yield strength YSCT in a pipe circumferential direction of the alloy pipe, and a compressive yield strength YSCC in the pipe circumferential direction satisfy Formulas (1) to (4). 0.90?YSLC/YSLT?1.11??(1) 0.90?YSCC/YSCT?1.11??(2) 0.90?YSCC/YSLT?1.11??(3) 0.90?YSCT/YSLT?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Sawawatari, Kouichi Kuroda, Hitoshi Suwabe, Masaki Ueyama
  • Patent number: 9278811
    Abstract: A transport apparatus with an endless belt-like transport member, which is guided circulating in a conveying direction via a plurality of rotating return rollers, there being formed between a first return roller and a second return roller a transport section in which articles to be conveyed can be picked up and transported by the transport member, and wherein the first return roller has a convex outer lateral surface with a diameter that reduces outwards from a central plane arranged perpendicularly to an axis of rotation of the first return roller, and the second return roller has a concave outer lateral surface with a diameter that increases outwards from a central plane arranged perpendicularly to an axis of rotation of the second return roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: BEUMER GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heino Heitplatz, Philipp Schäfer
  • Patent number: 9132579
    Abstract: A feed throat for an extruder device includes a body having an inlet defined by a longitudinal opening along a side of the body and an outlet positioned at an end of the body. The body has a substantially cylindrical interior surface which has a plurality of raised surfaces which extend radially inward from and longitudinally along the interior surface. One or more hardened tiles are secured to one or more of the raised surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Davis-Standard, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas J. Oravits
  • Publication number: 20150083266
    Abstract: A high-strength thick-walled electric resistance welded steel pipe has excellent low-temperature toughness and excellent HIC resistance and a yield strength of 400 MPa or more. The steel has a chemical composition consisting of C: 0.025% to 0.084%, Si: 0.10% to 0.30%, Mn: 0.70% to 1.80%, controlled amounts of P, S, Al, N, and O, Nb: 0.001% to 0.065%, V: 0.001% to 0.065%, Ti: 0.001% to 0.033%, and Ca: 0.0001% to 0.0035% on a mass percent basis and the remainder being Fe and incidental impurities, and satisfies Pcm of 0.20 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Toyoda, Sota Goto, Takatoshi Okabe, Tomohiro Inoue, Motoharu Egi, Atsushi Yonemoto
  • Publication number: 20150068638
    Abstract: A low-yield ratio high-strength electric resistance welded steel pipe has a yield ratio of 80% or less and a TS of 655 MPa or more. A steel material has a composition containing 0.38% to 0.45% C, 0.1% to 0.3% Si, 1.0% to 1.8% Mn, 0.03% or less P, 0.03% or less S, 0.01% to 0.07% sol. Al, and 0.01% or less N on a mass basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Matsuki, Tomohiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 8974610
    Abstract: A high-strength welded steel pipe is obtained by welding a seam weld portion of a steel plate that are formed in a pipe shape. In the high-strength welded steel pipe, a base metal of the steel plate includes, by mass %, C: 0.010% to 0.080%, Si: 0.01% to 0.50%, Mn: 0.50% to 2.00%, S: 0.0001% to 0.0050%, Ti: 0.003% to 0.030%, Mo: 0.05% to 1.00%, B: 0.0003% to 0.0100%, O: 0.0001% to 0.0080%, N: 0.006% to 0.0118%, P: limited to 0.050% or less, Al: limited to 0.008% or less, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, Ceq is 0.30 to 0.53, Pcm is 0.10 to 0.20, [N]?[Ti]/3.4 is less than 0.003, the average grain size of the prior ? grains in heat affected zones in the steel plate is 250 ?m or less, and the prior ? grains include bainite and intragranular bainite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Taishi Fujishiro, Takuya Hara, Yoshio Terada, Shinya Sakamoto, Hitoshi Asahi
  • Patent number: 8955554
    Abstract: Provided is a submerged arc welding method for a steel plate. In welding the steel plate from an internal surface or an external surface by a submerged arc welding, welding condition is set such that, a cross-sectional area of internal weld metal S1 and a cross-sectional area of external weld metal S2 satisfy the formula (1), the formula (2), and the formula (3), that is, 0.40?(S1+S2)/t2?0.80 . . . (1), S1/t2?0.35 . . . (2), and S2/t2?0.45 . . . (3), wherein t is a plate thickness of the steel plate (mm), S1 is a cross-sectional area of the internal weld metal (mm2) excluding the cross-sectional area of a portion of the internal weld metal overlapping with the external weld metal after external welding, and S2 is a cross-sectional area of the external weld metal (mm2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishigami, Kenji Oi, Naoya Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20150013344
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to the field of tubes for carrying fluids. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a tube having an oval shaped cross-section. In some embodiments, the tube with oval cross-section comprises a tube within a cavity in a gas turbine engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Pawel Socha, Venu Ponnala, Usman Khan, Ryan Snyder
  • Publication number: 20150007904
    Abstract: In an abrasion resistant welded steel pipe, each of a base material and a weld metal contains specific amounts of chemical composition. The base material of the abrasion resistant welded steel pipe has a Vickers hardness within the range of 150 to 250, and the weld metal has a Vickers hardness within the range of 230 to 350. A weld heat affected zone in the abrasion resistant welded steel pipe has a Vickers hardness within the range of 150 to 350. In the weld metal, the dispersion density of a sulfide having an aspect ratio of 5 or more and containing at least one selected from Fe, Mn, and Ti is 10 grains/mm2 or less. The abrasion resistant welded steel pipe that can be produced at high productivity and low cost with no reduction in weld crack resistance can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Tanizawa, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Keiji Ueda, Kimihiro Nishimura, Shinji Mitao
  • Patent number: 8905084
    Abstract: A tube of a radiator includes a tube body, and a reinforcement strip. The tube body has a first curved face and a second curved face. The tube body is formed by a sheet plate which has two opposite ends connected to form a connecting portion which is located at the first curved face of the tube body. The reinforcement strip is mounted in the sheet plate and is located at the second curved face of the tube body. Thus, the first curved face of the tube body is formed with the connecting portion, and the second curved face of the tube body is combined with the reinforcement strip so that both of the first curved face and the second curved face of the tube body have a larger thickness to enhance the stiffness and strength of the tube body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Cryomax Cooling System Corp.
    Inventor: Po-Wen Shih
  • Patent number: 8871039
    Abstract: The present invention provides a thick welded steel pipe excellent in low temperature toughness in which contents of Mn and Mo satisfy (Expression 1) below, Pcm obtained by (Expression 2) below is 0.16 to 0.19, and a metal structure of a base material steel plate consists of ferrite being 30 to 95% in an area ratio and a low temperature transformation structure, and in a metal structure of a coarse-grained HAZ, an area ratio of grain boundary ferrite is 1.5% or more, the total area ratio of the grain boundary ferrite and intragranular ferrite is not less than 11% nor more than 90%, an area ratio of MA is 10% or less, and its balance is composed of bainite. 1.2325?(0.85×[Mn]?[Mo])?1.5215??(Expression 1) and Pcm=[C]+[Si]/30+([Mn]+[Cu]+[Cr])/20+[Ni]/60+[Mo]/15+[V]/10??(Expression 2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shinohara, Takuya Hara, Naoki Doi, Eiichi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 8844581
    Abstract: The number of sub-parts of a closed structure part and the number of steps for manufacturing the closed structure part can be reduced and, therefore, the closed structure part can be efficiently manufactured. In a hemming press step, a punch is further lowered, and a pair of flange portions is inserted into a slit clearance. Hemming prongs are bent and each of the hemming prongs sandwiches the flange portion. The flange portion, which is one of the two flange portions, is joined to the other flange portion. At the same time, a pair of press forming surfaces of the punch presses a metal plate and performs press-forming on a pair of shoulder portions of a blank into a predetermined shape. The flange portion can be fixed to the other flange portion using the hemming prongs. The pair of shoulder portions of the blank can be press-formed into the predetermined shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Higai, Yuji Yamasaki, Takaaki Hira, Katsuhiro Ochi
  • Patent number: 8801874
    Abstract: A steel plate for line pipes containing, in terms of % by weight, C: 0.02 to 0.06%, Si: 0.5% or less, Mn: 0.8 to 1.6%, P: 0.008% or less, S: 0.0008% or less, Al: 0.08% or less, Nb: 0.005 to 0.035%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.025%, and Ca: 0.0005 to 0.0035%, and optionally contains one or more of Cu: 0.5% or less, Ni: 1% or less, Cr: 0.5% or less, Mo: 0.5% or less and V: 0.1% or less, and has a CP value of 0.95 or less represented by CP=4.46C(%)+2.37Mn(%)/6+{1.18Cr(%)+1.95Mo(%)+1.74V(%)}/5+{1.74Cu(%)+1.7Ni(%)}/15+22.36P(%), and a Ceq value of 0.30 or more represented by Ceq=C(%)+Mn(%)/6+{Cr(%)+Mo(%)+V(%)}/5 +{Cu(%)+Ni(%)}/15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Ishikawa, Makoto Suzuki, Tomohiro Matsushima, Akiyoshi Tsuji, Shinichi Kakihara, Nobuo Shikanai, Yutaka Awajiya
  • Publication number: 20140202576
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a welded steel pipe having excellent buckling resistance. The method for producing a welded steel pipe according to the present embodiment includes steps of: preparing a welded pipe, and expanding the welded pipe over the entire length thereof by using a pipe expanding head such that an undulation wavelength ratio D defined by Formula (1) is not more than 0.8, or not less than 1.8: D=p/???(1), where p is an undulation wavelength in the axial direction of the welded steel pipe, and ? is a Timoshenko's buckling wavelength as defined by Formula (2): ?=3.44×(r×t)1/2 ??(2), where r is an inner radius of the welded steel pipe and t is a wall thickness of the welded steel pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: NIPPON SEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidenori Shitamoto
  • Publication number: 20140158331
    Abstract: The invention relates to a brazing method for a tube of an air heater. The method includes the steps of: folding a metal band such as to form at least one tube, providing inside the tube a disturbance insert having a thickness substantially lower than or equal to 150 ?m, with the metal band and/or the insert includes a plating layer on at least one surface to be brazed such that the ratio of the volume of the plating layer to the volume to be brazed is either substantially higher than or equal to a predetermined threshold on the basis of the average gap between the insert and the tube, and brazing the tube and the insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Inventors: Laurent Moreau, Alain Bauerheim, Philippe Metayer
  • Publication number: 20140130933
    Abstract: A duct in which the welding strength of the parting lines is enhanced and which facilitates the attaching job is provided. The duct of the present embodying mode has a mean thickness of the entire duct of 1 mm or less, and includes projections on inner surface sides of the duct on the parting lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: KYORAKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Tani, Teruo Tamada, Kenji Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20140056662
    Abstract: An external weld bead is removed and processed from a welded pipe traveling in a downstream direction. The weld bead is separated from the pipe, guided through a guide passage having an inlet and an outlet, and cut into pieces at the guide passage outlet in a location above the pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: Lumco Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Patrick J. Gleason
  • Patent number: 8646490
    Abstract: A pipeline for the transport of a pressurized flowable medium, consisting of a metal tube corrugated transversely to its longitudinal direction and of a hose which is arranged in the same and consists of plastic. In the position of use the hose bears against the inwardly pointing wave troughs of the metal tube, which hose has a multiplicity of holes separated from one another in the wall of the same over its entire axial length. The wave troughs of the metal tube penetrate slightly into the surface of the hose so as to fix the latter with respect to axial loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: Christian Frohne, Dipl.-Ing Klaus Schippl
  • Patent number: 8640740
    Abstract: A metallic tube, including a first cylindrical member, which is formed from a flat metal strip, and a second cylindrical member, which is formed from a flat metal strip, wherein the first cylindrical member is embedded within the second cylindrical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: AFL Telecommunications LLC
    Inventor: Brian Herbst
  • Patent number: 8383978
    Abstract: This invention provides a steel pipe material weld zone heating method and apparatus for melting and welding the weld zone of a steel pipe material that during continuous induction heating and welding of moving steel pipe material as the material being heated controls temperature distribution and molten steel shape and weld frequency fluctuation with high accuracy and high efficiency, irrespective of the shape of the heated region of material being heated or the material properties of the material being heated, which comprises a first imaging device, a weld zone temperature distribution computation device, a heating control device, and a variable frequency alternating current power supply device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Fukutani, Kenji Umetsu, Yoshiaki Nakamura, Kazuto Yamamoto, Takashi Miyakawa, Ryuichi Shimada, Tadayuki Kitahara, Takanori Isobe
  • Publication number: 20130037162
    Abstract: The present invention provides a thick welded steel pipe excellent in low temperature toughness in which contents of Mn and Mo satisfy (Expression 1) below, Pcm obtained by (Expression 2) below is 0.16 to 0.19, and a metal structure of a base material steel plate consists of ferrite being 30 to 95% in an area ratio and a low temperature transformation structure, and in a metal structure of a coarse-grained HAZ, an area ratio of grain boundary ferrite is 1.5% or more, the total area ratio of the grain boundary ferrite and intragranular ferrite is not less than 11% nor more than 90%, an area ratio of MA is 10% or less, and its balance is composed of bainite. 1.2325?(0.85×[Mn]?[Mo])?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shinohara, Takuya Hara, Naoki Doi, Eiichi Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20120291907
    Abstract: A high-strength welded steel pipe is obtained by welding a seam weld portion of a steel plate that are formed in a pipe shape. In the high-strength welded steel pipe, a base metal of the steel plate includes, by mass %, C: 0.010% to 0.080%, Si: 0.01% to 0.50%, Mn: 0.50% to 2.00%, S: 0.0001% to 0.0050%, Ti: 0.003% to 0.030%, Mo: 0.05% to 1.00%, B: 0.0003% to 0.0100%, O: 0.0001% to 0.0080%, N: 0.006% to 0.0118%, P: limited to 0.050% or less, Al: limited to 0.008% or less, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, Ceq is 0.30 to 0.53, Pcm is 0.10 to 0.20, [N]—[Ti]/3.4 is less than 0.003, the average grain size of the prior ? grains in heat affected zones in the steel plate is 250 ?m or less, and the prior ? grains include bainite and intragranular bainite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventors: Taishi Fujishiro, Takuya Hara, Yoshio Terada, Shinya Sakamoto, Hitoshi Asahi
  • Patent number: 8110292
    Abstract: The present invention provides high strength steel plate with excellent low temperature toughness, high strength steel pipe using this as a base metal, and methods of production of the same. The steel plate of the present invention contains Mo: 0.05 to 1.00% and B: 0.0003 to 0.0100%, has a Ceq of 0.30 to 0.53, has a Pcm of 0.10 to 0.20, and has a metal structure which has an area percentage of polygonal ferrite of 20 to 90% and has a balance of a hard phase comprised of one or both of bainite and martensite. To obtain this steel plate, strain-introducing rolling is performed with a start temperature of not more than Ar3+60° C., an end temperature of Ar3 or more, and a reduction ratio of 1.5 or more, then the plate is air-cooled and then acceleratedly cooled from Ar3?100° C. to Ar3?10° C. in temperature by 10° C./s or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Taishi Fujishiro, Shinya Sakamoto, Takuya Hara, Hitoshi Asahi
  • Patent number: 8084144
    Abstract: The present invention provides high strength thick welded steel pipe for line pipe superior in low temperature toughness, and a method of production of the same. A base material steel plate containing C: 0.010 to 0.050%, Si: 0.01 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.50 to 2.00%, Al: 0.020% or less, Ti: 0.003 to 0.030%, and Mo: 0.10 to 1.50%, having a carbon equivalent Ceq of 0.30 to 0.53, having a crack susceptability parameter Pcm of 0.10 to 0.20, satisfying formula 3, comprised an area ratio of 20% or less of polygonal ferrite and an area ratio of 80% or more of bainite, and having an effective crystal grain size of 20 ?m or less is formed into a pipe shape, then seam welded to make the effective crystal grain size of the heat affected zone 150 ?m or less: 10C+100Al+5Mo+5Ni<3.3??formula 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hara, Hitoshi Asahi
  • Publication number: 20110308660
    Abstract: A method of continuously forming a dual seam welded tubular product includes the steps of providing two coils of sheet metal material, uncoiling the two coils and forming the material into opposing sections, bringing the two opposing sections together at a convergence angle of less than about 4°; and welding the two seams created between the two opposing sections. An apparatus is configured to bring the sections together at a convergence angle less than about 4° to produce the tubular product. The tubular product may have a diameter greater than 26 inches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: DFI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eric BERUBE
  • Patent number: 8039118
    Abstract: The present invention provides high strength welded steel pipe for line pipe inexpensive in cost and superior in low temperature toughness, and a method of production of the same, produced by forming a base material steel plate containing, by mass %, C: 0.010 to 0.050%, Si: 0.01 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.50 to 2.00%, S: 0.0001 to 0.0050%, and Ti: 0.003 to 0.030%, limiting Al to 0.020% or less and Mo to less than 0.10%, having a carbon equivalent Ceq of 0.30 to 0.53 and a crack susceptibility parameter Pcm of 0.10 to 0.20, comprised of polygonal ferrite and residual bainite of an area rate of 20% or less, and having an effective crystal grain size of 20 ?m or less, into a pipe shape, then seam welding it and making the effective crystal grain size of the heat affected zone 150 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hara, Hitoshi Asahi
  • Publication number: 20110214775
    Abstract: A cylinder tube of a hydraulic cylinder includes a substantially cylindrical outer peripheral wall portion, a port hole, and a plurality of rigidity changing portions. The port hole is formed in a part of the outer peripheral wall portion to communicate with an interior space of the outer peripheral wall portion. The rigidity changing portions are arranged at positions spaced at about 90 degrees leftward and rightward away from the port hole in the circumferential direction as viewed in section, with each of the rigidity changing portions having cross-sectional rigidity larger than a part in proximity to the port hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Kouzou Yano
  • Publication number: 20110174046
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a steel tube, wherein a steel sheet (4) is formed into tubular body (1.2) having a round cross section in a bending process (a), welded in a subsequent welding process (b) along the longitudinal edges facing each other for producing a continuous longitudinal seam, and then subjected to a stress-relieving treatment. The production quality is improved, with reduced production time, in that the stress-relieving treatment is performed in a process (c) for concentrically truing along the circumference in at least one segment relative to the longitudinal axis thereof, while cold forming by compression (FIG. 1). The mechanical technological properties of the material are also thereby improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Jochem Beissel, Thilo Reichel
  • Patent number: 7934304
    Abstract: A method to manufacture tubing includes co-forming a base material strip and a liner material strip into a string of internally-lined tubing and joining edges of the base material strip to form a seam therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Tenaris Coiled Tubes, LLC
    Inventors: David McCall, Bruce Reichert
  • Patent number: 7892368
    Abstract: The present invention relates to UOE steel pipe excellent in collapse characteristics formed by the UOE production method and a method for forming this UOE steel pipe, said UOE steel pipe characterized in that a ratio between compression and tension of yield strength in the circumferential direction is at least 1.05 near the inside surface and is at least 0.9 to not more to 1.0 from the center of plate thickness to the outside surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Tsuru, Hitoshi Asahi
  • Patent number: 7877877
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a solid housing, in particular a valve housing for an electromagnetically operable valve. The method includes providing at least three flat metal plates side by side, each having different magnetic properties directly adjacent to the others. The at least three plates are joined to the directly adjacent bordering edges to form a sheet metal section. The sheet metal section shaped into a sleeve shape. Furthermore, the bordering edges, which are now opposite one another, and run in the longitudinal direction of the sleeve to form a sleeve blank are joined together. The sleeve blank is machined until a desired geometric shape of the housing is achieved. The housing may be suitable in particular for use in fuel injectors in fuel injector systems of internal combustion engines operating by spark ignition of a compressed fuel-air mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Ferdinand Reiter
  • Publication number: 20100326559
    Abstract: A steel plate for line pipes containing, in terms of % by weight, C: 0.02 to 0.06%, Si: 0.5% or less, Mn: 0.8 to 1.6%, P: 0.008% or less, S: 0.0008% or less, Al: 0.08% or less, Nb: 0.005 to 0.035%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.025%, and Ca: 0.0005 to 0.0035%, and optionally contains one or more of Cu: 0.5% or less, Ni: 1% or less, Cr: 0.5% or less, Mo: 0.5% or less and V: 0.1% or less, and has a CP value of 0.95 or less represented by CP=4.46C(%)+2.37Mn(%)/6+{1.18Cr(%)+1.95Mo(%)+1.74V(%)}/5+{1.74Cu(%)+1.7Ni(%)}/15+22.36P(%), and a Ceq value of 0.30 or more represented by Ceq=C(%)+Mn(%)/6+{Cr(%)+Mo(%)+V(%)}/5+{Cu(%)+Ni(%)}/15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Ishikawa, Makoto Suzuki, Tomohiro Matsushima, Akiyoshi Tsuji, Shinichi Kakihara, Nobuo Shikanai, Yutaka Awajiya
  • Publication number: 20100258535
    Abstract: This invention provides a steel pipe material weld zone heating method and apparatus for melting and welding the weld zone of a steel pipe material that during continuous induction heating and welding of moving steel pipe material as the material being heated controls temperature distribution and molten steel shape and weld frequency fluctuation with high accuracy and high efficiency, irrespective of the shape of the heated region of material being heated or the material properties of the material being heated, which comprises a first imaging step in which first imaging means 3 installed opposite an end face weld zone of the steel pipe material is used to detect self-emitted light of the weld zone and output a brightness image, a weld zone temperature distribution computation step in which image processing is performed based on the brightness image and emitted light temperature measurement is applied to compute the plate-thickness direction temperature distribution of the weld zone, a heating control step in
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Fukutani, Kenji Umetsu, Yoshiaki Nakamura, Kazuto Yamamoto, Takashi Miyakawa, Ryuichi Shimada, Tadayuki Kitahara, Takanori Isobe
  • Publication number: 20100243094
    Abstract: The invention relates to a polymer film laminate (1), which can be heat-sealed to form tubular packaging, in particular a tube and which comprises at least one self-sealing outer printed film (5) consisting of an HDPE-based material and an inner polymer self-sealing support film (3) that is connected to the printed film (5) and whose melting point is identical to or a maximum 200° C. less than that of the printed film (5). The edges of the tube can abut or overlap to form the tube seam. If the seam edges abut and form a height misalignment (h) between opposing seam edges (1a, 1b), the support film (3) of one edge bonds to the printed film (5) of the opposing edge, maintaining a highly stable seam even under said conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: CCL LABEL GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Arz, Harry Johlke, Georg Pescher
  • Publication number: 20100193064
    Abstract: A square pipe manufacturing method includes: a first processing step of forming a first intermediate formed product 13 by bending both widthwise end portions of a rectangular metal plate 1; a second processing step of forming a second intermediate formed product 21 by bending both widthwise sides of a bottom surface 11 of the first intermediate formed product 13; a third processing step of obtaining a third intermediate formed product 23 by curving the side wall surfaces 17 to be convex outward in the width direction by pressing the flange parts 7, 7 toward the bottom wall surface 19 and then pressing the curved side wall surfaces 17 inward in the width direction; and a fourth processing step of crush-deforming corners 31, 31, 33, 33 of the third intermediate formed product 23.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: TOPRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mikio TAKADA
  • Patent number: 7754344
    Abstract: A ferritic stainless steel welded pipe is ferritic stainless steel welded pipe contains, by wt %, C: 0.001 to 0.015%, N: 0.001 to 0.020%, Cr: 11 to 25%, Mo: 0.01 to 2.0%, one or both of Ti and Nb in 0.05 to 0.5%, and B: 0.0003 to 0.0030%, having an elongation of the welded pipe material in the direction becoming the circumferential direction of 30% or more, and having an average Lankford value of 1.5 or more, which is formed, welded, and sized by 0.5 to 2.0% in terms of circumferential length, then annealed at 700 to 850° C., and has the hardness difference between the weld zone and the matrix is 10 to 40 in range and a ratio between the bead thickness of the weld zone and the thickness of the matrix is 1.05 to 1.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Ono, Toshio Tanoue, Fumio Fudanoki, Tadashi Komori, Shuji Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20100032048
    Abstract: In an electric resistance welded steel pipe with excellent weld toughness for a line pipe, the area fraction of minute defects each having a maximum length of less than 50 ?m in a projection plane of an electric resistance welded seam is in the range of 0.035 to 0.000006, and the absorbed energy at ?40° C. measured by a method for an impact test of metallic materials is 100 J or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Yokoyama, Kazuhito Kenmochi, Takatoshi Okabe