Continuous Casting Patents (Class 148/541)
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Patent number: 11987859Abstract: Energy-efficient production of a ferritic hot-rolled strip (6) in an integrated casting-rolling plant (1), which modifies the known processes for producing a ferritic hot-rolled strip (6) in an integrated casting-rolling plant (1) so that the ferritic hot-rolled strip (6) can be produced significantly more energy-efficiently but nevertheless has good metallurgical properties and a good surface quality.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA GMBHInventors: Heinz Fürst, Simon Grosseiber, Thomas Lengauer, Michael Zahedi
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Patent number: 11920205Abstract: The present invention provides a casting method and cast product of spherical graphite cast iron, in which, even with a small modulus, there is no chill, the spherical graphite in the tissue is further made ultrafine, the dispersion of the particle diameter is small, and the number of the particles is several times that of the conventional one in the as cast state where heat treatment is not carried out. A casting method of a spherical graphite cast iron includes a melting process, a spheroidizing treatment process, an inoculation process, and a casting process, in which the original molten metal after the inoculation process is poured and filled up to a product space through a gate of a metal mold; where the original molten metal is controlled to a semi-solidification temperature range, before being filled up to the product space.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Inventors: Masayuki Itamura, Haruki Itofuji, Mitsuru Adachi
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Patent number: 11649515Abstract: The purpose of one aspect of the present invention is to provide: a thick steel plate capable of removing a conventional normalizing treatment required for ensuring toughness low temperature and cryogenic environments, and having properties equal to or better than those of a conventional steel subjected to the normalizing treatment; and a method for manufacturing the method.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: POSCO CO., LTDInventors: Mo-Chang Kang, Jong-In Choi
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Patent number: 11052440Abstract: An outer layer of a rolling roll having a chemical composition comprising by mass 1.3-2.8% of C, 0.3-1.8% of Si, 0.3-2.5% of Mn, 0-6.5% of Ni, 1-10% of Cr, 0.9-6% of Mo, 0-8% of W, 0.5-6% of V, 0-3% of Nb, and 0% or more and less than 0.01% of B, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and meeting the formulae (1): 1000?1177?52C+14Si?11Mn+6.8Cr+1W+0.65Mo+12V+15Nb?1115, and (2): 5?Cr+Mo+0.5W+V+1.2Nb?15, wherein C, Si, Mn, Cr, W, Mo, V and Nb represent % by mass of these elements, and a structure containing eutectic carbide without graphite.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2017Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Yasunori Nozaki, Nozomu Oda, Shiho Fukumoto
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Patent number: 10960487Abstract: This disclosure relates to weldability of steel alloys that provide weld joints which retain hardness values in a heat affected zone adjacent to a fusion zone and which also have improved resistance to liquid metal embrittlement due to the presence of zinc coatings.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: United States Steel CorporationInventors: Daniel James Branagan, Alla V. Sergueeva, Brian E. Meacham, Andrew E. Frerichs, Sheng Cheng, Scott T. Larish, Grant G. Justice, Andrew T. Ball, Craig S. Parsons, Logan J. Tew, Scott T. Anderson, Kurtis R. Clark, Taylor L. Giddens, Tad V. Machrowicz, Jonathan M. Cischke
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Patent number: 10894994Abstract: A method for producing a metal product, wherein in a strand casting system, liquid metal is output as a slab from a mold vertically downward in a conveying direction, is guided along a strand guide, and is deflected into the horizontal, wherein the slab is heated in a furnace or inductively downstream of the stand casting system.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2015Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: SMS group GmbHInventors: Tilmann Böcher, Marcel van Reimersdahl, Luc Neumann, Uwe Plociennik
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Patent number: 10662492Abstract: An abrasion-resistant steel material excellent in fatigue characteristics having a composition (in mass %) comprising 0.30 to 0.90% of C, 0.05 to 1.00% of Si, 0.10 to 1.50% of Mn, 0.003 to 0.030% of P, 0.001 to 0.020% of S, from 0.10 to 0.70% of Nb, and containing depending on necessity one or more of 1.50% or less of Cr, 0.50% or less of Mo, 0.50% or less of V, 2.00% or less of Ni, 0.10% or less of Ti, and 0.0050% or less of B, the balance Fe and unavoidable impurities, a metallic structure after a temper heat treatment having a Nb-containing carbide dispersed therein, the Nb-containing carbide particles having a particle diameter of 1.0 mm or more that is controlled to 200 particles per mm2 or more, and a maximum particle diameter Dmax of Nb-containing carbide particles in 103 mm3 that is controlled to 18.0 mm or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2013Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: NIPPON STEEL NISSHIN CO., LTD.Inventor: Hironori Kubo
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Patent number: 10513749Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet has predetermined chemical composition, a sum of a Si content and an Al content is higher than 0.20% and lower than 0.81%, a microstructure includes, by area fraction, 90% to 99% of a ferrite, 1% to 10% of a martensite, and a bainite limited to 5% or less, the grain size of the martensite is 1 to 10 ?m, the X-ray random intensity ratio of a {211}<011> orientation which is parallel to a rolled surface of the steel sheet and is parallel to a rolling direction is 3.0 or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Toyoda, Riki Okamoto, Ryohta Niiya, Hiroshi Sakai, Hidetoshi Shindo
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Patent number: 10400316Abstract: A high strength hot rolled steel sheet with good formability, which has good magnetic properties, excellent punchability, and a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more. The high strength hot rolled steel sheet having a chemical composition containing C: 0.070% to 0.140%, Si: 0.10% to 1.00%, Mn: 1.00% to 1.80%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.0050% or less, N: 0.0080% or less, Al: 0.010% to 0.100%, Ti: 0.050% to 0.150%, and the remainder composed of Fe and incidental impurities, on a percent by mass basis, and 95% or more of bainite microstructure on a volume fraction basis, wherein carbides constituting 80% or more of total precipitation carbides are dispersed at grain boundaries of bainitic ferrite constituting the bainite microstructure and 80% or more of total precipitation carbides have particle grain sizes of 20 to 300 nm.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Katsumi Nakajima, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Nobuyuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 10392675Abstract: There is provided a seamless steel pipe having high strength and high toughness even if having a thick wall. A seamless steel pipe according to the present embodiment consists of: in mass %, C: 0.03 to 0.08%, Si: not more than 0.25%, Mn: 0.3 to 2.0%, P: not more than 0.05%, S: not more than 0.005%, Al: 0.001 to 0.10%, Cr: 0.02 to 1.0%, Ni: 0.02 to 1.0%, Mo: 0.02 to 0.8%, N: 0.002 to 0.008%, Ca: 0.0005 to 0.005%, and Nb: 0.01 to 0.1%, the balance being Fe and impurities, and has a wall thickness of not less than 50 mm.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2013Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yukimasa Ueda, Yuji Arai
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Patent number: 10266911Abstract: Provided is a hot-formed member according to the present invention, having a predetermined chemical composition and having a metallographic microstructure containing austenite at an area ratio of 10 area % to 40 area % and in which total number density of particles of the austenite and martensite is equal to or greater than 1.0 number/?m2, in which tensile strength is from 900 MPa to 1300 MPa.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2014Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Koutarou Hayashi, Akira Seki
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Patent number: 10144058Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a round billet of Ni-containing high alloy including steps of continuously casting a molten steel by using a casting mold, thereby obtaining a rectangular billet, and shaping the rectangular billet into round billet by forging/rolling, wherein the casting mold has a shape such that a w/h ratio between long side length (w) and short side length (h) of a cross section of the rectangular billet perpendicular to the casting direction of rectangular billet is 1.0 to 2.0, the chemical composition of molten steel is, by mass %: C: 0.005 to 0.250%, Si: 0.05 to 2.00%, Mn: 0.05 to 3.00%, P: 0.04% or less, S: 0.004% or less, Cu: 0.01 to 3.00%, Cr: 10 to 35%, Ni: 10 to 80%, Mo: 1.5 to 10.0%, Al: 0.001 to 0.300%, N: 0.001 to 0.300%, W: 0.00 to 6.00%, Ti: 0.00 to 2.00%, and the balance: Fe and impurities.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Seiji Miyamoto, Takayoshi Kagari
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Patent number: 10093999Abstract: The invention discloses a steel plate resistant to zinc-induced crack and a manufacturing method therefor. A low-alloy steel subjected to low C-ultra low Si-high Mn-low Al—(Ti+Nb) microalloying treatment is taken as a basis; the Al content in the steel is appropriately reduced; the conditions are controlled so that Mn/C?15, [(% Mn)+0.75(% Mo)]×(% C)?0.16, Nb/Ti?1.8 and Ti/N is between 1.50 and 3.40, CEZ?0.44% and the B content is ?2 ppm, Ni/Cu?1.50; a Ca treatment is performed and the Ca/S ratio is controlled between 1.0 and 3.0, with (% Ca)×(% S)0.28?1.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2014Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zicheng Liu, Yong Wu, Xianju Li
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Patent number: 10087499Abstract: There are provided a high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet securing low-temperature toughness and having excellent stretch flangeability by controlling a structural fraction and a hardness difference among structures, and a manufacturing method thereof. A hot-rolled steel sheet contains: C: 0.01 to 0.2%; Si: 0.001 to 2.5% or less; Mn: 0.10 to 4.0% or less; P: 0.10% or less; S: less than 0.03%; Al: 0.001 to 2.0%; N: less than 0.01%; Ti: (0.005+48/14[N]+48/32[S]) % or more and 0.3% or less; Nb: 0 to 0.06%; Cu: 0 to 1.2%; Ni: 0 to 0.6%; Mo: 0 to 1%; V: 0 to 0.2%; Cr: 0 to 2%; Mg: 0 to 0.01%; Ca: 0 to 0.01%; REM: 0 to 0.1%; and B: 0 to 0.002%, and has: an texture in which, at a central portion of a sheet thickness located between ? to ? thickness positions of the sheet thickness from a surface of the steel sheet, an average value of X-ray random intensity ratios of a group of {100}<011> to {223}<110> orientations of a sheet plane is 6.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Shuto, Tatsuo Yokoi, Yuuki Kanzawa, Nobuhiro Fujita, Ryohta Niiya, Shinya Saitoh
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Patent number: 10076778Abstract: A cooling section for flat rolling stock (1) has a working region (2), through which the flat rolling stock (1) is guided. The working region (2) can be supplied with a liquid coolant (4) by means of a number of spray beams (3i). The liquid coolant (4) is fed from a reservoir (7) for the liquid coolant (4) to the spray beams (3i) by means of a pump (5) and a supply system (6). Valves (9i) are arranged upstream of the spray beams (3i) in the supply system (6). Opening positions (si) of the valves (9i) are set by a control unit (10) of the cooling section according to a respective sub-flow (fi) that is to be applied to the flat rolling stock (1) by means of each spray beam (3i). Also, the delivery rate (M) of the pump (5) and/or a line pressure (p) generated by the pump (5) in the supply system (6) are set by the control unit (10) according to the total flow (F) that is to be applied to the flat rolling stock (1) by means of all the spray beams (3i).Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2014Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA GMBHInventors: Jian Chen, Sieglinder Ehgartner, Reinhard Karl, Erich Opitz, Florian Poeschl, Alois Seilinger, Thomas Trickl
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Patent number: 9833823Abstract: A method for producing a metal strip, in which the strip is rolled in a multi-stand rolling mill, is removed behind the final rolling stand of the rolling mill in the direction of conveyance, and is cooled in a cooling device. The strip or metal sheet is subjected to additional rapid cooling immediately after passing the working rollers of the final rolling stand, wherein the strip or the metal sheet is cooled at least partially within the extent of the final rolling stand in the direction of conveyance, wherein rapid cooling is performed by applying a coolant to the strip or metal sheet from above and from below, wherein the volume flow of coolant that is applied to the strip or metal sheet from below measures at least 120% of the volume flow of coolant that is applied to the strip or metal sheet from above.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBHInventor: August Sprock
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Patent number: 9767227Abstract: The material structure prediction apparatus includes a temperature calculator calculating temperatures at calculation points, based on a temperature condition, a nucleation count calculator calculating a nucleation count in the calculation target region, a precipitated phase generation point determining module determining, from the calculation points, a precipitated phase generation point, a grain growth calculator calculating a grain growth of the precipitated phase at the precipitated phase generation point, and a material structure prediction module predicting the structure of the material, based on the grain growth of the precipitated phase.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuhiko Sano, Kazuhiro Ohara
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Patent number: 9587286Abstract: The present invention provides an austenite-ferrite stainless steel. The steel composition contains in % by weight: 0.01%?C?0.10% 20.0%?Cr?24.0% 1.0%?Ni?3.0% 0.12%?N?0.20% 0.5%?Mn?2.0% 1.6%?Cu?3.0% 0.05%?Mo?1.0% W?0.15% 0.05%?Mo+W/2?1.0% 0.2%?Si?1.5% Al?0.05% V?0.5% Nb?0.5% Ti?0.5% B?0.003% Co?0.5% REM?0.1% Ca?0.03% Mg?0.1% Se?0.005% O?0.01% S?0.030% P?0.040% the rest being iron and impurities resulting from the production and the microstructure being composed of austenite and 35 to 65% ferrite by volume, the composition furthermore obeying the following relations: 40?IF?65 with IF=10% Cr+5.1% Mo+1.4% Mn+24.3% Si+35% Nb+71.5% Ti?595.4% C?245.1% N?9.3% Ni?3.3% Cu?99.8 and IRCGCU?32.0 with IRCGCU=% Cr+3.3% Mo+2% Cu+16% N+2.6% Ni?0.7% Mn and 0?IU?6.0 with IU=3% Ni+% Cu+% Mn?100% C?25% N?2(% Cr+% Si)?6% Mo+45 as well as a method of manufacture of plates, bands, coils, bars, wires, profiles, forged pieces and molded pieces of this steel.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2011Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignees: UGITECH, ArcelorMittal Investigacion Y Desarrollo SLInventors: Jerome Peultier, Amelie Fanica, Nicolas Renaudot, Christophe Bourgin, Eric Chauveau, Marc Mantel
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Publication number: 20150122377Abstract: The invention relates to a steel and to a flat steel product produced therefrom that have optimized mechanical properties and at the same time can be produced at low cost, without having to rely for this on expensive alloying elements that are subject to great fluctuations with regard to their procurement costs. The steel and the flat steel product have for this purpose the following composition according to the invention (in % by weight): C: 0.11-0.16%; Si: 0.1-0.3%; Mn: 1.4-1.9%; Al: 0.02-0.1%; Cr: 0.45-0.85%; Ti: 0.025-0.06%; B: 0.0008-0.002%, the remainder Fe and impurities that are unavoidable for production-related reasons, which include contents of phosphorus, sulfur, nitrogen or molybdenum as long as the following respectively apply for their contents: P: ?0.02%, S: ?0.003%, N: ?0.008%, Mo: ?0.1%. Similarly, the invention relates to a method for producing a flat steel product that consists of a steel according to the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2013Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Ekatherina Bocharova, Sigrun Ebest, Dorothea Mattissen, Roland Sebald
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Publication number: 20150118518Abstract: A steel sheet for electroplating includes, by mass %, C: 0.0005% to 0.0050%, Si: 0.20% to 1.0%, Mn: 0.40% to 2.5%, P: 0.05% or less, Ti: 0.010% to 0.050%, Nb: 0.010% to 0.040%, B: 0.0005% to 0.0030%, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 0.01% to 0.30%, N: 0.0010% to 0.01%, and the balance including Fe and impurities, in which when Si content is represented by [Si] and Mn content is represented by [Mn], “[Mn]+5[Si]” is 2.0 to 7.0, and the steel sheet has surface property in which an average of displacements of a measurement point obtained based on a moving average of continuous 31 points in total including 15 front points and 15 back points in a cross-sectional profile of a surface obtained by measuring the average of displacements in an evaluation length of 10 ?m or more at an interval of 0.07 ?m, is 0.005 ?m to 0.10 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori Sato, Masao Kurosaki, Masahiro Fuda, Natsuko Sugiura, Yuji Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20150047752Abstract: A high strength interstitial free low density steel and method for producing the steel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: TATA STEEL NEDERLAND TECHNOLOGY B.V.Inventors: Cheng Liu, Radhakanta Rana
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Publication number: 20150027597Abstract: This invention relates to a high strength bake-hardenable low density steel and to a method for producing said the steel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2013Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: TATA STEEL NEDERLAND TECHNOLOGY BVInventors: Cheng Liu, Radhakanta Rana
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Publication number: 20150013853Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet for a generator rim contains a structure containing a ferrite phase with an areal ratio of 95% or more in which precipitates containing Ti and V whose average grain diameter is less than 10 nm are precipitated in crystal grains of the ferrite phase. The ferrite phase has an average crystal grain diameter within the range of 2 ?m or more and less than 10 ?m. The hot-rolled steel sheet for a generator rim has strength with a yield strength YS in a rolling direction of 700 MPa or more and electromagnetic properties with a magnetic flux density B50 of 1.5 T or more and a magnetic flux density B100 of 1.6 T or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki Nakamura, Katsumi Nakajime, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Kazutaka Okimoto, Takahiko Ogura
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Publication number: 20150007913Abstract: A manufacturing method for strip casting 550 MPa-grade high strength atmospheric corrosion-resistant steel strip, comprising the following steps: 1) smelting, where the chemical composition of a molten steel is that: C is between 0.03-0.08%, Si?0.4%, Mn is between 0.6-1.5%, P is between 0.07-0.22%, S?0.01%, N?0.012%, Cu is between 0.25-0.8%, Cr is between 0.3-0.8%, and Ni is between 0.12-0.4%, additionally, also comprised is at least one micro-alloying element among Nb, V, Ti, and Mo, where Nb is between 0.01-0.08%, V is between 0.01-0.08%, Ti is between 0.01-0.08%, and Mo is between 0.1-0.4%, and where the remainder is Fe and unavoidable impurities; 2) strip casting, where a 1-5 mm-thick cast strip is casted directly; 3) cooling the strip, where the cooling rate is greater than 20° C./s; 4) online hot rolling the cast strip, where the hot rolling temperature is between 1050-1250° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2013Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Xiufang Wang, Yuan Fang, Yan Yu, Jianchun Wu, Bo Qin
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Publication number: 20150000798Abstract: A method of manufacturing a high-strength steel sheet includes, on a mass percent basis, 0.03%-0.10% C, 0.01%-0.5% Si, 0.001%-0.100% P, 0.001%-0.020% S, 0.01%-0.10% Al, 0.005%-0.012% N, the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, and microstructures that do not contain a pearlite microstructure, wherein, when Mnf=Mn [% by mass]?1.71×S [% by mass], Mnf is 0.3 to 0.6, including: forming a slab by vertical-bending type continuous casting or bow type continuous casting, wherein surface temperature of a slab corner in a region where the slab undergoes bending deformation or unbending deformation is 800° C. or lower, or 900° C. or higher; forming a steel sheet by hot-rolling the slab followed by cold rolling; annealing the steel sheet after the cold rolling; and skinpass rolling at a draft of 3% or less after the annealing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Takumi Tanaka, Katsumi Kojima, Makoto Aratani, Hiroki Iwasa
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Publication number: 20140373981Abstract: A manufacturing method for strip casting 700 MPa-grade high strength atmospheric corrosion-resistant steel, comprising the following steps: 1) smelting, where the chemical composition of a molten steel in terms of weight percentage is that C is between 0.03-0.1%, Si?0.4%, Mn is between 0.75-2.0%, P is between 0.07-0.22%, S?0.01%, N?0.012%, Cu is between 0.25-0.8%, Cr is between 0.3-0.8%, and Ni is between 0.12-0.4%, additionally, also comprised is at least one micro-alloying element among Nb, V, Ti, and Mo, where Nb is between 0.01-0.1%, V is between 0.01-0.1%, Ti is between 0.01-0.1%, and Mo is between 0.1-0.5%, and where the remainder is Fe and unavoidable impurities; 2) strip casting, where a 1-5 mm-thick cast strip is casted directly; 3) cooling the cast strip, where the cooling rate is greater than 20° C./s; 4) online hot rolling the cast strip, where the hot rolling temperature is between 1050-1250° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Xiufang Wang, Yuan Fang, Yan Yu, Jianchun Wu, Bo Qin
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Patent number: 8858739Abstract: A method and system of forming a micro-wire including heating metal feedstock to a liquid state within a glass tube, wherein the metal feedstock includes an iron based glass forming alloy comprising one or more of nickel and cobalt present in the range of 7 atomic percent to 50 atomic percent and one or more of boron, carbon, silicon, phosphorous and nitrogen present in the range of 1 to 35 atomic percent. Negative pressure may be provided to the interior the glass tube and the glass tube containing the metal feedstock may be drawn down. The metal feedstock in the glass tube may be cooled at a rate sufficient to form a wire exhibiting crystalline microstructures present in the range of 2 to 90 percent by volume in a glass matrix.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: The NanoSteel Company, Inc.Inventors: Daniel James Branagan, Alla V. Sergueeva, Jikou Zhou, James N. Milloway
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Publication number: 20140283957Abstract: The invention belongs to the technical field of rapid solidification of amorphous alloy and concretely relates to an iron-based amorphous alloy broad ribbon, wherein the width is 220-1000 mm, the thickness is 0.02-0.03 mm, the transversal thickness deviation is smaller than +/?0.002 mm, the lamination factor is larger than 0.84, the saturation magnetic-flux density is larger than 1.5 T, the iron loss is smaller than 0.20 W/kg under the conditions that the frequency is 50 Hz and the maximum magnetic-flux density is 1.3 T, and the exciting power is smaller than 0.50 VA/kg. The invention also relates to a manufacturing method of the broad ribbon, and a single-roll quenching method is adopted, wherein the width of a nozzle slot is 0.4-0.7 mm, the transversal width deviation of the nozzle slot is smaller than +/?0.05 mm, the transversal flatness deviation of a cooling roll (4) is smaller than 0.02 mm, and the surface roughness Ra is smaller than 0.0005 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2012Publication date: September 25, 2014Inventors: Shaoxiong Zhou, Guodong Liu, Wenzhi Chen, Lidong Ding, Jian Wang, Quan Li, Zhiying Zhang, Pei Zhao
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Publication number: 20140261905Abstract: A method for making alloy strip by continuous casting with tensile strength of at least 900 MPa and total elongation of at least 30%, strip with tensile strength of at least 1200 MPa and total elongation of at least 20%, or strip with tensile strength of at least 1500 MPa and total elongation of at least 15%. Molten metal is introduced forming a casting pool supported on the casting rolls and counter-rotating the A heat flux is provided with a peak heat flux >20 Mw/m2. The strip is cooled at 1000-3000 K/sec. A roll biasing force >40 kN/meter of casting roll length is applied to form thin metal strip. The strip is then conveyed through a first enclosure with an atmosphere having an oxygen content of <5%. The cast strip is rolled through a rolling mill and reduced and modification of the microstructure is initiated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: CASTRIP, LLCInventors: Walter N. Blejde, Rama Ballav Mahapatra, Daniel Geoffrey Edelman
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Publication number: 20140246128Abstract: Provided is a hot-rolled steel sheet that has a chemical composition including, by mass %: C: 0.060% to 0.150%; Si: 0.15% to 0.70%; Mn: 1.00% to 1.90%; P: 0.10% or less; S: 0.010% or less; Al: 0.01% to 0.10%; N: 0.010% or less; Nb: 0.010% to 0.100%; and the balance including Fe and incidental impurities. The hot-rolled steel sheet has a microstructure containing ferrite of 18 ?m or less in average grain size by a volume fraction of at least 75% and pearlite of at least 2 ?m in average grain size by a volume fraction of at least 5%, the balance being low-temperature-induced phases, the pearlite having a mean free path of at least 5.0 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2012Publication date: September 4, 2014Inventors: Katsutoshi Takashima, Yuki Toji, Kohei Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20140144556Abstract: A steel plate with a low yield ratio and high toughness. The steel plate comprises components of, by weight: C (0.05-0.08%), Si (0.15-0.30%), Mn (1.55-1.85%), P (less than or equal to 0.015%), S (less than or equal to 0.005%), Al (0.015-0.04%), Nb (0.015-0.025%), Ti (0.01-0.02%), Cr (0.20-0.40%), Mo (0.18-0.30%), N (less than or equal to 0.006%), O (less than or equal to 0.004%), Ca (0.0015-0.0050%), and Ni (less than or equal to 0.40%), a ratio of Ca to S being greater than or equal to 1.5, and the residual being Fe and inevitable impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Aiwen Zhang, Sihai Jiao, Xiangqian Yuan, Yushan Chen
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Patent number: 8734601Abstract: A method for hot rolling a metal strip or metal sheet, wherein 1.a) the slab or the strip or sheet is subjected in a first step to one or more reshaping actions in a hot rolling mill for producing a uniform, fine, recrystallised austenite structure and 2) the slab or the strip or sheet is then subjected in a second step to cooling for producing a fine-grain structure. The slab or the strip or sheet is subjected to heating between at least two roll stands of the hot rolling mill during performance of the step 1.a). The roll stands are arranged to follow one another in a rolling direction and in each of which the slab or the strip or sheet is subjected to reshaping. A heater for heating the rolling stock is arranged between at least two of the roll stands.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: SMS Siemag AktiengesellschaftInventors: Christian Klinkenberg, Christian Bilgen, Dieter Rosenthal, Christoph Klein
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Publication number: 20140116578Abstract: The present invention relates to a high-strength high-toughness steel plate and a method of manufacturing the steel plate. The steel plate contains the following chemical compositions, by weight, C: 0.03-0.06%, Si?0.30%, Mn: 1.0-1.5%, P?0.020%, S?0.010%, Al: 0.02-0.05%, Ti: 0.005-0.025%, N?0.006%, Ca?0.005%, and more than one of Cr?0.75%, Ni?0.40%, Mo?0.30%, other compositions being Ferrum and unavoidable impurities.The finished steel plate, with a thickness of 6-25 mm, has a yield strength of ?700 MPa, an elongation A50 of ?18%, Akv at ?60° C. of ?150 J and good cool bending property.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Aiwen Zhang, Sihai Jiao, Qingfeng Zhang
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Patent number: 8668784Abstract: A steel for a welded structure includes the following composition: by mass %, C at a C content [C] of 0.015 to 0.045%; Si at a Si content [Si] of 0.05 to 0.20%; Mn at a Mn content [Mn] of 1.5 to 2.0%; Ni at a Ni content [Ni] of 0.10 to 1.50%; Ti at a Ti content [Ti] of 0.005 to 0.015%; O at an O content [O] of 0.0015 to 0.0035%; and N at a N content [N] of 0.002 to 0.006%, and a balance composed of Fe and unavoidable impurities. In the steel for a welded structure, the P content [P] is limited to 0.008% or less, the S content [S] is limited to 0.005% or less, the Al content [Al] is limited to 0.004% or less, the Nb content [Nb] is limited to 0.005% or less, the Cu content [Cu] is limited to 0.24% or less, the V content [V] is limited to 0.020% or less, and a steel composition parameter PCTOD is 0.065% or less, and a steel composition hardness parameter CeqH is 0.235% or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2010Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Watanabe, Kazuhiro Fukunaga, Akihiko Kojima, Ryuji Uemori, Rikio Chijiiwa
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Patent number: 8641836Abstract: The present invention provides steel plate for line pipe excellent in strength and ductility and a method of production of the same. The steel plate has a steel composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.04 to 0.15%, Si: 0.05 to 0.60%, Mn: 0.80 to 1.80%, P: 0.020% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Nb: 0.01 to 0.08%, and Al: 0.003 to 0.08%, having a balance of iron and unavoidable impurities, and having a value of Ceq shown by the following formula <1> of 0.48 or less, comprised of a mixed structure of ferrite and pearlite or ferrite and pearlite partially containing bainite in which a ferrite percentage is 60 to 95%, having a yield strength of 450 MPa or more, and having an amount of hydrogen contained in the steel of 0.1 ppm or less: Ceq=C+Mn/6+(Cu+Ni)/15+(Cr+Mo+Nb+V+Ti)/5+5B??<1>.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2009Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Hajime Ishikawa, Ryuji Uemori, Yoshiyuki Watanabe, Nobuhiko Mamada
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Publication number: 20140014238Abstract: A steel product or thin steel cast strip including, by weight, less than 0.25% carbon, between 0.20 and 2.0% manganese, between 0.05 and 0.50% silicon, less than 0.01% aluminum, niobium between 0.01% and 0.20%, and vanadium between 0.01% and 0.20%. The steel product may have a tensile strength of between 550 and 600 MPa after age hardening at a peak temperature of between 700 and 750° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: NUCOR CORPORATIONInventors: Kristin R. CARPENTER, Scott CLUFF, Christopher R. KILLMORE, Daniel Geoffrey EDELMAN, Peter C. CAMPBELL, Walter N. BLEJDE
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Publication number: 20140007990Abstract: A steel sheet containing C: 0.02% or more and 0.10% or less, Si: 0.01% or more and 0.5% or less, P: 0.001% or more and 0.100% or less, S: 0.001% or more and 0.020% or less, N: 0.007% or more and 0.025% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and {?4.2×N (%)+0.11} % or less, Mnf: 0.10% or more and less than 0.30% where Mnf is defined by equation Mnf=Mn?1.71×S, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, in which the steel sheet has a thickness of 0.35 (mm) or less, the product of the lower yield point (N/mm2) of the steel sheet and the thickness (mm) is 160 (N/mm) or less, and the product of the upper yield point (N/mm2) of the steel sheet is 52.0 (N) or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: January 9, 2014Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Katsumi Kojima, Takumi Tanaka, Mikito Suto, Masaki Tada, Yoichi Tobiyama
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Patent number: 8608873Abstract: A stainless steel and a flat cold product produced therefrom, which can be easily produced in an economical manner. A steel according to the invention, in the cold-rolled state, has a microstructure with 5-15% by volume ?-ferrite and austenite as the remainder. It contains (in % by weight): C: 0.05-0.14%, Si: 0.1-1.0%, Mn: 4.0-12.0%, Cr: >17.5-22.0%, Ni: 1.0-4.0%, Cu: 1.0-3.0%, N: 0.03-0.2%, P: max. 0.07%, S: max. 0.01%, Mo: max. 0.5%, optionally one or more elements from the group consisting of Ti, Nb, B, V, Al, Ca, As, Sn, Sb, Pb, Bi, and H wherein Ti: max. 0.02%, Nb: max. 0.1%, B: max. 0.004%, V: max. 0.1%, Al: 0.001-0.03%, Ca: 0.0005-0.003%, As: 0.003-0.015%, Sn: 0.003-0.01%, Pb: max. 0.01%, Bi: max. 0.01%, H: max. 0.0025%, and remainder Fe and unavoidable impurities.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2009Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Outokumpu Nirosta GmbHInventors: Cornel Abratis, Lutz Ernenputsch, Wilfried Klos, Hans-Joachim Krautschick, Michael Sachtleber
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Publication number: 20130306201Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a method for forming a bulk solidifying amorphous alloy sheets have different surface finish including a “fire” polish surface like that of a float glass. In one embodiment, a first molten metal alloy is poured on a second molten metal of higher density in a float chamber to form a sheet of the first molten that floats on the second molten metal and cooled to form a bulk solidifying amorphous alloy sheet. In another embodiment, a molten metal is poured on a conveyor conveying the sheet of the first molten metal on a conveyor and cooled to form a bulk solidifying amorphous alloy sheet. The cooling rate such that a time-temperature profile during the cooling does not traverse through a region bounding a crystalline region of the metal alloy in a time-temperature-transformation (TTT) diagram.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Inventors: Christopher D. PREST, Joseph C. POOLE, Joseph STEVICK, Theodore Andrew WANIUK, Quoc Tran PHAM
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Patent number: 8562766Abstract: A thin cast strip is formed having at least one microstructure selected from the group consisting of polygonal ferrite, acicular ferrite, Widmanstatten, bainite and martinsite, a surface roughness of less than 1.5 microns Ra and a scale thickness of less than about 10 microns by applying a mixture of water and oil on the work rolls of the hot rolling mill, passing the thin cast strip at a temperature of less than 1100° C. through the hot rolling mill while the mixture of oil and water is applied to the work rolls, and shrouding the thin cast strip from the casting rolls through the hot rolling mill in an atmosphere of less than 5% oxygen to form the thin cast strip.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2011Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Nucor CorporationInventors: Walter N. Blejde, Jay Jon Ondrovic
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Patent number: 8557065Abstract: A high-strength, high-workability steel sheet for cans contains 0.070% to less than 0.080% C, 0.003% to 0.10% Si, 0.51% to 0.60% Mn, and the like on a mass basis and has a tensile strength of 500 MPa or more and a yield elongation of 10% or more. The average size and elongation rate of crystal grains are 5 ?m or more and 2.0 or less, respectively, in cross section in the rolling direction thereof. The hardness difference obtained by subtracting the average Vickers hardness of a cross section ranging from a surface to a depth equal to one-eighth of the thickness of the sheet from the average Vickers hardness of a cross section ranging from a depth equal to three-eighths of the sheet thickness to a depth equal to four-eighths of the sheet thickness is 10 points or more and/or the maximum Vickers hardness difference is 20 points or more.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2010Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Masaki Tada, Takumi Tanaka, Katsumi Kojima, Hiroki Iwasa
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Patent number: 8529712Abstract: A family of iron-based, phosphor-containing bulk metallic glasses having excellent processibility and toughness, methods for forming such alloys, and processes for manufacturing articles therefrom are provided. The inventive iron-based alloy is based on the observation that by very tightly controlling the composition of the metalloid moiety of the Fe-based, P-containing bulk metallic glass alloys it is possible to obtain highly processable alloys with surprisingly low shear modulus and high toughness.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2010Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: California Institute of TechnologyInventors: Marios D. Demetriou, William L. Johnson
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Publication number: 20130202914Abstract: A hot rolled steel strip made by the steps including assembling a twin roll caster, forming a casting pool of molten steel of such composition that the cast strip produced comprises by weight, greater than 0.25% and up to 1.1% carbon, between 0.40 and 2.0% manganese, between 0.05 and 0.50% silicon, less than 0.01% aluminum, counter rotating the casting rolls to solidify metal shells and forming a steel strip, hot rolling the steel strip such that mechanical properties at 10% and 35% reduction are within 10% for yield strength, tensile strength and total elongation, and coiling the hot rolled steel strip at a temperature between 550 and 750° C. to provide a majority of the microstructure comprising pearlite, along with bainite and acicular ferrite. The steel may have a free oxygen content between 5 and 50 ppm or between 25 and 45 ppm.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: August 8, 2013Inventors: Daniel Geoffrey EDELMAN, Christopher Ronald KILLMORE
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Patent number: 8486175Abstract: The present invention concerns a new type of grain refiners for steel, in the form of a particulate composite material, containing a high volume fraction of tailor-made dispersed particles, with the purpose of acting as potent heterogeneous nucleation sites for iron crystals during solidification and subsequent thermo-mechanical treatment of the steel.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2007Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Sinvent ASInventors: Øystein Grong, Casper Van Der Eijk, Gabriella Maria Tranell, Leiv Olav Kolbeinsen
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Publication number: 20130167983Abstract: The invention relates to a super bainite steel consisting of the following elements in weight %: C: 0.4-1.1 Mn: 0.4-2.1 Si: 0.15-1.2 Al: 0.0-2.0 Cr: 0.0-1.4 Ni: 0.0-2.5 Mo: 0.0-0.6 V: 0.0-0.3 Co: 0.0-3.0 P: <0.025 S: <0.025 the balance being iron and unavoidable impurities. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such a super bainite steel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2011Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: TATA STEEL UK LIMITEDInventors: Richard Clarke, Paul Davies, John Madill, Andrew James Rose, Andrew Smith, Alun Thomas
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Patent number: 8444780Abstract: A hot rolled steel strip made by the steps including assembling a twin roll caster, forming a casting pool of molten steel of such composition that the cast strip produced comprises by weight, greater than 0.25% and up to 1.1% carbon, between 0.40 and 2.0% manganese, between 0.05 and 0.50% silicon, less than 0.01% aluminum, counter rotating the casting rolls to solidify metal shells and forming a steel strip, hot rolling the steel strip such that mechanical properties at 10% and 35% reduction are within 10% for yield strength, tensile strength and total elongation, and coiling the hot rolled steel strip at a temperature between 550 and 750° C. to provide a majority of the microstructure comprising pearlite, along with bainite and acicular ferrite. The steel may have a free oxygen content between 5 and 50 ppm or between 25 and 45 ppm.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Nucor CorporationInventors: Daniel Geoffrey Edelman, Christopher Ronald Killmore
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Publication number: 20130118647Abstract: A method of producing an austenitic steel strip or sheet excellent in resistance to delayed cracking and a steel produced thereby.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2011Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: TATA STEEL IJMUIDEN BVInventors: Basjan Berkhout, Marcus Cornelis Maria Cornelissen, Jayesh Ramjibhai Patel
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Publication number: 20130118650Abstract: The present invention relates to ferritic-austenitic stainless steel oriented to have low Ni which is excellent in corrosion resistance, particularly in corrosion resistance in a neutral chloride environment, and has high “uniform elongation”—a factor governing workability—and a method of production for the same. There are independently provided ferritic-austenitic stainless steels and methods of production for the same particularly having a corrosion resistance in a neutral chloride environment satisfying PI value(=Cr+3Mo+10N?Mn)?18% and having a uniform elongation satisfying ?10?Md?110 (where Md=551?462({C}+[N])?9.2[Si]?8.1[Mn]?13.7[Cr]?29[Ni]?29[Cu]?18.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2012Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masaharu Hatano, Akihiko Takahashi, Eiichiro Ishimaru, Ken Kimura
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Patent number: 8435363Abstract: A multi-phase steel sheet having microstructure having in combination ferrite, martensite of between 3% and 65% by volume, and at least one microstructure selected from the group consisting of, bainite and retained austenite, and having fine complex precipitates selected from the group of TiC, NbC, TiN, NbN, (Ti.Nb)C, (Ti.Nb)N, and (Ti.Nb)(C.N) particles having at least 50% smaller than 20 nm in size, and physical properties having tensile strength greater than about 780 megapascals and at least one of the properties of elongation greater than about 10%, yield ratio greater than about 70%, and hole expansion ratio greater than about 50%.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2008Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Nucor CorporationInventor: Weiping Sun
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Patent number: 8361248Abstract: The present invention provides a high strength steel having unprecedentedly superior CTOD (fracture toughness) properties satisfying not only the CTOD properties of the FL zone at ?60° C., but also the CTOD properties of the ICHAZ zone in small and medium heat input multilayer welding, etc.; and a method of production of the same. The steel of the present invention is steel superior in CTOD properties of the heat-affected zone containing, by mass %, C: 0.015 to 0.045%, Si: 0.05 to 0.2%, Mn: 1.5 to 2.0%, Cu: 0.25 to 0.5%, Ni: 0.7 to 1.5%, P: 0.008% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Al: 0.004% or less, Ti: 0.005 to 0.015%, Nb: 0.005% or less, O: 0.0015 to 0.0035%, and N: 0.002 to 0.006%, PCTOD: 0.065 or less, CeqH: 0.235 or less and the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2008Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Rikio Chijiiwa, Ryuji Uemori, Yoshiyuki Watanabe, Kazuhiro Fukunaga, Akihiko Kojima, Yoshihide Nagai