| NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD. Patent applications |
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| 20120132275 | DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A dye-sensitized solar cell comprises a photoelectrode formed by using a stainless steel plate and a counter electrode formed by using a light-transmissive electroconductive material, wherein the photoelectrode comprises, as the substrate thereof, a stainless steel plate having a chemical composition containing Cr: at least 16% by mass and Mo: at least 0.3% by mass and having a roughened surface in which pit-like indentations are formed and which is controlled to have an arithmetic average roughness Ra of at least 0.2 μm, and comprises, as formed on the roughened surface of the substrate, a sensitizing dye-carrying semiconductor layer, the counter electrode has a catalyst thin-film layer formed on the surface of the light-transmissive electroconductive material and has visible light tansmissiveness, and the semiconductor layer of the photoelectrode and the catalyst thin-film layer of the counter electrode face each other via an electrolytic solution. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120111529 | FERRITIC STAINLESS STEEL FOR EGR COOLER AND EGR COOLER - A ferritic stainless steel suitable for use as an EGR cooler member, which can be Ni-brazed into an EGR cooler, contains, by mass, C: at most 0.03%, Si: from more than 0.1 to 3%, Mn: from 0.1 to 2%, Cr: from 10 to 25%, Nb: from 0.3 to 0.8%, and N: at most 0.03%, and optionally selectively contains (a) one or more of Mo, Cu, V and W in a total amount of at most 4%, (b) one or more of Ti, Al and Zr in a total amount of at most 0.3%, (c) one or more of Ni and Co in a total amount of at most 5%, and (d) one or more of REMs (rare earth metals) and Ca in a total amount of at most 0.2%, with a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120103459 | HIGH FATIGUE SERVICE LIFE QUENCHING/TEMPERING STEEL TUBE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - Provided is a steel pipe designed to have a further increased high strength and a further improved fatigue life with suppressing the material cost and the production cost, especially such a steel pipe suitable for machine structure members that are required to be lightweight. The steel pipe is a high fatigue life steel pipe produced according to a process of using a steel plate having a composition that comprises, % by mass, C: 0.1 to 0.4%, Si: 0.5 to 1.5%, Mn: 0.3 to 2%, P: at most 0.02%, S: at most 0.01%, Cr: 0.1 to 2%, Ti: 0.01 to 0.1%, Nb: 0.01 to 0.1%, Al: at most 0.1%, B: 0.0005 to 0.01%, N: at most 0.01%, and optionally at least one of Ni: at most 0.5%, Ca: at most 0.02%, Mo: at most 0.5%, and V: at most 0.5%, with a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, and having, on at least one side thereof, a smoothed surface of which the surface roughness Ra in the direction (C direction) perpendicular to the direction to be the longitudinal direction of the steel pipe is at most 0.5 μm, welding it into a pipe in such a manner that the smoothed surface thereof could be the inner surface of the steel pipe, and then quenching/tempering it. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120085513 | FERRITIC STAINLESS STEEL MATERIAL FOR BRAZING AND HEAT EXCHANGER MEMBER - A ferritic stainless steel material for brazing without grain coarsening has a partially recrystallized structure and composition comprising, in % by mass, C:0.03% or less, Si: more than 0.1 to 3%, Mn: 0.1 to 2%, Cr: 10 to 35%, Nb: 0.2 to 0.8%, N: 0.03% or less, if necessary, at least one of Mo, Cu, V and W: 4% or less in total, at least one of Ti and Zr: 0.5% or less in total, at least one of Ni and Co: 5% or less in total, or at least one of Al: 6% or less, REM (rare earth metal): 0.2% or less and Ca: 0.1% or less, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein area ratio in percentage of recrystallized grains formed by heating after cold working is from 10 to 80%. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120024430 | HIGH-STRENGTH STAINLESS STEEL PIPE - A stainless steel material having compositions which contain on the basis of percent by mass, C from 0.04 to 0.12%, Ni from 0 (including a case of no addition) to 5.0%, Cr from 12.0 to 17.0%, N from 0.0 to 0.10%, Si from 0.2 to 2.0%, Mn at 2.0% or less, Cu from 0.0 to 2.0%, P at 0.06% or less, S at 0.006% or less, with residue being Fe and unavoidable impurities. Further, a parent phase has any one of a single phase structure of ferrite phase or martensite phase and a diploid phase structure of ferrite phase and martensite phase. An end of the base material is melt-welded. as a joint to form a pipe. The parent phase is provided with carbide uniformly separated at grain boundaries and within grains, with a dissolved amount of C being 0.03% by mass or less. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20110318606 | ZINC-BASED ALLOY-PLATED STEEL MATERIAL EXCELLENT IN RESISTANCE TO MOLTEN-METAL EMBRITTLEMENT CRACKING - [Problem] To provide a zinc-based alloy-plated steel material in which low-carbon steel is used as the base material and which is excellent in resistance to molten-metal embrittlement cracking and has good workability. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110180141 | DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL - [Problem] To provide a dye-sensitized solar cell having excellent photoelectric conversion efficiency and capable of saving the amount of a catalyst used, by using an inexpensive metal material showing excellent corrosion resistance in an electrolyte of a dye-sensitized solar cell for a counter electrode. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110176954 | Ferritic Stainless Steel for Use as Conduit Members for Emission of Automotive Exhaust Gas - A ferritic stainless steel useful as conduit members for emission of automotive exhaust gas consists of C up to 0.03 mass %, Si up to 1.0 mass %, Mn up to 1.5 mass %, Ni up to 0.6 mass %, 10-20 mass % of Cr, Nb up to 0.50 mass %, 0.8-2.0 mass % of Cu, Al up to 0.03 mass %, 0.03-0.20 mass % of V, N up to 0.03 mass % and the balance being Fe except inevitable impurities with a provision of Nb≧8(C+N). The steel may further contain 0.05-0.30 mass % of Ti and/or 0.0005-0.02 mass % of B. Mo as an inevitable impurity is controlled to be less than 0.10 mass %. The steel has excellent formability, low-temperature toughness and weldability as well as the same heat-resistance as Nb, Mo-alloyed steel. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110033731 | FERRITIC STAINLESS STEEL - A ferritic stainless steel suited for use as a member for heat exchangers to be brazed with Ni-based filler metal or Cu-based filler metal, comprising, on the basis of mass percent, C: 0.03% or less, Si: 3% or less, Mn: 2% or less, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.03% or less, Cr: from 11 to 30%, Nb: from 0.15 to 0.8%, and N: 0.03% or less, wherein the balance is composed of Fe and incidental impurities, and wherein a value A determined by the following equation is 0.10 or greater: A=Nb−(C×92.9/12+N×92.9/14). | 02-10-2011 |
| 20100282372 | HIGH-STRENGTH STAINLESS STEEL MATERIAL AND PRODUCTION PROCESS OF THE SAME - Provided is a high-strength stainless steel material having less deterioration in mechanical strength and improved workability, particularly bending workability compared with conventional steel materials. The high-strength stainless steel material of the present invention has a specific composition, has a metal microstructure composed of two phases, that is a ferrite phase and a martensite phase, has a γmax of from 50 to 85, the γ | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100223927 | FERRITIC STAINLESS STEEL SHEET WITH EXCELLENT THERMAL FATIGUE PROPERTIES, AND AUTOMOTIVE EXHAUST-GAS PATH MEMBER - Disclosed is a ferritic stainless steel sheet with excellent thermal fatigue properties, including, by mass %, 0.03% or less of C, 1.0% or less of Si, 1.5% or less of Mn, 0.6% or less of Ni, 10˜20% of Cr, 0.05˜0.30% of Ti, 0.51˜0.65% of Nb, 0˜less than 0.10% of Mo, 0.8˜2.0% of Cu, 0˜0.10% of Al, 0.0005˜0.02% of B, 0˜0.20% of V, and 0.03% or less of N, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, having a composition satisfying the following equations (1) and (2) and having a structure in which ε-Cu phase grains each having a long diameter of 0.5 μm or more are present in a density of 10 or less per 25 μm | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100193478 | Electrode for spot welding - Provided is an electrode ( | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100119404 | Ferritic Stainless Steel for Use as Conduit Members For Emission of Automotive Exhaust Gas - A ferritic stainless steel useful as conduit members for emission of automotive exhaust gas consists of C up to 0.03 mass %, Si up to 1.0 mass %, Mn up to 1.5 mass %, Ni up to 0.6 mass %, 10-20 mass % of Cr, Nb up to 0.50 mass %, 0.8-2.0 mass % of Cu, Al up to 0.03 mass %, 0.03-0.20 mass % of V, N up to 0.03 mass % and the balance being Fe except inevitable impurities with a provision of Nb≧8(C+N). The steel may further contain 0.05-0.30 mass % of Ti and/or 0.0005-0.02 mass % of B. Mo as an inevitable impurity is controlled to be less than 0.10 mass %. The steel has excellent formability, low-temperature toughness and weldability as well as the same heat-resistance as Nb, Mo-alloyed steel. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100068040 | Exhaust Guide Member of Nozzle Vane-Type Turbocharger - In a turbocharger equipped with a nozzle vane for changing the speed of exhaust gas running through a turbine in accordance with the speed of engine revolution, the member to constitute the nozzle vane and to constitute an exhaust guide for guiding exhaust gas to the turbine is characterized in that the exhaust guide member of a nozzle vane-type turbocharge is formed of an austenite stainless steel containing, in terms of % by mass, at most 0.08% of C, from 2.0 to 4.0% of Si, at most 2.0% of Mn, from 8.0 to 16.0% of Ni, from 18.0 to 20.0% of Cr and at most 0.04% of N and containing these ingredients in such a manner that they satisfy a DE value of the specified formula to be from 5.0 to 12.0, with a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20090165905 | Ferritic Stainless Steel Sheet Excellent in Press Formability and Secondary Formability and its Manufacturing Method - A ferritic stainless steel sheet has a composition of C up to 0.02 mass %, Si up to 0.8 mass %, Mn up to 1.5 mass %, P up to 0.050 mass %, S up to 0.01 mass %, 8.0-35.0 mass % of Cr, N up to 0.05 mass %, 0.05-0.40 mass % of Ti and 0.10-0.50 mass % of Nb with a product of (% Ti % N) less than 0.005. Precipitates of 0.15 μm or more in particle size except TiN are distributed in a steel matrix at a rate of 5000-50000/mm | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090130535 | Separator for Low-Temperature Type Fuel Cell and Production Method Therefor - A stainless steel sheet useful as a separator for a low-temperature fuel cell has the surface state that a lot of fine projections (p) stand close together around many fine pits (d) formed over a whole surface. The surface state is realized by alternating electrolytic etching in a ferric chloride solution. When the stainless steel separator is built in a fuel cell, contact resistance between the separator and a graphite electrode is kept at a lower level even in a corrosive atmosphere. Consequently, the fuel cell can be driven with high power-generating efficiency over a long term even under severely corrosive conditions without generation of massive Joule heat. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090053093 | Ferritic Stainless Steel for Use as Conduit Members For Emission of Automotive Exhaust Gas - A ferritic stainless steel useful as conduit members for emission of automotive exhaust gas consists of C up to 0.03 mass %, Si up to 1.0 mass %, Mn up to 1.5 mass %, Ni up to 0.6 mass %, 10-20 mass % of Cr, Nb up to 0.50 mass %, 0.8-2.0 mass % of Cu, Al up to 0.03 mass %, 0.03-0.20 mass % of V, N up to 0.03 mass % and the balance being Fe except inevitable impurities with a provision of Nb≧8(C+N). The steel may further contain 0.05-0.30 mass % of Ti and/or 0.0005-0.02 mass % of B. Mo as an inevitable impurity is controlled less than 0.10 mass %. The steel has excellent formability, low-temperature toughness and weldability as well as the same heat-resistance as Nb, Mo-alloyed steel. | 02-26-2009 |
