| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 138156000 | LONGITUDINALLY SEAMED | 33 |
| 20100193064 | SQUARE PIPE, FRAME STRUCTURE, SQUARE PIPE MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND SQUARE PIPE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A square pipe manufacturing method includes: a first processing step of forming a first intermediate formed product | 08-05-2010 |
| 20110023990 | WELDED STEEL PIPE JOINED WITH HIGH-ENERGY-DENSITY BEAM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A steel strip is formed into a cylinder so that opposite ends of the steel strip face each other, while continuously conveying the steel strip. The opposite ends are melted across the entire thickness by irradiating the opposite ends with a high-energy-density beam while applying a pressure with squeeze rolls. A seam is formed by joining the opposite ends, and excess weld metal of the seam on the outer and inner sides of the obtained welded steel pipe is removed by cutting. A repaired seam is then formed by remelting and solidifying a region on the inner side of the welded steel pipe, the region having a depth of 0.5 mm or more from the surface and a width of double or more the width of the seam, and in addition, the center line of the seam is made to coincide with the center line of the repaired seam. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110232800 | External Deburring of Welded Pipe - 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, allowed to flow in a downstream direction, and is guided downstream and cut into chips at a location downstream of where the weld bead is separated from the pipe. Also disclosed is weld bead cutting tool including a cutting edge at an upstream end of the tool, a guide feature disposed downstream of the cutting edge and extending toward a downstream end of the tool, wherein the guide feature widens from the upstream end toward the downstream end. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20120000565 | Barrel Form and Manufacturing Process for Same - A process of making an adjustable diameter barrel form includes the steps of providing a sheet formed of metal and folding the sheet along a widthwise bend. Pressure is applied to the sheet along the bend within a rolling device. The sheet is rolled within the rolling device over its length gradually moving the bend from one lengthwise end to the other lengthwise end while applying the pressure. The pressure is removed to release the sheet so that the sheet can roll up in a lengthwise direction into a coil. The rolling device can include a pair of rollers, an arbor, and a mandrel on the arbor. The rolling device can include a base plate, a press plate, and a mandrel between the plates. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20130248044 | VENT DUCT - A vent duct having an inner fluid flow passage includes a bent portion formed to a duct body portion at which the fluid flow passage is bent, and a protruded portion formed on a downstream side of the bent portion so as to protrude from an inner peripheral surface portion toward an axial center of the fluid flow passage, wherein the protruded portion includes an upstream side end portion formed to be gently continuous to the inner peripheral surface portion of a downstream side portion of the bent portion, a body portion extending from the upstream side end portion toward the downstream side portion along the fluid flow passage, and a downstream side end portion along the fluid flow passage to be continuous to the body, the downstream side end portion of the protruded portion being formed to be perpendicular to the inner peripheral surface portion. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130312866 | DUCT BLANK SEAM AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING A DUCT BLANK SEAM - A flanged duct blank has a male part defined by lead notches formed at each side of a leading end and has a female part defined by trail notches formed at each side of a trailing end. The male part includes a lock tab. The female part includes a leg part and a Z-bend. The Z-bend includes a leg part and a gap. The duct blank is repeatedly clamped and bent by a pivoting wiper to form a duct portion. The pivoting wiper includes a clench tool that has a retractable rib and a retractable roller. With the lock tab inserted into the Z-bend and the retractable rib engaged with the Z-bend, the retractable roller clenches the leg part over the lock tab to lock the male and female parts together in a duct seam. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20150027582 | HOLLOW PROFILE - A profile is produced from a bent metal sheet surrounding an interior space by at least 360°, the longitudinal edges of said metal sheet being connected to respectively adjacent wall sections of the metal sheet. The longitudinal edges are separated from the respectively adjacent wall sections or longitudinal edges by spacers and are connected thereto in a form-fitting manner by fasteners such as screws, rivets, or the like. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150361518 | 500 MPa GRADE LONGITUDINALLY WELDED STEEL PIPE WITH LOW YIELD RATIO AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A 500 MPa grade longitudinally welded steel pipe with a low yield ratio and a manufacturing method therefor, the components thereof by weight percentages being as follows: C 0.11%-0.16%, Si 0.15%-0.35%, Mn 0.8%-1.5%, V 0.06%-0.15%, Al 0.002%-0.04%, Ti 0%-0.05%, Nb 0%-0.05%, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and the carbon equivalent Ceq being not more than 0.4%. According to the above component design, molten steel is subjected to smelting in a converter or electric furnace, and is cast into a slab; the slab is heated at 1,200° C.-1,300° C. and rolled into a plate strip, with the finished rolling temperature of the plate strip being between 840° C.-940° C.; the rolled plate strip is subjected to laminar flow cooling with a water curtain, the laminar flow cooling adopting the manner of rear-section cooling, and is coiled into a plate roll when being cooled to the temperature interval of 500° C.-560° C.; and after welding formation, a heat treatment on the welding seams is carried out at a heating temperature of 950° C.±50° C. The steel pipe of the present invention has the characteristics of an excellent welding property, a high strength and toughness, a low yield ratio and the like, and the yield strength thereof is greater than 500 MPa and the yield ratio thereof is less than 0.85. | 12-17-2015 |
| 138157000 | Sectional | 5 |
| 20110094615 | Modular Exhaust Tube System - A modular exhaust tube system for directing exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine. The exhaust tube system includes first and second elongate half-shells, with each half-shell comprising an elongate thin-wall body having a substantially U-shaped cross-sectional profile with a constant sideways opening along the length of the body. The exhaust tube system also includes a center brace having dimensions which span the length and height of the sideways openings. The sideways openings of the first and second half-shells are coupled together around the center brace to form a flattened elongate exhaust tube having an inlet end and an outlet end for directing exhaust gases from the internal combustion engine. In one aspect the first and second half-shells are selected from a group of interchangeable and modular half-shells having different substantially U-shaped cross-sectional profiles that are reversible top-to-bottom and end-to-end. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20120204993 | CURVILINEAL CLOSED STRUCTURE PARTS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method for manufacturing includes a polygonal shape closed structure part with a bent shape in the longitudinal direction only by press forming. The method uses two metal plates for manufacturing a curvilineal closed structure part and includes a press forming process of forming straight or bent folding lines in the longitudinal direction of the two metal plates at positions corresponding to a polygonal bent shape with a flange formed at least at one of the ends of the width direction of each plate, a process of forming a closed structure by laying the two metal plates to overlap each other flange to flange and end to end for ends without flanges and by welding the portions laid to overlap each other in the longitudinal direction of the metal plates, and a process of forming a polygonal shape closed structure having a bent shape in the longitudinal direction by holding both ends of the closed structure and by compressing it toward its central axis. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20130092279 | COILED TUBING WITH IMPROVED FATIGUE RESISTANCE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - New methods of manufacturing coiled tubing result in increased useful life of the coiled tubing string by creating an enhanced strip-to-strip weld zone having load bearing and/or fatigue resistance properties substantially equal to or greater than the load bearing and/or fatigue resistance properties of the strip base material. The enhanced weld zone is transition into the nominal tubing to reduce stress concentration. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20160003379 | CORRUGATED STEEL PIPE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A corrugated steel pipe is disclosed. The corrugated steel pipe comprises a plurality of unit steel pipes, which are continuous in the axial direction. Each unit steel pipe comprises a first cylindrical pipe obtained by bending a first unit steel plate into a cylindrical shape, both ends of the first unit steel plate abutting each other and forming a first seam on one side of the first cylindrical pipe; and a second cylindrical pipe obtained by bending a second unit steel plate into a cylindrical shape, both ends of the second unit steel plate abutting each other and forming a second seam on one side of the second cylindrical pipe. The second cylindrical pipe is bent into a cylindrical shape and folded on the outer surface of the first cylindrical pipe so that the inner surface of the second unit steel pipe surrounds the first seam. The second seam is positioned not to correspond to the first seam. | 01-07-2016 |
| 138158000 | With separate mechanical securing means | 1 |
| 20100101677 | COVERING DEVICE - The invention relates to a covering device, preferably for post-isolating the connection point of pipes, in particular district heating pipes. Said device comprises at least two cover shells ( | 04-29-2010 |
| 138164000 | With packing | 1 |
| 20130240077 | Method of Installing Sealed Circular Ductwork - A circular sheet metal duct having a sealant applied across the longitudinal seam. The sealant will improve the efficiency and will reduce or eliminate air leakage from the longitudinal seam. The sealant is applied during the manufacturing processes so that an installer does not have to seal the duct work. The method of manufacturing the sealant is provided. | 09-19-2013 |
| 138170000 | Permanent type seam | 19 |
| 20150369511 | AIRFLOW SYSTEM - An airflow system is provided that includes an interior strip that attaches an interior surface of a wall support assembly, a rear sheet attached to a rear exterior of the wall support assembly, a front sheet attached to a front exterior of the wall support assembly. The interior strip, rear sheet, and front sheet form a flame retardant interior channel that facilitates the transfer of airflow to and from an airflow source. | 12-24-2015 |
| 138171000 | Brazed, soldered or welded | 18 |
| 20100032048 | ELECTRIC RESISTANCE WELDED STEEL PIPE WITH EXCELLENT WELD TOUGHNESS FOR LINE PIPE - 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 μm 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 | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100326559 | STEEL PLATE AND STEEL PIPE FOR LINE PIPES - 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. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110214775 | CYLINDER TUBE, HYDRAULIC CYLINDER WITH SAME, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CYLINDER TUBE - 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. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110308660 | DUAL SEAM ELECTRIC RESISTANCE WELDED TUBES - 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. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120291907 | HIGH-STRENGTH WELDED STEEL PIPE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - 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 γ grains in heat affected zones in the steel plate is 250 μm or less, and the prior γ grains include bainite and intragranular bainite. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20130037162 | THICK WELDED STEEL PIPE EXCELLENT IN LOW TEMPERATURE TOUGHNESS, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THICK WELDED STEEL PIPE EXCELLENT IN LOW TEMPERATURE TOUGHNESS, AND STEEL PLATE FOR MANUFACTURING THICK WELDED STEEL PIPE - 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. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20140130933 | DUCT - 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. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140202576 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING WELDED STEEL PIPE AND WELDED STEEL PIPE - 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: | 07-24-2014 |
| 20150007904 | ABRASION RESISTANT WELDED STEEL PIPE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - 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/mm | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150068638 | LOW-YIELD RATIO HIGH-STRENGTH ELECTRIC RESISTANCE WELDED STEEL PIPE, STEEL STRIP FOR ELECTRIC RESISTANCE WELDED STEEL PIPES, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEM - 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. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150083266 | HIGH-STRENGTH THICK-WALLED ELECTRIC RESISTANCE WELDED STEEL PIPE HAVING EXCELLENT LOW-TEMPERATURE TOUGHNESS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - 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. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150292650 | ALPHA & BETA TYPE TITANIUM ALLOY SHEET FOR WELDED PIPE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND ALPHA & BETA TYPE TITANIUM ALLOY WELDED PIPE PRODUCT - An α+β type titanium alloy sheet to be used for a welded pipe with a rolling direction of the sheet set to a circumference direction of the pipe includes: a composition containing, in mass %, 0.8 to 1.5% of Fe, 4.8 to 5.5% of Al, 0.020% or less of N, O in a range satisfying Q=0.14 to 0.38, and a balance being composed of Ti and impurities, in which a texture in a sheet plane direction has: a first group of grains oriented in a region where of a (0002) pole figure of an α phase having a hexagonal crystal structure, an angle θ being the angle between a c axis and a sheet normal direction is 0 to 30°; and a second group of grains oriented in a region where the angle θ is 80 to 100° and of the (0002) pole figure of the α phase, an angle φ being the angle between a projection line of the c axis onto the sheet plane and a sheet width direction is −10 to 10°, and a ratio of peak values of X-ray relative intensities from a basal plane in the α phase between the first group of grains and the second group of grains (the second group of grains/the first group of grains) is 5.0 or more. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150360281 | ALUMINUM PORTHOLE EXTRUDED TUBING WITH LOCATING FEATURE - 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. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20160033059 | FLOWFORMING CORROSION RESISTANT ALLOY TUBES - Flowforming processes for the production of corrosion resistant alloy tubes are disclosed. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160053354 | STEEL PLATE FOR THICK-WALLED STEEL PIPE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND THICK-WALLED HIGH-STRENGTH STEEL PIPE (AS AMENDED) - A steel plate has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.03% or more and 0.10% or less, Si: 0.05% or more and 0.50% or less, Mn: 1.00% or more and 2.00% or less, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Mo: 0.20% or less (including 0%), Nb: 0.01% or more and 0.05% or less, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and, if desired, containing, by mass %, one or more of Al: 0.005% or more and 0.1% or less, Cu: 1.00% or less, Ni: 1.00% or less, Cr: 0.50% or less, and V: 0.05% or less, in which Pcm* (%) (=C+Si/30+(Mn+Cu+Cr)/20+Ni/60+Mo/2+V/10) is 0.20 or less. The steel plate has a volume fraction of bainite in a base material of 50% or more, and has a volume fraction of island martensite (MA) in a coarse-grain region reheated in a dual-phase temperature range of 5.0% or less. A slab having the chemical composition described above that is cast using a continuous casting method is reheated at a specified temperature, hot-rolled, and then subjected to accelerated cooling to a temperature of 550° C. or lower and 250° C. or higher. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160160311 | METHOD FOR FORMING BLANK AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING PREFORMING SHAPE - By using, as a raw material, a thick hot-rolled steel sheet having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.02% or more and 0.10% or less, Si: 0.05% or more and 0.30% or less, Mn: 0.80% or more and 2.00% or less, and Nb: 0.010% or more and 0.100% or less and satisfying the condition that a carbon equivalent Ceq is 0.25% or more and 0.50% or less, a microstructure including a bainitic ferrite phase and/or a bainite phase, a high strength of 52 ksi or more in terms of yield strength and a high toughness of −45° C. or lower in terms of fracture transition temperature vTrs, an electric resistance weld zone having a microstructure including a bainitic ferrite phase and/or a bainite phase and satisfying the condition that the ratio of the average crystal grain size of the coarsest-grain portion to the average crystal grain size of the finest-grain portion is 2.0 or less in every portion in the wall thickness direction is obtained. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20170232492 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PRESS-FORMED PRODUCT, AND PRESS-FORMED PRODUCT | 08-17-2017 |
| 20180023163 | HIGH-STRENGTH WELDED STEEL PIPE FOR AIRBAG INFLATOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME (AS AMENDED) | 01-25-2018 |
