Jfe Steel Corporation

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Thyssenkrupp Steel Ag

Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe Ag

Jfe Container Co., Ltd

Shusaku Takagi

Hiroshi Okano

Akihide Nagao

Toshio Takano

Nobuyuki Ishikawa

Kohei Hasegawa

Kazuki Matsubara

Tatsuya Nakagaito

Hiroshi Matsuda

Mitsuo Kimura

Yasunobu Nagataki

Saiji Matsuoka

Tetsuo Shimizu

Kotaro Kadota

Takeshi Fujita

Hiroshi Takahashi

Shinjiro Kaneko

Yoshitsugu Suzuki

Koichi Nakagawa

Yasushi Tanaka

Takashi Kawano

Akio Kobayashi

Kei Sakata

Takuya Hasegawa

Kaneharu Okuda

Reiko Sugihara

Yoshikiyo Tamai

Yasuaki Okita

Kenji Kawamura

Nobusuke Kariya

Yoshiharu Sugimoto

Michitaka Sakurai

Hidetaka Kawabe

Takayuki Futatsuka

Thomas Heller

Taro Kizu

Brigitte Hammer

Yoshitaka Okitsu

Tetsuya Mega

Naoki Takaki

Toshihiko Ooi

Jian Bian

Rolf Bode

Günter Stich

Tadashi Naito

Tomoaki Sugiura

Brigitte Bode, Legal Representative

Norikazu Yamaguchi

Hiroki Kuno

To alleviate stress exerted on a thread portion of a high pressure gas container including a metallic container to prevent fatigue fracture, there is provided a high pressure gas container comprising a metallic container, wherein the metallic container includes: a metallic cylinder; a female thread portion on an inner peripheral surface of the metallic cylinder at at least one end; and a lid having, on an outer peripheral surface, a male thread portion configured to screw into the female thread portion, and a maximum value of residual compressive stress at a position of 0.4 mm in a depth direction from a plurality of thread bottoms of the female thread portion and the male thread portion is 100 MPa or more, less than or equal to tensile strength of a material of the metallic cylinder, and less than or equal to tensile strength of a material of the lid.

High pressure gas container and production method therefor

A high-pressure hydrogen container includes: a cylinder body; and a lid member that closes an end portion of the cylinder body. The cylinder body includes: a joining portion that fixes the lid member; a cylinder portion that forms an outer shell of a storage portion; and a sealing surface formed at an inner surface of the cylinder body. At least H<K is satisfied, where an area of the sealing surface which the sealing portion abuts is an abutting area, H is a thickness from the abutting area to an outer surface of the cylinder body, part of the cylinder body in which a stress greater than or equal to a predetermined stress σ is generated is a stress generation portion, and L is a distance between the abutting area and the stress generation portion.

High-pressure hydrogen container

A hydrogen supply system is configured to supply hydrogen to a fuel-cell vehicle by using a receptacle for hydrogen transport, and includes: a filling unit provided at a hydrogen filling facility and configured to fill the receptacle with hydrogen; a management unit configured to calculate a transport timing at which the hydrogen-filled receptacle is transported to a business facility that operates the fuel-cell vehicle; a transport unit configured to transport the hydrogen-filled receptacle to the business facility in accordance with the transport timing; and a disposition unit configured to dispose the hydrogen-filled receptacle transported to the business facility at a place to which the fuel-cell vehicle is capable of accessing to have a refill of the hydrogen in the business facility.

Hydrogen supply system

A high-pressure hydrogen container is provided that has a simple configuration, requiring less labor for manufacture, achieving reduced manufacturing costs, and ensuring pressure resistance. The high-pressure hydrogen container includes a metal cylinder configured to store high-pressure hydrogen, a pair of lid parts configured to cover both end portions of the metal cylinder, and a plurality of fastening parts configured to fix the pair of lid parts in a state where the metal cylinder is clamped between the pair of lid parts.

A composite pressure vessel liner suitable for use in a composite pressure vessel for storing high-pressure hydrogen is provided. The composite pressure vessel liner is made of a steel material including: a predetermined chemical composition; and a metallic microstructure in which an area fraction of martensite at a position of &#xbc; of a wall thickness on an inner side is 30% or more, a total area fraction of martensite and bainite at the position of &#xbc; of the wall thickness on the inner side is 95% or more, and a total area fraction of martensite and bainite in a wall thickness center part is 95% or more, wherein the composite pressure vessel liner has a wall thickness of 20 mm or more in a longitudinal center part, and a tensile strength of 850 MPa or more in the wall thickness center part.

Composite pressure vessel liner, composite pressure vessel, and method for producing composite pressure vessel liner

A steel pipe or tube for pressure vessels having excellent quench crack resistance is provided. The steel pipe or tube for pressure vessels comprises: a specific chemical composition; and a metallic microstructure in which an average grain size of prior austenite grains is 500 &#x3bc;m or less, and an area fraction of microstructures other than ferrite is 50% or more.

Steel pipe or tube for pressure vessels, method of producing steel pipe or tube for pressure vessels, and composite pressure vessel liner

A hydrogen storage tank includes a liner layer to store hydrogen and a carbon fiber reinforced plastic layer disposed outside the liner layer. The liner layer is formed from a low-alloy steel, and the carbon fiber forming the carbon fiber reinforced plastic layer is a pitch based carbon fiber.

Hydrogen storage tank

Steel material for composite pressure vessel liners that, when used as raw material for manufacturing a composite pressure vessel liner, yields a liner having sufficient strength and a high fatigue limit and enables the manufacture of an inexpensive composite pressure vessel is provided. Steel material for composite pressure vessel liners comprises: a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.10% to 0.60%, Si: 0.01% to 2.0%, Mn: 0.1% to 5.0%, P: 0.0005% to 0.060%, S: 0.0001% to 0.010%, N: 0.0001% to 0.010%, and Al: 0.01% to 0.06%, with a balance being Fe and incidental impurities; and a metallic microstructure in which a mean grain size of prior austenite grains is 20 &#x3bc;m or less, and a total area ratio of martensite and lower bainite is 90% or more.

Steel material for composite pressure vessel liner and steel pipe or tube for composite pressure vessel liner

A high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet excellent in formability includes, on the basis of mass percent, 0.05-0.3% C, 1.4% or less (including 0%) Si, 0.08%-3% Mn, 0.003-0.1% P, 0.07% or less S, 0.1-2.5% Al, 0.1-0.5% Cr, and 0.007% or less N, Si+Al&#x2265;0.5%, and the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, wherein the steel sheet has a retained austenite content of 3% or more by volume fraction, a stretch-flange formability &#x3bb;&#x3e;50% and wherein the average aspect ratio (major axis/minor axis) of retained austenite grains is less than 2.5.

High-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet excellent in formability and method of producing same

Provided is a gas-phase hydrogen permeation test device capable of safely measuring hydrogen permeation behavior in a material under a high-pressure hydrogen atmosphere. The gas-phase hydrogen permeation test device includes a high-pressure hydrogen feeder, an analyzer, a primary-side pipe, a secondary-side pipe, a secondary-side pressure gauge, a primary-side shut-off valve, a primary-side discharge valve, a secondary-side discharge valve, a passive discharger, a secondary-side shut-off valve, and a controller configured to, when the pressure measured by the secondary-side pressure gauge reaches or exceeds a specific value, place the primary-side shut-off valve and the secondary-side shut-off valve into a closed state and the primary-side discharge valve and the secondary-side discharge valve into an open state.

Gas-phase hydrogen permeation test device and method of protecting gas-phase hydrogen permeation test device

A method of manufacturing a galvanized steel sheet includes a two-stage temperature raising process which includes: primary heating the sheet from 200&#xb0; C. to an intermediate temperature of 500 to 800&#xb0; C. at a primary average heating rate of 5 to 50&#xb0; C./second at an excess air ratio of 1.10 to 1.20 maintained up to the intermediate temperature; secondary heating the sheet from the intermediate temperature to an annealing temperature of 730 to 900&#xb0; C. at a secondary average heating rate of 0.1 to 10&#xb0; C./second at an excess air ratio of less than 1.10 maintained up to the annealing temperature; holding the sheet to the annealing temperature for 10 to 500 seconds; cooling the sheet to 450 to 550&#xb0; C. at an average cooling rate of 1 to 30&#xb0; C./second; and subjecting the sheet to a galvanizing process and, optionally, an alloying process.

High strength galvanized steel sheet having excellent bendability and weldability, and method of manufacturing the same

A steel material includes: a composition containing, by mass, C: 0.05% to 0.60%, Si: 0.01% to 2.0%, Mn: 0.3% to 3.0%, P: 0.001% to 0.040%, S: 0.0001% to 0.010%, N: 0.0001% to 0.0060%, Al: 0.01% to 1.5%, one or more elements selected from Ti: 0.01% to 0.20%, Nb: 0.01% to 0.20%, and V: 0.01% or more and less than 0.05%, and one or more elements selected from B: 0.0001% to 0.01%, Mo: 0.005% to 2.0%, and Cr: 0.005% to 3.0%, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities; and a steel microstructure that includes 95% or more of tempered martensite on a volume fraction basis, that includes a precipitate having a diameter of 100 nm or less and including one or more elements selected from Ti, Nb, and V and one or more elements selected from carbon and nitrogen at a density of 50 particles/&#x3bc;mor more, and that includes prior austenite having a grain diameter of 3 &#x3bc;m or more.

Steel material, hydrogen container, method for producing the steel material, and method for producing the hydrogen container

A formable galvanized steel sheet includes, in terms of % by mass, 0.05 to 0.3% of C, 0.01 to 2.5% of Si, 0.5 to 3.5% of Mn, 0.003 to 0.100% of P, 0.02% or less of S, 0.010 to 1.5% of Al, and 0.01 to 0.2% in total of at least one element selected from Ti, Nb and V, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, having a microstructure composed of, in terms of area fraction, 20 to 87% of ferrite, 3 to 10% in total of martensite and residual austenite, and 10 to 60% of tempered martensite, and a second phase composed of the martensite, residual austenite, and tempered martensite having an average crystal grain diameter of 3 &#x3bc;m or less, and having a ratio of absorption energy AE to tensile strength TS (AE/TS) not less than 0.063.

High tensile strength galvanized steel sheets excellent in formability and methods of manufacturing the same

A vehicle collision energy absorbing member is excellent in collision energy absorbing performance in the axial direction upon collision. The vehicle collision energy absorbing member is formed of a high strength thin steel sheet having TS of at least 980 MPa and having an n-value and a limit bending radius Rc satisfying the following Formula: Rc/t&#x2266;1.31&#xd7;ln(n)+5.21.

Vehicle collision energy absorbing member excellent in energy absorbing performance and manufacturing method therefor

A high strength galvanized steel sheet including all in mass %, C: 0.05% to &#x3c;0.12%, Si: 0.35% to &#x3c;0.80%, Mn: 2.0 to 3.5%, P: 0.001 to 0.040%, S: 0.0001 to 0.0050%, Al: 0.005 to 0.1%, N: 0.0001 to 0.0060%, Cr: 0.01% to 0.5%, Ti: 0.010 to 0.080%, Nb: 0.010 to 0.080%, and B: 0.0001 to 0.0030%, optionally one or more of Mo: 0.01 to 0.15%, Ca: 0.0001 to 0.0050%, REM: 0.0001 to 0.1%, and Sb: 0.0001 to 0.1%, and Fe and unavoidable impurities as the balance, has a microstructure containing a ferrite phase with a volume fraction in a range of 20 to 70% and an average grain diameter equal to or smaller than 5 &#x3bc;m, and has a galvanized layer on a surface thereof at a coating weight (per side) of 20 to 150 g/m.

High strength galvanized steel sheet having excellent formability, weldability, and fatigue properties and method for manufacturing the same

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Shusaku Takagi