IP Library Granted Patent US 9,062,432
Granted Patent B2
US 9,062,432 · App. 13/981,415 · Granted Jun 23, 2015

Depression-provided steel pipe and composite pile

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Patent No.
US 9,062,432
App. No.
13/981,415
Granted
Jun 23, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

This depression-provided steel pipe has plural depressions on an outer peripheral surface, the depressions being formed so as to form a line along an axial direction of the steel pipe, in which each of the depressed portions has, inside thereof, a columnar groove portion extending along the axial direction of the steel pipe and depressed deeper than a bottom surface of these depressed portions; 0.95≦H A /H B ≦1.05 is satisfied, where H A is an average Vickers hardness in each of the depressed portions, and H B is a Vickers hardness at a portion between the depressed portions adjacent to each other in the axial direction of the steel pipe; and the outer peripheral surface is covered with a mill scale.

Claims (10)

1. A depression-provided steel pipe having plural depressions on an outer peripheral surface , the depressions being formed so as to form a line along an axial direction of the steel pipe, wherein each of the depressed portions has, inside thereof, a columnar groove portion extending along the axial direction of the steel pipe and depressed deeper than a bottom surface of these depressed portions; 0.95 <H A /H B <1.05 is satisfied, where H A is an average Vickers hardness in each of the depressed portions, and H B is a Vickers hardness at a portion between the depressed portions adjacent to each other in the axial direction of the steel pipe; and the outer peripheral surface is covered with a mill scale.

2. The depression-provided steel pipe according to claim 1 , wherein at any position along an axis of the steel pipe, a percentage of a total circumferential length at each of the depressed portions of the steel pipe relative to an entire perimeter of the depression-provided steel pipe is 50% or less.

3. The depression-provided steel pipe according to claim 1 , wherein the depressed portions are arranged so as to form four or more lines in parallel.

4. The depression-provided steel pipe according to claim 3 , wherein among the lines of the depressed portions, lines of the depressed portions adjacent in the circumferential direction are formed so as to have a phase difference in the axial direction of the steel pipe; and the phase difference is not less than ⅛ and not more than ½ of a distance between centers of the depressed portions adjacent in the axial direction of the steel pipe.

5. The depression-provided steel pipe according to claim 1 , wherein the depressed portions are arranged so as to form six or more lines in parallel.

6. The depression-provided steel pipe according to claim 5 , wherein among the lines of the depressed portions, lines of the depressed portions adjacent in the circumferential direction are formed so as to have a phase difference in the axial direction of the steel pipe; and the phase difference is not less than ⅛ and not more than ½ of a distance between centers of the depressed portions adjacent in the axial direction of the steel pipe.

7. The depression-provided steel pipe according to claim 1 , wherein each of the depressed portions has an oval shape with a major axis in parallel to the axial direction of the steel pipe.

8. The depression-provided steel pipe according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of a plating layer and a resin layer is formed on the mill scale.

9. A composite pile, comprising: a solidified material, and the depression-provided steel pipe according to any one of claim 1 - 7 or 8 , which is integrally driven into the solidified material.

10. A method of producing the depression-provided steel pipe according to claim 1 , the method comprising hot roll forming each of the depressed portions using a steel pipe processing roll having a surface with a raised portion.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 14, 2019
From: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
To: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049257/0828 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 24, 2013
From: TAKAGI, MASAHIDE; TAENAKA, SHINJI; SATOH, TETSU; MOTEGI, YUKI; OOSAWA, TAKASHI
To: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 030866/0713 →