JSSE holds Autumn Lecture Meeting
Nov. 22, 2017
The Japan Society of Spring Engineers (JSSE) held its semiannual Lecture Meeting, including a poster
session, and a ceremony of JSSE Awards at Winc Aichi in Nagoya on November 22, 2017.
Lecture Meeting
Eight general lectures and one special topic
lecture were presented to 129 attendees in a hall ofthe Winc Aichi in Nagoya. An opening speech wasdelivered by Mr. Haruhiko Shiba, Vice-Chairpersonof JSSE and Managing Officer, Member of theBoard of Chuo Spring Co., Ltd.

6. Influence of ultrasonic-shot peening on fatigueproperties of TiNi shape memory alloy wire, byDr. Kohei Takeda of Aichi Institute ofTechnology.
7. Effects of stress and plastic strain on eddy
current response for nondestructive testing of
shot-peened metals, by Mr. Yuichi Motoyama of
National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology (AIST).
8. Development of Compact Real-time X-ray
Residual Stress Measurement System using SOI
Pixel Detector, by Dr. Shingo Mitsui ofKanazawa University.

Mr. Haruhiko Shiba

Titles of General Lectures and Presenters
1. Internal friction during restoring processexplained from interaction between dislocationand magnetic wall, by Dr. Shigeo Kotake,
Associate Professor of Mie University.
2. Effect of oxygen to rust (iron oxide)-basedhydrogen generation by using modified TDS bygas-chromatography, by Dr. Yasuhide Ishiguro ofSteel Research Laboratory, JFE SteelCorporation.
3. Development of High Corrosion Resistance Rust
Preventive Oil for Thin Plate Springs after
Austempering Treatment, by Mr. Kazutoshi
Sakakibara of Togo Seisakusyo Corporation.
4. An Innovative Method for Measuring Young's
Modulus in a Thin Flexible Multi-layeredMaterials (Own-weight Circular Ring Method),by Dr. Atsumi Ohtsuki of Meijo University.
5. Stress Intensity Factors of Surface Cracks in
Anisotropic Tension Coil Springs, by Dr. YujiNakasone, Professor of Tokyo University ofScience.

Special Topic Lecture
Title: Developing of C-HR and TNGA (Toyota New
Global Architecture.)
Lecturer: Mr. Hiroyuki Koba, Project General
Manager of Toyota Motor Corporation.

Mr. Hiroyuki Koba

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Poster Session
Five technical posters were displayed in anotherhall. A brief explanation was given by arepresentative for each of the posters on thespeaker’s platform for the lecture meeting, followedby Question and Answer session at the posters. The
top two posters were selected based on theparticipants’ voting.

Ceremony of JSSE Awards
The awarding ceremony was held prior to theafternoon session of the lecture meeting.
Ronbun-prize, Gijutu-prize and Koseki-prize weregiven to the winners.

Ronbun-prize, (among papers submitted to JSSE):
Hydrogen Entry into a High Strength Steel withTribocorrosion in Acidic Solution, by Mr. Kotaro
Doi of National Institute for Materials Scienceand Dr. Eiji Akiyama, Professor of Tohoku
University.

Gijutu-prize, (among other papers or articles)
1) Study on Fractographical Feature Extraction
for Distinguishing Fracture Surface Morphology,
by Mr. Akira Ueno, Mr. Taku Miura, Dr.
Takayuki Sakakibara and Mr. Shingo Miura.
2) FEM Analyses of Stress Intensity Factors forSurface Cracks in Tension Coil Springs, by Dr.
Yuji Nakasone and Mr. Kazunori Muranushi.
3) Improvement of torsional fatigue limit by shot
peening for high strength steel containing
surface defect, by Dr. Koji Takahashi, Mr. Jun
Yasuda, Dr. Hitonobu Koike and Dr. HidekiOkada.

Ms. Nanako Sato

Koseki-prize, (among honorable achievements)
Mr. Masao Hayakawa (National Institute forMaterials Science)
Mr. Satoru Kondo (Togo Seisakusyo Corporation)
Mr. Masami Abe (Murata Spring Co., Ltd.)Dr. Takayuki Sakakibara (Chuo Spring Co.,Ltd.)Mr. Mamoru Oshida (Former Secretary of JSSE)

Mr. Hiroyuki Nishikori

The First Place Poster:
Improvement of fracture strength by shot
peening for ceramics with a surface defect, by
Ms. Nanako Sato of Yokohama National
University, et al.
The Second Place Poster:
Fatigue Damage Detection in Spring Steel
SUP10 using Positron Annihilation Method, by
Mr. Hiroyuki Nishikori of Faculty ofEngineering and Graduate School ofEngineering of Gifu University, et al

Winners of the Prizes

2Mr. Kinji Kato, Honorary Member of JSSE, madea toast to the development of the spring industry
and the participants’ good health. This was followedby the guest speeches delivered by the winners ofthe prizes.

Closing Speech by Dr. Nakasone, JSSE Chairperson

Reception
A reception was held after the closing speechdelivered by Dr. Yuji Nakasone, JSSE President andProfessor of Tokyo University of Science, in anotherhall.
Dr. Masao Hayakawa, Vice-Chairperson of JSSE andHead Researcher of National Institute for Materials
Science made an opening speech. This was followed by
the guest speech by Mr. Masahiko Nakatani,
Executive Director of Japan Spring Manufacturers
Association (JSMA.)

Mr. Kinji Kato

Guest Speech by Mr. Satoru Kondo

Dr. Masao Hayakawa

After plenty of mingling and exchanging ofinformation, the reception was over with
“iccho-jime,” a vibration consists of a single clap in
unison led by Mr. Shuzo Ichi, Director of JSSE andof Togo Seisakusyo Corporation.

Mr. Masahiko Nakatani

Mr. Shuzo Ichi

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