IP Library Granted Patent US 12692581
Granted Patent B2
US 12692581 · App. 18/463,281 · Granted Jul 28, 2026

Tire cord steel with high strength and low wire breakage rate, and rolling method and use thereof

Inventors: Fan Zhang (Wuhan City, CN); Anchao Ren (Wuhan City, CN); Lei Guo (Wuhan City, CN); Tuming Ye (Wuhan City, CN)
Assignee: WUHAN IRON AND STEEL CORP.
C22C38/002B60C9/0007C21D8/06C22C38/02C22C38/04C22C38/06C22C38/12C22C38/14D02G3/48D07B1/066C21D2211/001C21D2211/009
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Patent No.
US 12692581
App. No.
18/463,281
Granted
Jul 28, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Chemical compositions of a tire cord steel with high strength and low wire breakage rate may include Nb, V and N, and ([Nb]+[V])/[N] is 3-4.5, [Nb] representing the mass fraction of niobium element, [V] representing the mass fraction of vanadium element, and [N] representing the mass fraction of nitrogen element. The method includes: obtaining a steel billet of the tire cord steel; and sequentially performing a heating-before-rolling, a hot-rolling and a cooling-after-rolling on the steel billet to obtain a wire rod of the tire cord steel. The application of the tire cord steel is to apply the tire cord steel in tire skeleton materials. The strength and toughness of the tire cord steel can be improved by adding Nb, V and N, and then controlling the relationship between Nb, V and N.

Claims (19)

1 . A method for rolling tire cord steel, comprising:

obtaining a steel billet; and

sequentially performing a heating-before-rolling, a hot-rolling and a cooling-after-rolling on the steel billet to obtain a wire rod of the tire cord steel;

wherein the heating-before-rolling comprises a preheating stage, a first heating stage, a second heating stage and a soaking stage, and

the hot-rolling adopts an austenite crystallization controlled-rolling and the hot-rolling sequentially comprises a rough rolling, an intermediate rolling, a pre-finish rolling, a finish rolling, and a sizing and reducing;

wherein a preheating temperature of the preheating stage is ≤400° C., and a preheating time of the preheating stage is ≥5 min;

a terminal temperature of heating temperature of the first heating stage is between 400° C.-800° C., and a heating time of the first heating stage is ≥10 min;

a terminal temperature of heating temperature of the second heating stage is between 800° C.-1000° C., and a heating time of the second heating stage is between 60 min-100 min; and

a soaking temperature of the soaking stage is 1000° C.-1040° C., and a soaking time of the soaking stage is 20 min-60 min;

wherein chemical compositions by mass fraction of the tire cord steel comprises:

C: 0.80%-0.85%, Mn: 0.46%-0.59%, Nb: 0.006%-0.012%, V: 0.006%-0.012%, Si: 0.15%-0.25%, P: ≤0.01%, S: ≤0.01%, B: 0.0005%-0.0009%, Als: ≤0.0008%, Ti: ≤0.0005%, Fe and inevitable impurities;

wherein the chemical compositions of the tire cord steel further comprise N, wherein ([Nb]+ [V])/[N] is between 3-4.5, and wherein the [Nb] represents a mass fraction of Nb element, the [V] represents a mass fraction of V element, and the [N] represents a mass fraction of N element.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein an inlet temperature of the finish rolling is between 950° C.-990° C.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein an inlet temperature of the sizing and reducing is between 940° C.-980° C., and a spinning temperature of the sizing and reducing is between 935° C.-965° C.

4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein a metallographic structure of the tire cord steel comprises lamellar pearlite, the lamellar pearlite comprising a sorbite and a pearlite.

5 . The method tire cord steel according to claim 4 , wherein an interlamellar spacing of the lamellar pearlite is between 160 nm-170 nm.

6 . The method according to claim 4 , wherein a sorbitizing rate of the lamellar pearlite is ≥98%.

7 . The method according to claim 4 , wherein a content by volume fraction of the sorbite is between 80%-95%, and a content by volume fraction of the pearlite is between 5%-20%.

8 . A tire frame, prepared from the tire cord steel prepared with the method according to claim 1 .