IP Library Granted Patent US 8,992,704
Granted Patent B2
US 8,992,704 · App. 12/737,398 · Granted Mar 31, 2015

Aluminum plated steel sheet for rapid heating hot-stamping, production method of the same and rapid heating hot-stamping method by using this steel sheet

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Patent No.
US 8,992,704
App. No.
12/737,398
Granted
Mar 31, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention solves the problem of melting of Al in heating before hot-stamping, which had been a problem in the past in applying hot-stamping to Al-plated steel sheet, and provides Al-plated steel sheet for hot-stamping and a method of hot-stamping using that Al-plated steel sheet to solve the problem of delayed fracture due to residual hydrogen, and, furthermore, a method of a rapid heating hot-stamping using that Al-plated steel sheet. The Al-plated steel sheet of the present invention is produced by annealing the Al-plated steel sheet as coiled in a box-anneal furnace for the time and at the temperature indicated in FIG. 5 , and alloying of a plated Al and a steel sheet. Further, a method of rapid heating hot-stamping in the present invention is characterized by cutting out a stamping blank of an Al-plated steel sheet, and heating that blank in heating before hot-stamping by an average temperature with a rising rate of 40° C./sec or more and a time of exposure to an environment of 700° C. or more of 20 seconds or less, and then hot-stamping it.

Claims (29)

1. A method of production of aluminum plated steel sheet for rapid heating hot-stamping, the method comprising:

annealing aluminum plated steel sheet in a coil state in a box annealing furnace, the aluminum plated steel sheet in the coil state having aluminum plating deposited in an amount of 30 to 100 g/m 2 per side; wherein

when the annealing retention time and annealing temperature are plotted in an XY plane, wherein the retention time is the X-axis and the annealing temperature is the Y-axis, and the X-axis is expressed logarithmically, the annealing retention time and annealing temperature fall within an inside region, including the sides, of a pentagon, having vertices at five points of the XY plot with coordinates of X=5 hours, Y=600° C.; X=200 hours, Y=600° C.; X=1 hour, Y=630° C.; X=1 hour, Y=750° C.; and X=4 hours, Y=750° C.

2. The method of production of aluminum plated steel sheet for rapid heating hot-stamping as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the steel sheet forming the base material of the aluminum plated steel sheet comprises, by mass %

C: 0.1 to 0.4%,

Si: 0.01 to 0.6%,

Mn: 0.5 to 3%,

P: 0.005 to 0.05%,

S: 0.002 to 0.02%, and

Al: 0.005 to 0.1%,

further, one or more of Ti: 0.01 to 0.1%, B: 0.0001 to 0.01%, and Cr: 0.01 to 0.4%, and

a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities.

3. The method of production of aluminum plated steel sheet for rapid heating hot-stamping as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the aluminum plating deposited on the surface of the aluminum plated steel sheet contains Si in an amount of 3 to 15 mass %.

4. A method of rapid heating hot-stamping, comprising cutting out a stamping blank of an aluminum plated steel sheet from a coil, heating that blank before hot-stamping at a rising rate of 40° C./sec or more and a time of exposure to an environment of 700° C. or more of 20 seconds or less, and then hot-stamping it wherein the aluminum plated steel sheet comprises:

aluminum plated steel sheet, annealed in a coil state in a box annealing furnace, the aluminum plated steel sheet in the coil state having aluminum plating deposited in an amount of 30 to 100 g/m 2 per side; wherein

when the annealing retention time and annealing temperature are plotted in an XY plane, wherein the retention time is the X-axis and the annealing temperature is the Y-axis, and the X-axis is expressed logarithmically, the annealing retention time and annealing temperature fall within an inside region, including the sides, of a pentagon, having vertices at five points of the XY plot with coordinates of X=5 hours, Y=600° C.; X=200 hours, Y=600° C.; X=1 hour, Y=630° C.; X=1 hour, Y=750° C.; and X=4 hours, Y=750° C.

5. The method of production of aluminum plated steel sheet for rapid heating hot-stamping as set forth in claim 2 , wherein the aluminum plating deposited on the surface of the aluminum plated steel sheet contains Si in an amount of 3 to 15 mass %.

6. The method as set forth in claim 4 , wherein the steel sheet forming the base material of the aluminum plated steel sheet comprises, by mass %

C: 0.1 to 0.4%,

Si: 0.01 to 0.6%,

Mn: 0.5 to 3%,

P: 0.005 to 0.05%,

S; 0.002 to 0.02%, and

Al: 0.005 to 0.1%,

further, one or more of Ti: 0.01 to 0.1%, B: 0.0001 to 0.01%, and Cr: 0.01 to 0.4%, and

a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities.

7. The method as set forth in claim 4 , wherein the surface of the aluminum plated steel sheet has an L* value of 10 to 60.

8. The method as set forth in claim 4 , wherein the aluminum plating deposited on the surface of the aluminum plated steel sheet contains Si in an amount of 3 to 15 mass %.

9. The method as set forth in claim 4 , wherein the aluminum plated steel sheet further comprises an Al—Fe alloy layer having an Al concentration of 40 to 70 mass % at the surface of the steel sheet of the base material of the aluminum plated steel sheet.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 14, 2019
From: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
To: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049257/0828 →
MERGER Recorded Feb 28, 2013
From: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
To: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 029894/0749 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 11, 2011
From: MAKI, JUN; ABE, MASAYUKI; KUSUMI, KAZUHISA; TSUKANO, YASUSHI
To: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 025795/0801 →