IP Library Granted Patent US 8,828,153
Granted Patent B2
US 8,828,153 · App. 12/962,950 · Granted Sep 9, 2014

High-strength cold-rolled steel sheet and high-strength plated steel sheet

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Patent No.
US 8,828,153
App. No.
12/962,950
Granted
Sep 9, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet providing a product with a good surface condition after press forming, having excellent bake hardenability and anti room temperature aging property, and having a dual phase structure with a tensile strength of at least 340 MPa is provided. A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet has a structure comprising a main phase which is a ferrite and a secondary phase which is a low temperature transformation product including a martensite and has a hardness distribution of the ferrite phase in an arbitrary cross section having a length of 10 mm in the widthwise 10 direction of the sheet which satisfies the relationship prescribed by (HV (max) −HV (ave) )<0.5×(Hv (ave) . HV (max) is the maximum Vickers hardness of ferrite grains in a region at a distance of from (⅛)t to (¼)t in the thickness direction from the surface when the thickness of the high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet is t, and Hv (ave) is the average Vickers hardness of ferrite grains in this region.

Claims (16)

1. A cold-rolled steel sheet characterized by having a structure comprising a main phase which is a ferrite and a secondary phase which is a low temperature transformation product including a martensite, with the hardness distribution of the ferrite phase in an arbitrary cross section having a length of 10 mm in the widthwise direction of the sheet satisfying the following Equation (1):

Hv (max) −Hv (ave) <0.4×Hv (ave)   (1)

wherein Hv (max) is the maximum Vickers hardness of ferrite grains in a region where the distance from the surface in the depth direction is at least (⅛)t and at most (¼)t when the thickness of the cold-rolled steel sheet is t, and Hv (ave) is the average Vickers hardness of ferrite grains in this region, wherein the high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet has a steel composition consisting of, in mass percent, C: at least 0.0025% and at most 0.029%, Si: at most 0.5%, Mn: at least 0.5% and at most 2.5%, P: at most 0.05%, S: at most 0.01%, sol. Al: at most 0.15%, N: less than 0.008%, Cr: at least 0.02% and at most 2.0%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities and a yield strength of the cold rolled sheet in a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction is 300 MPa or less.

2. A plated steel sheet characterized by having a plating layer on the surface of a cold-rolled steel sheet as set forth in claim 1 .

3. A cold-rolled steel sheet characterized by having a structure comprising a main phase which is a ferrite and a secondary phase which is a low temperature transformation product including a martensite, with the hardness distribution of the ferrite phase in an arbitrary cross section having a length of 10 mm in the widthwise direction of the sheet satisfying the following Equation (1):

HV (max) −HV (ave) <0.4×Hv (ave)   (1)

wherein HV (max) is the maximum Vickers hardness of ferrite grains in a region where the distance from the surface in the depth direction is at least (⅛)t and at most (¼)t when the thickness of the cold-rolled steel sheet is t, and HV (ave) is the average Vickers hardness of ferrite grains in this region, wherein the high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet has a steel composition consisting of, in mass percent, C: at least 0.0025% and at most 0.029%, Si: at most 0.5%, Mn: at least 0.5% and at most 2.5%, P: at most 0.05%, S: at most 0.01%, sol. Al: at most 0.15%, N: less than 0.008%, Cr: at least 0.02% and at most 2.0%, B: at most 0.003%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities and a yield strength of the cold rolled sheet in a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction is 300 MPa or less.

4. A plated steel sheet characterized by having a plating layer on the surface of a cold-rolled steel sheet as set forth in claim 3 .

5. A cold-rolled steel sheet characterized by having a structure comprising a main phase which is a ferrite and a secondary phase which is a low temperature transformation product including a martensite, with the hardness distribution of the ferrite phase in an arbitrary cross section having a length of 10 mm in the widthwise direction of the sheet satisfying the following Equation (1):

HV (max) −HV (ave) <0.4×Hv (ave)   (1)

wherein HV (max) is the maximum Vickers hardness of ferrite grains in a region where the distance from the surface in the depth direction is at least (⅛)t and at most (¼)t when the thickness of the cold-rolled steel sheet is t, and HV (ave) is the average Vickers hardness of ferrite grains in this region, wherein the high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet has a steel composition consisting of, in mass percent, C: at least 0.0025% and at most 0.029%, Si: at most 0.5%, Mn: at least 0.5% and at most 2.5%, P: at most 0.05%, S: at most 0.01%, sol. Al: at most 0.15%, N: less than 0.008%, Cr: at least 0.02% and at most 2.0%, Ti: at most 0.1%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities and a yield strength of the cold rolled sheet in a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction is 300 MPa or less.

6. A plated steel sheet characterized by having a plating layer on the surface of a cold-rolled steel sheet as set forth in claim 5 .

7. A cold-rolled steel sheet characterized by having a structure comprising a main phase which is a ferrite and a secondary phase which is a low temperature transformation product including a martensite, with the hardness distribution of the ferrite phase in an arbitrary cross section having a length of 10 mm in the widthwise direction of the sheet satisfying the following Equation (1):

Hv (max) −Hv (ave) <0.4×Hv (ave)   (1)

wherein Hv (max) is the maximum Vickers hardness of ferrite grains in a region where the distance from the surface in the depth direction is at least (⅛)t and at most (¼)t when the thickness of the cold-rolled steel sheet is t, and Hv (ave) is the average Vickers hardness of ferrite grains in this region, wherein the high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet has a steel composition consisting of, in mass percent, C: at least 0.0025% and at most 0.029%, Si: at most 0.5%, Mn: at least 0.5% and at most 2.5%, P: at most 0.05%, S: at most 0.01%, sol. Al: at most 0.15%, N: less than 0.008%, Cr: at least 0.02% and at most 2.0%, Ti: at most 0.1%, B: at most 0.003%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities and a yield strength of the cold rolled sheet in a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction is 300 MPa or less.

8. A plated steel sheet characterized by having a plating layer on the surface of a cold-rolled steel sheet as set forth in claim 7 .

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 14, 2019
From: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
To: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049257/0828 →
MERGER Recorded Mar 15, 2013
From: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 030018/0455 →