IP Library Granted Patent US 8,858,735
Granted Patent B2
US 8,858,735 · App. 13/147,510 · Granted Oct 14, 2014

High-strength press hardened article, and manufacturing method therefor

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Patent No.
US 8,858,735
App. No.
13/147,510
Granted
Oct 14, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A high-strength quenched formed article has a zinc plating layer which is formed at a post-quenching formed steel sheet surface, and which contains 30 g/m 2 or more of a phase that contains 5% or more by mass but 30% or less by mass of Fe, and which also contains 0.15% or more by mass but less than 2% by mass of at least one of Al and Si in a separate fashion or a composite fashion, and contains Zn, which makes up substantially a rest portion of the zinc plating layer, and an inevitable impurity, wherein the high-strength quenched formed article has a high-strength portion having a post-quenching-formation tensile strength of 1000 MPa or more, and a low-strength portion having a post-quenching-formation tensile strength of 800 MPa or less.

Claims (8)

1. A high-strength quenched formed article comprising

a zinc plating layer which is formed at a post-quenching formed steel sheet surface, and which contains 30 g/m 2 or more of a phase that contains 5% or more by mass but 30% or less by mass of Fe, and which also contains 0.15% or more by mass but less than 2% by mass of at least one of Al and Si in a separate fashion or a composite fashion, and contains Zn, which makes up substantially a rest portion of the zinc plating layer, and an inevitable impurity, wherein the high-strength quenched formed article has a high-strength portion having a post-quenching-formation tensile strength of 1000 MPa or more, and a low-strength portion having a post-quenching-formation tensile strength of 800 MPa or less.

2. The high-strength quenched formed article according to claim 1 , wherein the steel sheet contains 0.1% or more by mass of C, 0.5% or more by mass of Mn, 0.1% or more by mass of Cr, and 0.0005% or more by mass of B.

3. The high-strength quenched formed article according to claim 1 , wherein the steel sheet contains Ti, Nb, Mo, V, Zr, W, Co, Cu and Ni each in a range of 1% or less by mass.

4. A manufacturing method for a high-strength quenched formed article that has, at a post-quenching formed steel sheet surface, a zinc plating layer which contains 30 g/m 2 or more of a phase that contains 5% or more by mass but 30% or less by mass of Fe, and which also contains 0.15% or more by mass but less than 2% by mass of at least one of Al and Si in a separate fashion or a composite fashion, and contains Zn, which makes up substantially a rest portion of the zinc plating layer, and an inevitable impurity, wherein the high-strength quenched formed article has a high-strength portion having a post-quenching-formation tensile strength of 1000 MPa or more, and a low-strength portion having a post-quenching-formation tensile strength of 800 MPa or less, the method comprising:

making a zinc-plated steel sheet that includes a zinc plating layer that has 0.15% or more by mass but less than 2% by mass of at least one of Al and Si in a separate fashion or a composite fashion in a manner that a portion of the zinc-plated steel sheet that is to be heated at a temperature that is higher than or equal to an Ac3 point but lower than or equal to 950° C. in an oxidative atmosphere that contains 0.1% or more by volume of oxygen, and a portion of the zinc-plated steel sheet that is to be heated at a temperature that is higher than or equal to 500° C. but lower than the Ac3 point are simultaneously made; then starting to cool the zinc-plated steel sheet, and, within 60 seconds, cooling the zinc-plated steel sheet to a temperature range that is equal to or less than 730° C. and higher than or equal to 500° C.; and then pressing the zinc-plated steel sheet within the temperature range, and then rapidly cooling the zinc-plated steel sheet.

5. The manufacturing method according to claim 4 , wherein the Ac3 point is higher than or equal to 700° C. and lower than or equal to 880° C.

6. The manufacturing method according to claim 4 , wherein the rapid cooling is performed so that temperature reaches 200° C. or lower at a rate of 30° C./sec or faster.

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 Mar 11, 2013
From: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
To: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 029961/0257 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 2, 2011
From: KONDO, MASAAKI; SUZUKI, SHINICHI; TOMOKIYO, TOSHIMASA; NISHIZAWA, KOICHI; SUZUKI, TAKAYUKI; ISHIGURO, YUKI; KAI, HIDEYUKI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA; NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION; AISIN TAKAOKA CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 026688/0534 →