IP Library Granted Patent US 9,758,892
Granted Patent B2
US 9,758,892 · App. 14/391,048 · Granted Sep 12, 2017

Steel sheet for electroplating, electroplated steel sheet, and methods for producing the same

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Patent No.
US 9,758,892
App. No.
14/391,048
Granted
Sep 12, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A steel sheet for electroplating includes, by mass %, C: 0.0005% to 0.0050%, Si: 0.20% to 1.0%, Mn: 0.40% to 2.5%, P: 0.05% or less, Ti: 0.010% to 0.050%, Nb: 0.010% to 0.040%, B: 0.0005% to 0.0030%, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 0.01% to 0.30%, N: 0.0010% to 0.01%, and the balance including Fe and impurities, in which when Si content is represented by [Si] and Mn content is represented by [Mn], “[Mn]+5[Si]” is 2.0 to 7.0, and the steel sheet has surface property in which an average of displacements of a measurement point obtained based on a moving average of continuous 31 points in total including 15 front points and 15 back points in a cross-sectional profile of a surface obtained by measuring the average of displacements in an evaluation length of 10 μm or more at an interval of 0.07 μm, is 0.005 μm to 0.10 μm.

Claims (26)

1. An electroplated steel sheet comprising:

a steel sheet, and

an electroplating layer which is formed on a surface of the steel sheet and consists of 0% to 20% of Ni and a balance including Zn and impurities, wherein:

the steel sheet comprises, as a chemical composition, by mass %,

C: 0.0005% to 0.0050%,

Si: 0.20% to 1.0%,

Mn: 0.40% to 2.5%,

P: 0.05% or less,

Ti: 0.010% to 0.050%,

Nb: 0.010% to 0.040%,

B: 0.0005% to 0.0030%,

S: 0.02% or less,

Al: 0.01% to 0.30%,

N: 0.0010% to 0.01%, and

a balance including Fe and impurities,

wherein in the chemical composition, a Si content is represented by [Si], a Mn content is represented by [Mn], and a value of “[Mn]+5[Si]” is 2.0 to 7.0, and

the steel sheet has a surface property in which an average of displacements of fine convex-concave portions of a measurement point that is obtained based on a moving average of continuous 31 points in total including 15 front points and 15 back points in a cross-sectional profile of the surface of the steel sheet obtained by measuring an average of displacements in an evaluation length of 10 μm or more at an interval of 0.07 μm is 0.005 μm to 0.10 μm.

2. A method for producing an electroplated steel sheet, the method comprising:

continuously casting molten steel having the chemical composition according to claim 1 into a slab;

heating the slab in a temperature range of 1000° C. to 1300° C.;

hot-rolling the heated slab under a finishing rolling temperature of Ar 3 temperature to 1000° C. and a coiling temperature of 850° C. or lower to obtain a hot-rolled steel sheet;

removing a surface scale of the hot-rolled steel sheet to obtain a pickled steel sheet, as a first pickling process;

cold-rolling the pickled steel sheet at a cold rolling reduction of 40% or higher to obtain a cold-rolled steel sheet;

annealing the cold-rolled steel sheet at a recrystallization temperature or higher;

pickling a surface of the steel sheet using 10 g/l to 400 g/l of a sulfuric acid aqueous solution or using a pickling solution in which one or more selected from the group consisting of nitrates, sulfates, fluorosilicates, and fluoroborates are mixed with the sulfuric acid aqueous solution for 1 second to 30 seconds, as a second pickling process; and

forming an electroplating layer, which contains 0% to 20% of Ni and the balance including Zn and impurities, on the surface of the steel sheet, in an amount of 3 g/m 2 to 100 g/m 2 per single surface.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 14, 2019
From: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
To: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049257/0828 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 7, 2014
From: SATO, HIRONORI; KUROSAKI, MASAO; FUDA, MASAHIRO; SUGIURA, NATSUKO; YAMAGUCHI, YUJI
To: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 033902/0380 →