IP Library Granted Patent US 9,945,037
Granted Patent B2
US 9,945,037 · App. 14/391,655 · Granted Apr 17, 2018

Steel sheet used to manufacture a container and method of manufacturing the same

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Patent No.
US 9,945,037
App. No.
14/391,655
Granted
Apr 17, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A steel sheet used to manufacture a container, wherein the steel sheet includes a chromate film layer or a film layer including Zr on the Ni plating layer, the Ni plating layer includes one or more of a hydroxyl Ni and a Ni oxide, an adhesion amount of the Ni plating layer in terms of an amount of Ni is 0.3 g/m 2 or more, a concentration of oxygen atoms of the Ni plating layer due to the hydroxyl Ni and the Ni oxide is 1 to 10 atomic %, an adhesion amount of the chromate film layer in terms of the amount of Cr is 1 to 40 mg/m 2 , and an adhesion amount of the film layer including Zr in terms of an amount of Zr is 1 to 40 mg/m 2 or more.

Claims (19)

1. A steel sheet used to manufacture a container, the steel sheet comprising:

a Ni plating layer; and

a chromate film layer or a film layer including Zr, on the Ni plating layer,

wherein the Ni plating layer includes one or more of a hydroxyl Ni and a Ni oxide,

an adhesion amount of the Ni plating layer in terms of an amount of Ni is 0.3 g/m 2 or more,

a concentration of oxygen atoms of the Ni plating layer due to the hydroxyl Ni and the Ni oxide is 1 to 10 atomic %,

an adhesion amount of the chromate film layer in terms of an amount of Cr is 1 to 40 mg/m 2 , and

an adhesion amount of the film layer including Zr in terms of an amount of Zr is 1 to 40 mg/m 2 .

2. The steel sheet used to manufacture a container according to claim 1 , wherein

the concentration of oxygen atoms is 1 to 10 atomic % in an entire area of a thickness of the Ni plating layer excluding a natural oxide film formed on a surface of the Ni plating layer.

3. A method of manufacturing a steel sheet used to manufacture a container according to claim 1 , the method comprising:

forming the Ni plating layer including one or more of the hydroxyl Ni and the Ni oxide by dipping a base steel sheet in a plating bath and then performing a cathode-electrolysis, wherein a current density is set to a value higher than a critical current density of precipitation of Ni, the critical current density depending on a plating bath condition including a concentration of a Ni ion and a pH thereof, and wherein the plating bath consists of an aqueous solution in which one or more of a Ni sulfate and a Ni chloride is dissolved, and

forming the chromate film layer of which the adhesion amount in terms of the amount of Cr is 1 to 40 mg/m 2 on the Ni plating layer or forming the film layer including Zr of which the adhesion amount in terms of the amount of Zr is 1 to 40 mg/m 2 , on the Ni plating layer.

4. The method of manufacturing a steel sheet according to claim 3 ,

wherein a concentration of the Ni sulfate of the aqueous solution of the plating bath is set to 5% to 30% and a concentration of the Ni chloride of the aqueous solution of the plating bath is set to 5% to 30%.

5. The method of manufacturing a steel sheet according to claim 3 ,

wherein the pH of the plating bath is set to 2 to 4.

6. The method of manufacturing a steel sheet according to claim 4 ,

wherein the pH of the plating bath is set to 2 to 4.

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 10, 2014
From: HIRANO, SHIGERU; TANI, YOSHIAKI
To: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 033928/0225 →