IP Library Patent Application 15123119
Patent Application
App. No. 15/123,119

MIDDLE/HIGH CARBON STEEL SHEET AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME

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15/123,119
Abstract

A middle/high carbon steel sheet according to an aspect of the present invention is a steel sheet, in which composition thereof contains, by mass %, C: 0.10% to 1.50%, Si: 0.01% to 1.00%, Mn: 0.01% to 3.00%, P: 0.0001% to 0.1000%, and S: 0.0001% to 0.1000%, and a remainder consisting of Fe and impurities, in which the steel sheet has a structure in which a total volume percentage of a martensite, a bainite, a pearlite, and a residual austenite is equal to or lower than 5.0%, and a remainder thereof is a ferrite and carbides, in which a spheroidizing ratio of carbide particles is 70% to 99%, and in which a proportion of a number of the carbide particles including a crystal interface at which an orientation difference is equal to or greater than 5° in the carbide particles is equal to or lower than 20% of a total number of the carbide particles.

Claims (50)

1 - 3 . (canceled)

4 . A middle/high carbon steel sheet, wherein

composition thereof comprises, by mass %:

C: 0.10% to 1.50%,

Si: 0.01% to 1.00%,

Mn: 0.01% to 3.00%,

P: 0.0001% to 0.1000%,

S: 0.0001% to 0.1000%, and

a remainder comprising Fe and impurities,

wherein the steel sheet has a structure in which a total volume percentage of a martensite, a bainite, a pearlite, and a residual austenite is equal to or lower than 5.0%, and a remainder thereof includes a ferrite and carbides,

wherein a spheroidizing ratio of carbide particles is 70% to 99%, and

wherein a proportion of a number of the carbide particles including a crystal interface at which an orientation difference is equal to or greater than 5° in the carbide particles is equal to or lower than 20% of a total number of the carbide particles.

5 . The middle/high carbon steel sheet according to claim 4 ,

wherein the composition of the steel sheet further includes, by mass %, one or more selected from the group consisting of

Al: 0.001% to 0.500%,

N: 0.0001% to 0.0500%,

O: 0.0001% to 0.0500%,

Cr: 0.001% to 2.000%,

Mo: 0.001% to 2.000%,

Ni: 0.001% to 2.000%,

Cu: 0.001% to 1.000%,

Nb: 0.001% to 1.000%,

V: 0.001% to 1.000%,

Ti: 0.001% to 1.000%,

B: 0.0001% to 0.0500%,

W: 0.001% to 1.000%,

Ta: 0.001% to 1.000%,

Sn: 0.001% to 0.020%,

Sb: 0.001% to 0.020%,

As: 0.001% to 0.020%,

Mg: 0.0001% to 0.0200%,

Ca: 0.001% to 0.020%,

Y: 0.001% to 0.020%,

Zr: 0.001% to 0.020%,

La: 0.001% to 0.020%, and

Ce: 0.001% to 0.020%.

6 . A method for manufacturing a middle/high carbon steel sheet,

wherein, when a billet having the composition according to claim 4 is hot-rolled directly after continuously-casting or is temporary cooled, heated, and hot-rolled after the continuously-casting, finish hot rolling is completed in a temperature region of 600° C. to 1,000° C.,

the hot-rolled steel sheet is coiled at 350° C. to 700°,

the hot-rolled steel sheet is box-annealed,

the hot-rolled steel sheet is cold-rolled at a cold-rolling reduction ratio of 10% to 80%,

and then a cold-rolled sheet is annealed at an annealing temperature of 650° C. to 780° C. for a retention time at the annealing temperature of 30 to 1,800 seconds in a continuous annealing line.

7 . The middle/high carbon steel sheet according to claim 4 ,

wherein a grain size of the ferrite is 5 to 60 μm.

8 . The method for manufacturing a middle/high carbon steel sheet according to claim 6 ,

wherein, in a case in which the billet is temporary cooled and heated before hot-rolling, a heating temperature of the billet is 950 to 1250° C. and a heating time is 0.5 to 3 hours.

9 . The method for manufacturing a middle/high carbon steel sheet according to claim 6 ,

wherein the hot-rolled steel sheet after the finish hot rolling and before coiling is cooled at a cooling rate of 10 to 100° C./second.

10 . The method for manufacturing a middle/high carbon steel sheet according to claim 6 ,

wherein a box-annealing temperature is 670° C. to 770° C. and a retention time at the box-annealing temperature is 1 to 100 hours in box-annealing for the hot-rolled steel sheet.

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 Sep 2, 2016
From: TAKEDA, KENGO; TOMOKIYO, TOSHIMASA; TSUKANO, YASUSHI; ARAMAKI, TAKASHI
To: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 039624/0100 →