IP Library Granted Patent US 9,932,652
Granted Patent B2
US 9,932,652 · App. 15/129,640 · Granted Apr 3, 2018

Hot-stamped steel

Inventors: Akihiro Sengoku (Sodegaura, JP); Hiroshi Takebayashi (Tokai, JP)
Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
C21D9/46B32B15/011B32B15/013B32B15/04B32B15/043B32B15/18C21D1/18C22C38/00C22C38/001C22C38/002C22C38/02C22C38/04C22C38/06C22C38/22C22C38/26C22C38/28C22C38/32C22C38/50C22C38/54C22C38/58C23C2/00C23C2/06C23C2/28C23C2/285C23C2/40C23C28/021C23C28/023C23C28/025C23C30/00C23C30/005C25D3/22C25D5/36C25D5/50C25D7/00C21D1/673C21D9/0068C25D3/24Y10T428/12792Y10T428/12799Y10T428/12958Y10T428/12972Y10T428/12979Y10T428/12993Y10T428/2495Y10T428/24942Y10T428/24983
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Patent No.
US 9,932,652
App. No.
15/129,640
Granted
Apr 3, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

Hot-stamped steel includes: a base metal that is steel including a tempered portion having hardness corresponding to 85% or less of the highest quenching hardness, the highest quenching hardness being defined as a Vickers hardness at a depth position spaced away from a surface by ¼ times a sheet thickness in a case of performing water quenching after heating at a temperature equal to or higher than an A c3 point and retention for 30 minutes; and a Zn coating layer that is formed on the tempered portion of the base metal. The Zn coating layer includes a solid-solution layer including a solid-solution phase that contains Fe and Zn that is solid-soluted in Fe, and a lamella layer that includes the solid-solution phase and a capital gamma phase. An area ratio of the lamella layer in the Zn coating layer is 20% or less.

Claims (26)

1. A hot-stamped steel comprising:

a base metal that is a steel sheet including a tempered portion having a hardness corresponding to 85% or less of the highest quenching hardness, the highest quenching hardness being defined as a Vickers hardness at a depth position spaced away from a surface by ¼ times a sheet thickness in a case of performing water quenching after heating to a temperature equal to or higher than an A c3 point and retaining for 30 minutes;

wherein either a part of the base metal may be the tempered portion or an entirety of the base metal is the tempered portion, and

a Zn coating layer that is formed on the tempered portion of the base metal,

wherein the Zn coating layer includes:

a solid-solution layer including a solid-solution phase that contains Fe and Zn that is solid-soluted in Fe, and

a lamella layer that includes the solid-solution phase and a capital gamma phase, and

an area ratio of the lamella layer in a vertical cross section in the Zn coating layer is 20% or less.

2. The hot-stamped steel according to claim 1 ,

wherein the hardness of the tempered portion is 60% or less of the highest quenching hardness, and the area ratio of the lamella layer in the vertical cross section in the Zn coating layer is 5% to 20%.

3. The hot-stamped steel according to claim 1 or 2 ,

wherein the hardness of the tempered portion is 50% or less of the highest quenching hardness.

4. The hot-stamped steel according to claim 1 or 2 ,

wherein the hardness with a load of 10 kgf of the tempered portion is 180 Hv to 450 Hv.

5. The hot-stamped steel according to claim 1 or 2 ,

wherein the hot-stamped steel is produced by heating for a predetermined heating time so that the highest heating temperature is the A c3 point or higher, working and quenching simultaneously through pressing by using a die, and tempering at a predetermined tempering temperature, and

when an A c1 point of the base metal is represented by A c1 , the tempering temperature is represented by T in degrees ° C., and a concentration of Zn in the solid-solution phase after the quenching and before the tempering is represented by C in a unit of % by mass, the following Equation 1 is satisfied,

A c1 ≥T≥ 700−4.0×(35.0− C )  (1).

6. The hot-stamped steel according to claim 5 ,

wherein the tempering temperature is 700° C. to the A c1 point of the base metal.

7. The hot-stamped steel according claim 1 or 2 ,

wherein a part of the base metal is the tempered portion.

8. The hot-stamped steel according to claim 5 ,

wherein a part of the base metal is the tempered portion.

9. The hot-stamped steel according to claim 6 ,

wherein a part of the base metal is the tempered portion.

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 28, 2016
From: SENGOKU, AKIHIRO; TAKEBAYASHI, HIROSHI
To: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 039872/0328 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-073814 · Mar 31, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
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