IP Library Granted Patent US 9,976,196
Granted Patent B2
US 9,976,196 · App. 15/129,775 · Granted May 22, 2018

Hot-stamped steel

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Patent No.
US 9,976,196
App. No.
15/129,775
Granted
May 22, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

Hot-stamped steel includes: a steel base metal including a tempered portion having hardness corresponding to 85% or less of the highest quenching hardness defined as a Vickers hardness at a depth position spaced away from a surface layer 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 formed on the tempered portion of the base metal. The Zn coating layer includes a solid-solution layer including a solid-solution phase containing Fe and Zn that is solid-soluted in Fe, and a lamella layer including solid-solution phase and a capital gamma phase. In the Zn coating layer, an area ratio of the lamella layer is 30 to 100% and an area ratio of the solid-solution layer is 0 to 70%.

Claims (17)

1. A hot-stamped steel comprising:

a base metal that is a steel sheet where a part of the steel sheet is a tempered portion or an entirely of the steel sheet is a tempered portion, said 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 layer 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; 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

wherein in the Zn coating layer, an area ratio of the lamella layer in a cross-section perpendicular to a rolling direction is 30 to 100% and an area ratio of the solid-solution layer is 0 to 70%.

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

wherein the area ratio of the lamella layer in the Zn coating layer is 80% or more.

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

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

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

wherein a hardness of the tempered portion is 65% or less of the highest quenching hardness.

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

wherein the hot-stamped steel is produced by heating to the A c3 point or higher, working and quenching simultaneously through pressing by using a die, and then tempering at 500° C. or more and less than 700° C.

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

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 039874/0993 →