IP Library Granted Patent US 9,896,736
Granted Patent B2
US 9,896,736 · App. 15/338,095 · Granted Feb 20, 2018

Method for manufacturing hot stamped body having vertical wall and hot stamped body having vertical wall

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Patent No.
US 9,896,736
App. No.
15/338,095
Granted
Feb 20, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a hot stamped body having a vertical wall, the method including: a hot-rolling step; a coiling step; a cold-rolling step; a continuous annealing step; and a hot stamping step, in which the continuous annealing step includes a heating step of heating the cold-rolled steel sheet to a temperature range of equal to or higher than Ac 1 ° C. and lower than Ac 3 ° C.; a cooling step of cooling the heated cold-rolled steel sheet from the highest heating temperature to 660° C. at a cooling rate of equal to or less than 10° C./s; and a holding step of holding the cooled cold-rolled steel sheet in a temperature range of 550° C. to 660° C. for one minute to 10 minutes.

Claims (3)

1. A hot stamped body, which is formed by performing hot stamping by heating and quenching a steel sheet, the hot stamped body containing chemical components which include, by mass %, 0.18% to 0.35% of C, 1.0% to 3.0% of Mn, 0.01% to 1.0% of Si, 0.001% to 0.02% of P, 0.0005% to 0.01% of S, 0.001% to 0.01% of N, 0.01% to 1.0% of Al, 0.005% to 0.2% of Ti, 0.0002% to 0.005% of B, and 0.002% to 2.0% of Cr, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein

when a quenching start temperature in the quenching is equal to or lower than 650° C., variation of Vickers hardness ΔHv of the hot stamped body is equal to or less than 100, when the quenching start temperature in the quenching is 650° C. to 750° C., variation of Vickers hardness ΔHv of the hot stamped body is equal to or less than 60, and when the quenching start temperature in the quenching is equal to or higher than 750° C., variation of Vickers hardness ΔHv of the hot stamped body is equal to or less than 40.

2. The hot stamped body according to claim 1 , wherein a DI inch value which is a quenching index calculated based on ASTM A255-67 is equal to or more than 3.

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 14, 2019
From: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
To: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049257/0828 →