IP Library Granted Patent US 10,697,039
Granted Patent B2
US 10,697,039 · App. 15/542,272 · Granted Jun 30, 2020

High-strength steel sheet and method for manufacturing the same

Inventors: Nobusuke Kariya (Fukuyama, JP); Yoshihiko Ono (Fukuyama, JP); Yoshimasa Funakawa (Chiba, JP); Kazuma Mori (Chiba, JP); Reiko Sugihara (Chiba, JP); Kenji Kawamura (Fukuyama, JP)
Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
C21D9/46B21B1/22B21B3/00B21B3/02C21D6/001C21D6/002C21D6/005C21D6/008C21D8/0205C21D8/0226C21D8/0263C22C38/00C22C38/001C22C38/002C22C38/005C22C38/02C22C38/04C22C38/06C22C38/08C22C38/12C22C38/14C22C38/16C22C38/18C22C38/22C22C38/24C22C38/26C22C38/28C22C38/32C22C38/38C22C38/40C22C38/50C22C38/58C22C38/60C23G1/00B21B2001/221B21B2001/225C21D2211/002C21D2211/003C21D2211/005C21D2211/008
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Patent No.
US 10,697,039
App. No.
15/542,272
Granted
Jun 30, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are a high-strength steel sheet and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet. The high-strength steel sheet has a specified chemical composition with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, a microstructure including, in terms of area ratio, 25% or less of a ferrite phase, 75% or more of a bainite phase and/or a martensite phase, and 5% or less of cementite, in which, in a surface layer that is a region within 50 μm from the surface in the thickness direction, the area ratio of a ferrite phase is 5% to 20%, and a tensile strength is 1180 MPa or more.

Claims (15)

1. A high-strength steel sheet having

a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.100% to 0.150%, Si: 0.30% to 0.70%, Mn: 2.20% to 2.80%, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.0020% or less, Al: 0.020% to 0.060%, N: 0.0050% or less, Nb: 0.010% to 0.060%, Ti: 0.010% to 0.030%, B: 0.0005% to 0.0030%, Sb: 0.005% to 0.015%, Ca: 0.0015% or less, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities,

a microstructure including, in terms of area ratio, 25% or less of a ferrite phase, 75% or more of a bainite phase and/or a martensite phase, and 5% or less of cementite,

wherein, in a surface layer that is a region within 50 μm from the surface in the thickness direction, the area ratio of a ferrite phase is 5% to 20%,

a tensile strength being 1180 MPa or more, and

the chemical composition further contains at least one element selected from at least one group consisting of, by mass %,

Group I: one or more elements selected from Cr: 0.30% or less, V: 0.10% or less, Mo: 0.20% or less, Cu: 0.10% or less, and Ni: 0.10% or less, and

Group II: REM: 0.0010% to 0.0050%.

2. The high-strength steel sheet according to claim 1 , the steel sheet further having a YR of 0.85 or less.

3. A method for manufacturing a high-strength steel sheet according to claim 1 , the method comprising:

a hot rolling process in which finish rolling is performed on a steel material having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.100% to 0.150%, Si: 0.30% to 0.70%, Mn: 2.20% to 2.80%, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.0020% or less, Al: 0.020% to 0.060%, N: 0.0050% or less, Nb: 0.010% to 0.060%, Ti: 0.010% to 0.030%, B: 0.0005% to 0.0030%, Sb: 0.005% to 0.015%, and Ca: 0.0015% or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, at a temperature equal to or higher than the Ara transformation temperature and in which coiling is performed at a temperature of 600° C. or lower;

a pickling process in which pickling is performed on the hot-rolled steel sheet after the hot rolling process; and

a continuous annealing process in which the steel sheet which has been pickled in the pickling process is heated to a temperature range of 570° C. or higher at an average heating rate of 2° C./s or more, in which a holding time during which the steel sheet is held in a temperature range equal to or higher than the Acs transformation temperature is 60 seconds or more, in which the held steel sheet is then cooled to a temperature range of 620° C. to 740° C. at an average cooling rate of 0.1° C./s to 8° C./s, in which a holding time during which the cooled steel sheet is held in the temperature range is 10 seconds to 50 seconds, in which the held steel sheet is then cooled to a temperature range of 400° C. or lower at an average cooling rate of 5° C./s to 50° C./s, and in which a holding time during which the cooled steel sheet is held in a temperature range of 150° C. or higher and 400° C. or lower is 200 seconds to 800 seconds.

4. The method for manufacturing a high-strength steel sheet according to claim 1 , the method further comprising a cold rolling process in which cold rolling is performed on the pickled steel sheet after the pickling process and before the continuous annealing process.

5. The high-strength steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the microstructure includes, in terms of area ratio, 11% or more and 25% or less of the ferrite phase.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 11, 2017
From: KARIYA, NOBUSUKE; ONO, YOSHIHIKO; FUNAKAWA, YOSHIMASA; MORI, KAZUMA; SUGIHARA, REIKO; KAWAMURA, KENJI
To: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 043833/0404 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-006312 · Jan 16, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180002778A1 · Jan 4, 2018