IP Library Granted Patent US 10,906,134
Granted Patent B2
US 10,906,134 · App. 15/554,659 · Granted Feb 2, 2021

Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet

Inventors: Hideyuki Hamamura (Futtsu, JP); Tatsuhiko Sakai (Oita, JP); Hisashi Mogi (Yachiyo, JP); Fumiaki Takahashi (Kisarazu, JP); Hirofumi Imai (Kisarazu, JP); Shunsuke Okumura (Kitakyushu, JP)
Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
B23K26/364C21D8/1294C22C38/00C22C38/60C25F3/06H01F1/16C21D2201/05H01F1/14766
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Patent No.
US 10,906,134
App. No.
15/554,659
Granted
Feb 2, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including a steel sheet having a steel sheet surface in which a groove, which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction and of which a groove depth direction matches a sheet thickness direction, is formed. In a case where the steel sheet surface is seen from the sheet thickness direction, the steel sheet surface is provided with a groove group that is constituted by a plurality of the grooves arranged in a sheet width direction, the grooves, which constitute the groove group, are arranged in such a manner that adjacent grooves overlap each other on a projection plane perpendicular to the rolling direction, and a plurality of the groove groups are arranged with an interval in the rolling direction.

Claims (33)

1. A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, comprising:

a steel sheet having a steel sheet surface in which a groove, which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction and of which a groove depth direction matches a sheet thickness direction, is formed,

wherein when the steel sheet surface is seen from the sheet thickness direction, the steel sheet surface is provided with a groove group that is constituted by a plurality of the grooves arranged with an interval in a sheet width direction,

the grooves, which constitute the groove group, are arranged in such a manner that adjacent grooves overlap each other on a projection plane being a YZ plane perpendicular to the rolling direction,

a plurality of the groove groups are arranged with an interval in the rolling direction,

when an end of the steel sheet in the sheet width direction is set as a reference end, grooves adjacent to each other among the plurality of grooves of each of the groove groups are set as a first groove and a second groove in an order close to the reference end, inclined portions are formed at the two groove ends of each of the grooves, which constitute the groove group, in a longitudinal groove direction, two groove ends of each of the grooves, which constitute the groove group, in a longitudinal groove direction are set as a first groove end and a second groove end in an order close to the reference end, a contour of the first groove that is projected onto the projection plane is set as a first longitudinal groove projection line, a contour of the second groove that is projected separately onto the projection plane is set as a second longitudinal groove projection line, an average depth in the contours of the plurality of grooves which constitute the groove group is set as an average groove group depth D A in a unit of μm, at the first groove end of the second longitudinal groove projection line, a point on the second longitudinal groove projection line, at which a depth from the steel sheet surface in the sheet thickness direction becomes 0.05×D A , is set as a first point, and at the second groove end of the first longitudinal groove projection line, a point on the first longitudinal groove projection line, at which a depth from the steel sheet surface in the sheet thickness direction becomes 0.05×D A , is set as a second point,

the depth of each of the contours of the plurality of grooves represents a maximum length from the steel sheet surface to a surface opposite to the steel sheet surface in the sheet thickness direction of each of the plurality of grooves,

each of the plurality of grooves has a plurality of depths measured along a central portion in the longitudinal groove direction,

the average groove depth in each of the contours of the plurality of grooves which constitute the groove group are an arithmetic mean of each of the respective plurality of depths of each of the plurality of grooves,

the average groove group depth D A is an arithmetic mean of the average depths of each of the contours of the plurality of grooves,

on the projection plane, a distance between the first point on the second longitudinal groove projection line and the reference end is shorter than a distance between the second point on the first longitudinal groove projection line and the reference end, and

in an overlapping region between the first groove end of the second groove and the second groove end of the first groove, a total depth of a depth from the steel sheet surface in the sheet thickness direction at the second groove end of the first groove and a depth from the steel sheet surface in the sheet thickness direction at the first groove end of the second groove is 0.5×D A or greater.

2. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 1 ,

wherein when an arbitrary point on the first longitudinal groove projection line, which is included in the overlapping region, is set as P 1 , and among points on the second longitudinal groove projection line that is included in the overlapping region, a point, at which a distance from the reference end is the same as a distance between the point P 1 and the reference end, is set as P 2 ,

in the overlapping region, a total depth of a depth of the first groove from the steel sheet surface to the point P 1 on the first longitudinal groove projection line in the sheet thickness direction, and a depth of the second groove from the steel sheet surface to the point P 2 on the second longitudinal groove projection line in the sheet thickness direction is 0.5×D A or greater.

3. A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, comprising:

a steel sheet having a steel sheet surface in which a groove, which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction and of which a groove depth direction matches a sheet thickness direction, is formed,

wherein when the steel sheet surface is seen from the sheet thickness direction, the steel sheet surface is provided with a groove group that is constituted by a plurality of the grooves arranged with an interval in a sheet width direction,

the grooves, which constitute the groove group, are arranged in such a manner that adjacent grooves overlap each other on a projection plane being a YZ plane perpendicular to the rolling direction,

a plurality of the groove groups are arranged with an interval in the rolling direction,

when one end of the steel sheet in the sheet width direction is set as a reference end, grooves adjacent to each other among the plurality of grooves of each of the groove groups are set as a first groove and a second groove in an order close to the reference end, inclined portions are formed at the two groove ends of each of the grooves, which constitute the groove group, in a longitudinal groove direction, two groove ends of each of the grooves, which constitute the groove group, in a longitudinal groove direction are set as a first groove end and a second groove end in an order close to the reference end, a contour of the first groove that is projected onto the projection plane is set as a first longitudinal groove projection line, a contour of the second groove that is projected separately onto the projection plane is set as a second longitudinal groove projection line, an average value of depths of the first longitudinal groove projection line from the steel sheet surface in the sheet thickness direction is set as a first average groove depth D I in a unit of μm, an average value of depths of the second longitudinal groove projection line from the steel sheet surface in the sheet thickness direction is set as a second average groove depth D II in a unit of μm, at the first groove end of the second longitudinal groove projection line, a point, at which a depth from the steel sheet surface in the sheet thickness direction becomes 0.05×D II , is set as a third point, and at the second groove end of the first longitudinal groove projection line, a point, at which a depth from the steel sheet surface in the sheet thickness direction becomes 0.05×D I , is set as a fourth point,

the depth of each of the plurality of grooves represents a maximum length from the steel sheet surface to a surface opposite to the steel sheet surface in the sheet thickness direction ;

each of the plurality of grooves has a plurality of depths measured along a respective longitudinal groove projection line,

the average groove depth in each of the plurality of grooves are an arithmetic mean of each of the respective plurality of depths,

on the projection plane, a distance La between the third point on the second longitudinal groove projection line and the reference end is shorter than a distance Lb between the fourth point on the first longitudinal groove projection line and the reference end, and

in an overlapping region between the first groove end of the second groove and the second groove end of the first groove, a total depth of a depth from the steel sheet surface in the sheet thickness direction at the first groove and a depth from the steel sheet surface in the sheet thickness direction at the second groove is 0.25×(D I +D II ) or greater.

4. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 3 ,

wherein when at the second groove end of the first longitudinal groove projection line, a point, at which a depth from the steel sheet surface in the sheet thickness direction becomes 0.95×D I ; is set as a fifth point, and at the first groove end of the second longitudinal groove projection line, a point, at which a depth from the steel sheet surface in the sheet thickness direction becomes 0.95×D II , is set as a sixth point,

a distance Lc between the fifth point on the first longitudinal groove projection line and the reference end is shorter than a distance Ld between the sixth point on the second longitudinal groove projection line and the reference end.

5. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 1 ,

wherein in the steel sheet, a grain size of a crystal grain, which is in contact with the groove, is 5 μm or greater.

6. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 3 ,

wherein in the steel sheet, a grain size of a crystal grain, which is in contact with the groove, is 5 μm or greater.

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 Aug 31, 2017
From: HAMAMURA, HIDEYUKI; SAKAI, TATSUHIKO; MOGI, HISASHI; TAKAHASHI, FUMIAKI; IMAI, HIROFUMI; OKUMURA, SHUNSUKE
To: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 043464/0237 →