IP Library Granted Patent US 10,807,138
Granted Patent B2
US 10,807,138 · App. 15/863,286 · Granted Oct 20, 2020

Tailored blank for hot stamping, hot stamped member, and methods for manufacturing same

Inventors: Yasunobu Miyazaki (Tokyo, JP); Yasuaki Naito (Tokyo, JP); Kaoru Kawasaki (Tokyo, JP); Takahiro Yoshinaga (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
B21D22/022B23K10/02B23K15/006B23K26/211B23K26/26B23K26/32B32B15/012C21D9/50C22C21/02C22C38/02C22C38/04C22C38/06C22C38/18C22C38/32C22C38/38B23K2101/18B23K2101/32B23K2101/34B23K2103/04B23K2103/08B23K2103/50C21D1/673C21D2251/00Y10T403/478
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Patent No.
US 10,807,138
App. No.
15/863,286
Granted
Oct 20, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A tailored blank for hot stamping includes a welded portion formed by butt-welding a first aluminum-plated steel sheet and a second aluminum-plated steel sheet, an Average Al concentration of a weld metal in the welded portion is in a range of 0.3 mass % to 1.5 mass %, an Ac 3 point of the weld metal is 1250° C. or lower, and furthermore, an aluminum layer formed during the butt-welding is present on a surface of the welded portion.

Claims (87)

1. A hot-stamped member obtained by performing hot stamping on a tailored blank for hot stamping,

wherein the tailored blank for hot stamping includes

a welded portion comprising a weld metal formed by butt-welding a first aluminum-plated steel sheet and a second aluminum-plated steel sheet,

wherein an average Al concentration of the weld metal of the hot-stamped member in the welded portion is 0.3 mass % to 1.5 mass %, in the following formula (1), an Ac 3 point of the weld metal defined in unit ° C. is 1250° C. or lower, and

wherein an aluminum layer formed during the butt-welding is present on a surface of the welded portion of the hot-stamped member,

Ac 3 =910−230×C 0.5 −15.2×Ni+44.7×Si+104×V+31.5×Mo+13.1×W−30×Mn−11×Cr−20×Cu+700×P+400×Al+120×As+400×Ti  Formula(1)

where, C, Ni, Si, V, Mo, W, Mn, Cr, Cu, P, Al, As, and Ti in Formula (1) represent amounts of individual elements in the weld metal of the hot-stamped member in mass %, and elements not contained are considered to have an amount of zero in computation, and

wherein a product of a hardness of the weld metal of the hot-stamped member and a thickness of a thinnest portion of the weld metal of the hot-stamped member is greater than both a product of a hardness of the first aluminum-plated steel sheet of the hot-stamped member and a sheet thickness of the first aluminum-plated steel sheet of the hot-stamped member and a product of a hardness of the second aluminum-plated steel sheet of the hot-stamped member and a sheet thickness of the second aluminum-plated steel sheet of the hot-stamped member.

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

wherein, furthermore, in the following formula (2), Δt M defined in unit of second is 0.5 seconds or longer,

Formula

(

2

)

Δ

t

M

=

exp

{

10.6

(

C

+

Si

+

5

×

Al

24

+

Mn

6

+

Cu

15

+

Ni

12

+

Mo

6

+

Cr

×

(

1

-

0.16

×

Cr

)

8

+

Δ

H

)

-

4.8

}

where, C, Si, Al, Mn, Cu, Ni, Mo, and Cr in Formula (2) represent amounts of individual elements in the weld metal in mass %, elements not contained are considered to have an amount of zero in computation, and ΔH represents a numeric value defined as described below in accordance with the amount of B in mass % and fN when the fN is set to (0.02−N)/0.02 using the amount of N in the weld metal in mass %,

when B≤0.0001, ΔH=0,

when 0.0001<B≤0.0002, ΔH=0.03×fN,

when 0.0002<B≤0.0003, ΔH=0.06×fN, and

when 0.0003<B, ΔH=0.09×fN.

3. The hot-stamped member according to claim 1 ,

wherein an Ac 1 point of the weld metal defined in unit ° C. in the following formula (3) is 860° C. or lower,

Ac 1 =exp(6.5792−0.038058×C+0.052317×Si+0.011872×Ni−0.045575×V+0.18057×Al+0.011442×W−0.013403×Cu+5.5207×B+0.91209×S−1.1002×P+0.060014×Mn×C−0.096628Cr×C+0.050625×Cr×Si+0.39802×Mo×C−0.34782×Mo×Mn+0.40986×Mo×Si−0.12959×Mo×Cr−0.048128×Ni×C−0.01090×Mn 2 −0.03550×Si 2 +0.010207×Cr 2 +0.36074×Mo 2 −0.0030705×Ni 2 )  Formula (3)

where, C, Si, Ni, V, Al, W, Cu, B, S, P, Mn, Cr, and Mo in Formula (3) represent amounts, in mass %, of individual elements in the weld metal, and elements not contained are considered to have an amount of zero in computation.

4. The hot-stamped member according to claim 1 ,

wherein a thickness of a thinnest portion of the weld metal is represented by t in unit mm, a sheet thickness of the first aluminum-plated steel sheet is represented by t1 in unit mm, and a sheet thickness of the second aluminum-plated steel sheet is represented by t2 in unit mm,

when the t1 is equal to the t2, the t is 80% or more of the t1; and

when the t1 is different from the t2, the t is 80% or more of the smaller of the t1 and the t2.

5. The hot-stamped member according to claim 1 ,

wherein when the t1, which is a sheet thickness of the first aluminum-plated steel sheet is equal to t2, which is a sheet thickness of the second aluminum-plated steel sheet, a maximum height of the weld metal is 300 μm or shorter from an extended line of a surface of the first aluminum-plated steel sheet; and

when the t1 is different from the t2, a maximum height of the weld metal is 300 μm or shorter from an extended line of a surface of thicker of the first aluminum-plated steel sheet and the second aluminum-plated steel sheet.

6. The hot-stamped member according to claim 1 ,

wherein an oxygen content in the weld metal is 50 ppm or more higher than an average oxygen content in a first steel sheet that is a base material for coating of the first aluminum-plated steel sheet and a second steel sheet that is a base material for coating of the second aluminum-plated steel sheet.

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 14, 2019
From: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
To: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049257/0828 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2012-074222 · Mar 28, 2012 · national
JP 2012-093812 · Apr 17, 2012 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 14385559
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