IP Library Granted Patent US 11,091,839
Granted Patent B2
US 11,091,839 · App. 16/066,863 · Granted Aug 17, 2021

Surface-treated steel sheet and method for producing surface-treated steel sheet

Inventors: Hiromasa Shoji (Tokyo, JP); Kunihiko Toshin (Tokyo, JP); Kohei Ueda (Tokyo, JP); Atsushi Morishita (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
C23C28/00B05D1/28B05D3/0254B05D7/14B05D7/24B32B15/043B32B15/18C09D5/08C09D5/10C09D133/062C23C2/06C23C2/26C23C2/40C23C22/60C23C22/05Y10T428/12569
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Patent No.
US 11,091,839
App. No.
16/066,863
Granted
Aug 17, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

The object of the invention is to provide a surface-treated steel sheet having a coating having fine adhesiveness to an adhesive on the surface and having excellent corrosion resistance, and a production method thereof. Provided is a surface-treated steel sheet including: a steel sheet; a plated layer containing zinc on the steel sheet; and a coating on the plated layer, wherein the coating contains an acrylic resin, zirconium, vanadium, phosphorus and cobalt, and the acrylic resin has an area ratio of 80 to 100 area % in an area from a surface to a thickness of one-fifth of a film thickness of the coating, and an area ratio of 5 to 50 area % in an area including areas from the film thickness center of the coating to a thickness of one-tenth of the film thickness toward the surface side and toward the plated layer side.

Claims (28)

1. A surface-treated steel sheet comprising:

a steel sheet;

a plated layer that contains zinc and is formed on the steel sheet; and

a coating formed on the plated layer,

wherein the coating contains an acrylic resin, zirconium, vanadium, phosphorus and cobalt,

the acrylic resin has an area ratio of 80 to 100 area % in an area from a surface of the coating to a thickness of one-fifth of a film thickness of the coating on a cross-section of the coating, and the acrylic resin has an area ratio of 5 to 50 area % in an area including an area from the film thickness center of the coating to a thickness of one-tenth of the film thickness toward the surface side and an area from the film thickness center to a thickness of one-tenth of the film thickness toward the plated layer side,

wherein the zirconium is contained in the coating by 4 to 400 mg/m 2 in terms of metal.

2. The surface-treated steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein

a plurality of island projections is present on the surface of the coating in a planar view, and

when three or more virtual straight lines each having a length of equal to or more than 10 μm and extending in any direction are drawn on any positions on the surface of the coating in a planar view, a length of each island projection is 0.1 to 5.0 μm, where the length of each island projection is defined as an average value of lengths of a plurality of line segments, which are portions of the virtual straight lines passing through the projections.

3. The surface-treated steel sheet according to claim 2 , wherein the surface of the coating in an area of 1 μm by 1 μm has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 5 to 50 nm, a maximum cross-sectional height Rt of a roughness curve of 50 to 500 nm, and a root mean square roughness Rq of 10 to 100 nm.

4. The surface-treated steel sheet according to claim 2 , wherein a concentration of the zirconium in an area between adjacent island projections on the surface of the coating is less than a concentration of the zirconium in an area on which the island projections are formed.

5. The surface-treated steel sheet according to claim 2 , wherein a concentration of the acrylic resin in an area between adjacent island projections on the surface of the coating is more than a concentration of the acrylic resin in an area on which the island projections are formed.

6. The surface-treated steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein

the coating has a mass ratio of a mass of the vanadium to a mass of the zirconium of 0.07 to 0.69,

a mass ratio of a mass of the phosphorus to the mass of the zirconium of 0.04 to 0.58, and

a mass ratio of a mass of the cobalt to the mass of the zirconium of 0.005 to 0.08.

7. The surface-treated steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the acrylic resin has an area ratio of 20 to 60 area % on a cross-section of the coating.

8. The surface-treated steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the plated layer consists of, in mass %, one or more of Al: less than or equal to 60%, Mg: less than or equal to 10%, and Si: less than or equal to 2%; zinc; and impurities.

9. The surface-treated steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the acrylic resin is a copolymer of, in mass %, styrene: 15 to 25%, (meth)acrylic acid: 1 to 10%, (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester: 40 to 58% and acrylonitrile: 20 to 38%, and the acrylic resin has a glass transition temperature of −12 to 24° C.

10. The surface-treated steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the coating contains less than or equal to 5% by mass of a fluoride ion.

11. A method for producing the surface-treated steel sheet according to claim 1 , comprising:

a step of forming a plated layer containing zinc on a steel sheet;

a step of forming a coating by applying an aqueous surface treating agent containing an acrylic resin, zirconium, vanadium, phosphorus and cobalt on the plated layer by using a roll coater;

a step of retaining the coating for equal to or more than 0.5 seconds from the formation of the coating to initiation of heating of the coating; and

a step of heating the coating to dry the coating,

wherein, in the step of applying the aqueous surface treating agent, a viscosity of the aqueous surface treating agent measured at 25° C. is equal to or more than 1 mPa·s and equal to or less than 4 mPa·s.

12. The method for producing the surface-treated steel sheet according to claim 11 , wherein, in the step of applying the aqueous surface treating agent, a temperature of the steel sheet when the steel sheet enters into the roll coater is equal to or more than 5° C. and equal to or less than 80° C.

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 Jul 2, 2018
From: SHOJI, HIROMASA; TOSHIN, KUNIHIKO; UEDA, KOHEI; MORISHITA, ATSUSHI
To: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 046252/0456 →