IP Library Granted Patent US 10,907,235
Granted Patent B2
US 10,907,235 · App. 16/330,336 · Granted Feb 2, 2021

Steel sheet

Inventors: Yuri Toda (Tokyo, JP); Kunio Hayashi (Tokyo, JP); Katsuya Nakano (Tokyo, JP); Hiroyuki Kawata (Tokyo, JP); Akihiro Uenishi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
C21D9/46B32B15/013C21D6/002C21D6/005C21D6/008C21D8/0205C21D8/0226C21D8/0236C21D8/0263C21D8/0278C22C38/00C22C38/001C22C38/002C22C38/005C22C38/02C22C38/06C22C38/16C22C38/20C22C38/22C22C38/24C22C38/26C22C38/28C22C38/32C22C38/38C23C2/06C23C2/28C23C2/40C23F17/00C21D2211/001C21D2211/002C21D2211/005C21D2211/008C21D2211/009
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Patent No.
US 10,907,235
App. No.
16/330,336
Granted
Feb 2, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A steel sheet according to an aspect of the present invention has a chemical composition within a predetermined range; in which a metallographic structure at a thickness ¼ portion includes, by unit area %, ferrite: 10% or more and less than 50%, granular bainite: 5% or more and less than 50%, and martensite: 20% or more and less than 60%; in the metallographic structure at the thickness ¼ portion, a total of upper bainite, lower bainite, residual austenite, and pearlite is 0% or more and less than 15% by unit area %; at the thickness ¼ portion, a product of an area ratio Vm of the martensite and an average hardness Hv of the martensite is 12,000 to 34,000; and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or higher.

Claims (46)

1. A steel sheet comprising, as a chemical composition, by unit mass %,

C: 0.06% to 0.15%,

P: 0.040% or less,

S: 0.0100% or less,

N: 0.0100% or less,

O: 0.0060% or less,

Si and Al in total: 0.20% to 2.50%,

Mn and Cr in total: 1.50% to 3.00%,

Mo: 0% to 1.00%,

Ni: 0% to 1.00%,

Cu: 0% to 1.00%,

Nb: 0% to 0.30%,

Ti: 0% to 0.30%,

V: 0% to 0.50%,

B: 0% to 0.0100%,

Ca: 0% to 0.0400%,

Mg: 0% to 0.0400%,

REM: 0% to 0.0400%, and

a remainder including Fe and impurities,

wherein a metallographic structure at a thickness ¼ portion includes, by unit area %,

ferrite: 10% or more and less than 50%,

granular bainite: 5% or more and less than 50%, and

martensite: 20% or more and less than 60%,

in the metallographic structure at the thickness ¼ portion, a total of upper bainite, lower bainite, residual austenite, and pearlite is 0% or more and less than 15% by unit area %,

at the thickness ¼ portion, a product of an area ratio Vm of the martensite and an average hardness Hv of the martensite is 12,000 to 34,000, and

a tensile strength is 980 MPa or higher,

wherein the thickness ¼ portion is a portion of the steel sheet between a plane at a depth of ⅛ in a sheet thickness t from a first rolled surface and a plane at a depth of ⅜ in the sheet thickness t from the first rolled surface, wherein the sheet thickness t is a distance between first and second rolled surfaces of the steel sheet, and

wherein the area ratio is the area ratio in the metallographic structure at the thickness ¼ portion of the steel sheet, the unit of Vm is area %, and the unit of the average hardness Hv is Vickers hardness.

2. The steel sheet according to claim 1 , comprising, as the chemical composition of the steel sheet, by unit mass %, one or more of

Mo: 0.01% to 1.00%,

Ni: 0.05% to 1.00%, and

Cu: 0.05% to 1.00%.

3. The steel sheet according to claim 1 , comprising, as the chemical composition of the steel sheet, by unit mass %, one or more of

Nb: 0.005% to 0.30%,

Ti: 0.005% to 0.30%, and

V: 0.005% to 0.50%.

4. The steel sheet according to claim 1 , comprising, as the chemical composition of the steel sheet, by unit mass %,

B: 0.0001% to 0.01%.

5. The steel sheet according to claim 1 , comprising, as the chemical composition of the steel sheet, by unit mass %, one or more of

Ca: 0.0005% to 0.04%,

Mg: 0.0005% to 0.04%, and

REM: 0.0005% to 0.04%.

6. The steel sheet according to claim 1 ,

wherein a hot-dip galvanized layer is provided on a surface of the steel sheet.

7. The steel sheet according to claim 1 ,

wherein a galvannealed layer is provided on a surface of the steel sheet.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 1, 2019
From: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
To: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049924/0315 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 5, 2019
From: TODA, YURI; HAYASHI, KUNIO; NAKANO, KATSUYA; KAWATA, HIROYUKI; UENISHI, AKIHIRO
To: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 048503/0077 →
Continuity (1)
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