IP Library Granted Patent US 10,953,631
Granted Patent B2
US 10,953,631 · App. 16/635,511 · Granted Mar 23, 2021

Hot-dip galvanized steel sheet

Inventors: Atsushi Morishita (Tokyo, JP); Taihei Kaneto (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Uchida (Tokyo, JP); Tatsuya Nakada (Tokyo, JP); Yuji Yamaguchi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
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Patent No.
US 10,953,631
App. No.
16/635,511
Granted
Mar 23, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet with a microstructure in a ⅛ thickness to ⅜ thickness range whose middle is a ¼ thickness from a surface of a base steel sheet, the microstructure contains ferrite phase is 50% or more and 97% or less by volume fraction, and a predetermined phase wherein at an interface between a hot-dip galvanizing layer and the base steel sheet, a Fe—Al alloy layer has an average thickness of 0.1 μm to 2.0 μm, and a difference between a maximum thickness and a minimum thickness in a steel sheet width direction is within 0.5 μm, and in a fine-grain layer directly brought into contact with the Fe—Al alloy layer, the fine-grain has a difference between a maximum thickness and a minimum thickness of the fine-grain layer in the steel sheet width direction is within 2.0 μm.

Claims (66)

1. A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a hot-dip galvanizing layer on at least one side of a base steel sheet, wherein:

the base steel sheet has chemical components containing, in mass %,

C: 0.040% to 0.280%,

Si: 0.05% to 2.00%,

Mn: 0.50% to 3.50%,

P: 0.0001% to 0.1000%,

S: 0.0001% to 0.0100%,

Al: 0.001% to 1.500%,

N: 0.0001% to 0.0100%,

O: 0.0001% to 0.0100%,

Ti: 0% to 0.150%,

Nb: 0% to 0.100%,

V: 0% to 0.300%,

Cr: 0% to 2.00%,

Ni: 0% to 2.00%,

Cu: 0% to 2.00%,

Mo: 0% to 2.00%,

B: 0% to 0.0100%,

W: 0% to 2.00%,

Ce, Mg, Zr, La, and REM: 0% to 0.0100% in total, and

a balance comprising Fe and impurities;

the base steel sheet has a microstructure in which:

in a ⅛ thickness to ⅜ thickness range whose middle is a ¼ thickness of a total thickness of the base steel sheet from a surface of the base steel sheet,

ferrite phase is 50% or more and 97% or less by volume fraction,

a total of a hard structure consisting of one or more of bainite phase, bainitic ferrite phase, fresh martensite phase, and tempered martensite phase is 3% or more by volume fraction,

retained austenite phase is 0% to 8% by volume fraction, and

a total of pearlite phase and coarse cementite phase is 0% to 8% by volume fraction;

in a surface layer portion from an interface between the hot-dip galvanizing layer and the base steel sheet up to a 20 μm depth in a steel sheet thickness direction,

retained austenite is 0% to 3% by volume fraction; and

V1/V2 being a ratio between a volume fraction V1 of the hard structure in the surface layer portion and a volume fraction V2 of the hard structure in the ⅛ thickness to ⅜ thickness range whose middle is the ¼ thickness from the surface of the steel sheet, is set to fall within a range of 0.10 or more and 0.90 or less; and

in the hot-dip galvanizing layer, a Fe content is more than 0% and 3.0% or less, and an Al content is more than 0% and 1.0% or less,

the hot-dip galvanized steel sheet comprising:

at an interface between the hot-dip galvanizing layer and the base steel sheet, a Fe—Al alloy layer in which an average thickness is 0.1 μm to 2.0 μm, and a difference between a maximum thickness and a minimum thickness in a steel sheet width direction is within 0.5 μm; and

a fine-grain layer directly brought into contact with the Fe—Al alloy layer in the base steel sheet, the fine-grain layer with an average thickness of 0.1 urn to 5.0 μm, and an average grain diameter of 0.1 μm to 3.0 μm, the fine-grain layer containing an oxide of one or more of Si and Mn with a maximum diameter of 0.01 μm to 0.4 μm, and the fine-grain layer with a difference between a maximum thickness and a minimum thickness in the steel sheet width direction of within 2.0 μm.

2. The hot-dip galvanized steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein

a plating deposition amount per one side of the hot-dip galvanizing layer is 10 g/m 2 or more and 100 g/m 2 or less.

3. The hot-dip galvanized steel sheet according to claim 2 , wherein

the base steel sheet further contains, in mass %, one or two or more selected from a group consisting of

Ti: 0.001% to 0.150%,

Nb: 0.001% to 0.100%, and

V: 0.001% to 0.300%.

4. The hot-dip galvanized steel sheet according to claim 2 , wherein

the base steel sheet further contains, in mass %, one or two or more selected from a group consisting of

Cr: 0.01% to 2.00%,

Ni 0.01% to 2.00%,

Cu: 0.01% to 2.00%,

Mo: 0.01% to 2.00%,

B: 0.0001% to 0.0100%, and

W: 0.01% to 2.00%.

5. The hot-dip galvanized steel sheet according to claim 2 , wherein

the base steel sheet further contains, in mass %, one or two or more selected from a group consisting of Ca, Ce, Mg, Zr, La, and REM of 0.0001% to 0.0100% in total.

6. The hot-dip galvanized steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein

the base steel sheet further contains, in mass %, one or two or more selected from a group consisting of

Ti: 0.001% to 0.150%,

Nb: 0.001% to 0.100%, and

V: 0.001% to 0.300%.

7. The hot-dip galvanized steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein

the base steel sheet further contains, in mass %, one or two or more selected from a group consisting of

Cr: 0.01% to 2.00%,

Ni: 0.01% to 2.00%,

Cu: 0.01% to 2.00%,

Mo: 0.01% to 2.00%,

B: 0.0001% to 0.0100%, and

W: 0.01% to 2.00%.

8. The hot-dip galvanized steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein

the base steel sheet further contains, in mass %, one or two or more selected from a group consisting of Ca, Ce, Mg, Zr, La, and REM of 0.0001% to 0.0100% in total.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 3, 2020
From: MORISHITA, ATSUSHI; KANETO, TAIHEI; UCHIDA, SATOSHI; NAKADA, TATSUYA; YAMAGUCHI, YUJI
To: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
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