IP Library Granted Patent US 12,241,134
Granted Patent B2
US 12,241,134 · App. 16/772,987 · Granted Mar 4, 2025

High-strength hot-rolled plated steel sheet, and method for producing same

Inventors: Kyong Su Park (Pohang-si, KR); Jaeyong Chae (Pohang-si, KR)
Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
C21D8/0226C21D8/02C21D8/0205C21D9/46C22C38/02C22C38/04C22C38/12C22C38/14C22C38/16C21D8/0263C21D2211/001C21D2211/002C21D2211/005C21D2211/008C21D2211/009
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Patent No.
US 12,241,134
App. No.
16/772,987
Granted
Mar 4, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a high-strength hot-rolled plated steel sheet, including: in a unit of wt %, C at 0.05-0.5 wt %, Mn at 0.1-3.s0 wt %, Si at 0.5 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %), P at 0.05 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %), S at 0.03 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %), Nb at 0.01 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %), B at 0.0005-0.005 wt %, Ti at 0.005-0.2 wt %, and the remainder of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a microstructure thereof includes, as a volume fraction, 90 vol % or more of tempered martensite and 5 vol % or less of one crystal phase of bainite, ferrite, pearlite, and residual austenite; a tensile strength thereof is 650 MPa or more, and a yield strength thereof is 550 MPa or more; and as a ratio of the strengths, a yield ratio (yield strength/tensile strength) is 0.85 or more.

Claims (27)

1. A high-strength hot-rolled plated steel sheet, comprising consisting of:

in a unit of wt %, C at 0.05-0.5 wt %, Mn at 0.1-3.0 wt %, Si at 0.08 wt % or less excluding 0 wt %, P at 0.05 wt % or less excluding 0 wt %, S at 0.03 wt % or less excluding 0 wt %, Nb at 0.01 wt % or less excluding 0 wt %, B at 0.0005-0.005 wt %, Ti at 0.005-0.2 wt %, Cr at 0.5 wt % or less excluding 0 wt %, and a remainder of Fe and inevitable impurities,

wherein a microstructure thereof includes, as a volume fraction, 90 vol % or more of tempered martensite and 5 vol % or less of at least one of bainite, ferrite, pearlite, and residual austenite;

a tensile strength thereof is 719 MPa to 901 MPa, and a yield strength thereof is 659 MPa to 833 MPa; and

a ratio of yield strength to tensile strength is 0.85 or more,

wherein a thickness of the steel sheet is 1.8 mm or less, and

wherein the yield strength and the thickness of the steel sheet satisfy [Formula 1]:

Thickness of steel sheet in a unit of mm−Yield strength in a unit of MPa/1000≤1.25.  [Formula 1]

2. The high-strength hot-rolled plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein

the yield strength and the thickness of the steel sheet satisfy [Formula 2]:

Thickness of steel sheet in a unit of mm−Yield strength in a unit of MPa/1000≤0.85.  [Formula 2]

3. A method for preparing a hot-rolled plated steel sheet, comprising:

preparing a slab consisting of, in a unit of wt %, C at 0.05-0.5 wt %, Mn at 0.1-3.0 wt %, Si at 0.08 wt % or less excluding 0 wt %, P at 0.05 wt % or less excluding 0 wt %, S at 0.03 wt % or less excluding 0 wt %, Nb at 0.01 wt % or less excluding 0 wt %, B at 0.0005-0.005 wt %, Ti at 0.005-0.2 wt %, Cr at 0.5 wt % or less excluding 0 wt %, and a remainder of Fe and inevitable impurities;

heating the slab to form a heated slab;

hot-rolling the heated slab to prepare a hot-rolled steel sheet;

cooling the hot-rolled steel sheet to form a cooled steel sheet;

winding the cooled steel sheet to form a wound coil;

cooling the wound coil to prepare a cooled hot-rolled coil; and

plating heat-treating the cooled hot-rolled coil to form a hot-rolled plated steel sheet,

wherein the cooling of the hot-rolled steel sheet includes:

cooling the hot-rolled steel sheet at a rate of 50 to 1000° C./s within 5 seconds,

wherein the hot-rolled plated steel sheet has a tensile strength of 650 MPa or more and a yield strength of 550 MPa or more,

wherein in the cooling of the hot-rolled steel sheet, a temperature (Tcs) at which the cooling is ended is equal to (439−423*C−30.4*Mn−12.1*Cr° C.) or less,

wherein in the plating heat-treating of the cooled hot-rolled coil, a heat treatment temperature is in a temperature range of 400° C. or more to 720° C. or less, and

wherein in the hot-rolling of the heated slab to prepare the hot-rolled steel sheet, the heated slab is hot-rolled to a thickness of 1.8 mm or less, and

wherein the yield strength and the thickness of the steel sheet satisfy [Formula 1]:

Thickness of steel sheet in a unit of mm−Yield strength in a unit of MPa/1000≤1.25.  [Formula 1]

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 26, 2022
From: POSCO HOLDINGS INC.
To: POSCO CO., LTD
Reel/Frame 061773/0658 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 19, 2022
From: POSCO
To: POSCO HOLDINGS INC.
Reel/Frame 061476/0736 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 15, 2020
From: PARK, KYONG SU; CHAE, JAEYONG
To: POSCO
Reel/Frame 052943/0451 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2017-0178850 · Dec 22, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200392595A1 · Dec 17, 2020
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