IP Library Granted Patent US 12,241,161
Granted Patent B2
US 12,241,161 · App. 17/271,345 · Granted Mar 4, 2025

Aluminum-zinc alloy plated steel sheet having excellent hot workability and corrosion resistance, and method for manufacturing same

Inventors: Suk-Kyu Lee (Gwangyang-si, KR); Il-Jeong Park (Gwangyang-si, KR); Myung-Soo Kim (Gwangyang-si, KR)
Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
C23C2/12B32B15/012C22C21/10C22C38/02C22C38/04C22C38/06C23C2/02C23C2/20C23C2/28C23C2/40
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Patent No.
US 12,241,161
App. No.
17/271,345
Granted
Mar 4, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are an aluminum-zinc alloy plated steel sheet having excellent hot workability and corrosion resistance, and a method for manufacturing same. The plated steel sheet has an Al—Zn hot-dip aluminized coating layer on a base steel sheet, wherein: the coating layer is composed of a lower layer part and an upper layer part; the lower layer part comprises 40-50% of Fe, 50-60% of Al, 1% or less of Si, and other unavoidable impurities, on the basis of wt % of the lower layer part itself; the upper layer part comprises 10-30% of Zn, the balance of Al, and 0.05% or less of at least one of Cr, Mo, and Ni as an impurity, on the basis of wt % of the upper layer part itself; and the thickness of the upper layer part accounts for 30% or less of the total thickness of the coating layer.

Claims (18)

1. An Al—Zn alloy plated steel sheet having workability and corrosion resistance, the Al—Zn alloy plated steel sheet comprising an Al—Zn hot-dip aluminized plating layer on a base steel sheet,

wherein the plating layer comprises:

a lower-layer portion comprising, based on a weight thereof:

Fe: 40% to 50%,

Al: 50% to 60%,

Si: 1% or less, and

inevitable impurities; and

an upper-layer portion comprising, based on a weight thereof:

Zn: 10% to 30%,

Al: 69.8 to 90%, and

the balance of 0.05% or less of one or more impurities selected from the group consisting of Cr, Mo, and Ni;

wherein an amount of Si, if present, in the lower-layer portion is the same as or greater than an amount of Si, if present, in the upper-layer portion; and

wherein the upper-layer portion has a thickness which is 30% or less of a total thickness of the plating layer.

2. The Al—Zn alloy plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein the base steel sheet is a cold-rolled steel sheet or a hot-rolled steel sheet.

3. The Al—Zn alloy plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein the base steel sheet comprises, by wt %, C: 0.05% to 0.3%, Si: 0.01% to 2.5%, Mn: 0.5% to 8%, Al: 0.01% to 0.5%, B: 100 ppm or less, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities.

4. The Al—Zn alloy plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein the lower-layer portion and the upper-layer portion are free of Si.

5. The Al—Zn alloy plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein the amount of Si in the lower-layer portion is the same as the amount of Si in the upper-layer portion.

6. The Al—Zn alloy plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein the amount of Si in the lower-layer portion is greater than the amount of Si in the upper-layer portion.

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 Feb 25, 2021
From: LEE, SUK-KYU; PARK, IL-JEONG; KIM, MYUNG-SOO
To: POSCO
Reel/Frame 055410/0444 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2018-0102602 · Aug 30, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20210348257A1 · Nov 11, 2021
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