IP Library › Granted Patent US 12,037,665
Granted Patent B2
US 12,037,665 · App. 17/414,111 · Granted Jul 16, 2024

Spot welded member

Inventors: Minoru Tanaka (Tokyo, JP); Koichi Taniguchi (Tokyo, JP); Rinta Sato (Tokyo, JP); Katsutoshi Takashima (Tokyo, JP); Hiroshi Matsuda (Tokyo, JP); Rinsei Ikeda (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
C22C38/02B23K11/0026B23K11/115B23K11/166C22C18/04C22C38/04C23C2/06C23C2/28C23C2/40B23K2101/18B23K2101/34B23K2103/04
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Patent No.
US 12,037,665
App. No.
17/414,111
Granted
Jul 16, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A spot welded member includes a spot weld formed by holding a sheet stack of multiple steel sheets between a pair of electrodes and spot-welding the sheet stack, in which at least one of the multiple steel sheets is a high-strength zinc-based coated steel sheet having a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more, the high-strength zinc-based coated steel sheet having a coating with an Al content of 0.5% or more by mass, and in which the heat shock region of the spot weld outwardly extending from an edge of a corona bond area includes a coated layer including an FeAl alloy layer having an average thickness of 0.3 μm or more and a zinc-based coated layer having an average thickness of 2.0 μm or more on the FeAl alloy layer at the interface between the base steel sheet of the high-strength zinc-based coated steel sheet and the coating.

Claims (74)

1. A spot welded member, comprising a spot weld formed by holding a sheet stack of multiple steel sheets between a pair of electrodes and spot-welding the sheet stack,

wherein the spot welded member comprises a region A and a region B the region B being a heat shock region of the spot weld outwardly extending from an edge of a corona bond area to adjacent region A,

wherein at least one of the multiple steel sheets is a high-strength zinc-based coated steel sheet having a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more, the high-strength zinc-based coated steel sheet having a first zinc-based coating with an Al content of 0.5% or more by mass, in the region A, on a base steel sheet, and

wherein the region B includes a coated layer B including an FeAl alloy layer disposed on a surface of the base steel sheet, and a second zinc-based coated layer, disposed on the FeAL alloy laver,

wherein the FeAL alloy layer has an average thickness of 0.3 μm or more and the second zinc-based coated layer has an average thickness of 2.0 μm or more.

2. The spot welded member according to claim 1 , the Al content of the first zinc-based coating satisfies formula (1):

[Average thickness of FeAl alloy layer]≥0.8×In[Al content]+0.2  (1)

where In is a natural logarithm, [average thickness of FeAl alloy layer] is the average thickness (μm) of the FeAl alloy layer, and [Al content] is the Al content (% by mass) of the first zinc-based coating.

3. The spot welded member according to claim 1 , wherein the coated layer B further includes a Zn-rich phase (n) having an Fe content of 5% or less by mass.

4. The spot welded member according to claim 2 , wherein the coated layer B further includes a Zn-rich phase (n) having an Fe content of 5% or less by mass.

5. The spot welded member according to claim 1 , wherein the Zn-rich phase (n) has (001) orientation with respect to a basal surface.

6. The spot welded member according to claim 2 , wherein the Zn-rich phase (n) has (001) orientation with respect to a basal surface.

7. The spot welded member according to claim 3 , wherein the Zn-rich phase (n) has (001) orientation with respect to a basal surface.

8. The spot welded member according to claim 4 , wherein the Zn-rich phase (n) has (001) orientation with respect to a basal surface.

9. The spot welded member according to claim 1 , wherein the base steel sheet of the zinc-based coated steel sheet has a component composition containing, by mass %:

C: 0.01% to 0.22%,

Si: 0.02% to 2.00%,

Mn: 1.0% to 4.0%,

P: 0.060% or less, and

S: 0.01% or less.

10. The spot welded member according to claim 2 , wherein the base steel sheet of the zinc-based coated steel sheet has a component composition containing, by mass %:

C: 0.01% to 0.22%,

Si: 0.02% to 2.00%,

Mn: 1.0% to 4.0%,

P: 0.060% or less, and

S: 0.01% or less.

11. The spot welded member according to claim 3 , wherein the base steel sheet of the zinc-based coated steel sheet has a component composition containing, by mass %:

C: 0.01% to 0.22%,

Si: 0.02% to 2.00%,

Mn: 1.0% to 4.0%,

P: 0.060% or less, and

S: 0.01% or less.

12. The spot welded member according to claim 4 , wherein the base steel sheet of the zinc-based coated steel sheet has a component composition containing, by mass %:

C: 0.01% to 0.22%,

Si: 0.02% to 2.00%,

Mn: 1.0% to 4.0%,

P: 0.060% or less, and

S: 0.01% or less.

13. The spot welded member according to claim 7 , wherein the base steel sheet of the zinc-based coated steel sheet has a component composition containing, by mass %:

C: 0.01% to 0.22%,

Si: 0.02% to 2.00%,

Mn: 1.0% to 4.0%,

P: 0.060% or less, and

S: 0.01% or less.

14. The spot welded member according to claim 8 , wherein the base steel sheet of the zinc-based coated steel sheet has a component composition containing, by mass %:

C: 0.01% to 0.22%,

Si: 0.02% to 2.00%,

Mn: 1.0% to 4.0%,

P: 0.060% or less, and

S: 0.01% or less.

15. The spot welded member according to claim 9 , wherein the component composition of the base steel sheet of the zinc-based coated steel sheet further contains, by mass %, one or two or more selected from the group consisting of:

Nb: 0.002% to 0.100%,

Ti: 0.002% to 0.100%, and

B: 0.0002% to 0.0050%.

16. The spot welded member according to claim 10 , wherein the component composition of the base steel sheet of the zinc-based coated steel sheet further contains, by mass %, one or two or more selected from the group consisting of:

Nb: 0.002% to 0.100%,

Ti: 0.002% to 0.100%, and

B: 0.0002% to 0.0050%.

17. The spot welded member according to claim 11 , wherein the component composition of the base steel sheet of the zinc-based coated steel sheet further contains, by mass %, one or two or more selected from the group consisting of:

Nb: 0.002% to 0.100%,

Ti: 0.002% to 0.100%, and

B: 0.0002% to 0.0050%.

18. The spot welded member according to claim 12 , wherein the component composition of the base steel sheet of the zinc-based coated steel sheet further contains, by mass %, one or two or more selected from the group consisting of:

Nb: 0.002% to 0.100%,

Ti: 0.002% to 0.100%, and

B: 0.0002% to 0.0050%.

19. The spot welded member according to claim 13 , wherein the component composition of the base steel sheet of the zinc-based coated steel sheet further contains, by mass %, one or two or more selected from the group consisting of:

Nb: 0.002% to 0.100%,

Ti: 0.002% to 0.100%, and

B: 0.0002% to 0.0050%.

20. The spot welded member according to claim 14 , wherein the component composition of the base steel sheet of the zinc-based coated steel sheet further contains, by mass %, one or two or more selected from the group consisting of:

Nb: 0.002% to 0.100%,

Ti: 0.002% to 0.100%, and

B: 0.0002% to 0.0050%.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 15, 2021
From: TANAKA, MINORU; TANIGUCHI, KOICHI; SATO, RINTA; TAKASHIMA, KATSUTOSHI; MATSUDA, HIROSHI; IKEDA, RINSEI
To: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 057597/0735 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-239565 · Dec 21, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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