IP Library Granted Patent US 9,631,250
Granted Patent B2
US 9,631,250 · App. 14/383,008 · Granted Apr 25, 2017

High-strength cold-rolled steel sheet and method for manufacturing the same

Inventors: Hidetaka Kawabe (Tokyo, JP); Takeshi Yokota (Tokyo, JP); Reiko Sugihara (Tokyo, JP); Shigeyuki Aizawa (Tokyo, JP); Kazuki Nakazato (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
C21D8/0263C21D1/25C21D1/26C21D8/0226C21D8/0236C21D8/0278C21D8/0473C21D9/48C22C38/001C22C38/002C22C38/02C22C38/04C22C38/06C22C38/14C21D8/0436C21D2211/001C21D2211/002C21D2211/005C21D2211/008
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Patent No.
US 9,631,250
App. No.
14/383,008
Granted
Apr 25, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A steel sheet has a microstructure including ferrite phase: 40% to 60%, bainite phase: 10% to 30%, tempered martensite phase: 20% to 40%, and retained austenite phase: 5% to 20% by volume fraction, and satisfying a condition that a ratio of tempered martensite phase having major axis length ≦5 μm to a total volume fraction of the tempered martensite phase is 80% to 100%.

Claims (15)

1. A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet having a chemical composition containing by mass %:

C: 0.12% to 0.22%;

Si: 0.8% to 1.8%;

Mn: 2.2% to 3.2%;

P: 0.020% or less;

S: 0.0040% or less;

Al: 0.005% to 0.08%;

N: 0.008% or less;

Ti: 0.001% to 0.040%;

B: 0.0001% to 0.0020%; and

the remainder being Fe and incidental impurities,

wherein the steel sheet has a microstructure including ferrite phase: 40% to 60% by volume fraction, bainite phase: 10% to 30% by volume fraction, tempered martensite phase: 20% to 40% by volume fraction, and retained austenite phase: 5% to 20% by volume fraction, and satisfying a condition that a ratio of tempered martensite phase having major axis length ≦5 μm to a total volume fraction of the tempered martensite phase is 80% to 100%.

2. A method for manufacturing a high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet comprising subjecting a steel slab having the chemical composition according to claim 1 to hot rolling, coiling, pickling, first annealing at a temperature in a range of 350° C. to 650° C., cold rolling, second annealing at a temperature in a range of 820° C. to 900° C., third annealing at a temperature in a range of 720° C. to 800° C., cooling at a cooling rate: 10° C./s to 80° C./s down to a cooling stop temperature: 300° C. to 500° C., retention at the above cooling stop temperature range for 100 s to 1000 s, and fourth annealing at a temperature in a range of 100° C. to 300° C. to thereby obtain a steel sheet that has a microstructure including ferrite phase: 40% to 60% by volume fraction, bainite phase: 10% to 30% by volume fraction, tempered martensite phase: 20% to 40% by volume fraction, and retained austenite phase: 5% to 20% by volume fraction, and satisfying a condition that a ratio of tempered martensite phase having major axis length ≦5 μm to a total volume fraction of the tempered martensite phase is 80% to 100%,

wherein the hot rolling, coiling, pickling, first annealing, cold rolling, second to third annealing, cooling, and fourth annealing are performed in this order.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein a temperature of the coiling is in a range of 450° C. to 600° C.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 22, 2015
From: KAWABE, HIDETAKA; YOKOTA, TAKESHI; SUGIHARA, REIKO; AIZAWA, SHIGEYUKI; NAKAZATO, KAZUKI
To: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 034786/0062 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2012-050591 · Mar 7, 2012 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20150034219A1 · Feb 5, 2015