IP Library Granted Patent US 12,270,108
Granted Patent B2
US 12,270,108 · App. 18/010,868 · Granted Apr 8, 2025

Plated steel sheet having excellent corrosion resistance, workability and surface quality and method for manufacturing same

Inventors: Il-Ryoung Sohn (Gwangyang-si, KR); Sung-Joo Kim (Pohang-si, KR); Tae-Chul Kim (Gwangyang-si, KR); Bong-Hwan Yoo (Gwangyang-si, KR); Myung-Soo Kim (Pohang-si, KR); Jong-Sang Kim (Gwangyang-si, KR); Sang-Tae Han (Pohang-si, KR); Kwang-Won Kim (Pohang-si, KR)
Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
C23C2/06C21D8/0205C21D8/0226C22C18/00C22C18/04C23C2/0035C23C2/02C23C2/40
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Patent No.
US 12,270,108
App. No.
18/010,868
Granted
Apr 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a plated steel sheet having excellent corrosion resistance, workability and surface quality, and at the same time, capable of reducing occurrence of liquid metal embrittlement (LME).

Claims (34)

1. A plated steel sheet, comprising:

a base steel sheet;

a Zn—Mg—Al based steel sheet plating layer provided on at least one surface of the base steel sheet; and

an Fe—Al based inhibition layer provided between the base steel sheet and the Zn—Mg—Al based plating layer,

wherein the plating layer comprises, by weight:

4% or more of Mg; 2.1 times or more of a Mg content and 14.2% or less of Al; 0.2% or less (including 0%) of Si; 0.1% or less (including 0%) of Sn, with a balance of Zn and unavoidable impurities,

wherein, in a cut surface of the steel sheet in a thickness direction, when an interface line of the base steel sheet is spaced 5 μm apart toward a surface of the plating layer, a length occupied by an outburst phase intersecting the spaced line is 10% or less compared to a length of the spaced line, and,

a Fe content of the outburst phase is 10 to 45% by weight, and an alloy phase of the outburst phase contains at least one of Fe 2 Al 5 , FeAl and Fe—Zn compounds, and contains 20% or more of Zn by weight, and

wherein the outburst phase is an alloy phase including a Fe—Al based intermetallic compound other than the inhibition layer.

2. The plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein a cross-sectional hardness of the plating layer is 200 to 450 Hv.

3. The plated steel sheet of claim 2 , wherein a number of Mg 2 Si phases having a major axis of 500 nm or more, in contact with an interface between the plating layer and the inhibition layer is 10 or less per 100 μm.

4. The plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein the Si content of the plating layer is 0.01% or less.

5. The plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein the Sn content of the plating layer is 0.09% or less.

6. The plated steel sheet of claim 5 , wherein the Sn content of the plating layer is 0.05% or less.

7. The plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein a Fe content of the plating layer is 1% or less.

8. The plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein the inhibition layer has a thickness of 0.02 μm or more and 2.5 μm or less.

9. The plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein a sum of areas of an Al single phase included in a MgZn 2 phase exists in an area ratio of 0.5 to 10% to a total plating layer cross-sectional area.

10. The plated steel sheet of claim 9 , wherein the single Al single phase is entirely or partly located inside the MgZn 2 phase.

11. The plated steel sheet of claim 10 , wherein the Al single phase included inside the MgZn 2 phase is an Al single phase corresponding to at least one of the following cases:

an Al single phase included inside a MgZn 2 phase, and completely included by the MgZn 2 phase,

an Al single phase, a portion of the Al single phase being included inside the MgZn 2 phase and the portion of Al single phase protruding out of the MgZn 2 phase,

an Al single phase in which a mixed phase of Al and Zn is completely included inside the MgZn 2 phase, and completely included inside the mixed phase of Al and Zn,

an Al single phase completely included inside the mixed phase Al and Zn, in which a portion of the Al single phase is included inside the MgZn 2 phase and the other portion of the Al single phase protrudes out of the MgZn 2 phase,

an Al single phase partly included in the mixed phase of Al and Zn, in which a portion of the Al single phase is included inside the MgZn 2 phase and the other portion of the Al single phase protrudes out of the MgZn 2 phase, and completely included inside a MgZn 2 region, and

Al single phase partly included in the mixed phase of Al and Zn, in which a portion of the Al single phase is included inside the MgZn 2 phase and the other portion of the Al single phase protrudes out of the MgZn 2 phase, wherein a portion thereof is included inside the MgZn 2 region and the other portion thereof protrudes out of the MgZn 2 region.

12. The plated steel sheet of claim 10 , wherein the Al single phase comprises, by weight %, 40 to 70% of Al; 0.2%, with a balance of Zn and unavoidable impurities.

13. The plated steel sheet of claim 10 , wherein, in the plating layer, a ratio of the Al single phase to the entire cross-section of the plating layer is 1 to 15% by area fraction.

14. The plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein surface roughness Ra of the plating layer is 0.5 to 3.0 μm.

15. The plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein surface roughness Rz of the plating layer is 1 to 20 μm.

16. The plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein the thickness of the plating layer is 5 to 100 μm.

17. The plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein a diffraction intensity ratio I(200)/I(111), which is a ratio of X-ray diffraction intensity I(200) of (200) plane of Al single phase in a MgZn 2 phase of the plating layer and X-ray diffraction intensity I(111) of (111) plane of Al single phase in a MgZn 2 phase of the plated layer, is 0.8 or less.

18. The plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein, under an atmospheric environment and a chloride environment of ISO14993, LDH((Zn,Mg) 6 Al 2 (OH) 16 (CO 3 )·4H 2 O) is formed before simoncolite (Zn 5 (OH) 8 Cl 2 ) and hydrozinsite (Zn 5 (OH) 6 (CO 3 ) 2 ) on a surface of the Zn—Mg—Al-based plating layer.

19. The plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein, under an atmospheric environment and a chloride environment of ISO14993, LDH((Zn,Mg) 6 Al 2 (OH) 16 (CO 3 )·4H 2 O) is formed on a surface of the Zn—Mg—Al-based plating layer within 6 hours in an atmospheric environment, and within 5 minutes in a chloride environment of ISO14993.

20. The plated steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein a time taken for red rust to occur under a chloride environment including salt spray and dipping environments is 40 to 50 times longer than that of Zn—<g−Al plating of the same thickness in a flat sheet portion; and 20 to 30 times longer in 90 degree in a bending portion.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 16, 2022
From: SOHN, IL-RYOUNG; KIM, SUNG-JOO; KIM, TAE-CHUL; YOO, BONG-HWAN; KIM, MYUNG-SOO; KIM, JONG-SANG; HAN, SANG-TAE; KIM, KWANG-WON
To: POSCO CO., LTD
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Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2020-0075335 · Jun 19, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230235438A1 · Jul 27, 2023
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