IP Library Granted Patent US 12,410,491
Granted Patent B2
US 12,410,491 · App. 17/425,440 · Granted Sep 9, 2025

High-strength steel sheet and method for producing the same

Inventors: Lingling Yang (Tokyo, JP); Tatsuya Nakagaito (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
C21D9/46C21D8/0226C21D8/0236C21D8/0273C22C38/001C22C38/002C22C38/02C22C38/04C22C38/06C22C38/12C22C38/14C23C2/06C23C2/28C23C2/40C21D2211/002C21D2211/005C21D2211/008C21D2211/009
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Patent No.
US 12,410,491
App. No.
17/425,440
Granted
Sep 9, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A high-strength steel sheet that has a predetermined component composition, that has a steel microstructure in which, in a thickness cross-section in a rolling direction, an area percentage of ferrite ranges from 5% to 30%, a total area percentage of tempered martensite and bainite ranges from 40% to 90%, pearlite constitutes 0% to 5%, a total area percentage of fresh martensite and retained γ ranges from 5% to 30%, a ratio of a total area percentage of the fresh martensite and the retained γ to a total area percentage of the tempered martensite, bainite, and pearlite is 0.5 or less, and a ratio of the fresh martensite and the retained γ adjacent to the ferrite with respect to the fresh martensite and the retained γ is 30% or more in total area percentage, and that has a yield strength of 550 MPa or more.

Claims (22)

1. A high-strength steel sheet that has a component composition comprising, on a mass percent basis:

C: 0.07% to 0.25%,

Si: 0.01% to 1.80%,

Mn: 1.8% to 3.2%,

P: 0.05% or less,

S: 0.02% or less,

Al: 0.01% to 2.0%, and

N: 0.01% or less;

at least one of

B: 0.0001% to 0.005%,

Ti: 0.005% to 0.04%, and

Nb: 0.005% to 0.06%; and

a balance being Fe and incidental impurities,

that has a steel microstructure in which, in a thickness cross-section in a rolling direction, an area percentage of ferrite ranges from 5% to 30%, a total area percentage of tempered martensite and bainite ranges from 40% to 90%, pearlite constitutes 0% to 5%, a total area percentage of fresh martensite and retained γ ranges from 5% to 30%, a ratio of a total area percentage of the fresh martensite and the retained γ to a total area percentage of the tempered martensite, bainite, and pearlite is 0.5 or less, and a ratio of the fresh martensite and the retained γ adjacent to the ferrite with respect to the fresh martensite and the retained γ is 30% or more in total area percentage, and

that has a yield strength of 550 MPa or more.

2. The high-strength steel sheet according to claim 1 , further comprising: in addition to the component composition, at least one element selected from group A and/or at least one element selected from group B:

group A: at least one of Mo: 0.03% to 0.50% and Cr: 0.1% to 1.0% in a total of 1% or less on a mass percent basis; and

group B: a total of 0.5% or less of at least one of Cu, Ni, Sn, As, Sb, Ca, Mg, Pb, Co, Ta, W, REM, Zn, V, Sr, Cs, and Hf on a mass percent basis.

3. The high-strength steel sheet according to claim 1 , further comprising a coated layer on a surface of the steel sheet.

4. The high-strength steel sheet according to claim 2 , further comprising a coated layer on a surface of the steel sheet.

5. The high-strength steel sheet according to claim 3 , wherein the coated layer is a hot-dip galvanized layer or a galvannealed layer.

6. The high-strength steel sheet according to claim 4 , wherein the coated layer is a hot-dip galvanized layer or a galvannealed layer.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 19, 2021
From: YANG, LINGLING; NAKAGAITO, TATSUYA
To: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 057830/0785 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-013796 · Jan 30, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220098696A1 · Mar 31, 2022
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