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US 12,421,589 · App. 18/250,979 · Granted Sep 23, 2025

Galvanized steel sheet, electrodeposition-coated steel sheet, automotive part, method of producing electrodeposition-coated steel sheet, and method of producing galvanized steel sheet

Inventors: Shunsuke Yamamoto (Tokyo, JP); Katsutoshi Takashima (Tokyo, JP); Yusuke Okumura (Tokyo, JP); Tomomi Kanazawa (Tokyo, JP); Katsuya Hoshino (Tokyo, JP); Takashi Kawano (Tokyo, JP); Takako Yamashita (Tokyo, JP); Hiroshi Matsuda (Tokyo, JP); Yoichi Makimizu (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
C23C2/40C21D8/0236C21D9/46C22C38/001C22C38/002C22C38/02C22C38/04C22C38/06C23C2/02C23C2/0224C23C2/024C23C2/06C23C28/021C25D3/20C25D5/36C25D5/50C25D7/0614
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Patent No.
US 12,421,589
App. No.
18/250,979
Granted
Sep 23, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

To provide a steel sheet with excellent resistance to cracking in resistance welding at a welded portion. Disclosed is a galvanized steel sheet including: a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less; an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet with a coating weight per surface of 5.0 g/m 2 or more; and a galvanized layer formed on the Fe-based electroplating layer, in which in an intensity profile measured by glow discharge optical emission spectrometry, I Si,Fe /I Si,bulk is 0.50 or more, and an average value of C concentration in a region ranging from 10 μm to 20 μm from an interface between the galvanized layer and the Fe-based electroplating layer towards the Fe-based electroplating layer is 0.10 mass % or less.

Claims (52)

1. A galvanized steel sheet comprising:

a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less;

an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet with a coating weight per surface of 5.0 g/m 2 or more;

a galvanized layer formed on the Fe-based electroplating layer; and

a decarburized layer extending from the interface between the galvanized layer and the Fe-based electroplating layer towards the Fe-based electroplating layer, wherein

in an intensity profile measured by glow discharge optical emission spectrometry, a value of I Si,Fe /I Si,bulk is 0.50 or more, where I si,Fe denotes an average Si intensity in a region ranging from an interface between the galvanized layer and the Fe-based electroplating layer to an interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet, and I Si,bulk denotes an average Si intensity in the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet,

an average value of C concentration in a region ranging from 10 μm to 20 μm in the thickness direction from the interface between the galvanized layer and the Fe-based electroplating layer towards the Fe-based electroplating layer is 0.10 mass % or less,

the number of crystal grain boundaries in the Fe-based electroplating layer that are in contact with the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet is 10 or more per 10 μm in a sheet transverse direction in an observation field of view of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet, and

a coating weight (g/m 2 ) per surface of the Fe-based electroplating layer, denoted by C.W. Fe1 , and a thickness (μm) of the decarburized layer, denoted by C d , satisfy the following formula (1):

1.6×(C.W. Fe1 )+(C d )≥77  (1).

2. The galvanized steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet contains Si in an amount of 0.50 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less.

3. The galvanized steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the decarburized layer has a thickness of 30 μm or more.

4. The galvanized steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, in addition to Si, in mass %,

C: 0.8% or less,

Mn: 1.0% or more and 12.0% or less,

P: 0.1% or less,

S: 0.03% or less,

N: 0.010% or less, and

Al: 1.0% or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities.

5. The galvanized steel sheet according to claim 4 , wherein the chemical composition further contains, in mass %, at least one element selected from the group consisting of

B: 0.005% or less,

Ti: 0.2% or less,

Cr: 1.0% or less,

Cu: 1.0% or less,

Ni: 1.0% or less,

Mo: 1.0% or less,

Nb: 0.20% or less,

V: 0.5% or less,

Sb: 0.020% or less,

Ta: 0.1% or less,

W: 0.5% or less,

Zr: 0.1% or less,

Sn: 0.20% or less,

Ca: 0.005% or less,

Mg: 0.005% or less, and

REM: 0.005% or less.

6. The galvanized steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the Fe-based electroplating layer has a chemical composition containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of B, C, P, N, O, Ni, Mn, Mo, Zn, W, Pb, Sn, Cr, V, and Co, in a total amount of 10 mass % or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities.

7. An electrodeposition-coated steel sheet comprising:

a chemical conversion layer formed on the galvanized steel sheet as recited in claim 1 ; and

an electrodeposition coating layer formed on the chemical conversion layer.

8. An automotive part at least partially made from the electrodeposition-coated steel sheet as recited in claim 7 .

9. A method of producing an electrodeposition-coated steel sheet, the method comprising:

subjecting the galvanized steel sheet as recited in claim 1 to chemical conversion treatment to obtain a chemical-conversion-treated steel sheet with a chemical conversion layer formed thereon; and

subjecting the chemical-conversion-treated steel sheet to electrodeposition coating treatment to obtain an electrodeposition-coated steel sheet with an electrodeposition coating layer formed on the chemical conversion layer.

10. A method of producing the galvanized steel sheet as recited in claim 1 , the method comprising:

subjecting a cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less to Fe-based electroplating to obtain a pre-annealing Fe-based electroplated steel sheet with a pre-annealing Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface thereof with a coating weight per surface of 5.0 g/m 2 or more;

then heating the pre-annealing Fe-based electroplated steel sheet with an average heating rate of 10° C./sec or higher in a temperature range from 400° C. to 650° C., and cooling the pre-annealing Fe-based electroplated steel sheet after being held in the temperature range in an atmosphere with a dew point above −30° C., to obtain an Fe-based electroplated steel sheet; and

then subjecting the Fe-based electroplated steel sheet to galvanization to obtain a galvanized steel sheet, wherein

a coating weight (g/m 2 ) per surface of the pre-annealing Fe-based electroplating layer, denoted by C.W. Fe0 , and the dew point, denoted by D.P., satisfy the following formula (2):

(C.W. Fe0 )+(D.P.)≥0  (2).

11. The method of producing a galvanized steel sheet according to claim 10 , wherein the cold-rolled steel sheet contains Si in an amount of 0.50 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less.

12. The method of producing a galvanized steel sheet according to claim 10 , wherein the Fe-based electroplating is performed in an Fe-based electroplating bath containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of B, C, P, N, O, Ni, Mn, Mo, Zn, W, Pb, Sn, Cr, V, and Co, so that the at least one element is contained in the pre-annealing Fe-based electroplating layer in a total amount of 10 mass % or less.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 28, 2023
From: YAMAMOTO, SHUNSUKE; TAKASHIMA, KATSUTOSHI; OKUMURA, YUSUKE; KANAZAWA, TOMOMI; HOSHINO, KATSUYA; KAWANO, TAKASHI; YAMASHITA, TAKAKO; MATSUDA, HIROSHI; MAKIMIZU, YOICHI
To: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-186208 · Nov 6, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230374639A1 · Nov 23, 2023
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