IP Library Granted Patent US 12,467,154
Granted Patent B2
US 12,467,154 · App. 18/250,978 · Granted Nov 11, 2025

Fe-based electroplated steel sheet, electrodeposition-coated steel sheet, automotive part, method of producing electrodeposition-coated steel sheet, and method of producing Fe-based electroplated 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
C25D3/20C21D8/0236C21D8/0257C21D9/46C22C38/001C22C38/002C22C38/02C22C38/04C22C38/06C25D5/50C25D7/0614C25D3/26C25D5/36
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Patent No.
US 12,467,154
App. No.
18/250,978
Granted
Nov 11, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is an Fe-based electroplated 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; and 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, in which in an intensity profile measured by glow discharge optical emission spectrometry, a peak of emission intensity at wavelengths indicating Si is detected within a range from a surface of the Fe-based electroplating layer to more than 0.2 μm in a thickness direction and not more than a thickness of the Fe-based electroplating layer, and an average value of C concentration in a region ranging from 10 μm to 20 μm in the thickness direction from the surface of the Fe-based electroplating layer is 0.10 mass % or less.

Claims (7)

1 . A method of producing an Fe-based electroplated steel sheet, 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, Mn in an amount of 1.0 mass % or more and 3.5 mass % or less, and C in an amount of 0.03 mass % or more 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., wherein the heating is not oxidation heating, 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

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.)≥15  (2).

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

3 . The method of producing an Fe-based electroplated steel sheet according to claim 1 , 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
Reel/Frame 063473/0277 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-186206 · Nov 6, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240117517A1 · Apr 11, 2024
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