Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100314009 | HIGH STRENGTH GALVANIZED STEEL SHEET EXCELLENT IN FORMABILITY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A high strength galvanized steel sheet having a TS of 780 MPa or more and exhibiting excellent stretch frangeability and bendability and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The component composition contains C: 0.05% to 0.15%, Si: 0.8% to 2.5%, Mn: 1.5% to 3.0%, P: 0.001% to 0.05%, S: 0.0001% to 0.01%, Al: 0.001% to 0.1%, N: 0.0005% to 0.01%, Cr: 0.1% to 1.0%, Ti: 0.0005% to 0.1%, B: 0.0003% to 0.003%, and the remainder composed of iron and incidental impurities, on a percent by mass basis. The microstructure includes 30% or more of ferrite phase and 30% or more, and 70% or less of martensite phase on an areal fraction basis, wherein regarding the above-described martensite phase, the proportion of a tempered martensite phase is 20% or more relative to the whole martensite phase and the proportion of a martensite phase having a grain diameter of 1 μm or less is 10% or less relative to the whole martensite phase. | 12-16-2010 |
20110139315 | HIGH STRENGTH GALVANIZED STEEL SHEET WITH EXCELLENT FORMABILITY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A high-strength galvanized steel sheet has a TS of at least 590 MPa and excellent ductility and stretch flangeability and a method for manufacturing the high-strength galvanized steel sheet. The galvanized steel sheet contains, on the basis of mass percent, C: 0.05% to 0.3%, Si: 0.01% to 2.5%, Mn: 0.5% to 3.5%, P: 0.003% to 0.100% or less, S: 0.02% or less, and Al: 0.010% to 1.5%. The total of Si and Al is 0.5% to 2.5%. The remainder are iron and incidental impurities, contain 20% or more of ferrite phase, 10% or less of martensite phase, and 10% to 60% of tempered martensite, on the basis of area percent, and 3% to 10% of retained austenite phase on the basis of volume fraction. The retained austenite has an average grain size of 2.0 μm or less. | 06-16-2011 |
20110240176 | HIGH-STRENGTH COLD-ROLLED STEEL SHEET HAVING EXCELLENT FORMABILITY, HIGH-STRENGTH GALVANIZED STEEL SHEET, AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet and high-strength galvanized steel sheet has a TS of 1180 MPa or more and excellent formability including stretch flangeability and bendability. The high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet contains 0.05% to 0.3% C, 0.5% to 2.5% Si, 1.5% to 3.5% Mn, 0.001% to 0.05% P, 0.0001% to 0.01% S, 0.001% to 0.1% Al, 0.0005% to 0.01% N, and 1.5% or less Cr (including 0%) on a mass basis, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities. | 10-06-2011 |
20120279617 | HIGH STRENGTH GALVANIZED STEEL SHEET HAVING EXCELLENT FATIGUE RESISTANCE AND STRETCH FLANGEABILITY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A steel sheet has the chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.04 to 0.13%, Si: 0.9 to 2.3%, Mn: 0.8 to 1.8%, P: 0.1% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.1% or less, N: 0.008% or less, the remainder being Fe and the inevitable impurities and a microstructure including, in terms of area ratio, a ferrite phase of 80% or more, a bainitic ferrite phase of 1.0% or more, a pearlite phase of 1.0 to 10.0%, and a martensite phase of 1.0% or more and less than 5.0%, wherein the mean grain size of ferrite is 14 μm or less, the mean grain size of martensite is 4 μm or less, the mean free path of martensite is 3 μm or more, the Vickers hardness of ferrite is 140 or more, and the relationship area ratio of martensite/(area ratio of bainitic ferrite+area ratio of pearlite) 0.6 is satisfied. | 11-08-2012 |
20130133792 | HIGH-STRENGTH COLD ROLLED SHEET HAVING EXCELLENT FORMABILITY AND CRASHWORTHINESS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A high-strength cold rolled steel sheet has excellent formability and crashworthiness and includes, on a mass % basis, C: 0.05 to 0.3%, Si: 0.3 to 2.5%. Mn: 0.5 to 3.5%, P: 0.003 to 0.100%, 5: 0.02% or less, Al: 0.010 to 0.5%, the balance being iron and unavoidable impurities, the high-strength cold rolled steel sheet having a microstructure including 20% or more of ferrite on an area fraction basis, 10 to 60% of tempered martensite on an area fraction basis, 0 to 10% of martensite on an area fraction basis, and 3 to 15% of retained austenite on a volume fraction basis. | 05-30-2013 |
20140050941 | HIGH STRENGTH STEEL SHEET HAVING EXCELLENT FORMABILITY AND STABILITY OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A high strength steel sheet including, by mass, C: 0.03% or more and 0.25% or less, Si: 0.4% or more and 2.5% or less, Mn: 3.5% or more and 10.0% or less, P: 0.1% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 2.5% or less, N: 0.008% or less, Si+Al: 1.0% or more, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. The area ratio of ferrite is 30% or more and 80% or less, the area ratio of martensite is 0% or more and 17% or less, the volume fraction of retained austenite is 8% or more, and the average grain size of retained austenite is 2 μm or less. | 02-20-2014 |
20140182748 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING HIGH STRENGTH GALVANIZED STEEL SHEET WITH EXCELLENT FORMABILITY - A method of manufacturing a high-strength galvanized steel sheet includes hot-rolling a slab to form a steel sheet; during continuous annealing, heating the steel sheet to a temperature of 750° C. to 900° C. at an average heating rate of at least 10° C./s at a temperature of 500° C. to an A | 07-03-2014 |
20140209217 | HIGH-STRENGTH GALVANNEALED STEEL SHEET HAVING EXCELLENT FORMABILITY AND FATIGUE RESISTANCE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention provides a high-strength galvanized steel sheet having excellent ductility, stretch flangeability, and fatigue resistance, and a method for manufacturing the same. A high-strength galvannealed steel sheet having excellent formability and fatigue resistance is characterized in that the steel sheet is composed of steel having a composition containing, by % by mass, C: 0.05% to 0.3%, Si: 0.5% to 2.5%, Mn: 1.0% to 3.5%, P: 0.003% to 0.100%, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 0.010% to 0.1%, and the balance including iron and unavoidable impurities, and the steel sheet has a microstructure containing 50% or more of ferrite, 5% to 35% of martensite, and 2% to 15% of pearlite in terms of an area ratio, the martensite having an average gain size of 3 μm or less and an average distance of 5 μm or less between adjacent martensite grains. | 07-31-2014 |
20140360632 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING HIGH STRENGTH STEEL SHEET HAVING EXCELLENT FORMABILITY - A method of manufacturing a high strength steel sheet having excellent formability suitable for the material of an automotive part has a tensile strength (TS) of 980 MPa or more and total elongation (EL) is 25% or more. A steel slab has a chemical composition containing C: 0.03% to 0.35%, Si: 0.5% to 3.0%, Mn: 3.5% to 10.0%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.02% or less, and the remainder includes Fe and incidental impurities on a percent by mass basis is hot-rolled, a heat treatment is performed, in which an achieved temperature of Ac1 to Ac1+100° C. is held for 3 minutes or more, subsequently, cold rolling is performed at a rolling reduction of 20% or more and, annealing is performed, in which an achieved temperature of Ac1−30° C. to Ac1+100° C. is held for 1 minute or more. | 12-11-2014 |