Patents Assigned to Posco
  • Publication number: 20250100021
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus of removing foreign substances from a hot-rolled steel strip, including a reverse direction injection unit provided to inject high-pressure water in the reverse direction of a moving direction of the strip toward the strip moving to the entrance of the winder by the side guide, wherein the reverse direction injection unit includes a plurality of upper reverse direction injection nozzles arranged along a width direction of the strip to inject high-pressure water to an upper surface of the strip, and the plurality of upper reverse direction injection nozzles is arranged such that an interval of the upper reverse direction injection nozzles located in a central area along the above arrangement direction is narrower than an interval of the upper reverse direction injection nozzles located in both edge areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kyungseok KIM, Wankee HONG, Sukjin YOO, Hyun YOO, Sanghui LEE
  • Patent number: 12258657
    Abstract: A preferable aspect of the present invention provides: a hot-rolled steel sheet with excellent impact resistance containing, by weight, 0.35-0.55% of C, 0.7-1.5% of Mn, 0.3% or less (excluding 0%) of Si, 0.03% or less (including 0%) of P, 0.004% or less (including 0%) of S, 0.04% or less (excluding 0%) of Al, 0.3% or less (excluding 0%) of Cr, 0.3% or less (excluding 0%) of Mo, one or two of 0.1-1.0% of Ni and 0.1-1.0% of Cu, 0.4% or more of Cu+Ni, 0.006% or less (excluding 0%) of N, and the balance Fe and other impurities, the alloy elements satisfying relational formulas 1 to 3 below, wherein a microstructure of the hot-rolled steel sheet comprises, by volume, 10% or more of ferrite and 90% or less of pearlite; a steel pipe and a member each using the same; and manufacturing methods therefore. (Mn/Si)?3 (weight ratio)??[Relational formula 1] (Ni+Cu)/(C+Mn)?0.2 (weight ratio)??[Relational formula 2] (Ni/Si)?(weight ratio).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hwan-Goo Seong, Yeol-Rae Cho, Seong-Beom Bae
  • Patent number: 12255310
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a material injection scheduling method for producing a precursor having a concentration gradient using an apparatus for producing a precursor having a concentration gradient mixing materials of a first feed tank and a second feed tank with each other in advance in a mixer and injecting the mixed material into a reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: POSCO HOLDINGS INC., RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hwang Yol Ryu, Ki Sung You
  • Patent number: 12251922
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electrical steel sheet product according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: preparing an adhesive coating composition; forming an adhesive coating layer by applying and then curing the adhesive coating composition onto a surface of an electrical steel sheet; forming a heat-fused layer by laminating and heat-fusing a plurality of electrical steel sheets on which the adhesive coating layers are formed; and cooling the heat-fused electrical steel sheets at a cooling rate of 0.05 to 20° C./min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jung-Woo Kim, Bongwoo Ha, Taeyoung No, Dong-Gyu Lee
  • Patent number: 12252759
    Abstract: Provided is a steel sheet and a method for manufacturing same, the steel sheet, which can be used for automobile parts and the like, having superb bendability, and excellent balance of strength and ductility and of strength and hole expansion ratio. The steel sheet includes: by wt %, C: 0.25 to 0.75%, Si: 4.0% or less, Mn: 0.9 to 5.0%, Al: 5.0% or less, P: 0.15% or less, S: 0.03% or less, N: 0.03% or less, a balance of Fe, and unavoidable impurities; and as microstructures, ferrite which is a soft structure, and tempered martensite, bainite, and retained austenite which are hard structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jae-Hoon Lee, Min-Seo Koo, Tae-Oh Lee
  • Publication number: 20250087673
    Abstract: A positive active material for a lithium secondary battery according to an exemplary embodiment includes a lithium composite transition metal oxide and a surface layer formed on a particle surface of the lithium composite transition metal oxide, and a content of nickel (Ni) in the lithium composite transition metal oxide. is more than 0.85 mol, the surface layer contains cobalt (Co) and aluminum (Al), and in the surface layer, the distribution of the cobalt (Co) and aluminum (Al) components have different concentration gradients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicants: POSCO Holdings Inc., RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, POSCO FUTURE M CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kijoo HONG, Byong Yong YU, Kwon Young CHOI, Ju Seong KIM, Sang Cheol NAM
  • Publication number: 20250084517
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a steel sheet for use in automobiles, etc., and to a steel sheet that has high strength and high formability and is superb in terms of spot weldability, and a manufacturing method therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Sung-Kyu Kim, Tae-Kyo Han, Jun-Ho Park, Kyoung-Rae Cho, Sang-Ho Han
  • Patent number: 12247309
    Abstract: A ferritic stainless steel with improved corrosion resistance. The ferritic stainless steel with improved corrosion resistance according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes, in percent (%) by weight of the entire composition, C: 0.02% or less (excluding 0), N: 0.02% or less (excluding 0), Si: 0.5% or less (excluding 0), Mn: 0.3% or less (excluding 0), Cr: 16 to 20%, Ni: 0.4% or less (excluding 0), the remainder of iron (Fe) and other inevitable impurities, and a Cr weight % content of a thickness region from a surface of a passivation film to 3 nm is 1.2 times or more than the Cr weight % content of the stainless base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kwang Min Kim, Kkoch Nim Oh, Dong-Hoon Kim
  • Publication number: 20250073824
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention may provide a method for manufacturing a welded steel pipe having superior wear resistance and low-temperature toughness. And, the present invention may also provide a method for manufacturing a welded steel pipe having particularly suitable physical properties for delivering the slurry by minimizing occurrence of high-temperature cracks in a welded portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: POSCO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sang-Chul LEE
  • Publication number: 20250079543
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a processing method for reusing a waste battery, the processing method comprising the steps of: cooling, for a minimum cooling time satisfying formula 1 below, a battery pack comprising: as a unit cell, a battery that includes a plurality of lithium ions, and freezing same; and crushing the frozen battery pack. minimum ? cooling ? time = A × W 0.33 < Formula ? 1 > ( A = 4 × e ( - 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicants: POSCO Holdings Inc., POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Sang Woo HAN, Wan-Yi KIM, Sanghyeon YOON, Hyunjin CHO, Sungsuk JUNG
  • Publication number: 20250075284
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises, in wt %, 2.0 to 6.5% of Si, 0.1 to 1.3% of Al, 0.3 to 2.0% of Mn, and the remainder in Fe and unavoidable impurities, and the area fraction of grains the diameters of which are at most 10% of the sheet thickness is 10.0 to 35.0%, while the number fraction is 15 to 55%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventor: Soobin Kwon
  • Patent number: 12241161
    Abstract: Provided are an aluminum-zinc alloy plated steel sheet having excellent hot workability and corrosion resistance, and a method for manufacturing same. The plated steel sheet has an Al—Zn hot-dip aluminized coating layer on a base steel sheet, wherein: the coating layer is composed of a lower layer part and an upper layer part; the lower layer part comprises 40-50% of Fe, 50-60% of Al, 1% or less of Si, and other unavoidable impurities, on the basis of wt % of the lower layer part itself; the upper layer part comprises 10-30% of Zn, the balance of Al, and 0.05% or less of at least one of Cr, Mo, and Ni as an impurity, on the basis of wt % of the upper layer part itself; and the thickness of the upper layer part accounts for 30% or less of the total thickness of the coating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Suk-Kyu Lee, Il-Jeong Park, Myung-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 12241134
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength hot-rolled plated steel sheet, including: in a unit of wt %, C at 0.05-0.5 wt %, Mn at 0.1-3.s0 wt %, Si at 0.5 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %), P at 0.05 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %), S at 0.03 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %), Nb at 0.01 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %), B at 0.0005-0.005 wt %, Ti at 0.005-0.2 wt %, and the remainder of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a microstructure thereof includes, as a volume fraction, 90 vol % or more of tempered martensite and 5 vol % or less of one crystal phase of bainite, ferrite, pearlite, and residual austenite; a tensile strength thereof is 650 MPa or more, and a yield strength thereof is 550 MPa or more; and as a ratio of the strengths, a yield ratio (yield strength/tensile strength) is 0.85 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kyong Su Park, Jaeyong Chae
  • Patent number: 12241138
    Abstract: A wear resistant steel material has high hardness and excellent cut crack reistance, that can be applied to a thick steel material of which the thickness is 60 mm or more, that is not cracked even after being cut using gas, and a method of manufacturing the wear resistant steel material provides high hardness and excellent cut crack resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Seng-Ho Yu, Nam-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 12241162
    Abstract: An aluminum-iron-plated steel sheet including a base steel sheet and an aluminum-based plating layer on a surface of the base steel sheet. The aluminum-based plating layer includes an alloyed layer on the surface of the base steel sheet and an aluminum layer on the alloyed layer. The alloyed layer may be formed of one or more of Fe3Al, FeAl(Si), Fe2Al5, and FeAl3. A thickness of the alloyed layer may be 90% or more of a thickness of the aluminum-based plating layer. A surface fraction of Ti may be 2% or less and a surface fraction of Zn may be 1% or less, as observed on the surface of the aluminum-based plating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Jin-Keun Oh, Seong-Woo Kim, Sang-Heon Kim, Hyo-Sik Chun
  • Patent number: 12241135
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel sheet comprising by weight: C: 0.10-0.30%; Si: 0.001-1.0%; Mn: 0.5-2.5%; Cr: 0.001-1.5%; Mo: 0.001-0.5%; Al: 0.001-0.5%; P: 0.001-0.01%; S: 0.001-0.01%; N: 0.001-0.01%; B: 0.0001-0.004%; Ti: 0.001-0.1%; Nb: 0.001 to 0.1%; and the balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, and satisfying relational expression (1), and a microstructure includes comprising: a martensite phase; a bainite phase, wherein the fraction of the martensite phase is 50-90%, the fraction of the bainite phase is 5-50%, the sum of the fractions of the martensite phase and the bainite phase is 90% or more; and the balance consisting of a ferrite phase. CL<1,??[Relationship Expression (1)] CL=?0.692?0.158×[Mn]+0.121×[Mn]2+0.061×[Cr]2?0.319×[Mo]+0.035×[Hardness_HRC] (where CL is an effective cracking index, [Mn], [Cr] and [Mo] are the percentages by weight of respective corresponding alloy elements, and [Hardness_HRC] is a Rockwell hardness (HRC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Dong-Wan Kim, Sung-Il Kim
  • Patent number: 12239931
    Abstract: A foreign substance capturing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise: a capturing body unit having an inlet port for introducing the air including magnetic foreign substances and an outlet port for discharging the air from which the magnetic foreign substances have been removed; and a magnetic isolation unit connected to the capturing body unit, including a magnetic member for isolating, by an attractive force, the magnetic foreign substances from the air flowing in the capturing body unit, and provided with a nonmagnetic member surrounding the magnetic member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Seong-Cheol Hong, Ki-Young Min, Dong-Geun Kim, Oho-Cheal Kwon, Chang-Ho Kim
  • Publication number: 20250066892
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a steel sheet base material and an insulation film positioned on the steel sheet base material, satisfies the following formula 2 before stress relief annealing, and satisfies the following formula 3 after stress relief annealing, the steel sheet base material comprising, by wt %, 2.0-6.5% of Si, 0.1-1.3% of Al, 0.3-2.0% of Mn, 0.03% or less of Sn (excluding 0%), 0.02% or less of Sb (excluding 0%) and the balance of Fe and other inevitable impurities and satisfying the following formula 1. 0.03 ? [ Sn ] + [ Sb ] ? 0.005 [ Formula ? 1 ] 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Soobin Kwon, Yunsu Kim
  • Publication number: 20250070313
    Abstract: A heat controllable battery pack is provided. The battery pack includes a lower cover including a first cooling line, through which a refrigerant moves, installed therein and supporting a lower portion of a plurality of cell modules, a plurality of crash structures installed in positions between the plurality of cell modules on an upper portion of the lower cover and including a second cooling line, through which the refrigerant cooling the cell modules moves, installed therein, a side frame protecting side surfaces of the plurality of cell modules, and an upper cover covering an upper portion of the plurality of cell modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicants: POSCO CO., LTD., RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Won HA
  • Publication number: 20250066885
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: hot rolling a slab so as to manufacture a hot rolled sheet, the slab comprising, by wt %, 2.5-4.0% of Si, 0.03-0.09% of C, 0.015-0.040% of Al, 0.04-0.15% of Mn, 0.01% or less of S (excluding 0%), 0.002-0.012% of N, 0.01-0.05% of Sb, 0.03-0.1% of Sn, 0.05-0.2% of Cr and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities; cold rolling the hot rolled sheet so as to manufacture a cold rolled sheet; and performing secondary recrystallization annealing on the steel sheet having undergone primary recrystallization annealing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kyungjun Ko, Sangwoo Lee