Abstract: This ferritic stainless steel sheet contains, by mass %: C: 0.001% to 0.020%; Si: 0.01% to 4.00%; Mn: 0.01% to 3.00%; P: 0.010% to 0.040%; S: 0.0001% to 0.0100%; Cr: 10.0% to 15.0%; N: 0.001% to 0.020%; Al: 0.50% to 10.0%; and either one or both of Ti: 0.05% to 0.40% and Nb: 0.05% to 0.40%, with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, in which Cr/(Si+Al) is 10.0 or less, and a specific gravity is 7.6 g/cm3 or less.
Abstract: Provided is an annealing separating agent composition for a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet and a method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet. The annealing separating agent composition for a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention contains 30 to 70% by weight of a calcium compound, and the remainder of magnesium oxide or magnesium hydroxide on a solid basis.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 25, 2017
Date of Patent:
January 18, 2022
Assignee:
POSCO
Inventors:
Min Serk Kwon, Tae Young No, Chang Soo Park, Heon-Jo Choi
Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a cold-rolled steel sheet of thickness ef between 0.5 mm and 3 mm is provided. At least two hot-rolled sheets of thickness ei are supplied and butt welded, so as to create a welded joint (S1) with a direction perpendicular to the direction of hot rolling. The at least two hot-rolled sheets are pickled by continuous passage through a bath, then the assembly is cold rolled, in a step (L1), to an intermediate thickness eint, the direction of cold rolling (DL1) coinciding with the direction of hot rolling. The cold rolling is carried out with a reduction ratio ? 1 = Ln ? ( e i e int ) such that: 0 . 3 ? 5 ? Ln ? ? ( ei e ? ? int ) Ln ? ? ( e ? i e ? f ) ? 0 . 6 ? 5 , then the welded joint (S1) is removed so as to obtain at least two intermediate cold-rolled sheets.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 27, 2017
Date of Patent:
January 11, 2022
Assignee:
ArcelorMittal
Inventors:
Emmanuel Dechassey, Christophe Silvy-Leligois, Francisco Chicharro Herranz, Vicente Polo Mestre, Marie-Christine Theyssier, Thierry Celotto, Christine Kaczynski, Thomas Dupuy, Quang-Tien Ngo
Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein related to superalloy compositions and applications using the same. The superalloy compositions disclosed herein including at least one ternary intermetallic compound having a general chemical composition of AZ[BXCY]. Base element A is selected from the group consisting of cobalt, iron, and nickel; and element B and element C are independently selected from different members of a group consisting 40 elements of the periodic table. Base element A, element B, and element C are each different elements. Z is about 2.1 to about 3.9. X and Y are about 0.1 to about 1.9. Additionally, the at least one ternary intermetallic compound of each of the superalloy compositions exhibits the face-centered cubic structure L12. The at least one ternary intermetallic compound of each of the ternary superalloy compositions may exhibit a theoretical formation enthalpy and a decomposition energy less than Co3[Al, W].
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 28, 2016
Date of Patent:
January 4, 2022
Inventors:
Chandramouli Nyshadham, Jacob E. Hansen, Gus L. W. Hart
Abstract: Provided are a high-strength steel sheet having a yield strength of 550 MPa or higher and having a small amount of springback and width-direction uniformity in material properties as well as a manufacturing method therefor. The high-strength steel sheet has a yield strength (YP) of 550 MPa or higher and has a specific component composition and a microstructure containing a ferrite phase, 40 to 70% of a martensite phase in area ratio, and 5 to 30% of a bainite phase in area ratio, where: an average grain size of the martensite phase is 2 to 8 ?m and an average grain size of the ferrite phase is 11 ?m or less on a cross-section in the thickness direction and in a direction orthogonal to a rolling direction; and the average grain size of the ferrite phase is 3.0 times or less the average grain size of martensite.
Abstract: Provided is a hot rolled steel sheet comprising a predetermined composition wherein the hot rolled steel sheet comprises a dual structure of, by area fraction, a structural fraction of a martensite phase of 10 to 40% and a structural fraction of a ferrite phase of 60% or more, has an average grain size of ferrite grains of 5.0 ?m or less, and has a coverage rate of martensite grains by ferrite grains of more than 60%. Also provided is a method for producing a hot rolled steel sheet comprising rolling a steel sheet wherein the respective rolling loads of the final three rolling stands are 80% or more of an immediately previous rolling stand and an average value of these rolling temperatures is 800 to 950° C., and forcibly cooling, then coiling the steel sheet wherein the forcibly cooling includes cooling started within 1.5 seconds after the rolling ends and cooling the steel sheet by a 30° C./second or more average cooling rate down to 600 to 750° C.
Abstract: Provided is a steel sheet for a hot press formed member having excellent coating adhesion, and a method for manufacturing the same. A steel sheet for hot press forming is an aluminum alloy plated steel sheet, wherein an average Fe content in a plating layer may be 40 wt % or more, and a concentration gradient of a section having a Fe content of 45 wt % to 80 wt % in the plating layer may 7 wt %/?m or less of a concentration gradient at a section having an Fe content of 45% to 80% in the plating layer in a thickness direction from a surface of the plating layer according to a result of GDS analysis.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 31, 2018
Date of Patent:
December 14, 2021
Assignee:
POSCO
Inventors:
Seong-Woo Kim, Jin-Keun Oh, A-Ra Cho, Hyeon-Jeong Shin
Abstract: Provided is an ultra-high strength steel sheet used as a material of a vehicle and, more specifically, to an ultra-high strength steel sheet having excellent bendability and a manufacturing method therefor. There is an effect of providing a steel sheet by utilizing a continuous annealing furnace without having water quenching equipment, thereby simultaneously ensuring a tensile strength of 1200 MPa or greater compared with that of conventional super high strength martensite steel and having excellent shape and bending properties.
Abstract: A method of manufacturing a seamless stainless steel pipe for Oil Country Tubular Goods by heating a billet having a specified chemical composition including forming the billet into a seamless steel pipe by applying hot working to the billet, cooling the seamless steel pipe to a room temperature at a cooling rate of air cooling or more, thereafter, performing quenching by heating the seamless steel pipe to a temperature of 850° C. or above, subsequently, cooling the seamless steel pipe to a temperature of 100° C. or below at a cooling rate of air cooling or more, and subsequently, applying tempering to the seamless steel pipe at a temperature of 700° C. or below for a specific holding time.
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for producing a fuel cell separator, including: a preparation step of preparing a metallic base material having a passive film on at least one part of a surface thereof; and a titanium oxide film formation step of subjecting the surface of the metallic base material to atmospheric pressure plasma treatment using first spraying means for spraying a titanium-containing starting material solution together with argon gas under a 85% to 92.5% by volume nitrogen atmosphere in a chamber. The present disclosure also relates to a device for producing a fuel cell separator having: conveying means for conveying a metallic base material having a passive film on at least one part of a surface thereof; a treatment chamber in which the metallic base material conveyed by the conveying means is disposed so as to be capable of passing therein under a 85% to 92.
Abstract: Disclosed is a steel composition including specified ranges of Ni; Mo; Co; Mo+Co+Si+Mn+Cu+W+V+Nb+Zr+Ta+Cr+C; Co+Mo; Ni+Co+Mo; and traces of Al; Ti; N; Si; Mn; C; S; P; B; H; O; Cr; Cu; W; Zr; Ca; Mg; Nb; V; and Ta in specified ranges; the remainder being iron and impurities. The inclusion population, as observed by image analysis over a polished surface measuring 650 mm2 if hot-formed or hot-rolled; and measuring 800 mm2 if cold-rolled, does not contain non-metallic inclusions of diameter>10 ?m, and, in the case of a hot-rolled sheet, does not contain more than four non-metallic inclusions of diameter 5-10 ?m over 100 mm2, the observation being performed by image analysis over a polished surface measuring 650 mm2.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 25, 2016
Date of Patent:
November 30, 2021
Assignee:
APERAM
Inventors:
Valerie Perrin Guerin, Gilles Pinton, Angeline Bordas, Christian Vallade
Abstract: Systems and methods for developing tough hypoeutectic amorphous metal-based materials for additive manufacturing, and methods of additive manufacturing using such materials are provided. The methods use 3D printing of discrete thin layers during the assembly of bulk parts from metallic glass alloys with compositions selected to improve toughness at the expense of glass forming ability. The metallic glass alloy used in manufacturing of a bulk part is selected to have minimal glass forming ability for the per layer cooling rate afforded by the manufacturing process, and may be specially composed for high toughness.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 24, 2018
Date of Patent:
November 30, 2021
Assignee:
California Institute of Technology
Inventors:
Douglas C. Hofmann, Andre M. Pate, Scott N. Roberts
Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a base steel sheet; an intermediate layer arranged in contact with the base steel sheet; and an insulation coating arranged in contact with the intermediate layer to be an outermost surface, in which a Cr content of the insulation coating is 0.1 at % or more on average, and when viewing a cross section whose cutting direction is parallel to a thickness direction, the insulation coating has a compound layer containing a crystalline phosphide in an area in contact with the intermediate layer.
Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a steel sheet; and an amorphous oxide layer that is formed on the steel sheet, in which a glossiness of a surface is 150% or higher.
Abstract: The present invention has been made in an effort to provide an annealing separator component for an oriented electrical steel sheet, an oriented electrical steel sheet, and a manufacturing method thereof. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an annealing separator composition for an oriented electrical steel sheet, includes: 100 weight parts of at least one of magnesium oxide and magnesium hydroxide; and 5 to 200 weight parts of aluminum hydroxide.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 20, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 16, 2021
Assignee:
POSCO
Inventors:
Min Soo Han, Jong-Tae Park, Yun Su Kim, Chang Soo Park
Abstract: A method of manufacturing a welded structure of a ferritic heat-resistant steel is provided that prevents Type IV damage and that has good on-site operability without adding a high B concentration. The method includes: the step of preparing a base material including 8.0 to 12.0% Cr, less than 0.005% B and other elements; the step of forming an edge on the base material; a pre-weld heat treatment step in which a region located between a surface of the edge and a position distant from the surface of the edge by a pre-weld heat treatment depth of 30 to 100 mm is heated to a temperature of 1050 to 1200° C. and is held at this temperature for 2 to 30 minutes; a welding step in which the edge is welded to form the weld metal; and a post-weld heat treatment step in which a region located between the surface of the edge and a position distant from the surface of the edge by a distance not smaller than the pre-weld heat treatment depth and not greater than 100 mm is heated to a temperature of 720 to 780° C.
Abstract: The present invention provides an annealing separator composition for a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet and a method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet. An annealing separator composition for a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: 100 parts by weight of at least one of magnesium oxide and magnesium hydroxide; 5 to 200 parts by weight of aluminum hydroxide; and 0.1 to 20 parts by weight of a boron compound.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 20, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 9, 2021
Assignee:
POSCO
Inventors:
Min Soo Han, Jong-Tae Park, Chang Soo Park, Yunsu Kim
Abstract: The present invention provides a method for the manufacture of a hardened part. The method includes the provision of a steel sheet pre-coated with a metallic coating including from 2.0 to 24.0% by weight of zinc, from 1.1 to 7.0% by weight of silicon, optionally from 1.1 to 8.0% by weight of magnesium when the amount of silicon is between 1.1 and 4.0%, and optionally additional elements chosen from Pb, Ni, Zr, or Hf, the content by weight of each additional element being less than 0.3% by weight, the balance being aluminum and unavoidable impurities and residuals elements, wherein the ratio Al/Zn is above 2.9. The method further includes the cutting of the coated steel sheet to obtain a blank, the thermal treatment of the blank at a temperature between 840 and 950° C.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 11, 2016
Date of Patent:
November 2, 2021
Assignee:
ArcelorMittal
Inventors:
Tiago Machado Amorim, Christian Allely, Raisa Grigorieva, David Dussaussois
Abstract: A non-grain oriented electrical steel sheet according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes Si: 1.0 to 4.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 1.0%, Al: 0.1 to 1.5%, Zn: 0.001 to 0.01% B: 0.0005 to 0.005%, and a balance including Fe and inevitable impurities.
Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel having excellent magnetic properties, the chemical elements thereof in percentage by mass being: Si: 0.2-1.5%, Mn: 0.01-0.30%, Al: 0.001-0.009%, O: 0.005-0.02%, C?0.005%, S?0.005%, N?0.005%, and Ti?0.002%, the remainder being Fe and other unavoidable impurities, and Al/Si?0.006 and Mn/Si?0.2. The method for producing comprises the following sequence of steps: (1) smelting; (2) hot rolling: the slab heating temperature being 850° C. to 1250° C., and the final rolling temperature being 800-1050° C.; (3) acid pickling; (4) cold rolling; (5) annealing: the annealing plate temperature being controlled between 620° C.-900° C.; and (6) coating.