Abstract: A steel sheet for an explosion-proof band contains 0.001 to 0.05% by mass of C, 0.2 to 1% by mass of Si, 0.5 to 2.3% by mass of Mn, 0.02 to 0.12% by mass of P, not higher than 0.005% by mass of 0, not higher than 0.020% by mass of S, and not higher than 0.005% by mass of N, and has not higher than 100% of a P segregation rate within the steel sheet, which is represented by (Pmax?Pave)×100/Pave, where Pmax denotes the maximum P concentration within the steel sheet, and Pave denotes the average P concentration within the steel sheet, 10 to 25 ?m of an average ferrite grain size, and not lower than 10,000 of an anhysteretic magnetic permeability.

Abstract: A method of making a steel sheet for a tension mask, including the steps of: hot rolling a steel consisting essentially of, by weight %, C: less than 0.1%, Si: 0.05% or less, Mn: 0.4 to 2%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.03% or less, sol.Al: 0.01% or less, N: 0.010% or more, and the balance of Fe; and annealing the cold rolled steel sheet, followed by a secondary cold rolling at a reduction rate of 35% or higher. The steel sheet produced by this method shows excellent creep resistance during blackening treatment and excellent magnetic shielding property with an anhysteretic permeability of 3400 or more at a DC bias magnetic field of 0.35 Oe, and therefore causes no color-deviation when applied to the tension mask.

Abstract: A steel sheet for preparing a heat shrink band effective for preventing the color drift is provided by a steel sheet having 24 kg/mm2 or higher of yield stress and 400 or higher of the product between the permeability &mgr; under a magnetic field of 0.3 Oe and the sheet thickness.

Abstract: Provided are a high strength cold rolled steel sheet and a high strength plated steel sheet possessing improved geomagnetic shielding properties, that is, having a high relative permeability in a d.c. magnetic field around 0.3 Oe, a process for producing the same, and an explosion-proof band or an outer magnetic shielding material, for television cathode-ray tubes, using the steel sheet. An ultra low carbon steel, which has a carbon content of not more than 0.0060% and has been subjected to solid solution strengthening utilizing silicon and magnesium without relying upon precipitation strengthening, is deoxidized with silicon so that aluminum is substantially absent in the steel. Alternatively, when the ultra low carbon steel is deoxidized with aluminum, boron is added to inhibit the precipitation of AlN. Next, the deoxidized steel is finish rolled at 750 to 980.degree. C., cold rolled with a reduction ratio of 60 to 90%, and then annealed in the temperature range of 750.degree. C. to the Ac.sub.