Patents by Inventor Yeon Sang Ahn

Yeon Sang Ahn has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240052468
    Abstract: Provided is an ultra-high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet having excellent yield strength and bending properties, which can be used as a structural component for automobiles such as a member, a seat rail, and a pillar, and a method for manufacturing same. The steel sheet includes: by weight: C: 0.03 to 0.12%, Si: 0.03 to 0.3 Mn: 2.1 to 2.9%, Al: 0.005 to 0.07%, Nb: 0.01 to 0.08%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.08%, B: 0.0005 to 0.005%, Cr: 0.7 to 1.4%, Mo: 0.005 to 0.10%, N: 0.008% or less (excluding 0%), with balance of Fe and inevitable impurities. A microstructure thereof includes by area, fresh martensite: 4 to 19%, a sum of tempered martensite and bainite: 78 to 95%, and retained austenite: 0.2 to 2.0%. An average grain size of the microstructure is 0.5 to 6 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Jong-Pan KONG, Yeon-Sang AHN, Joo-Hyun RYU
  • Publication number: 20240026483
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having excellent ductility and formability. The hot-dip galvanized steel sheet contains, by wt %, 0.06 to 0.16% of carbon (C), 0.8% or less (excluding 0%) of silicon (Si), 2.1 to 2.7% of manganese (Mn), 0.4% or less (excluding 0%) of molybdenum (Mo), 1% or less (excluding 0%) of chromium (Cr), 0.1% or less (excluding 0%) of phosphorus (P), 0.02% or less of sulfur (S), 1% or less (excluding 0%) of aluminum (sol.Al), 0.001 to 0.04% of titanium (Ti), 0.001 to 0.04% of niobium (Nb), 0.01% or less (excluding 0%) of nitrogen (N), 0.01% or less of boron (B), 0.05% or less of antimony (Sb), and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Kang-Hyun CHOI, Yeon-Sang AHN, Joo-Hyun RYU
  • Publication number: 20240002968
    Abstract: Provided are an ultra-high strength cold rolled steel sheet having excellent bendability, and a method of manufacturing the same. The steel sheet includes 0.06 to 0.17% of C, 0.1 to 0.8% of Si, 1.9 to 2.9% of Mn, 0.005 to 0.07% of Nb, 0.004 to 0.05% of Ti, 0.0004 to 0.005% of B, 0.20% or less (excluding 0%) of Cr, and 0.04 to 0.45% of Mo, with a balance of Fe and other unavoidable impurities. a microstructure of the steel sheet includes, by area: 80 to 98% of tempered martensite and a balance of fresh martensite, bainite, ferrite, and residual austenite. An average length of lath short axis of the tempered martensite is 500 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Jong-Pan KONG, Yeon-Sang AHN, Joo-Hyun RYU
  • Patent number: 11827950
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a high strength steel sheet having excellent workability, including: reheating a steel slab; hot-rolling the reheated steel slab at an Ar3 transformation point or higher; coiling in a temperature range of 400 to 700° C.; primary cooling at a cooling rate of 0.1° C./s or less to room temperature; producing a cold rolled steel sheet at a cold reduction ratio of 40 to 70%; continuously annealing the cold rolled steel sheet in a temperature range of Ac1+30° C. to Ac3?20° C.; secondary cooling at a cooling rate of 10° C./s or less to 630 to 670° C.; third cooling to 400 to 500° C. at a cooling rate of 5° C./s or more in a hydrogen; maintaining for 70 seconds or more; hot-dip galvanizing; and performing a final cooling to Ms or less at a cooling rate of 1° C./s or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yeon-Sang Ahn, Chang-Hyo Seo, Kang-Hyun Choi, Eul-Yong Choi
  • Publication number: 20230357881
    Abstract: Provided is an ultra-high strength steel sheet having excellent ductility including, 0.1 to 0.2% of carbon (C), 0.1 to 1.0% of silicon (Si), 2.0 to 3.0% of manganese (Mn), 1.0% or less of aluminum (Al), 1.0% or less of chromium (Cr), 0.5% or less of molybdenum (Mo), 0.1% or less of titanium (Ti), 0.1% or less of niobium (Nb), 0.1% or less of antimony (Sb), 0.05% or less of phosphorus (P), 0.02% or less of sulfur (S), 0.02% or less of nitrogen (N), and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities. The steel sheet satisfies the following: 1110[C]+41.5[Si]+575[Mn]?1092[Al]?3590[Nb]?5181[Ti]+258[Cr]+664 [Mo]?1380; 2853 [C]+95 [Si]+309 [Mn]?153 [Al]+4661 [Nb]?780[Ti]+210[Cr]+457[Mo]?1300; and ?29[C]+0.6[Si]?7.3[Mn]+7.8[Al]?145.2[Nb]+62.6[Ti]?3.3[Cr]?2.2[Mo]??24.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Joo-Hyun RYU, Yeon-Sang AHN, Kang-Hyun CHOI, Eul-Yong CHOI
  • Publication number: 20230295759
    Abstract: Provided is a steel sheet suitably used for an automobile structural member and the like, and more particularly, to a steel sheet having high strength and excellent formability that may prevent processing defects such as cracks or wrinkles occurring during the press-forming, and a method for producing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Yeon-Sang AHN, Joo-Hyun RYU, Kang-Hyun CHOI, Eul-Yong CHOI
  • Publication number: 20230080110
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a high strength steel sheet having excellent workability, including: reheating a steel slab; hot-rolling the reheated steel slab at an Ar3 transformation point or higher; coiling in a temperature range of 400 to 700° C.; primary cooling at a cooling rate of 0.1° C./s or less to room temperature; producing a cold rolled steel sheet at a cold reduction ratio of 40 to 70%; continuously annealing the cold rolled steel sheet in a temperature range of Ac1+30° C. to Ac3?20° C.; secondary cooling at a cooling rate of 10° C./s or less to 630 to 670° C.; third cooling to 400 to 500° C. at a cooling rate of 5° C./s or more in a hydrogen; maintaining for 70 seconds or more; hot-dip galvanizing; and performing a final cooling to Ms or less at a cooling rate of 1° C./s or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Yeon-Sang AHN, Chang-Hyo SEO, Kang-Hyun CHOI, Eul-Yong CHOI
  • Patent number: 11519051
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength steel sheet having a tensile strength of 780 MPa or higher. The high-strength steel sheet has a low yield ratio and excellent ductility (El) and strain hardening exponent (n) and thus has enhanced processability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: POSCO Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yeon-Sang Ahn, Chang-Hyo Seo, Kang-Hyun Choi, Eul-Yong Choi
  • Publication number: 20220298596
    Abstract: Provided is a steel sheet which is suitably used for an automobile structural member, etc., and more specifically, to: a steel sheet having excellent uniform elongation and strain hardening rate, while having high strength; and a method for producing same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Yeon-Sang AHN, Joo-Hyun RYU, Kang-Hyun CHOI
  • Patent number: 11345984
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength steel sheet including, in % weight, carbon (C): 0.04 to 0.15%, silicon (Si): 0.01 to 1.0%, manganese (Mn): 1.8 to 2.5%, molybdenum (Mo): 0.15% or less (excluding 0%), chromium (Cr): 1.0% or less (excluding 0%), phosphorus (P): 0.1% or less, sulfur (S): 0.01% or less, aluminum (Al): 0.01 to 0.5%, nitrogen (N): 0.01% or less, boron (B): 0.01% or less (excluding 0%), antimony (Sb): 0.05% or less (excluding 0%), one or more of titanium (Ti): 0.003 to 0.06% and niobium (Nb): 0.003 to 0.06%, a balance of Fe and other unavoidable impurities, and contents of the C, the Si, the Al, the Mo and the Cr satisfy the following Expression 1: Expression 1: {(2×(Si+Al))+Mo+Cr}/C?20. The high-strength steel sheet comprises: a ferrite phase, a bainite phase, a martensite phase, and a residual austenite phase, the ferrite phase being less than 40% of area fraction in the microstructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Yeon-Sang Ahn, Chang-Hyo Seo, Kang-Hyun Choi
  • Patent number: 11345985
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength steel sheet including, in % weight, carbon (C): 0.04 to 0.15%, silicon (Si): 0.01 to 1.0%, manganese (Mn): 1.8 to 2.5%, molybdenum (Mo): 0.15% or less (excluding 0%), chromium (Cr): 1.0% or less (excluding 0%), phosphorus (P): 0.1% or less, sulfur (S): 0.01% or less, aluminum (Al): 0.01 to 0.5%, nitrogen (N): 0.01% or less, boron (B): 0.01% or less (excluding 0%), antimony (Sb): 0.05% or less (excluding 0%), one or more of titanium (Ti): 0.003 to 0.06% and niobium (Nb): 0.003 to 0.06%, a balance of Fe and other unavoidable impurities, and contents of the C, the Si, the Al, the Mo and the Cr satisfy the following Expression 1: Expression 1: {(2×(Si+Al))+Mo+Cr}/C?15. The high-strength steel sheet comprises: a ferrite phase, a bainite phase, a martensite phase, and a residual austenite phase, the ferrite phase being less than 40% of area fraction in the microstructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Yeon-Sang Ahn, Chang-Hyo Seo, Kang-Hyun Choi
  • Publication number: 20210071278
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength steel sheet and a method for manufacturing the same and, more specifically, a high-strength steel sheet having a high yield ratio and excellent plating-wettability and stretch-flangeability, and a method for manufacturing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Chang-Hyo SEO, Yeon-Sang AHN
  • Patent number: 10941468
    Abstract: Provided is a high tensile strength steel having a tensile strength of 780 MPa grade or higher which is used for structural members of automobiles, and more specifically relates to high tensile strength steel having excellent bendability and stretch-flangeability while still satisfying characteristics of DP steels of low yield ratio and high ductility, and to a manufacturing method thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Yeon-Sang Ahn, Chang-Hyo Seo, Ki-Hyun Park
  • Patent number: 10941467
    Abstract: Provided is a cold-rolled steel sheet, a galvanized steel sheet and a galvannealed steel sheet, comprising, by wt %, 0.06-0.15% of C, 1.2% or less (excluding 0%) of Si, 1.7-2.7% of Mn, 0.15% or less (excluding 0%) of Mo, 1.0% or less (excluding 0%) of Cr, 0.1% or less (excluding 0%) of P, 0.01% or less (excluding 0%) of S, 0.001-0.04% of Ti, 0.001-0.04% of Nb, 0.01% or less (excluding 0%) of N, 0.01% or less (excluding 0%) of B, and a remainder of Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein the Si, C, Mn, Mo and Cr contents satisfy Relationship 1, and wherein a microstructure comprising, in area %, 10-70% of ferrite, 10-50% of the sum of bainite and retained austenite, and a remainder of fresh martensite, wherein a ratio (Mb/Mt) is 60% or more, and methods of manufacturing these steel sheets. ([Si]+[C]×3)/([Mn]+[Mo]+[Cr])?0.18.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Chang Hyo Seo, Yeon Sang Ahn, Joo Hyun Ryu, Kyoo Young Lee, Won Pyo Hong
  • Publication number: 20200347476
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength steel sheet having a tensile strength of 780 MPa or higher. The high-strength steel sheet has a low yield ratio and excellent ductility (El) and strain hardening exponent (n) and thus has enhanced processability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Yeon-Sang AHN, Chang-Hyo SEO, Kang-Hyun CHOI, Eul-Yong CHOI
  • Publication number: 20200239976
    Abstract: Provided are a cold-rolled steel sheet and a method for manufacturing same, the steel sheet containing, by weight %, 0.03 to 0.07% of C, 0.3% or less of Si, 2.0 to 3.0% of Mn, 0.01 to 0.10% of Sol.Al, 0.3 to 1.2% of Cr, 0.03 to 0.08% of Ti, 0.01 to 0.05 of Nb, 0.0010 to 0.0050% of B, 0.001-0.10% of P, 0.010% or less of S, 0.010% or less of N, the balance being Fe and other impurities, and having a microstructure comprising 75% or more to less than 87% by area of a transformed structure and 13 to 25% by area of ferrite, wherein the transformed structure includes martensite and bainite, the martensite has an average particle diameter of 2 ?m or less, the bainite has an average particle diameter of 3 ?m or less, the bainite fraction of 3 ?m or more is 5% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Chang-Hyo SEO, Yeon-Sang AHN
  • Publication number: 20200190640
    Abstract: Provided is a cold-rolled steel sheet, a galvanized steel sheet and a galvannealed steel sheet, comprising, by wt %, 0.06-0.15% of C, 1.2% or less (excluding 0%) of Si, 1.7-2.7% of Mn, 0.15% or less (excluding 0%) of Mo, 1.0% or less (excluding 0%) of Cr, 0.1% or less (excluding 0%) of P, 0.01% or less (excluding 0%) of S, 0.001-0.04% of Ti, 0.001-0.04% of Nb, 0.01% or less (excluding 0%) of N, 0.01% or less (excluding 0%) of B, and a remainder of Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein the Si, C, Mn, Mo and Cr contents satisfy Relationship 1, and wherein a microstructure comprising, in area %, 10-70% of ferrite, 10-50% of the sum of bainite and retained austenite, and a remainder of fresh martensite, wherein a ratio (Mb/Mt) is 60% or more, and methods of manufacturing these steel sheets. [Relationship 1] ([Si]+[C]×3)/([Mn]+[Mo]+[Cr])?0.18.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Chang Hyo SEO, Yeon Sang AHN, Joo Hyun RYU, Kyoo Young LEE, Won Pyo HONG
  • Publication number: 20200087762
    Abstract: Provided is a high tensile strength steel having a tensile strength of 780 MPa grade or higher which is used for structural members of automobiles, and more specifically relates to high tensile strength steel having excellent bendability and stretch-flangeability while still satisfying characteristics of DP steels of low yield ratio and high ductility, and to a manufacturing method thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Yeon-Sang AHN, Chang-Hyo SEO, Ki-Hyun PARK
  • Publication number: 20190338403
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength steel sheet including, in % weight, carbon (C): 0.04 to 0.15%, silicon (Si): 0.01 to 1.0%, manganese (Mn): 1.8 to 2.5%, molybdenum (Mo): 0.15% or less (excluding 0%), chromium (Cr): 1.0% or less (excluding 0%), phosphorus (P): 0.1% or less, sulfur (S): 0.01% or less, aluminum (Al): 0.01 to 0.5%, nitrogen (N): 0.01% or less, boron (B): 0.01% or less (excluding 0%), antimony (Sb): 0.05% or less (excluding 0%), one or more of titanium (Ti): 0.003 to 0.06% and niobium (Nb): 0.003 to 0.06%, a balance of Fe and other unavoidable impurities, and contents of the C, the Si, the Al, the Mo and the Cr satisfy the following Expression 1: Expression 1: {(2x(Si+Al))+Mo+Cr}/C?20. The high-strength steel sheet comprises: a ferrite phase, a bainite phase, a martensite phase, and a residual austenite phase, the ferrite phase being less than 40% of area fraction in the microstructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Yeon-Sang AHN, Chang-Hyo SEO, Kang-Hyun CHOI
  • Publication number: 20190337267
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength steel sheet including, in % weight, carbon (C): 0.04 to 0.15%, silicon (Si): 0.01 to 1.0%, manganese (Mn): 1.8 to 2.5%, molybdenum (Mo): 0.15% or less (excluding 0%), chromium (Cr): 1.0% or less (excluding 0%), phosphorus (P): 0.1% or less, sulfur (S): 0.01% or less, aluminum (Al): 0.01 to 0.5%, nitrogen (N): 0.01% or less, boron (B): 0.01% or less (excluding 0%), antimony (Sb): 0.05% or less (excluding 0%), one or more of titanium (Ti): 0.003 to 0.06% and niobium (Nb): 0.003 to 0.06%, a balance of Fe and other unavoidable impurities, and contents of the C, the Si, the Al, the Mo and the Cr satisfy the following Expression 1: Expression 1: {(2×(Si+Al))+Mo+Cr}/C?15. The high-strength steel sheet comprises: a ferrite phase, a bainite phase, a martensite phase, and a residual austenite phase, the ferrite phase being less than 40% of area fraction in the microstructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Yeon-Sang AHN, Chang-Hyo SEO, Kang-Hyun CHOI