Heating Step Follows Cold Working Patents (Class 148/651)
  • Patent number: 6016029
    Abstract: Magnetic shield materials having excellent inner magnetic shield characteristics and an excellent handling strength, method for producing thereof and color picture tubes produced by incorporating the materials are provided. The magnetic shield materials are produced by subjecting hot rolled low carbon steel strips essentially consisting of equal to or less than 0.006 weight % of C, equal to or less than 0.002 weight % of N, equal to or less than 0.5 weight % of Mn, 0.1-1.5 weight % of Cu, Fe as a balance and unavoidable impurities to a cold rolling and subsequently annealing the cold rolled steel strips at a temperature of 550-850.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironao Okayama, Akira Ikeda
  • Patent number: 5906690
    Abstract: A method of producing cold-rolled, high-strength steel strip with good plasticity and isotropic properties out of steel comprising no more than 0.08% carbon, no more than 10% silicon, no more than 1.8% manganese, between 0.010 and 0.10% phosphorus, no more than 0.02% sulfur, no more than 0.08% aluminum and no more than 0.008% nitrogen by weight plus one or more of the elements titanium, vanadium, niobium, and zirconium, the remainder being iron, by hot rolling, cold rolling, and recrystallization annealing; followed by temper rolling. The steel contains either three times as much titanium or six times as much niobium or zirconium as nitrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Fried. Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp
    Inventors: Bernhard Engl, Klaus-Dieter Horn, Gunter Stich
  • Patent number: 5895534
    Abstract: Yield strength of a cold rolled steel section is increased and controlled by performing a predetermined amount of strain by way of cold working in an in-line roll forming process followed by a controlled amount of strain aging wherein the temperature of the steel section is elevated to a point below 500.degree. C. and held at an elevated temperature for a time up to 30 seconds. The heating typically takes place by induction heaters (16) and the time aging may be provided in an in-line galvanizing bath (17) before cooling the steel in a quench bath (18). The effect is further enhanced by further cold working and the consequent additional strain in forming rolls (19). For a given steel composition the degree of yield enhancement can be controlled by the temperature and tie parameters and also by the degree of initial roll forming in shaping rolls (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Assignee: Tubemakers of Australia Limited
    Inventors: Leigh Brian Daley, Trevor Maxwell Height, Brian Roy Crossingham, Andrew Thomas Styan
  • Patent number: 5855696
    Abstract: The cold rolled steel sheet or galvanized steel sheet comprises by weight C: 0.0001 to 0.0026%, Si: not more than 1.2%, Mn: 0.03 to 3.0%, P: 0.015 to 0.15%, S: 0.0010 to 0.020%, Al: 0.005 to 0.1%, N: 0.0005 to 0.0080% and B: 0.0003 to 0.0030% with the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities. A process for producing the above steel sheet is also provided which comprises the steps of: performing hot roll finishing of a slab having the above chemical composition at the Ar.sub.3 transformation point or above; preferably, then cooling the hot rolled strip, within 1.5 sec after the completion of the hot rolling, to 750.degree. C. at a rate of not less than 50.degree. C./sec; coiling the strip in the temperature range of from room temperature to 750.degree. C.; cold rolling the coiled strip a reduction ratio of not less than 70%; subjecting the cold rolled strip to continuous annealing at 600.degree. to 900.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1999
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Tezuka, Kohsaku Ushioda, Shiro Fujii, Atsushi Itami, Yasuharu Sakuma, Tatsuo Yokoi
  • Patent number: 5846343
    Abstract: A cold rolled steel sheet including about 0.001 weight percent or less of carbon (C), about 0.1 weight percent or less of silicon (Si), about 0.3 weight percent or less of manganese (Mn), about 0.05 weight percent or less of phosphorus (P), about 0.003 weight percent or less of sulfur (S), about 0.1 weight percent or less of aluminum (Al), about 0.002 weight percent or less of nitrogen (N), about 0.005 to 0.02 weight percent of titanium (Ti), about 0.001 to 0.01 weight percent of niobium (Nb), and the balance iron and incidental impurities. The total weight percent of carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen is about 0.004 weight percent or less. The content of titanium, carbon, sulfur and nitrogen satisfies the equation: about 4.times.(C wt %).ltoreq.(Ti wt %)-48/14(N wt %)-48/32(S wt %).ltoreq.about 12.times.(C wt %). The method of the invention includes uniformly heating a steel slab having a composition as described above at a temperature T(K) satisfying the following equation:T(K).times.(C wt %+S wt %).ltoreq.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Eiko Yasuhara, Kei Sakata, Toshiyuki Kato
  • Patent number: 5803993
    Abstract: The present invention provides an outer ring for a high strength constant velocity joint which has an excellent torsional strength and torsional fatigue strength and can provide an improved processability, and a process for producing the same. An outer ring used for a high strength constant velocity joint having an involute serration part and a screw part, the outer ring made of a steel containing:C: 0.45 to 0.53%, Si: 0.05 to 0.25%, Mn: 0.7 to 1.0%, Al: 0.01 to 0.05%, Mo: 0.2 to 0.4%, N: 0.003 to 0.012%, the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, the inevitable impurities including:Cr: 0.05% or less than 0.05%, P: 0.015% or less than0.015%, S: 0.01% or less than 0.01%, and O: 0.002% orless than 0.002%,wherein an old austenite crystal grain at the involute serration end is 8 or more in JIS grain size classification; a surface hardness at the end is 720 or more in Hv; and a ratio (CD/R) is 0.35 to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshida, Tatsuhiro Goto, Akira Wakita, Toshio Kawasaki, Toyofumi Hasegawa, Hideo Takeshita, Toshiki Suwa
  • Patent number: 5792286
    Abstract: A high-strength thin plate, such as for IC lead frames, of an iron-nickel-cobalt alloy which is able to withstand repeated bending and is corrosion resistance and etchable, the alloy containing 27 to 30 wt. % N:, 5 to 18 wt. % Co, 0.10 to 3.0 wt. % Mn, 0.10 wt. % or less Si, 0.010 to 0.075 wt. % C, 0.001 to 0.014 wt. % N, less than 2.0 ppm H, 0.0040 wt. % or less S, 0.004 wt. % or less P, 0.0050 wt. % or less O, 0.01 to 0.06 wt. % Cr, 0.01 to 1.0 wt. % Mo and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities wherein 63.5 wt. %.ltoreq.2Ni+Co+Mn.ltoreq.65 wt. % for Co<10 wt. % and 69.5 wt. %.ltoreq.2Ni+Co+Mn.ltoreq.74.5 wt. % for Co>10 wt. %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: NKK Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Inoue, Kiyoshi Tsuru, Naotsugu Yamanouchi, Tomoyoshi Okita
  • Patent number: 5783145
    Abstract: An iron-nickel alloy, the chemical composition of which includes by weight:30%.ltoreq.Ni+Co.ltoreq.85%;0%.ltoreq.Co+Cu+Mn.ltoreq.10%;0%.ltoreq.Mo+W+Cr.ltoreq.4%;0%.ltoreq.V+Si.ltoreq.2%;0%.ltoreq.Nb+Ta.ltoreq.1%;0.003%.ltoreq.C.ltoreq.0.05% 0.003%.ltoreq.Ti.ltoreq.0.15%;0.003%.ltoreq.Ti+Zr+Hf.ltoreq.0.15%;0.001%<S+Se+Te<0.015%;and the remainder, iron and impurities resulting from production; in addition, the chemical composition satisfies the relationship:0.ltoreq.Nb+Ta+Ti+Al.ltoreq.1%.A cold-rolled strip with a cubic texture and its uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: Imphy S.A.
    Inventors: Lucien Coutu, Pierre Louis Reydet
  • Patent number: 5769974
    Abstract: A method for making a corrosion resistant, ferritic steel alloy, with reduced magnetic coercivity is disclosed. The process includes the step of providing an intermediate form of a ferritic alloy consisting essentially of, in weight percent, about______________________________________ Carbon 0.02 max. Manganese 1.5 max. Silicon 3.0 max. Phosphorus 0.03 max. Sulfur 0.1-0.5 Chromium 8-20 Nickel 0.60 max. Molybdenum 1.5 max. Copper 0.3 max. Cobalt 0.10 max. Aluminum 0.01 max. Titanium 0.01 max. Nitrogen 0.02 max. Iron Balance ______________________________________The intermediate form of the alloy is given an annealing heat treatment at a first temperature in the range of about 700.degree.-900.degree. C. for at least about 2 hours. After the penultimate annealing step, the intermediate form is cold worked to reduce its cross-sectional area by about 10-25%, thereby providing an elongated form of said alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: CRS Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Millard S. Masteller, Bradford A. Dulmaine
  • Patent number: 5738738
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cold rolled steel plate used for enamel applications such as tableware, construction panel, external plate material of microwave oven and gas range, and bathtub, in which an excellent enamel adherence between an enamel layer and a raw steel plate is increased and a formability required for the production of complicated shape is greatly improved and to provide a method for manufacturing a high processing cold rolled steel plate being excellent in enamel adherence. The invention is, in a method for manufacturing an enamel coating cold rolled steel plate by utilizing aluminum killed steel, a method for manufacturing a high processing cold rolled steel plate being excellent in enamel close adhering property in which an aluminum killed steel, in which C: less than 0.01%, Mn: 0.1-0.4%, S: 0.03-0.09%, Ti: 0.04-0.1% and N: less than 0.01% by weight % are contained, and an atomic ratio defined by Ti/(C+N+0.4S) is adjusted to 1.0-2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignees: Pohang Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., Research Institute of Industrial Science & Technology
    Inventors: Jeong Bong Yoon, Sung Ju Kim
  • Patent number: 5709759
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of working a hot-rolled stainless steel strip, particularly an austenitic stainless strip, with the intention of reducing the thickness and enhancing the mechanical strength of the strip. The method is characterized bycold-rolling the hot-rolled strip with at least a 10% thickness reduction to a thickness which is at least 2% and at most 10% greater than the intended final thickness of the finished product;annealing the thus cold-rolled strip at a temperature of between 1,050.degree. C. and 1,250.degree. C.; andcold-stretching the strip after the annealing process so as to plasticize and permanently elongate the strip and therewith reducing its thickness by 2-10%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignee: Avesta Sheffield Aktiebdag (publ)
    Inventors: Sten Ljungars, Christer Herre
  • Patent number: 5704997
    Abstract: A steel strip and method for its production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Sollac (Societe Anonyme)
    Inventors: Jacques Ouvrard, Michel Chauvire, Jean-Claude Jouvenel
  • Patent number: 5702543
    Abstract: In the fabrication of components from a face centred cubic alloy, wherein the alloy is cold worked and annealed, the cold working is carried out in a number of separate steps, each step being followed by an annealing step. The resultant product has a grain size not exceeding 30 microns, a "special" grain boundary fraction not less than 60%, and major crystallographic texture intensities all being less than twice that of random values. The product has a greatly enhanced resistance to intergranular degradation and stress corrosion cracking, and possesses highly isotropic bulk properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Inventor: Gino Palumbo
  • Patent number: 5656102
    Abstract: Rolled articles such as hot rolled or cold rolled and annealed sheet and/or strip include effective amounts of vanadium in low carbon steels to produce an improved bake hardenable product especially adapted for automotive use. The use of vanadium in the alloy steel chemistry controls bake hardenability, permits solution annealing at lower temperatures in its manufacturing sequence and specifies a composition range which is more easily cast within desired limits and causes less variation in final mechanical properties. Controlling the vanadium to carbon ratio to maintain a value of about 10 or greater also improves aging resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: Bethlehem Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Keith A. Taylor, John G. Speer
  • Patent number: 5645656
    Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a low carbon steel having good formability and good resistance to indentation. In this method, an ingot of low carbon steel is first hot-rolled, followed by a cold rolling of the resulting hot-rolled sheet. The cold-rolled sheet is then subjected to a first high temperature annealing to cause recrystallization and dissolution of some of the carbon contained in the steel. Next, the sheet is subjected to a second low temperature annealing to cause to dissolved carbon to precipitate as iron carbide. Finally, the sheet is work-hardened by a minor cold-rolling operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: Sollac
    Inventor: Jose Manuel Rubianes
  • Patent number: 5637161
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an alloy sheet for a shadow mask is provided which includes: (i) annealing a hot-rolled sheet containing Fe and Ni at a temperature of 910.degree. to 990.degree. C.; (ii) cold-rolling the annealed hot-rolled sheet from step (i) to produce a cold-rolled sheet; (iii) crystallization annealing of the cold-rolled sheet from step (ii); (iv) cold-rolling the annealed cold rolled sheet from step (iii); (v) finish recrystallization annealing step of the cold-rolled sheet of step (iv); (vi) finish cold-rolling of the sheet from step (v) at a cold-rolling reduction ratio R (%) satisfying the following equations: 16.ltoreq.R.ltoreq.75 and 6.38 D-133.9.ltoreq.R.ltoreq.6.38 D-51.0 wherein D is the average austenite grain size in .mu.m; (vii) softening annealing the sheet from step (vi) at a temperature of 720.degree. to 790.degree. C. for 2 to 40 minutes before press-forming and at conditions of temperature T in .degree.C. and time t in minutes which satisfy the following equation :T.gtoreq.-53.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: NKK Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Inoue, Kiyoshi Tsuru, Michihito Hiasa, Tomoyoshi Okita
  • Patent number: 5618355
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet suitable for deep drawing, characterized by comprising 0.04 to 0.25 mass % of C and 0.3 to 3.0 mass %, in total, of at least one of Si and Al, the steel sheet having multiple phases structure comprising ferrite as a main phase (a phase having the highest volume fraction), not less than 3 vol. % of austenite, and bainite and martensite; said steel satisfying a requirement that a value obtained by dividing volume fraction of Vg (vol. %) of austenite before working by the content of C (mass %) contained in the whole steel, Vg/C, is 40 to 140, a requirement that Vp (volume fraction of austenite at the time of plane strain tensile deformation)/Vs (volume fraction of austenite at the time of shrink flanging deformation) is not more than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Koyama, Matsuo Usuda, Manabu Takahashi, Yasuharu Sakuma, Shunji Hiwatashi, Kaoru Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 5587027
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a canning steel sheet with non-aging property and superior workability uses, as a starting material, an ultra-low-carbon steel slab composed of from 0.0015% to 0.0100% by weight C, up to 0.20% by weight Si, from 0.10% to 1.20% by weight Mn, from 0.02% to 0.10% by weight Al, from 0.005% to 0.040% by weight P, up to 0.015% by weight S, up to 0.005% by weight N, and balance iron and unavoidable impurities. The manufacturing method includes hot rolling the steel, cold rolling the steel at a reduction ratio not less than 70% after pickling, and recrystallization annealing the steel by using a continuous annealing furnace in an atmosphere having a hydrogen content not less than 3% and a dew point not lower than -20.degree. C. at a temperature not lower than 730.degree. C. so that the content of remained C in the steel is kept less than 0.0015% by weight. At least one element selected from Nb, Ti and B may be added in predetermined amounts to the above composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1996
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Tosaka, Chikako Fujinaga, Toshiyuki Kato, Kaku Sato, Hideo Kuguminato
  • Patent number: 5558727
    Abstract: A high strength steel sheet for automobiles which exhibits excellent press-formability strength against impact resistance at a high strain rate is hot rolled under specific conditions, or is cold rolled from hot rolled sheet which is prepared under conventional conditions, with the cold rolled steel being annealed under specific conditions. The steel sheet comprises 0.010-0.10 wt % of C, not greater than 1.50 wt % of Si, 0.50-3.00 wt % of Mn, not greater than 0.010 wt % of S and 0.01-0.1 wt % of Al, and one kind or two kinds selected from 0.05-0.15 wt % of P and 0.5-1.5 wt % of Cr, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities and having a structure mainly composed of 2-30 vol % of martensite phase and a ferrite phase containing a solution C not greater than 0.0010 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1996
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Miura, Shusaku Takagi, Takaaki Hira, Toshiyuki Kato, Nobutaka Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 5556485
    Abstract: Rolled articles such as hot rolled or cold rolled and annealed sheet and/or strip include effective amounts of vanadium in low carbon steels to produce an improved bake hardenable product especially adapted for automotive use. The use of vanadium in the alloy steel chemistry controls bake hardenability, permits solution annealing at lower temperatures in its manufacturing sequence and specifies a composition range which is more easily cast within desired limits and causes less variation in final mechanical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1996
    Assignee: Bethlehem Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Keith A. Taylor, John G. Speer
  • Patent number: 5542994
    Abstract: A method of producing a high-formable, high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet from a steel slab comprising a steel with very low carbon content, one or both of Ti and Nb as a composition for forming a carbide or a nitride, and B in the range satisfying the following expression:0.001 A.ltoreq.B (wt %).ltoreq.0.003 Awherein A is a parameter determined approximately by the following expression with reference to the relation:A=P (wt %)+0.2 Mn (wt %)+0.8 Si (wt %)-0.2, subjecting the steel to a hot rolling so as to finish at a temperature between about Ar.sub.3 transformation temperature and about Ar.sub.3 transformation temperature +100 C.degree.. Thereafter, the steel is successively subjected to coiling, cold-rolling and, then, continuous annealing at temperatures between Ac.sub.1 transformation temperature +5 C.degree. and Ac.sub.1 transformation temperature +50 C.degree., and not lower than 860 C.degree..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Seto, Kaneharu Okuda, Kei Sakata, Toshiyuki Kato, Takashi Ono
  • Patent number: 5534089
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a small planar anisotropic high-strength can steel plate. Hot-rolling is first performed on a steel slab at an Ar.sub.3 transformation point or higher to obtain hot rolled steel strip. The slab has a composition which essentially consists of and which satisfies the conditions of: C.ltoreq.0.004%, Si.ltoreq.0.02%, Mn=0.5%-3%, P.ltoreq.0.02%, Al=0.02%-0.05%, 0.008%.ltoreq.N.ltoreq.0.024%, and the rest being Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein the conditions have the relationship of:Al%/N%>2. Then, the resultant strip is cooled at a cooling rate of 10.degree. C./s or higher so as to reach a temperature of 650.degree. C. or lower. The resultant strip is further coiled at a temperature in a range of from 550.degree. C. to 400.degree. C. Cold-rolling is performed on the resultant strip at a reduction ratio of 82% or higher preceded by removing a scale to obtain cold rolled steel strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Chikako Fujinaga, Akio Tosaka, Toshiyuki Kato, Kaku Sato
  • Patent number: 5522953
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an alloy sheet comprising the steps of: (a) hot-rolling a slab containing Fe, Ni and Cr into a hot-rolled strip; (b) annealing the hot-rolled strip at a temperature of 810.degree. to 890.degree. C.; (c) cold-rolling the annealed hot-rolled strip at a reduction ratio of 81 to 94% into a cold-rolled sheet; (d) recrystallization annealing of the cold-rolled sheet; (e) finish cold-rolling the cold-rolled sheet subjected to the recrystallization annealing at a reduction ratio of 14 to 29%; (f) stress relief annealing of the cold-rolled sheet subjected to the finish cold-rolling; and (g) annealing, before press-forming. The cold-rolled sheet subjected to the stress relief annealing at a temperature of 740.degree. to 900.degree. C. for 2 to 40 minutes and satisfying the following equation: T.ltoreq.-123 logt+937, where T is a temperature (.degree.C.) and t is a time (minutes) for the annealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Assignee: NKK Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Inoue, Kiyoshi Tsuru, Tomoyoshi Okita, Michihito Hiasa
  • Patent number: 5520755
    Abstract: A thin Fe--Ni alloy sheet for shadow mask consists essentially of Ni of 34 to 38 wt. %, Si of 0.05 wt. % or less, B of 0.0005 wt. % or less, O of 0.002 wt. % or less and N of 0.0015% or less, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities; said alloy sheet after annealing before press-forming having 0.2% proof stress of 28.5 kgf/mm.sup.2 or less; and a degree of {211} plane on a surface of said alloy sheet being 16% or less. And further modified similar alloy sheets are also provided.Further, a method for producing a thin Fe--Ni alloy sheet for shadow mask comprises the steps of: (a) hot-rolling of a slab into a hot-rolled alloy strip; (b) hot-rolled sheet annealing of the hot-rolled strip at 910.degree. to 990.degree. C.; (c) cold-rolling of the annealed hot-rolled strip into a cold-rolled strip; (d) recrystallization annealing of the cold-rolled strip; (e) finish cold-rolling of the recrystallization annealed strip at a finish cold reduction ratio in response to austenite grain size D(D.mu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: NKK Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Inoue, Kiyoshi Tsuru, Tomoyoshi Okita, Michihito Hiasa
  • Patent number: 5503693
    Abstract: A thin Fe--Ni alloy sheet for shadow mask consists essentially of Ni of 34 to 38 wt. %, Si of 0.05 wt. % or less, B of 0.0005 wt. % or less, O of 0.002 wt. % or less and N of 0.0015% or less, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities; said alloy sheet after annealing before press-forming having 0.2% proof stress of 28.5 kgf/mm or less; and a degree of {211 } plane on a surface of said alloy sheet being 16% or less. And further modified similar alloy sheets are also provided.Further, a method for producing a thin Fe--Ni alloy sheet for shadow mask comprises the steps of: (a) hot-rolling of a slab into a hot-rolled alloy strip; (b) hot-rolled sheet annealing of the hot-rolled strip at 910.degree. to 990.degree. C.; (c) cold-rolling of the annealed hot-rolled strip into a cold-rolled strip; (d) recrystallization annealing of the cold-rolled strip; (e) finish cold-rolling of the recrystallization annealed strip at a finish cold reduction ratio in response to austenite grain size D(D .mu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Assignee: NKK Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Inoue, Kiyoshi Tsuru, Tomoyoshi Okita, Michihito Hiasa
  • Patent number: 5501749
    Abstract: A thin Fe--Ni alloy sheet for shadow mask consists essentially of Ni of 34 to 38 wt. %, Si of 0.05 wt. % or less, B of 0.0005 wt. % or less, O of 0.002 wt. % or less and N of 0.0015% or less, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities; said alloy sheet after annealing before press-forming having 0.2% proof stress of 28.5 kgf/mm.sup.2 or less; and a degree of {211} plane on a surface of said alloy sheet being 16% or less. And further modified similar alloy sheets are also provided.Further, a method for producing a thin Fe--Ni alloy sheet for shadow mask comprises the steps of: (a) hot-rolling of a slab into a hot-rolled alloy strip; (b) hot-rolled sheet annealing of the hot-rolled strip at 910.degree. to 990.degree. C.; (c) cold-rolling of the annealed hot-rolled strip into a cold-rolled strip; (d) recrystallization annealing of the cold-rolled strip; (e) finish cold-rolling of the recrystallization annealed strip at a finish cold reduction ratio in response to austenite grain size D(D .mu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: NKK Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Inoue, Kiyoshi Tsuru, Tomoyoshi Okita, Michihito Hiasa
  • Patent number: 5496425
    Abstract: A method of making high-strength steel structural members is disclosed by providing a blank of high-strength steel having a ferrite-pearlite microstructure and high-strength mechanical properties and cold forming the blank by rolling, upsetting, forging, or extrusion to provide a structural member having a desired geometric cross-section while the mechanical strength of the structural member remains substantially the same or greater than the blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Assignee: Consolidated Metal Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Hugh M. Gallagher, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5486241
    Abstract: The present invention provides a non-aging at room temperature ferritic single-phase cold-rolled steel sheet or hot-dip galvanized steel sheet for deep drawing and having excellent fabrication embrittlement resistance and paint-bake hardenability, by heating a slab comprising, in terms of % by weight, 0.0001 to 0.0015% of C, not more than 1.2% of Si, 0.03 to 3.0% of Mn, 0.01 to 0.15% of P, 0.0010 to 0.020% of S, 0.005 to 0.1% of Al, 0.0001 to 0.0080% of N and 0.0001 to 0.0030% of B and optionally 0.1 to 3% of Cr with the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities, hot-rolling the heated slab at a finishing temperature of not lower than (Ar.sub.3 --100).degree. C., cooling the hot-rolled coil within 1 sec after the hot rolling at a rate of not less than 50.degree. C./sec from the finishing temperature to a temperature in the range of from 600.degree. to 750.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kohsaku Ushioda, Naoki Yoshinaga, Yoshikazu Matsumura, Osamu Akisue, Kunio Nishimura, Hidekuni Murakami
  • Patent number: 5453139
    Abstract: A method of making high-strength steel parts is disclosed by providing a blank of high-strength steel having a ferrite-pearlite microstructure and high-strength mechanical properties and cold forming the blank by upsetting, forging, or extrusion to provide a part having a desired geometric configuration while the mechanical strength of the part remains substantially the same or greater than the blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Consolidated Metal Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Hugh M. Gallagher, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5411610
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a strength of 120 to 200 kgf/mm.sup.2 in terms of 0.2% yield point and optionally a spring critical value of 55 to 150 kgf/mm.sup.2 are imparted to a high-strength stainless steel foil for corrugation by subjecting a thin sheet of a stainless steel comprising an alloy composed mainly of 10 to 40% by weight of Cr and 1 to 10% by weight of Al to final cold rolling and optionally subjecting the cold-rolled sheet to an aging treatment at a temperature in the range of from 80.degree. to 500.degree. C. after the completion of the final cold rolling. This enables corrugation to be effected at a high corrugation rate of 10 m/min or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Araki, Jun Nakatuka, Wataru Murata, Hidehiko Sumitomo, Masayuki Kasuya, Hitoshi Ota, Yuichi Kato, Masuhiro Fukaya, Keiichi Ohmura, Mikio Yamanaka, Fumio Fudanoki
  • Patent number: 5384206
    Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel strip or a molten zinc-plated high-strength cold-rolled steel strip which have a low yield strength, containing, by weight, of 0.0005-0.01% C, not more than 0.8% Si, more than 0.5% but not more than 3.0% Mn, 0.01-0.12%: P. 0.0010-0.015% S, 0.01-0.1% Al, 0.0005-0.0060% N, not less than 0.0001% but less than 0.005-0.1% the content of Nb being made to satisfy Nb .gtoreq.93/12 (C-0.0015), or instead of 0.005-0.1% Nb, 0.0005-0.1% Ti and 0.003-0.1% Nb, the content of Nb and the content of Ti being made satisfy, Ti.gtoreq.3.42N, and the balance Fe and incidental impurities is provided. Another steel strip or molten zinc-plated strip is provided that contains 0.2-3.0% Cr but does not require B, and includes both Ti and Nb. The method of producing such is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kohsaku Ushioda, Naoki Yoshinaga, Osamu Akisue
  • Patent number: 5366568
    Abstract: A method of producing primarily tempered martensite steel comprising the steps of cutting low carbon--high manganese steel into usable size pieces, shaping the pieces without surface fraction of the pieces, heating the pieces to approximately 1650.degree. F. and quenching the pieces in water before the pieces cool below approximately 1475.degree. F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1994
    Inventor: Douglas G. Bruce
  • Patent number: 5360493
    Abstract: In a method of producing a high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet excelling in deep drawability, a steel material is used which consists of: a basic composition including 0.01% or less of C, 0.1 to 2.0% of Si, 0.5 to 3.0% of Mn, 0.02 to 0.2% of P, 0.05% or less of S, 0.03 to 0.2% of Al, 0.01% or less of N, 0.001 to 0.2% of Nb, and 0.0001 to 0.008% of B in such a way that the respective contents of C, Nb, Al, N, Si, Mn and P satisfy the following formulae:5.ltoreq.Nb/C.ltoreq.30, 10.ltoreq.Al/N.ltoreq.80, and 16.ltoreq.(3.times.Si/28+200 .times.P/31)/(Mn/55).ltoreq.40; Fe remnant; and inevitable impurities, the method including the steps of:performing rolling on the steel material with a total reduction of 50% or more and 95% or less while effecting lubrication thereon in a temperature range of not higher than the Ar.sub.3 transformation temperature and not lower than 500.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Saiji Matsuoka, Hidetaka Kawabe, Eiko Yasuhara, Kei Sakata, Toshiyuki Kato
  • Patent number: 5360676
    Abstract: A raw plated steel sheet for can comprises recrystallized particles containing approximately C<0,004%, Si<0.03%, Mn:0.05-0.6%, P<0.02%, S<0.02%, N<0.01%, Al:0.005-0.1%, Nb:0,001-0.1%, B:0.0001-0.005% in weight. The maximum diameter of a particle is less than about 30 .mu.m, and an area ratio of particles ranging about 5-25 .mu.m being more than about 50%. Such a steel sheet has excellent processing characteristics and good uniformity in product quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Kuguminato, Toshikatsu Kato, Chikako Fujinaga, Kyoko Hamahara
  • Patent number: 5356494
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high strength cold rolled steel sheet having excellent non-aging property at room temperature and excellent drawability, said steel sheet having a dual-phase structure composed of a high-temperature transformed ferrite phase and a low-temperature transformed ferrite phase having high dislocation density.The invention also relates a high strength cold rolled steel sheet having excellent non-aging property at room temperature and bake hardenability, as well as excellent drawability. This steel sheet is produced by preparing a hot-rolled steel sheet, cold rolling the hot-rolled steel sheet at a rolling reduction not smaller than 60%, annealing the cold rolled steel sheet at a temperature which is not lower than the .gamma. transformation start temperature but below the A.sub.c3 transformation temperature, and cooling the annealed steel sheet at a rate not smaller than 5.degree. C./sec but not greater than 100.degree. C./sec.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Okada, Kei Sakata, Susumu Satoh, Masahiko Morita, Toshiyuki Kato
  • Patent number: 5330594
    Abstract: A method of making high-strength steel parts is disclosed by providing a blank of high-strength steel having a ferrite-pearlite microstructure and high-strength mechanical properties and cold forming the blank by upsetting, forging, or extrusion to provide a part having a desired geometric configuration while the mechanical strength of the part remains substantially the same or greater than the blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Assignee: Consolidated Metal Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Hugh M. Gallagher, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5232524
    Abstract: The steel having improved deep-drawing properties is characterized in that it contains carbon in a proportion of less than 0.015%, manganese in a proportion of from 0.15 to 0.25%, sulfur in a proportion of less than 0.012% and aluminum in a proportion of less than 0.04%.This steel is intended for the production of thin sheet metal intended for deep-drawing, in accordance with a process comprising, in particular, the following operations:production, in a converter, of a steel having the above composition;hot-rolling entirely in the austenitic region;winding at a temperature higher than 650.degree. C.;continuous annealing, after cold-rolling, at a temperature below 700.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: Sollac
    Inventors: Daniel Lafontaine, Georges Van Hoeck, Patrick Zimmer
  • Patent number: 5156694
    Abstract: A formable thin steel sheet such as hot rolled sheet, cold rolled sheet or surface treated sheet comprises not more than 0.003 wt % of C, not more than 1.0 wt % of Si, not more than 1.0 wt % of Mn, not more than 0.15 wt % of P, not more than 0.020 wt % of S, not more than 0.0045 wt % of O, not more than 0.0020 wt % of N, not more than 0.15 wt % of Al provided that a ratio of Al/N is not less than 30, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and has not only improved formability for press forming, deep drawing or the like but also improved fatigue resistance as a welded joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio Yamazaki, Susumu Okada, Susumu Satoh, Toshiyuki Kato, Hideo Abe, Keiji Nishimura
  • Patent number: 5152846
    Abstract: Activation of steel sheet surface by subjecting to a pickling treatment after recrystallization annealing and before forming in the production steps of steel sheets for coating porcelain enameling. Continuously cast slabs are used as a starting steel, and the resulting sheet realizes an improved adhesion property, to porcelain glaze without causing fishscale, blistering and pinhole defects and the like even when using a glaze not requiring pickling with sulfuric acid, Ni flashing or the like as an enameling glaze.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori Osawa, Susumu Satoh, Hideo Abe
  • Patent number: 5122198
    Abstract: A method of improving the resistance to H-induced stress-corrosion cracking of articles of low- to medium-alloy structural steels which come into contact with aqueous H.sub.2 S-containing fluids and which are manufactured by one of (i) hot rolling, with or without subsequent heat treatment, (ii) by TM-rolling, with or without accelerated cooling, and (iii) by cold rolling with subsequent heat treatment and which are then cold strained from 0% to less than 2%. In order to economically increase the resistance of articles of structural steel to H-induced stress-corrosion cracking, the articles are subjected to a final annealing for a period of at least two seconds at a temperature which is at least 540.degree. C. and the upper limit of which is as follows: In the case of hot rolled or TM-rolled or normalized articles, 30K below A.sub.C1 ; in the case of hardened and tempered articles, 30K below the tempering temperature last employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1992
    Assignee: Mannesmann Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ingo von Hagen, Gerd Heinz, Rolf K. Popperling, Hubertus Schlerkmann