Containing 0.01-1.7% Carbon (i.e., Steel) Patents (Class 428/684)
  • Patent number: 12136706
    Abstract: A battery, includes an electrode assembly having a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator, wherein each of the first electrode and the second electrode has a first portion including an active material corresponding to the separator, and a second portion exposed beyond the separator and not coated with the active material; a battery housing having a first end with a first opening and a second end with a second opening opposite the first end, the battery housing accommodating the electrode assembly through the second opening at the second end and electrically connected to the second portion of the second electrode; a terminal electrically connected to the second portion of the first electrode and exposed out of the battery housing through the first opening of the battery housing at the first end; and a cap covering and sealing the second opening at the second end of the battery housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang-Su Hwangbo, Do-Gyun Kim, Geon-Woo Min, Hae-Jin Lim, Min-Ki Jo, Su-Ji Choi, Bo-Hyun Kang, Jong-Sik Park, Jae-Won Lim, Yu-Sung Choe, Hak-Kyun Kim, Je-Jun Lee, Byoung-Gu Lee, Duk-Hyun Ryu, Kwan-Hee Lee, Jae-Eun Lee, Jae-Woong Kim, Ji-Min Jung, Jin-Hak Kong, Soon-O Lee, Kyu-Hyun Choi, Pil-Kyu Park
  • Patent number: 11618965
    Abstract: A Ni-plated steel sheet according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a base steel sheet; an Fe—Ni diffusion alloy region disposed on the base steel sheet; and a Ni plating region disposed on the Fe—Ni diffusion alloy region, in which an average equivalent circle diameter of crystal grains made of Ni (fcc) in the Ni plating region measured in a cross section perpendicular to a rolled surface of the base steel sheet is 0.2 to 4.0 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuto Goto, Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Takehiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11293074
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hot-pressed member that can exhibit very high tensile strength after hot pressing as high as TS: 1780 MPa or more, excellent resistance to resistance welding cracking, and excellent delayed fracture resistance after resistance welding by having a specific chemical composition, and a microstructure such that a prior austenite average grain size is 7 ?m or less, a volume fraction of martensite is 90% or more, and at least 5 Nb-based precipitates having a grain size of less than 0.08 ?m are present on average per 100 ?m2 of a cross section parallel to a thickness direction of the member within a range of 100 ?m in the thickness direction from a surface of the member, and such that a Ni diffusion region having a thickness of 0.5 ?m or more is present in a surface layer of the member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Takashima, Chikaumi Sawanishi, Takashi Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Funakawa
  • Patent number: 11236406
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hot-pressed member that can exhibit very high tensile strength after hot pressing as high as TS: 1780 MPa or more, and excellent indentation peeling strength at projection welds by properly adjusting its chemical composition and its microstructure such that a prior austenite average grain size is 7 ?m or less within a range of 50 ?m or less in a thickness direction from a surface of the member, a volume fraction of martensite is 90% or more, and an average intergrain distance of Nb and Ti carbonitrides having a grain size of less than 0.10 ?m within a depth range of 20 ?m to 100 ?m in the thickness direction from the surface of the member is 5 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Takashima, Takashi Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Seiji Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11111556
    Abstract: An abrasion-resistant steel plate comprises: a specific chemical composition; and a microstructure in which a volume fraction of martensite at a depth of 1 mm from a surface of the abrasion-resistant steel plate is 90% or more, and a prior austenite grain size in a plate thickness central part at the mid-thickness of the abrasion-resistant steel plate is 80 ?m or less, wherein hardness at a depth of 1 mm from the surface of the abrasion-resistant steel plate is 460 to 590 HBW 10/3000 in Brinell hardness, and a concentration [Mn] of Mn in mass % and a concentration [P] of P in mass % in a plate thickness central segregation area satisfy 0.04[Mn]+[P]<0.50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Terazawa, Naoki Takayama, Kenji Hayashi, Kazukuni Hase
  • Patent number: 10927441
    Abstract: Provided are a high-strength galvanized hot-rolled steel sheet and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet. A steel sheet has a chemical composition, and a galvanized layer is disposed on the steel sheet. The chemical composition includes, in mass %, C: 0.02% or greater and 0.30% or less, Si: 0.01% or greater and 2.5% or less, Mn: 0.3% or greater and 3.0% or less, P: 0.08% or less, S: 0.02% or less, and Al: 0.001% or greater and 0.20% or less. The galvanized layer has a coating weight per side of 20 to 120 g/m2. A surface of the steel sheet has a specific surface area ratio, r, of 2.5 or less, and an amount of Si present in the galvanized layer and an amount of Mn present in the galvanized layer respectively satisfy: amount of Si×r?0.06, and amount of Mn×r?0.10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Koba, Yusuke Fushiwaki, Yasunobu Nagataki
  • Patent number: 10837097
    Abstract: A nitrided part having excellent fatigue strength which has predetermined constituents, has structures comprised of ferrite and pearlite, has ferrite grains with an aspect ratio of a ratio of a long axis direction and short axis direction of 4.5 or more present in the entire region at a depth from the surface of the part where stress is expected to concentrate of (?×0.09+0.05) mm or less, and has an average concentration of N of 5000 ppm or more at a surface layer part from the surface down to 200 ?m in the depth direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Narumiya, Takahide Umehara
  • Patent number: 10808292
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an HPF part comprising: preparing a steel sheet comprising C: 0.18% to 0.25%, Si: 0.1% to 1.0%, Mn: 0.9% to 1.5%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.01% to 0.05%, Cr: 0.05% to 0.5%, Ti: 0.01% to 0.05%, B: 0.001% to 0.005%, N: 0.009% or less, and a balance of Fe and impurities; heating the steel sheet at 550° C. to 850° C. followed by maintaining at 640° C. to 680° C., and immersing the steel sheet in a hot dip aluminum plating bath, and a balance of Al and impurities; cooling the plated steel sheet at 15° C./s or faster; heating the cooled hot dip aluminum plated steel sheet at 880° C. to 930° C. followed by maintaining for a certain time; and hot forming the alloyed hot dip aluminum plated steel sheet and quenching at a range of 300° C. or lower at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Il-Ryoung Sohn, Dae-Chul Bae, Heung-Yun Kim
  • Patent number: 10745785
    Abstract: A high-performance low-alloy wear-resistant steel sheet and a method of manufacturing the same, which has the chemical compositions (wt %): C: 0.21-0.32%; Si: 0.10-0.50%; Mn: 0.60-1.60%; B: 0.0005-0.0040%; Cr: less than or equal to 1.50%; Mo: less than or equal to 0.80%; Ni: less than or equal to 1.50%; Nb: less than or equal to 0.080%; V: less than or equal to 0.080%; Ti: less than or equal to 0.060%; Al: 0.010-0.080%, Ca: 0.0010-0.0080%, N: less than or equal to 0.0080%, O: less than or equal to 0.0080%, H: less than or equal to 0.0004%, P: less than or equal to 0.015%, S: less than or equal to 0.010%, and (Cr/5+Mn/6+50B): more than or equal to 0.20% and less than or equal to 0.55%; (Mo/3+Ni/5+2Nb): more than or equal to 0.02% and less than or equal to 0.45%; (Al+Ti): more than or equal to 0.01% and less than or equal to 0.13%, the remainders being Fe and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongbin Li, Liandeng Yao, Xiaobo Wang
  • Patent number: 10640854
    Abstract: A multi-material component joined by a high entropy alloy is provided, as well as methods of making a multi-material component by joining dissimilar materials with high entropy alloys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianxun Hu, Eric Walker
  • Patent number: 10538831
    Abstract: A cold forged part having a high cold forgeability and having a high endurance ratio due to work hardening by cold forging and age-hardening after cold forging, characterized by having a predetermined chemical composition, having an amount of solute Nb/amount of solute V of 0.03 or more and having a structure, by area ratio, of ferrite of 85% or more and a total of bainite and martensite of 5% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Yamashita, Yutaka Neishi, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Makoto Egashira
  • Patent number: 10400300
    Abstract: A high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet are provided. The high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet has a specific composition including C, Si, Mn, etc. In this chemical composition, the content of Ti [Ti] and the content of N [N] satisfy [Ti]>4[N]. The high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet has a microstructure including martensite at an area fraction of 60% or more and 90% or less, polygonal ferrite at an area fraction of more than 5% and 40% or less, and retained austenite at an area fraction of less than 3% (including 0%). The average hardness of the martensite is 450 or more and 600 or less in terms of Vickers hardness, and the average crystal grain diameter of the martensite is 10 ?m or less. The standard deviation of the crystal grain diameters of the martensite is 4.0 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Koichiro Fujita
  • Patent number: 10196705
    Abstract: A cold rolled and annealed martensitic steel sheet is provided. The steel sheet includes by weight percent, 0.30?C?0.5%, 0.2?Mn?1.5%, 0.5?Si?3.0%, 0.02?Ti?0.05%, 0.001?N?0.008%, 0.0010?B?0.0030%, 0.01?Nb?0.1%, 0.2?Cr?2.0%, P?0.02%, S?0.005%, Al?1%, Mo?1% and Ni?0.5%. The remainder of the composition includes iron and unavoidable impurities resulting from melting. The microstructure is 100% martensitic and a prior austenite grain size is lower than 20 ?m. The steel sheet has a delayed fracture resistance of at least 24 hours during an acid immersion U-bend test. A method, part, structural member and vehicle are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal
    Inventors: Rongjie Song, Narayan Pottore, Nina Fonstein
  • Patent number: 9126064
    Abstract: The invention proposes a composite textile material for NRBC applications, comprising a first material capable of providing a physical barrier to the penetration of microorganisms and a second material capable of trapping, by absorption and/or adsorption, said microorganisms stopped by said first material and article of protection made of said material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: PAUL BOYE TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventor: Jacques Boye
  • Patent number: 9040166
    Abstract: A hot-pressed member includes a steel sheet, a Ni-diffusion region present in a surface layer of the steel sheet, and an intermetallic compound layer and a ZnO layer which are provided in order on the Ni-diffusion region, the intermetallic compound layer corresponding to a ? phase present in a phase equilibrium diagram of a Zn—Ni alloy, wherein a spontaneous immersion potential indicated in a 0.5 M NaCl aqueous air-saturated solution at 25° C.±5° C. is ?600 to ?360 mV based on a standard hydrogen electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Nakamaru, Seiji Nakajima, Tatsuya Miyoshi, Hiroyuki Masuoka, Shinji Ootsuka
  • Patent number: 9040167
    Abstract: A flat steel product having a base layer of a steel material and a multilayer coating applied thereto, and a method for producing the flat steel product. The method having the following steps: providing a steel base layer; applying a zinc layer to the base layer by electrolytic coating; applying an aluminum layer to the surface of the zinc layer, wherein no treatment is made to the surface of the zinc layer in regard to the oxides and sulfides present thereon at the end of the electrolytic zinc coating step or occurring during the course of the aluminum coating step; applying a magnesium layer to the aluminum layer; and subsequently heat treating the flat steel product in such a way that an MgZn2 layer forms in the coating above the Al layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG
    Inventors: Bernd Schuhmacher, Christian Schwerdt, Nicole Weiher, Richard Weinhold
  • Patent number: 9028973
    Abstract: A high strength galvanized steel sheet is provided comprising steel containing C: 0.06% or more and 0.20% or less, Si: less than 0.50%, Mn: 0.5% or more and less than 2.0%, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 0.60% or more and 2.00% or less, N: less than 0.004%, Cr: 0.10% or more and 0.40% or less and B: 0.003% or less, satisfying the relationships 0.8?Mneq?2.0 and Mneq+1.3[% Al]?2.8, and a microstructure containing a ferrite phase and a second phase whose volume fraction is 15% or less, the second phase having a martensite phase whose volume fraction is 3% or more, a retained austenite phase whose volume fraction is 3% or more and a sum of the volume fractions of a pearlite phase and a bainite phase being equal to or less than the volume fraction of the martensite phase and the volume fraction of the retained austenite phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Takahashi, Kaneharu Okuda, Yoshihiko Ono
  • Patent number: 9023488
    Abstract: In order to provide a steel sheet for hot pressing from which a hot-pressed part excellent in perforation corrosion resistance is obtainable and a method of manufacturing a hot-pressed part using the steel sheet for hot pressing, provided is a steel sheet for hot pressing having, sequentially on a surface of a base steel sheet: a plating layer I containing 60% by mass or more of Ni and the remainder consisting of Zn and inevitable impurities, a coating mass thereof being 0.01 to 5 g/m2; and a plating layer II containing 10 to 25% by mass of Ni and the remainder consisting of Zn and inevitable impurities, a coating mass thereof being 10 to 90 g/m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Nakajima, Tatsuya Miyoshi, Hiroki Nakamaru
  • Patent number: 8993120
    Abstract: A hot-dip galvanizing layer or an alloyed hot dip galvanizing layer is formed on the surface of a base steel sheet in which in volume fraction, 40 to 90% of a ferrite phase and 5% or less of a retained austenite phase are contained, and a ratio of non-recrystallized ferrite to the entire ferrite phase is 50% or less in volume fraction, and further a grain diameter ratio being a value of, of crystal grains in the ferrite phase, an average grain diameter in the rolling direction divided by an average grain diameter in the sheet width direction is 0.75 to 1.33, a length ratio being a value of, of hard structures dispersed in island shapes, an average length in the rolling direction divided by an average length in the sheet width direction is 0.75 to 1.33, and an average aspect ratio of inclusions is 5.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawata, Naoki Maruyama, Akinobu Murasato, Akinobu Minami, Takeshi Yasui, Takuya Kuwayama, Hiroyuki Ban, Kaoru Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 8993118
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a steel sheet for a container excellent in corrosion resistance, adhesion, and weldability is provided, which includes a steel sheet; a Ni plating layer which is formed on a surface of the steel sheet in an amount of plating deposition containing a Ni amount of 0.3 to 3 g/m2 and contains Co in the range of 0.1 to 100 ppm; and a chromate coating layer which is formed on a surface of the Ni plating layer in an amount of coating deposition containing a converted Cr amount of 1 to 40 mg/m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Hirano, Makoto Kawabata
  • Patent number: 8986849
    Abstract: A hot stamped high strength part which is excellent in post painting anticorrosion property, which hot stamped high strength part has an alloy plating layer including an Al—Fe intermetallic compound phase on the surface of the steel sheet. The alloy plating layer is comprised from phases of a plurality of intermetallic compounds, a mean linear intercept length of crystal grains of a phase containing Al: 40 to 65 mass % among the phases of the plurality of intermetallic compounds is 3 to 20 ?m, an average value of thickness of the Al—Fe alloy plating layer is 10 to 50 ?m, and a ratio of the average value of thickness to the standard deviation of thickness of the Al—Fe alloy plating layer satisfies the following relationship: 0<standard deviation of thickness/average value of thickness?0.15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Maki, Kazuhisa Kusumi, Masayuki Abe, Masao Kurosaki
  • Publication number: 20150056470
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to surely provide a projection of burr by forming an appropriate gap needed to set a cast-in member to a cast-in mold, and by completely closing the gap when the cast-in mold is clamped, and to correct a cast-in positioning (axis mating) to a die-cast component by a clamping operation of the die-cast mold, regardless of a dimensional precision of the cast-in member upon a manufacture. A steel plate cast-in member 2, which is wrapped cast except for a bonding portion 2b to a steel plate bonding member 3 upon molding a die-cast component 1, has a mold contact portion A at a boundary between a cast-in portion 2a wrapped cast with a die-cast component 1 and the bonding portion 2b. When a cast-in mold A is clamped, the mold contact portion 4 is brought into intimate butting contact with the cast-in mold A, whereby a gap S between the cast-in member 2 and the cast-in mold A, i.e., a cavity is closed. Thus, a projection of burr is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Shunzo Aoyama, Yasushi Kanno, Masaharu Matsumoto, Sadahiro Sekine
  • Patent number: 8956734
    Abstract: Provided is a black resin steel plate having superior drawing ability and glossiness and particularly to a black resin steel plate in which the coefficient of friction of a black resin film is adjusted so as to block the transfer of a resin layer due to a reduction in thickness of the resin layer, thereby improving blackness and drawing ability, and to a method of manufacturing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Posco
    Inventors: Yon Kyun Song, Chang Hoon Choi, Yeon Ho Kim, Jae Dong Cho
  • Publication number: 20150037610
    Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet includes a composition having controlled amounts of carbon, silicon, manganese, phosphorous, sulfur, titanium, niobium, sol. Aluminum, chromium, molybdenum, vanadium, boron, calcium, REM, and iron. A microstructure thereof has a main phase of ferrite of at least 40 area %, and a second phase of a low-temperature transformation phase consisting either or both of martensite and bainite, which comprises at least 10 area % in total and retained austenite (?) at least comprising 3 area %. An average grain diameter of ferrite has a tilt angle of at least 15° is at most 5.0 mm, an average grain diameter of the low-temperature transformation-produced phase is at most 2.0 mm, an average grain diameter of lump-like retained ? having an aspect ratio of less than 5 is at most 1.5 mm, and an area fraction of the lump-like retained ? relative to the retained ? is at least 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Kengo Hata, Toshiro Tomida, Norio Imai, Jun Haga, Takuya Nishio
  • Publication number: 20150017476
    Abstract: A base metal for high-toughness clad plate having excellent toughness at a welded joint contains, in terms of mass %, C: 0.030 to 0.10%, Si: 0.10 to 0.30%, Mn: 1.00 to 1.60%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.003% or less, V: less than 0.010%, and at least one selected from Mo: 0.05 to 0.50%, Nb: 0.010 to 0.060%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.020%, Al: 0.040% or less, Ca: 0.0010 to 0.0040%, and N: 0.0030 to 0.0060%, the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, in which a percent ductile fracture is 85% or more in a ?20° C. DWTT test and vE?20° C. is 100 J or more at a HAZ 3 mm position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Shunichi Tachibana, Yoshihiro Yazawa, Keiichiro Kishi, Yota Kuronuma, Toshiyuki Hoshino, Kimihiro Nishimura, Hitoshi Sueyoshi
  • Patent number: 8932729
    Abstract: A base steel sheet has a hot-dip galvanized layer formed on a surface thereof, in which, in a steel sheet structure in a range of ? thickness to ? thickness centered around ¼ thickness of a sheet thickness from a surface, a volume fraction of a retained austenite phase is 5% or less, and a total volume fraction of phases of bainite, bainitic ferrite, fresh martensite, and tempered martensite is 40% or more, an average effective crystal grain diameter is 5.0 ?m or less, a maximum effective crystal grain diameter is 20 ?m or less, and a decarburized layer with a thickness of 0.01 ?m to 10.0 ?m is formed on a surface layer portion, in which a density of oxides dispersed in the decarburized layer is 1.0×1012 to 1.0×1016 oxides/m2, and an average grain diameter of the oxides is 500 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawata, Naoki Maruyama, Akinobu Murasato, Akinobu Minami, Takeshi Yasui, Takuya Kuwayama, Hiroyuki Ban, Kaoru Hiramatsu
  • Publication number: 20150010779
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing packaging steel consisting of a cold-rolled steel sheet made of unalloyed or low-alloy steel having a carbon content of less than 0.1%. In order to provide high-strength packaging steel that has good formability and high corrosion resistance and can be produced in as energy-saving a manner as possible, the steel sheet according to the invention is first coated with a metallic coating and then annealed in a recrystallising manner at a heating rate of more than 75 K/s and preferably more than 100 K/s to temperatures of more than 700° C., such that the metallic coating melts. The coated and annealed steel sheet is then quenched to normal temperature at a cooling rate of at least 100 K/s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Anika Szesni, Helmut Oberhoffer, Martin Schlupp, Dirk Matusch, Reiner Sauer
  • Patent number: 8920938
    Abstract: With the invention a metallic flat product can be systematically made available with such a fine, stochastic or quasi-stochastic surface texture that after a typical automotive paint application it is only minimally perceptible, if at all, by the human eye. At the same time, in the case of a surface topography constituted according to the invention, the transition between the peak plateaus and the valleys takes place via steep flanks. In this way, it is achieved that the morphology of the sheet metal surface is practically independent of the actual depth of the valleys. As a result therefore, the morphology of the sheet metal surface of a metallic flat product according to the invention is also independent of the skin-pass rate, which is obtained when the fine metal texture is produced by skin-pass rolling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignees: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Walzen-Service-Center GmbH
    Inventors: Bodo Hesse, Karl-Heinz Kopplin, Folkert Schulze-Kraasch, Udo Schulokat, Hans-Gerd Weyen, Ingo Rogner, Torsten Herles, Roland Meier
  • Publication number: 20140363696
    Abstract: A high-strength hot rolled steel sheets with excellent stretch flangeability has small variations in mechanical properties in individual coils. Variations in strength from place to place in a coil are decreased by minimally reducing the Si and Mn contents to suppress the occurrence of problems such as segregation. Further, the microstructure of the steel sheets is configured such that a ferrite phase represents an area ratio of not less than 95%, the ferrite crystal grains have an average grain size of not less than 1 ?m, and the ferrite crystal grains contain TiC with an average particle size of not more than 7 nm dispersed in the crystal grains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Funakawa, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Hiroshi Uchomae, Hiroshi Nakano, Taro Kizu
  • Patent number: 8906516
    Abstract: A galvannealed steel sheet having high corrosion resistance after painting includes, on a mass percent basis, C: 0.05% to 0.15%, Si: 0.1% to 1.0%, Mn: 0.5% to 2.7%, Al: ?1.00%, P: ?0.025%, S: ?0.025%, and Cr: 0% to 0.8% as chemical components, the remainder being Fe and incidental impurities. The galvannealed steel sheet includes a galvannealed layer in an amount of 20 to 120 g/m2 per side, a percentage of exposed zinc metal of the galvannealed layer surface being 20% or more and less than 80%, and an amount of internal oxidation in a region disposed not more than 5 ?m from the surface of the steel sheet is 0.02 g/m2 or more and 0.1 g/m2 or less: Si?0.68%, Cr??1.25Si+0.85, and Si>0.68%, Cr=0, wherein Si and Cr denote respective contents (mass %) of Si and Cr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Mai Miyata, Yoichi Makimizu
  • Publication number: 20140349135
    Abstract: A method for coating a steel sheet with a metal layer includes the following steps: application of a first thin metal layer as a flash coating; melting the metal layer from the flash coating; and application of at least one additional metal layer onto the metal layer from the flash coating. To increase the corrosion resistance of the coated steel sheet and to improve the energy and resource efficiency of the coating method, with which a steel sheet having a high corrosion resistance and good weldability and with a good deep drawing and ironing behavior is to be produced, the thickness of the metal layer from the flash coating is at most 200 mg/m2 and the metal layer from the flash coating is melted with electromagnetic radiation of high energy density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP RASSELSTEIN GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut OBERHOFFER, Benjamin LIEBSCHER, Anika SZESNI, Reiner SAUER, Karl-Ernst FRIEDRICH
  • Publication number: 20140349136
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to welding alloys and, more specifically, to welding consumables (e.g., welding wires and rods) for arc welding operations. In an embodiment, a welding consumable includes less than approximately 1 wt % manganese as well as one or more strengthening agents selected from the group: nickel, cobalt, copper, carbon, molybdenum, chromium, vanadium, silicon, and boron. The welding consumable also includes one or more grain control agents selected from the group: niobium, tantalum, titanium, zirconium, and boron, wherein the welding consumable includes less than approximately 0.6 wt % grain control agents. Additionally, the welding consumable has a carbon equivalence (CE) value that is less than approximately 0.23. The welding consumable is designed to provide a manganese fume generation rate that is less than approximately 0.01 grams per minute during a welding operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Steven Edward Barhorst, Kevin M. Krieger, Joseph C. Bundy, Mario Anthony Amata, Daryl L. Duncan, Susan Renata Fiore
  • Publication number: 20140342187
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a component. The component may include a cast iron base and an intermediate layer covering a least a portion of the cast iron base. The intermediate layer may include aluminum and at least one of nickel, cobalt, chromium, silicon, or iron. The component may also include an outer layer covering the intermediate layer. The outer layer may include steel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Eugene Sharp
  • Patent number: 8889264
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hot dip plated high strength steel sheet comprising a cold rolled steel sheet and a hot dip plated layer formed on the surface thereof, characterized in that the cold rolled steel sheet contains, by mass %, C: 0.0005 to 0.0050%, Si: over 0.3 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.70 to 2.0%, P: 0.05% or less, Ti: 0.010 to 0.050%, Nb: 0.010 to 0.040%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0030%, S: 0.010% or less, Al: 0.01 to 0.30%, and N: 0.0010 to 0.01%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and the cold rolled steel sheet has a value of TB* defined by the equation TB*=(0.11?[Ti])/(ln ([B]×10000)) of 0.03 to 0.06, and P is present in an amount of [P]?10×[B]+0.03, where [Ti] is the Ti content in mass percent, [B] is the B content in mass percent, and [P] is the P content in mass percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Satoh, Masayuki Abe, Yasuto Goto, Shinichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8877348
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a surface-treated steel sheet which contains no Cr, which is excellent in wet resin adhesion, and which can be used as an alternative to a conventional tin-free steel sheet and to provide a resin-coated steel sheet produced by coating the surface-treated steel sheet with resin. A surface-treated steel sheet including an adhesive layer which is disposed on at least one surface of the steel sheet and which contains Ti and at least one selected from the group consisting of Co, Fe, Ni, V, Cu, Mn, and Zn, the ratio of the total amount of Co, Fe, Ni, V, Cu, Mn, and Zn to the amount of Ti contained therein being 0.01 to ten on a mass basis, and a method for producing the surface-treated steel sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yuka Nishihara, Takeshi Suzuki, Noriko Makiishi, Takumi Tanaka, Hiroki Iwasa, Norihiko Nakamura, Kaoru Sato, Takashi Kawano
  • Publication number: 20140315044
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a brass-plated steel wire in which improvement in the quality of the brass-plated steel wire and energy saving in the manufacturing process are balanced and a brass-plated steel wire obtained by the method. The method is a method for manufacturing a brass-plated steel wire comprising a plating process in which a steel wire rod is brass plated and a final wire drawing process in which the obtained brass-plated steel wire rod is subjected to a final drawing. The method includes a zinc oxide removing process in which the amount of zinc oxide on the surface of the brass-plated steel wire rod is made smaller than 50 mg/m2 before the final wire drawing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashisa Shizuku
  • Patent number: 8822037
    Abstract: A surface-treated steel plate obtained by forming, on at least one surface of the steel plate by cathodic electrolysis, a surface-treating film which contains a mixed oxide of an oxide of Fe and at least one of an oxide of Zr or an oxide of Ti, and a polycarboxylic acid, the amount of Zr or Ti, or the total amount of Zr and Ti if both of them are present, being from 3 to 300 mg/m2 and the amount of C being from 0.1 to 5.0 mg/m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignees: Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd., Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wataru Kurokawa, Seitaro Kanazawa, Shinichi Taya, Kunihiro Yoshimura, Naomi Iida, Miwa Iida, Masahiko Matsukawa
  • Patent number: 8795845
    Abstract: Methods for the low-temperature synthesis of an integrated, corrosion-resistant coating structure for metal substrates by means of multi-component pack cementation are provided. The synthesis of the integrated coating structures at low temperatures can avoid or minimize degradation of the mechanical properties of the substrates. The integrated coating structures can increase the lifetime of high temperature steels under severe steam environments and, therefore, provide a technological enabler for the high-temperature operation of steam power generation plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: John Harry Perepezko, Ridwan Sakidja
  • Patent number: 8765269
    Abstract: An APIX100-grade high strength steel pipe includes a base material containing, in mass percentage, C: more than 0.03% and 0.08% or less, Si: 0.01% to 0.5%, Mn: 1.5% to 3.0%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Al: 0.01% to 0.08%, Nb: 0.005% to 0.025%, Ti: 0.005% to 0.025%, N: 0.001% to 0.010%, O: 0.005% or less, and B: 0.0003% to 0.0020%, further contains one or more of Cu, Ni, Cr, Mo, and V, satisfies 0.19?Pcm?0.25, the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and has a TS of 760 to 930 MPa, a uniform elongation of 5% or more, and a YR of 85% or less; the seam weld metal has a specific composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Junji Shimamura, Nobuyuki Ishikawa, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Nobuo Shikanai
  • Publication number: 20140178712
    Abstract: Hot rolled steel sheet which has a maximum tensile strength of 600 MPa or more and has an excellent low temperature impact energy absorption and HAZ softening resistance and a method of production of the same are provided, that is, sheet which contains, by mass %, C: 0.04 to 0.09%, Si: 0.4% or less, Mn: 1.2 to 2.0%, P: 0.1% or less, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 1.0% or less, Nb: 0.02 to 0.09%, Ti: 0.02 to 0.07%, and N: 0.005% or less, where 2.0?Mn+8[% Ti]+12[% Nb]?2.6, has a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, has an area percentage of pearlite of 5% or less, has a total area percentage of martensite and retained austenite of 0.5% or less, has a balance of a metal structure of ferrite and/or bainite, has an average grain size of ferrite and bainite of 10 ?m or less, has an average particle size of alloy carbonitrides with incoherent interfaces which contain Ti and Nb of 20 nm or less, and has a yield ratio of 0.85 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Naoki Maruyama, Naoki Yoshinaga, Masafumi Azuma, Yasuharu Sakuma, Atsushi Itami
  • Patent number: 8758893
    Abstract: The present invention provides enamelware and a glaze improving the bondability between the steel substrate and enamel layer and superior in resistance to dew point corrosion by sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid, that is, a steel substrate of a composition containing, by mass %, Cu: 0.05 to 0.5%, Si: 0.1 to 2.0%, Mn: 0.05 to 2.0%, P: 0.005 to 0.10%, and S: 0.005 to 0.1%, restricting C to C: 0.20% or less, and comprising a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities on the surface of which an enamel layer of a thickness of 50 to 700 ?m is provided. At that time, the content of Co oxides in the enamel layer is made, converted to Co, 0.01 to 10% and/or the content of Ni oxides is made, converted to Ni, 0.05 to 20% or the total content of Ni in the steel substrate and enamel layer is made 0.005 to 4.5% with respect to the total mass of the enamelware and/or the total content of Co is made 0.008 to 4.0% with respect to the total mass of the enamelware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Nishimura, Shunji Sakamoto, Hidekuni Murakami
  • Patent number: 8753755
    Abstract: A body, such as a pick tool for cutting coal, includes a steel substrate and a hard face structure fused to the steel substrate. The hard face structure includes at least 1 weight percent Si, at least 5 weight percent Cr and at least 40 weight percent W. Substantially the balance of the hard face structure includes carbon and an iron group metal M selected from Fe, Co, Ni and alloy combinations of these elements. The hard face structure includes a plurality of elongate or platelike micro-structures having a mean length of at least 1 micron, a plurality of nano-particles having a mean size of less than 200 nanometers, and a binder material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Element Six GmbH
    Inventors: Igor Yuri Konyashin, Bernd Heinrich Ries, Frank Friedrich Lachmann, Kersten Heinrich Schafer
  • Publication number: 20140141282
    Abstract: A multi-layer slide member has a back metal layer mainly composed of a steel plate and a porous layer having a metallic porous member and a resin composition filled in the metallic porous member. The metallic porous member has granular portions and narrow portions and includes a structure, in which the granular portions are connected with each other through the narrow portion. Parts or the entirety of the narrow portions have a Bi phase and a Sn—Ni—Cu intermetallic compound phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Inventors: Takayoshi YAMAUCHI, Kentaro TSUJIMOTO
  • Patent number: 8722204
    Abstract: Provided is an aluminum coated steel sheet having excellent oxidation and heat resistance. The aluminum coated steel sheet includes an aluminum coating layer and an alloy layer. The aluminum coating layer is formed on a surface of a steel sheet which includes 0.001 to 0.015 wt % of carbon (C), 0.05 to 0.3 wt % of silicon (Si), 0.1 to 0.6 wt % of manganese (Mn), 0.01 to 0.05 wt % niobium (Nb), 0.01 wt % or less of phosphorus (P), 0.01 wt % or less of sulfur (S), 0.1 wt % or less of soluble aluminum (Al), 0.05 to 0.5 wt % of copper (Cu), 0.05 to 0.5 wt % nickel (Ni), 0.001 to 0.01 wt % of nitrogen (N), and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities. The alloy layer includes an intermetallic compound at an interface between the steel sheet and the aluminum coating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Posco
    Inventors: Dae-Chul Bae, Tae-Hun Lim, Young-Sool Jin
  • Patent number: 8722203
    Abstract: The invention relates to a steel part, the composition of the steel of which comprises, the contents being expressed by weight: 0.040%?C?0.100%; 0.80%?Mn?2.00%; Si?0.30%; S?0.005%; P?0.030%; 0.010% S?Al?0.070%; 0.015%?Nb?0.100%; 0.030% Ti?0.080%; N?0.009%; Cu?0.100%; Ni?0.100%; Cr?0.100%; Mo?0.100%; and Ca?0.006%, the balance of the composition consisting of iron and inevitable impurities resulting from the smelting, the microstructure of the steel consisting of at least 75% equiaxed ferrite, martensite in an amount not less than 5% but not exceeding 20%, and bainite in an amount not exceeding 10%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal France
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Laurent, Thierry Malot
  • Patent number: 8715837
    Abstract: A black-coated steel sheet exhibits good bendability and a good appearance after press working is provided. Zinc based plating layers, a chromium-free chemical conversion coating disposed on the zinc based plating layer, and a colored single organic coating which is disposed on the chemical conversion coating and which contains a polyester resin having a hydroxyl value of 10 KOHmg/g or more, an imino-containing melamine resin, and 5 to 15 percent by mass of carbon black are included, wherein the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the organic coating is 40° C. or higher, the film thickness is 10 ?m or less, and the hardness is 200 N/mm2 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Chiyoko Tada, Hiroyuki Ogata
  • Patent number: 8697252
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet that stably exhibits satisfactory phosphatability. It is a high-strength hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet which includes a base steel sheet and, arranged on at least one side thereof, an Fe—Zn alloyed galvanized layer. The base steel sheet contains 0.03% to 0.3% of carbon, 0.5% to 3.0% of silicon, and 0.5% to 3.5% of manganese, with the remainder including iron and inevitable impurities. The Fe—Zn alloyed galvanized layer has a concentration of silicon present as an oxide of [Si] (percent by mass) and a concentration of manganese present as an oxide of [Mn] (percent by mass), and these parameters satisfy the following conditions (1) and (2): [Si]?0.25??(1) [Mn]/[Si]?3.0??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Irie, Takatoshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8697253
    Abstract: The high-strength quenched formed body contains a layer, in which Zn is a major component and which is formed of Fe: 30% by mass or less, in an amount of 30 g/m2 or more on the surface of an after-quenching formed-body steel material, and accordingly is good in corrosion resistance. A quenched formed body is produced by quenching a zinc-plated steel material, which includes a zinc-plated layer which contains each of Al and Si having alloying-retarding function and readily-oxidizing function independently or compositely, in an amount of 0.15% by mass or more, after heating it to 800° C. or more and 950° C. or less in an oxidizing atmosphere of oxygen: 0.1% by volume or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignees: Aisin Takaoka Co., Ltd., Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Suzuki, Toshimasa Tomokiyo, Shuuji Souma, Katsuji Nakashima, Masashi Ozawa, Kiyohito Kondou
  • Patent number: 8691396
    Abstract: A galvannealed steel sheet obtained by subjecting a base steel sheet to hot-dip galvanization and then alloying the galvanization layer, the base steel sheet being obtained by hot rolling a specified steel. A method for producing the galvannealed steel sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Yuse, Mikako Takeda, Shigenobu Namba, Yoshihiro Miyake
  • Patent number: 8663819
    Abstract: Free standing articles or articles at least partially coated with substantially porosity free, fine-grained and/or amorphous Co-bearing metallic materials optionally containing solid particulates dispersed therein, are disclosed. The electrodeposited metallic layers and/or patches comprising Co provide, enhance or restore strength, wear and/or lubricity of substrates without reducing the fatigue performance compared to either uncoated or equivalent thickness chromium coated substrate. The fine-grained and/or amorphous metallic coatings comprising Co are particularly suited for articles exposed to thermal cycling, fatigue and other stresses and/or in applications requiring anti-microbial properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Integran Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Francisco Gonzalez, Diana Facchini, Jonathan McCrea, Mike Uetz, Gino Palumbo, Klaus Tomantschger