Containing 0.01-1.7% Carbon (i.e., Steel) Patents (Class 428/684)
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Patent number: 12136706Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 11618965Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuto Goto, Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Takehiro Takahashi
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Patent number: 11293074Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Katsutoshi Takashima, Chikaumi Sawanishi, Takashi Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Funakawa
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Patent number: 11236406Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Katsutoshi Takashima, Takashi Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Seiji Nakajima
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Patent number: 11111556Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 19, 2016Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Terazawa, Naoki Takayama, Kenji Hayashi, Kazukuni Hase
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Patent number: 10927441Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 9, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Koba, Yusuke Fushiwaki, Yasunobu Nagataki
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Patent number: 10837097Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Narumiya, Takahide Umehara
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Patent number: 10808292Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 3, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: POSCOInventors: Il-Ryoung Sohn, Dae-Chul Bae, Heung-Yun Kim
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Patent number: 10745785Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 26, 2014Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hongbin Li, Liandeng Yao, Xiaobo Wang
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Patent number: 10640854Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jianxun Hu, Eric Walker
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Patent number: 10538831Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Yamashita, Yutaka Neishi, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Makoto Egashira
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Patent number: 10400300Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 14, 2015Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Koichiro Fujita
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Patent number: 10196705Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 11, 2013Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: ArcelorMittalInventors: Rongjie Song, Narayan Pottore, Nina Fonstein
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Patent number: 9126064Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 15, 2006Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: PAUL BOYE TECHNOLOGIESInventor: Jacques Boye
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Patent number: 9040166Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 28, 2010Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Nakamaru, Seiji Nakajima, Tatsuya Miyoshi, Hiroyuki Masuoka, Shinji Ootsuka
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Patent number: 9040167Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AGInventors: Bernd Schuhmacher, Christian Schwerdt, Nicole Weiher, Richard Weinhold
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Patent number: 9028973Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 10, 2011Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Kenji Takahashi, Kaneharu Okuda, Yoshihiko Ono
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Patent number: 9023488Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 2, 2011Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Seiji Nakajima, Tatsuya Miyoshi, Hiroki Nakamaru
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Patent number: 8993120Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Kawata, Naoki Maruyama, Akinobu Murasato, Akinobu Minami, Takeshi Yasui, Takuya Kuwayama, Hiroyuki Ban, Kaoru Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 8993118Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 24, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Shigeru Hirano, Makoto Kawabata
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Patent number: 8986849Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 30, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Jun Maki, Kazuhisa Kusumi, Masayuki Abe, Masao Kurosaki
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Publication number: 20150056470Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2012Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Shunzo Aoyama, Yasushi Kanno, Masaharu Matsumoto, Sadahiro Sekine
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Patent number: 8956734Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 4, 2011Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: PoscoInventors: Yon Kyun Song, Chang Hoon Choi, Yeon Ho Kim, Jae Dong Cho
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Publication number: 20150037610Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Kengo Hata, Toshiro Tomida, Norio Imai, Jun Haga, Takuya Nishio
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Publication number: 20150017476Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Shunichi Tachibana, Yoshihiro Yazawa, Keiichiro Kishi, Yota Kuronuma, Toshiyuki Hoshino, Kimihiro Nishimura, Hitoshi Sueyoshi
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Patent number: 8932729Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Kawata, Naoki Maruyama, Akinobu Murasato, Akinobu Minami, Takeshi Yasui, Takuya Kuwayama, Hiroyuki Ban, Kaoru Hiramatsu
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Publication number: 20150010779Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Anika Szesni, Helmut Oberhoffer, Martin Schlupp, Dirk Matusch, Reiner Sauer
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Patent number: 8920938Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 20, 2008Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignees: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Walzen-Service-Center GmbHInventors: Bodo Hesse, Karl-Heinz Kopplin, Folkert Schulze-Kraasch, Udo Schulokat, Hans-Gerd Weyen, Ingo Rogner, Torsten Herles, Roland Meier
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Publication number: 20140363696Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2012Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Yoshimasa Funakawa, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Hiroshi Uchomae, Hiroshi Nakano, Taro Kizu
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Patent number: 8906516Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 20, 2012Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Mai Miyata, Yoichi Makimizu
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Publication number: 20140349135Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2014Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP RASSELSTEIN GmbHInventors: Helmut OBERHOFFER, Benjamin LIEBSCHER, Anika SZESNI, Reiner SAUER, Karl-Ernst FRIEDRICH
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Publication number: 20140349136Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2014Publication date: November 27, 2014Inventors: Steven Edward Barhorst, Kevin M. Krieger, Joseph C. Bundy, Mario Anthony Amata, Daryl L. Duncan, Susan Renata Fiore
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Publication number: 20140342187Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2013Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventor: Robert Eugene Sharp
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Hot dip plated high strength steel sheet for press forming use superior in low temperature toughness
Patent number: 8889264Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 11, 2008Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Hironori Satoh, Masayuki Abe, Yasuto Goto, Shinichi Yamaguchi -
Patent number: 8877348Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 30, 2008Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Yuka Nishihara, Takeshi Suzuki, Noriko Makiishi, Takumi Tanaka, Hiroki Iwasa, Norihiko Nakamura, Kaoru Sato, Takashi Kawano
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Publication number: 20140315044Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2012Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventor: Takashisa Shizuku
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Patent number: 8822037Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 27, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignees: Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd., Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wataru Kurokawa, Seitaro Kanazawa, Shinichi Taya, Kunihiro Yoshimura, Naomi Iida, Miwa Iida, Masahiko Matsukawa
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Patent number: 8795845Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 10, 2008Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research FoundationInventors: John Harry Perepezko, Ridwan Sakidja
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Patent number: 8765269Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 5, 2010Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Junji Shimamura, Nobuyuki Ishikawa, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Nobuo Shikanai
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Publication number: 20140178712Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2012Publication date: June 26, 2014Inventors: Naoki Maruyama, Naoki Yoshinaga, Masafumi Azuma, Yasuharu Sakuma, Atsushi Itami
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Patent number: 8758893Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 12, 2007Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Satoshi Nishimura, Shunji Sakamoto, Hidekuni Murakami
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Patent number: 8753755Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 6, 2011Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Element Six GmbHInventors: Igor Yuri Konyashin, Bernd Heinrich Ries, Frank Friedrich Lachmann, Kersten Heinrich Schafer
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Publication number: 20140141282Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2013Publication date: May 22, 2014Inventors: Takayoshi YAMAUCHI, Kentaro TSUJIMOTO
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Patent number: 8722204Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: PoscoInventors: Dae-Chul Bae, Tae-Hun Lim, Young-Sool Jin
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Patent number: 8722203Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 3, 2008Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: ArcelorMittal FranceInventors: Jean-Pierre Laurent, Thierry Malot
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Patent number: 8715837Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 8, 2009Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Chiyoko Tada, Hiroyuki Ogata
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Patent number: 8697252Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 7, 2008Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Irie, Takatoshi Yoshida
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Patent number: 8697253Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 24, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignees: Aisin Takaoka Co., Ltd., Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Shinichi Suzuki, Toshimasa Tomokiyo, Shuuji Souma, Katsuji Nakashima, Masashi Ozawa, Kiyohito Kondou
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Patent number: 8691396Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 2, 2009Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Fumio Yuse, Mikako Takeda, Shigenobu Namba, Yoshihiro Miyake
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Patent number: 8663819Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 9, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Integran Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Francisco Gonzalez, Diana Facchini, Jonathan McCrea, Mike Uetz, Gino Palumbo, Klaus Tomantschger