Patent ID: 11884998
Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
Field: Surface technology, coating (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  B | IPC B  C

Claim 0:
1. A steel sheet comprising: a base metal and a plated layer formed on a surface of the base metal, wherein
an average composition of the plated layer contains, in mass %,
Mg: 0.5 to 2.0%,
Si: more than 0% and 5.0% or less,
Fe: 8.2 to 25.0%, and
following formulas (i) to (iii) are satisfied:

75.0≤Zn+Al≤98.5  (i)

0.4≤Zn/Al≤1.5  (ii)

(Zn/Al)×Mg≤1.6  (iii)

where, symbol of an element in the formulas refers to content (mass %) of each element contained in the plated layer, wherein
the plated layer includes an Fe diffusion layer on a base metal side of the plated layer,
a ratio of a thickness of the Fe diffusion layer to an entire thickness of the plated layer is between 15 and 31%, and
the Fe diffusion layer contains an Fe—Al—Zn phase and a total area fraction of the Fe—Al—Zn phase is 90% or more, where the Fe—Al—Zn phase consists of one or more of Fe(Al, Zn)2, Fe2(Al, Zn)5 and Fe(Al, Zn)3, and wherein
no cracks propagate to the base metal after a hot V-shaped bending test, where in the hot V-shaped bending test, the steel sheet is held at 700° C. for 120 s, thereafter the steel sheet is heated at 900° C. for 30 s, and immediately after the heating, hot V-shaped bending is performed on the steel sheet using hand press machine, wherein the shape of press tooling is set such that an outer side portion in the bending radius direction to which V-bending is applied extends by 15% at the time when bending is finished,
a difference between (i) a value of welding current at which dust is generated during welding and (ii) a value of welding current at which the nugget diameter of a welding portion exceeds 4.7 mm is 1.0 A or more after a process of: an alloying heat treatment where the steel sheet is held at 700° C. for 120 s is performed; the steel sheet is heated at 900° C. for 30 s; immediately after heating, the steel sheet is sandwiched by flat plate shaped press tooling provided with a water cooling jacket so as to produce a plate-shaped formed body, thereby quenching is performed with a cooling speed to 410° C. of 50° C./s or more; and performing a spot welding test using a DC power source at an applied pressure of 350 kgf, and
a width of a coating blister is 3.0 mm or less after a process of: an alloying heat treatment where the steel sheet is held at 700° C. for 120 s is performed; the steel sheet is heated at 900° C. for 30 s; immediately after heating, the steel sheet is sandwiched by flat plate shaped press tooling provided with a water cooling jacket so as to produce a plate-shaped formed body, thereby quenching is performed with a cooling speed to 410° C. of 50° C./s or more; a phosphate coating is formed on the surface of the plate-shaped formed body by the step of surface conditioning for 20 s at room temperature using a surface conditioning agent and immersing the plate-shaped formed body into a zinc phosphate treatment solution for 120 s at 43° C.; a cationic electrodeposition paint is applied to the plate-shaped formed body by electrodeposition coating by slope energization at a voltage of 160 V under conditions that electrodeposition coating on the steel sheet has a thickness of 15 μm and is subjected to baking coating for 20 minutes at a baking temperature of 170° C.; a cross-cut is made on the plate-shaped formed body on which electrodeposition coating is performed such that the cross-cut reaches a base metal of the plate-shaped formed body; and a composite corrosion test of 180 cycles is performed.