Patent ID: 9702019
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: B32B,B60B,C21D,C22C,C23C

Claim:
1. A quenched steel pipe member, wherein the quenched steel pipe member is formed of a GI galvanized steel pipe, in a middle section in a longitudinal direction of the GI galvanized steel pipe, a cross-section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction has a substantially V shape including a contact section at which opposite parts of an inner circumferential surface of the GI galvanized steel pipe come into contact with each other, the contact section is bonded using a Fe—Zn alloy phase, and a micro Vickers hardness at a location 50 μm deep from a base material surface layer is 95% or more of a micro Vickers hardness at a location 200 μm deep from the base material surface layer.