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Steel sheet, coated steel sheet, method for producing hot-rolled steel sheet, method for producing full-hard cold-rolled steel sheet, method for producing heat-treated sheet, method for producing steel sheet, and method for producing coated steel sheet

US10920294B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 17, 2017
Grant dateFeb 16, 2021
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Expiry dateOct 5, 2037

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  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC22C38/38
  • WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A steel sheet having low yield ratio, tensile strength of 780 MPa or more, and good bending fatigue properties. The steel sheet includes a specific chemical composition and a steel microstructure having an area percentage of a ferrite phase of 20% or more and 80% or less and an area percentage of a martensite phase of 20% or more and 80% or less, the area percentage being determined by microstructure observation, in which a surface layer portion of the steel sheet has an average ferrite grain size of 5.0 μm or less and an inclusion density of 200 particles/mm−2 or less, and in which the steel sheet has a surface hardness of 95% or more when the steel sheet has a hardness of 100% at a position ½t, where t represents the thickness of the steel sheet, away from a surface of the steel sheet in the thickness direction.

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