Method for the production of a flat steel product and flat steel product

US9040167B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG · DE

Inventors

• Bernd Schuhmacher · Dortmund, DE
• Christian Schwerdt · Duisburg, DE
• Nicole Weiher · Bochum, DE
• Richard Weinhold · Neuss, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 20, 2010
• Grant date: May 26, 2015
• Expiry date: Jan 23, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/265
• WIPO field: Surface technology, coating
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

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.