Steel sheet coated with aluminum-magnesium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10619228-B2
Application number	US-201715601478-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 22, 2017
Priority date	Dec 26, 2012
Publication date	Apr 14, 2020
Grant date	Apr 14, 2020

Abstract

The present invention relates to an aluminum-magnesium coated steel plate using vacuum coating, wherein an aluminum-magnesium coating layer is constituted by 1 to 45 wt % of magnesium, a balance of aluminum, and other inevitable impurities, and an Al3Mg2 alloy phase is formed in the aluminum-magnesium coating layer by performing heat treatment of the steel plate.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of forming an aluminum-magnesium alloy layer on a steel plate, comprising:
preparing the steel plate;
vacuum depositing an aluminum coating layer on an upper portion of the steel plate;
vacuum depositing a magnesium coating layer on an upper portion of the aluminum coating layer at least one time or more; and
vacuum depositing a secondary aluminum coating layer on an upper portion of the magnesium coating layer at least one time or more;
wherein the steel plate where the aluminum-magnesium coating layer is formed is subjected to heat treatment in a heat treatment furnace to perform phase transformation of the aluminum-magnesium coating layer into the aluminum-magnesium alloy layer,
wherein the aluminum-magnesium alloy layer includes 12.2 to 27.7 wt % of magnesium based on a total weight of the aluminum-magnesium alloy layer, and
wherein the heat treatment is performed under a condition of an inert atmosphere, a temperature in a range of 350 to 450° C., and a heat treatment time of 2 to 10 minutes.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising vacuum depositing a secondary magnesium layer on an upper portion of the secondary aluminum layer at least one time or more.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the magnesium coating layer that is vacuum deposited on the steel plate is reacted with iron on the steel plate by diffusion of aluminum that is vacuum deposited on the upper portion of magnesium to be vacuum deposited in a thickness in which an iron-aluminum alloy layer is formed on the coating layer.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein a thickness of an aluminum-magnesium coating layer formed of the aluminum coating layer and the magnesium coating layer is 0.5 to 30 μm.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the aluminum-magnesium coating layer is vacuum deposited by magnetron sputtering.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the aluminum-magnesium coating layer is vacuum deposited by repeatedly reciprocating the steel plate disposed on upper portions of an aluminum source and a magnesium source.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein a composition of the aluminum-magnesium coating layer is changed by changing a current or a voltage applied to the aluminum source and the magnesium source.

8. The method of claim 4 , wherein one or more of the iron-aluminum alloy layer or the aluminum-magnesium alloy layer is formed from the coating layer by the heat treatment.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein an iron component of the steel plate is diffused into the coating layer to form an Al x Fe y layer, and the Al x Fe y layer satisfies the following conditions:
in the Al x Fe y layer, x is 1 to 3 and y is 0.5 to 1.5.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein a thickness of the aluminum-iron alloy layer is 0.2 to 1 μm.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein in the aluminum-magnesium alloy layer, one or more of an a phase or a β phase (Al 3 Mg 2 ) is formed by the heat treatment.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein a thickness of the Al x Fe y layer is 1 to 50% of a thickness of the aluminum-magnesium coating layer.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein a ratio of the α and β phases is an XRD intensity ratio of 1β(880)/1α(111), which is 0.01 to 1.5.

14. A method of forming an aluminum-magnesium alloy layer on a steel plate, comprising:
preparing the steel plate;
vacuum depositing an aluminum coating layer on an upper portion of the steel plate;
vacuum depositing a magnesium coating layer on an upper portion of the aluminum coating layer at least one time or more; and
vacuum depositing a secondary aluminum coating layer on an upper portion of the magnesium coating layer at least one time or more;
wherein the steel plate where the aluminum-magnesium coating layer is formed is subjected to heat treatment in a heat treatment furnace to perform phase transformation of the aluminum-magnesium coating layer into the aluminum-magnesium alloy layer,
wherein the aluminum-magnesium alloy layer includes 12.2 to 27.7 wt % of magnesium based on a total weight of the aluminum-magnesium alloy layer, and
wherein the heat treatment is performed under a condition of an inert atmosphere, a temperature in a range of 350 to 450° C., and a heat treatment time of 2 to 10 minutes
wherein the magnesium coating layer that is vacuum deposited on the steel plate is reacted with iron on the steel plate by diffusion of aluminum that is vacuum deposited on the upper portion of magnesium to be vacuum deposited in a thickness in which an iron-aluminum alloy layer is formed on the coating layer.

Assignees

• Posco
• Res Inst Ind Science & Tech

Inventors

• Yang Ji Hoon
• Jeong Jae In
• Kim Tae-Yeob
• Jung Yonghwa

Classifications

• Y10T428/2495

  Thickness [relative or absolute] · CPC title

• C23C14/5893

  Mixing of deposited material · CPC title

• C23C14/16

  on metallic substrates or on substrates of boron or silicon · CPC title

• Y10T428/24967

  Absolute thicknesses specified · CPC title

• Y10T428/12764

  Next to Al-base component · CPC title