Method for manufacturing quenched molding, method for manufacturing hot press steel material, and hot press steel material

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11078550-B2
Application number	US-201716463777-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 22, 2017
Priority date	Nov 25, 2016
Publication date	Aug 3, 2021
Grant date	Aug 3, 2021

Abstract

A method for manufacturing a quenched molding according to the present disclosure is a method including a first heat treatment process of heating a blanked steel material to a temperature higher than its Ac3 transformation point to perform austenite transformation, and then cooling to induce martensite transformation or bainite transformation, and a second heat treatment process of heating the steel material that has undergone the first heat treatment process to a temperature higher than the Ac3 transformation point to perform austenite transformation, and then cooling to induce martensite transformation. After the steel material has been heated to a temperature higher than the Ac3 transformation point in at least one process from out of the first heat treatment process or the second heat treatment process, molding is completed at a temperature higher than an Ar3 transformation point.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for manufacturing a quenched molding, the method comprising:
a first processing comprising heating a blanked steel material to a first heat treatment temperature, the first heat treatment temperature being in a range of from an Ac3 transformation point+70° C. to the Ac3 transformation point+170° C., to perform austenite transformation, wherein the Ac3 transformation point is a temperature defined by Equation (1), and then cooling to induce martensite transformation or bainite transformation, wherein the blanked steel material has a chemical composition comprising, in mass %, C: from 0.3% to 0.8%, Si: from 0.001% to 2.0%, Mn: from 0.5% to 3.0%, P: not greater than 0.05%, S: not greater than 0.01%, sol. Al: from 0.001% to 1.0%, N: not greater than 0.01%, and B: not greater than 0.01%, and a remainder comprising Fe and impurities;
a second processing comprising heating the steel material that has undergone the first processing to a second heat treatment temperature, the second heat treatment temperature being in a range of from the Ac3 transformation point+20° C. to the Ac3 transformation point+100° C., to perform austenite transformation, and then cooling to induce martensite transformation, wherein a heating time from reaching said second heat treatment temperature until an end of heating in said second processing is 400 seconds or shorter; and
after the steel material has been heated to a temperature higher than the Ac3 transformation point in at least one of the first processing or the second processing, completing molding at a temperature higher than a Ar3 transformation point,
wherein:

Equation (1):
Ac3(° C.)=910−203×√C (mass %)+44.7×Si (mass %)−30×Mn (mass %)−11×Cr (mass %)+700×S (mass %)+400×Al (mass %)+50×Ti (mass %)

a rate of temperature increase in the first processing, defined as a rate of temperature increase until reaching the first heat treatment temperature, is at least 20° C./second; and
a rate of temperature increase in the second processing, defined as a rate of temperature increase until reaching the second heat treatment temperature, is at least 20° C./second.

2. The method for manufacturing a quenched molding of claim 1 , wherein a heating time from reaching the first heat treatment temperature in the first processing until an end of heating in the first processing is 400 seconds or shorter.

3. The method for manufacturing a quenched molding of claim 1 , wherein steel material processed in the first processing has a volume fraction of a martensite phase and a bainite phase of no greater than 90%.

4. The method for manufacturing a quenched molding of claim 1 , wherein a molding obtained after the second heating and cooling has a martensite structure volume fraction of at least 50%.

5. The method for manufacturing a quenched molding of claim 1 , wherein the cooling of the first processing is performed with the steel material in a clamped state in a mold.

6. The method for manufacturing a quenched molding of claim 1 , wherein the cooling of the second processing step is performed with the steel material in a clamped state in a mold.

Assignees

• Nippon Steel Corp

Inventors

• Nakazawa Yoshiaki
• Tabata Shinichiro
• Hikida Kazuo
• Suzuki Toshiya
• Koga Atsuo
• Hamada Koichi

Classifications

• C21D8/04

  to produce plates or strips for drawing, e.g. for deep-drawing · CPC title

• B21D22/20 Primary

  Deep-drawing (special deep-drawing arrangements in, or in connection with, presses B21D24/00) · CPC title

• C21D1/18 Primary

  Hardening (C21D1/02 takes precedence); Quenching with or without subsequent tempering (quenching devices C21D1/62) · CPC title

• C21D2211/002

  Bainite · CPC title

• C21D9/48

  deep-drawing sheets · CPC title