High-performance thermoformed component provided with coating, and manufacturing method therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12163203-B2
Application number	US-202017780620-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 27, 2020
Priority date	Nov 29, 2019
Publication date	Dec 10, 2024
Grant date	Dec 10, 2024

Abstract

A high-performance thermoformed component provided with a coating, and a manufacturing method therefor. The thermoformed component comprises a substrate and a coating thereon. The substrate comprises the following ingredients in percentage by weight: 0.01-0.8% of C, 0.05-1.0% of Si, 0.1-5% of Mn, 0.001-0.3% of P, 0.001-0.1% of S, 0.001-0.3% of Al, 0.001-0.5% of Ti, 0.0005-0.1% of B, 0.001-0.5% of Nb, 0.001-0.5% of V, and the remainder being Fe and other unavoidable impurities. The appearance of the thermoformed component has no color difference and no mottling. The surface oxygen content of the thermoformed component is 0.1-20 wt. %, and the ratio of the standard deviation to the average value of the surface oxygen content satisfies: 0<standard deviation of oxygen content/average value of oxygen content ≤0.3. In the manufacturing method, a coated steel plate that has undergone heat treatment, transfer processing, and hot stamping is not treated with oil.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A coated thermoformed component having excellent performances, comprising a substrate and a coating layer thereon, wherein the substrate comprises a composition by weight percentage of: C: 0.01-0.8%, Si: 0.05-1.0%, Mn: 0.1-5%, P: 0.001-0.3%, S: 0.001-0.1%, Al: 0.001-0.3%, Ti: 0.001-0.5%, B: 0.0005-0.1%, optionally Cr: 0.15-0.75%, optionally Nb: 0.001-0.5%, optionally V: 0.001-0.5%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities; wherein the thermoformed component has an appearance with no color difference and no mottle; wherein the thermoformed component has an oxygen content of 0.1-20 wt. % in its surface, wherein a ratio of a standard deviation to an average oxygen content in the surface satisfies: 0<standard deviation of oxygen content/average oxygen content≤0.3.

2. The coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 1 , wherein the substrate comprises a composition by weight percentage of: C: 0.01-0.8%, Si: 0.05-1.0%, Mn: 0.1-5%, P: 0.001-0.3%, S: 0.001-0.1%, Al: 0.001-0.3%, Ti: 0.001-0.5%, B: 0.0005-0.1%, Nb: 0.001-0.5%, V: 0.001-0.5%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities.

3. The coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 1 , wherein the substrate comprises a composition by weight percentage of: C: 0.01-0.8%, Si: 0.05-1.0%, Mn: 0.1-5%, P: 0.001-0.3%, S: 0.001-0.1%, Al: 0.001-0.3%, Ti: 0.001-0.5%, B: 0.0005-0.1%, Cr: 0.15-0.75%, optionally Nb: 0.001-0.5%, optionally V: 0.001-0.5%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities.

4. The coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 1 , wherein the composition of the substrate comprises at least one, any two, or all three of Cr, Nb, and V.

5. The coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 1 , wherein Nb+V has a combined content of ≤0.40%.

6. The coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 1 , wherein P has a content of 0.01-0.10%, and S has a content of 0.001-0.05%.

7. The coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 1 , wherein Nb has a content of 0.001-0.40%, and V has a content of 0.001-0.40%.

8. The coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 1 , wherein the thermoformed component has a yield strength of 400-1600 MPa, a tensile strength of 500-2300 MPa, and an elongation of ≥4%.

9. A method for manufacturing the coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 1 , wherein the method comprises steps as follows:
1) Al—Si plating: placing a strip steel in a plating bath for aluminum-silicon plating to obtain a plated steel sheet, wherein the plated steel sheet has a surface C, H or O content of ≤50 mg/m 2 , a plating layer weight of 30-120 g/m 2 on one side, and a ratio of a standard deviation of the plating layer weight to an average plating layer weight satisfies: 0<standard deviation of plating layer weight/average plating layer weight≤0.3;
2) Blanking: processing the plated steel sheet, directly or after cold-rolling, into a blank in a shape required by a component by punching or laser cutting;
3) Heat treating the blank: placing the blank into a heating furnace for heating and soaking, wherein the heating furnace has a temperature of 680-970° C.; the atmosphere in the heating furnace is natural air with no additional gas supplied; a dew point in the furnace is lower than 5° C.; and a total residence time of the blank in the heating furnace is 1.5-13 minutes;
4) Blank transfer: transferring the heated blank into a mold quickly for stamping, wherein a transfer time is less than 10 seconds;
5) Hot stamping the blank: cooling and stamping the heated blank.

10. The method for manufacturing the coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 9 , wherein in step 3), the heating furnace includes two temperature zones comprising a low temperature zone of 680-870° C. and a high temperature zone of 880-970° C., wherein a residence time of the blank in the low temperature zone is 0.5-3 minutes, and a residence time in the high temperature zone is 1-10 minutes.

11. The method for manufacturing the coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 9 , wherein in step 5), the hot stamping of the blank starts at a temperature of not lower than 600° C.

12. The method for manufacturing the coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 9 , wherein in the stamping process of step 5), quenching while holding pressure is continued for 4-20 s after the mold is clamped, wherein an average pressure applied to the component for pressure holding needs to be greater than 8 MPa on the surface of the component.

13. The method for manufacturing the coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 9 , wherein in step 5), the heated blank is cooled between 800° C. and 400° C. at a cooling rate of greater than 30° C./s, preferably, greater than 60° C./s.

14. The method for manufacturing the coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 9 , wherein after the stamping in step 5), the thermoformed component is removed from the mold after the mold has a surface temperature that is lower than 150° C.

15. The method for manufacturing the coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 9 , wherein no oiling treatment is performed on the plated steel sheet subjected to the heat treatment, transfer and hot stamping of the blank.

16. The method for manufacturing the coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 11 , wherein in step 5), the hot stamping of the blank starts at a temperature of 630-800° C.

17. The method for manufacturing the coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 13 , wherein the heated blank is cooled between 800° C. and 400° C. at a cooling rate of greater than 60° C./s.

18. The method for manufacturing the coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 9 , wherein the substrate of the coated thermoformed component comprises a composition by weight percentage of: C: 0.01-0.8%, Si: 0.05-1.0%, Mn: 0.1-5%, P: 0.001-0.3%, S: 0.001-0.1%, Al: 0.001-0.3%, Ti: 0.001-0.5%, B: 0.0005-0.1%, Nb: 0.001-0.5%, V: 0.001-0.5%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities; or the substrate of the coated thermoformed component comprises a composition by weight percentage of: C: 0.01-0.8%, Si: 0.05-1.0%, Mn: 0.1-5%, P: 0.001-0.3%, S: 0.001-0.1%, Al: 0.001-0.3%, Ti: 0.001-0.5%, B: 0.0005-0.1%, Cr: 0.15-0.75%, optionally Nb: 0.001-0.5%, optionally V: 0.001-0.5%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities.

19. The method for manufacturing the coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 18 , wherein Nb+V has a combined content of ≤0.40%.

20. The method for manufacturing the coated thermoformed component having excellent performances according to claim 18 , wherein the thermoformed component has a yield strength of 400-1600 MPa, a tensile strength of 500-2300 MPa, and an elongation of ≥4%.

Assignees

• Baoshan Iron & Steel

Inventors

• Tan Ning
• Liu Junxiang
• Huang Caigen
• Jiang Lei
• Wang Chao

Classifications

• C21D8/02

  during manufacturing of plates or strips (C21D8/12 takes precedence) · CPC title

• C23C2/29

  Cooling or quenching · CPC title

• C23C2/28

  Thermal after-treatment, e.g. treatment in oil bath · CPC title

• C23C2/26

  After-treatment (C23C2/14 takes precedence) · CPC title

• C23C2/40

  Plates; Strips · CPC title