Stainless steel sheet and methods for manufacturing the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12305247-B2
Application number	US-202118272625-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 9, 2021
Priority date	Jan 29, 2021
Publication date	May 20, 2025
Grant date	May 20, 2025

Abstract

A stainless steel sheet has a surface quality in which a core height Sk is 1.50 μm or less, a reduced peak height Spk is 0.20 μm or less, and an areal material ratio Smr2 that separates a reduced dale from a core is 80% or less, where the core height Sk, the reduced peak height Spk, and the areal material ratio Smr2 are as specified in JIS B 0681-2:2018. The stainless steel sheet has a whiteness of 50 or greater and an image clarity of 1% or greater.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A stainless steel sheet comprising a surface quality in which
a core height Sk is 1.50 μm or less,
a reduced peak height Spk is 0.20 μm or less, and
an areal material ratio Smr2 that separates a reduced dale from a core is 80% or less, where the core height Sk, the reduced peak height Spk, and the areal material ratio Smr2 are as specified in JIS B 0681-2:2018, wherein
the stainless steel sheet has a whiteness of 50 or greater and an image clarity of 1% or greater.

2. A method for manufacturing the stainless steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the stainless steel sheet is an austenitic stainless steel sheet or a ferritic-austenitic duplex stainless steel sheet, the method comprising:
a material steel sheet providing step including providing a cold-rolled annealed steel sheet that serves as a material;
a roughening step including polishing the cold rolled annealed steel sheet to produce a cold-rolled, annealed, polished steel sheet; and
a flattening step including subjecting the cold-rolled, annealed, polished steel sheet to skin-pass rolling to produce a cold-rolled, annealed, polished, skin-pass-finished steel sheet, wherein
in the roughening step, the cold-rolled annealed steel sheet is subjected to a polishing treatment in which a surface roughness Sa of the cold-rolled annealed steel sheet is adjusted to be 0.20 μm or greater and 2.00 μm or less, and
in the flattening step, the cold-rolled, annealed, polished steel sheet is subjected to skin-pass rolling that is performed at an elongation ratio of 0.10% or greater and 3.00% or less by using a skin-pass roll having a surface roughness Sa of 0.06 μm or less.

3. A method for manufacturing the stainless steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the stainless steel sheet is a ferritic stainless steel sheet or a martensitic stainless steel sheet, the method comprising:
a material steel sheet providing step including providing a cold-rolled steel sheet that serves as a material;
a roughening step including heat-treating the cold-rolled steel sheet to form a cold-rolled annealed steel sheet and then pickling the cold rolled annealed steel sheet to produce a cold-rolled, annealed, pickled steel sheet; and
a flattening step including subjecting the cold-rolled, annealed, pickled steel sheet to skin-pass rolling to produce a cold-rolled, annealed, pickled, skin-pass-finished steel sheet, wherein
in the roughening step, the cold-rolled steel sheet is subjected to a heat treatment in which the cold-rolled steel sheet is held in a temperature range of 750° C. or greater and 850° C. or less for 3 hours or more and 10 hours or less, to form a cold-rolled annealed steel sheet, and subsequently, the cold-rolled annealed steel sheet is subjected to pickling in which the cold-rolled annealed steel sheet is immersed in an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid having a concentration of 15 mass % or greater and 30 mass % or less and having a temperature of 75° C. or greater and 95° C. or less, for 30 seconds or more and 240 seconds or less and
in the flattening step, the cold-rolled, annealed, pickled steel sheet is subjected to skin-pass rolling that is performed at an elongation ratio of 0.10% or greater and 3.00% or less by using a skin-pass roll having a surface roughness Sa of 0.06 μm or less.

Assignees

• Jfe Steel Corp

Inventors

• Nishida Shuji
• Ta Ayako

Classifications

• C22C38/60

  containing lead, selenium, tellurium, or antimony, or more than 0.04% by weight of sulfur · CPC title

• C21D9/46

  for sheet metals · CPC title

• C21D8/0278

  involving a particular surface treatment  (C21D8/0294 takes precedence) · CPC title

• C21D8/0242

  Flattening; Dressing; Flexing · CPC title

• B21B1/22 Primary

  for rolling {plates, strips,} bands or sheets of indefinite length (B21B1/42 takes precedence) · CPC title