Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet and method for manufacturing same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12424360-B2
Application number	US-202218283423-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 28, 2022
Priority date	Mar 26, 2021
Publication date	Sep 23, 2025
Grant date	Sep 23, 2025

Abstract

This grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition, a glass coating formed on the base steel sheet, and a tension-applied insulation coating formed on the glass coating, on a front surface of the base steel sheet, a plurality of linear strains that extend continuously or intermittently in a direction intersecting with a rolling direction are present, intervals p in the rolling direction of the plurality of linear strains adjacent to each other are 3.0 to 9.0 mm, widths of the linear strains are 10 to 250 μm, and, in an X-ray topographic spectrum in a range of 1.50 mm in the rolling direction that is obtained from an X-ray topographic image of the front surface and includes the linear strain at a center, a full width at half maximum of a peak of the X-ray topographic spectrum including a maximum value of a spectral intensity is 0.02 mm or more and 0.10 mm or less.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising:
a base steel sheet;
a glass coating formed on the base steel sheet; and
a tension-applied insulation coating formed on the glass coating,
wherein the base steel sheet has the chemical composition, by mass %:
C: 0.010% or less,
Si: 3.00% to 4.00%,
Mn: 0.01% to 0.50%,
N: 0.010% or less,
Sol. Al: 0.020% or less,
P: 0.030% or less,
S: 0.010% or less,
Sn: 0% to 0.50%,
Cu: 0% to 0.50%,
Cr: 0% to 0.50%,
Se: 0% to 0.020%,
Sb: 0% to 0.500%,
Mo: 0% to 0.10%, and
a remainder of Fe and impurities,
wherein, on a front surface of the base steel sheet, a plurality of linear strains that extend continuously or intermittently in a direction intersecting with a rolling direction are present,
intervals p in the rolling direction of the plurality of linear strains adjacent to each other are 3.0 to 9.0 mm,
widths of the linear strains are 10 to 250 μm, and
in an X-ray topographic spectrum in a range of 1.50 mm in the rolling direction including the linear strain at a center, that is obtained from an X-ray topographic image of the front surface, a full width at half maximum of a peak of the X-ray topographic spectrum including a maximum value of a spectral intensity is 0.02 mm or more and 0.10 mm or less.

2. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 1 ,
wherein, when a range of 3.0 mm in the rolling direction on the front surface that includes the linear strain at a center is irradiated with an X-ray beam, a minimum value of an X-ray reflection intensity of a (310) plane is denoted by I min , a background intensity is denoted by I 0 , and when a range of 3.0 mm in the rolling direction on a rear surface that includes the linear strain at a center is irradiated with an X-ray beam, a minimum value of an X-ray reflection intensity of an obtained diffraction plane (310) plane is represented by J min , and a background intensity is represented by J 0 , the I min , the I 0 , the J min , and the J 0 satisfy the following expression (2),
0.02≤| J 0 −J min |/|I 0 −I min |≤1.00  (2).

3. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 1 ,
wherein the chemical composition of the base steel sheet contains either or both of Sn: 0.01% to 0.50% and Cu: 0.05% to 0.50%.

4. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 2 ,
wherein the chemical composition of the base steel sheet contains either or both of Sn: 0.01% to 0.50% and Cu: 0.05% to 0.50%.

5. A method for manufacturing the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 1 , the method comprising:
a hot rolling step of heating and then hot-rolling a steel piece having the chemical composition, by mass %, C: 0.010% to 0.200%, Si: 3.00% to 4.00%, Mn: 0.01% to 0.50%, N: 0.020% or less, Sol. Al: 0.010% to 0.040%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.005% to 0.040%, Sn: 0% to 0.50%, Cu: 0% to 0.50%, Bi: 0% to 0.020%, Cr: 0% to 0.50%, Se: 0% to 0.020%, Sb: 0% to 0.500%, Mo: 0% to 0.10%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities to obtain a hot-rolled steel sheet;
a hot-rolled sheet annealing step of performing hot-rolled sheet annealing on the hot-rolled steel sheet;
a cold rolling step of performing cold rolling once or a plurality of times with process annealing therebetween on the hot-rolled steel sheet after the hot-rolled sheet annealing step to obtain a cold-rolled steel sheet;
a decarburization annealing step of performing decarburization annealing on the cold-rolled steel sheet;
a final annealing step of applying and drying an annealing separating agent containing MgO as a main component on front and rear surfaces of the cold-rolled steel sheet after the decarburization annealing step that is a base steel sheet and performing final annealing to form a glass coating;
a coating-forming step of forming a tension-applied insulation coating on the glass coating to obtain a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including the base steel sheet, the glass coating formed on the base steel sheet, and the tension-applied insulation coating formed on the glass coating; and
a magnetic domain segmentation step of irradiating a front surface of the tension-applied insulation coating of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet with an energy ray to apply a plurality of linear strains to the base steel sheet,
wherein, in the magnetic domain segmentation step,
among the plurality of linear strains, intervals in a rolling direction of linear strains adjacent to each other are 3.0 to 9.0 mm,
an energy ray power density Ip in a unit of W/mm 2 that is defined by (P/S) using an energy ray output P in a unit of W and an energy ray irradiation cross-sectional area S in a unit of mm 2 satisfies the following expression (3),
an energy ray input energy Up in a unit of J/mm that is defined by (P/Vs) using the energy ray output P and an energy ray scanning velocity Vs in a unit of mm/sec satisfies the following expression (4),
a beam aspect ratio that is defined by (dl/dc) using a diameter dl in a direction perpendicular to a beam scanning direction and a diameter de in the beam scanning direction of the energy ray in a unit of μm and the dl each satisfy the following expression (5) and the following expression (6), and
in the decarburization annealing step,
a temperature rising rate S1 in a first temperature range of 550° C. to 750° C. is set to 500° C./sec or faster, and
a temperature rising rate S2 in a second temperature range of 750° C. to 800° C. is set to 800° C./sec or faster or a temperature rising rate S2 in the second temperature range is set to 50° C./sec or faster, and an atmospheric dew point in the second temperature range is set to −50° C. to 20° C.,
250≤ Ip≤ 2000  (3)

0.005< Up≤ 0.050  (4)

0.001< dl/dc< 1.000  (5)

10≤ dl< 200  (6).

6. The method for manufacturing the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 5 , the method further comprising:
a nitriding treatment step of performing a nitriding treatment on the cold-rolled steel sheet between the decarburization annealing step and the final annealing step.

7. The method for manufacturing the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 5 ,
wherein the chemical composition of the steel piece contains either or both of Sn: 0.01% to 0.50% and Cu: 0.05% to 0.50%.

8. The method for manufacturing the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 6 ,
wherein the chemical composition of the steel piece contains either or both of Sn: 0.01% to 0.50% and Cu: 0.05% to 0.50%.

Assignees

• Nippon Steel Corp

Inventors

• Kataoka Takashi
• Tanaka Tomohito
• IWAKI Masataka
• Takeda Kazutoshi
• Hamamura Hideyuki

Classifications

• C23D13/00

  After-treatment of the enamelled articles · CPC title

• C23D5/04

  by dry methods · CPC title

• C23D3/00

  Chemical treatment of the metal surfaces prior to coating · CPC title

• C22C2202/02

  Magnetic · CPC title

• C22C38/60

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