Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, finish annealing-use steel sheet, annealing separator, method for manufacturing grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, and method for manufacturing finish annealing-use steel sheet

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022081743-A1
Application number	US-202017421338-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 8, 2020
Priority date	Jan 8, 2019
Publication date	Mar 17, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic properties and adhesion of a primary coating to a base steel sheet and with few defects where the base metal is exposed in point defects and a method for manufacturing grain-oriented electrical steel sheet are provided. This is characterized by being provided with a base steel sheet and a primary coating. The primary coating satisfies (1) Number density D3 of Al concentrated regions: 0.015 to 0.150/μm2, (2) (Area S5 of regions comprised of anchoring oxide layer regions and Al concentrated regions)/(area S3 of Al concentrated regions)≥0.30, (3) Distance H5 of mean value of heights in thickness direction of regions of comprised of anchoring oxide layer regions and Al concentrated regions minus H0: 0.4 to 4.0 μm, (4) (Perimeter L5 of regions comprised of anchoring oxide layer regions and Al concentrated regions)/(observed area S0): 0.020 to 0.500 μm/μm2, and (5) (Area S1 of anchoring oxide layer regions)/(observed area S0)≥0.15.

First claim

1 . An grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising
a base steel sheet having a chemical composition comprising, by mass %,
C: 0.0050% or less,
Si: 2.5 to 4.5%,
Mn: 0.02 to 0.20%,
one or more elements selected from the group comprised of S and Se: total of 0.005% or less,
sol. Al: 0.010% or less, and
N: 0.010% or less and
having a balance comprised of Fe and impurities and a primary coating formed on a surface of the base steel sheet and comprising Mg 2 SiO 4 as a main constituent, where, uneven-shape information of the surface of the primary coating when designating a direction from the primary coating side toward the base steel sheet in the thickness direction of the base metal steel sheet as positive is laid out projected on a plane parallel to the surface of the steel sheet,
when designating a center value of the surface height of the primary coating as H 0 , the primary coating existing at the base steel sheet side from H 0 +0.2 μm is prescribed as the “anchoring oxide layer region” and the primary coating existing at the primary coating side from H 0 +0.2 μm is prescribed as the “surface oxide layer region”, and,
in a correlation distribution chart of a characteristic X-ray intensity laying out constituent information in the primary coating projected on a plane parallel to the surface of the steel sheet and uneven shape, a maximum value of the characteristic X-ray intensity of Al is identified and a region where a characteristic X-ray intensity of Al is 20% or more of the maximum value of the characteristic X-ray intensity of Al is defined as an “Al concentrated region”,
the primary coating satisfies the conditions of
(1) Number density D 3 of Al concentrated regions: 0.015 to 0.150/μm 2 , (2) (Area S 5 of regions which is anchoring oxide layer regions and is also Al concentrated regions)/(area S 3 of Al concentrated regions)≥0.30, (3) Distance H 5 of mean value of heights in thickness direction of regions, which is anchoring oxide layer regions and is also AL concentrated regions, minus H 0 : 0.4 to 4.0 μm, (4) (Perimeter L 5 of regions which is anchoring oxide layer regions and is also Al concentrated regions)/(observed area S 0 ): 0.020 to 0.500 μm/μm 2 , (5) (Area S 1 of anchoring oxide layer regions)/(observed area S 0 )≥0.15.

2 . The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein
the primary coating comprises one or more elements selected from a group comprising Y, La, and Ce and one or more elements selected from a group comprising Ca, Sr, and Ba, and,
when, in the correlation distribution chart of characteristic X-ray intensity and uneven shape, the maximum values of the characteristic X-ray intensities of Ca, Sr, and Ba are identified and a region where a characteristic X-ray intensity of Ca is 20% or more of the maximum value of the characteristic X-ray intensity of Ca, a region where a characteristic X-ray intensity of Sr is 20% or more of the maximum value of the characteristic X-ray intensity of Sr, and a region where a characteristic X-ray intensity of Ba is 20% or more of the maximum value of the characteristic X-ray intensity of Ba are together defined as “Ca group element concentrated regions”,
the primary coating satisfies the conditions of
(6) Ratio of total content of the one or more elements selected from a group comprising Y, La, and Ce to the content of Mg 2 SiO 4 in the primary coating: 0.1 to 6.0%,
(7) Ratio of total content of the one or more elements selected from a group comprising Ca, Sr, and Ba to the content of Mg 2 SiO 4 in the primary coating: 0.1 to 6.0%,
(8) Number density D 4 of Ca group element concentrated regions: 0.005 to 2.000/μm 2 .

3 . A finish annealing-use steel sheet for manufacturing grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising
a base steel sheet having a chemical composition comprising, by mass %,
C: 0.1% or less,
Si: 2.5 to 4.5%,
Mn: 0.02 to 0.20%,
one or more elements selected from the group comprised of S and Se: total of 0.005 to 0.07%,
sol. Al: 0.005 to 0.050%, and
N: 0.003 to 0.0300% and
having a balance comprised of Fe and impurities and an annealing separator layer deposited on a surface of the base steel sheet and comprising MgO as a main constituent, wherein, when, in the correlation distribution chart of the characteristic X-ray intensity and uneven shape correlation distribution chart laying out information held by the annealing separator layer on a plane parallel to a cross-section in the thickness direction of the base steel sheet, the maximum values of the characteristic X-ray intensities of Ca, Sr, and Ba are identified and a region where a characteristic X-ray intensity of Ca is 20% or more of the maximum value of the characteristic X-ray intensity of Ca, a region where a characteristic X-ray intensity of Sr is 20% or more of the maximum value of the characteristic X-ray intensity of Sr, and a region where a characteristic X-ray intensity of Ba of 20% or more of the maximum value of the characteristic X-ray intensity of Ba is obtained are together defined as “Ca group element concentrated regions”,
the annealing separator layer satisfies
(9) Number density D 42 of particles comprising the one or more elements selected from a group comprising Ca, Sr, and Ba in the Ca group element concentrated regions present in a region of 0 to 3.0 μm from the surface of the base steel sheet: 0.005 to 1.400/μm 3 .

4 . An annealing separator having MgO as a main constituent, which annealing separator comprises one or more elements selected from a group comprising Y, La, and Ce and one or more elements selected from a group comprising Ca, Sr, and Ba,
when defining ratios (%) of contents of Mg, Y, La, Ce, Ca, Sr, and Ba comprised in the annealing separator with respect to the content of the MgO as respectively [Mg], [Y], [La], [Ce], [Ca], [Sr], and [Ba], satisfies (10) (0.00562[Y]+0.00360[La]+0.00714[Ce])/0.0412[Mg]×100(%): 0.20 to 1.60(%) and (11) (0.0249[Ca]+0.0114[Sr]+0.0073[Ba])/0.0412[Mg]×100(%): 0.20 to 1.80(%), and when defining ratios (%) of contents of Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba comprised in the raw material powder of the MgO with respect to the content of the MgO in the MgO raw material powder comprised in the annealing separator as respectively [Mg′], [Ca′], [Sr′], and [Ba′], and satisfies (12) (0.0249[Ca′]+0.0114[Sr′]+0.0073[Ba′])/0.0412[Mg′]×100(%): 0.010 to 0.080(%), furthermore (13) a ratio of (0.0249[Ca′]+0.0114[Sr′]+0.0073[Ba′])/0.0412[Mg′]×100 with respect to (0.0249[Ca]+0.0114[Sr]+0.0073[Ba])/0.0412[Mg]×100 is 0.200 to 0.020, furthermore (14) a mean particle size R 1 of the MgO: 0.1 to 2.8 μm, (15) a mean particle size R 2 of particles comprising the one or more elements selected from a group comprising Ca, Sr, and Ba in the annealing separator: 0.2 to 3.0 μm, and (16) (mean particle size R 2 )/(mean particle size R 1 ): 0.5 to 3.0.

5 . The annealing separator according to claim 4 , further comprising one or more elements selected from a group comprising Ti, Zr, and Hf.

6 . A method for manufacturing grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising
a process for hot rolling a slab comprising, by mass %, C: 0.1% or less, Si: 2.5 to 4.5%, Mn: 0.02 to 0.20%, one or more elements selected from the group comprised of S and Se: total of 0.005 to 0.07%, sol. Al: 0.005 to 0.05%, and N: 0.003 to 0.030% and
having a balance comprised of Fe and impurities
to manufacture hot rolled steel sheet,
a process of cold rolling the hot rolled steel sheet by a cold rolling rate of 80% or more to manufacture cold rolled steel sheet,
a process of decarburization annealing the cold rolled steel sheet to manufacture decarburization annealed sheet,
a process of coating a surface of the decarburization annealed sheet with an aqueous

Assignees

• Nippon Steel Corp

Inventors

• Yamagata Ryutaro
• Morishige Nobusato
• Tanaka Ichiro

Classifications

• C21D8/02

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

• C21D3/04

  Decarburising · CPC title

• C04B2235/5472

  Bimodal, multi-modal or multi-fraction · CPC title

• C04B2235/5463

  Particle size distributions · CPC title

• C04B2235/5445

  submicron sized, i.e. from 0,1 to 1 micron · CPC title