Method of manufacturing tailor welded blanks

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9873929-B2
Application number	US-201514660199-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 17, 2015
Priority date	Nov 21, 2014
Publication date	Jan 23, 2018
Grant date	Jan 23, 2018

Abstract

A method of manufacturing tailor welded blanks may be capable of improving a quality of a welded portion and shortening a manufacturing time when a tailor welded blank is manufactured using a coated steel plate. The method of manufacturing tailor welded blanks includes welding one or more pairs of different coated steel plates having different thicknesses or strengths with laser using a filler wire.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of manufacturing tailor welded blanks, comprising welding one or more pairs of different coated steel plates having different thicknesses or strengths with laser using a filler wire,
wherein each of the coated steel plate comprises a steel plate and a Al—Si coating layer, where the steel plate comprises 0.19 to 0.25 wt % of C, 0.20 to 0.40 wt % of Si, 1.10 to 1.60 wt % of Mn, 0.03 wt % or less of P, 0.015 wt % or less of S, 0.10 to 0.60 wt % of Cr, 0.0008 to 0.0050 wt % of B, Fe, and other inevitable impurities, and
wherein the filler wire comprises 0.6 to 0.9 wt % of C, 0.3 to 0.9 wt % of Mn, 1.6 to 3.0 wt % of Ni as austenite stabilization elements through which a welded portion is transformed to have a full austenite structure at a temperature of 900 to 950° C., when a coated layer of each of the coated steel plate is mixed into the welded portion.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the filler wire further comprises Fe and other inevitable impurities.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the coated steel plate comprises an Al—Si coated layer.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising forming a laser-welded tailor welded blank by hot stamping using the filler wire and then quenching the same at a quenching rate of 40° C./s or more, so as to transform a welded portion structure into a martensite structure.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim So Youn

Classifications

• B23K26/322

  involving coated metal parts (using absorbing layers on the workpiece B23K26/18) · CPC title

• C21D9/505

  Cooling thereof · CPC title

• C22C38/04 Primary

  containing manganese · CPC title

• C21D9/525

  for wire, for rods (C21D9/54 takes precedence) · CPC title

• C21D10/00

  Modifying the physical properties by methods other than heat treatment or deformation · CPC title