Arcelormittal Inactive USPTO patents

A pre-coated steel substrate coated with optionally, an anticorrosion coating and a pre-coating including at least one titanate and at least one nanoparticle, the steel substrate having a reflectance higher or equal to 60% at wavelengths between 6.0 and 15.0 μm.

A steel sheet made of a steel having a chemical composition containing in weight %: 0.13%≤C≤0.22%, 1.2%≤Si≤1.8%, 1.8%≤Mn≤2.2%, 0.10%≤Mo≤0.20%, Nb≤0.05%, Ti≤0.05%, Al≤0.5%, a remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities.

A cold rolled martensitic steel sheet including the following elements, 0.3%≤C≤0.4%; 0.5% ≤Mn≤1%; 0.2%≤Si≤0.6%; 0.1%≤Cr≤1%; 0.01%≤Al≤1%; 0.01%≤Mo≤0.5%; 0.001%≤Ti≤0.1%; 0%≤S≤0.09%; 0%≤P≤0.09%; 0%≤N≤0.09%; 0%≤Nb≤0.1%; 0%≤V≤0.1%; 0%≤Ni≤1%; 0%≤Cu≤1%; 0%≤B≤0.05%; 0.001%≤Ca≤0.01%; 0%≤Sn≤0.1%; 0%≤Pb≤0.1%; 0%≤Sb≤0.1%; the remainder composition being composed of iron and unavoidable impurities caused by processing, the microstructure of steel, by area percentage, at least 95% of martensite, a cumulated amount of ferrite and bainite between 1% and 5%, and an optional amount of residual austenite between 0% and 2%.

A steel sheet with a metallic coating is provided.

A method for the fabrication of a hot rolled steel includes providing a liquid metal comprising a certain chemical composition; carrying out a vacuum or SiCa treatment, the chemical composition including, expressed by weight 0.0005%≤Ca≤0.005%, if a SiCA treatment is carried out; dissolving quantities of Ti and N in the liquid metal so as to satisfy (% [Ti])×(% [N])<6.10−4%2; casting the steel to obtain a cast semi-finished product; rolling the cast semi-finished product with an end-of-rolling temperature between 880° C. and 930° C., a reduction rate of the penultimate pass being less than 0.25, and a start-of-rolling temperature of the penultimate pass being less than 960° C. to obtain a hot-rolled product, then cooling the hot rolled product at a rate between 20 and 150° C./s to obtain a hot rolled steel sheet; and coiling the hot rolled product to obtain a hot rolled steel sheet.

A method for fabricating a substrate provided with a plurality of layers, includes: providing a steel substrate with an oxide layer including metal oxides on the steel substrate; providing a metal coating layer directly on the oxide layer, the metal coating layer including: at least 8% by weight nickel; at least 10% by weight chromium; and a remainder being iron and impurities from a fabrication process; and providing an anti-corrosion coating layer directly on the metal coating layer.

A cold-rolled and heat-treated steel sheet, having a composition comprising, by weight percent: 0.10%≤C≤0.40%, 3.5%≤Mn≤8.0%, 0.5%≤Si≤2.5%, 0.003%≤Al≤3.0%, with Si+Al≥0.8%, 0.001%≤Mo≤0.5%, S≤0.010%, P≤0.020%, N≤0.008%, and optionally one or more elements selected from amongst Cr, Ti, Nb, V and B, such that: 0.01%≤Cr≤2.0%, 0.010%≤Ti≤0.080%, 0.010%≤Nb≤0.080%, 0.010%≤V≤0.30%, 0.0005%≤B≤0.003%, A remainder of the composition being iron and unavoidable impurities resulting from the smelting.

An equipment for the continuous hot dip-coating of a metallic strip comprising: an annealing furnace, a tank containing a liquid metal bath, a snout connecting the annealing furnace and said bath, through which the metallic strip runs in a protective atmosphere and the lower part of said snout, the snout tip, is at least partly immersed in the liquid metal bath in order to define with the surface of the bath, and inside this snout, a liquid seal, a moveable support system, on at least one tank side, comprising connecting means, an overflow connected to said moveable support system through said connecting means, comprising at least one vat and at a least one pump.

A method for controlling, on a metallic coated coil being wound, the coating thickness homogeneity, the method including the following steps of A) measuring a first distance between a first reference point and a first point on the coil surface; B) measuring a second distance between a second reference point and a second point on the coil surface the first and second points on the coil being situated at different spots along the coil width; C) computing a difference between the first distance and the second distance, the difference is noted Δ12true; D) saving the difference Δ12true defining a threshold value, comparing each saved difference Δ12true to said threshold value and/or comparing a sum of differences Δ12true to the threshold value, emitting an alert when the difference Δ12true and/or the sum of differences Δ12true is higher than the threshold value.

A side sill part (6) for an automotive vehicle comprises an outer sill member (10) and an inner sill member (12), and defining between them an outer volume (47).

A method for manufacturing a steel product, comprising the steps of: providing a heated steel starting product at a temperature comprised between 380° C. and 700° C., having a metastable fully austenitic structure, with a composition comprising, in percent by weight: 0.15%≤C≤0.40%, 1.5%≤Mn≤4.0%, 0.5%≤Si≤2.5%, 0.005%≤Al≤1.5%, with 0.8%≤Si+Al≤2.5%, S≤0.05%, P≤0.1%, at least one element chosen among Cr and Mo, such that: 0%≤Cr≤4.0%, 0%≤Mo≤0.5%, and 2.7%≤Mn+Cr+3 Mo≤5.7%, and optionally one or several elements chosen among: Nb≤0.1%, Ti≤0.1%, Ni≤3.0%, 0.0005%≤B≤0.005%, 0.0005%≤Ca≤0.005%, the balance of the composition consisting of iron and unavoidable impurities resulting from the smelting; subjecting said starting product to a hot forming step at a temperature comprised between 700° C. and 380° C., with a cumulated strain εb between 0.1 and 0.7, in at least one location of said heated steel starting product, to obtain a fully austenitic hot-formed steel product; then quenching the hot-formed steel product by cooling it down, at a cooling rate VR2 superior to the critical martensitic cooling rate, to a quenching temperature QT lower than Ms in order to obtain a structure containing between 40% and 90% of martensite, the rest of the structure being austenite; then maintaining at, or reheating the product up to a holding temperature PT between QT and 470° C. and holding it at said temperature PT for a duration Pt between 5 s and 600 s.

A steel sheet has a composition comprising, by weight: 0.010%≤C≤0.080%, 0.06%≤Mn≤3%, Si≤1.5%, 0.005%≤Al≤1.5%, S≤0.030%, P≤0.040%, Ti and B such that: 3.2%≤Ti≤7.5% and (0.45×Ti) −1.35≤B≤(0.45×Ti) −0.43, optionally Ni≤1%, Mo≤1%, Cr≤3%, Nb≤0.1%, V≤0.1%, the remainder being iron and unavoidable impurities resulting from the smelting.

A cold-rolled and heat-treated steel sheet, having a composition including, by weight percent: 0.10%≤C≤0.40%, 3.5%≤Mn≤8.0%, 0.5%≤Si≤2.5%, 0.003%≤Al≤3.0%, with Si+Al≥0.8%, 0.001%≤Mo≤0.5%, S≤0.010%, P≤0.020%, N≤0.008%, and optionally one or more elements selected from a group comprising Cr, Ti, Nb, V and B, such that: 0.01%≤Cr≤2.0%, 0.010%≤Ti≤0.080%, 0.010%≤Nb≤0.080%, 0.010%≤V≤0.30%, 0.0005%≤B≤0.003%, the remainder of the composition being iron and unavoidable impurities resulting from the smelting.

A welded steel part with a very high mechanical strength is provided.

A steel sheet has a composition comprising, by weight: 0.010%≤C≤0.080%, 0.06%≤Mn≤3%, Si≤1.5%, 0.005%≤Al≤1.5%, S≤0.030%, P≤0.040%, Ti and B such that: 3.2%≤Ti≤7.5% and (0.45×Ti)−1.35≤B≤(0.45×Ti)−0.43, optionally Ni≤1%, Mo≤1%, Cr≤3%, Nb≤0.1%, V≤0.1%, the remainder being iron and unavoidable impurities resulting from the smelting.

A cold rolled and coated steel sheet having a composition including of the following elements, expressed in percentage by weight: 0.140%≤Carbon≤0.2%, 1.5%≤Manganese≤2.15%, 0.5%≤Silicon≤0.8%, 0.4%≤Aluminum≤0.8%, 0%≤Phosphorus≤0.09%, 0%≤Sulfur≤0.09%, 0%≤Nitrogen≤0.09%, 0.01%≤Niobium≤0.1%, 0.01%≤Titanium≤0.1%, and can contain one or more of the following optional elements 0%≤Chromium≤0.1%, 0%≤Nickel≤0%, 0%≤Calcium≤0.005%, 0%≤Copper≤2%, 0%≤Molybdenum≤0.5%, 0%≤Vanadium≤0.1%, 0%≤Boron≤0.003%, 0%≤Cerium≤0.1%, 0%≤Magnesium≤0.010%, 0%≤Zirconium≤0.010% the remainder composition being composed of iron and unavoidable impurities caused by processing, the microstructure of the steel sheet including in area fraction, 40 to 60% Inter-critical Ferrite, 25 to 45% Transformed Ferrite, 8% to 20% and 5% to 20% Fresh Martensite, 0 to 10% Bainite, wherein the cumulated amount of Inter-critical and Transformed Ferrite is between 75% and 85%.

Method for producing a steel part comprising providing a semi-finished product made of a steel comprising, by weight: 0.35%≤C≤0.60%; 0.15%≤Si≤0.5%; 0.8%≤Mn≤2.0%; 0.0003%≤B≤0.01%; 0.003%≤Mo≤1.0%; 1.0%≤Cr≤2.0%; 0.01%≤Ti≤0.04%; 0.003%≤N≤0.01%; S≤0.015%; P≤0.015%; 0.01%≤Ni≤1.0%; 0.01%≤Nb≤0.1%; optionally 0≤Al≤0.1%; 0≤V≤0.5%; and the remainder consisting of iron and unavoidable impurities.

A method for the manufacture of a TWIP steel is provided including: (A) feeding of a slab comprising by weight: 0.5<C<1.2%, 13.0≤Mn<25.0%, S≤0.030%, P≤0.080%, N≤0.1%, Si≤3.0%, 0.051%≤Al≤4.0%, 0.1≤V≤2.5%, and on a purely optional basis, one or more of Nb≤0.5%, B≤0.005%, Cr≤1.0%, Mo≤0.40%, Ni≤1.0%, Cu≤5.0%, Ti≤0.5%, 0.06≤Sn≤0.2%, the remainder of the composition being made of iron and inevitable impurities resulting from the elaboration, (B) reheating the slab and hot rolling the slab to provide a hot rolled slab, (C) coiling the hot rolled slab to provide a coiled slab, (D) first cold-rolling the coiled slab to provide a first cold rolled slab, (E) recrystallization annealing the first cold rolled slab such that an annealed steel sheet having an UTSannealed is obtained and (F) second cold-rolling the annealed steel sheet with a reduction rate CR % that satisfies the following equation A: 1216.472−0.98795*UTSannealed≤(−0.0008*UTSannealed+1.0124)*CR %2+(0.0371*UTSannealed−29.583)*CR %.