US 11,441,215 B2 · Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet and method for producing grain-oriented electrical steel sheet

Abstract

A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a base steel sheet including, as a chemical composition, by mass %, C: 0.010% or less, Si: 2.50% to 4.00%, Mn: 0.050% to 1.000%, S+Se: 0.005% or less in total, Sol. Al: 0.005% or less, N: 0.005% or less, Bi+Te+Pb: 0% to 0.0300% in total, Sb: 0% to 0.50%, Sn: 0% to 0.50%, Cr: 0% to 0.50%, Cu: 0% to 1.0%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities; and a tension-applying insulation coating provided on a surface of the base steel sheet, in which, on the surface of the base steel sheet, an arithmetic average roughness Ra along a rolling 90° direction that is a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction is 0.60 μm or less, and when a cross section of the base steel sheet is observed along the rolling 90° direction, recessed parts having a depth of 0.1 μm or more and 2.0 μm or less are present on the surface of the base steel sheet in 1.0/100 μm or more and 6.0/100 μm or less.

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A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising:

a base steel sheet including, as a chemical composition, by mass %,
C:
0.010% or less,
Si:
2.50% to 4.00%,
Mn:
0.050% to 1.000%,
S+Se:
0.005% or less in total,
Sol. Al:
0.005% or less,
N:
0.005% or less,
Bi+Te+Pb:
0.0005% to 0.0300% in total,
Sb:
0% to 0.50%,
Sn:
0% to 0.50%,
Cr:
0% to 0.50%,
Cu:
0% to 1.0%, and
a remainder of Fe and impurities;
and
a tension-applying insulation coating provided on a surface of the base steel sheet,
wherein, on the surface of the base steel sheet, an arithmetic average roughness Ra along a rolling 90° direction, said rolling 90° direction being a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction is 0.60 μm or less, and
a cross section of the base steel sheet is observed along the rolling 90° direction, recessed parts having a depth of 0.1 μm or more and 2.0 μm or less are present on the surface of the base steel sheet in 1.0/100 μm or more and 6.0/100 μm or less.

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A method for producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, comprising:

a hot rolling step of heating a steel piece and thereafter hot-rolling the steel piece to obtain a hot-rolled steel sheet, the steel piece including, by mass %, C:
0.020% to 0.100%, Si:
2.50% to 4.00%, Mn:
0.050% to 1.000%, S+Se:
0.005% to 0.080% in total, Sol. Al:
0.010% to 0.070%, N:
0.005% to 0.020%, Bi+Te+Pb:
0.0005% to 0.0300% in total, Sb:
0% to 0.50%, Sn:
0% to 0.50%, Cr:
0% to 0.50%, Cu:
0% to 1.0%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities;
a hot-rolled sheet annealing step of optionally annealing the hot-rolled steel sheet to obtain a hot-rolled and annealed steel sheet;
a cold rolling step of performing one cold rolling or a plurality of cold rollings with intermediate annealing therebetween on the obtained hot-rolled steel sheet or hot-rolled and the annealed steel sheet, to obtain a cold-rolled steel sheet;
a decarburization annealing step of performing decarburization annealing on the cold-rolled steel sheet to obtain a decarburization-annealed steel sheet;
a final annealing step of applying an annealing separator to the decarburization-annealed steel sheet and thereafter performing final annealing;
a surface processing step of performing surface processing by wet blasting under conditions satisfying the following Formula (1) on an entire surface of the steel sheet after the final annealing step in a sheet width direction;
and
an insulation coating forming step of forming a tension-applying insulation coating on the surface of the steel sheet after the surface processing step,
wherein the annealing separator contains MgO and Al2O3 as primary components in a mass ratio MgO:Al2O3 between the MgO and the Al2O3 in a range of 3:7 to 7:3, and contains 0.5 to 15 mass % of bismuth chloride,
0.15≤(S×c×ρ/(6×v×W)≤3.00 Formula (1)
where, in the Formula (1),
S:
a flow rate (L/min) of a slurry used for the wet blasting
c:
a concentration (vol %) of an abrasive used for the wet blasting
ρ:
a density (kg/m3) of the abrasive used for the wet blasting
v:
a relative speed (mm/sec) between a nozzle from which the slurry is discharged and the steel sheet
W:
a width (mm) of the nozzle from which the slurry is discharged.

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Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet and method for producing grain-oriented electrical steel sheet

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