Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Motors Corporation

Moon Ki Bae

Seung Hyun Hong

Min Woo Kang

Soon Woo Kwon

Sung Chul Cha

A continuous annealing apparatus includes: a pre-treatment device to prepare a strip unwound from a coil; a heating device to heat the strip prepared by the pre-treatment device; a heat holding device to isothermally maintain the strip heated by the heating device; a first cooling device to cool the strip heat-maintained by the heat holding device; an annealing device including a first annealing device for annealing the strip, which, is cooled by the first cooling device, for a first time, and a second annealing device for winding the strip, which is cooled by the first cooling device, into a coil and then unwinding the coil into the strip again after annealing for a second time; a second cooling device to cool the strip annealed by the first annealing device or the second annealing device; and a post-treatment device to wind the strip cooled by the second cooling device into the coil.

Continuous annealing apparatus

Disclosed is a steel composition for hot stamping that comprises carbon (C) in an amount of about 0.22 to about 0.25 wt %, silicon (Si) in an amount of about 0.2 to about 0.3 wt %, manganese (Mn) in an amount of about 1.2 to about 1.4 wt %, titanium (Ti) in an amount of about 0.02 to about 0.05 wt %, chromium (Cr) in an amount of about 0.11 to about 0.2 wt %, boron (B) in an amount of about 0.005 to about 0.01 wt %, zinc (Zr) in an amount of about 0.005 to about 0.02 wt %, niobium (Nb) in an amount of about 0.01 to about 0.05 wt %, tungsten (W) in an amount of about 0.1 to about 0.5 wt %, iron (Fe) constituting the remaining balance of the steel composition, all the wt % based on the total amount of the steel composition.

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Daegu, South Korea

Moon Ki Bae