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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2015
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Kawata, Kisarazu, JP;
Takeshi Yasui, Cikarang, ID;
Kohei Ueda, Chiba, JP;
Naoki Maruyama, Kimitsu, JP;
Yuji Yamaguchi, Kimitsu, JP;
Satoshi Uchida, Kisarazu, JP;
Ryosuke Komami, Kimitsu, JP;
Hayato Arai, Nuevo Leon, MX;
Toyomitsu Nakamura, Kisarazu, JP;
NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having a base steel sheet and a hot-dip galvanized layer, a ferrite phase is, by volume fraction, 50% or less in a range of ⅛ thickness to ⅜ thickness centered at a position of ¼ thickness from the surface of the base steel sheet, a hard structure is 50% or more, wherein the hot-dip galvanized steel sheet has the hot-dip galvanized layer in which Fe is 5.0% or less and Al is 1.0% or less, and columnar grains formed of a ζ phase is 20% or more in an entire interface between the plated layer and the base steel sheet. On the surface of the base steel sheet, a volume fraction of a residual austenite is 3% or less.