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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 12043877 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2024

Filed:

Aug. 06, 2021

Steel sheet

Applicant:

Nippon Steel Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Katsuya Nakano, Tokyo, JP;

Yuji Sakiyama, Tokyo, JP;

Takashi Yasutomi, Tokyo, JP;

Yoshiaki Honda, Tokyo, JP;

Masahiro Nakata, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Katherine A Christy

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22C 38/00 (2006.01); C21D 3/04 (2006.01); C21D 6/00 (2006.01); C21D 8/02 (2006.01); C21D 9/46 (2006.01); C22C 38/02 (2006.01); C22C 38/04 (2006.01); C22C 38/06 (2006.01); C22C 38/08 (2006.01); C22C 38/10 (2006.01); C22C 38/12 (2006.01); C22C 38/14 (2006.01); C22C 38/16 (2006.01); C22C 38/18 (2006.01); C22C 38/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C21D 9/46 (2013.01); C21D 3/04 (2013.01); C21D 6/005 (2013.01); C21D 6/008 (2013.01); C21D 8/0205 (2013.01); C21D 8/0226 (2013.01); C21D 8/0236 (2013.01); C21D 8/0257 (2013.01); C22C 38/001 (2013.01); C22C 38/002 (2013.01); C22C 38/005 (2013.01); C22C 38/008 (2013.01); C22C 38/02 (2013.01); C22C 38/04 (2013.01); C22C 38/06 (2013.01); C22C 38/08 (2013.01); C22C 38/10 (2013.01); C22C 38/12 (2013.01); C22C 38/14 (2013.01); C22C 38/16 (2013.01); C22C 38/18 (2013.01); C22C 38/60 (2013.01);
Abstract

A steel sheet includes a sheet thickness center part and a first surface layer softened part and a second surface layer softened part respectively arranged at two sides of the sheet thickness center part, wherein the first surface layer softened part and second surface layer softened part have 10 μm or more average thicknesses and have average Vickers hardnesses of 0.90 times or less of the average Vickers hardness of a sheet thickness ½ position, and the first surface layer softened part has an average Vickers hardness of 1.05 times or more the average Vickers hardness of the second surface layer softened part.

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