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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 1993
Filed:
Oct. 22, 1992
Katsuro Kuroki, Kitakyushu, JP;
Yasunari Yoshitomi, Kitakyushu, JP;
Hiroaki Masui, Kitakyushu, JP;
Tsutomu Haratani, Kitakyushu, JP;
Nippon Steel Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention discloses a process for producing a grain-oriented electrical steel strip having a high magnetic flux density. The process comprises hot-rolling a steel ingot comprising basic ingredients and, added thereto, 0.02 to 0.15% of Sn at a temperature of 1200.degree. C. or below, annealing the hot-rolled strip, cold-rolling the annealed strip with a final rolling reduction of 80% or more and subjecting the cold-rolled strip to decarburization annealing, a nitriding treatment and finish annealing, wherein the temperature, T.degree.C., of annealing of the hot-rolled strip is set so as to fall within the range 1240-2.1.times.Al.sub.R <T<1310-1.8.times.Al.sub.R (wherein Al.sub.R =acid soluble [Al]-27/14.times.[N]) and the strip is soaked for 180 sec or less, maintained at a temperature in the range of from 800.degree. to 950.degree. C. for 30 to 300 sec and then quenched. The grain-oriented electrical steel strip thus produced is not influenced by the variation in the [Al] and [N]. According to the present invention, a grain-oriented electrical steel strip having a very high magnetic density can be stably prepared through the establishment of a proper relationship between the Al and N ingredients and conditions for annealing of a steel strip before final cold rolling and the growth of a primary recrystallized grain to optimize the annealing conditions and the practice of a nitriding treatment after decarburization annealing.