EP0431167A1 - Methode pour produire un materiau doux en acier magnetique - Google Patents

Methode pour produire un materiau doux en acier magnetique Download PDF

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EP0431167A1
EP0431167A1 EP90900339A EP90900339A EP0431167A1 EP 0431167 A1 EP0431167 A1 EP 0431167A1 EP 90900339 A EP90900339 A EP 90900339A EP 90900339 A EP90900339 A EP 90900339A EP 0431167 A1 EP0431167 A1 EP 0431167A1
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Toshimichi Omori
Haruo Suzuki
Tetsuya Sanpei
Yasunobu Kunisada
Toshio Takano
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21D—MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING
    • C21D8/00—Modifying the physical properties by deformation combined with, or followed by, heat treatment
    • C21D8/12—Modifying the physical properties by deformation combined with, or followed by, heat treatment during manufacturing of articles with special electromagnetic properties
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21D—MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING
    • C21D8/00—Modifying the physical properties by deformation combined with, or followed by, heat treatment
    • C21D8/12—Modifying the physical properties by deformation combined with, or followed by, heat treatment during manufacturing of articles with special electromagnetic properties
    • C21D8/1216—Modifying the physical properties by deformation combined with, or followed by, heat treatment during manufacturing of articles with special electromagnetic properties the working step(s) being of interest
    • C21D8/1222—Hot rolling
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
    • C22C—ALLOYS
    • C22C38/00—Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys
    • C22C38/06—Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing aluminium
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21D—MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING
    • C21D8/00—Modifying the physical properties by deformation combined with, or followed by, heat treatment
    • C21D8/12—Modifying the physical properties by deformation combined with, or followed by, heat treatment during manufacturing of articles with special electromagnetic properties
    • C21D8/1244—Modifying the physical properties by deformation combined with, or followed by, heat treatment during manufacturing of articles with special electromagnetic properties the heat treatment(s) being of interest
    • C21D8/1272—Final recrystallisation annealing

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  • the present invention relates to a method of producing soft magnetic ferrous materials, for instance, used as elecromagnetic cores or magnetic shielding materials where good DC magnetization properties are required.
  • Soft irons or pure irons, permalloy or supermalloy have been used as DC electromagnetic iron cores, or magnetic shielding materials or medical appliances, physical machinery, electronic parts or appliances, which have recently been remarkable especially in their demand development.
  • a magnetic flux density at 1 Oe (called as “B1 value” hereinafter) of the soft iron or the pure iron is about 3000 to 11000 G. It has been used as the magnetic shielding materials or MRI (tomogram diagnosis apparatus by a nuclear magnetic resonance) or those shielding uo to a level around several gausses of magnetic flux, or as electromagnetic iron core materials.
  • the annealing at high temperatures brings about removal of lattice strain and the coarsening of the ferrite grains.
  • the improvement of the magnetic permeability of solute Al itself may be also considered, but by synergestic effects thereof, very excellent permeability may be provided;
  • the invention is set forth as follows.
  • C is preferable to be as low as possible for securing an excellent magnetic permeability as well as N, but an utmost decrease is difficult in industrial production since it causes an extreme cost-up.
  • an upper limit of C is 0.004 wt%.
  • Si contributes to the improvement of the magnetic permeability, but the present invention aims at satisfying the magnetic permeability by the Al addition. Rather, an upper limit is 0.5 wt%, preferably 0.1 wt%, paying attentions to a lowering of a saturated magnetization by much addition of Si.
  • Mn deteriorates the DC magnetization property
  • lower content is desirable, but an extreme lowering causes the cost-up and the increase of N content.
  • this element also suppress a hot brittleness by fixing S. It may be contained 0.5 wt%, preferably 0.15 wt%, as an upper limit within a range that the Mn/S ratio is not lower than 10.
  • P and S are impurities, and their lower contents are preferable, if not costing up, and their upper limits are 0.015 wt% and 0.1 wt%.
  • Al is, as said above, the most important element of this invention. That is, Al brings about the fixing of the solute N, the coarsening of AlN, and the raising of the transformation temperature, and as results, thereby expands a ferrite phase region, so that this element enables annealing at high temperatures, thereby to accomplish the coarsening of the ferrite grains and the decerasing of the internal strain. Furthermore, it is assumed that solute Al itself improves the magnetic permeability. Thus, in the present invention, this element must be added for providing the excellent DC magnetization property. Such effects of Al may be obtained by adding not lower than 0.5 wt% in a value of sol.Al. On the other hand, it is undesirable to add exceedingly 2 wt%, because the saturated magnetization is lowered. Al addition is determined to be 0.5 to 2 wt% in the value of sol.Al.
  • N dissolves into the lattice, and creates the lattice strain to deteriorate the DC magnetization properties. It is desirable that N is as low as possible for not producing Al precipitates. This consideration is to make the added Al exist as useful solute Al, and N content should be not more than 0.005 wt%.
  • Ti can be added as required, which is a strong nitride former. This is added for decreasing the above said harms of N without controlling a severe upper limit of the N content which may cause a cost-up, and in this case the upper limit of N is 0.012 wt%.
  • C+N is not more than 0.007 wt%, while in a case of Ti addition, C+N is not more than 0.014 wt%.
  • Oxygen similarly to Mn, deteriorates the DC magnetization properties, and especially gives detrimental influences to the magnetic permeability by generating non metallic inclusions.
  • oxygen When preparing a molten steel, oxygen must be enough decreased, and an upper limit is specified to be 0.005 wt%.
  • Ti is the strong nitride former as said above. If adding it 0.005 to 1.0 wt%, it is possible to avoid considerable damages of the DC magnetization property by a fixing solute N even in such materials where N content is not fully decreased, that is, cheap materials. If the N content is relatively low, the generating amount of nitride are low, and the DC magnetization property may be expected to be improved more or less, accordingly. The Ti addition of more than the upper limit deteriorates the DC magnetization property.
  • the present invention employs ordinary hot working conditions for hot rollings, and heats the steel pieces or cast pieces of the above mentioned chemical compositions at the temperatures of not lower than 700°C but not higher than 1300°C for the hot working.
  • a lower limit of the work ending temperature is determined to be 700°C, since cost-ups always depend upon increase of deformation resistance at the hot working in accompany with rollings at low temperature range as well as lengthening of time to be taken for the hot working, and rollings at extreme low temperatures possibly cause grain refining by recrystallization during the annealing.
  • An annealing to be finally performed should be practiced within a range not falling to a transformation temperature, which is decided mainly by the amount of Al addition, and unless practicing at the temperature of at least 900°C, preferably not lower than 1000°C, it is not possible to accomplish much excellent DC magnetization property to be intended by the invention.
  • the inventive steel is rendered to be a ferrite single phase, and it is therefore possible to carry out the annealing at very high temperatures of not lower than 1100°C, but since the annealing at temperature ranges exceeding 1300°C is difficult and it gives rise to the cost-up, the annealing temperatures are determined to be 900 to 1300°C, preferably 1000 to 1300°C.
  • the holding times of the annealing are varied in dependence upon the heat capacity of the material, and it is desirable to hold not less than 30 minutes.
  • a slow cooling is desirable. If an attention is paid so that a uniform cooling may be provided, the thermal srtain is difficult to be introduced, and in such a case, the slow cooling is not always required.
  • the annealing temperature is especially limited with the chemical composition and under the producing conditions specified in the invention, it is possible to produce ferrous materials of high saturated magnetization and B 0.5 value, that is, excellent soft magnetic properties at the DC magnetic field.
  • the present invention also includes a case where a hot direct rolling is employed for the hot rolling.
  • the ferrous materials to be produced by the invention includes both of hot worked materials and cold worked materials (including a warm working).
  • the final annealing is therefore irrespective of a case after the hot working or a case after the hot working - cold working.
  • the invention of course includes such case of performing the intermediate annealing on the half way of the hot working or the cold working, or a case of performing each of the above workings in the several steps.
  • the steels at which the invention aims include plates, sheets, bar, wire materials (shape steels), forged materials, etc.
  • Table 1 shows chemical compositions of steels used in the invention and comparative examples.
  • Steels A to E were formed into sheets with thicknesses of 1 to 5 mm by hot rolling at 1200°C from ingots having thickness of 110 mm after melted, wherein steels A to C fall within the inventive chemical composition, and Steels D, E, F and G are comparative.
  • Table 1 shows transformation point when the temperatures were elevated up to 1300°C at heating rate of 0.5°C/s. The measures of the transformation point tell that the inventive steels have ferrite single phases.
  • Table 2 shows the DC magnetization properties of the inventive steels and the comparative steels, wherein the annealings were carried out on test pieces obtained from the center parts of the thickness of the hot rolled steels, having an outer diameter of 45 mm, an inner diameter of 33 mm and a thickness of 6 mm for measuring the DC magnetization permeability and the ferrite grain sizes.
  • the annealings herein corresponds to the final annealing defined in the invention.
  • the heating - holding time was set to be 1 to 3 hours, and the cooling rate was set to be a slow cooling of about 100°C/hr.
  • Table 2 shows Examples in accordance with the invention where No. 1 carried out the annealing at 1100°C on Steel A.
  • the annealing at the high temperature is possible without introducing transformation strain and grains refining by the transformation.
  • Considerable coarsening of not less than 2 mm in the ferrite grain sizes was accomplished by the annealing at the high temperature as 1100°C, and concurrently the lattice strain was removed, so that very excellent properties of B 0.5 value being around 13000 G and the maximum magnetic permeability exceeding 60000 were obtained.
  • No. 2 is an Example where the annealing at 1000°C was done on Steel A where the annealing temperature was lower than that of No.1, although the ferrite grain sizes were smaller than those of No.1 as around 0.5 to 1.0 mm, the properties were good as the maximum magnetic permeability being 23900.
  • Nos.3 and 4 are Examples of Steels B and C.
  • the ferrite single phases were made by the Al additions, and in each of them, it was possible to perform the annealings at the high temperatures exceeding 1000°C.
  • the excellent properties were available as the maximum magnetic permeability being 56000 in No.3, and 37200 in No.4.
  • Nos.5, 6 and 7 are comparative Examples of Steels D, E and F. These Steels correspond to industrial pure irons, and are out of the inventive chemical composition. As shown in Nos.5 and 6, the remarkable coarsening of the ferrite grains could not be expected in spite of the annealing at not lower than 1000°C. Further, the strain was introduced during transformation from an austenite to a ferrite, and desired properties were not therefore imparted. No.7 shows results when the annealing temperature was lower than the transformation point, and so good properties were not provided.
  • Table 3 shows both chemical compositions of the inventive Examples and the comparative Examples.
  • Steels I to U steel ingots of 110 mm thickness were made from melts, and the ingots were hot rolled to 15 mm thickness by heating 1200°C.
  • Steels I to S, W to Y, Z and b to d fall within the inventive chemical composition, while Steels T, U, V and a are comparative steels.
  • Table 4 shows results of the DC magnetization properties measured and the ferrite grain sizes of the inventive steels and the comparative steels. In the annealings of the present Example, the heating - holding times were 1 to 3 hours, and the cooling rates were around 100°C/hr to 500°C/hr.
  • Nos.23 to 26 observed influences of the sol.Al content
  • No.28 influences of the C content
  • Nos.29 to 31 observed influences of the Si content.
  • Nos.14 to 16 added Ti. Also herein, the ferrite single phase were made by the Al addition, and further N was fixed by the Ti addition. Nos.14 to 16 show desirable properties. No.15 is a special example where Ti was added to a steel equivalent to No.22 in accordance with the invention, and N was sufficiently fixed by Ti addition so that a great improvement was observed in comparison with the comparative example of No.22.
  • No.21 is a comparative example where Ti was added more than the specified range of the invention, and the DC magnetization property is remarkably deteriorated.
  • No.22 is a comparative example where N addition was high and Ti was not added. Since a precipitation of AlN was stable, the ferrite grains were not fully coarsened in spite of the annealing, and a solute N content was high so that satisfied properties could not be realized.
  • Nos.17 and 18 are examples where Steels P and Q were annealed at 1000°C.
  • Each of Nos.10 to 18, Nos.24 to 26, No.27 and Nos.29 to 31 not only can accomplish the excellent DC magnetization property where the coercive force is not more than 0.4 Oe and the B 0.5 value is not less than 10000 G and by far satisfy the properties specified in JIS C 2504 SUYPO but also may be applied to as the magnetic shielding material for presenting magnetic field circumstances of a magnetic field level below the earth magnetism.
  • Nos.19 and 20 investigated influences of Ti in relation with the N content and the C+N content, and the both had N > 0.005 wt% and C+N > 0.007 wt%, but No.20 obtained a desired properties due to Ti addition.
  • Each of the inventive examples show the desirous DC magnetization property, and has coarse ferrite grain of not less than 0.5 mm.
  • the soft magnetic ferrous materials according to the invention have the excellent DC magnetization properties and may be easily magnetized even in weak magnetic fields, and those are useful as iron core materials of high functions or magnetic shielding material of high function.
  • the present invention may be applied to production of soft magnetic materials, for example, electromagnetic cores of magnetic shielding materials which require high DC magnetization properties.

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Cette invention concerne une méthode qui permet de produire sans gaspillage un matériau en acier magnétique ayant une haute perméabilité. La méthode de cette invention consiste à travailler à chaud un larget coulé en fer ou acier à base de fer pur comme composant principal et 0.5 ~ 2.0 % de Sol. Al et si nécessaire 0.005 ~ 1.0 % de Ti à une température de chauffe prédéterminée et à une température de finition, pour arriver à un recuit à 900 ~ 1,300°C et de préférence à 1,000 ~ 1,300°C, pour obtenir un matériau en acier magnétique ayant une force coercitive allant jusqu'à 0,4 Oe et une densité de flux d'induction magnétique d'au moins 10,000 G à 0,5 Oe.
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