Abstract:
This device scans a high-energy beam in a direction traversing a feed path of a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having subjected to final annealing so as to irradiate a surface of the steel sheet being passed through with the high-energy beam to thereby perform magnetic domain refinement, the device including an irradiation mechanism for scanning the high-energy beam in a direction orthogonal to the feed direction of the steel sheet, in which the irradiation mechanism has a function of having the scanning direction of the high-energy beam oriented diagonally, relative to the orthogonal direction, toward the feed direction at an angle determined based on a sheet passing speed of the steel sheet on the feed path.
Abstract:
A grain oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a grain oriented electrical steel sheet having a surface and a forsterite film formed on the surface of the steel sheet, wherein a total area percentage of defective parts scattered on the forsterite film is less than 1.5% relative to a surface area of the forsterite film when viewed from above the surface, and methods for evaluating a grain oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a grain oriented electrical steel sheet having a surface and a forsterite film formed on the surface of the steel sheet.
Abstract:
An excellent low noise property and excellent low iron loss property are obtained. A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes refined magnetic domains formed by electron beam irradiation. When the maximum magnetic flux density is 1.7 T, the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet has a residual magnetic flux density of 0.1 to 0.7 times the residual magnetic flux density before the electron beam irradiation and a maximum magnetizing force of 1.1 to 2.0 times the maximum magnetizing force before the electron beam irradiation.
Abstract:
A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is subjected to magnetic domain refining treatment by irradiating a steel sheet surface with an electron beam having a beam diameter d of 0.40 mm or less, wherein a modulated irradiation line region is formed with repeating units connected to each other in the line region direction, a periodic distance of the repeating units in the modulated irradiation line region is ⅔×d mm to 2.5×d mm, a repeating interval of the modulated irradiation line region in the rolling direction is 4.0 mm to 12.5 mm, and intensity of the electron beam is not lower than an intensity with which long and narrow divided magnetic domains extending in the modulated irradiation line region direction are formed at least on an irradiated side, and not higher than an intensity with which coating damage does not occur and a plastic strain region is not formed on the irradiated side.
Abstract:
Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet with good film adhesion. Among the elements present at grain boundaries between ceramic particles contained in a base film of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, either or both of S and Se elements are contained in a range of 0.02 at % to 2.00 at %.
Abstract:
The method includes slab-heating a steel slab to a temperature of higher than a γ-phase precipitation temperature and 1380° C. or lower, subjecting the steel slab to rough rolling including at least two passes of rolling at a predetermined temperature with an introduced sheet thickness true strain εt of 0.50 or more and to finish rolling with a rolling finish temperature of 900° C. or higher to obtain a hot-rolled sheet, cooling the sheet for 1 second or longer at a cooling rate of 70° C./s or higher within 2 seconds after finish rolling, coiling the sheet at a coiling temperature of 600° C. or lower, performing hot-rolled sheet annealing for soaking at a predetermined soaking temperature, and then performing cold rolling, primary recrystallization annealing, and secondary recrystallization annealing.
Abstract:
A grain oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a grain oriented electrical steel sheet having a surface and a forsterite film formed on the surface of the steel sheet, wherein a total area percentage of defective parts scattered on the forsterite film is less than 1.5% relative to a surface area of the forsterite film when viewed from above the surface, and methods for evaluating a grain oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a grain oriented electrical steel sheet having a surface and a forsterite film formed on the surface of the steel sheet.
Abstract:
To reduce variations in iron loss among materials subjected to magnetic domain refining by electron beam irradiation and to stably obtain good iron loss properties, disclosed is a method of producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including performing magnetic domain refining treatment by irradiating with an electron beam, in a pressure reduced area, a surface of a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet after subjection to final annealing, the method further including: before the irradiating with the electron beam, delivering the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet wound in a coil shape and heating the delivered grain-oriented electrical steel sheet to 50° C. or higher; and then cooling the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet such that the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet has a temperature of lower than 50° C. at the time of entering the pressure reduced area.
Abstract:
A single roll type apparatus manufactures a metal thin strip by injecting a molten metal onto a cooling roll outer peripheral face solidifying it to manufacture the strip. An airflow blocking device for blocking the airflow along the cooling roll surface is at a molten metal injection nozzle upstream side for injecting the molten metal in the cooling roll rotation direction, and a carbon dioxide gas injection nozzle for forming a carbon dioxide flow on the cooling roll outer peripheral surface between the airflow blocking device and molten metal injection nozzle or forming a carbon dioxide atmosphere on the cooling roll surface between the airflow blocking device and the molten metal injection nozzle is disposed, and a foreign material removal device for removing foreign material attached to the cooling roll surface is disposed at an upstream side of the airflow blocking device in the rotation direction of the cooling roll.
Abstract:
A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet subjected to magnetic domain refining by linearly introducing strains in a direction intersecting a rolling direction of the steel sheet repeatedly with intervals in the rolling direction, wherein if a repeating interval of the strains in the rolling direction is d (mm) and, when the steel sheet is placed on a flat surface, a mean value of difference between a height from the flat surface in linear strain-introduced areas of a steel sheet surface and a height from the flat surface in intermediate points between adjacent linear strain-introduced areas is h (mm), then the ratio h/d of the h to the d is 0.0025 or more and 0.015 or less.