METHOD FOR PRODUCING GRAIN-ORIENTED ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET

• Main Authors: OKUMURA, Shunsuke, IMAI, Takeshi
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.03.2022
• Subjects: ALLOYS; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUSMETALS OR ALLOYS; INDUCTANCES; MAGNETS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE BY DECARBURISATION, TEMPERING OR OTHERTREATMENTS; METALLURGY; METALLURGY OF IRON; MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; TRANSFORMERS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS

A method for producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet which has an intermediate layer containing silicon oxide as a main component on a surface of a base steel sheet in which a forsterite film is substantially absent and has an insulation coating on a surface of the intermediate layer includes: a decarburization annealing process of obtaining a decarburization-annealed steel sheet which has the oxygen content or 320 ppm or less and the carbon content of 25 ppm or less by subjecting a cold rolled steel sheet containing Si to decarburization annealing; a final annealing process of heating the decarburization-annealed steel sheet in a state in which a surface of the decarburization-annealed steel sheet is coated with an annealing separator to subject a steel sheet to secondary recrystallization; a removal process of obtaining a finally-annealed steel sheet by removing the annealing separator on the steel sheet which has been subjected to the final annealing process; an intermediate layer forming process of forming the intermediate layer by subjecting the finally-annealed steel sheet to thermal oxidation annealing; and an insulation coating forming process of forming the insulation coating on the finally-annealed steel sheet having the intermediate layer formed thereon.