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(11) EP 0 390 142 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
30.09.1992 Bulletin 1992/40

(43) Date of publication A2:
03.10.1990 Bulletin 1990/40

(21) Application number: 90106018.6

(22) Date of filing: 29.03.1990
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5C21D 8/12
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB IT SE

(30) Priority: 30.03.1989 JP 79991/89
30.03.1989 JP 79992/89

(71) Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100 (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • Ushigami, Yoshiyuki, c/o Nippon Steel Co. R & D
    Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka (JP)
  • Nakayama, Tadashi, c/o Nippon Steel Co. R & D
    Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka (JP)
  • Takahasi, Nobuyuki, c/o Nippon Steel Co. R & D
    Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka (JP)

(74) Representative: VOSSIUS & PARTNER 
Postfach 86 07 67
81634 München
81634 München (DE)


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    (54) Process for producing grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having high magnetic flux density


    (57) A process for producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a high magnetic flux density, comprising the steps of: heating a steel slab comprising 1.8 to 4.8 wt% Si, 0.012 to 0.050 wt% acid-­soluble Al, 0.010 wt% or less N, and the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities, to a temperature for hot rolling; hot-rolling the heated slab to form a hot-rolled strip; cold-rolling the hot-rolled strip to a final product sheet thickness at a final cold rolling reduction of 80% or more by a single step of cold rolling or by two or more steps of cold rolling with an intermediate annealing step inserted therebetween; primary-recrystallization-annealing the cold-rolled strip; final-annealing the primary-­recrystallization-annealed strip so that secondary-­recrystallized grains substantially completely grow up in a temperature region of from 1000 to 1100°C and then purification is effected above 1100°C; and subjecting the primary-recrystallization-annealed steel strip to a nitriding treatment before a secondary recrystallization occurs during the final annealing.







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