Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Steel/aluminum welded structure
- Patent Title (中): 钢/铝焊接结构
-
Application No.: US10573635Application Date: 2004-09-27
-
Publication No.: US07906220B2Publication Date: 2011-03-15
- Inventor: Yasunori Hattori , Tadaaki Miono , Atsushi Andoh , Tetsu Iwase , Seiji Sasabe
- Applicant: Yasunori Hattori , Tadaaki Miono , Atsushi Andoh , Tetsu Iwase , Seiji Sasabe
- Applicant Address: JP Hyogo
- Assignee: Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hyogo
- Agency: The Webb Law Firm
- Priority: JP2003-336641 20030929
- International Application: PCT/JP2004/014545 WO 20040927
- International Announcement: WO2005/030424 WO 20050407
- Main IPC: B32B7/00
- IPC: B32B7/00 ; B32B15/01 ; B32B15/18 ; B32B15/20

Abstract:
A steel/aluminum welded structure comprises a hot-dip Al-coated steel sheet 1 spot welded with an aluminum or aluminum alloy sheet 2. The steel sheet 1 is coated with a coating layer 4 containing, by mass, 3-12% of Si and 0.5-5% of Fe. An area ratio of an Al—Fe binary alloy layer, formed at the joint boundary, is controlled to 90% or less. An unalloyed region 9 exists between an Al—Fe—Si ternary alloy layer 6 at an interface of a steel substrate 5 with the coating layer 4 interface and the Al—Fe binary alloy layer at the joint boundary. A steel substrate 5 preferably contains 0.002-0.020% of N for formation of a N-enriched surface layer in contact with the coating layer 4. The N-enriched layer impedes propagation of the brittle Al—Fe binary alloy layer to the whole of the joint boundary and raises joint strength of the steel/aluminum welded structure.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070111022A1 Steel/aluminum welded structure Public/Granted day:2007-05-17
Information query