Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Process for producing an aluminum alloy sheet for motor vehicle
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Application No.: US14584317Application Date: 2014-12-29
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Publication No.: US09695495B2Publication Date: 2017-07-04
- Inventor: Pizhi Zhao , Toshiya Anami , Kazumitsu Mizushima , Akira Goto , Hitoshi Kazama , Kunihiro Yasunaga
- Applicant: NIPPON LIGHT METAL CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: NIPPON LIGHT METAL CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: NIPPON LIGHT METAL CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agency: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti, P.C.
- Main IPC: B22D11/06
- IPC: B22D11/06 ; C22F1/047 ; B22D11/124 ; C22C21/06 ; C22F1/04 ; C22C21/08 ; B21B1/22 ; B21B3/00 ; B21B27/00

Abstract:
An aluminum alloy sheet for motor vehicles is produced by casting a melt, containing 3.0-3.5 mass % Mg, 0.05-0.3 mass % Fe, 0.05-0.15 mass % Si, and less than 0.1 mass % Mn, a balance substantially being inevitable impurities and Al, into a slab having a thickness of 5 to 15 mm in a twin-belt caster so that cooling rate at ¼ depth of thickness of the slab is 20 to 200° C./sec; winding the cast thin slab into a coiled thin slab subjected to cold rolling with a roll having a surface roughness of 0.2 to 0.7 μm Ra at a cold rolling reduction of 50 to 98%; subjecting the cold rolled sheet to final annealing either continuously in a CAL at a holding temperature of 400 to 520° C. within 5 minutes or in a batch annealing furnace at a holding temperature of 300 to 400° C. for 1 to 8 hours; and subjecting the resulting sheet to straightening with a leveler.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150114523A1 PROCESS FOR PRODUCING AN ALUMINUM ALLOY SHEET FOR MOTOR VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2015-04-30
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