Press-formed product and method for producing same

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9315876
APP PUB NO 20130180635A1
SERIAL NO

13876832

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There is provided a useful method for producing a press-formed product without causing disadvantages such as hardness variation, which product has favorable formability in a level so as to be able to be produced by deep drawing, and which method is carried out by heating a thin steel sheet to a temperature not lower than an Ac3 transformation point thereof; and then cooling the thin steel sheet at a rate not lower than a critical cooling rate, during which the thin steel sheet is formed into the press-formed product, wherein the forming is started from a temperature higher than a martensitic transformation start temperature Ms thereof, the cooling rate is kept to be 10° C./sec. or higher during the forming, and the forming is finished in a temperature range not higher than the martensitic transformation start temperature Ms.

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KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL LTD )KOBE-SHI HYOGO 651-8585

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Ikeda, Shushi Nagoya, JP 44 550
Naitou, Junya Kobe, JP 36 177
Okita, Keisuke Kobe, JP 46 530

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