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Hot-pressed member

Granted 4 Mar 2014 · 6 office actions

Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation

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Inventors: Seiji Nakajima, Shinji Ootsuka, Hiroyuki Masuoka, Hiroki Nakamaru +1 · Examiner: Michael La Villa · AU 1784 · TC 1700

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Abstract

A hot-pressed member includes a steel sheet, a Ni-diffusion region present in a surface layer of the steel sheet, and an intermetallic compound layer and a ZnO layer which are provided in order on the Ni-diffusion region, the intermetallic compound layer corresponding to a γ phase present in a phase equilibrium diagram of a Zn—Ni alloy, wherein a spontaneous immersion potential indicated in a 0.5 M NaCl aqueous air-saturated solution at 25° C.±5° C. is −600 to −360 mV based on a standard hydrogen electrode.

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11 codes
IPC · International Patent Classification
Section B — Performing operations; transporting
  • B32B15/04
  • B32B15/18
USPC · US Patent Classification
428/632428/659428/633428/629428/684428/679428/336428/614428/680

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Michael La Villa
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related publicationUS 20120321903 A120 Dec 2012

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