A method of manufacturing a stator is provided. The method may include stamping a fully-processed steel into a set of laminations having hardened outer edge areas. The method may further include flash annealing the laminations to concentrate thermal energy in the inner and outer edge areas relative to central areas of the laminations to drive a hardness of the inner and outer edge areas toward a hardness of the central areas to relieve residual stress and decrease iron loss of the laminations.

A method for manufacturing a thin strip component, including a processing step of processing an amorphous thin strip member into a dimension shape larger than a target shape, and a heat treating step of heat treating and contracting the amorphous thin strip member processed in the processing step to form the amorphous thin strip member into a thin strip component of the target shape. A thin strip component which is a magnetic laminate in which a plurality of plate-shaped thin strip component members of the same shape are laminated, and has a recess over an entire side surface of the magnetic laminate is used. A motor including the thin strip component, a plurality of coils disposed on the thin strip component, and a rotor disposed between the plurality of coils is used.

A method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: heating a slab, based on 100 wt % of a total composition thereof, including N at 0.0005 wt % to 0.015 wt %, Ti at 0.0001 wt % to 0.020 wt %, V at 0.0001 wt % to 0.020 wt %, Nb at 0.0001 wt % to 0.020 wt %, B at 0.0001 wt % to 0.020 wt %, and the remaining portion including Fe and other impurities, and then hot rolling it to prepare a hot-rolled steel sheet; annealing the hot-rolled steel sheet; after the hot-rolled steel sheet is annealed, cooling the hot-rolled steel sheet, and then cold rolling it to prepare a cold-rolled steel sheet; decarburization-annealing the cold-rolled steel sheet and then nitriding-annealing it, or simultaneously performing the decarburization-annealing and the nitriding-annealing; and final-annealing the decarburization-annealed and nitriding-annealed steel sheet.

A soft magnetic alloy is provided. The alloy consists essentially of 5 wt %Co25 wt %, 0.3 wt %V5.0 wt %, 0 wt %Cr3.0 wt %, 0 wt %Si3.0 wt %, 0 wt %Mn3.0 wt %, 0 wt %Al3.0 wt %, 0 wt %Ta0.5 wt %, 0 wt %Ni0.5 wt %, 0 wt %Mo0.5 wt %, 0 wt %Cu0.2 wt %, 0 wt %Nb0.25 wt % and up to 0.2 wt % impurities.

The present invention relates to a non-oriented electrical steel sheet including 1.5 to 4.0 wt % of Si, 0.1 to 1.5 wt % of Al, 0.1 to 1.5 wt % of Mn, 0.005 wt % or less (excluding 0%) of C, 0.005 wt % or less (excluding 0%) of N, 0.005 wt % or less (excluding 0%) of Ti, 0.001 to 0.005 wt % of S, 0.1 wt % or less (excluding 0%) of P, 0.02 to 0.2 wt % of at least one of Sn and Sb, and a balance of Fe and other inevitable impurities; and satisfying the following Formulas 1, 2, and 3.

0.9 [Al]+[Mn]2.1 [Formula 1]

0.2([Si]+[Al]+[Mn]/2)*([P]+[Sn]+[Sb])0.4 [Formula 2]

(Gs.sub.centerGs.sub.surface)/(Gs.sub.center*t)0.5 [Formula 3]

(In Formula 1 and Formula 2, [Al], [Mn], [Si], [P], [Sn], and [Sb] represent the content (weight %) of Al, Mn, Si, P, Sn, and Sb, respectively, and

in Formula 3, t represents the thickness (mm) of the non-oriented electrical steel sheet, Gs.sub.surface represents the average grain size (m) from 0 to t/4 or 3t/4 to t based on the thickness direction of the non-oriented steel sheet, Gs.sub.center represents the average grain size (m) from more than t/4 to less than 3t/4 based on the thickness direction of the non-oriented steel sheet.)

This device scans a high-energy beam in a direction traversing a feed path of a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having subjected to final annealing so as to irradiate a surface of the steel sheet being passed through with the high-energy beam to thereby perform magnetic domain refinement, the device including an irradiation mechanism for scanning the high-energy beam in a direction orthogonal to the feed direction of the steel sheet, in which the irradiation mechanism has a function of having the scanning direction of the high-energy beam oriented diagonally, relative to the orthogonal direction, toward the feed direction at an angle determined based on a sheet passing speed of the steel sheet on the feed path.

A non oriented electrical steel sheet includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %, 1.0% or more and 5.0% or less of Si, wherein a sheet thickness is 0.10 mm or more and 0.35 mm or less, an average grain size is 30 m or more and 200 m or less, an X1 value defined by X1=(2B.sub.50L+B.sub.50C)/(3I.sub.S) is less than 0.845, an E1 value defined by E1=E.sub.L/E.sub.C is 0.930 or more, and an iron loss W.sub.10/1k is 80 W/kg or less.

An apparatus and a method for rapidly heating cold-rolled strip steel (10). The apparatus for rapidly heating cold-rolled strip steel (10) comprises a heating zone, a soaking zone, and a cooling zone, and the heating zone is sequentially divided into a first heating section (1), a second heating section (2), a third heating section (3), and a fourth heating section (4) along a moving direction of the strip steel (10) to be heated, the first heating section (1) and the fourth heating section (4) being radiant heating sections, and the second heating section (2) and the third heating section (3) being inductive heating sections. The method for rapidly heating cold-rolled strip steel (10) uses the apparatus for rapidly heating cold-rolled strip steel (10) to heat the strip steel (10).

Further lower iron loss can be achieved in a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including: a predetermined film mainly composed of forsterite on a front and back surfaces thereof; and a plurality of grooves on the front surface thereof, in which the plurality of grooves have an average depth of 6% or more of a thickness of the steel sheet and are spaced a distance of 1 mm to 15 mm from respective adjacent grooves, the steel sheet has a specific magnetic permeability r.sub.15/50 of 35000 or more when subjected to alternating current magnetization at a frequency of 50 Hz and a maximum magnetic flux density of 1.5 T, and the steel sheet includes isolated parts having a presence frequency of 0.3/m or less, the isolated parts being separated from a continuous part of the film in an interface between the steel sheet and the film in a cross section orthogonal to the rolling direction of the steel sheet.

This device scans a high-energy beam in a direction traversing a feed path of a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having subjected to final annealing so as to irradiate a surface of the steel sheet being passed through with the high-energy beam to thereby perform magnetic domain refinement, the device including an irradiation mechanism for scanning the high-energy beam in a direction orthogonal to the feed direction of the steel sheet, in which the irradiation mechanism has a function of having the scanning direction of the high-energy beam oriented diagonally, relative to the orthogonal direction, toward the feed direction at an angle determined based on a sheet passing speed of the steel sheet on the feed path.