A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a groove on a line formed on one surface of an electrical steel sheet in a direction crossing a rolling direction; and a thermal shock portion on a line formed on one surface of the electrical steel sheet in the direction crossing the rolling direction, wherein a distance between the groove and the thermal shock portion is 1 mm or less.

A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present invention includes a silicon steel sheet as a base steel sheet, and when an average value of amplitudes in a wavelength range of 20 to 100 μm among wavelength components obtained by performing Fourier analysis on a measured cross-sectional curve parallel to a sheet width direction of the silicon steel sheet is set as ave-AMP.sub.C100, ave-AMP.sub.C100 is 0.0001 to 0.050 μm.

A non-oriented electrical steel sheet is provided which has a chemical composition that contains, in mass%, C: 0.0050% or less, Si: 0.10 to 1.50%, Mn: 0.10 to 1.50%, sol. Al: 0.0050% or less, N: 0.0030% or less, S: 0.0040% or less, and O: 0.0050 to 0.0200%, and contains one or more elements selected from a group of La, Ce, Zr, Mg and Ca in a total amount of 0.0005 to 0.0200%, with the balance being Fe and impurities. A number density N of suitable oxide particles is 3.0×10.sup.3 to 10×10.sup.3 particles/cm.sup.2, and a number density n of oxide particles containing La and the like satisfies the expression n/N≥0.01.

A method for forming grooves on a surface of a metal strip, having applying a coating agent for etching resist coating formation to a roller; then, irradiating a laser on the roller while scanning the laser in an axial direction of the roller or in a direction inclined to the axial direction to remove a portion of the coating agent for etching resist coating formation irradiated by the laser; then, bringing the roller into contact with at least one side of the metal strip to transfer the coating agent for etching resist coating formation to the at least one side of the metal strip, with an unapplied area corresponding to the removed portion of the coating agent for etching resist coating formation.

In a production of a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet by subjecting a steel slab containing a particular composition and further including an inhibitor-forming ingredient to hot rolling, hot-band annealing, cold rolling, primary recrystallization annealing combined with decarburization annealing and finish annealing, the steel slab satisfies a given relation between a content ratio of sol. Al to N and a final sheet thickness, and, in the finish annealing, the steel sheet is kept at a temperature zone of higher than 850° C. but not higher than 950° C. in heating process for 5 to 200 hours, heated to a temperature zone of 950 to 1050° C. at 5 to 30° C./hr and further subjected to purification treatment of keeping a temperature of not lower than 1100° C. for not less than 2 hours to provide a secondary recrystallization structure that has an average value of a diameter equivalent to a circle of 10 to 100 mm.

A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a base steel sheet including, as a chemical composition, by mass %, C: 0.010% or less, Si: 2.50% to 4.00%, Mn: 0.050% to 1.000%, S+Se: 0.005% or less in total, Sol. Al: 0.005% or less, N: 0.005% or less, Bi+Te+Pb: 0% to 0.0300% in total, Sb: 0% to 0.50%, Sn: 0% to 0.50%, Cr: 0% to 0.50%, Cu: 0% to 1.0%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities; and a tension-applying insulation coating provided on a surface of the base steel sheet, in which, on the surface of the base steel sheet, an arithmetic average roughness Ra along a rolling 90° direction that is a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction is 0.60 μm or less, and when a cross section of the base steel sheet is observed along the rolling 90° direction, recessed parts having a depth of 0.1 μm or more and 2.0 μm or less are present on the surface of the base steel sheet in 1.0/100 μm or more and 6.0/100 μm or less.

A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having linear grooves formed cyclically in a rolling direction of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet such that a longitudinal direction of the linear grooves intersects the rolling direction, in which each of the linear grooves has a discontinuous portion of center lines where center lines of the groove are shifted in a groove width direction, and when a width of the linear groove is defined as a and a distance in the groove width direction between the center lines in the discontinuous portion of center lines is defined as b, a and b satisfy relational expression (1) below.

0.05≤b/a≤0.95  (1)

Provided are a ferritic stainless steel for automotive exhaust systems with improved heat resistance and condensate corrosion resistance and a method for manufacturing the same. The ferritic stainless steel according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a stainless steel base material comprising, in % by weight, C: 0.01% or less, Si: 0.5 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.5% or less, P: 0.035% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Cr: 11 to 18%, N: 0.013% or less, Ti: 0.15 to 0.5%, Sn: 0.03 to 0.5%, and the remainder of Fe and other inevitable impurities, and an Al-plated layer formed on the stainless steel base material, wherein the ferritic stainless steel comprises a plating compound comprising (Al.sub.19FeMnSi.sub.2).sub.5.31 (Aluminum Iron Manganese Silicide) at an interface between the stainless steel base material and the Al-plated layer.

The invention relates to a sheet metal for producing an electromagnetic component, in particular a stator core or a rotor core, wherein the sheet metal is coated with an adhesive covering of a thermally activated adhesive. Said adhesive contains: 60 wt. parts of an epoxy resin in solid resin from, 0.5-15 wt. parts of a latent curing agent, 1-15 weight parts of a latent accelerator. The invention further relates to a method for producing an electromagnetic component.

A grain oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base steel sheet, an oxide layer, and a tension-insulation coating. When a glow discharge spectroscopy is conducted in a region from a surface of the tension-insulation coating to an inside of the base steel sheet, a sputtering time Fe.sub.0.5 at which a Fe emission intensity becomes 0.5 times as compared with a saturation value thereof and a sputtering time Fe.sub.0.05 at which a Fe emission intensity becomes 0.05 times as compared with the saturation value satisfy 0.01<(Fe.sub.0.5−Fe.sub.0.05)/Fe.sub.0.5<0.35. Moreover, a magnetic flux density B8 in a rolling direction of the grain oriented electrical steel sheet is 1.90 T or more.