Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic properties and adhesion of a primary coating to a base steel sheet and with few defects where the base metal is exposed in point defects and a method for manufacturing grain-oriented electrical steel sheet are provided. This is characterized by being provided with a base steel sheet and a primary coating. The primary coating satisfies (1) Number density D3 of Al concentrated regions: 0.015 to 0.150/μm.sup.2 (2) (Area S5 of regions comprised of anchoring oxide layer regions and Al concentrated regions)/(area S3 of Al concentrated regions)≥0.30, (3) Distance H5 of mean value of heights in thickness direction of regions of comprised of anchoring oxide layer regions and Al concentrated regions minus HO: 0.4 to 4.0 μm, (4) (Perimeter L5 of regions comprised of anchoring oxide layer regions and Al concentrated regions)/(observed area S0): 0.020 to 0.500 μm/μ.sup.2, and (5) (Area S1 of anchoring oxide layer regions)/(observed area S0)≥0.15.

A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet has a steel sheet and an insulating coating which is formed on a surface of the steel sheet. In the insulating coating, a metal phosphate and a colloidal silica are contained, the colloidal silica is contained in an amount of 20 to 150 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the metal phosphate, one or more kinds of fine particles selected from the group consisting of silicon carbide, silicon nitride, aluminum nitride, boron nitride, sialon, and cordierite are further contained in an amount of 0.5 to 7 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the metal phosphate, an average particle size of the fine particles is 0.3 to 7.0 μm, crystallized ratio of the metal phosphate is 2% to 40%, and chromium is not contained.

The present invention relates to a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including 2.0 to 6.0 wt % of Si, 0.01 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %) of C, 0.01 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %) of N, and 0.005 to 0.1 wt % of Co, and including a balance of Fe and other inevitable impurities.

Disclosed are a non-oriented electrical steel sheet and a manufacturing method therefore, the sheet ensuring excellent magnetic characteristics by having increased texture intensity of surface (100) through strict control of the content ratio of Si, Al and the like and through final annealing heat treatment in an inert gas atmosphere.

A method for manufacturing a non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a step of performing hot rolling on a steel material having a predetermined chemical composition, a step of performing first cold rolling, a step of performing process annealing, a step of performing second cold rolling, and a step of performing any one or both of final annealing and stress relief annealing. A final pass of finish rolling is performed in a temperature range equal to or higher than an Ar1 temperature, the steel sheet is held for 2 hours or less in a temperature range lower than an Ac1 temperature in the final annealing, and the steel sheet is held for 1200 sec or more in a temperature range equal to or higher than 600° C. and lower than the Ac1 temperature in the stress relief annealing.

Disclosed is a ferritic stainless steel having improved magnetization including, in percent by weight (wt %), 0.01% or less (excluding 0) of C) 0.003% or less (excluding 0) of N, 15 to 18% of Cr, 0.3 to 1.0% of Mn, 0.2 to 0.3% of Si, 0.005% or less (excluding 0) of Al, 0.005% or less (excluding 0) of Ti, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, and satisfying the following equation,

(Ti+Al+8*(C+N)/Mn)≤0.3  Equation (1)

(wherein Ti, Al, C, N, and Mn denote amounts (wt %) of the respective elements).

Disclosed is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet that has excellent high-frequency iron loss properties and blanking workability. The steel sheet includes: steel components including, by mass %, Si: 1.5-8.0%, Mn: 0.02-1.0%, and at least one selected from Sn: 0.010-0.400%, Sb: 0.010-0.400%, Mo: 0.010-0.200%, and P: 0.010-0.200%; and crystal grains including coarse secondary recrystallized grains having an average grain size of 5 mm or more and fine grains having a grain size of 0.1-2.0 mm, wherein at least some of the coarse secondary recrystallized grains penetrate the steel sheet in a thickness direction and are respectively exposed on front and back surfaces of the steel sheet such that projection planes of the exposed surfaces of these coarse secondary recrystallized grains on the front and back surfaces form an overlapping region, and the fine grains are present at a number density per unit area of 0.6-40 pieces/cm.sup.2.

A non-oriented electrical steel sheet with an average magnetostriction λ.sub.p-p at 400 Hz and 1.0 T of not more than 4.5×10.sup.−6, and area ratio of recrystallized grains at a section in rolling direction of steel sheet of 40 to 95% and an average grain size of 10 to 40 μm is obtained by subjecting a steel slab containing, in mass %, C: not more than 0.005%, Si: 2.8 to 6.5%, Mn: 0.05 to 2.0%, Al: not more than 3.0%, P: not more than 0.20%, S: not more than 0.005%, N: not more than 0.005%, Ti: not more than 0.003%, V: not more than 0.005% and Nb: not more than 0.005% and satisfying Si—2Al—Mn≥0 to hot rolling, hot-band annealing, cold rolling and finish annealing under adequate cold rolling and finish annealing conditions, and a motor core is manufactured by such a steel sheet.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a step of hot-rolling a slab to manufacture a hot-rolled steel sheet; a step of performing hot-rolled sheet annealing on the hot-rolled steel sheet; a step of performing primary cold-rolling on the hot-rolled sheet annealed hot-rolled steel sheet; a step of performing primary decarburization annealing on the primarily cold-rolled steel sheet; a step of performing secondary cold-rolling on the decarburization-annealed steel sheet; a step of performing secondary decarburization annealing on the secondarily cold-rolled steel sheet; and a step of performing continuous annealing on the secondarily decarburization-annealed steel sheet.

A steel sheet includes: a predetermined chemical composition; and a steel structure represented by, in area %, first martensite in which two or more iron carbides each having a circle-equivalent diameter of 2 nm to 500 nm are contained in each lath: 20% to 95%, ferrite: 15% or less, retained austenite: 15% or less, and the balance: bainite, or second martensite in which less than two iron carbides each having a circle-equivalent diameter of 2 nm to 500 nm are contained in each lath, or the both of these, in which the total area fraction of ND//<111> orientation grains and ND//<100> orientation grains is 40% or less, and the content of solid-solution C is 0.44 ppm or more.