Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic properties and excellent in adhesion of a primary coating to the steel sheet is provided. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is provided with a base steel sheet having a chemical composition containing C: 0.005% or less, Si: 2.5 to 4.5%, Mn: 0.050 to 1.000%, a total of S and Se: 0.005% or less, sol. Al: 0.005% or less, and N: 0.005% or less and having a balance of Fe and impurities and a primary coating having Mg.sub.2 SiO.sub.4 as a main constituent formed on a surface of the base steel sheet. A peak position of Al emission intensity obtained when conducting elemental analysis by glow discharge spectrometry from a surface of the primary coating in a thickness direction is present in a range of 2.0 to 12.0 .Math.m from a surface of the primary coating to the thickness direction. A sum of perimeters of the Al oxides at the peak position of Al emission intensity is 0.20 to 1.00 .Math.m/.Math.m.sup.2, and a number density of Al oxides is 0.02 to 0.20 /.Math.m.sup.2.

A grain oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a base steel sheet; a lower layer which is arranged in contact with the base steel sheet; and an insulation coating which is arranged in contact with the lower layer and which includes a phosphate and a colloidal silica as main components. The base steel sheet includes the predetermined chemical composition and includes a B compound whose major axis length is 1 to 20 μm and whose number density is 1×10 to 1×10.sup.6 pieces/mm.sup.3. The lower layer is a glass film which includes a forsterite as main component or an intermediate layer includes a silicon oxide as main component.

A grain oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a base steel sheet; a glass film which is arranged in contact with the base steel sheet; and an insulation coating which is arranged in contact with the glass film and which includes a phosphate and a colloidal silica as main components. The base steel sheet includes the predetermined chemical composition. A BN whose average particle size is 50 to 300 nm is included at a predetermined number density in a region which is from an interface between the glass film and the insulation coating till 5 μm toward the base steel sheet in a depth direction. A B emission intensity obtained inside the glass film is more than a B emission intensity obtained inside the base steel sheet, when a B emission intensity is measured from a surface of the insulation coating by a glow discharge emission spectroscopy.

A non-oriented electrical steel sheet according to one embodiment of the invention has a chemical composition represented by C: 0.0030% or less, Si: 2.00% or less, Al: 1.00% or less, Mn: 0.10% to 2.00%, S: 0.0030% or less, one or more selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Nd, Pr, La, Ce, Zn, and Cd: greater than 0.0100% and not greater than 0.0250% in total, a parameter Q represented by Q=[Si]+2×[Al]−[Mn]: 2.00 or less; Sn: 0.00% to 0.40%, Cu: 0.00% to 1.00%, and a remainder: Fe and impurities, and a parameter R represented by R=(I.sub.100+I.sub.310+I.sub.411+I.sub.521)/(I.sub.111+I.sub.211+I.sub.332+I.sub.221) is 0.80 or greater.

Disclosed is a non-oriented electrical steel sheet with low magnetic anisotropy, which comprises the following chemical elements in mass percentage: 0<C≤0.005%; Si: 2.0-3.5%; Mn: 0.1-2.0%; at least one of Sn and Sb: 0.003-0.2%; Al: 0.2-1.8%; the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. Further disclosed is a manufacturing method for the above non-oriented electrical steel sheet with low magnetic anisotropy, which includes the following steps: (1) smelting and casting; (2) hot rolling; (3) normalizing; (4) cold rolling; (5) continuous annealing: rapidly heating a cold-rolled steel sheet from an initial temperature of 350° C.-750° C. to a soaking temperature at a heating rate of 50-800° C./s, and performing soaking and heat preservation; and (6) applying an insulating coating to obtain a finished non-oriented electrical steel sheet. The non-oriented electrical steel sheet is characterized by low iron loss and low magnetic anisotropy at high frequency.

Disclosed is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet capable of obtaining excellent magnetic properties stably over the entire coil length. A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.005% or less, Si: 2.0% to 4.5%, and Mn: 0.01% to 0.5%, and, in mass ppm, N: 20 ppm or less, each of Se, Te, and O: less than 50 ppm, S: less than 30 ppm, and acid-soluble Al: less than 40 ppm, and Ti: less than 30 ppm, of which 5 ppm or more and 25 ppm or less is acid-soluble Ti, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities; and precipitates containing Ti and N with a grain size of 200 nm or more at a frequency of 0.05 grains/mm.sup.2 or more.

The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a non-oriented electrical steel sheet and the manufactured non-oriented electrical steel sheet, the method including: heating a slab containing, by wt %, 0.005% or less of C, 2.5 to 4.0% or less of Si, 0.1% or less of P, 0.1 to 2.0% of Al, 0.2 to 2.5% of Mn, 0.003% or less of N, 0.005% or less of Ti and Nb, 0.003% or less of S, 0.005 to 0.025% of V, 0.1% or less of Cu, and a balance of Fe and inevitably mixed impurities, and satisfying the following Expression 1; hot-rolling the slab to manufacture a hot-rolled sheet; cold-rolling the hot-rolled sheet to manufacture a cold-rolled sheet; and performing final annealing on the cold-rolled sheet, wherein [Expression 1] is represented by (51*[C])/12−0.002≤[V]≤(51*[C])/12+0.004 (in Expression 1, [C] and [V] represent contents (wt %) of C and V, respectively).

A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet has a base film composed mainly of forsterite on a surface of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet and an insulating film containing mainly silicate-phosphate glass which is formed on a surface of the base film, in which, by controlling concentrations of Sr, Ca, and Ba in the base film and the insulating film to have specified gradients, the adhesion property and film tension of the insulating film are improved.

A chemical composition of a base metal of a non-oriented electrical steel sheet contains, by mass %, C: 0.0050% or less, Si: 3.8% to 5.0%, Mn: exceeding 0.2% and less than 2.0%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.0030% or less, Al: 0.005% or more and less than 0.050%, N: 0.0005% to 0.0030%, Ti: less than 0.0050%, Nb: less than 0.0050%, Zr: less than 0.0050%, V: less than 0.0050%, Cu: less than 0.20%, Ni: less than 0.50%, Sn: 0% to 0.10%, Sb: 0% to 0.10%, a remainder: Fe and impurities. [Si+0.5×Mn≥4.3] is satisfied and the average grain size of the base metal is in a range of 10 to 80 μm.

A non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition. The chemical composition satisfies (2×[Mn]+2.5×[Ni]+[Cu])−([Si]+2×[sol.Al]+4×[P])≥1.50%. In a case where Ahkl-uvw represents the area ratio of crystal grains in an {hkl}<uvw> orientation to the entire visual field when a plane at a depth of ½ of a sheet thickness from a surface parallel to a rolled surface is measured by SEM-EBSD, A411-011 is 15.0% or more, and the average grain size is 50 μm to 150 μm.