A method for manufacturing a non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a step of obtaining a hot-rolled steel sheet by performing hot rolling on a steel material having a predetermined chemical composition, a step of performing first cold rolling on the hot-rolled steel sheet, and a step of performing first annealing after the first cold rolling. A final pass of finish rolling is performed in a temperature range equal to or higher than an Ar1 temperature, and cooling of which an average cooling rate is in a range of 50 to 500° C./sec is started in 0.1 sec from completion of rolling of the final pass of the finish rolling and is performed up to a temperature range higher than 250° C. and equal to or lower than 700° C.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, whereby it becomes possible to manufacture a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having further improved iron loss properties stably. (Solution) According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is provided, the method being characterized by comprising a re-heating step, a hot rolling step, a hot-rolled sheet annealing step, a cold rolling step, a decarburization annealing step and a final annealing step, wherein the decarburization annealing step includes a heating step of heating a cold-rolled sheet from an inlet side temperature T0° C. to a soaking temperature T2° C. and a soaking step of keeping the temperature of the cold-rolled sheet at the soaking temperature T2° C., and the heating rate HR1 from the time point when the temperature of the cold-rolled sheet is an inlet side temperature T0° C. to the time point when the temperature of the cold-rolled sheet reaches a attained temperature T1° C. is 40° C./sec or more and the heating rate HR2 from the time point when the temperature of the cold-rolled sheet is the desired temperature T1° C. to the time point when the temperature of the cold-rolled sheet reaches the soaking temperature T2° C. is more than 15° C./sec to 30° C./sec in the heating in the decarburization annealing step.

A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet of an embodiment of the present invention comprises Si: 1.0% to 7.0% and Y: 0.005% to 0.5% by wt %, and the remainder comprising Fe and other inevitable impurities, and 10 pieces or less of inclusions comprising Y and having a diameter of 30 nm to 5 μm per area of 1 mm.sup.2.

Disclosed is a manufacturing method for a high silicon grain oriented electrical steel sheet, the silicon content of the high silicon grain oriented electrical steel is greater than 4 wt %, comprising the steps of: (1) performing decarburization annealing of a cold-rolled steel plate; (2) allowing high silicon alloy particles in a completely solid state to collide at a high speed with the surface of the decarburization annealed steel plate to be sprayed, thus forming a high silicon alloy coating on the surface of the steel plate to be sprayed; (3) coating a release agent and drying; and (4) annealing. The manufacturing method for the high silicon grain oriented electrical steel sheet of the present invention is inexpensive, and, the high silicon grain oriented electrical steel sheet produced is of stable quality and is provided with great magnetic performance.

A grain oriented electrical steel sheet includes the texture aligned with Goss orientation. In the grain oriented electrical steel sheet, when a grain size RAα.sub.C, a grain size RAβ.sub.C, and a grain size RAγ.sub.C are defined in a transverse direction C, the grain sizes satisfy RAγ.sub.C<RAα.sub.C and RAγ.sub.C<RAβ.sub.C.

Method for manufacturing a thin strip in a soft magnetic alloy and strip obtained A method for manufacturing a strip in a soft magnetic alloy capable of being cut out mechanically, the chemical composition of which comprises by weight: TABLE-US-00001 18% ≤ Co ≤ 55% 0% ≤ V + W ≤ 3% 0% ≤ Cr ≤ 3% 0% ≤ Si ≤ 3% 0% ≤ Nb ≤ 0.5% 0% ≤ B ≤ 0.05% 0% ≤ C ≤ 0.1% 0% ≤ Zr + Ta ≤ 0.5% 0% ≤ Ni ≤ 5% 0% ≤ Mn ≤ 2% The remainder being iron and impurities resulting from the elaboration, according to which a strip obtained by hot rolling is cold-rolled in order to obtain a cold-rolled strip with a thickness of less than 0.6 mm. After cold rolling, a continuous annealing treatment is carried out by passing into a continuous oven, at a temperature comprised between the order/disorder transition temperature of the alloy and the onset temperature of ferritic/austenitic transformation of the alloy, followed by rapid cooling down to a temperature below 200° C. Strip obtained.

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.

A double-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an example of the present invention comprises, by weight 2.0 to 4.0 wt % of Si, 0.01 to 0.04 wt % of Al, 0.0004 to 0.02 wt % of S, 0.05 to 0.3 wt % of Mn, at most 0.01 wt % (exclusive of 0 wt %) of N, at most 0.005 wt % (exclusive of 0 wt %) of C, 0.005 to 0.15 wt % of P, 0.001 to 0.005 wt % of Ti, and 0.0001 to 0.005 wt % of Mg, with the balance being Fe and other inevitable impurities, wherein the area fraction of crystal grains having an orientation within 15° from {100}<001> is 60 to 99%, and the area fraction of crystal grains having an orientation within 15° from {100}<025> is 1 to 30%.

A method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an aspect of the present invention includes a step of obtaining a hot-rolled steel sheet by carrying out hot rolling on a slab containing a predetermined component composition with a remainder including Fe and impurities, a step of obtaining a hot-rolled annealed sheet by carrying out hot-rolled sheet annealing as necessary, a step of carrying out pickling to obtain a pickled sheet, a step of carrying out cold rolling to obtain a cold-rolled steel sheet, a step of carrying out primary recrystallization annealing, a step of applying an annealing separating agent including MgO to a surface and then carrying out final annealing to obtain a final-annealed sheet, and a step of applying an insulating coating and then carrying out flattening annealing.

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.