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 module includes a circuit board and an inductor. The circuit board has a facing surface and a rear surface which are located at opposite sides to each other in an up-down direction. The inductor has a magnetic core and a coil. The magnetic core is made of a soft magnetic metal material. The magnetic core has a facing surface and a radiating surface which are located at opposite sides to each other in the up-down direction. The facing surface of the magnetic core is arranged to face the facing surface of the circuit board in the up-down direction. The radiating surface of the magnetic core is arranged to be radiatable heat outward. The coil has a coil portion and a connection end. The coil portion winds, at least in part, the magnetic core. The connection end is connected to the facing surface of the circuit board.

A non-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes, by weight, Si: 2.0 to 3.5%, Al: 0.3 to 2.5%, Mn: 0.3 to 3.5%, Sn: 0.0030 to 0.2%, Sb: 0.0030 to 0.15%, P: 0.0040 to 0.18%, individually or in a total amount of 0.0005 to 0.03% of at least one of Ga and Ge, and a remainder including Fe and unavoidable impurities, and satisfies Equation 1 below.
0.05≤([Sn]+[Sb])/[P]≤25  [Equation 1] ([Sn], [Sb], and [P] respectively represent the content (% by weight) of Sn, Sb, and P.)

A heat-resistant magnetic domain refined grain-oriented silicon steel, a single-sided surface or a double-sided surface of which has several parallel grooves which are formed in a grooving manner, each groove extends in the width direction of the heat-resistant magnetic domain refined grain-oriented silicon steel, and the several parallel grooves are uniformly distributed along the rolling direction of the heat-resistant magnetic domain refined grain-oriented silicon steel. Each groove which extends in the width direction of the heat-resistant magnetic domain refined grain-oriented silicon steel is formed by splicing several sub-grooves which extend in the width direction of the heat-resistant magnetic domain refined grain-oriented silicon steel. The manufacturing method for a heat-resistant magnetic domain refined grain-oriented silicon steel comprises the step of: forming grooves on a single-sided surface or a double-sided surface of a heat-resistant magnetic domain refined grain-oriented silicon steel in a laser grooving manner, a laser beam of the laser grooving is divided into several sub-beams by a beam splitter, and the several sub-beams form the several sub-grooves which are spliced into the same groove.

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%.

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 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 .Math.m or more and 200 .Math.m or less, an X1 value defined by X = (2 × B.sub.50L + B.sub.50C) / (3 × I.sub.s) is less than 0.845, an X2 value defined by X2 = (B.sub.50L + 2 × B.sub.50D + B.sub.50C) / (4 × I.sub.s) is 0.800 or more, and an iron loss W.sub.10/1k is 80 W/kg or less.

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 μm or more and 200 μm or less, an X1 value defined by X1=(2×B.sub.50L+B.sub.50C)/(3×I.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.

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.