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.

An aspect of the present invention relates to a cold-rolled steel plate for hot forming, which is excellent in corrosion-resistance and spot-weldability, contains, by weight %, C: 0.1-0.4%, Si: 0.5-2.0%, Mn: 0.01-4.0%, Al: 0.001-0.4%, P: 0.001-0.05%, S: 0.0001-0.02%, Cr: 0.5% to less than 3.0%, N: 0.001-0.02%, and a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, satisfying formula (1) below, and includes an Si amorphous oxidation layer continuously or discontinuously formed at a thickness of 1 nm-100 nm on the surface thereof. Formula (1): 1.4≤0.4*Cr+Si≤3.2 (wherein element symbols denote measurements of respective element contents by weight %).

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.

A cold-rolled steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition; a structure of the told-rolled steel sheet at a position which is ¼ of a sheet thickness from a surface contains, in a volume percentage, 80.0% or more of tempered martensite, more than 2.5% and less than 10.0% of residual austenite, 0% or more and 15.0% or less of ferrite and bainite in total, 0% or more and 3.0% or less of martensite, and the remainder structure. With respect to the above-described structure, a maximum value of a random specific intensity Iq is 4.0 or less, an average diameter of a region Rq which has an orientation within 10° from a crystal orientation in which the random specific intensity Iq is maximum is 10.0 μm or less, a surface density of the region Rq is 1000 pieces/mm.sup.2 or more, a tensile strength is 1310 MPa or more, a uniform elongation is 5.0% or more, and TS×λ is 35000 MPa.Math.% or more.

A vehicle door includes a window frame and a lower surface portion formed jointly with the window frame in one piece from a hot formed and press hardened sheet metal plate which is made of a steel alloy which includes, in weight-%: Carbon 0.33-0.38, Silicon 0.2-0.7, Manganese 0.7-1.2, Phosphorus max. 0.03, Sulfur max. 0.02, Boron 0.002-0.005, Chromium 0.6-1.0, Copper max. 0.12, Nitrogen max. 0.005, Titanium 0.015-0.025, Nickel 1.5-2.0, Molybdenum 0.2-0.6, Tin max. 0.04, and as optional components Aluminum 0.006-0.08, Niobium 0.02-0.05, with a balance being iron and incidental impurities. At least the lower surface portion has a Brinell hardness of 500 to 600 HB and a yield strength of 1,200 to 1,450 MPa, wherein the lower surface portion and/or the window frame has a wall thickness of at least 6 mm.

A steel sheet has a tensile strength of 1310 MPa or higher, a specified chemical composition, and a steel microstructure containing martensite at an area ratio of 70% or more, bainite at an area ratio of 30% or less, and ferrite and retained austenite at a total area ratio of 5% or less, in which, at a ¼ thickness position of the steel sheet, a number density of carbides having long axes of 0.5 μm or more is 60000 carbides/mm.sup.2 or less, in a ¼-to-¾ thickness region of the steel sheet, a number density of inclusion grains having equivalent circle diameters of 4.0 μm or more is 10 grains/mm.sup.2 or more and 30 grains/mm.sup.2 or less, and, in a surface-to-¼ thickness region of the steel sheet, a number density of inclusion grains having equivalent circle diameters of 4.0 μm or more is 27 grains/mm.sup.2 or less.

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.L, a grain size RAβ.sub.L, and a grain size RAγ.sub.L are defined in a rolling direction L, the grain sizes satisfy RAβ.sub.L<RAα.sub.L and RAγ.sub.L<RAα.sub.L.

This joint component is a joint component including a first steel member, a second steel member, and a spot-welded portion that joins the first steel member and the second steel member, in which the first steel member includes a steel sheet substrate having a predetermined chemical composition and a coating that is formed on a surface of the steel sheet substrate, contains Al and Fe, and has a thickness of 25 μm or more, in a cross section in a thickness direction of the first steel member and the second steel member including the spot-welded portion, a filled metal containing Al and Fe is present in a gap between the first steel member and the second steel member in a periphery of the spot-welded portion, in the cross section, the filled metal has a cross-sectional area of 3.0×10.sup.4 μm.sup.2 or more, and has a filling ratio of 80% or more in the gap in a range of 100 μm from an end portion of a corona bond formed in the periphery of the spot-welded portion, and includes a first region and a second region.

Please amend the Abstract as originally filed as shown below wherein additions are indicated using underlining and deletions are indicated using strikethrough or double brackets in accordance with 37 C.F.R. § 1.121(b)(2):

Realized is ferritic stainless steel which has excellent high-temperature strength and excellent red scale resistance. The ferritic stainless steel contains not more than 0.025% by mass of C, 0.05% by mass to 3.0% by mass of Si, 0.05% by mass to 2.0% by mass of Mn, not more than 0.04% by mass of P, not more than 0.003% 0.03% by mass of S, not more than 0.5% by mass of Ni, 10.5% by mass to 25.0% by mass of Cr, not more than 0.025% by mass of N, 0.05% by mass to 1.0% by mass of Nb, not more than 3.0% by mass of Mo, not more than 1.8% by mass of Cu, not more than 0.2% by mass of Al, and not more than 0.5% by mass of Ti. The sum of the concentrations of Cr and Si, each of which is present as oxide or hydroxide, at a surface of the ferritic stainless steel and at depths to 6 nm from the surface is a given value or more.