A non-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes, in wt%, Si: 1.5 to 4.0%, Al: 0.5 to 1.5%, Mn: 0.05 to 0.55%, C: 0.005% or less, Ti: 0.004% or less (excluding 0%), N: 0.005% or less (excluding 0%), S: 0.005% or less (excluding 0%), and Cu: 0.01% or less (excluding 0%), and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, and satisfies Formula 1 and Formula 2 below.

[N]≤0.005×([Al]×[Ti])  [Formula 1]

[S]≤0.01×([Mn]+[Cu])  [Formula 2]

(In Formula 1 and Formula 2, [N], [Al], [Ti], [S], [Mn], and [Cu] represent a content (wt %) of N, Al, Ti, S, Mn, and Cu, respectively).

When a non-oriented electrical steel sheet is produced by hot rolling a slab containing, by mass %, C: not more than 0.0050%, Si: 1.5-5.0%, Mn: 0.20-3.0%, sol. Al: not more than 0.0050%, P: not more than 0.2%, S: not more than 0.0050% and N: not more than 0.0040% to form a hot rolled sheet, cold rolling the hot rolled sheet without conducting a hot band annealing and then subjecting to a finish annealing, a compositional ratio of CaO in oxide-based inclusions existing in the slab defined by CaO/(SiO.sub.2+Al.sub.2O.sub.3+CaO) is set to not less than 0.4 and/or a compositional ratio of Al.sub.2O.sub.3 defined by Al.sub.2O.sub.3/(SiO.sub.2+Al.sub.2O.sub.3+CaO) is set to not less than 0.3, and a coiling temperature in the hot rolling is set to not lower than 650° C.

An oriented electrical steel sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention includes, in a unit of wt %, Si at 1.0 wt % to 5.0 wt %, C at 0.005 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %), Mn at 0.001 wt % to 0.1 wt %, Cu at 0.001 wt % to 0.1 wt %, S at 0.001 wt % to 0.020 wt %, Se at 0.001 wt % to 0.050 wt %, Al at 0.0005 wt % to 0.010 wt %, N at 0.0005 wt % to 0.005 wt %, and the remainder of Fe and inevitable impurities.

The oriented electrical steel sheet according to the embodiment of the present invention satisfies Equation 1.

16≤(10×[Mn]+[Cu])/([S]+[Se])+(0.02−[Al])/[N]≤20  [Equation 1]

(In Equation 1, [Mn], [Cu], [S], [Se], [Al], and [N] represent contents (wt %) of Mn, Cu, S, Se, Al, and N, respectively.)

A method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: hot-rolling a slab to prepare a hot-rolled sheet, the slab containing, in wt %, 2.0 to 6.0% of Si, 0.04 to 0.12% of Mn, 0.001 to 0.022% of N, 0.027 to 0.060% of C, 0.01 to 0.08% of Nb, 0.01% or less of Ti, and the balance of Fe and other inevitable impurities; cold-rolling the hot-rolled sheet to prepare a cold-rolled sheet; and subjecting the primarily recrystallization-annealed cold-rolled sheet to secondary recrystallization annealing.

An exemplary embodiment in the present disclosure provides a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet containing, by wt %: 3.0 to 4.5% of Si; 0.05 to 0.2% of Mn; 0.015 to 0.035% of Al; 0.0015% or less (excluding 0%) of C; 0.0015% or less (excluding 0%) of N; 0.0015% or less (excluding 0%) of S; and a balance of Fe and other unavoidable impurities, wherein the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet satisfies the following Relational Expressions 1 and 2:

(W.sub.13/50/W.sub.17/50)≤0.57  [Relational Expression 1]

(W.sub.15/50/W.sub.17/50)≤0.76  [Relational Expression 2] where Wx/y represents a core loss value under conditions in which a magnitude of an applied magnetic field is x/10 T and a frequency is y Hz.

A high permeability grain oriented electrical steel having a chemistry comprising, all in weight percent, 2.5% to 4.5% silicon, 0.02% to 0.08% carbon, 0.01 to 0.05% aluminum, 0.005% to 0.050% sulfur or selenium, 0.02 to 0.20% manganese, 0.05 to 0.20% tin, 0.05 to 1% copper, 0.5% to 2.0% chromium, up to 0.10% phosphorus and up to 0.20% antimony with the balance being essentially iron and residual elements. The steel contains chromium and phosphorus in such amounts that a Cr:(P+0.25Sb) ratio is below 80:1 or, below 50:1, or below 30:1 which provides highly stable magnetic properties in the finished steel sheet. A hot processed band comprised of such steel is annealed and rapidly cooled after such annealing at a rate of at least 50° C. per second from 875-950° C. to a temperature below 400° C. prior to cold rolling to final thickness. Such steel forming a hot processed band having a thickness of from 1.5 to 4.0 mm and having a volume resistivity of at least 50 μΩ-cm, an austenite volume fraction (γ1150° C.) of at least 20%, and an isomorphic layer thickness of at least 2% of the total thickness on at least one surface of the hot processed band.

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.

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 laminated core (100) has a plurality of legs having an extension direction in a direction perpendicular to a lamination direction of electrical steel sheets and a plurality of yokes having an extension direction in a direction orthogonal to the lamination direction of the electrical steel sheets and the extension direction of the legs, and, in the same position of the electrical steel sheet in the lamination direction, at least a partial region of the legs and at least a partial region of the yokes are configured by the same electrical steel sheet. The electrical steel sheet is disposed such that a first direction of directions of easy magnetization of the electrical steel sheet is along the extension direction of the legs and a second direction of the directions of easy magnetization of the electrical steel sheet is along the extension direction of the yokes.

A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a metallographic structure after secondary-recrystallized annealing including matrix grains of Goss-oriented secondary recrystallized grains, wherein an existence frequency of Goss-oriented crystal grains having a major diameter of 5 mm or less in the matrix grains is 1.5 grains/cm.sup.2 or more and 8 grains/cm.sup.2 or less, and the magnetic flux density B8 is 1.88 T or more, and wherein deviation angles from a rolling direction of [001] direction of the Goss-oriented crystal grains having the major diameter of 5 mm or less are 7″ or less and 5° or less, in terms of a simple or arithmetic average of α angle and β angle, respectively, wherein the α angle represents an angle formed by a longitudinal direction and a projection of the [001] on a specimen surface, and the β angle represents a tilt of the [001] out of the specimen surface.