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High aluminiferous ferritic stainless steel sheet for weight sensor substrate, method for producing the same, and weight sensor

a technology of ferritic stainless steel and substrate, which is applied in the direction of pedestrian/occupant safety arrangement, instrument, vehicular safety arrangement, etc., can solve the problems of the average linear expansion coefficient between the stainless steel substrate and the glass layer is too large, so as to achieve excellent glass adhesiveness and high temperature oxidation resistance

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-02-10
NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN STAINLESS STEEL CORP
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"The present invention provides a stainless steel sheet that is suitable for use as a metal base material in automobile airbags to improve its resistance to high temperature oxidation when sintered with a crystallized glass layer. This is achieved by applying a high aluminiferous ferritic stainless steel sheet that contains specific amounts of Nb, V, Ti, and Zr. The stainless steel sheet has good adhesiveness with the glass layer and high temperature oxidation resistance. The invention also includes a method for producing the stainless steel sheet and a weight sensor substrate comprising the stainless steel sheet and a crystallized glass layer with strain sensitive resistive elements. The technical effects of the invention are improved high temperature oxidation resistance and enhanced adhesiveness with the glass layer, which makes it suitable for use as a sensor substrate material in automobile airbags."

Problems solved by technology

However, with a metal base material based on the aforementioned existing technologies, glass adhesiveness and high temperature oxidation resistance during baking are insufficient and therefore the metal base material has not been put into practical use.
Whereas the average linear expansion coefficient of generally used crystallized glass is 13 to 16×10−6 / ° C., that of a conventionally used stainless steel is about 13×10−6 / ° C. Accordingly, the difference in the average linear expansion coefficient is too large between the stainless steel substrate and the glass layer, and thus sufficient glass adhesiveness cannot be obtained.

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High aluminiferous ferritic stainless steels shown in Table 1 were melted and refined by the converter AOD method or the vacuum melting method. These steels were subjected to surface conditioning, thereafter hot rolled at a hot-rolling finishing temperature in the range from 880° C. to 900° C., coiled at a hot-rolling coiling temperature in the range from 400° C. to 750° C., and cooled by water cooling, and thus hot-rolled steel strips 5 mm and 3.8 mm in thickness were produced. Successively, the hot-rolled steel strips were subjected to shot blasting and descaling by pickling, and thereafter cold rolled to the thickness of 3 mm and 2 mm. Successively, the cold-rolled steel strips were annealed at 920° C. and then subjected to salt treatment and descaling by pickling, and thus cold-rolled steel sheets were produced. With regard to crystallized glass, crystallized glass having the average linear expansion coefficient of 14.5×10−6 / ° C. was used.

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The steel sheets of sample Nos. 7 and 3 shown in Table 1 were subjected to baking heat treatment under the conditions shown in Table 2. The crystallized glass having the average linear expansion coefficient of 14.5×10−6 / ° C., which was the same as used in EXAMPLE 1, was used.

A coating film thickness was measured by GDS (Glow Discharge Emission Spectrometry). The measuring device was JY500ORF-PSS type made by JOBIN YVON (France) and the measurement area was 4 mm in diameter. A sputter speed was measured by the depth formed after subjecting a Japanese Iron and Steel Certified Reference Material JSS652-13 to the discharge for 250 seconds. As the samples for calibration, four kinds of specimens including Japanese Iron and Steel Certified Reference Materials JSS652-13, JSS171-1, JSS1001-1 and the like were used.

The resistance to temper color was judged by visually observing the existence of color development at visible wavelengths.

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Abstract

The present invention provides a stainless steel most suitable as a metal base material for the weight sensor substrate of an automobile airbag, a method for producing said stainless steel and said weight sensor; and the stainless steel sheet comprises a high aluminiferous ferritic stainless steel containing Al of 2.5 to 8 mass % and comprising, in mass, C: 0.025% or less, N: 0.025% or less, the sum of C and N being 0.030% or less, and Nb: 0.05 to 0.5%, with the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities. Further, said stainless steel sheet may further contain, in mass, one or more of V: 0.05 to 0.4%, Ti: 0.02 to 0.2%, and Zr: 0.02 to 0.2%. The present invention makes it possible to control the difference in the average linear expansion coefficient between said stainless steel sheet and crystallized glass for a weight sensor to less than 10% in the temperature range from 20° C. to 900° C. and thus to improve the adhesiveness of said stainless steel sheet with said crystallized glass.

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TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a high aluminiferous ferritic stainless steel sheet for the weight sensor substrate of an automobile airbag, a method for producing the ferritic stainless steel sheet, and a weight sensor. BACKGROUND ART An automobile is equipped with seatbelts and airbags as devices for securing the safety of occupants. In recent years, in order to further improve the performance of a seatbelt and an airbag, there has been a tendency to control the movement of such safety facilities in conformity with an occupant's weight (body weight). For example, the expansion gas volume and expansion speed of an airbag and the pretensioning of a seatbelt are adjusted in conformity with an occupant's weight. For that purpose, it is necessary to know the weight of an occupant in a seat by some sort of means. As an example of such means, a means of disposing load sensors (load cells) at the four corners of a seat rail assembly, adding up the loads in the vertical ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B60R21/16G01G3/14C22C38/00C22C38/26C22C38/28G01G19/12G01G19/52
CPCC22C38/02C22C38/26C22C38/06C22C38/04
Inventor FUKAYA, MASUHIROKOMORI, TADASHI
Owner NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN STAINLESS STEEL CORP