Processing for aluminum nitride inhibited oriented silicon steel

Claim 1

In a process for producing electromagnetic silicon steel having a cube-on-edge orientation and a permeability of at least 1850 (G/O e ) at 10 oersteds, which process includes the steps of: preparing a melt of silicon steel containing, by weight, up to 0.07% carbon, from 2.8 to 4.0% silicon, from 0.03 to 0.24% manganese, from 0.01 to 0.09% of material from the group consisting of sulfur and selenium, from 0.015 to 0.04% aluminum, up to 0.02% nitrogen, up to 0.5% copper and up to 0.0035% boron; casting said steel; hot rolling said steel; cold rolling said steel at a reduction of at least 75% decarburizing said steel; and final texturing said steel; the improvement comprising the steps of coating the surface of said steel with a base composition consisting essentially of: a. 100 parts, by weight, of at least one substance from the group consisting of boron, boron compounds, sulfur, sulfur compounds, selenium, selenium compounds, and oxides and hydroxides of magnesium, calcium, aluminum, titanium and manganese; and b. 4 to 120 parts, by weight, of at least one substance from the group consisting of amides and imides of organic and inorganic acids; and final texture annealing said steel with said coating thereon; said steel's texture and magnetic properties being, in part, attributable to said substance from the group consisting of amides and imides.