| CPC C21D 9/50 (2013.01) [C21D 6/004 (2013.01); C21D 6/005 (2013.01); C21D 6/008 (2013.01); C21D 8/0205 (2013.01); C21D 8/0226 (2013.01); C21D 8/0236 (2013.01); C21D 8/0263 (2013.01); C21D 9/46 (2013.01); C22C 38/001 (2013.01); C22C 38/002 (2013.01); C22C 38/02 (2013.01); C22C 38/04 (2013.01); C22C 38/06 (2013.01); C22C 38/42 (2013.01); C22C 38/44 (2013.01); C22C 38/46 (2013.01); C22C 38/48 (2013.01); C22C 38/50 (2013.01); C22C 38/54 (2013.01); C23C 2/02 (2013.01); C23C 2/022 (2022.08); C23C 2/26 (2013.01); C23C 2/28 (2013.01); C21D 2211/001 (2013.01); C21D 2211/002 (2013.01); C21D 2211/005 (2013.01); C21D 2211/008 (2013.01); C21D 2211/009 (2013.01)] | 12 Claims |

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1. A high strength steel sheet having a tensile strength of 590 MPa or larger and a chemical composition in mass % containing:
C: 0.06% or more and 0.14% or less,
Si: 0.1% or more and 1.5% or less,
Mn: 1.4% or more and 2.2% or less,
P: 0.05% or less,
S: 0.0050% or less,
Al: 0.01% or more and 0.20% or less,
N: 0.10% or less,
Nb: 0.015% or more and 0.060% or less, and
Ti: 0.001% or more and 0.030% or less, optionally containing one or more of following (A) to (C);
(A) one of, or two or more of
Cr: 0.01% or more and 0.15% or less,
Mo: 0.01% or more and less than 0.10%, and
V: 0.001% or more and 0.065% or less,
(B) B: 0.0001% or more and less than 0.002%,
(C) one of or two of
Cu: 0.001% or more and 0.2% or less, and
Ni: 0.001% or more and 0.1% or less,
contents of S, N and Ti satisfying Formula (1) below,
a balance being Fe and an inevitable impurity,
comprising, in terms of area fraction relative to an entire steel microstructure, 30% or more and 100% or less ferrite, 0% or more and 70% or less martensite, and less than 20% in total of pearlite, bainite and retained austenite, and the ferrite containing, in terms of area fraction relative to an entire microstructure, 0% or more and 10% or less non-recrystallized ferrite, with a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the area fraction of the non-recrystallized ferrite in a longitudinal direction of the steel sheet of 5% or below:
[% Ti]−(48/14)[% N]−(48/32)[% S]≤0, Formula (1):
in Formula (1), [% Ti] represents content (mass %) of component element Ti, [% N] represents content (mass %) of component element N, and [% S] represents content (mass %) of component element S.
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