Abstract:
By giving an appropriate compressive residual stress to a wire material, a compression coil spring having high durability can be provided even using an inexpensive wire material. The present invention provides a compression coil spring formed by using a steel wire material, the steel wire material consisting of C: 0.45 to 0.85 mass%, Si: 0.15 to 2.5 mass%, Mn: 0.3 to 1.0 mass%, Fe and inevitable impurities as a remainder, and a circle-equivalent diameter of 1.5 to 9.0 mm, wherein hardness of a freely selected cross-section of the wire material is 570 to 700 HV, and at an inner diameter side of the coil spring, unloaded compressive residual stress at a depth of 0.2 mm from a surface in an approximate maximal main stress direction in a case in which compressive load is loaded on the spring is 200 MPa or more, and unloaded compressive residual stress at a depth of 0.4 mm from surface is 100 MPa or more.
Abstract:
A high-strength magnesium alloy member is suitable for products in which at least one of bending stress and twisting stress primarily acts. The member has required elongation and 0.2 % proof stress, whereby strength and formability are superior, and has higher strength and large compressive residual stress in the vicinity of the surface of a wire rod. In the magnesium alloy member formed as a wire rod in which at least one of bending stress and twisting stress primarily acts, the wire rod includes a surface portion having the highest hardness of 170 HV or more in the vicinity of the surface and an inner portion having a 0.2 % proof stress of 550 MPa or more and an elongation of 5 % or more, and the wire rod has the highest compressive residue stress in the vicinity of the surface of 50 MPa or more.
Abstract:
A high strength titanium alloy member with superior fatigue resistance, and a production method therefor, are provided. The titanium alloy member is made of an inexpensive α-β type titanium alloy having broad utility and has high proof stress and high strength from the surface to the entire interior portion, while having great compressive residual stress provided from the surface to deep in the interior. The production method includes preparing a raw material made of titanium alloy, nitriding the raw material to form a nitrogen-containing raw material by generating a nitrogen compound layer and/or a nitrogen solid solution layer in a surface layer of the raw material, mixing the raw material and the nitrogen-containing raw material to yield a nitrogen-containing mixed material, sintering the nitrogen-containing mixed material to obtain a sintered titanium alloy member by bonding the material together and uniformly diffusing nitrogen in solid solution from the nitrogen-containing raw material to the entire interior portion of the sintered titanium alloy member, hot plastic forming and/or heat treating the sintered titanium alloy member to obtain a processed member, and surface treating the processed member to provide compressive residual stress.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an ±+² type titanium alloy and a production method therefor, which has an ultrafine structure causing superplasticity under low temperatures and has a high deformation ratio compared to conventional ±+² type Ti alloys. The alloy has an ultrafine structure consisting of equiaxial crystals in which an area ratio of crystals having a grain diameter of 1 µm or less is 60 % or more, and maximum frequency grain diameter is 0.5 µm or less, wherein a portion in which the integration degree of plane orientation (0001) of the hexagonal close-packed crystal is 1.00 or more exists within a range of 0 to 60 degrees with respect to a normal line of a processed surface of the alloy.
Abstract:
Provided is a stator core for a motor capable of facilitating an assembly work and parts management without increasing the number of components while suppressing leakage of magnetic flux passing through a flange to a coil. A stator core 13 has an annular yoke portion 15 and tooth portions 17 inwardly protruding from an inner periphery of the yoke portion 15 in a radial direction, wherein at a front end of the tooth portion 17 inwardly protruding in the radial direction, a flange portion 21 is provided so as to face a coil wound around the tooth portion 17 and wherein to the flange portion 21, a compressive residual stress portion M is provided.
Abstract:
A titanium alloy member with high strength and high proof stress not only in the surface but also inside, using a general and inexpensive α-β type titanium alloy, and a production method therefor, are provided. The production method includes preparing a raw material made of titanium alloy, nitriding the raw material to form a nitrogen-containing raw material by generating a nitrogen compound layer and/or a nitrogen solid solution layer in a surface layer of the raw material, mixing the raw material and the nitrogen-containing raw material to yield a nitrogen-containing mixed material, sintering the nitrogen-containing mixed material to obtain a sintered titanium alloy member by bonding the material together and uniformly diffusing nitrogen in solid solution from the nitrogen-containing raw material to the entire interior portion of the sintered titanium alloy member, and hot plastic forming the sintered titanium alloy member.
Abstract:
A spring with superior fatigue resistance and a production method therefor are provided by decreasing the material cost and simplifying the production process. There is provided with a spring comprising: a composition consisting of, by mass %, 0.5 to 0.7 % of C, 1.0 to 2.0 % of Si, 0.1 to 1.0 % of Mn, 0.1 to 1.0 % of Cr, not more than 0.035 % of P, not more than 0.035 % of S, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities; a structure including not less than 95 % of tempered martensitic structure by area ratio in a cross section of a wire material; a compressive residual stress layer formed from a surface to a depth of 0.35 mm to D/4, in which D (mm) is a circle-equivalent diameter of a cross section, the compressive residual stress layer having maximum compressive residual stress of 800 to 2000 MPa; a center portion with Vickers hardness of 550 to 700 HV in the cross section; and a high hardness layer with greater hardness than the center portion by 50 to 500 HV from a surface to a depth of 0.05 to 0.3 mm.
Abstract:
A titanium alloy material has high strength, high fatigue strength, and reduced hardness, and is suitable for various types of structural materials including those for vehicles, and a production method therefor, are provided. An alloy having an α' martensite which is a processing starting structure is hot worked. The alloy is heated at a temperature increase rate of 50 to 800 °C/sec, and strain is given at not less than 0.5 by a processing strain rate of from 0.01 to 10 /sec in a case of a temperature range of 700 to 800 °C, or by a processing strain rate of 0.1 to 10 /sec in a case of a temperature range of 800 °C to 1000 °C. By generating equiaxial crystals having average crystal particle diameters of less than 1000 nm through the above processes, a titanium alloy having high strength and high fatigue resistant property can be obtained, in which hardness is less than 400 HV, tensile strength is not less than 1200 MPa, and static strength and dynamic strength are superior.
Abstract:
A spring with superior fatigue resistance and a production method therefor are provided by decreasing the material cost and simplifying the production process. The spring consists of, by mass %, 0.5 to 0.7 % of C, 1.0 to 2.0 % of Si, 0.1 to 1.0 % of Mn, 0.1 to 1.0 % of Cr, not more than 0.035 % of P, not more than 0.035 % of S, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities. The spring has a structure including not less than 65 % of bainite and 4 to 13 % of residual austenite by area ratio in a cross section, and the residual austenite contains carbon at an average concentration of 0.65 to 1.7 %. The spring has a compressive residual stress layer in a cross section from a surface to a depth of 0.35 mm to D/4, in which D (mm) in a circle-equivalent diameter of the cross section. The compressive residual stress layer has maximum compressive residual stress of 800 to 2000 MPa. The spring has a center portion with hardness of 550 to 650 HV in a cross section and has a high hardness layer with greater hardness than the center portion by 50 to 500 HV from a surface to a depth of 0.05 to 0.3 mm.