Abstract:
A process for duplex heat treatment of combined nitriding treatment and induction quenching treatment on an iron and steel material includes a chemical conversion treatment step for forming a chemical conversion film on a nitrogen compound layer formed on the iron and steel material by the nitriding treatment, after the nitriding treatment and before the induction quenching treatment. A compound layer formed on a surface of an iron and steel material by nitriding treatment is prevented from being oxidized by induction quenching, so that unevenness in film thickness between different portions of an oxidization-inhibiting film does not easily occur, with the result that a nitrogen-containing compound layer obtained after high-frequency heating remain uniformly.
Abstract:
A method for heat treating a steel component, the method comprising steps of: (a) carbonitriding the steel component and (b) ferritically nitrocarburizing the steel component.
Abstract:
An inspection method which quantitatively and simply assures a nitrogen concentration in a carbonitriding-treated bearing part, and a bearing part and a bearing for which a nitrogen concentration is quantitatively assured are obtained. An inner race, an outer race, and balls as bearing parts are each a bearing part made of JIS standard SUJ2 and having a carbonitrided layer formed in a surface thereof, wherein, after heat treatment at a heating temperature of 500° C. for a retention time of one hour is performed, a Vickers hardness at a position with a depth of 30 μm from the surface is higher than a Vickers hardness at a core portion, which is a region where the carbonitrided layer is not formed in a thickness direction of the bearing part, by not less than 130 HV.
Abstract:
A guiding member, having a body provided with a bore for mounting a mobile element is presented. The body consists of a metallic material. The bore has a surface layer treated against jamming over a diffusion depth of less than or equal to 0.6 mm. The surface layer has a hardness of greater than or equal to 500 Hv1 over a depth of between 5 and 50 μm.
Abstract:
A method of hardening a surface of a ferro-alloy object, the method comprising at least partially gasifying a carbon-containing polymer to form a hardening material source; and exposing the object to the hardening material source, such that the hardening material source and the surface of the object react, thereby hardening the surface of the object.
Abstract:
An improved method for producing barrels which need to operate at temperatures exceeding 800 degrees for prolonged periods of time. The method described is ideally suited for barrels which are a part of a crew served weapons, belt feed systems or other fully automatic weapons. My method has limited effect on the accuracy potential of the barrel produced and therefore should not be excluded from use on shoulder fired weapons and precision rifles.
Abstract:
A process for the thermochemical treatment of thin-walled structural elements made of steel comprising enriching an edge zone of a thin-walled structural element with nitrogen and carbon at 590.degree. to 700.degree. C. to harden the edge zone whereby an intermediate layer (3) is formed in the diffusion zone (2), said intermediate layer comprising 1 to 3% by weight of nitrogen and at most 0.8% by weight of carbon and cooling the said thin-walled structural element under an inert atmosphere at a rate of 50.degree. to 100.degree. C. per minute to room temperature to form a nitrogen austenite and/or braunite phase between the connection layer (1) and the basic structure (4) with increased fatigue strength.
Abstract:
The extreme pressure properties of ferrous metals can be increased by coating the metal with iron sulfide or chloride or mixtures thereof then heat treating the coated metal at a temperature in the range of 900*-2,000* F. for 1/2 to 24 hours. When metal Falex pins and jaws are treated in the above fashion they have longer running times, i.e., up to 11 times, than untreated pins and jaws under the same conditions in a standard Falex testing apparatus.
Abstract:
A method of hardening a surface of a ferro-alloy object, the method comprising at least partially gasifying a carbon-containing polymer to form a hardening material source; and exposing the object to the hardening material source, such that the hardening material source and the surface of the object react, thereby hardening the surface of the object.
Abstract:
A process for the surface treatment of a metal part comprises:exposing a surface (1) of the metal part to a stream of substantially spherical particles, so that any portion of said surface receives said particles along several primary incidences, the primary incidences of the particles on a portion of the surface being essentially distributed in a cone or a conical film which has an outer half apex angle between 10° and 45°, until a surface layer (3) of nanostructures having an average thickness of several tens of microns is obtained, the particles having a diameter of less than 2 mm and greater than 0.1 mm and being projected at a speed between 40 m/s and 100 m/s. A thermochemical treatment is then applied, in particular a low-temperature treatment of the nitriding type or a high-temperature treatment of the low-pressure carbonitriding type.