15627results about "Heat treatment furnaces" patented technology

Systems for bone and spinal stabilization, fixation and repair include intramedullar nails, intervertebral cages and prostheses, remotely activatable prostheses, tissue extraction devices, and electrocautery probes. The intramedullar nails, intervertebral cages and prostheses, are designed for expansion from a small diameter for insertion into place to a larger diameter which stabilizes, fixates or repairs the bone, and further can be inserted percutaneously. Remotely activatable prostheses can be activated from an external unit to expand and treat prosthesis loosening. Tissue extraction devices, and electrocautery probes are used to remove tissue from desired areas.

A thermal processing furnace, comprising:

• a generally bell jar-shaped outer reaction tube having a central axis; and
• an open-ended inner reaction tube for accommodating a wafer boat holding a plurality of substrates, which inner reaction tube is substantially coaxially disposed within the outer reaction tube, thereby defining a gas passage between an outer wall of the inner reaction tube and an inner wall of the outer reaction tube,

wherein at least one of the outer wall of the inner reaction tube and the inner wall of the outer reaction tube is provided with a flow deflector that protrudes radially from the respective wall into the gas passage.

The invention provides a thin high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet with a thickness of not more than 3.5 mm which has excellent stretch flangeability and high uniformity in both shape and mechanical properties of the steel sheet, as well as a method of producing the hot-rolled steel sheet. A slab containing C: 0.05-0.30 wt %, Si: 0.03-1.0 wt %, Mn: 1.5-3.5 wt %, P: not more than 0.02 wt %, S: not more than 0.005 wt %, Al: not more than 0.150 wt %, N: not more than 0.0200 wt %, and one or two of Nb: 0.003-0.20 wt % and Ti: 0.005-0.20 wt % is heated at a temperature of not higher than 1200° C. The slab is hot-rolled at a finish rolling end temperature of not lower than 800° C., preferably at a finish rolling start temperature of 950-1050° C. A hot-rolled sheet is started to be cooled within two seconds after the end of the rolling, and then continuously cooled down to a coiling temperature at a cooling rate of 20-150° C./sec. The hot-rolled sheet is coiled at a temperature of 300-550° C., preferably in excess of 400° C. A fine bainite structure is obtained in which the mean grain size is not greater than 3.0 mum, the aspect ratio is not more than 1.5, and preferably the maximum size of the major axis is not greater than 10 mum.

Large gas turbine blades made from separate cast segments of superalloys are disclosed. The turbine blade is designed such that bond lines between adjacent segments are placed in low stress regions of the blade. The cast superalloy segments of the blades are aligned and fitted together with specified tolerances. The turbine blade segments are then joined by transient liquid phase bonding, followed by a controlled heat treatment which produces the desired microstructure in the bond region. The method allows for the production of large, high quality turbine blades by joining small, high quality cast superalloy sections, in comparison with prior attempts to cast large turbine blades as single pieces which have produced very low yields and high individual component costs.

An apparatus and method for making a seam-welded steel pipe free of untempered martensite without seam anneal. The method includes selecting a steel containing a carbon concentration below a predetermined level, for example, 0.14% or 0.12% by weight. The method also includes flooding both outside and inside of the strip with a coolant while the weld seam is being formed, and continuing to immerse the welded strip for a sufficient time after the weld seam is formed to prevent the formation of untempered martensite. The apparatus includes a heater capable of heating the strip to a temperature sufficient to form a welded seam, a cooling module configured to supply a coolant to the welded seam both inside and outside of the strip as the weld seam is being formed, and another cooling module configured to immerse the welded strip in a coolant after the weld seam is formed for a sufficient length of time to prevent the formation of untempered martensite.

PCT No. PCT/JP97/00526 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 31, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 31, 1998 PCT Filed Feb. 25, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97/32339 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 4, 1997An heat-treating ring boat (20) for semiconductor wafers (W) has a top plate (21), a bottom plate (22), six columns (23-28), and 63 ring trays (31). The trays (31) are mounted in grooves (20a) of the columns (23-28). To fix the trays (31), a fixing rod (33) is detachably mounted between the top plate (21) and bottom plate (22). A through hole (21a) and a recessed portion (22a) to mount the fixing rod (33) therein are formed in the top plate (21) and bottom plate (22). Notches (34) to engage with the fixing rod (33) are formed in the trays (31). A notch (32) to engage with the fixing rod (33) is formed in the column (23). A projection (41) is formed on each tray (31) to abut against the side surface of the column (24).

Metallic workpieces of diverse shapes having work surfaces which are deformed at the surface and adjacent sub-surface layers by surface impact from ultrasonic transducers employing freely axially moving impacting elements propelled and energized by a transducer oscillating surface vibrating periodically at an ultrasonic frequency. The impacting elements are propelled in a random aperiodic and controlled impact mode at different phases of the periodic oscillation cycles. The transducer may be portable and provides a series of mechanically interconnected stages having mechanical resonances harmonically related as a multiple of the primary ultrasonic frequency and have matched stage resistances under instantaneous loading when the impact elements are driven by the transducer oscillating surface into the surface of the workpiece. This mode of operation produces Q-factor amplification of the input ultrasonic power oscillator energy at the impact needles and high propulsion velocities making it possible to machine metallic workpiece bodies to greater depths for compressing the metal to increase compressive strength of the workpiece work surfaces to substantially the ultimate material strength. The impact machining is done at ambient temperatures.

The present invention is directed to a method of joining an amorphous material to a non-amorphous material including, forming a cast mechanical joint between the bulk solidifying amorphous alloy and the non-amorphous material.

A low carbon alloy steel tube and a method of manufacturing the same, in which the steel tube consists essentially of, by weight: about 0.06% to about 0.18% carbon; about 0.5% to about 1.5% manganese; about 0.1% to about 0.5% silicon; up to about 0.015% sulfur; up to about 0.025% phosphorous; up to about 0.50% nickel; about 0.1% to about 1.0% chromium; about 0.1% to about 1.0% molybdenum; about 0.01% to about 0.10% vanadium; about 0.01% to about 0.10% titanium; about 0.05% to about 0.35% copper; about 0.010% to about 0.050% aluminum; up to about 0.05% niobium; up to about 0.15% residual elements; and the balance iron and incidental impurities. The steel has a tensile strength of at least about 145 ksi and exhibits ductile behavior at temperatures as low as −60° C.

The invention provides a super-strength steel plate comprising the following constituents (by weight percent): C 0.08-0.18%, Si<=0.6%, Mn 0.5-2.0%, Al <=0.018%, N<=0.008%, B<=0.0025%, Ca 0-0.006%, P<=0.015%, S<=0.005%, Ni <=1.0%, Cr<=0.8%, Cu<=0.5%, Mo<=0.6%, Ti 0.01-0.03%, V<=0.1%, Nb 0.01-0.1%, balancing Fe and unavoidable foreign substance. The invention also provides the preparing process.

An apparatus and method for removing tissue and/or other material from a patient includes a shaft and a tissue disrupting mechanism operatively coupled to the shaft. The shaft may be coupled to a handpiece or a robotic or remote-controlled system. The mechanism may comprise a rotatable or other movable element having a distal portion with fixed or adjustable radial dimensions. The mechanism may have one or more tissue cutting, chopping, grinding, emulsifying or disrupting features with an adjustable outer diameter for removing substantial tissues. The apparatus may be configured to urge or draw substantial material into the device upon rotation or other movement of the shaft and/or tissue, and may optionally be coupled to sources of suction or aspiration. A radiofrequency or other energy source is optionally included for tissue ablation or other tissue remodeling effects, and/or to enhance coagulation.

The invention provides an integral forming method of a large size thin-walled titanium alloy cylindrical part without a welding line. The integral forming method comprises the following steps of: (1) tube blank preparation by stamping; (2) high-temperature vacuum heat treatment; (3) heating power spinning thinning; (4) unheating power spinning diameter expanding; (5) repetitive and alternate conduction of steps (3) and (4) for 2-3 times; (6) high-temperature vacuum heat treatment; (7) finish turning treatment; and (8) stabilizing treatment. The integral forming method prepares the large size thin-walled titanium alloy cylindrical part without the welding line (wall thickness is 1-7mm) which has high precision and high performance by utilizing titanium alloy plates and adopting a composite technique combining a stamping method, a spinning method and a stabilizing treatment method, and solves the problems of low material utilization ratio, having longitudinal welding lines, low precision of tube performance and the like in the forging and roll bending welding forming of the large size titanium alloy thin-walled tubes.

PCT No. PCT/JP95/01897 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 19, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Mar. 19, 1997 PCT Filed Sep. 20, 1995A method of straightening a wire rod of titanium or titanium alloy wherein the rod is hot-straightened to a straight rod at the straightening temperature T and elongation epsilon satisfying the expression (1) or (2). The method includes hot rolling a titanium billet of beta titanium alloy, ( alpha + beta ) titanium alloy or a near alpha titanium alloy into a wire rod, winding the hot rolled wire rod into a coil, cold drawing the wire rod, cutting the wire rod to obtain a bent wire rod, heating the bent wire rod to a straightening temperature T while both end portions of the bent wire rod are fixed, applying a predetermined elongation epsilon to the wire rod, maintaining a straightening temperature T, hot-straightening the wire in accordance with the expression (2) epsilon (T-400)>/=400(1) epsilon (T-500)>/=200(2) and cooling the wire rod while applying tension. The method is suitable for preparing a straight rod for use in an engine valve.

The present invention relates to a method of baking treatment of steel product parts using a high frequency or ultra-high frequency for preventing delayed fracture from occurring due to diffusive hydrogen occluded in steel parts, for example, screws, bolts and the like, or for heating surface layers of the steel parts to generate a difference in temperature between the surface layers and interiors of the steel parts, thereby causing distortion in lattices, wherein the surface layers of the steel parts are rapidly heated to 100 to 300° C. with a high frequency or ultra-high frequency at 10 KHz or higher to remove the diffusive hydrogen which is involved in hydrogen embrittlement, or to transfer an existing state to non-diffusive hydrogen which is not involved in the hydrogen embrittlement.

A reciprocating cutting blade includes a body portion having an top surface, a bottom surface, a longitudinal axis, a first working portion extending at an angle to the longitudinal axis and defining a first cutting surface, a second working portion extending at an angle to the longitudinal axis and defining a second cutting surface. A laser-hardened region extends along at least part of one of the first and second working portions, and preferably along at least part of both of the first and second working portions. The working portions can be serrated to include alternating teeth and roots. The teeth can be laser hardened more than the roots.

The present invention a high strength aluminium alloy brazing sheet, comprising an Al—Zn core layer and at least one clad layer, the core layer including the following composition (in weight percent):

optionally one or more of:

the balance aluminium and incidental elements and impurities. The clad layer includes an Al—Si based filler alloy and is applied on at least one side of the core layer. The invention relates furthermore to a brazed assembly including such brazing sheet, to the use of such brazing sheet and to method for producing an aluminium alloy brazing sheet.

A method of making a steel composition includes the steps of: a. providing a steel composition that includes up to 15% Cr, up to 3% Mo, up to 4% W, 0.05-1% V, up to 2% Si, up to 3% Mn, up to 10% Co, up to 3% Cu, up to 5% Ni, up to 0.3% C, 0.02-0.3% N, balance iron, wherein the percentages are by total weight of the composition; b. austenitizing the composition at a temperature in the range of 1000° C. to 1400° C.; c. cooling the composition of steel to a selected hot-working temperature in the range 500° C. to 1000° C.; d. hot-working the composition at the selected hot-working temperature; e. annealing the composition for a time period of up to 10 hours at a temperature in the range of 500° C. to 1000° C.; and f. cooling the composition to ambient temperature to transform the steel composition to martensite, bainite, ferrite, or a combination of those microstructures.

This invention provides an oil-tempered wire having high strength (tensile strength of not less than 1960 MPa) and excellent workability and specifically provides a steel wire for high-strength springs comprising as steel components, in weight percent,the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, the steel wire having no nonmetallic inclusions of a size greater than 15 mum, a tensile strength of not less than 1960 MPa, and a yield ratio (sigma0.2/sigmaB) of not less than 0.8 and not greater than 0.9 or a yield ratio (sigma0.2/sigmaB) of not less than 0.8 and an amount of residual austenite of not greater than 6%. This invention also provides a method of producing the steel wire.

A nozzle assembly for a kinetic spray system includes a convergent portion, a throat portion, and a divergent portion, each cooperating together to define a passage therethrough for passing a mixture of powder particles suspended in a flow of a high pressure heated gas. The nozzle assembly further includes an extension portion attached to the divergent portion and extending to a distal end a pre-determined length from the divergent portion of the nozzle assembly. The extension portion permits a dragging force exerted on the powder particles by the flow of high pressure heated gas to act upon the powder particles for a longer duration of time, thereby permitting the powder particles to accelerate to a greater velocity than has been previously achievable.

It is a new preparation and production method of corrosion-resistant and anti-abrasive plastic die steel 4Cr16Mo and its big mirror module. The characteristic is about its chemical composition. There are 0.33-0.43%C, 0.30-1.00%Mn, 0.30-1.00%Si, less than 0.045%S, less than 0.045%P, 14-18%Cr, 0.10-1.00%Ni, 0.80-1.50%Mo besides Fe. The method includes double refinement consisting of the primer smelting in electric furnace and vacuum handling outside the furnace and electroslag remelting, and necessary stress relieving annealing static ingot and electroslag ingot to refine electroslag ingot of component-uniform. After that, it uses hot machining forging technology and necessary stress relieving annealing of module to make the electroslag ingot into big module (thickness: 500mm, width:1200mm, length: 2500mm). At last, special heat-treat module modified treatment technology is used to bring out big highly corrosion-resistant and highly anti-abrasive plastic die steel module. This kind of module has stable quality and the nature reaching the standard(dirty component A<=2.0, B<=2.0, C thinness<=2.0, C thickness<=1.5, D<=2.0). To sum up, it has significant economic and social efficiency.

Alloy steels that combine high strength and toughness with high corrosion resistance are achieved by a dislocated lath microstructure, in which dislocated martensite laths that are substantially free of twinning alternate with thin films of retained austenite, with an absence of autotempered carbides, nitrides and carbonitrides in both the dislocated martensite laths and the retained austenite films. This microstructure is achieved by selecting an alloy composition whose martensite start temperature is 350° C. or greater, and by selecting a cooling regime from the austenite phase through the martensite transition region that avoids regions in which autotempering occurs.

Disclosed are an ultra-high-strength steel sheet having both a tensile strength of as high as 1400MPa or above and excellent formability and an advantageous process for manufacturing the same. A high-strength steel sheet having both a composition which contains by mass C: 0.12 to 0.50%, Si: 2.0% or less, Mn: 1.0 to 5.0%, P: 0.1% or less, S: 0.07% or less, Al: 1.0% or less, and N: 0.008% or less with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and a structure which comprises, in terms of area fraction, autotempered martensite: 80% or more, ferrite: less than 5%, bainite: 10% or less, and retained austenite: 5% or less and in which the average number of precipitated iron carbide particles of 5nm to 0.5[mu]m in the autotempered martensite is 5OE04 or above per mm2.

The present invention provides, in a hot dip plating system having an annealing furnace for hot dip plating steel sheet containing Si, a continuous annealing and hot dip plating method and system causing internal oxidation without causing surface oxidation of the Si in the steel and avoiding a drop in the plating ability of the steel sheet and retardation of alloying, that is, a continuous annealing and hot dip plating method using an annealing furnace having, in order, a front heating zone, rear heating zone, soaking zone, and cooling zone and a hot dip plating bath, comprising heating or soaking the steel sheet at a steel sheet temperature of a temperature range of at least 300° C. or more by indirect heating, making an atmosphere of the zones one comprised of hydrogen H: 1 to 10 vol % and a balance of nitrogen and unavoidable impurities, making a steel sheet peak temperature during heating at the front heating zone 550 to 750° C. and making the dew point less than −25° C., making dew points of the following rear heating zone and soaking zone −30° C. to 0° C., and making a dew point of the cooling zone less than −25° C.

This invention relates to an oriented silicon steel and its processing method and equipment. It comprises of 0.035~0.060% of C, 2.5~3.5% of Si, 0.08~1.8% of Mn, 0.005~0.010% of S, 0.015~0.035% of Al, 0.0050~0.0090% of N, 0.01~0.15% of Sn, 0.010~0.030% of P and 0.05~0.12% of Cu, with the rest iron. The processing method includes: a) smelting; b) hot rolling. Billets are heated to 1100~1200 deg.C and rolling temperature is lower than 1200 deg.C with a finishing temperature of above 850 deg.C and a coiling temperature of below 650 deg.C; c) normalizing. Hot-rolled boards are normalizing annealed at 1050~1180 deg.C for 1~20 seconds and 850~950 deg.C for 30~200 seconds and then cooled quickly; d) cold rolling. Boards are rolled to product thickness by one-off cold rolling or repetitious cold rolling with intermediate annealing; e) nitriding, decarbonization and high-temperature and hot-leveling annealing with boards coated with high-temperature annealing isolation agents mainly made of MgO.

A low carbon alloy steel tube and a method of manufacturing the same, especially for a stored gas inflator pressure vessel, in which the steel tube consists essentially of, by weight: about 0.06% to about 0.18% carbon, about 0.3% to about 1.5% manganese, about 0.05% to about 0.5% silicon, up to about 0.015% sulfur, up to about 0.025% phosphorous, and at least one of the following elements: up to about 0.30% vanadium, upto t about 0.10% aluminum, up to about 0.06% niobium, up to about 1% chromium, up to about 0.70% nickel, up to about 0.70% molybdenum, up to about 0.35% copper, up to about 0.15% residual elements, and the balance iron and incidental impurities. After a high heating rate of about 100° C. per second; rapidly and fully quenching the steel tubing in a water-based quenching solution at a cooling rate of about 100° C. per second. The steel has a tensile strength of at least about 145 ksi and as high as 220 ksi and exhibits ductile behavior at temperatures as low as -100° C.

A build-up welding technology for repairing the rolling roller of section includes such steps as pre-turning, defect inspection, pre-heating, welding transition layer with flux-cored wire SN-YD1031 and flux SSF, welding working layer with flux-cored wire SN-YD285 and flux HJ107, heat treating, turning, and inspection.

The present invention provides high strength thin-gauge steel sheet with excellent elongation and hole expandability having a tensile strength of 500 MPa or more and a method of production of high strength thin-gauge steel sheet with excellent elongation and hole expandability enabling production of this on an industrial scale, that is, high strength thin-gauge steel sheet comprised of, by mass %, C: 0.03 to 0.25%, Si: 0.4 to 2.0%, Mn: 0.8 to 3.1%, P≦0.02%, S≦0.02%, Al≦2.0%, N≦0.01%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities and having a microstructure comprised of ferrite with an area fraction of 10 to 85% and residual austenite with a volume fraction of 1 to 10%, an area fraction of 10% to 60% of tempered martensite, and a balance of bainite.

The invention relates to 700MPa high strength hot rolling Q&P steel and a manufacturing method thereof. The steel has the following chemical components in percentage by weight: 0.15-0.40% of C, 1.0-2.0% of Si, 1.5-3.0% of Mn, less than or equal to 0.015% of P, less than or equal to 0.005% of S, 0.3-1.0% of Al, less than or equal to 0.0065% of N, 0.005-0.015% of Ti and the balance of Fe. The yield strength is greater than or equal to 70MPa, the strength of extension is greater than or equal to 1300MPa, and the ductility is greater than 10%. According to the invention, through a reasonable compound design, based on common C-Mn steel components, austenite crystal is refined by micro Ti treatment by improving the content of Si to inhibit separation of cementite, so that the austenite transformation kinetics in the air cooling process is accelerated by improving the content of Al. Meanwhile, a hot continuous rolling process is matched with a sectional cooling process, so that proeutectoid ferrite+martensite+retained austenite tissues are obtained. The cost of the alloy is greatly lowered.

The invention relates to a method for producing a wind-power mainshaft by local continuous upsetting and all-fibre upset forging. The method comprises the following: step one, the heating of steel ingot; step two, forging; step three, first heat processing; step four, rough machining and ultrasonic inspection; step five, quenching and tempering and heat processing; step six, fine machining, wherein, during the step two, the forging comprises that: (1) a first fire, during which, a steel ingot is subject to upset forging at a forging temperature of between 1250 and 900 DEG C; firstly, the bottom of the steel ingot is sawed off, and the steel ingot is subject to capping and upset forging; (2) a second fire, during which, the steel ingot is stretched towards various directions, marked and subject to intermediate billet cogging; after a pole part is molded, scrap on a T end is chopped and removed; after the forging is finished, the steel ingot returns to a heating furnace for being reheated; (3) a third fire, during which, the steel ingot is subject to local continuous upsetting and all-fibre upset forging; (4) a fourth fire, during which, the steel ingot is subject to rolling and leveling; the pole part is stretched; the disc edge of a hub end on the head part of an intermediate billet material after the local continuous upsetting and all-fibre upset forging is subject to rolling operation; after the rolling, the intermediate billet material is inserted into a leaking disc component again; the end face of the disc is pressed and leveled; after the shaping of the disc end is completed, a manipulator clamps the disc and stretches the pole part of the intermediate billet material to a dimension of a forgeable piece; thus, the mainshaft forging is completed. The method can improve the fatigue resisting strength of a wind-power mainshaft forging piece.

The invention provides a high-strength cold rolling transformation induced plasticity steel plate and a preparation method thereof. The high-strength cold rolling transformation induced plasticity steel plate comprises the following components by weight percentage: 0.1%-0.5% of C, 0.1%-0.6% of Si, 0.5%-2.5% of Mn, 0.02%-0.12% of P, less than or equal to 0.02% of S, 0.02%-0.5% of Al, less than or equal to 0.01% of N, 0.1%-1.0% of Cu and the rest Fe. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: (a) refining molten steel meeting a component condition, and casting into a blank; (b) rolling, wherein the heating temperature is 1,100-1,250 DEG C, the heat preservation time is 1-4h, the initial rolling temperature is 1,100 DEG C, the final rolling temperature is 750-900 DEG C, the coiling temperature is less than 700 DEG C, the thickness of a hot rolled steel plate is 2-4mm, and the cold rolling accumulated pressing amount is 40-80%; and (c) continuous annealing, wherein the annealing temperature is 700-Ac3+50 DEG C, the heat preservation time is 30-360s, the cooling speed is 10-150 DEG C/s, the aging temperature is 250-600 DEG C, the aging time is 30-1,200s, and the hot roller steel plate is cooled at the speed of 5-100DEG C/s to be at the room temperature. The steel plate disclosed by the invention has the bending strength of 380-1,000 MPa, tensile strength of 680-1,280 MPa and elongation of 15-30%.