315 results about "Carbonitriding" patented technology

The invention relates to a medium-deep-layer carburization or carbonitriding thermal processing technology for bearings or clutch parts. In the invention, the carburization or carbonitriding is carried on parts by utilizing a continuous production line of a carrier roller type mesh belt furnace with a controllable atmosphere, and the technology comprises the following steps in sequence: strong permeation, diffusion, quenching, cleaning, low-temperature tempering, discharging and air cooling. In the invention, the continuous production line of the carrier roller type mesh belt furnace with the controllable atmosphere is used for carrying out the medium-deep-layer carburization or carbonitriding, thus continuous production is realized, the production efficiency is improved, the productivity is increased, frequent opening and closing actions of a gap furnace can be reduced, non-oxidization treatment is realized, and the labor intensity is reduced; and in addition, carbon potentials in all areas of the mesh belt furnace are respectively controlled so as to guarantee the quality stability.

The disclosed surface chemical thermal treatment technique for a high-C-Cr bearing comprises: setting parameters, front cleaning, pre-oxidizing, heating, carbonitriding, cooling to diffuse, quenching, and tempering. This invention uses the treatment device in vehicle and motor cycle gear process to form one layer with special tissue and improve contact fatigue strength and surface hardness.

A carbonitriding method that can improve the nitrogen permeating rate to render the carbonitriding process effective includes an atmosphere control step (50), and a heating pattern control step (60). The atmosphere control step (50) includes an undecomposed NH₃ partial pressure control step (51), and a CO/CO₂ partial pressure control step (53). The undecomposed NH₃ partial pressure control step (51) and the CO/CO₂ partial pressure control step (53) are carried out in the atmosphere control step (50) such that a_c* defined by the following equation (1) is at least 0.88 and not more than 1.27, and α defined by equation (2) is at least 0.012 and not more than 0.020, where P_N is the undecomposed ammonia partial pressure and P_H is the hydrogen partial pressure in the heat treatment furnace, wherein

The invention discloses an automobile transmission gear heat treatment method. The method includes the steps of carburization, carbonitriding, quenching, cleaning, low temperature tempering and air cooling. The carburization technique is combined with the carbonitriding technique, abrasion resistance, fatigue strength and corrosive resistance are improved by a layer of highly hard nitride layer obtained on the carburized layer on the surface of a gear, and comprehensive performance of a product is good; meanwhile, the problems of massive carbide appearing under the high carbon potential state and network carbide appearing in the cooling process are avoided, and early-age cracking of the surface of the gear is avoided; moreover, by the method, the technological process is simplified, heating and cooling links and discharge links are reduced, carburization deformation and quenching deformation are reduced, generation of black structures is reduced as well, and anti-fatigue performance is guaranteed; finally, by the method, production cycle is shortened greatly, energy consumption is lowered, and production efficiency is improved highly.

Obtain a bearing's component, a heat treatment method thereof, and a rolling bearing having a long life against rolling contact fatigue and high anti-crack strength, and suppressed long-term dimensional variation rate. The bearing's component is carbonitrided at a carbonitriding temperature higher than an A₁ transformation point of steel for the bearing's component and then cooled to a temperature lower than the A₁ transformation point, and subsequently, using a heat treatment apparatus that successively moves and heats each individual bearing's component, reheated to a range of quenching temperature of no less than the A₁ transformation point and less than the carbonitriding temperature to be quenched.

A bearing part comprising steel subjected to carbonitriding at a carbonitriding temperature exceeding the A₁ transformation temperature, and cooled to a temperature lower than the A₁ transformation temperature. The steel is reheated to a temperature for quenching that is not lower than the A₁ transformation temperature but lower than the carbonitriding temperature, and then quenched.

A bearing for use in the main spindle of a machine tool is provide, in which at least the raceway of the bearing contains by mass, C: 0.6-1.3%, Si: 0.3-3.0%, Mn: 0.2-1.5%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.03% or less, Cr: 0.3-5.0%, Ni: 0.1-3.0%, Al: 0.050% or less, Ti: 0.003% or less, O: 0.0015% or less, N: 0.015% or less; and the rest is composed of Fe and unavoidable impurities. The raceway is tempered after either quenching or carbonitriding and its surface hardness presents at least HRC 58 after tempering.

The invention provides a heat treatment process of a metal workpiece. The heat treatment process comprises the following steps: firstly preheating the workpiece to be treated in the presence of shielding gas; heating for carbonitriding; quenching; and tempering and cooling. The heat-treated workpiece has the advantages of high strength and good wear resistance; and a durability test and a main physiochemical performance test show that the workpiece meets technological requirements.

A method for carbonitriding a steel part arranged in an enclosure maintained at a reduced internal pressure, the part being maintained at a temperature level, comprising an alternation of first and second steps, a carburizing gas being injected into the enclosure during the first steps only and a nitriding gas being injected into the enclosure only during at least part of at least two second steps.

A method of manufacturing a cam shaft that prevents cracks during the joining of a cam lobe to a shaft, and improves the degree of freedom of design of the cam lobe is provided.

By a method of manufacturing a cam shaft that after an inner circumferential surface 13 of a cam lobe 1 is subjected to treatment for residual compressive stress addition treatment, the cam lob 1 is joined to a shaft, above problem is solved. It is preferred that the residual compressive stress on the inner circumferential surface 13 of the cam lobe 1 is not less than 100 MPa. In addition, an outer peripheral surface 14 of the cam lobe 1 can be also subjected to treatment for residual compressive stress addition treatment. As the treatment for residual compressive stress addition treatment, shot-peening treatment, induction hardening treatment, barrel polishing treatment, carburizing and quenching treatment or carbonitriding treatment is performed.

A bearing is provided to have sufficient durability even when CVT fluid having a low viscocity is used, with its flow rate kept small, so that the efficiency of the belt-type continuously variable transmission is improved.

The material of the races including the outer race 4 is made of a iron-base alloy containing, by weight, C of from 0.15% to 0.5%, Si of 0.1% to 1.5%, Mn of 0.1% to 1.5%, and Cr of 0.5% to 3.0%. This material is subjected to carbonitriding, quenching, tempering and quenching finish. The surface portion of the outer raceway 6 on the inner peripheral surface of the outer race 4 is formed with a surface layer containing C of from 0.8 weight % to 1.2 weight % and N of from 0.05 weight % to 0.50 weight %.

The invention provides a carburizing and quenching heat treatment process of a driven reverse gear used for transmissions. The process comprises the following steps: 1) carburizing; 2) carbonitriding; 3) quenching; 4) cleaning; and 5) tempering. The heat treatment process has the beneficial effects that the surface of the driven reverse gear is treated by carbonitriding; and carburizing and nitriding are combined, thus improving the quality of the surface of the driven reverse gear, improving the production efficiency, reducing the energy consumption and saving the production cost.

The invention discloses a preparation process of a harmonic reducer flexible gear. The preparation process mainly comprises the following steps: (1) a low-carbon alloy steel basal material is molten as alloy soup in inert gas; (2) the alloy soup, prepared in the step (1), is poured in a harmonic reducer flexible gear casting mold for cooling molding, is molded through die-casting extrusion, and is thermally treated and annealed to form a harmonic reducer flexible gear blank; (3) the harmonic reducer flexible gear blank, manufactured by the step (2), is turned and punched as circular pieces; (4) the circular pieces, manufactured by the step (3) are spun at 400-450 DEG C, and are protected by inert gas to manufacture a harmonic reducer flexible gear prototype; and (5) the harmonic reducer flexible gear prototype is finished and polished to remove burrs on the surface; the laser heat treatment is performed for the surface layer to realize carbonitriding; the thickness of a carbonitriding layer is 0.08-0.12 mm; and the finished harmonic reducer flexible gear is manufactured. The manufactured harmonic reducer flexible gear is excellent in wear resistance and high in corrosion resistance and fatigue resistance.

The invention discloses a process for strengthening nodular cast ion and a finished product thereof. The process comprises the following steps of: putting cleaned nodular cast iron parts into a carburizing furnace; performing carbonitriding, namely adding methanol and ammonia at the temperature of between 800 and 840 DEG C, wherein the addition of the methanol is 80-120 drops/minute, the adding volume of the ammonia is 1 to 5 percent of the volume of the methanol cracked gas, the carbon potential is maintained to between 0.8 and 1.2 percent, and the processing time is 2 to 4 hours; and performing quenching to obtain a part finished product. In the carbonitriding process, the decarbonization preventing technological measure is adopted, the metallographic structure of the finished product comprises a surface layer, a sublayer and a substrate in turn, the surface layer is a granular or continuously distributed compound layer, the sublayer is hidden needle-like nitrogenous martensite, retained austenite and graphite, and the substrate is thin needle-like martensite, retained austenite and graphite. The process can improve the scratch resistance, wear resistance and contact fatigue strength, can effectively prevent full decarbonization during carbonitriding of the nodular cast ion, and has the advantages of low process difficulty and low production cost.

The invention discloses a heat treatment method for steel pieces, and relates to improvement of a heat treatment method for surfaces of steel pieces. The heat treatment method makes the steel pieces improve the depth of an austenite nitriding/carbonitriding layer and reduce deformation, integrates and fully exerts the advantages of various processes, and overcomes respective disadvantages to complement one another so as to achieve excellent comprehensive usability. In the treatment method for compounding chemical heat treatment (such as carburizing or carbonitriding) and austenite nitriding or austenite carbonitriding technology, a workpiece is heated to be in an austenite state for carburizing or carbonitriding, a preset layer is obtained, and the temperature in the same furnace is reduced to the austenite nitriding temperature between 620 and 720 DEG C for nitriding or carbonitriding treatment, so that the nitrogen concentration on the surface of the workpiece reaches the nitrogen concentration of austenite and the level of the austenite nitriding layer is improved; and the workpiece is directly quenched and aged or directly subjected to isothermal quenching, so that the high-nitrogen austenite is decomposed and high surface hardness and wear resistance are achieved.

A vacuum carbonitriding method includes: performing a vacuum carburizing process on an object to be treated (a workpiece) in a heat treating furnace under reduced pressures by supplying a carburizing gas into the furnace that has been heated to a predetermined carburizing temperature; stopping supply of the carburizing gas while keeping the carburizing temperature so as to diffuse carbon in the workpiece under reduced pressures; and performing a nitriding process on the workpiece by supplying a nitriding gas into the furnace under reduced pressures after lowering the furnace temperature. Required heat treatment qualities such as surface hardness, effective case depth, toughness and the like can be achieved in a short time with reproducibility even in a case of workpiece made of low-grade steel or case-hardened steel.

The invention provides a heat treatment process for surface hardening and carbonitriding of hydraulic parts, which includes the following steps: a washing the hydraulic parts preparing for heat treatment to remove greasy dirt; b warming a carburizing multi-purpose furnace, and performing pre-carburizing treatment; c putting the hydraulic parts washed cleanly through the step a in the carburizing multi-purpose furnace, and performing strong carburizing; d adjusting carbon potential after the strong carburizing to perform diffusion; e putting the hydraulic parts after carbonitriding in the stepd in a quenching chamber of the carburizing multi-purpose furnace to be quenched, filtering oil and discharging from the furnace; and f washing the hydraulic parts of the step e, and putting the hydraulic parts in a tempering furnace to be tempered to obtain products.

The invention provides a low-temperature catalyst and a carbonitriding method thereof. The catalyst comprises the following components in percent by weight: 10-15 percent of ammonium chloride, 1-5 percent of titanium sponge, 8-13 percent of rare earth, 0.1-2.5 percent of solid chromate, 0.01-1.5 percent of aluminum powder and the balance of quartz sand. The carbonitriding method comprises the following steps of: weighting the ammonium chloride, the titanium sponge, the rare earth, the solid chromate, the aluminum powder and the quartz sand as raw materials, grinding and mixing uniformly to form the catalyst; and mixing a cleaned workpiece with the catalyst uniformly and then charging into a furnace together for compound nitriding. The low-temperature catalyst and the carbonitriding method thereof are used for carrying out compound nitriding on a carbonitriding process by adopting the catalyst, and further improve surface hardness, wear resistance and corrosion resistance of a workpiece while reducing carbonitriding temperature and shortening carbonitriding time.

The invention discloses a coating large-area continuous deposition and surface modifying method and belongs to the technical field of material surfaces. According to the method, cathode plasma electrolysis adopts electrolytic cell solutions with heavy organic liquid on the lower layer and an aqueous solution electrolyte on the upper layer. By controlling an electrode to be immersed into the electrolyte from the liquid surface, cathode metal is subjected to coating deposition or surface modifying treatment through plasma discharge in the aqueous solution electrolyte layer. By adjusting the area ratio of an anode to a cathode and applying the direct voltage or the pulse voltage to the cathode and the anode of an electrolytic cell, and in electrolytes of different components, oxides, carbides, borides and composite ceramic coatings can be deposited on the surface of the metal, and various metals such as nickel, copper, chromium and cadmium or metal composite coatings can be also deposited; and meanwhile, by introducing carbides and nitrides into the solutions, plasma nitriding, plasma carburizing or plasma carbonitriding of the metal cathode can be further achieved, besides, the material surface can be cleaned, oxides can be removed, and nanocrystallization of the material surface can be achieved.

The invention discloses the deep level rare earth boron-carbo-nitriding agent, comprising the following characters: 3-12 parts boron carbide, 2-9 parts potassium borofluoride, 2-9 parts rare earth chloride, 1-10 parts charcoal powder, 1-4 parts activated char, 1-4 parts fluorigard, 1-4 parts aquadrate and 48-89 parts carbofrax. The method comprises the following steps: adding rare earth chloride into agent to improve layer depth to 0.20-0.80mm; carrying out carbonitriding, improving the hard of buffer layer and width, reducing the hardness gradient, and avoiding boronization layer exfoliation; the rare earth entering into boronization layer, improving the boronization layer structure and property.

The invention discloses a titanium carbonitride blast furnace protecting agent and a preparation method thereof. The furnace protecting agent comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 50-74% of calcium carbonitride Ti (C, N), 17-40% of composition of CaO, MgO, SiO2 and AL2O3, greater than 1% of free carbon, greater than 3% of total iron TFe and less than 6% of titanium oxide. The preparation method comprises the following steps: selecting titanium concentrate, preparing carbon, mixing materials, forming, calcining, reducing, and carrying out carbonitriding of titanium, wherein the carbonitriding ratio of titanium is greater than 85%; the furnace wall at the corroded part of a furnace hearth is thinned, and the temperature of the corroded part is lower than the temperature of other regions, thereby forming a temperature gradient; and under the action of the temperature gradient, Ti(C, N) and attachments thereof are continuously accumulated and bonded in the corroded region until the temperature gradient relatively disappears. The invention overcomes the defects that in the prior art, the titanium content is unstable and the impurity content is high, the energy consumption is large, and the effective utilization ratio of titanium is lower than 30%; and the titanium carbonitride Ti (C, N) used as an effective component is directly formed in the molten iron of the furnace hearth and is deposited on the working surface of the corroded part of the furnace hearth or deposited in brick work joints to repair the corroded region, thereby performing the function of protecting the furnace hearth.

The invention discloses a medium carbon alloy steel chain pin shaft heat treatment method. A carbonitriding quenching and tempering treatment process with the front area and rear area of a meshbeltfurnace adjusting the temperature and carbon potential is adopted, a chain pin shaft with cold extrusion in place is enclosed into the meshbeltfurnace with controllable atmosphere, in the atmosphere protection environment, the front area heating temperature is set as 850 +/- 10 DEG C, the carbon potential (Cp) is set as (1.1 +/- 0.1)%, the rear area heating temperature is reduced to 830 +/- 10 DEG C,the carbon potential (Cp) is reduced to (0.9 +/- 0.1)%, the total heat preservation time of the front area and rear area is 110-130 minutes, then the chain pin shaft is subjected to tempering treatment after being quenched by quenching oil, the tempering temperature is 150-190 DEG C, and the tempering heat preservation time is 120-150 minutes. According to the medium carbon alloy steel chain pinshaft heat treatment method, by means of the manners that the different temperature of the front area and rear area of the meshbeltfurnace with the controllable atmosphere is adjusted, and long time heat preservation is performed, more nitrogen atoms are made to be infiltrated into the surface of the chain pin shaft, the infiltrating layer tissue with the pin shaft surface infiltrating layer hardness being high and the hardness gradient being low and gentle is obtained, and the wear resistance of the pin shaft is improved.