528 results about "Case hardening" patented technology

Golf club structures, including club heads and shafts, composed of composites comprised of a matrix of metal, such as an aluminum alloy, or a plastic material and a fiber such as graphite or a ceramic, which may be whiskerized, and which may also be selectively weighted as in the toe and heel of a club head, with heavy particles such as tungsten metal. The club structure may also be surface hardened by applying a coating of fullerenes to a metal club structure and heat treating it to produce a hard coating of metal carbide, preferably by coating a titanium golf club structure with fullerenes and heat treating the coated structure to produce a titanium carbide surface.

A hardfacing is provided to protect surfaces of drill bits and other downhole tools. The hardfacing may include tungsten carbide particles or pellets formed with an optimum weight percentage of binding material and dispersed within and bonded to a matrix deposit. The tungsten carbide particles may be formed by sintering or other appropriate techniques. The tungsten carbide particles may have generally spherical shapes, partially spherical shapes or non-spherical shapes.

A method for producing a prosthetic having metal articulating surfaces is disclosed. The method includes impinging at least a portion of the articulating surface with high energy laser electromagnetic radiation, to form a lasershot peened surface. A hardened portion of the surface is then post-processed to form a layer having a predetermined finish.

Casing bits include a crown having a substantially hollow interior. The bit crown has blades over a face portion thereof, the blades including a plurality of cutting elements attached thereto. The bit crown further includes a composite inlay positioned at least within the substantially hollow interior. Casing bits also include case hardened outer surfaces radially outside the drill-out region. Casing bits further include short-substrate cutting elements. Methods of forming a casing bit are also disclosed.

A fuel injector for internal combustion engines, with a nozzle body in which a valve needle with a sealing face is movably supported. The sealing face of the valve needle comes into contact with a valve seat face that is adapted to the sealing face and is formed on an inner wall region of an end cup of the nozzle body. At least one injection opening is provided in the valve seat face, wherein both the inner wall region with the valve seat face of the nozzle body disposed on it and an outer wall region are hardened. The nozzle body is comprised of a rustproof martensitic steel that is hardened by means of case hardening with nitrogen.

A highly abrasive wear metal matrix composite hardfacing material for downhole tools is disclosed. The hardfacing material may comprise a matrix of a softer material with high hardness, such as amorphous nanocomposite steel alloys, and one or more hard component materials. The hard component materials may comprise sintered tungsten carbide, monocrystalline WC, polycrystalline WC, and the additional component of spherical cast tungsten carbide. Alternatively, a matrix of softer material, hard component materials and crushed cast tungsten carbide may be used.

A technology for rolling the composite Cu-Al plate includes such steps as preheating the copper band and aluminium plate respectively at different temp for different time, acid washing of copper band, alkali washing of aluminium plate, brushing surface by steel wire brush, rolling by a pair of upper concave roller and lower convex roller, annealing in inertial gas, and straightening.

The method and apparatus for performing the method of forming a weld joint of the present invention utilizes welding apparatus (100) having welded tool (102) and a compression tool (106) for inducing a layer of residual compressive stress along the surface of the weld line (18) and any heat affected regions with a controlled amount of cold working and surface hardening. In a preferred embodiment of the invention the compression tool (106) utilizes a single-point burnishing process to provide deep compression within the weld joint (20) with a minimal amount of cold working and surface hardening.

An iron based hardfacing alloy with an undiluted (all weld material) alloy composition is substantially balanced in order to achieve an hypo-eutectic primary austenitic with secondary martensitic solidification mode. The alloy enables the deposition of substantially crack-free single layers of hardfacing onto industrial components without any post weld treatment. The hardfacing alloy is capable of withstanding abrasion of silicious earth particles when applied to industrial products, such as tool joints, stabilizers and casing and other tubulars used in oil and gas well drilling, and other industrial products.

The invention relates to case-hardening of a stainless steel article by means of gas including carbon and/or nitrogen, whereby carbon and/or nitrogen atoms diffuse through the surface into the article. The method includes activating the surface of the article, applying a top layer on the activated surface to prevent repassivation. The top layer includes metal which is catalytic to the decomposition of the gas.

An earth-boring bit, and a method of increasing the durability of the same, which includes the step providing a pliable sheet of a hardfacing matrix material. The pliable sheet of hardfacing material has a nickel and chromium matrix combined with a first element. The first element is selected from a group consisting of spherical sintered tungsten carbide, spherical cast tungsten carbide, and metallic glass. The hardfacing matrix material sheet is placed on a preselected surface of the drill bit. The hardfacing matrix material sheet is then fusion bonded to the drill bit.

A precision grinding apparatus includes a grinding worm for precision grinding a case-hardened face gear. A shaper is first placed into contact with a face gear, to thereby shape a surface of the face gear into a plurality of face gear teeth. The shaper is then removed, and the face gear is case hardened. The grinding worm is disposed in a normal orientation to the case-hardened face gear and includes a spiral tooth extending along a perimeter of the grinding worm. The spiral tooth of the grinding worm is adapted to contact and precision grind the case-hardened gear. A dressing tool includes a protrusion for contacting the spiral tooth of the grinding worm, as the spiral tooth contacts and precision grinds the case-hardened face gear. The dressing tool thus maintains the shape of the grinding worm to within a desired tolerance range.

Disclosed is a hardfacing alloy deriving its usefulness from carbides and borides of molybdenum and niobium. The alloy does not rely on chromium as an alloying agent. The hardfacing alloy is capable of being applied to a number of industrial substrates in a crack-free manner, and once applied convert the substrate to a wear- and abrasion-resistant material having an extended service life, even when subjected to harsh wear conditions.

An earth-boring drill bit having a bit body with a cutting component formed from a tungsten carbide composite material is disclosed. The composite material includes a binder and tungsten carbide crystals comprising sintered pellets. The composite material may be used as a hardfacing on the body and/or cutting elements, or be used to form portions or all of the body and cutting elements. The pellets may be formed with a single mode or multi-modal size distribution of the crystals.

The invention concerns a composite material consisting of intermetallic phases and ceramic, in particular in the form of a coating on metallic substrates, as well as an arc wire spraying process for production of the composite material in which the intermetallic phases and the ceramics to be deposited are newly formed during the deposit process from the components of the supplied wires by chemical reaction. The invention further concerns wear resistant layers formed by the composites, tribologic layers and plating or hard-facing materials.

A powder form of a hard phase component, selected from the group consisting of boron carbide, silicon carbide and a mixture of boron carbide and silicon carbide, is combined with an aluminum alloy matrix powder and applied to a metal substrate using plasma transferred arc (“PTA”) welding to produce a hardfaced structure having a wear-resisting carbide metal matrix composite overlay. The metal substrate can be any metal structure, such as an aluminum, aluminum alloy, steel or carbon steel structure, where wear resistance is desirable. Further, a process for hardfacing a metal substrate is disclosed comprising feeding a hard phase powder, selected from the group consisting of boron carbide, silicon carbide and a mixture of boron carbide and silicon carbide, and an aluminum alloy metal matrix powder to an operative PTA welding torch and welding to form a carbide metal matrix composite overlay fused to a metal substrate. The metal substrate produced by the hardfacing process herein exhibits increased wear resistance without a significant increase in the overall weight of the metal substrate.

A hardfacing machine is used for depositing a hardfacing alloy onto a metallic workpiece. An welding unit includes a wire feed system to supply wire to a welding head. A powder alloy feeding system includes a powder feed nozzle fluidly connected to an alloy powder supply. The welding head and powder feed nozzle move in a travel direction relative to the workpiece. The powder feed nozzle is positioned and oriented to feed a powder stream of alloy powder into a molten pool generated on the workpiece by an electrical arc produced by the welding head at a low temperature location behind the welding head relative to the travel direction. This alloy surfacing strategy limits vaporization of alloy elements by avoiding the high temperature region associated with the electrical arc.

A process for preparing large-area or rod-shaped ultrafine-grain crystal material by the transfer method in strong deformation region features that A pression-torsion head pressing on a planar metal material is rotating at a certain speed while transversely moving to treating the surface of the material line by line, breaking the metallic crystal grains and generating large-area ultrafine-grain crystal material.

A tube fitting that uses only two components, namely a fitting body and a fitting nut. The nut and body are adapted to be threadably coupled together by relative rotation therebetween. The nut includes an integral tube gripping ring that cooperates with a camming surface on the body when the fitting is made-up. The camming surface preferably has a steep camming angle. The ring is radially compressed against the tube outer wall to form a seal and a tight tube grip. The ring also forms a line contact-type seal against the camming surface. The ring is designed to have a hinging action and to plastically deform during pull-up to embed into the tubing for excellent tube grip, and an axially adjacent swage or col let zone that isolates any stress riser resulting from the embedding action from vibration effects. The fitting components, and particularly the ring, may be case hardened, the fitting may include a self-gauging feature to indicate sufficient pull-up to prevent excessive pull-up. Also provided is a single ferrule tube fitting that uses a steep camming surface and is at least about 3.3 times harder than the stainless steel tube end.

A roll typed impact extrusion processing method and a device of automobile drive axle housing adopts roll typed impact extrusion technique to manufacture a lute-shaped housing expanded from the middle of the driving axle housing, namely, axial compressive force is loaded to the both ends of the axle housing roughcast or the semi-finished product; in the forming die, dedicated roll pressured rolling of the driving gear is adopted to implement repeated rolling and progressive roll typed impact extrusion operation to the inner wall of the workpiece, and processes the workpiece into the needed axle housing shape. As a lute-shaped hole of the middle of the axle housing is molded by reaming and roll typed impact extrusion technology, the volume of the metal material is progressively transferred a plurality of times, and the thickness of the deformation part of the material basically remains the same, so that the metallurgical structure of the steels of the area is compact, furthermore, surface hardening greatly strengthens all the mechanical performance of the corresponding parts of the axle housing body, and improves the integral mechanical strength and rigidity of the axle housing. The method has the advantages of simple technique, convenient operation, little investment of the dedicated device and die, reliable work, and simple and easy product model conversion, which is suitable for batch produce with a plurality of varieties.

A ferrule for a metal tube fitting includes a body that is case hardened over substantially its entire surface. The ferrule also has an interior wall comprising first and second cylindrical portions, the first cylindrical portion being axially adjacent a front edge of the ferrule and having the smallest interior wall diameter of the ferrule, the second cylindrical portion having a larger diameter than said first cylindrical portion.

The invention relates to the technical field of cemented carbide preparation, in particular to surface-hardened gradient cemented carbide and a preparation method thereof. By adjusting components of an alloy binding phase, the WC crystalline grains in the prepared cemented carbide are small, even in distribution, high in density and remarkable in gradient, the cemented carbide is made to have the more excellent mechanical property, and the red hardness of the cemented carbide is improved. The components and thickness of a gradient layer of the cemented carbide are controlled by adjusting blank formulas, sintering temperature, sintering time and other parameters, the surface layer of the cemented carbide is made to be rich in cubic phase and poor in binding phase, and due to the fact that a transition layer rich in alloying binding phase is arranged below the surface layer, the cemented carbide is excellent in hardness, wear resistance and roughness, and the cemented carbide can be used for metal machining. The cemented carbide prepared through the method has the excellent wear resistance, strength, hardness and toughness at the same time. According to the method, the functional gradient cemented carbide can be produced by slightly modifying existing equipment and processes, and is suitable for industrial production.