2359 results about "Cemented carbide" patented technology

The invention relates to a tool, especially a cutting insert for cutting metallic materials, which consist of a hard metal, cermet ceramics or steel base, especially of a high speed steel base, and at least one layer deposited thereon. The single layer, or in the case of several layers the outer layer or the layer underneath the outer layer, contains molybdenum sulfide. The aim of the invention is to improve the resistance to wear of the friction-reducing, molybdenum sulfide containing layer even at high pressures. To this end, the molybdenum sulfide containing layer consists of an alternating sequence of two layer that are different from one another. The first layer contains 51 to 100% by weight of metallic molybdenum and the second layer contains 21 to 100% by weight of MoS2 which substantially consists of hexagonal crystals that are at least substantially oriented in a plane parallel to the tool surface.

The present invention relates to compositions and methods for forming a bit body for an earth-boring bit. The bit body may comprise hard particles, wherein the hard particles comprise at least one carbide, nitride, boride, and oxide and solid solutions thereof, and a binder binding together the hard particles. The binder may comprise at least one metal selected from cobalt, nickel, and iron, and at least one melting point reducing constituent selected from a transition metal carbide in the range of 30 to 60 weight percent, boron up to 10 weight percent, silicon up to 20 weight percent, chromium up to 20 weight percent, and manganese up to 25 weight percent, wherein the weight percentages are based on the total weight of the binder. In addition, the hard particles may comprise at least one of (i) cast carbide (WC+W2C) particles, (ii) transition metal carbide particles selected from the carbides of titanium, chromium, vanadium, zirconium, hafnium, tantalum, molybdenum, niobium, and tungsten, and (iii) sintered cemented carbide particles.

The present invention relates to a cutting tool comprising a body of sintered cemented carbide or cermet, ceramic or high speed steel on which at least one of the functioning parts of the surface of the body, a thin, adherent, hard and wear resistant coating is applied. The coating comprises a laminar, multilayered structure of refractory compounds in polycrystalline, non-repetitive form, MX/NX/MX/NX where the alternating layers MX and NX are metal nitrides or carbides with the metal elements M and N selected from the group consisting of Ti, Nb, Hf, V, Ta, Mo, Zr, Cr, Al and W. The sequence of individual layer thicknesses is essentially aperiodic throughout the entire multilayered structure, and layer thicknesses are larger than 0.1 nanometer but smaller than 30 nanometer, preferably smaller than 20 nanometer. The total thickness of said multilayered coating is larger than 0.5 mu m but smaller than 20 mu m.

This invention relates to cutting inserts for earth boring bits comprising a cutting zone, wherein the cutting zone comprises first cemented hard particles and a body zone, wherein the body zone comprises second cemented hard particles. The first cemented hard particles may differ in at least one property from the second cemented hard particles. As used herein, the cemented hard particles means a material comprising hard particles in a binder. The hard particles may be at least one of a carbide, a nitride, a boride, a silicide, an oxide, and solid solutions thereof and the binder may be at least one metal selected from cobalt, nickel, iron and alloys of cobalt, nickel or iron.

A polycrystalline diamond abrasive element, particularly a cutting element, comprises a layer of polycrystalline diamond having a working surface and bonded to a substrate, particularly a cemented carbide substrate, along an interface. The polycrystalline diamond abrasive element is characterised by using a binder phase that is homogeneously distributed through the polycrystalline diamond layer and that is of a fine scale. The polycrystalline diamond also has a region adjacent the working surface lean in catalysing material and a region rich in catalysing material.

The invention discloses a long-service-life split type valve seat. The long-service-life split type valve seat comprises linings and bases. The linings are embedded into the outlet ends of the bases.The linings are matched with a valve body for use. Each lining is a tungsten carbide alloy. The long-service-life split type valve seat has the beneficial effects that the valve seat is composed of the linings and the bases, the linings are made of a hard alloy material, the hardness, the strength, the wear resistance and the corrosion resistance of the linings are improved, and the service life of the valve seat is greatly prolonged; the valve seat is of a split structure, once abrasion occurs, only the linings or the bases need to be replaced, integral replacement is not needed, maintenanceis convenient, the time and labor are saved, and meanwhile the production cost of an oil and gas field is reduced; the appropriate diameter sizes of the linings can be selected according to the working pressure, the conveying medium, the degree of abrasion of the valve body to the valve seat and the like in actual working conditions, and the application range is wide; the linings and the bases arein various shapes and can be combined according to actual working condition requirements, and the applicability is high.

The invention discloses a superfine WC-Co cemented carbide containing rare-earth elements and a preparation method thereof, belonging to the technical field of cemented carbide. In the cemented carbide, the weight of WC rigid phase accounts for 85-94% of that of the cemented carbide, the weight of Co binder phase accounts for 5-14% of that of the cemented carbide, the weight of grain growth inhibitor accounts for 0.3-2.0% of that of the cemented carbide, and the weight of the thulium in the rare earth addition accounts for 0.2-1.2% of that of the Co binder phase. The method comprises the following steps: weighing various powder stocks, ball-milling, drying and pelletizing to form a compound; and suppressing and shaping the compound, sintering and cooling to obtain the cemented carbide. The adding mode of nano rare earth oxide or Co-RE composite powder can be implemented easily and conveniently, and the rare earth is diffusely and evenly distributed, thereby facilitating to perform physo-chemical reactions; and the cemented carbide has the advantages of low production cost, stable and enhanced performance and easy implementation, production and application.

The present invention relates to compositions and methods for forming a bit body for an earth-boring bit. The bit body may comprise hard particles, wherein the hard particles comprise at least one carbide, nitride, boride, and oxide and solid solutions thereof, and a binder binding together the hard particles. The binder may comprise at least one metal selected from cobalt, nickel, and iron, and, optionally, at least one melting point reducing constituent selected from a transition metal carbide in the range of 30 to 60 weight percent, boron up to 10 weight percent, silicon up to 20 weight percent, chromium up to 20 weight percent, and manganese up to 25 weight percent, wherein the weight percentages are based on the total weight of the binder. In addition, the hard particles may comprise at least one of (i) cast carbide (WC+W2C) particles, (ii) transition metal carbide particles selected from the carbides of titanium, chromium, vanadium, zirconium, hafnium, tantalum, molybdenum, niobium, and tungsten, and (iii) sintered cemented carbide particles.

A polycrystalline diamond abrasive cutting element consists generally of a layer of high grade polycrystalline diamond bonded to a cemented carbide substrate. The polycrystalline diamond layer has a working surface and an outer peripheral surface and is characterized by having an annular region or a portion thereof adjacent the peripheral surface that is lean in catalysing material. A region adjacent the working surface is also lean in catalysing material such that in use, as a wear scar develops, both the leading edge and the trailing edge thereof are located in a region lean in catalysing material.

In one aspect of the present invention, a high impact resistant tool has a superhard material bonded to a cemented metal carbide substrate at a non-planar interface. The cemented metal carbide substrate is bonded to a front end of a cemented metal carbide segment. A stem formed in the base end of the carbide segment opposite the front end is press fit into a bore of a steel body. The steel body is rotationally fixed to a drum adapted to rotate about its axis.

The invention is to prolong the life time of tools dramatically by (1) considerably improving the flaking resistance of the coating layer at the time of cutting, (2) increasing the wear resistance and crater resistance of the coating layer itself, and (3) enhancing the breakage strength of the coating layer in comparison with the conventional coating cutting tools. In order to achieve the object, the coated cemented carbide of the invention has the following structure in the coating layer on the surface of the cemented carbides: The outer layer has an Al2O3 layer practically having an alpha-type crystal structure. The Al2O3 layer has a region where alpha-type and kappa-type crystal grains coexist in the first row of the crystal grains that grow on the inner layer. In addition to that, the crystal grains of alpha-Al2O3 in the region include no pores.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a coated cemented carbide tool whose both properties of breakage resistance and wear resistance are improved and whose life is lengthened.The present invention has been made to achieve this object and is related with a coated cemented carbide cutting tool comprising a substrate consisting of a matrix of WC and a binder phase of an iron group metal and a plurality of coated layers provided on a surface of the substrate, in which (a) an innermost layer, adjacent to the substrate, of the coated layers consists essentially of titanium nitride having a thickness of 0.1 to 3 mum, (b) on a mirror-polished cross-sectional microstructure of the said tool, an average crack interval in the coated film on a ridge of a cutting edge and/or rake face is smaller than an average crack interval in the coated layer on a flank face, (c) at least 50% of the cracks in the coated film on the said ridge of the cutting edge and/or rake face have ends of the cracks in the said innermost titanium nitride layer, in a layer above the titanium nitride layer or in an interface between these layers and (d) an average crack length in the coated film on the said ridge of the cutting edge and/or rake face is shorter than an average film thickness on the flank face.According to the present invention, quantitatively specifying the crack intervals and positions of the ends of the cracks in the coated layer results in excellent breakage resistance as well as wear resistance.

There is disclosed a cemented carbide insert with excellent properties for machining of steels and stainless steels. The cemented carbide comprises WC and 4-25 wt-% Co. The WC-grains have an average grain size in the range 0.2-3.5 mum and a narrow grain size distribution in the range 0-4.5 mum.According to the method of the invention a cemented carbide cutting tool insert is made by mixing powders of WC, TiC, TaC and/or NbC, binder metal and pressing agent, drying preferably by spray drying, pressing to inserts and sintering. The method characterised inthat a deagglomerated WC-powder with a narrow grain size distribution is used,that the powders of TiC, TaC and/or NbC are deagglomerated andthat the mixing is wet mixing with no change in grain size or grain size distribution.

The invention discloses a material adopting a thin graphene and metal powder composite structure, a preparation method and an application thereof. The material adopting the composite structure comprises metal powder bridged by and coated with thin graphene. The preparation technology of the material comprises the steps as follows: mixing transition metal powder or reduced transition metal powder with the thin graphene, and growing the thin graphene on the surface of the transition metal powder through CVD (chemical vapor deposition) and coating the surface of the transition metal powder with the thin graphene, so as to obtain the metal powder bridged by and coated with the thin graphene; or growing the thin graphene on the surface of the transition metal powder through the CVD, and then compositing the metal powder with the thin graphene to obtain a target product. The invention has the advantages that the technology is simple; the oxidation resistance and the corrosion prevention of the metal powder can be enhanced, meanwhile, the metal powder has good heat conduction, antistatic and electromagnetic shielding properties, the service life of the metal powder can be prolonged, and the cost can be reduced; and besides, the material has a wide application prospect in antistatic performance, thermal management, heat conduction and radiation, electromagnetic shielding, catalysts, sintering activators, electro-conduction slurry, batteries, cemented carbide and the like.

An article includes a working portion including cemented carbide, and a heat sink portion in thermal communication with the working portion. The heat sink portion includes a heat sink material having a thermal conductivity greater than a thermal conductivity of the cemented carbide. Also disclosed are methods of making an article including a working portion comprising cemented carbide, and a heat sink portion in thermal communication with the working portion and including a heat sink material having a thermal conductivity that is greater than a thermal conductivity of the cemented carbide. The heat sink portion conducts heat from the working portion.

Composite articles, including composite rotary cutting tools and composite rotary cutting tool blanks, and methods of making the articles are disclosed. The composite article includes an elongate portion. The elongate portion includes a first region composed of a first cemented carbide, and a second region autogenously bonded to the first region and composed of a second cemented carbide. At least one of the first cemented carbide and the second cemented carbide is a hybrid cemented carbide that includes a cemented carbide dispersed phase and a cemented carbide continuous phase. At least one of the cemented carbide dispersed phase and the cemented carbide continuous phase includes at least 0.5 percent by weight of cubic carbide based on the weight of the phase including the cubic carbide.

An improved coated cemented carbide insert for the cutting of steel is provided. The insert has multi-layer TiCN between the substrate and the kappa-Al2O3 coating. The innermost portion of the TiCN layer is composed of large columnar grains while the outermost portion is of small equiaxed grains. Above the kappa-Al2O3, another columnar Ti(C,N) layer is applied.

The invention relates to a method and device of disposing high-quality holes on carbon fiber composite material and meal material which are overlapped, belonging to the field of the mechanical processing and manufacturing technology. The method of disposing high-quality holes on the carbon fiber composite material and the meal material which are overlapped is characterized in that in the process of disposing holes on the carbon fiber composite material and the meal material which are overlapped by a device of disposing holes, such as a polycrystalline diamond (PCD), a coating, a cemented carbide bit and a diamond grinding rod, the rotating speed and the feeding speed of a cutter are automatically changed according to the materials on which holes are to be disposed by the hardware triggering or software numerical-control programming control mode of a feeding position sensor set so that the cutter can be in the optical process parameter state. The device of disposing high-quality holes on the carbon fiber composite material and the meal material which are overlapped is characterized by comprising a body, the cutter the handle of the cutter, an electric main shaft, the feeding position sensor set, a vertical feeding sliding-platform, a main shaft variable-frequency speed-regulating system and a hole disposing device numerical control system. The invention realizes the adaptive continuous processing, obviously improves the quality and the processing efficiency of holes disposed integrally on different overlapped materials and lowers the production cost.

The invention discloses a uniform macromeritic tungsten powder and a method for preparing macromeritic tungsten carbide powder. During reduction, water vapor and hydrogen or a mixture thereof is sentinto a reducing furnace, and tungsten oxide powder materials or mixture materials of tungsten oxide powder and tungsten powder, which are pushed into the reducing furnace, are reduced to metallic tungsten powder by controlling the partial pressure ratio (PH2O/PH2) of the water vapor and the hydrogen sent into the reducing furnace and the temperature of the furnace. By the adjustment of technological parameters, macromeritic tungsten powder of multiple grades in the range of 10-100 micrometers can be prepared. The prepared macromeritic tungsten powder has the advantages of comparatively uniformgranularity, integrated crystallization, attractive appearance and high purity. After the carbonization of the macromeritic tungsten powder, uniform macromeritic tungsten carbide powder of 12-115 micrometers can be prepared. The invention can be used for producing macromeritic and super macromeritic hard alloy products of more than 4 micrometers and can be also used for the surface spray coating,the spray welding and the like of hard-surface materials.

The invention discloses a self-lubricating hard nanocomposite laminated coating and a preparation method thereof. The gradient nanocomposite laminated coating is characterized in that TiN serves as a binding layer on a hard alloy or iron basal body, a transition layer TiN film and a metal ceramic compound +MoS2 nanocomposite multilayer form a composite multilayer coating of which the structure isTiN/metal ceramic compound +MoS2 nanocomposite; the metal ceramic compound is TiCn or TiAlN. The coating preparation method comprises the following steps: preheating workpieces, cleaning and etching workpiece surface, preparing a transition layer, preparing nanometer multilayer (metal ceramic compound +MoS2) and the like. The invention adopts the technology of physical vapor deposition to preparea self-lubricating coating with TiN/(metal ceramic compound +MoS2) nanocomposite structure and keeps the favourable performance of TiCN and TiAlN compound; meanwhile, the coating has lower friction coefficient, coating hardness is higher than 28 GPa, and the friction coefficient of the coating is lower than 0.1.

A rotary burr comprising cemented carbide for removing material from a workpiece includes a shank and a working portion and a shank. A surface of the working portion includes a plurality of right-handed helically oriented flutes that define a plurality of cutting teeth on the working portion. Each of the plurality of cutting teeth defined by the right-handed flutes includes a front face, a back face, a tip, and a positive front face angle, and lacks a radial land adjacent the tooth tip and at the periphery of the working portion.

A method of an in situ synthetic steel bond hard alloy casting composite hammerhead adopts a vacuum lost foam casting technology, wherein Ti powder, graphite powder, W powder and metal powder are mixed, and are added with an adhesion agent to produce a powder coating paste, the powder coating paste is filled in a reinforcement groove or a hole of a working part of an expanded poly styrol (EPS) foaming plastic modal of a hammerhead casting, during the pouring process, the high temperature of liquid steel is utilized to initiate the self propagating synthesis reaction, the reactions of Ti plus C->TiC and W plus C->WC are carried out, so the TiC and WC-based hard alloy phases are formed, the liquid steel is filled into the clearance of a hard phase, so an in situ synthetic titanium carbide and tungsten carbide steel bond hard alloy is obtained, and the hard alloy is embedded in the steel base body of the working part of the hammerhead. When the hammerhead which is produced through the method of the in situ synthetic steel bond hard alloy casting composite hammerhead is used, because the hard alloy and the casting are completely, metallurgically and firmly combined together, the hammerhead has high wear resistance and impact resistance during the use, has a simple technological process, low production cost, and is applicable to large-scale industrial production.

An improved coated cemented carbide insert for the cutting of cast iron is provided. The insert has multi-layer TiCN between the substrate and the alpha-Al2O3 coating. The innermost portion of the TiCN layer is composed of large columnar grains while the outermost portion is of small equiaxed grains.

The invention relates to a novel high-performance WC-based hard alloy material and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to high-technology structural ceramics and the application field thereof. The high-performance WC-based hard alloy material in the invention takes 20 to 80 mass percent of submicron/nanometer WC powder as a matrix, 2 to 20 mass percent of metal Mo and metal Ni which have high chemical stability at a high temperature and rare earth as a binder, is added with 0.1 to 5.0 mass percent of crystal particle inhibitor, 10 to 80 mass percent of high-hardness material diamond or cubic boron nitride micro-powder as a hardening agent, and 0.5 to 15 mass percent of SiC nanostructure and the like as a toughing agent, and is prepared by fast sintering technology, in particular by discharge plasma sintering or medium frequency induction heating sintering. A sintered body has the characteristics of fine crystal particles, high hardness, strength and flexibility and high comprehensive abrasive resistance, is particularly suitable for preparing geological drilling machines and tools used under heavy load conditions, and also can be used for preparing high-performance machined cutting tools, moulds and the like.

The invention discloses a crusher hammerhead cast of a steel bond hard alloy bar and a casting method of a vanishing mould thereof. The hammerhead is cast by low-alloy steel and is cast with the steel bond hard alloy bar in the casting process; the low-alloy steel contains the following chemical components by weight percent: 0.24 wt% to 0.295 wt% of C, 1.32 wt% to 1.56 wt% of Si, 0.028 wt% to 0.035 wt% of S, 0.032 wt% to 0.038 wt% of P, 0.82 wt% to 1.22 wt% of Mn, 1.67 wt% to 2.10 wt% of Cr, 0.42 wt% to 0.51 wt% of Mo, 0.05 wt% to 0.08 wt% of V, 0.05 wt% to 0.07 wt% of Ti, 0.08 wt% to 0.15 wt% of RE and 93.942 wt% to 95.29 wt% of Fe. The casting method of the hammerhead comprises the production process of the low-alloy steel, and the casting process and the thermal treatment process of the vanishing mould. The hammerhead product cast with the steel bond hard alloy bar has the advantages of good strength and toughness and high rigidity and abrasive resistance, is suitable for various working conditions, and can crush objects with different hardness.

The invention discloses a method for preparing an extra-coarse grained carbide alloy. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps of: pre-mixing extra-coarse tungsten carbide powder having a grinding Fisher particle size of over 6 mu m and cobalt powder; adding molding agents and pressing the mixture to form lumps; pre-sintering the lumps in a degumming furnace having ammonia decomposition gas therein; placing the obtained product, the tungsten carbide powder and the cobalt powder into a ball mill for smashing and wet grinding to prepare a mixture containing 6 to 13 percent cobalt; adding molding agents into the mixture, and pressing to obtain the finished product; after degumming the finished product, sintering the finished product at the high temperature by using a pressurized sintering furnace; and thermally treating the sintered product by using a double-chamber high-pressure gas cooling vacuum furnace, wherein 87 to 94 parts of tungsten carbide, 6 to 13 parts of carbide powder and 0.5 to 2.5 parts of molding agent are pre-mixed. The method avoids the dispersing or grading sieving, and cobalt coating of the tungsten carbide; moreover, the prepared carbide alloy has good compactness, high strength and impact resistance, simple production process and no environment pollution.

Hot-isostatic-pressure (HIP) is used to bond a cemented carbide inlay (e.g., an inlay ring) on a metal substrate (e.g., a hull ring). For example, an inlay ring is made from a powdered metal inlay preform typically comprising at least one metal carbide and at least one nonvolatile cement. The inlay preform is compressed and sintered to make an inlay ring having a predetermined shape, the inlay ring having a modulus of elasticity substantially greater than that of a hull ring. An inlay ring and a hull ring are sealingly vacuum brazed together with at least one evacuated bonding area between them. HIP is applied to compress the hull ring against the inlay ring, thus fusing the hull ring and inlay ring in at least one evacuated bonding area. Following HIP, the inlay ring and hull ring form a fused assembly in which the inlay ring substantially retains its predetermined shape.

A coated cemented carbide tool, and a method for making the same, wherein the as-sintered substrate is formed by sintering in an atmosphere having at least a partial pressure and for a part of the time a nitrogen partial pressure.

An earth-boring bit part such as, for example, a bit body, roller cone, or mud nozzle includes a hybrid cemented carbide composite. The hybrid cemented carbide includes a cemented carbide dispersed phase, and a cemented carbide continuous phase. A method of manufacture also is disclosed.

A cutting insert intended for chip removing machining includes a body forming at least one cutting edge, a securing structure such as a helical thread disposed at one side of the body, and a key grip such as a profiled recess disposed at an opposite side. The insert is formed of injection molded cemented carbide such that the body, the securing structure, and the key grip are all integral with one another. The insert is secured in a holder by rotating the insert using a key which engages the key grip, whereupon the securing structure engages a complementary securing structure on the holder to pull the insert body against the holder.