The invention relates to a heat treatment technology for a bearing
ferrule. The heat treatment technology comprises the following steps: carrying out spheroidizing annealing on the bearing
ferrule firstly, rising the temperature in a furnace to 780-810 DEG C, keeping the temperature for 3-6h, annealing the bearing
ferrule, then keeping the temperature for 4-6h at the temperature of 680-720 DEG C, furnace cooling the bearing ferrule to 600-650 DEG C at the
cooling speed of 20-40 DEG C / h, and tapping and
air cooling the bearing ferrule; then
quenching the bearing ferrule, adopting the temperature of 830-850 DEG C, keeping the temperature for 15-45min, carrying out a
salt bath on the bearing ferrule at the temperature of 150-170 DEG C, carrying out isothermal holding for 60-80min, and then taking out the bearing ferrule, and
air cooling the bearing ferrule to the
room temperature; and finally, carrying out
tempering on the bearing ferrule,
air cooling the bearing ferrule to the
room temperature, and carrying out
tempering for 5-8h at the temperature of 150-180 DEG C. According to the heat treatment technology, the content of retained
austenite in the bearing ferrule can be stabilized between 10-15 percent, so that the stability of the retained
austenite is greatly strengthened; the retained
austenite on the surface of a bearing can carry out inducible martensitic transformation in the very short using process from the start, so that the heat treatment technology has the advantages of good size stability, good abrasion resistance and good
surface fatigue strength.