Abstract: In a process for brazing a metal in a continuous manner, a work consisting of a base metal and a part to be brazed thereto is disposed in a box-shaped heat retaining container which is opened at its upper portion to surround lower and side surfaces of the work and fixing the work by a retaining jig. The work within said heat retaining container is heated by a continuous combustion in a gas burner, so that the temperature of said work is raised to a predetermined preheating temperature. Then, the work is subjected to a soaking treatment at the preheating temperature by switching-over the combustion in the gas burner to a pulse combustion. The continuous combustion in the gas burner is restarted to raise the temperature of the work to a brazing temperature, and then, the part is brazed to said base metal with the temperature of the work maintained at the brazing temperature by switching-over the combustion in the gas burner to a pulse combustion.

Abstract: A ceramic-steel joined body includes a ceramic body of silicon nitride, zirconia, silicon carbide, boron nitride, and alumina. The joined body also includes a steel body which has its surface carburized so that the hardness of the surface is greater than the hardness of the inside of the steel body. The ceramic body and the steel body are thermally joined using a brazing material of Ag--Cu--Ti, Ag--Cu--In--Ti, Ag--Ti, Cu--Ti, Ag--Cu--Ni--Ti, Ag--Cu or Ag--Cu--In.