Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a metal sheet having an excellent rolling property, i.e., a rollable metal sheet, which process comprises the basic steps of: continuously feeding a molten metal on a cooling material having one or two cooling surfaces being transferred and renewed for quench solidification, to thereby prepare a thin cast sheet; impinging a small rigid body particle against the surface of the resultant thin cast sheet, to work the cast sheet; heat-annealing the worked sheet in such a manner that the worked region becomes a fine recrystallized grain layer; and subjecting the cast sheet to a cold or warm rolling, optionally after a removal of oxides present on the surface; and an optional step of heat-treating the rolled sheet for working. The process of the present invention is applicable to the production of various known rollable metal or alloy sheets, such as soft steel, stainless steel, silicon steel, nickel-iron, cobalt-iron, nickel, aluminum, and copper sheets.

Abstract: A thermomechanical method for improving the fatigue characteristics of a metallic material (for example carbon steel and low alloy steel) takes advantage of the materials' plastic flow characteristics to improve external and internal surface conditions. The material is heated to a temperature in the range of about 0.3 to 0.45 its homologous temperature, e.g., from about 200 degrees C to about the Young's Modulus Transition Temperature of said material. While the temperature of the material is in this range, force is applied to the material to produce in at least the region of said material to be treated a tensile stress level greater than the yield point of said material at the temperature, and thereby to produce limited plastic elongation in the region. The material is then cooled under stress, the stress being maintained above the instantaneous yield point of the material during at least part of the cooling process. As a result of this process, the shape of existing stress raisers (e.g.

Abstract: A method of producing a high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet suitable for working uses which utilizes a steel material having the following composition: not more than 0.006 wt % of C, not more than 0.5 wt % of Si, not more than 2.0 wt % of Mn, and not less than 0.01 wt % but not more than 0.10 wt % of Ti, the Ti, C and N contents being determined to meet the condition of Ti>(48/12) C wt %+(48/14) N wt %, the steel also consisting essentially of not less than 0.0010 wt % but not more than 0.0100 wt % of Nb, not less than 0.0002 wt % but not more than 0.0020 wt % of B, not less than 0.03 wt % but not more than 0.20 wt % of P, not more than 0.03 wt % of S, not less than 0.010 wt % but not more than 0.100 wt % of Al, not more than 0.008 wt % of N, not more than 0.0045 wt % of O, and the balance substantially Fe and incidental inclusions. The steel material is cast and hot-rolled and then subjected to a cold rolling conducted at a sheet temperature not higher than 300.degree. C.

Abstract: Steel which is particularly useful for making a razor blade of high corrosion resistance contains more than 0.45%, but less than 0.55%, of carbon, 0.4 to 1.0% of silicon, 0.5 to 1.0% of manganese, 12 to 14% of chromium and 1.0 to 1.6% of molybdenum all by weight, in addition to iron and inevitable impurities, and has a carbide density of 100 to 150 particles per 100 square microns as annealed. The razor blade has a Vickers hardness of at least 620 and a carbide density of 10 to 45 particles per 100 square microns, and preferably has a specific distribution of residual austenite content. The improved properties of the razor blade are achieved by an improved process of heat treatment which includes austenitizing the steel at a temperature of 1075.degree. C. to 1120.degree. C., cooling it to a temperature between -60.degree. C. and -80.degree. C. for hardening it, and tempering it at a temperature of 250.degree. C. to 400.degree. C.

Abstract: A high strength steel belt having an excellent flatness and a duplex structure of austenite and martensite has been prepared by a process which comprises providing a cold rolled or cold rolled and annealed strip of a martensitic structure from low carbon martensitic stainless steel containing from 10 to 17% by weight of Cr and having a carbon content of not exceeding 0.15% by weight, connecting ends of the strip or ends of a plate cut from said strip to provide an endless belt, causing the endless belt to circularly move between rolls under tension and to pass through a heating furnace where the belt is heated to a temperature within a range from (As point of the steel+30.degree. C.) to Af point of the steel and not higher than 900.degree. C. so that a part of the martensitic phase may be changed to a reversed austenitic phase and a desired surface flatness may be obtained after cooling.

Abstract: An alloy, in particular for use in the manufacture of jewelry, frames for glasses, and the like. In order to be able to manufacture jewelry, frames for glasses, and the like of a nickel-free alloy inexpensively and well, the following alloy has been produced according to the invention, which, in percentages by weight, has the following composition: Cu 86.0-90.0 percent, Al 2.8-4.5 percent, Mn 0.4-1.3 percent, Fe 1.0-2.5 percent, Si 0-0.5 percent, the remainder being Zn.

Abstract: A decarburized steel sheet for a thin oriented silicon steel sheet having improved magnetic and coating characteristics and a method of producing the same. Silicon steel strip is hot-rolled, cold-rolled to a final thickness of about 0.28 mm or less, subjected to decarburization/primary-recrystallization annealing, coated with an annealing separator, and thereafter subjected to finishing annealing. In the decarburization/primary-recrystallization annealing step, a novel subscale is formed at the steel sheet surface having a fayalite-silica composition ratio in accordance with an infrared reflection absorbance ratio of about 0.5 to 5.5, and a marked oxygen amount of about 0.4 to 1.6 g/m.sup.2.

Abstract: A production method for an endless track bushing wherein high-carbon low-alloy steel is selected as a bushing material, the bushing material is quench-hardened without pre-carburizing the bushing material, and then tempered. In the quench-hardening, the bushing material is induction-heated from an outside surface of the bushing material only so that an inside surface of the bushing material is heated to a temperature above and close to a transformation temperature of the high-carbon low-alloy steel, and then the heated bushing material is cooled from the outside surface of the bushing material only so that a residual compressive stress is produced at the inside surface of the bushing material when it has been cooled to an ambient temperature. The thus produced bushing has a high hardness throughout the entire cross section and a high toughness.

Abstract: In composition of Fe-Ni alloy preferably used for lead frames in production of IC, specified amount of Be is added to the basic composition for increase in mechanical strength whilst maintaining the low thermal expansion characteristic of the conventional Fe-Ni alloys.

Abstract: A rolling member used as an outer race, inner race, a ball or roller of a bearing contains a metal flow in the structure formed by plastic working (fold forging). The angle of metal flow determined by a tangent line of the metal flow and the axis of rotation of the rolling member is 10.degree. or larger to improve the service line against rolling fatigue.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for rapidly field annealing ferromagnetic cores and the cores produced thereby. A current is applied across a magnetizing source associated with a magnetizing core which induces a flux/voltage in the ferromagnetic core which is disposed about a leg of the magnetizing core. The flux/voltage in the second core induces a current in the second core which in turn induces a field in, and transverse to the width direction of, the ferromagnetic core. A second field may e applied to the ferromagnetic core during cooling. The cores produced display low core loss and either sheared over or square loop properties which are suitable for current and distribution type transformers respectively.

Abstract: An Fe-Ni alloy sheet for a shadow mask, which consists essentially of:nickel: from 34 to 38 wt. %,silicon: from 0.01 to 0.15 wt. %,manganese: from 0.01 to 1.00 wt. %, andthe balance being iron and incidental impurities.The surface portion of the alloy sheet has a silicon (Si) segregation rate, as expressed by the following formula, of up to 10%: ##EQU1## and a center-line mean roughness (Ra) of the alloy sheet satisfies the following formula:0.3 .mu.m<.ltoreq.Ra .ltoreq.0.7 .mu.m.The above-mentioned Fe-Ni alloy sheet is manufactured by preparing an Fe-Ni alloy sheet having the chemical composition and the silicon segregation rate as described above, and imparting a center-line mean roughness (Ra) which satisfies the above-mentioned formula onto the both surfaces of the alloy sheet by means of a pair of dull rolls during the final rolling of the alloy sheet for said preparation.

Abstract: An oriented silicon steel sheet with a very low core loss and a process for producing it at a lower cost are disclosed. The steel sheet consists essentially of Si: 1.5-3.0%, Mn: 1.0-3.0%, sol. Al: 0.003-0.015%, with Si (%)-0.5.times.Mn (%).ltoreq.2.0 and the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, in which the amount of C and N as impurities is not more than 0.0020%, with S being not more than 0.01%. This steel sheet can be produced from a slab containing up to 0.01% C and 0.001-0.010% N through hot rolling, cold rolling, primary and secondary recrystallization, and then decarburization.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rail for use in a linear motion rolling contact guide unit is provided. A rail intermediate product having a top surface, a pair of side surfaces, each formed with a guide groove portion, and a bottom surface is provided by drawing from an alloy steel material. Then the guide groove portion is hardened by induction hardening. The side surface is then ground by a profiled grinder having a grinding shape complementary to the shape of a side surface of a finished rail.

Abstract: A unique method is proposed for the preparation of a body of an austempered ductile cast iron having a gradient of the mechanical property within the body by subjecting a body of a nodular graphite cast iron to an isothermal transformation treatment for austempering at a temperature in the range from 250.degree. to 450.degree. C. while the body has a temperature difference between two points or between two surfaces. The temperature difference can be produced by bringing the two points or two surfaces into contact with melts of a salt kept at different temperatures. A two-compartment salt-bath apparatus therefore is disclosed.

Abstract: A high-strength lead frame material consists, by weight, of 0.5 to 22% Co, 22 to 32.5% Ni, not more than 1.0% Mn, not more than 0.5% Si, at least one kind of 0.1 to 3.0% in total selected from the group consisting of Nb, Ti, Zr, Mo, V, W and Be, and the balance Fe and incidental impurities; the total content of Ni and Co being selected so that the content of Ni is in the range of 27 to 32.5% when the content of Co is less than 12% and so that 66%.ltoreq.2Ni+Co.ltoreq.74% is met when the content of Co is not less than 12%; the lead frame material having a duplex-phase structure composed of a reverse-transformed austenite phase (which can involve a residual austenite phase) and a martensite phase; and the austenite phase being not less than 50%.

Abstract: Air-meltable, castable, machinable, hardenable alloys that are very resistance to highly corrosive and abrasive slurries or fluids consisting essentially of, by weight, about 25% to about 37% chromium, about 12% to about 35% nickel, about 2% to about 7% molybdenum; about 1.3% to about 2% carbon, up to about 3% silicon, up to about 3% copper, up to about 4% manganese, up to about 1.5% tungsten, up to about 1% niobium, (columbium) and balance essentially iron plus the usual minor impurities.

Abstract: A process for the production of powdered metallic cobalt by reduction of cobaltous ammonium sulphate solutions. A soluble silver salt, preferably silver sulphate, is added in an amount to provide a soluble silver to cobalt weight ratio in the range of 1 to 10 g silver:1 kg cobalt, an organic dispersant such as bone glue or polyacrylic acid, or mixture thereof, is added in an amount of 0.01. to 2.5% of the weight of the cobalt, an ammonia to cobalt mole ratio of about 1.5:1 to 3.0:1 is established, and the solution is heated to a temperature in the range of 150 to 250.degree. C., preferably about 175.degree. C., with agitation under a hydrogen pressure of 2500 to 5000 kPa for a time sufficient to reduce the cobaltous sulphate to cobalt metal powder.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an oriented silicon steel sheet which achieves a high magnetic flux density while reducing the core loss. A silicon steel sheet containing Al and Sb as inhibitor components is cold-rolled once or a plurality of times. During cooling for annealing before final cold rolling, a small strain is created on the sheet and the temperature is within a certain range. Carbide precipitation is suitably controlled to precipitate carbides comparatively coarsely in grains.

Abstract: A hypereutectic aluminum-silicon casting alloy having a refined primary silicon particle size and a modified silicon phase in the eutectic. The aluminum base alloy includes from 19% to 30% by weight of silicon and also contains 0.005% to 0.06% by weight of phosphorus, and 0.15% to 1.15% by weight of titanium. On cooling from solution temperature, the phosphorus serves as an active nucleant for the primary silicon phase, while at a lower temperature, a titanium-aluminum intermetallic compound is formed that is sheathed by the pseudoprimary .alpha.-aluminum and the sheathed particles act as a nucleant to modify the acicular silicon phase in the eutectic. The resulting alloy has primary silicon refinement coupled with eutectic silicon modification.