Abstract: An apparatus is provided for forming many recesses on the surface of a nonmetallic or metallic material for a plated product. The apparatus comprises a needle or a drawn wire material of a diameter of 3˜95 &mgr;m, a retainer means for retaining the base portion of the needle or the drawn wire material so that the needle or drawn wire material is inclined at angles of more than 45 degrees, but less than 90 degrees, to said surface of said material, a material-fixing means to fix the material, and a means for raising or lowering the retainer means. In another embodiment a cutting blade is provided.

Abstract: A plated product is provided which comprises a material of which the surface has many recesses, each having an opening of 5˜100 &mgr;m and a depth of 0.2 d˜d (d: the size of the opening of a recess, &mgr;m) and having an anchor portion. Further, a plurality of grooves are provided on the surface of the material. The width of the opening of each groove and the depth of each groove have specified values. The groove can be provided at each of both edges of its opening with a ridge portion. The angle of said groove to the surface of the material is within a range of specified values. A part of the thin film of metal enters the anchor portions of the recesses or grooves, so that the plated metal produced by this invention has a superior technical effect in that the thin film of metal hardly peels off the surface of the material.

Abstract: A plated product and apparatus for forming recesses or grooves on material to be plated to produce such a product. The product includes material having a surface having many recesses, each having an opening of size d, where d is in the range 5-100 microns, a depth in the range from 0.2 d to d, or many grooves. In preferred embodiments, each groove or recess has an anchor portion. In some embodiments, each groove has a ridge portion at each of both edges of its opening. The angle of each groove to the surface of the material and each groove's depth and opening width are preferably in specified ranges. When the material is plated, part of the thin metal film enters the anchor portions of its grooves or recesses, so that the plated metal has superior capacity to resist peeling off of the plated metal.

Abstract: A method for shot peening a hard metal product that has a hardened surface. The method includes projecting shot on the hardened surface of the hard metal product. The ratio of the Vickers hardness of the shot to that of the hardened surface is 0.8-1.6, and the diameter of the shot is 30-250 .mu..

Abstract: A method for shot peening a hard metal product that has a hardened surface. The method includes projecting shot on the hardened surface of the hard metal product. The ratio of the Vickers hardness of the shot to that of the hardened surface is 0.8-1.6, and the diameter of the shot is 30-250.mu..

Abstract: A centrifugal abrasive grain projecting device is disclosed. The device includes a cover main body (2) covering an impeller (1), a hollow cylindrical body (6) rotatably mounted on the external surface of a side wall of the cover main body, a control cage (7) passing through the cylindrical body so as to be inserted into the impeller and at one end detachably affixed to the hollow cylindrical body, an introducing tube (9) that is adapted to abut, at a distal end, one end of the control cage via an elastic member (8) and that is detachably held between the control cage and a holding mechanism (10), and a rotational drive mechanism (17) for reversibly rotating the hollow cylindrical body, wherein the device prevents abrasive grains from entering a portion where the hollow cylindrical body fits in the cover main body and from stopping the rotation of the hollow cylindrical body.