Patents by Inventor Jihai JIA

Jihai JIA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20190226040
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of railway, and discloses a hypereutectoid rail and a manufacturing method thereof, which includes rolling a steel billet containing V and Ti, wherein, based on its total weight, the steel billet contains C of 0.85-0.94 wt %, and the relation between the start rolling temperature Tstart/final rolling temperature Tfinal and the content of V and the content of Ti satisfies the following formulas: Tstart=1100+a([V]+5[Ti]), Tfinal=750+b([V]+5[Ti]), wherein, 500?a?800, 300?b?500; based on its total weight, the steel billet contains V of 0.03-0.08 wt %, Ti of 0.011-0.02 wt %, and [V]+5[Ti]: 0.12-0.14 wt %. The hypereutectoid rail manufactured with the method has excellent comprehensive performance of strength and toughness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: PANGANG GROUP PANZHIHUA IRON & STEEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenyu HAN, Ming ZOU, Hua GUO, Gongming TAO, Yuan WANG, Chunjian WANG, Jihai JIA
  • Patent number: 10214799
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat treatment method for increasing the depth of hardening layer in a steel rail, and belongs to the field of steel rail production process. The technical problem to be solved in the present invention is to provide a heat treatment method for increasing the depth of hardening layer in a steel rail and a steel rail obtained with the method. The method comprises the following steps: cooling a finished rolling steel rail by natural cooling, till the temperature at the center of rail head surface is 660˜730° C.; cooling the steel rail by accelerated cooling at 1.5˜3.5° C./s cooling rate, till the temperature at the center of rail head surface is 500˜550° C.; increasing the cooling rate by 1.0˜2.0° C./s and further cooling down the steel rail, till the temperature at the center of rail head surface is 450° C. or lower; then, stopping the accelerated cooling, and cooling down the steel rail by air cooling to room temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignees: PanGang Group Panzhihua Iron & Steel Research Institute Co., Ltd., Pangang Group Panzhihua Steel & Vanadium Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Han, Ming Zou, Jihai Jia, Hua Guo, Dadong Li, Yong Deng, Chunjian Wang, Jun Yuan, Chongmu Chen
  • Patent number: 9777351
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for heat treatment of hypereutectoid steel rail, including the following steps: holding the temperature of the steel rail of which temperature is above 900° C. after finish rolling, conducting a first cooling stage for the steel rail at the first cooling speed after the temperature holding to reduce the temperature of railhead surface layer of the steel rail to 700-750° C., conducting a second cooling stage for the steel rail at the second cooling speed to reduce the temperature of railhead surface layer of the steel rail to 550° C., conducting a third cooling stage for the steel rail at the third cooling speed to reduce the temperature of railhead surface layer of the steel rail to 450° C. or less, and continuing to cool the steel rail in the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Pangang Group Panzhihua Iron & Steel Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Zou, Zhenyu Han, Jihai Jia, Hua Guo, Yong Deng, Chunjian Wang, Jun Yuan, Hui Yao
  • Patent number: 9394581
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a heat treatment method for a bainitic turnout rail, which includes: naturally cooling the turnout rail at a temperature in an austenite region after being finishing rolled to 450-480° C. at a tread center of a rail head of the turnout rail; accelerated cooling the naturally cooled turnout rail to 230-270° C. at the tread center of the rail head, a cooling rate at the tread center and a non-working side of the rail head being 1.5-5.0° C./s, a cooling rate at the working side of the rail head increasing by 0.1-1.0° C./s based on 1.5-5.0° C./s; continuously accelerated cooling the working side, the tread center and the non-working side of the rail head at a cooling rate of 0.05-0.25° C./s to decrease a temperature of the tread center of the rail head to 265-270° C.; and finally, naturally cooling the turnout rail to an ambient temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: PANGANG GROUP PANZHIHUA IRON & STEEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Han, Ming Zou, Jihai Jia, Hua Guo, Yanzhong Wang, Jianhua Liu, Yong Deng, Chunjian Wang
  • Publication number: 20160194729
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a high-strength, highly wear-resistant, and highly contact-fatigue-resistant steel rail and a production method thereof, and belongs to the field of black steel manufacturing technology. The present invention provides a high-strength and highly fatigue-resistant steel rail, comprising the following chemical components by weight percentage: C: 0.76%˜0.86%; Si: 0.6%˜1%; Mn: 0.7%˜1.5%, Cr: 0.1%˜0.5%, and 0.8%?Mn %+Cr %?1.6%; V: 0.05%˜0.3%, Ni: 0.1%˜0.35%, and 0.15%?V %+Ni %?0.4%; Mo: ?0.03%; P: ?0.02%; S: ?0.015%; Fe and inevitable impurities: the remaining content, wherein, the metallurgical structure of the steel rail is fine pearlite+A, where, A is proeutectoid ferrite or proeutectoid cementite, and A?2%. The tensile strength of the obtained steel rail is 1,260 MPa˜1,420 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicants: PanGang Group Panzhihua Iron & Steel Research Institute Co., Ltd., Pangang Group Panzhihua Steel & Vanadium Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Deng, Hua Guo, Ming Zou, Jihai Jia, Chunjian Wang, Zhenyu Han, Jun Yuan
  • Publication number: 20160010188
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat treatment method for increasing the depth of hardening layer in a steel rail, and belongs to the field of steel rail production process. The technical problem to be solved in the present invention is to provide a heat treatment method for increasing the depth of hardening layer in a steel rail and a steel rail obtained with the method. The method comprises the following steps: cooling a finished rolling steel rail by natural cooling, till the temperature at the center of rail head surface is 660˜730° C.; cooling the steel rail by accelerated cooling at 1.5˜3.5° C./s cooling rate, till the temperature at the center of rail head surface is 500˜550° C.; increasing the cooling rate by 1.0˜2.0° C./s and further cooling down the steel rail, till the temperature at the center of rail head surface is 450° C. or lower; then, stopping the accelerated cooling, and cooling down the steel rail by air cooling to room temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicants: PanGang Group Panzhihua Iron & Steel Research Institute Co., Ltd., Pangang Group panzhihua Steel & Vanadium Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Han, Ming Zou, Jihai Jia, Hua Guo, Dadong Li, Yong Deng, Chunjian Wang, Jun Yuan, Chongmu Chen
  • Publication number: 20150322553
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a bainitic steel rail containing trace amounts of carbides, wherein, the bainitic steel rail mainly consists of bainitic structures, the carbides have a length of 0.05-0.5 ?m, the major axis of carbides is oriented to a direction at a 50-70° included angle from the direction of the major axis of bainitic ferrite plates, and the carbides account for 1%-5% by volume. The present invention further discloses a method for producing a bainitic steel rail containing trace amounts of carbides, comprising: cooling a steel rail with residual heat after finish rolling by air cooling, till the temperature at the center of the rail head tread reaches 420-450° C.; cooling the rail head part of the steel rail by accelerated cooling at a 2.0-5.0° C./s cooling rate, till the temperature at the center of the rail head tread reaches 220-240° C.; loading the steel rail into a tempering furnace and tempering at 300-350° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: PanGang Group Panzhihua Iron & Steel Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Han, Ming Zou, Jihai Jia, Hua Guo, Dadong Li, Yong Deng, Chunjian Wang, Jun Yuan
  • Publication number: 20150232968
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for heat treatment of hypereutectoid steel rail, including the following steps: holding the temperature of the steel rail of which temperature is above 900° C. after finish rolling, conducting a first cooling stage for the steel rail at the first cooling speed after the temperature holding to reduce the temperature of railhead surface layer of the steel rail to 700-750° C., conducting a second cooling stage for the steel rail at the second cooling speed to reduce the temperature of railhead surface layer of the steel rail to 550° C., conducting a third cooling stage for the steel rail at the third cooling speed to reduce the temperature of railhead surface layer of the steel rail to 450° C. or less, and continuing to cool the steel rail in the air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Ming ZOU, Zhenyu HAN, Jihai JIA, Hua GUO, Yong DENG, Chunjian WANG, Jun YUAN, Hui YAO
  • Publication number: 20140102603
    Abstract: A method for heat-treating a bainite steel rail is disclosed. The method includes: cooling a rolled steel rail naturally to lower a surface temperature of a rail head of the steel rail to 460° C. ?490° C.; cooling the steel rail forcely at a cooling rate of 2.0° C./s-4.0° C./s to lower the surface temperature of the rail head to 250° C.-290° C.; placing the steel rail in an ambient temperature until the surface temperature of the rail head is more than 300° C.; performing a tempering on the steel rail in a heating furnace at 300° C.-350° C. for 2 h-6 h; and air cooling the steel rail to the ambient temperature. Steel rails heat-treated by present method may have a stable retained austenite structure and a good mechanical performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventors: Zhenyu HAN, Ming ZOU, Jihai JIA, Hua GUO, Jianhua LIU, Yong DENG, Chunjian WANG, Jun YUAN, Hui YAO
  • Publication number: 20140060710
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a heat treatment method for a bainitic turnout rail, which includes: naturally cooling the turnout rail at a temperature in an austenite region after being finishing rolled to 450-480° C. at a tread center of a rail head of the turnout rail; accelerated cooling the naturally cooled turnout rail to 230-270° C. at the tread center of the rail head, a cooling rate at the tread center and a non-working side of the rail head being 1.5-5.0° C./s, a cooling rate at the working side of the rail head increasing by 0.1-1.0° C./s based on 1.5-5.0° C./s; continuously accelerated cooling the working side, the tread center and the non-working side of the rail head at a cooling rate of 0.05-0.25° C./s to decrease a temperature of the tread center of the rail head to 265-270° C.; and finally, naturally cooling the turnout rail to an ambient temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Pangang Group Panzhihua Iron & Steel Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenyu HAN, Ming ZOU, Jihai JIA, Hua GUO, Yanzhong WANG, Jianhua LIU, Yong DENG, Chunjian WANG