With Tempering, Ageing, Solution Treating (i.e., For Hardening), Precipitation Hardening Or Strengthening, Or Quenching Patents (Class 148/547)
  • Patent number: 8313592
    Abstract: A thermal mechanical treatment method includes hot working a precipitation hardening martensitic stainless steel, quenching the stainless steel, and aging the stainless steel. According to certain embodiments, the thermal mechanical treatment does not include solution heat treating the stainless steel prior to aging or cryogenically cooling the stainless steel. An article includes a precipitation hardening martensitic stainless steel having a process history that includes hot working the stainless steel, quenching the stainless steel, and aging the stainless steel. According to certain embodiments, the process history does not include solution heat treating the stainless steel prior to aging or cryogenically cooling the stainless steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: ATI Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Di Cao, Erin T. McDevitt
  • Patent number: 8298353
    Abstract: A transformation toughened, high-strength steel alloy useful in plate steel applications achieves extreme fracture toughness (Cv > 80 ft-lbs corresponding to KId=200 ksi.in ½) at strength levels of 150-180 ksi yield strength, is weldable and formable. The alloy is characterized by dispersed austenite stabilization for transformation toughening to a weldable, bainitic plate steel and is strengthened by precipitation of M2C carbides in combination with copper and nickel. The desired microstructure is a matrix containing a bainite-martensite mix, BCC copper and M2C carbide particles for strengthening with a fine dispersion of optimum stability austenite for transformation toughening. The bainite-martensite mix is formed by air-cooling from solution treatment temperature and subsequent aging at secondary hardening temperatures to precipitate the toughening and strengthening dispersions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Arup Saha, Gregory B. Olson
  • Publication number: 20120255654
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a dual phase steel sheet and a method of manufacturing the same. The steel sheet comprises C: 0.05˜0.10 % wt %, Si: 0.03˜0.50 wt %, Mn: 1.50˜2.00 wt %, P: greater than 0 wt %˜0.03 wt %, S: greater than 0 wt %˜0.003 wt %, Al: 0.03˜0.50 wt %, Cr:0.1˜0.2 wt %, Mo: 0.1˜0.20 wt %, Nb: 0.02˜0.04 wt %, B: greater than 0 wt %˜0.005 wt %, N: greater than 0 wt %˜0.01 wt %, and the balance of Fe and other unavoidable impurities. To impart excellent formability, bake hardenability, dent resistance, high Ri value and plating characteristics to the steel sheet for exterior and interior panels of automobiles, the steel sheet is processed to have a dual phase structure through cold rolling, annealing, and hot-dip galvanizing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: HYUNDAI HYSCO
    Inventors: DONG-EUN KIM, JIN-SUNG PARK, HEE-JOONG IM, MAN-BEEN MOON, HYUN-WOON OH
  • Publication number: 20120160373
    Abstract: A forging heat resistant steel of an embodiment contains in percent by mass C: 0.05-0.2, Si: 0.01-0.1, Mn: 0.01-0.15, Ni: 0.05-1, Cr: 8 or more and less than 10, Mo: 0.05-1, V: 0.05-0.3, Co: 1-5, W: 1-2.2, N: 0.01 or more and less than 0.015, Nb: 0.01-0.15, B: 0.003-0.03, and a remainder comprising Fe and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicants: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD., Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masayuki YAMADA, Reki Takaku, Haruki Ohnishi, Kenichi Okuno, Kenichi Imai, Kazuhiro Miki, Tsukasa Azuma, Satoru Ohsaki
  • Patent number: 8192561
    Abstract: Method for manufacturing at least one part of a device for mounting directly or indirectly on an arm of an earth-moving or material-handling machine, such as an excavator, tractor, harvester, forwarder or crane, whereby the device enables coupling and/or positioning (tilt and/or turn) of a tool (14), such as a bucket, grapple, fork, vibratory compactor or harvesting head, relatively to the arm of the machine. The method includes the steps of: a) forming a melt including unalloyed or alloyed ductile iron, b) casting at least one part of a device from the melt, c) allowing the at least one part of the device to cool, d) austenitizing the at least one part of the device, e) quenching the at least one part of the device, f) austempering the at least one part of the device, and g) allowing the at least one part of the device to cool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Indexator Group AB
    Inventor: Richard Larker
  • Publication number: 20120134872
    Abstract: An abrasion resistant steel consisting essentially of, in weight %: 0.20-0.30% carbon, 0.40-1.25% manganese, 0.05% maximum phosphorous, 0.01% maximum sulfur, 0.20-0.60% silicon, 0.50-1.70% chromium, 0.20-2.00% nickel, 0.07-0.60% molybdenum, 0.010-0.10% titanium, 0.001-0.10% boron, 0.015-0.10% aluminum, balance iron, and incidental impurities. The steel may be melted and cast into a steel ingot or slab, hot rolled to a desired plate thickness; austenitized at 1650-1700° F.; water quenched; and tempered at 350-450° F. The resulting steel plate may have a surface hardness of at least 440 HBW, a mid-thickness hardness of at least 90% of the surface hardness, and toughness in the transverse direction at ?60° F. of at least 20 ft-lbs and at room temperature of at least 40 ft-lbs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventor: Vance Allen Moody
  • Publication number: 20120132323
    Abstract: A steel product having, by weight, less than 0.25% carbon, between 0.20 and 2.0% manganese, between 0.05 and 0.50% silicon, aluminum 0.008% or less by weight, and at least one element selected from the group consisting of titanium between about 0.01% and about 0.20%, niobium between about 0.01% and about 0.20%, molybdenum between about 0.05% and about 0.50%, and vanadium between about 0.01% and about 0.20%, and having a microstructure comprised of a majority bainite, and fine oxide particles of silicon and iron distributed through the steel microstructure of average precipitate size less than 50 nanometers. The yield strength of the steel product may be at least 55 ksi (380 MPa) or the tensile strength of at least 500 MPa, or both. The steel product may have total elongation of at least 6% or 10%, and thickness less than 3.0 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: NUCOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher Ronald KILLMORE, James Geoffrey WILLIAMS
  • Publication number: 20120132322
    Abstract: An abrasion resistant steel consisting essentially of, in weight %: 0.20-0.30% carbon, 0.40-1.25% manganese, 0.05% maximum phosphorous, 0.01% maximum sulfur, 0.20-0.60% silicon, 0.50-1.70% chromium, 0.20-2.00% nickel, 0.07-0.60% molybdenum, 0.010-0.10% titanium, 0.001-0.10% boron, 0.015-0.10% aluminum, balance iron, and incidental impurities. The steel may be melted and cast into a steel ingot or slab, hot rolled to a desired plate thickness; austenitized at 1650-1700° F.; water quenched; and tempered at 350-450° F. The resulting steel plate may have a surface hardness of at least 440 HBW, a mid-thickness hardness of at least 90% of the surface hardness, and toughness in the transverse direction at ?60° F. of at least 20 ft-lbs and at room temperature of at least 40 ft-lbs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventor: Vance Allen Moody
  • Publication number: 20120125492
    Abstract: A transformation toughened, high-strength steel alloy useful in plate steel applications achieves extreme fracture toughness (Cv & gt; 80 ft-lbs corresponding to KId=200 ksi.in ½) at strength levels of 150-180 ksi yield strength, is weldable and formable. The alloy is characterized by dispersed austenite stabilization for transformation toughening to a weldable, bainitic plate steel and is strengthened by precipitation of M2C carbides in combination with copper and nickel. The desired microstructure is a matrix containing a bainite-martensite mix, BCC copper and M2C carbide particles for strengthening with a fine dispersion of optimum stability austenite for transformation toughening. The bainite-martensite mix is formed by air-cooling from solution treatment temperature and subsequent aging at secondary hardening temperatures to precipitate the toughening and strengthening dispersions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Arup Saha, Gregory B. Olson
  • Patent number: 8177925
    Abstract: In a high-tensile steel plate according to the invention, the carbon equivalent Pcm represented in Expression (1) is from 0.180% to 0.220%, the surface hardness is a Vicker's hardness of 285 or less, the ratio of a Martensite Austenite constituent in the surface layer is not more than 10%, the ratio of a mixed structure of ferrite and bainite inside beyond the surface layer is not less than 90%, the ratio of the bainite in the mixed structure is not less than 10%, the thickness of the lath of bainite is not more than 1 ?m, the length of the lath is not more than 20 ?m, and the segregation ratio as the ratio of the Mn concentration in the center segregation part relative to the Mn concentration at a part in a depth equal to ¼ of the thickness of the plate from the surface is not more than 1.3. Pcm=C+Si/30+(Mn+Cu+Cr)/20+Ni/60+Mo/15+V/10+5B . . . (1) where the element symbols in Expression (1) represent the % by mass of the respective elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Takahashi, Masahiko Hamada, Shuji Okaguchi, Akihiro Yamanaka, Ichirou Seta
  • Publication number: 20120106693
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a high Cr Ferritic/Martensitic steel comprising 0.04 to 0.13% by weight of carbon, 0.03 to 0.07% by weight of silicon, 0.40 to 0.50% by weight of manganese, 0.40 to 0.50% by weight of nickel, 8.5 to 9.5% by weight of chromium, 0.45 to 0.55% by weight of molybdenum, 0.10 to 0.25% by weight of vanadium, 0.02 to 0.10% by weight of tantalum, 0.21 to 0.25% by weight of niobium, 1.5 to 3.0% by weight of tungsten, 0.015 to 0.025% by weight of nitrogen, 0.01 to 0.02% by weight of boron and iron balance. By regulating the contents of alloying elements such as nitrogen, born, the high Cr Ferritic/Martensitic steel with to superior tensile strength and creep resistance is provided, and can be effectively used as an in-core component material for sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicants: KOREA HYDRO AND NUCLEAR POWER CO., LTD, KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sung Ho Kim, Jong Hyuk Baek, Tae Kyu Kim, Woo Gon Kim, Jun Hwan Kim, Chang Hee Han, Chan Bock Lee, Yeong-II Kim, Dohee Hahn
  • Publication number: 20120093679
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of tools for a chip-removing machining of metallic materials and to a tool with improved wear resistance and/or high toughness. The invention further provides an alloyed steel with a chemical composition comprising carbon, silicon, manganese, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, vanadium, and cobalt as well as aluminum, nitrogen, and iron. The alloyed steel may be used to make tools to a hardness of greater than 66 HRC and increased chip-removing machining performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: BOEHLER EDELSTAHL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Gert KELLEZI, Devrim CALISKANOGLU, Andreas BAERNTHALER
  • Patent number: 8137485
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing strips (1) of steel, preferably of silicon steel, in particular of grain-oriented silicon steel or of multiphase steel in which a slab (3) is initially cast in a casting machine (2), wherein this is then rolled in at least one roll train (4, 5) to form strip (1) and wherein before and/or after the at least one roll train (4, 5), the slab is heated in at least one furnace (6, 7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Juergen Seidel, Joachim Ohlert
  • Patent number: 8110292
    Abstract: The present invention provides high strength steel plate with excellent low temperature toughness, high strength steel pipe using this as a base metal, and methods of production of the same. The steel plate of the present invention contains Mo: 0.05 to 1.00% and B: 0.0003 to 0.0100%, has a Ceq of 0.30 to 0.53, has a Pcm of 0.10 to 0.20, and has a metal structure which has an area percentage of polygonal ferrite of 20 to 90% and has a balance of a hard phase comprised of one or both of bainite and martensite. To obtain this steel plate, strain-introducing rolling is performed with a start temperature of not more than Ar3+60° C., an end temperature of Ar3 or more, and a reduction ratio of 1.5 or more, then the plate is air-cooled and then acceleratedly cooled from Ar3?100° C. to Ar3?10° C. in temperature by 10° C./s or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Taishi Fujishiro, Shinya Sakamoto, Takuya Hara, Hitoshi Asahi
  • Patent number: 8097207
    Abstract: Method for reducing the segregated seams of a steel which has high mechanical strength and high wear resistance and whose composition comprises by weight: 0.30%?C?1.42%; 0.05%?Si?1.5%; Mn?1.95%; Ni?2.9%; 1.1%?Cr?7.9%; 0.61%?Mo?4.4%; optionally V?1.45%, Nb?1.45%, Ta?1.45% and V+Nb/2+Ta/4?1.45%; less than 0.1% of boron, less than 0.19% of (S+Se/2+Te/4), less than 0.01% of calcium, less than 0.5% of rare earths, less than 1% of aluminum, less than 1% of copper; the balance being iron and impurities resulting from the production operation. The composition further complies with: 800?D?1150 with D=540(C)0.25+245(Mo+3V+1.5Nb+0.75Ta)0.30+125Cr0.20+15.8Mn+7.4Ni+18Si. According to the method, the molybdenum is completely or partially replaced with double the proportion of tungsten so that W>0.21%, and Ti, Zr, C are adjusted so that, after adjustment, Ti+Zr/2?0.2W, (Ti+Zr/2)×C?0.07, Ti+Zr/2?1.49% and D is unchanged at approximately 5%. Steel obtained and method for producing a steel workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Industeel Creusot
    Inventors: Jean Beguinot, Dominique Viale
  • Patent number: 8084144
    Abstract: The present invention provides high strength thick welded steel pipe for line pipe superior in low temperature toughness, and a method of production of the same. A base material steel plate containing C: 0.010 to 0.050%, Si: 0.01 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.50 to 2.00%, Al: 0.020% or less, Ti: 0.003 to 0.030%, and Mo: 0.10 to 1.50%, having a carbon equivalent Ceq of 0.30 to 0.53, having a crack susceptability parameter Pcm of 0.10 to 0.20, satisfying formula 3, comprised an area ratio of 20% or less of polygonal ferrite and an area ratio of 80% or more of bainite, and having an effective crystal grain size of 20 ?m or less is formed into a pipe shape, then seam welded to make the effective crystal grain size of the heat affected zone 150 ?m or less: 10C+100Al+5Mo+5Ni<3.3??formula 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hara, Hitoshi Asahi
  • Publication number: 20110303329
    Abstract: The present invention provides tough cast iron and cast iron semi-finished products excellent in workability without heat treatment requiring massive heat energy and long time and a method of production enabling these to be efficiently produced, that is, cast iron of ingredients of white cast iron where particles of spheroidal graphite or flattened graphite are dispersed, cast iron where the ingredients of the white cast iron satisfy, by wt %, (% C)?4.3-(% Si)÷3 and C?1.7% and where the particles of spheroidal graphite are dispersed at a density of 50 particles/mm2 or more, or cast iron where the particles of flattened graphite have a width of 0.4 mm or less and a length of 50 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki YAMAMURA, Wataru Ohashi
  • Patent number: 8039118
    Abstract: The present invention provides high strength welded steel pipe for line pipe inexpensive in cost and superior in low temperature toughness, and a method of production of the same, produced by forming a base material steel plate containing, by mass %, C: 0.010 to 0.050%, Si: 0.01 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.50 to 2.00%, S: 0.0001 to 0.0050%, and Ti: 0.003 to 0.030%, limiting Al to 0.020% or less and Mo to less than 0.10%, having a carbon equivalent Ceq of 0.30 to 0.53 and a crack susceptibility parameter Pcm of 0.10 to 0.20, comprised of polygonal ferrite and residual bainite of an area rate of 20% or less, and having an effective crystal grain size of 20 ?m or less, into a pipe shape, then seam welding it and making the effective crystal grain size of the heat affected zone 150 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hara, Hitoshi Asahi
  • Patent number: 8016954
    Abstract: A transformation toughened, high-strength steel alloy useful in plate steel applications achieves extreme fracture toughness (Cv & gt; 80 ft-lbs corresponding to KId & equals; 200 ksi.in½) at strength levels of 150-180 ksi yield strength, is weldable and formable. The alloy is characterized by dispersed austenite stabilization for transformation toughening to a weldable, bainitic plate steel and is strengthened by precipitation of M2C carbides in combination with copper and nickel. The desired microstructure is a matrix containing a bainite-martensite mix, BCC copper and M2C carbide particles for strengthening with a fine dispersion of optimum stability austenite for transformation toughening. The bainite-martensite mix is formed by air-cooling from solution treatment temperature and subsequent aging at secondary hardening temperatures to precipitate the toughening and strengthening dispersions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Arup Saha, Gregory B. Olson
  • Patent number: 8012407
    Abstract: A water box for use in cooling a hot rolled product in a rolling mill comprises a plurality of nozzles arranged sequentially along a first axis. The nozzles are subdivided into base and top sections, with the top sections being adjustable between closed positions coacting with the base sections to define tubular enclosures through which the product is directed, and open positions. A clamp support extends in parallel relationship to the first axis, and carries clamp members. An operating mechanism adjusts the clamp support between an open setting at which the clamp members are separated from the nozzle top sections and the nozzle top sections are adjustable to their open positions, and a closed setting at which the top sections are in their closed positions and the clamp members are in contact with and urge the top sections into their closed positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Palfreman, Brian Vallimont
  • Patent number: 8013743
    Abstract: Disclosed are markers for a magnetic theft protection system, which markers contain at least one oblong alarm strip made of an amorphous ferromagnetic alloy and at least one activation strip made of a molybdenum-free semi-hard magnetic alloy consisting essentially of NiaMbFeRest, wherein M is one or more of the elements from the group including Cr, W and V, and wherein a and b are weight percentages such that 15% by weight?a?25% by weight, and 2% by weight?b?8% by weight. The activation strip has a coercive force Hc of 10 A/cm to 25 A/cm and a remanence Br of at least 0.9 T.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ottmar Roth, Hartwin Weber
  • Patent number: 7998237
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an installation for producing steel products (1) having an optimum surface quality, especially extremely low carbon contents (UCL steel or IF steel), nitrogen contents, total oxygen contents, high-strength or stainless steel qualities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fritz-Peter Pleschiutschnigg, Karl-Ernst Hensger, Dieter Rosenthal, Rainer Teworte, Dieter Tembergen
  • Publication number: 20110114229
    Abstract: A method for preparing an austempered, work-hardening steel casting. A melt with certain chemical ranges including relatively high carbon and silicon content is poured, heat treated, cooled, austenitized, quenched and austempered, before final cooling to room temperature. This process provides a steel casting with increased wear life, characterized by a duplex microstructure containing ferrite plus carbon in solution in austenite known as ausferrite. The austenite will transform during abrasive service to a hard, wear-resistant martensite on the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: Southern Cast Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Rick Perry
  • Patent number: 7931758
    Abstract: A thermal mechanical treatment method includes hot working a precipitation hardening martensitic stainless steel, quenching the stainless steel, and aging the stainless steel. According to certain embodiments, the thermal mechanical treatment does not include solution heat treating the stainless steel prior to aging or cryogenically cooling the stainless steel. An article includes a precipitation hardening martensitic stainless steel having a process history that includes hot working the stainless steel, quenching the stainless steel, and aging the stainless steel. According to certain embodiments, the process history does not include solution heat treating the stainless steel prior to aging or cryogenically cooling the stainless steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: ATI Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Di Cao, Erin T. McDevitt
  • Publication number: 20110076176
    Abstract: Methods of forming a compressor article such as a cast airfoil, a stator, a blade, a gas turbine, and a gas turbine shell via casting are presented. The methods include: preparing an iron-manganese-aluminum-silicon-carbon (Fe—Mn—Al—Si—C) based alloy; casting the Fe—Mn—Al—Si—C based alloy, wherein a cast has a shape of the compressor article; and performing post-casting finishing thereby forming the compressor article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Junyoung Park
  • Publication number: 20110067787
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide at a low cost a low-alloy steel having a high strength and excellent high-pressure hydrogen environment embrittlement resistance characteristics under a high-pressure hydrogen environment. The invention is a high-strength low-alloy steel having high-pressure hydrogen environment embrittlement resistance characteristics, which has a composition comprising C: 0.10 to 0.20% by mass, Si: 0.10 to 0.40% by mass, Mn: 0.50 to 1.20% by mass, Ni: 0.75 to 1.75% by mass, Cr: 0.20 to 0.80% by mass, Cu: 0.10 to 0.50% by mass, Mo: 0.10 to 1.00% by mass, V: 0.01 to 0.10% by mass, B: 0.0005 to 0.005% by mass and N: 0.01% by mass or less, and further comprising one or two of Nb: 0.01 to 0.10% by mass and Ti: 0.005 to 0.050% by mass, with the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi Takasawa, Yoru Wada, Ryoji Ishigaki, Yasuhiko Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20110017365
    Abstract: To provide an alloy which can suppress minute temporal deformation of a Super Invar alloy as much as possible, and a method for producing the alloy. The alloy of the present invention includes iron, nickel, and cobalt, which are the basic components of a Super Invar alloy, and is characterized in that an amount of a fraction which has not carbidized in carbon contained in the alloy is 0.010 wt % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun Tamai, Toshiya Inoue
  • Publication number: 20110000587
    Abstract: Steel is described having a chemical composition, in weight-%, of 0.3 to 0.5% carbon (C), from traces to a max. of 1.5% silicon (Si), 0.2 to 1.5% manganese (Mn), 0.01 to 0.2% sulfur (S), 1.5 to 4% chromium (Cr), 1.5 to 5% nickel (Ni), 0.5 to 2% molybdenum (Mo), which at least partially may be replaced by twice as much tungsten (W), 0.2 to 1.5% vanadium (V), from traces to a max. of 0.2% rare earth metals, and a balance essentially of only iron, impurities and accessory elements in normal amounts. In addition, a method for manufacturing a blank of the steel and a process for manufacturing a cutting tool body or holder for cutting tools of the steel is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: Uddeholms AB
    Inventors: Staffan Gunnarsson, Anna Medvedeva
  • Publication number: 20110000584
    Abstract: The invention refers to a process for forming a steel component, incorporating the steps of—providing a blank having substantially the volume of the component to be formed,—heating the blank to a semi solid state with a specific liquid fraction,—forming the blank with a forging technique to a component of near net shape dimensions,—subjecting the formed, near net shape component, to a normalization combined with a hardening,—subjecting the normalized and hardened near net shape component to machining to give the component net shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Inventors: Patrik Dahlman, Martin Friis, Henrik Karlsson
  • Patent number: 7857917
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high strength thick steel plate for marine structures superior in weldability and low temperature toughness of the HAZ, which is able to be produced at a low cost without use of a complicated method of production, and a method of production of the same, that is, steel for welded structures excellent in low temperature toughness of the weld heat affected zone and a method of production of the same characterized by casting molten steel containing, by mass %, C: 0.03 to 0.12%, Si: 0.05 to 0.30%, Mn: 1.2 to 3.0%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.001 to 0.015%, Cu+Ni: 0.10% or less, Al: 0.001 to 0.050%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.030%, Nb: 0.005 to 0.10%, and N: 0.0025 to 0.0060% by the continuous casting method, making the cooling rate from near the solidification point to 800° C. in the secondary cooling at that time 0.06 to 0.6° C./s, hot rolling the obtained slab, and cooling it from a temperature of 800° C. or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Fukunaga, Yasushi Mizutani, Rikio Chijiiwa, Yoshiyuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20100319814
    Abstract: Steel compositions contain micro-alloying additions of boron and titanium, with yield strength of at least 100 ksi (690 MPa), excellent toughness and good weldability. Boron additions are used to increase hardenability. Strong nitride formers, such as titanium, may be added to the steel composition in order to prevent boron nitrides from forming. These compositions may be cooled from hot rolling in air or using accelerated cooling. After air cooling, the composition may be quenched or quenched and tempered. The compositions are suitable for high strength line pipes (for example, X100 in API 5L standard) and other applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Teresa Estela Perez, Gonzalo Roberto Gomez
  • Publication number: 20100308612
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an axle forged from seamless tubes, with a chemical composition suitable to guarantee high fatigue strength, improved yield strength and tensile strength, and having reduced weight for use on railroad vehicles. The present invention further relates to a process of manufacturing the axle forged from seamless steel tube with high fatigue strength, improved yield strength and tensile strength, and having reduced weight for use on railroad vehicles, which is produced from pig iron or scrap, casting, reheating furnace, perforation of billets, elongation of perforated billets, hollow finishing, forging and finish machining, which includes a supporting and centering chamfer at the inner edge of the inspection bore of the end and smooth recess in the entrance of the threaded bores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Ronaldo Faria Antunes, Jose Antonio Filho
  • Patent number: 7846276
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides alloys having an ultra-low coefficient of thermal expansion in the range of 60° F. to 80° F. The alloys have coefficient of thermal expansion no greater than 0.35×10?6° F.?1 in the range of 60° F. to 80° F. Methods of making such alloys also are provided, as well articles of manufacture including such alloys and methods of making such articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: ATI Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Hasek, Thomas R. Parayil
  • Publication number: 20100300585
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hot-rolled ferritic steel sheet, the composition of the steel of which comprises, the contents being expressed by weight: 0.001?C?0.15%, Mn?1%, Si?1.5%, 6%?Al?10%, 0.020%?Ti?0.5%, S?0.050%, P?0.1%, and, optionally, one or more elements chosen from: Cr?1%, Mo?1%, Ni?1%, Nb?0.1%, V?0.2%, B?0.010%, the balance of the composition consisting of iron and inevitable impurities resulting from the smelting, the average ferrite grain size dIV measured on a surface perpendicular to the transverse direction with respect to the rolling being less than 100 microns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: ARCELORMITTAL FRANCE
    Inventors: Astrid Perlade, Xavier Garat, Jean-Louis Uriarte, Olivier Bouaziz, Josee Drillet
  • Publication number: 20100258217
    Abstract: A nanocarbide precipitation strengthened ultrahigh-strength, corrosion resistant, structural steel possesses a combination of strength and corrosion resistance comprising in combination, by weight, about: 0.1 to 0.3% carbon (C), 8 to 17% cobalt (Co), 0 to 10% nickel (Ni), 6 to 12% chromium (Cr), less than 1% silicon (Si), less than 0.5% manganese (Mn), and less than 0.15% copper (Cu), with additives selected from the group comprising about: less than 3% molybdenum (Mo), less than 0.3% niobium (Nb), less than 0.8% vanadium (V), less than 0.2% tantalum (Ta), less than 3% tungsten (W), and combinations thereof, with additional additives selected from the group comprising about: less than 0.2% titanium (Ti), less than 0.2% lanthanum (La) or other rare earth elements, less than 0.15% zirconium (Zr), less than 0.005% boron (B), and combinations thereof, impurities of less than about: 0.02% sulfur (S), 0.012% phosphorus (P), 0.015% oxygen (O) and 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: QUESTEK INNOVATIOANS LLC
    Inventors: Charles J. Kuehmann, Gregory B. Olson, Herng-Jeng Jou
  • Patent number: 7799148
    Abstract: Iron-carbon-manganese austenitic steel sheet, the chemical composition of which comprises, the contents being expressed by weight: 0.45%?C?0.75%; 15%?Mn?26%; Si?3%; Al?0.050%; S?0.030%; P?0.080%; N?0.1%; at least one metal element chosen from vanadium, titanium, niobium, chromium and molybdenum, where 0.050%?V?0.50%; 0.040%?Ti?0.50; 0.070%?Nb?0.50%; 0.070%?Cr?2%; 0.14%?Mo?2%; and, optionally, one or more elements chosen from 0.0005%?B?0.003%; Ni?1%; Cu?5%, the balance of the composition consisting of iron and inevitable impurities resulting from the smelting, the amounts of said at least one metal element in the form of precipitated carbides, nitrides or carbonitrides being: 0.030%?Vp?0.150%; 0.030%?Tip?0.130%; 0.040%?Nbp?0.220%; 0.070%?Crp?0.6%; 0.14%?Mop?0.44%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Arcelor France
    Inventors: Colin Scott, Philippe Cugy, Maurita Roscini, Anne Dez, Dominique Cornette
  • Patent number: 7794651
    Abstract: Method for reducing the segregated seams of a steel which has high mechanical strength and high wear resistance and whose composition comprises by weight: 0.30%?C?1.42%; 0.05%?Si?1.5%; Mn?1.95%; Ni?2.9%; 1.1%?Cr?7.9%; 0.61%?Mo?4.4%; optionally V?1.45%, Nb?1.45%, Ta?1.45% and V+Nb/2+Ta/4?1.45% ; less than 0.1% of boron, less than 0.19% of (S+Se/2+Te/4), less than 0.01% of calcium, less than 0.5% of rare earths, less than 1% of aluminum, less than 1% of copper; the balance being iron and impurities resulting from the production operation. The composition further complies with: 800?D?1150 with D=540(C)0.25+245 (Mo+3 V+1.5 Nb+0.75 Ta)0.30+125 Cr0.20+15.8 Mn+7.4 Ni+18 Si. According to the method, the molybdenum is completely or partially replaced with double the proportion of tungsten so that W>0.21%, and Ti, Zr, C are adjusted so that, after adjustment, Ti+Zr/2?0.2 W, (Ti+Zr/2)×C?0.07, Ti+Zr/2?1.49% and D is unchanged at approximately 5%. Steel obtained and method for producing a steel workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Industeel Creusot
    Inventors: Jean Beguinot, Dominique Viale
  • Publication number: 20100212785
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide at a low cost a low-alloy steel having a high strength and excellent high-pressure hydrogen environment embrittlement resistance characteristics under a high-pressure hydrogen environment. The invention is a high-strength low-alloy steel excellent in high-pressure hydrogen environment embrittlement resistance characteristics, which is characterized in that the steel has a composition comprising C: 0.10 to 0.20%, Si: 0.10 to 0.40%, Mn: 0.50 to 1.20%, Cr: 0.20 to 0.80%, Cu: 0.10 to 0.50%, Mo: 0.10 to 1.00%, V: 0.01 to 0.10%, B: 0.0005 to 0.005% and N: 0.01% or less, by mass, with the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: The Japan Steel Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Takasawa, Yoru Wada, Ryoji Ishigaki, Yasuhiko Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7758707
    Abstract: The invention relates to a martensitic stainless steel to be used for making a razor, surgical and similar blades or other cutting tools, which steel contains 0.40 to 0.55 wt % carbon, 0.8 to 1.5 wt % silicon, 0.7 to 0.85 wt % manganese, 13.0 to 14.0 wt % chromium, 1.0 to 1.5 wt % molybdenum and 0.2 to 0.4 wt % nickel, 0.02 to 0.04 wt % nitrogen, the balance of the steel being iron and inevitable impurities. The invention also relates to a method of manufacturing the said steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Outokumpu Oyj
    Inventor: Chris Millward
  • Patent number: 7754032
    Abstract: A high speed tool steel, which is high in impact value and free from variations in tool performance, comprising, by mass %, of: 0.4?C?0.9; Si?1.0; Mn?1.0; 4?Cr?6; 1.6-6 in total of either or both of W and Mo in the form of (½W+Mo) wherein W?3; 0.5-3 in total of either or both of V and Nb in the form of (V+Nb); wherein carbides dispersed in the matrix of the tool steel have an average grain size of ?0.5 ?m and a dispersion density of particles of the carbides is of ?80×103 particles/mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiho Fukumoto, Keiji Inoue
  • Patent number: 7713362
    Abstract: A method for producing a plate of steel which is resistant to abrasion and whose chemical composition includes, by weight: 0.24%?C<0.35%; 0%?Si?2%; 0%?Al?2%; 0.5%?Si+Al?2%; 0%?Mn?2.5% 0%?Ni?5%; 0%?Cr?<5% 0%?Mo?1%; 0%?W?2%; 0.1%?Mo+W/2?1%; 0%?B?0.02%; 0%?Ti?1.1%; 0%?Zr?2.2%; 0.35%<Ti+Zr/2?1.1%; 0%?S?0.15%; N<0.03%, optionally up to 1.5% of copper; optionally at least one element selected from Nb, Ta and V at contents such that Nb/2 +Ta/4+V?0.5%; optionally at least one element selected from among Se, Te, Ca, Bi, Pb at contents which are less than or equal to 0.1%; and the balance being iron and impurities resulting from the production operation. The chemical composition further complying with the following relationships: C*=C?Ti/4?Zr/8+7×N/8?0.095% and 1.05×Mn+0.54×Ni+0.50×Cr+0.3×(Mo+W/2)1/2+K>1.8 with: K=0.5 if B?0.0005% and K=0 if B<0.0005%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Industeel Creusot
    Inventors: Jean Beguinot, Jean-Georges Brisson
  • Publication number: 20100111662
    Abstract: Method for manufacturing at least one part of a device for mounting directly or indirectly on an arm of an earth-moving or material-handling machine, such as an excavator, tractor, harvester, forwarder or crane, whereby the device enables coupling and/or positioning (tilt and/or turn) of a tool (14), such as a bucket, grapple, fork, vibratory compactor or harvesting head, relatively to the arm of the machine. The method includes the steps of: a) forming a melt including unalloyed or alloyed ductile iron, b) casting at least one part of a device from the melt, c) allowing the at least one part of the device to cool, d) austenitizing the at least one part of the device, e) quenching the at least one part of the device, f) austempering the at least one part of the device, and g) allowing the at least one part of the device to cool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: INDEXATOR AB
    Inventor: Richard Larker
  • Publication number: 20100024926
    Abstract: High tensile strength steels that have both favorable delayed fracture resistance and a tensile strength of 600 MPa or higher and are suitably used in construction machinery, tanks, penstocks, and pipelines, as well as methods for manufacturing such steels are provided. The safety index of delayed fracture resistance (%) is 100×(X1/X0), where X0: reduction of area of a specimen substantially free from diffusible hydrogen, and X1: reduction of area of a specimen containing diffusible hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihide Nagao, Kenji Oi, Kenji Hayashi, Nobuo Shikanai
  • Patent number: 7648597
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing high tensile strength steel plate having 570 MPa (N/mm2) or larger tensile strength and having also extremely superior balance of strength and toughness both before PWHT and after PWHT to that of the conventional steel plates, by specifically specifying the temperature-rising rate at the plate thickness center portion of a quenched and tempered material during tempering, and to be concrete, the method has the steps of: casting a steel consisting essentially of 0.02 to 0.18% C, 0.05 to 0.5% Si, 0.5 to 2.0% Mn, 0.005 to 0.1% Al, 0.0005 to 0.008% N, 0.03% or less P, 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Akihide Nagao, Kenji Oi
  • Publication number: 20100006188
    Abstract: A water box for use in cooling a hot rolled product in a rolling mill comprises a plurality of nozzles arranged sequentially along a first axis. The nozzles are subdivided into base and top sections, with the top sections being adjustable between closed positions coacting with the base sections to define tubular enclosures through which the product is directed, and open positions. A clamp support extends in parallel relationship to the first axis, and carries clamp members. An operating mechanism adjusts the clamp support between an open setting at which the clamp members are separated from the nozzle top sections and the nozzle top sections are adjustable to their open positions, and a closed setting at which the top sections are in their closed positions and the clamp members are in contact with and urge the top sections into their closed positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Matthew Palfreman, Brian Vallimont
  • Publication number: 20090120540
    Abstract: A cold die steel excellent in the characteristic of suppressing dimensional change, which has a chemical composition in mass %: C: 0.7% or more and less than 1.6%, Si: 0.5 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 3.0%, P: less than 0.05% including 0%, S: 0.01 to 0.12%, Cr: 7.0 to 13.0%, one or two elements selected from the group consisting of Mo and W: amounts satisfying the formula (Mo+(W/2))=0.5 to 1.7%, V: less than 0.7% including 0, Ni: 0.3 to 1.5%, Cu: 0.1 to 1.0% and Al: 0.1 to 0.7%. Preferably, the die steel satisfies the formula in mass %: Ni/Al=1 to 3.7. It is preferred that the die steel also satisfies the following formula in mass %: (Cr?4.2×C)=5 or less and (Cr?6.3×C)=1.4 or more and that it contains 0.3% or less of Nb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunichika Kubota, Hideshi Nakatsu, Shugo Komatsubara
  • Publication number: 20090107588
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hot-rolled steel sheet having a tensile strength of greater than 1200 MPa, an Re/Rm ratio of less than 0.75 and an elongation at break of greater than 10%, the composition of which contains, the contents being expressed by weight: 0.10%?C?0.25%; 1%?Mn?3%; Al?0.015%; Si?1.985%; Mo?0.30%; Cr?1.5%; S?0.015%; P?0.1%; Co?1.5%; B?0.005%; it being understood that 1%?Si+Al?2%; Cr+(3×Mo)?0.3%, the balance of the composition consisting of iron and inevitable impurities resulting from the smelting, the microstructure of the steel consisting of at least 75% bainite, residual austenite in an amount equal to or greater than 5% and martensite in an amount equal to or greater than 2%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: ARCELORMITTAL FRANCE
    Inventors: Sebastien Allain, Audrey Couturier, Thierry Iung, Christine Colin
  • Publication number: 20090092514
    Abstract: The present invention provides steel plate for high strength line pipe suppressing the rise in yield strength in the longitudinal direction of expanded steel pipe due to the heating at the time of coating to prevent corrosion and superior in strain aging resistance and steel pipe for the material for the same, that is, high strength steel pipe for line pipe superior in strain aging resistance characterized in that a base material having a composition of chemical elements containing, by mass %, Mo: over 0% to less than 0.15% and Mn: 1.7 to 2.5%, satisfying Mo/Mn: over 0 to 0.08, containing C, Si, P, S, Al, Ti, N, and B, furthermore containing one or more of Ni, Cu, and Cr, having a balance of iron and unavoidable impurities, having a P value of 2.5 to 4.0 in range, and having a metallurgical structure comprised of bainite and martensite: P value=2.7C+0.4Si+Mn+0.8Cr+0.45(Ni+Cu)+2Mo. Furthermore, it may contain one or more of Nb, V, Ca, REM, and Mg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Inventors: Hitoshi Asahi, Takuya Hara, Naoki Doi, Yoshio Terada
  • Patent number: 7470336
    Abstract: A martensitic alloy in which the ASTM grain size number is at least 5, including (wt. %) up to about 0.5% C, at least about 5% Cr, at least about 0.5% Ni, up to about 15% Co, up to about 8% Cu, up to about 8% Mn, up to about 4% Si, up to about 6% (Mo+W), up to about 1.5% Ti, up to about 3% V, up to about 0.5% Al, and at least about 40% Fe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Advanced Steel Technology LLC
    Inventor: Robert F. Buck
  • Patent number: 7468110
    Abstract: Sputtering targets and methods of making sputtering targets are described. The method includes the steps of: providing a sputtering metal workpiece made of a valve metal; transverse cold-rolling the sputtering metal workpiece to obtain a rolled workpiece; and cold-working the rolled workpiece to obtain a shaped workpiece. The sputtering targets exhibits a substantially consistent grain structure and/or texture on at least the sidewalls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Cabot Corporation
    Inventors: Robert B. Ford, Christopher A. Michaluk