Abstract: Disclosed are a non-normalized steel composition which includes carbon (C), silicon (Si), manganese (Mn), sulfur (S), vanadium (V), titanium (Ti), nitrogen (N), and iron (Fe), and a method of manufacturing the connecting rod for improving yield strength, fatigue strength, and the like of the connecting rod. The non-normalized steel composition includes carbon (C) in an amount of about 0.30 to 0.55 weight %, silicon (Si) in an amount of about 0.80 to 1.20 weight %, manganese (Mn) in an amount of about 0.80 to 1.20 weight %, sulfur (S) in an amount of about 0.06 to 0.10 weight %, vanadium (V) in an amount of about 0.20 to 0.35 weight %, titanium (Ti) in an amount of about 0.01 to 0.20 weight %, nitrogen (N) in an amount of about 0.005 to 0.02 weight %, and the remainder of iron (Fe), and inevitable impurities, based on a total weight of the composition.

Abstract: Provided are: a method for producing a high-speed tool steel material capable of increasing carbides in the structure of a high-speed tool steel product; a method for producing a high-speed tool steel product; and a high-speed tool steel product. The method for producing a high-speed tool steel material is provided with: a casting step for casting molten steel to obtain a steel ingot; a blooming step for heating the steel ingot obtained in said casting step to a temperature higher than 1120° C. and thereafter hot-working same to obtain an intermediate material; and a finishing step for heating the intermediate material obtained in the blooming step to a temperature of 900-1120° C. and thereafter hot-working same to obtain the high-speed tool steel material. Further, said method for producing a high-speed tool steel material is provided with an annealing step for annealing the high-speed tool steel material obtained in said finishing step.

Abstract: Device for individual quenching of gears, pinions, bearing rings and other similar components of technical devices, operating in a vacuum furnace installation, whereby the quenching chamber of the installation is fitted with tightly-sealed doors for workpiece loading and unloading. The following elements are fitted inside the quenching chamber: removable table on which an individual workpiece is placed, along with a surrounding set of removable nozzles; the inlet of the quenching chamber features an attached tank supplying the cooling medium to the nozzles—preferably air or nitrogen, or argon or helium, or hydrogen or carbon dioxide, or mixtures thereof—while the outlet of the quenching chamber is connected to the inlet of a tank receiving expanded cooling medium from the chamber; moreover, there is a compressor connected in between the two tanks, ensuring closed-loop flow of the cooling medium.

Abstract: A hot-dip galvanizing layer or an alloyed hot dip galvanizing layer is formed on the surface of a base steel sheet in which in volume fraction, 40 to 90% of a ferrite phase and 5% or less of a retained austenite phase are contained, and a ratio of non-recrystallized ferrite to the entire ferrite phase is 50% or less in volume fraction, and further a grain diameter ratio being a value of, of crystal grains in the ferrite phase, an average grain diameter in the rolling direction divided by an average grain diameter in the sheet width direction is 0.75 to 1.33, a length ratio being a value of, of hard structures dispersed in island shapes, an average length in the rolling direction divided by an average length in the sheet width direction is 0.75 to 1.33, and an average aspect ratio of inclusions is 5.0 or less.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and gas atmosphere for a metal component in a continuous furnace. In one embodiment, the method and gas atmosphere comprises the use of an effective amount, or about 1 to about 10 percent volume of endo-gas, into an atmosphere comprising nitrogen and hydrogen. In another embodiment, there is provided a method sintering metal components in a furnace at a one or more operating temperatures comprising: providing a furnace comprising a belt comprising a wire mesh material wherein the metal components are supported thereupon; and sintering the components in the furnace in an atmosphere comprising nitrogen, hydrogen, and effective amount of endothermic gas at the one or more operating temperatures ranging from about 1800° F. to about 2200° F. wherein the amount of endothermic gas in the atmosphere is such that it is oxidizing to the wire mesh material and reducing to the metal components.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a steel plate provided with a layered structure. A method for manufacturing a steel plate includes: i) providing a high carbon steel plate; ii) homogenizing the high carbon steel plate; iii) transforming the high carbon steel plate into an austenitic phase by heating the high carbon steel plate; iv) contacting the high carbon steel plate with an oxidization gas and converting the high carbon steel plate into a steel plate comprising surface layers that are spaced apart from each other and are decarburized to be transformed into a ferritic phase, and a center layer that is located between the surface layers and is not decarburized; and v) cooling the high carbon steel plate and transforming the center layer into a martensitic phase.

Abstract: A method for the manufacturing of high strength cold rolled steel sheets includes continuously annealing a cold rolled steel sheet that has a composition containing C: 0.05-0.3% mass, Si: 0.6-3.0% mass, Mn: 1.0-3.0% mass, P: ?0.1% mass, S: ?0.02% mass, Al: 0.01-1% mass, N: ?0.01% mass, and Fe and inevitable impurities: balance, in a manner such that the cold rolled steel sheet is heated in a furnace using an oxidizing burner to a steel sheet temperature of ?700° C., then soak-annealed in a reducing atmosphere furnace at 750-900° C., then cooled so the average cooling rate between 500° C. and 100° C. is ?50° C./s. High-Si cold rolled steel sheets with high strength and good phosphatability while containing Si?0.6% are obtained without controlling conditions so as to increase the dew point in the reducing atmosphere in the soaking furnace or to increase the vapor hydrogen partial pressure ratio.

Abstract: An apparatus for thermally treating and coloring a plurality of curved suture needles. The apparatus includes a conveyer for transferring the plurality of curved suture needles from a source of curved suture needles to a receiver, a housing positioned adjacent the conveyer, the housing having a first end, a second end, and an opening running from the first end to the second end, the opening aligned with the conveyer to enable the plurality of curved suture needles to pass therethrough, a heat source located within the housing for heating the plurality of curved suture needles as the plurality of curved suture needles are transferred by the conveyer from the first end of the housing to the second end of the housing and a system for providing a gas mixture containing a fractional concentration of oxygen to oxidize and colorize the surfaces of the plurality of curved suture needles as the plurality of suture needles pass through the housing.

Abstract: A method is described for batchwise heat treatment of goods to be annealed which are heated in a heating chamber after scavenging air with a scavenging gas under protective gas to a predetermined treatment temperature, with the protective gas being conveyed through the heating chamber depending on the occurrence of impurities in different quantities. In order to enable the economic use of protective gas, it is proposed that the protective gas which is withdrawn from the heating chamber after the main occurrence of impurities and which is loaded with a residual quantity of impurities is conveyed, optionally after intermediate storage, into the heating chamber during the main occurrence of impurities of a subsequent batch before non-loaded protective gas is introduced into the heating chamber.

Abstract: A method of cooling both surfaces of steel plate, which stably secures precision of cooling control from a start of cooling to an end so as to uniformly cool the top and bottom surfaces of the steel plate and thereby stably secures the steel plate quality and cools the steel plate down to a target temperature with a good precision. The method comprises dividing a steel plate cooling region into at least a spray impact part region and a spray non-impact part region, predicting a heat transfer coefficient for each divided region in advance, computing a predicted temperature history of the steel plate based on this predicted value, and setting and controlling amounts of sprayed coolant on the spray impact part regions by top and bottom surface nozzles.

Abstract: The invention relates to titanium oxide containing slag compositions and associated methods for reducing the nitrogen content of metals. The titanium oxide slag compositions can be used to reduce nitrogen content in various molten metals including steel, nickel, copper, iron, and the like. The nitrogen content of the metals can be reduced by contacting the metal with the titanium oxide containing slag composition. The slag compositions are capable of reducing the nitrogen content of steel to less than 20 ppm without the need for specialized high-quality starting materials or processing equipment.

Abstract: A method of heat treating stainless steel in the form of blanks, piping, tubing, strip, or wire-like material, after rolling the material, and in a heat treatment furnace at a temperature higher than about 900° C. The material is subjected to a preheating stage and a final heating stage, wherein in the preheating stage flames from burners are directed toward the surface of the material to impinge on the surface. Burners situated in the preheating stage are supplied with a fuel that burns with the aid of an oxidizing gas that contains gaseous oxygen. The material is held in the preheating stage long enough to obtain at least some degree of oxidation on the surface of the material, and the material is heated further in a following, final heating stage by burners situated in a furnace and that are supplied with a fuel and an oxidizing gas.

Abstract: A low-cost, thermomechanical method for manufacturing [001] textured FeGa alloys is described. The method includes hot rolling a FeGa cast ingot to break down the cast structure, a two-stage warm rolling with an intermediate anneal, and then a final texture anneal that resulted in recrystallization and a recrystallization-induced texture. The FeGa ingot contains a grain growth agent that was used to restrain grain growth of the FeGa material in the undesired crystallographic direction. A protective steel sheath can be placed around the FeGa material during processing to avoid direct contact of the FeGa and the rolls during the hot and warm rolling process steps and also avoid oxidation of the alloy ingot. FeGa alloys with a very strong [001] texture and a large magnetostriction along [001] crystallographic direction were obtained using this method. FeGaBe alloys and new methods for making them are also described.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for the continuous thermochemical treatment of metal strip. It is useful with steel strip, of the oxidation-reduction type, in which the strip moves through a furnace in a protective atmosphere. The strip passes through at least one partial or total isolation device positioned within one or more sections of the furnace. The strip is heated in this isolation device in atmospheres having a dew point tailored to each strip according to the specific composition of the steel so that the atmosphere is oxidizing in the case of certain addition elements, but remains reducing in the case of iron.

Abstract: A process of production of a compressor shoe superior in durability and reduced in manufacturing cost, wherein a process of quenching the shoe is performed in a vacuum, inert gas, or modified gas so as to prevent oxidation of the chrome and manganese of the surface of the material or the quenching process is performed after forming an antioxidation film on the surface of the material to prevent the oxidation of the chrome and manganese.

Abstract: A base plate of a stainless-steel body material formed by pressing is polished and cleared of burrs by means of an abrasive material that consists mainly of Fe2O3 in a polishing process. The polished base plate is heated to a heat treatment temperature for solid solution in a reducing atmosphere in a heat treatment process. In this heat treatment process, an oxide in the constituents of minute fragments of the abrasive material in the surface of the body material of the base plate is reduced to leave iron, which is dispersed into the body material.

Abstract: Disclosed is a steel for machine structural use having good machinability and chip-breakability as well as a method of producing the steel. The steel consists essentially of, by wt. %, C: 0.05-0.8%, Si: 0.01-2.0%, Mn: 0.1-3.5%, S: 0.01-0.2%, Al: 0.001-0.020%, Ca: 0.0005-0.02%, O: 0.0005-0.01% and N: 0.001-0.04%, and further, one or both of Ti: 0.002-0.010% and Zr: 0.002-0.025%, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. At production of the steel controlled deoxidization is conducted by operation meeting certain conditions so that at least a certain amount of “duplex inclusion” having a specific chemical composition may be formed, and Ti and/or Zr is added to precipitate finely dispersed MnS inclusion particles with nuclei of Ti-oxide and/or Zr-oxide. The finely dispersed MnS inclusions must share a determined part of the total sulfide inclusions.

Abstract: A method of producing a high nitrogen, ultra low carbon steel suitable to rolling material for use in cold rolled steel sheets having excellent age hardening property by an age hardening treatment after forming by working, with no defects in slabs or steel sheets, reliably, at a reduced cost and with a high productivity is proposed. The method for producing a rolling material for use in ultra low carbon steel sheets at: C≦0.0050 mass % comprises; applying primary decarburization refining to molten iron from a blast furnace, then controlling the composition in the molten steel after primary decarburization refining to a range satisfying the following relation: [mass % N]−0.15[mass % C]≧0.0060,  subsequently conducting secondary decarburization refining to a ultra low carbon concentration region while suppressing denitridation using a vacuum degassing facility, then conducting deoxidation by Al and, further, controlling the composition.

Abstract: A method has been developed for surface modifications of high temperature resistant alloys, such as FeCrAl alloys, in order to increase their resistance to corrosion at high temperatures. Coating it with a Ca-containing compound before heat-treating builds a continuos uniform and adherent layer on the surface of the alloy, that the aluminum depletion of the FeCrAl alloy is reduced under cyclic thermal stress. By this surface modification the resistance to high temperature corrosion of the FeCrAl alloy and its lifetime are significantly increased.

Abstract: An Fe-Ni alloy having improved softening property is provided consisting of from 34 to 38% of Ni, not more than 0.5% of Mn, from 0 to 0.02% of soluble Al, from 0.005 to 0.0100% of N, the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities. A smaller of the first value, which is the content of the soluble Al content divided by 27, or a second value, which is the nitrogen content divided by 14, is not more than 0.00015. When the first value and the second value are the same, the soluble Al content is from 0 to 0.01%.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the direct production, from molten metal, of scale-free thin metal strip. Hot thin metal strip exiting a continuous caster system is directed to a reducing chamber wherein a reducing gas reduces strip surface oxides while the cast metal strip is at an elevated temperature from retained heat from the molten metal. A cooling unit following the reducing chamber is used to cool the strip to a temperature below about 150° C. prior to exposing the strip to an oxidizing atmosphere. In various embodiments of the invention, strip thickness is reduced with use of hot and cold rolling mills and the scale-free surface of the strip is coated with protective coatings.

Abstract: A bulk amorphous metal magnetic component has a plurality of layers of amorphous metal strips laminated together to form a generally three-dimensional part having the shape of a polyhedron. The bulk amorphous metal magnetic component may include an arcuate surface, and preferably includes two arcuate surfaces that are disposed opposite each other. The magnetic component is operable at frequencies ranging from between approximately 50 Hz and 20,000 Hz. When the component is excited at an excitation frequency “f” to a peak induction level Bmax, it exhibits a core-loss less than “L” wherein L is given by the formula L=0.0074 f (Bmax)1.3+0.000282 f1.5 (Bmax)2.4, said core loss, said excitation frequency and said peak induction level being measured in watts per kilogram, hertz, and teslas, respectively.

Abstract: A method for reducing the electrical resistance caused by a corrosion oxide coating at the current-carrying transition of a chromium steel component includes annealing the chromium steel component a temperature of at least 950° C. and removing any oxide coating that develops during said annealing before the component carries current.

Abstract: A ferrous-alloy aircraft structural component such as a fastener is prepared by providing a ferrous-alloy component precursor that is not in its final heat-treated state, and coating with an aluminum-containing, curable organic coating material having a non-volatile portion that is predominantly organic and is curable at about the ferrous-alloy component's tempering temperature. The coated, ferrous-alloy is then tempered to concurrently impart predetermined metallurgical properties to the finished, ferrous-alloy material, and cure the organic, aluminum-containing coating.

Abstract: An alloy of Al and two or more of Ca, Mg and REM is added as a deoxidizing agent to molten steel, and the amount of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 in the resulting inclusion is adjusted to a range of 30-85 wt % to obtain an alumina cluster-free Al-killed steel.

Abstract: Monolithic metal oxide structures, and processes for making such structures, are disclosed. The structures are obtained by heating a metal-containing structure having a plurality of surfaces in close proximity to one another in an oxidative atmosphere at a temperature below the melting point of the metal while maintaining the close proximity of the metal surfaces. Exemplary structures of the invention include open-celled and closed-cell monolithic metal oxide structures comprising a plurality of adjacent bonded corrugated and/or flat layers, and metal oxide filters obtained from a plurality of metal filaments oxidized in close proximity to one another.

Abstract: Fe--Ni alloy with improved etch factors for electronic parts are provided which are characterized by the composition consisting of, all by weight, 30-55% Ni, 0.8% or less Mn, 0.0030-0.0100% N, or 0.02% less Al, and the balance Fe and unavoidable impurities, preferably with 0.01% or less C, 0.003% or less Si, 0.005%, or less S, 0.005% or less P, and 0.0100% or less O. There is provided Fe--Ni alloy materials for electronic parts which have high etch factors and produce favorably etched surfaces without blister generation, by restricting the N and Al contents within specified ranges and preferably limiting C, Si, P, S, and O contents below specified levels.

Abstract: An apparatus for the treatment of components by means of a gas mixture, comprising mainly a first light gas and minor amounts of a second gas being heavier than the first gas, has a treatment chamber (10) in which the treatment occurs and a concentration, and purification device (19, 29, 30) in which the gas mixture is concentrated and purified to increase the concentration of the first gas. The treatment chamber (10) comprises an outlet member (19) provided in an upper part of the treatment chamber (10) and means (14, 15) being arranged to move the gas mixture upwardly and out through the outlet member (19). Said means may comprise an inlet member (14) provided in a lower part of the treatment chamber (10) and arranged to supply additional gas and to admit a laminar inward flow of said additional gas.

Abstract: The invention is a high-strength hot dip galvannealed steel sheet having excellent press formability and plating properties by utilizing Si as a strengthening component, specifying an interrelation between Si and Mn and further specifying an alloying ratio of hot dip galvannealed layer, which comprises C: 0.0005-0.0050%, Si: 0.1-2.5%, Mn: 0.1-2.5%, Ti: 0.003-010%, Nb: 0.003-0.10%, B: 0.005-0.0080%, P: 0.040-0.18%, S: not more than 0.008%, Al: 0.005-0.10%, and N: not more than 0.0060 wt %, provided that Si and Mn satisfy the following equation, and the remainder being Fe and incidental impurities, and has a hot dip galvannealed layer formed on a surface of the steel sheet and having a Fe content of 9-12%, wherein said equation is:1.5 (% Mn)-2.ltoreq.(% Si).ltoreq.2(% Mn) (1).

Abstract: A method for producing metallic semifinished products such as strip or wire rom metallic work materials which have a high melting point and are difficult to shape, comprising the steps of a) first, alloying at least one element for lowering the melting point with a material that has a high melting point and is difficult to shape; b) then, producing the semifinished product from the alloy with the reduced melting point in the form of strip or wire directly from the melt by quick solidification; and c) finally extracting the elements alloyed with the material in method step a) from the semifinished product by heat treatment in a reactive atmosphere.

Abstract: Adding aluminum and/or silica to molten steel after decarburization containing about 0.005 percent by weight or less of carbon and about 1.0 percent by weight or less of manganese to form a mildly deoxidized molten steel; adding titanium to the mildly deoxidized molten steel to continue deoxidation so that the molten steel contains about 0.005 percent by weight or less of aluminum, about 0.20 percent by weight or less of silicon and about 0.01 to 0.10 percent by weight of titanium, to form inclusions in the molten steel which essentially consist of a complex oxide of titanium and aluminum, a complex oxide of titanium and silicon, and/or a complex oxide of titanium, aluminum and silicon.

Abstract: The subject invention provides a method for manufacturing a spring band clip, wherein an alloyed steel is shaped, annealed, levelled into a narrow band, then shaped by stamping and bending into a non-machined clip, and the surface of the non-machined clip is smoothed and treated to produce resistance to corrosion; wherein the steel comprises iron as the main component and one or more of the following components by weight: 0.32 to 0.55% C; up to 2.0% Si; up to 2.0% Mn; up to 0.04% P; up to 0.04% S; 17.5 to 20% Cr; up to 1% Ni; 0.5 to 2.5% Mo; up to 0.5% V; up to 0.1% Al; up to 0.1% Co; up to 0.4% Cu; up to 0.4% Pb; up to 0.1% Se; up to 0.1% Te; up to 0.005% Ti; up to 0.1% W; up to 0.05% Zr; up to 0.01% O.sub.2 ; up to 0.01% N; up to 0.1% Bi; up to 0.001% B; up to 0.05% Nb; wherein the non-machined clip is austenitized prior to being smoothed and is converted into martensite by heat treatment in a salt-, oil-, or water bath, or by quenching at about the austenitizing temperature.

Abstract: The invention refers to a process for production of raw stainless steel castings, in particular for stainless steel strip, covering rolling and annealing of cast material if required, as well as de-scaling, in particular by pickling in aqueous media, and coiling for raw stainless steel strip if necessary. In order to achieve greater flexibility as regards steel grades that can be treated and dimensions of the castings, the material is to be heat-treated in batches and preferably also annealed, cooled and de-scaled immediately after the final heat treatment stage, without intermediate storage, in batches. In a process covering the process stages for casting, rolling of the cast material if necessary, cooling, as well as de-scaling, in particular by pickling in aqueous media, and coiling, if necessary, to form raw stainless steel coils, the material is to be cast in batches and de-scaled immediately afterwards without intermediate storage in order to obtain the same advantage.

Abstract: This invention relates to a catalytic fuel composition capable of reducing pollutants in the combustion gasses generated upon combustion of the same. A catalytic material is combined with a liquid, petroleum-based fuel, mixed and solid particles are separated out to give the catalytic fuel product. The catalytic material predominantly comprises a plagioclase feldspar belonging mainly to the albiteanorthite series, and contains small amount of mica, kaolinite and serpentine, and optionally contains magnetite. An alloy material is also disclosed, comprising a mixture of the above-described catalytic material and a metal. The alloy material exhibits unique properties relative to the metal component alone, such as increased tensile strength, improved heat resistance, improved acid resistance, improved corrosion resistance, as well as exhibiting unusual conductive properties.

Abstract: For the annealing of steel in continuously operating units, the formation of so-called white dust is almost completely eliminated by subjecting the steel to a deoxidizing pretreatment before the annealing sequence so as to at least largely remove the oxygen adsorbed on the surface of the steel, as well as any oxygen compounds also present on the surface.

Abstract: Process for heat treating articles by hardening them in a recirculating gas medium which is in contact with the treated articles, the hardening gas being cooled by means of a heat exchanger, of the type in which helium is used as hardening gas, and is stored under holding pressure in a buffer container, wherein at the end of a hardening operation, a helium load is extracted from the treatment enclosure, in final phase by means of pump until a primary vacuum is obtained, the extracted helium is brought to purifying pressure by means of a compressor associated to a mechanical filter, and the helium under purifying pressure is sent to a purifier in which impurities are removed, after which it is transferred, if desired, after recompression in the buffer container.