Both Containing 0.01-1.7% Carbon (i.e., Steel) Patents (Class 428/683)
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Patent number: 8409725Abstract: The invention provides a structural member of different materials having no different-material-bonded part between aluminum alloy material and steel material to be assembled. The structural member of different materials comprised of steel and aluminum alloy includes a first structural member including steel, and a second structural member having a part including steel and a part including aluminum alloy, the part including steel and the part including aluminum alloy being bonded by different-material bonding. The first structural member and the second structural member are bonded together only by bonding of steels between the part including steel of the second structural member and the first structural member.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2008Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Toru Hashimura, Koji Fukumoto, Naoto Takahashi
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Publication number: 20130052481Abstract: A body comprising a steel substrate and a hard face structure fused to the steel substrate, the hard face structure comprising a core region and an intermediate region, the intermediate region at least partially enclosing the core region and comprising at least about 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: ELEMENT SIX GMBHInventors: Igor Yuri Konyashin, Bernd Heinrich Ries, Frank Friedrich Lachmann
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Patent number: 8308622Abstract: A centrifugally cast composite roll comprising an outer layer having a composition comprising by mass 2.5-9% of C, 0.1-3.5% of Si, 0.1-3.5% of Mn, and 11-40% of V, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities; an intermediate layer made of a high-speed steel alloy, which is formed inside the outer layer; and an inner layer made of cast iron or steel, which is formed inside the intermediate layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2006Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi Furushima, Shunji Matsumoto, Ryota Honda, Kiyoshi Hayashi, Takashi Honda, Masatsugu Uchida, Seiji Oyama, Takuya Osue
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Publication number: 20120270060Abstract: A formed component of an automobile and a method for its manufacture are disclosed. The formed component has a base body made of a metal sheet and a smaller, locally arranged reinforcement sheet. The gap between the base body and the reinforcement sheet is sealed in certain areas with a sealing mass made of enamel on an alkali-vanadium-silicate basis. The sealing mass may be applied by screen printing. The sealing mass is dried on the base sheet and/or on the reinforcement sheet, whereafter the reinforcement sheet is attached by welding in a region that is not covered by the sealing mass. The composite sheet formed from the base sheet and the reinforcement sheet is then heated to a forming temperature and hot-formed in a forming tool to the formed component and at least partially hardened.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2011Publication date: October 25, 2012Applicant: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbHInventors: MICHAEL WIBBEKE, CHRISTIAN HANDING, MARTIN KOYRO, CARSTEN TRIPPE
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Patent number: 8268453Abstract: The present document describes a composite material adapted to resist degradation by an erosive agent. The composite material comprises a steel base and crystals embedded in the steel base. At least 50% of the crystals have an elongated portion. Optionally, the composite material comprises an external surface for exposure to the erosive agent. At least 50% of the elongated portions are transverse to the external surface. A filler material is also described for forming the composite material on a ferrous surface by welding. The filler material comprises iron, carbon, boron, molybdenum and silicon. Methods are also described form forming the composite material.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Synthesarc Inc.Inventor: Serge Dallaire
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Patent number: 8263234Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes a stress-strain diagram obtained by a tensile test of the steel, and a gradient of stress in the stress-strain diagram, wherein the gradient d?/d? in 3 to 7% of true strain is 5000 MPa or more.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2008Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshitaka Okitsu
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Patent number: 8252428Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having high strength and ability to absorb impact energy to a high degree is formed into a strengthening member for an vehicle, having both superior energy absorption efficiency and bonding properties. The high-strength member has a high-strength steel sheet having not less than 5000 MPa of gradient du/de of a stress-strain diagram in a range of 3 to 7% of true strain obtained in a tension test, and a steel sheet having 0.3 to 0.85 of tension strength ratio against tension strength of the high-strength steel sheet, the steel sheets bonded at their ends with space extending in a prescribed direction between the steel sheets, and a load is to be applied on the member from the prescribed direction when the member is acted upon.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2010Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Takaki, Yoshitaka Okitsu
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Patent number: 8221898Abstract: A multilayered composite part includes a plurality of steel alloy layers connected to one another, with at least one core layer consisting of a soft, well deformable steel alloy and at least one steel alloy layer of a very high strength steel alloy, arranged on the core layer. A multilayered composite part which is characterized simultaneously by a high strength paired with very good outer skin quality and very good paint adherence, is achieved in that at least one outer steel alloy layer of a soft, well deformable steel alloy is provided on the very high strength steel alloy layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2008Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AGInventors: Jens-Ulrik Becker, Peter Seyfried, Michael Steinhorst, Horst Walter Tamler, Roland Wunderlich
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Publication number: 20120174752Abstract: A composite material with a ballistic protective effect having a first, outer layer made of a first steel alloy and at least one second layer which is arranged under the first layer and is made of a second steel alloy. The composite material with a ballistic protective effect allows for a reduction in the weight or the wall thicknesses of the composite material in comparison to conventional composite ballistic materials, by utilizing a first steel alloy of the first layer that has the following alloy constituents in percent by weight (% by weight): 0.06%?C?1.05%, 0.05%?Si?1.65%, 0.3%?Mn?2.65%, 0.015%?Al?1.55%; Cr?1.2%, Ti?0.13%, Mo?0.7%, Nb?0.1%, B?0.005%, P?0.08%, S?0.01%, Ni?4.0%, and V?0.05%, the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities. The second layer of the composite material having a higher elongation than the first layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2009Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Steel AGInventors: Jens-Ulrik Becker, Harald Hofmann, Christian Hockling, Andreas Kern, Udo Schriever, Horst Walter Tamler, Hans-Joachim Tschersich
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Publication number: 20120174760Abstract: A dual hardness steel article comprises a first air hardenable steel alloy having a first hardness metallurgically bonded to a second air hardenable steel alloy having a second hardness. A method of manufacturing a dual hard steel article comprises providing a first air hardenable steel alloy part comprising a first mating surface and having a first part hardness, and providing a second air hardenable steel alloy part comprising a second mating surface and having a second part hardness. The first air hardenable steel alloy part is metallurgically secured to the second air hardenable steel alloy part to form a metallurgically secured assembly, and the metallurgically secured assembly is hot rolled to provide a metallurgical bond between the first mating surface and the second mating surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2011Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: ATI Properties, Inc.Inventors: Njall Stefansson, Ronald E. Bailey, Glenn J. Swiatek
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Patent number: 8202628Abstract: The present invention is a fusion-bonded product having a high-strength part, comprising: a first preform (2a) constituted by integrally, frictionally pressure-welding a first low-carbon steel part (L1) made of low-carbon steel containing less than 0.45% of C and a high-carbon steel part (H) made of high-carbon steel containing not less than 0.45% of C; and a second preform (2b) having a second low-carbon steel part (L2) made of second low-carbon steel containing less than 0.45% of C; wherein the high-carbon steel part (H) of the first preform (2a) is provided with a high-strength part (9) that has been previously formed into a desired shape and quenched, the second low-carbon steel part (L2) of the second preform (2b) has been previously formed into a predetermined shape, and the first low-carbon steel part (L1) of the first preform (2a) and the second low-carbon steel part (L2) of the second preform (2b) are bonded to each other by fusion welding.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2007Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Musashi Seimitsu Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akira Mataga, Takashi Kuwanote
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Publication number: 20120141829Abstract: Provided is a spot welded joint (10) which includes at least one thin steel plate with a tensile strength of 750 MPa to 1850 MPa and a carbon equivalent Ceq of equal to or more than 0.22 mass % to 0.55 mass % and in which a nugget (3) is formed in an interface of the thin steel plates (1A, 1B). In a nugget outer layer zone, a microstructure consists of a dendrite structure in which an average value of arm intervals is equal to or less than 12 ?m, an average grain diameter of carbides contained in the microstructure is 5 nm to 100 nm, and a number density of carbides is equal to or more than 2×106/mm2.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2010Publication date: June 7, 2012Inventors: Hatsuhiko Oikawa, Hideki Hamatani, Masafumi Azuma, Noriyuki Suzuki, Fuminori Watanabe, Naoki Maruyama, Hiroyuki Kawata
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Publication number: 20120129006Abstract: A welding structural part 1 is manufactured by overlapping the surfaces of steel sheets 2, and forming a weld zone by spot welding. The weld zone 3 includes: a weld nugget 4; and a heat affected zone 5 surrounding the weld nugget 4, wherein the hardness in the weld zone increases along an exterior region 6 of the heat affected zone 5 toward the heat affected zone 5, and then decreases along the heat affected zone 5 toward the central region of the weld nugget 4. In the boundary region between the weld nugget 4 and the heat affected zone 5, the weld nugget 4 may have a convex portion 4A bulging into the heat affected zone 5 along the overlapped portion. The steel sheets 2 contain carbon in 0.15 mass % or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicants: NETUREN CO., LTD., NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiko Kanai, Munehisa Hatta, Fumiaki Ikuta, Kazuhiro Kawasaki, Eizaburou Nakanishi, Masayuki Miyake, Kotobu Nagai, Masao Hayakawa, Takehiko Itagaki
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Publication number: 20120107644Abstract: An apparatus for the heat-treating of a heat-hardenable steel cruciform article having a weld seam includes a heating element to heat the weld seam to a point that an austenitic transformation occurs, and a quenching chamber to cool the weld seam, causing the formation of Martensite and an associated expansion. The quenching is rapid since slow quenching may allow a crystalline phase other than martensite to form. The apparatus may comprise rollers operable to convey the welded cruciform article through the apparatus at a speed such that the weld seam is subjected to heating for a predetermined heat time sufficient to cause a formation of martensite there within, and such that the heated portion reaches the quenching chamber and is quenched to create a substantial amount of martensite, e.g., an amount sufficient to cause expansion of the part.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2011Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: CATERPILLAR, INC.Inventors: Pingshun Zhao, Howard W. Ludewig, Tao Hong, Fernando Martinez Diez, Michael Lynn Johnson, Kandrap Siddharthbai Patel, Zhaolin Hu, Steven R. Thompson
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Publication number: 20120101531Abstract: The invention relates to a biocompatible material made of a rust-resistant, alloyed stainless steel which is configured with at least one martensitic surface layer which is formed by a heat treatment with nitrogen case hardening and subsequent cooling. The surface layer, orthogonally to the surface into the sample interior, displaying a virtually linear course of the accompanying hardening and being achieved by a complete phase change (so-called austenitising) in the structural state from ferrite via austenite to martensite. In addition, the biocompatible material is in contact preferably indirectly or directly with the human body, no reactions and/or sensitivity problems being able to occur even in permanent use as a result of its absolute freedom from nickel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2009Publication date: April 26, 2012Inventor: Peter Barth
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Patent number: 8158274Abstract: A welding material, to be used for welding a base metal made of an austenitic alloy comprising C?2.0%, Si?4.0%, Mn: 0.01 to 3.0%, P: more than 0.03% to not more 0.3%, S?0.03%, Cr: 12 to 35%, Ni: 6 to 80%, sol. Al: 0.001 to 1% and N?0.3%, with the balance being Fe and impurities to a base metal made of another austenitic alloy, which comprises C: more than 0.3% to 3.0%, Si?4.0%, Mn?3.0%, P?0.03%, S?0.03%, Cr: more than 22% to 55%, Ni: more than 30% to not more than 70%, sol. Al: 0.001 to 1% and N?0.3%, with the balance being Fe and impurities can suppress the weld solidification cracking which occurs in an austenitic alloy having a high P content and showing fully austenitic solidification. Therefore, the said welding material can be widely used in such fields where a welding fabrication is required. The said welding material may contain a specific amount or amounts of one or more elements selected from Cu, Mo, W, V, Nb, Ti, Ta, Zr, Hf, Co, B, Ca, Mg and REM.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2011Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Osuki, Kazuhiro Ogawa, Hirokazu Okada
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Patent number: 8137819Abstract: Disclosed is a multilayered steel composite which compatibly achieves properties such as strength and ductility that are incompatible in conventional steels and is excellent in strength, ductility, weldability, toughness and fatigue strength. Also, disclosed is a method for producing the multilayered steel which is produced by rolling with least two kinds of steels having different chemical compositions and microstructure or different mechanical properties, in combination.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2007Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: The University of TokyoInventors: Toshihiko Koseki, Toshio Suzuki, Toyonobu Yoshida, Junya Inoue, Mitsuyuki Tanaka
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Patent number: 8124245Abstract: A direct metal laser sintered material including a substrate formed from a laser sintering process, the substrate having at least one surface, and a cladding material brazed onto at least a portion of the surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2010Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: David Edwin Budinger, Ronald Lance Galley, Ashwin Sreekant Raghavan, David Allen Kastrup
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Patent number: 8124247Abstract: A high-strength steel pipe has a tensile strength of 800 MPa or more and includes a weld metal having high cold-cracking resistance and high low-temperature toughness, wherein the weld metal contains C: 0.04% to 0.09% by mass, Si: 0.32% to 0.50% by mass, Mn: 1.4% to 2.0% by mass, Cu: less than 0.5% by mass, Ni: more than 0.9% by mass but not more than 4.2% by mass, Mo: 0.4% to 1.5% by mass, Cr: less than 0.5% by mass, V: less than 0.2% by mass, and the remainder of Fe and incidental impurities, and CS values calculated from the weld metal components using the equation CS=5.1+1.4[Mo]?[Ni]?[Mn]?36.3[C] are equal to zero or more at both an internal surface and an external surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2008Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignees: JFE Steel Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Naoya Hayakawa, Fumimaru Kawabata, Shuichi Sakaguchi, Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Makoto Ota, Shigeki Nishiyama, Kaoru Nagatani, Keito Ishizaki
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Patent number: 8114528Abstract: To form a welded joint having a sufficiently high fracture toughness value ?c by butting welding high strength steel plates having a yield strength of the 355 MPa class or more and a plate thickness of over 50 mm by electron beam welding, the butt welded joint is made one where the hardness of the weld metal is 110% to 220% of the hardness of the base material and where the width of the weld metal is 20% A or less of the base material plate thickness.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2007Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Tadashi Ishikawa, Ryuichi Honma, Akihiko Kojima, Yuzuru Yoshida, Youichi Tanaka
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Patent number: 8110292Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 4, 2009Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Taishi Fujishiro, Shinya Sakamoto, Takuya Hara, Hitoshi Asahi
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Patent number: 8084144Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 4, 2007Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Takuya Hara, Hitoshi Asahi
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Publication number: 20110274946Abstract: A cast body, being a tool for forming or original molding a work piece, or a transfer member for transferring a force or torque onto a tool which contacts the work piece during forming or original molding, wherein the cast body is cast from an iron base alloy which forms an interior zone of the cast body made of grey cast iron and, around the interior zone, a circumferential rim zone which includes the outer circumference of the cast body and has a surface hardness which is greater than 400 HV, wherein the circumferential rim zone consists of ribbon grain or superfine ribbon grain pearlite with embedded free graphite, preferably spheroidal graphite or vermicular graphite, or of an intermediate structure with spheroidal graphite or vermicular graphite.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2011Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: SHW Casting Technologies GmbHInventors: Ulrich Severing, Bernd Eppli, Lutz Krodel-Teuchert
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Patent number: 8039118Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 30, 2007Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Takuya Hara, Hitoshi Asahi
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Publication number: 20110236721Abstract: Maraging steel compositions, methods of forming the same, and articles formed therefrom comprising, by weight, 15.0 to 20.0% Ni, 2.0 to 6.0% Mo, 3.0 to 8.0% Ti, up to 0.5% Al, the balance Fe and residual impurities. The composition may be a first layer of a composite plate, and may have a second layer deposited on the first layer, the second layer having a composition comprising, by weight, 15.0 to 20.0% Ni, 2.0 to 6.0% Mo, 1.0 to 3.0 Ti, up to 0.5% Al, the balance Fe and residual impurities. The first layer may have a hardness value ranging from 58 to 64 RC, and the second layer may have a hardness value ranging from 48 to 54 RC. The first layer may be formed employing powdered metallurgical techniques. Articles formed from the compositions include armored plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: ATI Properties, Inc.Inventors: Ronald E. Bailey, Thomas R. Parayil, Timothy M. Hackett, Tong C. Lee
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Patent number: 8025982Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength hot dip galvannealed steel sheet having high powdering resistance produced by employing such a constitution that a Fe—Zn alloy plated layer is provided on at least one side of a basis steel sheet and a region in which Al (atomic %)/Zn (atomic %)?0.10 is present in a thickness of 300 ? or more from the surface of the plated layer along the depth direction of the plated layer. Also disclosed is a hot dip galvannealed steel sheet whose formability is greatly improved by optionally specifying chemical composition and structure of the basis steel sheet.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2006Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Yuichi Futamura, Michitaka Tsunezawa, Masaaki Miura, Hiroshi Irie, Takatoshi Yoshida, Masafumi Shimizu
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Patent number: 7998238Abstract: A sintered sliding member comprises a back metal (21a) and a ferrous sintered sliding body (20) which is sintering-bonded to the back metal (21a). The ferrous sintered sliding body (20) has martensite phase having a solid soluble carbon concentration of 0.15 to 0.5 wt % and contains carbide in a content of 5 to 50% by volume. The sintered sliding member is excellent in abrasion resistance, seizing resistance and heat crack resistance.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2004Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Takemori Takayama, Tetsuo Ohnishi, Kazuo Okamura
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Patent number: 7958638Abstract: The invention relates to a sheet metal plate, especially made of steel, for producing motor vehicle body components. In order to make the body component sufficiently rigid at highly stressed points in spite of using lightweight materials, the sheet metal plate (11) is provided with local reinforcement zones (13, 14). To this avail, the sheet metal plate (11) is joined together from at least two cut metal sheets (7, 9) with a straight seam (10). At least one of the cut metal sheets (7) comprises several parallel strips (2 to 6) having different strengths while each local reinforcement zone (13, 14) lies within a reinforced strip (2, 3).Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2004Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Steel AGInventor: Erik Hilfrich
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Patent number: 7951469Abstract: A welding material, to be used for welding a base metal made of an austenitic alloy comprising C?2.0%, Si?4.0%, Mn: 0.01 to 3.0%, P: more than 0.03% to not more 0.3%, S?0.03%, Cr: 12 to 35%, Ni: 6 to 80%, sol. Al: 0.001 to 1% and N?0.3%, with the balance being Fe and impurities to a base metal made of another austenitic alloy, which comprises C: more than 0.3% to 3.0%, Si?4.0%, Mn?3.0%, P?0.03%, S?0.03%, Cr: more than 22% to 55%, Ni: more than 30% to not more than 70%, sol. Al: 0.001 to 1% and N?0.3%, with the balance being Fe and impurities can suppress the weld solidification cracking which occurs in an austenitic alloy having a high P content and showing fully austenitic solidification. Therefore, the said welding material can be widely used in such fields where a welding fabrication is required. The said welding material may contain a specific amount or amounts of one or more elements selected from Cu, Mo, W, V, Nb, Ti, Ta, Zr, Hf, Co, B, Ca, Mg and REM.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2010Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Osuki, Kazuhiro Ogawa, Hirokazu Okada
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Publication number: 20110111252Abstract: A use of a coilable multi-layer metallic composite material produced by means of roll-cladding in a vehicle structure, in particular a body structure, provides an alternative to monolithic materials. The composite material used in a vehicle structure is a lightweight composite material and comprises three layers of a steel alloy, wherein at least one of the layers is formed from a high-strength or very high-strength steel alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AGInventors: Jens-Ulrik Becker, Lothar Patberg, Peter Seyfried, Horst Walter Tamler, Roland Wunderlich
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Publication number: 20110033730Abstract: The present document describes a composite material adapted to resist degradation by an erosive agent. The composite material comprises a steel base and crystals embedded in the steel base. At least 50% of the crystals have an elongated portion. Optionally, the composite material comprises an external surface for exposure to the erosive agent. At least 50% of the elongated portions are transverse to the external surface. A filler material is also described for forming the composite material on a ferrous surface by welding. The filler material comprises iron, carbon, boron, molybdenum and silicon. Methods are also described form forming the composite material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2009Publication date: February 10, 2011Inventor: Serge Dallaire
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Publication number: 20110008648Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes a stress-strain diagram obtained by a tensile test of the steel, and a gradient of stress in the stress-strain diagram, wherein the gradient d?/d? in 3 to 7% of true strain is 5000 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2008Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshitaka Okitsu
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Patent number: 7829202Abstract: A large-heat-input butt-welded joint of welded structures prepared by butt-welding high-strength steel plates over 50 mm in thickness, having excellent brittle fracture resistance, is characterized by: (a1) the hardness of the weld metal is not more than 110% of the hardness of the base metal or (a2) the hardness of the weld metal is not less than 70% and not more than 110% of the hardness of the base metal, and, as required, (b) the width of the weld metal is not more than 70% of the plate thickness of the base metal, (c) the width of the region affected by welding whose hardness is softened to not more than 95% of the hardness of the non-heat-affected base metal has a width not less than 5 mm, and/or (d) the prior austenite grain size in the heat-affected zone (HAZ) contacting the welding fusion line is not more than 200 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2004Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Tadashi Ishikawa, Takehiro Inoue, Hiroshi Shimanuki, Tadashi Koseki, Jun Otani, Masanori Minagawa, Akihiko Kojima
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Patent number: 7807273Abstract: An alloy-coated boiler part is furnished with a melted coating of alloy material excellent in erosion/corrosion resistance when joined by welding, and free from thermal shock cracking. Super alloy coating (15) is applied over rapid temperature rise region width (C), where thermal shock cracking may occur at a welding operation, at end portions subjected to weld joint including the vicinity. Self-fluxing alloy coating (16) is applied on remaining regions other than the rapid temperature rise region width (C). While over a half proportion of each of the alloy coatings (15, 16) occupied by an Ni-enriched Ni—Cr component, the super alloy coating (15) has the contents of B and Si suppressed to equal or less than 0.1% and equal or less than 0.5%, respectively, and in the self-fluxing alloy coating (16), the content of each of B and Si is in the range of 1 to 5%.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2005Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignees: Dai-Ichi High Frequency Co., Ltd., Flourshing Enterprise Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoichi Matsubara, Yoshinobu Sochi, Makoto Kumakawa, Shin-Nan Lee
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Publication number: 20100227196Abstract: Welds made in TRIP steel workpieces by non-autogenous welding techniques can be made to approximate both the composition and microstructure of the TRIP steel being welded by formulating the weld to have controlled amounts of ? phase (austenite) stabilizers and cementite suppressors.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2009Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC.Inventor: Badri K. Narayanan
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Publication number: 20100225431Abstract: Provided are a steel having a non-magnetic portion, which can be applied to the steel of the remaining portion irrespective of the material and which has a structure of a short treating time required and a determined depth direction, its manufacturing method, and a revolving electric core. There is prepared an electromagnetic steel sheet having a recessed groove. A two-layered chip of a modifier metal foil and a stainless steel foil is so set in the groove of the electromagnetic steel sheet that the electromagnetic steel sheet and the stainless steel foil have surfaces of the same height. The modifier metal foil is melted when electric current is applied under pressure. When this pressing and current applying is continued, inner sides of the electromagnetic steel sheet and the stainless steel foil contacting the modifier metal foil are melted to form a nonmagnetic alloy layer in the region excepting the surface portions of an electromagnetic steel sheet layer and a stainless steel layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2008Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke Kadota, Hideo Aihara, Masahiko Mitsubayashi
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Publication number: 20100159265Abstract: Provided are butt welds and methods of making such butt welds using a combination of fusion root welding and friction stir welding to yield welds with decreased propensity for dropout during friction stir welding without the need for a back-up support plate. In one form of the present disclosure, the butt weld includes: two or more abutting structural steel components beveled on faying surfaces on one side of the components to form a suitably shaped fusion root weld groove and unbeveled on faying surfaces on the opposite side of the components and interconnected with a first fusion root weld on the beveled side of the components and a second friction stir weld on the unbeveled side of the components, wherein the first fusion root weld has a width ranging from 7 mm to 30 mm, a penetration depth ranging from 2 mm to 20 mm, and an overfill ranging from 2 mm to 5 mm, and wherein the stir zone of the second friction stir weld penetrates the first fusion root weld.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventors: Douglas Paul Fairchild, Steven Jeffrey Ford, Amit Kumar, Nathan Eugene Nissley, Nicholas E. Biery, Mario L. Macia
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Publication number: 20100136369Abstract: Provided are steel structures methods of making such steel structures including structural steel components bonded by friction stir weldments with advantageous microstructures to yield improved weldment strength and weldment toughness. In one form of the present disclosure, the steel structure includes: two or more structural steel components produced by conventional melting or secondary refining practices and friction stir weldments bonding faying surfaces of the components together, wherein the chemistry and grain size of the starting structural steel satisfies one or more of the following criteria: a) 0.02 wt %<Ti+Nb<0.12 wt %, b) 0.7<Ti/N<3.5, c) 0.5 wt %<Mo+W+Cr+Cu+Co+Ni<1.75 wt %, d) 0.01 wt %<TiN+NbC+TiO/MgO<0.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2009Publication date: June 3, 2010Inventors: Raghavan Ayer, Douglas Paul Fairchild, Steven Jeffrey Ford, Hyun-Woo Jin, Adnan Ozekcin
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Patent number: 7712222Abstract: A composite utility blade and method of making such a blade involves butt joining a high speed or tool steel wire to a front edge of an alloy steel backing strip. The wire defines a predetermined cross-sectional shape that substantially corresponds to the cross-sectional shape of the cutting edge of the blade. The wire is electron beam welded to the backing strip to form a composite strip defining a first metal portion formed by the alloy steel backing strip, a second metal portion formed by the high speed or tool steel wire, and a weld region joining the first and second metal portions. The composite strip is then annealed, and the annealed strip is straightened to eliminate any camber therein. The annealed composite strip is then hardened such that the first metal portion defines a first surface hardness and the second metal portion defines a second surface hardness greater than the first surface hardness.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2004Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Irwin Industrial Tool CompanyInventors: William B. Korb, Brian K. Douglas, Dayananda Sukadhare, Gary F. Scott
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Publication number: 20100092798Abstract: A high-quality submerged arc weld metal for 1.25 Cr-0.5 Mo steel that is obtained by carrying out multi-pass welding in a submerged arc welding process with a solid wire and a bonded flux being combined together, is produced in which a strength mismatch with a base material does not occur even after a Post Weld Heat Treatment is carried out for a short time to a long time, and which has high ductility as well as having no weld defect. The submerged arc weld metal for 1.25 Cr-0.5 Mo steel is characterized in that: the weld metal contains, per the total mass of the weld metal, C: 0.06 to 0.12 mass %, Si: 0.15 to 0.30 mass %, Mn: 0.60 to 1.10 mass %, Cr: 1.10 to 1.45 mass % and Mo: 0.45 to 0.60 mass %, wherein O is contained in an amount of 0.022 mass % or less and N is contained in an amount of 0.008 mass % or less, and wherein the balance is Fe and inevitable impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiko Sasaki, Shinta Niimoto, Satoshi Nishimura, Yoshiaki Murata
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Patent number: 7695825Abstract: A circularly welded joint featuring excellent fatigue strength obtained by welding the ends of two pieces of steel plates perpendicularly together and used for the welded structures such as buildings, ships, bridges, construction machinery and off-shore structures, a method of producing the circularly welded joints and a welded structure using the circularly welded joints are provided. A circularly welded joint is obtained by welding the ends of two pieces of steel plates perpendicularly together. Between the two pieces of the steel plates, at least the steel plate on the side on which the main stress is exerted is one that suppresses the propagation of cracks due to fatigue and, preferably, one having the compressive residual stress in the surface layer of the steel plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2003Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Kiyotaka Nakashima, Tadashi Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20100062279Abstract: An austenitic stainless steel welded joint, whose base metal and weld metal each comprises, by mass percent, C: not more than 0.3%, Si: not more than 2%, Mn: 0.01 to 3.0%, P: more than 0.04% to not more than 0.3%, S: not more than 0.03%, Cr: 12 to 30%, Ni: 6 to 55%, rare earth metal(s): more than 0.2% to not more than 0.6%, sol. Al: 0.001 to 3% and N: not more than 0.3%, with the balance being Fe and impurities, and satisfies the formula of (Cr+1.5×Si+2×P)/(Ni+0.31×Mn+22×C+14.2×N+5×P)<1.388, in spite of having a high P content and showing the fully austenitic solidification, has excellent resistance to the weld solidification cracking. Therefore, the said austenitic stainless steel welded joint can be widely used in such fields where a welding fabrication is required. Each element symbol in the above formula represents the content by mass percent of the element concerned.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2009Publication date: March 11, 2010Inventors: Takahiro Osuki, Kazuhiro Ogawa, Hirokazu Okada, Masaaki Igarashi
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Publication number: 20100055496Abstract: A steel having an improved tensile strength includes a first layer formed of an ultra-low carbon steel; and a second layer that is formed in contact with the first layer, includes a first surface opposite to the first layer, is formed of a solid solution obtained by solid-solving nitrogen in the ultra-low carbon steel, and has a structure substantially the same as a structure of the first layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: ILJIN LIGHT METAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hee Won JUNG, Young June PARK, Dong Sam KIM, Dong Nyung LEE, Kyu Hwan OH, Yinzhong SHEN, Sung Chul Kim
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Patent number: 7588837Abstract: A weld joins a thin overlay of low carbon steel to a base that contains high carbon steel, at least at its surface along which the weld is formed. The weld may be effected by fusion (melting) or by solid-state diffusion. With either it creates a heat affected zone (HAZ) in the base around the weld. The HAZ contains enough austenite, and perhaps bainite as well, to render the HAZ relatively ductile and also crack resistant. Adjacent to the weld the HAZ has a hardness that does not exceed 58 HRC. The weld may be produced with a high energy beam or with resistance welding equipment.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2005Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: The Timken CompanyInventor: David L. Milam
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Publication number: 20090220820Abstract: A method of friction welding a first part to a second part of a component having a hollow space in which the internal connection surface of the first part to be welded is reciprocally arranged with an internal connection surface of the second part to be friction welded, so that they form a unsymmetrical contact area, so that the resulting weld of the first and the second parts produces a weld bead that is located predominantly outside of the hollow space. The unsymmetrical contact area can be formed by a chamfer, angled edge surfaces that produce, for example, a wedge-shaped space, or partially matched, inter-fitting surfaces that remain out of contact at sides facing the hollow space.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2009Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicant: GESENKSCHMIEDE SCHNEIDER GMBHInventors: Peter Kolbe, Ernst-Peter Schmitz
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Publication number: 20080220308Abstract: Provided is a first method for producing a source blank for a clad steel sheet composed of a stainless steel containing 0 to 0.3% B as a core component and a stainless steel containing 0.3 to 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2008Publication date: September 11, 2008Inventors: Motomichi Kanbe, Kunihiko Ushio, Takeo Yazawa, Hideaki Yamamoto, Yoshio Tarutani, Akira Seki
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Patent number: 7393597Abstract: A weld joint having a base material and a weld metal both of an austenitic steel, wherein the weld metal has a chemical composition, in mass %, that C: 0.04% or less, Si: 1.0% or less, Mn: 3% or less, P: 0.02% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Cr: 15 to 25%, Ni: 30% or more, Mo: 10% or less, Nb: 2.5 to 5%, Al: 3.0% or less, Ti: 0.5% or less, and the balance: Fe and inevitable impurities, the contents of Al and Ti satisfying the following: (Ti+Al)>Nb/8. The weld joint is a high strength austenitic steel weld joint which exhibits excellent toughness at a low temperature and excellent resistance to hydrogen embrittlement, which are required for a piping and a vessel for high pressure hydrogen, particularly also in a welded zone.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2005Date of Patent: July 1, 2008Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Ogawa, Masaaki Igarashi, Hiroyuki Semba, Tomohiko Omura, Mitsuo Miyahara
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Patent number: 7217905Abstract: A filler metal including not more than about 0.1% C, not more than about 1.0% Si; not more than about 0.8% Mn; from about 10.5% to about 13.0% Cr; from about 0.65% to about 4.0% Ni; from about 10(% C) to about 1.5% Ti; not more than about 0.5% each of N, S, P, Mo, Nb, Cu, V, or Co; and balance essentially Fe, wherein a weld test pad of the filler metal contains a microstructure comprising martensite. A method of attaching together two components using a modified filler metal which forms a weld containing an amount of martensite sufficient to increase the volume of the weld thereby at least partially offsetting shrinkage of the weld upon cooling, and articles produced thereby.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey B. Hardesty, David E. Nelson
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Patent number: 7210388Abstract: A bimetal saw band which is suitable for cutting materials of high hardness and wear resistance at high cutting speeds and with a reduced consumption of coolant is disclosed. The saw band includes a support band with from 0.20 to 0.45% of carbon, from 0.2 to 0.6% of silicon, from 0.5 to 1.8% of manganese, from 0.1 to 3.5% of molybdenum, from 1.0 to 5.0% of chromium, from 0.5 to 1.5% of nickel, from 0.1 to 1.0% of copper, from 0.1 to 2.0% of tungsten, from 0.1 to 0.5% of vanadium, from 0.01 to 0.30% of niobium and/or tantalum and less than 0.2% of cobalt, and the remainder iron including melting-related impurities, with the tungsten, vanadium and niobium/tantalum contents matched to one another. The saw includes hardmetal tips including at least 75% of tungsten carbide and 5 to 15% of cobalt, as well as grain stabilizers with a grain size of less than 5 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2003Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: Stahlwerk Ergste Westig GmbHInventors: Oskar Pacher, Werner Lenoir
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Patent number: 6966955Abstract: A weldable structural steel product having TiN and ZrN precipitates, which contains, in terms of percent by weight, 0.03 to 0.17% C, 0.01 to 0.5% Si, 0.4 to 2.0% Mn, 0.005 to 0.2% Ti, 0.0005 to 0.1% Al, 0.001 to 0.03% Zr, 0.008 to 0.030% N, 0.0003 to 0.01% B, 0.001 to 0.2% W, at most 0.03% P, at most 0.03% S, at most 0.01% O, and balance Fe and incidental impurities while satisfying conditions of 1.2?Ti/N?2.5, 0.3?Zr/N?2.0, 10?N/B?40, 2.5?Al/N?7, and 6.8?(Ti+Zr+2Al+4B)/N?17, and having a microstructure essentially consisting of a complex structure of ferrite and pearlite having a grain size of 20 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2001Date of Patent: November 22, 2005Assignee: PoscoInventors: Hae-Chang Choi, Hong-Chul Jeong