With Particular Lubricant Patents (Class 72/42)
  • Patent number: 8283296
    Abstract: A substantially lead-free lubricant for use in hot forging of metals, especially forging of aluminum and aluminum alloy components. The lubricant comprises one or more oils, graphite, and one or more phosphorus-based additives. Additional additives, such as metallic lubricants and dispersants may also be included. The lubricant does not burn when subjected to temperatures in excess of 300° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co., KGaA
    Inventors: Laurent Hugues, Harold Gankema, Geert Heideman, Douwe Marten Kok, Gerko Odink
  • Patent number: 8250890
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a film of solid lubricant particles is applied to metal workpieces, which are then subjected to a controlled humid environment for predetermined times and temperatures. Following the exposure to humidity, the lubricated metal workpieces are heated for a hot forming operation. The humidification of the lubricated workpiece increases the adhesion of solid lubricant films to the metal workpieces, thereby improving the tribological performance of the workpieces during subsequent hot forming operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Arianna T. Morales
  • Patent number: 8210233
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing metal articles, in particular of light, alloy, includes a die including a pair of portions which can be separated to each other, which, in the closed condition, delimitate forging cavities having a shape corresponding to one or more articles to be forged, and a furnace adapted to melt the metal and to control the reaching by the molten metal of the hollow impressions of the die, as a result of overflowing through a duct connected to the furnace. A portion of the die includes, for each hollow impression, a movable punch adapted to apply a predetermined pressure on the relevant article during the forging step. Each punch is moveable in a manner independent from the other punches, and the apparatus includes a controller for controlling the pressure applied by each punch during the forging step, which allow to level the pressure applied by all the punches on the relevant article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Solmar S.A.S.
    Inventor: Franco Bonci
  • Publication number: 20120164474
    Abstract: A method of producing shaped articles made from single-sidedly or double-sidedly galvanized steel sheet, starting from galvanized steel strip, at least one of the steps of the method being a transport operation, and in which, for protection from black-spot corrosion, a corrosion preventive oil is applied which comprises at least one phosphoric acid polyoxyalkylene ester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stephan Hueffer, Helmut Witteler, Achim Fessenbecker, Karl-Heinz Stellnberger, Martin Fleischanderl
  • Patent number: 8205475
    Abstract: Aluminum, magnesium, and steel can be warm formed through use of a solid, warm forming lubricant which is a metal or metal alloy, or high melting temperature polar polymer. The parts can be painted directly after warm forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Inventor: David J. Stork
  • Publication number: 20120111078
    Abstract: A metal forming process involves applying a lubricant, formed from a vitreous enamel mixed with particles of boron nitride, to at least one surface of a sheet metal blank, and without pre-heating the sheet metal blank, placing the sheet metal blank having the lubricant applied to the surface(s) thereof into a pre-heated forming tool so that the at least one surface contacts a surface of the forming tool. The method further involves, via the pre-heated forming tool, forming the sheet metal blank into a desired part shape, and during such forming, forming a lubricant layer on the surface(s) as the lubricant is heated from the pre-heated forming tool, the lubricant layer adhering to the surface(s) of the sheet metal blank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Arianna T. Morales
  • Patent number: 8141401
    Abstract: In a shaping process a metal strip is passed in a rolling direction through shaping rolls and a layer of treatment liquid is applied to a surface of the strip upstream of the shaping rolls. Measurement variables of the liquid on the surface are analyzed by laser-induced, time resolved fluorescent spectroscopic analysis or spectroscopic analysis in the infrared band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: SMS Demag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Arnt Kohlrausch, Hartmut Pawelski, Hans-Peter Richter
  • Patent number: 8082767
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lubricant for hot metal working which is capable of inhibiting generation of white scale, attributed to the lubricant, on the surface of a workpiece material and is capable of improving lubricity to obtain favorable appearance of the finished product. The lubricant for hot metal working comprises a silicate compound used for adding to a lubricant composition mainly containing sodium borate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Sasaki, Sumio Iida, Shizuo Mori
  • Publication number: 20110302979
    Abstract: Forge lubrication processes are disclosed. A solid lubricant sheet is placed between a workpiece and a die in a forging apparatus. Force is applied to the workpiece with the die to plastically deform the workpiece. The solid lubricant sheet decreases the shear friction factor for the forging system and reduces the incidence of die-locking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: ATI Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Oppenheimer, Robin M. Forbes Jones, John V. Mantione, Ramesh S. Minisandram, Jean-Philippe Thomas
  • Publication number: 20110277524
    Abstract: A lubricating oil for use in hot-rolling oil for aluminum sheet, comprises: (a) a mineral oil having a kinematic viscosity of 80 mm2/second or less at 40° C.; (b) 1 to 14 mass % of a fatty acid having 10 to 22 carbon atoms; (c) 5 to 15 mass % of an oil and fat and/or a synthetic ester; (d) 5 to 10 mass % of a phosphorus-containing extreme-pressure agent; (e) 0.1 to 1 mass % of a polyoxyethylene alkyl amine; and 0.1 to 10 mass % of an organic acid salt of a copolymer composed of a (meth)acrylic acid salt, (meth)acrylamide, and at least one amine monomer, and the mass ratio of the component (c) to the component (d) (component (c)/component (d)) is 1/0.6 to 1/1. The lubricating oil for use in hot-rolling oil for aluminum sheet of the invention provides a high level of rolling lubricity, iron corrosion protection in a hot-rolling step and a rolled aluminum sheet with high sheet surface quality can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicants: KOBE STEEL, LTD., KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiko Ichimoto, Shinsuke Murao, Hitoshi Arimura, Noboru Shinano, Masanori Ikeda, Hironobu Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 7989405
    Abstract: A method of preventing microbial growth in oil-water metalworking fluid in a machine wherein lubricating oil or hydraulic or tapping fluid can contaminate the metalworking fluid, comprises adding a partitionable anti-microbial agent, active against micro-organisms present in the metalworking fluid, to the lubricating oil or hydraulic or tapping fluid whereby an effective quantity of anti-microbial agent can migrate into the metalworking fluid to reduce micro-organism activity. A machine tool lubricating oil or hydraulic or tapping fluid composition comprises in a mineral oil or other lubricant base and an oil-water partitionable anti-microbial, active against micro-organisms present in oil-water metalworking fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher John Nettleship, Stephen David Chapman
  • Publication number: 20110162425
    Abstract: Disclosed is the use of an alkoxylated fatty alcohol of formula (I), RO—(CH2—CHR?—O)n—(CH2CH2—O)m—H, wherein R stands for a saturated and/or unsaturated alkyl moiety containing 12 to 22 carbon atoms, R? is methyl, ethyl or propyl, m represents a number of 1 to 12, preferably 4 to 10, and n represents a number of 1 to 10, preferably 2 to 8, as an emulsifier in metalworking fluids which also contain at least water and one oil component, non-miscible with water, and, optionally, further ingredients, and where the fatty alcohol which forms the R moiety has a iodine value of 15 to 75 g I2/100 g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventors: Matthias Hof, Tanja Luedtke
  • Publication number: 20110100081
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preparing metal workpieces for cold forming by first applying a phosphate layer and then applying a lubricant layer which has a major content in organic polymer material. The phosphate layer is formed by an aqueous acidic phosphating solution having a major content in calcium, magnesium or manganese and phosphate. The lubricant layer is formed by contacting the phosphated surface with an aqueous lubricant composition which has a content in organic polymer material based on ionomer and optionally also non-ionomer the organic polymer material used predominantly being monomers, oligomers, co-oligomers, polymers or copolymers based on ionomer, acrylic acid/methacrylic acid, epoxide, ethylene, polyamide, propylene, styrene, urethane, the ester or salt thereof. The invention also relates to the corresponding lubricant composition, to the lubricant layer produced thereof and to its use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Uwe Rau, Klaus-Dieter Nittel, Andreas Lang
  • Publication number: 20110048090
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preparing metal workpieces for cold forming by applying a lubricant layer either to a metal surface or to a metal surface which has been pre-coated with e.g., a conversion coating. The lubricant layer is formed by contacting the surface with an aqueous lubricant composition which has a content in at least one water soluble, water-containing or water-binding oxide or silicate and a content in organic polymer material, the organic polymer material used predominantly being monomers, oligomers, co-oligomers, polymers and copolymers based on ionomer, acrylic acid/methacrylic acid, epoxide, ethylene, propylene, styrene, urethane, the ester or salt thereof. The invention to the corresponding lubricant composition, to the lubricant layer produced thereof and to its use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Uwe RAU, Klaus-Dieter Nittel
  • Publication number: 20110005286
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lubricant composition for hot forming which makes it possible to provide lubricity at 80° C. or more without being peeled or washed by the roll cooling water, and which is easily washed under 40° C. without having water resistance. The lubricant composition for hot forming of the present invention comprises: a solid lubricant from 10 to 40% by mass; water-dispersible synthetic resin from 5 to 20% by mass; inorganic acid amine salt from 0.5 to 5% by mass; and water from 45 to 80% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Sasaki, Sumio Iida, Shizuo Mori, Kazuo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7861565
    Abstract: In applying a non-graphite-based lubricant composed of, by mass %, 10 to 70% of an oxide-based lamellar compound and 30 to 90% of boric acid onto a mandrel bar, the lubricant film thickness is set from a predetermined master curve for the lubricant film thickness corresponding to an amount of mica. This stably produces a seamless steel pipe of high quality, while preventing seizing marks and internal flaws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Saito, Sumio Iida
  • Patent number: 7851420
    Abstract: A corrosion protection agent for functional fluids is disclosed, comprising 5 to 80 wt. % of at least one fatty acid alkanolamide, based on saturated or unsaturated fatty acids with 10 to 20 carbon atoms, 5 to 80 wt. % of at least one alcohol with 2 to 14 carbon atoms and 5 to 80 wt. % of at least one aromatic moncarboxylic acid or an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid with 10 to 12 carbon atoms, whereby the sum of said components amounts to 100 wt. % and the wt. % is based on the weight of the corrosion protection agent, a water-miscible concentrate, containing said corrosion protection agent, for functional fluids based on water and use thereof for the production of lubricants, abrasive agents, hydraulic fluids and cooling lubricants for metal working and metal cutting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Helmut Theunissen
    Inventors: Helmut Theunissen, Sabine Theunissen
  • Publication number: 20100288644
    Abstract: Coatings for metal containers, metalworking lubricant compositions, compositions for electroplating and electrowinning, and latex compositions comprising a base-catalyzed reaction product of (a) at least one compound of formula I R1(X)3??(I) wherein each X group is a halogen atom or one X group is a halogen atom and two X groups represent an epoxy oxygen atom, which is attached to two adjacent carbon atoms in the R1 group to form an epoxy group, and R1 is an alkanetriyl group containing from 3 to 10 carbon atoms; and (b) at least one compound having the formula II R2X(AO)nY??(II) wherein R2 is a substituted or unsubstituted, saturated or unsaturated, organic group having from 1 to 36 carbon atoms; X is —O—, —S—, or —NR3— where R3 is hydrogen or a C1-C18 alkyl group; each AO group is independently an ethyleneoxy, 1,2-propyleneoxy, or 1,2-butyleneoxy group, n is a number from 0 to 200; and Y is hydrogen, or Y can be a mercapto group or an amino group or a C1-C6 alkylamino group in place of a terminal —OH
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: Cognis Corporation
    Inventors: David W. Brown, Kenneth Breindel, Michael S. Wiggins, Ronald W. Broadbent, Shailesh Shah
  • Publication number: 20100269558
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a film of solid lubricant particles is applied to metal workpieces, which are then subjected to a controlled humid environment for predetermined times and temperatures. Following the exposure to humidity, the lubricated metal workpieces are heated for a hot forming operation. The humidification of the lubricated workpiece increases the adhesion of solid lubricant films to the metal workpieces, thereby improving the tribological performance of the workpieces during subsequent hot forming operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Arianna T. Morales
  • Patent number: 7776799
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for cold rolling metals using an aqueous lubricant comprising: (1) at least a mixture based on at least an acid selected among saturated or unsaturated mono- or poly-carboxylic acids, comprising 5 to 40 carbon atoms; at least an acid phosphate ester of formula (RO)x-P(?O)(OH)x?, wherein: R is a hydrocarbon radical, optionally polyalkoxylated; x and x? being equal to 3; the carboxylic acid and/or the acid phosphate ester being optionally neutralized by an organic or mineral base; and (2) at least a natural or synthetic wax exhibiting a melting point not less than 50° C. and having an average particle size ranging between 0.5 and 10 ?m. The use of said lubricant enables to increase the productivity of the method by at least 15% relative to a method using a conventional lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Rhodia Chimie
    Inventors: Dominique Raison, Jean-Guy Le Helloco
  • Patent number: 7776803
    Abstract: An process for working a material in which a reverse thermal fluid is used as a cutting fluid and, as a result of heat generated during the working process, the fluid increases in temperature above its transition temperature and viscosifies and thickens. In another embodiment, the invention is an article of manufacture of a material which has been worked to increase its temperature and a reverse thermal fluid in intimate thermal contact with the material above the transition temperature of the reverse thermal fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Inventors: Steven B Leeb, Elmer C Lupton
  • Patent number: 7740710
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a mixture, comprising one or more alkyl esters of fatty acids and one or more esters of fatty acids of glycerol carbonate, as a fuel or solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Polimeri Europa S.p.A.
    Inventors: Marcello Notari, Franco Rivetti
  • Patent number: 7730753
    Abstract: The hot stretch forming of sheet metal alloys, such as highly deformable aluminum alloy materials, is improved by using a lubricant comprising bismuth between the forming tool and the engaged surface of the sheet metal. A precursor of bismuth, such as bismuth subsalicylate, may be dispersed in a liquid and applied to the sheet metal before the sheet is heated to its forming temperature. Other lubricants such as boron nitride may be combined with the bismuth precursor. The precursor compound is decomposed to bismuth (or bismuth and carbon in the case of bismuth subsalicylate) which lubricates contact between the surface(s) of the sheet and the forming tool during forming and removal of the formed part from the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul E. Krajewski, Yang T. Cheng
  • Patent number: 7730618
    Abstract: A method for working or forming metals which consists in usings an aqueous lubricant containing as water-soluble extreme pressure additive, methanesulphonic acid or water-soluble methanesulphonic acid salt. The water-soluble methane sulphonic acid salt is an alkali or alkaline-earth, ammonium, alkanol amine or ethoxylated fatty amine salt. The inventive aqueous lubricants have good extreme pressure properties and good properties with respect to corrosion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Gilles Darvaux-Hubert, Fabrice Domingues Dos Santos, François Guillemet
  • Publication number: 20100077817
    Abstract: The invention provides a metal working fluid composition which comprises a morpholine compound and an isothiazoline compound and a metal working method which makes use of the metal working fluid composition. The composition is excellent in antiseptic properties, and can widely be applied to metal working techniques such as cutting, grinding, form rolling, press working and plastic working techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Inventors: Koichi Goto, Yuji Aizawa, Satoshi Mima
  • Patent number: 7674754
    Abstract: A water-based metalworking fluid is comprised of a polymeric boron species which includes at least B, N and H, together with a surfactant operable to provide an emulsion of the boron species with water. The polymeric boron species may be a polyborane or a borazine polymer and may be configured as a polyborane or borazine polymer backbone having side chains pendent thereupon. The side chains may include silicon and/or phosphorous. The silicon may be in the form of a silane or a siloxane species, including polymeric species. Disclosed are specific compositions as well as methods for using the compositions and methods for making the compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Masco Corporation
    Inventors: John Noble, Philip B. Simon, Ross Smith
  • Publication number: 20100011826
    Abstract: A process for producing an enhanced friction reducing surface by bonding a dry lubricant to a substrate by way of high velocity mechanical impact and low temperature diffusion bonding, and the friction-reduced surface produced thereby. A process for bonding the dry lubricant by peening and concurrently obtaining a desired dimpling or surface texturizing by appropriate selection of peening particle size and hardness relative to the substrate, as well as impact velocity against the substrate, is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: Jane E. Buehler, Kay Dean Bowles, Wade Bowles
  • Patent number: 7645727
    Abstract: Metalworking fluids contain active sulfur, a certain kind of inactive sulfur called “available sulfur”, and fat in a base oil of a lubricating viscosity. The metalworking fluids are chlorine free and phosphorous free. Boundary lubrication is provided by the fat, while extreme pressure lubrication is provided by the sulfur. Available sulfur is inactive sulfur minus any contribution of inactive sulfur from sulfurized saturated fats. Active sulfur and available sulfur are present in balanced proportions, while fat is present at an amount effective to provide boundary lubrication. Use of the fluids reduces tool wear over a long period of action and over a variety of boundary and extreme pressure conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles P. Harris, Kathleen Maher Anguish, Anthony Krpan
  • Publication number: 20090301151
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lubricant composition for hot metal working which is capable of inhibiting generation of flaws on the surface of materials to be provided for hot metal working, and provides a method of hot metal working. The invention provides a lubricant composition for hot metal working comprising a plurality of glass frits respectively having different softening point from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimoda, Tomio Yamakawa, Kazutaka Asabe, Hirokazu Okada, Yasuyoshi Hidaka, Sumio Iida, Naoya Hirase, Kenji Takeuchi, Suichi Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20090293569
    Abstract: In applying a non-graphite-based lubricant composed of, by mass %, 10 to 70% of an oxide-based lamellar compound and 30 to 90% of boric acid onto a mandrel bar, the lubricant film thickness is set from a predetermined master curve for the lubricant film thickness corresponding to an amount of mica. This stably produces a seamless steel pipe of high quality, while preventing seizing marks and internal flaws.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD
    Inventors: Kenichi Saito, Sumio Iida
  • Publication number: 20090178454
    Abstract: Particles each of which consists of an inorganic polyvalent metal compound as a nucleus and a coating of a metallic soap of the polyvalent metal coating the nucleus (coated particles); products and preparation processes using the particles; a lubricating coating forming agent wherein particles each of which consists of a polyvalent metal salt of phosphoric acid as a nucleus and a coating of a metallic soap of the polyvalent metal coating the surface of the nucleus are suspended in an aqueous solution of a water soluble inorganic salt and/or a water soluble organic acid salt; and a lubricating coating. The coated particles are novel particles which can be used as an ingredient of coating-type lubricating coating; are excellent in seizure resistance; can inhibit wear of tools at the time of plastic working since the friction coefficient of the surface of the particles is low; and are slow to cause pollution of working oils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: NIHON PARKERIZING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinobu KOMIYAMA, Masayuki YOSHIDA, Hidehiro YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 7485884
    Abstract: In the metal billet to be used for hot dilation forming, a forward side with respect to the pressing direction has a quadrate section and its diagonal length is not more than an inner diameter of a container. Moreover, a backward side with respect to the pressing direction has a circular section and its diameter is substantially same as the inner diameter of the container. The metal billet is heated to a temperature suitable for press working and is set into a container for press forming. While a center of a workpiece of the metal billet is being bored by a boring punch to be operated by a pressing machine, the metal billet is hot-dilated so that a bottomed container for a cask is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Funakoshi, Takeshi Tsunezumi, Naohiro Mizuno, Katsuhiko Tokuno, Chikayuki Matsumoto, Yoshiharu Taura, Shigenori Shirogane, Katsunari Ohsono, Toshihiro Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20080184755
    Abstract: The elevated temperature forming of magnesium based alloy workpieces by stretching, drawing, bending (or the like) a surface of the heated workpiece over the forming surface of a forming tool is improved by forming an integral adherent layer of magnesium hydroxide on the tool-contacted surface(s) of the magnesium alloy workpiece. The magnesium hydroxide layer may be formed by treating the surface(s) of the sheet with an aqueous salt solution (e.g., sodium chloride) at a temperature and for a time to form a protective layer of desired thickness (e.g., up to about thirty micrometers). If desired, an additional layer of forming lubricant, such as a film comprising boron nitride, may be applied to the magnesium hydroxide layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul E. Krajewski, Jon T. Carter
  • Publication number: 20080166575
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preparing metallic workpieces for cold forming by contacting the metallic surfaces thereof with an aqueous acid phosphating solution so as to embody at least one phosphate coating and then coating the phosphate-coated surfaces with at least one lubricant in order to embody at least one lubricant layer. According to the inventive method, the phosphating solution essentially contains only calcium, magnesium, or/and manganese as cations that are selected among cations of main group 2 and subgroups 1, 2, and 5 to 8 of the periodic table of chemical elements in addition to phosphate. Furthermore, an alkaline earth metal-containing phosphating solution is free from fluoride and complex fluoride while the phosphating process is carried out electrolytically. The invention further relates to a metallic workpiece that is coated accordingly as well as the use of workpieces coated in said manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Applicant: CHEMETALL GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Nittel, Ralf Schneider, Andreas Lang
  • Publication number: 20080090740
    Abstract: A substantially lead-free lubricant for use in hot forging of metals, especially forging of aluminum and aluminum alloy components. The lubricant comprises one or more oils, graphite, and one or more phosphorus-based additives. Additional additives, such as metallic lubricants and dispersants may also be included. The lubricant does not burn when subjected to temperatures in excess of 300° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Laurent Hugues, Harold Gankema, Geert Heideman, Douwe Marten Kok, Gerko Odink
  • Publication number: 20080078225
    Abstract: Improved lubricant system useful in metal forming processes. The lubricant formulations contain boron nitride lubricant with graphite additions. These formulations enhance lubricity while maintaining good adherence at elevated temperatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael D. Hanna, Paul E. Krajewski, James G. Schroth
  • Patent number: 7332461
    Abstract: A lubricant composition for metal forming and cutting has at least one compound of the formula (I): R1—(AO)n—OOC—(CH2)m—Ph—(R2)p where R1 is a C1 to C15 alkyl group AO is an alkyleneoxy group which may vary along the (poly) alkylenoxy chain; n is 0 or from 1 to 100; m is 0, 1 or 2; and Ph is a phenly group, which may be substituted with groups (R2)p; where each R2 is independently an alkyl, halogen, haloalky or alkoxy group; and p is 0 or from 1 to 3. The lubricant composition also includes at least one lubricant additive selected from the group consisting of an organic ester additive, a polyalkylene glycol additive, a sulphur-containing synthetic additive, a sulphur-containing oleochemical additive, a suiphonate, a phosphorus-containing additive and a chlorinated paraffin additive. Also described are a method of using the lubricant composition in metal forming and cutting applications and the use of the lubricant composition in metal forming and cutting applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Croda International PLC
    Inventor: John Eastwood
  • Patent number: 7320238
    Abstract: A method of forging a titanium alloy component comprises applying a protective coating onto the surface of the titanium alloy component. A glass lubricant coating is applied onto the protective coating and the titanium alloy component is forged at a high temperature. The glass lubricant coating comprises a borosilicate glass lubricant coating. The protective coating comprises an aluminide coating, a silicon modified aluminide coating, a platinum aluminide coating, an aluminium coating or a platinum coating. The titanium alloy component may be a compressor blade, or a compressor vane, of a high-pressure compressor of a gas turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLC
    Inventor: Wayne E. Voice
  • Patent number: 7308812
    Abstract: A process for producing a seamless steel pipe, in which the occurrence of inner surface flaws in the pipe can be reduced through the lowering of the friction coefficient during the elongation rolling by means of a mandrel mill is provided. The reduction of inner surface flaws is accomplished through the use of a lubricant composed mainly of either or both of graphite and mica coated to the surface of a mandrel bar, and another lubricant composed mainly of an alkali metal borate that is applied onto the inner surface of the hollow stock pipe. The temperature of the pipe prior to receiving the lubricant, during lubricant application, and prior to elongation rolling is controlled. The time between descaling or piercing and lubricant application and between lubricant application and elongation rolling is also controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sumio Iida, Tetsuya Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 7204111
    Abstract: An exemplary lubricated hot rolling method is provided which can use a lubricating oil containing, e.g., one or more kinds among an high-basic alkaline-earth metal phenate, high-basic alkaline-earth metal carboxylate, high-basic alkaline-earth salicylate, or high-basic alkaline-earth metal sulfonate having a basicity of 40 mgKOH/g or higher, and has a viscosity at 40° C. of 800 cSt or less. The rolling can be performed by granulating or atomizing the lubricating oil into particulates whose average size is less than 1 mm, supplying the lubricating oil to rolls by using a noncombustible gas whose flow rate is 2000 cm3 or more per minute per lubricating nozzle. The velocity of the oil may be 1 m or more per second. The amount supplied of the lubricating oil can be controlled to 0.01 cm3 or more and 20 cm3 or less per 1 m2 of a surface area of the rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Arcelor France
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 7172141
    Abstract: A lubricant mist sprayer is composed by spray headers, which have lubricant and gas supply pipes integrally fixed to each other by fixing members and which are spaced apart a required distance from and are arranged in parallel with surfaces of pinch rolls, and mist nozzles which are arranged at required intervals longitudinally of the spray headers for spraying lubricant mist m over the surfaces of the pinch rolls and which communicate with the lubricant and gas supply pipes so as to make the lubricant mist sprayer compact in size and facilitate arrangement of the lubricant mist sprayer in a narrow space of a roll chamber surrounding the pinch rolls in a metal strip continuous caster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isamu Nakayama, Katsumi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 7152644
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rubber reinforcing steel cord is provided, wherein the steel cord has a steel wire plated with metal containing copper and having on its surface an oil layer containing a cobalt compound, and includes an application step in which the oil containing a cobalt compound is applied to the steel wire or a steel cord plated with metal containing copper, and a step of twisting the steel wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignees: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyazaki, Osamu Toda, Yasuo Sakai
  • Patent number: 7105472
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating solution to be applied on the surface of metals or metal alloys, a process for cold forming of metals and metal alloys using said coating solution, and a coated blank made of a metal or a metal alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Inventor: Walter Zepf
  • Patent number: 7060663
    Abstract: An process for working a material in which a reverse thermal fluid is used as a cutting fluid and, as a result of heat generated during the working process, the fluid increases in temperature above its transition temperature and viscosifies and thickens. In another embodiment, the invention is an article of manufacture of a material which has been worked to increase its temperature and a reverse thermal fluid in intimate thermal contact with the material above the transition temperature of the reverse thermal fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Inventors: Steven B Leeb, Elmer C Lupton
  • Patent number: 7018959
    Abstract: A water-based, recyclable metalworking fluid comprises a polyalkylene glycol, an alkanolamine, a polyglycol surfactant, a polyol surfactant, a biocide and a corrosion inhibitor. The biocide may comprise a mixture of biocidal compounds effective against bacterial and fungal organisms. The material may also include an isoalkoxy amine oxide and a glycol ether. The composition may also include ancillary ingredients such as viscosity controlling agents, defoamers, coloring agents and the like. It is a notable feature of the composition of the present invention that it is free of hazardous materials and fatty acids. Also disclosed is a method for using the composition in a metal-shaping operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignees: Miller Environmental, Miller Oil of Indiana, Inc., Masco Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony A. McCullough, John M. Noble, Phillip B. Simon, Ross Darren Smith, Scott P. Riggle, Douglas E. Doles
  • Patent number: 7008909
    Abstract: Alpha branched esters for use in a metalworking fluid represented by the formula (I): wherein R1, R2, and R3 are each independently selected from a hydrocarbon group having one to thirty-six carbon atoms are described. The hydrocarbon groups may be independently an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, or an allyl group; substituted or unsubstituted; branched, cyclic, or linear. Also provided are metalworking concentrates comprising the alpha branched ester, as described above, and, optionally, a hydrocarbon oil, as well as metalworking fluids including water, and the alpha branched esters of the invention. The invention also includes methods of preparing the metalworking fluid and composition of the invention, as well as methods of improving the operating life of the fluid or composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Inolex Investment Corporation
    Inventors: Rocco Burgo, Paul Kennedy
  • Patent number: 6874344
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for cold-rolling metallic rolling stock (4), in which the rolling stock (4) passes through the roll nip (3) between oppositely driven rollers (2) at room temperature in order to undergo a plastic shape change. To avoid the problems caused by the use of liquid coolants and to achieve an improved surface quality of the rolling stock (4), the invention proposes that inert gas, which is at a lower temperature than the rolling-stock temperature in the roll nip, is blown into the region of the roll nip (3). The invention also relates to a cold-rolling stand for carrying out this method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: C. D. Wälzholz-Brockhaus GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Toni Junius, Heinz Hofinghoff
  • Patent number: 6861395
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of inhibiting the growth of microorganisms in a metal working fluid comprising adding to the metal working fluid a benzisothiazolin-3-one of the Formula (1): wherein R is C4-5-alkyl; R1 is hydroxy, halogen (especially chlorine), C1-4-alkyl or C1-4-alkoxy; and n is from 0 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Arch UK Biocides Limited
    Inventors: Ian Michael Eastwood, Paula Louise McGeechan
  • Patent number: 6858569
    Abstract: Cutting or grinding oil compositions which are suitable for use in a minimal quantity lubrication system in which a minimal quantity of an oil is supplied to the spot to be cut or ground of a work, together with air are reduced in stickiness and improved in lubricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Nippon Mitsubishi Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Yokota, Noboru Aota, Yoshitaka Natsume, Masanori Ibi, Minoru Okajima, Ichiro Inezaki, Toshiaki Wakabayashi, Satoshi Suda
  • Patent number: 6843087
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cold rolling process for rolling hard metal or metal alloys, comprising applying an effective amount of an oil composition comprising a base stock oil and, based on the total weight of the composition, from 1 to 80% by weight of di(2-ethylhexyl)adipate. Example of hard base metals include steel and nickel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Francaise
    Inventors: Francis Prince, Jean-Yves Henri Claire