COMPOSITE STEEL PART AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE SAME

• US 20120267009A1
• Filed: 04/06/2012
• Published: 10/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: OBAYASHI, Koji, KATO, Koichi, TAKEUCHI, Mamoru, SUGIYAMA, Ryuta, SHIMIZU, Ken
• Granted Patent: US 8,956,467 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 148/211
• CPC Class Codes: C21D 1/06 Surface hardening
• CPC Class Codes: C21D 1/25 Hardening, combined with annealing between 300 degrees Celsius and 600 degrees Celsius, i.e. heat refining ("Vergüten")
• CPC Class Codes: C21D 2211/002 Bainite
• CPC Class Codes: C21D 2211/008 Martensite
• CPC Class Codes: C21D 2211/009 Pearlite
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 8/02 Pretreatment of the material to be coated C23C8/04 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 8/20 Carburising
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 8/22 of ferrous surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 8/80 After-treatment

Abstract

A manufacturing method for a composite steel part including preparing an intermediate product in which an extra portion, which has a thickness equal to or more than that of a carburized layer to be formed in a subsequent carburizing step, has been added to a welding expected portion, carburizing the intermediate product by heating to an austenitizing temperature or more in a carburizing atmosphere, then cooling the intermediate product at a cooling rate less than a rate at which martensitic transformation occurs and without completing structural transformation due to the cooling, quenching a portion of the intermediate product after heating to an austenitizing range by high-density energy and thereafter cooling to cause martensitic transformation to form a carburized quenched portion, removing an extra portion of the intermediate product; and then welding a second steel part to the welding expected portion.

Claims

1. A manufacturing method for a composite steel part formed by welding a plurality of steel parts to each other, comprising:

manufacturing a first steel part, which includes a cylindrical portion formed in a cylindrical shape and a flange portion provided to extend radially outward from one end of the cylindrical portion, the cylindrical portion being a carburized quenched portion which has been subjected to a carburizing quenching hardening process and the flange portion including a welding expected portion to be welded to a second steel part, by

preparing an intermediate product in which an extra portion, which has a thickness equal to or more than that of a carburized layer to be formed in a subsequent carburizing step, has been added to the welding expected portion, and

performing

the carburizing step in which the intermediate product is heated to an austenitizing temperature or more in a carburizing atmosphere to form the carburized layer on a surface of the intermediate product,

a cooling step, subsequent to the carburizing step, in which the intermediate product is cooled at a cooling rate less than a cooling rate at which martensitic transformation is caused and in which the intermediate product is cooled to a temperature equal to or less than a temperature at which structure transformation due to the cooling is completed,

a quenching step in which a desired portion of the cylindrical portion of the intermediate product is heated to an austenitizing range by high-density energy and thereafter cooled at a cooling rate equal to or more than the cooling rate at which martensitic transformation is caused to form the carburized quenched portion in the desired portion, and

a cutting step in which the extra portion of the intermediate product is cut; and

then performing a welding step in which the second steel part is brought into abutment with the welding expected portion of the flange portion of the obtained first steel part to weld the first steel part and the second steel part to each other.

2. The manufacturing method for a composite steel part according to claim 1, wherein:

the carburizing step is performed in a low-oxygen carburizing atmosphere in which an oxygen concentration is lower than that in the atmosphere.

3. A composite steel part formed by welding a plurality of steel parts to each other, wherein:

a first steel part includes a cylindrical portion formed in a cylindrical shape and a flange portion provided to extend radially outward from one end of the cylindrical portion;

the cylindrical portion is formed by a carburized quenched portion in which a surface layer portion has a martensite structure and an inner portion has a bainite structure;

the flange portion includes a welded portion welded to a second steel part;

the welded portion includes a melt/resolidificated portion and a heat-affected portion provided adjacent to the melt/resolidificated portion; and

the melt/resolidificated portion has a martensite-bainite-pearlite structure, and the heat-affected portion has a bainite-ferrite-pearlite structure.