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Successive cold working process

US5007266A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 8, 1989
Grant dateApr 16, 1991
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Expiry dateMar 8, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB21J5/00
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A billet is successively cold worked into a product such as a countershaft, an outer race for a constant-velocity joint, or the like by forming a chemically converted lubricating coating on a surface of the billet, forging the billet into an intermediate product at a temperature below a transformation temperature of the billet, covering a surface of said intermediate product with lubricating oil in a die cavity in a die assembly, and forging the intermdiate product at a temperature below the transformation temperature and before the intermediate product gains a predetermined hardness due to age hardening resulting from the first forging step.

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