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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mixed powder for powder metallurgy, from which a sintered compact having excellent machinability and drill cuttability in combination can be obtained. SOLUTION: Metal powder is mixed with powder for alloying, powder for machinability improvement and lubricant powder. The powder for machinability improvement is composed of soft metal compound powder and hard metal compound powder. Regarding the blending quantity, it is preferable that the content of the hard metal compound powder is 0.01 to 0.5 mass% and the content of the soft metal compound metal powder is 0.01 to 1.0 mass%, based on the total content of the metal powder, the powder for alloying and the powder for machinability improvement. It is preferable that as the hard metal compound powder, metal carbide powder is used, and further, even among the metal carbides, one or more selected from TiC, ZrC, WC, SiC and NbC are used. Besides, as the soft metal compound powder, the powder of talc, enstatite, kaolin, mica, fluorite, water-granulated slag or the like can be exemplified. Regarding the sintered compact produced from such mixed powder, the particles of the soft metal compound with a hardness lower than the average hardness of the base phase and the particles of the hard metal compound with a high hardness are dispersed into the base phase to provide the sintered compact which has excellent machinability and cuttability in combination, and is excellent in cuttability. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a raw powder suitable for manufacturing a lightweight sintered member which meets a request to reduce the weight of sintered parts at low cost, based on a viewpoint which has not been proposed in a conventional art. SOLUTION: The hollow iron powder has a component composition comprising, 0.01 mass% or less C, and the balance iron with unavoidable impurities. The particle has a hole in the inside, an average particle diameter of 50 μm to 500 μm, and an average wall thickness of 10 μm to 1/5 of the average particle diameter. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for finish heat treatment of iron powder, which can produce product iron powder with a desired target concentration range in a stable manner at a high productivity, regardless of impurity content of crude iron powder that is raw material of the iron powder.SOLUTION: The crude iron powder is loaded on a continuous moving bed 9 and charged into a finish heat treatment apparatus. The crude iron powder is subjected to a preparatory treatment at first in the preparatory treatment zone 31, to be heated at the temperature range of 450-1,100°C in hydrogen gas and/or inert gas atmosphere, then, followed by at least two kinds of treatments among decarburizing, deoxidizing and denitrifying, in the decarburization zone, deoxidization zone and denitrification zone respectively. In the preparatory treatment zone, besides the atmospheric gas used for at least two kinds of the treatments, hydrogen gas and/or inert gas is introduced from the upstream side 50 of the preparatory treatment zone 31 as the atmospheric gas, and discharged from the downstream side 6 so that the gas flows in the same direction as the moving direction of continuous moving bed 9.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparent density measuring method capable of highly accurately measuring an apparent density of a metal powder according to an online and no-contact method without intercepting a process of manufacturing a mixed powder or a process of manufacturing a powder mold.SOLUTION: An apparent density measuring method includes accommodating a metal powder in a container, applying an AC magnetic flux to the metal powder using an exciting coil disposed outside the container, detecting the AC magnetic flux transmitted through the metal powder by a detection coil disposed outside the container, and using an amplitude of the detected AC magnetic flux and an analytical curve prepared in advance for a relative relationship between an apparent density of the metal powder and the amplitude of the AC magnetic flux, thereby determining the apparent density of the metal powder. According to the apparent density measuring method, the apparent density of the metal powder can be measured highly accurately through an online and non-contact method without intercepting a process of manufacturing the mixed powder or a process of manufacturing a powder mold.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide iron-base mixed powder for powder metallurgy, improved in compaction density of a green compact, and at the same time significantly reduced in ejection force after the powder is compacted, by enhancing a flowability of the iron-base mixed powder using low alloy steel powder containing Mo and Mn, and thereby improved in density and strength of a sintered boy and reduced in a manufacturing cost.SOLUTION: In the iron-base mixed powder for powder metallurgy, containing iron-base powder as a main component, water atomized alloy steel powder including, as spare alloys, 0.3-1.0 mass% Mo and 0.1-0.25 mass% Mn in ratios to the entire iron-base mixed powder, and consisting of the balance Fe and inevitable impurities, is used as the iron-based powder. In the ratio to the entire iron-based mixed powder, 0.5-4.0 mass% Cu power, and 03-1.0 mass% graphite powder are contained in the iron-base mixed powder, and a flaky powder having a 100 μm or shorter average particle diameter in long diameters, a 10 μm or less thickness, and a 5 or more aspect ratio (the ratio of the long diameter to the thickness), is also added thereto in the range of 0.01-5.0 mass%.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide mixed powder for powder metallurgy capable of sintering a molding without exerting an adverse influence on the inner-furnace environment of a sintering furnace and further capable of obtaining a sintered compact having excellent machinability.SOLUTION: Powder for improving machinability in mixed powder for powder metallurgy is composed of magnesium oxide (MgO) powder, alkali glass powder and/or alkali carbonate powder. Also, the blending ratio of the powder for improving machinability is controlled to the range of 0.01 to 1.0% by mass% to the total content of iron- based powder, powder for alloying and the powder for improving machinability.