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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thrust needle bearing having a small amount of wear and a superior flaking-resistant life under severe operating conditions. SOLUTION: In the thrust needle bearing having a rolling body 2 and raceway rings 1A and 1B kept in contact with the rolling body 2, carbide is extracted in a range from 10,000 pieces/mm 2 or more to less than 40,000 pieces/mm 2 at least on the surface layers of the raceway rings. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Abstract translation:要解决的问题:提供一种在严苛的工作条件下具有少量磨损和优异的防剥落寿命的推力滚针轴承。 解决方案:在具有滚动体2的滚动轴承和与滚动体2保持接触的滚道环1A和1B的推力滚针轴承中,将碳化物从10,000个/ mm 2以上至小于40,000个/ mm 至少在滚道环的表面层上。
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for accurately performing the interpretation of the design and test result of a life test by anyone without relying on experience. SOLUTION: The method includes a designing step S1 of determining the values of an ending time becomes a criterion of life, life difference, a test number, etc. and a decision step S3 of deciding interpretation items such as the life of a test target product, significance, life difference, etc. The designing step include a step S11 of producing Weibull random numbers according to a predetermined Weibull distribution corresponding to the test target product by numbers decided as a test number, a step S13 of repeating a step S12 of analyzing the Weibull random numbers, a step S14 of calculating the probability distribution of a predetermined item obtained by the repetition of the step S12 and a step S15 of determining the designing content on the basis of the probability distribution. The decision step includes a step S31 of producing the Weibull random numbers by the test number corresponding to the test results, a step S33 of repeating a step S32 of analyzing the produced Weibull random numbers and a step S34 of calculating the probability distribution of a predetermined item obtained by the repetition of the step S32 of making decision on the basis of the probability distribution. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an induction heat-treatment method by which the temperature control can be easily obtained and the condition setting of the heat-treatment is easily performed and also, the quality in the treating material can be stabilized and to provide an induction heat-treated article with which a manufacturing cost is restrained and the quality is stabilized. SOLUTION: The induction-hardening method is provided with a surface stabilizing process 11 for forming the stabilized layer of higher oxidizing resistance than the treating material 1 on the surface of the treating material 1 in the temperature zone heated to the treating material 1 and a hardening process 10, with which the treating material 1 forming the stabilized layer in the surface stabilizing process 11 is hardened. Then, the hardening process 10 contains a temperature control process 20, with which the temperature of the treating material 1 forming the stabilized layer is adjusted, and a hardening control process 30 for cooling the treating material 1 by deciding the controlling cooling timing to the treating material 1. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high frequency heat treatment method with which the hardening can be performed by satisfying the condition of solid solution quantity of C and residual austenite quantity at temperature control side can be estimated. SOLUTION: This high frequency heat treatment method is provided with a temperature control means for controlling the temperature of an object 1 to be heated and a hardening control means for controlling the hardening timing. A calculation of the solid-state of carbon for deciding the starting timing of the hardening, is obtained from the following calculation formula. dC/(dt)=Dd 2 C/(dx 2 ), D=D 0 exp(-Q/RT). Wherein, d: partial differential symbol, D: diffusion constant, C: carbon concentration (mass%), t: time (sec), x: distance, D 0 : entropy term in diffusion constant, Q: activating energy, R: gas constant and T: absolute temperature (K). COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract translation:要解决的问题:为了提供可以估计通过满足C的固溶量和温度控制侧的残余奥氏体量的条件来进行硬化的高频热处理方法。 解决方案:该高频热处理方法设置有用于控制待加热物体1的温度的温度控制装置和用于控制硬化正时的硬化控制装置。 用于决定硬化起动时刻的碳固体的计算由以下计算公式求得。 dC /(dt)= Dd 2 SP> C /(dx 2 SP>),D = D 0 SB> exp(-Q / RT)。 其中,d:偏微分符号,D:扩散常数,C:碳浓度(质量%),t:时间(sec),x:距离,D 0 SB>:扩散常数中的熵项,Q :活化能,R:气体常数,T:绝对温度(K)。 版权所有(C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-frequency heat treatment method by which the quality of an article can be stabilized by accurately calculating diffused length of C while considering the change of austenizing temperature at the time of rapid heating. SOLUTION: The high-frequency heat treatment method is includes: a temperature control process for controlling the temperature of a material 1 to be heat-treated; and a hardening control process for controlling the hardening timing. A relation of the variation in the heating transformation point to the variation in the temperature rising speed in the composition of the material 1 to be treated is beforehand investigated, and the heating transformation point is obtained from the temperature rising speed at the heating time of the material 1 to be treated on the basis of this relation, and the calculated starting temperature of the diffused length of C for deciding the hardening timing of the material 1 to be treated, is decided on the basis of this heating transformation point. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lifetime estimation device and lifetime estimation method of a rolling bearing capable of much more accurately estimating the lifetime of a rolling bearing when an impression is formed by considering a protuberance height at the periphery of the impression.SOLUTION: A lifetime estimation device of a rolling bearing includes: protuberance height estimation means 7 for estimating a protuberance height from a rolling surface of an impression in accordance to a determined rule on the basis of the depth or size of the impression; and lifetime estimation means 8 for estimating the lifetime of the rolling bearing in accordance with a rule determined based on a relation between the estimated protuberance height of the impression and the falling rate of a rolling fatigue lifetime as well as a dynamic equivalent load. The lifetime estimation means 8 calculates the lifetime of the rolling bearing by using an impression correction coefficient corresponding to a contact surface pressure.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a life estimating device and a life estimating method for roller bearings that enable the remaining useful life of a roller bearing having suffered any indentation to be more accurately estimated with the swell height around the indentation and other relevant factors taken into consideration.SOLUTION: A life estimating device 1, intended for estimating the remaining useful lives of roller bearings each having inner and outer rings and a plurality of rolling elements intervening between the roll-running faces of these inner and outer rings, has swell height estimating means 7 that estimates in accordance with prescribed rules the height of a swell of an indentation from the roll-running face of either the inner or outer ring on the basis of the depth or size of the indentation formed into the roll-running face and life estimating means 8 that estimates in accordance with prescribed rules from a relationship between the estimated swell height around the indentation and the shortening rate of the remaining life due to roll-running fatigue and from an equivalent load.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a roller follower and a valve gear device having sufficiently improved durability. SOLUTION: The roller follower includes a roller ring 11, a shaft 12 and a plurality of rollers 13. At least one of the roller ring 11, the shaft 12 and the rollers 13 is a steel member constituted of a steel composed of 0.7-2.4% carbon, 10.0-20.0% chromium and the balance iron with impurities. In the rolling surface of the steel member (roller-ring surface 11A, shaft rolling surface 12A and roller rolling surface 13A), carbide having an area of ≥12.6 μm 2 , containing at least either of iron or chromium and carbon, is generated in an areal proportion of ≥5.0%. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for stably and accurately predict the service life of material for a rolling bearing in a short period of time, and the rolling bearing having the long service life discriminated and ensured by the service life prediction. SOLUTION: Image analysis using a color image is performed when measuring the size of the non-metallic inclusions in material for the rolling bearing. Thereby, a plurality of kinds of inclusions having different effects on the service life are separately measured, and the service life of the material for the rolling bearing is stably predicted with higher accuracy than the conventional case by using the service life prediction formula including the maximum size of the inclusions estimated by a method of extreme value statistics on the basis of the frequency distribution of the size of the inclusions classified into kinds, without testing a rolling life. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT