Abstract:
The invention concerns a method of improving the properties of a hydrogen storage alloy powder for a negative electrode of a rechargeable nickel hydride battery. The method comprises the steps of hydriding a powdered alloy starting material, oxidizing the obtained hydride alloy powder and washing the oxidized powder. The invention also concerns the obtained powder.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a method of preparing PM products by high velocity compaction of iron or iron-based powers having irregular powder particles.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a low pressure for the preparation of an iron-based, optionally alloyed powder comprising the steps of preparing a raw powder essentially consisting of iron and optionally at least one alloying element selected from the group consisting of chromium, manganese, copper, nickel, vanadium, niobium, boron, silicon, molybdenum and tungsten; charging a gas tight furnace with the powder in an essentially inert gas atmosphere and closing the furnace; increasing the furnace temperature; monitoring the increase of the formation of CO gas and evacuating gas from the furnace when a significant increase of the CO formation is observed and cooling the powder when the increase of the formation of CO gas diminishes.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a process for producing low oxygen, essentially carbon free stainless steel powder, which comprises the steps of preparing molten steel which in addition to iron contains carbon and at least 10% of chromium, adjusting the carbon content of the melt to a value which is decided by the expected oxygen content after water atomising; water-atomising the melt and annealing the as-atomised powder at a temperature of at least 1120° C. in a reducing atmosphere containing controlled amounts of water. The invention also concerns a water-atomised powder including 10% by weight of chromium and having a carbon content between 0.2 and 0.7, preferably between 0.4 and 0.6% by weight and an oxygen/carbon ratio of about 1 to 3 and at most 0.5% of impurities, as well as the annealed powder obtained according to the process.
Abstract:
In a process of cooling and solidifying molten metal particles, gas substantially free from nascent and molecular oxygen (argon, helium, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide) is bubbled through a liquid, thereby creating at the surface of the liquid a layer of foam of bubbles containing some of the gas. Additional gas is retained in the space adjacent the foam. Molten metal particles are formed by being centrifugally projected through holes extending through a side wall of a rotating pot disposed within the space. The molten particles are decelerated and cooled by passing into said foam, and rupture some of the bubbles, so that the gas contained within them flows into the space. The particles then leave the foam and pass into the liquid, becoming further cooled, and are thereafter recovered solidified, substantially unoxidized, and with a minimum of distortion, thereby being suitable for forming into strip. New gas-containing bubbles are created by bubbling additional gas through the liquid, so as to maintain the layer of foam.
Abstract:
An insulator-coated magnetic alloy powder particle includes a magnetic alloy powder particle and an insulator that coats a surface of the magnetic alloy powder particle and that has a plurality of protrusions at a surface thereof, wherein the insulator includes a first insulator in a particulate form enclosed in the protrusion, and a second insulator in a film form that coats at least a part of a surface of the first insulator.
Abstract:
A green compact according to the present invention is a green compact, which is obtained by compaction-molding raw material powder containing metal powder as a main raw material, the green compact including an oxide film formed between particles of the raw material powder forming the green compact, the oxide film binding the particles of the raw material powder to each other, in which the metal powder to toe used includes metal powder showing a circularity R at a cumulative frequency of 80% of 0.75 or more, the circularity R being expressed by Equation (1), where S represents a two-dimensional projected area of the metal powder and L represents a two-dimensional projected circumferential length of the metal powder. R = 4 π × S L 2 ( 1 )
Abstract:
A method of making a worm gear is provided. The method comprises forming a gear hub from a powdered metal material. Thereafter an outer surface of the gear hub is sealed.
Abstract:
It is an objective of the invention to provide a dust core made of an Fe-based amorphous metal powder having excellent magnetic properties, in which the dust core has a higher-than-conventional density, excellent magnetic properties and a high mechanical strength. There is provided a dust core including a mixture powder compacted, the mixture powder including: an Fe-based amorphous metal powder having a crystallization temperature Tx (unit: K), the Fe-based amorphous metal powder being plastically deformed, the plastically deformed metal Fe-based amorphous metal powder having a filling factor in the dust core higher than 80% and not higher than 99%; and a resin binder having a melting point Tm (unit: K), in which the Tx and Tm satisfy a relationship of “Tm/Tx≧0.70”.
Abstract:
A combustion device includes a combustion chamber having an exhaust gas opening. The combustion chamber has a first region having a plurality of circular-segment-shaped cross-sections, which are parallel to each other and each have a circle centre point. A connection of the circle centre points lies substantially on an axis. A gas supply line is connected to the combustion chamber in such a way that a discharge point is formed, that the combustion chamber has a mixing region in the region of the discharge point for mixing gas supplied via the gas supply line with gas rotating in the combustion chamber, and that the discharge point is arranged on a bottom side of the combustion chamber in an operating position, wherein gas supplied via the gas supply line flows against the first region tangentially from below.