A compression coil spring includes a steel wire material containing, hereinafter in weight %, 0.5 to 0.7% of C, 1.2 to 3.0% of Si, 0.3 to 1.2% of Mn, 0.5 to 1.9% of Cr and 0.05 to 0.5% of V as necessary components, one or more kinds selected from not more than 1.5% of Ni, not more than 1.5% of Mo and not more than 0.5% of W as freely selected components, and iron and inevitable impurities as the remainder; the C-condensed layer which exceeds the average concentration of C contained in the steel wire material exists at a surface layer part, and the thickness of the C-condensed layer is within 0.01 to 0.05 mm along the entire circumference of the steel wire material.

Disclosed is a tempering station for the partial heat treatment of a metal component, the station including a processing plane arranged in the tempering station, at least one nozzle, aligned to the processing plane, for discharging of a fluid flow for the cooling of at least a first sub-area of the component, and at least one nozzle box, arranged above the processing plane. The at least one nozzle box forms at least one nozzle area in which the at least one nozzle is at least partially arrangeable and/or which at least partially delimits a propagation of the fluid flow, with the at least one nozzle box being at least partially formed with a ceramic material. The tempering station permits a sufficiently reliable thermal delimitation of heat treatment measures partially acting on the component and/or a sufficiently reliable thermal separation of different heat treatment procedures partially acting on the component.

The invention relates to a method and a device for the heat treatment of a metal component. The method comprises at least the following steps: a) heating the component, in a first furnace, b) setting a temperature difference between at least a first sub-region and a second sub-region of the component in a first temperature-adjusting station, c) heating at least the first sub-region or the second sub-region of the component in a second furnace, d) thermally treating at least a sub-region of the component in a second temperature-adjusting station, e) at least partly forming and/or cooling the component in a press-hardening tool.

A novel manufacturing method for functionally graded component includes a cold sprayed additive manufactured core material and a cold sprayed additive manufactured set of teeth around said core made from another material.

A heating method, a heating apparatus, and a method of manufacturing a press-molded article using the heating method are provided. A pair of electrodes is arranged on a workpiece along a first direction. Each electrode has a length extending across a first heating area of the workpiece in the first direction. At least one of the electrodes is moved in the first heating area and along a second direction intersecting the first direction at a constant speed while applying electric current between the pair of electrodes to heat the first heating area by direct resistance heating. The electric current applied between the pair of electrodes is adjusted such that a heating temperature is adjusted for each segment into which the first heating area is divided so as to be side by side in the second direction.

A metal ring of a transmission belt in a belt-type continuously variable transmission. A first nitrided layer formed in a main surface of the metal ring, and a second nitrided layer formed in an end surface of the metal ring are included. A thickness of the second nitrided layer is smaller than a thickness of the first nitrided layer, and surface hardness of the end surface is higher than surface hardness of the main surface. Even though the second nitrided layer in the end part is thin, the surface hardness of the end surface is high. Therefore, it is possible to restrain fatigue fracture starting from an end part, and it is also possible to restrain deterioration of abrasion resistance of the end surface.

A novel manufacturing method for functionally graded component includes a cold sprayed additive manufactured core material and a cold sprayed additive manufactured set of teeth around said core made from another material.

Disclosed are a high-strength ultra-thick steel material and a method for manufacturing same. The high-strength ultra-thick steel material comprises in weight % 0.04-0.1% of C, 1.2-2.0% of Mn, 0.2-0.9% of Ni, 0.005-0.04% of Nb, 0.005-0.03% of Ti and 0.1-0.4% of Cu, 100 ppm or less of P and 40 ppm or less of S with a balance of Fe, and inevitable impurities, and comprises, in a subsurface area up to t/10 (t hereafter being referred to as the thickness of the steel material) , polygonal ferrite of 50 area % or greater (including 100 area %) and bainite of 50 area % or less (including 0 area %) as microstructures.

A method for manufacturing a high-strength steel bar can include the steps of: reheating a steel slab at a temperature ranging from 1000 C. to 1100 C., the steel slab including a certain amount of carbon (C), silicon (Si), manganese (Mn), phosphorus (P), sulfur (S), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), molybdenum (Mo), aluminum (Al), vanadium (V), nitrogen (N), antimony (Sb), tin (Sn), and iron (Fe) and other inevitable impurities, The method can further include finish hot-rolling the reheated steel slab at a temperature of 850 C. to 1000 C., and cooling the hot-rolled steel to a martensite transformation start temperature (Ms ( C.)) through a tempcore process.

Disclosed are a high-strength ultra-thick steel material and a method for manufacturing same. The high-strength ultra-thick steel material comprises in weight % 0.04-0.1% of C, 0.05-0.5% of Si, 0.01-0.05% of Al, 1.6-2.2% of Mn, 0.5-1.2% of Ni, 0.005-0.050% of Nb, 0.005-0.03% of Ti and 0.2-0.6% of Cu, 100 ppm or less of P and 40 ppm or less of S with a balance of Fe, and inevitable impurities, and comprises, in a subsurface area up to t/10 (t hereafter being referred to as the thickness of the steel material), bainite of 90 area % or greater (including 100 area %) as microstructures. And the particle size of crysta1lites having a high inclination angle boundary of 15 or higher measured by EBSD is 10 m or less (not including 0 m).