JP2007146261A - Induction-heating apparatus for quenching of ring-type article, and continuous production line for ring-type article assembled machine part - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an induction-heating apparatus for quenching a ring-type article with which a plurality of ring-type articles having mutually different diameters, such as inner ring and outer ring in rolling bearing, are efficiently induction-heated in few facilities and the reducing of facility cost can be obtained and the uniformity of quenching quality in each part of the ring-type article can be obtained and further, the respective ring-type articles can efficiently be induction-heated under the same condition. <P>SOLUTION: This induction-heating apparatus is provided with: a rotating table 51 for rotating around the center O by concentrically laying the plurality of ring-type articles W1, W2 having mutually different diameters; heating coils 52 for induction-heating, having U-shaped portions 52a, 52b stretched over the inner peripheral side and the outer peripheral side of the respective ring-type articles W1, W2 on this rotating table 51; and an AC electric source 53 for conducting the current into the heating coils 52. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an induction heating device for quenching a ring-shaped product such as a bearing ring of a rolling bearing by induction heating for quenching, and an induction heating device for quenching the ring-shaped product. The present invention relates to a continuous production line of ring-shaped product built-in machine parts for producing ring-shaped product built-in machine parts, which are machine parts obtained by assembling a ring-shaped product that has been heated and hardened by means of other parts.

In order to improve mechanical characteristics, the races such as the inner and outer rings of the rolling bearing are hardened to be hardened to the inside. In such quenching that cures to the inside, it is common to perform quenching in a batch type atmospheric furnace. Although it is possible to employ a continuous heating furnace, in order to heat from the room temperature to the quenching temperature up to the deep part of the raceway, the conveying path becomes longer, the equipment becomes larger, and the installation area becomes larger. Therefore, a batch type furnace is adopted. In both the continuous heating furnace and the batch type furnace, there is an influence of heat on the periphery, and it is necessary to install the raceway away from the line for turning and grinding.
In addition, when quenching only on the raceway surface, such as a wheel bearing, induction hardening is employed. Moreover, also in the induction hardening which carries out the whole hardening, what conveys a to-be-heated material with a conveyor within a heating coil, and quenches continuously is proposed (for example, patent document 1).
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  Induction hardening allows workpieces to be heated continuously one by one. For example, when induction hardening is employed in the production line of rolling bearing raceways, the production process from bearing rings to the assembly of the bearings. Continuous production is possible. In addition, induction hardening has many advantages in that it is excellent in energy efficiency and has little thermal influence on the periphery. However, heating the workpieces one by one is inefficient in heating and requires a lot of equipment for heating.

  Moreover, in induction hardening, it may be difficult to heat the whole uniformly depending on a workpiece shape. Therefore, there is a problem that it is difficult to make the quenching quality uniform in the entire workpiece. Therefore, in order to employ induction hardening for quenching of the bearing ring of the rolling bearing, it is necessary to overcome the above problem. Further, when induction-quenching the bearing ring of the rolling bearing, it is desirable to quench the inner ring and the outer ring simultaneously under the same conditions in order to maintain the quenching quality. Furthermore, in order to increase the production efficiency of the entire production line, it is required to perform the quenching process efficiently.

The object of the present invention is to allow a plurality of ring-shaped products having different diameters such as an inner ring and an outer ring of a rolling bearing to be efficiently induction-heated with a small number of facilities and to reduce the cost of the ring-shaped products. It is to provide an inductive heating apparatus.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a quenching induction heating apparatus for a ring-shaped product that can achieve uniform quenching quality in each part of the ring-shaped product and can efficiently induction-heat each ring-shaped product under the same conditions. Is to provide.
Still another object of the present invention is to continuously connect a ring-shaped product built-in machine part, which is a machine part obtained by assembling a ring-shaped product heated by the induction heating apparatus for quenching and the other parts. The aim is to provide a continuous production line for machine parts that can be produced and that can reduce the size of the equipment and reduce the installation area.

  A quenching induction heating apparatus for a ring-shaped product according to the present invention includes a rotary table that rotates a plurality of ring-shaped products having different diameters concentrically and rotates around the center of the ring, and an inner periphery of each ring-shaped product on the rotary table. A heating coil for induction heating having a U-shaped portion straddling the side and the outer peripheral side, and an AC power source for passing a current through the heating coil.

  According to the quenching induction heating apparatus having this configuration, a plurality of ring-shaped products having different diameters can be simultaneously induction-heated by the heating coil while being rotated on the rotating table. Therefore, it can heat efficiently with few facilities, and can reduce equipment cost. At that time, since each ring-shaped product is concentrically arranged on the turntable, the entire ring-shaped product can be heated uniformly.

In the present invention, the ring-shaped product can be heated by induction heating to a predetermined preheating temperature close to the quenching temperature.
According to this configuration, the ring-shaped product is efficiently heated in a short time to a predetermined preheating temperature close to the quenching temperature by induction heating, and then the ring-shaped product is heated to the quenching temperature by another heating method such as a continuous heating furnace. Heating can be performed while achieving uniform heating. Thereby, compared with the case where it heats to quenching temperature only by induction heating, quenching quality can be improved.

The plurality of ring-shaped products having different diameters may be the inner ring and the outer ring of the same-sized rolling bearing, or may be the outer rings or the inner rings of the different-sized rolling bearings.
In any case, since a plurality of ring-shaped products can be induction-heated simultaneously, the heating efficiency is good. In particular, when the plurality of ring-shaped products having different diameters are the inner ring and the outer ring of the same size rolling bearing, the inner ring and the outer ring that are simultaneously induction-heated can be assembled into one rolling bearing. The production efficiency of the rolling bearing production line can be improved.

  Further, the number of the plurality of ring-shaped products having different diameters may be three or more. In this case, since three or more ring-shaped products can be induction-heated simultaneously, the heating efficiency is further improved.

The continuous production line of ring-shaped product built-in machine parts of the present invention is a production line for continuously producing ring-shaped product built-in machine parts, which are machine parts assembled from quenched ring-shaped products and other parts. There,
A material inspection process unit for inspecting a material to be processed into a ring-shaped product, a turning process unit for turning the material into a rough shape of a finished product of the ring-shaped product, and an inscription for engraving the turned ring-shaped product A plurality of pre-assembly production line sections including a process section, a heat treatment process section that heat-treats the ring-shaped product that has been engraved, and a grinding process section that grinds the heat-treated ring-shaped product,
These multiple pre-assembly production line sections produce ring-shaped products with different diameters,
The heat treatment process section heats the ring-shaped product to a predetermined preheating temperature close to the quenching temperature by induction heating, and heats the ring-shaped product heated in the preheating process section to the quenching temperature in a continuous heating furnace. Including a soaking step and a quenching step for cooling the ring-shaped product heated in the soaking step,
The plurality of pre-assembly production line sections share at least the preheating process section of the heat treatment process section, and the shared preheating process section uses the induction heating device for quenching the ring-shaped product.

According to the production line having this configuration, the heat treatment process section includes a preheating process section that is heated by induction heating and a soaking process section that is heated by a continuous heating furnace, so that the heat treatment process section is energy efficient up to the deep part of the ring-shaped product by induction heating. Heating in a short time is possible. In addition, the entire heating of the ring-shaped product can be achieved by the continuous heating furnace. Therefore, compared with the case where induction heating is performed up to the quenching temperature, the quenching quality can be improved. A continuous heating furnace is used, but the continuous heating furnace only raises the temperature of the ring-shaped product preheated to near the quenching temperature to the quenching temperature. Thus, the path for moving the ring-shaped product in the furnace is short, and the equipment can be downsized. Moreover, since the heating by a continuous heating furnace is slight, there is little influence of the heat to the periphery and the surrounding environment is improved. For this reason, while incorporating a continuous heating furnace into a continuous production line including a turning process section, a stamping process section, a grinding process section, etc., the thermal effects of the continuous heating furnace on each of these process sections can be avoided, and A continuous production line from the material inspection process part to the assembly process part of the ring-shaped product embedded machine part can be realized. Such a continuous production line can contribute to improving production efficiency, reducing the factory floor area, and improving adaptability to high-mix low-volume production.
In addition, since the plurality of pre-assembly production line sections produce ring-shaped products having different diameters and share at least the preheating process section of the heat treatment process section, the number of process sections in the entire production line. The overall configuration can be simplified by reducing. In order to share at least the preheating process section of the heat treatment process section with each other and to make each pre-assembly production line section a continuous production line, the shared preheating process section uses the induction heating apparatus for quenching the ring-shaped product. Is possible.

In the continuous production line of ring-shaped product built-in machine parts of the above invention, when the ring-shaped built-in machine parts that are machine parts assembled from the quenched ring-shaped goods and other parts are used as rolling bearings,
A material inspection process unit for inspecting a material to be processed into a ring-shaped product to be an inner ring or an outer ring of a rolling bearing, a turning process unit for turning the material into a rough shape of a finished product of the ring-shaped product, and this turned For inner rings, each of which includes a marking process section for marking a ring-shaped article, a heat treatment process section for heat-treating the ring-shaped article subjected to the marking, and a grinding process section for grinding the heat-treated ring-shaped article. A pre-assembly production line section for the outer ring, and an assembly process section for assembling the inner ring and the outer ring produced in each pre-assembly production line section together with other parts into a rolling bearing,
The heat treatment process section heats the ring-shaped product to a predetermined preheating temperature close to the quenching temperature by induction heating, and heats the ring-shaped product heated in the preheating process section to the quenching temperature in a continuous heating furnace. Including a soaking step and a quenching step for cooling the ring-shaped product heated in the soaking step,
The heat treatment process section in the pre-assembly production line section for the inner ring and the outer ring shares at least the preheating process section with each other, and the shared preheating process section uses the induction heating device for quenching the ring-shaped product. Line.

  The continuous production line for ring-shaped product built-in machine parts of the present invention also has the same effect as described above, and heats a ring-shaped product that becomes an inner ring or an outer ring of a rolling bearing to a deep portion in an energy efficient manner in a short time by induction heating. In addition, the quenching quality of the ring-shaped product can be made excellent by equalizing the whole temperature with a continuous heating furnace. In addition, a continuous production line with high production efficiency from the material inspection process part of the ring-shaped product to the assembly process part of the rolling bearing can be realized.

  A quenching induction heating apparatus for a ring-shaped product according to the present invention includes a rotary table that rotates a plurality of ring-shaped products having different diameters concentrically and rotates around the center of the ring, and an inner periphery of each ring-shaped product on the rotary table. Since the heating coil for induction heating having a U-shaped portion straddling the side and the outer peripheral side and the AC power source for supplying current to the heating coil are provided, the diameters are different from each other like the inner ring and the outer ring of the rolling bearing. A plurality of ring-shaped products can be efficiently heated with less equipment, and the equipment cost can be reduced. Further, the quality of quenching in each part of the ring-shaped product can be made uniform, and each ring-shaped product can be efficiently induction-heated under the same conditions.

  In addition, the continuous production line of ring-shaped product built-in machine parts of the present invention is a production line for continuously producing ring-shaped built-in machine parts, which are mechanical parts assembled from quenched ring-shaped products and other parts. A material inspection process section for inspecting a material to be processed into a ring-shaped product, a turning process section for turning the material into a rough shape of a finished product of the ring-shaped product, and the turned ring-shaped product A plurality of pre-assembly production line sections including a stamping process section for stamping, a heat treatment process section for heat-treating the ring-shaped product with the stamp, and a grinding process section for grinding the heat-treated ring-shaped product. The plurality of pre-assembly production line sections produce ring-shaped products having different diameters, and the heat treatment process section heats the ring-shaped products to a predetermined preheating temperature close to the quenching temperature by induction heating. Preheating A soaking part that heats the ring-shaped product heated in this preheating process part to a quenching temperature in a continuous heating furnace, and a quenching process part that cools the ring-shaped product heated in this soaking process part The plurality of pre-assembly production line units share at least the preheating step unit of the heat treatment step unit, and the shared preheating step unit uses the induction heating apparatus for quenching. Therefore, it is possible to continuously produce ring-shaped product built-in machine parts, and to reduce the size of the equipment and the installation area.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 1 shows the structure of an induction heating apparatus for quenching. The induction heating device 50 includes a turntable 51 that rotates a plurality of ring-shaped products W1 and W2 having different diameters concentrically and rotates around a ring center O, a heating coil 52, and an alternating current that passes a current through the heating coil 52. And a power supply 53. In the illustrated example, the number of ring-shaped products having different diameters is two, and each of the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 is an outer ring and an inner ring of the same size rolling bearing. The AC power source 53 is, for example, a high frequency power source.

The heating coil 52 has downward U-shaped portions 52a and 52b straddling the inner peripheral side and the outer peripheral side of the ring-shaped products W1 and W2, respectively, and the U-shaped portion straddling the outer ring-shaped product W1. The front end on the inner peripheral side of 52a and the front end on the outer peripheral side of the U-shaped portion 52b straddling the inner peripheral ring-shaped product W2 are connected to each other. The distal end portion on the outer peripheral side of the U-shaped portion 52 a and the distal end portion on the inner peripheral side of the U-shaped portion 52 b are connected to the AC power supply 53. FIG. 3 shows a perspective view of the heating coil 52.
In FIG. 1, the heating coil 52 is installed such that its position can be changed in the radial direction of the turntable 51 with respect to the heating coil support 54. The heating coil support 54 has a guide 54a extending in the radial direction of the turntable 51, for example, and the position of the heating coil 52 can be changed steplessly along the guide 54a. For example, as shown in FIGS. 2B and 2C, the heating coil 52 is fixed to the guide 54a by a bolt (not shown) or the like at an arbitrary change position.

The turntable 51 is provided with contact tables 51a and 51b for reducing the contact area with the ring-shaped products W1 and W2. The contact bases 51a and 51b can be replaced with ones corresponding to the diameters of the ring-shaped products W1 and W2.
The turntable 51 is driven to rotate by a turntable rotating device 55, and the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 on the turntable 51 enter inside the U-shaped portions 52a and 52b of the heating coil 52 by the turntable lifting device 56. Raised and lowered between the height position and the exit height position.
In the illustrated example, the turntable 51 is rotatably installed on the lift frame 57 via a bearing 58, and the lift frame 57 is installed on the base 59 so as to be lifted and lowered via a lift guide 60. A lifting drive source 61 such as a hydraulic cylinder is connected to the lifting frame 57, and the turntable 51 is lifted and lowered together with the lifting frame 57 by the lifting drive source 61.
The turntable rotating device 55 includes a motor 62 and a rotation transmission mechanism 63 such as a pulley or a gear train that transmits the rotation to the shaft portion 51 c of the turntable 51.

  The quenching induction heating device 50 is configured to cause a current to flow to a heating coil 52 by an AC power source 53 while rotating a turntable 51 on which ring-shaped products W1 and W2 are placed concentrically around a ring center O by a turntable rotation device 55. The ring-shaped products W1 and W2 are simultaneously induction-heated. Since each ring-shaped product W1, W2 is arranged concentrically, induction heating is uniformly performed on each ring-shaped product W1, W2, and the entire ring-shaped product can be heated uniformly.

  The heating coil 52 has U-shaped portions 52a and 52b, and the position can be changed in the radial direction of the turntable 51. Therefore, the heating coil 52 is fixed to the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 having various diameters. This can be handled by changing the position. In this case, the contact bases 51a and 51b of the turntable 51 are replaced with ones corresponding to the diameters of the ring-shaped products W1 and W2.

  In the above embodiment, the plurality of ring-shaped products W1 and W2 are induction-heated by one heating coil 52. However, as shown in FIG. 4, the heating coils 52 are connected to the plurality of ring-shaped products W1 and W2. Each may be provided individually and induction heated. Also in this case, each heating coil 52 is formed in a downward U-shape that straddles the inner peripheral side and the outer peripheral side of the ring-shaped products W1, W2. Each heating coil 52 is installed along the guide 54 a of the heating coil support 54 so that the position of the heating coil 52 can be changed in the radial direction of the turntable 51.

  Further, three or more ring-shaped products having different diameters may be placed concentrically on the turntable to perform induction heating. FIG. 5 shows a case where there are three ring-shaped products. As shown by the solid line in the figure, the ring-shaped products W1, W2, and W3 may be induction-heated by one heating coil 52, and as shown by the chain line, for each ring-shaped product W1, W2, and W3, Then, the heating coil 52 may be provided individually to perform induction heating.

  1 to 3, the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 are the outer ring and the inner ring of the rolling bearing. However, the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 may be the outer rings or the inner rings of the bearings having different sizes. . Further, the ring-shaped products W1, W2 may be ring-shaped products other than the bearing race.

Next, a continuous production line for ring-shaped product built-in machine parts in which the quenching induction heating device 50 is installed will be described.
FIG. 6 shows a conceptual configuration of this continuous production line. This continuous production line is a line for continuously producing the rolling bearing 1 that is a ring-shaped product-embedded machine part, and is a line for performing from the production of the bearing outer ring and the bearing inner ring to the assembly of the rolling bearing 1. The produced rolling bearing 1 includes a ring-shaped product W1 serving as a bearing outer ring, a ring-shaped product W2 serving as a bearing inner ring, a plurality of rolling elements 2, and a cage 3. In the illustrated example, the rolling bearing 1 is a deep groove ball bearing, but it may be a roller bearing or a thrust type bearing. FIG. 6 mainly shows the machining process of the bearing outer ring, and a part of the machining process of the bearing inner ring is omitted.

  This production line includes a material inspection process section 11, a forging process section 12, a turning process section 13, a marking process section 14, a heat treatment process section 15, a grinding process section 16, and an assembly process section 17. Between each process part 11-17, conveyance means 20, such as a conveyor which conveys material or the ring-shaped article W1, is provided, and the ring-shaped article W1 is conveyed in a predetermined direction throughout the production line.

  The material inspection process unit 11 is a process unit that inspects a material (not shown) for processing into the ring-shaped product W1, and accepts a material such as a lump shape, a plate shape, or a pipe shape from a supplier or the like here. Inspect each material lot. This inspection may be performed manually by an operator or automatically. The material that has been inspected is divided into one for each ring-shaped article W1 and sent to the forging process section 12.

The forging process part 12 is a process part which forges one material with the forging machine into the rough shape of the finished product of the ring-shaped product W1.
The turning process unit 13 is a process unit that turns the forged ring-shaped product W1 into a schematic shape closer to the finished product than the forged shape by a lathe. When the ring-shaped product W1 is a bearing ring such as a bearing outer ring, the turning process section 13 performs the groove processing of the raceway groove.
Depending on the type of the rolling bearing 1, the forging process 12 may be omitted, and the turning process unit 13 may obtain the ring-shaped product W <b> 1 having a substantially shape from a material such as a pipe material. In that case, the turning process unit 13 may also cut out the ring-shaped product W1 one by one from the material.

  The stamping process unit 14 is a process unit that stamps a mark M such as a company name or a model number on the turned ring-shaped product W1 using a stamping machine (not shown). When the ring-shaped product W1 is a bearing outer ring or a bearing inner ring, the marking is performed on the width surface of the ring-shaped product W1.

  The heat treatment process part 15 is a process part which heat-processes quenching etc. to the ring-shaped article W1 to which the stamp was given. The heat treatment process unit 15 will be described in detail later.

The grinding process part 16 is a process part which grinds the heat-treated ring-shaped product W1 to obtain a finished product of the ring-shaped product W1.
When the ring-shaped product W1 is a bearing outer ring, the grinding process unit 16 includes a plurality of process units, for example, a width grinding process unit 16a, an outer diameter grinding process unit 16b, a groove grinding process unit 16c, and a groove superfinishing process unit 16d. It is supposed to be. Each of the grinding components 16a to 16d includes a grinding device (not shown) that performs respective grinding. Even when the ring-shaped product is a bearing inner ring, the grinding process section 16 is composed of four process sections as in the case of the bearing outer ring.

  The process parts from the inspection process part 11 to the grinding process part 16 constitute a pre-assembly production line part R1.

  The assembly process unit 17 is a process unit that assembles the ring-shaped product W1 that has been ground together with other components into a ring-shaped product assembly machine part. The ring-shaped product built-in machine part is a rolling bearing 1, and the ring-shaped product W <b> 1 serving as a bearing outer ring is rolled together with the ring-shaped product W <b> 2 serving as a bearing inner ring, the rolling element 2, and the cage 3. Assemble to the bearing 1. This assembly is performed by an automatic assembly machine (not shown). In the illustrated example, the cage 3 is a combination of two cage components 3a.

The ring-shaped product W2 serving as the bearing inner ring is produced by the pre-assembly production line portion R2 different from the pre-assembly production line portion R1 of the bearing outer ring, and is carried into the assembly process unit 17. The rolling element 2 and the cage 3 are carried into the assembly process unit 17 from the rolling element storage unit 18 and the cage storage unit 19, respectively.
The rolling element storage unit 18 and the cage storage unit 19 respectively receive the rolling element 2 and the cage 3 produced at a place different from the continuous production line from the purchaser, etc., and perform processing such as inspection and store them. It is a process part. You may make it produce the rolling element storage part 18 and the holder | retainer storage part 19 with the production line (not shown) provided with this continuous production line.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory view showing a layout example of a continuous production line of the ring-shaped product built-in machine parts. In this example, a pre-assembly production line portion R1 for producing a ring-shaped product W1 serving as a bearing outer ring and a pre-assembly production line portion R2 for producing a ring-shaped product W2 serving as a bearing inner ring are provided.
The pre-assembly production line portion R2 for producing the ring-shaped product W2 serving as the bearing inner ring is similar to the pre-assembly production line portion R1 for producing the ring-shaped product W1 serving as the bearing outer ring, the inspection process section 11, the forging process section 12, The turning process unit 13, the engraving process unit 14, the heat treatment process unit 15, and the grinding process unit 16 are arranged in order, and a conveying means 20 such as a conveyor is provided between the process units 11 to 16, but the heat treatment process The part 15 is shared with the pre-assembly production line part R1. Also in the pre-assembly production line portion R2 on the inner ring side, the forging process section 12 may be omitted.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the heat treatment process unit 15 includes a preheating process unit 15a, a soaking process unit 15b, a quenching process unit 15c, and a tempering process unit 15d. The heat treatment process part 15 may have a normalization process part and an annealing process part (both not shown) on the rear stage side of the quenching process part 15c. In this case, the normalization process part and the annealing process part are process parts of a type that can perform processing while conveying the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 in a single column.

The preheating process part 15a is a process part which heats the ring-shaped goods W1 and W2 by induction heating to the predetermined preheating temperature close | similar to quenching temperature. The preheating temperature is preferably higher than the A1 transformation point (725 to 730 °) and higher than the A2 transformation point (Curie point), for example, about 800 ° C.
For this preheating, the induction heating apparatus 50 for quenching shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 is used. At that time, as described above, the ring-shaped products W1, W2 are placed concentrically on the turntable 51, and the ring-shaped products W1, W2 are simultaneously induction-heated.

The soaking process unit 15b is a process unit that heats the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 heated in the preheating process unit 15a in the continuous heating furnace 21 to the quenching temperature. The quenching temperature is the maximum heating temperature (austenitizing temperature), for example, about 850 ° C.
The continuous heating furnace 21 is a furnace that keeps the inside in a high temperature atmosphere and heats the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 arranged concentrically with each other on a transport means 22 such as a conveyor while transporting them in a vertical row.

  The quenching process unit 15c is a process unit that quenches the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 heated to the quenching temperature in the soaking process unit 15b by cooling. For example, the ring-shaped product W1 is placed in the cooling bath 23. , W2 is cooled by immersion. The quenching process part 15c may spray a cooling liquid on the ring-shaped products W1 and W2.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram that combines a horizontal sectional view of the preheating process section 15a and a block diagram of the atmosphere adjustment system. The preheating process section 15a includes a charging chamber 31 for charging the ring-shaped products W1, W2 from the atmosphere, a preheating chamber 32 for induction heating the ring-shaped products W1, W2 moved from the charging chamber 31, A transfer chamber 33 for transferring the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 of the preheating chamber 32 to the continuous heating furnace 21; In addition, the ring-shaped product W1 supplied from the stamping process unit 14 of the pre-assembly production line portion R1 and the ring-shaped product supplied from the stamping process unit 14 of the pre-assembly production line portion R2 are provided in the front stage of the charging chamber 31. A concentric arrangement mechanism 30 that arranges W2 to be concentric with each other is provided.
The inlet 34 for inserting the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 in the charging chamber 31, the passages 35 and 36 of the ring-shaped product W1 between the chambers 31 to 33, and the ring-shaped product W1 between the transfer chamber 33 and the continuous heating furnace 21 Opening and closing doors 38 to 41 are provided in the passage 37 of W2. The open / close doors 38 to 41 are opened and closed by sliding left and right or up and down, and open / close drive means (not shown) is connected thereto.

  The preheating process section 15a has an atmosphere converting means 42 for converting the charging chamber 31, the preheating chamber 32, and the transfer chamber 33 into a vacuum, a non-oxidizing atmosphere, or an atmosphere equivalent to the atmosphere of the continuous heating furnace 21. is doing. The atmosphere converting means 42 is, for example, a means for sending nitrogen gas to the chambers 31 to 33 via the piping 43 and exhausting and replacing them. The atmosphere converting means 42 has a function of controlling the opening / closing drive means of the opening / closing doors 38 to 41. The atmosphere converting means 42 opens and closes the open / close doors 39 to 41 between the chambers 31 to 33 and the continuous heating furnace 21 so as to communicate with each other only between two adjacent chambers and maintain a sealed state from the outside. . For example, when opening the opening / closing door 39 between the loading chamber 31 and the preheating chamber 32, the opening / closing door 38 at the inlet 38 of the loading chamber 31 and the opening / closing door 40 at the outlet side of the preheating chamber 32 are closed.

  In addition, the preheating process section 15a includes the charging means 44 for charging the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 into the charging chamber 31, the first moving means 45 for moving from the charging chamber 44 to the preheating chamber 32, and the preheating chamber 32. It has the 2nd moving means 46 moved to the transfer chamber 33, and the transfer means 47 transferred to the continuous heating furnace 21 from the transfer chamber 33. FIG. The charging means 44, the first moving means 45, the second moving means 46, and the transferring means 47 are each composed of a pusher or a conveyor.

  The production process of the rolling bearing 1 by the continuous production line having the above configuration will be described. The ring-shaped product W1 serving as the bearing outer ring and the ring-shaped product W2 serving as the bearing inner ring are each produced up to finished products in the pre-assembly production line portions R1 and R2. In this case, in each of the production line parts R1 and R2 before assembly, the forged process parts 12 are made into the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 of the coarse shape by the material inspected by the material inspection process part 11, and this coarse ring The shaped products W1 and W2 are turned to the approximate shape of the finished product by the turning process unit 13, and further the mark M is marked by the marking process unit 14. Next, the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 supplied from the marking process unit 14 of the respective pre-assembly production line portions R1 and R2 are arranged so as to be concentric with each other by the concentric arrangement mechanism 30, and are provided in the common heat treatment process unit 15. The heat treatment process unit 15 performs heat treatment such as quenching.

  In the heat treatment in the heat treatment process section 15, both ring-shaped members W1 and W2 are heated by induction heating to a predetermined preheating temperature close to the quenching temperature in the preheating process section 15a, and the heated ring-shaped products W1 and W2 are soaked. In the process part 15b, the inside of the continuous heating furnace 21 is heated to the quenching temperature while being conveyed in a single line in a vertical row, and is quenched by being cooled in the quenching process part 15c.

The ring-shaped products W1 and W2 that have been subjected to the heat treatment are distributed and conveyed to the pre-assembly production line portions R1 and R2, respectively, and the process units 16a to 16a at each stage of the grinding process unit 16 in the pre-assembly production line portions R1 and R2. It is ground at 16d and finished.
In the assembling process section 17, the ring-shaped products W <b> 1 and W <b> 2 that are the inner and outer rings produced in this way, the rolling elements 2 and the cage 3 are assembled to the rolling bearing 1.

  According to this continuous production line, the heat treatment process section 15 includes the preheating process section 15a that is heated by induction heating and the soaking process section 15b that is heated by the continuous heating furnace 21, so that the ring-shaped products W1, W2 are heated by induction heating. It is possible to heat up to the deep part of the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 by the continuous heating furnace 21 in a short time with energy efficiency. Therefore, compared with the case where induction heating is performed up to the quenching temperature, the quenching quality can be improved. Therefore, even the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 that are the race rings of the rolling bearing 1 can meet the required strict quenching quality.

  Although the continuous heating furnace 21 is used, the continuous heating furnace 21 only raises the temperature of the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 preheated to near the quenching temperature to the quenching temperature. Is significantly shortened, the path for moving the ring-shaped products W1, W2 in the furnace is short, and the equipment can be downsized. Moreover, since the heating by the continuous heating furnace 21 is slight, there is little influence of the heat to the periphery, and the surrounding environment is improved. For this reason, while incorporating the continuous heating furnace 21 into a continuous production line including the turning process section 13, the marking process section 14, the grinding process section 16, etc., the thermal influence of the continuous heating furnace 21 on these process sections can be avoided. A continuous production line from the material inspection process part 11 of the ring-shaped products W1, W2 to the assembly process part of the rolling bearing 1 can be realized.

Such a continuous production line can contribute to improving production efficiency, reducing the factory floor area, and improving adaptability to high-mix low-volume production. In particular, since the continuous heating furnace 21 can be shortened as the temperature of the heat treatment process section 15 is increased by the continuous heating furnace 21 after preheating by the induction heating process section 15a, when switching the types of the ring-shaped products W1 and W2, The number of the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 remaining in the continuous heating furnace 21 is small, and the applicability to multi-product and small-volume production is further improved.
Further, in the heat treatment process section 15, the pre-assembly production line portions R1 and R2 of both the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 are shared, and the heat treatment of both the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 is performed at the same time. The heat treatment conditions for W2 are exactly the same, improving the reliability of the quenching quality and simplifying the configuration of the heat treatment process section 15.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 8, since the charging chamber 31 and the transfer chamber 33 are provided and the atmosphere converting means 42 is provided, the ring-shaped products W1 and W2 are separated from the vacuum or non-oxidizing atmosphere or the atmosphere of the continuous heating furnace 21. Continuous charging, heating, and transfer can be performed in an equivalent atmosphere. Therefore, the non-oxidizing continuous processing of the ring-shaped product W1 is facilitated. Moreover, when it transfers to the continuous heating furnace 21 from the transfer chamber 33 according to the atmosphere of the continuous heating furnace 21 after a heating, it can respond also to the continuous heating furnace 21 of a carburizing atmosphere.

It is a fracture front view of the induction heating device for hardening concerning one embodiment of this invention. (A) is a top view which shows the positional relationship of the heating coil of the same induction heating apparatus, and a ring-shaped article, (B) is the fracture | rupture front view, (C) is a fracture | rupture sectional view of a different state. It is a perspective view of the heating coil. (A) is a top view which shows the positional relationship of the heating coil and ring-shaped goods of the same induction heating apparatus, (B) is the fracture | rupture sectional drawing. Furthermore, it is a top view which shows the positional relationship of the heating coil and ring-shaped goods of a different induction heating apparatus. It is explanatory drawing which shows the conceptual structure of the continuous production line of the ring-shaped goods embedded machine part concerning one Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing of the example of a layout of the same continuous production line. It is a horizontal sectional view of the preheating process part in the same continuous production line.

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1 ... Rolling bearing (ring-shaped product built-in machine parts)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 2 ... Rolling body 3 ... Cage 11 ... Material inspection process part 12 ... Forging process part 13 ... Turning process part 14 ... Stamping process part 15 ... Heat treatment process part 15a ... Preheating process part 15b ... Soaking process part 15c ... Quenching process Part 16 ... Grinding process part 17 ... Assembly process part 21 ... Continuous heating furnace 31 ... Loading chamber 32 ... Preheating chamber 33 ... Transfer chamber 34 ... Inlet 35 to 37 ... Passage 38 to 41 ... Opening and closing door 51 ... Turntable 52 ... Heating Coils R1, R2 ... Production line part W1, W2 before assembly: Ring-shaped products

Claims (7)

  A turntable that rotates a plurality of ring-shaped products having different diameters concentrically and rotates around the center of the ring, and a guide having a U-shaped portion straddling the inner and outer peripheral sides of each ring-shaped product on the turntable An induction heating apparatus for quenching a ring-shaped product, comprising: a heating coil for heating; and an AC power source for passing a current through the heating coil.   The induction heating apparatus for quenching a ring-shaped product according to claim 1, wherein the ring-shaped product is heated by induction heating to a predetermined preheating temperature close to a quenching temperature.   The induction heating device for quenching a ring-shaped product according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the plurality of ring-shaped products having different diameters are an inner ring and an outer ring of a rolling bearing having the same size.   3. The induction heating apparatus for quenching a ring-shaped product according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the plurality of ring-shaped products having different diameters are outer rings or inner rings in rolling bearings having different sizes.   The induction heating apparatus for quenching a ring-shaped product according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the number of the plurality of ring-shaped products having different diameters is three or more. A production line for continuously producing ring-shaped product built-in machine parts, which are machine parts assembled from a quenched ring-shaped product and other parts,
A material inspection process unit for inspecting a material to be processed into a ring-shaped product, a turning process unit for turning the material into a rough shape of a finished product of the ring-shaped product, and an inscription for engraving the turned ring-shaped product A plurality of pre-assembly production line sections including a process section, a heat treatment process section that heat-treats the ring-shaped product that has been engraved, and a grinding process section that grinds the heat-treated ring-shaped product,
These multiple pre-assembly production line sections produce ring-shaped products with different diameters,
The heat treatment process section heats the ring-shaped product to a predetermined preheating temperature close to the quenching temperature by induction heating, and heats the ring-shaped product heated in the preheating process section to the quenching temperature in a continuous heating furnace. Including a soaking step and a quenching step for cooling the ring-shaped product heated in the soaking step,
The plurality of pre-assembly production line sections share at least the preheating process section of the heat treatment process section, and the shared preheating process section uses the induction heating apparatus for quenching a ring-shaped product according to claim 2. A continuous production line for machine parts with ring-like products. A production line for producing rolling bearings,
A material inspection process unit for inspecting a material to be processed into a ring-shaped product to be an inner ring or an outer ring of a rolling bearing, a turning process unit for turning the material into a rough shape of a finished product of the ring-shaped product, and this turned For inner rings, each of which includes a marking process section for marking a ring-shaped article, a heat treatment process section for heat-treating the ring-shaped article subjected to the marking, and a grinding process section for grinding the heat-treated ring-shaped article. A pre-assembly production line section for the outer ring, and an assembly process section for assembling the inner ring and the outer ring produced in each pre-assembly production line section together with other parts into a rolling bearing,
The heat treatment process section heats the ring-shaped product to a predetermined preheating temperature close to the quenching temperature by induction heating, and heats the ring-shaped product heated in the preheating process section to the quenching temperature in a continuous heating furnace. Including a soaking step and a quenching step for cooling the ring-shaped product heated in the soaking step,
The induction heating apparatus for quenching a ring-shaped product according to claim 2, wherein the heat treatment process section in the pre-assembly production line section for the inner ring and the outer ring shares at least a preheating process section with each other. A continuous production line for machine parts that incorporate ring-shaped products.

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