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EP2676746A1
EP2676746A1 EP12747318.9A EP12747318A EP2676746A1 EP 2676746 A1 EP2676746 A1 EP 2676746A1 EP 12747318 A EP12747318 A EP 12747318A EP 2676746 A1 EP2676746 A1 EP 2676746A1
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Kazuhiro Uchida
Tadashi Kawakami
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B23/00—Tube-rolling not restricted to methods provided for in only one of groups B21B17/00, B21B19/00, B21B21/00, e.g. combined processes planetary tube rolling, auxiliary arrangements, e.g. lubricating, special tube blanks, continuous casting combined with tube rolling
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D3/00—Straightening or restoring form of metal rods, metal tubes, metal profiles, or specific articles made therefrom, whether or not in combination with sheet metal parts
    • B21D3/02—Straightening or restoring form of metal rods, metal tubes, metal profiles, or specific articles made therefrom, whether or not in combination with sheet metal parts by rollers
    • B21D3/04—Straightening or restoring form of metal rods, metal tubes, metal profiles, or specific articles made therefrom, whether or not in combination with sheet metal parts by rollers arranged on axes skew to the path of the work
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D3/00—Straightening or restoring form of metal rods, metal tubes, metal profiles, or specific articles made therefrom, whether or not in combination with sheet metal parts
    • B21D3/02—Straightening or restoring form of metal rods, metal tubes, metal profiles, or specific articles made therefrom, whether or not in combination with sheet metal parts by rollers

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  • the present invention relates to a method for straightening a steel product such as a pipe or bar. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for straightening, in which the wear of a roll of a straightening machine is suppressed, concavity and convexity of roll surface caused by the wear are prevented from being transferred to the steel product, and time for changeover and/or setup of rolls can be shortened to improve the efficiency of a finishing process.
  • a steel product such as a pipe or bar is produced through a hot or cold working process, and bends of the steel product are generated during such processing stages and/or during heat treatment that is carried out midway through such processing stages. These bends are straightened, in a finishing process, usually by using a straightening machine that uses specific rolls, such as a cross roll type straightening machine (straightener) in which a plurality of concave globoidal drum type rolls are arranged.
  • a cross roll type straightening machine straightener
  • Patent Literature 1 discloses a method in which, to prevent stress corrosion cracking in a product on account of residual stress occurring at the time of straightening, a pipe is straightened while an amount of crush required in pipe straightening is controlled in such a manner that the occurrence of excessive residual stress is avoided.
  • Patent Literature 1 does not describe the suppression of roll wear, so that the method described in this Literature cannot be a solution for the above-described problems.
  • Patent Literature 2 discloses a method for straightening bends of a steel pipe, in which the bends are removed by moving the steel pipe forward while an enforced deflection is given to the steel pipe by sets of offset rolls, wherein the direction of offset for all sets of offset rolls can be reversed every time when a predetermined number of pipes are straightened.
  • the present invention has been made to solve such problems, and accordingly an objective thereof is to provide a method for straightening, in which when bends of a steel product such as a pipe or bar, especially when bends of a high-strength product such as a steel pipe for a motor vehicle air bag, are straightened by means of a straightening machine using rolls such as a straightener, roll wear is suppressed, the concavity and convexity of roll surface caused by the roll wear are prevented from being transferred to a product being straightened and a defective roll mark(s) is prevented from being formed, and time for changeover and/or setup of rolls can be reduced to improve the efficiency in a finishing process and, in turn, the productivity.
  • the method for straightening in accordance with the present invention is a straightening method using hard alloy straightening rolls each having a hardness of HRA85 to 87. According to this method, when bends of a steel product such as a pipe or bar are straightened by using rolls of a straightener or the like, roll wear is suppressed, a defective roll mark(s) attributable to the roll wear is prevented from being formed on the surface of a product being straightened, and time for changeover and/or setup of rolls is shortened to enhance the operation rate of the straightening machine, whereby the efficiency of a finishing process and, in turn, the productivity can be improved.
  • the present inventors made an attempt to suppress roll wear by optimizing the material grade of roll, and tried to use a WC-Co based sintered material as a material grade of roll.
  • the WC-Co based sintered material is a composite material in which Co is added as a binder to the fine powder of WC to form a sintered material, and is called hard alloy. Because of having high hardness and excellent wear resistance, the WC-Co based sintered material is frequently used as a starting material especially for a cutting tool.
  • the wear resistance and heat crack resistance of this hard alloy were examined. As a result, the present inventors have confirmed that the hard alloy has wear resistance that is about 100 times that of a tool steel (SKD1: 2.1C-12Cr specified in JIS G 4404, hereinafter, referred simply to as "SKD") having been used conventionally as a starting material for a roll. Also, it has been found that the hard alloy has heat crack resistance (evaluated by the number of repetitions before crack generation as a result of repetition of heating-water cooling) sufficiently applicable for a roll as a starting material.
  • SKD1 tool steel
  • JIS G 4404 JIS G 4404
  • the present invention has been made based on the above-described findings, and as described above, provides a method for straightening a steel product, the method comprising using hard alloy straightening rolls, wherein the hardness of each rolls is HRA85 to 87.
  • the hard alloy which is a composite material of ceramics and metals, is hard and excellent in wear resistance, and also has heat crack resistance, so that the hard alloy is suitable as a starting material for a roll. That is, hardness, wear resistance, and heat resistance (withstanding heat generation at the time of straightening using rolls) are necessary for the material of straightener roll, and the hard alloy is excellent in all of such properties.
  • the reason why the hardness of the straightening roll is controlled to be in the range of HRA85 to 87 in the present invention is that both of the wear resistance and heat resistance can be high owing to the controlled hardness. If the roll hardness is less than HRA85, the difference in hardness between the product to be straightened and the rolls becomes small, and the wear resistance becomes insufficient. Above the roll hardness of HRA87, although the wear resistance increases, the heat resistance decreases, and the tendency of degradation of the heat crack resistance appears.
  • the method for straightening in accordance with the present invention is especially effective in the case where a product to be straightened is a steel pipe for a motor vehicle air bag.
  • the steel pipe for a motor vehicle air bag is made of a high-strength steel having tensile strength of approximately 800 to 1100 MPa. In the case where the tensile strength is 1100 MPa, the corresponding hardness is about HRA68.5.
  • a steel pipe for the air bag having high strength and high hardness are straightened, if rolls each made of an ordinary tool steel (SKD, for example, SKD11: 1.5C-12Cr-1.0Mo, etc.) are used, roll wear is liable to occur, and defective roll mark(s) is formed on the surface of the product being straightened.
  • an ordinary tool steel for example, SKD11: 1.5C-12Cr-1.0Mo, etc.
  • the wear resistance and heat crack resistance thereof were examined.
  • the same examination was performed on the tool steel SKD (used after being subjected to sub-zero treatment), which is the conventional starting material for a roll.
  • Table 1 shows material grades and characteristics of test specimens.
  • the "grain size” is the grain size in hard alloy.
  • hard alloys A, B and C are materials in which amounts of addition of Co to WC are about 15%, 16% and 17% (all: mass-percent), respectively. With the increase in addition amount of Co, the hardness varies from HRA88.0 to HRA85.0.
  • Table 1 Material grade Hardness (HRA) Grain size ( ⁇ m) Composition Tool steel: SKD 82-85 - 2.1C-12Cr Hard alloy A 88.0 1-2 WC-15Co Hard alloy B 86.5 2-4 WC-17Co Hard alloy C 85.0 2-4 WC-18Co
  • FIG. 1 is an explanatory view for a method for evaluating the wear resistance of a starting material for a roll.
  • a ball 1 material grade: SUJ, diameter: 15 mm
  • an amount of wear wear (wear volume) of the test specimen 2 by the test was measured.
  • FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the examination result of wear resistance.
  • the specific wear amount of any of hard alloys A, B and C was remarkably small, being one-hundredth or less of the case of the tool steel SKD. It is convinced that any of hard alloys has wear resistance of about 100 times that of the conventional roll material. Also, in comparison among hard alloys A, B and C, for the hardest hard alloy A having a hardness of HRA88.0, the specific wear amount was small, so that the wear resistance was the most excellent.
  • the heat crack resistance of the hard alloy was evaluated as described below.
  • a test specimen was subjected to a repetition test process of "heating (700°C)" ⁇ "water cooling”, and evaluation was done by the number of repetitions before cracking is generated on the test specimen. The larger the number of repetitions is, the more excellent the heat crack resistance is.
  • Table 2 gives the evaluation result of heat crack resistance.
  • mark ⁇ indicates that the generation of cracking was not discerned, and mark ⁇ indicates that cracking was generated. The presence or absence of crack generation was judged by visual observation.
  • Table 2 Material grade Number of repetitions of heating-water cooling 1 5 10 20 Hard alloy A ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ Hard alloy B ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ Hard alloy C ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇
  • Table 3 gives the result of comprehensive evaluation of wear resistance, heat crack resistance, and hardness for hard alloys A, B and C. Since any of hard alloys exhibited a good wear resistance, all of them were to be rated as " ⁇ " (good). In particular, the case where the specific wear resistance was less than 100 ⁇ 10 -12 mm 2 /N (hard alloy A) was rated to be " ⁇ " (superior) (refer to FIG. 2 ).
  • hard alloy A (hardness: HRA88.0) was the hardest among the alloys subjected to examination and had excellent wear resistance, but had poorer heat crack resistance than those of hard alloys B and C, so that, in the comprehensive evaluation, hard alloy A was rated to be " ⁇ " (fair) (the heat crack resistance was relatively poor).
  • the hard alloys that are used as a starting material for the hard alloy roll to be used in the method for straightening in accordance with the present invention are very high in wear resistance, and the hardness of hard alloy is preferably controlled within the range of HRA85 to 87.
  • the method for straightening in accordance with the present invention was applied for the straightening of a steel pipe using a straightener to examine an amount of wear and the surface roughness of the roll and to check how much a required time for changeover and/or setup of rolls was shortened at the time that a steel pipe for a motor vehicle air bag was straightened. For comparison, the same examination was performed for the case where the conventional rolls (material grade: tool steel SKD11) were used.
  • Table 4 summarizedly gives the characteristics of the straightener roll material grades used in the examinations.
  • the material grade of the hard alloy roll used in the method for straightening in accordance with the present invention is hard alloy B used in Example 1.
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic view showing an outline configuration of a straightener used for the straightening of a steel pipe for an air bag and the positions at which the hard alloy rolls were arranged.
  • the straightener was of a 2-2-2-1 type.
  • hard alloy rolls were applied (in FIG. 3 , relevant rolls are indicated by hatched line), and for Position #1 rolls as being guide rolls and the final Position #4 roll, conventional SKD11-made rolls were used.
  • the dimensions of roll were 190 mm in roll mid-length (minimum) diameter and 180 mm in roll width.
  • a steel pipe to be straightened was a pipe having an outside diameter of 15.90 to 42.7 mm.
  • Table 5 summarizedly gives the rolls on which an amount of wear and the surface roughness were measured, the measurement locations, and the measurement methods.
  • FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the examination result of an amount of wear of a roll at a time when the method for straightening in accordance with the present invention is applied, comparing with the case where the conventional rolls are used.
  • the vertical axis of FIG. 4 represents wear rate (mm/km) obtained by dividing the amount of wear (amount of decrease in diameter caused by wear: mm) by the cumulative length (km) subjected to straightening.
  • the wear rate at the time that the roll was used up until the conventional roll life expires was 1.6 ⁇ 10 -3 mm/km.
  • the method for straightening in accordance with the present invention the method comprising using the hard alloy rolls, is applied, even after the cumulative straightening length had reached 4300 km (1.7 times the conventional roll life), the wear rate was 0 mm/km, and wear was not discerned at all.
  • FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the examination result of the surface roughness of a roll at the time that the method for straightening in accordance with the present invention is applied.
  • the surface roughness is represented by maximum height (Rz).
  • FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the required time for changeover and/or setup of rolls at a time when a steel pipe for an air bag (outside diameter: 25 mm) is straightened by applying the method for straightening in accordance with the present invention, comparing with the case where the conventional rolls are used.
  • FIG. 7 is a diagram showing operation rates of a straightener at a time when steel pipes for an air bag (outside diameter: 20 mm, 25 mm or 30 mm) are straightened by applying the method for straightening in accordance with the present invention, comparing with the case where the conventional rolls are used.
  • the method for straightening in accordance with the present invention can be used effectively for straightening a bend occurring on a steel product such as a pipe or bar, especially for straightening a bend of a high-strength product such as a steel pipe for a motor vehicle air bag.

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