US20130042992A1 - Method for surface treatment of a die-casting die - Google Patents

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US20130042992A1 US13/634,679 US201113634679A US2013042992A1 US 20130042992 A1 US20130042992 A1 US 20130042992A1 US 201113634679 A US201113634679 A US 201113634679A US 2013042992 A1 US2013042992 A1 US 2013042992A1
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  • This invention relates to a method for the surface treatment of a die-casting die is provided by applying the compression residual stress in an aesthetic surface of the die-casting die using a shot-peening process.
  • the surface nitriding process in the die is often carried out by a gas nitriding process.
  • the primary reasons for this are in the aspects of ease and the cost of the process.
  • the gas nitriding process decomposes ammonia gas under a high temperature and diffuses the generated nitrogen from the aesthetic surface of the die to inside the die such that a diffusion-hardening layer is provided.
  • the shot-peening process at the die is mostly carried out by accelerating small spheres consisting of a ceramic or a hard metal less than 1 mm in diameter using a projection device to project them at the aesthetic surface of the die.
  • the compression residual stress is achieved based on the hardening process by means of the collisions of the small spheres.
  • Patent Literature 1 discloses that the aesthetic surface of the die is first processed by the surface nitriding process to form a nitrogen diffusion-hardening layer and is then processed by the shot-peening process to yield a high compression residual stress on the surface of the diffusion-hardening layer.
  • the surface nitriding process and the shot-peening process are carried out in combination such that the product lifetime of the die may be significantly extended.
  • a compound layer lacking a plastic deformability is formed on the surface of the nitrogen diffusion-hardening layer. Because such a compound layer causes the heat checks to develop into a crack or cracks and abrasion due to a spalling, a nitriding process is proposed to prevent the formation of the compound layer, or to form it as thinly as possible.
  • Patent Literature 2 disclose a two-step process in which an ammonia gas nitriding process is first carried out in a range of relatively low temperatures of 450-530° C. The supply of the ammonia is then reduced or disrupted, while the nitrogen is internally diffused at a range of processing temperatures of 550-590° C. Generally, with the ammonia gas nitriding process under the range of relatively low temperatures, the compound layer is thinly formed. However, the depth of the nitrogen diffusion layer also becomes shallow. Therefore, the nitrogen of the nitrogen diffusion layer is deeply diffused in the die to provide the thick nitrogen diffusion layer, while the thin compound layer is maintained.
  • Patent Literature 3 disclose a two-step process in which an ammonia gas nitriding process is first carried out under reduced pressure at a temperature less than 570° C. The supply of the ammonia is then reduced or disrupted, while the nitrogen is internally diffused at a range of processing temperatures of 570-650° C. Patent Literature 3 describes that the nitride compound layer can be thin and in a non-porous state, while the depth of the nitride compound layer can be deeper than that of the nitrogen diffusion layer by the thermal process.
  • Patent Literature 2 and 3 in the ammonia gas nitriding process to form the thin nitride compound layer, because actual quantities of the nitrogen supplied to the die are little, the nitride compound layer cannot have a sufficient hardness when one makes an attempt in which the nitrogen of the nitrogen diffusion layer is further deeply diffused in the die by the thermal process.
  • the present invention was accomplished in view of such circumstances.
  • the object of it is to provide a method for surface treatment that substantially provides no nitride compound layer that causes the heat checks or the abrasion to the die, while it can internally introduce large quantities of the nitride into a die. This results in producing a die-casting die with an excellent heat check resistance and an excellent abrasion resistance.
  • the inventors of* the present invention found that the uppermost layer, composed of the nitride compound that is formed by various nitriding processes, such as a gas nitro carburizing process, a gas sulpho-nitriding process, and a plasma nitriding process, can be readily decomposed by a thermal process.
  • the method for the surface treatment of a die-casting die that is provided by applying the compression residual stress in an aesthetic surface of the die-casting die using a shot peening process comprises the step of nitriding processing for forming on an aesthetic surface of the die-casting die a nitrided layer that includes at least a compound layer composed of a nitrogen compound with a nitriding process, for instance, gas nitro-carburizing, gas sulpho-nitriding, and plasma nitriding, by introducing gas containing at least ammonia gas to a heating furnace, the step of decomposing the compound for exhausting the ammonia gas from the heating furnace and for introducing ambient gas to the heating furnace, to carry out a thermal process to decompose the nitrogen compound, and the step for shot-peening the aesthetic surface of the die.
  • the thickness of the compound layer contained in the nitrogen layer that is formed in the step of the nitriding process is within the range of from 2 ⁇ m to 7
  • the thickness of the nitrogen compound layer which is formed with the nitriding process by introducing the gas containing at least ammonia gas to the heating furnace, is controlled to the predetermined thickness such that the nitrogen compound is decomposed in the step of decomposing the compound.
  • the nitrogen is instead generated to increase quantities of the nitrogen to be supplied to the die such that a nitrogen diffusing layer having high hardness can be provided.
  • the substantially denied nitrogen compound layer should remain as the layer contains a significant number of voids to absorb and disperse the collision energies of the shots in the shot-peening process.
  • the thickness of the nitrogen compound layer is also controlled to be at the predetermined thickness in the nitriding step such that the compression residual stress by the shot-peening process can be imparted on the nitrogen diffusion layer.
  • the step of decomposing the compound preferably carries out the thermal process at a temperature that is lower than that of the step of the nitriding process.
  • higher hardness and higher compression residual stress can be imparted on the die-casting die such that the the having more excellent abrasion resistance and more excellent heat check resistance can be produced.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of one specimen to be used with the embodiment of the method for surface treatment of the die-casting die of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 indicates the steel classes and the conditions of the surface treatment of the specimens disclosed in FIG. 1 .
  • FIG. 3 illustrates one example of the heating and cooling examination equipment to be used with the embodiment of the method for surface treatment of the die-casting die of the present invention.
  • FIGS. 4( a ) and 4 ( b ) are enlarged sectional views illustrating the changes of the specimen near the surface after the nitricling step ( FIG. 4( a )) and after the compound decomposition step ( FIG. 4( b )) in the method for surface treatment of the die-casting die of the present invention.
  • FIGS. 5( a ) and 5 ( b ) are enlarged sectional views illustrating the changes in the nitrogen density of the specimen near the surface of FIGS. 4( a ) and 4 ( b ).
  • FIG. 6 is a graph indicating the relationship between the thickness of the compound layer and the number of heat checks (HC) on the specimen on which the method for surface treatment of the die-casting die of the present invention has been applied.
  • FIG. 7 is a graph indicating the relationship between the thickness of the compound layer and the residual stress on the specimen on which the step of shot peening of the method for surface treatment of the die-casting die of the present invention has been applied.
  • FIG. 8 is a photograph of the cross section of the specimen (the eleventh embodiment) after the nitriding step.
  • Each specimen 1 is machined from a round bar stock of Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS), the steel material of an alloy toll SKD 61 equivalency.
  • JIS Japanese Industrial Standards
  • the specimens 1 in the ninth embodiment and the tenth embodiment are machined from round bar stocks of JIS SKD 7 equivalency and a steel material of an alloy toll SKH51 equivalency.
  • JIS Japanese Industrial Standards
  • the steel classes of the embodiments and comparison examples are described and compiled in FIG. 2 .
  • each specimen 1 is then heated in a heating furnace while ammonia gas is introduced in the heating furnace such that the peripheral surface of the specimen is processed by a gas nitro-carburizing process (the nitriding step).
  • the specimen of the sixth embodiment is processed by a gas sulpho-nitriding process.
  • the specimens of both the seventh embodiment and the fifth comparison example are processed by a plasma-nitriding process. The types of nitriding processes, the types of gasses, the temperatures, and the times of the embodiments and the comparison examples are described and compiled in FIG. 2 .
  • the ammonia gas is then exhausted from the heating furnace, followed by which nitrogen is introduced as an atmospheric gas to the heating furnace, while the specimen is still thermal processed therein such that it is diffusion-processed.
  • a nitrogen compound within a compound layer 2 (see FIG. 4 ) that is produced by the nitriding process, as described below, is completely dissolved (the step for decomposing the compound).
  • the temperatures and the times of the diffusion process are also described and compiled in FIG. 2 .
  • Spheres for instance, each composed of an amorphous alloy of 0.05 mm-0.2 mm in diameter, are projected and shot-peened on the peripheral surface of the specimen 1 with projection pressure of 0.3 MPa (the step for shot-peening).
  • each specimen 1 is tested by heating and cooling with examination equipment 20 repeatedly such that the heat check resistance is evaluated. More particularly, a small diameter portion 22 a of a supporting member 22 of the examination equipment 20 is inserted through hole 1 a in the specimen 1 such that the specimen 1 is pinched by means of a holder 23 from the top and bottom to fix it.
  • the peripheral surface of the specimen 1 is heated from room temperature to 700° C. with a high frequency coil 21 in four seconds.
  • Coolant water 24 is then jetted from a jet orifice (not shown) to cool the specimen 1 to room temperature in :three seconds.
  • the heated and cooled specimen 1 is then dried with an air blow for one second.
  • This cycle of heating, cooling, and drying is repeated 1,000 times in total and the specimen 1 is removed from the examination equipment 20 .
  • the specimen 1 that is removed from the examination equipment 20 is cut near the longitudinal center in the plane that is perpendicular to the center axis thereof.
  • the cut specimen 1 is then mounted on a resin to mirror polish the cut surface of it.
  • the cut surface of that specimen is observed using an optical microscope of 100 ⁇ magnification, to count the number of heat checks (HC) that appear on the peripheral surface of the specimen 1 .
  • any pieces of the specimens 1 are removed from the heating furnace after the nitriding process described above to measure the thickness of the compound layer 2 (see FIG. 4 ) as below described.
  • the specimen 1 that is removed from the heating furnace is cut near the longitudinal center in the plane that is perpendicular to the center axis thereof.
  • the cut surface of the cut specimen 1 is then mirror polished.
  • the polished cut surface is then observed using an optical microscope to measure the thickness of the compound layer 2 .
  • the activated nitrogen in a gas phase diffuses from the peripheral surface of the specimen 1 to the inside (a substrate) 4 to form a nitride layer 5 near the peripheral surface.
  • the nitride layer 5 consists of a nitrogen compound layer 2 that is the uppermost layer and a nitrogen diffusion layer 3 on the inside the former.
  • the compound layer 2 consists of a complex nitride of Fe or Cr, and is an extremely fragile layer. It is noted that the growing rate of the compound layer in the plasma-nitriding process is significantly lower than that of the gas-nitriding process.
  • the nitrogen diffusion layer 3 is a solid solution layer of the nitrogen including a nitride that is dispersed and precipitated.
  • the depth of the nitride layer 5 is increased, as illustrated in FIGS. 4( b ) and 5 ( b ). More particularly, a flux in the nitrogen supplied to the specimen 1 through the peripheral surface from the gas phase is degraded such that the nitrogen of the nitrogen diffusion layer 3 primarily diffuses to the inside of the specimen 1 . In this time, if the nitrogen compound in the compound layer 2 dissolves to yielded nitrogen, the yielded nitrogen also diffuses to the inside of specimen 1 . Because the density of the nitrogen contained in the compound (see 3 a in FIG. 5( a )) is significantly higher than that contained in a solid solution (see 3 b in FIG.
  • a shrinkage in its volume results in a surface layer 2 ′ that contains a large void volume.
  • Such a surface layer 2 ′ absorbs and dissipates the collision energies of the shots in the shot-peening process such that the formation of the compression residual stress is inhibited. Details of it are described below.
  • FIG. 6 denotes the relationship between the thickness of the compound layer 2 and the number of the heat checks (HC) on the specimen after the repeated heating and cooling tests.
  • the number of heat checks can be decreased as the thickness of the compound layer 2 is increased such that the heat check resistance may be enhanced. Indeed, forming a thin compound layer 2 of 1.5 ⁇ m in the first comparison example provides 597 heat checks and of 1.0 ⁇ m in the fifth comparison example provides 441 heat checks. In contrast, forming a thick compound layer 2 of 2 ⁇ m to 7 ⁇ m in the first through fourteenth embodiments provides significantly reduced numbers, 13 through 257, of heat checks.
  • the quantities of the nitrogen compound to be decomposed by the diffusion process can be increased as the thickness of the compound layer 2 is increased, as described above, the quantity of nitrogen in the nitrogen diffusion layer 3 can be increased, the hardness after the diffusion process can be enhanced to improve the wear resistance, and the heat check resistance can be improved.
  • the number of heat checks rapidly increase as the thickness of the compound layer 2 is increased above a given thickness such that the heat check resistance may be significantly degraded.
  • forming thick compound layers 2 of 8.0 ⁇ m, 9.0 ⁇ m, and 10.0 ⁇ m in the first, second, and fourth comparison examples provide 706, 707, and 840 heat checks, respectively. They rapidly increased in comparison with those of the first through fourteenth embodiments.
  • FIG. 7 graphs the relationship between the thickness of the compound layer 2 and the residual stress to be given to the specimen 1 by the shot-peening.
  • the compression stresses is expressed in negative values.
  • the absolute value of the compression residual stress may be increased as the thickness of compound layer 2 is increased. Indeed, forming thin compound layers 2 of 1.5 ⁇ m and 1.0 ⁇ m in the first and fifth comparison examples provides ⁇ 965 MPa and ⁇ 993 MPa of the compression residual stress. In contrast, forming a thick compound layer 2 of 2 ⁇ m to 7 ⁇ m in the first through fourteenth embodiments provides significant increased compression residual stress, ⁇ 1350 MPa through ⁇ 1755 MPa. They are significantly increased in comparison with those of the first and fifth comparison examples.
  • the absolute value of the compression residual stress may be rapidly degraded as the thickness of compound layer 2 is increased above a given thickness. Indeed, forming thick compound layers 2 of 8.0 ⁇ m, 9.0 ⁇ m, and 10.0 ⁇ m in the second, third, and fourth comparison examples provide compression residual stress of ⁇ 1298 MPa, ⁇ 1251 MPa, and ⁇ 938 MPa, respectively.
  • FIG. 8( a ) is an optical microscope photograph of the cutting surface of the specimen 1 after the nitriding process in the eleventh embodiment.
  • FIG. 8( b ) is an optical microscope photograph of the cutting surface of the specimen 1 after the diffusion process following the nitriding process in the eleventh embodiment.
  • the compound layer 2 and the nitrogen diffusion layer 3 can be observed.
  • the increased thickness of the nitrogen diffusion layer 3 and the surface layer 2 ′ that contains the voids blackly, especially near the nitrogen diffusion layer 3 , by decomposing the compound can be observed.
  • the thickness of compound layer 2 (the surface layer 2 ′ remaining after the compound is decomposed) to achieve this purpose is 2-7 ⁇ m.
  • the relationships between the thickness of the compound layer 2 and the number of heat checks or the compression residual stress in FIGS. 6 and 7 line up to the same plotted lines, regardless of differences between types of nitriding processes, for instance, gas nitro-carburizing, gas sulpho-nitriding, and plasma nitriding such as in the sixth and seventh embodiments. Also, they are regardless of differences between the steel materials of SKD61 equivalency material, SKD7 equivalency material, and SKH51 equivalency material in the ninth and tenth embodiments. Namely, these results suggest that the method of the present invention can be applied regardless of the differences between types of nitriding processes and the differences between the common materials for the die.
  • the embodiments of the method for surface treatment of a die-casting die of the present invention comprises the step of a nitriding process for forming on the aesthetic surface of the die-casting the a nitrided layer that includes at least the compound layer composed of a nitrogen compound with the nitriding process, for instance, gas nitro-carburizing, gas sulpho-nitriding, and plasma nitriding, by introducing gas containing at least ammonia gas to the heating furnace, the step of decomposing the compound for exhausting the ammonia gas from the heating furnace and for introducing ambient gas to the heating furnace, to carry out the thermal process to decompose the nitrogen compound, and the step of the shot-peening for the shot-peening process on the aesthetic surface of the die.
  • the thickness of the compound layer contained in the nitrogen layer that is formed in the step of the nitriding process is within the range of from 2 ⁇ m to 7 ⁇ m.
  • the thickness of the nitrogen compound layer which is formed with the nitriding process by introducing gas containing at least ammonia gas to the heating furnace, is kept at the predetermined thickness such that the nitrogen compound is decomposed in the step of decomposing the compound.
  • no nitrogen compound layer is substantially provided and thus nitrogen is instead generated to increase the quantity of nitrogen to be supplied to the die such that a nitrogen diffusing layer having high hardness can be provided.
  • the substantially denied nitrogen compound layer remains as a layer containing a significant volume of voids to absorb and disperse the collision energies of the shots in the shot-peening process.
  • the thickness of the nitrogen compound layer is also kept at the predetermined thickness in the nitriding step such that the compression residual stress of the shot-peening process can be imparted on the nitrogen diffusion layer. Therefore, the die-casting die having excellent abrasion resistance and excellent heat check resistance, based on high hardness and high compression residual stress, can be produced.

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