WO2022106240A1 - Härteverfahren für ein legiertes werkstück sowie vorrichtung zum härten eines legierten werkstücks - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a hardening method for an alloyed workpiece and a device for hardening an alloyed workpiece according to the preambles of the independent claims.
- the widely used controlled gas carburizing has the disadvantage that, for technical control reasons, it is necessary to work with oxygen-containing carburizing atmospheres, which inevitably leads to component surface layer damage in the form of surface oxidation. In order to suppress damage caused by oxidation and manganese effusion and also to keep system costs low, ...
- the object of the invention is to create a method and a device with which alloyed workpieces can be hardened.
- the invention relates to a hardening method of an alloyed workpiece containing at least a base element and an alloying element and which is heated in a chamber within a hardening furnace, the chamber being closed to the atmospheric pressure outside the hardening furnace for at least a period of time.
- a sacrificial device is heated in the chamber, releasing the alloying element into a gas from which the workpiece absorbs the alloying element such that a proportion of the alloying element in a surface layer of the workpiece remains the same or increases.
- the gas can of course also be a gas mixture.
- a temperature-dependent equilibrium partial pressure of the alloying element results in the gas above a surface of the workpiece which contains the alloying element in solid solution. Due to the high temperature in the hardening furnace, the partial pressure of the gaseous alloying element, which is dependent on this temperature, develops in the chamber, as a result of which less alloying element effuses from the workpiece and a quasi-steady state results and the proportion of the alloying element in the edge area of the workpiece does not decrease any further.
- a sacrificial device contains the alloying element in a sufficiently high quantity which ensures that a proportion of the alloying element in a surface layer of the workpiece does not decrease, the edge area of the workpiece becomes hard and therefore wear-resistant, whereas the areas of the workpiece that are far from the surface are particularly impact-resistant.
- the workpiece has a surface and that the alloying element is manganese, which is released from the sacrificial device in an amount that ensures that the proportion of manganese in the surface layer of the workpiece is at least three times as high of the proportion of manganese in a region within the workpiece remote from the surface.
- Manganese is a relatively common element and is used as an inexpensive alloying element to increase hardenability and through-hardenability in steels. In addition, it can be used as a nickel substitute in corrosion-resistant steels. Since there is no reduction in the manganese content in the workpiece near the surface, the hardenability is maintained or increased and the martensite start temperature is reduced.
- the workpiece is not subjected to tensile stresses in the edge area, which improves the cyclic load capacity of the workpiece, for example with regard to internal pressure or bending load capacity.
- Post-processing of the workpiece after hardening is not absolutely necessary.
- the pressure within the chamber is below atmospheric pressure during the period of time.
- Atmospheric pressure within the meaning of this application is to be understood as mean atmospheric pressure at sea level. In this respect, it is a low-pressure process which can be carried out, for example, at 2 to 30 mbar, in particular 10 mbar.
- the workpiece is low-pressure carburized in the hardening furnace by adding a carburizing gas and then high-pressure gas quenching in the hardening furnace after the addition of an inert gas.
- the workpiece is divided into at least two Carburizing periods of time which are interrupted by a diffusion period of time in which the carburizing gas inside the chamber is replaced by the inert gas.
- the maximum pressure of the inert gas during the interrupting diffusion period is higher than the maximum pressure of the carburizing gas during the two carburizing periods in which the workpiece is low-pressure carburized becomes.
- a diffusion time period to lie before and after the at least two carburizing time periods.
- the workpiece contains at least one base element and one alloying element and that the workpiece is heated in a chamber within a hardening furnace, with a device for specifying a temperature in the chamber being provided which is at least is lockable in a period of time relative to the atmospheric pressure outside the hardening furnace.
- a sacrificial device is arranged in the chamber, which has a higher proportion of the alloying element than the workpiece. In this respect, the sacrificial device with the alloying element is more highly alloyed than the workpiece.
- a temperature-dependent equilibrium pressure of the alloying element results in the gas phase over a surface of the sacrificial device which contains the alloying element in solid solution.
- the workpiece contains less alloying element in solid solution than the sacrificial device. Since the workpiece and the sacrificial device are surrounded by an almost common gas phase, the alloying element passes from the sacrificial device via the gas phase into the workpiece, at the surface layer of which the proportion of the alloying element increases.
- the workpiece can consist of a steel whose basic element is iron, whereas the alloying element is manganese.
- the sacrificial device has a proportion of manganese of more than 5% by weight, in particular more than 10% by weight.
- the sacrificial device can be a charging device and/or set goods and/or bulk material and/or an insert that is replaceably inserted into the charging device.
- FIG. 2 uses a diagram to show a process flow for low-pressure carburizing and high-pressure gas quenching of the workpiece from FIG. 1 ;
- FIG. 3 shows the proportion of manganese over the distance from the surface of the workpiece according to FIG. 1 using a further diagram for three different hardening processes.
- the device comprises a hardening furnace 2 with a chamber 4 which has an opening 6 through which a charging device 8 can be inserted into the chamber 4 .
- the chamber 4 can be closed by means of a cover 10 .
- the charging device 8 can be designed, for example, as a charging frame or as a charging basket. Workpieces 16 are placed on lattice-like floors 12, 14 of the charging device 8, which have surfaces 17 which are exposed to a surrounding gas with the exception of relatively small bearing surfaces on the lattice-like floors. For this purpose, the charging device 8 has an open structure.
- the workpieces 16 are embodied in the present example as gear wheels of a transmission for an electric drive. This can be the electric drive of an electric vehicle.
- the workpieces 16 are made of an alloy containing at least one base element and a plurality of alloying elements, one of which is manganese.
- the basic element is iron, which together with carbon forms a steel.
- the charging device 8 has an area 18 in which bulk material 20 is heaped up. Additionally and/or alternatively, the charging device 8 has a receptacle 22 into which at least one replaceable insert 24 is inserted. In addition, at least one of the bases 12, 14 is set with 25 setting goods. A further replaceable manganese insert 26 is also provided in the chamber 4 .
- the charging device 8, the bulk material 20, the insert 24, the setting goods 25 and the manganese insert 26 each form a sacrificial device.
- This sacrificial device consists of another alloy in which an alloying element is also manganese.
- the proportion of manganese in the alloy is so high that when the sacrificial device and the workpiece 16 are heated inside the chamber 4 at the same time, it is ensured that the proportion of the alloying element in the surface layer of the workpiece increases or at least does not decrease.
- the sacrificial device can have a proportion of manganese of more than 5% by weight, in particular more than 10% by weight.
- An example of an alloy that has such a high proportion of manganese is X120Mn12.
- the proportion by weight of manganese in the sacrificial device is higher than in the workpiece.
- the heater 27 is part of a device for specifying a temperature in the chamber 4. This device also includes a temperature controller, not shown in detail. Alternatively, however, it is also possible to control the temperature in the chamber 4 .
- the workpieces 16 to be treated absorb additional manganese in the edge area.
- the number of sacrificial devices that is necessary in order to be able to ensure a sufficiently high manganese partial pressure for a given heat treatment charge depends significantly on the proportion of manganese in the sacrificial devices.
- the necessary number of sacrificial facilities also depends on their surface shape and size.
- the necessary number of sacrificial devices depends on the manganese content of the workpieces 16 to be treated and on the treatment or hardening temperature.
- the number of sacrificial devices required depends on the materials of the chamber 4 and the charging device 8 .
- the number of sacrificial devices required depends on the location at which the workpieces 16 and the sacrificial device are located within the charging device 8 and in the chamber 4 .
- gas In order to be able to carry out the hardening process described below, gas must be supplied to chamber 4 and it must be possible to evacuate it (but not continuously and not above 800° C.).
- gas In addition has a wall of the hardening furnace on two openings 28, 30, which are designed as a gas inlet and a gas outlet.
- the first opening 28 can be connected via valves 32, 34 to gas or liquid gas connections and can be shut off by the same.
- the second opening can also be shut off by means of a valve 36 .
- the chamber 4 is fluidically connected to a vacuum pump, which ideally can create a vacuum in the chamber 4 or can at least suck out the gas or liquid gas from the chamber 4 that previously entered the chamber 4 via the first opening 28 was filled.
- the gas and/or the liquid gas can in particular be an inert gas and a hydrocarbon, which is also referred to as a carburizing gas.
- Possible inert gases are, for example, nitrogen, helium and argon.
- Possible hydrocarbons are, for example, acetylene and propane.
- Case hardening includes low-pressure carburizing and high-pressure gas quenching.
- Fig. 2 uses a diagram to show the hardening process of the alloyed workpieces from Fig. 1.
- the time t is plotted on the abscissa.
- the temperature T and the chamber pressure p in the chamber are plotted on the ordinate.
- a bar graph shows the chamber pressure p and the line graph shows the temperature T.
- the hardening process has individual time periods that follow one another in time, in which the chamber 4 is closed off from the air or the atmospheric pressure outside of the hardening furnace 2, these time periods a convection period B, two carburizing periods F1, F2, three diffusion periods D1, D2, D3, and a quenching period G.
- the gas is evacuated from the chamber by means of the vacuum pump in evacuation periods E1, E2, E3, E4 and E5.
- the evacuation periods E1, E2, E3, E4 and E5 are each shorter than each of the other periods B, F1, F2, D1, D2, D3 and G.
- the evacuation periods E1, E2, E3, E4 and E5 are therefore kept as short as possible, to minimize manganese effusion.
- the chamber is not evacuated between the convection period B and the first diffusion period D1.
- the chamber is first filled with an inert gas which can be, for example, nitrogen, helium or argon. Subsequently or at the same time, the chamber is heated with a temperature rise A1.
- an inert gas which can be, for example, nitrogen, helium or argon.
- the pressure of the inert gas in the chamber is reduced to a few millibars, for example 30 mbar, and is kept constant over the second period, i.e. the first diffusion period D1.
- the workpieces are then further heated to the carburizing temperature C2 with a temperature rise A2.
- the carburizing gas is introduced into the chamber and the workpieces are carburized in the next period, ie the first carburizing period F1, at a pressure of, for example, 10 mbar.
- the carbon content of the steel in the surface layer of the respective workpiece is increased.
- the carburizing gas is removed from the chamber in the second evacuation period E2.
- a treatment pressure of a few millibars, for example 30 mbar, is then set again with the inert gas and kept constant over the subsequent diffusion time segment D2.
- the third and the fourth evacuation time segment E3, E4 respectively lie before and after the subsequent time segment, which represents the second carburizing time segment F2.
- the maximum pressure of the inert gas during the interrupting second diffusion time segment D2 is higher than the maximum pressure of the carburizing gas, which is 10 mbar, during the two carburizing time segments F1, F2.
- a treatment pressure of a few millibars, for example 30 mbar, is set and maintained with the inert gas.
- the temperature of the workpieces is lowered via a temperature drop F to a hardening temperature C3.
- an overpressure is set in the chamber with the inert gas. This overpressure is considerably higher than the maximum pressures that were built up in the chamber during the preceding periods of time B, D1, F1, D2, D3.
- the workpieces are tempered over a constant temperature plateau I in order to achieve the desired degree of hardness/strength. Tempering reduces hardness and increases strength.
- the duration of the diffusion time segment D2 or D3 increases with respect to the respective preceding diffusion time segment D1 or D2. Ie, the second Diffusion period D2 is longer than the first diffusion period D1. The third diffusion period D3 is longer than the second diffusion period D2.
- FIG. 3 uses a further diagram for three different hardening processes to show the proportion of manganese in % by weight over the distance from the surface in ⁇ m up to a maximum material depth of 30 ⁇ m.
- the proportion of manganese is plotted logarithmically on the ordinate.
- the bottom solid line relates to a workpiece that was case-hardened in a hardening furnace, the chamber of which was almost completely evacuated in the diffusion phases. It can be clearly seen that the proportion of manganese decreases from a material depth of approx. 22 pm towards the surface. On the other hand, the proportion of manganese is almost constant from a material depth of 22 ⁇ m towards the interior of the workpiece.
- the dotted line refers to a workpiece that was also case-hardened in a hardening furnace.
- the chamber was evacuated as little as possible during the diffusion phases. It can be seen that the proportion of manganese from the surface to a material depth (ie a distance to the surface) of approx. 10 ⁇ m is higher than in the workpiece in which the chamber was evacuated to a greater extent in the diffusion phases. From a material depth of approx. 10 pm, however, there is hardly any difference with regard to the proportion of manganese Workpiece to be seen in which the chamber was evacuated to a greater extent in the diffusion phases.
- the workpiece has a higher proportion of manganese over the entire material depth of up to 30 ⁇ m plotted in the diagram than the workpieces represented by the other two lines, in which no sacrificial device was placed in the hardening furnace.
- another alloying element can of course also be used instead of the alloying element manganese, the proportion of which in the surface layer increases towards the surface.
- the hardening furnace 2 could also be designed in such a way that the workpiece 16 is placed directly into the chamber 4 without a charging device 8 .
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