Nitruvid

Areva Np Gmbh

Compagnie De Construction Mecanique Sulzer

Bernard Delmas

Jean-Paul Lebrun

Laurent Poirier

Dominique Hertz

Bernard Lis

Jose Mallen-Herrero

Patrice Charlat

A method for thermochemically treating a part while masking a portion and corresponding mask are provided. The method includes the steps of providing a mask comprising a body with a seat, at least a deformable sealing washer located in the seat, and a tightening bushing, the body having a cavity, placing a first portion of the part in the cavity, a second portion of the part being located in a passage in the sealing washer, and a third portion of the part being located outside the mask, moving the tightening bushing to its tightened position so that the sealing washer is deformed and applied against the second portion of the part, and applying a thermochemical treatment to the third portion of the part.

Method for thermochemically treating a part while masking a portion and corresponding mask

A surface treatment method in which a surface of a part () is contacted with at least one activated species. The activated species is obtained by activating a gaseous medium containing at least two of the following elements: carbon, nitrogen, boron and oxygen. Preferably, the activated species is a neutral excited CN species. The activated species brings at least one interstitial element to the metal part () surface which is borne and maintained at a temperature enabling the interstitial element to be diffused into a surface layer of the metal part ().

Method for treating the surface of a part and resulting part

An electrohydraulic rotary brake comprises an inner core, at least one energizing winding, a cylindrical amagnetic insert and an annular part outside the core and the insert. A cylindrical bore is excentric with respect to the cylindrical peripheral surface of the insert, recesses being provided with magnetizable sliding vanes and a brake fluid. On a rotary shaft, are mounted lateral flanges in fluid-tight manner, the inner core being fast to the rotary shaft and to the insert, all three being arranged so as to constitute a rotor for the brake. The annular part outside the core and the insert constitutes an annular stator to which the lateral flanges are fixed and with the bore excentric with respect to the peripheral surface of the insert constituting the outer part of the rotor. The recesses are formed in the cylindrical amagnetic insert and extend radially therein on both sides so that the vanes are movable between a position of complete freedom of the rotor with respect to the annular stator, in which they are positioned close to the rotor core, and a braking position in which they are positioned close to said annular stator, so that, under the effect of a variation in a pre-determined sense of the current passing through the energizing winding, the vanes can be attracted towards said stator and thus define peripheral chambers of different volumes which, by the forced passage of respective volumes of fluid from one chamber to the other, cause between the vanes and the stator a severe throttling and thus the braking torque of the rotor.

Electrohydraulic rotary brake

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Clichy, France

Bernard Delmas