Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho

Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (kobe Steel, Ltd.)

Hiroyuki Shimizu

Norio Masaie

Kazuhiko Ito

Kuniaki Miyazaki

Tsuyoshi Kurokawa

Kaoru Masuda

Mika Nishida

Yasuyuki Yokota

Akira Matsuguchi

Fusaki Koshiishi

Tomoyuki Tachibana

Yoshikazu Sasa

Takaaki Ito

Atsushi Furuya

Takenori Nakayama

Shinji Sakashita

Yoshihiro Konishi

A method for efficient production of a welding solid wire free of copper plating. The method consists of drawing by means of roller dies with the help of a dry solid lubricant for drawing which is at least either of sodium stearate or potassium stearate, removing the lubricant from the wire surface by means of a washing device, and applying a lubricant for wire feeding to the surface of the drawn wire by means of an oiling device. High-speed drawing by means of roller dies makes a stock wire into a welding solid wire having the diameter of the finished wire or nearly finished wire. The drawing step is followed by the washing step and the lubricant applying step, which are all accomplished in-line.

Method of producing solid wire for welding

A welding wire of the type consists of a plated or uncovered solid wire and a flux-cored wire for carbon steel or stainless steel, wherein one or more of hydrocarbon compounds selected from the group consisting of saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds, which have from 5 to 12 carbon atoms and a linear or branched structure, and hydrocarbon compounds having a cyclic structure are deposited on a wire surface. A lubricating oil and/or lubricating particles are chemically combined with a wire surface through the one or more hydrocarbon compounds. The total amount of the hydrocarbon compounds, and a lubricating oil and/or lubricating particles deposited on the wire surface is in the range of 0.1 to 5 g per 10 kg of the wire.

Wire for welding

A plating-free solid wire for arc welding has pits opening on its circumference, and wider inside than at each opening, and/or pits having a portion non-irradiated with an externally incoming light. A sulfide and a polyisobutene-containing oil are present in the pits and/or on the wire surface, the latter being present in an amount of 0.1-2 g/10 kg of wire. Twenty or more pits are present in total per and along wire circumference. The effective pit length ratio is 0.5% inclusive-50% exclusive. 0.1-2 g of the oil is present per 10 kg of wire. 0.01-0.5 g/10 kg of 0.1-10-&mgr;m-particle-dia MoS is present in &ldquo;bottleneck-like and/or cave-like pits&rdquo;, on the wire surface or immediately under the wire surface. A 2-10 mass ppm/total wire mass of K compound in K is present in the pits and/or on the wire surface. These ensure good feedability and lubricating properties, and less spatters.

Plating-free solid wire for MAG welding

A welding wire capable of improving wettability between weld metal and wire surface, thereby providing excellent drawability and weldability in resistance welding of wires is provided. A wire is dipped in an aqueous solution of a sulfide of alkali metal or ammonium sulfide to generate iron sulfide (FeS.sub.2 or FeS) on the surface, whereby the wettability of weld metal to wire surface is improved in the resistance welding of the resulting wires. The S in the iron sulfide is preferably present in an amount of 0.1-20 atomic % as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. At least one sulfide of S with an element of Mn, Ti, Cu, Cr, Ni, Al or Zn can be used instead of or in addition to the iron sulfide.

Welding wire

Described is a solid wire for MAG welding which has no copper plating on the wire surface and which has good welding workabilities such as a reduced amount of generated spatters and good arc stability in the MAG welding of steel sheets. A solid wire for MAG welding comprises, as chemical components for the wire, 0.01 to 0.15 wt % of C, 0.20 to 1.00 wt % of Si, 0.70 to 1.70 wt % of Mn, 0.30 wt % or below of Ti, 0.025 wt % or below of S, 0.020 wt % or below of O, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein said wire is applied on the surface thereof with at least one compound serving as an arc stabilizer and selected from the group consisting of a K compound and a Cs compound in such a way that when an amount of the K compound to be applied to (calculated as K) is taken as Appm relative to the weight of said wire and an amount of the Cs compound (calculated as Cs) is taken as Bppm, a value of (A+3B) is in the range of 2 to 15 ppm. The wire has such a structure as not to be plated with copper on the surface thereof.

Solid wire for mag welding

A flux-cored wire for arc welding, wherein a specific surface area, which is defined by the equation of {(Sa/Sm)-1} where Sm is an apparent surface area and Sa is a real surface area in a region to be measured on a surface of the wire, is in the range of from 0.005 to 0.035; and molybdenum disulfide is stuck on the surface of the wire in an amount of from 0.004 to 0.24 g/m.sup.2, and no plating is applied on the surface of the wire. Moreover, a solid wire for arc welding wherein the specific surface area {(Sa/Sm)-1} is in the range of from 0.0005 to 0.05; and molybdenum disulfide is stuck on the surface of the wire in an amount of from 0.001 to 0.5 g/m.sup.2, and no plating is applied on the surface of the wire.

Flux-cored wire and solid wire for ARC welding

A flux-cored wire for arc welding, wherein a specific surface area, which is defined by the equation of {(Sa/Sm)-1} where Sm is an apparent surface area and Sa is a real surface area in a region to be measured on a surface of the wire, is in the range of from 0.005 to -0.035; and molybdenum disulfide is stuck on the surface of the wire in an amount of from 0.004 to 0.24 g/m.sup.2, and no plating is applied on the surface of the wire. Moreover, a solid wire for arc welding wherein the specific surface area {(Sa/Sm)-1} is in the range of from 0.0005 to 0.05; and molybdenum disulfide is stuck on the surface of the wire in an amount of from 0.001 to 0.5 g/m.sup.2, and no plating is applied on the surface of the wire.

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Hiroyuki Shimizu