Nhk Spring Co., Ltd.

Kobe Steel, Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo K.k.

Nhk International Corporation

Jfe Bars & Shapes Corporation

Jfe Steel Corporation

Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho

Kiyoshi Kurimoto

Akira Tange

Ken Takahashi

Yurika Goto

Shigeru Kuroda

Torao Hattori

Kunikazu Tomita

Shinichi Nishizawa

Takuya Kochi

Chiharu Umetsu

Kanji Inoue

Tetsuo Ishitsuka

Hironobu Sugiura

Hitoshi Hatano

Yutaka Wakabayashi

Mamoru Akeda

Motofumi Koyuba

Kazuaki Fukuoka

Atsushi Sugimoto

Iwao Shigeoka

Katsuhiko Kikuchi

Yutaka Tamai

Kazuaki Hattori

Norihiko Mori

Tadakazu Kato

Yasushi Takagi

Shinichi Inoguchi

Osamu Kudo

Rou Kitamura

Masamichi Iwamura

A method for manufacturing steel, by quenching and tempering a seamless pipe for use as a material of a hollow spring, where the seamless pipe including predetermined components is subjected to a heat treatment which is performed to satisfy quenching conditions (1) and tempering conditions (2),

Method for manufacturing steel for high-strength hollow spring

A method for producing a leaf spring having a leaf portion and an eye portion formed at the leaf portion including: forming a gap between a leading end of the eye and a facing surface facing the leading end, and shot peening an inner surface of the eye via a reflection member, wherein, at a cross section perpendicular to an axial direction of the eye portion, the leading end of the eye faces the facing surface so a straight line does not cross the leading end of the eye, the straight line connecting an intersection point and a center point of a reflection member surface, the intersection point being the intersection of a line perpendicular to the facing surface extending through an endpoint of the leaf side of the leading end of the eye to the surface.

Method for manufacturing leaf springs

Disclosed is steel for a leaf spring with high fatigue strength containing, in mass percentage, C: 0.40 to 0.54%, Si: 0.40 to 0.90%, Mn: 0.40 to 1.20%, Cr: 0.70 to 1.50%, Ti: 0.070 to 0.150%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0050%, N: 0.0100% or less, and a remainder composed of Fe and impurity elements. Also disclosed is a high fatigue-strength leaf spring part obtained by forming the steel. The steel for a leaf spring is prepared to have a Ti content and a N content to satisfy a relation of Ti/N&#x2267;10. Preferably, the leaf spring part is subjected to a shot peening treatment in a temperature range of the room temperature through 400&#xb0; C. with a bending stress of 650 to 1900 MPa being applied to it.

Steel for leaf spring with high fatigue strength, and leaf spring parts

A stabilizer bar is intended for use in a vehicle, and a torsion part of the stabilizer bar is fixed to the vehicle body by a fixing member. A resin sheathing is provided integrally on an outer peripheral surface of the stabilizer bar. The fixing member is composed of the sheathing, a rubber bush disposed on the outer periphery of the sheathing, and a mounting fixture for mounting the rubber bush on the vehicle body side so as to cover the outer periphery of the rubber bush. The sheathing and the rubber bush are immovably assembled to each other. Thus, there may be provided a vehicle stabilizer, highly durable, easily mountable and replaceable, low-cost, and highly operable.

Vehicle stabilizer

According to one embodiment, a high-strength stabilizer steel for vehicles having excellent corrosion resistance and low-temperature toughness, containing 0.07 to 0.20% C, more than 0.6% and 1.5% or less Si, 1 to 3% Mn, 0.1 to 1.0% Cr, 0.005 to 0.080% sAl, 0.005 to 0.060% Ti, 0.005 to 0.060% Nb, 0.070% or less Ti+Nb, 150 ppm or less N, 0.035% or less P, 0.035% or less S, 0.01 to 1.00% Cu, 0.01 to 1.00% Ni, the remainder being Fe, and unavoidable impurities, wherein a structure before molding a stabilizer is any one of a bainite, a martensite, and a mixed structure of bainite/martensite and an original austenitic crystal grain size number after a heat treatment of the stabilizer is Gh 9 or more.

High-strength stabilizer steel for vehicles having excellent corrosion resistance and low-temperature toughness, method of producing the same, and stabilizer

Disclosed is an improved laminated metallic belt consisting of at least two layers of an endless metallic band for use in a torque transmission device, which can transmit torque between two pulleys having variable effective radii, in combination with a plurality of metallic blocks which have surfaces contacting the innermost layer of the laminated metallic belt and are arranged along the laminated metallic belt. The metallic belt according to the present invention may be made of precipitation hardening martensitic stainless steel or maraging steel which have favorable properties as to toughness, mechanical strength and the adaptability for welding required for making an endless laminated metallic belt, but lack the surface hardness to ensure relatively favorable durability. The durability of the steel is improved according to the present invention by a nitride layer and/or an electroless nickel plating layer formed on the side edges of the endless metallic band. Optionally, the innermost and/or the outermost surface of the laminated metallic belt may be hardened in a similar manner.

Laminated metallic belt for torque transmission device and method of

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Kiyoshi Kurimoto