Nippon Yakin Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Noboru Tachino

Takeshi Kamiya

Yuji Ikegami

Yoshikazu Koshiba

Shinichi Sasayama

A ferritic stainless steel, of which the surface is coated with a blade-like aluminum oxide, is disclosed. The ferritic stainless steel can be manufactured by heating a ferritic stainless steel containing aluminum at the surface in a stream of purified air. The aluminum-containing stainless steel possesses improved adhesiveness to catalyst carrier which can be utilized in a honeycomb metal structure for a catalytic converter for automobile exhaust gases or in a catalytic device for purifying combustion gases.

Ferritic stainless steel coated with a blade oxide and its manufacturing

This invention concerns a production process of ferrite stainless steel covered with oxide whisker suitable for metal catalyst supports in automobile's exhaust gas converters, which comprises controlling the continued growth of alumina whiskers on ferrite stainless steel by heating ferrite stainless steel having alumina whiskers on the surface to 1000.degree.-1200.degree. C. for about 1 minute to 1 hour in a non-oxidizing atmosphere.

Production process of ferrite stainless steel covered with oxide whisker

This invention concerns a production process of ferrite stainless steel covered with oxide whisker suitable for metal catalyst supports in automobile's exhaust gas converters, which comprises plating a ferrite stainless steel with aluminum, diffusing the aluminum into the stainless steel by heating in vacuum or in a non-oxidizing gas so that the surface of the ferrite stainless steel turns into an aluminum-enriched ferrite phase, and allowing oxide whisker to grow there by heating in the air.

Disclosed is a catalyst support for catalytic reactors for cleaning exhaust gas, characterized in that flat steel band plates and corrugated steel band plates, each of which is heat-resistance and covered with catalyst, are superposed in such a way that one comes on top of the other alternately, and brazed together on their center line running along the longitudinal direction thereof.

Catalyst support for catalytic reactors

This invention concerns a mechanical plating process comprising: shaving metal off from a pure metal or alloy block and plating an object to be plated with the shaved off metal by the use of at least a single metal brush, wherein the metal block and the metal brush are in frictional contact with each other, and the object to be plated and the metal brush are concurrently in frictional contact with each other.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Noboru Tachino