Kobe Steel, Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho

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Tomiharu Matsushita

Yoshihiro Yamaguchi

Masao Nishihara

Tatsuo Yamasaki

Masataka Noguchi

Kunihiko Nishioka

Hideaki Ide

Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Kozo Nakamura

Kazuhiko Ishihara

Nobuyuki Nagai

Toru Moro

Tomohiro Konno

Yoshio Takatori

Tatsu Fujita

Atsuo Mizuta

Takefumi Horiuchi

Yasuo Moriguchi

Kazuo Arimura

Tsunesaburo Asada

Masataka Noguti

Kiyoshi Matsumoto

Yoshiyuki Monju

Akiyoshi Tanabe

Masahito Fukuda

Yuuzi Nakahara

Kunio Tsuji

Masataka Nogushi

Nobuo Hayashida

Akira Iwai

Shuji Kusumoto

Tetsuo Kimura

Akira Ohte

An artificial joint member made of a polymeric material including a portion made of a polymeric substance has a sliding surface composed of a polymer having phosphoryl choline groups. With such an arrangement, the artificial joint member is provided with a sliding part capable of keeping a satisfactory lubricating state for a long time.

Artificial joint member with grafted polymer surface

There is disclosed a method for hot lubricated metal extrusion in which a billet is extruded into a solid or tubular form by means of a die and/or a mandrel with an organic lubricant interposed within a container, the method comprising feeding a combustion improver or a mixture of a combustion improver and water into an extruded product thereby burning off the carbide of the lubricant deposited on the surfaces of the extruded product.

Extrusion method using hot lubricant

A method for producing cold rolled titanium strips having good surface quality. The cold rolling of a titanium strip is carried out under the conditions represented by the following formula:

Method for producing cold rolled titanium strips

A die for use in a hot hydrostatic extrusion process, in which a billet comprised of aluminum or an aluminum alloy or a billet having aluminum and an aluminum alloy at its outer periphery is preheated and charged into a container whereupon extrusion is carried out by means of a pressure medium, said die comprising a plurality of stepped conical portions serving as approach portions to the die outlet; said conical portions having conical surfaces whose opening angles increase from the inlet of the die toward the outlet thereof, said conical surface which is closest to said inlet having an opening angle of less than 60 degrees, and the difference between the opening angles between adjacent conical surfaces being less than 90 degrees.

Extrusion die for hot hydrostatic extrusion of aluminum and aluminum

A method and machine for use in hydrostatic extrusion wherein a portion of an elastic-plastic viscous pressure medium is introduced into the rear portion of a container, with the rear end thereof being sealed in a fluid tight fashion. The pressure medium being of such a nature that it has a high viscosity and cannot flow by itself. Subsequently, a billet is charged into the container and then a die is mounted in the container at the forward end thereof. The aforesaid pressure medium is caused to fill around the outer circumferential surface of the billet. In this respect, a high pressure seal is provided for the junctions between the die and the forward end of the container and between the die and the forward end of the billet before the pressure medium flows out of the container in a practically negligible small amount, immediately after which a pressure stem is pushed into the container from the rear end thereof, thus proceeding with the hydrostatic extrusion.

Machine for use in hydrostatic extrusion

A hydrostatic extrusion method and apparatus for the extrusion of tubes is disclosed wherein the simplified structure of the nose or tip portion of the billet and the cooperating surfaces of the die defining the die cavity and those of the mandrel facilitate an improved initial sealing among the associated surfaces of the die, billet and mandrel. Such an initial sealing is effected between such interfaces of the members and billet at a point which is located substantially rearwardly from the position at which the actual extrusion to the final tubular configuration occurs between the bearing portion of the die and the cooperating sizing portion of the mandrel. Such structure and method permits the extrusion of tubes having walls of asymmetric or non-circular configurations in cross section, even those of complex configurations. In order to further enhance the efficacies of the present invention, the mandrel is provided with a head portion which may be replaced, or exchanged as desired, and a position-aligning member is associated with the mandrel in order to maintain the proper orientation of the mandrel relative to the die. The mandrel may also have a specifically designed configuration in order to provide the inner surface of the tube extruded with a gloss finish.

Hydrostatic extrusion method and apparatus

Method and machine for use in hydrostatic extrusion

In the manufacture of compound billets composed of two or more different metals for use in hydrostatic extrusion, care must be exercised to see whether or not products possessing a predetermined compound status are produced from the compound billets by means of the hydrostatic extrusion process. The compound billets manufactured through the method of this invention do not, in the hydrostatic extrusion process, possess the usual defects caused by discrepancies between the mechanical properties of a plurality of different metallic materials constituting the billets, especially, and in particular, it is true that the compound billets are free from defects caused by surface slip taking place between the surfaces of the internal and external layer materials of the compound billet of the different metallic materials, and the method according to the present invention is characterized in that the formation of the nose part is undertaken by plastic forming of the same, such as roll forming and swazing, from the outside while maintaining an interior condition wherein air is expelled from the space formed between the contacting surfaces of the different metallic materials. As a result, the materials are mechanically bonded together and the surface areas of the materials of the billet at the deformed nose portion to be presented to the die are equal and it becomes possible to carry out a hydrostatic extrusion of the compound materials under a combination of different metallic materials covering an extremely wide selection.

Method of manufacturing compound billets for hydrostatic extrusion

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Nishinomiya, Japan

Tomiharu Matsushita