Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Proterial, Ltd.

Umetoku Co., Ltd

Daido Chemical Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Metals, Ltd.

Toru Otomo

Kenichi Inoue

Satoshi Murakami

Shuho Koseki

Tatsuya Shouji

Katsuhiro Obata

Yoshikazu Suzuki

Naoki Hayashi

Toshifumi Miyamoto

Nobuhiro Ikeda

Kousuke Uda

Takashi Ogisu

A method for manufacturing a forged article, capable of improving the durability of a die for forging is provided. The method, includes forging a steel material, by using a die, by spraying or applying a water-soluble polymer lubricant containing 0.01 to 0.98 mass % of a water-soluble sulfate onto a working surface of the die, the die being made of a raw material having a constituent composition of by mass %, of 0.4 to 0.7% of C, 1.0% or less of Si, 1.0% or less of Mn, 4.0 to 6.0% of Cr, 2.0 to 4.0% of (Mo+½W), 0.5 to 2.5% of (V+Nb), 0 to 1.0% of Ni, 0 to 5.0% of Co, 0.02% or less of N, and a remnant composed of Fe and impurities, and having hardness of 55 to 60 HRC, and the die including a nitrided layer or a nitrosulfidized layer on the working surface thereof.

Method for manufacturing forged article

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Aichi, Japan

Toru Otomo