Hitachi, Ltd.

The Japane Steel Works, Ltd.

Yasuhiro Harada

Yasuo Watanabe

Yutaka Fukui

Toshio Fujita

Kishio Hidaka

Yasuhiko Tanaka

Shigeyoshi Nakamura

Ryoichi Kaneko

Masao Shiga

Nobuo Shimizu

Norio Yamada

Norio Morisada

A heat resisting steel whose metal structure is entirely martensite phase produced by tempering after quenching. The steel comprises, by weight, 0.05 to 0.20% C, not more than 0.15% Si, not more than 1.5% Mn, not more than 1.0% Ni, 8.5 to 13.0% Cr, not more than 3.50% Mo, not more than 3.5% W, 0.05 to 0.30% V, 0.01 to 0.20% Nb, not more than 5.0% Co, 0.001 to 0.020% boron, 0.005 to 0.040% nitrogen, 0.0005 to 0.0050% oxygen and 0.00001 to 0.0002% hydrogen. The steel has preferably not more than 10 of the Cr equivalent. The steel has 10 kgf/mm.sup.2 or more of 100,000 hours creep rupture strength at 650.degree. C.

Heat resisting steel and steam turbine rotor shaft and method of making

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Hitachinaka, Japan

Yasuhiro Harada