Mazda Motor Corporation

Yoshifumi Yamamoto

Junichi Yamamoto

Kouji Tarumoto

Katsuya Ohuchi

Tsutomu Shimizu

Shigemi Ohsaki

Norio Yohshina

A method for forming high abrasion resistive layers on parent materials in which power of an alloy iron including carbide generating elements is prepared using the atomizing method, sheets are formed from a mixture of the powder and a binder, the sheet is adhered to a parent material, and the sheet and the surface of the parent material are remelted by TIG arc to for a high alloy layer on the parent material.

Method for forming high abrasion resisting layers on parent materials

A slide contacting member which is subjected to slide contact with a counter member. The slide contacting member is made by applying a hard layer, e.g., chromium, onto a parent material, irradiating the hard layer with a high energy density laser beam onto the plating under conditions such that concavities having a softened layer are formed thereon, the concavities being used to keep oil during the contact with the other member. The hard layer is finished grinded after irradiation.

Slide contacting member and production method therefor

A rotor housing for a rotary piston engine having improved gas sealing property between the inner surface and apex seals mounted on a rotor. The rotor housing has an inner surface applied with a hard layer such as chrome plating. The portions of the hard layer surrounding openings of plug holes at the inner surface side are formed with softened areas having lower hardness than the apex seals. The softened areas can be made by a high-energy beam such as a laser beam. Should portions surrounding the openings of the plug holes be thermally deformed to project inward and scratch the apex seals, the projected portions formed of the softened areas will be worn before the apex seals. Hence, uneven wearing of the apex seals can be avoided, which prevents degradation of the gas sealing property and consequently prevents drop in the compression pressure in the working chambers.

Rotor housing for a rotary piston engine having softened areas

A method for manufacturing an apex seal for a rotary piston engine comprising steps of preparing an apex seal blank made of ceramic material, and applying a high energy heating radiation to the sliding surface of the apex seal blank to form a roughened and porous structure on the surface portion of the apex seal blank. The high energy heating radiation is desirably applied to the apex seal blank under a non-oxidizing atmosphere so that an oxidization of the components of the ceramic material can be prevented.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Yoshifumi Yamamoto