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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2022
Nsk Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Tomoyuki Nakamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuuji Miyamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
NSK LTD, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for carburizing a steel member of the present invention includes: bringing a carburizing agent into contact with at least a part of a surface of a steel member; and heating the steel member and the carburizing agent to allow carbon to penetrate into at least a part of the surface, in which the carburizing agent contains a Fe-C alloy powder, a graphite powder in an amount of 20% by volume or more and 70% by volume or less relative to a total volume of the carburizing agent, and a binder that binds the Fe-C alloy powder and the graphite powder to each other, and in the heating, a heating temperature is held for a certain period of time within a temperature range of an austenite region of a eutectic point of the steel member or higher and lower than the peritectic point of the steel member.