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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2020
Applicant:
Jfe Steel Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
JFE STEEL CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C21D 8/06 (2006.01); C21D 11/00 (2006.01); C22C 38/02 (2006.01); C22C 38/04 (2006.01); C22C 38/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C21D 8/065 (2013.01); C21D 11/005 (2013.01); C22C 38/02 (2013.01); C22C 38/04 (2013.01); C22C 38/18 (2013.01); C21D 2211/001 (2013.01); C21D 2211/002 (2013.01); C21D 2211/009 (2013.01);
Abstract
A rail comprises a predetermined chemical composition. In a hardness distribution in a region from a rail head surface to a depth of 16.0 mm, a part having higher hardness than V1 that is minimum hardness in a first internal region is present in a second internal region, and hardness of the rail head surface is HBW 400 to 520 and average hardness in the region from the rail head surface to the depth of 16.0 mm is HBW 350 or more.