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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2020
Gkn Sinter Metals, Llc, Auburn Hills, MI (US);
David E. Lenhart, Jr., Pomeroy, OH (US);
GKN Sinter Metals, LLC, Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of carburizing a powder metal part involving more than one carburizing step. In a pre-forging carburizing step, a powder metal part that is less than fully dense is carburized to establish a pre-forging carburization profile. After the pre-forging carburizing step, the powder metal part is forged so that the powder metal part is increased in density and the pre-forging carburization profile is transformed into an as-forged carburization profile. In a post-forging carburizing step following the forging step, the powder metal part is again carburized, thereby resulting in both further diffusion of carbon from the as-forged carburization profile into the powder metal part and further introduction of carbon into the powder metal part at a surface of the powder metal part.