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Patent No.:

US 12649964 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2026

Filed:

Sep. 21, 2021

Welded rail

Applicant:

Nippon Steel Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Masaharu Ueda, Tokyo, JP;

Kenji Saita, Tokyo, JP;

Teruhisa Miyazaki, Tokyo, JP;

Takuya Tanahashi, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Rabin & Berdo, P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Robert J Mccarry, Jr

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22C 38/32 (2006.01); C22C 38/00 (2006.01); C22C 38/02 (2006.01); C22C 38/04 (2006.01); C22C 38/06 (2006.01); C22C 38/20 (2006.01); C22C 38/22 (2006.01); C22C 38/24 (2006.01); C22C 38/26 (2006.01); C22C 38/28 (2006.01); C22C 38/30 (2006.01); E01B 5/02 (2006.01); E01B 11/50 (2006.01); B23K 11/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C22C 38/32 (2013.01); C22C 38/001 (2013.01); C22C 38/002 (2013.01); C22C 38/005 (2013.01); C22C 38/02 (2013.01); C22C 38/04 (2013.01); C22C 38/06 (2013.01); C22C 38/20 (2013.01); C22C 38/22 (2013.01); C22C 38/24 (2013.01); C22C 38/26 (2013.01); C22C 38/28 (2013.01); C22C 38/30 (2013.01); E01B 5/02 (2013.01); E01B 11/50 (2013.01); B23K 11/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A welded rail according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a plurality of rail portions having a head portion and a web portion and having a height h; and a welded joint portion that joins the rail portions together, in which the rail portion has a predetermined chemical composition, a HAZ width of the welded joint portion is 60 mm or less, in a region of 0 to (⅔)×h from a head top portion outer surface in a cross section of the welded joint portion which is parallel to a longitudinal direction and an up-down direction of the welded rail and passes through a center of the welded joint portion and of ±5 mm in the longitudinal direction from a welding center, an area ratio of a martensite structure is 0.0006% or more and 0.1000% or less, and in the region, the number of martensite structures having a grain size of 20 to 200 μm is 3 to 80.

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