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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 1981
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C21D / ; C21D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
148142 ; 148 123 ; 148154 ; 148156 ;
Abstract
Method for overaging hot dip metal coated steel material to improve formability, comprising rapidly heating the material to a temperature of above 300.degree. C. but below that at which the coating is undesirably denatured at heating rate of at least 50.degree. C./sec., followed by controlled slow cooling of cooling rate of not more than 20.degree. C./sec. Total processing time required can be one or two minutes, thus the method can be continuously carried out.