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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 1995
Filed:
Oct. 21, 1993
Yukio Yamaoka, Sakai, JP;
Keiji Hattori, Kobe, JP;
Masaru Kodama, Amagasaki, JP;
Hirofumi Ueki, Kobe, JP;
Shinko Kosen Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Amagasaki, JP;
Abstract
Facilitating the distinction among different spring steel products and at the same time improving their surface appearance and corrosion resistance by plating the surface of said different spring steel products before spring-forming with either alternate layers of Cu and Zn or alternate layers of Ni, Cu and Zn, the amount of Cu and Zn differing for steel products differing in size and/or material, to obtain color-developable spring steel products, drawing and taken coil spring-forming the resulting plated spring steel products, and low temperature annealing said resulting plated spring steel products to develop their colors, the colors being different for spring steel products differing in size and/or material, whereby mixing and erroneous assembly of spring steel products differing in size and/or material is prevented.