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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2003
Applicant:
Jürgen Gegner, Fürth, DE;
Inventor:
Jürgen Gegner, Fürth, DE;
Assignee:
AB SKF, Gothenburg, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C21D 9/36 (2006.01); C21D 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A process for producing a component of metal includes a) carrying out a heat treatment to harden the component, which ends with a heating process, especially with a tempering or microstructural transformation process, at a given temperature (T); b) carrying out at least machining of the component at room temperature (T) in order to provide its desired geometrical shape; and c) subsequent heating of the component to a temperature (T) which is greater than room temperature (T).