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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2010
Filed:
May. 14, 2003
Applicants:
Masamichi Shibata, Mie, JP;
Nobuo Komeyama, Nara, JP;
Hisashi Harada, Kashiwara, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
JTEKT Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B21D 53/10 (2006.01); B21K 1/04 (2006.01); B21C 37/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
At least a race () of a blank (B) for forming a bearing raceway member is hardened by heating and is finished to predetermined precisions. Subsequently, the race () is roller burnished for additional hardening. The blank (B) is formed from a steel for bearing manufacture and is subjected to the roller burnishing, thereby achieving a hardness of HRC65 or more at a surface of the race (), and a center-line average roughness Ra of 0.1 μm or less at the surface of the race () and achieving a hardness of HRC60 or more at the depth of at least 0.2 mm from the surface of ().