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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. 23, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2010
Applicants:
Stephen N. Hammond, Brownsburg, IN (US);
Udayan Trivedi, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Thomas L. Doubts, Heber City, UT (US);
Douglas C. Steckbauer, Park City, UT (US);
Inventors:
Stephen N. Hammond, Brownsburg, IN (US);
Udayan Trivedi, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Thomas L. Doubts, Heber City, UT (US);
Douglas C. Steckbauer, Park City, UT (US);
Assignee:
Rolls-Royce Corporation, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 8/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A carburizing process for increasing the hardness of a case region of a steel component. In one form the application includes plating the outer surface of a stainless steel component with nickel prior to carburizing. One component includes a stainless steel object having a hardened case substantially free of continuous phase grain boundary carbides.