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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2011
Zbigniew Zurecki, Macungie, PA (US);
Xiaolan Wang, Mt. Rainier, MD (US);
Guido Plicht, Dortmund, DE (US);
John Lewis Green, Palmerston, PA (US);
Anna K. Wehr-aukland, Macungie, PA (US);
Zbigniew Zurecki, Macungie, PA (US);
Xiaolan Wang, Mt. Rainier, MD (US);
Guido Plicht, Dortmund, DE (US);
John Lewis Green, Palmerston, PA (US);
Anna K. Wehr-Aukland, Macungie, PA (US);
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
Described herein is a method that can be used for heat treating a metal in at least one of the following processes: carburizing, carbonitriding, nitrocarburizing, and neutral carbon potential annealing operations that are used in a 1 atmosphere pressure furnace and in an atmosphere that is oxygen free and comprises nitrogen and at least one hydrocarbon.