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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.:

US 9440693 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 20, 2014

Air-hardenable bainitic steel part

Applicant:

Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);

Inventors:

Tianjun Liu, Edwards, IL (US);

Matthew Thomas Kiser, Chillicothe, IL;

Assignee:

Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);

Attorney:

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

Primary Examiner:

Colleen Dunn

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C21D 8/00 (2006.01); C22C 38/00 (2006.01); C22C 38/02 (2006.01); C22C 38/04 (2006.01); C22C 38/18 (2006.01); B62D 55/20 (2006.01); C21D 9/00 (2006.01); C22C 38/12 (2006.01); C22C 38/14 (2006.01); C22C 38/22 (2006.01); C22C 38/24 (2006.01); C22C 38/28 (2006.01); C22C 38/32 (2006.01); C22C 38/34 (2006.01); C22C 38/38 (2006.01); C21D 7/13 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 55/20 (2013.01); C21D 8/005 (2013.01); C21D 9/0068 (2013.01); C21D 9/0087 (2013.01); C22C 38/001 (2013.01); C22C 38/02 (2013.01); C22C 38/04 (2013.01); C22C 38/12 (2013.01); C22C 38/14 (2013.01); C22C 38/18 (2013.01); C22C 38/22 (2013.01); C22C 38/24 (2013.01); C22C 38/28 (2013.01); C22C 38/32 (2013.01); C22C 38/34 (2013.01); C22C 38/38 (2013.01); C21D 7/13 (2013.01); C21D 2211/001 (2013.01); C21D 2211/002 (2013.01); C21D 2211/005 (2013.01); C21D 2211/008 (2013.01); C21D 2221/00 (2013.01); C21D 2261/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of producing a forged steel part is disclosed. The method includes providing a steel billet that can be selectively hardened to different hardness levels by varying the air cooling rate. The method also includes heating the steel billet to an austenization temperature of the steel billet. The method further includes hot forging the steel billet to form the steel part including a first region and a second region. The method yet further includes selectively cooling the hot forged steel part by air cooling the first region at a first cooling rate and air cooling the second region at a second cooling rate that is less than the first cooling rate.

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