Specialized metallurgical processes – compositions for use therei – Compositions – Consolidated metal powder compositions
Patent
1998-10-15
2000-03-21
Jenkins, Daniel J.
Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therei
Compositions
Consolidated metal powder compositions
75247, 75255, C22C 105, C22C 900
Patent
active
060397853
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a material for the powder-metallurgical production of shaped parts with high thermal conductivity and high resistance to wear and corrosion, by pressing, sintering and, if need be, after-compacting of a powder mixture with a copper component of at least about 50% by weight.
Such sintered materials are required for shaped parts which are exposed to hot gases or gas mixtures, for example for the manufacture of valve seat rings and valve guides for internal combustion engines, which are subjected to high mechanical stresses, on the one hand, and simultaneously to the action of hot combustion gases, on the other. Such products, therefore, have to be manufactured from materials which are not only resistant to wear and corrosion, but which also have high thermal conductivity. Growing importance is attributed in this connection to the thermal conductivity because the temperature level on the valves rises due to the expansion of the stoichio-metric mixture required for emission reasons, and because a continuing trend can be seen in the direction of more powerful engines.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
It is known to reduce the temperature difference between the head of the valve and the head of the cylinder--into which the valve seat ring is worked--by heat transport in the valve. The shaft of the valve is provided for said purpose with a hollow bore and is cooled. The diameters of valve shafts have been reduced in the last few years for cost and weight reasons in such a way that it is no longer possible in most cases to provide such shafts with a hollow bore, so that the application of valves drilled hollow and filled, for example with sodium, will no longer be possible in the future. Therefore, efforts are being made for improving the thermal conductivity of the material from which the valve seat and in particular the valve seat ring is manufactured, in order to discharge heat in this way more rapidly and to lower the temperature level for the purpose of enhancing the tribological conditions and the system both technologically and in terms of cost.
Powder-metallurgically manufactured shaped articles are known which are produced from sintered materials based on iron with infiltrated copper. Such materials are sufficiently wear-resistant to be employed for manufacturing valve seat rings or valve guides; however, the thermal conductivity of such materials is not high enough as compared to sintered materials without copper component. For example, a sintered material is known from DE-PS 21 14 160, which consists of an iron base material, to which carbon and lead as well as other alloying components are added. Valve seat rings produced from said material do have adequate resistance to heat and wear; however, their thermal conductivity is inadequate for solving the problem here on hand especially within the region of the outlet of a modern internal combustion engine.
A sintered material for the powder-metallurgical production of valve seat rinds is known from PCT-EP 89/01343. Such valve seat rings are expected to have increased thermal conductivity combined with high resistance to wear. The sintered material consists of a basic metal powder with a copper component of about 70% to 100% by weight, as well as with an alloying component. The latter may consist of, for example 1 to 3% by weight cobalt or a highly alloyed additional metal powder added to the basic metal powder as a hard phase, the proportion of which then comes to 30% by weight at the most.
Tests carried out with such a material have shown that the material has a resistance to wear which is not sufficient for the manufacture of valve seat rings, and particularly not for the outlet region of internal combustion engines. This has to be attributed to the fact that even though it was possible to increase the hardness of the material through solidification of the matrix by incorporating hard substances with a maximum particle size of 150 .mu.m, and thus to increase the resistance of the valve seat ring to wear, on
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Dalal Kirit
Kohler Ekkehard
Nadkarni Anil V.
Bleistahl Produktions-GmbH & Co. KG
Jenkins Daniel J.
SCM Metal Products Inc.
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