Metal treatment – Process of modifying or maintaining internal physical... – Carburizing or nitriding using externally supplied carbon or...
Patent
1995-04-25
1997-02-04
Wyszomierski, George
Metal treatment
Process of modifying or maintaining internal physical...
Carburizing or nitriding using externally supplied carbon or...
148216, 148231, 148238, C23C 824
Patent
active
055994040
ABSTRACT:
A substrate material to be coated with either a nitride, carbide, or oxide contains a small percent of a specific reactive element, like titanium, which forms very stable nitrides, carbides, or oxides. The material also contains larger percentages of elements, such as chromium, which form less-stable nitrides, carbides, or oxides. When the substrate material is immersed in a process medium which contains reactants, such as nitrogen, carbon, or oxygen, at a chosen elevated temperature and concentration, the less-stable nitrides, carbides, or oxides are reduced and cannot form a coating on the material surface. Thus, only a very stable nitride, carbide, or oxide can form a strong, adherent coating. As such, a stable compound forms on the surface, the surface concentration of the specific reactive element atoms (example: titanium) is depleted in relation to the atom concentration in the bulk material, and a concentration gradient results which causes more of the specific reactive element atoms to diffuse to the surface and react with the reactant in the process medium until a coating of the desired thickness is formed.
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