Manufacturing method of precision machine tool bearing with high precision stability

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10228022-B2
Application number	US-201615370239-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 6, 2016
Priority date	Aug 22, 2016
Publication date	Mar 12, 2019
Grant date	Mar 12, 2019

Abstract

A manufacturing method of precision machine tool bearing with high precision stability includes the procedures: (1) microstructural stabilization of bearing body: by cold ring rolling, two liquid quenching, ultrasonic assisted multiple cryo-tempering treatment and stress ageing treatment, the bearing body with high microstructure stability can be obtained; (2) precision machining; (3) internal stress relaxation of bearing body: after precision machining, by executing magnetic treatment on the bearing body, bearing ring with high microstructure stability and low internal stresses can be obtained; and (4) bearing assembly: finally precision machine tool bearing with high precision stability can be obtained. Considering that the critical factors affecting the precision stability of bearing is the degree of microstructure stability and internal stresses, by improving the microstructure stability and reducing residual stress in multistage manufacture phase, precision stability of precision machine tool bearing should be promoted.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A manufacturing method of precision machine tool bearing with high precision stability, comprising the following procedures:
(A) microstructural stabilization of bearing body, comprising:
(i) cold ring rolling: wherein a bearing body ring is formed by cold ring rolling under an average feed amount ranged from 20%-40% and an average feed speed ranged from 0.5 mm/s-1 mm/s;
(ii) two liquid quenching: wherein the bearing body ring is heated up to 820° C.-840° C. in a protective atmosphere and held for 30-60 min, wherein a quenched bearing body is obtained by oil quenched at 60-70° C. for 3-5 min, and then immersed in liquid nitrogen freezer at −190° C. for 4-10 min;
(iii) ultrasonic assisted multiple cryo-tempering treatment: cryogenic treatment is executed to the quenched bearing body in aforementioned liquid nitrogen freezer at −120° C. to −196° C. for 3-5 hours, wherein during the low temperature holding, the liquid nitrogen is vibrated by ultrasonic under the vortex flow pressure of 2.5-3.5 MPa for 20-40 min, wherein after cryogenic treatment, a low-temperature tempering is implemented to bearing body at 160° C.-180° C. for 1-2 hours, wherein circulate the above cryogenic treatment and low temperature tempering for 2-3 times; and
(iv) stress ageing treatment: wherein after ultrasonic assisted multiple cryo-tempering treatment, stress ageing treatment is applied using a temperature and stress coupling loaded bearing body aging device with loading force ranged from 60-150N and aging temperature ranged from 80-150° C. for 3-6 hours;

(B) precision machining: wherein the precision machining is executed to the microstructural stabilized bearing body;
(C) internal stress relaxation of bearing body: wherein the precision machined bearing body is magnetic treated in magnetic field with saturation magnetization ranged from 1.2-2.5 T and magnetic field frequency ranged from 1.5-4 Hz for 60-180 s to obtain bearing body with high microstructure stability and low internal stresses; and
(D) bearing assembly: by assembling the bearing body fulfilled the above methods with other bearing components, finally precision machine tool bearing with high precision stability can be obtained.

2. The manufacturing method of precision machine tool bearing with high precision stability according to claim 1 , wherein the protective atmosphere in step (ii) is nitrogen or argon, or the mixture of nitrogen and argon.

3. The manufacturing method of precision machine tool bearing with high precision stability according to claim 1 , wherein the power of the ultrasonic wave in step (iii) is 300 to 500 W.

Assignees

• Univ Wuhan Tech

Inventors

• Qian Dongsheng
• Hua Lin
• Mao Huajie
• Liu Qinglong
• Deng Jiadong

Classifications

• C21D8/00

  Modifying the physical properties of ferrous metals or ferrous alloys by deformation combined with, or followed by, heat treatment (hardening articles or materials formed by forging or rolling with no further heating beyond that required for the formation C21D1/02) · CPC title

• F16C2322/39

  General buildup of machine tools, e.g. spindles, slides, actuators · CPC title

• F16C2223/10

  Hardening, e.g. carburizing, carbo-nitriding · CPC title

• F16C2220/44

  by rolling · CPC title

• C21D9/40 Primary

  for rings; for bearing races · CPC title