Heat treatment device, heat treatment method, and rail steel

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10544479-B2
Application number	US-201515123485-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 6, 2015
Priority date	Apr 8, 2014
Publication date	Jan 28, 2020
Grant date	Jan 28, 2020

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a heat treatment device, a heat treatment method, and a rail steel which are suitable for preventing the occurrence of brittle fractures which originate in a base portion of a weld of the rail steel. A heat treatment device of the present invention includes a coil and heats a bottom surface of the base portion of the weld of the rail steel by induction heating. When a region in the weld which is heated to an Ac1 point or higher during welding is represented by HAZ, and the length of the HAZ in a length direction of the rail on the bottom surface of the base portion is represented by Lh, and a width of the rail steel is represented by W, the length of an outer region of the coil in the length direction of the rail is 1.2 times or more Lh and the length of the outer region of the coil in a width direction of the rail is 1.1 times or more W when viewed from opposite the bottom surface of the base portion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A heat treatment device which includes a coil and heats a bottom surface of a base portion of a weld of a rail steel by induction heating,
wherein the coil is disposed so as to face the bottom surface of the base portion of the weld, and
wherein when a region in the weld which is heated to an Ac1 point or higher during welding is represented by HAZ, and a length of the HAZ in a length direction of the rail on the bottom surface of the base portion is represented by Lh, and a width of the rail steel is represented by W,
when viewed in a line of sight against the bottom surface of the base portion, a length of an outer region of the coil in the length direction of the rail is 1.2 times or more Lh and a length of the outer region of the coil in a width direction of the rail is 1.1 times or more W.

2. The heat treatment device according to claim 1 , wherein the length of the outer region of the coil in the length direction of the rail is 40 mm or more.

3. The heat treatment device according to claim 1 , wherein the length of the outer region of the coil in the width direction of the rail is 1.2 times or more W.

4. The heat treatment device according to claim 1 , wherein a shape of the outer region of the coil is rectangular.

5. A heat treatment method of a weld of a rail steel, the method comprising:
disposing the coil of the heat treatment device according to claim 1 so as to face the bottom surface of the base portion and heating a region which is interposed between a pair of virtual lines, which are positioned symmetrically with respect to a welding center when viewed in a line of sight against the bottom surface of the base portion such that a distance between the pair of virtual lines is 1.2 times Lh, at a heating velocity of 3° C./s to 20° C./s, so that at least a position C, which is positioned on the welding center of the bottom surface of the base portion and on the center of the rail steel in the width direction, is heated to higher than 600° C. to 800° C.; and
cooling the rail steel after the heating.

6. The heat treatment method of a weld of a rail steel according to claim 5 , wherein in the heating, the position C is heated to a temperature which is higher than 600° C. and the Ac1 point or lower.

7. The heat treatment method of a weld of a rail steel according to claim 5 , wherein in the heating, the position C is heated to a temperature which is higher than the Ac1 point and 800° C. or lower, and the cooling is performed by natural cooling.

8. The heat treatment method of a weld of a rail steel according to claim 5 , wherein in the heating, a heating temperature of a head portion of the rail steel is set to 600° C. or lower.

9. The heat treatment device according to claim 2 , wherein the length of the outer region of the coil in the width direction of the rail is 1.2 times or more W.

10. The heat treatment device according to claim 2 , wherein a shape of the outer region of the coil is rectangular.

11. The heat treatment device according to claim 3 , wherein a shape of the outer region of the coil is rectangular.

12. A heat treatment method of a weld of a rail steel, the method comprising:
disposing the coil of the heat treatment device according to claim 2 so as to face the bottom surface of the base portion and heating a region which is interposed between a pair of virtual lines, which are positioned symmetrically with respect to a welding center when viewed in a line of sight against the bottom surface of the base portion such that a distance between the pair of virtual lines is 1.2 times Lh, at a heating velocity of 3° C./s to 20° C./s, so that at least a position C, which is positioned on the welding center of the bottom surface of the base portion and on the center of the rail steel in the width direction, is heated to higher than 600° C. to 800° C.; and
cooling the rail steel after the heating.

13. A heat treatment method of a weld of a rail steel, the method comprising:
disposing the coil of the heat treatment device according to claim 3 so as to face the bottom surface of the base portion and heating a region which is interposed between a pair of virtual lines, which are positioned symmetrically with respect to a welding center when viewed in a line of sight against the bottom surface of the base portion such that a distance between the pair of virtual lines is 1.2 times Lh, at a heating velocity of 3° C./s to 20° C./s, so that at least a position C, which is positioned on the welding center of the bottom surface of the base portion and on the center of the rail steel in the width direction, is heated to higher than 600° C. to 800° C.; and
cooling the rail steel after the heating.

14. A heat treatment method of a weld of a rail steel, the method comprising:
disposing the coil of the heat treatment device according to claim 4 so as to face the bottom surface of the base portion and heating a region which is interposed between a pair of virtual lines, which are positioned symmetrically with respect to a welding center when viewed in a line of sight against the bottom surface of the base portion such that a distance between the pair of virtual lines is 1.2 times Lh, at a heating velocity of 3° C./s to 20° C./s, so that at least a position C, which is positioned on the welding center of the bottom surface of the base portion and on the center of the rail steel in the width direction, is heated to higher than 600° C. to 800° C.; and
cooling the rail steel after the heating.

15. The heat treatment method of a weld of a rail steel according to claim 6 , wherein in the heating, a heating temperature of a head portion of the rail steel is set to 600° C. or lower.

16. The heat treatment method of a weld of a rail steel according to claim 7 , wherein in the heating, a heating temperature of a head portion of the rail steel is set to 600° C. or lower.

Assignees

• Nippon Steel Corp

Inventors

• Karimine Kenichi
• Ueda Masaharu
• Saita Kenji

Classifications

• C21D9/04 Primary

  for rails · CPC title

• C21D9/50 Primary

  for welded joints · CPC title

• C21D1/42

  Induction heating · CPC title

• Y02P10/25

  Process efficiency · CPC title