Method for producing titanium nitride-base sintered alloys
AssigneeNgk Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroshi Tanaka, Yoshihiro Yamamoto
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Abstract
Titanium nitride-base sintered alloys having high thermal shock resistance and high durability against high speed continuous cutting can be obtained by mixing a specifically limited amount of carbon with a basic powdery raw material mixture composed of TiN, Mo and/or Mo.sub.2 C and an iron family metal, molding the resulting mixture and sintering the molded article. When not more than 50% by weight of the amount of TiN contained in the raw material mixture is replaced by at least one of TiC, WC and TaC, the sintering temperature can be lowered.
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A method for producing titanium nitride-base sintered alloys, which comprises mixing carbon with a basic powdery raw material mixture composed of 65-95% by weight of TiN, 2-20% by weight of Mo and/or Mo.sub.2 C and 3-15% by weight of at least one iron family metal, the mixing amount of said carbon being 0.2-6.8 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of TiN contained in the basic raw material mixture, molding the resulting mixture and sintering the molded article, wherein when the molded article is sintered, the metal melts first, with fine particles of TiN and carbon dissolving into the molten metal while nitrogen gas escapes therefrom, and the dissolved carbon and titanium precipitate in the form of TiC on the surface of longer TiN particles, thereby resulting in a TiN-base sintered alloy composition.
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