Process for manufacturing seamless steel pipe, hollow spring utilizing seamless steel pipe

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9482302
APP PUB NO 20130239637A1
SERIAL NO

13892009

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There are provided: a seamless steel pipe formed from a cylindrical steel material billet through a hot isostatic extrusion step, wherein a depth of a contiguous flaw formed on an inner periphery surface and an outer periphery surface of the steel pipe is 50 μm or less; a hollow spring obtained by forming a hollow body in a shape of a coil or a bar or a bar with curved part from the seamless steel pipe made of spring steel and applying a surface treatment to the hollow body so that the hollow body has compressive residual stress; and a method for producing seamless steel pipe including: a billet molding step; a first heating step; a hot isostatic extrusion step; a second heating step; an extension step; a third heating step; and a pickling step.

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NHK SPRING CO LTDYOKOHAMA
SHINKO METAL PRODUCTS CO LTDKITAKYUSHU-SHI FUKUOKA 8000007

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Iwaya, Koji Kitakyushu, JP 3 14
Minami, Tomoyuki Kitakyushu, JP 17 85
Takamura, Noritoshi Kanagawa, JP 27 180
Toyotake, Kotaro Tokyo, JP 13 61

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