Method for press-hardening steel

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9982319
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14408712

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A method for press-hardening steel in which a steel sheet composed of a hardenable steel alloy can either be preformed in a cold state, then transferred to a tool that has the contour of the preformed component and in it, after a preceding heating step that produces a complete austenitization, is cooled in this tool at a speed greater than the critical hardening speed so that a quench hardening of the preformed component is achieved, or a sheet blank composed of a steel with a composition that permits a press hardening is heated to a temperature above the austenitization temperature and is then hot-formed and at the same time, cooled at a speed that is greater than the critical hardening speed so that hardening is produced; and the hardening is produced in that the austenitic structure is converted into an essentially martensitic structure, possibly with a residual quantity of austenite.

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VOESTALPINE STAHL GMBH4020 LINZ

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Kurz, Thomas Linz, AT 40 126
Pichler, Andreas Vöcklabruck, AT 14 51

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