INDUCTION HEAT TREATMENT OF COMPLEX-SHAPED WORKPIECES

摘要

A multi-station induction heat treatment system (10) is used for heat treating metal workpieces that have multiple generally cylindrical components whose axes are parallel to and offset from a common workpiece axis. The heat treatment system (10) includes heat treatment stations (31, 32, 33) that heat treat while the workpiece and inductor components are stationary. The system (10) is particularly suited to the heat treatment of workpieces, such as crankshafts, that have an intervening non-symmetrically shaped component between two substantially cylindrically shaped components, some of which are not coaxial, that must be heat--treated.