Patents Assigned to Japan Fine Ceramics Center
  • Patent number: 5190895
    Abstract: A ceramics composite material containing crystallized glass as the matrix and fibers or whiskers of ceramics as a reinforcement material, is obtained by melting original glass to form crystallized glass, compounding the same with fibers or whiskers of oxide ceramics and thereafter crystallizing the original glass. This ceramics composite material does not form any voids and can easily contain at least 50 volume percent of the reinforcement material, whereby a good mechanical strength and fracture toughness are achieved. In the compounding step, the content of the reinforcement can be further increased by forcing out any excess part of the original glass from the reinforcement material by applying pressure to a substance obtained by mixing the original glass with the reinforcement. Further, the ceramics composite material can be efficiently formed into a desired configuration by heating because the original glass flows viscously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1993
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Japan Fine Ceramics Center
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Uchida, Yukio Shimokawa, Hiroshi Nomura, Hirohiko Nakata, Masaya Miyake