Patents Assigned to Plansee SE
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Patent number: 10706984Abstract: An x-ray and/or gamma radiation absorbing slat, for use in an anti-scatter grid having a layer configuration, includes a film-shaped substrate of a metallic material on the basis of at least one heavy metal and at least one coating layer of a material on the basis of at least one metal from the group tin, antimony, tantalum, tungsten, rhenium, iridium, platinum, gold or bismuth. The material of the coating layer differs from the material of the film-shaped substrate. An anti-scatter grid for x-ray and/or gamma radiation, a method for producing an x-ray and/or gamma radiation absorbing slat and a method of producing an anti-scatter grid, are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Plansee SEInventors: Wolfgang Glatz, Heinrich Kestler, Bernhard Tabernig
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Patent number: 10651480Abstract: A powder metallurgical molding forms an interconnector or an end plate for an electrochemical cell. The molding has a chromium content of at least 80% by weight, a basic shape of a plate and one or more flow fields with structuring formed on one or both of the main faces of the molding. A ratio of a maximum diameter Dmax of the molding, measured along the main face, to a minimum thickness dmin of a core region of the molding which extends along the flow field or fields and is not affected by the structuring lies in a range of 140?Dmax/dmin?350.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Plansee SEInventors: Marco Brandner, Michael O'Sullivan, Thomas Leiter, Oliver Hirsch, Wolfgang Kraussler
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Patent number: 10622182Abstract: An x-ray anode for generating x-radiation includes a carrier body and a first emission layer and at least one second emission layer, which generate x-radiation when they are impinged by electrons. The emission layers are separated by an intermediate layer on one side of the carrier body and are arranged a distance apart in a central direction of the x-ray anode.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2016Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Plansee SEInventors: Nico Eberhardt, Wolfram Knabl, Stefan Schoenauer, Andreas Wucherpfennig
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Patent number: 10464130Abstract: A powder or powder granulate includes a chromium content >80 Ma %, which contains 2 to 20 Ma % iron, optionally up to 5 Ma % dopant, and optionally up to 2 Ma % oxygen, wherein the chromium-containing particles at least partially have pores. The powder displays significantly improved compression behavior and allows the production of sintered components having a very homogeneous distribution of the alloy elements.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Plansee SEInventors: Michael O'Sullivan, Lorenz Sigl, Thomas Hosp
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Patent number: 10415141Abstract: A process for producing a layer or a body built up of layers. A process gas which has a pressure of >10 bar is accelerated in a convergent-divergent nozzle and a coating material which is formed by particles and is composed of Mo, W, an Mo-based alloy or a W-based alloy is injected into the process gas. The particles are at least partly present as aggregates and/or agglomerates. It is possible to produce dense layers and components in this way. We also describe layers and components having a microstructure with cold-deformed grains having a high aspect ratio.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Plansee SEInventors: Michael O'Sullivan, Martin Kathrein, Gerhard Leichtfried, Thomas Hosp, Bernhard Lang, Dietmar Sprenger
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Publication number: 20190255619Abstract: A container includes at least two interconnected parts which are connected to one another at least in some regions by a thermally sprayed layer. At least one part is formed of a refractory metal or a refractory metal alloy. The container makes it possible to provide great variety, both with regard to form and dimensions of the container, which is impermeable to ceramic melts even under high operating temperatures. A method for producing a container is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2016Publication date: August 22, 2019Applicant: PLANSEE SEInventors: DIETMAR SPRENGER, BERNHARD LANG, MARTIN KATHREIN
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Patent number: 10366803Abstract: A metal oxide thin film formed of ?-MoO3 includes at least one doping element of the group Re, Mn, and Ru. Further, there is described a method of producing such a metal oxide thin film via sputtering and a thin film device with a metal oxide thin film of ?-MoO3 that includes at least one doping element selected from the group Re, Mn, and Ru.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Plansee SEInventor: Taro Hitosugi
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Patent number: 10329661Abstract: A sputtering target is composed of an alloy consisting of 5 to 70 at % of at least one element from the group of (Ga, In) and 0.1 to 15 at % of Na, the remainder being Cu and typical impurities. The sputtering target includes at least one intermetallic Na-containing phase.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Plansee SEInventors: Christian Linke, Jiehua Li, Peter Schumacher, Wolfram Knabl, Gerhard Leichtfried
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Patent number: 10320019Abstract: A process for depositing an electrically conductive, preferably perovskitic layer uses a pulsed sputtering process. The layer has a low diffusivity for the elements in the iron group and is especially suitable for use in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC). An assembly of the electrically conductive ceramic layer on a porous support substrate is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Plansee SEInventors: Karl Kailer, Georg Kunschert, Stefan Schlichtherle, Georg Strauss
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Patent number: 10211465Abstract: A powder metallurgical component has a chromium content of at least 80% by weight and pores and/or oxide inclusions which are present in the component. The number per unit area of a sum of pores and oxide inclusions at a cut surface through the component in at least one region is at least 10,000 per mm2.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2014Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Plansee SEInventors: Michael O'Sullivan, Lorenz Sigl, Marco Brandner, Andreas Venskutonis, Wolfgang Kraussler
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Patent number: 10202681Abstract: A Ga-containing and Cu-containing sputtering target has a Ga content of from 30 to 68 at %. The sputtering target contains only CuGa2 as Ga-containing and Cu-containing intermetallic phase or the proportion by volume of CuGa2 is greater than the proportion by volume of Cu9Ga4. The sputtering target is advantageously produced by spark plasma sintering or cold gas spraying. Compared to Cu9Ga4, CuGa2 is very soft, which aids the production of defect-free sputtering targets having homogeneous sputtering behavior.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Plansee SEInventors: Christian Linke, Thomas Scherer
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Patent number: 10136472Abstract: A terminal for mechanical support of a heating element, includes a base device, a mounting device, the mounting device adapted to support the heating element, and a support device connecting the base device to the mounting device, the support device allowing displacement of the heating element about a radial axis and less than about 10% displacement of the heating element about a tangential and/or axial axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2012Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignees: Plansee SE, Veeco Instruments Inc.Inventors: Arno Plankensteiner, Christian Feist, Vadim Boguslavskiy, Alexander I. Gurary, Chenghung Paul Chang
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Patent number: 10107552Abstract: A holding device for a heating element and a heater with at least one such holding device. The holding device is produced from a refractory metal or from an alloy on the basis of refractory metal, has at least two holding elements which are arranged perpendicularly or at least substantially perpendicularly to each other. A first holding element is at least partially arranged in an opening of a second holding element.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Plansee SEInventors: Bernd Kleinpass, Peter Mallaun
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Patent number: 9970083Abstract: A method for producing a shaped body from a metallic infiltrated composite, includes a first step in which a shaped body framework, some regions of which have an open pore framework structure, is produced from a powder or from a powder mixture having a primary component of a first metal or of a first metal alloy, in that the powder or the powder mixture is applied in layers, at least partially locally melted at predefined sites by a selective beam melting method and binds together upon solidification. In a second step, the shaped body framework is infiltrated with a melt of a second metal or metal alloy which melts at a lower temperature than the first metal or metal alloy.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2014Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Plansee SEInventors: Heinrich Kestler, Bernhard Tabernig
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Patent number: 9930727Abstract: An electrical heating conductor arrangement for heating a furnace has one or more strip-shaped portions with a generally horizontal sheet-like extent. The strip-shaped portions are formed by individual bands which have along their width an arcuate curvature with respect to a horizontal plane. The individual bands are partially mounted by at least one bearing element pivotably in the longitudinal direction of the respective band.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Plansee SEInventors: Peter Mallaun, Karl Raggl
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Patent number: 9890451Abstract: A tubular target formed of molybdenum or a molybdenum alloy has an oxygen content of less than 50 ?g/g, a density of greater than 99% of the theoretical density, and an average grain size of less than 100 ?m. The molybdenum or molybdenum alloy tube may be produced by extrusion. In one embodiment, the molybdenum tube has a backing tube of titanium or titanium alloy. In an embodiment, the molybdenum tube has a varying wall thickness with an increase towards its ends.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2011Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Plansee SEInventors: Peter Abenthung, Karl Huber, Harald Lackner, Gerhard Leichtfried, Peter Polcik, Christian Weratschnig
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Patent number: 9803925Abstract: A thermal shielding system for thermally shielding a batch space of high-temperature furnaces includes at least one shielding element. The shielding element has an encasing wall formed of refractory metal sheet(s) and a ceramic material accommodated in the wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2013Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Plansee SEInventors: Christian Grohs, Karl Huber, Arno Plankensteiner, Karl Raggl, Bernhard Valentini
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Patent number: 9767983Abstract: A rotary X-ray anode has a support body and a focal track formed on the support body. The support body and the focal track are produced as a composite by powder metallurgy. The support body is formed from molybdenum or a molybdenum-based alloy and the focal track is formed from tungsten or a tungsten-based alloy. Here, in the conclusively heat-treated rotary X-ray anode, at least one portion of the focal track is located in a non-recrystallized and/or in a partially recrystallized structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2016Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Plansee SEInventors: Johann Eiter, Juergen Schatte, Wolfgang Glatz, Wolfram Knabl, Gerhard Leichtfried, Stefan Schoenauer
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Patent number: 9719629Abstract: A supporting system for a heating element includes a supporting member and a base member. The supporting member has a main extension direction extending substantially in a height direction and a proximal and distal end. The proximal end is adapted to support the heating element. The base member is connected via at least one hinge to a distal portion of the supporting member which distal portion is arranged distal from the proximal end. The supporting member is pivotable relative to the base member about a rotation axis which is oriented parallel to a substantially rigid direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignees: Plansee SE, Plansee USA LLCInventors: Vadim Boguslavskiy, Arno Plankensteiner
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Patent number: 9721693Abstract: A collimator for x-ray, gamma, or particle radiation has a plurality of collimator elements made of a tungsten-containing material to reduce scattered radiation. At least one collimator element consists of a tungsten alloy having a tungsten content of 72 to 98 wt.-%, which contains 1 to 14 wt.-% of at least one metal of the group Mo, Ta, Nb and 1 to 14 wt.-% of at least one metal of the group Fe, Ni, Co, Cu. The collimator also has very homogeneous absorption behavior at very thin wall thicknesses of the collimator elements.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2011Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Plansee SEInventors: Dirk Handtrack, Heinrich Kestler, Gerhard Leichtfried