Patents Examined by Jessee R. Roe
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Patent number: 11793077Abstract: Provided is a silicide-based alloy material with which environmental load can be reduced and high thermoelectric conversion performance can be obtained. Provided is a silicide-based alloy material including silicon and ruthenium as main components, in which when the contents of silicon and ruthenium are denoted by Si and Ru, respectively, the atomic ratio of the devices constituting the alloy material satisfies the following: 45 atm %?Si/(Ru+Si)?70 atm % 30 atm %?Ru/(Ru+Si)?55 atm %.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: TOSOH CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichiro Koda, Ryo Akiike, Hideto Kuramochi
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Patent number: 11781201Abstract: An aluminum alloy material according to an embodiment of the present invention is an aluminum alloy including a grain boundary and a plurality of grains divided by the grain boundary, and having a face-centered cubic crystal structure, and includes a band formed by employing one or more non-metallic elements selected from oxygen (O), carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) in an aluminum matrix. Each of the grains includes a plurality of sub-grains divided by a low-angle grain boundary (LAGB), and a band positioned at the low-angle grain boundary may form a coherent interface with an aluminum matrix. Since a plurality of dislocations already are present in the band, a dislocation cell size is reduced during plastic deformation, which greatly contributes to an improvement in elongation. Such an aluminum alloy material can be subjected to cold rolling at a high reduction rate, and as a result, a plate having significantly improved elongation can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: UIF (University Industry Foundation), Yonsei UniversityInventors: Donghyun Bae, Jonggyu Jeon, Sangjun Lee, Kwangmin Choi
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Patent number: 11779477Abstract: A stent having a cobalt-based alloy, wherein the cobalt-based alloy is free of nickel (Ni), the cobalt-based alloy including 10-65 weight % metal member selected from a platinum group metal, a refractory metal, or combinations thereof, 15-25 weight % chromium (Cr), 4-7 weight % molybdenum (Mo), 0-18 weight % iron (Fe), and 22-40 weight % cobalt (Co).Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: ABBOTT CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: John A. Simpson, Puneet Kamal Singh Gill, Pamela A. Kramer-Brown
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Patent number: 11781209Abstract: Based on the nitriding potential in the processing furnace calculated by the in-furnace nitriding potential calculator and the target nitriding potential, the introduction amount of the ammonia gas is changed while the introduction amount of the ammonia decomposition gas is kept constant, such that the nitriding potential in the processing furnace is brought close to the target nitriding potential.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Parker Netsushori Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasushi Hiraoka
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Patent number: 11781202Abstract: Disclosed is an aluminum alloy for a new energy vehicle integral die-cast part, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. The alloy includes 7-9 wt % of Si, 0.05-0.25 wt % of Mg, Cu<0.5 wt %, Zn<0.5 wt %, 0.001-0.20 wt % of B, 0.05-0.2 wt % of Ti, 0.1-0.9 wt % of Mn, 0.05-0.3 wt % of Fe, 0.005-0.5 wt % of Sr, Ce<0.5 wt %, 0.01-0.1 wt % of Zr, 0.001-0.3 wt % of Mo, a sum of weight percentages of remaining impurities being controlled to be 1.0 wt % or less, and the balance being Al. Compared with the prior art, the alloy significantly improves an elongation of a material and effectively improves a strength of the material, such that the material has a tensile strength of 260-300 MPa, a yield strength of 110-130 MPa and an elongation of 10-14%.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2023Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Suzhou Huijin Smart Materials Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xi Chen, Hongbin Xing, Kehong Jiang, Jian Wang, Yinpeng Zhou, Shiyi Wang, Wenbo Liu
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Patent number: 11773470Abstract: A method for producing a high temperature component includes a shaping step of shaping a powder compact of a desired high temperature component shape using a specific powder shaping method, from an alloy powder of ?? precipitation strengthening-type Ni-based alloy, and a crystal grain coarsening step of coarsening a crystal grain size of the powder compact by heat treatment, wherein the powder compact contains 0.002% or more and 0.07% or less of C, and 5.40% or more and 8.40% or less of Al+Ti by mass percentage.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Hibino, Kazushige Fujimitsu, Yoshimichi Nomura, Ryutaro Okada
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Patent number: 11767575Abstract: A vortex injection system for a metal recycling furnace a delacquering chamber and a melt chamber, and a molten metal flow channel running through each chamber. The system diverts a portion of the molten metal flow through a vortex bowl, after which that portion of the molten metal flow is then returned to the main molten metal flow. The vortex bowl has an insertion port through which scrap metal and other materials may be controllably injected into the molten metal flow.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: GPRE IP, LLCInventors: John M. Peterman, Mark A. Roberts
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Patent number: 11767579Abstract: A nickel-based alloy for powder has the contents (in wt. %): C 0.01-0.5%, S max. 0.5%, in particular max. 0.03%, Cr 20-25%, Ni radical Mn max. 1%, Si max. 1%, Mo up to 10%, Ti 0.25-0.6%, Nb up to 5.5%, Cu up to 5%, in particular up to 0.5%, Fe up to 25%, P max. 0.03%, in particular max. 0.02%, Al 0.8-1.5%, V max. 0.6%, Zr max. 0.12%, in particular max. 0.1%, Co up to 15%, B 0.001-0.125% O >0.00001-0.1% and impurities dependent on production. The carbon to boron ratio (C/B) is between 4 and 25.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: VDM Metals International GmbHInventor: Martin Wolf
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Patent number: 11761060Abstract: A nickel-based alloy composition consisting, in weight percent, of: between 5.0% and 6.9% aluminium, between 0.0% and 11.0% cobalt, between 6.0% and 11.6% chromium, between 0.0% and 4.0% molybdenum, between 0.0% and 2.0% niobium, between 0.6 and 8.6% tantalum, between 0.0% and 3.0% titanium, between 8.4% and 15.2% tungsten, between 0.02 wt. % and 0.35 wt. % carbon, between 0.001 and 0.2 wt. % boron, between 0.001 wt. % and 0.5 wt. %. zirconium, between 0.0 and 0.5% silicon, between 0.0 and 0.1% yttrium, between 0.0 and 0.1% lanthanum, between 0.0 and 0.1% cerium, between 0.0 and 0.003% sulphur, between 0.0 and 0.25% manganese, between 0.0 and 0.5% copper, between 0.0 and 2.0% hafnium, between 0.0 and 1.0% vanadium, between 0.0 and 4.0% iron, between 0.0 and 1.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: ALLOYED LIMITEDInventor: David Crudden
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Patent number: 11761049Abstract: Wellbore drill bits can be used for excavation through subterranean formations for extracting hydrocarbons from a reservoir. Wellbore drill bits can experience excessive force during extraction processes. Drill bits can be assembled with resilience. Thus, treating a subsurface of a metallic blank material by adding one or more elements to the subsurface of the metallic blank material inhibits chemical interactions between a metal binding mixture and one or more construing alloying agents of the metallic blank material. The metallic blank material and a reinforcing agent can be positioned in the drill bit mold to begin an infiltration process where the metal binding mixture fills gaps between the metallic blank material and the reinforcing agent to generate a metal-matrix composite.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Daniel Brendan Voglewede
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Patent number: 11747086Abstract: A steel making assembly comprising a metal, refractory lined vessel having a side wall with a taphole therein and a metal plug placed within the taphole. The metal plug comprises a frustoconical body having a side conical wall, a closed small end and an open large end thereof defining an essentially empty interior space. The side conical wall of the frustoconical body of the plug includes at least one diagonal compression slit. The at least one diagonal compression slit extends from the open large end of the frustoconical body and extends toward the closed small end of the frustoconical body. The conical wall has a center axis, with the at least one diagonal compression slit being non-parallel to the center axis.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: JDSS LTD.Inventors: John W. Dresh, Sr., Thomas J. Connors, Michael Dean Cope, Robert N. Deyoung
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Patent number: 11746397Abstract: The invention relates to a palladium-copper-silver alloy with palladium as the main component, wherein the palladium-copper-silver alloy has a weight ratio of palladium to copper of at least 1.05 and at most 1.6 and has a weight ratio of palladium to silver of at least 3 and at most 6, and wherein the palladium-copper-silver alloy contains more than 1 wt % and up to a maximum of 6 wt % of ruthenium, rhodium or ruthenium and rhodium and contains, as the remainder, palladium, copper and silver and at most 1 wt % of other metallic elements including impurities. The invention also relates to a wire, a strip or a probe needle made of such a palladium-copper-silver alloy and to the use of such a palladium-copper-silver alloy for testing electrical contacts or for making electrical contact or for producing a sliding contact.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: HERAEUS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Jonas Fecher, Nicole Staudt
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Patent number: 11739408Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heat treatment method for realizing grain boundary serration in a nickel-based superalloy forging, including introducing a serrated grain boundary into a microstructure of a nickel-based superalloy forging by using a heat treatment method for controlling a cooling rate; the heat treatment method for controlling cooling speed includes the following steps: step S1: holding the nickel-based superalloy forging for 0.5-4 h at 1,050-1,200° C.; step S2: cooling the nickel-based superalloy forging to 650-800° C. at a preset cooling rate, and holding for 1-8 h, where the preset cooling rate is 1-20° C/min; and step S3, taking out and cooling the nickel-based superalloy forging to room temperature with water. The heat treatment method for realizing grain boundary serration in a nickel-based superalloy forging provided by the present disclosure can realize the grain boundary serration in the nickel-based superalloy forging.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2023Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SHANGHAI DIANJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Honglei Hu, Fenghua Cao, Zhisong Li, Xiao Xu, Yifei Gui
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Patent number: 11739391Abstract: The present invention concerns a lance composed of a top lance (1t) and of a sublance (2) coupled to the top lance (1t), which forms a shoulder (1s) between the top lance and the sublance. The sublance (2) of the present invention is provided with a protective device (3) comprising a coupling end (2c) opening to the cavity (2v), wherein, when at rest, the protective device (3) is in an initial configuration characterized by an outer maximum diameter (D3o) which is not more than 10% larger than the diameter (D2) of sublance (2) (D3o?1.1 D2), when the sublance (2) is coupled to the lance the protective device (3) contacts the shoulder (1s) and is deformed into a deformed configuration, forming a surface impervious to molten metal and slag, which spans over a whole area of the shoulder (1s).Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Vesuvius Refratarios Ltda.Inventor: Joao Altenir Lopes
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Patent number: 11739398Abstract: A composition includes, by weight percent: Cobalt (Co) between about 4.5 and about 7.0; Chromium (Cr) between about 10.2 and about 11.5; Molybdenum (Mo) between about 0.5 and about 2.5; Tungsten (W) between about 4.0 and about 5.5; Rhenium (Re) between about 0 and about 1.2; Aluminum (Al) between about 6.2 and about 6.8; Tantalum (Ta) between about 4.5 and about 6.0; Titanium (Ti) between about 0 and about 0.5; Hafnium (Hf) between about 0 and about 0.5; Carbon (C) between about 0 and about 0.2; Boron (B) between about 0 and about 0.02; and the balance Nickel (Ni), and other incidental impurities.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Akane Suzuki, Chen Shen, Arthur Samuel Peck, Shenyan Huang, Michael Douglas Arnett, Jon Conrad Schaeffer, Pazhayannur Ramanathan Subramanian
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Patent number: 11732331Abstract: The present invention relates to an Ni-based alloy which is excellent in terms of wear resistance and high-temperature corrosion resistance and which includes 0.3?C?1.0 mass %, 36.0?Cr?50.0 mass %, and 3.0?Al?7.0 mass %, with the balance being Ni and unavoidable impurities, and relates to an Ni-based alloy product made of the Ni-based alloy according to the present invention, and methods for producing the Ni-based alloy product.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: DAIDO STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Sugiyama, Masashi Nagaya, Yusuke Kusafuka, Yoshihiko Koyanagi, Hiroyuki Takabayashi
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Patent number: 11732372Abstract: An article comprising a turbine component formed of a nickel-chromium (Ni—Cr) alloy including from 2 to 50 wt % chromium balanced by nickel is disclosed. The Ni—Cr alloy is thicker than at least 125 ?m to make a self-supporting turbine component, and the turbine component includes a rotor blade, a stator, or a vane. The Ni—Cr alloy is electroformed on a mandrel by providing an external supply of current to an anode and a cathode in a plating bath containing a solvent, a surfactant, and an ionic liquid including choline chloride, nickel chloride, and chromium chloride.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Lei Chen, Timothy A. Weers
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Patent number: 11732342Abstract: A method for carburizing a steel member of the present invention includes: bringing a carburizing agent into contact with at least a part of a surface of a steel member; and heating the steel member and the carburizing agent to allow carbon to penetrate into at least a part of the surface, in which the carburizing agent contains a Fe-C alloy powder, a graphite powder in an amount of 20% by volume or more and 70% by volume or less relative to a total volume of the carburizing agent, and a binder that binds the Fe-C alloy powder and the graphite powder to each other, and in the heating, a heating temperature is held for a certain period of time within a temperature range of an austenite region of a eutectic point of the steel member or higher and lower than the peritectic point of the steel member.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: NSK LTDInventors: Tomoyuki Nakamoto, Yuuji Miyamoto
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Patent number: 11724328Abstract: A device and system comprising a cutting torch system including a multi-fuel adapter specially adapted to convert a gasoline oxygen cutting system to a multi-fuel cutting system and methods of using the same. The invention also includes a portable system including a carrying case for use with the multi-fuel adapter.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Inventor: Brian Christopher Heft
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Patent number: 11725257Abstract: A Gold alloy for jewelry, comprising: Gold: in the amount comprised between 780‰ and 840‰ in weight; Copper: in the amount comprised between 125‰ and 167‰ in weight; Silver: in the amount comprised between 15‰ and 54‰ in weight; Platinum or Palladium, wherein the content of Palladium or Platinum is such that the assembly of Gold, Copper, Silver and Platinum or Gold, Copper, Silver and Palladium reaches a percentage at least equal to 980‰, and more preferably the 1000‰ in weight of the alloy; and wherein the so composed Gold alloy shows, under the conditions referred to in the ISO DIS 8654:2017 standard, a color compatible with the 5N alloy color standard.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Inventors: Marta Rossini, Sergio Arnaboldi, Marco Nauer