Zinc Containing Patents (Class 420/408)
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Patent number: 9222161Abstract: The magnesium alloy sheet disclosed herein has dispersed therein particles of an intermetallic compound containing an additive element (e.g., Al) and Mg (a typical example of which is Mg17Al12), and the ratio obtained by dividing the diffraction intensity of the main diffraction plane (4,1,1) of the intermetallic compound by the diffraction intensity of the c plane (0,0,2) of the Mg alloy phase in an XRD analysis of the surface of the sheet is 0.040 or more. The method includes: a casting step of producing a cast material composed of a magnesium alloy containing an additive element by continuous casting; a heat treatment step of holding the cast material at 400° C. or higher and then cooling the cast material at a cooling rate of 30° C/min or less to produce a heat-treated material; and a rolling step of subjecting the heat-treated material to warm rolling to produce a rolled sheet.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Ryuichi Inoue, Kohji Inokuchi, Yukihiro Oishi, Nozomu Kawabe
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Publication number: 20150017057Abstract: The invention offers a magnesium alloy sheet having excellent warm plastic formability, a production method thereof, and a formed body produced by performing warm plastic forming on this sheet. The magnesium alloy sheet is produced by giving a predetermined strain to a rolled sheet RS that is not subjected to a heat treatment aiming at recrystallization. The sheet is not subjected to the foregoing heat treatment even after the giving of a strain. The strain is given through the process described below. A rolled sheet RS is heated in a heating furnace 10. The heated rolled sheet RS is passed between rollers 21 to give bending to the rolled sheet RS. The giving of a strain is performed such that the strain-given sheet has a half peak width of 0.20 deg or more and 0.59 deg or less in a (0004) diffraction peak in monochromatic X-ray diffraction. The alloy sheet exhibits high plastic deformability by forming continuous recrystallization during warm plastic forming through the use of the remaining strain.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Ryuichi INOUE, Nozomu KAWABE, Nobuyuki MORI, Masatada NUMANO, Junichi MATSUMOTO, Motonori NAKAMURA, Masayuki NISHIZAWA, Atsushi KIMURA, Yukihiro OISHI
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Publication number: 20140332121Abstract: A magnesium alloy having high ductility and high toughness, and a preparation method thereof are provided, in which the magnesium alloy includes 1.0-3.5 wt % of tin, 0.05-3.0 wt % of zinc, and the balance of magnesium and inevitable impurities, and a preparation method thereof. Magnesium alloy with a relatively small tin content is added with zinc, and optionally, with one or more alloy elements selected from aluminum, manganese and rare earth metal, at a predetermined content ratio. As a result, the alloy exhibits superior ductility and moderate strength due to the suppression of excessive formation of precipitates and some precipitates hardening effect, respectively. Accordingly, compared to extruded material prepared from conventional commercial magnesium alloys, higher ductility and toughness are provided, so that the alloy can be widely applied over the entire industries including automotive and aerospace industries.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF MACHINERY AND MATERIALSInventors: Sung Hyuk Park, Young Min Kim, Ha-Sik Kim, Bong Sun You, Chang Dong Yim
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Patent number: 8828158Abstract: The invention offers a magnesium alloy sheet having excellent warm plastic formability, a production method thereof, and a formed body produced by performing warm plastic forming on this sheet. The magnesium alloy sheet is produced by giving a predetermined strain to a rolled sheet RS that is not subjected to a heat treatment aiming at recrystallization. The sheet is not subjected to the foregoing heat treatment even after the giving of a strain. The strain is given through the process described below. A rolled sheet RS is heated in a heating furnace 10. The heated rolled sheet RS is passed between rollers 21 to give bending to the rolled sheet RS. The giving of a strain is performed such that the strain-given sheet has a half peak width of 0.20 deg or more and 0.59 deg or less in a (0004) diffraction peak in monochromatic X-ray diffraction. The alloy sheet exhibits high plastic deformability by forming continuous recrystallization during warm plastic forming through the use of the remaining strain.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2008Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Ryuichi Inoue, Nozomu Kawabe, Nobuyuki Mori, Masatada Numano, Junichi Matsumoto, Motonori Nakamura, Masayuki Nishizawa, Atsushi Kimura, Yukihiro Oishi
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Publication number: 20140200652Abstract: The production of microstructured surfaces in magnesium alloys, containing zinc as the major alloying element, in particular in absorbable implants such as stents, wherein microstructures in sizes of up to 5 ?m (micrometers) are generated on a magnesium alloy base body of the absorbable implant, for example of the absorbable stent, by way of optionally combined, pickling and electrochemical micropolishing processes, and allow better adhesion of a polymer coating (including higher break resistance) and higher corrosion resistance. The microstructured surface is produced out of the bulk material and exhibits no delamination from the base material during the mechanical deformation of the implant.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2014Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: BIOTRONIK AGInventors: Ullrich Bayer, Monika Badendieck, Susanne Peters, Thomas Drobek, Okechukwu Anopuo
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Publication number: 20140065009Abstract: An alloy and an implant having a three-dimensional structure based on such alloy. The alloy comprises a monophasic MgZn alloy containing from 2.0 wt. % Zn to 6 wt. % Zn, having less than 0.001 wt. % of one or more other elements with the remainder being Mg. In some embodiments, the alloy is substantially free of microgalvanic elements. In some embodiments, the alloy includes a MgZnCa alloy containing nanosized precipitates being less noble than the Mg matrix alloy and having a Zn content ranging from 3.0 wt. % Zn to 6 wt. % Zn and a calcium content ranging from 0.0005 wt. % to 1.0 wt. %, having less than 0.001 wt. % of one or more other elements with the remainder being Mg. In other embodiments, the alloy includes a MgZnCa alloy containing nanosized precipitates being less noble than the Mg matrix alloy, a plurality of nanosized precipitates being more noble than the Mg matrix and having a Zn content ranging from 3.0 wt. % Zn to 6 wt. % Zn, a calcium content ranging from 0.0005 wt. % to 1.0 wt.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Inventors: Thomas Imwinkelried, Stefan Beck, Peter Uggowitzer
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Patent number: 8657973Abstract: Magnesium-based alloy wire excelling in strength and toughness, its method of manufacture, and springs in which the magnesium-based alloy wire is utilized are made available. The magnesium-based alloy wire contains, in mass %, 0.1 to 12.0% Al, and 0.1 to 1.0% Mn, and is provided with the following constitution. Diameter d that is 0.1 mm or more and 10.0 mm or less; length L that is 1000d or more; tensile strength that is 250 MPa or more; necking-down rate that is 15% or more; and elongation that is 6% or more. Such wire is produced by draw-forming it at a working temperature of 50° C. or more, and by heating it to a temperature of 100° C. or more and 300° C. or less after the drawing process has been performed.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2012Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo (SEI) Steel Wire Corp.Inventors: Yukihiro Oishi, Nozomu Kawabe
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Publication number: 20140044586Abstract: The present invention provides magnesium alloy which has sufficiently high strength at room temperature and high temperature. Disclosed is a magnesium alloy comprising: aluminum (Al): 14.0 to 23.0% by mass, calcium (Ca): 11.0% by mass or less (not including 0% by mass), strontium (Sr): 12.0% by mass or less (not including 0% by mass), and zinc (Zn): 0.2 to 1.0% by mass.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2012Publication date: February 13, 2014Inventors: Kinji Hirai, Kenji Higashi, Yorinobu Takigawa, Tokuteru Uesugi
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Patent number: 8637163Abstract: An alloy with a high glass forming ability characterized by containing a group of elements A with atomic radii of less than 0.145 nm of a total of 20 to 85 atm %, a group of elements B with atomic radii of 0.145 nm to less than 0.17 nm of a total of 10 to 79.7 atm %, and a group of elements C with atomic radii of 0.17 nm or more of a total of 0.3 to 15 atm %; when the elements with the greatest contents in the group of elements A, group of elements B, and group of elements C are respectively designated as the “element a”, “element b”, and “element c”, by the ratio of the content of the element a in the group of elements A (for example, Zn and/or Al), the ratio of the content of the element b in the group of elements B (for example, Mg), and the ratio of the content of the element c in the group of elements C (for example, Ca) all being 70 atm % or more; and by the liquid forming enthalpy between any two elements selected from the element a, element b, and element c being negative.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2007Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Kohei Tokuda, Koichi Nose, Yuichi Sato, Makoto Nakazawa
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Patent number: 8591674Abstract: A method of enhancing the ductility of magnesium alloy sheets containing 85% or more by weight of magnesium is described. An annealed, substantially strain free, sheet of generally uniform grain size is locally deformed in local regions to develop strained ‘islands’ of a predetermined strain embedded in a substantially strain-free matrix and then annealed. The deformed regions undergo recrystallization and grain growth while the remainder of the sheet suffers only minor change in grain size, leading to sheet with grains having a bimodal size distribution. The ductility of alloys processed in this way is significantly greater than the ductility of the unprocessed, uniform grain size alloy without compromise to the tensile strength of the alloy.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Sushil Kumar Mishra, Shashank Tiwari, Asim Tewari, Jon T. Carter, Deepika Sachdeva
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Publication number: 20130183193Abstract: A magnesium alloy that has excellent ignition resistance and is excellent in both strength and ductility. The magnesium alloy includes, by weight, 1.0% or greater but less than 7.0% of Al, 0.05% to 2.0% of Ca, 0.05% to 2.0% of Y, greater than 0% but not greater than 6.0% of Zn, and the balance of Mg, and the other unavoidable impurities. The total content of the Ca and the Y is equal to or greater than 0.1% but less than 2.5% of the total weight of the magnesium alloy. The Mg alloy forms a dense composite oxide layer that acts as a protective film. Thus the Mg alloy has very excellent oxidation resistance and ignition resistance, can be melted, cast and machined in the air or a common inert atmosphere (Ar or N2), and can reduce the spontaneous ignition of chips that are accumulated during the process of machining.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2011Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF MACHINERY & MATERIALSInventors: Young Min Kim, Ha Sik Kim, Bong Sun You, Chang Dong Yim
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Patent number: 8475608Abstract: Magnesium-based hydrogen storage alloys having metallic magnesium (Mg) and a magnesium-containing intermetallic compound (MgxMy wherein y is 1?x) and containing not less than 60 mass-% of magnesium in total, and having a phase of a primarily crystallized magnesium-containing intermetallic compound in its solidification structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2005Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Japan Metals and Chemicals Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahito Osawa, Hidenori Tomioka, Naoyoshi Terashita, Noboru Hayami, Shigeru Tsunokake
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Publication number: 20130039805Abstract: A magnesium alloy which contains magnesium as a main component and other elements added has a microstructure in which grains surrounded by high angle grain boundaries consist of subgrains and fine particles are dispersed into the subgrains.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2011Publication date: February 14, 2013Inventors: Hidetoshi Somekawa, Toshiji Mukai
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Patent number: 8313692Abstract: An Mg-base alloy shows that an Mg-base alloy, which is added Zn and Al to magnesium, has a composition represented by (100-a-b) wt % Mg-a wt % Al-b wt % Zn, and satisfying 0.5?b/a. The alloy can reduce yield anisotropy, which is a serious problem for the wrought magnesium alloy, while maintaining a high strength property. The alloy is produced by additive elements, such as Zn and Al, which are easily obtained in place of rare earth elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2009Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: National Institute for Materials ScienceInventors: Hidetoshi Somekawa, Alok Singh, Yoshiaki Osawa, Toshiji Mukai
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Patent number: 8308878Abstract: Magnesium-based alloy wire excelling in strength and toughness, its method of manufacture, and springs in which the magnesium-based alloy wire is utilized are made available. The magnesium-based alloy wire contains, in mass %, 0.1 to 12.0% Al, and 0.1 to 1.0% Mn, and is provided with the following constitution. Diameter d that is 0.1 mm or more and 10.0 mm or less; length L that is 1000 d or more; tensile strength that is 250 MPa or more; necking-down rate that is 15% or more; and elongation that is 6% or more. Such wire is produced by draw-forming it at a working temperature of 50° C. or more, and by heating it to a temperature of 100° C. or more and 300° C. or less after the drawing process has been performed.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2002Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo (SEI) Steel Wire Corp.Inventors: Yukihiro Oishi, Nozomu Kawabe
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Patent number: 8089029Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for processing a medical device formed from a bioabsorbable metallic material. The method begins by generating a beam of radiation onto the bioabsorbable metallic material. The radiation beam is transmitted through a fluid medium and onto a heat affected zone (HAZ) of the bioabsorbable metallic material to thereby cool the HAZ and reduce a concentration of oxygen surrounding the HAZ.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2006Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Boston Scientific SciMed, Inc.Inventor: Aiden Flanagan
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Patent number: 8062439Abstract: A magnesium alloy sheet having an adequate strength and an excellent bendability is provided along with a method of manufacturing such an alloy sheet. The method comprises, rolling a magnesium alloy sheet through a reduction roll, the alloy thereof containing about 0.1-10.0 mass % of Al and about 0.1-4.0 mass % of Zn, wherein the magnesium alloy sheet has a surface temperature of about 100° C. or below at the time just before it is fed in the reduction roll, and the reduction roll has a surface temperature in the range of about 100° C. to 300° C. Particularly, when executing multipass rolling, at least the last pass is accomplished in non-preheat rolling wherein the magnesium alloy sheet and the reduction roll have specified surface temperatures, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2003Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Shimizu, Nozomu Kawabe, Akira Kishimoto
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Patent number: 7942986Abstract: A magnesium-based alloy consists of 1.5-4.0% by weight rare earth element(s), 0.3-0.8% by weight zinc, 0.02-0.1% by weight aluminium, and 4-25 ppm beryllium. The alloy optionally contains up to 0.2% by weight zirconium, 0.3% by weight manganese, 0.5% by weight yttrium and 0.1% by weight calcium. The remainder of the alloy is magnesium except for incidental impurities.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2009Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Cast Centre Pty LtdInventors: Colleen Joyce Bettles, Mark Antony Gibson
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Publication number: 20110091349Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a magnesium alloy sheet capable of producing a magnesium alloy sheet having excellent plastic workability such as press workability. The method of the present invention includes rolling a magnesium alloy blank with a reduction roll. The rolling includes controlled rolling performed under the following conditions (1) and (2) wherein M (% by mass) is the Al content in a magnesium alloy constituting the blank: (1) the surface temperature Tb (° C.) of the magnesium alloy blank immediately before insertion into the reduction roll satisfies the following expression: 8.33×M+135?Tb?8.33×M+165 wherein 1.0?M?10.0; and (2) the surface temperature Tr of the reduction roll is 150° C. to 180° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2010Publication date: April 21, 2011Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki Mori, Nozomu Kawabe
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Publication number: 20110076178Abstract: An Mg-base alloy shows that an Mg-base alloy, which is added Zn and Al to magnesium, has a composition represented by (100-a-b) wt % Mg-a wt % Al-b wt % Zn, and satisfying 0.5?b/a. The alloy can reduce yield anisotropy, which is a serious problem for the wrought magnesium alloy, while maintaining a high strength property. The alloy is produced by additive elements, such as Zn and Al, which are easily obtained in place of rare earth elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2009Publication date: March 31, 2011Inventors: Hidetoshi Somekawa, Alok Singh, Yoshiaki Osawa, Toshiji Mukai
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Patent number: 7879165Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a magnesium alloy sheet capable of producing a magnesium alloy sheet having excellent plastic workability such as press workability. The method of the present invention includes rolling a magnesium alloy blank with a reduction roll. The rolling includes controlled rolling performed under the following conditions (1) and (2) wherein M (% by mass) is the Al content in a magnesium alloy constituting the blank: (1) the surface temperature Tb (° C.) of the magnesium alloy blank immediately before insertion into the reduction roll satisfies the following expression: 8.33×M+135?Tb?8.33×M+165 wherein 1.0?M?10.0; and (2) the surface temperature Tr of the reduction roll is 150° C. to 180° C.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2006Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyuki Mori, Nozomu Kawabe
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Patent number: 7879460Abstract: Disclosed is a welding wire for joining cast iron and stainless steel, having a composition of 0.03 wt % or less of C, 2.0˜3.0 wt % of Si, 12.0˜14.0 wt % of Mn, 7.0˜9.0 wt % of Cr, 45.0˜47.0 wt % of Ni, 0.5˜0.8 wt % of Nb, and 2.0˜3.0 wt % of Mo, with a balance of Fe. Using the welding wire, a weld zone which has no hot cracks and is sound and good can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2008Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Jae Gyu Jung
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Publication number: 20100273023Abstract: A method of forming a coated article is disclosed. The method involves heating a magnesium alloy component, positioning the component in a mold such that a gap exists between component outer surfaces and mold inner surfaces, and heating a magnesium-containing alloy material above its melting temperature, which is lower than that of the component. The material is formed from magnesium alloyed with i) the component element, but at a higher concentration, ii) at least one element that is different than the component element, or iii) the component element and at least one other element. The method further includes introducing the material into the gap, thereby covering at least the outer surfaces of the component, and cooling the material to form a substantially evenly distributed solidified coating on the outer surfaces of the component. The coating has a higher wear and/or corrosion resistance than that of the magnesium alloy component.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2009Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Guangling Song, Bob R. Powell, JR.
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Publication number: 20100254848Abstract: The invention offers a magnesium alloy sheet having excellent warm plastic formability, a production method thereof, and a formed body produced by performing warm plastic forming on this sheet. The magnesium alloy sheet is produced by giving a predetermined strain to a rolled sheet RS that is not subjected to a heat treatment aiming at recrystallization. The sheet is not subjected to the foregoing heat treatment even after the giving of a strain. The strain is given through the process described below. A rolled sheet RS is heated in a heating furnace 10. The heated rolled sheet RS is passed between rollers 21 to give bending to the rolled sheet RS. The giving of a strain is performed such that the strain-given sheet has a half peak width of 0.20 deg or more and 0.59 deg or less in a (0004) diffraction peak in monochromatic X-ray diffraction. The alloy sheet exhibits high plastic deformability by forming continuous recrystallization during warm plastic forming through the use of the remaining strain.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2008Publication date: October 7, 2010Inventors: Ryuichi Inoue, Nozomu Kawabe, Nobuyuki Mori, Masatada Numano, Junichi Matsumoto, Motonori Nakamura, Masayuki Nishizawa, Atsushi Kimura, Yukihiro Oishi
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Patent number: 7682470Abstract: A magnesium-based alloy consists of 1.5-4.0% by weight rare earth element(s), 0.3-0.8% by weight zinc, 0.02-0.1% by weight aluminum, and 4-25 ppm beryllium. The alloy optionally contains up to 0.2% by weight zirconium, 0.3% by weight manganese, 0.5% by weight yttrium and 0.1% by weight calcium. The remainder of the alloy is magnesium except for incidental impurities.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2006Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Cast Centre Pty LtdInventors: Colleen Joyce Bettles, Mark Antony Gibson
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Publication number: 20100054985Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnesium aluminum alloy with enhanced creep resistance. The alloy contains barium and calcium in low proportions, and possesses a higher creep resistance in comparison to alloys containing rare earth elements. The alloy may additionally include zinc, tin, lithium, manganese, yttrium, neodymium, cerium and/or praseodymium in proportions of up to 7% by weight, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: Gkss-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbHInventors: HAJO DIERINGA, Norbert Hort, Karl U. Kainer
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Publication number: 20100047109Abstract: The invention offers (a) a method of producing a magnesium-alloy material, the method being capable of obtaining a magnesium-alloy material having high strength, (b) a magnesium-alloy material having excellent strength, and (c) a magnesium-alloy wire having high strength. A molten magnesium alloy is supplied to a continuous casting apparatus provided with a movable casting mold to produce a cast material. The cast material is supplied to between at least one pair of rolls to perform an area-reducing operation (a rolling operation). The rolling operation is performed such that pressure is applied to the cast material using the rolls from at least three directions in the cross section of the cast material. A magnesium-alloy material obtained through the above-described production method has a fine crystal structure and is excellent in plastic processibility.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2009Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Taichiro NISHIKAWA, Yoshihiro Nakai
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Patent number: 7469738Abstract: A injection-molding process injects a semi-solid slurry with a solids content ranging from approximately 60% to 85% into a mold at a velocity sufficient to completely fill the mold. The slurry is injected under laminar or turbulent flow conditions and produces a molded article that has a low internal porosity.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2004Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Frank Czerwinski, Damir Kadak
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Publication number: 20080311423Abstract: The invention is to provide a magnesium alloy material such as a magnesium alloy cast material or a magnesium alloy rolled material, excellent in mechanical characteristics and surface precision, a producing method capable of stably producing such material, a magnesium alloy formed article utilizing the rolled material, and a producing method therefor. The invention provides a producing method for a magnesium alloy material, including a melting step of melting a magnesium alloy in a melting furnace to obtain a molten metal, a transfer step of transferring the molten metal from the melting furnace to a molten metal reservoir, and a casting step of supplying a movable mold with the molten metal from the molten metal reservoir, through a pouring gate, and solidifying the molten metal to continuously produce a cast material. In a process from the melting step to the casting step, parts contacted by the molten metal are formed by a low-oxygen material having an oxygen content of 20 mass % or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2005Publication date: December 18, 2008Inventors: Masatada Numano, Yoshihiro Nakai, Toshiya Ikeda, Taichiro Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20080304997Abstract: Disclosed is a wrought magnesium alloy having excellent strength and extrusion or rolling formability, and a method of producing the same. The wrought magnesium alloy comprises 0.1-1.5 at % group IIIa, 1.0-4.0 at % group IIIb, 0.35 at % or less of one selected from the group consisting of groups IIa, IVa, VIIa, IVb, and a mixture thereof, 1.0 at % or less of group IIb, and a balance of Mg and unavoidable impurities and thus has a second phase composite microstructure. The wrought magnesium alloy of the present invention has high strength, toughness, and formability in addition to the electromagnetic wave shield ability of magnesium. Accordingly, the wrought magnesium alloy is a material useful to portable electronic goods, such as notebook personal computers, mobile phones, digital cameras, camcorders, CD players, PDA, or MP3 players, automotive parts, such as engine room hoods, oil pans, or inner panel of door, or structural parts for airplane.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2005Publication date: December 11, 2008Applicant: PRIMOMETAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Kang-Hyung Kim
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Publication number: 20080279715Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a magnesium alloy sheet capable of producing a magnesium alloy sheet having excellent plastic workability such as press workability. The method of the present invention includes rolling a magnesium alloy blank with a reduction roll. The rolling includes controlled rolling performed under the following conditions (1) and (2) wherein M (% by mass) is the Al content in a magnesium alloy constituting the blank: (1) the surface temperature Tb (° C.) of the magnesium alloy blank immediately before insertion into the reduction roll satisfies the following expression: 8.33×M+135?Tb?8.33×M+165 wherein 1.0?M?10.0; and (2) the surface temperature Tr of the reduction roll is 150° C. to 180° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2006Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki Mori, Nozomu Kawabe
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Patent number: 7445751Abstract: A die castable magnesium based alloy comprising, by weight, between about 3 and 10% aluminum, between about 0.5 and 2.5% calcium, up to about 1.5% silicon, up to about 0.7% zinc, and the remainder being magnesium. The alloy has been found to exhibit more favorable castability and creep resistance than comparative magnesium based alloys.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2006Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Chrysler LLCInventor: Randy S. Beals
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Publication number: 20080175744Abstract: A casting heat-resistance Mg alloy improved in heat resistance without relying upon expensive RE contains Cu. More specifically, it contains Al (8.0 weight %), Cu (1.0-5.0 weight %), Zn (2.0 weight %), Be (0.01 weight %) and Mg (the rest). The alloy can be prevented from deteriorating in corrosion resistance by adjusting the added amount of Cu to 1.0-1.5 weight %. The corrosion resistance of the alloy can be improved more by adding 0.5 to 1.0 weight % Mn as well.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2007Publication date: July 24, 2008Inventors: Tetsuichi Motegi, Yosuke Tamura, Yukio Sanpei
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Publication number: 20080033530Abstract: A marker alloy foreign implant made of a biodegradable metallic material and having the composition MgxYbyMz wherein x is equal to 10-60 atomic percent; y is equal to 40-90 atomic percent; z is equal to 0-10 atomic percent; M is one or more element selected from the group consisting of Ag, Zn, Au, Ga, Pd, Pt, Al, Sn, Ca, Nd, Ba, Si, and Ge; and wherein x, y, and z, together, and including contaminants caused by production, result in 100 atomic percent.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2007Publication date: February 7, 2008Applicant: BIOTRONIK VI PATENT AGInventors: Bruno Zberg, Joerg Loeffler, Bodo Gerold
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Patent number: 7261856Abstract: This invention takes advantage of the characteristics that the effective charge numbers of different metals have different values and even with different signs, and alloys are prepared with the metals of different signs of effective charge numbers. The effective charge numbers of the alloys are the summation of the mole fraction of each constituent metal times its respective effective charge number. Based on the knowledge of the calculated effective charge number, alloys are prepared with proper selection of constituent metals and proper ratios. When the alloy is under the influence of an electric field, the atoms, with the tendency to move in the same direction of the electron flow, interact with the atoms, with the tendency to move in the opposite. The alloys are thus electromigration effect-free or electromigration effect-insignificant.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2003Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: National Tsing Hua UniversityInventor: Sinn-Wen Chen
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Patent number: 7041179Abstract: A magnesium based alloy containing at least 85.4 wt % Mg, 4.7 to 7.3 wt % aluminum, 0.17 to 0.60 wt % manganese, 0.0 to 0.8 wt % zinc, 1.8 to 3.2 wt % calcium, 0.3 to 2.2 wt % tin, and 0.0 to 0.5 wt % strontium. The alloy may comprising up to 0.004 wt % iron, up to 0.001 wt % nickel, up to 0.003 wt % copper, or up to 0.03 wt % silicon. In addition, the alloy may comprise up to 0.001 wt % beryllium.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2002Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignees: Dead Sea Magnesium Ltd., Volkswagen AGInventors: Boris Bronfin, Eliyahu Aghion, Frank Von Buch, Soenke Schumann, Mark Katzir
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Patent number: 7029626Abstract: A die castable magnesium based alloy comprising, by weight, between about 3 and 10% aluminum, between about 0.5 and 2.5% calcium, up to about 1.5% silicon, up to about 0.7% zinc, and the remainder being magnesium. The alloy has been found to exhibit more favorable castability and creep resistance than comparative magnesium based alloys.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2004Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: DaimlerChrysler CorporationInventor: Randy S. Beals
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Patent number: 6846451Abstract: There is provided a magnesium alloy containing mass percent Al: 5% to 7%, Ca: 2% to 4%, Mn: 0.1% to 0.8%, Sr: 0.001% to 0.05% and rare earth elements: 0.1% to 0.6%. If necessary, an allowable content is set in each of Si, Zn, Cu, Ni, Fe and Cl of the unavoidable impurities, with Si not higher than mass percent 0.01%, Zn not higher than mass percent 0.01%, Cu not higher than mass percent 0.008%, Ni not higher than mass percent 0.001%, Fe not higher than mass percent 0.004%, and Cl not higher than mass percent 0.003%. There is also provided a magnesium alloy member injected in the die by using such an alloy.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2002Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Assignee: The Japan Steel Works, Ltd.Inventors: Ryouhei Uchida, Kenzi Yamada, Makoto Matsuyama, Tadayoshi Tsukeda
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Patent number: 6808679Abstract: A magnesium-based casting alloy having good salt-spray corrosion resistance and improved creep resistance, tensile yield strength and bolt-load retention, particularly at elevated temperatures of at least 150° C., is provided. The inventive alloy comprises, in weight percent, 2 to 9% aluminum and 0.5 to 7% strontium, with the balance being magnesium except for impurities commonly found in magnesium alloys. A method of making an oxidation-resistant alloy melt, and the alloy melt prepared by such a method, are also provided. The alloy melt comprises magnesium as a primary alloying metal, and aluminum and strontium as secondary alloying metals, while the inventive method comprises: melting the alloying metals under an atmosphere of an inert gas selected from a mixture of carbon dioxide and sulfur fluoride gas, a mixture of nitrogen and sulfur dioxide gas, and combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2001Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Noranda, Inc.Inventors: Mihriban Ozden Pekguleryuz, Pierre Labelle, Pierre Vermette
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Patent number: 6793877Abstract: Magnesium alloy with improved corrosion resistance comprising magnesium, 1.5-5 weight % Al, 0.6-1.4 weight % Si, 0.01-0.6 weight % Mn and 0.01-0.4 weight % RE. Method of improving the corrosion resistance of magnesium, aluminium, silicon alloys where Mn is added in order to reduce FE impurities, by keeping both Mn and Fe at a low level by adding small amounts of RE.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2002Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: Norsk Hydro ASAInventors: Ketil Pettersen, Marianne Videm, Jan Ivar Skar
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Publication number: 20040163744Abstract: Magnesium-based alloy wire excelling in strength and toughness, its method of manufacture, and springs in which the magnesium-based alloy wire is utilized are made available. The magnesium-based alloy wire contains, in mass %, 0.1 to 12.0% Al, and 0.1 to 1.0% Mn, and is provided with the following constitution. Diameter d that is 0.1 mm or more and 10.0 mm or less; length L that is 1000 d or more; tensile strength that is 250 MPa or more; necking-down rate that is 15% or more; and elongation that is 6% or more. Such wire is produced by draw-forming it at a working temperature of 50° C. or more, and by heating it to a temperature of 100° C. or more and 300° C. or less after the drawing process has been performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2003Publication date: August 26, 2004Inventors: Yukihiro Oishi, Nozomu Kawabe
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Publication number: 20040159188Abstract: A method for suppressing oxidation and burning in a molten magnesium alloy which my contain beryllium, comprising covering the exposed surface of the molten alloy in a protective atmosphere and dissolving strontium into the molten alloy is disclosed. This has the benefit of reducing magnesium losses due to oxidation thereby improving efficiency of the process. There is also disclosed a magnesium casting alloy comprising from about 1% to 10% by weight of aluminum, from about 1% to 30% by weight of zinc, from about 0.004% to 0.05 % by weight of strontium and unavoidable impurities, the balance being magnesium. Finally, there is disclosed a beryllium free magnesium die casting which is essentially free of flux inclusions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2003Publication date: August 19, 2004Inventors: Mihriban O. Pekguleryuz, Pierre Vermette
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Patent number: 6719857Abstract: The present invention provides a die casting magnesium alloy having excellent heat resistance and castability, and the alloy of the present invention is a die casting magnesium alloy having excellent heat resistance and castability, comprising 2 to 6% by weight of Al, 0.3 to 2% by weight of Ca, 0.01 to 1% by weight of Sr, 0.1 to 1% by weight of Mn, the balance magnesium and unavoidable impurities. According to the present invention, more excellent effects can be obtained in the composition wherein rare earth elements are added to the composition described above.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2001Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignee: Mitsubishi Aluminum Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Ohori, Yusuke Nakaura, Takeshi Sakagami
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Patent number: 6582533Abstract: Magnesium alloys containing, by mass percent, Al: 10.0 to 13.0%, Si: 0.3 to 1.5%, Mn: 0.1 to 1.0%, and, if desired, Zn: less than 0.8%, the rest being Mg and unavoidable impurities. Neither cracking by the casting is invited nor the mechanical property is spoiled, and the fluidity can be notably improved, and it is possible to make products small in thickness and light in weight.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: The Japan Steel Works, Ltd.Inventors: Tadayoshi Tukeda, Akihiro Maehara, Katsuhiko Nuibe, Ryouhei Uchida
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Patent number: 6514309Abstract: An alloy feedstock for semi-solid metal injection molding. The alloy feedstock is an alloy material in particulate form and has a heterogeneous structure, a temperature range at 20% of the height of the peak of the main melting reaction greater than 40° C., and having a ratio of the height of the peak of the eutectic reaction to the height of the main melting reaction of less than 0.5.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2001Date of Patent: February 4, 2003Assignee: Thixomat, Inc.Inventors: Stephen E. LeBeau, D. Matthew Walukas, Raymond F. Decker
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Patent number: 6342180Abstract: A magnesium-based casting alloy having improved elevated temperature properties and good salt-spray corrosion resistance. The inventive alloy comprises: 1 to 12% by wt. aluminum; 0.1 to 0.6% by wt. strontium; and 0.1 to 0.5% by wt. calcium, with the balance being magnesium except for impurities commonly found in magnesium alloys.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2000Date of Patent: January 29, 2002Assignee: Noranda, Inc.Inventors: Michel Lefebvre, Mihriban Ozden Pekguleryuz, Pierre Labelle
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Patent number: 6322644Abstract: A magnesium-based casting alloy having good salt-spray corrosion resistance and improved creep resistance, tensile yield strength and bolt-load retention, particularly at elevated temperatures of at least 150° C., is provided. The inventive alloy comprises, in weight percent, 2 to 9% aluminum and 0.5 to 7% strontium, with the balance being magnesium except for impurities commonly found in magnesium alloys.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1999Date of Patent: November 27, 2001Assignee: Norands, Inc.Inventors: Mihriban Ozden Pekguleryuz, Pierre Labelle
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Patent number: 5855697Abstract: A magnesium based alloy exhibiting superior elevated-temperature properties such as creep resistance and tensile strength and die castability such as reduced hot-cracking and die-sticking, contains about 2 to 9 wt. % aluminum, 6 to 12 wt. % zinc, 0.1 to 2.0 wt. % calcium, optionally 0.2 to 0.5 wt. % manganese, and the balance comprising magnesium. The alloy includes the intermetallic compound Mg--Al--Zn--Ca at the grain boundaries of the magnesium crystals. The alloy according to this invention may have a creep extension of less than about 0.6% at the tensile stress of about 35 MPa and the temperature of about 150.degree. C., and a tensile yield strength of at least 110 MPa at the temperature of about 150.degree. C. The alloy is particularly useful in die casting applications.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1997Date of Patent: January 5, 1999Assignee: Imra America, Inc.Inventors: Aihua A. Luo, Toru Shinoda
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Patent number: 5681403Abstract: A magnesium Mg--Al--RE magnesium alloy wherein an amount of a rare earth component may be reduced while optimial tensile strength and durability are obtained. The Alloy further includes a small calcium component. A high degree of creep resistance is obtained. Further, additional copper and/or zinc components may be introduced together, or singly for providing favorable tensile characteristics to the alloy material.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1994Date of Patent: October 28, 1997Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Ube Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kunihiko Makino, Toshiro Kawata, Kyosuke Kanemitsu, Koji Watanabe, Masaji Matsunaga, Mamoru Sayashi
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Patent number: 5669990Abstract: A--Si containing magnesium alloy for casting with a melt thereof with a cast structure having eutectic compounds of Mg.sub.2 Si produced to improve creep strength of a cast product, preferably a Si-containing magnesium alloy of a Mg--Al--Zn system having either 0.01% to 2.0% or 6 to 12% of Zn and 6 to 12% of Al, is disclosed with the improvement in that the alloy contains 0.3 to 1.5% by weight of Si in combination with 0.005 to 0.2% of Sr added to effect refinement of the eutectic compounds to thereby reduce hot cracking and improve mechanical properties of the cast product, while the improved creep strength is preserved.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1996Date of Patent: September 23, 1997Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuru Adachi, Satoru Sato, Hiroto Sasaki