Chromium Or Molybdenum Containing Patents (Class 420/421)
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Patent number: 11834737Abstract: The titanium alloy coating film of the present invention is represented by (Ti1-aMoa)1-xNx, which satisfies 0.0423 a?0.32 and 0.40?x?0.60 and in which the film hardness thereof satisfies at least a condition of 3,000 HV or more; and the titanium alloy target material is represented by Ti1-aMoa, which satisfies 0.04?a?0.32, and in which, when an X-ray diffraction profile is measured on a surface of the target material, a diffraction peak intensity attributed to a single metal phase of Mo is not detected.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: DAIDO STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiromasa Takeda, Wataru Araki, Kazuya Sakaguchi, Katsuko Ofuji, Jun Totsuka, Kazuki Minami
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Patent number: 11807911Abstract: A heat treatment method for a titanium-aluminum (TiAl) intermetallic includes the following steps: providing a TiAl intermetallic casting material; performing a first-stage heat treatment on the TiAl intermetallic casting material, where the TiAl intermetallic casting material is heated until a metallographic structure thereof is transformed into the ?+? phase, and is then cooled to room temperature to form a transitional casting material; and performing a second-stage heat treatment on the transitional casting material, where the transitional casting material is heated until a metallographic structure thereof is transformed into the ? single phase, and is then cooled to room temperature to form a TiAl intermetallic.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: METAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTREInventors: Hong-Yuan Sun, Chen-Hsueh Chang
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Patent number: 11708626Abstract: A titanium-aluminum intermetallic for improving casting fluidity includes the following elements in atomic percentage: Al: 40 at % to 50 at %, Cr: 1 at % to 8 at %, Nb: 1 at % to 8 at %, Mo: 1 at % to 5 at %, Mn: 1 at % to 6 at %, Ni+Si+Fe: 1 at % to 15 at %, B: 0.05 at % to 0.8 at %, and the balance of Ti and inevitable impurities. The titanium-aluminum intermetallic in the present disclosure has more adequate casting fluidity, that is, has better castability.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: METAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTREInventors: Hong-Yuan Sun, Chen Hsueh Chiang
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Patent number: 9827605Abstract: A task of the present invention is to provide a Ti—Mo alloy material which can be improved in the yield stress at room temperature by the precipitation of an aged omega phase in the Ti—Mo alloy while maintaining large ductility at room temperature, and a method for producing the same. Provided is a Ti—Mo alloy collectively having an Mo content of 10 to 20 mass %, wherein the Ti—Mo alloy has a winding belt-like or swirly segregation portion having a width of 10 to 20 ?m in the plane of a backscattered electron image (BEI) or an energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) image of the Ti—Mo alloy, as examined under a scanning electron microscope, in which Mo content is larger than the collective Mo content of the Ti—Mo alloy. When generally observing the entire plane examined, a segregation structure in a swirly form can be observed. Further, provided is the Ti—Mo alloy which has been subjected to aging treatment so that an aged omega phase is precipitated along the segregation portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2012Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Satoshi Emura, Koichi Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 9797029Abstract: The present invention provides a heat resistant titanium alloy sheet excellent in cold workability having high temperature strength characteristics better than JIS Class 2 pure titanium and having a cold workability and high temperature oxidation resistance equal to or better than that of JIS Class 2 pure titanium and a method of production of the same, that is, a heat resistant titanium alloy sheet excellent in cold workability characterized by comprising, by mass %, 0.3 to 1.8% of Cu, 0.18% or less of oxygen, 0.30% or less of Fe, and, as needed, at least one of Sn, Zr, Mo, Nb, and Cr in a total of 0.3 to 1.5%, and the balance of Ti and less than 0.3% of impurity elements and by a ?-phase and Ti2Cu-phase being included in a volume percentage of 0 to 2% and, further, a method of production of that titanium alloy sheet characterized by performing the final annealing at 630 to 850° C. in temperature range or performing the hot-rolled sheet or coil annealing or intermediate annealing at 630 to 850° C.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Fujii, Hiroaki Otsuka, Kazuhiro Takahashi
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Patent number: 9476911Abstract: The present invention is a probe having a distal end made of one material, a tip and a portion disposed between the distal end and the tip that is a different second material. The probe is laser machined manufactured using a nanosecond or picosecond laser.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2012Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: MICROPROBE, INC.Inventor: January Kister
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Patent number: 9416435Abstract: Getter devices with improved sorption rate, based on powders of quaternary alloys particularly suitable for hydrogen and carbon monoxide sorption, are described. Quaternary alloys having a composition comprising zirconium, vanadium, titanium and aluminum as main constituent elements are also described.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: SAES GETTERS S.P.A.Inventors: Alberto Coda, Alessandro Gallitognotta, Antonio Bonucci, Andrea Conte
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Publication number: 20150147225Abstract: Provided is a beta-type titanium alloy having a low elastic modulus and a high strength. The titanium alloy includes 6 to 13 wt % of Mo, 0.1 to 3.9 wt % of Fe, a remaining amount of Ti, and inevitable impurity, and selectively includes 0.1 to 3.9 wt % of Al. The titanium alloy according to the present invention has a high tensile strength of greater than or equal to 1,300 MPa and a low elastic modulus of less than or equal to 95 GPa at low cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2012Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF MACHINERY & MATERIALSInventors: Dong Geun Lee, Yong Tai Lee
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Publication number: 20150004337Abstract: The present invention provides a cold sprayed layer of tungsten, molybdenum, titanium, zirconium, or of mixtures of two or more of tungsten, molybdenum, titanium and zirconium, or of alloys of two or more of tungsten, molybdenum, titanium and zirconium, or of alloys of tungsten, molybdenum, titanium, zirconium with other metals, wherein the cold spayed layer has an oxygen content of below 1,000 ppm.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: STEFAN ZIMMERMANN, UWE PAPP, HEINRICH KREYE, TOBIAS SCHMIDT
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Patent number: 8911528Abstract: Molybdenum titanium sputter targets are provided. In one aspect, the targets are substantially free of the ?(Ti, Mo) alloy phase. In another aspect, the targets are substantially comprised of single phase ?(Ti, Mo) alloy. In both aspects, particulate emission during sputtering is reduced. Methods of preparing the targets, methods of bonding targets together to produce large area sputter targets, and films produced by the targets, are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2010Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: H.C. Starck Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Gaydos, Prabhat Kumar, Steve Miller, Norman C. Mills, Gary Rozak, Rong-Chein Richard Wu
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Publication number: 20140348697Abstract: The present invention provides a heat resistant titanium alloy sheet excellent in cold workability having high temperature strength characteristics better than JIS Class 2 pure titanium and having a cold workability and high temperature oxidation resistance equal to or better than that of JIS Class 2 pure titanium and a method of production of the same, that is, a heat resistant titanium alloy sheet excellent in cold workability characterized by comprising, by mass %, 0.3 to 1.8% of Cu, 0.18% or less of oxygen, 0.30% or less of Fe, and, as needed, at least one of Sn, Zr, Mo, Nb, and Cr in a total of 0.3 to 1.5%, and the balance of Ti and less than 0.3% of impurity elements and by a ?-phase and Ti2Cu-phase being included in a volume percentage of 0 to 2% and, further, a method of production of that titanium alloy sheet characterized by performing the final annealing at 630 to 850° C. in temperature range or performing the hot-rolled sheet or coil annealing or intermediate annealing at 630 to 850° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2014Publication date: November 27, 2014Inventors: Hideki Fujii, Hiroaki Otsuka, Kazuhiro Takahashi
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Patent number: 8771590Abstract: The invention refers to the non-ferrous metallurgy, i.e. to the creation of the modern titanium alloys, having the high genericity. Titanium-base alloy contains aluminum, vanadium, molybdenum, chromium, iron, zirconium, oxygen and nitrogen. Herewith the components of the alloy have the following ratio by weight %; aluminun—4.0-6.0; vanadium—4.5-6.0; molybdenum—4.5-6.0; chromium—2.0-3.6; iron—0.2-0.5; zirconium—0.1-less than 0.7; oxygen—0.2 max; nitrogen—0.05 max; titanium—balance. Technical result—creation of the titanium alloy with the required strength and plastic properties. The alloy may be used to produce the wide range of the products including the large-size forgings and die-forgings as well as semiproducts of small section, such as bars and plates up to 75 mm thick.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2006Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: VSMPO-AVISMA CorporationInventors: Vladislav Valentinovich, Igor Vasilievich Levin, Igor Jurievich Puzakov
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Patent number: 8741217Abstract: There is provided a titanium alloy for corrosion-resistant materials, which contains 0.01-0.12% by mass in total of at least one of platinum group elements; at least Si and one of, or both of, Sn and Mn, selected from the group consisting of Al, Cr, Zr, Nb, Si, Sn and Mn, wherein the total content of Al, Cr, Zr, Nb, Si, Sn and Mn is 5% by mass or less; and the residue comprising Ti and impurities.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Satoshi Matsumoto, Keisuke Nagashima, Takashi Maeda
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Publication number: 20140093418Abstract: The invention relates to a part for a component for high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC), in particular a pump head for an HPLC pump, in which the strength has been increased by autofrettage and which consists of a material which is essentially chemically inert to the fluids used in HPLC. The invention further relates to an HPLC pump having a pump head which is configured as such a part.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2012Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: DIONEX SOFTRON GMBHInventors: Adolf Satzinger, Richard Schloderer, Stefan Andreas Seitz
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Publication number: 20140079583Abstract: Disclosed herein are titanium-tungsten alloys and composites wherein the tungsten comprises 0.5% to 40% by weight of the alloy. Also disclosed is a method of making such alloys and composites using powders of tungsten less then 3 ?m in size, such as 1 ?m or less. Also disclosed is a method of making the titanium alloy by powder metallurgy, and products made from such alloys or billets that may be cast, forged, or extruded. These methods of production can be used to make titanium alloys comprising other slow-diffusing beta stabilizers, such as but not limited to V, Nb, Mo, and Ta.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: Dynamet Technology, Inc.Inventors: Stanley Abkowitz, Susan M. Abkowitz, Harvey Fisher, Patricia J. Schwartz
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Publication number: 20140065010Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a metastable ? titanium alloy comprising, in weight percentages: up to 0.05 nitrogen; up to 0.10 carbon; up to 0.015 hydrogen; up to 0.10 iron; greater than 0.20 oxygen; 14.00 to 16.00 molybdenum; titanium; and incidental impurities. Articles of manufacture including the alloy also are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: ATI Properties, Inc.Inventor: ATI Properties, Inc.
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Publication number: 20140014242Abstract: A task of the present invention is to provide a Ti—Mo alloy material which can be improved in the yield stress at room temperature by the precipitation of an aged omega phase in the Ti—Mo alloy while maintaining large ductility at room temperature, and a method for producing the same. Provided is a Ti—Mo alloy collectively having an Mo content of 10 to 20 mass %, wherein the Ti—Mo alloy has a winding belt-like or swirly segregation portion having a width of 10 to 20 ?m in the plane of a backscattered electron image (BEI) or an energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) image of the Ti—Mo alloy, as examined under a scanning electron microscope, in which Mo content is larger than the collective Mo content of the Ti—Mo alloy. When generally observing the entire plane examined, a segregation structure in a swirly form can be observed. Further, provided is the Ti—Mo alloy which has been subjected to aging treatment so that an aged omega phase is precipitated along the segregation portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: Satoshi Emura, Koichi Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 8623155Abstract: Metastable beta titanium alloys and methods of processing metastable ?-titanium alloys are disclosed. For example, certain non-limiting embodiments relate to metastable ?-titanium alloys, such as binary ?-titanium alloys comprising greater than 10 weight percent molybdenum, having tensile strengths of at least 150 ksi and elongations of at least 12 percent. Other non-limiting embodiments relate to methods of processing metastable ?-titanium alloys, and more specifically, methods of processing binary ?-titanium alloys comprising greater than 10 weight percent molybdenum, wherein the method comprises hot working and direct aging the metastable ?-titanium alloy at a temperature below the ?-transus temperature of the metastable ?-titanium alloy for a time sufficient to form ?-phase precipitates in the metastable ?-titanium alloy. Articles of manufacture comprising binary ?-titanium alloys according to various non-limiting embodiments disclosed herein are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2010Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: ATI Properties, Inc.Inventors: Brian Marquardt, John Randolph Wood, Howard L. Freese, Victor R. Jablokov
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Patent number: 8512630Abstract: The present invention relates to pulverulent materials suitable for storing hydrogen, and more particularly to a method of preparing such a material, in which: (A) a composite metallic material having a specific granular structure is prepared by co-melting the following mixtures: a first metallic mixture (m1), which is an alloy (a1) of body-centered cubic crystal structure, based on titanium, vanadium, chromium and/or manganese, or a mixture of these metals in the proportions of the alloy (a1); and a second mixture (m2), which is an alloy (a2), comprising 38 to 42% zirconium, niobium, molybdenum, hafnium, tantalum and/or tungsten and 56 to 60 mol % of nickel and/or copper, or else a mixture of these metals in the proportions of the alloy (a2), with a mass ratio (m2)/(m1+m2) ranging from 0.1 wt % to 20 wt %; and (B) the composite metallic material thus obtained is hydrogenated, whereby the composite material is fragmented (hydrogen decrepitation).Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2012Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.)Inventors: Jean Charbonnier, Patricia De Rango, Daniel Fruchart, Salvatore Miraglia, Sophie Rivoirard, Natalia Skryabina
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Publication number: 20130139564Abstract: A process for making an article of a titanium alloy having ?? phase as a major phase according to the present invention includes providing a work piece of a titanium alloy consisting essentially of 7-9 wt % of molybdenum and the balance titanium and having ?? phase as a major phase; and cold working at least a portion of the work piece at room temperature to obtain a green body of the article, wherein the cold worked portion of the green body has a thickness which is 20%-80% of that of the at least a portion of the work piece, and the cold worked portion has ?? phase as a major phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITYInventor: NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY
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Patent number: 8349248Abstract: A metallic material is made from at least one refractory metal or an alloy based on at least one refractory metal. The metallic material has an oxygen content of about 1,000 to about 30,000 ?g/g and the oxygen is interstitial.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Jens Trotzschel, Bernd Spaniol
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Patent number: 8337750Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a metastable ? titanium alloy comprising, in weight percentages: up to 0.05 nitrogen; up to 0.10 carbon; up to 0.015 hydrogen; up to 0.10 iron; greater than 0.20 oxygen; 14.00 to 16.00 molybdenum; titanium; and incidental impurities. Articles of manufacture including the alloy also are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2005Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: ATI Properties, Inc.Inventors: Victor R. Jablokov, Howard L. Freese
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Patent number: 8262819Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods of heat treating Ti-based alloys and various improvements that can be realized using such heat treatments. In one exemplary implementation, the invention provides a method of forming a metal member that involves forming an alloy into a utile shape and cooling the alloy from a first temperature above a beta transus temperature of the alloy to a second temperature below the beta transus temperature at a cooling rate of no more than about 30° F./minute. If so desired, the alloy my be treated for a period of about 1-12 hours at about 700-1100° F. Titanium alloys treated according to aspects of the invention may have higher tensile strengths and higher fracture toughness than conventional wrought, mill-annealed Ti 64 alloy.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2010Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Robert D. Briggs
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Publication number: 20120189486Abstract: Semi-finished products for the production of devices containing thermoelastic materials with improved reliability and reproducibility are described. The semi-finished products are based on an alloy of Ni—Ti plus elements X and/or Y. The nickel amount is comprised between 40 and 52 atom %, X is comprised between 0.1 and 1 atom %, Y is comprised between 1 and 10 atom % and the balance is titanium. The one or more additional elements X are chosen from Al, Ta, Hf, Si, Ca, Ce, La, Re, Nb, V, W, Y, Zr, Mo, and B. The one or more additional elements Y are chosen from Al, Ag, Au, Co, Cr, Fe, Mn, Mo, Nb, Pd, Pt, Ta and W.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: SAES SMART MATERIALSInventors: Francis E. SCZERZENIE, Graeme William PAUL
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Publication number: 20110097236Abstract: Molybdenum titanium sputter targets are provided. In one aspect, the targets are substantially free of the ?(Ti, Mo) alloy phase. In another aspect, the targets are substantially comprised of single phase ?(Ti, Mo) alloy. In both aspects, particulate emission during sputtering is reduced. Methods of preparing the targets, methods of bonding targets together to produce large area sputter targets, and films produced by the targets, are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: H. C. Starck Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Gaydos, Prabhat Kumar, Steve Miller, Norman C. Mills, Gary Rozak, Rong-Chein Richard Wu
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Publication number: 20110070121Abstract: Provided is a beta-based titanium alloy with a low elastic modulus, including no elements harmful to the human body and having excellent biocompatibility. The beta-based titanium alloy includes titanium (Ti), niobium (Nb) and zirconium (Zr) as major alloying elements, and further includes tantalum (Ta), hafnium (Hf), molybdenum (Mo), tin (Sn), and the like. The beta-based titanium alloy has a much lower elastic modulus than the typical biomedical titanium alloys, and thus can resolve the problem of so-called “stress shield effect.” Therefore, the beta-based titanium alloy can be widely used as a material for general civilian goods such as eyewear frames and headsets and sports and leisure goods, as well as a biomedical material for artificial bones, artificial teeth and artificial hip joints.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2008Publication date: March 24, 2011Inventors: Dong Geun Lee, Yong Tae Lee, Xujun Mi, Wenjun Ye, Songxiao Hui
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Patent number: 7910512Abstract: To provide a production process of an electrode catalyst for fuel cell whose initial voltage is high and whose endurance characteristics, especially, whose voltage drop being caused by high-potential application is less. A production process according to the present invention of an electrode catalyst for fuel cell is characterized in that: it includes: a dispersing step of dispersing a conductive support in a solution; a loading step of dropping a platinum-salt solution, a base-metal-salt solution and an iridium-salt solution to the resulting dispersion liquid, thereby loading respective metallic salts on the conductive support as hydroxides under an alkaline condition; and an alloying step of heating the conductive support with metallic hydroxides loaded in a reducing atmosphere to reduce them, thereby alloying them.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2008Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Cataler CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Takahashi, Sozaburo Ohashi, Tetsuo Kawamura, Yousuke Horiuchi, Toshiharu Tabata, Tomoaki Terada, Takahiro Nagata, Susumu Enomoto
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Patent number: 7910052Abstract: A near-beta titanium alloy having higher strength than ‘Ti-17’ is provided, while suppressing cost increase. Such a near-&bgr; titanium alloy consists of, in weight percent, 0.5-7% of V, 0.5-2.5% of Fe, 0.5-5% of Mo, 0.5-5% of Cr, 3-7% of Al, and the balance of Ti and impurities. When the weight % of V content is expressed as XV, the weight % of Fe content is expressed as XFe, the weight % of Mo content is expressed as XMo, and the weight % of Cr content is expressed as XCr; the value of XV+2.95XFe+1.5 XMo+1.65XCr is 9-17%.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2005Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Satoshi Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20110038751Abstract: Metastable beta titanium alloys and methods of processing metastable ?-titanium alloys are disclosed. For example, certain non-limiting embodiments relate to metastable ?-titanium alloys, such as binary ?-titanium alloys comprising greater than 10 weight percent molybdenum, having tensile strengths of at least 150 ksi and elongations of at least 12 percent. Other non-limiting embodiments relate to methods of processing metastable ?-titanium alloys, and more specifically, methods of processing binary ?-titanium alloys comprising greater than 10 weight percent molybdenum, wherein the method comprises hot working and direct aging the metastable ?-titanium alloy at a temperature below the ?-transus temperature of the metastable ?-titanium alloy for a time sufficient to form ?-phase precipitates in the metastable ?-titanium alloy. Articles of manufacture comprising binary ?-titanium alloys according to various non-limiting embodiments disclosed herein are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: ATI Properties, Inc.Inventors: Brian Marquardt, John Randolph Wood, Howard L. Freese, Victor R. Jablokov
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Publication number: 20100329919Abstract: A titanium base alloy powder having lesser amounts of aluminum and vanadium with an alkali or alkaline earth metal being present in an amount of less than about 200 ppm. The alloy powder is neither spherical nor angular and flake shaped. 6/4 alloy is specifically disclosed having a packing fraction or tap density between 4 and 11%, as is a method for making the various alloys.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Inventors: Lance E. Jacobsen, Adam John Benish
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Publication number: 20100322817Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a titanium alloy material that exerts excellent corrosion resistance at a low cost in non-oxidizing environment such as a sulfuric acid environment, high temperature neutral chloride environment, or high temperature neutral chloride environment containing fluoride, a structural member using the titanium alloy material, and a container for radioactive waste using the titanium alloy material. Disclosed are a titanium alloy containing ruthenium (Ru): 0.005-0.10 mass %, palladium (Pd): 0.005-0.10 mass %, nickel (Ni): 0.01-2.0 mass %, chromium (Cr): 0.01-2.0 mass %, vanadium (V): 0.01-2.0 mass %, with the remainder including titanium (Ti) and inevitable impurities, and a structural member and a container for radioactive waste using the titanium alloy material.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Shinji SAKASHITA, Kyosuke FUJISAWA
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Publication number: 20100310410Abstract: There is provided a titanium alloy for corrosion-resistant materials, which contains 0.01-0.12% by mass in total of at least one of platinum group elements; at least Si and one of, or both of, Sn and Mn, selected from the group consisting of Al, Cr, Zr, Nb, Si, Sn and Mn, wherein the total content of Al, Cr, Zr, Nb, Si, Sn and Mn is 5% by mass or less; and the residue comprising Ti and impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2010Publication date: December 9, 2010Inventors: Satoshi Matsumoto, Keisuke Nagashima, Takashi Maeda
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Patent number: 7802611Abstract: A process for producing a medical implant from a titanium alloy, by investment-casting a ?-titanium alloy in a casting mold which corresponds to the implant that is to be produced, hot isostatic pressing, solution annealing, and then quenching. The corresponding medical implant is produced from the titanium alloy using the investment casting process, thus allowing economical production of objects from ?-titanium alloys. The ?-titanium alloy and has a mean grain size of at least 0.3 mm. It is possible to combine the advantageous properties of ?-titanium alloys, in particular their excellent mechanical properties, with the advantages of producing objects by the precision casting process, thus enabling even implants of complex shapes, such as femur parts of hip joint prostheses, which have heretofore been impossible (economically) to produce by conventional forging processes, to be produced from a ?-titanium alloy.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2006Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Waldemar Link GmbH & Co., KGInventors: Sevki Baliktay, Arnold Keller
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Patent number: 7785429Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods of heat treating Ti-based alloys and various improvements that can be realized using such heat treatments. In one exemplary implementation, the invention provides a method of forming a metal member that involves forming an alloy into a utile shape and cooling the alloy from a first temperature above a beta transus temperature of the alloy to a second temperature below the beta transus temperature at a cooling rate of no more than about 30° F./minute. If so desired, the alloy my be treated for a period of about 1-12 hours at about 700-1100° F. Titanium alloys treated according to aspects of the invention may have higher tensile strengths and higher fracture toughness than conventional wrought, mill-annealed Ti 64 alloy.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2003Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Robert D. Briggs
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Publication number: 20090068054Abstract: To provide a Ti—Ni—Nb alloy device which is a shape memory device excellent in response characteristics. The Ti—Ni—Nb alloy device is made of a Ti—Ni—Nb alloy which finishes transformation at a temperature lower than 10° C. after start of reverse transformation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2006Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicant: NEC TOKIN CORPORATIONInventors: Michihide Ozawa, Kiyoshi Yamauchi, Yuji Sutou, Takamitsu Takagi, Shuzou Yamashita, Kouji Mori
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Patent number: 7479194Abstract: A damage tolerant microstructure for a lamellar alloy, such as a lamellar ?TiAl alloy, is provided in accordance with the present invention. The alloy comprises a matrix and a plurality of grains or lamellar colonies, a portion of which exhibit a nonplanar morphology within said matrix. Each of the lamellar colonies contains a multitude of lamella with irregularly repeating order. The ?TiAl platelets have a triangular (octahedral) unit cell and stack with ? twins. The ?2Ti3Al platelets are irregularly interspersed. The unit cell for ?2Ti3Al is hexagonal. Each of the layers has a curved, nonplanar structure for resisting crack formation and growth.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2005Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventor: Daniel P. DeLuca
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Publication number: 20090004042Abstract: An object is to provide a titanium alloy for corrosion-resistant materials that is capable of being produced at low cost while maintaining the capability to suppress the deterioration of corrosion resistance. According to the present invention, there is provided a titanium alloy for corrosion-resistant materials, which contains 0.01-0.12% by mass in total of at least one of platinum group elements, at least one of Al, Cr, Zr, Nb, Si, Sn and Mn, and the residue comprising Ti and impurities, in which the total content of Al, Cr, Zr, Nb, Si, Sn and Mn is 5% by mass or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2006Publication date: January 1, 2009Inventors: Satoshi Matsumoto, Keisuke Nagashima, Takashi Maeda
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Patent number: 7465423Abstract: A braze material and method of brazing titanium metals. The material may consist of Ti, Ni, Cu Zr, PM and M where PM is a precious metal and M may be Fe, V, Cr, Co, Mo, Nb, Mn, Si, Sn, Al, B, Gd, Ge or combinations thereof, with the (Cu+PM)/Ni ratio around 0.9. Optionally, a second brazing may be performed to rebraze any braze joint that did not braze successfully. The second brazing material has a lower braze temperature than the first and may consist of a mixture of Ti, Ni, Cu, Zr PM and M with from 1-20 wt % more Zr, PM, M or combinations thereof than the first braze. The braze material may be placed on a base material, in a vacuum furnace, and heated to form a braze joint between the braze and base material. The heating step may occur from about 800-975° C. and over 3 to 15 minutes.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2006Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: Honeywell International, Inc.Inventors: Derek Raybould, Paul Chipko, Matthew Pohlman
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Publication number: 20080216602Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the reprocessing or production of a sputter target or an X-ray anode wherein a gas flow forms a gas/powder mixture with a powder of a material chosen from the group consisting of niobium, tantalum, tungsten, molybdenum, titanium, zirconium, mixtures of two or more thereof and alloys thereof with at least two thereof or with other metals, the powder has a particle size of 0.5 to 150 ?m, wherein a supersonic speed is imparted to the gas flow and the jet of supersonic speed is directed on to the surface of the object to be reprocessed or produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2007Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: H. C. Starck GmbHInventors: Stefan Zimmermann, Uwe Papp, Hans Keller, Steven A. Miller, Prabhat Kumar, Mark Gaydos, Rong-Chen Richard Wu
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Patent number: 7422644Abstract: The present invention provides non-axially symmetrical manufactured parts of thickness less than 10 mm, made of ? or quasi-? titanium alloy, having a core microstructure constituted by whole grains presenting a slenderness ratio greater than 4 and an equivalent diameter lying in the range 10 ?m to 300 ?m. The invention also provides a method of manufacturing the parts by forging.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2006Date of Patent: September 9, 2008Assignee: Snecma MoteursInventors: Blandine Barbier, Philippe Gallois, Claude Mons, Agathe Venard, Pascal Vignolles
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Patent number: 7261782Abstract: A titanium alloy obtained by a cold-working step, in which 10% or more of cold working is applied to a raw titanium alloy, comprising a Va group element and the balance of titanium substantially, and an aging treatment step, in which a cold-worked member, obtained after the cold-working step, is subjected to an aging treatment so that the parameter “P” falls in a range of from 8.0 to 18.5 at a treatment temperature falling in a range of from 150° C. to 600° C.; and characterized in that its tensile elastic limit strength is 950 MPa or more and its elastic deformation capability is 1.6% or more. This titanium alloy is of high elastic deformation capability as well as high tensile elastic limit strength, and can be utilized in a variety of products extensively.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2001Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo KenkyushoInventors: JungHwan Hwang, Tadahiko Furuta, Kazuaki Nishino, Takashi Saito
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Patent number: 7175721Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing high-performance Cr—Ti—V hydrogen storage alloys utilizing a thermit process, whereby residence of adversely affecting impurities is inhibited, addition of not less than 10 at % of Ti as an alloy component is realized, and thermal burden on the crucible used in the method is reduced. The method includes the steps of: (A) providing an alloy material (1) comprising a Cr oxide, a V oxide, and a reducing agent Al, and an alloy material (2) comprising Ti; (B) placing the alloy materials in a crucible for thermit reduction so that the alloy material (1) is placed above the alloy material (2); (C) igniting the alloy material (1) placed in step (B) and melting all metal elements contained in the alloy materials the with heat of the thermit reaction of the alloy material (1); and (D) making the alloy melt obtained in step (C) into an alloy.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2002Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: Santoku CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Takata, Yutaka Oka, Junichi Nakagawa, Akira Neoda
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Patent number: 7108757Abstract: A reversible hydrogen storage alloy capable of storing large amounts of hydrogen and delivering reversibly large amounts of hydrogen at temperatures ranging from 0° C. up to 40° C. The hydrogen storage alloy is generally composed of titanium, vanadium, and chromium. The alloy may further include manganese. Modifier elements such as zirconium, iron, nickel, molybdenum, ruthenium, and/or cobalt, and scavenger elements such as misch metal, calcium, and/or magnesium may be included in the alloy to improve performance.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2003Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignee: Ovonic Hydrogen Systems LLCInventors: Baoquan Huang, Stanford R. Ovshinsky
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Patent number: 7094493Abstract: A method for absorbing and releasing hydrogen comprises applying repeatedly hydrogen pressurization and depressurization to a hydrogen storage metal alloy of a body-centered cubic structure-type phase exerting a two-stage or inclined plateau characteristic in a hydrogen storage amount vs hydrogen pressure relation in an appropriate fashion to absorb and release hydrogen. At least at one stage during the release of hydrogen, the temperature (T2) of the above-mentioned hydrogen storage metal alloy is made higher than the temperature (T1) of the hydrogen storage metal alloy during the hydrogen absorption process (T2>T1). This enables the release and utilization of occluded hydrogen at a low-pressure plateau region or an inclined plateau lower region.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2004Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignees: Tohoku Techno Arch Co., Ltd., Dowa Mining Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masuo Okada, Takahiro Kuriiwa
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Patent number: 7037389Abstract: The present invention provides non-axially symmetrical manufactured parts of thickness less than 10 mm, made of ? or quasi-? titanium alloy, having a core microstructure constituted by whole grains presenting a slenderness ratio greater than 4 and an equivalent diameter lying in the range 10 ?m to 300 ?m. The invention also provides a method of manufacturing the parts by forging.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2003Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignee: Snecma MoteursInventors: Blandine Barbier, Philippe Gallois, Claude Mons, Agathe Venard, Pascal Vignolles
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Patent number: 7008489Abstract: An alpha-beta, titanium-base alloy with improved ductility at high strength levels compared to commercially available alloys, such as Ti-17. The alloy exhibits at least a 20% improvement in ductility at a given strength level compared to Ti-17. The alloy comprises, in weight %, 3.2 to 4.2 Al, 1.7 to 2.3 Sn, 2 to 2.6 Zr, 2.9 to 3.5 Cr, 2.3 to 2.9 Mo, 2 to 2.6 V, 0.25 to 0.75 Fe, 0.01 to 0.8 Si, 0.21 max. Oxygen and balance Ti and incidental impurities.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2003Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Ti-Pro LLCInventor: Paul J. Bania
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Patent number: 6979375Abstract: A titanium alloy member is characterized in that it comprise 40% by weight or more titanium (Ti), a IVa group element and/or a Va group element other than the titanium, wherein a summed amount including the IVa group element and/or the Va group element as well as the titanium is 90% by weight or more, and one or more members made in an amount of from 0.2 to 2.0% by weight and selected from an interstitial element group consisting of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon, and that its basic structure is a body-centered tetragonal crystal or a body-centered cubic crystal in which a ratio (c/a) of a distance between atoms on the c-axis with respect to a distance between atoms on the a-axis falls in a range of from 0.9 to 1.1. This titanium alloy member has such working properties that conventional titanium alloys do not have, is flexible, exhibits a high strength, and can be utilized in a variety of products.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2001Date of Patent: December 27, 2005Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo KenkyushoInventors: Tadahiko Furuta, Yoshiki Seno, JungHwan Hwang, Kazuaki Nishino, Takashi Saito
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Patent number: 6974507Abstract: A damage tolerant microstructure for a lamellar alloy, such as a lamellar ?TiAl alloy, is provided in accordance with the present invention. The alloy comprises a matrix and a plurality of grains or lamellar colonies, a portion of which exhibit a nonplanar morphology within said matrix. Each of the lamellar colonies contains a multitude of lamella with irregularly repeating order. The ?TiAl platelets have a triangular (octahedral) unit cell and stack with ? twins. The ?2Ti3Al platelets are irregularly interspersed. The unit cell for ?2Ti3Al is hexagonal. Each of the layers has a curved, nonplanar structure for resisting crack formation and growth.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2003Date of Patent: December 13, 2005Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventor: Daniel P. DeLuca
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Patent number: 6921441Abstract: A super-elastic titanium alloy for medical use consisting essentially of: a molybdenum (Mo) as a ? stabilizer element of titanium (Ti): from 2 to 12 at %; an ? stabilizer element of the titanium (Ti): from 0.1 to 14 at %; and the balance being titanium (Ti) and inevitable impurities. The ? stabilizer element is at least one element selected from the group consisting of aluminum (Al), gallium (Ga) and germanium (Ge).Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2003Date of Patent: July 26, 2005Assignee: Furukawa Techno Material Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toyonobu Tanaka, Hiroshi Horikawa, Shuichi Miyazaki, Hideki Hosoda
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Patent number: 6918971Abstract: A sheet, a plate, a bar or wire is made of Ti and has high ductility and low material anistropy in a plane of a sheet or plate, or in a sectional plane of a bar or a wire and contains Fe, in mass, at 0.15-0.5%, N at 0.015-0.041 and 0, with the balance Ti and unavoidable impurities. When the Fe content is defined as [Fe], the N content as [N] and the 0 content as [0], the oxygen equivalent value Q=[0]+2.77[N]+0.1 [Fe] is 0.11-0.28.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2002Date of Patent: July 19, 2005Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Hideki Fujii, Isamu Takayama, Yoshito Yamashita, Mitsuo Ishii, Kazuhiro Takahashi