Aluminum, Copper, Or Zinc Particles Patents (Class 427/192)
  • Patent number: 6482467
    Abstract: Provided is a ceramic coated product and a coating for it, making it possible to improve corrosion resistance, wear resistance and the like of a material to be treated, and heighten aesthetically commercial value by a thin film forming or producing method using low-priced equipment. An ejection powder and a reactive ejecting gas are ejected onto a surface of a material to be treated comprising a metal product, a ceramic, or a mixture thereof. The ejection powder is heated on the surface of the material to be treated and then is reacted with the reactive ejecting gas. The resultant product is activation-adsorbed onto the surface of the material to be treated and caused to diffuse and penetrate thereinto. Thus, a layer made of a nitride or other compounds is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: Fuji Kihan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 6444259
    Abstract: A process (20) for applying a thermal barrier coating (51) to a turbine component (50) including the step (34) of depositing a bond coating layer (56) by, directing solid particles using a cold spray process. The layer of bond coating material may have different depths (80,82) in different areas of the component (50), and it may have different compositions (60,62) across its depth. The precise control afforded by the cold spray material deposition step allows the surface of the bond coating material layer to be formed with a predetermined surface roughness or with a plurality of micro-ridges (86) in order to optimize its bond to the overlying ceramic insulating layer (52).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventors: Ramesh Subramanian, Gregg P. Wagner, Brij B. Seth
  • Publication number: 20020119337
    Abstract: Coatings containing particulate metal alloy are disclosed. The coatings provide corrosion protection to a substrate, such as a metal substrate. The coatings contain zinc-metal-containing alloy in flake form, most particularly an alloy flake of zinc and aluminum. The coating can be from compositions that are water-based or solvent-based. The compositions for providing the coating may also contain a substituent such as a water-reducible organofunctional silane, or a hexavalent-chromium-providing substance, or a titanate polymer, or a silica substance constituent. The coating may desirably be topcoated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2002
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Inventors: Etienne Georges Maze, Gilbert Louis Lelong, Terry E. Dorsett, Donald J. Guhde, Toshio Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 6406561
    Abstract: A “one-step” method of forming diffused noble metal-aluminide coatings with or without minor incorporations of Si, Cr, Mn, Hf, La, and Y, is disclosed. With the inventive method, two or more powdered metals or metal alloys are applied and diffused into the metal substrate together, using a sequential multi-stage heating process. This method contrasts with the prior art technology where metals were applied and diffused into the substrate separately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: George E. Creech, Subhash K. Naik, Paul S. Korinko
  • Patent number: 6395406
    Abstract: A method for preparing an aluminum alloy-containing coating composition is described. A slurry containing a selected amount of aluminum is combined with at least one additional slurry containing a selected amount of a second metal which forms an alloy with aluminum. The resulting slurry mixture is applied to a metal substrate, and then heated to form a substantially devolatilized coating. The coating then receives a secondary heat treatment. Related compositions and articles are also described, as are processes for repairing a damaged or worn coating, utilizing the slurry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: D Sangeeta
  • Patent number: 6355313
    Abstract: A hollow work having a hole communicating with the outside and a fine metal powder producing material are placed into a treating vessel, where the fine metal powder producing material is brought into flowing contact with the surface of the work, thereby adhering a fine metal powder produced from the fine metal powder producing material to the surface of the work. The hollow work may be a ring-shaped bonded magnet. Thus, a film having an excellent corrosion resistance can be formed without use of a third component such as a resin and a coupling agent by providing an electric conductivity to the entire surface of the magnet, i.e., not only to the outer surface (including end faces) but also to the inner surface of the magnet and subjecting the magnet to an electroplating treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: Sumitomo Special Metals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohshi Yoshimura, Takeshi Nishiuchi, Fumiaki Kikui
  • Patent number: 6344237
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a means for the surface preparation of a metal or metal alloy substrate. In the process of the present invention, a stream of a mixture of flux particles and metal particles is hurled at the substrate at velocities effective for flux adhesion to the surface. The velocities of the particle stream is adjusted so that the flux particles adhere to the surface and the metal particles bounce off the surface. At higher temperatures and velocities, the metal particles are co-deposited with the flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2002
    Assignee: Alcoa Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond J. Kilmer, John B. Eye
  • Publication number: 20020009542
    Abstract: Provided is a ceramic coated product and a coating for it, making it possible to improve corrosion resistance, wear resistance and the like of a material to be treated, and heighten aesthetically commercial value by a thin film forming or producing method using low-priced equipment. An ejection powder and a reactive ejecting gas are ejected onto a surface of a material to be treated comprising a metal product, a ceramic, or a mixture thereof. The ejection powder is heated on the surface of the material to be treated and then is reacted with the reactive ejecting gas. The resultant product is activation-adsorbed onto the surface of the material to be treated and caused to diffuse and penetrate thereinto. Thus, a layer made of a nitride or other compounds is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 1998
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventor: YOSHIO MIYASAKA
  • Patent number: 6299935
    Abstract: A method for coating a surface of a substrate includes providing a substrate having a surface, coating the surface with a foam suspension containing a powder suspended in a foam to form a coating on the surface, wherein the coating has an activator; and subjecting the substrate to a diffusion treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Dong-Sil Park, James Anthony Ruud, Thomas Joseph Cartier, Jr., Joseph David Rigney, Jeffrey Allan Pfaendtner
  • Patent number: 6291012
    Abstract: Method for forming metallic coat where, the surface of workpiece is partly covered with a masking material having a predetermined pattern, and metallic powders are ejected to the surface at the ejection velocity of 80 m/sec or higher or at the ejection pressure of 0.3 Mpa or higher by utilizing an ejection apparatus such as blast work apparatus, in order to easily attain the metallic coat having high adhesion strength without washing process, nor heat process by a relatively simple facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Kihan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Miyasaka
  • Publication number: 20010021741
    Abstract: This invention relates to a phosphoric acid group-containing non-aqueous dispersion wherein polymer particles are dispersed in a solution of a macromolecular dispersion stabilizer dissolved in an organic solvent, said polymer particle being a particle of polymer comprising a phosphoric acid group-containing polymerizable unsaturated monomeric unit as a constituent component. With use of said phosphoric acid group-containing non-aqueous dispersion, there can be improved interlayer adhesivity between a metallic coating film, which is formed from a leafing type aluminum flake pigment, and another coating film adjacent thereto, without reducing the excellent effects such as dense metallic feeling of the coated surface, a chrome plating-like finish, and strong brightness feeling and strong flip-flop perperties, which are produced by such a metallic coating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2001
    Publication date: September 13, 2001
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yukawa, Yutaka Masuda, Akimasa Nakahata
  • Patent number: 6232004
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for treating ceramic materials, including oxide ceramic materials such as zirconia, with a treatment agent comprising a metallic material, such as titanium, by contacting a surface of the ceramic material with the treatment agent and heating the assembly to a temperature at which the ceramic material incorporates a portion of the metallic material by diffusion. The treated ceramic material is uniformly darkened and exhibits improved structural and physical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Pacific Coast Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian J. Lasater
  • Patent number: 6153027
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a battery can-forming material, comprising the steps of spreading metal powder on a hot-rolled steel plate (hot coil) or applying said metal powder in the form of paste to a surface thereof; annealing and then rolling the hot-rolled steel plate having the metal powder applied to the surface thereof to form a metal layer consisting of the metal powder on the surface thereof; cold-rolling the hot-rolled steel plate and the metal layer; annealing the hot-rolled steel plate and the metal layer; and rolling the hot-rolled steel plate and the metal layer by a skin pass roller. Instead of forming the metal layer of the metal powder, the metal powder may be plated on the surface of the hot-rolled steel plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: Katayama Special Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Sugikawa
  • Patent number: 6139913
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for kinetic spray coating of substrate surfaces by impingement of air or gas entrained powders of small particles in a range up to at least 106 microns accelerated to supersonic velocity in a spray nozzle. Preferably powders of metals, alloys, polymers and mixtures thereof or with semiconductors or ceramics are entrained in unheated air and passed through an injection tube into a larger flow of heated air for mixing and acceleration through a supersonic nozzle for coating of an article by impingement of the yieldable particles. A preferred apparatus includes a high pressure air supply carrying entrained particles exceeding 50 microns through an injection tube into heated air in a mixing chamber for mixing and acceleration in the nozzle. The mixing chamber is supplied with high pressure heated air through a main air passage having an area ratio relative to the injection tube of at least 80/1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: National Center for Manufacturing Sciences
    Inventors: Thomas H. Van Steenkiste, John R. Smith, Richard E. Teets, Jerome J. Moleski, Daniel W. Gorkiewicz
  • Patent number: 6099974
    Abstract: A composite coating provides a solderable surface on materials that cannot otherwise be soldered. The solderable coating is comprised of a composite layer of two components made of metals or metal alloys that function as a solderable material and as a material that enhances solder flow. A thin layer of at least one of the two components can also be incorporated along with the composite layer. A solderable coating can be deposited on a non-solderable surface by any of a variety of thermal spray techniques, including plasma spraying or wire arc spraying. These solderable coatings are particularly useful in the manufacturing of high power electronic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Thermal Spray Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: William J. Lenling
  • Patent number: 6092280
    Abstract: A flexible film interface includes a flexible film; flexible material attached to a portion of the flexible film; surface metallization on the flexible material, the flexible film having at least one via extending therethrough to the surface metallization; and a floating pad structure including floating pad metallization patterned over the flexible material and the surface metallization, a first portion of the floating pad metallization forming a central pad and a second portion of the floating pad metallization forming at least one extension from the central pad and extending into the at least one via.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: General Electric Co.
    Inventor: Robert John Wojnarowski
  • Patent number: 6051277
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of a cerametallic composite part containing a phase rich in Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 which is permeated by a metallic phase consisting predominantly of aluminides, in which process a preform that may have been sintered and comprises at least one oxidic compound reducible by aluminium and maybe also non-oxidic compounds or elements is reacted with molten aluminium or aluminium alloy until aluminide and Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 have formed at least in the surface layer. Composite parts fabricated in this way can serve as wear-resistant or/and high-temperature-resistant components in the construction of machinery, apparatus, engines and turbines, for applications under corrosive or/and oxidizing conditions, as functional elements, especially high-performance brake elements and as electrical or magnetic functional elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Nils Claussen
    Inventors: Nils Claussen, Florian Wagner
  • Patent number: 6037019
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for adhering a powder to a substrate. The process includes the steps of: a) providing an oscillating magnetic field, b) continuously introducing into the magnetic field coating material, a substrate, and a means of affixing the coating material to the substrate by forming a fluidized bed of at least the coating material and providing sufficient force to cause the coating material to adhere to the surface of the substrate, and c) continuously collecting the coated substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Richard L. Kooyer, William A. Hendrickson
  • Patent number: 6015586
    Abstract: High efficiency cold dry plating method for forming an important and highly adherent polycrystalline structured zinc alloy film on metallic substrates by mechanical projection of a composite material.High efficiency cold dry plating method using a composite material described as iron nuclei particles encapsulated by zinc alloy, where the composite material contains 45 to 80% of zinc.Cold dry plating process giving improved yield and short treatment time with high amount of zinc strongly adherent on metallic surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Acheson Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeru Omori, Jean Marie Kieffer
  • Patent number: 6001236
    Abstract: Carbon-containing components of cells for the production of aluminium by the electrolysis of alumina dissolved in a cryolite-based molten electrolyte are protected from attack by liquid and/or gaseous components of the electrolyte in the form of elements, ions or compounds, by a refractory boride coating applied from a slurry composed of pre-formed particulate refractory boride in a colloidal carrier which is dried and heated to consolidate the coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Moltech Invent S.A.
    Inventors: Vittorio de Nora, Jainagesh A. Sekhar
  • Patent number: 5972266
    Abstract: The resistant to biological degradation of composite wood products is improved by applying a suitable aqueous dispersion of zinc borate onto the fibers to uniformly distribute and to adhere the zinc borate to the strands of the wood composite, applying a suitable adhesive to the wood strands, forming a strand lay-up and consolidating a lay-up under heat and pressure to form a consolidated product with zinc borate uniformly distributed therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Trus Joist MacMillan a Limited Partnership
    Inventors: David Fookes, Marek Jan Gnatowski, Robert Leeson Pike, Derek Alexander Templeton
  • Patent number: 5952042
    Abstract: A method of forming a superalloy part comprises: forming a preform from tape, said tape comprising a base metal layer and a braze alloy layer, said base metal layer comprising fibrillated polytetrafluoroethylene and an oxygen-sensitive superalloy base metal powder selected from the group consisting of titanium, aluminum, hafnium, and chromium, and said braze alloy layer comprising fibrilated polytetrafluoroethylene and braze alloy; heating the preform in an hydrogen or vacuum environment. Another method of forming a superalloy part comprises using a tape comprising fibrilated polytetrafluoroethylene, said oxygen-sensitive superalloy base metal powder, and powdered braze alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Coating Applications, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Rafferty, Bruce Rowe
  • Patent number: 5945176
    Abstract: An onion-like graphite 2 is produced by irradiating an electron beam to an amorphous carbon 3 under an active aluminum nanoparticle 1. By further irradiating the electron beam to the onion-like graphite 2 to intercalate aluminum atoms constituting the aluminum nanoparticle 1 in a space between (001) plane and (002) plane of the onion-like graphite 2 having a layer structure, an intercalation compound 4 is produced. Or, after the aluminum nanoparticles were driven and disposed on the onion-like graphite by electron beam, or the like, by irradiating the electron beam to intercalate aluminum atoms in the space between the (001) plane and the (002) plane of the onion-like graphite having a layer structure, the intercalation compound is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignees: Research Development Corporation of Japan, Shun-ichiro Tanaka
    Inventors: BingShe Xu, Shun-ichiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5942291
    Abstract: A process for protecting the surface of a roller bearing against corrosion. The roller bearing is provided with a thin protective coating of a powdered coating material or of a wet coating material and then the bearing is inductively heated, at the coated surface thereof, in the range of 200.degree. C. to 300.degree. C. for a few seconds to cure the coating material. The bearing is thereafter cooled. The wet coating material is based on inorganic substances and is electrically conductive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: FAG Automobiltechnik AG
    Inventor: Karl Bywalez
  • Patent number: 5904953
    Abstract: An insulated metallic strip suitable for use in the coils of power transformers and method of producing the same. Following the extrusion of a flat metallic strip of conductive material for winding into a magnet coil, the flat strip having a predetermined thickness and first and second sides bounded by a pair of fully rounded edges, the method of insulating the strip of conductive material by supporting the flat strip in a level state at a predetermined temperature in a vacuum chamber and while in the vacuum chamber applying a liquid coating of resin to the entire first side of the strip and the pair of rounded edges and extending onto the second side of the strip from each of the edges a distance at least as great as about 0.25" to prevent turn to turn discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: ABB Power T&D Company Inc
    Inventors: Thomas L. Linsenbardt, Norris L. Hill, Hoan Duy Le
  • Patent number: 5879743
    Abstract: A wear-resistant hardfacing and a method for applying such a hardfacing is taught herein. A finely powdered, wear-resistant alloy and a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) solution slurry is coated onto the metal surface of a tool, implement, or similar item to be hardfaced. Alternatively, a binding coating of PVA solution may be applied to the metal surface followed by application of a layer of a powdered alloy. After the slurry or PVA binding coating has dried, leaving a dry coat of alloy in a PVA matrix, the metal surface is heated to the fusion temperature of the alloy in vacuum, in an inert gas atmosphere, or in hydrogen atmosphere. The metal item with the fused coating is heat treated to impart desired mechanical properties to the part substrate material. The method of the present invention gives a smooth, dense coating of the wear-resistant hardfacing without nonmetallic inclusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventor: Gopal S. Revankar
  • Patent number: 5876856
    Abstract: An article such as a spacecraft thermal radiator includes a substrate having a white thermal control coating thereon. The thermal control coating is formed of a matrix of a silica/silicate transformation product of a ceramic precursor, and a plurality of doped zinc oxide pigment particles distributed in the matrix. The zinc oxide pigment particles are doped with an element that forms shallow donorlike states in the zinc oxide. The coating has a solar absorptance of from about 0.2 to about 0.3 and an initial electrical resistivity of from about 1.times.10.sup.6 ohms per square to about 1.times.10.sup.8 ohms per square. The coating is stable at continuous operating temperatures of 225.degree. C., with short-term exposures of up to 800.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: Hughes Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Lynn E. Long
  • Patent number: 5837316
    Abstract: In a gas deposition apparatus includes: an ultra fine particle evaporation chamber; an evaporation source arranged in the ultra fine particle evaporation chamber; a deposition chamber; a substrate arranged in the deposition chamber; a transfer pipe connecting the ultra fine particle evaporation chamber with the deposition chamber; an inlet port of the transfer pipe directly facing to the evaporation source in the ultra fine particle evaporation chamber and an outlet port of the transfer pipe being in the deposition chamber; a nozzle connected to the outlet port of the transfer pipe, facing to the substrate in the deposition chamber; and an introducing port for introducing inert gas into the ultra fine particle evaporation chamber wherein ultra fine particles evaporated from the evaporation source by heating the latter, are transported together with inert gas through the transfer pipe and they are ejected out from the nozzle onto the substrate to form a film or condensation of ultra fine particle thereon, a DC
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Vacuum Metallurgical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eiji Fuchita
  • Patent number: 5820940
    Abstract: The method of preparing an adhesive layer on a substrate includes introducing a thermally reactive powder comprising aluminum and a second metal into a plasma torch, wherein the thermally reactive powder is substantially free of binder, additive and contaminant and does not contain a significant amount of intermetallic compound into a plasma torch. An exothermic reaction is initiated within the thermally reactive powders in the plasma torch and the exotherming powders impinge onto a substrate, such that the heat generated by the exothermic reaction is generated predominantly on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Technalum Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Igor Vasilievich Gorynin, Boris Vladimirovich Farmakovsky, Alexander Pavlovich Khinsky, Karina Vasilievna Kalogina, Alfredo Riviere V., Julian Szekely, Navtej Singh Saluja
  • Patent number: 5756150
    Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a sliding member, a granular spraying material is sprayed on at least a part of a surface of a body portion made of a structural material in at least partially fusing condition and in the direction which is parallel to or diagonal to a sliding surface. Then, a sprayed layer is formed by depositing the spraying material in the direction which is perpendicular to the sliding surface. The sliding surface is a section of the deposited spraying material which is obtained by grinding or cutting the sprayed layer in depositional direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Mori, Kouta Kodama, Taisuke Miyamoto, Yoshio Fuwa, Kouji Saitoh
  • Patent number: 5691033
    Abstract: Coating compositions comprising aluminum pigment, neoprene latex asphalt emulsion, at least one surfactant for reducing reaction of the aluminum pigment with water and with the neoprene latex, at least one organic solvent, and water. The compositions are formed by providing an aluminum pigment mixture comprising aluminum pigment, the surfactant and the organic solvent, providing an aqueous neoprene latex asphalt emulsion and mixing the pigment mixture and the aqueous neoprene latex asphalt emulsion to form the coating composition. The compositions are suitable for coating a variety of surfaces, particularly roof structures and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Reynolds Metals Company
    Inventor: Martha A. Davies
  • Patent number: 5660923
    Abstract: A method for producing continuous and discontinuous fiber metal matrix composites (CFMMC). The method uses aerosolization of finely divided metal powders in a controlled atmosphere which prevents explosions to coat the fibers and then the metal coated fibers are consolidated to form the CFMMC. The composites are useful as heat sinks for electrical components and in applications where a structural reinforced metal matrix composite is needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignee: Board of Trustees operating Michigan State University
    Inventors: Thomas R. Bieler, Viswanadha R. Yallapragada, Huizhong Wang, Lawrence T. Drzal
  • Patent number: 5549927
    Abstract: Potential difficulties in surface modification of a substrate are avoided by using a mixture that includes a ceramic powder, a brazing material and a flux. Exposure to an elevated temperature activates the flux and at least partially melts the brazing material. Upon cooling, the melt solidifies to bond the ceramic powder to the substrate surface an create the modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignee: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Andrew J. Cottone, Zalman P. Saperstein, Ronald D. Tait, Richard G. Parkhill, Jeffrey A. Bahr
  • Patent number: 5516586
    Abstract: Protection of a metal surface is carried out by applying a coating of vitreous enamel to the surface so that the enamel forms a strong bond with the metal and then spraying a coating of an atomized protective metal on the enamel. Preferably a peening operation is carried out on the surface of the sprayed metal simultaneously with or immediately after the spraying of the metal. The method is particularly advantageous in protecting steel marine structures against corrosion and, where the protective metal is cupro-nickel, fouling by marine creatures. The vitreous enamel forms an electrically insulating layer preventing galvanic action between the steel and the cupro-nickel in the presence of sea water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1996
    Assignee: Sprayforming Developments
    Inventors: Alfred R. E. Singer, Allen D. Roche, Gordon I. Davies
  • Patent number: 5512327
    Abstract: A method is described for producing a catalyst layer consisting of a metal alloy with palladium or platinum as the primary meal and at least one other meal which has a melting point lower than that of the primary meal and which forms with the primary metal homogeneous mixed crystals that are rich in the primary metal. In the method, a powder of the at least one other metal is applied first to a carrier body followed by application of a powder of the primary metal. The powders are successively applied to the carrier body in this order, with at least the powder of the primary metal being sprayed on by thermal means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1996
    Assignee: Gesellschaft fur Anlagen-und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) mbH
    Inventor: Amiya K. Chakraborty
  • Patent number: 5510145
    Abstract: A mechanical plating process and composition for applying tin- and cobalt-containing mechanically plated coatings, which exhibit good brightness and corrosion resistance, to metal articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1996
    Assignee: Madison Chemical Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Marjorie H. Shepherd, Kim B. Gasaway
  • Patent number: 5482744
    Abstract: A heat transfer element (2) for use in boiling a liquid is produced by spraying a substrate, such as a heat exchanger tube, with a plasma of liquified metal particles and concurrently spraying the substrate with liquid carbon dioxide to provide a cooling effect. Preferably the metal particle spray (4) and the carbon dioxide spray (8) are spaced apart, and there is relative movement between the sprays and the substrate, such that a given area of the substrate is precooled by the cold carbon dioxide just prior to liquified metal particles impinging thereon. A shroud (6) may assist in directing the liquid carbon dioxide first onto the substrate, then into the spray of liquified metal particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1996
    Assignee: Star Fabrication Limited
    Inventor: Stephen F. Pearson
  • Patent number: 5445852
    Abstract: A method of coating a substrate, including the steps of: providing a space between an anode substrate constituting an anode and a cathode substrate constituting a cathode using an insulating member inserted between the anode substrate and the cathode substrate, supplying the providing space with particles of a coating material, preferably a metal or a metallic compound, evacuating the space, and generating an electric field in the evacuated space to cause vibration of the particles to coat the anode substrate and the cathode substrate with the particles of the coating material. According to the substrate coating method of the present invention, a coating with a high purity having excellent adhesion to a substrate and a uniform thickness can be formed on a substrate at normal temperatures at a high efficiency. Furthermore, according to the substrate coating method of the present invention, a coating can be formed on a substrate at a low electric power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Inventor: Isao Sugai
  • Patent number: 5441761
    Abstract: A process for the selective metallization of a substrate and the product formed thereby. An extremely thin (substantially less than the wavelength of light) coat of metallic particles is deposited on a transfer agent. A thin coat of varnish is selectively applied to either the substrate or the transfer agent, the substrate and the transfer agent are laminated together and the varnish is cured. The metallic particles will become absorbed within the varnish and the substrate and transfer agent are then separated. The substrate is provided with a highly polished specular metallic finish in predetermined areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1995
    Assignee: Alusit Holdings, L.P.
    Inventor: Lee H. Miller
  • Patent number: 5418056
    Abstract: A polymer composite includes a thermoplastic plastic polymer having a fine grain metal or metal oxide dispersed therein. Preferably, the fine grains has a size of about 1,000 nm or less. A method of making the polymer composite by adhering a metal layer to a thermoplastic polymer layer in a thermodynamically nonequilibrated condition followed by relaxation of the polymer layer to obtain thermodynamic equilibrium which causes the metal layer to be absorbed by the polymer layer as fine grains is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1995
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Noguchi, Kazuo Goto, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hajime Kakiuchi, Shigehito Deki
  • Patent number: 5413816
    Abstract: A method of forming an oxidation resistant aluminum coating on a carbon-carbon composite comprising applying a slurry over the carbon-carbon composite, composed of an aluminum intermetallic in a liquid suspending vehicle including a high char yield adhesive thermoplastic and a glassy carbon, distributing aluminum, in elemental form, over the coated surface and reacting the composite and coating in a furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1995
    Assignee: UCAR Carbon Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Raymond V. Sara
  • Patent number: 5395648
    Abstract: Prepregs for producing ceramic-ceramic composite articles are prepared by impregnating a ceramic substrate with a liquid ceramic precursor material. By properly controlling the viscosity of the precursor material and the conditions of application of the precursor to the substrate, a prepreg which can retain the precursor may be obtained. The prepreg is suitable for shaping into a wide variety of geometries, and the ceramic precursor may be transformed into the corresponding ceramic matrix material by curing and conversion steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1995
    Assignee: Kaiser Aerospace and Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: H. O. Davis, Marvin Pennell, Gary Patz
  • Patent number: 5389408
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for curing metal particles into continuous metal conductors on a nonconducting substrate. The apparatus includes a generator for supplying radio frequency energy through an impedance matching circuit to a coil positioned proximate to the substrate. The coil and substrate are placed in a chamber which is evacuated prior to curing and then pressurized with nitrogen gas. The electromagnetic flux lines generate eddy currents in the particles which heat them until at least some melt, thereby converting the metal particles into continuous conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1995
    Assignee: Printron, Inc.
    Inventor: Burt DeVolk
  • Patent number: 5384165
    Abstract: A ferrous strip is galvanized by establishing an electrostatic potential on the strip which is then submerged on a fluidized bed of powdered galvanizing material and then allowing the adhered galvanized powder to be carried by the strip to a reflow station. The reflow station heats the strip and galvanizing material to liquidity the galvanizing material and establish the necessary alloy interface on the ferrous strip. Thereafter, the strip passes to a cooling zone wherein the reflowed galvanizing material is solidified before contacting a roller to use to direct the strip to the exit of the galvanizing apparatus. The atmosphere within the galvanizing apparatus is remained inert through the use of nitrogen which is also used as the fluid medium for the suspension of the galvanizing powder in the fluidized bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Assignee: SMS Engineering Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas A. Sellitto
  • Patent number: 5364513
    Abstract: A body of carbonaceous or other material for use in corrosive environments such as oxidizing media or gaseous or liquid corrosive agents at elevated temperatures, in particular in molten salts such as cryolite, is coated with a protective surface coating which improves the resistance of the body to oxidation or corrosion and which may also enhance the bodies electrical conductivity and/or its electrochemical activity. The protective coating is applied in one or more layers from a colloidal slurry containing reactant or non-reactant substances, or a mixture of reactant and non-reactant substances, in particular mixtures containing silicon carbide and molybdenum silicide or silicon carbide and silicon nitride, which when the body is heated to a sufficient elevated temperature reaction sinter as a result of micropyretic reaction and/or sinter without reaction to form the protective coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Moltech Invent S.A.
    Inventors: Jainagesh A. Sekhar, Vittorio de Nora
  • Patent number: 5354579
    Abstract: Mechanical plating method for forming a zinc alloy film by ejecting powder onto a surface. Ejection powder is made by mixing iron or iron alloy nuclei with zinc alloy melt, cooling to form a solidified alloy, and crushing. The ejection powder is then heat treated between 300.degree. C. and 700.degree. C. to adjust the Vicker's hardness of the zinc alloy to between 60 and 370.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Assignee: Dowa Iron Powder Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatsugu Watanabe, Yasuhisa Nagano, Hajime Shimoyama, Tomohiro Osaka
  • Patent number: 5344671
    Abstract: A process for refining the visual image of the surface of an object, preferably roofing materials. The invention also relates to an application to the surface of an object, preferably for executing the process. An appearance of a copper coating on arbitrary surfaces, in particular roofing made of modern materials is possible, particularly with the inclusion of the patina appearance. The application according to this invention is particularly inexpensive and simple to apply and weather-resistant, especially when used in roofing. The process of this invention is distinguished since the surface is provided with a coat of an application medium containing copper particles which have been subjected to oxidation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1994
    Inventor: Gunther Wottrich
  • Patent number: 5330789
    Abstract: The invention provides a composition of matter comprising silicon, silicon carbide and boron carbide as a coating for protecting carbon substrates from degradation at elevated temperatures. The invention also provides a method for forming a protective coating on carbon substrates by utilizing the aforesaid composition of matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Assignee: Loral Vought Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Roy E. Booth, David M. Shuford, John S. Linck
  • Patent number: 5330921
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a semiconductor device wherein after forming a titanium silicide thin film on a silicon substrate, dopant impurities are implanted into the silicon substrate through the titanium silicide thin film so as to form shallow p.sup.+ -n junctions in the silicon substrate. At least one of the following conditions (1) to (3) is satisfied: (1) forty to seventy percent of the total implant dose is within the n-type silicon substrate; (2) the projected range is set at the depth corresponding to 90% to 125% of the titanium silicide film thickness; and (3) the dopant dose that comes to rest within the n-type silicon substrate is in the range of 2.0.times.10.sup.15 /cm.sup.2 to 3.5.times.10.sup.15 /cm.sup.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehito Yoshida, Shinichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: H1861
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a ceramic alloy composite composition having the alloy spontaneously infiltrated into the ceramic, with the preferred ceramic alloy composite composition being a Si.sub.3 N.sub.4 /TiN/Cu-Ti composite composition and a method for forming the ceramic alloy composite composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Darin J. Aldrich, Rajan Tandon