Patents Assigned to Laboratoire Suisse de Recherches Horlogeres
  • Patent number: 4937010
    Abstract: A product and method of suspending a substantially non-dissolved liquid lubricant or mixture of liquid lubricants within a non-metallic binder, which after application upon a desired surface and subsequent curing, provides a lubricating paint, which maintains the lubricant in a suspended state until the binder matrix is worn down by frictional contact with another surface, whereby the reached suspended lubricant inclusions are ruptured and spread over the surface of the binder matrix and providing lubrication between two parts in frictional contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: Laboratoire Suisse de Recherches Horlogeres
    Inventor: Michel Maillat
  • Patent number: 4561286
    Abstract: A piezoelectric detector for determination of the mass or film thickness of gaseous, liquid or solid substances being adsorbed or condensed on the surface of a piezoelectric resonator, having at least one measuring resonator with at least one integrated thin-film sensor, one discrete or integrated on the resonator re-evaporation heating element, and a reference resonator separated from the measuring resonator with a contamination shield, and protected from contamination, but not from heat radiation, with an optical window, which all allow correction by electronic or numerical means of influences of temperature changes on the resonant frequency and of cut-angle deviations and the temperature differences between the resonators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: Laboratoire Suisse de recherches Horlogeres
    Inventors: Jorg Sekler, Alphonse E. Zumsteg, Hans Erich Hintermann
  • Patent number: 4556098
    Abstract: A hot chamber die casting apparatus for casting aluminum, zinc, magnesium, copper and their alloys as well as other metals which, in the molten state, corrode ferrous materials. The apparatus comprises a crucible, an injection pump in the crucible, and a gooseneck leading from the crucible to an outlet nozzle. The parts of the apparatus have coatings or sleeves of materials which resist corrosion, abrasion, erosion and mechanical or thermal shocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1985
    Assignee: Laboratoire Suisse de Recherches Horlogeres
    Inventors: Hans E. Hintermann, Dominique Hertz
  • Patent number: 4522453
    Abstract: Machine parts are disclosed which are subjected to rolling or sliding conditions, wherein the friction partners are protected by layers with low static and dynamic coefficients of friction which are selected with regard to their tribological properties and whereby the layers are constituted by carbides and/or nitrides and/or carbonitrides and/or borides and/or silicides and/or oxides of an element or elements selected from Groups III to VIII of the Periodic Table in the form of mixtures or mixed crystals which are deposited in a suitable manner and, according to their physiochemical properties, are combined for the particular application. Preferably one of the friction partners comprises TiC or MoSi.sub.2 and the other comproses TiN or SiC or Si.sub.3 N.sub.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1985
    Assignee: Laboratoire Suisse de Recherches Horlogeres
    Inventors: Johann Lammer, Hans R. Kocher, Hans-Erich Hintermann
  • Patent number: 4415419
    Abstract: A corrosion-resistant surface formed of a sulfide-forming metal, in particular nickel, is first subjected to an electric plasma in an atmosphere containing hydrogen sulfide to form an adherent sulfide on said surface. The sulfided surface is then exposed to simultaneous cathodic sputtering of at least one solid lubricant which is a chalcogen compound of layer structure, in particular MoS.sub.2, and at least one hydrophobic solid polymer, in particular PTFE. The coating thus formed is a composite coating in which the particles of the chalcogen compound are coated by the polymer. When the surface of the part to be coated does not consist of a corrosion-resistant sulfide-forming metal, a layer of such a metal is first deposited by cathodic sputtering. The composite coating withstands a wet oxidizing atmosphere, contrary to a coating of MoS.sub.2 alone, and the method is applicable to any mechanical part intended to rub on other surfaces, such as a watch balance wheel staff and ball or roller bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Assignee: Laboratoire Suisse de Recherches Horlogeres
    Inventors: Paul Niederhaeuser, Michel Maillat, Hans E. Hintermann
  • Patent number: 4072797
    Abstract: A diffusion barrier and separation substance for metal parts which adjoin each other in an oxygen-free, inert and preferably a helium-containing atmosphere such as used in a closed-cycle high temperature reactor or gas turbine comprises first and second adjoining metal parts with a hexagonal boron nitride placed between said parts. The hexagonal boron nitride is applied to the boundary surface of the metal parts in an aqueous or organic suspension prepared as a pasty, putty-like or brushable liquid substance. The substance contains from 5 to 50% of boron nitride, from 0.5 to 30% of binders and from 2 to 6% of swelling agents and 50 to 90% liquid suspension medium. The suspension medium may advantageously contain an anti-corrosive agent and in addition the formed protective film is burned from 0.25 to 3 hours at a temperature of from 100.degree. to 500.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1978
    Assignees: Laboratoire Suisse de Recherches Horlogeres, Gutehoffnungshutte Sterkrade Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans Gass, Hans E. Hintermann, Hartmut Griepentrog
  • Patent number: 4060939
    Abstract: A device of simultaneous surface-treatment of two parallel plain surfaces of a worked article consisting of two immobile polishing blocks one serving likewise as support for the piece to be treated which is exposed to a combination of longitudinal and transverse movements of translation being independently adjustable with regard to the velocity and the course of the movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1977
    Assignee: Laboratoire Suisse de Recherches Horlogeres
    Inventors: Gilbert Dubied, Ernst Kuenzi