Patents Assigned to Lanxide Technology Comapny, LP
  • Method for producing ceramic/metal heat storage media, and to the product thereof
    Patent number: 4873038
    Abstract: A heat storage medium comprising a body of parent metal and an intrinsically cohesive ceramic layer formed integrally with the metal body and encapsulating said metal body is produced by the directed oxidation of a body of parent metal outwardly from the surface of said body to form integrally with the body of parent metal a layer of oxidation reaction product which encapsulates unreacted parent metal and forms a cavity resulting from the depletion of aprent metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Assignee: Lanxide Technology Comapny, LP
    Inventors: Robert A. Rapp, E. Allen LaRoche, Jr.