Patents Examined by Adil A. Siddiqui
  • Patent number: 12146204
    Abstract: The steel sheet of the present invention has a steel microstructure containing, in area fraction, martensite: 20% to 100%, ferrite: 0% to 80%, and another metal phase: 5% or less, in which, on a surface of the steel sheet, a ratio of dislocation density in metal phases at a widthwise edge of the steel sheet to dislocation density in the metal phases at a widthwise center of the steel sheet is 100% to 140%, and, at a thicknesswise center of the steel sheet, a ratio of dislocation density in the metal phases at the widthwise edge of the steel sheet to dislocation density in the metal phases at the widthwise center of the steel sheet is 100% to 140%. The maximum amount of warpage of the steel sheet when the steel sheet is sheared to a length of 1 m in a rolling direction is 15 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hirashima, Shimpei Yoshioka, Shinjiro Kaneko, Soshi Yoshimoto, Tomohiro Hashimukai
  • Patent number: 12142403
    Abstract: An anisotropic bonded magnet and a preparation method thereof are provided. Through a method of stacking magnets which are different in content of SmFeN and/or have different densities, the magnets in the middle have high properties and the magnets at two ends and/or the periphery have low properties, thereby compensating for a property deviation caused by a difference in densities during a pressing process, and improving the property uniformity of the magnets in an axial direction. The method avoids the phenomenon of non-uniform magnetic field orientation and density in a height direction during orientation and densification as well as the phenomenon of low in the middle and high at two ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: GRIREM HI-TECH CO., LTD., GRIREM ADVANCED MATERIALS CO., LTD., Grirem (Rongcheng) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Luo, Yuanfei Yang, Zilong Wang, Dunbo Yu, Jiajun Xie, Kaiwen Wu, Yifan Liao, Jichen Jia
  • Patent number: 12134804
    Abstract: Production of a bulk Al-RE alloy body (product) using cast billets/ingots (cooling rates <100 C/s) or rapidly solidified Al-RE particulates (cooling rates 102-106° C./second) that have beneficial microstructural refinements that are further refined by subsequent consolidation to produce a consolidated bulk alloy product having excellent mechanical properties over a wide temperature range such as up to and above 230° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignees: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc., Lawrence Livermore, National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan T. Ott, Orlando Rios, Zachary C. Sims, David Weiss, Michael G. Kesler, Fanqiang Meng, Scott K. McCall, Hunter B. Henderson
  • Patent number: 12128481
    Abstract: A component formed using an additive manufacturing system, the component includes an exterior surface, an interior cavity, at least one powder removal device disposed within the interior cavity and adjacent to the exterior surface, wherein the at least one powder removal device is configured to remove un-sintered and partially sintered powder from the component; and at least one exit port defined in the exterior surface to facilitate egress of the un-sintered and partially sintered powder out of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Dale Robert Lombardo, Andrew Lee Trimmer, Mohamed Rahmane
  • Patent number: 12123066
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to an ultrahigh-strength steel sheet having an excellent yield ratio, comprising, by wt %, 0.3-0.5% of C, 2.0% (excluding 0%) of Si, 3.0-6.5% of Mn, 0.02% or less of P, 0.01% or less of S, 0.01-3.0% of Al, 0.02% or less (excluding 0%) of N, and the balance of Fe and other inevitable impurities, and a microstructure comprises 5-30% of remaining austenite by area fraction and comprises 5% or less of secondary martensite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignees: POSCO CO. LTD, POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Sea-Woong Lee, Bruno C. De Cooman, Kyoo-Young Lee, Eun-Jung Seo, Seon-Jong Lee, Joo-Hyun Ryu, Won-Hwi Lee
  • Patent number: 12122094
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes three-dimensional printing kits, systems for three-dimensional printing, and methods of three-dimensional printing. In one example, a three-dimensional printing kit can include a particulate build material and a binding agent. The particulate build material can include metal particles. The binding agent can include a polyhydroxy polyol and a water-dispersible blocked polyisocyanate having multiple blocked isocyanate groups. The blocked isocyanate groups can include a blocking group bonded to the carbon atom of the blocked isocyanate group through a labile bond breakable by heating to a deblocking temperature. Breaking the labile bond can produce a released blocking group reacted with hydrogen and an isocyanate group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Tienteh Chen
  • Patent number: 12125633
    Abstract: A soft magnetic iron-based powder has a composite insulating film and a method for manufacturing the same and a method for manufacturing a soft magnetic composite are provided. The soft magnetic iron-based powder may include: an iron-based core powder formed in a powder form; a first layer formed on a surface of the iron-based core powder and coated with an inorganic material containing phosphate; a second layer formed on a surface of the first layer, in which sodium silicate, mica fine particle and bismuth (III) oxide fine particle are distributed; and a third layer formed on the surface of the first or second layer whose surface is exposed, in which an organic lubricant and an inorganic lubricant are distributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Gyu Kim, Hyung Seok Kwak, Hyun Gon Lyu, Joon Chul Yun
  • Patent number: 12109630
    Abstract: A cemented carbide includes a plurality of tungsten carbide particles and a binder phase, wherein the cemented carbide comprises at least one first element selected from the group consisting of titanium, tantalum, niobium, zirconium, cerium, yttrium, and boron, and wherein in a first graph in a coordinate system where an X axis is a distance from a position at which cobalt exhibits a maximum intensity, and a Y axis is a normalized intensity, a maximum peak M of each of the first element is present between a peak W1 of tungsten closest to an origin and a further peak W2 of tungsten closest to the peak W1, a ratio IB/IA of an intensity IB to a maximum peak intensity IA of the maximum peak M is 0.5 or less in each of the first element, and the intensity IB is an intensity of the first element at a distance P2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kimura, Yasuki Kido, Anongsack Paseuth
  • Patent number: 12104239
    Abstract: A composition of matter is generally provided, in one embodiment, a titanium alloy comprising about 5 wt % to about 8 wt % aluminum; about 2.5 wt % to about 5.5 wt % vanadium; about 0.1 wt % to about 2 wt % of one or more elements selected from the group consisting of iron and molybdenum; about 0.01 wt % to about 0.2 wt % carbon; up to about 0.3 wt % oxygen; silicon and copper; and titanium. A turbine component is also generally provided, in one embodiment, that comprises an article made from a titanium alloy. Additionally, methods are also generally provided for making an alloy component having a beta transus temperature and a titanium silicide solvus temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Andrew Philip Woodfield, Thomas Froats Broderick, William Andrew Sharp, II
  • Patent number: 12104237
    Abstract: This invention discloses a series of low-cost, castable, weldable, brazeable and heat-treatable aluminum alloys based on modifications of aluminum-manganese-based alloys, which turn all the non-heat treatable Mn-containing aluminum alloys into heat treatable alloys with high-strength, ductility, thermal stability, and resistance to creep, coarsening and recrystallization. These alloys inherit the excellent corrosion resistance of the Al—Mn-based alloys and can be utilized in high temperature, high stress and a variety of other applications. The modifications are made through microalloying with one or any combinations of tin, indium, antimony and bismuth at an impurity level of less than 0.02 at. %, which creates nanoscale ?-Al(Mn,TM)Si precipitates with a cubic structure (wherein TM is one or more of transition metals, and Mn is the main element) in an Al(f.c.c.)-matrix with a mean radius of about 25 nm and a relatively high volume fraction of about 2%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Amir Rezaei Farkoosh, David C. Dunand, David N. Seidman
  • Patent number: 12103115
    Abstract: A brazing material for brazing aluminum or an aluminum alloy includes fluoride-based flux, a solidifying agent, and an organic viscosity reducing agent and is solid at 25° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Harima Chemicals, Incorporated
    Inventors: Wataru Masuda, Daigo Kiga, Aoi Tazuru, Satoshi Moriya
  • Patent number: 12103072
    Abstract: The invention provides a composite particle material for selective laser sintering (SLS), which is composed of an inorganic powder coated with a binder. The composite particulate material is formed by mixing the inorganic powder and the binder to have the binder directly coated on the outer surface of the inorganic powder. In addition, the inorganic powder to be coated by the binder is preferably using a powder having a smaller particle size and a larger particle size distribution, and thereby the production cost can be greatly reduced. Further, since the outer surface of the inorganic powder is coated with the binder, there are no problems such as causing oxidation of the inorganic powder and so on. Furthermore, manufacturing the composite particle material can be easily carried out in a general ambient or an atmospheric environment, and the powder material after use is recyclable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Yu-Deh Chao, Shu-Cheng Liu, Jeng-Ywan Jeng, Fu-Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 12098448
    Abstract: A cemented carbide consists of: a first phase consisting of a plurality of tungsten carbide grains; and a second phase including cobalt, an average value of equivalent circle diameters of the tungsten carbide grains is 0.5 ?m to 1.2 ?m, on number basis, the tungsten carbide grains include less than or equal to 13% of first tungsten carbide grains each having an equivalent circle diameter of less than or equal to 0.3 ?m, on number basis, the tungsten carbide grains include less than or equal to 12% of second tungsten carbide grains each having an equivalent circle diameter of more than 1.3 ?m, in a histogram indicating a distribution of the equivalent circle diameters of the tungsten carbide grains. Fmax/Fmin is less than or equal to 7.0, Fmax/Fmin being a ratio of a maximum frequency Fmax to a minimum frequency Fmin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamakawa, Kazuhiro Hirose, Katsuya Uchino, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12084749
    Abstract: Process for the manufacture of a steel material, wherein the grains of which it is composed comprise a matrix into which precipitates are incorporated, the precipitates comprising at least one metallic element selected from a metallic element M, a metallic element M?, a metallic element M? or mixtures thereof; the microstructure of the steel being such that the grains are equiaxial and the average size of the grains being such that the average of their largest dimension “Dmax” and/or the average of their smallest dimension “Dmin” is in the range 10 ?m to 50 ?m. The steel material has optimised, stable and isotropic mechanical properties, in particular so that the steel material is more resistant to mechanical and/or thermal stresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Hicham Maskrot, Aziz Chniouel, Fernando Lomello, Pierre-François Giroux, Pascal Aubry
  • Patent number: 12087483
    Abstract: Methods for manufacturing dual phase soft magnetic components include combining a plurality of soft ferromagnetic particles with a plurality of paramagnetic particles to form a component structure, wherein the plurality of soft ferromagnetic particles each comprise an electrically insulative coating, and, heat treating the component structure to consolidate the plurality of soft ferromagnetic particles with the plurality of paramagnetic particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Wanming Zhang, Ananda Barua, Shenyan Huang, Changjie Sun, Vandana Prabhakar Rallabandi, Anthony Joseph Vinciquerra, Min Zou
  • Patent number: 12083738
    Abstract: A method (V) for producing a three-dimensional object (2) by applying and selectively solidifying a powdery construction material (13) layer by layer includes the steps: a) applying (Z) a layer of the construction material (13) onto a construction field in a working plane (10) by means of a recoating device (14) moving in a moving direction (B) over the working plane, b) selectively solidifying (Y) the applied layer of the construction material (13) at positions, which correspond to a cross-section of the object (2) to be produced, and c) repeating (X) the steps a) and b) until the object is completed. The construction material is stored during step a) in a recoating unit (40a-e) arranged at the recoating device (14) within a space between two recoating elements (42a, 42b) mutually spaced apart from each other in the moving direction of the recoating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems
    Inventors: Stefan Paternoster, Stefan Grunberger
  • Patent number: 12077866
    Abstract: A method for patinating zinc surfaces of a structural element. The method includes disposing a structural element with a zinc surface in a container. Disposing an atmosphere around the zinc surface in the container, wherein said atmosphere comprises a carbon-based gas and a relative humidity. Heating the zinc surface for at least one hour to provide a patinated zinc surface. Heating of the zinc surface occurs by disposing the atmosphere at a heating state. The heating state the atmosphere comprises a temperature of at least 50 degrees Celsius, relative humidity of at least 70%, and at least 5% volume of a carbon-based gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Inventor: Koos Jan Baas
  • Patent number: 12080457
    Abstract: Provided is a soft magnetic alloy including a Fe-based nanocrystal and metallic glass. A differential scanning calorimetry curve of the soft magnetic alloy has a glass transition point Tg, a temperature rising rate of the soft magnetic alloy in measurement of the differential scanning calorimetry curve is 40 K/minute, and a temperature Tp of a maximum exothermic peak in the differential scanning calorimetry curve is higher than the Tg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Hironobu Kumaoka, Akito Hasegawa, Kazuhiro Yoshidome, Hiroyuki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12080458
    Abstract: The magnetic composite material of the embodiments is a magnetic composite material that includes a magnetic material having a plane at the surface; and a plate-shaped reinforcing material, the magnetic material having a plurality of magnetic bodies having a planar structure and having a magnetic metal phase containing at least one first element selected from the group consisting of iron (Fe), cobalt (Co), and nickel (Ni), and principal surfaces; and an intercalated phase containing at least one second element selected from the group consisting of oxygen (O), carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and fluorine (F). In the magnetic composite material, the principal surfaces are oriented to be approximately parallel to the plane and have the difference in coercivity on the basis of direction within the plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomohiro Suetsuna, Hiroaki Kinouchi, Takahiro Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 12071695
    Abstract: Provided is a method for increasing magnetic induction intensity of soft magnetic metallic materials. The method includes carburizing or carbonitriding the soft magnetic metallic materials with carbon source or a carbonitriding agent by a heat treatment process, to increase the magnetic induction intensity of the soft magnetic metallic materials, wherein the soft magnetic metallic materials are amorphous materials, nanocrystals, silicon steel, or pure iron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Inventors: Jingran Wang, Jiahao Wang, Jiahui Wang