Abstract: Fluid permeable graphite article in the form of a perforated flexible graphite sheet having increased electrical and thermal conductivity transverse to the surfaces of the sheet.

Abstract: An article with an improved buffer layer architecture includes a substrate having a textured metal surface, and an electrically conductive lanthanum metal oxide epitaxial buffer layer on the surface of the substrate. The article can also include an epitaxial superconducting layer deposited on the epitaxial buffer layer. An epitaxial capping layer can be placed between the epitaxial buffer layer and the superconducting layer. A method for preparing an epitaxial article includes providing a substrate with a metal surface and depositing on the metal surface a lanthanum metal oxide epitaxial buffer layer. The method can further include depositing a superconducting layer on the epitaxial buffer layer, and depositing an epitaxial capping layer between the epitaxial buffer layer and the superconducting layer.

Abstract: A superconducting laminated oxide substrate, which comprises a laminate a layer of a superconducting oxide crystal substrate made of a superconducting oxide single crystal or a superconducting oxide polycrystal and a layer of a reinforcing crystal substrate, prevents cracks from occurring in the superconducting oxide crystal substrate due to the heat treatment conducted for the purpose of forming an insulation film or a conductor film, and provides easy connectivity between electrodes and wiring formed on substrates located at upper and lower positions.

Abstract: A catalyzed diesel particulate matter exhaust filter including a porous filter substrate for filtering the diesel particulate matter impregnated with a catalytic material which includes an alkaline earth metal vanadate and a precious metal.

Abstract: A strip joining apparatus is provided wherein a time which a line is stopped is shortened, a number of installation spaces is decreased and precise notching may be performed.

Abstract: Preforms for use in base metal repair are formed by thermally spraying preferably a blend of a braze alloy and a high temperature alloy onto a separation sheet thereby forming a preform sheet. The separation sheet is removed from the preform sheet and the preform sheet is cut to form individual preforms which can be brazed directly onto a worn area of a high temperature alloy part such as a jet engine part.

Abstract: An oxide superconductor article is provided having an oxide superconductor film having a thickness of greater than 0.5 microns disposed on a substrate, said article having a transport critical current density (Jc) of greater than or equal to about 105 A/cm2 at 77K, zero field. The oxide superconductor film is characterized by high Jc and high volume percent of c-axis epitaxial oxide grains, even with thicknesses of up to 1 micron.

Abstract: The present invention provides a tape-form oxide superconductor having a high degree of c-axis alignment and in-plane alignment and an improved Jc value. On a tape-form metal substrate which is non-magnetic or weakly magnetic and has high strength, there are sequentially formed a first intermediate layer wherein YSZ or Zr2Rx2O7 particles are deposited from a target with ion irradiation from a direction inclined to the metal substrate, a second intermediate layer of CeO2 or Y2O3 is formed and an RE1+XBa2−XCu3OY superconducting layer is formed by coating metalorganic salts containing F, followed by thermal decomposition.

Abstract: A superconductive structure including a dielectric oxide substrate and a thin layer of a rare earth-barium-copper oxide superconducting film thereon, the thin layer including at least two rare earth elements is provided.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic oxide substrate in combination with superconducting film containing Ba can be used to form a dielectric resonator which has a high no-load Q factor at a high frequency and satisfactory superconducting characteristics.

Abstract: A composite superconducting tape which includes at least one constituent superconducting tape that may be a multiplicity of stacked and bonded tapes including a pair of exposed opposite major faces, and at least one outer layer of metal tape overlying and bonded to one of the exposed major faces. In the case where two outer layer metal tapes are included, the strength thereof differ.

Abstract: The superconductor structure has a metallic, biaxially textured mount, an intermediate layer system deposited on the mount and including at least two intermediate layers composed of different oxidic materials and, on this, a high-Tc superconducting layer of the M2Cu3Ox type (RE=rare earth; M=alkaline-earth metal). The intermediate layer which faces the mount is composed of Y2O3, and the relatively thinner intermediate layer which faces the superconducting layer is composed of CeO2. The layers are preferably grown heteroepitaxially.

Abstract: Disclosed is negative electrode active material for lithium ion batteries and a method for manufacturing the same. The active material includes a crystalline carbon core; and an amorphous or turbostratic carbon shell evenly covering the crystalline carbon core, the carbon shell having a thickness of 10-2000 Å. The method includes the steps of chemically combining a crystalline carbon and an amorphous carbon precursor; removing remaining amorphous carbon precursor not reacted in the chemical combination; and heat-treating a chemical combination material of graphite and the amorphous carbon precursor obtained in the chemical combination.

Abstract: Fluid permeable graphite article in the form of a glassy carbon coated perforated flexible graphite sheet useful as an electrode and electrically conductive backing material in flow-through type electrical capacitors.

Abstract: An article of manufacture that has a component capable of being sealed with a copper aluminosilicate glass. The sealing glass has a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTEs) of in the range between 20-82×10-7/° C., over a range of 25-500° C.) and a softening points in the range of 660-1000° C. The glass has a composition consisting essentially, in terms of weight percent on an oxide basis, of 35-68 SiO2, 3-25 Al2O3, 2-26 B2O3, 0-20 R2O, 0-30 RO, 2-33 CuO, 0-4 F, 0-10 MxOy, where R2O is an alkali oxide selected from the group consisting of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O, and RO is an alkaline earth oxide selected from the group consisting of CaO, MgO, ZnO, SrO, and BaO, and MxOy is a transition metal oxide selected from the group consisting of Co2O3, TiO2, NiO, MnO2, and Fe2O3. The present invention also pertains to a method of sealing the article.

Abstract: Structural components obtained by a process for welding iron-base materials, where the iron-base material is iron-base fine grained materials free from any amorphous phase, which comprises welding two kinds of fine grained materials of chemical and crystallographically same or different kinds from one another, whose average grain sizes d are in a range of 10 nm<d≦5×103 nm, etc., by friction stir welding can maintain distinguished properties of fine grained materials, such as strength and corrosion resistance.

Abstract: The invention relates to a high-temperature superconductor component with a particular cross-sectional area, which has a current-carrying section, the current-carrying section being in contact with a safety conductor in such a way that the critical current flowing on transition of the superconductor to normal conduction can be taken up without damage by the safety conductor in at least 1 second and rerouted, as well as a process for its production.

Abstract: A soldering station with a control unit and a soldering iron having a replaceable soldering tip, the soldering iron being connected to the control unit by a power cord for receiving electrical power from said control unit is provided with an automatic calibration feature. The control unit has circuitry for controlling the temperature of the soldering iron at the tip by adjusting the supply of power to the tip heater of the soldering iron, a temperature selector for enabling selection of a temperature to which the soldering iron is to be heated by a user, a calibration temperature sensor connected to said circuitry and exposed for enabling it to be engaged by the tip of the soldering iron.

Abstract: A method of joining an end face of a first electric component to an end face of a second electric component includes applying a first metal layer to the end face of the first electric component to form a first metallized layer and applying a second metal layer to the end face of the second electric component to form a second metallized layer. A first fusible alloy layer is applied to the first metallized layer by melting a fusible alloy and propelling the melted fusible alloy onto the first metallized layer, and a second fusible alloy layer is applied to the second metallized layer by melting a fusible alloy and propelling the melted fusible alloy to the second metallized layer. The method further includes contacting the first fusible alloy layer to the second fusible alloy layer. Next, the end faces and fusible alloy layers are heated to melt the fusible alloy layers. After heating, the end faces and fusible alloy layers are cooled to form a bond between the end faces.

Abstract: A laser welding device for metal parts with a laser mounting (21), a lens system (27), and a table (20). The laser is mounted to the laser mounting (21). The lens systems (27) focuses the laser beam (41) on a focus (29). The table (20) holds the metal part to be welded. The laser beam (41) impinges on the metal part at an acute angle &thgr; especially on the shoulder of a flat contact plug (1).