Patents Examined by Jeremy Jones
  • Patent number: 9664049
    Abstract: A multi-component braze filler alloy comprising at least 70% by weight MarM509A superalloy with the remainder MarM509B superalloy is diffusion brazed to a CM247 alloy base substrate, such as a gas turbine blade or vane. It is shown that generally higher braze temperatures lead to improved results including the possibility of re-welding such a brazed component, resulting in a re-repaired brazed component capable of continued commercial service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Petya M. Georgieva, James A. Yarbrough
  • Patent number: 9666361
    Abstract: A method for producing a bonded rare-earth magnet according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: providing a rapidly solidified rare-earth magnet alloy powder; providing a solution in which a resin that is in solid phase at an ordinary temperature is dissolved in an organic solvent; mulling the rapidly solidified rare-earth magnet alloy powder and the solution together and vaporizing the organic solvent, thereby making a bonded rare-earth magnet compound in which magnet powder particles that form the rapidly solidified rare-earth magnet alloy powder are coated with the resin; making a compressed compact by compressing the bonded rare-earth magnet compound under a pressure of 1000 MPa to 2500 MPa; and thermally treating the compressed compact. If the rapidly solidified rare-earth magnet alloy powder to be mulled is 100 mass %, the solution includes 0.4 mass % to 1.0 mass % of the resin and 1.2 mass % to 20 mass % of the organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takayama, Toshio Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 9646751
    Abstract: A die apparatus for molding an arcuate magnet having polar-anisotropic orientation in a magnetic field, which comprises a die made of non-magnetic cemented carbide, which is arranged in a parallel magnetic field generated by a pair of opposing magnetic field coils; an arcuate-cross-sectional cavity having an inner arcuate wall, an outer arcuate wall and two side walls, which is disposed in the die; a central ferromagnetic body arranged on the side of the outer arcuate wall of the cavity; and a pair of side ferromagnetic bodies symmetrically arranged on both side wall sides of the cavity; the cavity being arranged such that its radial direction at a circumferential center thereof is identical with the direction of the parallel magnetic field; the width of the central ferromagnetic body being smaller than the width of the cavity in a direction perpendicular to the parallel magnetic field; and a pair of the side ferromagnetic bodies being arranged such that the cavity is positioned in a region sandwiched by a pa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Yoshida, Mikio Shindoh
  • Patent number: 9637811
    Abstract: An iron-based sintered sliding member consists of, by mass %, 0.1 to 10% of Cu, 0.2 to 2.0% of C, 0.03 to 0.9% of Mn, 0.52 to 6.54% of S, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities. The iron-based sintered sliding member satisfies the following First Formula in which [S %] represents mass % of S and [Mn %] represents mass % of Mn in the overall composition. The iron-based sintered sliding member exhibits a metallic structure in which pores and sulfide particles are dispersed in the matrix that includes a martensite structure at not less than 50% by area ratio in cross section. The sulfide particles are dispersed at 3 to 30 vol. % with respect to the matrix. [S %]=0.6×[Mn %]+0.5 to 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI POWDERED METALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Fukae, Hideaki Kawata, Hidekazu Tokushima
  • Patent number: 9630248
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an article by hot pressing and ultrasonically inspecting the article comprises forming and filling a canister with powder material and evacuating and sealing the canister. Heat and pressure are applied to the canister to consolidate the powder material to form the article. The article within the canister is ultrasonically inspected by moving a transducer over the whole of the canister. The position of an interface between the article and the canister, and the thickness of the canister, at each position on the surface of the canister and if there are defects within the article are determined. The canister is then removed from the article by machining the canister using a machining tool, the movement of the tool is controlled such that at each position of the canister the tool removes the determined thickness of the canister for the corresponding position on the surface of the canister.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: David Cameron Wright, Daniel Clark
  • Patent number: 9611741
    Abstract: A multi-component braze filler alloy comprising 60-70% by weight CM247 superalloy and BRB braze alloy is diffusion brazed to a CM247 alloy base substrate, such as a gas turbine blade or vane. The substrate/braze interface may be subsequently weld-repaired without de-melting and migrating the braze alloy from the interface. The weld zone and surrounding area are solidification crack resistant. After the alloy composition is brazed to the base substrate the component may be returned to service. Thereafter the component remains repairable by welding or re-brazing, if needed to correct future in-service defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Petya M. Georgieva, James A. Yarbrough
  • Patent number: 9598561
    Abstract: A silver powder for silver clay, wherein a main component is Ag, and an amount of P is controlled to be 100 ppm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Otani, Yoshifumi Yamamoto, Takashi Yamaji
  • Patent number: 9561542
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for removing moisture from powder to be used in an additive manufacturing process for forming a three-dimensional article through successive fusion of parts of at least one layer of a powder bed provided on a work table, which parts corresponds to successive cross sections of the three-dimensional article, characterized in that said method comprising the steps of: providing at least a first powder tank and at least at least a second powder tank, providing a predetermined amount of powder on a movable table inside said first powder tank, heating the top surface of the powder in said first powder tank to a predetermined temperature interval for removing moisture from said powder, raising said movable table a predetermined distance, moving a predetermined thickness of the powder material from said first powder tank to said second powder tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Arcam AB
    Inventor: Ulf Ackelid
  • Patent number: 9514870
    Abstract: A rare earth magnet production method of the present invention includes a placing step of placing a magnet material including a compact or a sintered body of powder particles having a rare earth magnet alloy, and a diffusing material containing a diffusing element to improve coercivity, in a vicinity of each other; and a diffusing step of diffusing the diffusing element into an inside of the magnet material by exposing the magnet material heated to vapor of the diffusing element evaporated from the diffusing material heated; and wherein the diffusing step is a step of heating the diffusing material independently of the magnet material to diffusing material temperature which is different from heating temperature of the magnet material called magnet material temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji Kaneko, Hisaaki Takao, Yukio Takada, Motoki Hiraoka, Keiu Kanada
  • Patent number: 9138806
    Abstract: An in-situ process for making aluminum titanium carbide composite materials include the steps of mixing powdered aluminum, titanium and calcium carbonate, compacting the mixture and heating by a high frequency induction heater up to a temperature at which titanium carbide is formed at about 800° C.-1,000° C. The compact are then introduced into a tube furnace under an inert atmosphere such as argon, nitrogen, helium etc. at 1200° C. to 1350° C. for 4 to 7 hours to complete the reaction and optimize the TiC particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: King Saud University
    Inventors: Ahmed Mohammed Nabawy Nabawy, Khalil Abdelrazek Khalil, Abdulrahman M. Al-Ahmari