Patents Examined by John Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 5482586
    Abstract: Two aluminum-copper foils, each composed of a layer of copper and a layer of aluminum, are held back to back with the aluminum surfaces against each other, thereby providing an outer layer material (20) for a multilayer printing wiring board. To manufacture a multilayer printed wiring board, an outer layer material (20), a prepreg (2), an inner layer laminate (1), a prepreg (3), and an outer layer material (21) are successively stacked or built up in the order named. The aluminum surface of the outer layer material (20) replaces the mirror finished steel plate and dummy plate which have heretofore been employed. Since the aluminum surfaces can easily be separated from each other, they perform the function of conventional parting films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1996
    Assignee: Fanuc Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Fujikake, Hidetaka Miyama
  • Patent number: 5482784
    Abstract: A printed circuit inner-layer copper foil having inverted tear drop-shaped fine nodules formed on both surfaces of a copper foil each having surface roughness Rz=1 to 3 .mu.m, the nodules having a length of 0.6 to 1.0 .mu.m and a maximum diameter of 0.2 to 0.8 .mu.m, and a process for producing said inner-layer copper foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1996
    Assignee: Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Muneharu Ohara, Masakazu Mitsuhashi
  • Patent number: 5480731
    Abstract: Various metal coatings have been used for many years to inhibit oxidation of metals exposed to the natural elements of the atmosphere over a period of time. Terne alloy coatings which normally contain about 20% tin and about 80% lead are some of the most popular metal coating treatments to resist corrosion. The special formulation of the present invention reformulates the terne coating to constitute a tin and lead based coating where tin constitutes at least 90% of the terne and lead amounts to less than 0.1% and preferably less than 0.05% of the terne. The low lead terne coating may also include antimony and bismuth to provide strength and hardness to the low lead terne formulation having corrosion resistive qualities similar to that of standard terne coating formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1996
    Assignee: The Louis Berkman Company
    Inventors: Jay F. Carey, II, Mehrooz Zamanzadeh
  • Patent number: 5480729
    Abstract: A honeycomb panel having a honeycomb core interposed between two face plates, and inserts which are exposed to an opening formed through the panel. A desired member is bonded to the panel through the inserts and the face plates which are bonded together. The inserts are disposed in selected honeycomb cells of the honeycomb core when the honeycomb core is assembled with the face plates, or the inserts are inserted into the selected honeycomb cells which are open to the opening or a preliminary hole formed before the opening is cut. Alternatively, the inserts are positioned relative to the face plates before the honeycomb core members are disposed relative to the inserts. The honeycomb panel may be produced by various methods disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1996
    Assignees: Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd., Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Morishige Hattori, Mamoru Ohara, Sumio Okuno, Koichiro Okuto, Hiroshi Irie
  • Patent number: 5478657
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide titanium discs to be used as high-density read-while-write magnetic discs. Further object of the present invention is to provide said titanium discs coated with a non-magnetic plated layer.Titanium discs to be used as magnetic discs which satisfy the above object have the following structures: A titanium disc to be used as magnetic disc having the mean height of the peaks from the center line, R.sub.a, of 0.0002 .mu.m to 0.0060 .mu.m and pits on its surface of 25 .mu.m or less in diameter or 5 .mu.m or less in depth. Further, said titanium disc to be used as a magnetic disc is coated with a non-magnetic plated layer with a thickness of 0.09 .mu.m to 5 .mu.m. Moreover, a titanium disc that is most suitable to be used as a magnetic disc is the titanium disc provided with a plated layer of 30/100 or less in a knife-cut peeling test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Assignees: NKK Corporation, Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Suenaga, Iwao Ida, Hitoshi Nagashima, Masanori Ohmura, Naoto Kohshiro, Noboru Kurata
  • Patent number: 5476723
    Abstract: A component made of superalloy is provided with a localized coating formed from three layers by a brazing heat treatment, the layers comprising an outer layer having a composition adapted to the specific surface properties sought, an inner layer having a composition which includes flux elements, and an intermediate layer obtained by the deposition of a mixture of the materials used for the other two layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1995
    Assignee: Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Motors d'Aviation "S.N.E.C.M.A."
    Inventor: Claude A. C. Pagnon
  • Patent number: 5472796
    Abstract: There is provided a metallic composite useful for coinage. The core is formed from a copper alloy that contains between 50% and 99.0% copper, has a room temperature electrical conductivity in excess of 25% IACS an initial yield strength in excess of 10,000 psi and a dynamic softening response onset at a temperature in the range of 200.degree. C.-400.degree. C. The cladding layers have an initial yield strength more than that of the core and a gold color. The strengthening response of the core during cladding is similar to that of the cladding layers making the metallic composites resistant to corrugation. Reducing corrugation increases the sensitivity of electromagnetic coin discriminators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: Olin Corporation
    Inventors: John F. Breedis, Derek E. Tyler
  • Patent number: 5470666
    Abstract: In an aluminum base alloy bearing, the effect of reinforcement of an aluminum base bearing alloy layer by an intermediate bonding layer is enhanced, thereby enhancing a fatigue resistance of the aluminum base bearing alloy layer. The aluminum base alloy bearing comprises a back metal layer, the intermediate bonding layer, and the aluminum base bearing alloy layer. The hardness of the intermediate bonding layer is in the range of 25 to 60 in terms of Vickers hardness, and the thickness of the intermediate bonding layer is 0.5 to 0.9 times in the sum of both the thickness of the intermediate bonding layer and the thickness of the aluminum base bearing alloy layer. With this construction, the effect of reinforcement of the aluminum base bearing alloy layer by the intermediate bonding layer is enhanced, thereby enhancing the fatigue resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1995
    Assignee: Daido Metal Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Tanaka, Masaaki Sakamoto, Yoshiaki Sato
  • Patent number: 5470667
    Abstract: A corrosion-resistant colored architectural material which is essentially lead free and is not highly reflective. The coating on the material is a two-phase metallic coating comprised of a large weight percentage of zinc and a relatively large weight percentage of tin. The tin-zinc composition provides for both a highly corrosive-resistant coating which protects the surface of the architectural material from oxidation and also produces a gray, earth tone colored which is not highly reflective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1995
    Assignee: The Louis Berkman Company
    Inventors: Jay F. Carey, II, Mehrooz Zamanzadeh
  • Patent number: 5468567
    Abstract: A slide member includes a surface layer of a Pb alloy on a slide surface for a mating member, and the crystal form of the Pb alloy is formed such that the orientation index in a (h00) plane by Miller indices is in a range of 50 to 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1995
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Fujisawa, Takeshi Narishige, Yuzuru Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 5466538
    Abstract: There is disclosed a multi-layer sliding member having a back metal and a Cu--Zn-based alloy layer bonded to the back metal with a sufficiently high bonding strength. A method of producing such a sliding member is also disclosed. The multi-layer includes a back metal, a brazing material bonded to the back metal, a diffusion mixture layer bonded to the brazing material, and a Cu--Zn-based alloy layer bonded to the diffusion mixture layer. The diffusion mixture layer is a layer in which not less than 10 wt. % Ni, components of the Cu--Zn-based alloy and components of the brazing material are mixed with one another. The diffusion mixture layer has a thickness of 5.about.300 .mu.m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: Daido Metal Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Tanaka, Masaaki Sakamoto, Tohru Kato
  • Patent number: 5466540
    Abstract: A method of combining a metal component and a base metal of an article to form a pattern of the article. The method comprises applying the metal component to a carrier, the metal component shaped like the pattern; placing the metal component against the base metal; and supplying heat such that the base metal and the metal component alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: Ceridian Corporation
    Inventors: Deepak K. Pai, Lowell D. Lund, Gene A. Maday
  • Patent number: 5466355
    Abstract: A mosaic target comprising a plurality of target block pieces of different kinds of materials selected from the group consisting of Ta, Mo, Ti, W, Zr, Nb and Si, and their alloys and compounds, said target block pieces being combined in a stripe pattern or in a radial pattern characterized in that said target block pieces have their abutting interfaces solid-phase bonded at a temperature no more than the melting points of the target block piece materials. A typical example is a Ta-Mo mosaic target. The solid-phase bonded mosaic target blank is machined to a target which is bonded to a backing plate. The solid-phase bonding produces a mosaic target of a unitary construction, eliminating gaps among the target block pieces without sacrificing the properties of the individual block pieces. Abnormal discharge owing to gaps or contamination of the resulting film by concurrent sputtering of the solder or the backing plate is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: Japan Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Tateo Ohhashi, Koichi Nakashima, Hideaki Fukuyo, Takakazu Seki
  • Patent number: 5464699
    Abstract: A pyrophoric coating formed by leaching aluminum from an aluminide coated web in which the aluminide coating was formed on or into the web by an exothermic and diffusion reaction of a powder containing aluminum and chromium with or without a transition metal selected from the group consisting of iron, nickel or cobalt and in which the weight ratio of chromium to aluminum is at least 1:50 but no more than about 1:4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: Alloy Surfaces Co. Inc.
    Inventor: Alfonso L. Baldi
  • Patent number: 5460894
    Abstract: A support arm for a control device and the like, the hollow profiled walls of which enclose an installation conduit for receiving cables or the like. The support arm, having a simple geometry and great rigidity, comprises a plurality of screw channels which project inwardly and extend in a longitudinal direction of the profiled section and are formed in the installation conduit. The profiled section comprises two lateral walls which are positioned parallel to each other at a distance and are connected at their ends by semicircular connecting elements in the shape of an oval. The screw channels divide the installation conduit into chambers which are spatially connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Udo Munch, Markus Neuhof
  • Patent number: 5460895
    Abstract: An improved aluminum alloy stock material is provided for use in a tubeplate-and-center type evaporator within an automobile air conditioning system. The improved aluminum alloy stock contains a unique aluminum alloy core material which is clad on both sides with an appropriate aluminum-silicon brazing alloy. The inventive aluminum alloy core material is characterized by the presence of boron in amounts sufficient to inhibit the formation of copper-rich precipitates in the grain boundaries of the alloy, so as to enhance the ability of the alloy to resist intergranular corrosion. The alloy is also characterized by a higher copper concentration and lower manganese and titanium concentrations as compared to conventional aluminum alloys used in these types of aluminum alloys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Ravi Rungta, Muftau M. Alabi
  • Patent number: 5458985
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stamper includes the steps of coating a flat surface of a substrate with photosensitive material; directing light to a specified position on the photosensitive material to expose it; developing the photosensitive material to make a minute photoresist pattern; etching the substrate to a specified depth with a mask of the photoresist pattern; removing the photoresist as the mask to make a glass master; arbitrarily forming a first nickel layer on a surface of the glass master; forming an intermediate layer of a metal having a smaller linear expansion coefficient than nickel over the first nickel layer; forming a second nickel layer on the intermediate layer to form a conductive film having a two- or three-stratum structure; arbitrarily subjecting the whole substrate to a process to make nickel passive; forming an electroformed layer on the conductive film by an electroforming process; and separating the conductive film from the glass master.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hitoshi Isono, Hirotoshi Takemori
  • Patent number: 5455122
    Abstract: A corrosion-resistant, environmentally-safe gasoline tank for motor vehicles, wherein the components of the gasoline tank are made of a metal material having a hot-dipped coating of zinc-tin applied to the exposed surfaces of the metal material. The tin-zinc coating includes at least 15 weight percent tin and at least 7 weight percent zinc. The tin-zinc alloy may also include metal additives such as nickel, antimony and/or bismuth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: The Louis Berkman Company
    Inventors: Jay F. Carey, II, Mehrooz Zamanzadeh
  • Patent number: 5455121
    Abstract: A steel material for colored springs is formed with a metallic deposit on the surface. The metallic deposit contains copper, zinc, and chromium. In an annealing process, copper and zinc diffuse in the deposit to exhibit a gold color tone while chromium is oxidized to exhibit a dark gray color tone. The combination of these color tones exhibits a beautiful black color tone which is distinguishable from a normal spring. The deposit improves the formability in the spring shaping process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Shinko Kosen Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Yamada, Keiji Hattori, Hirofumi Ueki, Takashi Kubo
  • Patent number: 5455120
    Abstract: A nickel base superalloy capable of being made into a single crystal article is provided with high temperature strength and improved stability by limiting the presence of an undesirable SRZ constituent. Significant to the control of formation of such undesirable constituents is the control of the amount of Re in the alloy in combination with elements such as Al, Cr, Ta, Mo, Co and W. A solution heat treatment is provided for additional control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William S. Walston, Earl W. Ross, Tresa M. Pollock, Kevin S. O'Hara, Wendy H. Murphy