Patents Examined by Nazmun Nahar Shams
  • Patent number: 12378652
    Abstract: An Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon reduced in iron loss, less deformed, and highly productive in a condition of a magnetic flux density of 1.45 T is provided. One aspect of the present disclosure provides an Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon having first and second surfaces, and is provided with continuous linear laser irradiation marks on at least the first surface. Each linear laser irradiation mark is formed along a direction orthogonal to a casting direction of the Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon, and has unevenness on its surface. When the unevenness is evaluated in the casting direction, a height difference HL×width WA calculated from the height difference HL between a highest point and a lowest point in a thickness direction of the Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon and the width WA which is a length of the linear irradiation mark on the first surface is 6.0 to 180 ?m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Itagaki, Morifumi Kuroki, Makoto Sasaki, Shin Nakajima
  • Patent number: 12367995
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for preparing magnetostrictive powder and magnetostrictive coating, and relates to the field of magnetic functional materials and preparation thereof. The method for preparing magnetostrictive powder includes putting metals for preparing magnetostrictive powder into a vacuum melting furnace to be melted into a solution; and atomizing the solution into fine droplets by ultrasonic atomization, so that the fine droplets are cooled and solidified into magnetostrictive powder. In the method for preparing magnetostrictive powder according to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the sizes of the prepared powder are relatively uniform, the powder yield exceeds 90%, the ultrasonic atomization energy consumption is low, and energy is saved by about ¼ compared with conventional atomization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: China Special Equipment Inspection and Research Institute
    Inventors: Gongtian Shen, Qingli Qi, Yang Zheng, Yilin Yuan, Qingchuan Pan
  • Patent number: 12359275
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a silicon steel material production process of producing a silicon steel material; a hot rolling process of obtaining a hot rolled sheet by subjecting the silicon steel material to hot rolling; a cold rolling process of obtaining a steel sheet having a final sheet thickness by subjecting the hot rolled sheet to a single cold rolling process or to multiple cold rolling processes having intermediate annealing performed between cold rolling processes; a decarburization annealing process of subjecting the steel sheet to decarburization annealing using a decarburization annealing furnace including a heating area and a soaking area; and a final annealing process of applying an annealing separator having alumina as a main component to the steel sheet and subjecting the steel sheet to final annealing, wherein, in the decarburization annealing process, when X represents the Cr content of the silicon steel material in terms of mass %, an oxida
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Ushigami, Shuichi Nakamura, Hiroyasu Fujii
  • Patent number: 12358052
    Abstract: Examples of a three-dimensional (3D) printing kit include a particulate build material and a binder fluid. The particular build material includes from about 80 wt % to 100 wt % uncoated metal particles based on a total weight of the particulate build material. In some examples, the binder fluid includes water, polymer particles in an amount ranging from about 1 wt % to about 40 wt % based on a total weight of the binder fluid, and a poly(carbodiimide) adhesion promoter in an amount ranging from about 0.05 wt % to about 5 wt % based on the total weight of the binder fluid. In some other examples, the binder fluid includes water and the polymer particles, and the 3D printing kit further includes an adhesion promoter fluid which includes water and the poly(carbodiimide) adhesion promoter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Peridot Print LLC
    Inventor: Tienteh Chen
  • Patent number: 12359269
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of iron and steel, in particular to an electrical steel with low iron loss and method for controlling tension thereof during decarburization annealing. A tension of each procedure of decarburization annealing of the electrical steel is controlled and adjusted respectively, and further combined with temperature of the decarburization annealing furnace, treatment time of the electrical steel in decarburization annealing furnace, and width and thickness of the electrical steel to prevent deflecting, cracking and narrowing of the electrical steel in the furnace and nodules on the bottom of roller. Compared with products of same brand, surface roughness and magnetic hysteresis loss of product are decreased by 10-20% and 10-15%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Inner Mongolia University of Technology
    Inventors: Lifeng Fan, Yujie Fu, Erbin Yue, Lijun Xiao, Jiao Huang, Yanyun Bai, Li Sun, Feng Guo
  • Patent number: 12348079
    Abstract: Provided are a motor core having excellent fatigue resistance and a method of manufacturing the motor core at a low cost. The motor core that is an electrical-steel-sheet-stacked body has an outer peripheral surface in which an appearance ratio of recrystallized grains with a grain size of 15 ?m or less is 70% or more of a sheet thickness of the motor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Tanaka, Tomoyuki Okubo, Yoshihiko Oda
  • Patent number: 12331370
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment in the present disclosure provides a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet containing, by wt %: 3.0 to 4.5% of Si; 0.05 to 0.2% of Mn; 0.015 to 0.035% of Al; 0.0015% or less (excluding 0%) of C; 0.0015% or less (excluding 0%) of N; 0.0015% or less (excluding 0%) of S; and a balance of Fe and other unavoidable impurities, wherein the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet satisfies the following Relational Expressions 1 and 2: (W13/50/W17/50)?0.57??[Relational Expression 1] (W15/50/W17/50)?0.76??[Relational Expression 2] where Wx/y represents a core loss value under conditions in which a magnitude of an applied magnetic field is x/10 T and a frequency is y Hz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Chang-Soo Park, Kyu-Seok Han, Jin-Wook Seo, Yu-Jun Bak
  • Patent number: 12318843
    Abstract: A method is provided for the heat treatment of an object comprising at least one rare-earth element with a high vapor pressure. One or more objects comprising at least one rare-earth element with a high vapor pressure are arranged in an interior of a package. An external source of the at least one rare-earth element is arranged so as to compensate for the evaporation of this same rare-earth element from the object and/or to increase the vapor pressure of the rare-earth element in the interior of the package, and the package is heat treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Kaan Üstüner, Matthias Katter, Christoph Brombacher, Daniela Benedikt
  • Patent number: 12311427
    Abstract: A manufacturing method includes: heating an overlapped blank; transferring the heated overlapped blank; and a step of performing presswork on the heated overlapped blank by using a die. In the heating step, when sheet-thicknesses of the first and second steel sheets are set, respectively, and an average heating rate at a sheet temperature from 20 to 800° C. of a portion with a total sheet thickness of an overlapped portion, and a non-overlapped portion are set, the total sheet thickness is 2.5 to 5.0 mm, a maximum length of the overlapped portion is 100 to 1100 mm, an area of the first steel sheet, an area of a portion, of the second steel sheet, overlapped with the first steel sheet, and the average heating rates satisfy Expressions (1) to (3), and heating is performed at a temperature and for a time within a specific range on a plane of coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soshi Fujita, Yuki Suzuki, Masahiro Fuda, Hideaki Irikawa, Jun Maki, Nobuo Yoshikawa, Naruhiko Nomura
  • Patent number: 12312649
    Abstract: A method for producing a grain oriented electrical steel sheet includes a decarburization annealing process where an oxidation degree PH2O/PH2 is controlled, an annealing separator applying process where a mass ratio of MgO and Al2O3 in an annealing separator is controlled, a final annealing process where an oxidation degree is controlled when atmosphere includes hydrogen or a dew point is controlled when atmosphere consists of inert gas, and an insulation coating forming process where a baking temperature and a heat treatment temperature are controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke Takatani, Yoshiyuki Ushigami, Shuichi Nakamura, Shohji Nagano, Shunsuke Okumura
  • Patent number: 12291761
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a chemical and physical hydrometallurgical method with solid-liquid-solid interaction for the solubilization of copper sulphides, by Selective Transformation and Precipitation of soluble, chlorinated, copper species, where said method does not depend on the redox potential and can be carried out in a wide range of pH under conditions of salts supersaturation, which is a condition that is generated by periods of non-irrigation, from ores or copper concentrates, mainly primary sulphides, such as chalcopyrite comprising said copper. This method is composed of 3 steps, called “Moistening and Solvation Step”, “Selective Transformation and Precipitation Step” and “Acid-Chlorinated Washing step”, wherein said method does neither require the addition of oxidizing or reducing agents, nor oxygen. Furthermore, the steps of the method can be applied only with the presence of water, where acid addition is not required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NOVA MINERALIS S.A.
    Inventor: Rodrigo Andrés Cortés Cortés
  • Patent number: 12286709
    Abstract: There is provided a carbide material including tungsten carbide of 60 to 85 weight %, titanium carbides of 10 to 25 weight % and preferably a metal matrix of 0.5 to 20 weight % including Fe and optionally at least one or both of the metals Co or Ni. There is also provided a device including a ferrous substrate and such a carbide material and a method of manufacturing a device, the method comprising mixing powders comprising carbon, tungsten and a scavenger material such as titanium, placing the mixed powders proximal a ferrous substrate, impinging an energy source onto the powdered materials to create a melt pool formed of the powders and the material of the substrate, and allowing the melt pool to solidify to form a carbide material substantially free from iron tungsten carbides of (W, Fe)6C and (W, Fe)12C type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: C4 Carbides Limited
    Inventors: Choon Yen Kong, Andreas Chrysanthou, Pavels Sevcenko
  • Patent number: 12264389
    Abstract: An Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon reduced in iron loss, less deformed, and highly productive in a condition of a magnetic flux density of 1.45 T is provided. One aspect of the present disclosure provides an Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon having first and second surfaces, and is provided with continuous linear laser irradiation marks on at least the first surface. Each linear laser irradiation mark is formed along a direction orthogonal to a casting direction of the Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon, and has unevenness on its surface. When the unevenness is evaluated in the casting direction, a height difference HL×width WA calculated from the height difference HL between a highest point and a lowest point in a thickness direction of the Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon and the width WA which is a length of the linear irradiation mark on the first surface is 6.0 to 180 ?m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Itagaki, Morifumi Kuroki, Makoto Sasaki, Shin Nakajima
  • Patent number: 12247278
    Abstract: A method of producing an integrated monolithic aluminum structure including providing an 7xxx-series aluminum alloy plate with a predetermined thickness of at least 10 mm, and wherein the plate has been solution heat treated and stretched, heat-treating the plate product in a first of a plurality of artificial ageing steps required to achieve a final temper state, high-energy hydroforming the plate against a forming surface of a rigid die having a contour with a desired curvature of the integrated monolithic aluminum structure, the high energy forming causing the aluminum alloy plate to conform to the forming surface contour to at least one of a uniaxial curvature and a biaxial curvature, heat-treating the integrated monolithic aluminum structure through a remaining ageing step of the ageing steps to achieve a desired final temper, and machining the high-energy formed structure to a near-final or final machined integrated monolithic aluminum structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: AIRBUS SAS
    Inventors: Philippe Meyer, Sunil Khosla, Achim Bürger, Sabine Maria Spangel, Andreas Harald Bach
  • Patent number: 12247272
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of an Al—Ce—Cu alloy for use in additive manufacturing. The disclosed alloy embodiments provide fabricated objects, such as bulk components, comprising a heterogeneous microstructure and having good mechanical properties even when exposed to conditions used during the additive manufacturing process. Methods for making and using alloy embodiments also are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignees: UT-Battelle, LLC, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc., University of Tennessee Research Foundation
    Inventors: Sumit Bahl, Ryan R. Dehoff, Hunter B. Henderson, Scott McCall, Ryan Ott, Alexander J. Plotkowski, Orlando Rios, Amit Shyam, Zachary C. Sims, Kevin D. Sisco, David Weiss, Ying Yang
  • Patent number: 12233463
    Abstract: A composition for pressure bonding contains a metal powder and a solid reducing agent and has a compressibility of 10% to 90%, the compressibility being expressed by a relationship formula using the thickness A of a dried coating film formed by drying the composition in an air atmosphere at 110° C. under atmospheric pressure for 20 minutes and the thickness B of a sintered body formed by treating the dried coating film in a nitrogen atmosphere at 280° C. under a pressure of 6 MPa for 20 minutes. The solid reducing agent may be BIS-TRIS. Also provided is a bonded structure of conductors in which a bonding portion via which two conductors are bonded together is formed by treating, under pressure, the two conductors and a coating film formed of the composition for pressure bonding provided therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Anai, Shinichi Yamauchi, Jung-Lae Jo
  • Patent number: 12218322
    Abstract: A manganese-lithium separation process and a pre-extraction solution preparation process in comprehensive recovery of ternary battery wastes, and a method for comprehensive recovery of cobalt, nickel, manganese and lithium elements from the ternary battery wastes, relates to a method for recycling battery wastes. According to the present disclosure, cobalt and nickel ions are separated from an impurity-removed solution by a hydrolysis method; manganese, lithium and other ions in the impurity-removed solution are free from an extraction procedure, so that most manganese ions are separated and removed by a wet method before extraction, to prevent the manganese ions from entering the extraction system; nickel ions are free from an extraction procedure of full extraction and full back-extraction; and nickel hydroxide is directly precipitated after related impurities are removed by extraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: HUNAN JIN YUAN NEW MATERIALS JOINT STOCK COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xunbing Liu, Jianjun Ouyang, Xijuan Liu, Shanmu Wu, Xiangping Zhao, Xiongwu Dong, Chaowen Zhang, Quncheng Zhou, Chun Luo, Sanxian Chen
  • Patent number: 12202046
    Abstract: Methods and systems for producing feedstock powders, suitable for use in laser-based additive manufacturing, use laser ablation to vaporize a source material, which may be in bulk solid or solid coarse grain form. The source material is vaporized by a laser (or other focused energy source) in a vaporization chamber that is temperature controlled to provide a vertical thermal gradient. The vertical thermal gradient may be controlled to, in turn, control the nucleation, coagulation, and agglomeration of the vaporized molecules, enabling formation of microparticles that may then be used as feedstock powders in laser-based additive manufacturing. The produced feedstock powder particles may be of uniform composition, of uniform shape (e.g., substantially spherical), and of uniform phase or homogeneously mixed phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC
    Inventors: Robert C. O'Brien, Owen O. Abe
  • Patent number: 12203159
    Abstract: A method of producing a wrought aluminum alloy product is disclosed comprising Cu, Mn, Zr, Sc and Ti. The method includes casting an unwrought billet, ingot or shape from a liquid metal bath, and homogenizing the unwrought billet, ingot or shape at an equivalent time at temperature. The homogenization process includes first stage heating within a relatively low temperature range, second stage heating within an intermediate temperature range, and third stage heating at a relatively high temperature. After homogenizing, the billet, ingot or shape is worked into an extruded product, solution heat treated, quenched, stretched to a permanent set, and artificially aged. The extruded aluminum alloy product has desirable mechanical properties and electrical conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Universal Alloy Corporation
    Inventors: Baptiste Thomas Jean Rouxel, Thomas Henri Dorin, Timothy J. Langan, Justin D. Lamb
  • Patent number: 12205738
    Abstract: A method of producing a sintered magnet is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method of producing a sintered magnet comprises, sintering a R—Fe—B based magnetic powder to produce a sintered magnet; wherein the R is Nd, Pr, Dy, Ce or Tb, and infiltrating a eutectic alloy into the sintered magnet, wherein the eutectic alloy contains Pr, Al, Cu and Ga, and wherein infiltration the eutectic alloy includes applying the eutectic alloy to the sintered magnet and heat-treating the sintered magnet to which the eutectic alloy is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Hoon Kim, Soon Jae Kwon, Hyounsoo Uh, Ikjin Choi, Jinhyeok Choe, Ingyu Kim, Eunjeong Shin, Nakheon Sung