Patents Examined by Nicholas Wang
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Patent number: 10407758Abstract: A steel for oil country tubular goods includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %, C, Si, Mn, Al, Mo, P, S, O, N, and a balance containing Fe and impurities, wherein a full width at half maximum HW of a crystal plane corresponding to a (211) crystal plane of an ? phase and a carbon content expressed in mass % in the chemical composition satisfy HW×C1/2?0.38, the carbon content and a molybdenum content expressed in mass % in the chemical composition satisfy C×Mo?0.6, a number of M2C carbides having a hexagonal crystal structure and having an equivalent circle diameter of 1 nm or more is 5 pieces or more per one square micron, and an yield strength is 758 MPa or more.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2013Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiko Omura, Yuji Arai, Kaori Kawano, Akihiro Sakamoto, Kazuo Okamura, Kenji Yamamoto, Keiichi Kondo, Koji Nagahashi, Masanao Seo
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Patent number: 10381141Abstract: The present invention discloses manufacturing methods of a powder for compacting rare earth magnet powder and rare earth magnet that omit jet milling process, which comprises the steps as follows: 1) casting: casting the molten alloy of rare earth magnet raw material by strip casting method to obtain a quenched alloy with average thickness in a range of 0.2˜0.4 mm; 2) hydrogen decrepitation: decrepitating the quenched alloy and a plurality of rigid balls into a rotating hydrogen decrepitation container simultaneously, the quenched alloy is crushed under a hydrogen pressure between 0.01˜1 MPa, cooling the alloy and the balls, then screening the mixture to remove the rigid balls and obtain the powder. As the jet milling process is omitted, the oxygenation during the process of the jet milling may be avoided, therefore the process may be non-oxide, and the mass production of magnet with super high property may be possible.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2013Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignees: Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd., Fujian Changting Golden Dragon Rare-Earth Co., LtdInventors: Hiroshi Nagata, Chonghu Wu
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Patent number: 10370752Abstract: A technique is disclosed for straining an amorphous alloy at ambient temperature to plastically and homogeneously deform the amorphous alloy, such that at least an exterior surface of the deformed amorphous alloy is substantially free of shear bands. An amorphous alloy may be strained at a rate of less than about 9×10?5 s?1 or by multiple passes of cold rolling. A pattern from a die may be imprinted into the amorphous alloy when strained, and the amorphous alloy may be used as a die to plastically strain other materials.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Min Ha Lee, Eun Soo Park, Ryan Timothy Ott, Jürgen Eckert
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Patent number: 10266917Abstract: The present invention discloses a heat resistance copper alloy material characterized in that said copper alloy material comprises 0.15 to 0.33 mass percent of Co, 0.041 to 0.089 mass percent of P, 0.02 to 0.25 mass percent of Sn, 0.01 to 0.40 mass percent of Zn and the remaining mass percent of Cu and inevitable impurities, wherein each content of Co, P, Sn and Zn satisfies the relationships 2.4?([Co]?0.02)/[P]?5.2 and 0.20?[Co]+0.5 [P]+0.9 [Sn]+0.1 [Zn]?0.54, wherein [Co], [P], [Sn] and [Zn] are said mass percents of Co, P, Sn and Zn content, respectively; and said copper alloy material is a pipe, plate, bar, wire or worked material obtained by working said pipe, plate, bar or wire material into predetermined shapes.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2009Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI SHINDOH CO., LTD.Inventor: Keiichiro Oishi
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Patent number: 10260140Abstract: A highly reactive conversion coating chemistry is used during CAVF processing of high hardness steel alloys such as AMS 6509 and AMS 6517 steel alloys. This chemistry produces a hard, thin, black conversion coating that is not fully rubbed off by the media during the CAVF process. Distressed material regions on the surface of the alloys are not susceptible to forming the conversion coating and remain white. Visual inspection for the presence of such regions is facilitated.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: REM Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Mark D. Michaud, Gary J. Sroka, Lane Winklemann
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Patent number: 10232441Abstract: A method of fabricating an article includes providing an arrangement of loose nanowires, forming the loose nanowires into a gas turbine engine airfoil by depositing the loose nanowires into a mold that has a geometry of the gas turbine engine airfoil, and bonding the loose nanowires together into a unitary cellular structure that has the geometry of the gas turbine engine airfoil.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Weina Li, Michael J. Birnkrant, Paul Sheedy, James T. Beals, Rhonda R. Willigan, Jose L. Santana
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Patent number: 10215494Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of operating an electric arc furnace containing (a) a furnace shell having a tapping hole and/or a slag door, (b) a furnace roof having a plurality of electrodes provided so as to face downwards, and (c) a rotating apparatus that rotates the furnace shell around a vertical axis relative to the electrodes, the method contains a rotating step of rotating the furnace shell relative to the electrodes during melting of a metal material, and a holding step of stopping the rotation when any one of the plurality of electrodes reaches a holding position that is previously set close to the tapping hole or the slag door, and holding the furnace shell at the holding position.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2015Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: DAIDO STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriyuki Tomita, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Akihiro Nagatani, Masato Ogawa, Kunio Matsuo
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Patent number: 10168392Abstract: A method includes producing an amorphous precursor to a nanocomposite, the amorphous precursor comprising a material that is substantially without crystals not exceeding 20% volume fraction; performing devitrification of the amorphous precursor, wherein the devitrification comprises a process of crystallization; forming, based on the devitrification, the nanocomposite with nano-crystals that contains an induced magnetic anisotropy; tuning, based on one or more of composition, temperature, configuration, and magnitude of stress applied during annealing and modification, the magnetic anisotropy of the nanocomposite; and adjusting, based on the tuned magnetic anisotropy, a magnetic permeability of the nanocomposite.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2014Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignees: Carnegie Mellon University, SPANG, INC., U.S. Department of EnergyInventors: Alex M. Leary, Paul R. Ohodnicki, Michael E. McHenry, Vladimir Keylin, Joseph Huth, Samuel J. Kernion
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Patent number: 10161016Abstract: The disclosure relates to pre-treatment of precious metal-bearing oxide ores, prior to precious metal leaching by thiosulfate. The process comprises mixing oxide ore in oxygenated water in the presence of a carbon-based material (e.g., activated carbon or other type of carbon). The carbon-based material can be separated from the ore slurry, and, the gold is thereafter leached by a thiosulfate lixiviant.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2014Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Barrick Gold CorporationInventors: Yeonuk Choi, Ahmad Ghahremaninezhad Gharelar
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Patent number: 10137501Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a micropore filter usable as SCE. Stainless steel particles having particle diameters of 3 to 60 ?m are subjected to milling in a bead mill using zirconia beads to prepare powder having a flakiness of 0.03 to 0.4. The zirconia adhered to the surface of the powder is removed by pickling. A load of 10 to 15 kN is applied to 0.5 to 1.0 g of the pickled powder, thereby compacting the powder into a columnar compact body. The compact body is kept and fired in a vacuum atmosphere of 10?5 to 10?3 Pa at a temperature of 1000 to 1300° C. for 1 to 3 hours to form a sintered body. The sintered body is pressed into a pipe having an inner diameter of 0.90 to 0.99 times of the outer diameter of the sintered body, and extruded to obtain a micropore filter.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2014Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: PURERON JAPAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidetoshi Nakajima, Toshio Miura, Miyabi Katano, Nozomi Igarashi
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Patent number: 10131962Abstract: A seamless steel pipe has a carbon equivalent Ceq of 0.50% to 0.58%, and contains specified carbides containing Mo at a ratio of 50 mass % or more, V, and at least one selected from the group consisting of Ti and Nb, and having a size of 20 nm or more.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Arai, Kenji Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Nagayama
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Patent number: 10105798Abstract: A method for improving the surface of an aluminum alloy article includes manufacturing the aluminum alloy article using an additive manufacturing technique, wherein the article as-manufactured includes one or more of cracks, roughness, or porosity at a surface of the article; coating the surface of the aluminum alloy article with a diffusion element, the diffusion element being capable of diffusing at least 0.2 mils into the article; heating the aluminum alloy article coated with the diffusion element to cause the diffusion element to diffuse the at least 0.2 mils into the article, thereby forming a diffusion layer of at least 0.2 mils in thickness comprising both aluminum alloy and diffusion element; and removing the diffusion layer from the aluminum alloy article, whereby upon the removing, a resulting improved surface of the article comprises fewer or smaller cracks, reduced roughness, or reduced porosity.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Andy Szuromi, Steve Starr, Donald G. Godfrey, Mark C. Morris
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Patent number: 10087499Abstract: There are provided a high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet securing low-temperature toughness and having excellent stretch flangeability by controlling a structural fraction and a hardness difference among structures, and a manufacturing method thereof. A hot-rolled steel sheet contains: C: 0.01 to 0.2%; Si: 0.001 to 2.5% or less; Mn: 0.10 to 4.0% or less; P: 0.10% or less; S: less than 0.03%; Al: 0.001 to 2.0%; N: less than 0.01%; Ti: (0.005+48/14[N]+48/32[S]) % or more and 0.3% or less; Nb: 0 to 0.06%; Cu: 0 to 1.2%; Ni: 0 to 0.6%; Mo: 0 to 1%; V: 0 to 0.2%; Cr: 0 to 2%; Mg: 0 to 0.01%; Ca: 0 to 0.01%; REM: 0 to 0.1%; and B: 0 to 0.002%, and has: an texture in which, at a central portion of a sheet thickness located between ? to ? thickness positions of the sheet thickness from a surface of the steel sheet, an average value of X-ray random intensity ratios of a group of {100}<011> to {223}<110> orientations of a sheet plane is 6.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Shuto, Tatsuo Yokoi, Yuuki Kanzawa, Nobuhiro Fujita, Ryohta Niiya, Shinya Saitoh
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Patent number: 10072319Abstract: There are provided methods and systems for creating multi-phase covetics. For example, there is provided a process for making a composite material. The process includes forming a multi-phase covetic. The forming includes heating a melt including a metal in a molten state and a carbon source to a first temperature threshold to form metal-carbon bonds. The forming further includes subsequently heating the melt to a second temperature threshold, the second temperature threshold being greater than the first temperature threshold. The second temperature threshold is a temperature at or above which ordered multi-phase covetics form in the melt.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2017Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: GDC Industries, LLCInventors: Michael Dennis Braydich, Harry Couch, Louis A. Luedtke
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Patent number: 10072316Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet having a steel composition comprising, by mass %, 0.12% to 0.22% C, 0.8% to 1.8% Si, 1.8% to 2.8% Mn, 0.020% or less P, 0.0040% or less S, 0.005% to 0.08% Al, 0.008% or less N, 0.001% to 0.040% Ti, 0.0001% to 0.0020% B, 0.0001% to 0.0020% Ca, and Fe and incidental impurities. The steel sheet includes a microstructure in which ferrite and bainite phases are 50% to 70% of the total area, the average grain size of the ferrite and bainite phase is 1 to 3 ?m, a tempered martensite phase is 25% to 45% of the total area, the average grain size of the tempered martensite phase is 1 to 3 ?m, and a retained austenite phase is 2% to 10% of the total area.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2013Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hidetaka Kawabe, Takeshi Yokota, Reiko Sugihara, Daigo Itoh, Kazunori Tahara
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Patent number: 10040123Abstract: In one aspect, methods of milling carbide are described herein. A method of milling carbide comprises placing a particulate composition comprising carbide in a vessel containing milling media and placing an additive in the vessel, the additive undergoing evaporation or sublimation to provide a non-oxidative atmosphere in the vessel. The carbide particles are comminuted with the milling media in the non-oxidative atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2014Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Kennametal India LimitedInventors: Raghavan Rengarajan, Gopalrao Sivaraman, Ramesh Sathyanarayan Rao, Alam Rukhsar, Jagannath Vaishali
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Patent number: 10030911Abstract: In a process and apparatus for the reduction of metal oxides (3) to form metalized material by contact with hot reducing gas, which is produced at least partially by catalytic reformation of a mixture of a gas containing carbon dioxide (CO2) and/or steam (H2O) with gaseous hydrocarbons, the heat for the endothermal reformation processes which take place during the reformation is provided at least partially by the combustion of a fuel gas.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA GMBHInventors: Robert Millner, Guenter Peer
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Patent number: 10023953Abstract: A method for making a sputtering target including steps of encapsulating and hot isostatically pressing at least one mass of metal powder (e.g., tantalum), having a particle size ranging from about 10 to about 1000 ?m, with at least about 10 percent by weight of particles having a particle size greater than about 150 ?m (for example, about 29 to about 56 percent (e.g., about 35 to about 47 percent) by weight of the particles in the at least one mass of metal powder having a particle size that is larger than 150 microns, but below about 250 ?m), for defining at least a portion of a sputtering target body, having an essentially theoretical random and substantially uniform crystallographic texture.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: H.C. STARCK INC.Inventors: Patrick Hogan, Paul Aimone, Joseph Flanigan, Marcel Hagymasi, Helmut Haas
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Patent number: 10017841Abstract: Copper alloy casting contains Cu: 58-72.5 mass %; Zr: 0.0008-0.045 mass %; P: 0.01-0.25 mass %; one or more elements selected from Pb: 0.01-4 mass %, Bi: 0.01-3 mass %, Se: 0.03-1 mass %, and Te: 0.05-1.2 mass %; and Zn: a remainder, wherein [Cu]?3[P]+0.5([Pb]+[Bi]+[Se]+[Te])=60-90, [P]/[Zr]=0.5-120, and 0.05[?]+([Pb]+[Bi]+[Se]+[Te])=0.45-4 (the content of an element ‘a’ is denoted as [a] mass %; the content of ? phase is denoted as [?]% by area ratio; and an element ‘a’ that is not contained is denoted as [a]=0). The total content of ? phase and ? phase is 85% or more, ? phase content is 25% or less by area ratio, and mean grain size in the macrostructure during melt-solidification is 250 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2005Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI SHINDOH CO., LTD.Inventor: Keiichiro Oishi
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Patent number: 10010935Abstract: The present invention provides iron powder for dust cores that has excellent compressibility and low iron loss after formation. In the iron powder for dust cores, Si content is 0.01 mass % or less, apparent density is 3.8 g/cm3 or more, the ratio of iron powder particles with a particle size of 45 ?m or less is 10 mass % or less, the ratio of iron powder particles with a particle size of over 180 ?m and 250 ?m or less is less than 30 mass %, the ratio of iron powder particles with a particle size of over 250 ?m is 10 mass % or less, and the Vickers hardness (test force: 0.245 N) of a powder cross-section is 80 Hv or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2013Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya Takashita, Naomichi Nakamura