Patents Examined by Xiaobei Wang
  • Patent number: 11555228
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an amorphous alloy corresponding to the formula: CoaNibMoc(C1-xBx)dXe wherein X is one or several elements selected from the group consisting of Cu, Si, Fe, P, Y, Er, Cr, Ga, Ta, Nb, V and W; wherein the indices a to e and x satisfy the following conditions: 55?a?75 at. % 0?b?15 at. % 7?c?17 at. % 15?d?23 at. % 0.1?x?0.9 at. % 0?e?10 at. %, each element selected from the group having a content?3 at. % and preferably ?2 at. %, the balance being impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd.
    Inventors: Alban Dubach, David Ehinger, Mihai Stoica
  • Patent number: 11549165
    Abstract: The disclosure provides for a layered metal with resistance to hydrogen induced cracking and method of production thereof, comprising a core metal alloy and a skin metal alloy. The core metal alloy comprises twinned boundaries. The core metal alloy has undergone plastic deformation and a heat treatment. The core metal alloy comprises nickel and cobalt. The skin metal alloy is disposed on the core metal alloy, wherein the skin metal alloy comprises an entropy greater than the core metal alloy. The core metal alloy comprises a greater density of twinned boundaries than the skin metal alloy. The skin metal alloy comprises a stacking fault energy of at least about 50 mJ/m2, and the skin metal alloy comprises iron, aluminum, and boron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Shashwat Shukla, Arpana Singh, Michael Linley Fripp
  • Patent number: 11541455
    Abstract: Provided are gold-coated flat silver particles, a dispersion including the gold-coated flat silver particles and a dispersion medium, a method of the dispersion, a coating film including the gold-coated flat silver particles, and an antireflection optical member. The gold-coated flat silver particles include flat silver particles and a gold coating layer, in which an average thickness of the gold coating layer on principal planes of the particles is 0.1 nm to 2 nm, and a ratio of the average thickness of the gold coating layer on the principal planes of the particles to an average thickness of the gold coating layer on edge surfaces of the particles is 0.02 or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryo Matsuno
  • Patent number: 11535913
    Abstract: A multi-material component joined by a high entropy alloy is provided, as well as methods of making a multi-material component by joining dissimilar materials with high entropy alloys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianxun Hu, Eric Walker
  • Patent number: 11532827
    Abstract: Fuel cell alloy bipolar plates. The alloys may be used as a coating or bulk material. The alloys and metallic glasses may be particularly suitable for proton-exchange membrane fuel cells because of they may exhibit reduced weights and/or better corrosion resistance. The alloys may include any of the following AlxCuyTiz, AlxFeyNiz, AlxMnyNiz, AlxNiyTiz, CuxFeyTiz, CuxNiyTiz, AlxFeySiz, AlxMnySiz, AlxNiySiz, NixSiyTiz, and CxFeySiz. The alloys or metallic glass may be doped with various dopants to improve glass forming ability, mechanical strength, ductility, electrical or thermal conductivities, hydrophobicity, and/or corrosion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Soo Kim, Jonathan Mailoa, Lei Cheng, Nathan Craig
  • Patent number: 11530490
    Abstract: In a terminal material with a silver coating film including a silver layer on a surface, a terminal and a terminal material having high reliability are easily manufactured with low cost without a heat treatment. A base material formed of copper or a copper alloy; and nickel layer, an intermediate layer, and a silver layer laminated on the base material in this order are included, the nickel layer has a thickness of 0.05 ?m to 5.00 ?m and is formed of nickel or a nickel alloy, the intermediate layer has a thickness of 0.02 ?m to 1.00 ?m and is an alloy layer containing silver (Ag) and a substance X, and the substance X includes one or more kinds of tin, bismuth, gallium, indium, and germanium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Kubota, Tooru Nishimura, Takashi Tamagawa, Kiyotaka Nakaya
  • Patent number: 11518541
    Abstract: A composite panel having a plurality of carbon plies, a perforated metallic foil comprising several apertures and being directly secured to the plurality of carbon plies, and a protective layer made from resin reinforced with fibers which is secured to the metallic foil. The perforated metallic foil is embedded in the protective layer through its apertures. A free surface of the protective layer forms a top side of the composite panel. The thickness of the protective layer between the top side of the composite panel and the perforated metallic foil is at least 15 micrometers and the perforated metallic foil has a thickness of not more than 30 micrometers. The plurality of apertures in the aggregate defines an open area of not more than 40% of the surface area and a maximum distance between two opposed points in a perimeter of an aperture is equal to or less than 3 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: AIRBUS SAS
    Inventors: Mohammed Salim Rahamat, Mark A. Murdoch, Kenneth William Burtt, Brett Alexander Macdonald, Franck Flourens, Richard Murillo, Valentin Garcia Martinez, Pablo Perez Cabrero
  • Patent number: 11511375
    Abstract: A multi-material component joined by a high entropy alloy is provided, as well as methods of making a multi-material component by joining dissimilar materials with high entropy alloys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES
    Inventors: Jianxun Hu, Justin Brown, Peiyong Chen, Chanho Lee, Xuesong Fan, John William Bohling, Carl D. Lundin, Peter Liaw, Zhenzhen Yu, Abdelrahman Abdelmotagaly
  • Patent number: 11505856
    Abstract: A copper-coated steel wire includes a core wire made of a steel and a coating layer made of copper or a copper alloy which covers an outer peripheral surface of the core wire. The coating layer includes an intermediate layer which is disposed in a region including the interface with the core wire and has a higher zinc concentration than a remaining region of the coating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takumi Akada, Shinei Takamura, Daigo Sato, Takaaki Enomoto
  • Patent number: 11471943
    Abstract: A multi-metallic pressure-controlling component and a hot isostatic pressure (HIP) manufacturing process and system are disclosed. An example multi-metallic component for use in the oil field services industry includes a first metal alloy that forms a first portion of the multi-metallic pressure-controlling component, and a second metal alloy that forms a second portion of the multi-metallic pressure-controlling component. A diffusion bond is disposed at an interface between the first metal alloy and the second metal alloy that joins the first metal alloy to the second metal alloy within the multi-metallic pressure-controlling component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MTC Powder Solutions AB
    Inventor: Thomas Berglund
  • Patent number: 11476017
    Abstract: In the production of an internal-tin-processed Nb3Sn superconducting wire, the present invention provides a Nb3Sn superconducting wire that is abundant in functionality, such as, the promotion of formation of a Nb3Sn layer, the mechanical strength of the superconducting filament (and an increase in interface resistance), the higher critical temperature (magnetic field), and the grain size reduction, and a method for producing it. A method for producing a Nb3Sn superconducting wire according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a step of providing a bar 10 that has a Sn insertion hole 12 provided in a central portion of the bar 10 and a plurality of Nb insertion holes 14 provided discretely along an outer peripheral surface of the Sn insertion hole 12, and that has an alloy composition being Cu-xZn-yM (x: 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
    Inventors: Nobuya Banno, Kyoji Tachikawa
  • Patent number: 11466343
    Abstract: A metal porous body having a three-dimensional network structure, includes: a framework forming the three-dimensional network structure; and a coating layer having fine pores and coating the framework, the three-dimensional network structure including a rib and a node connecting a plurality of ribs, the framework including an alkali-resistant first metal, the fine pores having an average fine pore diameter of 10 nm or more and 1 ?m or less, the coating layer including an alkali-resistant second metal and optionally including an alkali-soluble metal, the alkali-soluble metal being contained at a proportion of 0% by mass or more and 30% by mass or less with reference to a total mass of the framework and the coating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kazuki Okuno, Takahiro Higashino, Hiromasa Tawarayama, Masatoshi Majima, Haruki Masumura, Yoshiyuki Kuroda, Shigenori Mitsushima
  • Patent number: 11458577
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet for a heat exchanger includes a three-layer material in which a brazing material layer, an intermediate layer, and a core material are cladded and stacked, the intermediate layer is formed of an aluminum alloy which can include Mn, Si, Fe, and Cu, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, the core material is formed of an aluminum alloy which can include Si, Fe, Cu, and Mn, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, and the brazing material layer is formed of an aluminum alloy including Si, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukie Kitada, Naoki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11446722
    Abstract: A high temperature iron-chromium-aluminium (FeCrAl) alloy tube extending along a longitudinal axis, wherein the tube is formed from a continuous strip of a high temperature FeCrAl alloy and comprises a helical welded seam. The high temperature FeCrAl alloy tube is manufactured by feeding a continuous strip of the high temperature FeCrAl alloy toward a tube shaping station, helically winding the strip such that long edges of the strip abut each other and a rotating tube moving forward in a direction parallel to its longitudinal axis is formed, and continuously joining said abutting long edges together in a welding process directly when the tube is formed, whereby a welded tube comprising a helical welded seam is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventor: Krister Wickman
  • Patent number: 11440846
    Abstract: A solution for forming an insulation coating of grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes an aqueous solution prepared by mixing a phosphate solution and colloidal silica. Chromium is not added to the aqueous solution. The colloidal silica includes silica particles surface-modified by an aluminate or is prepared by adding an aluminate to colloidal silica such as conventional colloidal silica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Regis Lemaitre, Ludger Lahn, Carsten Schepers, Shuichi Yamazaki, Kazutoshi Takeda, Masaru Takahashi, Hirohiko Sato, Koji Kanehashi
  • Patent number: 11441215
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a base steel sheet including, as a chemical composition, by mass %, C: 0.010% or less, Si: 2.50% to 4.00%, Mn: 0.050% to 1.000%, S+Se: 0.005% or less in total, Sol. Al: 0.005% or less, N: 0.005% or less, Bi+Te+Pb: 0% to 0.0300% in total, Sb: 0% to 0.50%, Sn: 0% to 0.50%, Cr: 0% to 0.50%, Cu: 0% to 1.0%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities; and a tension-applying insulation coating provided on a surface of the base steel sheet, in which, on the surface of the base steel sheet, an arithmetic average roughness Ra along a rolling 90° direction that is a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction is 0.60 ?m or less, and when a cross section of the base steel sheet is observed along the rolling 90° direction, recessed parts having a depth of 0.1 ?m or more and 2.0 ?m or less are present on the surface of the base steel sheet in 1.0/100 ?m or more and 6.0/100 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Tanaka, Takashi Kataoka, Noriyoshi Kubota, Kazutoshi Takeda
  • Patent number: 11440090
    Abstract: A composition of a nickel based alloy mixture which can be used for welding via especially liquid metal deposition or as a powder bed of an additive manufacturing method. A metallic powder mixture includes (in wt %): a cobalt (Co) or nickel (Ni) based super alloy with a content of 20% to 60%, a NiCoCrAlY-composition with a content of 70% to 30% and a metallic braze material with a content between 10% to 5%. The melting point of the braze material is at least 10K lower than the melting point of the nickel or cobalt based superalloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Burbaum, Henning Hanebuth, Andreas Rucki, Ahmed Kamel
  • Patent number: 11434547
    Abstract: A metal porous material according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a metal porous material in sheet form that includes a frame having a three-dimensional network configuration, wherein the frame includes an alloy including at least nickel (Ni) and chromium (Cr), the frame 11 is a solid solution with iron (Fe), the frame includes a chromium oxide (Cr2O3) layer as an outermost layer and includes a chromium carbide layer located under the chromium oxide layer, the chromium oxide layer has a thickness not less than 0.1 ?m and not more than 3 ?m, and the chromium carbide layer has a thickness not less than 0.1 ?m and not more than 1 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC TOYAMA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Tsuchida, Junichi Nishimura, Seiji Mabuchi
  • Patent number: 11419232
    Abstract: This application relates to a portable electronic device. The portable electronic device includes an enclosure having a metal oxide coating, the metal oxide coating including a metal alloy substrate that is doped with a dopant, and a metal oxide layer overlaying and formed from the metal alloy substrate so that the metal oxide layer includes the dopant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hoishun Li, Zechariah D. Feinberg, Theodore A. Waniuk
  • Patent number: 11408041
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes 2.0 to 4.0% of Si, 0.05 to 1.5% of Al, 0.05 to 2.5% of Mn, equal to or less than 0.005% of C (excluding 0%), equal to or less than 0.005% of N (excluding 0%), 0.001 to 0.1% of Sn, 0.001 to 0.1% of Sb, 0.001 to 0.1% of P, 0.001 to 0.01% of As, 0.0005 to 0.01% of Se, 0.0005 to 0.01% of Pb, 0.0005 to 0.01% of Bi, a remainder of Fe, and inevitable impurities, as wt %, wherein a Taylor factor (M) of each crystal grain included in a steel sheet is expressed in Formula 1, and an average Taylor factor value of the steel sheet is equal to or less than 2.75: M = ? ? CRSS [ Formula ? ? 1 ] (here, ? is a macro stress, and ?CRSS is a critical resolved shear stress).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Hun Ju Lee, Yong-Soo Kim, Su-Yong Shin