Patents by Inventor Iris Postler

Iris Postler has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for Manufacturing a Composite Component and Metal-Ceramic Component
    Publication number: 20070234929
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a composite component, a brake disk in particular, and a metal-ceramic component are described. In the method, a porous ceramic blank is produced and infiltrated with a metal melt. An alloy of copper and at least one additional metal is used as the metal melt for infiltration, the additional metal being converted by at least one reactive component of the blank in such a way that a pore space of a ceramic phase is filled essentially with pure copper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2004
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Inventors: Bernd Reinsch, Iris Postler, Klaus Czerwinski, Matthias Leonhardt, Alwin Nagel, Bernd Huchler, Dirk Staudenecker
  • Metal-ceramic composite material body and method for producing the same
    Patent number: 6849342
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of fabrication and a product, which forms a composite body made of metal and a porous ceramic blank, which adjoins the metallic portion and is infiltrated by the metal, wherein a gradient in properties across the composite portion of the composite body is formed by a heat treatment that reduces some of the oxides across the thickness of the porous ceramic blank. In one embodiment, a gradient from substantial chemical reaction to incomplete chemical reaction of the reducible oxides of the blank with the infiltrated metal is formed inside the composite portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Otto W. Stenzel, Klaus Czerwinski, Iris Postler, Bernd Reinsch