Publication number: 20230366064
Abstract: A platinum alloy composition consisting, in weight percent, of: 0.0 to 10.0 gold, 0.0 to 5.0 cobalt, 0.0 to 10.0 copper, 0.0 to 7.0 iron, 0.0 to 4.0 gallium, 0.0 to 3.0 indium, 0.0 to 5.0 iridium, 0.0 to 10.0 manganese, 0.0 to 7.0 nickel, 0.0 to 15.0 palladium, 0.0 to 5.0 rhenium, 0.0 to 5.0 rhodium, 0.0 to 10.0 ruthenium, 0.0 to 3.0 tin, 85.0 or more platinum and incidental impurities, wherein two or more of gallium, indium and tin are present in an amount of 0.1 or more, wherein the following equation is satisfied in which Wco, WCu, WFe, WGa, WIn, WNi, WPd, WSn, WRh, WIr, WAu, WRu, WRe, and WMn are the weight percent of cobalt, copper, iron, gallium, indium, nickel, palladium, tin, rhodium, iridium, gold, ruthenium, rhenium, and manganese in the alloy respectively 60+WPd*2.5+WRh*3.4+WIr*6.455+WAu*11.93+WRu*13.241+WCu*14.328+WRe*16.6+WNi*16.9+WMn*18.48+WCo*18.69+WFe*21.879+WIn*29+WSn*28.207+WGa*42.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 1, 2021
Publication date:
November 16, 2023
Inventors:
Andrej Turk, John William Gordon Clark, Georgina Catherine Frater