Abstract: A magneto-optical layer sensitive to a light with a short wavelength such as 400 to 550 nm and having a perpendicular magnetization can be deposited on a substrate at a room temperature. The magneto-optical layer is of a tertiary polycrystalline having a composition, for example, Co.sub. aPt.sub.b Ru.sub.c where 20.ltoreq.a.ltoreq.70, 10.ltoreq.b.ltoreq.70, 10.ltoreq.c.ltoreq.60 and a+b+c=100 or Co.sub.d Pt.sub.e Re.sub.f where d.ltoreq.80, 5.ltoreq.e, 5.ltoreq.f, 40.ltoreq.4d-5f and d+e+f=100, and has an easy magnetization axis perpendicular to the main surface of the layer.

Abstract: A thin film magnetic head includes an upper magnetic core film and a lower magnetic core film laminated one on another through a magnetic gap layer. The upper and lower magnetic core films are multilayer thin films, respectively, each of which is composed of a plurality of magnetic thin film layers and a plurality of non-magnetic thin film layers, alternately laminated one on another. The magnetic core films and have single domain structures, respectively, and the use of such magnetic core films realizes a thin film magnetic head having high permeability at high frequencies and improved high frequency characteristics and attains high recording density.

Abstract: A Ni-base superalloy consisting essentially of, by weight: 0.05 to 0.20% C, 20 to 25% Co, 15 to 25% Cr, 1.0 to 3.0% Al, 1.0 to 3.0% Ti, 1.0 to 3.0% Nb, 5 to 10% W, and at least 55% Ni, the combination of the [Al+Ti] and tungsten contents being determined as shown in FIG. 5. This superalloy has a high thermal-fatigue resistance, a great high-temperature strength, particularly, a great creep rupture strength, and a good weldability. The superalloy is used to form gas turbine nozzles, which are employed in a gas turbine. Using such a gas turbine, a combined power generating system is built.

Abstract: Dense monolithic SiC or SiC ceramic composites are strongly bonded using brazing compositions which, in their preferred composition, include a braze alloy consisting essentially of less than 50 weight percent silicon and at least two metals from the group of Fe, Cr, Co and V and produce a joint suitable for use in a high neutron flux environment. Brazing is carried out at a temperature of about 1200.degree. to 1500.degree. C. in an inert atmosphere and is complete in about 15 minutes. Broadly, a genus of brazing compounds are disclosed which include between about 10 and about 45 weight percent silicon and at least two elements selected from the following group: Li, Be, B, Na, Mg, P, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Zn, Ga, Ge, As, Rb, Y, Sb, Te, Cs, Pr, Nd, Ta, W and Tl.

Abstract: A Ni-base superalloy consisting essentially of, by weight: 0.05 to 0.20% C, 20 to 25% Co, 15 to 25% Cr, 1.0 to 3.0% Al, 1.0 to 3.0% Ti, 1.0 to 3.0% Nb, 5 to 10% W, and at least 42.5% Ni, the combination of the [Al+Ti] and tungsten contents being determined as shown in FIG. 5. This superalloy has a high thermal-fatigue resistance, a great high-temperature strength, particularly, a great creep rupture strength, and a good weldability. The superalloy is used to form gas turbine nozzles, which are employed in a gas turbine. Using such a gas turbine, a combined power generating system is built.

Abstract: A sputtering target preferably having an average crystal-grain diameter of 300 .mu.m or less and a maximum magnetic permeability of 100 or less is formed of an alloy consisting essentially of, by atom, 5- 30% Ni, 5- 14% Cr, not more than 6% V, and balance of Co and unavoidable impurities. It is preferable for the target to keep a working-strain remaining therein to reduce the maximum magnetic permeability. A method of producing a sputtering target for magnetic recording and reproducing, in which warm working or cold working is applied to the alloy.

Abstract: A hydrogen-absorbing alloy electrode for an alkaline storage cell, the electrode including a hydrogen-absorbing alloy expressed by a composition formula ReBxMy, wherein Re is at least one element selected from a group consisting of rare earth elements and alkali earth elements, B is boron, and M is at least one element selected from a group consisting of Ni, Co, Mn, Al, Cr, Fe, Cu. Sn, Sb, Mo, V, Nb, Ta, Zn, Zr and Ti. The alloy consists essentially of an RM.sub.y main metal phase, and a subordinate boron-containing phase, such as a compound phase of boron and a IV-a, V-a, or VI-a group metal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cobalt-base alloy that has a valuable combination of both corrosion- and wear-resistant properties. The alloy nominally contains, in percent by weight, 25.5 chromium, 8.5 nickel, 3.0 iron, 5 molybdenum, 2 tungsten, 0.40 silicon, 0.75 manganese, 0.06 carbon, 0.08 nitrogen and the balance cobalt plus normal impurities normally found in alloys of this class. The alloy may also contain copper and certain "carbide formers" (i.e., columbium, tantalum, titanium, vanadium and the like) to tie up excess carbon and/or nitrogen that may be present.

Abstract: The specification discloses an alloy catalyst for oxidation of hydrogen which is prepared by heat treating a material comprising an amorphous alloy represented by the formula: Zr.sub.x Co.sub.(100-x) (wherein 10 atomic %.ltoreq..times..ltoreq.80 atomic %), according to the following three-steps in an oxidizing atomsphere: first heat-treatment step at a temperature at which the foregoing alloy stably exists as an amorphous single phase; second heat-treatment step at a temperature at which the alloy exists as a mixed phase of a metastable phase and an amorphous phase; and third-heat treatment step at a temperature at which the alloy is entirely transformed into a crystalline phase. The alloy catalyst of the present invention is a highly active catalyst for oxidation of hydrogen and exhibits a superior catalytic efficiency especially in catalytic combustion of hydrogen and in deoxidation and dehydrogenation of a gas mixture of hydrogen and oxygen.

Abstract: An intermetallic compound type alloy consisting essentially of:Ni or Co or both 45-60%;Si 0.01-1%;Re 0-2%;Hf 0-2%;C 0-2%;one or more elements selected from a group consisting of Zr, Fe, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W and Mn 0-5%;one or more elements selected from a group consisting of P, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge, Cd, In, Sn, Sb, Pb and Bi 0-2%; andthe balance Ti and incidental impurities, andhaving excellent toughness, machinability and wear resistance, the % being atomic %.

Abstract: Jewelry is produced employing alloys of Fe, Co, Ni, Pd, Pt, Au, as well as --in smaller quantities--Cu, in conjunction with Al, Ga, In, Si, these alloys displaying the feature of being crystallized in the cubic structure of the type B2 or C1, designations as used in structure reports. These alloys, which display very decorative colors not found with other metals, or anywhere else in nature, are--per se--very brittle and subject to spontaneous disintegration in reactive media. For this reason, these materials are very difficult to form and cannot be used for the intended purpose. Their properties can be decisively improved by impressing upon the alloys a grain size of less than 50 .mu.m by hot-forming or by sintering, for example, or by some other process, and by selecting the composition of the alloy with the intent to keep the quantity of the transition metal component A at a value not lower than stochiometric value. The jewelry items may consist of one of these alloys, fully or partially.

Abstract: A method of making a work-strengthenable alloy which includes a gamma prime phase which method comprises forming a melt comprising the following elements in percent by weight:______________________________________ molybdenum 6-16 chromium 13-25 iron 0-23 nickel 10-55 carbon 0-0.05 boron 0-0.05 cobalt balance, at least 20, ______________________________________said alloy also containing one or more elements which form gamma prime phase with nickel, the electron vacancy number, N.sub.v, of the alloy being defined byN.sub.v =0.61 Ni+1.71 Co+2.66 Fe+4.66 Cr+5.66 Mowherein the respective chemical symbols represent the effective atomic fractions of the respective elements present in the alloy, said value not exceeding the valueN.sub.v =2.82-0.017 W.sub.Fe,where W.sub.Fe is the percent by weight of iron in the alloy for those alloys containing no iron or less than 13 percent by weight iron and W.sub.

Abstract: A fine crystalline thin wire of a cobalt base alloy having a composition of the formula;CokMlBmSinwhere Co is cobalt; M is at least one of the transition metals of groups IV, V and VI of the periodic table; B is boron; Si is silicon; K, l, m and n represent atom percent of Co, M, B and Si, respectively, and have the following values:k=40-78l=10-50m=2-15n=8-20and the fine crystal grains in the thin wire having an average size of no more than 5 .mu.m.

Abstract: A heat resistant steel of the present invention contains 0.05 to 0.2 wt. % of C, less than 0.5 wt. % of Si, less than 0.6 wt. % of Mn, 8 to 13 wt. % of Cr, 1.5 to 3 wt. % of Mo, 2 to 3 wt. % of Ni, 0.05 to 0.3 wt. % of V, 0.02 to 0.2 wt. % in total of either or both of Nb and Ta, 0.02 to 0.1 wt. % of N and the balance substantially Fe. Since a gas turbine of the present invention is constituted by members, such as discs, blades, shafts and so forth, made of alloys of this kind, the gas turbine has a structure in which it is possible to achieve a high level of creep rupture strength and Charpy impact value.

Abstract: A Co-based alloy sputter target comprising a f.c.c. phase and a h.c.p. phase, wherein the value of th ratio of X-ray diffraction peak intensity, I.sub.fcc(200) /I.sub.hcp(101), is smaller than the value of the same ratio in a Co-based alloy obtained by cooling a Co-based alloy having a f.c.c. single phase to room temperature from the high temperature at which it is in a melted state.The target is manufactured by subjecting to cold-working treatment a Co-based alloy obtained by cooling a Co-based alloy material having a f.c.c. single phase from its melting temperature.

Abstract: The invention relates to a metallic semi-finished product based on iron and/or nickel and/or cobalt and containing 2 to 16% of aluminum, 12 to 30% of chromium and at least one highly reactive element X, in particular from the group consisting of the rare earth metals and/or their dispersed oxides. The characteristic feature of the invention is that metallic columnar crystals are formed at least in the surface region of the semi-finished product and columnar crystals consisting predominantly of aluminum oxide and/or chromium oxide grow out of the said metallic columnar crystals, the axes of the two types of columnar crystals being predominantly at right angles to the geometric surface of the semi-finished product.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for producing a fine-grain ingot are disclosed. A feedstock stick is melted to produce a series of fully molten drops or a stream, which falls on the upper surface of an ingot being formed, to cover a portion thereof which is substantially less than the ingot's total upper surface. The mold is moved laterally with respect to the feedstock stick at a rate which is high enough so that the molten metal impinges upon different portions of the ingot's upper surface but which is low enough to prevent a substantial centrifugally outward flow of the metal impinging on the upper surface of the ingot. The molten metal melt rate is so selected that the impact region on the ingot's upper surface is at or below the solidus temperature of the alloy and above a temperature at which metallurgical bonding with the successive impinging metal can occur.

Abstract: A method is described for continuously casting an ingot of a metal alloy of a type having a substantial liquidus-solidus temperature range to produce internal microstructure of a desired fineness. Molten alloy is flowed along an electron beam heated skulled hearth while controlling the electron beam to maintain a solids content in the alloy on the hearth of between about 15% and about 40%. The alloy is poured from the hearth into the top of a continuous casting mold at a rate which produces a thixotropic region at the upper end of the fully solidified alloy in the mold. The ingot produced is characterized by a macrostructure in excess of one millimeter average grain dimensions with a non-uniform shape, orientation, and distribution, and is characterized by a microstructure of the order of fifty micron cell spacing of dendritic crystallites comprising the microstructure.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a samarium-cobalt type magnetic powder for use in making a resin magnet, characterized by substantially comprising a SmCo.sub.5 single phase and consisting of, by weight, 32.7 to 33.4% samarium, 65 to 67% cobalt, not more than 1.5% as a total of lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium and neodymium and the balance inevitably entrained impurities.

Abstract: A fine amorphous metallic wire having a circular cross section and stability to a bias magnetic field, said wire being composed of an alloy having the following composition formula(Co.sub.1-a-b Fe.sub.a M.sub.b).sub.100-x-y Si.sub.x B.sub.ywherein M is at least one element selected from Cr, Mo, Ni, Nb, Ta, Pd, Pt, and Cu, x<20 atomic %, 7 atomic %.ltoreq.y<35 atomic %, 7 atomic %<x+y.ltoreq.35 atomic %, 0.01.ltoreq.a.ltoreq.0.1, and 0.001.ltoreq.b.ltoreq.0.05. The fine amorphous metallic wire has low magnetostriction, high magnetic permeability, high saturation magnetic flux density, and excellent toughness, and is stable against a bias magnetic field. Hence, it can be used as a material for electromagnetic devices such as a coordinate reading device, a current sensor, an eddy current sensor, a magnetic sensor, or a displacement sensor.

Abstract: A fine amorphous metallic wire having a circular cross section and stability to a bias magnetic field, said wire being composed of an alloy having the following composition formula(Co.sub.1-a Fe.sub.a).sub.100-x-y-z Si.sub.x B.sub.y Mn.sub.zwherein x<20 atomic %, 7 atomic %.ltoreq.y<35 atomic %, 7 atomic %<x+y.ltoreq.35 atomic %, 0.1 atomic %.ltoreq.z.ltoreq.3 atomic %, and 0.01.ltoreq.a.ltoreq.0.1. The fine amorphous metallic wire has low magnetostriction, high magnetic permeability, high saturation magnetic flux density, and excellent toughness, and is stable against a bias magnetic field. Hence, it can be used as a material for electromagnetic devices such as a coordinate reading device, a current sensor, an eddy current sensor, a magnetic sensor, or a displacement sensor.

Abstract: Ni-based alloys comprising 8 to 34 atom % of Al, 2 to 70 atom % of one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co, Mn, and Si (providing that each or total of Fe and Co is present in an amount of 2 to 70 atom % and/or each or total of Mn and Si is present in an amount of 2 to 25 atom %), and the balance to make up to 100 atom % of substantially pure Ni, and possessing great strength and high ductility.These alloys enjoy outstanding ductility and strength and, therefore, are ideally useful for various filter materials and composite materials.

Abstract: A novel composite target material that is composed of a rare earth metal and a transition metal (iron-group metal) and which is used in the formation of a thin magnetooptical recording film by sputtering is disclosed. Also disclosed is a process for producing such composite target material.The process comprises the steps of providing a rare earth metal and an iron-group transition metal as separate entities, mixing these metals without alloying, and hot-forming the mixture at a temperature lower than the eutectic point of the system of metallic components in the mixture, thereby forming an intermetallic compound at the interface between the rare earth metal and the transition metal while causing said metals to be bonded together.The target material produced by this process contains 30-50 wt % of the rare earth metal, with the balance being made of the iron-group transition metal and incidental impurities.

Abstract: Coatings for iron-, nickel- and cobalt-base superalloys. The coatings are applied in order to provide good oxidation and/or sulfidation and thermal fatigue resistance for the substrates to which the coatings are applied. The coatings consist essentially of, by weight, 10 to 50% chromium, 3 to 15% aluminum, 0.1 to 10% manganese, up to 8% tantalum, up to 5% tungsten, up to 5% reactive metal from the group consisting of lanthanum, yttrium and other rare earth elements, up to 5 percent of rare earth and/or refractory metal oxide particles, up to 12% silicon, up to 10% hafnium, and the balance selected from the group consisting of nickel, cobalt and iron, and combinations thereof. Additions of titanium up to 5% and noble metals up to 15% are also contemplated.

Abstract: There are provided superplastic alloys formed by electrodeposition of the alloy onto a cathode from an electrolyte containing a first metal ion, which is iron, nickel or cobalt, and a second constituent different from the first, which is iron, nickel, cobalt, tungsten or molybdenum, or a colloidal dispersoid. The products formed are fine-grain deposits free of intergranular embrittling films, and exhibit grain boundary flow at a superplastic temperature below a recrystallization temperature of the deposit. Nickel-cobalt alloys are preferred, and are deposited from halide-free sulfamate baths, with care being taken to eliminate all anode oxides from the system. In a complex structure, the approximate initial hardware contour is formed by electrodeposition, and the final structure formed by superplastic forming.

Abstract: Certain high strength alloys lacking resistance to hydrogen embrittlement are cold worked and heat treated utilizing critical preselected conditions to result in a unique alloy having increased resistance to hydrogen embrittlement without unacceptable loss of strength. It is theorized that this unexpected improved resistance correlates with the concentration of certain elements, such as phosphorus and sulfur as impurities on the crystallographic boundary surfaces of the alloy.

Abstract: Coatings are disclosed (a) which are useful by themselves to substantially improve the surface properties of substrates to which they are applied and (b) which are useful as subcoats to substantially improve the bonding of coatings of nitrides, carbides and borides of titanium, hafnium and zirconium to such substrates. The coatings which are disclosed are novel materials characterized by a microcrystalline, single-phase, solid solution structure comprising:(a) about 20 to 70% by weight of at least one element from the group consisting of cobalt and nickel;(b) about 8 to 35% by weight of chromium;(c) about 3 to 20% by weight of at least one element from the group consisting of molybdenum and tungsten; and(d) about 0.5 to 10% by weight of at least one element from the group consisting of carbon, nitrogen and boron.

Abstract: A permanent magnetic alloy comprising of an intermetallic compound of rare earth elements and transition metals, shown by the formula:R(Ni.sub.x Fe.sub.y Co.sub.1-x-y-z Cu.sub.z).sub.Awherein R is at least one selected from the lanthanide light rare earth elements including Y, such as Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd and Sm, and0.02.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.0.55x/y=0.07-25.00.01.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.0.650.02.ltoreq.z.ltoreq.0.306.0<A<8.0Preferably, the Ni and Fe are incorporated in substantially equimolar amounts.

Abstract: There is disclosed an amorphous alloy for a magnetic core material represented by the formula(Co.sub.1-x.sbsb.1.sub.-x.sbsb.2 Fe.sub.x.sbsb.1 M.sub.x.sbsb.2).sub.x.sbsb.3 B.sub.x.sbsb.4 Si.sub.100-x.sbsb.3.sub.-x.sbsb.4wherein M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Ni, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ru, Hf, Ta, W and Re, and x.sub.1, x.sub.2, x.sub.3 and x.sub.4 are numbers which satisfy relations of 0.ltoreq.x.sub.1 .ltoreq.0.10, 0.ltoreq.x.sub.2 .ltoreq.0.10, 70.ltoreq.x.sub.3 .ltoreq.79 and 5.ltoreq.x.sub.4 .ltoreq.9, respectively.According to the present invention, it could be provided an amorphous alloy suitable for a magnetic core material of a magnetic amplifier in which its coercive force is as low as 0.4 oersted or less at a high frequency of 20 KHz or more, particularly even at 50 KHz, and its rectangular ratio is as much as 85% or more.

Abstract: New cobalt base alloys containing chromium and carbon are disclosed. The alloys are subjected to rapid solidification processing (RSP) technique which produces cooling rates between 10.sup.5 to 10.sup.7 .degree. C./sec. The as-quenched ribbon, powder etc. consists predominantly of amorphous phase. The amorphous phase is subjected to suitable heat treatments so as to produce a transformation to a microcrystalline alloy which includes carbides; this heat treated alloy exhibits superior mechanical properties for numerous industrial applications.

Abstract: Disclosed is an amorphous alloy for a magnetic head, which is of the formula:(Co.sub.1-a-b-c Fe.sub.a Ru.sub.b TM.sub.c).sub.100-x-y Si.sub.x B.sub.ywherein TM is at least one of Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Ni, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta and W, and, in atomic concentrations, 0.02.ltoreq.a.ltoreq.0.08, 0.07.ltoreq.b.ltoreq.0.2, c=0 or 0.01.ltoreq.c.ltoreq.0.1, 0.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.20 and 4.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.9, which is excellent in abrasion-resistance and simultaneously has high permeability.

Abstract: Ductile long range ordered alloys having high critical ordering temperatures exist in the (V,M)(Fe,Ni,Co).sub.3 system having the composition comprising by weight 20.6%-22.6% V, 14-50% Fe, 0-64% Co, and 0-40% Ni, and 0.4-1.4% M, where M is a metal selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, and their mixtures. These modified alloys have an electron density no greater than 8.00 and exhibit marked increases at elevated temperature in ductility and other mechanical properties over previously known ordered alloys.

Abstract: New cobalt base alloys containing chromium and carbon are disclosed. The alloys are subjected to rapid solidification processing (RSP) technique which produces cooling rates between 10.sup.5 to 10.sup.7 oC/sec. The as-quenched ribbon, powder etc. consists predominantly of amorphous phase. The amorphous phase is subjected to suitable heat treatments so as to produce a transformation to a microcrystalline alloy which includes carbides; this heat treated alloy exhibits superior mechanical properties for numerous industrial applications.

Abstract: This invention relates to an alloy suitable for the production of permanent magnets and based on a cobalt/rare earth metal alloy in the atomic ratio of 5:1 to 7:2, where the rare earth metal component is composed of about 40 to 60 atomic percent of samarium, about 15 to 30 atomic percent of lanthanum, about 15 to 30 atomic percent of neodymium, and the remainder is a content of other rare earth metals resulting from preparation.

Abstract: Boron-containing transition metal alloys based on one or more of iron, cobalt and nickel, and containing at least two metal components, are characterized by being composed of ultrafine grains of a primary solid-solution phase randomly interspersed with particles of complex borides which are predominantly located at the junctions of at least three grains of the primary solid-solution phase. These alloys are obtained by devitrification of the solid, amorphous state under specific heat-treatment conditions. These alloys can be consolidated into three-dimensional bodies.

Abstract: A relay contact made of nickel-cobalt sintered alloys with the composition 50 to 85% nickel and 50 to 15% cobalt is described.