With Coating Step Patents (Class 148/537)
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Patent number: 12145795Abstract: Various trashcans, their coatings, and coatings for other household goods are disclosed. In certain implementations, the disclosed coatings are antimicrobial. Various methods for forming antimicrobial coatings for household goods are also disclosed. In some embodiments, the antimicrobial coating comprises a substrate and an antimicrobial agent. In certain implementations the coating can be applied to a household good where the coating leaves a substantially streak-free finish. Some embodiments pertain to protective films that can be removed from a coated household good without leaving residue.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: simplehuman, LLCInventors: Frank Yang, Di-Fong Chang, Hon-Lun Chen
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Patent number: 11894167Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having an insulating film disposed on a surface thereon. The insulating film having a chemical composition comprising Si, P, O, and at least one selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, Mn, and Co. The insulating film has a crystallinity in a range of 20% or more, and a minimum tension provided to the steel sheet by the insulating film at a temperature in a range of 100° C. to 200° C. is 10 MPa or more.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Terashima, Makoto Watanabe, Toshito Takamiya, Tomoyuki Okubo
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Patent number: 11851736Abstract: A temperable aluminum alloy, an aluminum sheet or strip made of such an aluminum alloy, a molded part, and a method for producing such a molded part have been disclosed. In order to enable achievement of the required yield strengths, a temperable aluminum alloy is proposed, containing zinc (Zn), magnesium (Mg), silicon (Si), tin (Sn) and/or indium (In) and/or cadmium (Cd), and optionally copper (Cu), from silver (Ag), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), titanium (Ti), and residual aluminum as well as inevitable production-related impurities, wherein the content of magnesium (Mg) and silicon (Si) fulfills the order relation 0.4 wt . % ? Si - 0.15 < wt . % ? Mg < 0.7 wt . % ? Si - 0.2 .Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignees: AMAG Rolling Gmbh, AUDI AGInventors: Mark Erlwein, Heinz Werner Höppel, Felix Glöckel, Bodo Gerold, Stefan Pogatscher, Peter J. Uggowitzer
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Patent number: 11692280Abstract: An electrodeposition coating method includes a degreasing/cleaning step, a chemical conversion step, and an electrodeposition coating layer formation step. The degreasing/cleaning step includes a degreasing step of ultrasonically vibrating a degreasing solution in which a target object is immersed, using an ultrasonic vibrator. The electrodeposition coating layer formation step includes: a first electrodeposition step; a first rinsing step; a rinse water removal/reduction step of removing or reducing rinse water on a rinse water stagnating surface of the target object; a thermal flow step of allowing the first electrodeposition coating film to thermally flow so that the first electrodeposition coating film formed on a portion of the target object near a first counter electrode has a higher electrical resistance than the first electrodeposition coating film formed on a portion of the target object far from the first counter electrode; and a second electrodeposition step.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2019Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi Shinoda, Hiroki Matsui
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Patent number: 11612926Abstract: A method of forming a shaped steel object is provided. The method includes cutting a blank from an alloy composition including 0.05-0.5 wt. % carbon, 4-12 wt. % manganese, 1-8 wt. % aluminum, 0-0.4 wt. % vanadium, and a remainder balance of iron. The method also includes heating the blank until the blank is austenitized to form a heated blank, transferring the heated blank to a press, forming the heating blank into a predetermined shape to form a stamped object, and decreasing the temperature of the stamped object to a temperature between a martensite start (Ms) temperature of the alloy composition and a martensite final (Mf) temperature of the alloy composition to form a shaped steel object comprising martensite and retained austenite.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Jiachen Pang, Qi Lu, Jianfeng Wang
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Patent number: 11543001Abstract: A method for coating a liquid-sealed mount rubber includes: a paint application step of applying a water-based paint to an outer tube fitting appearing on an outer surface of a liquid-sealed mount rubber; and a paint drying step of heating the outer tube fitting by induction heating to dry the water-based paint applied to the outer tube fitting.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Yuichi Kato
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Patent number: 11377711Abstract: The invention discloses a 780 MPa cold-rolled dual-phase strip steel having a microstructure of fine equiaxed ferrite matrix and martensite islands distributed homogeneously on the ferrite matrix, and comprising the following chemical elements in mass percentage: C: 0.06-0.1%; Si?0.28%; Mn: 1.8-2.3%; Cr: 0.1-0.4%; Mo: not added when Cr?0.3%; Mo=0.3—Cr when Cr<0.3%; Al: 0.015-0.05%; at least one of Nb and Ti elements, wherein Nb+Ti is in the range of 0.02-0.05%; and the balance amounts of Fe and other unavoidable impurities. Correspondingly, the invention also discloses a method for manufacturing the 780 MPa cold-rolled dual-phase strip steel. The 780 MPa cold-rolled dual-phase strip steel has high strength, superior elongation, good phosphating property and small anisotropy in mechanical properties.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiaodong Zhu, Xufei Li, Peifang Du
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Patent number: 11078566Abstract: A coated medical instrument can include a first layer bonded to a metal substrate surface of a medical instrument, a second layer bonded to the first layer, and a third layer disposed on the second layer, The first layer comprises chromium (Cr), hafnium (Hf), titanium (Ti), and/or niobium (Nb). The second layer comprises a nitride, oxide, carbide, carbonitride, or boride of chromium (Cr), hafnium (Hf), niobium (Nb), tungsten (W), titanium (Ti), aluminum (Al), zirconium (Zr), and/or silicon (Si). The third layer comprises a nitride, oxide, carbide, boride, oxynitride, oxycarbide, or oxycarbonitride of chromium (Cr), hafnium (Hf), niobium (Nb), tungsten (W), titanium (Ti), aluminum (Al), zirconium (Zr), and/or silicon (Si). Methods for making coated medical instruments are also disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Dayananda Sukadhare, Sean Selover
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Patent number: 11001696Abstract: A coating composition for a substrate includes a polymer binder, one or more hydrophobic silicon dioxide compositions, and one or more UV protection agents. The polymer binder can include a fluoropolymer or an epoxy polymer resin. The coating composition can also include molybdenum disulfide.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Southwire Company, LLCInventor: Yuhsin Hawig
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Patent number: 10895015Abstract: A thin-walled metal part, and a method to fabricate such a part out of various alloys. A plurality of layers are formed, each of the layers being formed on a polymer template or on a previously formed layer. A homogenizing heat treatment is used to cause chemical elements in the layers to interdiffuse, to form a single continuous layer with a substantially uniform alloy composition.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLCInventors: Tobias A. Schaedler, John H. Martin
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Patent number: 10835997Abstract: Provided is a superhigh strength gas shielded welding wire containing V, the mass percentage contents of the chemical elements thereof being: 0.08-0.12% of C, 0.65-0.80% of Si, 1.80-1.95% of Mn, 0<Cu?0.25%, 0.20-0.40% of Cr, 0.2-0.6% of Mo, 1.30-1.80% of Ni, 0.08-0.20% of Ti, 0.01-0.05% of V, 0.0070-0.0130% of N, and the balance of Fe and other inevitable impurities. Also provided is a method for manufacturing the welding wire. A weld metal obtained after welding with said welding wire has a higher strength and toughness, and also has a good crack resistance, weldability and plasticity.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhaoxia Qu, Lei Xu, Liqian Xia
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Patent number: 10697038Abstract: A grain oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a grain oriented electrical steel sheet having a surface and a forsterite film formed on the surface of the steel sheet, wherein a total area percentage of defective parts scattered on the forsterite film is less than 1.5% relative to a surface area of the forsterite film when viewed from above the surface, and methods for evaluating a grain oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a grain oriented electrical steel sheet having a surface and a forsterite film formed on the surface of the steel sheet.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masayasu Nagoshi, Tomohiro Matsushima, Makoto Watanabe, Shigehiro Takajo, Toshito Takamiya, Masanori Uesaka, Takashi Terashima
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Patent number: 10577683Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the manufacture of an aluminum alloy sheet for metal bottles or aerosol cans. The invention also relates to a sheet manufactured by a process such as that described above, together with metal bottles or bottle-cans, together with aerosol cans or aerosol dispensers made from the said sheet.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: CONSTELLIUM FRANCEInventors: Herve Vichery, Emilie Lae, Michel Striebig
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Patent number: 10274068Abstract: A spring assembly for absorbing and attenuating a torsional vibration includes an outer coil spring and an inner coil spring. The inner coil spring is disposed in an interior of the outer coil spring. The inner coil spring has a shorter free length than the outer coil spring. The inner coil spring is chamfered on end surfaces of both ends thereof. The inner coil spring has an outer diameter set to be smaller at least at an endmost winding on each of the ends thereof than at other windings thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: EXEDY CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuru Kuwahata, Masahiro Maeda
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Patent number: 10014189Abstract: A ceramic package includes a ceramic substrate, a metallization layer, a first plating layer, a brazing material layer, and a seal member. The ceramic substrate has a surface, and the metallization layer is disposed along an outer periphery of a predetermined region on the surface. The first plating layer is disposed on the metallization layer. The brazing material layer is disposed on the metallization layer with the first plating layer interposed therebetween. The seal member is joined on the metallization layer via the brazing material layer. In at least one of an outer peripheral portion and an inner peripheral portion of the brazing material layer, an end of the brazing material layer is located outside a region directly below the seal member and the end of the brazing material layer is positioned nearer to the seal member than an end of the metallization layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshio Suzuki, Masami Kanayama, Akiyoshi Hattori, Masanori Kitou
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Patent number: 9984899Abstract: A ceramic package includes a ceramic substrate, a metallization layer, a first plating layer, a brazing material layer, and a seal member. The ceramic substrate has a surface, and the metallization layer is disposed along an outer periphery of a predetermined region on the surface. The first plating layer is disposed on the metallization layer. The brazing material layer is disposed on the metallization layer with the first plating layer interposed therebetween. The seal member is joined on the metallization layer via the brazing material layer. In at least one of an outer peripheral portion and an inner peripheral portion of the brazing material layer, an end of the brazing material layer is located outside a region directly below the seal member and the end of the brazing material layer is positioned nearer to the seal member than an end of the metallization layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshio Suzuki, Masami Kanayama, Akiyoshi Hattori, Masanori Kitou
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Patent number: 9624563Abstract: Provided are a stainless steel foil and a catalyst carrier for an exhaust gas purifying device which uses the foil. Specifically, a stainless steel foil contains, in percent by mass, 0.05% or less of C, 2.0% or less of Si, 1.0% or less of Mn, 0.003% or less of S, 0.05% or less of P, more than 15.0% and less than 25.0% of Cr, 0.30% or less of Ni, 3.0% to 10.0% of Al, 0.03% to 1.0% of Cu, 0.10% or less of N, 0.02% or less of Ti, 0.02% or less of Nb, 0.02% or less of Ta, 0.005% to 0.20% of Zr, 0.03% to 0.20% of REM excluding Ce, 0.02% or less of Ce, 2.0% to 6.0% in total of at least one of Mo and W, and the balance being Fe and incidental impurities.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Akito Mizutani, Mitsuyuki Fujisawa, Hiroki Ota, Yasushi Kato
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Patent number: 9593399Abstract: A process for manufacturing a cold rolled high strength dual phase steel. The process includes soaking a steel slab within a temperature range of 1200-1300° C., hot rolling the soaked steel slab in a roughing treatment and producing a transfer bar, and hot rolling the transfer bar in a finishing treatment and producing hot rolled strip. The hot rolled strip is cold rolled with at least a 55% reduction in thickness. The cold rolled sheet is intercritically annealed at a temperature between 790-840° C. and rapidly cooled to a temperature between 450-500° C. The rapidly cooled sheet has a ferrite plus martensite microstructure, a 0.2% yield strength of at least 550 MPa, a tensile strength of at least 980 MPa and a total elongation to failure of at least 10%.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Thyssenkrupp Steel USA, LLCInventors: Ranbir Singh Jamwal, Joseph Frimpong, Bertram Wilhelm Ehrhardt, Harald Van Bracht, Roger Dale Boggs, Stanley Wayne Bevans
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Patent number: 9461528Abstract: The present device is applied to a linear driving unit which comprises: a linear electric motor (M) formed by a motor housing (C) which is electrically excited and affixed to a fixed structure (1), and by a magnetic armature (A) which is displaced in a reciprocating axial movement; and a helical resonant spring (50) having an end coupled to the fixed structure (1) and an opposite end coupled to the magnetic armature (A). The deformation control device (60) is mounted to contact a surface extension of the resonant spring (50), which is elastically and radially deformed, and to generate friction with said surface extension and/or an elastic deformation in the deformation control device (60), absorbing energy in a value sufficient to at least minimize said radial elastic deformation of the resonant spring (50).Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2012Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Whirlpool S.A.Inventors: Rinaldo Puff, Alexandre Rafael Schroeder
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Patent number: 9304108Abstract: A quenching depth measuring method is used for measuring the quenching depth in a workpiece and includes the steps of: magnetizing the workpiece by disposing, in the vicinity of the workpiece, a magnetizer equipped with an exciting coil; detecting, through a detection coil, an induced magnetic field generated by the magnetization; measuring the induced magnetic field as the output voltage of the detection coil; and specifying the thickness of the quenched hardened layer of the workpiece on the basis of known electromagnetic characteristic information of an unquenched material and a fully-quenched material and an output voltage value measured by the detection coil, the unquenched material being made of the same material as the constituent material of the workpiece and being a material on which a quenching process is not performed, the fully-quenched material being a material on which the quenching process is performed.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignees: NETUREN CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION OITA UNIVERSITYInventors: Yuji Gotoh, Noriyoshi Takaoka, Kazuhiro Kawasaki, Yoshitaka Misaka
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Patent number: 9254879Abstract: An aluminum alloy rolled sheet product for forming into automotive body panels, and having a yield strength of more than 160 MPa after being subjected to a paint-bake cycle, and having a gauge in a range of 0.5 to 4 mm, and preferably 0.7 to 3.5 mm, and having a composition of, in wt. %: Zn 1.5 to 4.0, Mg 0.3 to 1.5, Cu 0 to 1.0, Ti 0 to 0.15, Fe 0 to 0.35, Si 0 to 0.5, other elements and unavoidable impurities, and balance aluminum. An automotive body part formed from such an aluminum sheet. A method of manufacturing an automotive body part. Also, the use of the aluminum alloy sheet product in such a method of manufacturing.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2011Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: ALERIS ALUMINUM DUFFEL BVBAInventors: Axel Alexander Maria Smeyers, Sunil Khosla, Bruno Schepers, Alastair Wise
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Patent number: 9090043Abstract: In an embodiment of the disclosure, there is provided a molybdenum composite hybrid laminate. The laminate has a plurality of composite material layers. The laminate further has a plurality of surface treated molybdenum foil layers interweaved between the composite material layers. The laminate further has a plurality of adhesive layers disposed between and bonding adjacent layers of the composite material layers and the molybdenum foil layers.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2011Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Marc R. Matsen, Mark A. Negley, Marc J. Piehl, Kay Y. Blohowiak, Alan E. Landmann, Richard H. Bossi, Robert L. Carlsen, Gregory Alan Foltz, Geoffrey A. Butler, Liam S. Cavanaugh Pingree, Stephen G. Moore, John Mark Gardner, Robert A. Anderson
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Patent number: 9059229Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate processing chamber including a plasma generation space where a plasma is generated and a substrate processing space where a substrate is placed during a substrate process; an inductive coupling structure outside the plasma generation space wherein a sum of electrical lengths of a coil of the inductive coupling structure and a waveform adjustment circuit connected to the coil is an integer multiple of a wavelength of an applied power; a substrate mounting table in the substrate processing space and supporting the substrate including grooves having high aspect ratios with a silicon-containing layer disposed thereon; a substrate transfer port at a wall of the substrate processing chamber; a substrate mounting table elevator moving the substrate mounting table upward/downward; an oxygen gas supply system to supply an oxygen-containing gas into the plasma generation space; and an exhaust unit exhausting gas from the substrate processing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.Inventors: Tadashi Terasaki, Masanori Nakayama, Mitsunori Takeshita, Katsunori Funaki
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Publication number: 20150114720Abstract: A method of manufacturing coated components, e.g., for use in downhole drilling, which may limit, during the manufacturing process, the formation of microfissures and other performance-inhibiting characteristics in the abrasion resistant coating. The method may include applying an abrasion resistant coating composition to a substrate. The abrasion resistant coating composition and at least the surface of the substrate may be heated to effect metallurgical bonding of the abrasion resistant coating composition with the substrate. The substrate may then be austempered under process conditions selected to limit the volume of expansion of the substrate during austempering to less than about 0.8%.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Robert Ferguson, Peter T. Cariveau
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Patent number: 8999500Abstract: The invention comprises semifinished products with a structured surface, the semifinished product comprising an oxidized and subsequently re-reduced surface containing at least one refractory metal, and also a process for their production and their use for producing high-capacitance components.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2007Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: H.C. Starck GmbHInventors: Melanie Stenzel, Andreas Scharf, Helmut Haas, Holger Brumm, Timo Langetepe, Christoph Schnitter
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Publication number: 20150051687Abstract: This disclosure includes embodiments of vascular prosthetic assemblies (e.g., heart valves) and methods for using (e.g., percutaneously) and manufacturing (e.g., overmolding) the assemblies. In one embodiment, a vascular prosthetic assembly comprises a frame and a cellulose-based body coupled to the frame, wherein the frame is configured to be altered from an expanded configuration to a collapsed configuration. The frame can be biased toward the expanded configuration, and the assembly can be configured for placement within a catheter when the frame is in the collapsed configuration. In the embodiment shown, the frame can comprise any number of biocompatible materials, including, but not limited to, nitinol. Stainless steel, or cobalt chromium.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Benjamin Dickerhoff, Robert S. Farivar, Madhavan L. Raghavan, Vijay Kumar
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Publication number: 20150037610Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet includes a composition having controlled amounts of carbon, silicon, manganese, phosphorous, sulfur, titanium, niobium, sol. Aluminum, chromium, molybdenum, vanadium, boron, calcium, REM, and iron. A microstructure thereof has a main phase of ferrite of at least 40 area %, and a second phase of a low-temperature transformation phase consisting either or both of martensite and bainite, which comprises at least 10 area % in total and retained austenite (?) at least comprising 3 area %. An average grain diameter of ferrite has a tilt angle of at least 15° is at most 5.0 mm, an average grain diameter of the low-temperature transformation-produced phase is at most 2.0 mm, an average grain diameter of lump-like retained ? having an aspect ratio of less than 5 is at most 1.5 mm, and an area fraction of the lump-like retained ? relative to the retained ? is at least 50%.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Kengo Hata, Toshiro Tomida, Norio Imai, Jun Haga, Takuya Nishio
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Publication number: 20150034215Abstract: A high-strength multi-phase steel having tensile strengths of no less than 580 MPa, preferably with a dual-phase structure for a cold-rolled or hot-rolled steel strip having improved forming properties, in particular for lightweight vehicle construction is disclosed, containing the following elements (contents in % by mass): C 0.075 to ?0.105; Si 0.200 to ?0.300; Mn 1.000 to ?2.000; Cr 0.280 to ?0.480; Al 0.10 to ?0.060; P ?0.020; Nb ?0.005 to ?0.025; N ?0.0100; S ?0.0050; the remainder iron, including conventional steel-accompanying elements not mentioned above.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Thomas Schulz, Andreas Wedemeier, Michael Pohl, Hans-Joachim Kratz, Matthias Geler, Oliver Meyer
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Publication number: 20150030880Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet having both excellent strength and excellent workability (particularly, bending workability), and a method of producing the same. The steel sheet of the present invention has a certain composition as well as microstructures such that an area ratio of ferrite phase is 95% or more, an average grain size of the ferrite phase is 8 ?m or less, and carbides in grains of the ferrite phase have an average particle size of less than 10 nm. The steel sheet of the present invention also has a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2013Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: JEF STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Noriaki Kosaka, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Masato Shigemi, Hidekazu Ookubo, Tokunori Kanemura
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Patent number: 8940404Abstract: Tin-plated copper-alloy material for terminal having: a substrate made of Cu or Cu alloy; an Sn-based surface layer formed on a surface of the substrate; and a Cu—Ni—Sn alloy layer including Ni formed between the Sn-based surface layer and the substrate, in which the Cu—Ni—Sn alloy layer is made of: fine Cu—Ni—Sn alloy particles; and coarse Cu—Ni—Sn alloy particles, an average thickness of the Sn-based surface layer is not less than 0.2 ?m and not more than 0.6 ?m, an area ratio of the Cu—Ni—Sn alloy layer exposed at a surface of the Sn-based surface layer is not less than 10% and not more than 40%, and a coefficient of kinetic friction of the tin-plated copper-alloy material for terminal is not more than 0.3.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2013Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials CorporationInventors: Yuki Taninouchi, Naoki Kato, Kenji Kubota
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Patent number: 8940403Abstract: An alloy wire made of a material selected from one of a group consisting of a silver-gold alloy, a silver-palladium alloy and a silver-gold-palladium alloy is provided. The alloy wire is with a polycrystalline structure of a face-centered cubic lattice and includes a plurality of grains. A central part of the alloy wire includes slender grains or equi-axial grains, and the other parts of the alloy wire consist of equi-axial grains. A quantity of the grains having annealing twins was 20 percent or more of the total quantity of the grains of the alloy wire.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Wire Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun-Der Lee, Hsing-Hua Tsai, Tung-Han Chuang
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Publication number: 20150013852Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a component, especially of a gas turbine, made of a single crystal (SX) or directionally solidified (DS) nickelbase superalloy, including a heat treatment and a machining and/or mechanical treatment step. The ductility of the component is improved by doing the machining and/or mechanical treatment step prior to said heat treatment and a solution heat treatment of the component is done prior to the machining/mechanical treatment step.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Thomas ETTER, Roland MÜCKE
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Publication number: 20140377582Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet includes, as a component composition, by mass %: C: 0.075% to 0.300%; Si: 0.30% to 2.50%; Mn: 1.30% to 3.50%; P: 0.001% to 0.050%; S: 0.0001% to 0.0100%; Al: 0.001% to 1.500%; and N: 0.0001% to 0.0100%, in which a surface microstructure contains residual austenite of 3% to 10% and ferrite of 90% or less by volume fraction, an inner microstructure at a depth of t/4 from the surface assuming that a sheet thickness is t contains residual austenite of 3% to 20% by volume fraction, a ratio Hvs/Hvb between a surface hardness Hvs of the steel sheet surface and a hardness Hvb at a depth of ¼ of the thickness is more than 0.75 to 0.90, and a maximum tensile strength is 700 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Masafumi Azuma, Takayuki Nozaki, Chisato Wakabayashi, Koichi Sato, Hiroyuki Kawata, Nobuhiro Fujita
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Patent number: 8916020Abstract: The invention provides an assembly comprising at least one substrate being bonded to a structural adhesive wherein the structural adhesive is obtained by curing a precursor comprising a cross-linkable polymer, wherein a surface area of the substrate bonded to the structural adhesive comprises at least one metal, said surface area being treated with a liquid activator.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2008Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Jan D. Forster, Dirk Hasenberg, Siegfried R. Goeb, Christopher J. Campbell
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Publication number: 20140338799Abstract: Eutectic fuel cells are prepared by depositing a metal-semiconductor eutectic alloy over non-platinum electrodes on a substrate. In some embodiments the electrodes are the same metal and in other cases the electrodes are dissimilar.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: Solar-Tectic, LLCInventors: Ashok Chaudhari, Karin Chaudhari, Pia Chaudhari
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Publication number: 20140326367Abstract: This invention discloses a metal coating method whereby an abrasion resistant and wear resistant coating is first applied to the metal object, the coated metal object is then fused onto the metal object and the resulting coated metal object is more abrasion resistant and wear resistant while retaining the metal object's original shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2014Publication date: November 6, 2014Applicant: THE LUND INDUSTRIAL GROUPInventor: Earl E. Hill
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Publication number: 20140305550Abstract: A high strength hot rolled steel sheet has a matrix that has a ferrite phase with an area ratio of 95% or more with respect to an overall structure; and a structure where a fine carbide is dispersedly precipitated, the fine carbide containing Ti and V having an average particle size of less than 10 nm in the matrix, the fine carbide has a volume fraction of 0.0050 or more with respect to the overall structure, a proportion of a number of carbides with a particle size of 30 nm or more containing Ti is less than 10% with respect to a total number of carbides, the high strength hot rolled steel sheet has a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2012Publication date: October 16, 2014Inventors: Tamako Ariga, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Yasunobu Uchida
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Publication number: 20140295210Abstract: A hot rolled steel sheet includes a composition including: C: 0.03% to less than 0.07%; Si: 0.3% or less; Mn: 0.5% to 2.0%; P: 0.025% or less; S: 0.005% or less; N: 0.0060% or less; Al: 0.1% or less; Ti: 0.07% to 0.11%; and V: 0.08% to less than 0.15% on a mass percent basis, such that Ti and V contents satisfy: 0.18?Ti+V?0.24 (where Ti and V are contents of the elements (by mass %)), the balance including Fe and inevitable impurities, a matrix having a ferrite phase with an area ratio of 95% or more; and a structure where fine carbide is dispersedly precipitated in the matrix, the fine carbide containing Ti and V has an average particle size of less than 10 nm, and a volume fraction of the fine carbide is 0.0020 or more, wherein the steel sheet has a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2012Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventors: Tamako Ariga, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Noriaki Moriyasu
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Publication number: 20140254736Abstract: A method for producing a wear-resistant and corrosion-resistant stainless steel part for a nuclear reactor is provided. This method includes steps of providing a tubular blank in austenitic stainless steel whose carbon content is equal to or lower than 0.03% by weight; shaping the blank; finishing the blank to form the cladding; hardening the outer surface of the cladding by diffusing one or more atomic species; the blank, before the providing step or during the shaping or finishing step, being subjected to at least one solution annealing with sub-steps of: heating the blank to a sufficient temperature and for a sufficient time to solubilise any precipitates present; quenching the blank at a rate allowing the austenitic structure to be maintained in a metastable state at ambient temperature and free of precipitates.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2012Publication date: September 11, 2014Inventor: Dominique Hertz
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Publication number: 20140247915Abstract: A method for producing a wear-resistant and corrosion-resistant stainless steel part for a nuclear reactor is provided. This method comprises steps of providing a blank in stainless steel; shaping the blank; finishing the blank to form the part in stainless steel, the finishing step allowing the prevented onset or the removal of work hardness on the outer surface of the part; hardening the outer surface of the part via diffusion of one or more atomic species.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2012Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: AREVA NPInventor: Dominique Hertz
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Publication number: 20140238555Abstract: A high strength hot rolled steel sheet having a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more is produced by specifying the composition to contain C: more than 0.035% and 0.07% or less, Si: 0.3% or less, Mn: more than 0.35% and 0.7% or less, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.03% or less, Al: 0.1% or less, N: 0.01% or less, Ti: 0.135% or more and 0.235% or less, and the remainder composed of Fe and incidental impurities, on a percent by mass basis, in such a way that C, S, N, and Ti satisfy ((Ti?(48/14)N?(48/32)S)/48)/(C/12)<1.0 (C, S, N, and Ti: content of the respective elements (percent by mass)) and specifying the microstructure in such a way that a matrix includes more than 95% of ferritic phase on an area fraction basis and fine Ti carbides having an average grain size of less than 10 nm are precipitated in the grains of the above-described ferritic phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2012Publication date: August 28, 2014Inventors: Yoshimasa Funakawa, Tamako Ariga, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Hiroshi Uchomae, Hiroshi Owada
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Publication number: 20140238554Abstract: A method of making a composite magnet wire includes mixing alumina nano particles with a polyimide polymer to form a polyimide mixture, the alumina nano particles having a surface treatment applied to outer surfaces of the alumina nano particles, the surface treatment including a phenyl-silane; coating a wire with the polyimide mixture by passing the wire through a coating die; heating the coated wire; cooling the coated wire; passing the coated wire through an annealing oven at a temperature of about 425° C. to about 475° C. at a speed of about 15 to about 30 feet per minute to anneal the coated wire; cooling the annealed coating wire; spooling the coated wire onto a metal spool; heating the spooled wire at about 300° C. to about 400° C. for about 20 to about 40 minutes; and cooling the heated spooled wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Weijun Yin, Kevin Warner Flanagan, Robert Colin McTigue, James Jun Xu, Mark Edwin Rodda, Sergei Kniajanski
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Publication number: 20140216608Abstract: Before the end of the treatment of metal parts in a molten salt bath nitriding/nitrocarburizing station, a chamber, arranged so that the oxygen contained in the chamber can be discharged in order to create an inert atmosphere, is filled with a refrigerant in liquid form and with a strong capacity for volume expansion as it evaporates. All the parts treated are transferred into the chamber. The chamber is closed, and the parts are left in the chamber for a preset length of time to reach a temperature at which the salt congeals and forms a protective barrier. The parts are then removed and subjected to a rinsing operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: H.E.F.Inventors: Bernard Michalot, Benard Zabinski, Houcine Hadj Rabah
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Patent number: 8795447Abstract: A steel wire having a stainless steel exterior; the steel wire includes a core region that comprises at least 55 wt. % iron which is metallurgically bonded to a stainless steel coating that consists of a stainless steel region and a bonding region. The stainless steel region can have a thickness of about 1 ?m to about 250 ?m, and a stainless steel composition that is approximately consistent across the thickness of the stainless steel region. The stainless steel composition includes an admixture of iron and about 10 wt. % to about 30 wt. % chromium. The bonding region is positioned between the stainless steel region and the core region, has a thickness that is greater than 1 ?m and less than the thickness of the stainless steel region, and has a bonding composition.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2013Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Arcanum Alloy Design IncInventors: Daniel E. Bullard, Joseph E. McDermott
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Publication number: 20140212660Abstract: Disclosed is a medium carbon steel sheet for cold working that has a hardness of 500 HV to 900 HV when subjected to high-frequency quenching in which a temperature is raised at an average heating rate of 100° C./second, the temperature is held at 1,000° C. for 10 seconds, and a quick cooling to a room temperature is carried out at an average cooling rate of 200° C./second. The medium carbon steel sheet includes, by mass %, C: 0.30 to 0.60%, Si: 0.06 to 0.30%, Mn: 0.3 to 2.0%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.0075% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.10%, N: 0.001 to 0.01%, and Cr: 0.001 to 0.10%, the balance composed of Fe and inevitable impurities. An average diameter d of a carbide is 0.6 ?m or less, a spheroidizing ratio p of the carbide is equal to or more than 70% and less than 90%, and the average diameter d (?m) of the carbide and the spheroidizing ratio p % of the carbide satisfy d?0.04×p?2.6.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2011Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo Takeda, Masayuki Abe, Yasushi Tsukano, Takashi Aramaki, Shinichi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 8784995Abstract: A grain oriented electrical steel sheet has linear grooves for magnetic domain refinement formed on a surface thereof and may reduce iron loss by using these linear grooves, where the proportion of those linear grooves having crystal grains directly beneath themselves, each crystal grain having an orientation deviating from the Goss orientation by 10° or more and a grain size of 5 ?m or more, is controlled to 20% or less, and secondary recrystallized grains are controlled to have an average ? angle of 2.0° or less, and each secondary recrystallized grain having a grain size of 10 mm or more is controlled to have an average ?-angle variation of 1° to 4°.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2011Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Takeshi Omura, Hirotaka Inoue, Hiroi Yamaguchi, Seiji Okabe, Yasuyuki Hayakawa
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Publication number: 20140198438Abstract: An information handling system is disclosed. The information handling system comprises a chassis including a metal base, and a metal insulation layer, and a processing unit coupled to the chassis.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Inventors: Deeder M. Aurongzeb, Andrew T. Sultenfuss
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Publication number: 20140174609Abstract: A method for manufacturing a high-strength steel sheet for a can, including (a) hot rolling a steel slab at a slab extraction temperature of 1200° C. or more and a finish rolling temperature of (Ar3 transformation temperature?30)° C. or more, the steel slab containing, on the basis of mass percent, more than 0.02%, but 0.10% or less of C, 0.10% or less of Si, 1.5% or less of Mn, 0.20% or less of P, 0.20% or less of S, 0.10% or less of Al, 0.0120% to 0.0250% of N, and the balance being Fe and incidental impurities; (b) coiling at a temperature of 650° C. or less; (c) pickling; (d) carrying out a first cold rolling; (e) continuously annealing; and (f) carrying out a second cold rolling at a reduction ratio of 10% or more and less than 20%.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2014Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Makoto ARATANI, Toshikatsu KATO, Katsuhito KAWAMURA, Takumi TANAKA, Katsumi KOJIMA, Kaku SATO, Shigeko SUJITA, Masaki KOIZUMI
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Patent number: 8734961Abstract: A Ni-plated steel sheet is provided in which the occurrence of scratches at the time of forming a battery can is suppressed. Also provided is a method which includes a step where a surface of a steel sheet is plated with Ni in a Ni adhesion amount of 0.3-2 ?m, a step where the Ni-plated steel sheet is heated to 600-800° C. to form an Fe?Ni diffusion layer as an outermost surface layer, and a step where the steel sheet is rolled by temper rolling so as to adjust the Fe?Ni diffusion layer so that the steel sheet has the surface roughness Ra of 0.9-2.0 ?m and the surface roughness Ry of 4.0-15 ?m. A Ni-plated steel sheet which includes an Fe?Ni diffusion layer as an outermost surface layer and in which the diffusion layer has the surface roughness Ra of 0.9-2.0 ?m and the surface roughness Ry of 4.0-15 ?m and the diffusion layer has such an Fe/Ni ratio that the Fe accounts for 20-50% in Auger analysis is subjected to drawing using a water-soluble liquid which contains water-soluble emersion as a press lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2010Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichi Takematsu, Eiji Okamatsu, Hideyuki Minagi
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Patent number: RE44940Abstract: Hot-rolled steel sheet which then can be cold-rolled, coated, the steel in the sheet having the following composition by weight: 0.15%<carbon<0.5% 0.5%<manganese<3% 0.1%<silicon<0.5% 0.01%<chromium<1% titanium<0.2% aluminum<0.1% phosphorus<0.1% sulfur<0.05% 0.0005%<boron<0.08%, the remainder being iron and impurities inherent in processing, the shoot ensuring a very high mechanical resistance after thermal treatment and the aluminum-based coating ensuring a high resistance to corrosion.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2013Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignees: ArcelorMittal France, ArcelorMittal Atlantique et LorraineInventors: Jean-Pierre Laurent, Jean-Paul Hennechart, Dominique Spehner, Jacques Devroc