Prior To Bonding Patents (Class 228/164)
  • Patent number: 6430809
    Abstract: A method for bonding conductors onto semiconductor components is disclosed, where an opening is provided in an insulation layer on a semiconductor component. At least one conductor extends across the opening, where the conductor is bonded onto the semiconductor component by a bonding tool, which bends the conductor in the region of the opening toward the semiconductor component. Prior to the bonding, the conductor is severed in the region of the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Monika Bauer, Klemens Ferstl, Jens Pohl, Johann Winderl
  • Patent number: 6409071
    Abstract: Method for welding two end portions (6, 8) of a coil (not shown) onto two electric contact pads or bumps (24, 26) of an integrated circuit (2) or an electronic unit of small dimensions. This welding method is characterised in that, prior to the actual welding step, a preliminary step is provided consisting in removing at least partially the insulating sheath from the electric wire (10) at least at the locations of the two end portions (6, 8) provided for the welding onto said electric contact pads or bumps (24, 26). The insulating sheath is removed locally by means of heat application, in particular using a heating press (58) working at a sufficiently high temperature to melt or sublimate the insulating sheath. The welding step is achieved at a much lower temperature than the temperature of the preliminary step, which allows the heat and mechanical stress to be reduced for the integrated circuit (2) and the bumps (24, 26) during welding of the ends (6, 8) onto said bumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: EM Microelectronic Marin SA
    Inventors: Elko Doering, Pascal Cattin, Uwe Thiemann
  • Patent number: 6409072
    Abstract: Chemical microreactors for chemical systhesis and their methods of manufacture are known, but have disadvantages such as extremely high manufacturing costs or poor flexibility for adaptation to various cases of application. These disadvantages are avoided by means of the microreactors and manufacturing methods according to the invention. The microreactors are characterized in that the reactors contain fluid ducts in at least one plane as well as feed and return lines for fluids, wherein the fluid ducts are defined by side walls of metal opposing each other and further side walls of metal or plastic extending between said side walls, and in which the planes are connected together and/or with a closure segment closing open fluid ducts by means of appropriate solder or adhesive layers. The manufacturing method is characterized by process sequences in which the individual reactor planes produced by means of electrolytic methods, are connected together by soldering or gluing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Atotech Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Breuer, Heinrich Meyer
  • Patent number: 6386641
    Abstract: A design is disclosed for promoting the formation of weld between a first member and a second member whereby a fin is introduced at the outer corner portion of the first member to minimize the creation of defects such as runout or rollover. While such a design is applicable to any industrial welding operation, this design is of particular interest for welding bases or bit blocks holding cutting bits onto rotatable drums, wheels or chains used in construction or mining operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Kennametal PC Inc.
    Inventor: Michael C. Mondy
  • Patent number: 6386427
    Abstract: In the present invention, by the method using a backing material such as copper, which is not melted by a welding heat source, in an end face of a member without using a backing metal or consumable backing material at a joint welding time, overlay welding is performed to increase a plate thickness and a plate width. Thereafter, edge preparation including a member of a designed joint weld location and an overlay weld is performed, and the groove processed portion is placed to an opponent member to provide joint welding in order to obtain an effective throat depth more than a plate thickness and a plate width of the member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Machida Steel Structure Corporation
    Inventors: Shunji Iwago, Masayoshi Uchida
  • Patent number: 6334310
    Abstract: A combustion liner and cooling sleeve assembly for a turbine combustor includes a substantially cylindrical combustion liner; and a substantially cylindrical outer cooling sleeve surrounding at least an axial portion of the combustion liner; wherein the outer cooling sleeve is secured to the combustion liner by a weld at one end of the cooling sleeve at its aft end, with a predetermined radial gap therebetween, the gap determined by respective operating temperatures and thermal expansion coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Maz Sutcu, Bernard Arthur Couture, Sami Aslam
  • Patent number: 6299054
    Abstract: A device for precision X-irradiation of the macular region of the retina of a patient's eye has a mounting plate mounted to a linear accelerator collimator. A housing extends from the mounting plate, and a secondary collimator is positioned in the housing. An elongate aperture extends through the secondary collimator and is in linear alignment with an axis of an X-ray beam emanating from the linear accelerator collimator. A support member extends outwardly from a side of the housing, and an elongate, hollow, sight tube is mounted on the support member. The longitudinal axis of the sight tube aligns with the axis of the X-ray beam so that the axis of the sight tube and the axis of the X-ray beam intersect each other. A light beam is transmitted down the sight tube. The light beam impinges on a cornea of a patient's eye. Light reflected from the cornea is transmitted up the sight tube so that impingement of the light beam on the cornea can be observed through an upper end of the sight tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventor: Frederic A Gibbs, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20010022465
    Abstract: A design is disclosed for promoting the formation of weld between a first member and a second member whereby a fin is introduced at the outer corner portion of the first member to minimize the creation of defects such as runout or rollover. While such a design is applicable to any industrial welding operation, this design is of particular interest for welding bases or bit blocks holding cutting bits onto rotatable drums, wheels or chains used in construction or mining operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 1999
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventor: MICHAEL C. MONDY
  • Patent number: 6268066
    Abstract: A structure and a method of making a burner box by providing a U-shaped body with end members. The end members each rest on an end of the body and of the U-shape body. The ends are welded to the end members to the U-shaped body by a tungsten arc gas welding process whereby the end members are welded to the U-shape body and the edges are catalyzed in the weld. The end members overlaps the U-shape body by about half the thickness of the body to provide a filler material for the weld. A tab is integrally attached to each side of each of the end members. The tab rests on flanges and are catalyzed in the weld.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Inventor: Loyd E. Swain
  • Patent number: 6260271
    Abstract: A tubular body having integral branch tubes for use in a distribution tank of a car air conditioner and a method for producing such tubular body. The tubular body is produced almost solely by a deformation process. The process for forming the tubular body includes a swelling step for swelling the sheet metal at predetermined positions to create cylindrically swelled portions by several stages, a boring step for boring the top end of the swelled portion to create branch tubes, a channel creating step for creating mating channel throughout the whole length of the sheet metal, a rounding step for rounding the sheet metal to form a tube having a desired sectional shape, and a mating step for mating the end of the rounded sheet metal with the mating channel. The production process further includes a divider creating step for dividing the space in the tubular body into a plurality of compartments by squeezing the tubular body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Inventor: Toshiomi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20010001341
    Abstract: A process for the production of a homogenized material of metals and alloys from a slab, and the material has a fine microstructure or fine nonmetallic inclusions and has less segregation of alloying elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Publication date: May 24, 2001
    Inventors: Masashi Ishida, Akihiro Tomita, Daisuke Imai, Seiichi Takeda
  • Patent number: 6230961
    Abstract: A plate link (1), for attaching a clasp link (5) to the end of an ornamental chain (4), is provided for welding electrically at point (2) to constitute an unopenable ring, at one side of which is attached the end (3) of the ornamental chain (4) and at the other side of the clasp link (5) of a normal type. The novel method of attaching the end of a chain to a clasp link by means of the plate link involves the use of electrically welding the plate link and is carried out in the absence of any weld material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Inventor: Sergio Graser
  • Patent number: 6213382
    Abstract: A gold alloy wire in which 0.2 to 5.0% by weight of palladium (Pd) and 1 to 100 ppm by weight of bismuth (Bi) are added to gold having a purity of at least 99.99% by weight. Preferably, at least one element selected from the group consisting of yttrium (Y), lanthanum (La), calcium (Ca) and beryllium (Bi) in an amount of 3 to 250 ppm by weight is further added to said gold. The gold alloy wire is especially adapted to forming a gold bump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Tanaka Denshi Kogyo K.K.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Akimoto
  • Patent number: 6206271
    Abstract: In a method for sealing a vacuum double wall container made of metal which the vacuum double wall container made of metal having a space portion is formed by joining the inner container and the outer container made of metal at respective mouths, an exhaust hole is pierced on an appropriate position of a frame on a bottom portion of the outer container of the vacuum double wall container made of metal in order to evacuate the space portion, and the exhaust hole is sealed with a brazing material in a vacuum heating furnace, a method for sealing a vacuum double wall container made of metal includes the steps of piercing an exhaust hole projected on an appropriate position of a frame of an outer container for evacuating a space portion, installing a member for inhibiting flow more projecting than the exhaust hole and a guide for covering the exhaust hole at a periphery thereof, mounting a brazing material which is melted at a medium temperature of 630˜750° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Sejong Isoli Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Ku Cho
  • Patent number: 6193131
    Abstract: The invention relates to a solder sleeve comprising a split sleeve of solder material having end surfaces of which take the form of form-fitting coupling elements, and to a method for forming such a solder sleeve, comprising of: i) providing a strip of solder material having end surfaces of which take the form of form-fitting coupling elements; and ii) bending the strip to form a sleeve, wherein the coupling elements mutually engage for coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Witmetaal B.V.
    Inventors: Martinus Adrianus Oud, Paul Willem Godijn, Antonius Johannes Welling, Willem Velthuizen
  • Patent number: 6164521
    Abstract: A method of fabricating an electric generator main lead bushing is provided for attaching a flange to a hollow conductor. In one application typically used for an air side flange, a gap is formed in the flange that is sized to receive an end of the conductor, a groove is formed in the conductor end, a braze alloy insert is placed into the groove, the conductor end is inserted into the gap, and the flange and the conductor are heated and cooled to provide a seal between the flange and the conductor. In another application typically used for a gas side flange, a counterbore is formed in an inner portion of the hollow conductor that is sized to receive the flange, a groove is formed in the counterbore, a braze alloy insert is placed into the groove, the flange is fitted into the counterbore, and the flange and the conductor are heated and cooled to provide a seal between the flange and the conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventor: Greyson L. Andy Mellon
  • Patent number: 6149049
    Abstract: A method of metallurgically joining dissimilar metal tubes using a connecting member clad metal tube in which the clad metal is the same or similar metal to a metal of one of the dissimilar tubes to be joined and is susceptible to bonding by welding. The underlying clad metal connecting member metal is a dissimilar metal which is susceptible to bonding by soldering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Huron Tech Corp
    Inventors: Scott A. Loftfield, Richard E. Loftfield
  • Patent number: 6089617
    Abstract: A fluid connector system for connecting a tubular device such as a conduit having a fluid-bearing capability to a channel port having a fluid-bearing capability in a planar surface, thereby providing a substantially leak-free fluid communication between the conduit and the channel port. The conduit bore communicates with a conduit outlet located in a surface region on the outlet end of the conduit. Located within the outlet end surface region is a weld projection. The channel port is located in a receiver portion of a planar surface and communicates with a channel . A port surface region on the exterior of the planar surface encompasses the channel port. The outlet end surface region and the port surface region are complementary in that they may be superimposed so as to co-locate the conduit outlet and the channel port. The leading edge of the conduit outlet is oriented to contact the port surface region so as to define a line of contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: Stephen R. Craig, James A. Bristow
  • Patent number: 6085964
    Abstract: A configuration for forming a gastight space is prevented from being projected from a housing, so that a projection is not formed on the housing. A sealed contact device includes a housing including a container body having an opening end portion, the container body being made of ceramics, a metal lid connected to the opening end portion to form a gastight space, a stationary contact and a movable contact disposed in the container body, and a sealed vent portion formed in the metal lid, in which the sealed vent portion is formed by sealing a vent hole formed in the metal lid after exhausting a gas in the gastight space and supplying a desired gas into the gastight space, via the vent hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: Matasushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Hojo, Ryuji Otani, Toru Kuwata, Shusuke Matsumura
  • Patent number: 6076725
    Abstract: Sections 1 and 2 each in the form of a welded pipe (square pipe) are provided. The sections 1 and 2 are brought into abutment with each other so that the respective end faces 3a and 3b abut each other at a predetermined angle .beta. between each section and its axial direction. The sections 1 and 2 are arranged symmetrically with respect to each other. Acute end portions of the abutted portion are chamfered to from a plane part. Corners of the sections 1 and 2 are rounded. In such a combined state of both sections, the abutted portion is welded in the circumferential direction to form a weld bead. As a result, penetration of weld metal to the section 1 and that to the section 2 become equal to each other. Thus, it becomes possible to fabricate a welded structure having a uniform weld bead and having improved strength and reliability of welded portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Yoshihaya Imamura, Kazuo Yonezawa, Toru Hashimura, Takahito Fujii, Tomohiro Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 6073830
    Abstract: This invention is directed to an improved bonded sputter target/backing plate assembly and a method of making these assemblies. The assembly includes a sputter target having side and bottom bonding surfaces bonded within a recess in an underlying backing plate, the recess having top and side bonding surfaces. The method of forming the bonded assembly includes treating the bonding surfaces of either the sputter target or backing plate recess by roughening at least a portion of the bonding surfaces so as to produce a roughened portion having a surface roughness (R.sub.a) of at least about 120 micro-inches. The method further includes orienting the sputter target within the backing plate recess to form one assembly having a parallel interface defined by the top and bottom bonding surfaces and a side interface defined by the side bonding surfaces, subjecting the assembly to a controlled atmosphere, heating the assembly, and pressing the assembly so as to bond the bonding surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Praxair S.T. Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Hunt, Paul S. Gilman
  • Patent number: 6070787
    Abstract: A chip component is manufactured through a step of burning a unburned unit element made of ceramics having prism-shaped parts at its ends, a step of polishing the edges of the burned unit element, and a step of forming a resistor conductor, an electrode conductor and a armor on the polished unit element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignees: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd., Chuki Seiki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Harada, Kiyoshi Tanbo, Sadaaki Kurata, Manabu Teraoka, Ikuo Kakiuchi
  • Patent number: 6071389
    Abstract: A sputter target assembly includes a cobalt target diffusion bonded to an aluminum or copper backing plate by means of a titanium interlayer. The sputter target assembly may be made by hot vacuum pressing or, preferably, by hot isostatically pressing the target, interlayer and backing plate together. Preferably, the titanium interlayer is provided as a foil, but may also be formed on a mating surface of either the target or the backing plate by electroplating, sputtering, electroless plating, or plasma spraying. The target may be advantageously machined with grooves defining salient points prior to providing the interlayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Tosoh SMD, Inc.
    Inventor: Hao Zhang
  • Patent number: 6068302
    Abstract: The invention relates to a joining connection of at least one exhaust-gas-carrying pipe of an internal-combustion engine having a fastening flange which is inserted in its duct and, on its opening edge situated inside the duct, is welded to the duct wall of the flange, and to a process for its manufacture. In order to provide in a simple manner an automating capacity of the manufacture of the joining connection which is reliable with respect to the process, at least one support projection is constructed in an axially position-defined manner on the duct wall. The support projection projects into the duct and the pipe rests directly on the support projection in the plug-in position in the axial direction. The interior wall of the pipe ends flush with the end edge or projects radially beyond it toward the inside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Michael Sasse, Jurgen Schmidt
  • Patent number: 6063458
    Abstract: Broadly, the present invention is directed to a method for making a metal tag bearing visible indicia thereon and which can be welded onto a workpiece. Such inventive method commences by providing a metal sheet having a top face, a bottom face, and a pair of ends. The top face bears a painted zone upon which is imprinted with visible indicia. At least one of the ends of the bottom face has exposed bare metal. Such bare metal end is folded so as to reveal the bottom face bare metal adjacent to the imprinted painted zone. The thickness of the folded ends is effective for the metal tag to be welded onto a metal workpiece at such folded tag end. Another aspect of the present invention is a metal tag bearing indicia thereon and which can be welded onto a metal workpiece. The tag includes a metal sheet having a top face, a bottom face, and a pair of ends. The top face bears a painted zone upon that is imprinted with visible indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Infosight Corporation
    Inventors: John A. Robertson, Walter Nickolaus Arth, Jr., Edward S. O'Neal, Ken R. Vaughn
  • Patent number: 6059171
    Abstract: A crank arm is formed with an enclosed hollow section, a first solid end fixed to one end of the hollow section and defining a first opening for fitting to a crank axle, and a second solid end fixed to a second end of the hollow section and defining a second opening for fitting to a pedal. The hollow section is constructed from a middle section having a longitudinal groove and a separate lid fixed to the middle section for enclosing the groove. The first solid end has a thicker cross section than the second solid end so that the stress applied to the crank is substantially constant. The hollow section may be keel-shaped to further enhance the strength of the crank arm without stress being concentrated in any particular location. To form the crank arm, a crank arm body is formed having a first opening on one end for fitting to a crank axle, a second opening on another end for fitting to a pedal, and a longitudinal groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Shimano, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamanaka, Toru Iwai
  • Patent number: 6041995
    Abstract: In a wire bonding method, particularly a method for forming a ball at an end of a bonding wire that has an intended ball size, a tail length of the bonding wire extending from the lower end of a capillary is determined according to the size of the intended ball and the internal shape of the lower end portion of the capillary, and the wire end having such a tail length is melted up to the lower end surface of the capillary by a discharge produced by an electric torch so as to form a ball on the wire end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shinkawa
    Inventors: Kuniyuki Takahashi, Tatsunari Mii
  • Patent number: 5984164
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a solder ball shaping tool and a method for using the tool. In a substrate there is formed a series of depressions. The tool is pressed onto a ball grid array and the ball grid array is realigned either with simple pressure or pressure assisted by heating. Where a solder ball may have been deposited upon a die or a chip package in a diameter that exceeds that of the designed diameter, a corral tool is used to substantially conform the solder ball to design dimensions and a design location. As the corral tool is pressed against the solder ball, portions of the solder ball will reflow both into the substrate depression and into the corral. Where the total volume of the solder ball does not exceed that of both the corral and the substrate depression, the corral tool is adequate to achieve a designed solder ball height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: James M. Wark
  • Patent number: 5871408
    Abstract: A method for fusing a ball-striking plate with a golf club head case comprises a first step in which a metal head case is prepared such that the metal head case is provided with a recess having a shoulder. A metal ball-striking plate is also prepared such that the ball-striking plate is corresponding in size and shape to the recess of the head case. A welding material is arranged on the shoulder of the recess of the head case before the ball-striking plate is arranged in the recess of the head case. The head case containing the ball-striking plate is then baked in an oven at a temperature higher than the melting point of the welding material, thereby resulting in the fusion of the ball-striking plate with the head case by the molten welding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Inventor: Archer C. C. Chen
  • Patent number: 5836506
    Abstract: This invention is directed to an improved method for making a bonded sputter target/backing plate assembly as well as assemblies produced therefrom. The assembly includes a sputter target having a bonding surface which is bonded to the bonding surface of an underlying backing plate. The method of forming the bonded assembly includes treating one of the bonding surfaces, either by roughening at least a portion of one of the bonding surfaces so as to produce a roughened portion having a surface roughness (R.sub.a) of at least about 120 micro inches, or by drilling a plurality of holes in one of the bonding surfaces. The method further includes orienting the sputter target and backing plate to form an assembly having an interface defined by the bonding surfaces, subjecting the assembly to a controlled atmosphere, heating the assembly, and pressing the assembly so as to bond the bonding surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Materials Research Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas J. Hunt, Paul S. Gilman
  • Patent number: 5714233
    Abstract: A metal sandwich structural body and manufacture thereof is provided in such a manner that a core body composed of a pair of core members is provided between surface plates made of superplastic metallic materials, these core members are bonded to the surface plates, free end parts of these core members are made integral to each other and following evagination of the surface plates the core members are raised and thus a three-dimensional core body is formed and, when the surface plates are evaginated, the free end parts of the core members are slightly moved while no movement occurs in bonded portions between the core members and the surface plates and thus a metal sandwich structural body having an optional form can be formed by preventing unfavorable deformation and irrespective of forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: Japan Aircraft Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Suzuki, Wataru Asai, Masato Yamagahana
  • Patent number: 5526976
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a container for holding pressurized fluids is described. Firstly, drill a first axial blind bore into a first end of a first piece of bar stock. Secondly, drill a second axial blind bore into a first end of a second piece of bar stock. Thirdly, weld the first end of the first piece of bar stock to the first end of the second piece of bar stock. This forms a container in which the first axial blind bore and the second axial blind bore cumulatively form an interior cavity. Following the teachings of the described method gas cylinders have been manufactured that can withstand pressure levels of 1800 pounds per square inch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Inventors: Ross Hugo, Colin C. Harcourt
  • Patent number: 5230459
    Abstract: Methods of preparing a sputter target/backing plate assembly and assemblies so prepared are disclosed. The methods comprise forming a plurality of grooves in one of the metal surfaces to be joined in the bonding process. The grooves are each provided in a closed, loop configuration or pattern. The target and backing plate to be bonded are adjacently positioned to form an assembly with the grooved surface forming one of the interfacial joint surfaces. The assembly is then placed in a controlled atmosphere, such as a vacuum, heated to a temperature just below the melting point of the lower melting metal to be joined, and pressed until the grooves are substantially filled with metal or alloy from the other, non-grooved interfacial surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1993
    Assignee: Tosoh SMD, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Mueller, David E. Stellrecht
  • Patent number: 5205468
    Abstract: Fusible sheet edges are joined by first forming each of the edges with a laterally projecting burr and then butting the edges together at a join line with both the burrs directed in the same lateral direction adjacent each other and plastically deforming the laterally projecting burrs at the join line in the lateral direction opposite their projection direction. Finally the edges are fused together at the join line. The burrs are plastically deformed by pressing them with a barrel-shaped roller that is moved along the join line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1993
    Inventor: Bernd Budenbender
  • Patent number: 5152059
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing cooled aerofoil blades in which blade parts are bonded together to provide complete blades. The blade parts are provided with mating surfaces which are simultaneously spark erosion machined to match the same prior to the blade parts being brazed together. Spark erosion machining is performed by maintaining the mating surfaces to be matched at a constant distance apart from each other and translating a tensioned wire electrode along a path passing mid-way between the mating surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce plc
    Inventor: Ronald A. Midgley
  • Patent number: 5135155
    Abstract: A contact member for thermocompression bonding in integrated circuit packaging has on a conductor end a uniform texture deformable layer with a hardness value in the range of that of soft gold which is approximately 90 on the Knoop scale and with a rough surface morphology having ridges with approximately 1 micrometer modulation frequency and a depth between ridges of from 1/4 to 1/2 that of the average integrated circuit pad. The deformable layer is produced by plating gold in a strong electronegative plating bath within a range of 0.03 to 0.05 mA/sq.mm. current density. Plating apparatus, for plating different areas, with different electronegative conditions, with separate independently powered anodes, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1992
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sung K. Kang, Michael J. Palmer, Timothy C. Reiley, Robert D. Topa
  • Patent number: 5133126
    Abstract: A method of producing an aluminum tube covered by a layer of zinc using a continuous cold forming machine which includes the steps of: providing an extrusion die having a heating device and an inert gas-blowing tube to the cold forming machine, introducing an aluminum prime wire to the cold forming machine, extruding the prime wire through the extrusion die to form an aluminum tube while heating the die to a high temperature and blowing an inert gas across the die toward the tube to provide a high-temperature, non-oxidized aluminum tube, and flame spraying zinc powder onto the outer non-oxidized surface of the tube to cover the surface and provide an anticorrosive layer of zinc on the aluminum tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1992
    Assignee: Furukawa Aluminum Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuru Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 5082164
    Abstract: Superconducting tapes having an inner laminate comprised of a parent-metal layer, a superconductive alloy layer on the parent-metal, a reactive-metal layer, and an outer laminate soldered thereon are joined in a superconducting joint by the method of this invention. The outer laminate, reactive-metal layer, and superconductive alloy layer are removed to form exposed sections of the parent metal layer. The tapes are positioned so that the exposed sections are in contact. Metallurgical bonding, for example by spot welding, forms bridges between the parent-metal layers. The joined exposed sections are heated in a protective atmosphere, and in the presence of excess reactive metal to form a continuous layer of the superconductive alloy on the bridge and the exposed areas that is continuous with the superconductive alloy layer on the superconducting tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Lee E. Rumaner, Mark G. Benz, Bruce A. Knudsen
  • Patent number: 5022581
    Abstract: The thermal expansion of parts to be welded to each other is reduced in that one or more of the parts are modified to include expansion slots in the welding area. This limits thermal expansion to the remaining small areas only which are allowed to expand within the slots. Total expansion of such welded parts is thus reduced after solidfication. In most applications, such slots do not effect the total design of the welded parts. If required, such slots can be sealed after welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1991
    Assignee: Productech Inc.
    Inventor: Gero Zimmer
  • Patent number: 4991765
    Abstract: A push rod is manufactured by projection-welding a bottom surface of an end element to a tapered annular end surface of a pipe. To prevent some inclination from arising between the bottom surface of the end element and the annular end surface of the pipe when they are tightly pressed against each other, the bottom surface is formed integrally with a plurality of rose seats of wedge shape in cross section that extend radially with respect to the axial center of the end element. Projection-welding is performed after the rose seats are brought into confronting contact with the tapered annular end surface of substantially triangular shape in cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1991
    Assignee: Usui Kokusai Sangyo Kaisha/Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 4858818
    Abstract: A method is provided for use with non-contacting torque sensors. Many torque sensors use a sheet of magnetostrictive material wrapped about the shaft whose torque is to be measured. The methods used to wrap and affix the sheet of magnetostrictive material induce a prestress into the sheet, which leads to early saturation of the magnetostrictive material. The prestress diminishes the useful range of the torque sensor. As a solution, a method is provided for bonding a magnetostrictive material sheet to a shaft while minimizing stress of the magnetostrictive sheet. By bending a magnetostrictive material sheet and a carrier sheet about the mandrel and bonding the sheets together at a first preselected temperature, cooling them to form a cylinder having a magnetostrictive material outer layer and a carrier inner layer, and bonding the cylinder to a shaft at a second predetermined temperature, the stresses induced in the magnetostrictive sheet are minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence D. Knox, Izrail Tsals
  • Patent number: 4840303
    Abstract: A method, for butt-welding steel strips using a laser beam are disclosed, in which opposite ends of preceding and succeeding steel strips fed continuously are cut and the cut end edges thus formed are welded by butt welding using a laser. The cutting and butting at the time of welding are effected with one edge of the preceding steel strips adjacent to the opposite ends of the succeeding steel strips aligned to be parallel with the center line of travel of the continuous processing line. When effecting the alignment, the preceding or succeeding steel strip is attracted by an electromagnetic chuck on a work table in the continuous processing line and is pulled by the chuck toward a reference block provided with an alignment edge parallel to the center line of travel of the processing line to bring the edge of the sheet into contact with the reference block. The alignment is done in this state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Fujii, Kazuo Noda, Shoji Nagasaka, Hiroshi Tajika, Koji Ono
  • Patent number: 4754912
    Abstract: Controlled shape bumps are fabricated into the metal contact fingers that are to be used in the gang bonding assembly of semiconductor devices. The bump shape permits the gang bonding of a plurality of contact fingers simultaneously while producing reliable, uniformly high strength bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1988
    Assignee: National Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Carmen D. Burns
  • Patent number: 4639992
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a steam generator and a steam generator wherein primary coolant tubes are sleeved in and in the vicinity of a tubesheet. A smooth transition region is formed between stock primary coolant tubes and sleeved portions thereof in such a manner that no sites for accelerated corrosion are formed. In addition, an adequate volume of material is provided in the transition region to withstand thermal and mechanical stresses and chemical attack. The sleeved tube is preferably thermally treated for improved corrosion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1987
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Israel Stol, Robert H. Appleman
  • Patent number: 4460424
    Abstract: A substrate of a dimensionally-stable material is formed with precision m cavities therein for various linear or nonlinear optical elements or electro-optical elements such as lenses, beam splitters, reflectors, detectors, polarizers, Kerr cells, Pockel cells, etc. Various openings are also made in the substrate for function as optical paths or waveguides. The elements are then bonded into their respective cavities by glueing or soldering; the optical system thus formed is sealed in an air-tight housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1984
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Rudolph G. Buser, Neal T. Nomiyama, Aubrey J. Dunn
  • Patent number: 4326117
    Abstract: High-strength metal joints are formed by a combined weld-braze technique. A hollow cylindrical metal member is forced into an undersized counterbore in another metal member with a suitable braze metal disposed along the bottom of the counterbore. Force and current applied to the members in an evacuated chamber results in the concurrent formation of the weld along the sides of the counterbore and a braze along the bottom of the counterbore in one continuous operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1982
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: William R. Kanne, Jr., John W. Kelker, Jr., Robert J. Alexander
  • Patent number: 4206865
    Abstract: Where the burner liner for gas turbine engines is made up of overlapping rings secured together, the ring is formed by rolling a strip to a selected shape and dimension crosswise of the strip so as to have appropriate thickness in the heavily stressed area, and less thickness where the stresses are lower, and then forming a selected length of the strip into a ring by bonding or welding together the ends of the selected length to make the desired ring dimension. This may be followed by shaping the ring into the desired conical shape to fit with adjacent rings to form the burner liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1980
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Guy W. Miller
  • Patent number: 4129241
    Abstract: A two step inertia welding process is employed to join the stem to the substrate of a disc thereby forming an anode assembly for a rotating X-ray anode tube. The abutting surfaces to be joined are rubbed together to heat the substrate to an elevated temperature, at which time the weld joint is formed by inertia welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1978
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Thomas M. Devine, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4071184
    Abstract: A blade fabricated of a plurality of bonded filament laminates, at least one of the laminates characterized by a plurality of continuous, collimated filaments embedded in a different matrix at the blade tip than at the blade root. The matrices are characterized by different relative impact strengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1978
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert G. Carlson, Robert W. Harrison
  • Patent number: 4058882
    Abstract: A metal fence post having an irregular polygon shape which is strong and resists bending and twisting better than posts made of the same gauge metal but of other construction. The method of making the fence post and the manner in which fence wires are tied thereto in order to construct an extra strong fence are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1977
    Assignee: Tioga Air Heaters, Co.
    Inventor: Ernest R. Muckelrath