Abstract: A method for making electromechanical parts and tools having at least one micro-diameter electrically conductive thread incorporated therein is accomplished by molding the elements which form the base for the electromechanical part or tool from a ceramic material and, during the molding step, there are formed one or more bores through each of the base elements. The base elements may be formed individually or at a planar array for later separation into individual elements. The base elements are then supported on a micro-porous substrate within a vacuum chamber and one side of the base element is flooded with a molten electrically conductive material. By drawing a vacuum within the vacuum chamber beneath the micro-porous substrate, the molten electrically conductive material is caused to flow into and through at least one bore in each base element. The molten electrically conductive material is then cooled.

Abstract: An electrode for an electric double layer capacitor in which resin is used as a starting material and the manufacturing cost is low and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. A method of manufacturing an electrode for an electric double layer capacitor containing carbonized resin includes heating resin at a temperature equal to or higher than the temperature for finishing endothermic reaction of the resin upon melting (softening to be fluidized) of the resin and equal to or lower than the temperature for starting oxidizing reaction in an atmosphere of a pressure range of 0.

Abstract: A method of making a lightweight, microwave electronic structure includes the steps of forming a rigid, glass structure having a desired density by a sol-gel process and thereafter uniformly coating the formed glass structure with an adherent and uniform conductor. The sol-gel process may be carried out by polymerizing a mixture comprising silicon alkoxide, water and an alcohol. The coating process may be carried out by coating the glass structure with a solution comprising an organic compound of a metal dissolved in an organic solvent and thereafter volatizing the organic solvent.

Abstract: A method for producing ceramic dielectrics containing a water soluble metal acid or salt includes making a mixture by kneading a water soluble metal acid or salt, particulates, sintering auxiliaries and water, mixing the mixture with a binder and plasticizer to form a slurry, and forming a sheet from the slurry by drying and sintering.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a lead having an electrode includes the steps of introducing a substrate into a mold, creating a negative pressure in the mold, injecting a slurry comprising a binder and a conductive particulate material into the mold cavity during the step of creating negative pressure in the mold cavity, heating the mold having the substrate and the particulate material in an oven to cojoin the particulates and thereby form an electrode, removing the mold from the oven, removing the electrode from the mold, and assembling the electrode into a lead. The produced lead may be used as a steroid eluting pacing cardiac lead.

Abstract: Raw material powder for a bismuth oxide superconductor is molded with addition of an organic vehicle, and the molded raw material is heat treated for removing the organic vehicle before the molded raw material is metal-coated. In this heat treatment, conditions not more than those expressed as T=-1.5.times.logH+600 are applied as to relation between temperature (T) and time (H). Thus, phase transformation of 2212 phases mainly composing the raw material is suppressed so that a large amount of 2223 phases having a relatively high critical temperature are formed when heat treatment is performed after metal coating.

Abstract: An object is to densify an internal conductor of a multilayer ceramic part to thereby reduce a line loss, improve operating properties such as Q value, and reduce a variation thereof. To this end, an internal conductor paste which is composed of conductor powder, preferably silver or copper powder and optionally, a glass frit is stacked with dielectric ceramic material layers and co-fired at or above the melting point of the conductor.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a multiwound microcoil embedded in a ceramic substrate including the steps of forming a sacrificial multiwound microcoil, having a melting temperature greater than the sintering temperature of the ceramic material to be used as the ceramic substrate by wrapping a first sacrificial coil winding in a helical fashion on the midsection of a sintered ceramic bar thereby forming a one winding sacrificial coil structure; wrapping a first layer of tape cast ceramic material around the midsection of said one winding sacrificial coil structure thereby forming a first coated one winding sacrificial coil structure; wrapping a second sacrificial coil winding in a helical fashion on the midsection of said first coated one winding sacrificial coil structure thereby forming a two winding sacrificial coil structure.

Abstract: A ceramic composition for absorbing electromagnetic waves and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The composition comprises a raw powder comprising by weight between about 60% and about 80% Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3, between about 3% and about 8% NiO, between about 15% and about 25% ZnO, and between about 3% and about 8% CuO, and a mixture around the raw powder comprising by weight between about 30% and about 50% water, between about 0.2% and about 0.6% a dispersing agent, between about 0.5% and about 1.0% a plasticizer, and between about 0.1% and about 0.4% a lubricant. The method comprises the steps of grinding the powder, converting the grounded powder into granulates, forming the granulates into a shaped body, sintering the shaped body in a furnace, and cooling the sintered body gradually. The ceramic composition can absorb much of the electromagnetic waves generated from electric devices such as cellular phones, beepers, computers, wireless telephones, etc.

Abstract: In order to inhibit a fired multilayer ceramic electronic component from delamination resulting from combustion of resin contained in conductive paste which is applied to internal conductors of the multilayer ceramic electronic component, the conductive paste is prepared by adding at least 1 percent by weight of terpene sulfide and/or mercaptan of R--SH in which R is a hydrocarbon radical having 8-16 carbon atoms to metal powder of Pd, Ag or Pd-Ag as an additive and kneading the same with an organic vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a new apparatus and method for screening using porous backing material. More particularly, the invention encompasses an apparatus that uses a porous backing material which is adhered to a green sheet during the screening process. Basically, a backing layer having a very high porosity is adhered to a green sheet, while the green sheet is screened. During the drying process of the green sheet some of the screening fluids are absorbed by the porous backing layer, which allows the screened vias of the green sheet to have a smooth surface.

Abstract: Components whose palladium metal-containing constituent is not subject to delamination and which exhibit very good dielectric properties are obtained by means of a method of manufacturing a ceramic electronic component. The ceramic electronic component is essentially composed of a dielectric oxide ceramic and at least one palladium-containing component, and is obtained by firing and sintering of a green body containing an organic binder with the firing process including a first step in which the binder is removed from the binder-containing green body by means of a water-gas reaction in a water vapor-containing, essentially oxygen-free, atmosphere at temperatures between 20.degree. and 880 .degree. C., and a second step in which the dielectric oxide ceramic is re-oxidized in an atmosphere having an oxygen content of 10 to 100% by volume at a temperature in the range from 880 .degree. C. to 900 .degree. C.

Abstract: A single furnace loading cycle technique and a ventable sintering box therefor are disclosed for the sintering of products, such as, ceramic substrates. The sintering box includes a closeable cover which is held open by collapsible or deformable or sensitive spacers in a first furnace temperature range. The sensitive spacers collapse or deform in a higher temperature range to seal closed the box and the substrates therein. Thus, volatile agents within the substrates are permitted to escape in the first temperature range but are prevented from escaping in the higher temperature range.Provision also is made using additional sensitive spacers for applying a weight upon the substrates when in the higher temperature range due to the collapse or deformation of the sensitive spacers.

Abstract: In order to produce a ceramic heater for an oxygen sensor, a method is used, which comprises the steps of: (a) molding a green cylindrical object from a ceramic material which contains a binder; (b) provisionally baking the green cylindrical object at a relatively lower temperature thereby to produce an insufficiently baked cylindrical object, the lower temperature being sufficient for removing the binder from the cylindrical object; (c) printing a heater pattern on a cylindrical surface of the insufficiently baked cylindrical object, the heater pattern being constructed of an electrically conductive material; (d) coating the printed cylindrical surface of the insufficiently baked cylindrical object with a green protection layer thereby to produce a layer-coated cylindrical object; and (e) baking said layer-coated cylindrical object at a relatively higher temperature sufficient for baking the insufficiently baked cylindrical object, the heater pattern and the green protection layer.

Abstract: A method of making an article which includes a suboxide of titanium, the method involving binding Magneli phase powder into the shape of an article and subjecting the bonded shape to heat treatment including the step of controlling the temperature and pressure of the heat treatment so that the heat treated article is substantially corrosion resistant and non-wicking in use.

Abstract: Alumina arc tube sealing members including a highly pure, fine alumina doped with yttrium oxide, and magnesium oxide. The sealing members are used in the formation of sintered hermetic seals to a green, prefired, or fully sintered translucent alumina arc tube and niobium electrical feedthrough assemblies with or without the use of sealing frits or brazing alloys.

Abstract: A sintered ITO compact having an ultra-high density of at least 7.08 g/cm.sup.3 is produced by a process wherein an aqueous slurry comprised of indium oxide, tin oxide, a binder, a dispersant and an aqueous medium is cast in a mold, and the thus-obtained cast green body is sintered. The aqueous slurry used is prepared by the steps of:dispersing uniformly a tin oxide powder and a dispersant in an aqueous medium to give an aqueous slurry;allowing the aqueous slurry to stand whereby coarse particles of tin oxide are sedimented;separating by decantation an upper liquid layer of the aqueous slurry containing finely divided particles of tin oxide (preferably, the secondary particle sizes of which are not larger than 4 .mu.m) and the dispersant from a lower liquid layer containing the sedimented coarse particles; and then,incorporating an indium oxide powder and a binder in the separated upper liquid layer containing finely divided tin oxide particles and the dispersant to give an aqueous slurry.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a high-activity cermet electrode which is applied on an exhaust gas sensor including an oxygen ion conducting solid electrolyte, which is composed of a cermet material composed of at least one catalytically active material and at least one oxygen ion conducting ceramic material, which is bonded to the solid electrolyte of the exhaust sensor by co-sintering the cermet electrode and the solid electrolyte at a temperature ranging from 1300.degree. to 1600.degree. C. to provide a porous cermet electrode, and which contains at least one further catalytically active material which is embedded in the pores of the porous cermet electrode after co-sintering, the method including bonding together an unsintered solid electrolyte which conducts oxygen ions and a cermet electrode by co-sintering at from 1300.degree. to 1600.degree. C. to provide a porous cermet electrode; and subsequently introducing at least one further catalytically active material into pores of the porous cermet electrode.

Abstract: A single furnace loading cycle technique and a ventable sintering box therefor are disclosed for the sintering of products, such as, ceramic substrates. The sintering box includes a closeable cover which is held open by collapsible or deformable or sensitive spacers in a first furnace temperature range. The sensitive spacers collapse or deform in a higher temperature range to seal closed the box and the substrates therein. Additional spacers may be used for applying weight upon the substrates at the higher temperature range. Thus, volatile agents within the substrates are permitted to escape in the first temperature range but are prevented from escaping in the higher temperature range and in situ sintering weights can be applied without removing the substrates from the furnace.

Abstract: The present invention provides lyophilized reagent spheres comprising reagents suitable for analysis of biological samples, in particular analysis of blood samples in centrifugal analyzers. Also provided are diluents which are conveniently used in such analyzers.