Consolidation Of Powders Patents (Class 419/66)
  • Patent number: 11498127
    Abstract: A die having a cavity and a lower punch fitted into the cavity. The cavity is divided and the parts slide along a division plane passing through the cavity parallel to the fitting direction of the die and the lower punch. The divided cavity parts are placed in a state of alignment along the division plane. The divided cavity parts are each filled with raw material powder. The die and the lower punch are then slid along the division plane, whereby the divided cavity parts are combined as the original cavity. The raw material powder in the cavity in a combined state is compressed by an upper punch and the lower punch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: DIAMET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuneo Maruyama, Shinichi Takezoe, Hideo Sakai
  • Patent number: 11229951
    Abstract: A method of making a test coupon using a mold is provided. The mold defines a mold cavity that comprises a first-grip-portion cavity, a second-grip-portion cavity, an intermediate-portion cavity, interconnecting the first-grip-portion cavity and the second-grip-portion cavity, and runner cavities, directly interconnecting the first-grip-portion cavity and the second-grip-portion cavity and not directly connected to the intermediate-portion cavity. The method comprises injecting feedstock material, comprising a metal powder, into the mold cavity to form a monolithic precursor test coupon in the mold cavity, wherein the monolithic precursor test coupon comprises a first grip portion, a second grip portion, an intermediate portion, and runners. The method also comprises removing the runners from the monolithic precursor test coupon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Joseph A. Pecina, Gary M. Backhaus
  • Patent number: 10889872
    Abstract: In one aspect, methods of foil ling tooling articles from tool steel powder compositions via additive manufacturing techniques are described herein. A method of forming a tooling article comprises consolidating powder alloy into the tooling article via an additive manufacturing technique and heat treating the tooling article to provide the tooling article hardness of 35 to 65 HRC. The tooling article can be formed of an alloy composition comprising 0.2-2 weight percent carbon, 0-1 weight percent manganese, 0-1.5 weight percent silicon, 0-0.3 weight percent nickel, 0-15 weight percent cobalt, at least two of chromium, molybdenum, tungsten and vanadium in a combined amount of 5-25 weight percent and the balance iron. As described herein, the method can further comprise hot isostatic pressing the tooling article prior to the heating treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Jason W. Goldsmith, Yingwei Wu
  • Patent number: 10862116
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing a porous silicon-based negative electrode active material comprising: mixing a porous silica (SiO2) and an aluminum powder; oxidizing all or part of the aluminum powder as an aluminum oxide while at the same time reducing all or part of the porous silica as a porous silicon (Si) by heat-treating a mixture of the porous silica with the aluminum powder, a negative electrode active material, and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY), SJ MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soojin Park, Sin Ho Choi, Ji Hyun Yoon, Byoung Man Bang
  • Patent number: 10662799
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes an engine static structure extending circumferentially about an engine centerline axis; a compressor section, a combustor section, and a turbine section within the engine static structure. At least one of the compressor section and the turbine section includes at least one airfoil and at least one seal member adjacent to the at least one airfoil. A tip of the at least one airfoil is metal having a wear resistant coating and the at least one seal member is coated with an abradable coating. The wear resistant coating is formed as a layer in a base metal surface of the airfoil, has a thickness less than or equal to 10 mils (254 micrometers) and includes metal boride compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Agnieszka M. Wusatowska-Sarnek
  • Patent number: 10647608
    Abstract: Provided is a super low melting SnO—SnF2—P2O5-based glass frit for which the firing temperature can be set to 200° C. or less and which has high water resistance and transparency. The fluorinated tin-based glass frit includes, in mol %, 30 to 70% of SnF2, 10 to 30% of P2O5, 10 to 40% of SnO, 0.1 to 10% of SnO2, 0 to 5% of In2O3, 0 to 5% of B2O3, and 0 to 5% of SiO2, and has a glass transition point of 160° C. or lower, a softening point of 180° C. or lower, and a maximum particle size of 100 ?m or less. The fluorinated tin-based glass frit has a visible light transmission rate of 80% or more at 200° C. and a thickness of 0.6 mm of a fired product thereof, and a rate of volume reduction of the fired product due to soaking in hot water at 85° C. for 24 hours is 2 vol. % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: YEJ GLASS Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kohara, Yoshinari Takao, Seungwoo Lee
  • Patent number: 10427215
    Abstract: A punch unit is used in a powder press molding device that includes a die plate including a cavity in which a compacted powder pellet can be formed, the powder press molding device including a ram moving in a direction approaching the die plate and in a direction away from the die plate. The punch unit includes a punch inserted into the cavity of the die plate when the ram approaches the die plate, and a supporting portion supporting the punch reciprocatably, the punch unit being movable along a plane intersecting with the moving direction of the ram in a state where the punch is removed from the cavity. The punch unit is capable of shortening a distance in which the ram moves, and a cycle time can be shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichi Kobayashi, Seiya Watanabe, Tooru Higuchi
  • Patent number: 10214787
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hot-briquetting or hot-compacting installation, in particular for directly reduced iron, having at least one first row (1) of presses with one or more first roll presses (2), and having at least one second row (3) of presses with one or more second roll presses (4), having at least one first cooling conveyor (7) beneath the first row (1) of presses, and a second cooling conveyor (8) beneath the second row (3) of presses, and having a plurality of material lines (6), which are assigned in each case to the individual roll presses (2, 4) and via which the briquetted or compacted material exiting from the roll presses (2, 4) is discharged to the cooling conveyors (7, 8). The material lines (6) are provided with one or more diverters (9), which can be adjusted such that the material from the roll presses (2, 4) of the first row (1) of presses and of the second row (3) of presses is discharged optionally in each case to the first cooling conveyor (7) or to the second cooling conveyor (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: MASCHINENFABRIK KOEPPERN GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Christopher Schaefer, Eggert De Weldige
  • Patent number: 10000645
    Abstract: A method of forming a fired multilayer stack are described. The method involves the steps of a) applying a wet metal particle layer on at least a portion of a surface of a substrate, b) drying the wet metal particle layer to form a dried metal particle layer, c) applying a wet intercalation layer directly on at least a portion of the dried metal particle layer to form a multilayer stack, d) drying the multilayer stack, and e) co-firing the multilayer stack to form the fired multilayer stack. The intercalating layer may include one or more of low temperature base metal particles, crystalline metal oxide particles, and glass frit particles. The wet metal particle layer may include aluminum, copper, iron, nickel, molybdenum, tungsten, tantalum, titanium, steel or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: PLANT PV, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian E. Hardin, Erik Sauar, Dhea Suseno, Jesse J. Hinricher, Jennifer Huang, Tom Yu-Tang Lin, Stephen T. Connor, Daniel J. Hellebusch, Craig H. Peters
  • Patent number: 9928996
    Abstract: A process for producing a magnetron sputtering target includes: mixing and dispersing an oxide powder and a magnetic metal powder, the magnetic metal powder containing a ferromagnetic metal element, to obtain a magnetic powder mixture; mixing and dispersing an oxide powder and each of a plurality of non-magnetic metal powders, the plurality of non-magnetic metal powders containing the ferromagnetic metal element, the plurality of non-magnetic metal powders containing a different constituent element from each other or containing constituent elements at different ratios from each other, to obtain a plurality of non-magnetic powder mixtures; and mixing and dispersing the magnetic powder mixture and the plurality of non-magnetic powder mixtures to obtain a powder mixture for pressure sintering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: TANAKA KIKINZOKU KOGYO K.K.
    Inventors: Takanobu Miyashita, Yasuyuki Goto
  • Patent number: 9757801
    Abstract: A method for producing a molded body is proposed, comprising: applying a layer of particles and applying a binder and curing a molded body; and a device for producing a metallic or ceramic molded body, having a storage volume, which is configured for receiving a suspension of metallic or ceramic particles that are dispersed in a suspension fluid, a layer-forming application device, which is configured for removing an amount of suspension repeatedly from the storage volume and transferring it into a working volume and applying it there as a layer, a dehumidifying device, which is configured for dehumidifying the applied layer in the working volume, a binder application device, which is configured for applying a binder locally to the dehumidified layer in accordance with a layer model of the molded body to be produced, in such a way that particles in the dehumidified layer are adhesively bonded locally to one another and optionally in addition to particles of at least one layer lying under the dehumidified laye
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: BAM BUNDESANSTALT FÜR MATERIAL FORSCHUNG UND PRÜFUNG
    Inventors: Jens Günster, Cynthia Morais Gomes, Georg Berger
  • Patent number: 9441676
    Abstract: A bearing assembly includes an IC tag with information to be reliably exchanged between the IC tag and an external reader/writer, and a rolling bearing including outer and inner races and rolling elements disposed between the outer and inner races. The IC tag communicates with the external reader/writer device without contacting the reader/writer device, is attached to a metal member of the rolling bearing, includes a tag antenna, and is configured so information can be exchanged between the tag antenna and a reader/writer antenna of the reader/writer device by forming a closed magnetic circuit between the tag antenna and the reader/writer antenna. The IC tag is received in a hole in a metal member surface. The tag antenna includes at least two protrusions facing the opening of the hole and arranged so magnetic fluxes leaving/entering the protrusions pass inside the edge defining the hole opening and extend outside the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignees: NTN CORPORATION, KRD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Ito, Naota Yamamoto, Tsukasa Yamakawa, Hirohide Komatsu, Tsutomu Sawa
  • Patent number: 9297055
    Abstract: Iron-based powder metallurgical compositions including both iron-copper prealloy and copper powder are described. These compositions, when compacted and sintered, result in compacts having good dimensional consistency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Hoeganaes Corporation
    Inventor: Bruce Lindsley
  • Publication number: 20150130573
    Abstract: An eddy current loss at a frequency of 3,000 Hz is set to less than 150 W/kg by setting a single particle diameter-equivalent diameter dS of soft magnetic metal powder represented by the following formula to 210 ?m or less. In the formula, dS represents a single particle diameter-equivalent diameter of the soft magnetic metal powder [m], dMN represents a number average particle diameter of the soft magnetic metal powder [m], and ? represents a standard deviation of the particle diameter of the soft magnetic metal powder [m].
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru Araki, Norikazu Muneda, Eiichirou Shimazu
  • Patent number: 9017598
    Abstract: A metal-bonded graphite foam composite includes a ductile metal continuous phase and a dispersed phase that includes graphite foam particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLC
    Inventors: Paul A. Menchhofer, James W. Klett
  • Publication number: 20150110665
    Abstract: Methods for fabricating an interconnect for a fuel cell system that include forming a metal powder into a preform structure, positioning the preform structure in a die cavity of a press apparatus, and compressing the preform structure in the press apparatus to form the interconnect. Further embodiments include use of thin inserts in the die cavity to provide reduced permeability and/or including filler material in the die cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Harald HERCHEN, Matthias GOTTMANN, Ian RUSSELL, Jonathan CERRONA, Cheng-yu LIN, Michael LESHER
  • Publication number: 20150097085
    Abstract: A spacecraft coupling system includes an integral component that can be deformed and placed into a stable state that locks one component into a mating component, and can easily be released from the deformed state, decoupling the two components. The integral component may include a central ring, a plurality of leaf elements arranged at the perimeter of the component, and a plurality of fins that extend outward from the ring to the plurality of leaf elements. A rotation of the ring element while the component is held stationary causes the fins to urge the leaf elements toward the receiving surface areas and to subsequently tension the leaf elements against surfaces on the mating component. To reduce cost and complexity, the integral component is a metal, such as titanium, that can be formed using an additive manufacturing process, commonly termed a 3-D printing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: Planetary Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Walter HOLEMANS
  • Publication number: 20150093283
    Abstract: Improved devices and methods for additive manufacturing of implant components are disclosed, including improvements relating to utilizing support structures, aligning implant designs within the manufacturing apparatus, and making patient-adapted implants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Bob Miller, David P. Hesketh
  • Publication number: 20150093589
    Abstract: A composite particle comprises a core, a shielding layer deposited on the core, and further comprises an interlayer region formed at an interface of the shielding layer and the core, the interlayer region having a reactivity less than that of the core, and the shielding layer having a reactivity less than that of the interlayer region, a metallic layer not identical to the shielding layer and deposited on the shielding layer, the metallic layer having a reactivity less than that of the core, and optionally, an adhesion metal layer deposited on the metallic layer, wherein the composite particles have a corrosion rate of about 0.1 to about 450 mg/cm2/hour using an aqueous 3 wt % KCl solution at 200° F. An article comprises composite particles, wherein has a corrosion rates of about 0.1 to about 450 mg/cm2/hour using an aqueous 3 wt % KCl solution at 200° F.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Oleg A. Mazyar, Michael H. Johnson, Randall V. Guest, Nicholas Carrejo, Wayne R. Furlan, Sean L. Gaudette
  • Publication number: 20150086408
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a component and a method of thermal management are provided. The methods include forming at least one portion of the component, printing a cooling member of the component and attaching the at least one portion to the cooling member of the component. The cooling member includes at least one cooling feature. The at least one cooling feature includes at least one cooling channel adjacent to a surface of the component, wherein printing allows for near-net shape geometry of the cooling member with the at least one cooling channel being located within a range of about 127 (0.005 inches) to about 762 micrometers (0.030 inches) from the surface of the component. The method of thermal management also includes transporting a fluid through at least one fluid pathway defined by the at least one cooling channel within the component to cool the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Srikanth Chandrudu KOTTILINGAM, Benjamin Paul Lacy, Carlos Miguel Miranda, David Edward Schick
  • Publication number: 20150085425
    Abstract: Electrodes and their associated methods of manufacturing are disclosed. An electrode comprises a metal body, a conductive coating, and a metal oxide layer. The metal body is formed from a plurality of compacted metal nanoparticles. The conductive coating is formed on a first side of the metal body. The conductive coating comprises a conductive material. The metal oxide layer is formed on a second side of the metal body. The metal oxide layer includes a plurality of metal oxide nanoparticles. The electrode may be used in a supercapacitor. A method for fabricating an electrode comprises synthesizing a plurality of metal nanoparticles, compacting the plurality of metal nanoparticles into a metal body, depositing a conductive coating on a first side of the metal body, and forming a metal oxide layer on a second side of the metal body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventor: John Q. XIAO
  • Publication number: 20150079416
    Abstract: A tool for a high temperature, high pressure apparatus includes a working layer of a first hard metal composition of material and at least one supporting layer of a second hard metal composition of material attached to the working layer. The first hard metal composition has a mean linear intercept of less than about 0.4 ?m of a binder phase. The working layer has a top and bottom surface. At least one supporting layer of a second hard metal composition of material is attached to the working layer. The at least one supporting layer includes an upper portion. An interface region is formed by the bottom surface of the working layer and the upper portion of the at least one supporting layer. The bottom surface and upper portion have a corresponding shape, wherein the bottom surface and upper portion are bonded to form the corresponding shape in the interface region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Stefan Ederyd, Erin Delmotte
  • Publication number: 20150078950
    Abstract: A method of making a molybdenum or molybdenum alloy metal strip is disclosed. The method includes roll compacting a molybdenum-based powder into a green strip. The method also includes sintering the green strip followed by a combination of warm rolling, annealing, and cold rolling steps to form the final metal strip which may be cut-to-length. The strip at the final thickness may also undergo an optional stress relief step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: AMETEK, Inc.
    Inventors: Muktesh Paliwal, Ryan A. Smith, Kerry B. Daley, Charles M. Italiano, Yakov Mindin
  • Publication number: 20150064051
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an embossment structure formed in a mold in the present invention is applicable to plastic or metallic in-mold shaping products, such as computers, communication products, consumer electronic products, electrical appliances, parts of machines and instruments or common household products. A base layer provided with embossment structure or tri-dimensional ornament and a separable layer is stably fixed in a shaping mold by making use of absorption mode of the shaping mold. After shaped completely, the base layer on the surface of the in-mold shaping product is torn off to present delicate tri-dimensional embossed streaks on the surface of the in-mold shaping product, which is designed according to personalization or individuation, able to lower cost and increase external beauty of the in-mold shaping product and conform to economic gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicants: SUPREME TECHNIC PACKAGE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: SHENG-CHANG HUANG
  • Publication number: 20150052898
    Abstract: A component formed by an additive manufacturing process includes a body and a first vibration damper. The body is formed from an additive manufacturing material, and defines at least a first cavity completely enclosed within the body. The first vibration damper is disposed within the first cavity. The first vibration damper includes a flowable medium and a first solidified element formed from the additive manufacturing material. The flowable medium surrounds the first solidified element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Daniel Jason Erno, Robert Arvin Hedeen, Prabhjot Singh
  • Publication number: 20150056464
    Abstract: Methods and devices are disclosed for creating a multiple alloy composite structure by forming a three-dimensional arrangement of a first alloy composition in which the three-dimensional arrangement has a substantially open and continuous porosity. The three-dimensional arrangement of the first alloy composition is infused with at least a second alloy composition, where the second alloy composition comprises a shape memory alloy. The three-dimensional arrangement is consolidated into a fully dense solid structure, and the original shape of the second alloy composition is set for reversible transformation. Strain is applied to the fully dense solid structure, which is treated with heat so that the shape memory alloy composition becomes memory activated to recover the original shape. An interwoven composite of the first alloy composition and the memory-activated second alloy composition is thereby formed in the multiple alloy composite structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventor: Craig A. Brice
  • Publication number: 20150056465
    Abstract: A process for producing a titanium load-bearing structure, which comprises cold-gas dynamic spraying of titanium particles on to a suitably shaped support member, and a titanium load bearing structure so-produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Saden Zahiri, Mahnaz Jahedi, Jeffrey Lang, Tiimothy Fox, Richard Fox
  • Publication number: 20150048209
    Abstract: A structural spacecraft component comprising internal microstructure; wherein said microstructure comprises a plurality of parallel layers and a plurality of spacers that connect adjacent parallel layers; wherein said structural spacecraft component is a product of an additive manufacturing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Robert Hoyt, Jonathan Wrobel, Jesse Cushing, Mark Jaster, Nestor Voronka, Scott Frank, Jeffrey Slostad, Leonid Paritsky
  • Patent number: 8951466
    Abstract: Cam lobe packs and methods of producing the same. The method uses a tool made up of an insert disposed within a sleeve such that both are responsive to a dynamic magnetic compaction (DMC) pressure source. The insert defines a substantially axisymmetric exterior surface and a cam lobe-shaped interior surface that can receive a compactable material such that upon DMC, the material is formed into the shape of the cam lobe. The sleeve is disposed about the insert and defines a substantially axisymmetric exterior surface such that an axisymmetric compaction imparted to the sleeve by the DMC pressure source forms the desired shaped cam lobe. The tool is configured such that individual tool members corresponding to one or more of the cam lobes can be axially aligned so that an aggregate interior surface is formed that defines an exterior surface profile of a camshaft being formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Shekhar G. Wakade, Frederick J. Rozario, Glenn E. Clever, Joseph E. Robbins
  • Patent number: 8951329
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process that involves (1) feeding (a) a first valve metal powder component containing valve metal particles and (b) reducing component into a reactor having a hot zone; and (2) subjecting the first valve metal powder component and the reducing component to non-static conditions sufficient to simultaneously (i) agglomerate the first valve metal powder component particles, and (ii) reduce oxygen content in the valve metal powder component particles, and thereby form a second valve metal powder component containing oxygen-reduced valve metal particles, in which the reducing component is selected from the group consisting of magnesium reducing components, calcium reducing components, aluminum reducing components, lithium reducing components, barium reducing components, strontium, reducing components, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: H.C. Starck GmbH
    Inventors: Leonid Lanin, Anastasia M. Conlon, Michael J. Albarelli
  • Publication number: 20150037195
    Abstract: A method for making an inductor mechanism which includes a base member having two opposite side portions, a bottom portion, and an upper portion, a conductive coil member engaged in the base member and having two terminals extended toward the side portions of the base member, two conductive coverings are attached to the side portions of the base member and electrically connected to the terminals of the coil member, and two electro-plated devices are attached to the conductive coverings respectively. The electro-plated devices each include an inner layer attached onto the covering, and one or more further layers attached onto the inner layer, the layers are made of copper, brass, nickel, tin, or silver, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: MAG. LAYERS SCIENTIFIC TECHNICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chien Chih LIU
  • Publication number: 20150028548
    Abstract: A tool holder with a main part, a deformable receiving portion for clamping a tool, and at least one blocking element which is designed to engage into a corresponding counter element on the tool in order to prevent the tool from moving axially out of the tool holder. The at least one blocking element is integrally formed with the receiving portion. A clamping system having such a tool holder and a method for producing a receiving portion for such a tool holder are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Franz Haimer
  • Patent number: 8932517
    Abstract: A process for production of a packed soft magnetic component, comprises the steps of:—preparing a rotational mold, consisting of at least one mold cavity connected to a driven rotational axle, arranging a coil in the mold, filling the at least one mold cavity with a binder and a soft magnetic, metallic material in the form of a powder,—driving the axle for rotation of said at least one mold, whereby the soft magnetic, metallic material is packed by centrifugal forces to one side of said at least one mold cavity, mixed with the binder, thus forming a component comprising a soft magnetic composite with a coil embedded therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Magnetic Components Sweden AB
    Inventor: Mats Alaküla
  • Patent number: 8926896
    Abstract: One embodiment includes providing a first layer including a first powder material and a second layer including a second powder material over the first layer, and compacting the first powder material and the second powder material using at least a first magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Shekhar G. Wakade, Mark A. Osborne, William L. Miller
  • Publication number: 20150004047
    Abstract: A metal injection molding apparatus includes a metal injection mold die having first and second die halves, a first set of features provided in the first die half, a second set of features provided in the second die half and complementary to the first set of features provided in the first are half and an ultrasonic transducer disposed in contact with the metal injection mold die. A binderless metal injection molding method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Carey E. Wilkinson
  • Publication number: 20150002255
    Abstract: Provided is a composite for manufacturing a chip part for a high frequency, and the composite includes a magnetic powder having a relatively spherical shape, and a metal magnetic body particle having a relatively more amorphous shape than that of the magnetic powder and a lower hardness than that of the magnetic powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Hak Kwan KIM, Sung Yong AN, Jae Yeong KIM, Jung Wook SEO
  • Patent number: 8922323
    Abstract: When an outer core that is to be mounted on a reactor is seen in plan, the outer core is a compact that has a plan-view shape in which a side of the outer core that is opposite to a facing side of the outer core, which faces the inner cores, has a smaller dimension in a width direction, which is parallel to a facing surface, than the facing side of the outer core. A method of manufacturing such an outer core includes a preparing step and a compacting step. In the preparing step, coated soft magnetic powder including multiple coated soft magnetic particles formed by coating soft magnetic particles with insulating coated films is prepared as raw-material powder of the outer core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Uozumi, Atsushi Sato, Kazushi Kusawake
  • Publication number: 20140377121
    Abstract: A component, such as a SOFC interconnect, and methods of making the component are provided using various chromium powders, including powder particles with a chromium core covered with an iron shell, a pre-alloyed Cr—Fe powder or a chromium powder produced by hydrogen reduction with hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Martin Janousek, Shivanand I. Majagi
  • Publication number: 20140367519
    Abstract: A method of installing a fixture, such as a bracket, in a fuselage structure of an aircraft includes the steps of: providing or generating a three-dimensional digital model of the fixture; arranging a head of an additive manufacturing apparatus in the fuselage structure; and forming the fixture in situ in the fuselage structure with the head of the additive manufacturing apparatus based upon the digital model of the fixture. The fixture is installed in the fuselage structure by bonding or fusing the fixture to the fuselage structure as the fixture is formed. A fixture, such as a bracket, which is generated in situ in a fuselage structure of an aircraft based upon a three-dimensional digital model, wherein the fixture is bonded or fused to the fuselage structure as the fixture is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventor: Robert Alexander Goehlich
  • Publication number: 20140367145
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an elongated electrically conducting element having functionalized carbon nanotubes and at least one metal, includes the steps of mixing functionalized carbon nanotubes with at least one metal, to obtain a composite mixture, and forming a solid mass from the composite mixture from step (i). A solid element obtained from the solid mass from step (ii) is inserted into a metal tube, and the metal tube from step (iii) is deformed, to obtain an elongated electrically conducting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Emilien Comoret, Christian-Eric Bruzek
  • Publication number: 20140354100
    Abstract: A rare earth magnet may include a formed body having magnetic powder containing rare earth metal, the formed body being magnetized, a coating film which is formed on an outer face of the formed body, and a rust preventive treatment layer which is formed on a surface of the magnetic powder in a pore of the formed body. In a manufacturing method for a rare earth magnet, a forming step is performed in which a formed body having magnetic powder containing rare earth metal is formed, after that, a coating film forming step is performed in which a coating film is formed on an outer face of the formed body and, after that, a rust prevention processing step is performed in which rust preventive liquid is impregnated into the formed body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi FURUTA, Yasushi MIZUSAKI, Katsuyoshi FURUYA
  • Publication number: 20140356219
    Abstract: A method for producing a layer-type buildup of riblet foil involves applying a metal powder is to a reference mold, which has a female mold of a riblet structure, in such a manner that a metallic material is formed. The layered portion applied in this manner is then detached, thereby forming a riblet foil having a riblet structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Franz Gammel, Oliver Rohr
  • Publication number: 20140336779
    Abstract: Provided is a method for easily producing a lamellar compressed fiber structural material which has mechanical characteristics close to those of in vivo bone and which is capable of easily increasing osteoblast even when a difference in strength exists. In order to solve the issues, the method for producing compressed fiber structural material 1, includes: a step of preparing biocompatible fiber 14 having an average diameter of 5 ?m-50 ?m and an aspect ratio of 20-500; and a step of molding compressed fiber structural material 1 by cold pressing/shearing biocompatible fiber 14, compressed fiber structural material 1 having an average pore diameter that is in the range of 60 ?m-100 ?m inclusive and a void fraction that is in the range of 25%-50% inclusive, both obtained by measurement in accordance with the mercury penetration method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: SHINSHU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Noboru Nakayama, Masaomi Horita, Naoki Izawa, Hiroto Tamai, Naoto Saito, Yuki Usui, Nobuhide Ogihara
  • Publication number: 20140328710
    Abstract: A die tool and process are described that provide friction consolidation fabrication and friction consolidation extrusion fabrication products including permanent magnets, and other extrusion and non-extrusion structures. The present invention overcomes previous particle size, texture, homogeneity and density limitations in conventional metallurgy processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jun Cui, Glenn J. Grant, Saumyadeep Jana, Yuri Hovanski, Curt A. Lavender
  • Patent number: 8871143
    Abstract: Hardened amalgams formed from copper mixed with liquid gallium or liquid gallium-indium alloys are used to fabricate sputter targets comprised of copper, gallium and indium (CIG) and targets of selenides of copper, gallium and indium (CIGS). Amalgam hardening occurs by formation of intermetallic compounds at or near ambient temperature as a result of reaction between liquid metals and solid metals in powder form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Inventor: Leonard Nanis
  • Publication number: 20140314615
    Abstract: A method for measuring an apparent density of a metal powder includes holding a metal powder in a vessel, applying an alternating magnetic flux to the metal powder using an exciting coil disposed outside the vessel, detecting the alternating magnetic flux passed through the metal powder using a search coil disposed outside the vessel, and determining an apparent density of the metal powder from an amplitude of the detected alternating magnetic flux using a calibration curve representing a correlation between the apparent density of the metal powder and the amplitude of an alternating magnetic flux prepared in advance. The method enables to measure the apparent density of a metal powder with a high precision in an on-line and non-contact manner without stopping a process of producing a mixed powder or a process of producing a powder compact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio Maetani, Hiroharu Kato
  • Publication number: 20140314611
    Abstract: A number of variations may include a method including providing a first powder comprising iron; compacting the first powder into a compacted powder product having a non-planar surface, wherein the compacting includes dynamic magnetic compaction or combustion driven compaction; and increasing the magnetic coercivity of at least one of the first powder or compact powder product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Shekhar G. Wakade, Yucong Wang, Edward P. Becker
  • Patent number: 8864918
    Abstract: A method for producing a component of a titanium-aluminum base alloy comprising hot isostatically pressing the alloy to form a blank, subjecting the blank to a hot forming by a rapid solid-blank deformation, followed by a cooling of the component to form a deformation microstructure with high recrystallization energy potential, thereafter subjecting the component to a heat treatment in the range of the eutectoid temperature (Teu) of the alloy, followed by cooling in air, to form a homogeneous, fine globular microstructure composed of phases GAMMA, BETA0, ALPHA2 and having an ordered atomic structure at room temperature. This abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignees: Boehler Schmiedetechnik GmbH & Co. KG, MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Clemens, Wilfried Wallgram, Martin Schloffer
  • Publication number: 20140294657
    Abstract: The present invention provides ferromagnetic iron nitride particles, in particular, in the form of fine particles, and a process for producing the ferromagnetic iron nitride particles. The present invention relates to a process for producing ferromagnetic iron nitride particles, comprising the steps of mixing metallic iron obtained by mixing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a metal hydride, a metal halide and a metal borohydride with an iron compound, and then subjecting the obtained mixture to heat treatment, with a nitrogen-containing compound; and then subjecting the resulting mixture to heat treatment, in which a reduction step and a nitridation step of the iron compound are conducted in the same step, and the at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a metal hydride, a metal halide and a metal borohydride is used as a reducing agent in the reduction step, whereas the nitrogen-containing compound is used as a nitrogen source in the nitridation step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Shinpei Yamamoto, Mikio Takano, Migaku Takahashi, Tomoyuki Ogawa, Naoya Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140287929
    Abstract: A monofilament (1) for the production of a superconducting wire (20) has a powder core (3) that contains at least Sn and Cu, an inner tube (2), made of Nb or an alloy containing Nb, that encloses the powder core (3), and an outer tube (4) in which the inner tube (2) is arranged. The outer side of the inner tube (2) is in contact with the inner side of the outer tube (4) and the outer tube (4) is produced from Nb or from an alloy containing Nb. The outer tube is disposed in a cladding tube. The superconducting current carrying capacity of the superconducting wire is thereby improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventor: Manfred Thoener