Alkali Metal Base Patents (Class 420/400)
  • Patent number: 11033425
    Abstract: A device comprising a heat-generating component that comprises an alkali metal is provided. The alkali metal in the presence of water at a point of contact of the device undergoes an exothermic reaction to generate heat in situ. The amount of heat generated is proportional to and/or limited by the amount (or moles) of water at the point of contact, and the heat generated is sufficient to achieve an increase in temperature at the point of contact to achieve a therapeutic or beneficial result. In one embodiment, the device is used for reducing sweat production in a subject suffering from excessive sweating or hyperhidrosis. In other embodiments, the device is used to substantially sterilize a surface or render a surface substantially aseptic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Candesant Biomedical, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob M. Waugh, Christopher Elkins, Hyop Rhee
  • Publication number: 20140303414
    Abstract: Catalyst that is used in the catalytic pyrolysis of biomass is regenerated by oxidation and washing with a liquid to remove minerals and restore catalyst activity and selectivity to aromatics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Anellotech, Inc.
    Inventors: Terry J. Mazanec, Jeffrey P. Whiting, Fred Pesa, Yu-Ting Cheng, Ruozhi Song
  • Publication number: 20140147330
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing metallic lithium by electrolysis using a non-aqueous electrolyte at low temperature. The method for preparing metallic lithium according to the present invention can directly prepare metallic lithium by electrolysis at a low temperature, and enable mass production, and reduce the manufacturing cost due to its simple process and easy control of electrolytic conditions, and thus the method for preparing lithium thin films according to the present invention can be applied in the industry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Inventors: Churl Kyoung Lee, Je Sik Park, Jae O. Lee
  • Publication number: 20140106959
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for preparing a metal catalyst having improved yield of alcohols. The method for preparing a metal catalyst for the production of alcohol from synthesis gas includes forming a metal catalyst; and irradiating the metal catalyst with gamma rays. The metal catalyst has improved yield of alcohols by stabilizing the metal catalyst through gamma ray irradiation to inhibit generation of hydrocarbons in catalytic reaction with synthesis gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Korea Institute of Energy Research
    Inventors: Sun-Hwa YEON, Dae-Hyun SHIN, Nam-Sun NHO, Kyoung-Hee SHIN, Chang-Soo JIN, Sung-Chan NAM, Je-Kyoung WOO, Kwang-Ho KIM
  • Patent number: 8551396
    Abstract: Provided herein are materials that can achieve up to 14% hydrogen absorption by weight in ambient conditions, which is a marked improvement over the hydrogen absorption values found in the prior art. Further provided are experimental conditions necessary to produce these materials. In order to produce the hydrogen storage material, a transition metal (or Lithium) is vaporized in a pi bond gas in conditions that permit only a few bonding collisions to occur between the vaporized transition metal atoms and pi bond gas molecules before the resulting bonded material is collected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation
    Inventors: Bellave S. Shivaram, Adam B. Phillips
  • Publication number: 20130181160
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stabilized lithium metal powder and to a method for producing the same, the stabilized, pure lithium metal powder having been passivated in an organic inert solvent under dispersal conditions with fatty acids or fatty acid esters according to the general formula (I) R—COOR?, in which R stands for C10-C29 groups and R? for H or C1-C8 groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: Chemetall GmbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Wietelmann
  • Publication number: 20120142993
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for large scale production of cesium-131 (Cs-131) with low cesium-132 (Cs-132) content, where the Cs-131 is produced via barium-131 (Ba-131) decay. Uses of the Cs-131 produced by the method include cancer research and treatment, such as for use in brachytherapy. Cesium-131 is particularly useful in the treatment of faster growing tumors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: IsoRay Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Zlokazov, David J. Swanberg, Oleg Egorov, Garrett N. Brown, Dale E. Boyce
  • Publication number: 20120138843
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of making a substantially phase pure compound including a cation and an anion. The compound is made by mixing in a ball-milling device a first amount of the anion with a first amount of the cation that is less than the stoichiometric amount of the cation, so that substantially all of the first amount of the cation is consumed. The compound is further made by mixing in a ball-milling device a second amount of the cation that is less than the stoichiometric amount of the cation with the mixture remaining in the device. The mixing is continued until substantially all of the second amount of the cation and any unreacted portion of anion X are consumed to afford the substantially phase pure compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicants: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Fleurial, Sabah K. Bux, Richard B. Kaner
  • Publication number: 20110318345
    Abstract: substances and the nasal administration thereof, in particular as one of a liquid, as a suspension or solution, or a powder, to the nasal airway of a subject, in particular the posterior region of the nasal airway, and in particular the upper posterior region of the nasal airway, which includes the olfactory bulb, in particular in the treatment of neurological conditions and disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: OptiNose AS
    Inventor: Per Gisle Djupesland
  • Publication number: 20110306508
    Abstract: The presence of mycotoxins in agricultural products necessitates large scale testing of a wide range of sample material to ensure the safety of food and feed. The mycotoxin ochratoxin A represents an enablement for all mycotoxins as the level of sensitivity necessary for regulatory requirements for this compound at the part per billion level are as low or lower than any other mycotoxin. This invention describes the identification of a set of DNA ligands with sufficiently high binding affinity and specificity for ochratoxin A to enable an improvement over existing methods for the separation, concentration and quantitative determination of ochratoxin A in sample material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Inventors: Gregory Allen Penner, Jorge Andres Cruz-Aguado
  • Patent number: 8071019
    Abstract: Methods for the introduction of a reactive material into a vacuum chamber while minimizing or eliminating the simultaneous introduction of contaminating materials or substances. As a result, contaminating materials and substances that can interfere with any measurements or other processes that occur in the vacuum chamber are minimized or eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Bruce Touchberry, Terry Dean Stark
  • Patent number: 7972631
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel compositions and methods for pharmaceutical or nutraceutical use in an animal, preferably in a human. In one aspect, compositions and methods are provided for promoting cell growth, tissue repair and organ regeneration, preferably in vivo and in situ. The composition comprises a sterol compound dissolved in oil at a concentration at least 0.5% by weight. The compositions may be used in the treatment of various conditions caused by injury, diseases and aging. As shown clinically, the methodology disclosed in the present invention was used successfully to regenerate or clone a new organ through cultivation of regenerative stem cells in vivo and in situ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Inventor: Rongxiang Xu
  • Patent number: 7955551
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved alkali metal dispenser which is pure and free of contaminant gases, and provides for controlled releasing, delivery and recycling of the alkali metal in multiple stages in a controlled manner. The present invention also provides an alkali metal pump or getter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignees: SRI International, The Regents of University of Colorado, a body Corporate
    Inventors: Sterling Eduardo McBride, Steven Alan Lipp, Joey John Michalchuk, Dana Z. Anderson, William Frederick Holmgren, Matthew B. Squires
  • Publication number: 20110113844
    Abstract: A mobile energy carrier with which energy in the form of materials from zones distributed widely throughout the world, for example with a large amount of solar energy, wind energy or other CO2-neutral energy, for example the equator, can be transported to zones where there is a high energy requirement, for example Europe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventor: Günter Schmid
  • Publication number: 20110079747
    Abstract: A method of generating an electric current by accurately dispensing a finite equal quantity of fluidized alkaline metals at equally spaced intervals into an injector water spray for subsequent reaction in live steam in a reaction chamber releasing electrons for an ionic capacitor of a capacitor tuyere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventor: Edward Milton McWhorter
  • Patent number: 7863221
    Abstract: For producing the superconducting material MgB2, a shapeable master alloy containing Mg and B, as well as at least one additional constituent, an LiMgB alloy is.1 The process permits the production of shaped elements of MgB2, for example by forging, casting, drawing, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Eidenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich
    Inventors: Juan Matias Reinoso, Frank Ottinger, Michael Woerle, Reinhard Nesper
  • Patent number: 7824576
    Abstract: A composite material includes lithium hydride particles dispersed within lithium to form a lithium-lithium hydride composite. The lithium-lithium hydride composite has increased strength over pure lithium and similar soft X-ray transmission characteristics as pure lithium. A soft X-ray blast window may be made from the lithium-lithium hydride composite with increased reliability and cost effectiveness. A method for making a composite material includes dispersing lithium hydride into lithium metal using a variety of dispersion techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Nino R Pereira, M Ashraf Imam
  • Publication number: 20100233761
    Abstract: A method of fractionating biomass, by permeability conditioning biomass suspended in a pH adjusted solution of at least one water-based polar solvent to form a conditioned biomass, intimately contacting the pH adjusted solution with at least one non-polar solvent, partitioning to obtain an non-polar solvent solution and a polar biomass solution, and recovering cell and cell derived products from the non-polar solvent solution and polar biomass solution. Products recovered from the above method. A method of operating a renewable and sustainable plant for growing and processing algae.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventors: Thomas J. Czartoski, Robert Perkins, Jorge L. Villanueva, Glenn Richards
  • Publication number: 20100221137
    Abstract: Provided herein are materials that can achieve up to 14% hydrogen absorption by weight in ambient conditions, which is a marked improvement over the hydrogen absorption values found in the prior art. Further provided are experimental conditions necessary to produce these materials. In order to produce the hydrogen storage material, a transition metal (or Lithium) is vaporized in a pi bond gas in conditions that permit only a few bonding collisions to occur between the vaporized transition metal atoms and pi bond gas molecules before the resulting bonded material is collected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Bellave S. Shivaram, Adam B. Phillips
  • Publication number: 20100111750
    Abstract: Methods for the introduction of a reactive material into a vacuum chamber while minimizing or eliminating the simultaneous introduction of contaminating materials or substances. As a result, contaminating materials and substances that can interfere with any measurements or other processes that occur in the vacuum chamber are minimized or eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Bruce Touchberry, Terry Dean Stark
  • Patent number: 7592073
    Abstract: A rhenium alloy is provided having from about 50 atomic % to 99 atomic % rhenium and a refractory compound particulates that are present in the alloy in an amount up to about 10 atomic %. The refractory compound comprises a nano-scale dispersion that is incorporated into the conventional rhenium structure. The nano-scale dispersion acts as grain boundary pins that result in a relatively fine grained, equiaxed structure that improves the mechanical properties of the alloy and helps to minimize the growth of large grains during operations at high temperatures. As a result, the amount of the rhenium used in high temperature applications may be reduced without sacrificing its high temperature and mechanical properties. Cryomilling in the presence of nitrogen may be used to prepare the rhenium alloy having a stable fine grain structure at high temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Jerry W. Brockmeyer, Clifford C. Bampton
  • Publication number: 20090196814
    Abstract: Provided is a compound having at least one neutral, positive or negative increased binding energy species formed from a one-electron atom having an atomic mass of at least four and at least one other element. The increased binding energy species has a binding energy greater than the binding energy of the corresponding ordinary species, or greater than the binding energy of any species for which the corresponding ordinary species is unstable or is not observed because the ordinary increased binding energy species' binding energy is less than a thermal energy at ambient conditions, or is negative.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventor: Randell L. Mills
  • Publication number: 20090061321
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium metal powder protected by a substantially continuous layer of a polymer. Such a substantially continuous polymer layer provides improved protection such as compared to typical CO2-passivation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Marina Yakovleva, Yuan Gao, Kenneth Brian Fitch, Prakash Thyaga Palepu, Yangxing Li, Christopher Jay Woltermann
  • Publication number: 20090041614
    Abstract: The invention relates to Group 1 metal/silica gel compositions comprising silica gel and an alkali metal or an alkali metal alloy. The compositions of the inventions are described as Stage 0, I, II, and III materials. These materials differ in their preparation and chemical reactivity. Each successive stage may be prepared directly using the methods described below or from an earlier stage material. Stage 0 materials may, for example, be prepared using liquid alloys of Na and K which are rapidly absorbed by silica gel (porous SiO2) under isothermal conditions, preferably at or just above room temperature, to form loose black powders that retain much of the reducing ability of the parent metals. When the low melting Group 1 metals are absorbed into the silica gel, a mild exothermic reaction produces Stage I material, loose black powders that are indefinitely stable in dry air. Subsequent heating to 400° C. produces Stage II materials, which are also loose black powders. Further heating above 400° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Michael Lefenfeld, James L. Dye
  • Publication number: 20080099175
    Abstract: A method for in-gas micro/nanoimprinting of bulk metallic glass includes steps of preparing a die, heating the bulk metallic glass and in-gas micro/nanoimprinting of the bulk metallic glass. In the step of preparing a die, the die has a micro/nano structure having multiple depressions and a flow channel connected to the depressions. In the step of heating the bulk metallic glass, the bulk metallic glass is heated to a temperature between a glass transition temperature and a crystallization temperature of the bulk metallic glass. In the step of in-gas micro/nanoimprinting, the bulk metallic glass is forced into the die in presence of gas to imprint a complementing micro/nano structure on the bulk metallic glass. Because the die has a flow channel to allow air or gas to escape from the micro/nano structure of the die, the micro/nanoimprinting can be performed in presence of air or gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventors: Jinn P. Chu, Hadi Wijaya, Chun-Ling Chiang, Chih-Wei Wu
  • Publication number: 20080003127
    Abstract: Disclosed are cover gas compositions comprising fluoroolefins for impeding the oxidation of molten nonferrous metals and alloys, such as magnesium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew H. Luly, Rajiv R. Singh
  • Publication number: 20080000647
    Abstract: Disclosed are cover gas compositions comprising at least one pentafluoropropane for impeding the oxidation of molten nonferrous metals and alloys, such as magnesium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew H. Luly, Rajiv R. Singh
  • Patent number: 6726892
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present invention provides a nanocrystalline powder suitable for storing hydrogen and a method of producing such a powder. One embodiment provides a nanocrystalline powder containing crystals of an aluminum alloy selected from the group consisting of NaAlx, LiAlx, and MgAl2x, wherein x is between 0.9 and 1.1, desirably 0.95-1.05, preferably about 1. The nanocrystalline powder also desirably includes an intercalated catalyst selected from the group consisting of C, Ti, Pt, Pd, V, Zr, and combinations of two or more of those materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventor: Ming Au
  • Patent number: 6583559
    Abstract: A getter comprising a calcium-aluminum compound including about 39% to about 43% calcium by weight produces a calcium vapor when sufficiently heated. The calcium vapor can condense to form a calcium film on an inside surface of a sealed evacuated enclosure such as a CRT to getter reactive species from the enclosed volume. The calcium-aluminum compound, preferably CaAl2 powder, can be mixed with either nickel powder, titanium powder, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: SAES Getter S.p.A.
    Inventors: Corrado Carretti, Luca Toia, Claudio Boffito
  • Publication number: 20010053346
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for combining sodium and aluminum into a single, substantially homogeneous alloy without the need to use potentially dangerous, toxic mercury compounds. The present invention also provides a catalytic alloy that is capable of dissociating water into hydrogen and oxygen, thereby allowing the hydrogen to be utilized as fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Inventors: Edward W. Baldwin, Russell P. White
  • Publication number: 20010014309
    Abstract: A hydrogen storage composition has a hydrogenated state and a dehydrogenated state; the hydrogenated state comprises a hydrided composition of lithium and an element M which forms a hydride, for example Be or Mg, an element E which forms a compound or solid solution with lithium, e.g. C, B or Zn, or a mixture thereof; there are thus provided reversible Li-based hydrides of high hydrogen capacity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Publication date: August 16, 2001
    Inventors: Alicja Zaluska, Leszek Zaluski, John Olaf Strom-Olsen
  • Patent number: 5605585
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing hydrogen storage alloy particles comprises steps of obtaining a melt of the hydrogen storage alloy and pulverizing the hydrogen storage alloy by water atomizing process, whereby the melt is pulverized by contacting or colliding with high-speed jetting thereto to be dispersed in the form of solidified fine particles. By employing an aqueous solution of hypophosphorous acid or an alkali aqueous solution in place of water during the water atomizing process, or by etching the oxide films once formed on the surface of the hydrogen storage alloy particles with an aqueous solution of a strong acid, the thickness of the oxide film can be made thinner, and thus a high discharge capacity of a battery configured with a negative electrode comprising the alloy particles can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Yamamoto, Katsunori Komori, Kohei Suzuki, Seiji Yamaguchi, Tadao Kimura, Munehisa Ikoma, Yoshinori Toyoguchi
  • Patent number: 5498495
    Abstract: An alloy for a negative electrode of a lithium secondary battery, comprising an Li-Ag-Te type alloy having an atomic ratio of Li:Ag:Te=15-120:1-20:0.001-2, an alloy for a negative electrode of a lithium secondary battery, comprising an Li-Ag-Te-(M1-M2) type alloy having an atomic ratio of Li:Ag:Te:M1:M2=15-120:1-20:0.001-2:1-50:1-30 wherein M1 is a 3A-5A group metal and M2 is a transition metal other than Ag, and a lithium secondary battery comprising a negative electrode composed of the above-mentioned alloy. According to the present invention, a negative electrode, wherein the growth of dendrite is suppressed, charge-discharge capacity is high, energy density is high and degradation due to repetitive charge-discharge is less, can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1996
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Takada, Mitsuhiro Marumoto, Kouzou Sasaki
  • Patent number: 5350647
    Abstract: An improved alloy or composite electrode of lithium, magnesium and other materials in which magnesium is in the range of 5 to 50% of the total weight of the composite. The lithium and magnesium metal can be heated until they melt, and combine, and are cast into an ingot which is then formed into the desired shape as an electrode and placed into an electrochemical device or formed as an anode and placed into a battery. Other methods of combination can be used as desired to obtain the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1994
    Inventors: Stephen F. Hope, Joseph B. Kejha
  • Patent number: 5332546
    Abstract: Working fluid for absorption heat pumps operating at very high temperature, particularly 200.degree. to 1000.degree. C., said working fluid being a mixture of at least two constituents, characterized in that the working fluid is constituted by a mixture of at least two chemical elements, whereof the first called the "solvent" is much more volatile than the others called "solutes" at the temperature of the mixture, the nature and proportions of each of the chemical elements in the mixture being chosen in such a way that the Vapour pressure of the mixture is significantly below that of the first, more volatile chemical element throughout the operating cycle of the working fluid in the pump.These chemical elements can in particular be metals such as mercury or sodium, or metalloids such as sulphur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1994
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Pierre Le Goff, Bai Q. Liu, Dimitrios Antonakas, Gabriel Marbach
  • Patent number: 5283136
    Abstract: There are provided novel anodes for lithium alloy electrochemical cells, and cells based on such anodes. The alloys used comprise one or more active metals which leaves or leave the anode matrix during discharge of the cell, with the alloy remaining in an intermediate variostoichiometric range during both charge and discharge of the cell. The curve of open circuit voltage as well as working condition voltage versus lithium content of the anode slopes, with no appreciable plateau. A specific embodiment relates to such anodes with a solid polymer electrolyte containing a suitable polymer. Another embodiment refers to porous electrodes made by sintering an alloy powder with a binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1994
    Assignee: Ramot University Authority for Applied Research and Industrial Development Ltd.
    Inventors: Emanuel Peled, Aryeh Lin
  • Patent number: 5215710
    Abstract: Intermetallic compounds and hydrides thereof, characterized in that they have been prepared by reacting hydrides of the elements of the main groups I, II, III and IV of the Periodic Table, magnesium hydridehalides or magnesium dialkyls having the general formula MgR.sub.2 (R=alkyl) in a solvent with bisallyl metal compounds of the metals of the subgroup VIII of the Periodic Table or of zinc or with the homologues of the bisallyl compounds of said metals, and processes for preparing said compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Assignee: Studiengesellschaft Kohle M.b.H.
    Inventors: Borislav Bogdanovic, Ursula Wilczok
  • Patent number: 5171555
    Abstract: A transparent, strong CsI alloy havign additions of monovalent iodides. Although the perferred iodide is AgI, RbI and CuI additions also contribute to an improved polycrystalline CsI alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Hyoun-Ee Kim, Arthur J. Moorhead
  • Patent number: 5156806
    Abstract: Ternary metallic alloys of the formula Li.sub.x B.sub.y Mg.sub.z wherein 5.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.0.90, 0.05.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.0.90, 0.05.ltoreq.z.ltoreq.0.90, and x+y+z=1 and a method of preparing them. These alloys find use in areas where superlight weight, high specific strength (strength/weight ratio) and oxidation resistance are required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Raymond A. Sutula, Frederick E. Wang
  • Patent number: 5133929
    Abstract: Intermetallic compounds and hydrides thereof, characterized in that they have been prepared by reacting hydrides of the elements of the main groups I, II, III and IV of the Periodic Table, magnesium hydridehalides or magnesium dialkyls having the general formula MgR.sub.2 (R=alkyl) in a solvent with bisallyl metal compounds of the metals of the subgroup VIII of the Periodic Table or of zinc or with the homologues of the bisallyl compounds of said metals, and processes for preparing said compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1992
    Assignee: Studiengesellschaft Kohle mbH
    Inventors: Borislav Bogdanovic, Ursula Wilczok
  • Patent number: 5102475
    Abstract: A process for obtaining lithium-based thin sheets, generally used for the production of negative plates for accumulators. The thin sheets are formed by adding magnesium to a bath of molten lithium, transforming the alloy into a solid product in a form suitable for rolling, and rolling the solid product obtained by passing it between steel cylinders a plurality of times at ambient temperature to obtain thin sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Assignee: Pechiney Recherche
    Inventors: Guy-Michel Raynaud, Gilles Regazzoni, Gilles Nussbaum, Max Reboul
  • Patent number: 4960564
    Abstract: Alloy complexes which are composed of (1) lithium (Li, (2) Boron (B), and ) one or more of the following elements: sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), and cesium (Ce). These alloy complexes in powder form react spontaneously with air upon contact to produce large amounts of heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1990
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Raymond A. Sutula, Frederick E. Wang
  • Patent number: 4872908
    Abstract: A method of forming a filter cake for filtering liquid metal from particles stable within the liquid metal on an inert, liquid metal permeable substrate in the flow path of the liquid metal to be filtered characterized by depositing the particles in the flow path upstream of the substrate to be carried at least partially by the metal flow and dispersed as a pre-wetted and pre-primed filter cake on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Assignee: Alcan International Limited
    Inventors: Philip G. Enright, Andrew J. Hobbis, Ronald E. Tapping
  • Patent number: 4838988
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for obtaining crystals of intermetallic compounds, in particular isolated monocrystals, by cooling alloys in the molten state.The process involves using an alloy in the molten state which has a composition such that the first phase to crystallize during its solidification corresponds to the compound to be isolated, cooling it slowly by subjecting it to cyclic stirring and thermal cycling without attaining the temperature at which another solid phase appears then abruptly expelling the residual liquid.The process is used for obtaining large monophase primary crystals of compounds which melt congruently or incongruently, in particular compounds having symmetry of order 5 known as "quasi-crystals".
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Pechiney
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Lang, Bruno Dubost
  • Patent number: 4818645
    Abstract: An electrochemical cell of the liquid cathode type has an anode made of non-solution alloy of lithium and a companion metal of manganese, silicon, molybdenum, or tungsten.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Whittaker Technical Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter B. Harris, James Bennett, Kathy M. Lechiaro, Peter F. Morello, Robert C. McDonald
  • Patent number: 4695400
    Abstract: A ternary alloy consisting of sodium, copper and lead, especially in the form of a slurry in oil, is useful for decontaminating halogenated hydrocarbons by reacting with the halogen therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1987
    Inventor: Alfred R. Globus
  • Patent number: 4512960
    Abstract: A method and device for conducting gettering. The gettering is conducted with one of an LiB, LiSi or LiAl system. Preferably the LiB system is of the formula Li.sub.x B.sub.1-x wherein 0<x<1 with gettering conducted at room or slightly elevated temperature of about 100.degree.-200.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1985
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventor: Raphael Szwarc