Tin Containing Patents (Class 420/419)
  • Patent number: 11946118
    Abstract: A titanium-based alloy composition consisting in weight percent, of: 3.0 to 7.0% aluminium, 3.0 to 10.0% vanadium, 3.0 to 10.0% molybdenum, 2.0 to 7.0% tin, 0.0 to 6.0% zirconium, 0.0 to 5.0% niobium, 0.0 to 0.5% iron, 0.0 to 4.0% chromium, 0.0 to 2.0 tungsten, 0.0 to 0.5 % nickel, 0.0 to 0.5% tantalum, or between 0.0 to 2. tantalum when the sum of niobium and tantalum is 5.0% or less, 0.0 to 0.5% cobalt, 0.0 to 0.75% silicon, 0.0 to 0.5% boron, 0.0 to 0.5% carbon, 0.0 to 0.5% oxygen, 0.0 to 0.5% hydrogen, 0.0 to 0.5% nitrogen, 0.0 to 0.5% palladium, 0.0 to 0.5% lanthanum, 0.0 to 0.5% manganese or 0.0 to 2.5% manganese when the sum of chromium and manganese is 4.0 wt. % or less, 0.0 to 1.0% hafnium, the balance being titanium and incidental impurities which satisfies the following relationship: 0.027V+0.178Fe+0.055(Mo+0.5W)+0.016Zr+0.044Cr+0.033(Nb+Ta)+0.053Sn>1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: ALLOYED LIMITED
    Inventor: Enrique Alabort Martinez
  • Patent number: 11920231
    Abstract: A non-limiting embodiment of a titanium alloy comprises, in weight percentages based on total alloy weight: 5.5 to 6.5 aluminum; 1.5 to 2.5 tin; 1.3 to 2.3 molybdenum; 0.1 to 10.0 zirconium; 0.01 to 0.30 silicon; 0.1 to 2.0 germanium; titanium; and impurities. A non-limiting embodiment of the titanium alloy comprises a zirconium-silicon-germanium intermetallic precipitate, and exhibits a steady-state creep rate less than 8×10?4 (24 hrs)?1 at a temperature of at least 890° F. under a load of 52 ksi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ATI PROPERTIES LLC
    Inventors: John V. Mantione, David J. Bryan, Matias Garcia-Avila
  • Patent number: 11920219
    Abstract: The present invention provides a TiAl-based alloy, including: Al: 41 to 43 at %; Fe: 0 to 2.5 at %; Ni: 0 to 2.5 at %; Mo: 0 to 2.0 at %; W: 0 to 2.0 at %; Cr: 0 to 4.5 at %; Mn: 0 to 5.5 at %; V: 0 to 10 at %; Nb: 0 to 10 at %; C: 0.3 to 0.7 at %; and a remainder consisting of Ti and inevitable impurities, in which an alloy element parameter “P=(41.5?Al)/3+Fe+Ni+Mo+W+0.5 Cr+0.4 Mn+0.2 V+0.2 Nb—C” is in a composition range of 1.1 to 1.9, and the TiAl-based alloy has a microstructure consisting of a ? phase of 5 to 30 area %, a ? phase of 0.5 to 5 area %, and a lamellar structure occupying a remaining part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: National Institute for Materials Science
    Inventor: Toshimitsu Tetsui
  • Patent number: 11041402
    Abstract: A titanium alloy may be characterized by a good oxidation resistance, high strength and creep resistance at elevated temperatures up to 750° C., and good cold/hot forming ability, good superplastic forming performance, and good weldability. The alloy may contain, in weight percent, aluminum 4.5 to 7.5, tin 2.0 to 8.0, niobium 1.5 to 6.5, molybdenum 0.1 to 2.5, silicon 0.1 to 0.6, oxygen up to 0.20, carbon up to 0.10, and balance titanium with incidental impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: HOWMET AEROSPACE INC.
    Inventors: Fusheng Sun, Ernest M. Crist, Kuang-O Yu
  • Patent number: 10119178
    Abstract: A titanium alloy having high strength, fine grain size, and low cost and a method of manufacturing the same is disclosed. In particular, the inventive alloy offers a strength increase of about 100 MPa over Ti 6-4, with a comparable density and near equivalent ductility. The inventive alloy is particularly useful for a multitude of applications including components of aircraft engines. The Ti alloy comprises, in weight percent, about 6.0 to about 6.7% aluminum, about 1.4 to about 2.0% vanadium, about 1.4 to about 2.0% molybdenum, about 0.20 to about 0.42% silicon, about 0.17 to about 0.23% oxygen, maximum about 0.24% iron, maximum about 0.08% carbon and balance titanium with incidental impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Titanium Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Roger Thomas, Paul Garratt, John Fanning
  • Patent number: 9700766
    Abstract: A golf club head with an improved striking face is disclosed herein. More specifically, the present invention utilizes an innovative die quenching method that can alter the Young's modulus of the material of the striking face. The striking face portion of the present invention generally created from an ?+? titanium alloy such as SP 700 that contains a ? rich alloy composition to create more phase change in the alloying elements. In a preferred embodiment, the die quenching process could create a localized change in the material's Young's modulus throughout different regions of the striking face, resulting in a change in the Young's modulus of the material within the same striking face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Ryuichi Sugimae, Uday V. Deshmukh, Heng-Jui Henry Yeh
  • Patent number: 9433835
    Abstract: A golf club head with an improved striking face is disclosed herein. More specifically, the present invention utilizes an innovative die quenching method that can alter the Young's modulus of the material of the striking face. The striking face portion of the present invention generally created from an ?+? titanium alloy such as SP 700 that contains a ? rich alloy composition to create more phase change in the alloying elements. In a preferred embodiment, the die quenching process could create a localized change in the material's Young's modulus throughout different regions of the striking face, resulting in a change in the Young's modulus of the material within the same striking face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Ryuichi Sugimae, Uday V. Deshmukh, Heng-Jui Henry Yeh
  • Publication number: 20150056006
    Abstract: A welding wire formed of a trace boron titanium base alloy is provided, along with welds formed from the wire and articles comprising one or more of such welds. A method may include forming such a weld or welds from such a welding wire, and may also include non-destructively inspecting titanium alloy articles comprising one or more of such welds using ultrasonic waves to detect internal flaws.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Bernath, Sesh A. Tamirisakandala
  • Publication number: 20140356221
    Abstract: Titanium alloy that is formed by subjecting titanium alloy to a treatment containing a hydrogen storing step for making the titanium alloy store hydrogen therein, a solution-treatment step for heating the titanium alloy having the hydrogen stored therein in the hydrogen storage step to apply a solution treatment to the hydrogen-stored titanium alloy, a cooling step for cooling the heated hydrogen-stored titanium alloy to develop martensitic transformation in the hydrogen-stored titanium alloy, a hot rolling step for heating the martensitic-transformed titanium alloy to a temperature which is not more than a predetermined transformation point and hot-rolling the martensitic-transformed titanium, and a dehydrogenation step for dehydrogenating the hot-rolled titanium alloy, thereby bringing the titanium alloy with the superplastic property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicants: THE JAPAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun NAKAHIGASHI, Kyo TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 8894738
    Abstract: A titanium base alloy powder having lesser amounts of aluminum and vanadium with an alkali or alkaline earth metal being present in an amount of less than about 200 ppm. The alloy powder is neither spherical nor angular and flake shaped. 6/4 alloy is specifically disclosed having a packing fraction or tap density between 4 and 11%, as is a method for making the various alloys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Cristal Metals Inc.
    Inventors: Lance E. Jacobsen, Adam John Benish
  • Patent number: 8741217
    Abstract: There is provided a titanium alloy for corrosion-resistant materials, which contains 0.01-0.12% by mass in total of at least one of platinum group elements; at least Si and one of, or both of, Sn and Mn, selected from the group consisting of Al, Cr, Zr, Nb, Si, Sn and Mn, wherein the total content of Al, Cr, Zr, Nb, Si, Sn and Mn is 5% by mass or less; and the residue comprising Ti and impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsumoto, Keisuke Nagashima, Takashi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20130336835
    Abstract: A titanium alloy product according to the present invention: has a strength level higher than that of an existing titanium alloy product; can be successfully cold rolled (coil rolled); and is also provided with workability. In the titanium alloy product according to the invention, expensive alloy elements are not essentially required, and hence cost can be suppressed. The titanium alloy product according to the invention includes Al equivalent represented by (Al+10O (oxygen)): 3.5 to 7.2% (% by mass, the same hereinafter), Al: more than 1.0% and 4.5% or less, O: 0.60% or less, Fe equivalent represented by (Fe+0.5Cr+0.5Ni+0.67Co+0.67Mn): 0.8% or more and less than 2.0%, and one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Cu: 0.4 to 3.0% and Sn: 0.4 to 10%, in which the balance is Ti and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventor: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
  • Patent number: 8562763
    Abstract: A high strength ?+?-type titanium alloy, containing, by mass %, 4.4% to less than 5.5% of Al, 1.4% to less than 2.1% of Fe, and 1.5 to less than 5.5% of Mo and including, as impurities, Si suppressed to less than 0.1% and C suppressed to less than 0.01% and a balance of Ti and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Otsuka, Hideki Fujii, Mitsuo Ishii
  • Patent number: 8349248
    Abstract: A metallic material is made from at least one refractory metal or an alloy based on at least one refractory metal. The metallic material has an oxygen content of about 1,000 to about 30,000 ?g/g and the oxygen is interstitial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jens Trotzschel, Bernd Spaniol
  • Publication number: 20120076611
    Abstract: An article of manufacture selected from a titanium alloy fastener and a titanium alloy fastener stock including an alpha/beta titanium alloy comprising, in percent by weight: 3.9 to 5.4 aluminum; 2.2 to 3.0 vanadium; 1.2 to 1.8 iron; 0.24 to 0.3 oxygen; up to 0.08 carbon; up to 0.05 nitrogen; titanium; and up to a total of 0.3 of other elements. In certain embodiments, article of manufacture has an ultimate tensile strength of at least 170 ksi (1,172 MPa) and a double shear strength of at least 103 ksi (710.2 MPa). A method of manufacturing a titanium alloy fastener and a titanium alloy fastener stock comprising the alpha/beta alloy is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: ATI Properties, Inc.
    Inventor: David J. Bryan
  • Publication number: 20120076686
    Abstract: An alpha/beta titanium alloy comprising, in percent by weight based on total alloy weight: 3.9 to 4.5 aluminum; 2.2 to 3.0 vanadium; 1.2 to 1.8 iron; 0.24 to 0.30 oxygen; up to 0.08 carbon; up to 0.05 nitrogen; up to 0.015 hydrogen ; titanium; and up to a total of 0.30 of other elements. A non-limiting embodiment of the alpha/beta titanium alloy comprises an aluminum equivalent value in the range of 6.4 to 7.2, exhibits a yield strength in the range of 120 ksi (827.4 MPa) to 155 ksi (1,069 MPa), exhibits an ultimate tensile strength in the range of 130 ksi (896.3 MPa) to 165 ksi (1,138 MPa), and exhibits a ductility in the range of 12 to 30 percent elongation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: ATI Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Bryan, John V. Mantione, Thomas D. Bayha
  • Publication number: 20110318220
    Abstract: A cold rolled titanium alloy plate with a sufficient cold workability and excellent superplasticity characteristics is provided. The cold rolled titanium alloy plate consists of, by mass %, Al of 2.0 to 4.0% and V of 4.0 to 9.0%, one element selected from Zr of not more than 2.0% and Sn of not more than 3.0% and the balance being Ti and impurities, a ratio of ?/? is not less than 0.3 and not more than 0.6; where “?” is an area of a phase in the plate and “?” is an area of ? phase in the plate, and the plate has an elongation at break in a tensile test conducted at 800° C. exceeds 200%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Atsuhiko KURODA
  • Publication number: 20110268602
    Abstract: Provided herein are titanium alloys that can achieve a combination of high strength and high toughness or elongation, and a method to produce the alloys. By tolerating iron, oxygen, and other incidental elements and impurities, the alloys enable the use of lower quality scrap as raw materials. The alloys are castable and can form ?-phase laths in a basketweave morphology by a commercially feasible heat treatment that does not require hot-working or rapid cooling rates. The alloys comprise, by weight, about 3.0% to about 6.0% aluminum, 0% to about 1.5% tin, about 2.0% to about 4.0% vanadium, about 0.5% to about 4.5% molybdenum, about 1.0% to about 2.5% chromium, about 0.20% to about 0.55% iron, 0% to about 0.35% oxygen, 0% to about 0.007% boron, and 0% to about 0.60% other incidental elements and impurities, the balance of weight percent comprising titanium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: QuesTek Innovations LLC
    Inventors: James A. Wright, Jason Sebastian, Herng-Jeng Jou
  • Publication number: 20110027121
    Abstract: An oxidation resistant, high strength titanium alloy, particularly adapted for use in the manufacture of automotive exhaust system components and other applications requiring oxidation resistance and strength at elevated temperatures. The alloy comprises, in weight percent, iron less than 0.5, or 0.2 to less than 0.5%, oxygen 0.02 to less than 0.15%, silicon 0.15 to 0.6%, and balance titanium. Optional alloying elements are Al, Nb, V, Mo, Sn, Zr, Ni, Cr and Ta, with a total content of less than 1.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Yoji Kosaka, Stephen P. Fox
  • Publication number: 20100329919
    Abstract: A titanium base alloy powder having lesser amounts of aluminum and vanadium with an alkali or alkaline earth metal being present in an amount of less than about 200 ppm. The alloy powder is neither spherical nor angular and flake shaped. 6/4 alloy is specifically disclosed having a packing fraction or tap density between 4 and 11%, as is a method for making the various alloys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Lance E. Jacobsen, Adam John Benish
  • Publication number: 20100310410
    Abstract: There is provided a titanium alloy for corrosion-resistant materials, which contains 0.01-0.12% by mass in total of at least one of platinum group elements; at least Si and one of, or both of, Sn and Mn, selected from the group consisting of Al, Cr, Zr, Nb, Si, Sn and Mn, wherein the total content of Al, Cr, Zr, Nb, Si, Sn and Mn is 5% by mass or less; and the residue comprising Ti and impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsumoto, Keisuke Nagashima, Takashi Maeda
  • Patent number: 7722805
    Abstract: The patent provides the titanium alloy with extra-low modulus and superelasticity containing 20˜35 wt. % niobium, 2˜15 wt. % zirconium, balanced titanium and other unavoidable impurity elements. The advantages of the invention alloy are shown as follows: The invention titanium alloy has superior cold processing capacity and low work hardening rate; It can be severely deformed by cold rolling and cold drawing; It has superelasticity, shape memory effect, damping capacity, low modulus, high strength, good corrosion resistance and high biocompatibility; The invention titanium alloy can be made into nano-size materials by cold deformation and extra high strength can be achieved by heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Institute of Metal Research Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Yulin Hao, Shujun Li, Rui Yang
  • Publication number: 20090180918
    Abstract: A titanium-aluminum-tin alloy applied to a golf club head includes 89 wt % to 95 wt % titanium (Ti), 3.5 wt % to 6.5 wt % aluminum (Al), and 1.5 wt % to 3.5 wt % tin (Sn), and minor elements such as niobium (Nb), vanadium (V), molybdenum (Mo), zirconium (Zr), chromium (Cr), iron (Fe), silicon (Si), oxygen (O), and nitrogen (N) may be selectively added into the titanium-aluminum-tin alloy, so as to form a material with a high elongation from 11% to 15% and a tensile strength from 700 Mpa to 950 Mpa, which can be applied to a main body and a hitting surface of a golf club head, thereby achieving a golf club head product with good hitting sense, desirable damping capability, expected golf-controlling capability and a customized feature of an adjustable angle at a club portion, together with the internal structural designs of the main body, weighting structure, and rib design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL MULTITECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang-Ho TSAI, Cheng-Tao LEE
  • Patent number: 7479194
    Abstract: A damage tolerant microstructure for a lamellar alloy, such as a lamellar ?TiAl alloy, is provided in accordance with the present invention. The alloy comprises a matrix and a plurality of grains or lamellar colonies, a portion of which exhibit a nonplanar morphology within said matrix. Each of the lamellar colonies contains a multitude of lamella with irregularly repeating order. The ?TiAl platelets have a triangular (octahedral) unit cell and stack with ? twins. The ?2Ti3Al platelets are irregularly interspersed. The unit cell for ?2Ti3Al is hexagonal. Each of the layers has a curved, nonplanar structure for resisting crack formation and growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel P. DeLuca
  • Publication number: 20080253922
    Abstract: A method for surface roughening a metal work piece includes disposing the work piece proximate to a counter electrode. The work piece and the counter electrode are disposed in an electrolyte. An electric potential with current flow is applied between the work piece and the counter electrode to roughen the metal surface to a desired roughness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Andrew Lee Trimmer, Bin Wei, Joshua Leigh Miller, Nicholas Joseph Kray, Michael Scott Lamphere
  • Publication number: 20080181808
    Abstract: A method of treating an article including a titanium alloy having 5-6.5% aluminum by weight; 1.5-2.5% tin by weight; 1.5-2.5% chromium by weight; 1.5-2.5% molybdenum by weight; 1.5-2.5% zirconium by weight; and titanium. The method includes heat treating the titanium alloy without exposing the titanium alloy to a beta anneal process. There is also an article that has been subjected to a heat treatment process that does not include a beta anneal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventors: Samuel Vinod Thamboo, Ling Yang
  • Publication number: 20080035250
    Abstract: A process for casting titanium alloy based parts includes the steps of melting a quantity of titanium alloy to form a molten titanium alloy; adding to the molten titanium alloy a quantity of boron in an amount of about 0.2 weight percent to about 1.3 weight percent of the molten titanium alloy to form a molten boron modified titanium alloy; and casting a boron modified titanium alloy based part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Tai-Tsui Aindow, Prabir R. Bhowal
  • Patent number: 7261782
    Abstract: A titanium alloy obtained by a cold-working step, in which 10% or more of cold working is applied to a raw titanium alloy, comprising a Va group element and the balance of titanium substantially, and an aging treatment step, in which a cold-worked member, obtained after the cold-working step, is subjected to an aging treatment so that the parameter “P” falls in a range of from 8.0 to 18.5 at a treatment temperature falling in a range of from 150° C. to 600° C.; and characterized in that its tensile elastic limit strength is 950 MPa or more and its elastic deformation capability is 1.6% or more. This titanium alloy is of high elastic deformation capability as well as high tensile elastic limit strength, and can be utilized in a variety of products extensively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho
    Inventors: JungHwan Hwang, Tadahiko Furuta, Kazuaki Nishino, Takashi Saito
  • Patent number: 7008489
    Abstract: An alpha-beta, titanium-base alloy with improved ductility at high strength levels compared to commercially available alloys, such as Ti-17. The alloy exhibits at least a 20% improvement in ductility at a given strength level compared to Ti-17. The alloy comprises, in weight %, 3.2 to 4.2 Al, 1.7 to 2.3 Sn, 2 to 2.6 Zr, 2.9 to 3.5 Cr, 2.3 to 2.9 Mo, 2 to 2.6 V, 0.25 to 0.75 Fe, 0.01 to 0.8 Si, 0.21 max. Oxygen and balance Ti and incidental impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Ti-Pro LLC
    Inventor: Paul J. Bania
  • Patent number: 6979375
    Abstract: A titanium alloy member is characterized in that it comprise 40% by weight or more titanium (Ti), a IVa group element and/or a Va group element other than the titanium, wherein a summed amount including the IVa group element and/or the Va group element as well as the titanium is 90% by weight or more, and one or more members made in an amount of from 0.2 to 2.0% by weight and selected from an interstitial element group consisting of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon, and that its basic structure is a body-centered tetragonal crystal or a body-centered cubic crystal in which a ratio (c/a) of a distance between atoms on the c-axis with respect to a distance between atoms on the a-axis falls in a range of from 0.9 to 1.1. This titanium alloy member has such working properties that conventional titanium alloys do not have, is flexible, exhibits a high strength, and can be utilized in a variety of products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho
    Inventors: Tadahiko Furuta, Yoshiki Seno, JungHwan Hwang, Kazuaki Nishino, Takashi Saito
  • Patent number: 6918971
    Abstract: A sheet, a plate, a bar or wire is made of Ti and has high ductility and low material anistropy in a plane of a sheet or plate, or in a sectional plane of a bar or a wire and contains Fe, in mass, at 0.15-0.5%, N at 0.015-0.041 and 0, with the balance Ti and unavoidable impurities. When the Fe content is defined as [Fe], the N content as [N] and the 0 content as [0], the oxygen equivalent value Q=[0]+2.77[N]+0.1 [Fe] is 0.11-0.28.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Fujii, Isamu Takayama, Yoshito Yamashita, Mitsuo Ishii, Kazuhiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6814820
    Abstract: An article is formed of an alpha-beta titanium-base alloy, preferably an alloy having more than about 3.5 weight percent molybdenum. An example of such an article is a gas turbine compressor blade having a nominal composition, in weight percent, of about 4 percent aluminum, about 4 percent molybdenum, about 2 percent tin, about 0.5 percent silicon, balance titanium and impurities. The article is processed to form a martensitic structure therein. The processing, which typically involves forging or weld repairing, includes the steps of first heating the article to a first-heating temperature of greater than about 1600° F., and thereafter first cooling the article to a temperature of less than about 800° F. The article is thereafter second heated to a second-heating temperature of from about 1275° F. to about 1375° F. for a time of from about 1 to about 7 hours, and thereafter second cooled to a temperature of less than about 800° F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Kazim Ozbaysal
  • Patent number: 6726784
    Abstract: A high strength and ductility &agr;+&bgr; type titanium alloy, comprising at least one is isomorphous &bgr; stabilizing element in a Mo equivalence of 2.0-4.5 mass %, at least one eutectic &bgr; stabilizing element in an Fe equivalence of 0.3-2.0 mass %, Si in an amount of 0.1-1.5 mass %, and C in an amount of 0.01-0.15% mass, and has a &bgr; transformation temperature no lower than 940° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Inventors: Hideto Oyama, Takayuki Kida, Kazumi Furutani, Masamitsu Fujii
  • Patent number: 6007923
    Abstract: A joined tubular body comprises a titanium alloy pipe of which crystal grain is hard to coarsen at the time of welding or hot-extruding, which consists by weight percentage of at least one element selected from 0.01.about.10% of S, 0.01.about.10% of Se and 0.01.about.10% of Te (the total sum does not exceed 10%), one or both of 0.01.about.10% REM and 0.01.about.10% of Ca (the total sum does not exceed 10%), and the above pipe is joined to a titanium alloy pipe consisting of the above elements and also at least one element selected from Al.ltoreq.10%, V.ltoreq.25%, Sn.ltoreq.15%, Co.ltoreq.10%, Cu.ltoreq.10%, Ta.ltoreq.15%, Mn.ltoreq.10%, Hf.ltoreq.10%, W.ltoreq.10%, Si.ltoreq.0.5%, Nb.ltoreq.20%, Zr.ltoreq.10%, Mo.ltoreq.15%, and 0.ltoreq.0.1% (the total sum does not exceed 30%).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Daido Tokushuko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takao Shimizu, Seiya Asari, Noriyoshi Yokota
  • Patent number: 5922274
    Abstract: A titanium alloy having improved heat resistance in addition to the inherent properties of lightness and corrosion resistance. The alloy consists essentially of, by weight %, Al: 5.0-7.0%, Sn: 3.0-5.0%, Zr: 2.5-6.0%, Mo: 2.0-4.0%, Si: 0.05-0.80%, C: 0.001-0.200%, O: 0.05-0.20%, optionally further one or two of Nb and Ta: 0.3-2.0%, and the balance of Ti and inevitable impurities. A method of producing parts from this alloy comprises subjecting the titanium alloy of the above described alloy composition to heat treatment at a temperature of .beta.-region, combination of rapid cooling and slow cooling or combination of water quenching and annealing, hot processing in .alpha.+.beta. region, solution treatment and aging treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Daido Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Suzuki, Toshiharu Noda, Michio Okabe
  • Patent number: 5849112
    Abstract: The invention is a process for simultaneously improving at least two mechanical properties of mill-processed (.alpha.+.beta.) titanium alloy, which may or may not contain silicon, which includes steps of heat treating the mill-processed titanium alloy such that the (.alpha.+.beta.) microstructure of said alloy is transformed into an (.alpha.+.alpha..sub.2 +.beta.) microstructure, preferably containing no silicides. The heat treating steps involve subjecting the mill-processed titanium alloy to a sequence of thermomechanical process steps, and the mechanical properties which are simultaneously improved include (a) tensile strength at room, cryogenic, and elevated temperatures; (b) fracture toughness; (c) creep resistance; (d) elastic stiffness; (e) thermal stability; (f) hydrogen embrittlement resistance; (g) fatigue; and (h) cryogenic temperature embrittlement resistance. As a consequence of the process, the (.alpha.+.alpha..sub.2 +.beta.) microstructure contains equiaxed alpha phase strengthened with .alpha.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    Assignee: Boeing North American, Inc.
    Inventor: Sami M. El-Soudani
  • Patent number: 5542992
    Abstract: A TiAl base alloy containing 46 to 54 mol % of Ti and 46 to 52 mol % of Al in which Sb is added within a range of 0.1 to 1 mol %, at least one element of Hf and/or Zr is further added within a range of 0 to 3 mol %, and three phases of a .gamma. phase, an .alpha..sub.2 phase and Sb-rich phase coexist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: National Research Institute For Metals
    Inventors: Kenki Hashimoto, Minoru Nobuki, Morihiko Nakamura, Haruo Doi
  • Patent number: 5366570
    Abstract: A titanium matrix composite having eutectically formed titanium alloy reinforcement containing at least two of the elements of silicon, aluminum, zirconium, manganese, chromium, molybdenum, carbon, iron, boron, cobalt, nickel, germanium and copper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1994
    Assignee: Cermics Venture International
    Inventors: Vladislav I. Mazur, Yuri N. Taran, Svetlana V. Kapustnikova, Viktor I. Trefilov, Sergey A. Firstov, Leonid D. Kulak
  • Patent number: 5358686
    Abstract: A titanium-base alloy, and weldment made therefrom, consisting essentially of, in weight percent, aluminum 4 to 5.5, preferably 5.0, tin up to 2.5, preferably 0.5 to 1.5 or 1; zirconium up to 2.5, preferably 0.5 to 1.5 or about 1; vanadium 0.5 to 2.5, preferably 0.5 to 1.5 or about 1; molybdenum 0.3 to 1, preferably, 0.66 to 1 or about 0.8; silicon up to 0.15, preferably 0.07 to 0.13 or about 0.1; oxygen 0.04 to 0.12, preferably 0.07 to 0.11 or about 0.09; iron 0.01 to 0.12, preferably 0.01 to 0.09 or about 0.07 and balance titanium and incidental impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1994
    Inventors: Warren M. Parris, James A. Hall, Paul J. Bania, Ivan L. Caplan
  • Patent number: 5348702
    Abstract: This invention relates to TiAl based intermetallic compound alloy and process for producing; the object of this invention is to improve high temperature deformability. The alloy comprises basic components: Ti.sub.y AlCr.sub.x, wherein 1%.ltoreq.X.ltoreq.5%, 47.5%.ltoreq.Y.ltoreq.52%, and X+2Y.gtoreq.100%, and comprises a fine-grain structure with a .beta. phase precipitated on a grain boundary of equiaxed .gamma. grain having grain size of less than 30 .mu.m, and possessing a superplasticity such that the strain rate sensitivity factors (m value) is 0.40 or more and tensile elongation is 400% or more tested at 1200.degree. C. and a strain rate of 5.times.10.sup.-4 S.sup.-1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Munetsugu Matsuo, Naoya Masahashi, Keizo Hashimoto, Toshihiro Hanamura, Hideki Fujii, Masao Kimura, Youji Mizuhara, Hiroo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5232661
    Abstract: This invention relates to TiAl based intermetallic compound alloy and process for producing; the object of this invention is to improve high temperature deformability. The alloy comprises basic components: Ti.sub.y AlCr.sub.x, wherein 1%.ltoreq.X.ltoreq.5%, 47.5%.ltoreq.Y.ltoreq.52%, and X+ 2Y.gtoreq.100%, and comprises a fine-grain structure with a .beta. phase precipitated on a grain boundary of equiaxed .gamma. grain having grain size of less than 30 .mu.m, and possessing a superplasticity such that the strain rate sensitivity factors (m value) is 0.40 or more and tensile elongation is 400% or more tested at 1200.degree. C. and a strain rate of 5.times.10.sup.-4 S.sup.-1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Munetsugu Matsuo, Naoya Masahashi, Keizo Hashimoto, Toshihiro Hanamura, Hideki Fujii, Masao Kimura, Youji Mizuhara, Hiroo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5215600
    Abstract: A sheet of Ti 6-2-2-2-2 alloy having a starting thickness of between approximately 0.040 inches and 0.187 inches is thermomechanically treated at a temperature of between approximately 1500 degrees F. and 1750 degrees F. at a mechanical strain rate in the range of between approximately 1.times.10.sup.-4 and 1.times.10.sup.-2 inch per inch per second to produce a formed part having a tensile strength which is approximately 33% greater than untreated rolled Ti 6-2-2-2-2 alloy sheet or plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Assignee: Rohr, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark S. Bertolini, Brian Norris, Michael J. Waring
  • Patent number: 5209790
    Abstract: A method of making a Titanium, Vanadium and Chromium alloy substantially free of Titanium-Chromium phases and inclusions of undissolved Vanadium including the steps of alloying preselected amounts of Vanadium and Chromium to produce a stable phase alloy substantially free of unalloyed Chromium or Vanadium and then mixing and melting the stable phase alloy together with a preselected amount of Titanium to produce the final alloy composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1993
    Assignee: Teledyne Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Chester C. Wojcik
  • Patent number: 5171408
    Abstract: The titanium alloy T1 17, having a nominal composition of about 5 weight percent aluminum, about 2 weight percent zirconium, about 2 weight percent tin, about 4 weight percent molybdenum, about 4 weight percent chromium, no more than about 1.1 percent of other elements, and balance titanium, is electrochemically machined using an electrolyte comprising an aqueous solution of from about 0.94 to about 1.16 moles per liter of bromide anion and from about 0.09 to about 0.55 moles per liter of sodium nitrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Roy F. Thornton
  • Patent number: 5082506
    Abstract: A method for providing improved ductility in a castable gamma titanium aluminide is taught. The method involves adding inclusions of boron to the titanium aluminide containing higher concentrations of niobium and thermomechanically working the casting. Boron additions are made in concentrations between 0.5 and 2 atomic percent. Fine grain equiaxed microstructure is found from solidified melt. Property improvements are achieved by the thermomechanical processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Shyh-Chin Huang
  • Patent number: 5041262
    Abstract: A novel titanium base alloy having a micrograph with alpha plates oriented in three directions with respect to their parent beta grains, but with alpha plates so short that no basketweave pattern is evident. The alloy contains from 0.02 to 2.0 atomic percent boron; 6 to 30 atomic percent aluminum; 0 to 4 atomic percent tin; 0 to 4 atomic percent gallium; and may contain 0 to 6 atomic percent zirconium of hafnium or a mixture of the two; 0 to 12 atomic percent of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of vanadium, columbium, tantalum, chromium, molybdenum, rhenium, tungsten, ruthenium, and the platinum group metals; and from 0 to 2 atomic percent of at least one element selected from the group consisting of yttrium, carbon and the rare earth metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1991
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Michael F. X. Gigliotti, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4906436
    Abstract: Alpha titanium alloys containing aluminum, hafnium and/or tantalum has been found to have improved creep and tensile strengths as well as oxidation resistance at temperature up to about 700.degree. C. without embrittlement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1990
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Francis X. Gigliotti, Jr., Raymond G. Rowe, Gerald E. Wasielewski, deceased
  • Patent number: 4859415
    Abstract: A method of improving the resistance of oil-well tubular products made of .alpha.-type or (.alpha.+.beta.)-type Ti-based alloys to corrosion in a deep-well environment at high temperatures is disclosed. The method is characterized by adding, as an alloying element, (A) at least one platinum group metal in an amount of 0.02-0.20% by weight, or (B) at least one platinum group metal in an amount of 0.005-0.12% by weight and optionally at least one of Ni, Co, W, and Mo in an amount of 0.05-2.00% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Shida, Shiro Kitayama, Tomio Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 4842820
    Abstract: A TiAl composition is prepared to have high strength and to have improved ductility by altering the atomic ratio of the titanium and aluminum to have what has been found to be a higly desirable effective aluminum concentration by addition of boron according to the approximate compositions displayed in the shaded area of FIG. 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Shyh-Chin Huang, Michael F. X. Gigliotti, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4810465
    Abstract: A free-cutting Ti alloy is disclosed. The basic alloy composition of this free-cutting Ti alloy essentially consists of at least one of S: 0.001-10%, Se: 0.001-10% and Te: 0.001-10%; REM: 0.01-10%; and one or both of Ca: 0.001-10% and B: 0.005-5%; and the balance substantially Ti. The Ti alloy includes one or more of Ti-S (Se, Te) compounds, Ca-S (Se, Te) compounds, REM-S (Se, Te) compounds and their complex compounds as inclusions to improve machinability. Some optional elements can be added to above basic composition.Also disclosed are methods of producing the above free-cutting Ti alloy and a specific Ti alloy which is a particularly suitable material for connecting rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1989
    Assignee: Daido Tokushuko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsuyoshi Kimura, Sadayuki Nakamura