Aluminum Base Patents (Class 420/7)
  • Patent number: 11152020
    Abstract: A method includes immersing a wafer in an electrolyte including a plurality of compounds having elements of a thermally stable soft magnetic material. The method also includes applying a combined stepped and pulsed current to the wafer when the wafer is immersed in an electrolyte. The wafer is removed from the electrolyte when a layer of the thermally stable soft magnetic material is formed on the wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Jie Gong, Steven C. Riemer, John A. Rice, Michael C. Kautzky
  • Patent number: 7687025
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a component. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes enriching an element with an isotope and using the enriched element as a material of the component. A property of the first isotope being the same as a property of a second isotope and is preferably a mechanical, chemical, or electrical property. A second element can also be used as a material of the component, for instance, where the material is an alloy or a composite material. Further, the first isotope can be a lighter isotope of the element. Lightweight components may be manufactured using the method such that mobile platforms (e.g. spacecraft) can be assembled from the component(s). In other exemplary embodiments, the element can be hydrogen, lithium, boron, magnesium, titanium, or iron. Additionally, the component may carry a load. Components including isotopically enriched elements are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Brian J. Tillotson
  • Patent number: 6760396
    Abstract: The method of protectively coating metallic uranium which comprises dipping the metallic uranium in a molten alloy comprising about 20-75% of copper and about 80-25% of tin, dipping the coated uranium promptly into molten tin, withdrawing it from the molten tin and removing excess molten metal, thereupon dipping it into a molten metal bath comprising aluminum until it is coated with this metal, then promptly withdrawing it from the bath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1946
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Ernest R. Boller, Lowell D. Eubank
  • Patent number: 6690759
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are zirconium-base alloys excellent in both corrosion resistance and hydrogen absorption property, useful as materials for nuclear reactors. Such a zirconium-base alloy for nuclear reactors comprises 0.5-2 wt. % Sn, 0.07-0.6 wt. % Fe, 0.03-0.2 wt. % Ni, 0.05-0.2 wt. % Cr, and the balance being zirconium and unavoidable impurities, wherein the Fe content (X wt. %) of the zirconium-base alloy and the mean size (Y nm) of precipitates in the zirconium-base alloy are present in a region on the x (Fe content X) and y (mean precipitate size) rectangular coordinates, surrounded by the following five lines: i) Y=−444×X+154, ii) Y=910×X−46, iii) Y=0, iv) Y=300, and v) X=0.6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Global Nuclear Fuel - Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Nanikawa, Shinji Ishimoto, Toshio Kubo
  • Publication number: 20030044303
    Abstract: A method for forming a plated magnetic thin film of high saturation magnetization and low coercivity having the general form Co100-a-bFeaMb, where M can be Mo, Cr, W, Ni or Rh, which is suitable for use in magnetic recording heads that write on narrow trackwidth, high coercivity media. The plating method includes four current application processes: direct current, pulsed current, pulse reversed current and conditioned pulse reversed current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Applicant: Headway Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Chaopeng Chen, Kevin Lin, Jei Wei Chang
  • Patent number: 5719891
    Abstract: A conductive element with a lateral oxidation barrier is provided for the control of lateral oxidation processes in semiconductor devices such as lasers, vertical cavity surface emitting lasers and light emitting diodes. The oxidation barrier is formed through modification of one or more layers which initially were receptive to oxidation. The quality of material directly below the oxidation barrier may be preserved. Related applications include the formation of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers on non-GaAs substrates and on GaAs substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Picolight Incorporated
    Inventor: Jack L. Jewell
  • Patent number: 4816088
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the deformational transformation of aluminum and its alloys comprising the steps of deforming the aluminum in the solid state and annealing the deformed aluminum at a temperature at which recrystallization occurs. The recrystallization temperature of the aluminum is raised and the grain size is minimized by adding to the aluminim 5 to 1000 ppm uranium prior to the deformation. The method is particularly applicable to the production of aluminum based sheets intended to be subjected to heating at a relatively high temperature, for example the heating which accompanies enamelling or brazing operations, where the heating operation could change the mechanical properties of the sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1989
    Assignee: Cegedur Societe de Transformation de L'Aliminium Pechiney
    Inventors: Francois-Regis Boutin, Guy-Michel Raynaud