Fiber, Asbestos, Or Cellulose In Or Next To Particulate Component Patents (Class 428/549)
  • Patent number: 11862366
    Abstract: A method of making a heater includes an aluminum nitride base having equal to or less than 1% impurities, particularly one embodiment having none of polybrominated biphenyl, polybrominated diphenyl ether, hexabromocyclododecane, polyvinyl chloride, chlorinated paraffin, phthalate, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, lead, and mercury. The base is fired in a heating unit before any layering. Thereafter, on a topside and backside of the base a conductor layer is layered and allowed to settle and dry before firing. Next, a resistive layer is layered on the base from a resistor paste such that the resistive layer connects to the conductor layer on the topside. The resistor paste is allowed to settle and dry and then the base with the conductor and resistor layers is fired. At least four layers of glass are layered next over the resistive layer, each instance thereof including layering a glass, drying the glass and firing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Aoki, Jerry Wayne Smith
  • Patent number: 11676746
    Abstract: A method of making a heater includes an aluminum nitride base having equal to or less than 1% impurities, particularly one embodiment having none of polybrominated biphenyl, polybrominated diphenyl ether, hexabromocyclododecane, polyvinyl chloride, chlorinated paraffin, phthalate, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, lead, and mercury. The base is fired in a heating unit before any layering. Thereafter, on a topside and backside of the base a conductor layer is layered and allowed to settle and dry before firing. Next, a resistive layer is layered on the base from a resistor paste such that the resistive layer connects to the conductor layer on the topside. The resistor paste is allowed to settle and dry and then the base with the conductor and resistor layers is fired. At least four layers of glass are layered next over the resistive layer, each instance thereof including layering a glass, drying the glass and firing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Aoki, Jerry Wayne Smith
  • Patent number: 11246366
    Abstract: A garment with reflective material applied to an outer surface of the garment is provided herein. The reflective material is positioned on the garment based on modeled sun exposure. A method for modeling sun exposure to determine the positioning of reflective material on a garment is also provided herein. A system for modeling sun exposure, determining the position of reflective material on a garment, and applying the reflective material to the outer surface of the garment is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Morgan
  • Patent number: 10889469
    Abstract: A method of forming a belt for suspending and/or driving an elevator car includes arraying a plurality of tension elements longitudinally along a belt and interlacing a plurality of warp fibers and a plurality of weft fibers with the plurality of tension elements to form a composite belt structure. A coating is applied to at least partially encapsulate the composite belt structure. The coating includes a base coating material and at least one additive mixed with the base coating material to improve an operational characteristic of the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Scott Alan Eastman, Michael Paul Humbert, Daniel A. Mosher, John P. Wesson, Wenping Zhao
  • Patent number: 10843272
    Abstract: Described herein is a powder blend comprising a first component comprising a blend of a first metal particle and a first ceramic particle; and a second component comprising a reinforcing chip, the reinforcing chip comprising a second ceramic particle dispersed within a chip metal matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: TECNIUM, LLC
    Inventors: Krishna P. Singh, Thomas G. Haynes, III, Luke Chester Sobus
  • Patent number: 10202512
    Abstract: According to embodiments of the present invention, a conductive paste is provided. The conductive paste has a composition including a plurality of conductive nanoparticles and a plurality of conductive nanowires, wherein a weight ratio of the plurality of conductive nanoparticles to the plurality of conductive nanowires is between about 10:1 and about 50:1. According to further embodiments of the present invention, a method for forming an interconnection and an electrical device are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignees: Nanyang Technologies University, Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Byung Hoon Lee, Chee Lip Gan, Mei Zhen Ng, Alfred A. Zinn
  • Patent number: 9439437
    Abstract: The invention provides an antimicrobial and antiviral polymeric material, having microscopic particles of ionic copper encapsulated therein and protruding from surfaces thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Cupron Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Gabbay
  • Patent number: 9178210
    Abstract: A negative active material for a lithium battery with an improved cycle characteristic and capacity retention rate, and the negative active material comprises a plurality of particles comprising a plurality of first particles comprising Si, Ti, and Ni; and composite particles comprising a plurality of second particles in which at least one element selected from the group consisting of Cu, Fe, Ni, Au, Ag, Pd, Cr, Mn, Ti, B, and P is partially or completely deposited on surface(s) of other of first particles, a method of preparing the negative active material, and a lithium battery including a negative electrode including the negative active material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yury Matulevich, Sung-Hwan Moon, Jong-Seo Choi, Jae-Hyuk Kim, Chun-Gyoo Lee, Seung-Uk Kwon, Yo-Han Park, Soon-Sung Suh, Chang-Ui Jeong
  • Patent number: 8785623
    Abstract: The present invention relates to ferromagnetic materials based on nano-sized bacterial cellulose templates. More specifically, the present invention provides an agglomerate free magnetic nanoparticle cellulose material and a method of forming such magnetic nanoparticle cellulose material. Further, the magnetic nonoparticles are physically attached on the cellulose material and evenly distribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Cellutech AB
    Inventors: Richard T. Olsson, My Ahmed Said Samir Azizi, Lars Berglund, Ulf W. Gedde
  • Publication number: 20140004371
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a transparent conductive layer and a transparent conductive layer manufactured by the method. The method of manufacturing the transparent conductive layer includes: a) a step of forming a conductive nanowire layer on a base material; b) a step of thermally treating the conductive nanowire layer; c) a step of applying a conductive metal ink on the conductive nanowire layer; and d) a step of thermally treating the base material coated with the conductive metal ink to electrically bridge the conductive nanowires with each other by conductive metal particles of the conductive metal ink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: INKTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang-Choon Chung, Hyun-Nam Cho, Nam Jung Kim, Insook Yi, Jung Ah Choi, Su Phil Kim
  • Publication number: 20130171463
    Abstract: A load bearing member includes at least one elongated tension member having at least one wire and a protective coating on the elongated tension member. The protective coating includes a first corrosion inhibitor having an oxide-forming metal, a second corrosion inhibitor having a rare earth metal, and a third corrosion inhibitor having an organic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Xiaoyuan Chang, Hong Yang
  • Patent number: 8186053
    Abstract: A circuit board has plated through holes which are laid out with a fine pitch and meets requirements relating to characteristics such as strength and thermal expansion coefficient. A method of manufacturing a circuit board includes: a step of forming a core portion by thermal compression bonding prepregs formed by disposing carbon fibers so as to produce openings at positions where plated through holes will pass through and impregnating the carbon fibers with resin; a step of forming through holes that pass inside the openings at positions of the openings in the core portion; and a step of forming a conductive layer on inner surfaces of the through holes to form plated through holes at positions that do not interfere with the carbon fibers and thereby produce a core substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kishio Yokouchi, Hideaki Yoshimura, Katsuya Fukase
  • Publication number: 20120070680
    Abstract: Provided is a friction material composition comprising: a binder; a fibrous base material; an abrasive material; an inorganic filler; and an organic filler, wherein the friction material composition further comprises: at least one selected from the group consisting of zinc, a cellulose fiber as the fibrous base materials and a flame retardant fiber as the fibrous base materials; an iron-based fiber as the fibrous base material in an specified amount; and an inorganic abrasive material having a Mohs hardness of 8 or higher and a particle size of 1 ?m or larger as the abrasive material in an amount of 1 wt % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Inventors: Mitsuo Unno, Manabu Ono, Takashi Kikudome
  • Publication number: 20110076509
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for the synthesis of at least one metallic nanotube (10). The method includes the steps of: growing at least one nanowhisker (6) on a substrate (2), the nanowhisker (6; 12) consisting of or having a coating of a first metal (12); coating said first metal (12) with a second metal (14) to form a coated nanowhiskers (8); and heat treating the at least one coated nanowhisker (8), to produce a metallic nanotube (10). Moreover, the present teaching relates to metallic nanotubes (10) grown by the method of the present teaching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
    Inventor: Gunther Richter
  • Patent number: 7871681
    Abstract: Coating for an offset paper comprising a catalyst for fixing polymerisable or crosslinkable constituents of the offset ink. The chemical drying time can be substantially reduced if such a catalyst system is added to the coating, wherein preferentially such a catalyst is a transition metal complex/salt, like Mn (2-ethylhexanoate, bpy).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: SAPPI Netherlands Services B.V.
    Inventors: Bert Scholte, Jean-Pierre Haenen
  • Patent number: 7794851
    Abstract: A fiber composite material which is particularly suitable for aircraft construction, includes inorganic mineral fibers embedded or enclosed in a metal matrix. The mineral fibers include a substantial or dominant proportion of SiO2, and/or Al2O3 and/or Fe2O3, the remainder being rock material. The fibers have a length of at least 10 mm and are oriented in parallel to one another in at least one direction. The metal matrix is made of aluminum, aluminum alloys, magnesium, magnesium alloys, titanium or titanium alloys. These matrix metal alloys contain a substantial or dominant proportion of the respective metal. The fibers are preferably coated with particles of the matrix metal and bonded to one another to form fiber films or fiber sheets which are then laminated between sheets of matrix metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Alexei Vichniakov
  • Patent number: 7670509
    Abstract: A silica nanofiber is derived from a crystalline polymer filament of a polymer including straight chain polyethyleneimine backbones, which is capable of forming a water-insoluble crystal in the presence of water molecules at room temperature, and the crystalline polymer filament in the silica concentrates metal ions, thereby realizing a composite nanofiber including metals or metal ions in the silica. Furthermore, the composite nanofiber of the present invention can be easily produced by fixing a polymer structure in the silica as the scaffold for metal ions and concentrating metal ions at the scaffold or reducing the metal ions. Furthermore, a metal-containing silica nanofiber can be easily obtained by removing a polymer component from the composite nanofiber, the composite nanofiber association, and the complex nanofiber structure. These nanofibers can be assembled and integrated, and the assembled or integrated association or structure can realize various shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Kawamura Institute of Chemical Research
    Inventors: Ren-Hua Jin, Jian-Jun Yuan
  • Patent number: 7550404
    Abstract: Composite materials containing a cellulose component such as wood fibers or particles, a zeolite component, and a polymer such as polyethylene, polypropylene, or polyvinyl chloride are able to provide good physical strength performance. The composites may be prepared by any of a number of mixing and forming processes, and may be used for making lumber and other structural materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: PQ Corporation
    Inventors: Erin D. Fisher, Roman W. Wypart, Bonita Kristofferson Marcus
  • Publication number: 20080286596
    Abstract: The invention is multilayer laminate comprising at least one scouring layer and at least one nonmetal layer; wherein the scouring layer includes a scouring surface and a laminating surface such that the laminating surface is laminated to the nonmetal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Global Materials Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman M. Soep, Steven Alan Bouse, Michelle Brandner, David A. Colbert, Terrence P. Kane, Frank J. Krejsa, Mark Rak, Kurt H. Schild, III, Alexander Krupnik
  • Publication number: 20080160331
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a solder paste composition used for precoating an electrode surface with solder. A first solder paste composition is contains a solder powder and a flux, and a metallic powder made by metallic species different from metallic species constituting the solder powder and metallic species constituting the electrode surface in a rate of 0.1% by weight or more and 20% by weight or less based on a total amount of the solder powder. A second solder paste composition contains a deposition solder material which deposits the solder by heating and a flux, and a metallic powder comprising metallic species different from metallic species constituting a metallic component in the deposition solder material and metallic species constituting the electrode surface in a rate of 0.1% by weight or more and 20% by weight or less based on a total amount of the metallic component in the deposition solder material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicants: Harima Chemicals, Inc., Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Yoichi Kukimoto, Kazuki Ikeda, Hitoshi Sakurai
  • Patent number: 7323736
    Abstract: A new method of provided for forming in one plane layers of semiconductor material having both high and low dielectric constants. Layers, having selected and preferably non-identical parameters of dielectric constants, are successively deposited interspersed with layers of etch stop material. The layers can be etched, creating openings there-through that can be filled with a layer of choice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd.
    Inventors: Pradeep Yelehanka, Sanford Chu, Chit Hwei Ng, Jia Zhen, Purakh Verma
  • Patent number: 7224369
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, able to improve the pixel fill rate and able to prevent an increase of memory resources and increase of memory access, provided with a color calculation circuit for performing pixel level processing based on supplied first attribute parameters of the Z and color (R, G, B) data and outputting second attribute parameters and (x, y) coordinate data supplied by a DDA circuit together with the results and a sub primitive generation circuit for expanding a plurality of stamps to a plurality of sub primitives (sub stamps) based on the second attribute parameters of the color calculation circuit, generating expanded coordinates corresponding to the expanded sub stamps based on the (x, y) coordinate data of the DDA circuit, and outputting the same as the drawing parameters after expansion and the expanded graphics drawing coordinates to a memory controller, and a method of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Satoh, Hitoshi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 7138190
    Abstract: Composite which contains reinforcing fibers comprising carbon and whose matrix comprises silicon carbide, silicon and copper, with the mass fraction of copper in the composite being up to 55%, processes for producing it, in particular by liquid infiltration of C/C intermediate bodies with melts comprising Si and/or Cu and Si, and also its use as friction lining in a friction pairing with ceramic brake discs or clutch discs comprising C/SiC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: SGL Carbon AG
    Inventors: Moritz Bauer, Martin Christ, Ronald Huener, Andreas Kienzle, Rainer Zimmermann-Chopin
  • Patent number: 6943802
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, able to improve the pixel fill rate and able to prevent an increase of memory resources and increase of memory access, provided with a color calculation circuit for performing pixel level processing based on supplied first attribute parameters of the Z and color (R, G, B) data and outputting second attribute parameters and (x, y) coordinate data supplied by a DDA circuit together with the results and a sub primitive generation circuit for expanding a plurality of stamps to a plurality of sub primitives (sub stamps) based on the second attribute parameters of the color calculation circuit, generating expanded coordinates corresponding to the expanded sub stamps based on the (x, y) coordinate data of the DDA circuit, and outputting the same as the drawing parameters after expansion and the expanded graphics drawing coordinates to a memory controller, and a method of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Satoh, Hitoshi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 6915574
    Abstract: A multi-layer seal and washer that provide a seal between a vane stem and a casing in a turbine engine are disclosed. The seal and washer are fabricated from materials such as Teflon fibers and glass fibers and are impregnated with a polyimide resin. The seal and washer are durable and have a low coefficient of friction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Thomas C. Mesing, Wayne R. Bowen, David B. Hester
  • Patent number: 6889852
    Abstract: A layered filtering structure (10) comprises at least a first layer (12) and a second layer (13). Each layer comprises a web of metal fibers which has been sintered. The two layers (12, 13) are in contact with each other. The first layer, most close to the filter inlet side has a porosity below 55%, and the second layer, closer to the filter outlet side has a porosity which is at least 20% greater than the porosity of the first layer. The first layer is compacted in a separate manufacturing step. The layered filtering structure combines the advantage of a small filter rating with a low pressure drop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: N.V. Bekaert S.A.
    Inventors: Jan Loncke, Johan Vandamme
  • Patent number: 6881904
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a material for shielding electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio frequency interference (RFI) between a, electrical conductor or bundle of conductors and the environment. The material comprises a heat-shrinkable woven fabric coated with a conductive material. Specifically, the material can be used as a jacket heat-shrinkable to fit with any sized wire, cable, data or signal line, antenna, or other electrical conductor. A method of making the material is also discussed. In the method, a heat-shrinkable woven fabric is coated with a conductive slurry. When the slurry is dried, a conductive material is deposited on the surface of the heat-shrinkable woven fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Methode Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Emil Millas, Albert Chiapetta, Frank St. John
  • Patent number: 6861155
    Abstract: A coated nanocrystal capable of light emission includes a substantially monodisperse nanoparticle selected from the group consisting of CdX, where x=S, Se, Te and an overcoating of ZnY, where Y=S, Se, uniformly deposited thereon, said coated nanoparticle characterized in that when irradiated the particles exhibit photoluminescence in a narrow spectral range of no greater than about 60 nm, and most preferably 40 nm, at full width half max (FWHM). The particle size of the nanocrystallite core is in the range of about 20 ? to about 125 ?, with a deviation of less than 10% in the core. The coated nanocrystal exhibits photoluminescence having quantum yields of greater than 30%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Moungi Bawendi, Klaus F. Jensen, Bashir O. Dabbousi, Javier Rodriguez-Viejo, Frederic Victor Mikulec
  • Patent number: 6821601
    Abstract: An improved stitchbonded fabric has a pattern of stitches formed by a multi-needle stitched set of contractible stitching threads in a planar material that comprises a non-fibrous layer of polymer or metal, such as a metallic foil, a polymeric film, or a leather. Contraction of the stitchbonded fabric provides the fabric with unusual tactile, visual and functional effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Xymid, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Stephen Horace Tsiarkezos, Nicholas James Brownless
  • Patent number: 6558810
    Abstract: Formation of sintered metal fiber porous mats used as burner faces and filters comprises dispersing metal fibers in a viscous aqueous solution of one or more cellulose ethers, vacuum molding the dispersed metal fibers on a foraminous support, eliminating residual aqueous cellulose ether from the vacuum molded metal fiber porous mat, and sintering the mat. Water solutions of methylcellulose and/or hydroxypropyl methylcellulose having a viscosity of at least about 1500 centipoises are often used pursuant to this invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Inventor: Paul W. Garbo
  • Patent number: 6447927
    Abstract: A composite metal matrix formed of polycrystalline &agr;-Al2O3 fibers encapsulated within a matrix of substantially pure elemental aluminum, or an alloy elemental aluminum and up to about 2% copper is disclosed. The resulting materials are characterized by their high strength and low weight are particularly well suited for applications in various industries including high voltage power transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Colin McCullough, Andreas Mortensen, Paul S. Werner, Herve E. Deve, Tracy L. Anderson
  • Patent number: 6358626
    Abstract: An exterior autobody part of reinforced plastic intended to be mounted on a motor vehicle. The expression “exterior autobody part” refers to the autobody part being entirely or partly visible when the motor vehicle is viewed from the outside. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method and an arrangement for forming such an exterior autobody part. The exterior autobody part according to the invention comprises a number of functional layers, including load-bearing layer(s) and surface layer(s), intended to provide the properties which are required for the application, and is characterized in that load-bearing layers comprise(s) fiber-reinforced thermoplastic which forms internal cavities and/or that one or several recesses has/have been created in surface layers and load-bearing layers and that surface layers and load-bearing layers together with cavities and/or recesses thereby provide a load-bearing material structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: AB Volvo
    Inventors: Arne Persson, Åke Nylinder, Krister Svensson, Axel Kaufmann
  • Publication number: 20010021461
    Abstract: An apparatus for production of fire-resistant cellulose material from agricultural byproducts containing cellulose fiber, comprising a first bath for washing said agricultural byproduct cellulose fiber material, a second bath for receiving and mixing said washed agricultural byproduct cellulose fiber material with an effective amount of an aqueous solution suitable for separating said cellulose fibers, conveyer means disposed between said first bath and said second bath for receiving said separated cellulose fibers and moving washed said cellulose fibers to said second bath, and a third bath for receiving and mixing said mixture of separated cellulose fibers produced in said second bath with an effective amount of an aqueous solution suitable for neutralizing said mixture and for producing a fire retardant chemical precipitated on the surface of said cellulose fibers, and conveyer means disposed between said second bath and said third bath for receiving said separated cellulose fibers and moving said separate
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2001
    Publication date: September 13, 2001
    Inventor: Juan J. Prieto
  • Patent number: 6274519
    Abstract: A food wrapping cloth comprises a fabric serving as a material and formed of a warp and a weft; the warp being composed of a cellulosic fiber yarn and a twist yarn formed by twisting an antibacterial yarn with a cellulosic fiber yarn, the antibacterial yarn being formed by depositing an antibacterial metal on a synthetic resin film and cutting the antibacterial metal deposited on the synthetic resin film to be a fine and long yarn; and the weft being composed of a cellulosic fiber yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Inventors: Michiko Omori, Sataro Shimazaki
  • Patent number: 6228453
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to mechanisms for preventing undesirable oxidation (i.e., oxidation protection mechanisms) in composite bodies. The oxidation protection mechanisms include getterer materials which are added to the composite body which gather or scavenge undesirable oxidants which may enter the composite body. The getterer materials may be placed into at least a portion of the composite body such that any undesirable oxidant approaching, for example, a fiber reinforcement, would be scavenged by (e.g., reacted with) the getterer. The getterer materials) may form at least one compound which acts as a passivation layer, and/or is able to move by bulk transport (e.g., by viscous flow as a glassy material) to a crack, and sealing the crack, thereby further enhancing the oxidation protection of the composite body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignees: Lanxide Technology Company, LP, AlliedSignal Composites Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Syed Fareed, John Edward Garnier, Gerhard Hans Schiroky, Christopher Robin Kennedy, Birol Sonuparlak
  • Patent number: 5933703
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of a fiber reinforced metal matrix composite comprising fibers embedded in a metal in which the process comprises forming a body with a layer of aligned fibers between at least two layers of metal foil and densifying said layers wherein the layer of aligned fibers comprises metal particles interposed between individual fibers, the metal particles being compatible with the metal foil. A preform for a fiber reinforced metal matrix composite is also claimed which comprises a resin and a layer of aligned fibers, the layer having metal particles interposed between adjacent fibers and the layer and particles being bonded together with the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    Inventor: James Garfield Robertson
  • Patent number: 5888661
    Abstract: A composite structure including a substrate and a heat protection element on the substrate, wherein the heat protection element includes a quasicrystalline aluminum alloy of one or a number of quasicrystalline phases which are either quasicrystalline phases in the strict sense, or approximating phases, wherein the quasicrystalline phases exhibit a thermal diffusivity, measured at ambient temperature, lower than 2.5.times.10.sup.-6 m.sup.2 /s, and a thermal diffusivity measured in the temperature range 650.degree.-750.degree. C. which does not exceed the thermal diffusivity measured at ambient temperature by more than a factor of 3, and wherein the quasicrystalline aluminum alloy comprises Al.sub.a Pd.sub.b Mn.sub.c X.sub.d Y.sub.e T.sub.f I.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Jean-Marie Dubois, Pierre Archambault, Bernard Colleret
  • Patent number: 5840391
    Abstract: A decorative glass sheet simulating a multi-pane, camed window or door, and a method for forming the same. The decorative glass sheet includes a glass panel having an outer surface. At least one groove is formed through the outer surface and into the glass panel. Each groove includes a first wall extending from a first peripheral edge to a groove bottom apex and a second wall extending from the apex to a second peripheral edge. The second wall has a width greater than a width of the first wall. At least one decorative caming strip is adhered to the outer surface of the glass panel and is disposed adjacent and along the first peripheral edge of the at least one groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Glass Unlimited of High Point, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith L. Eichhorn, Lars Richter
  • Patent number: 5814408
    Abstract: An aluminum matrix composite is provided comprising a preform formed from interwoven mats of graphitized vapor grown carbon fibers. The mats comprise semi-aligned, semi-continuous vapor grown carbon fibers which have been interwoven in situ during growth. The preferred method of producing the composite includes the steps of providing a vapor grown carbon preform and infiltrating molten aluminum into the interstices of the preform by a pressure casting process. The resulting aluminum matrix composite has a thermal conductivity of between about 600 W/m-K and 700 W/m-K and is useful as a component in electronic devices, aircraft, spacecraft, and other thermal management applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Applied Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Jyh-Ming Ting, Max Laverne Lake
  • Patent number: 5682594
    Abstract: Coated ceramic filler materials comprised of ceramic particles, fibers, whiskers, etc. having at least two substantially continuous coatings thereon are provided. The coatings are selected so that the interfacial shear strength between the ceramic filler material and the first coating, between coatings, or between the outer coating and the surrounding matrix material, are not equal so as to permit debonding and pull-our when fracture occurs. The resultant, multi-coated ceramic filler materials may be employed to provide composites, especially ceramic matrix composites, with increased fracture toughness. The ceramic filler materials are designed to be particularly compatible with ceramic matrices formed by directed oxidation of precursor metals, but such ceramic filler materials are also adaptable for use in many other composite material systems.In a preferred embodiment, the coatings are applied to the ceramic fiber plies or preforms by CVD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: Lanxide Technology Company, LP
    Inventors: Christopher Robin Kennedy, Birol Sonuparlak, Ali Syed Fareed, John Edward Garnier, Gerhard Hans Schiroky, Dennis James Landini, Virgil Irick, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5666643
    Abstract: A braze material is provided for repairing an article, and particularly components formed from cobalt and nickel-base superalloys, such as gas turbine engine components. The braze material is composed of high melt particles distributed within a braze alloy. The braze alloy can be any suitable bonding material of the type used to repair components that must operate at high temperatures. The particles are single crystal, directionally solidified or equiaxed particles formed from a superalloy or ceramic material, or mixtures thereof. Importantly, the particles have an aspect ratio (length to width) of at least 4:1. The braze material can be provided and used in the form of a slurry, a presintered preform, a plasticized tape, or in a powdered form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Richard P. Chesnes, Stephen J. Ferrigno, David E. Budinger, Melvin R. Jackson
  • Patent number: 5649282
    Abstract: An element for thermally protecting a substrate is deposited on the substrate and comprises a quasicrystalline aluminium alloy having a thermal diffusivity lower than 2.5.times.10.sup.-6 m.sup.2 /s at room temperature and a thermal diffusivity, within the temperature range 650.degree.-750.degree. C., which does not exceed its thermal diffusivity at room temperature by a factor greater than 3. The element may be used to provide heat barriers or bonding layers for substrates. The heat protection element, used in the form of a heat barrier or in the form of a bond coat for heat barriers, exhibits good thermal insulation properties, good mechanical properties, a low specific mass, good resistance to corrosion, and great ease of processing. Further, the invention is useful in limiting heat transfer towards or from parts and components of fittings in many household and industrial devices, for example, heating or cooking devices, smoothing irons, automobile components, and in aeronautic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Jean-Marie Dubois, Pierre Archambault, Bernard Colleret
  • Patent number: 5634189
    Abstract: A structural component is formed with an outer shell of sintered, solid, powder particles, and a porous core of sintered, hollow, bodies arranged in layers. The hollow bodies are of increased diameter in the layers in a direction from the outer periphery of the core towards the center of the core. The material of the outer shell and of the core is a metal or ceramic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1997
    Assignee: Mtu Motoren-Und Turbinen Union Munchen GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Rossmann, Wilfried Smarsly
  • Patent number: 5577263
    Abstract: A method for producing a composite element by causing a stream of gaseous rhenium hexafluoride to flow onto a carbon substrate in a chemical vapor deposition reaction. A flow of hydrogen gas causes a reduction of the rhenium hexafluoride to rhenium metal to thereby deposit a uniform layer of rhenium metal onto the surface of the carbon substrate. A fine grain rhenium coating on carbon is produced having an average particle diameter of from about 0.1 to about 25 micrometers. The elements may be used alone or several of them may be bonded together into various articles. Such elements and articles are useful as light weight, high temperature strength, corrosive gas resistant structural elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: AlliedSignal Inc.
    Inventor: Gary A. West
  • Patent number: 5571344
    Abstract: An element for thermally protecting a substrate is deposited on the substrate and comprises a quasicrystalline aluminum alloy having a thermal diffusivity lower than 2.5.times.10.sup.-6 m.sup.2 /s at room temperature and a thermal diffusivity, within the temperature range 650.degree.-750.degree. C., which does not exceed its thermal diffusivity at room temperature by a factor greater than 3. The element may be used to provide heat barriers or bonding layers for substrates. The heat protection element, used in the form of a heat barrier or in the form of a bond coat for neat barriers, exhibits good thermal insulation properties, good mechanical properties, a low specific mass, good resistance to corrosion, and great ease of processing. Further, the invention is useful in limiting heat transfer towards or from parts and components of fittings in many household and industrial devices, for example, heating or cooking devices, smoothing irons, automobile components, and in aeronautic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1996
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Jean-Marie Dubois, Pierre Archambault, Bernard Colleret
  • Patent number: 5564066
    Abstract: To manufacture a reflector formed by a reflective metallic layer on a metallic matrix composite support, a metallic layer having a reflective surface whose shape is at least approximately identical to the required geometrical shape is disposed on a mold surface having a geometrical shape complementary to the required geometrical shape of the reflector. Fibers to constitute the composite support are draped on the metallic layer. They are metallized by the metallic or intermetallic material to form the metallic matrix. This layer and the metallized fibers are subjected to temperature and pressure conditions adapted to press the reflective surface strongly against the mold surface and to cause diffusion welding of the layer with the metallized fibers and of the metallized fibers with themselves so as to integrate the layer to the composite support during consolidation of the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: Societe Nationale Industrielle et Aerospatiale
    Inventor: Henri Abiven
  • Patent number: 5514480
    Abstract: A metal-based composite includes a metal matrix including aluminum as a major component, discontinuous alumina fibers buried in the metal matrix, mullite particles buried therein, and solid lubricant particles buried therein. The solid lubricant particles can be either graphite particles with a nickel layer formed on a surface thereof, or boron nitride cermet particles. By thus including the specific solid lubricant particles, the wear resistance of the metal-based composite can be improved, the wear of its mating parts can be reduced, and the friction coefficient between the metal-based composite and the mating parts can be inhibited from fluctuating. Hence, the metal-based composite can appropriately make aluminum-based internal combustion engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1996
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katumi Takagi, Shuji Inoue
  • Patent number: 5508115
    Abstract: A titanium alloy matrix fiber reinforced composite made from titanium alloy sheet processed to have ductility up to about 35%. Of particular usefulness is the composite having a Ti.sub.3 Al titanium aluminide having this level of ductility. The composites have good resistance to thermal cyclic fatigue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Gary D. Linsey, Otis X. Chen, Martin J. Blackburn
  • Patent number: 5506061
    Abstract: A method for preparing deagglomerated fibres and/or particles and for providing the fibres and/or particles with a substantially uniform protective coating, the fibres and/or particles being of a material selected from the group consisting of carbides oxides, nitrides, silicides, borides, metals and graphite, including SiC, TiC, ZrC, WC, NbC, AlN, TiN, BN, Si.sub.3 N.sub.4, MgO, Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, SiO.sub.2, ZrO.sub.2, Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3, Y.sub.2 O.sub.3, steel, tungsten, molybdenum and carbon, the method comprising (a) preparing an inorganic colloid sol, and (b) mixing the fibres and/or particles are deagglomerated and substantially homogeneously distributed. The fibres and/or particles, e.g. SiC whiskers provided with an aluminum oxide coating by treatment with an aluminum hydroxide-based sol, are used for the preparation of metal matrix composite materials, e.g. based on aluminum or an aluminum alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1996
    Assignee: Forskningscenter Riso
    Inventors: Bruno Kindl, Yi-Lin Liu, Niels Hansen
  • Patent number: RE39070
    Abstract: A wear resistant coating for protecting surfaces undergoing sliding contact is disclosed. The wear resistant coating is applied by high velocity oxygen-fuel (HVOF) deposition of a powdered blend of the coating constituents. The powdered blend includes a nickel-chromium alloy, chromium carbide, and molybdenum. The disclosed coating should find use as a bearing surface on piston rings, cylinder liners, and other components of a power cylinder assembly of an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Dana Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas C. Stong, Thomas J. Smith, Peter J. Einberger