Nonmetal Component Patents (Class 428/551)
  • Patent number: 5110687
    Abstract: A composite member which comprises at least two molding members made of different compositions each comprising a metallic powder and/or a ceramic powder and a resin material is described. The at least two molding members are fully integrated through bonding of the resin materials in the respective members. A method for fabricating the composite member is also described, in which at least one molding member is bonded with another member which is filled in molding dies in the form of a powdery mixture and heated to a temperature sufficient to melt resin materials in the respective members to integrally bond the member through bonding of the resin materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1992
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Mutsumi Abe, Takashi Motoda, Keni-ichi Aota
  • Patent number: 5100736
    Abstract: A polymer-reinforced metal matrix composite is disclosed which is formed by lending metal particles and polymer particles to form a homogeneous powder blend, and consolidating the powder blend to form a unitary mass. The unitary mass is then plastically deformed such as by extrusion in the presence of heat so as to cause an elongation thereof, whereby the metal particles form a matrix and the polymer particles form elongated filaments uniformly dispersed throughout the matrix and aligned in the direction of elongation of the unitary mass. An aluminum matrix reinforced with polyether-etherketone is shown to have enhanced specific strength and modulus over those of the aluminum alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1992
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Gilbert J. London, William E. Frazier, John G. Williams
  • Patent number: 5087529
    Abstract: In a laminate material or a laminate workpiece with a functional layer affixed to one surface of a solid backing layer, the functional layer consisting of components which are not soluble in one another, thus normally forming a heterogeneous structure, a finely dispersed distribution of the undissolved components in a matrix of the functional layer is created, due to the fact that the components forming the functional layer are affixed to the backing layer as a fine powder material in the form of a powder mixture or agglomerated powder or predispersed powder formed through air plasma spraying. Thereby the backing layer itself contains a partial layer to be coated having a heterogeneous structure or a crystalline structure, for instance a lead bronze layer or a lead tin bronze layer. This partial layer is created in a surface region by the action of the plasma flame in a strictly defined zone down to a certain depth, for instance 20 to 200 .mu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1992
    Assignee: Glyco Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Engel, Karl-Heinz Wegner
  • Patent number: 5030518
    Abstract: A high temperature multi-layer thermal insulation is constructed especially for insulating spacecraft. For this purpose the insulation is formed of a plurality of porous material layers, such as ceramic fiber layers, separated from each other by highly reflective gas permeable foils. The insulation has an outer hot side and an inner cold side. The ceramic fibers are so arranged that the layer density increases from the outer side toward the inner side while the fiber diameter decreases from the outer side to the inner side. Compared to conventional heat shield type insulations of spacecraft, the present insulation is relatively lightweight and is able to better discharge again at lower flight altitudes any heat stored in the insulation at higher transient re-entry altitudes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventor: Karl Keller
  • Patent number: 4978582
    Abstract: The invention concerns three-layer composites with their plastic core so uniformly enriched with an appropriate percentage by volume of a ferrosilicon with an appropriate particle size that the composites can be securely joined to each other and to sheets of metal alone by resistance welding. The property applies to composites with either a viscously elastic or an impact-resistant core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: Hoesch Stahl AG
    Inventors: Klaus Stamm, Ulrich Tenhaven
  • Patent number: 4939038
    Abstract: A light metallic composite material containing therein fine granular additives dispersed in a matrix of a light metallic material, which composite material has a light weight, high mechanical strength, and excellent characteristics such as high damping ability. The additives each have a density less than that of the matrix and heat resistance enough to withstand a heating temperature at which they are composited with the matrix. Preferably, the additives are each formed with a coating which increases mechanical strength and provides an electromagnetic characteristic different from that of the matrix. Preferably, the composite material is produced by heating a mixture of matrix powders and additives up to a temperature where only part of the mixture including no microspheres is softened but the mixture is adequately composited, an amount of additives being equal to 10% to 70% by volume of the matrix, and by forming the composited mixture into a desired shape and solidifying same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1990
    Assignee: Inabata Techno Loop Corporation
    Inventor: Tadao Inabata
  • Patent number: 4923762
    Abstract: A precoated steel sheet for a two-piece can, which comprises: a steel sheet; a precoating film formed on one surface of the steel sheet, which is to be the outer surface of a two-piece can, by applying a precoating composition onto the one surface of the steel sheet and curing same; and another precoating film formed on the other surface of the steel sheet, which is to be the inner surface of the two-piece can, by applying another precoating composition onto the other surface of the steel sheet and curing same. The above-mentioned precoating composition comprises a thermosetting coating material and an internal lubricant having a content ratio within the range of from 0.1 to 30 weight parts relative to 100 weight parts of a resin as a solid content in the thermosetting coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1990
    Assignees: NKK Corporation, Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ishikawa, Naoki Gunji, Yoshinori Hoshino, Taro Ohyama
  • Patent number: 4923761
    Abstract: The invention is related to a bearing material having multiple layers therein and a method for manufacturing the same. The invention features that a bearing layer consisting mainly of an integrated resin powder is formed on a porous layer covering a back metal, such as a steel plate of like, that the integrated resin powder consists of P T F E resin precipitate and F E P resin precipitate and/or P F A resin precipitate and that each particle of the integrated resin powder is covered with Pb-Sn alloy powders.Accordingly, the integrated resin powder independently provides a predetermined lubricating property. In addition, since these resin precipitates are in unity, it is possible to maintain excellent cavitation resistance property and load resistance property, even under severe boundary conditions.Furthermore, since each of the integrated resin powder is covered with the Pb-Sn alloy powder, an uniform and deep penetration of the alloy powder into pores of the porous layer can be easily obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1990
    Assignee: NDC Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeshi Shindo
  • Patent number: 4913978
    Abstract: A metallized textile web includes a homogeneous metal layer on the textile web and is as flexible as the textile web itself, wherein the textile web itself can be composed of glass fibers, synthetic resin fibers, carbon fibers, etc., and the composite metallized textile web is suitable for wallpaper-like metallic lining of a space. The metallized textile web provides a material which forms an electronically impermeable Faraday's cage and at the same time is elastic and vibration- and displacement-secure so as to provide electronic release of respective structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1990
    Inventors: Dietmar Klotz, Alban Puetz
  • Patent number: 4904538
    Abstract: A single step is relied on in the canning process for hot isostatic pressing powder metallurgy composites. The binders are totally removed while the HIP can of compatible refractory metal is sealed at high vacuum and temperature. This eliminates out-gassing during hot isostatic pressing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1990
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventor: John J. Juhas
  • Patent number: 4868066
    Abstract: In a mechanical plating process, lubricant particles can be coated on a metal substrate together with the particulate plating metal to enhance the mechanically-applied coating's lubricity. The lubricant can be particles of fluorocarbon polymers, fluorocarbon-hydrocarbon blended polymers, powdered, elemental carbon, powdered fluorinated carbon, or mixtures thereof. The lubricant particles have a diameter less than the thickness of the coating (which is usually from 2.5 to 132.5 mils), so they will not be dislodged from the coating. The particles must not be too small or they may be washed away by plating liquids or may be applied too far from the coating surface to enhance lubricity. These dimensional relationships insure that the lubricant particles are entrapped within the coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Assignee: MacDermid, Incorporated
    Inventor: Bryan Whitmore
  • Patent number: 4865922
    Abstract: A cavitation erosion resistant plain bearing comprising a steel backing, a sintered bronze interlayer and a lining of PTFE filled with 1 to 50% by volume of an ionic fluoride of low aqueous solubility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: AEPLC
    Inventor: Glyndwr Davies
  • Patent number: 4859541
    Abstract: A safe having a wall comprising spaced steel plates, a sheathing layer between the plates consisting of hard non-metallic grains of e.g., boron carbide, silicon carbide, boron nitride, diamonds, ceramic oxides and hard metallic grains of e.g., cast iron, metal carbides, nitrides, borides, and silicides, said grains being bound together and to said plates by a hard solder mass having a copper or nickel base. The sheathing layer contains 30-70% by volume of said non-metallic grains (having a grain size of 5 to 20 mm) and metallic grains (having a grain size of 1 to 6 mm) and from 70% to 30% of said hard solder. The ratio of said non-metallic to said metallic grains is 2-4 parts to 1 part by volume. A method for making the sheathing layer is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Assignees: Metallgesellschaft AG, Bode Panzer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinz Maxeiner, Gerhard Kruske, Hartwig Reimann
  • Patent number: 4859036
    Abstract: A device plate is provided which comprises a transparent conductive film comprised of indium oxide, and laminated thereon a metallic conductive film comprised of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of molybdenum, titanium, chromium, tantalum, tungsten and nickel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumie Yamanaka, Takashi Enomoto, Toshifumi Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 4824733
    Abstract: There is described a coating providing an anti-oxidant barrier for carbon based material against oxidation at high temperature (temperature higher than 500.degree. C.), more particularly for graphite electrodes used in electric arc furnaces. The coating comprises at least a first layer of metallic titanium or titanium alloy which is applied directly on the carbon-based material, e.g. graphite, and a second layer which comprises a mixture of silicon carbide and aluminum alloy, the second layer being applied on the first layer. This coating substantially extends the life of the carbon-based material. There is also disclosed a method of producing this coating by applying the two layers onto a carbon-based material such as graphite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1989
    Assignee: Canadian Patents and Development Limited/Societe
    Inventor: Serge Dallaire
  • Patent number: 4818627
    Abstract: Multicolored tone paint compositions containing flat metallic particles are produced by subjecting an electrically conductive substrate coated with the paint composition, while wet, to ion current. The field caused by the corona current vertically orients the metallic particles in that portion of the paint subjected to the current while the metallic particles in the unexposed paint remain in horizontal orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: James R. Melcher, Stuart Inkpen
  • Patent number: 4797326
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for fabricating a composite polycrystalline diamond or cubic boron nitride (CBN) compact. Briefly, the process is conducted by mating a pre-formed sintered polycrystalline diamond or CBN compact and a plastically deformable support, and subjecting the mated composite compact to elevated temperature and pressure conditions sufficient to plastically deform the support into attachment with the compact. The temperature, pressure and time of application are inadequate to cause degradation of the diamond or CBN compact. The product configuration may be a conventional layered compact or may be a wire drawing die having a polycrystalline diamond or CBN core with a support jacket of a material such as a cemented metal carbide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Assignee: The General Electric Company
    Inventor: Frank J. Csillag
  • Patent number: 4794050
    Abstract: A coating for improved resistance welding of galvanized steel parts or sheets comprises a binder, and a metal phosphide pigment, preferably a ferrophosphorus pigment, having a particle size of from about 0.1 to about 30 microns. The pigment can also include up to about 40% by weight of an additional metal such as tin, aluminum or lead, which can be combined with the metal phosphide in pigment form or deposited onto the surface of the particles. The coating can be applied to either the faying or non-faying surfaces of the galvanized steel, or to the resistance welding electrode, and may be removed, if desired, after the welding operation.The advantages of the present invention include a significant reduction in welding current and an increase in the weldability lobe width, a restoration of the dynamic resistance beta peak, and an increase in electrode life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1988
    Assignee: Occidental Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Donald H. Campbell, Gerald L. Evarts
  • Patent number: 4770921
    Abstract: Self-shielding multi-layer circuit boards are produced utilizing augmentative replacement techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: Insulating Materials Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas P. Wacker, Charles W. Eichelberger, Robert J. Wojnarowski
  • Patent number: 4767677
    Abstract: A multi-layer cylindrical bearing comprises an outer, backing layer (1a) of stainless steel, an intermediate layer (1b) of porous copper alloy formed by sintering copper alloy, and an inner, bearing layer (1c) of synthetic resin formed by impregnating and curing the resin over said intermediate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1988
    Assignee: NDC Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukio Kuwayama
  • Patent number: 4749623
    Abstract: Disclosed is a composite metal sheet composed of at least two metal sheets and an intermediate resin layer interposed therebetween. The intermediate resin layer in composed of a mixture of an organic polymeric material resin and a metal powder (inclusive of an alloy powder) having a good electroconductivity, a hardness higher than that of the metal sheets, and an average particle size of 80 to 100% of the thickness of the intermediate resin layer. The amount of the metal powder is 1 to 10% by volume based on the intermediate resin layer (a sum of the resin and metal powder) and the metal powder is dispersed substantially uniformly in the intermediate resin layer. The composite metal sheet has excellent electric resistance weldability and adhesion strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Endo, Mizuo Ejima, Yoshimasa Zama
  • Patent number: 4746580
    Abstract: A method of making read-only magnetic recording media by the use of photolithographic/photoresist techniques, and the vacuum deposition of discrete bits of a high coercivity metal, followed by magnetization of said metal. A nonmagnetic substrate is covered by a layer of photoresist and a layer of high coercivity magnetic material. Selective light-pattern exposure of the resist, followed by layer-removal-procedures, cause the substrate to be covered by islands of hard magnetic material, in the pattern of a desired data track. The substrate is then subjected to the influence of a steady-state magnetic field in order to convert the metal islands into a read-only data pattern which can be read by a magnetic head. A floppy disk of this type is used to stress-test the head placement of floppy disk drives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ross W. Bishop, Arthur E. Moxley
  • Patent number: 4732818
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite bearing material comprising three layers: (1) a metal backing, (2) a porous metal interlayer bonded to the metal backing which includes bronze or other copper alloy particles from two distinct particle size ranges and (3) a PTFE based composition intermixed with and overlying the porous metal interlayer. In accordance with the method of the present invention, the porous metal interlayer substantially comprises a relatively non-homogeneous mixture of particles from the two distinct particle size ranges, wherein a substantial portion of the relatively fine powder is segregated adjacent the metal backing. The present invention includes a significant thickness of the PTFE based composition applied to and remaining above the surface of the porous metal backing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1988
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: George C. Pratt, Michael C. Montpetit, Michael D. Lytwynec
  • Patent number: 4726842
    Abstract: A cermet material comprises an intergrown network of a minor proportion of ceramic such as TiB.sub.2 in a metal matrix such as Al. The cermet is prepared by forming a minor proportion by weight of a ceramic phase in situ in a molten metal phase and holding the mixture of elevated temperature for a time to effect formation of an intergrown ceramic network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1988
    Assignee: Alcan International Limited
    Inventors: Martin R. Reeve, Adam J. Gesing, Graham Stratford
  • Patent number: 4725507
    Abstract: A large volume metallic composite container consisting essentially of a plurality of metal plates welded end-to-end, each said metal plate having a stainless metallic layer on the periphery of at least one side thereof and on the ends thereof and a heat-sensitive anti-corrosion coating consisting essentially of a thermoplastic resin on at least one side of each said metal plate and overlapping said stainless metallic layers over a length of at least about 10 mm and at least about 10 mm from the weld used to weld the plates together. The process of making of such containers is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1988
    Assignee: Atochem
    Inventor: Pierre L. Lescaut
  • Patent number: 4695321
    Abstract: This invention relates to high-hardness, high-toughness, high-density composite materials containing diamond, and a process for making such materials comprising applying shock compression to the composite powders and inducing an exothermic chemical reaction. The process is useful in making metal, ceramic and cermet diamond composite materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1987
    Assignee: New Mexico Tech Research Foundation
    Inventors: Tamotsu Akashi, Akira Sawaoka
  • Patent number: 4678716
    Abstract: Aluminum silicon alloys are used as cores for highly conductive metal coated particles to be incorporated in resins for use as electromagnetic interference shielding. High temperature processing conditions are used after coating of the particles to improve internal and external corrosion resistance of gaskets and filled resins into which the particles are incorporated for shielding use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1987
    Assignee: Chomerics, Inc.
    Inventor: Wen-Shian V. Tzeng
  • Patent number: 4670351
    Abstract: The present invention provides flexible printed circuits prepared by (i) applying a design on a silicone-impregnated fabric substrate with a printing ink comprising a mixture of (a) a curable silicone composition and (b) an effective amount of at least one finely divided metal powder; (ii) at least partially curing said silicone composition; and (iii) depositing a conductive metal on the surface of said printing ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John J. Keane, Thomas P. Wacker
  • Patent number: 4666787
    Abstract: A material which is intended for use in sliding surface bearings comprises a metallic backing, a porous metallic substrate layer applied to said backing, and a PTFE-filler mixture, which completely fills the pores of the substrate layer and constitutes an antifriction layer. The bond strength between the antifriction layer and the substrate layer is improved by coating that surface of the substrate layer which faces the antifriction layer with a primer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1987
    Assignee: Kolbenschmidt Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bickle, Jurgen Braus, Hans-Paul Baureis
  • Patent number: 4652397
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a thick film resistor composition for firing in a low oxygen-containing atmosphere comprising finely divided particles of (a) semiconductive material consisting essentially of a cationic excess solid solution and (b) a nonreducing glass having a softening point below that of the semiconductive material dispersed in (c) organic medium and to resistor elements made therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1987
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Kumaran M. Nair
  • Patent number: 4645621
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a thick film resistor composition for firing in a low oxygen-containing atmosphere comprising finely divided particles of (a) an anion-deficient semiconductive material consisting essentially of a refractory metal nitride, oxynitride or mixture thereof and (b) a nonreducing glass having a softening point below that of the semiconductive material dispersed in (c) organic medium and to resistor elements made therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1987
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Kumaran M. Nair
  • Patent number: 4621031
    Abstract: A composite material bonded by an amorphous metal. In one embodiment, a bonded piece is bonded to a substrate by a layer of amorphous metal interposed between the piece and the substrate. In another embodiment, a bonded composite material is formed with pieces of a second phase distributed throughout the volume of an amorphous matrix. In both embodiments, the second component of the composite is preferably a very hard material of low ductility, so that the composite material is useful in tooling applications. The solid composite material is formed by solid state processing, wherein the pieces are placed in contact and then consolidated at a temperature which does not exceed the crystallization temperature of the amorphous metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1986
    Assignee: Dresser Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: David M. Scruggs
  • Patent number: 4608225
    Abstract: A composition for fixing a metal powder molding at sintering, which is used, in the case of disposing a metal powder molding formed by rolling a mixture of a metal powder and a synthetic resin-based binder on a metal base material and sintering the metal powder molding in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, by interposing between the metal powder molding and the base material, comprising a thermosetting resin composition containing a thermosetting resin as the essential component, the amount of the residual carbon of which after the completion of sintering is at least about 0.5% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1986
    Assignees: Nitto Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Takahumi Sakuramoto, Eishi Asoshina, Takashi Tominaga, Yukio Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Morishita, Sigemi Osaki, Noriyuki Sakai
  • Patent number: 4599277
    Abstract: In a process for sintering a metal member bonded to a substrate during which the metal member undergoes densification at a temperature which is different from the curing temperature of the substrate, an improvement is provided which comprises causing the densification temperature of the metal member to be closer to or identical with the curing temperature of the substrate by adding to said metal member prior to sintering an amount of organometallic compound which undergoes decomposition before the densification temperature of the metal member has been reached to provide under the sintering conditions employed a densification temperature-modifying amount of a metal or metal oxide which can be the same as or different from the metal of the aforesaid metal member.The improved sintering process of the present invention is particularly adapted for use in the fabrication of multilayer ceramic substrates which serve as circuit modules for seminconductor chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1986
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: James M. Brownlow, Robert Rosenberg
  • Patent number: 4587095
    Abstract: A super heatresistant cermet and process of producing the same. A mixture, which contains about 10 to about 65% by weight of a powder of the carbonitride having titanium and tungsten, about 0.5 to about 10.0% by weight of a magnesium oxide powder and a tungsten powder, is pressed to form a compact, which is thereafter sintered in a vacuum or in an atmosphere of a nitrogen gas or an inert gas within the temperature range of about 1800.degree. to 2700.degree. C. to thereby decarburize the carbonitride with the magnesium oxide evaporated during the sintering, whereby there is produced a super heatresistant cermet containing about 10 to about 65% by weight of a carbonitride containing titanium and tungsten, about 0.01 to about 1.0% by weight of magnesium oxide, and tungsten as a binder. The super heatresistant cermet is excellent in impact resistance, wear resistance and plastic deformation resistance, and suitable for cutting tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1986
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Kinzoku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hironori Yoshimura, Naohisa Ito, Kenichi Nishigaki, Katsunori Anzai
  • Patent number: 4587174
    Abstract: A tungsten cermet for use in cutting tools, including a carbonitride, having titanium and tungsten, and aluminum oxide. The cermet contains about 10 to about 50% by weight of the carbonitride, about 0.5 to about 10% by weight of aluminum oxide and tungsten as a binder. The tungsten cermet has excellent properties in toughness, impact resistance and oxidation resistance, combined with wear resistance and plastic deformation resistance, and is useful for cutting tools used in heavy cutting, hot working and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1986
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Kinzoku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hironori Yoshimura, Naohisa Ito, Kenichi Nishigaki, Katsunori Anzai
  • Patent number: 4581301
    Abstract: An additive process, for manufacturing multiple- (single or double) sided printed circuit boards, which advantageously provides substantial adhesion, very fine resolution and significant manufacturing time and cost savings over prior art processes, is disclosed. Specifically, a seed layer, comprised of conductive particles, such as carbon, dispersed throughout a binder capable of adhering to an unclad insulating printed circuit board substrate, is first applied over pre-defined locations on each surface of the substrate above which corresponding portions of a conductive pattern are to appear. This seed layer is also applied to coat substantially all the surface area of the walls of one or more holes formed through the substrate which are, in turn, to become plated-through holes. Thereafter, a conductive layer, such as copper, is electrolytically plated onto the seed layer in order to produce the conductive pattern and the plated-through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1986
    Inventor: Henry W. Michaelson
  • Patent number: 4569692
    Abstract: A composite is provided which is adaptable to be a substrate for an electronic application. The composite comprises first material particles having a coefficient of thermal expansion in the range of about -20.times.10.sup.-7 to about 50.times.10.sup.-7 in/in/.degree.C. Second material particles having a coefficient of thermal expansion in the range of about 100.times.10.sup.-7 to about 200.times.10.sup.-7 in/in/.degree.C. are mixed with the first material particles. A bonding agent adheres the first and second material particles into a coherent composite having a coefficient of thermal expansion in the range of about 1.times.10.sup.-7 to about 50.times.10.sup.-7 in/in/.degree.C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1986
    Assignee: Olin Corporation
    Inventor: Sheldon H. Butt
  • Patent number: 4568389
    Abstract: Shaped forms or formed masses of hollow metal microspheres are described. The hollow metal microspheres are made from film forming metal compositions and are used to make superior high strength light weight structures, improved insulating materials and insulating systems. A thin metal coating can be deposited on the inner wall surface of the microspheres. The hollow metal microspheres can also be made in the form of filamented metal microspheres in which a thin metal filament connects adjacent microspheres. The microspheres are characterized by being free of latent solid or liquid blowing gas materials or gases and the walls of the microspheres are substantially free of holes, relatively thin walled portions or sections and bubbles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1986
    Inventor: Leonard B. Torobin
  • Patent number: 4555445
    Abstract: A coating composite provides desirable corrosion resistance for substrate metals, as well as, enhanced torque control where desired. The undercoat of the composite can be metal in elemental form or can be exemplified by being chromium-containing, either in elemental or non-elemental form. The special topcoat composition, containing copolymer component and silicate substance in liquid medium, is applied directly to the undercoating. In addition to corrosion resistance and torque control, the composite provides the substrate metal with excellent heat, abrasion and solvent resistance. Before use, the special topcoating displays outstanding shelf stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1985
    Inventors: Gary T. Frey, Douglas H. Strong, Janet B. Urbanski
  • Patent number: 4544589
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of coating a surface comprising the application of one or more layers to a substrate to be coated, one of the layers being a barrier layer containing stainless steel flakes. The invention also provides an article having a surface coated according to the method. The layers include, in addition to the barrier layer, one or more of an impregnant, an undercoat and a reinforcement layer. The layers are applied in the order of the impregnant, the undercoat, the reinforcement layer, and the barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Assignee: Ko-Operatiewe Wijnbouers Vereniging Van Zuid-Afrika Beperkt
    Inventors: Ronald D. Sanderson, Jurchens B. Badenhorst
  • Patent number: 4526618
    Abstract: A coating composition applied to a substrate by a thermal spray process which comprises tungsten carbide and a boron-containing alloy or a mixture of alloys with a total composition of from about 6.0 to 18.0 weight percent boron, 0 to 6 weight percent silicon, 0 to 20 weight percent chromium, 0 to 5 weight percent iron and the balance nickel; the tungsten carbide comprising about 78 to 88 weight percent of the entire composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1985
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Madapusi K. Keshavan, Merle H. Weatherly
  • Patent number: 4524111
    Abstract: A weldable paint-coated steel sheet having improved corrosion resistance, weldability and workability, comprising a zinc alloy coated steel substrate and a paint coating applied thereon, said paint coating containing zinc alloy powder and at least one of the groups consisting of zinc powder and hard electric conductive powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1985
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Joji Oka, Hideaki Iwakura, Narumi Ando, Kiyotoshi Iwasaki, Yoshio Shindow
  • Patent number: 4521496
    Abstract: Metal/ceramic abradable seals of the type used in jet aircraft are improved by using a substrate which is able to deform during cooling from the brazing temperature and then rendering the substrate rigid after the cool down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1985
    Inventor: Raymond V. Sara
  • Patent number: 4519840
    Abstract: A coating composition applied to a substrate by a thermal spray process which consists essentially of from about 11.0 to about 18.0 weight percent cobalt, from about 2.0 to about 6.0 weight percent chromium, from about 3.0 to about 4.5 weight percent carbon and the balance tungsten.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1985
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: John E. Jackson, Thomas A. Adler, Jean M. Quets, Robert C. Tucker, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4497874
    Abstract: A coated carbide insert has a cobalt enriched zone at one decarburized surface, and a thin TiN transition layer over this surface. The cobalt enriched zone and the TiN layer cooperate to support additional thicker layers of hard wear resistant material such as TiC, TiN, and Al.sub.2 O.sub.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1985
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Thomas E. Hale
  • Patent number: 4447263
    Abstract: A blade member for cutting tools comprises a cermet substrate having on a surface thereof a reaction layer. The reaction layer is composed of carbo-nitride of at least two metals in groups IV.sub.A, V.sub.A and VI.sub.A, the metals including Ti. The reaction layer may be composed of oxy-carbo-nitride of the above metals. The reaction layer may consist of inner and outer layers, the inner layer being composed of carbo-nitride of the above metals while the outer layer is composed of oxy-carbo-nitride of the above metals. The blade members with the reaction layer exhibits excellent toughness, wear resistance and thermoplastic deformation resistance. There is also disclosed a process for producing the above blade member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1984
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Kinzoku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taijiro Sugizawa, Hironori Yoshimura, Junichi Toyama
  • Patent number: 4442180
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sintered body for use in a cutting tool comprising a cutting edge forming part having particularly high hardness and wear resistance bonded to a supporting member having high plastic deformability, stiffness, transverse rupture strength, thermal conductivity, thermal expansion coefficient, resistance to corrosion, oxidization and the like, and to a method for producing the same. A diamond powder or high pressure form boron nitride powder is placed in contact with preliminarily sintered cermet constituted by carbide crystals chiefly comprising molibdenum in the form of (Mo, W)C bonded by iron group metals, the combined body being sintered at a temperature and pressure under which the diamond powder or high pressure form boron nitride powder is thermodynamically stable so that the sintered body of the diamond or high pressure form boron nitride is bonded to the cermet thereby enabling to obtain a sintered body having the said high properties for use in a cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1984
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Hara, Shuji Yazu
  • Patent number: 4439796
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is described having formed on a non-magnetic base at least two magnetic layers, each of the magnetic layers comprising ferromagnetic particles dispersed in a binder, wherein the ferromagnetic particles in the outermost magnetic layer are substantially cubic particles and have a side length of 0.3.mu. or less, and the ferromagnetic particles in an underlying magnetic layer are acicular particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1984
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuji Kitamoto, Goro Akashi
  • Patent number: RE32942
    Abstract: A composite is provided which is adaptable to be a substrate for an electronic application. The composite comprises first material particles having a coefficient of thermal expansion in the range of about -20.times.10.sup.-7 to about 50.times.10.sup.-7 in/in/.degree.C. Second material particles having a coefficient of thermal expansion in the range of about 100.times.10.sup.-7 to about 200.times.10.sup.-7 in/in/.degree.C. are mixed with the first material particles. A bonding agent adheres the first and second material particles into a coherent composite having a coefficient of thermal expansion in the range of about 1.times.10.sup.-7 to about 50.times.10.sup.-7 in/in/.degree.C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Assignee: Olin Corporation
    Inventor: Sheldon H. Butt