Abstract: A coated component and a method of preparing a coated component are provided. The method comprises providing a substrate; and applying a dual coating system to the substrate. The applying of the dual coating system includes applying a diffusion barrier coating; and applying a corrosion-resistant coating. The corrosion-resistant coating comprises a greater concentration of silicon and aluminum than the diffusion barrier coating, and the dual layer coating system includes an aluminide interdiffusion zone.

Abstract: The invention relates to an insert brazed on a body of cutting tools (101), consisting of: a metal substrate (11), in the form of plates, having a surface for attachment to the tool body; a high-temperature, brazing, alloy layer (12); an intermediate layer; and a ceramic plate (14). The brazing alloy layer connects the metal substrate (11) of the ceramic plate (14) via the metal layer (13). A low-temperature brazing layer (1) connects the insert (1, 1?) to the body of the tool (101).

Abstract: A method of selective laser brazing is provided. The method includes providing a powder including a plurality of parent core particles and a plurality of braze particles, setting a temperature of an energy source, applying the energy source to the powder, and allowing the heated powder to solidify. The plurality of parent core particles are fused together by the plurality of braze material into a desired component.

Abstract: A coil device comprising; a winding coil including Cu and having a winding part and an extension line part which is pulled out from said winding part, a pair of electrodes made of a conductive material having, a connecting wire part having a connecting wire face connected with the extension line part and a protective face sandwiching said extension line part with said connecting wire face, and a base part provided with a mounting base face at one of the faces of the base and connected to said connecting wire part, a magnetic part including a magnetic material and covering at least said winding part and said connecting wire part.

Abstract: A coating process comprising applying to a surface a coating composition consisting essentially of an alkali metal silicate and an aqueous liquid phase having dispersed therein solid aluminum particles to form on the surface a wet coating; and drying said wet coating: under conditions which convert said wet coating to an electrically conductive, corrosion-resistant, solid coating; or under conditions which form a solid coating which is not electrically conductive (non-conductive) and thereafter treating said non-conductive coating under conditions which convert said non-conductive coating to an electrically conductive, corrosion-resistant coating.

Abstract: This is provided a hydrophobic or superhydrophobic surface configuration and method of forming a hydrophobic or superhydrophobic material on a metallic substrate. The surface configuration comprises a metallic substrate having a carbon nanotube/carbon fibers configuration grown thereon, with the carbon nanotubes/carbon fibers configuration having a heirarchial structure formed to have a predetermined roughness in association with the surface. The method comprises providing a metallic substrate having a predetermined configuration, and growing a plurality of carbon nanotubes/fibers or other nanostructures formed into a predetermined architecture supported on the substrate.

Abstract: Hardfacing compositions include grains of hard material embedded within a cobalt-based metal alloy that includes ruthenium. Earth-boring tools include such hardfacing compositions on one or more surfaces thereof. Methods of applying hardfacing to an earth-boring tool include embedding grains of hard material in a molten cobalt-based metal alloy including ruthenium on a surface of an earth-boring tool, and cooling and solidifying the molten cobalt-based metal alloy with the grains of hard material embedded therein.

Abstract: The corrosion and also the erosion properties of a layer system can be improved by using deposition-hardened particles.

Abstract: A bearing having improved wear resistance has a bearing material of a copper-tin-bismuth alloy which may also include phosphorus which has excellent strength, due to the solid solution of copper, tin and phosphorus (when used), attached to a steel backing shell. The material also has good lubricity as a result of the presence of the bismuth which also promotes tin mobilization and formation of a layer of tin on the bearing surface upon use of the bearing. The addition of small amounts of relatively small hard particles in the copper-tin-matrix, particularly Fe3P, MoSi2 or a mixture thereof, provides a suitable hard surface artifact to improve the wear resistance of the bearing material. The bearing includes a sintered powder compact bearing material of a copper-tin-bismuth alloy powder and a metal compound powder which is bonded to a steel backing shell, wherein the metal compound powder has an average particle size of less than 10 ?m.

Abstract: Energy-saving lamps contain a gas filling of mercury vapour and argon in a gas discharge bulb. Amalgam balls are used for filling the gas discharge bulb with mercury. Novel coated balls whose operating life in the case of automatic metered introduction is increased by coating of the balls with an alloy powder and conglutination of the amalgam balls during storage and processing is prevented are proposed.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a process for joining carbide and non-carbide materials is disclosed, the process comprising providing an interface binder material, positioning the interface binder material between the carbide material and non-carbide material to provide an assembly and heating the assembly to join the carbide material and non-carbide material through the interface binder material, wherein the interface binder material comprises a powder metal or powder alloy or a sheet of metal or alloy.

Abstract: A method for repairing a damaged portion (144) of a brazed-on gas turbine engine seal (142) without the need to remove and to replace the entire seal. The damaged portion is removed to reveal a repair surface (146) of the underlying superalloy material, and a new seal structure (148) is formed by an additive manufacturing processes using a laser beam (124) to melt a powder (116) including superalloy material (116?) and flux material (116?). The flux material forms a protective layer of slag (132) over the melted superalloy material, thereby permitting the new seal structure to be formed directly onto the underlying superalloy material without the need for an intervening braze layer.

Abstract: A multilayer metal structure is provided that includes an inner layer of metal materials which are not titanium and outer layers on both sides of the inner layer which are formed by rolling titanium powders. A method for manufacturing the multilayer metal structure is provided that includes preparing titanium powders and metal materials which are not titanium, feeding the titanium powders and the metal materials to a vertical type rolling mill, simultaneously rolling the titanium powders and the metal materials by the rolling mill and forming the multilayer metal structure consisting of an inner layer and outer layers on both sides of the inner layer, and post-forming the multilayer metal structure to increase a packing density.

Abstract: A plating member comprising a lead-free plating material is obtained by the present invention in a manner such that whisker formation on a plating layer 16 of the plating member can be suppressed and thus the plating member has good solderability. In the case of such plating member having, on the surface of a base material 15, a plating layer 16 comprising a lead-free material (Sn—Cu alloy, etc.), the plating layer 16 has a layer structure of two or more layers (a1 to a3), the average particle diameter of plating particles (P1 to P3) constituting each layer varies from layer to layer, and the plating particle volume fraction of the plating layer 16 is 80% to 90% when the proportion of plating particles occupying a unit volume is defined as a plating particle volume fraction of 100% on the assumption that a unit volume 20 is filled with plating particles P3 each having the maximum average particle diameter.

Abstract: A sintered substrate is configured such that pores having a pore size (pore radius) of from 5 ?m to 7 ?m have a peak volume fraction with respect to the total pore volume of the sintered substrate, and pores having a pore radius of greater than 8.5 ?m has a volume fraction of 11% or less with respect to the total pore volume of the sintered substrate. The sintered substrate has a smaller number of large-sized pores than conventional sintered substrates and a more uniform pore size distribution, and therefore shows a sufficient strength even when the porosity is increased. In addition, a cadmium negative electrode employing the sintered substrate shows excellent gas absorption capability and therefore can reduce the internal pressure of the battery during charge.

Abstract: A composition for deposition as a coating includes a matrix material having a molten fraction of between about 33% and about 90% by volume and a filler material interspersed within the matrix.

Abstract: An ultra-thin heat pipe comprises a flat metal tube and one or more sintered powder portions. The flat metal tube has an upper tube wall, a lower tube wall and two lateral walls connecting with the upper tube wall and the lower tube wall. The sintered powder portions extends axially and are formed on an inner face of at least one of the upper tube wall, the lower tube wall and the lateral walls such that vapor passage space is formed at one or more sides of the sintered powder portions.

Abstract: A plating member comprising a lead-free plating material is obtained by the present invention in a manner such that whisker formation on a plating layer 16 of the plating member can be suppressed and thus the plating member has good solderability. In the case of such plating member having, on the surface of a base material 15, a plating layer 16 comprising a lead-free material (Sn—Cu alloy, etc.), the plating layer 16 has a layer structure of two or more layers (a1 to a3), the average particle diameter of plating particles (P1 to P3) constituting each layer varies from layer to layer, and the plating particle volume fraction of the plating layer 16 is 80% to 90% when the proportion of plating particles occupying a unit volume is defined as a plating particle volume fraction of 100% on the assumption that a unit volume 20 is filled with plating particles P3 each having the maximum average particle diameter.

Abstract: A thin film for a reflection film or a semi-transparent reflection film, which has a compound phase comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of a nitride, an oxide, a complex oxide, a nitroxide, a carbide, a sulfide, a chloride, a silicide, a fluoride, a boride, a hydride, a phosphide, a selenide and a telluride of gallium, palladium or copper, dispersed in a matrix formed of silver or a silver alloy. The compound phase in the thin film may include at least one compound selected from the group consisting of nitride, oxide, complex oxide, nitroxide, carbide, sulfide, chloride, silicide, fluoride, boride, hydride, phosphide, selenide and telluride of silver. The thin film of the present invention minimizes the deterioration of the reflectance even after a long period of use, and can prolong the life of various devices which use the thin film as a reflection film, such as an optical recording medium and a display.

Abstract: A material for contact components or battery components, which includes a metal sheet having a surface layer portion containing a first metal element, the metal sheet including a Cr-containing steel plate or a surface-treated steel plate, and at least a part of the first metal element on an outermost surface of the surface layer portion being substituted by a second metal element having a nobler standard electrode potential than the first metal element, the second metal element being deposited on the outermost surface in a state of a particulate metal, oxide, or hydroxide.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a coated turbine article comprising a uniform enhanced coating on at least a portion of the turbine article, wherein the enhanced coating comprises a coating material and a structural enhancer, wherein the structural enhancer is selected from the group consisting of oxide, carbide, nitride, intermetallic material, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing, wherein the structural enhancer has an average particle size, as measured along a major axis, of about 0.01 ?m to about 100 ?m.

Abstract: An electromagnetic shielding copper foil superior in electromagnetic shielding ability, high in transmittance, and free from particle shedding comprising a copper foil on at least one surface of which a fine roughening particle layer of copper or an alloy is provided and having on the fine roughening particle layer a smoothening layer comprised of cobalt, nickel, indium, or an alloy of the same and an electromagnetic shield able to be suitably used for a PDP using the same. The fine roughening particle layer may also be a layer comprised of a fine particle roughening particle layer of copper on which a fine roughening particle layer of a copper alloy is stacked or may also be formed by a copper-cobalt-nickel alloy. The smoothening layer of the copper foil may be treated for stainproof or by a silane coupling agent to protect the surface of the copper foil.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a molding coil structure and a molding coil structure are provided. Forming at least one metal wire into a metal coil; forming a metal powder pillar with a high-pressure fabrication process; placing the metal powder pillar into a center of the metal coil; placing the metal coil and the metal pillar into a mold and stuffing a plurality of metal powder particles with high-pressure to form a covering structure surrounding and contacting the metal powder pillar and the metal coil to form the molding coil structure.

Abstract: An electromagnetic shielding copper foil superior in electromagnetic shielding ability, high in transmittance, and free from particle shedding comprising a copper foil on at least one surface of which a fine roughening particle layer of copper or an alloy is provided and having on the fine roughening particle layer a smoothening layer comprised of cobalt, nickel, indium, or an alloy of the same and an electromagnetic shield able to be suitably used for a PDP using the same. The fine roughening particle layer may also be a layer comprised of a fine particle roughening particle layer of copper on which a fine roughening particle layer of a copper alloy is stacked or may also be formed by a copper-cobalt-nickel alloy. The smoothening layer of the copper foil may be treated for stainproof or by a silane coupling agent to protect the surface of the copper foil.

Abstract: Thermally-stable polycrystalline diamond materials of this invention comprise a first phase including a plurality of bonded together diamond crystals, and a second phase including a reaction product formed between a binder/catalyst material and a material reactive with the binder/catalyst material. The reaction product is disposed within interstitial regions of the polycrystalline diamond material that exists between the bonded diamond crystals. The first and second phases are formed during a single high pressure/high temperature process condition. The reaction product has a coefficient of thermal expansion that is relatively closer to that of the bonded together diamond crystals than that of the binder/catalyst material, thereby providing an improved degree of thermal stability to the polycrystalline diamond material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to formed resinous articles derived from compositions comprising an ASA resin and a special visual effect additive.

Abstract: A nickel-base braze material suitable for closing holes in a high temperature component, such as a tip cap hole in a turbine blade. The braze material comprises first and second filler materials and a binder. The first filler material comprises particles of a first alloy, and the second filler material comprises particles of at least a second alloy having a lower melting temperature than the first alloy. The second alloy consists essentially of, by weight, about 8 to about 23 percent chromium, about 4 to about 18 percent cobalt, about 1.5 to about 6.0 percent tantalum, about 1.0 to about 6.0 percent aluminum, about 0.3 to about 1.5 percent boron, about 2.0 to about 6.0 percent silicon, up to 0.2 percent carbon, the balance being nickel and incidental impurities.

Abstract: Reactive foils and their uses are provided as localized heat sources useful, for example, in ignition, joining and propulsion. An improved reactive foil is preferably a freestanding multilayered foil structure made up of alternating layers selected from materials that will react with one another in an exothermic and self-propagating reaction. Upon reacting, this foil supplies highly localized heat energy that may be applied, for example, to joining layers, or directly to bulk materials that are to be joined. This foil heat-source allows rapid bonding to occur at room temperature in virtually any environment (e.g., air, vacuum, water, etc.). If a joining material is used, the foil reaction will supply enough heat to melt or soften the joining material, which upon cooling will form a strong bond, joining two or more bulk materials.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for preparing aluminum and aluminum alloy surfaces in heat exchangers for brazing by depositing thereon a kinetic sprayed brazing composition. The process simultaneously deposits monolith or composite coatings that can include all braze materials and corrosion protection materials used in the brazing of aluminum fins to plates and tubes in a single stage.

Abstract: There is provided a coating liquid for forming a colored transparent conductive film using ruthenium in a fine particle form, which has a satisfactory electromagnetic wave shielding effect, which is excellent in transparency, chemical resistance, and abrasion resistance, and which achieves a neutral transmitted color tone. There are provided a substrate with the colored transparent conductive film and a method for its production, and a display device having the substrate as a front panel. A coating liquid for forming a colored transparent conductive film is one characterized by containing noble metal-supporting ruthenium in a fine particle form wherein a noble metal except for ruthenium is supported in a fine particle form on ruthenium. A method for making the noble metal supported in the fine particle form is a method of adding a reducing agent into a dispersing liquid containing ruthenium particles and then adding thereinto a solvent containing a compound of a noble metal.

Abstract: A soldering agent for use in diffusion soldering processes contains, in a soldering paste, a mixture of at least partially metallic grains of a high-melting metal and a solder metal. In a diffusion soldering process, the solder metal reacts completely with the high-melting metal and metals belonging to parts that are to be joined to one another by the soldering process, to form an intermetallic phase.

Abstract: A clad article of a substrate of one powdered metal that is clad with a second dissimilar powdered metal. A separation layer may be provided between the substrate and the clad layer to separate these layers during consolidation and to facilitate bonding thereof. The consolidation operation may be performed by hot isostatic pressing of the powders within a deformable container.

Abstract: A method of producing a corrosion resistant ferrous product is disclosed. The product is produced by rolling a heated billet which comprises a mass of mild steel swarf in a stainless steel jacket. Two reducing agents are present in the jacket when the billet is heated. The first reducing agent is in the form of powdered aluminum, titanium turnings or other metal having a greater affinity for oxygen than chrome and which promotes the formation of CO rather than CO2 from air or oxygen which enters or evolves in the billet above about 800° C. The second reducing agent is in gaseous or vapour form substantially below that temperature. The second reducing agent may be provided by premixing with the swarf such substances as ammonium chloride or urea, which dissociate to form reducing gases when heated. Alternatively, the billet can be heated in a reducing furnace and the gas in the furnace may act as the second reducing agent.

Abstract: A composite strip of compacted powders, which has a three layers structure, is continuously obtained by means of a rolling machine for powder compacting. The composite strip is sintered at a temperature of 460° C. to 550° C. to form a sintered composite strip. The sintered composite strip is continuously bonded by rolling to a steel strip. The bonded composite strip is optionally subjected to a heat treatment of heating at a temperature of 250° C. to 400° C. followed by heating to a temperature of 400° C. to 510° C., holding the strip under the temperature for not less than 30 seconds, and rapidly cooling down to 300° C. at a cooling rate of not lower than 50° C./minute, whereby obtaining a multi-layered composite material consisting of the steel strip, a sintered bonding layer, a sintered sliding layer and a sintered sacrificial layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a conductive adhesive and a packaging structure that can keep moisture-proof reliability even when a multipurpose base metal electrode is used. A conductive adhesive according to the present invention includes first particles having a standard electrode potential that is equal to or higher than a standard electrode potential of silver, and second particles having a standard electrode potential lower than a standard electrode potential of silver. A metal compound coating having a potential higher than that of metal particles as the first particles can be formed on a surface of an electrode having a potential lower than that of the metal particles.

Abstract: A clad article of a substrate of one powdered metal that is clad with a second dissimilar powdered metal. A separation layer may be provided between the substrate and the clad layer to separate these layers during consolidation and to facilitate bonding thereof. The consolidation operation may be performed by hot isostatic pressing of the powders within a deformable container.

Abstract: A method for forming a metal-containing layer on a substrate is disclosed. A slurry of the metal is first deposited on the substrate; followed by heating to remove volatile material from the slurry, and to form a layer of the metal. In another embodiment, a slurry of aluminum is deposited over the slurry of the metal, before or after the metal has been heat-treated to some degree. A diffusion heat treatment results in a coating which includes the noble-metal aluminide compound. Related articles are also disclosed.

Abstract: Thin, flexible composite materials, which are magnetic or magnetizable and processes for producing and using the materials. The composite material contains a laminate formed from a mixture of magnetic or magnetizable particles, binder particles (and optionally active particles), applied to and fused and/or coalesced with a first substrate. The composite preferably contains an additional second substrate fused to and/or coalesced with, the laminate on the side of the laminate opposite that of the first substrate.

Abstract: In accordance with the invention a reactive multilayer foil is fabricated by providing an assembly (stack or multilayer) of reactive layers, inserting the assembly into a jacket, deforming the jacketed assembly to reduce its cross sectional area, flattening the jacketed assembly into a sheet, and then removing the jacket. Advantageously, the assembly is wound into a cylinder before insertion into the jacket, and the jacketed assembly is cooled to a temperature below 100° C. during deforming. The resulting multilayer foil is advantageous as a freestanding reactive foil for use in bonding, ignition or propulsion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a conductive adhesive and a packaging structure that can keep moisture-proof reliability even when a multipurpose base metal electrode is used. A conductive adhesive according to the present invention includes first particles having a standard electrode potential that is equal to or higher than a standard electrode potential of silver, and second particles having a standard electrode potential lower than a standard electrode potential of silver. A metal compound coating having a potential higher than that of metal particles as the first particles can be formed on a surface of an electrode having a potential lower than that of the metal particles.

Abstract: The present invention relates to improved coatings for electrical or electronic connectors such as contacts or terminals used in automotive applications. Coatings in accordance with the present invention preferably comprise binary tin-silver coatings consisting of more than 1.0 wt % to about 20 wt %, preferably from 2.0 wt % to 15 wt %, and most preferably from 3.0 wt % to 10 wt %, silver and the balance essentially tin. The coating is preferably applied by immersing the substrate material in a molten tin-silver bath.

Abstract: A novel precious metal doped porous metal catalyst is disclosed. The precious metal is present in from 0.01 to 1.5 weight percent and distributed throughout the particles of porous metal to provide a surface to bulk ratio distribution of not greater than 60. The present invention is further directed to a process of forming said doped catalyst and to improved processes of catalytic hydrogenation of organic compounds.

Abstract: Provided are a bonded structure by a lead-free solder and an electronic article comprising the bonded structure. The bonded structure has a stable bonding interface with respect to a change in process of time, an enough strength and resistance to occurrence of whiskers while keeping good wettability of the solder. In the bonded structure, a lead-free Sn—Ag—Bi alloy solder is applied to an electrode through an Sn—Bi alloy layer. The Sn—Bi alloy, preferably, comprises 1 to 20 wt % Bi in order to obtain good wettability of the solder. In order to obtain desirable bonding characteristics having higher reliability in the invention, a copper layer is provided under the Sn—Bi alloy layer thereby obtaining an enough bonding strength.

Abstract: There are disclosed copper-base and/or iron-base contact materials which contain a Pb intermetallic compound dispersedly precipitated therein and which have highly improved sliding properties. Double layered contact elements improved in oil impregnation and lubricity are formed by sinter bonding the above contact materials to an iron-base metal backing, respectively. Economical producing methods for such double layered contact materials are also disclosed. In the copper-base and/or iron-base contact materials, one or more kinds of Pb intermetallic compounds are dispersedly precipitated.

Abstract: A method is taught for protecting copper and copper-based composites from high temperature oxidation, by the application thereto of a cobalt-based alloy diffusion barrier and a copper-aluminum alloy protective outer layer.

Abstract: A high-performance drilling stabilizer is provided that is high in both wear resistance and strength. Blades are bonded to a stabilizer body. The blade is split into at least two segments. The blade segments are bonded to the stabilizer body to form the blade. A laminate made of cemented carbide and having a laminate structure made up of at least two layers is bonded to the top of each of the blade segments. The laminate has a thickness of between 1 mm and 5 mm. The cobalt contents of the respective layers decrease stepwise from the innermost layer toward the outermost layer.

Abstract: A method for installing an electroconductive flooring and an electroconductive welding rod for use in this method are disclosed. The electroconductive welding rod is composed of a joint material including as the main component a thermoplastic resin composition of a ribbon-shape or a rod-shape, with the peripheral surface thereof being coated with an electroconductive coating material. The method for installing the electroconductive flooring is composed of the steps of laying flooring sheets in mutual contact and cutting joint-forming grooves, or laying the flooring sheets with spaces therebetween for the formation of the joints of the adjacent flooring sheets, softening the electroconductive welding rod, filling the softened electroconductive welding rod into the grooves or the spaces between the flooring sheets, and welding the adjacent flooring sheets to form joints, whereby the flooring sheets are electrically integrated.

Abstract: A nitrogen-containing sintered alloy includes at least 75 and not more than 95 percent by weight of a hard phase containing Ti, a group 6A metal and WC in a prescribed composition, and at least 5 and not more than 25 percent by weight of a binder phase containing Ni, Co and unavoidable impurities. The alloy contains at least 5 and not more than 60 percent by weight of a carbide, nitride or carbonitride of Ti, and at least 30 and not more than 70 percent by weight of a carbide of a metal belonging to the group 6A of the periodic table. The atomic ratio of nitrogen/(carbon+nitrogen) in the hard phase is at least 0.2 and less than 0.5. The alloy includes a soft layer containing a binder phase metal and WC at its outermost surface, and includes a layer that hardly contains any of the hard phase containing WC in a region immediately under the soft layer, with a thickness of at least 3 .mu.m and not more than 30 .mu.m.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition containing an extract from inflammatory tissue inoculated with vaccinia virus may be used to suppress the death of cells caused by endotoxin, and suppress excessive production of nitrogen monoxide induced by endotoxin. The extract may also be used to relieve hypotension induced by endotoxin. In sepsis and other serious bacterial infectious diseases, endotoxin (an intracellular toxin) is produced and a shock symptom is induced by its action. The extract, having an excellent inhibitory action toward endotoxin-induced toxicity, is quite useful for the treatment or the prevention of endotoxin-induced shock symptoms, sepsis and various symptoms accompanied thereby. In addition, the extract has an inhibitory action towards abnormal nitrogen monoxide production during the diseased state and, therefore, it is also useful as a therapeutic and preventive agent for diseases wherein an excessive nitrogen monoxide production occurs, such as acute hypotension.

Abstract: A base metal repair tape includes a first layer formed braze alloy bonded together with fibrillated polytetrafluoroethylene, a second layer formed from powdered base metal comprising oxygen-sensitive superalloy bonded together by fibrillated polytetrafluoroethylene and a third layer comprising a brazing alloy bonded together by fibrillated polytetrafluoroethylene. This is used to repair base metal by placing the first layer on the base metal and brazing the base metal powder so that the brazing alloy melts and diffuses into the base metal powder bonding it to the surface of the article. This permits the braze powder to be bonded to the base metal surface with minimal distance between the base powder particles. The number of alternating layers of base metal and braze alloy can be increased to increase the thickness of the repair. This can also be used to form small intricate parts.