Containing 0.01-1.7% Carbon (i.e., Steel) Patents (Class 428/684)
  • Patent number: 6544659
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a coated steel having an ability to form a high corrosion-resistant rust layer in an early stage even in a severely corrosive environment, for example one with a high amount of atmospheric salinity, by applying a surface treatment which is economical and easily applied onto surfaces of a weather resistant steel and normal steel or surfaces of rust layers over these steels. A surface of a steel or a surface of a rust layer over a steel is coated with an organic resin paint comprising, by weight, 0.2 to 60% of the total with a composition of (i) 0.1-30% calcium oxide, (ii) a metal sulfate whose solubility is 1 g or more in 100 g of water at 5 degrees C and (iii) at least one or more kind(s) of phosphoric acid, the dried coating film having a thickness between 1 &mgr;m and 200 &mgr;m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Inventor: Masato Yamashita
  • Patent number: 6541124
    Abstract: A drill resistant plate, which presents a rough surface of hardened particles to drilling attack, and which tends to snap or destroy drill bits before they can began drilling. The plate is made by brazing hard particles into a matrix of brazing material attached to a steel plate. Nickel-Silver brazing material is used to form the matrix on the steel plate, and tungsten carbide particles of 8-10 mesh are secured within the matrix, with the hard particles of tungsten carbide partially exposed, presenting a roughened surface with angular pieces of tungsten carbide to the drilling attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Rhino Metals, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald K. Suggs
  • Patent number: 6514631
    Abstract: A heating furnace tube, a method of using the same and a method of manufacturing the same which have been developed with a view to eliminating inconveniences occurring when a carbon-containing fluid is made to flow in the heating furnace tube. The heating furnace tube which comprises a rare earth oxide particle distributed iron alloy containing 17-26 wt. % of Cr and 2-6 wt. % of Al. The method of manufacturing this heating furnace tube which comprises the steps of forming or inserting an insert metal on or into at least one of a joint end portion of one heating furnace tube element and that of the other heating furnace tube element, bringing these two joint end portions into pressure contact with each other directly or via an intermediate member, and diffusion welding the two heating furnace tube elements to each other by heating the insert metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: JGC Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi Yamamoto, Takeo Murata, Rin Sasano, Kenji Sato, Toshikazu Nakamura, Muneyasu Ichimura, Kunio Ishii, Keizo Hosoya
  • Publication number: 20030017359
    Abstract: Methods of passivating a metal surface are described, the methods comprising the steps of i) exposing the metal surface to a silicon-containing passivation material; ii) evacuating the metal surface; iii) exposing the treated surface to a gas composition having a concentration of reactive gas that is greater than an intended reactive gas concentration of gas to be transported by the metal surface; iv) evacuating the metal surface to remove substantially all of the gas composition to enable maintenance of an increased shelf-life, low concentration reactive gas at an intended concentration; and v) exposing the metal surface to the reactive gas at the intended reactive gas concentration. Manufactured products, high stability fluids, and methods of making same are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Applicant: American Air Liquide, Inc.
    Inventors: Tracey J. Jacksier, Robert Benesch
  • Patent number: 6497966
    Abstract: The invention provides a composite, laminated armor panel (10) for absorbing and dissipating kinetic energy from projectiles (12), the panel (10) comprising a first outwardly-positioned layer (14) made of a hard material selected from a ceramic material and a metal having a Rockwell-C hardness of at least 27, an intermediate layer (16) softer than the first layer (14), made of a material selected from aluminium and metals having a Rockwell-C hardness of less than 27 and a third backing layer (18) of tough woven textile material, wherein the three layers (14,16,18) are laminated together and wrapped on at least four sides in a further tough woven textile material (20) which is bonded to the outer surfaces of the composite, laminated armor panel (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Inventor: Michael Cohen
  • Patent number: 6436556
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for the production of a strip-like metallic composite material by the high-temperature dip coating of a metallic carrier strip, consisting of a metallurgic vessel for receiving the liquid depositing material, through which the carrier strip is capable of being led in a preferably vertical run-through direction by means of pairs of rollers arranged on the entry and the exit side, and of a preheating device for the carrier strip, said preheating device being located upstream of the metallurgic vessel. At the same time, the preheating device (41) is arranged in a housing (61) which is arranged in the entry region upstream of the metallurgic vessel (11) and surrounds the carrier strip (21) and into which the medium coming from a media supply (52) is capable of being introduced via at least one feed (51) led into the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignees: SMS Demag AG, Thyssen Krupp Stahl AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bleck, Rolf Bünten, Frank Friedel, Oliver Picht, Wolfgang Reichelt, Wilhelm Schmitz, Dieter Senk, Paul Splinter, Ulrich Urlau
  • Publication number: 20020092586
    Abstract: A system and method for producing a corrosion-resistant article includes a metal substrate and a multi-layer resistant coating disposed over the metal substrate. The coating is operable to resist corrosion and hydrogen embrittlement of the metal substrate. The coating includes a first layer comprising a material galvanically similar to the metal substrate. The coating also includes a second layer disposed over the first layer. The second layer comprises a metal anodic to the metal substrate. The corrosion resistant article may also include a corrosion resistant interface layer at the boundary of the first and second layers. The interface layer may be formed by diffusing a portion of the second layer into the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Applicant: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventor: John D. Weir
  • Patent number: 6420054
    Abstract: Masking device for a color cathode-ray display tube with a flat scree, of the type comprising a support frame for a tensioned shadowmask and a tensioned shadowmask mounted on the support frame so as to undergo tensioning at room temperature, in which device the support frame is made of a hardened Fe—Ni alloy having a thermal expansion coefficient between 20° and 150° C. of less than 5×1031 6 K−1 and a yield stress Rp0.2 at 20° C. of greater than 700 MPa, and the tensioned shadowmask is made of a hardened FeNi or Fe—Ni alloy having a thermal expansion coefficient between 20° C. and 150° C. of less than 5×10−6 K−1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Imphy Ugine Precision
    Inventors: Ricardo Cozar, Pierre-Louis Reydet, Jean-Pierre Reyal
  • Patent number: 6406800
    Abstract: A bent pipe for use in piping arrangement for transporting materials conaining solids, the bent pipe being prepared by subjecting to high-frequency bending work a straight blank pipe prepared by centrifugal casting and having a plurality of layers. The straight blank pipe comprises an outer layer made of a steel having high weldability, and an inner layer made of a high Cr cast iron containing at least Cr in an amount of 10 to 35 wt. % and having high wear resistance, the outer layer and the inner layer being metallurgically joined. Preferably, a barrier layer is provided between the outer layer and the inner layer for preventing an alloy component in each of the layers from diffusing into the other layer. The barrier layer is preferably about 10 to about 100 &mgr;m in thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Ozaki, Daisuke Minohara
  • Patent number: 6387541
    Abstract: A titanium aluminide turbine blade (10) includes an aerofoil (12), a platform (14) and a root (16). A protective coating (2) is applied to the aerofoil (12) and the platform (14) of the turbine blade (10). The protective coating (2) comprises austenitic stainless steel. A chromium oxide layer (22) is formed on the protective coating (2). The protective coating (20) and chromium oxide layer (22) provides oxidation and sulphidation resistance for the titanium aluminide article (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce plc
    Inventors: Simon Gray, Clive B. Ponton, Michael H. Jacobs, Hugh E. Evans
  • Patent number: 6376092
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a surface-treated steel sheet which has highly balanced corrosion resistance and formability, and satisfies fundamental properties required mainly for steel sheets for automobile body, and a manufacturing method thereof. The surface-treated steel sheet of the invention is excellent in corrosion resistance and formability, comprising an amorphous inorganic film containing at least 5% magnesium and having a weight within a range of from 0.1 to 2.0 g/m2, formed on the surface of a zinc or zinc alloy plated steel sheet; wherein the inorganic film is soluble in an acidic solution and hardly soluble in a neutral or alkaline solution, and a manufacturing method thereof is provided. A zinc phosphate film may be provided between the galvanized steel sheet and the amorphous inorganic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Hidetoshi Shindo, Kimitaka Hayashi, Daisuke Ito
  • Patent number: 6375895
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hardfacing alloy capable of withstanding abrasion of the order of silicious earth particles and weldable in crack free state on industrial products, such as tool joints and stabilizers used in oil and gas well drilling, and other industrial products. The hardfacing alloy has a low coefficient of friction, high abrasion resistance as welded without working, and in tool joints and stabilizers achieves an optimum balance between tool joint and stabilizer wear resistance and induced casing wear. Other embodiments of the invention include tool joints having the hardbanding alloy welded to the outer cylindrical surface to its box and pin members and to stabilizer ribs on the stabilizer used in earth boring, such as boring for oil and gas, other industrial products, methods of producing the hardfacing alloy, and methods of applying the hardfacing alloy to surfaces including preheat and post-welding conditions to withstand abrasive use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: ATT Technology, Ltd.
    Inventor: Roger Auguste Daemen
  • Patent number: 6303237
    Abstract: A compound tube including a layer of a Fe—Cr alloy and a layer of load-carrying component, with the optional addition of further layers. The Fe—Cr alloy preferably has a composition including, in weight-%: less than 0.3% carbon, 15-60% chromium, less than 10% nickel, less than 5% molybdenum, less than 5% silicon, less than 0.3% nitrogen, less than 5% manganese, and the remainder iron with naturally occurring impurities. The compound tubes are very resistant to carbonization and metal dusting, and are suited for use as bayonet tubing, superheater tubing, and reforming tubing in steam formation environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Sandvik AB
    Inventors: Urban Forsberg, Johan Lindén
  • Patent number: 6296953
    Abstract: A compound tube comprises a layer of a Fe—Cr—Al-alloy and a layer of a load-carrying component and optionally one or several additional layers. The Fe—Cr—Al-alloy has the following analysis in weight-%: carbon<0.3, chromium 5-30, nickel<10, manganese<5, molybdenum<5, aluminium 3-20 , silicon<5, nitrogen<0.3, cerium+bafnium+yttrium<1.0, titanium 0.005-1.0, zirconium 0.005-1.0, niobium 0.005-1.0, the remainder iron, and naturally occurring impurities. These tubes are very resistant towards carbonization and “metal dusting” and are being used to advantage for bayonet tubing, superheat tubing and reformer tubing in steam formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Sandvik AB
    Inventors: Johan Lindén, Urban Forsberg
  • Patent number: 6291079
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for manufacturing steel wire comprising the following steps: manufacturing a reinforcing wire of sizeable length by rolling or hot wire drawing from steel containing the following elements: 0.18% to 0.45 % C, 0.4% to 1.8% Mn, 1% to 4% Cr, 0.1% to 0.6% Si, 0% to 1.5% Mo, 0% to 1.5% Ni, at most 0.01% S and 0.02% P, the reinforcing wire having, after being rolled or hot drawn, a temperature at least higher than the AC3 temperature, preferably by 50 to 200° C. and in particular by 100 to 150° C.; winding the wire in reels before air cooling the raw manufacturing wire to obtain a HRC hardness not less than 40 and preferably higher than 45. In a variant, the method consists in quenching and tempering so that the wire has a hardness between 20 HRC and 35 HRC. The invention also concerns a reinforcing wire and a flexible tube for carrying effluents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignees: Institut Francais du Petrole, Coflexip
    Inventors: José Mallen Herrero, François Ropital
  • Publication number: 20010006740
    Abstract: A component for use in manufacturing articles, such as printed circuit boards, comprised of a sheet of copper foil having an essentially uncontaminated surface facing an essentially uncontaminated surface of a sheet of metal, the surfaces of the sheets being in unattached contact with each other in an area that defines a substantially uncontaminated central zone, and the metal sheet being comprised of carbon steel having a layer of chromium thereon, wherein the chromium defines the substantially uncontaminated surface of the metal sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Publication date: July 5, 2001
    Applicant: GA-TEK Inc.
    Inventor: Bernd Schneider
  • Patent number: 6218027
    Abstract: A steel suitable for a fabric with or without painting and has good corrosion resistance with reproducibility, even if the steel is composed mainly of ordinary carbon steel or low alloy steel, wherein the surface of the steel is coated with rust comprising one or more selected from Ti, Nb, Ta, Zr, V and Hf in the total amount of 0.01 wt % or more. In the steel, the fraction of &agr;-FeOOH and an amorphous rust is 35 wt % or more, and the fraction of &bgr;-FeOOH is 20 wt % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd)
    Inventors: Fumio Yuse, Takenori Nakayama, Toshiaki Kan
  • Patent number: 6197436
    Abstract: A method for diffusion coating workpieces of ferrous base metals such as carbon steel and cast iron includes the step of weighing and mixing the following components, in powdered form: Chromium 40-50 wt % Ferrochromium 25-37 wt % Tantalum Carbide 0.40-0.65 wt % Vanadium 0.35-0.70 wt % Ammonium Halide 4-5 wt % Aluminum Oxide Remainder The workpieces are preferably degreased and then placed in a container with the mixed components. The container is sealed and heated to a temperature of 1000°-1050° C. The workpieces and the composition are kept at that temperature for a predetermined period, on the order of forty-five minutes or longer, to permit a surface layer of desired thickness to form. The container is then cooled in a conventional cooling chamber and the workpieces are removed. The method produces coatings having good wear and corrosion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Jamar Venture Corporation
    Inventors: Inna I. Zayets, Lidia O. Chunayeva, Grigory A. Tkach
  • Patent number: 6136456
    Abstract: Grain oriented electrical steel sheet with a very low iron loss and a method for producing the same, wherein the surface of the iron substrate of the grain oriented electrical steel sheet is subjected to an enhancement treatment of crystal grain orientation or surface smoothing to a mean roughness of about 0.20 .mu.m or less, electroplating a chromium plating layer on the substrate with heterogeneous growth, and applying a tension coating film to the plating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Michiro Komatsubara, Hiroi Yamaguchi, Minoru Takashima, Mineo Muraki
  • Patent number: 6110606
    Abstract: A high performance superconducting ceramic article for use in a liquid cryogen bath is provided. It includes a superconducting ceramic tape having at least one surface vulnerable to cryogenic infiltration is sealed on each vulnerable surface to a non-porous metallic laminate, which also provides the desired support structure, in substantially impervious relation by a non-porous metallic bonding agent. This results in greater protection of the superconducting ceramic tape from cryogen infiltration, and permits greater thermal cycling of the superconductor during use without causing degradation of the tape's critical current carrying capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: American Superconductor Corporation
    Inventors: John D. Scudiere, David M. Buczek
  • Patent number: 6103395
    Abstract: A laminated composite material, and a method of improving the surface hardness of laminated composite materials, wherein selected regions of the carrier material of the laminated composite system are treated with high-energy beams, and the temperature control is designed in such a manner that the rays penetrate into a maximum a 0.1-fold the entire thickness of the carrier material. The temperature increase in the region of the sliding material is a maximum of 80% of the melting temperature of the lowest melting constituent of said material. The laminated composite material with a rear steel substrate surface can be post-hardened. The steel substrate has at least in one part of the surface facing away from the function layer a level of hardness increased by a factor of 1.5 or more than at a depth which corresponds substantially to 0.1-fold of the thickness of the steel substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Glyco-Metall-Werke Glyco B.V. & Co. KG et al
    Inventors: Gerd Andler, Gerhard Arnold
  • Patent number: 6080496
    Abstract: A method for preparing and coating metal cookware having an interior cooking surface and for the application of a lubricative coating is disclosed. The method includes mechanically spraying the interior cooking surface with an aluminum oxide material to produce a roughened surface and applying by thermal spraying a metallic abrasion resistant layer of substantially pure titanium, titanium oxide and/or titanium nitride. Also disclosed is a cooking utensil having a substrate and an intermediate layer deposited on the substrate by thermally spraying the substrate with a mechanically durable material, said mechanically durable material being selected from the group consisting of chemically pure titanium, titanium-aluminum, nickel-titanium, and titanium 6-4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: Regal Ware, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles J. Hupf, Daryl E. Crawmer, Leonard C. Brumbaugh
  • Patent number: 6042952
    Abstract: A steel slab is rough-rolled into a sheet bar and butt-joined onto a preceding sheet bar and a widthwise end portion of the sheet bar is heated by means of an edge heater and then subjected to a continuous finish rolling through pair-cross rolls rolling on at least 3 stands to provide a hot rolled steel strip having a width of not less than 950 mm, a thickness of 0.5-2 mm and a crown within .+-.40 .mu.m, and the hot rolled steel strip is subjected to cold rolling, continuous annealing, temper rolling and, if necessary, plating treatment on the surface of the cold rolled steel strip, whereby there is obtained a steel sheet having an average thickness of not more than 0.20 mm and a width of not less than 950 mm, a thickness variation quantity in a widthwise direction is within .+-.4% of the average thickness in a region corresponding to not less than 95% of the width of the steel sheet as cold rolled and a hardness (HR30T) variation in the widthwise direction is within .+-.3 of an average hardness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Aratani, Naotoshi Ryu, Hideo Kuguminato, Akio Tosaka, Kaneharu Okuda, Masatoshi Aratani, Susumu Okada
  • Patent number: 6017643
    Abstract: In order to provide a hot-dip aluminized steel sheet with increased peeling resistance of the coating layer, the thickness of the Fe--Al--Si alloy-layer is set to be 1-5 .mu.m, while the maximum differential unevenness of thickness of the Fe--Al--Si alloy layer is set to be 0.5-5 .mu.m. The hot-dip aluminized steel sheet is manufactured by controlling an elapsed time from the beginning of immersion of the basemetal steel sheet into the aluminizing bath to the completion of solidification of the coating-metal layer which has passed through the bath. In addition another elapsed time is controlled from the time after the base-metal steel sheet has been guided out over the bath to the completion of solidification of the coating-metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Kobayashi, Takashi Saori, Masaki Okano
  • Patent number: 6015628
    Abstract: This invention provides an organic composite coated steel sheet comprising, as the base, a zinc or zinc alloy coated steel sheet, which can be used in automobile bodies and electric appliances. The coated steel sheet has excellent press formability with oil, while having excellent perforation corrosion resistance and excellent corrosion resistance in a rust-contaminated environment. The coated steel sheet comprises a zinc or zinc alloy plated steel sheet having, on its surface, a chromate layer and an organic film formed in that order, in which the organic film has a thickness of from 0.1 to 3.0 .mu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: NKK Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Urata, Naoto Yoshimi, Takahiro Kubota, Masaaki Yamashita, Yasuhiko Haruta
  • Patent number: 5942339
    Abstract: This invention describes the coating of a nickel-phosphorous bond on steel sheets or pipes of common carbon steel with the aim of forming an Fe--Ni--P bond, using a process of diffusion and enabling the resistance of the exhaust gases to corrosion. The deposit, when submitted to continual use of the vehicle, forms an intermetallic layer, which each time protects the substrate against corrosion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: General Motors do Brasil LTDA.
    Inventor: Roberto Garcia
  • Patent number: 5928800
    Abstract: A slide surface construction is formed of an aggregate of metal crystals. The area rate A of hexagonal pyramid-shaped metal crystals in a slide surface of the slide surface construction is in a range of A.gtoreq.40%, and the Co (cobalt) content in the aggregate is in a range of Co.gtoreq.13% by weight. The metal crystals are preferably Fe (ferrous) crystals. The slide surface takes on an intricate aspect due to the existing of a large number of hexagonal pyramid-shaped metal crystals and hence, has a good oil retention. In addition, the wearing of the hexagonal pyramid-shaped metal crystals is inhibited due to an increase in hardness resulting from the incorporation of Co and therefore, the oil retention is maintained. Thus, the slide surface construction exhibits an excellent seizure resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yusuke Toyoda, Masamune Tabata, Kenji Dosaka, Takahiro Gunji, Kenji Hirose
  • Patent number: 5910377
    Abstract: The present invention provides a clad steel plate of a base material and a cover material attached to the base material. The base material has holes with rising rims and the rims pass through the covering material and expand over its surface to unite the base and covering materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Assignees: Shinsozaihanbai Kabushiki Kaisha, Akiyama Gasket Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuro Tsukamoto, Susumu Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 5882801
    Abstract: A carbon coated metal powder depositable by thermal spray techniques to form a metal coating is disclosed. The carbon coated metal powder has a composition comprising a metal powder and carbon adhered to the metal powder. The metal powder is coated with carbon to form a carbon coated metal powder. The carbon coated metal powder, after being thermally sprayed on to a substrate and after being formed into a metal coating on the substrate, has an oxygen content at least 20% by weight less than the oxygen content in the carbon coated metal powder prior to being thermally sprayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: M. Brad Beardsley, Gary L. Biltgen
  • Patent number: 5879810
    Abstract: There is provided a composite article which comprises a first substrate comprising a body of metal containing aluminium or galvanised steel, a second substrate and, interposed between said first and second substrates whereby to provide adhesive bonding between said substrates, an adhesive and 2.sup.1,3,4.sup.1,5,7-pentahydroxyflavone with the proviso that when either substrate is etched or anodised aluminium, the pentahydroxyflavone is not present thereon as a primer coat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Zeneca Limited
    Inventors: Michael Ellwood, Stephen William Leeming
  • Patent number: 5827618
    Abstract: This invention provides a rust-proofed steel sheet for a fuel tank including an alloy layer containing at least one of Ni, Fe, Zn and Sn and deposited on the surface of a steel sheet to a thickness of 2 .mu.m per surface, and a Sn--Zn alloy plating layer consisting of 40 to 99 wt % of Sn and the balance of iron, containing not greater than 20 crystals/0.25 mm.sup.2 of zinc crystals having a major diameter of not greater than 250 .mu.m and deposited on the alloy layer to a thickness of 2 to 50 .mu.m per surface. The to-be-plated steel sheet to which the plating layer is applied has a composition consisting of C.ltoreq.0.1%, Si.ltoreq.0.1%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.2%, P.ltoreq.0.040%, Al<0.1% and if necessary, at least one of B, Ti, Nb and Cr, and the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities. This invention provides also a production method of a rust-proofing steel sheet for a fuel tank comprising the steps of applying Ni--Fe type pre-plating to an annealed steel sheet in a quantity of 0.1 to 3.0 g/m.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yashichi Oyagi, Takayuki Omori, Masahiro Fuda, Ken Sawada, Nobuyoshi Okada
  • Patent number: 5795660
    Abstract: An organic composite coated steel sheet having an excellent corrosion resistance in a rust-contaminated environment. The sheet contains a chromate film on a zinc or zinc alloy plated sheet and an organic resin film on the chromate film. The resin film has a thickness of 0.2-2.0 microns. The resin film contains (a) a base resin obtained by adding at least one basic nitrogen atom and at least two primary hydroxyl groups to the ends of molecules of an epoxy resin, (b) a polyfunctional polyisocyanate compound having at least six isocyanate groups per molecule, and (c) a rust-preventing additive of a sparingly soluble chromate or a mixture of silica and a sparingly soluble chromate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignees: NKK Corporation, Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Yoshimi, Takahiro Kubota, Takashi Ishiyama, Masaaki Yamashita, Yasuhiko Haruta
  • Patent number: 5789089
    Abstract: A hot-dipped aluminum coated steel sheet including, on the surface thereof, a coating layer consisting of 2 to 15 wt % of Si, not greater than 1.2 wt % of Fe, 0.005 to 0.6 wt % of Mn, 0.002 to 0.05 wt % of Cr and the balance of Al and unavoidable impurities, and an alloy layer disposed between the coating layer and the steel sheet, having a thickness of not greater than 7 .mu.m and having a mean composition consisting of 20 to 50 wt % of Fe, 3 to 20 wt % of Si, 0.1 to 10 wt % of Mn, 0.05 to 1.0 wt % of Cr and the balance substantially consisting of Al. This steel sheet can be produced by conducting coating in a coating bath consisting of 3 to 15 wt % of Si, 0.5 to 3.5 wt % of Fe, 0.05 to 1.5 wt % of Mn, 0.01 to 0.2 wt % of Cr and the balance substantially consisting of Al, or by adjusting the sum of the concentrations of Zn and Sn in the impurities in the coating layer to not greater than 1 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Maki, Takayuki Ohmori, Masaaki Enjuji, Haruhiko Eguchi, Masaaki Yamamoto, Yu Ando, Yusho Oyama, Nobuyoshi Okada
  • Patent number: 5686194
    Abstract: A laminated steel sheet for dry forming drawn and ironed cans wherein the steel sheet comprises a steel containing iron, carbon, manganese, aluminum, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur and optionally titanium and/or niobium and wherein the steel sheet is electrolytically chromium-coated and covered on both sides with a 10-50 .mu.m thick thermoplastic resin layer. The sheet sheet has a crystal grain size of 8-30 .mu.m, a surface roughness of 0.05-0.6 .mu.m and a thickness of 0.15-0.3 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Shimizu, Humio Kunishige, Junichi Tanabe, Atsuo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5580670
    Abstract: A heavily thermally stressable component comprising a graphite and a metal part, e.g., copper or a copper alloy, soldered together. Between the solder and the metal part there is an intermediate layer comprising chromium or an alloy containing a substantial proportion of chromium with copper and/or nickel additives. This special intermediate layer provides a good bond between the graphite and the metal which remains stable even under the heaviest cyclic thermal stresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Schwarzkopf Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Grill, Nikolaus Reheis, Michael Witwer
  • Patent number: 5576113
    Abstract: A steel plate having a plated layer on the upper and lower surfaces thereof to be processed into a battery can which is cylindrical and open in one end thereof by drawing and ironing processing. The plated steel plate has more than 1.2 as a Lankford value (r) which is a width deformation degree in a lengthwise direction thereof/a thickness deformation degree in the lengthwise direction thereof, a width deformation degree in a widthwise direction thereof/a thickness deformation degree in the widthwise direction thereof, a width deformation degree in an oblique direction thereof/a thickness deformation degree in the oblique direction thereof. In-plane anisotropy .DELTA.r which is the difference among the Lankford values (r) is set to be less than .+-.0.15 so that the elongation coefficient of the plated steel plate in lengthwise, widthwise, and oblique directions is almost constant, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: Katayama Special Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sugikawa Hirofumi, Michibata Sachio, Hayashi Keiichi
  • Patent number: 5407744
    Abstract: A method of producing steel wires intended for the manufacture of flexible conduits, steel wires obtained by this method, and flexible conduits reinforced by such wires is characterized by the fact that, for a given strain-hardening rate of the initial wire, a heat treatment is carried out under conditions of time and temperature such that the steel wire obtained after treatment has a mechanical rupture strength (Rm) greater than 850 MPa and a structure containing little free ferrite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Inventors: Jose M. Mallen Herrero, Andre Sugier
  • Patent number: 5196272
    Abstract: The corrosion resistance inherent in stainless steel is further improved by a cladding layer provided on the surface thereof. The cladding layer is formed of a coating material which is applied onto the surface of the stainless steel and, then, burnt to be fused by laser beams. The coating material contains a larger amount of Cr than that of the stainless steel. The thus fused material and a fused portion of the stainless steel are mixed with each other to form the cladding layer of remarkable corrosion resistance due to a larger amount of Cr contained therein. The formation of the cladding layer on the inner surface of a small diameter pipe is enabled by a coating film shaping device which has a jig for shaping the applied material into a film of a uniform thickness and by a laser irradiation torch which has an arrangement for emitting the laser means radially outward from the inside of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1993
    Assignee: Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Morishige, Kenji Hirano, Kiyofumi Ishikawa, Shuji Furuya
  • Patent number: 5158693
    Abstract: Quartenized derivatives of oligoquinoline have been reacted with refractory metal oxysalts to generate oligoquinolinium metal oxide salts which provide excellent corrosion inhibition of iron based alloy articles in sulfur containing media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1992
    Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Co.
    Inventors: Trikur A. Ramanarayanan, Long Y. Chiang
  • Patent number: 5147733
    Abstract: A bimetallic composite back-up cylinder for a rolling mill, in particular for a four-coil or six-roll stand of a hot strip train finisher, comprises a metal envelope made of a steel having a chromium content between 13 and 17 wt. %, and a carbon content between 0.5 and 0.8 wt. % the chromium/carbon ratio being between 20 and 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1992
    Assignee: Chavanne-Ketin Institut de Recherches de la Siderugie Francaise
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Werquin, Jacques Bocquet
  • Patent number: 5110689
    Abstract: A first characteristic of the invention is present in forming a chromate film on the surface of a zinc or a zinc alloy plated steel sheet, and a resin composition film at a coating amount of 0.3 to 5.0 g/m.sup.2 on said chromate fim, said resin composition film comprising an organic solvent soluble epoxy resin and hydrophobic silica in a ratio of 80:20 to 50:50 by weight of epoxy resin:hydrophobic resin, said epoxy resin having a glass transition temperature of 293.degree. to 342.degree. K.A second characteristic of the invention is present in forming a chromate film on the surface of a zinc or zinc alloy plated steel sheet, and a resin composition film at a coating amount of 0.3 to 5.0 g/m.sup.2 on said chromate film, and resin composition film comprising an organic solvent soluble epoxy resin having glass transition temperature of 293.degree. to 342.degree. K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1992
    Assignees: NKK Corporation, Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Watanabe, Masaaki Yamashita, Takahiro Kubota, Yoshiaki Miyosawa, Tadashi Nishimoto
  • Patent number: 5066546
    Abstract: A tough, wear resistant body is provided. The body includes hard carbide particles embedded in and bonded with a first casted ferrous matrix material such as steel or cast iron. The body may be embedded in and bonded with a second steel matrix to form a wear resistant composite. The second steel matrix has a melting point at least 200 degrees F. greater than the melting point of the first ferrous matrix, thereby facilitating a metallurgical bond between the surface of the wear resistant body and the second steel matrix. The composite structure is particularly suitable for earthmoving and other severe mechanical applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1991
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventor: James P. Materkowski
  • Patent number: 5055362
    Abstract: To obtain a composite material which has a substantially reduced incidence of defects after forming, there is made a composite having at least one layer of plain-carbon steel and, between it and a layer of stainless steel, an interleaving layer of silicon steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: Allegheny Ludlum Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald J. McCormick, G. Leonard Yeager
  • Patent number: 5037704
    Abstract: A sintered diamond compact or high pressure form boron nitride compact with an improved brazability, suitable for use for wear resisting tools, cutting tools, drill bits, dressers and wire-drawing dies is provided. This compact comprises a compact part containing at least 20% by volume of diamond and/or high pressure form boron nitride and a cemented carbide substrate bonded directly or through an interlayer to the compact part, characterized in that the surface of the compact is coated, at least partly, with a thin film consisting essentially of at least one member selected from the group consisting of carbides, carbonitrides and nitrides and mixtures or solid solutions thereof of at least one element selected from the group consisting of silicon and Group IVa, Va and VIa of Periodic Table, and having a thickness of 1 to 20 .mu.m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Nakai, Akio Hara, Mitsuhiro Goto
  • Patent number: 5035959
    Abstract: A body, like a rocker arm, is disclosed which comprises a base body fabricated of a Ni-Cr-Mo type steel which contains less than 8 wt % Cr; and a ceramic tip soldered to a given portion of the base body. The soldering is so made as to increase the hardness of the base body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1991
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plub Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Ito, Masato Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 5024900
    Abstract: A composite nickel-phosphorus alloy plated metal sheet excellent in strippability and having a Vickers hardness of at least 500 Hv, which comprises: a composite nickel-phosphorus alloy plating layer as a lower layer, formed on at least one surface of a metal sheet, in which Ni.sub.3 P particles and fluorocarbon polymer particles are uniformly dispersed; and a fluorocarbon polymer layer as an upper layer formed by melting the fluorocarbon polymer particles which are exposed on the surface of the composite nickel-phosphorus alloy plating layer as the lower layer. The sum of a phosphorus content in the composite nickel-phosphorus alloy plating layer as the lower layer and a phosphorus content in the Ni.sub.3 P particles is from 1 to 15 wt. % relative to the composite nickel-phosphorus alloy plating layer as the lower layer, and a content of the fluorocarbon polymer particles in the composite nickel-phosphorus alloy plating layer as the lower layer is from 0.3 to 15.2 wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1991
    Assignee: NKK Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Kuruma, Masaki Abe, Hiroshi Kagechika, Shinichi Kagaya
  • Patent number: 4965139
    Abstract: Corrosive-resistant, amorphous metal alloy coatings for crystalline metal surfaces wherein the coating is formed by vapor deposition of a mixture of(1) from 8 to 30 atomic percent of boron, silicon, or mixtures thereof and(2) the remainder being a modified metal composition formed by modifying the composition of the crystalline metal of the surface to produce a final amorphous metal alloy coating that is anodic in reference to the crystalline metal of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Lawrence T. Kabacoff, William Ferrando
  • Patent number: 4959277
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for surface treatment for cathodic electrodeposit coating of a zinc-plated or zinc alloy-plated steel sheet comprising coating and drying a protective coating material on said steel sheet chromate-treated beforehand, to form a protective film before subjecting the sheet to the cathodic electrodeposit coating, which comprises coating a protective coating material having as a principal constituent of film-forming organic component a block isocyanate-containing prepolymer containing in one and the same molecule respectively at least one blocked isocyanate group, hydroxyl group, and tertiary amono group and containing 10-100 parts by weight of silica sol relative to 100 parts by weight of said prepolymer, in an amount of 0.3 g-4 g/m.sup.2, and then heat-drying the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignees: Nihon Parkerizing Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation
    Inventors: Kenshi Saeki, Takao Ogino, Noriaki Yoshitake, Takumi Honda, Akira Nishihara, Hiroshi Okita, Yukio Tsuge, Haruo Iizuka
  • Patent number: H1448
    Abstract: A high precision transfer lamination plate/mandrel is fabricated in a sanch construction design wherein an inner core is constructed of a low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) comprised of an iron-nickel alloy core member (e.g., Kovar or Invar) with stainless steel cladding on each side of the core member. The stainless steel is selected from AISI type 302, 304, or 316. The stainless steel cladding outer surface of the top and bottom plate to which an electroplated copper foil circuitry is applied must be free of pits, scratches, and defects so as to yield a continuous circuitry satisfactory for military electronics. A matched (CTE) of the transfer lamination plate/mandrel with a composite material to which the electronic circuitry is transferred results in adherence of the copper circuitry minimally to the plate/mandrel to avoid blistering and enables the transfer to be achieved without distortion of circuitry features due to CTE mismatch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventor: Herbert S. Goode, Jr.
  • Patent number: RE35052
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to improve the performance of the rolls of roughing and finishing stands of a hot strip train or mill and in particular to retard as far as possible the banding phenomenon, namely the phenomenon of the incrusting of hard oxides or scale formed at the convenience rolling temperatures.For this purpose, the roll is made, at least in the working region thereof, from a chrome steel in which the ratio between the respective contents of chromium and carbon is between 7 and 12 and in which the content of equivalent carbon is between 1.5 and 1.7%. This content of equivalent carbon is calculated as the sum of the content of carbon and the content of chromium, the latter being given a coefficient 0.05.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Forcast International
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Werquin, Bernard Mercier