Layer Contains Compound(s) Of Plural Metals Patents (Class 428/697)
  • Patent number: 9492872
    Abstract: The ion bombardment of Cr, etc. onto a surface of a WC-based cemented carbide substrate in a nitrogen-based gas forms a modified phase having a bcc structure on the substrate surface, and a hard coating containing at least Cr formed thereon has high adhesion to the substrate by the modified phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Tool Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Isaka, Fumihiro Fujii
  • Patent number: 9349907
    Abstract: Provided are a method of manufacturing a metal oxide and a substrate for a solar cell. The method of manufacturing the metal oxide according to the inventive concept includes mixing a metal precursor material, a basic material, amphiphilic molecules and distilled water to prepare a metal precursor solution, performing a first heat treatment with the metal precursor solution to form a metal oxide, and performing a second heat treatment with the metal oxide to form a pair of metal oxide disks having a single crystalline structure. A pair of zinc oxide disks includes a first disk, and a second disk separated from the first disk in a perpendicular direction to the first disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Mi Hee Jung, Moo Jung Chu
  • Patent number: 9322111
    Abstract: A bismuth-substituted rare-earth iron garnet crystal film (RIG) which has an insertion loss of less than 0.60 dB and which can be produced in a high yield, as well as an optical isolator, which is grown by liquid phase epitaxy on a non-magnetic garnet substrate represented by a chemical formula of Gd3(ScGa)5O12, wherein the bismuth-substituted rare-earth iron garnet crystal film is represented by a chemical formula of La3-x-yGdxBiyFe5O12 (provided that 0<x<3 and 0<y<3), and a composition ratio between the La, Gd, and Bi falls within a numeric value range corresponding to the inside of a quadrilateral having composition points A, B, C, and D as vertices in a La—Gd—Bi ternary composition diagram: composition point A (La: 0.15, Gd: 1.66, Bi: 1.19), composition point B (La: 0.32, Gd: 1.88, Bi: 0.80), composition point C (La: 0.52, Gd: 1.68, Bi: 0.80), and composition point D (La: 0.35, Gd: 1.46, Bi: 1.19).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuuji Oosumi, Yasutaka Nomi, Nobuo Nakamura, Hiroshi Hatanaka, Tomio Kajigaya
  • Patent number: 9228258
    Abstract: A hard-coated member comprising a substrate made of cemented carbide or high-speed steel and a titanium carbonitride layer formed on the substrate by a chemical vapor deposition method, the titanium carbonitride layer comprising first to third layers each having a columnar crystal structure in this order from the side of the substrate, the second layer being smaller than the first layer in carbon concentration, and the third layer being smaller than the second layer in carbon concentration, and an indexable rotary tool comprising it. The first layer is formed by using a starting material gas comprising a TiCl4 gas, an N2 gas, a C2-C5 hydrocarbon gas and an H2 gas, the second layer is formed by using a starting material gas comprising a TiCl4 gas, an N2 gas, an organic cyanide gas, a C2-C5 hydrocarbon gas, and an H2 gas, and the third layer is formed by using a starting material gas comprising a TiCl4 gas, an N2 gas, an organic cyanide gas, whose amount is smaller than in the second layer, and an H2 gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Tool Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuzoh Fukunaga, Kazuyuki Kubota
  • Patent number: 9212099
    Abstract: A ceramic article having a ceramic substrate and a ceramic coating with an initial porosity and an initial amount of cracking is provided. The ceramic article is heated to a temperature range between about 1000° C. and about 1800° C. at a ramping rate of about 0.1° C. per minute to about 20° C. per minute. The ceramic article is heat treated at one or more temperatures within the temperature range for a duration of up to about 24 hours. The ceramic article is then cooled at the ramping rate, wherein after the heat treatment the ceramic coating has a reduced porosity and a reduced amount of cracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Y. Sun, Ren-Guan Duan, Biraja P. Kanungo, Dmitry Lubomirsky
  • Patent number: 9190601
    Abstract: A piezoelectric material contains a first component that is a rhombohedral crystal that is configured to have a complex oxide with a perovskite structure and Curie temperature Tc1 and a second component that is a crystal other than a rhombohedral crystal that is configured to have a complex oxide with the perovskite structure and Curie temperature Tc2, in which |Tc1?Tc2| is equal to or less than 50° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Sumi, Kazuya Kitada, Tomohiro Sakai, Yasuaki Hamada, Tetsuya Isshiki, Satoshi Kimura, Akio Ito, Tsuneo Handa
  • Patent number: 9175568
    Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a turbine component. The method includes forming a first intermediate turbine article with an additive manufacturing process; encapsulating the first intermediate turbine article with an encapsulation layer to form a second intermediate turbine article; and consolidating the second intermediate turbine article to produce the turbine component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Ryan, Mark C. Morris, Donald G. Godfrey, Steve Starr
  • Patent number: 9148961
    Abstract: A solar cell panel is discussed. The solar cell panel includes a plurality of solar cells each including a substrate and an electrode part positioned on a surface of the substrate, an interconnector for electrically connecting at least one of the plurality of solar cells to another of the plurality of solar cells, and a conductive adhesive film including a resin and a plurality of conductive particles dispersed in the resin. The conductive adhesive film is positioned between the electrode part of the at least one of the plurality of solar cells and the interconnector to electrically connect the electrode part of the at least one of the plurality of solar cells to the interconnector. A width of the interconnector is equal to or greater than a width of the conductive adhesive film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongkyoung Hong, Jongdae Kim
  • Patent number: 9145607
    Abstract: A method includes flowing reactant gases into a process chamber. Plasma having a first power level is supplied using a plasma source. The process chamber is dosed with the precursor. The first power level is sufficient to enhance adsorption of the precursor on a surface of the substrate and is insufficient to decompose the precursor that is adsorbed. After a first predetermined period, the method includes removing a portion of the precursor that does not adsorb onto the substrate. The precursor that is adsorbed is activated using plasma having a second power level using the plasma source. The second power level is greater than the first power level and is sufficient to decompose the precursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adrien LaVoie, Hu Kang, Karl Leeser
  • Patent number: 9079800
    Abstract: A composite ceramic body which includes three phases consisting of a MgO phase, a YAP (YAlO3) phase and a spinel (MgAl2O4) phase. This composite ceramic body has a plasma resistance greater than that of alumina and approximately equal to that of MgO. Mechanical properties, such as hardness and bending strength, of the composite ceramic body, are approximately equal or superior to those of Al2O3. A raw material cost and a manufacturing cost thereof are lower than those of a rare-earth oxide. Further, electric conductive particles may be added thereto to lower an electrical resistivity. The composite ceramic body is suitably usable as component parts for a semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON TUNGSTEN CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kouta Tsutsumi, Ryou Matsuo, Mitsuyoshi Nagano
  • Patent number: 9048094
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a thin film transistor having favorable electric characteristics and high reliability and a semiconductor device which includes the thin film transistor as a switching element. An In—Ga—Zn—O-based film having an incubation state that shows an electron diffraction pattern, which is different from a conventionally known amorphous state where a halo shape pattern appears and from a conventionally known crystal state where a spot appears clearly, is formed. The In—Ga—Zn—O-based film having an incubation state is used for a channel formation region of a channel etched thin film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akiharu Miyanaga, Junichiro Sakata, Masayuki Sakakura, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20150138692
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of coating a structured surface comprising the steps of providing nanoparticles of a first coating material, and depositing the nanoparticles onto a structured surface using electrophoretic deposition. The structured surface may comprise one or more carbon nanotubes which maybe an array. The coating material may be a dielectric material such as barium titanate which may have a particle size of approximately 20 nm diameter. Following the deposition step a second coating may be provided. The second coating may be hafnium oxide. Also disclosed is a capacitor comprising a first electrode of a structured material, a second electrode of conducting material, and a dielectric layer formed between the first and second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Gehan Anjil Joseph Amaratunga, Youngjin Choi, Sai Giridhar Shivareddy, Nathan Charles Brown, Charles Anthony Neild Collis
  • Patent number: 9034488
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to jewelry articles comprising a substrate and a metallic, external coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Frederick Goldman, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Derrig
  • Publication number: 20150132606
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an information recording medium that has good enough recording characteristics even without containing Pd. The information recording medium has a recording layer including an oxide of Mn in which Mn atoms are partially or fully present as Mn with a valence of +4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kotaro Kurokawa, Yo Ota
  • Patent number: 9028956
    Abstract: A coated article is provided, having a coating supported by a glass substrate where the coating includes at least one color and/or reflectivity-adjusting absorber layer. The absorber layer(s) allows color tuning, and reduces the glass side reflection of the coated article and/or allows sheet resistance of the coating to be reduced without degrading glass side reflection. In certain example embodiments the absorber layer is provided between first and second dielectric layers which may be of substantially the same material and/or composition. In certain example embodiments, the coated article is capable of achieving desirable transmission, together with desired color, low reflectivity, and low selectivity, when having only one infrared (IR) reflecting layer of silver and/or gold. Coated articles according to certain example embodiments of this invention may be used in the context of insulating glass (IG) window units, monolithic windows, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignees: Centre Luxembourgeois de Recherches pour le Verre et la Ceramique S.A. (C.R.V.C.), Guardian Industries Corp.
    Inventors: Hartmut Knoll, Jochen Butz, Uwe Kriltz, Bernd Disteldorf, Jose Ferreira, Pierrot Pallotta
  • Patent number: 9028960
    Abstract: A wear resistant coating suitable to be deposited on cutting tool inserts for chip forming metal machining, includes at least two layers with different grain size, but with essentially the same composition. The coating is deposited by Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Jacob Sjölén, Jon Andersson, Jörg Vetter, Jürgen Müller
  • Patent number: 9028954
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting tool comprising a main part and a multilayer coating applied thereon. A first layer A made of a hard material is applied on the main part, said hard material being selected from titanium aluminum nitride (TiAlN), titanium aluminum silicon nitride (TiAlSiN), chromium nitride (CrN), aluminum chromium nitride (AlCrN), aluminum chromium silicon nitride (AlCrSiN), and zirconium nitride (ZrN), and a second layer B made of silicon nitride (Si3N4) is applied directly over the first layer A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Walter AG
    Inventor: Veit Schier
  • Publication number: 20150125677
    Abstract: Provided is a hard film for a cutting tool formed on a surface of a base material, the hard film being comprised of a nano multi-layered structure comprising a thin layer A, a thin layer B, a thin layer C and a thin layer D or a structure in which the nano multi-layered structure is repeatedly stacked at least twice, wherein the thin layer A is comprised of Ti1-xAlxN (0.5?x?0.7); the thin layer B is comprised of Al1-y-zTiyCrzN (0.3?y?0.6 and 0<z?0.3); the thin layer B is comprised of MeN (where Me is Nb or V); and the thin layer D is comprised of Al1-a-bTiaSibN (0.3?a?0.7 and 0<b<0.1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Je-Hun Park, Jae-Hoon Kang, Seung-Su Ahn, Sung-Hyun Kim, Sung-Gu Lee, Jung-Wook Kim, Sun-Yong Ahn, Dong-Bok Park
  • Publication number: 20150125678
    Abstract: Provided is a hard film formed on a surface of a base material, the hard film being comprised of a nano multi-layered structure formed by stacking a thin layer A, a thin layer B a thin layer C in order of thin layers A-B-A-C from the base material or being comprised of a structure formed by repeatedly stacking the nano multi-layered structure at least twice, wherein the thin layer A is comprised of Ti1-xAlxN (0.3?x?0.7); the thin layer B is comprised of Al1-yCryN (0.3?y?0.7); and the thin layer C is comprised of MeN (where Me is any one of Nb, V, and Cr).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Je-Hun Park, Jae-Hoon Kang, Seung-Su Ahn, Sung-Hyun Kim, Jung-Wook Kim, Sung-Gu Lee, Sun-Yong Ahn, Dong-Bok Park
  • Publication number: 20150125717
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for growing truly bulk In2O3 single crystals from the melt, as well as melt-grown bulk In2O3 single crystals are disclosed. The growth method comprises a controlled decomposition of initially non-conducting In2O3 starting material (23) during heating-up of a noble metal crucible (4) containing the In2O3 starting material (23) and thus increasing electrical conductivity of the In2O3 starting material with rising temperature, which is sufficient to couple with an electromagnetic field of an induction coil (6) through the crucible wall (24) around melting point of In2O3. Such coupling leads to an electromagnetic levitation of at least a portion (23.1) of the liquid In2O3 starting material with a neck (26) formation acting as crystallization seed. During cooling down of the noble metal crucible (4) with the liquid In2O3 starting material at least one bulk In2O3 single crystal (28.1, 28.2) is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: FORSCHUNGSVERBUND BERLIN E.V.
    Inventors: Zbigniew Galazka, Roberto Fornari, Reinhard Uecker
  • Patent number: 9023493
    Abstract: A MAX-phase material is provided for a cutting tool and other applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Inventor: L. Pierre de Rochemont
  • Publication number: 20150118485
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine component includes a substrate formed of a high temperature resistant material and a corrosion resistant layer. The corrosion resistant layer is inert to the molten salt impurities and includes a refractory metal vanadate of formula MxVyOz, wherein M is selected from the group consisting of alkaline earth metals, group IV and V transition metals, rare-earth metals and their combinations, and wherein z=x+2.5y, or z=1.5x+2.5y, or z=2x+2.5y.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Limin WANG, Lawrence Bernard KOOL, Christopher Edward THOMPSON, Dalong ZHONG, Dalong ZHOU, Liming ZHANG
  • Patent number: 9017830
    Abstract: The present invention provides a shearing die having longer life and a method for manufacturing the same. The shearing die includes a pair of substrates, at least one of which has a hard film formed by an arc ion plating method and located at least on a region of a curved surface and on an adjacent region from the end part of the curved surface on the side facing to the surface of the sheet or plate material to 300 ?m along the surface of the substrate. The hard film comprises Al and one or more of Ti and Cr, and has a thickness of 1 to 5 ?m, such that a number of metal particles having a diameter of 20 ?m or more, which are present on a line segment having a length of 10 mm on a surface of the hard film, is 2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., Nippon Koshuha Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Hayashida, Junji Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9017809
    Abstract: In one aspect, cutting tools are described having coatings adhered thereto. A coated cutting tool, in some embodiments, comprises a substrate and a coating adhered to the substrate, the coating comprising at least one composite layer deposited by chemical vapor deposition comprising an aluminum oxynitride phase and a metal oxide phase, the metal oxide phase including at least one oxide of a metallic element selected from Group IVB of the Periodic Table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Volkmar Sottke, Doris Lenk, Hartmut Westphal, Hendrikus Van Den Berg, Peter Leicht, Mark Greenfield, Yixiong Liu
  • Patent number: 9012876
    Abstract: Germanium antimony telluride materials are described, e.g., material of the formula GexSbyTezCmNn, wherein x is about 0.1-0.6, y is about 0-0.7, z is about 0.2-0.9, m is about 0.02-0.20, and n is about 0.2-0.20. One specific composition includes from 0 to 50% Sb, from 50 to 80% Te, from 20 to 50% Ge, from 3 to 20% N and from 2 to 15% carbon, wherein all atomic percentages of all components of the film total to 100 atomic %. Another specific composition includes from 10 to 50% Sb, from 50 to 80% Te, from 10 to 50% Ge, from 3 to 20% N and from 3 to 20% carbon, and wherein all atomic percentages of all components of the film total to 100 atomic %. Material of such composition is useful to form phase change films, e.g., as conformally coated on a phase change memory device substrate to fabricate a phase change random access memory cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Entegris, Inc.
    Inventor: Jun-Fei Zheng
  • Patent number: 9012043
    Abstract: A medical implant device or component thereof comprising a metal substrate and a coating layer structure provided on the substrate. The coating layer structure comprises an outermost layer of a ceramic material. A bonding structure is deposited between the metal substrate and the coating layer structure. The bonding structure comprises a chromium rich layer, which is deposited onto the metal substrate surface and has a higher concentration of chromium than the metal substrate, as well as a gradient layer having a composition gradient from the chromium rich layer towards the surface of the device providing increasing proportions of a gradient material which has structural correspondence with the layer of the coating layer structure that is most adjacent to the bonding structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Ola Wilhelmsson, Tom Eriksson, Per Mårtensson
  • Patent number: 9005764
    Abstract: Provided is a windowpane for a combustion apparatus in which a light-blocking layer containing an inorganic pigment powder and a glass powder is formed on a surface of a transparent crystallized glass plate and the light-blocking layer can sufficiently hide an adhesive, a gasket or the like used to fix the windowpane to the body of the combustion apparatus and which can reduce the occurrence of cracks due to heat in the light-blocking layer. A windowpane for a combustion apparatus in which a light-blocking layer containing an inorganic pigment powder and a glass powder is formed on a surface of a transparent crystallized glass plate, wherein the light-blocking layer contains 30 to 50% by mass of the inorganic pigment powder and 50 to 70% by mass of the glass powder and has a thickness of 1 to 10 ?m and the inorganic pigment powder has an average particle size of 0.8 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shohei Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20150099142
    Abstract: Provided is a sintered oxide compact that has high electric conductivity and a small B-value (temperature coefficient), and is suitable for use as an electrically conductive material, and a circuit board that uses the sintered oxide compact. The sintered oxide compact is represented by a composition formula: REaCobNicOx (where RE represents a rare earth element, a+b+c=1, and 1.3?x?1.7), the sintered oxide compact includes a perovskite phase with a perovskite-type oxide crystal structure, and the a, b, and c satisfy the following relationships: 0.459?a?0.535, 0.200?b?0.475, and 0.025?c?0.300.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: Hisashi Kozuka, Tomoko Hishida, Hideto Yamada, Kazushige Ohbayashi
  • Patent number: 8999532
    Abstract: Provided is a coating layer for cutting tools, as a hard coating layer stacked and formed in the sequence of a TiN layer, a TiCN layer, a bonding layer, an alumina (Al2O3) layer, and a cover layer from the bottom by using a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method on a parent material, able to improve cutting performance, because surface residual stress of the coating layer may be maintained in a compressive stress state by adjusting a composition of the cover layer without using a separate additional process, such as a blasting operation, or a mixed process of CVD and physical vapor deposition (PVD), and simultaneously the cover layer may also be used as a wear-resistant layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Korloy Inc.
    Inventors: Seong Woo Cho, Han Sung Kim, Dong Youl Lee, Dae Suk Han, Young Ho Seo, Seoun Young Ahn, Dong Bok Park
  • Patent number: 8999531
    Abstract: A coated cBN sintered body has excellent wear resistance, fracture resistance, adhesiveness between a substrate and a coating, and a tool life of which is elongated as compared with conventional cBN sintered bodies. The coated cBN sintered body has a cBN sintered body substrate and a coating coated on the surface thereof. The cBN sintered body includes 76 to 90% by volume of cBN, and 10 to 24% by volume of a binder phase and inevitable impurities. An average grain size of cBN is 0.5 to 5.0 ?m, an average value of the thickness of the binder phase is 0.05 to 0.8 ?m, and the standard deviation of the thickness of the binder phase is 0.8 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Tungaloy Corporation
    Inventors: Takahide Kudoh, Naohiro Kagawa, Takashi Umemura
  • Patent number: 8999511
    Abstract: A cBN sintered body tool has the following feature. In at least one cross sectional surface of the cBN sintered body tool taken along a plane perpendicular to a joining surface having the largest area in joining surfaces between the cBN sintered body and the joining layer, a point C and a point D are assumed to represent points away by ¼ of the length of a line segment connecting a point A and a point B shown in a figure. A value obtained when an area of a region surrounded by a line segment connecting the point C and the point D, the first cBN particle, the second cBN particle, and the binder phase is divided by the length of the line segment connecting the point A and point B to each other is 0.14-0.6 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Yasunori Kobayashi, Satoru Kukino, Makoto Setoyama
  • Patent number: 8993131
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a metal-containing apparatus including a substrate member constructed of a metal that is highly resistant to pitting corrosion and wear in aggressive media. An exemplary metal-containing apparatus is a plate heat exchanger. The metal includes an oxidation layer on the surface thereof and a thin metal oxide nanoporous film on top of the oxidation layer. The nanoporous film is highly compliant and is comprised of oxygen and aluminum, titanium, silicon, zirconium and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Marc A. Anderson, M. Isabel Tejedor, Ole Christensen
  • Patent number: 8986841
    Abstract: A process for reinforcing a glass-ceramic article, into which a maximum tension is introduced beneath the surface of the glass-ceramic, advantageously in proximity to said surface. The invention also relates to an enamel that can be used for this reinforcement, this enamel being formed from a glass frit having the following composition, the proportions being expressed as weight percentages: SiO2 50-66% MgO 3-8% Na2O ?7-15% K2O 0-3% Li2O ?0-12% CaO ?0-10% BaO ?0-15% Al2O3 0-3% ZrO2 0-3% ZnO 0-5% B2O3 0-8% the sum of the alkaline-earth metal oxides CaO+BaO moreover being between 8 and 15%, and the sum of the alkali metal oxides Na2O+K2O+Li2O moreover being between 7 and 20%. The reinforced glass-ceramics obtained by the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Eurokera S.N.C.
    Inventors: Stephanie Pelletier, Marie-Helene Chopinet, Caroline Faillat, Marie-Helene Rouillon, Pablo Vilato
  • Patent number: 8980446
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for depositing mixed crystal layers with at least two different metals on a substrate by means of PVD methods. To provide a method of depositing mixed crystal layers with at least two different metals on a substrate by means of PVD methods, which gives mixed crystal layers which are as free as possible of macroparticles (droplets) and which have a proportion as high as possible of a desired crystalline phase and which are highly crystalline, it is proposed according to the invention that deposition of the mixed crystal layer is effected with simultaneous application of i) the cathode sputtering method of dual magnetron sputtering or high power impulse magnetron sputtering and ii) arc vapour deposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Walter AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Engelhart, Veit Schier
  • Patent number: 8980386
    Abstract: Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to articles including anticondenzation coatings that are exposed to an external environment, and/or methods of making the same. In certain example embodiments, the anticondenzation coatings may be survivable in an outside environment. The coatings also may have a sufficiently low sheet resistance and hemispherical emissivity such that the glass surface is more likely to retain heat from the interior area, thereby reducing (and sometimes completely eliminating) the presence condensation thereon. The articles of certain example embodiments may be, for example, skylights, vehicle windows or windshields, IG units, VIG units, refrigerator/freezer doors, and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Guardian Industries Corp.
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Lemmer, Nestor P. Murphy
  • Patent number: 8980445
    Abstract: A semiconductor crystal and associated growth method are disclosed. The crystal includes a seed portion and a growth portion on the seed portion. The seed portion and the growth portion form a substantially right cylindrical single crystal of silicon carbide. A seed face defines an interface between the growth portion and the seed portion, with the seed face being substantially parallel to the bases of the right cylindrical crystal and being off-axis with respect to a basal plane of the single crystal. The growth portion replicates the polytype of the seed portion and the growth portion has a diameter of at least about 100 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert T. Leonard, Mark Brady, Adrian Powell
  • Patent number: 8980434
    Abstract: Alumina-containing coatings based on molybdenum (Mo), silicon (Si), and boron (B) (“MoSiB coatings”) that form protective, oxidation-resistant scales on ceramic substrate at high temperatures are provided. The protective scales comprise an aluminoborosilicate glass, and may additionally contain molybdenum. Two-stage deposition methods for forming the coatings are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: John Harry Perepezko, Ridwan Sakidja, Patrick Ritt
  • Publication number: 20150072138
    Abstract: A rigid decorative member of the present invention is a rigid decorative member comprising a base and a rigid coating layer laminated on or above the base, wherein the rigid coating layer comprises a reaction compound of raw metal, in which a metal M1 and a metal M2, and in addition, selectively a metal M3 are combined, and of a non-metallic element selected from one or two or more of nitrogen, carbon, and oxygen, or comprises an alloy in which a metal M1 and a metal M2, and in addition, selectively a metal M3 are combined; the metal M1 is selected from one or two of Mo and W; the metal M2 is selected from one or two or more of Nb, Ta, and V; and the metal M3 is selected from one or two or more of Cr, Ti, Hf, and Zr.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicants: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koutarou Takazaki
  • Patent number: 8974924
    Abstract: A component comprises a substrate having an alumina base layer, a transition layer, and a surface coating. The transition layer comprises alumina and silica, and the surface coating preferentially bonds to the silica as compared to the alumina.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Weber, Naoto Matsuyuki
  • Publication number: 20150064469
    Abstract: Provided is a colored rigid decorative member in which scratch resistance is improved, and deterioration of appearance quality due to a flaw, abrasion, or the like is suppressed, and which has various color variations with a high quality feel. An alloy adhesion layer having a high adhesion effect, an alloy gradient adhesion layer of which the content of a reactant gas is increased in a gradient manner, an abrasion-resistant layer having high hardness, an alloy recolored gradient layer of which the content of a reactant gas is decreased in a gradient manner, and a colored decorative layer having high decorativeness and color variations on the outermost layer are formed on a base using a film with an alloy of a metal having the high effect of adhering to a metal and high brightness (metal having poor corrosion resistance; Mo, W), a metal having high film hardness and high corrosion resistance (metal having poor adhesion; Nb, Ta), and a metal improving corrosion resistance performance (Cr, Ti, Hf, Zr).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventor: Koutarou Takazaki
  • Publication number: 20150064430
    Abstract: Disclosed is a heat insulation layer system for metallic components, in particular for components stressed by high temperatures and/or hot gas, of a flow machine, having at least one heat insulation layer of a material comprising at least one component having at least one phase which stoichiometrically contains from 1 to 80 mol % of Mx2O3, from 0.5 to 80 mol % of MyO with Al2O3 and unavoidable impurities as balance, where Mx is selected from the elements lanthanum, neodymium, chromium or mixtures thereof and My is selected from alkaline earth metals, transition metals, rare earths or mixtures thereof, where an Al2O3 layer is present on the at least one heat insulation layer on the side facing away from the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventor: Philipp DOEBBER
  • Publication number: 20150056431
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating system comprising at least one multi-layered film formed of alternated A- and B-nanolayers deposited one on each other characterized in that the A-nanolayers contain essentially aluminium chromium boron nitride and the B-nanolayers contain essentially aluminium chromium nitride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Mirjam Arnd, Markus Lechthaler, Sebastian Stein, Anders Olof Eriksson
  • Patent number: 8962162
    Abstract: A composition that upon firing, forms a non-stick enamel layer is disclosed. The composition can be applied to a metal substrate to provide a non-stick, durable coating for cooking surfaces. Also disclosed are methods of forming enamel layers and corresponding coated substrates. Various ground coats and related methods are also described. Furthermore, various multilayer coatings and structures are disclosed that include an enamel layer and a ground coat layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Ferro Corporation
    Inventors: Albert L. Benford, Jr., Andrew Gorecki, Louis J. Gazo, Charles A. Baldwin
  • Publication number: 20150050490
    Abstract: In one aspect, coated cutting tools are described herein comprising a substrate and a coating comprising a refractory layer deposited by physical vapor deposition adhered to the substrate, the refractory layer comprising M1-xAlxN wherein x?0.68 and M is titanium, chromium or zirconium, the refractory layer including a cubic crystalline phase and having hardness of at least 25 GPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Vineet Kumar, Ronald Penich, Yixiong Liu
  • Publication number: 20150051080
    Abstract: The films of this invention are high temperature superconducting (HTS) thin films specifically optimized for microwave and RF applications. In particular, this invention focuses on compositions with a significant deviation from the 1:2:3 stoichiometry in order to create the films optimized for microwave/RF applications. The RF/microwave HTS applications require the HTS thin films to have superior microwave properties, specifically low surface resistance, Rs, and highly linear surface reactance, Xs, i.e. high JIMD. As such, the invention is characterized in terms of its physical composition, surface morphology, superconducting properties, and performance characteristics of microwave circuits made from these films.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: BRIAN MOECKLY, VIKTOR GLIANTSEV, SHING-JEN PENG, BALAM WILLEMSEN
  • Patent number: 8956722
    Abstract: The invention thus relates to a layer system (1) for the formation of a surface layer on a surface of a substrate, in particular on the surface of a tool, in particular on the surface of a shaping tool, wherein the layer system includes at least a first surface layer of the composition (VaMebMcXd)?(NuCvOw)?, where (a+b+c+d)=?, ?=100%, with respect to the atoms Va,Meb,Mc,Xd present in the layer, (u+v+w)=?. ?=100 with respect to the atoms N, C, O present in the layer, with the sum of all the atoms in the layer (?+?)=100 at %, where 40???80 at % applies, and where Meb is at least one element from the group of chemical elements including Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta, Mo, W, Ni, Cu, Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm of the periodic system of chemical elements and Mc is at least one element of the group of chemical elements including Ti, Cr, and Xd is at least one element from the group of chemical elements including S, Se, Si, B of the periodic system of elements, where 0?u?100, 0?v?100 and 0?w?80.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Oerlikon Metaplas GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Vetter, Georg Erkens
  • Publication number: 20150044508
    Abstract: Provided is a rigid decorative member that has high film hardness, is excellent in scratch resistance performance and abrasion resistance performance, and has excellent color brightness and color saturation. The rigid decorative member of the present invention is a rigid decorative member wherein a reaction compound film of an alloy of Cr and a metal selected from one or two or more of Mo, W, Nb, Ta, Ti, Hf, Zr, and V, and of a non-metallic element selected from one or two or more of nitrogen, carbon, and oxygen is formed on a substrate. There is provided the rigid decorative member significantly improved in scratch resistance and abrasion resistance and having a color tone with a high quality feel; and there is further supplied a product of which the color tones of brightness and color saturation can be freely controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventor: Koutarou Takazaki
  • Publication number: 20150044453
    Abstract: A golden rigid decorative member in which scratch resistance and abrasion resistance are significantly improved and deterioration of appearance quality due to a flaw, abrasion, or the like is suppressed, and which has a pale color with a high quality feel is stably provided. A single layer or several layers of a coating including a reaction compound of an alloy of Ti and one or two or more metals selected from Nb, Ta, and V, and of one or two non-metallic elements mainly including nitrogen and selected from carbon and oxygen are stacked on a base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventor: Koutarou Takazaki
  • Publication number: 20150037594
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a glass composition in which foaming due to a reaction with a nitride film is suppressed. A glass composition contains, in mole percentage based on following oxides, 30% to 90% of TeO2, 0% to 60% of ZnO, 0% to 24% of B2O3, 0% to 8% of Li2O+Na2O+K2O, 0% to 8% of Al2O3, 0% to 17% of Bi2O3, 0% to 30% of V2O5, and 0% to 10% of SiO2; and does not substantially contain any of components which includes F, Pb, Cd, W, Mo, Ag, or Gd.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Sohei KAWANAMI
  • Patent number: 8945250
    Abstract: A cutting tool insert for turning of hardened steels and tool steels includes a textured CVD ?-Al2O3 coated cemented carbide body. The cemented carbide body has 4.0-7.0 wt-% Co and 0.25-0.50 wt-% Cr and an S-value of 0.68-0.88 and a coercivity (Hc) of 28-38 kA/m. The ?-Al2O3 layer has a thickness ranging from 7 to 12 ?m, is composed of columnar grains having a length/width ratio from 2 to 12 and is deposited on an MTCVD Ti(C,N) layer having a thickness from 4 to 12 ?m. The alumina layer is characterised by a pronounced (006) growth texture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventor: Hindrik Engstrom