Containing Boron(b) Or Nitrogen(n) Patents (Class 75/244)
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Publication number: 20130052472Abstract: A powder metal compact is disclosed. The powder metal compact comprises a cellular nanomatrix comprising a metallic nanomatrix material. The powder metal compact also comprises a plurality of dispersed particles comprising a metallic particle core material dispersed in the cellular nanomatrix, the particle core material comprising a nanostructured material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Inventor: Zhiyue Xu
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Publication number: 20130047785Abstract: A powder metal compact is disclosed. The powder metal compact includes a cellular nanomatrix comprising a nanomatrix material. The powder metal compact also includes a plurality of dispersed particles comprising a particle core material that comprises an Mg—Zr, Mg—Zn—Zr, Mg—Al—Zn—Mn, Mg—Zn—Cu—Mn or Mg—W alloy, or a combination thereof, dispersed in the cellular nanomatrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Inventor: Zhiyue Xu
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Publication number: 20130052075Abstract: A wear pad of a band saw guide exposed to wear from a moving band saw blade is produced in a powder metallurgical manner from a steel material having the following composition, in percent by weight: 0.01-2 C, 0.01-3.0 Si, 0.01-10.0 Mn, 16-33 Cr, max. 5 Ni, 0.01-5.0 (W+Mo/2), max. 9 Co, max. 0.5 S, 1.6-9.8 N, 7.5 to 14 of (V+Nb/2), wherein the contents of N and of (V+Nb/2) are balanced in relation to each other so that the contents of the elements are within a range I?, F?, G, H, I? in a coordinate system, where the content of N is the abscissa and the content of (V+Nb/2) is the ordinate, and where the coordinates for the points (in the format [x: (N, (V+Nb/2)]) are [I?: (1.6, 7.5)], [F?: (5.8, 7.5)], [G: (9.8, 14.0)], and [H: (2.6, 14.0)], max 7 of any of Ti, Zr, and Al; and a balance essentially only iron and unavoidable impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Inventor: Jan Boström
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Publication number: 20130047786Abstract: A corrosion resistant, neutron absorbing, austenitic alloy powder is disclosed having the following composition in weight percent. C 0.08 max. Mn up to 3 Si up to 2 P 0.05 max. S 0.03 max. Cr 17-27 Ni 11-20 Mo + (W/1.92) ??up to 5.2 BEq 0.78-13.0 O ?0.1 max. N ??up to 0.2 Y less than 0.005 The alloy contains at least about 0.25% B, at least about 0.05% Gd, and the balance of the alloy composition is iron and usual impurities. BEq is defined as % B+4.35×(% Gd). An article of manufacture made from consolidated alloy powder is also disclosed which is characterized by a plurality of boride and gadolinide particles dispersed within a matrix. The boride and gadolinide particles are predominantly M2B, M3B2, M3X, and M5X in form, where X is gadolinium or a combination of gadolinium and boron and M is one or more of the elements silicon, chromium, nickel, molybdenum, iron.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Inventors: Michael L. Schmidt, Gregory J. Del Corso, Patrick C. Ray, Ning Ma
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Publication number: 20130000982Abstract: A hard composite composition may comprise a binder and a polymodal blend of matrix powder. The polymodal blend of matrix powder may have at least one first local maxima at a particle size of about 0.5 nm to about 30 ?m, at least one second local maxima at a particle size of about 200 ?m to about 10 mm, and at least one local minima between a particle size of about 30 ?m to about 200 ?m that has a value that is less than the first local maxima.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2011Publication date: January 3, 2013Inventor: Garrett T. Olsen
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Patent number: 8333848Abstract: The present invention relates to a permanent magnet manufactured by steps of: wet-pulverizing a high-melting metal element-containing organic compound or a precursor of a high-melting ceramic in a solvent together with a magnet raw material to pulverize the magnet raw material into fine particles having a grain size of 3 ?m or less and to coat a surface of the pulverized magnet raw material with the high-melting metal element-containing organic compound or the precursor of the high-melting ceramic; adding a resin binder to the magnet raw material coated with the high-melting metal element-containing organic compound or the precursor of the high-melting ceramic; producing a slurry by kneading the magnet raw material and the resin binder; molding the slurry into a sheet form to prepare a green sheet; and sintering the green sheet.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Izumi Ozeki, Katsuya Kume, Junichi Nakayama, Yuuki Fukuda, Toshinobu Hoshino, Tomokazu Horio
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Patent number: 8317893Abstract: Methods, systems, and compositions for manufacturing downhole tools and downhole tool parts for drilling subterranean material are disclosed. A model having an external peripheral shape of a downhole tool or tool part is fabricated. Mold material is applied to the external periphery of the model. The mold material is permitted to harden to form a mold about the model. The model is eliminated and a composite matrix material is cast within the mold to form a finished downhole tool or tool part.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2011Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: John H. Stevens, Jimmy W. Eason
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Patent number: 8317941Abstract: An R-T-B based sintered magnet according to the present invention has a composition including: 27.3 mass % to 29.5 mass % of R; 0.92 mass % to 1 mass % of B; 0.05 mass % to 0.3 mass % of Cu; 0.02 mass % to 0.5 mass % of M; and T as the balance, and has an oxygen content of 0.02 mass % to 0.2 mass %. The main phase of the sintered magnet is an R2T14B type compound. The crystal grain size of the main phase is represented by an equivalent circle diameter of 8 ?m or less. And crystal grains with equivalent circle diameters of 4 ?m or less account for at least 80% of the overall area of the main phase.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Futoshi Kuniyoshi, Rintaro Ishii
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Patent number: 8318045Abstract: Disclosed is a radiation shielding member having improved radiation absorption performance, including 80.0˜99.0 wt % of a polymer matrix or metal matrix and 1.0˜20.0 wt % of a radiation shielding material in the form of nano-particles having a size of 10˜900 nm as a result of pulverization, wherein the radiation shielding material is homogeneously dispersed in the matrix through powder mixing or melt mixing after treatment with a surfactant which is the same material as the matrix or which has high affinity for the matrix. A preparation method thereof is also provided. This radiation shielding member including the nano-particles as the shielding material further increases the collision probability of the shielding material with radiation, compared to conventional shielding members including micro-particles, thus reducing the mean free path of radiation in the shielding member, thereby exhibiting superior radiation shielding effects.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Korea Atomic Energy Research InstituteInventors: Jaewoo Kim, Young Rang Uhm, Byungchul Lee, Jinwoo Jung, Chang Kyu Rhee, Min-Ku Lee, Hee Min Lee, Sang Hoon Lee
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Patent number: 8303681Abstract: A mixed powder and a sintered body obtained by sintering the mixed powder. The mixed powder includes a solid-solution powder with complete solid-solution phase. The solid-solution powder includes a carbide or a carbonitride of at least two metals selected, including Ti, from metals of Groups IVa, Va and VIa of the periodic table, or a mixture thereof. A mixed cermet powder and a cermet obtained by sintering the mixed cermet powder are also disclosed. The mixed cermet powder includes at least a cermet powder with complete solid-solution phase. The cermet powder includes a carbide or a carbonitride of at least two metals selected, including Ti, from metals of Groups IVa, Va and VIa of the periodic table, or a mixture thereof, and at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Ni, Co and Fe. Also disclosed are a sintered body and a fabrication method of a cermet.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2007Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Seoul National University Industry FoundationInventors: Shin-Hoo Kang, Jin-Kwan Jung, Han-Jung Kwon
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Publication number: 20120276393Abstract: A multiphase composite system is made by binding hard particles, such as TiC particles, of various sizes with a mixture of titanium powder and aluminum, nickel, and titanium in a master alloy or as elemental materials to produce a composite system that has advantageous energy absorbing characteristics. The multiple phases of this composite system include an aggregate phase of hard particles bound with a matrix phase. The matrix phase has at least two phases with varying amounts of aluminum, nickel, and titanium. The matrix phase forms a bond with the hard particles and has varying degrees of hard and ductile phases. The composite system may be used alone or bonded to other materials such as bodies of titanium or ceramic in the manufacture of ballistic armor tiles.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventor: Robert G. LEE
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Publication number: 20120204677Abstract: There is provided a novel sintered sliding member superior in thermal resistance, corrosion resistance and wear resistance. The sintered sliding member of the present invention includes 7.7-30.3% Cu, 2.0-20.0% Sn and 0.3-7.0% boron nitride by mass, with a remainder composed of Ni and unavoidable impurities. The sintered sliding member may further include 0.1-3.0% C or 0.1-0.7% P. A porosity of the sintered sliding member is 5-25%.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2010Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: Diamet CorporationInventors: Yoshinari Ishii, Tsuneo Maruyama, Yoshiki Tamura
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Patent number: 8231703Abstract: A family of materials wherein nanostructures and/or nanotubes are incorporated into a multi-component material arrangement, such as a metallic or ceramic alloy or composite/aggregate, producing a new material or metallic/ceramic alloy. The new material has significantly increased strength, up to several thousands of times normal and perhaps substantially more, as well as significantly decreased weight. The new materials may be manufactured into a component where the nanostructure or nanostructure reinforcement is incorporated into the bulk and/or matrix material, or as a coating where the nanostructure or nanostructure reinforcement is incorporated into the coating or surface of a “normal” substrate material. The nanostructures are incorporated into the material structure either randomly or aligned, within grains, or along or across grain boundaries.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2005Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLCInventors: Roland D. Seals, Edward B. Ripley, Gerard M. Ludtka
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Patent number: 8222785Abstract: A magnet comprising grains of a ferromagnetic material whose main component is iron and a fluorine compound layer or an oxy-fluorine compound layer of fluoride compound particles of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals and rare earth elements, present on the surface of the ferromagnetic material grains, wherein an amount of iron atoms in the fluorine compound particles is 1 to 50 atomic %.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2011Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Matahiro Komuro, Yuichi Satsu, Takao Imagawa
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Patent number: 8216338Abstract: Disclosed is a composition for a bush-type bearing, a bush-type bearing manufactured using the composition, and a method of manufacturing the bush-type bearing. The bearing has excellent friction characteristics with a shaft made of iron (Fe) based material, and thus is able to increase the lubrication cycle of a lubricant. Further, the bearing has excellent hardness, and thus is able to prevent plastic deformation under high contact pressure.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2007Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Doosan Infracore Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong-Seob Shim, Chung-Rea Lee
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Publication number: 20120103135Abstract: A powder metal composite is disclosed. The powder metal composite includes a substantially-continuous, cellular nanomatrix comprising a nanomatrix material. The compact also includes a plurality of dispersed particles comprising a particle core material that comprises Mg, Al, Zn or Mn, or a combination thereof, dispersed in the nanomatrix, the core material of the dispersed particles comprising a plurality a plurality of distributed carbon nanoparticles, and a bond layer extending throughout the nanomatrix between the dispersed particles. The nanomatrix powder metal composites are uniquely lightweight, high-strength materials that also provide uniquely selectable and controllable corrosion properties, including very rapid corrosion rates, useful for making a wide variety of degradable or disposable articles, including various downhole tools and components.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventors: Zhiyue Xu, Soma Chakraborty, Gaurav Agrawal
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Patent number: 8168118Abstract: A method of forming a sputtering target and other metal articles having controlled oxygen and nitrogen content levels and the articles so formed are described. The method includes surface-nitriding a deoxidized metal powder and further includes consolidating the powder by a powder metallurgy technique. Preferred metal powders include, but are not limited to, valve metals, including tantalum, niobium, and alloys thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2009Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventors: Christopher A. Michaluk, Shi Yuan, James D. Maguire, Jr.
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Publication number: 20120079916Abstract: The reinforced particulate aluminum metal matrix composite for brakes is used to form a brake component, such as a brake rotor, a brake coupler or the like. The composite is formed from an aluminum metal matrix reinforced with ceramic particulates. The ceramic particulates have a particulate diameter between about 0.1 and 1.0 micrometers and form greater than about 10% by volume of the reinforced particulate aluminum metal matrix composite.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2010Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALSInventors: AMRO M. AL-QUTUB, MIRZA M. BAIG
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Publication number: 20120019341Abstract: Composite RE-TM permanent magnets fabricated by using powders and nanoflakes produced by surfactant-assisted, wet, high energy, ball milling, with or without prior dry, high energy, ball milling; where RE represents rare earth elements and TM represents transition metals and where the powders include Fe nanoparticles, Fe—Co nanoparticles, B2O3, mica, MoS2, CaF2 powders and combinations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2010Publication date: January 26, 2012Inventors: Alexandr Gabay, Baozhi Cui, Melania Marinescu, Jinfang Liu, George C. Hadjipanayis
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Patent number: 8043404Abstract: Disclosed herein are extruded titanium metal matrix composites with enhanced ductility. Also disclosed is the extrusion at high extrusion ratio of titanium metal matrix composites produced by powder metal processes. The ductility and machinability of these titanium metal matrix composites extruded at high extrusion ratios combined with their wear resistance and excellent imaging characteristics makes these high extrusion ratio extruded titanium metal matrix composites useful as biological implants, including prosthetic devices. Also disclosed are articles such as orthopedic implants for knee, hip, spine or other biomedical devices, with enhanced properties, made from the disclosed extruded material.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2006Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Dynamet Technology, Inc.Inventors: Stanley Abkowitz, Susan M. Abkowitz, Harvey Fisher, Patricia J. Schwartz
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Patent number: 8034153Abstract: A composition for coating sliding or rolling or fretting or impacting members is formed by preparing a composite powder of TiB2 and BN, with a TiB2 to BN ratio ranging from 1:7 to 20:1, and a metallic matrix selected from the group consisting of nickel, chromium, iron, cobalt, aluminum, tungsten, carbon and alloys thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2006Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Momentive Performances Materials, Inc.Inventors: Robert Marchiando, Jon Leist
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Patent number: 8007561Abstract: A cermet insert having a structure composed of a hard phase and a binding phase and, as a sintered body composition, containing Ti, Nb and/or Ta, and W in a total amount of Ti in terms of carbonitride, Nb and/or Ta in terms of carbide and W in terms of carbide of 70 to 95 wt. % of an entirety of the microstructure, and containing W in terms of carbide in an amount of 15 to 35 wt. % of the entirety of the microstructure, the sintered body composition further containing Co and/or Ni. The hard phase has one or two or more of the phases: (1) a first hard phase of a core-having structure whose core portion contains a titanium carbonitride phase and a peripheral portion containing a (Ti, W, Ta/Nb)CN phase, (2) a second hard phase of a core-having structure whose core portion and peripheral portion both contain a (Ti, W, Ta/Nb)CN phase, and (3) a third hard phase of single-phase structure including a titanium cabonitride phase.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2006Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignees: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Materials CorporationInventors: Tomoaki Shindo, Atsushi Komura, Hiroaki Takashima, Toshiyuki Taniuchi, Masafumi Fukumura, Kei Takahashi
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Patent number: 8007922Abstract: An article includes a working portion including cemented carbide, and a heat sink portion in thermal communication with the working portion. The heat sink portion includes a heat sink material having a thermal conductivity greater than a thermal conductivity of the cemented carbide. Also disclosed are methods of making an article including a working portion comprising cemented carbide, and a heat sink portion in thermal communication with the working portion and including a heat sink material having a thermal conductivity that is greater than a thermal conductivity of the cemented carbide. The heat sink portion conducts heat from the working portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2007Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: TDY Industries, IncInventors: Prakash K. Mirchandani, Alfred J. Mosco, Eric W. Olsen, Steven G. Caldwell
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Patent number: 7972450Abstract: A magnet comprising grains of a ferromagnetic material whose main component is iron and a fluorine compound layer or an oxy-fluorine compound layer of fluoride compound particles of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals and rare earth elements, present on the surface of the ferromagnetic material grains, wherein an amount of iron atoms in the fluorine compound particles is 1 to 50 atomic %.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Matahiro Komuro, Yuichi Satsu, Takao Imagawa
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Publication number: 20110132143Abstract: A powder metal compact is disclosed. The powder metal compact includes a substantially-continuous, cellular nanomatrix comprising a nanomatrix material. The compact also includes a plurality of dispersed particles comprising a particle core material that comprises Mg, Al, Zn or Mn, or a combination thereof, dispersed in the nanomatrix and a solid-state bond layer extending throughout the nanomatrix between the dispersed particles. The nanomatrix powder metal compacts are uniquely lightweight, high-strength materials that also provide uniquely selectable and controllable corrosion properties, including very rapid corrosion rates, useful for making a wide variety of degradable or disposable articles, including various downhole tools and components.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2009Publication date: June 9, 2011Inventors: Zhiyue Xu, Gaurav Agrawal
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Patent number: 7955526Abstract: A composite material (M) comprising: at least 75% by volume of a mixed electronic conductor compound oxygen anions O<2->(C1) selected from doped ceramic compounds which, at the temperature of use, are present in the form of a crystalline network having ion oxide lattice vacancies and, more particularly, in the form of a cubic phase, a fluorite phase, a perovskite phase, of the aurivillius variety, a Brown-Millerite phase or a pyrochlore phase; and 0.01%-25% by volume of a compound (C2) which is different from compound (C1), selected from oxide-type ceramic materials, non-oxide type ceramic materials, metals, metal alloys or mixtures of said different types of material; and 0%-2.5% by volume of a compound (C3) produced from at least one chemical reaction represented by the equation: xFC1+yFC2 - - - >zFC3, wherein FC1, FC2 and FC3 represent the raw formulae of compounds (C1), (C2) and (C3) and x, y and z represent rational numbers above or equal to 0.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2004Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme a Directoire et Conseil de Surveillance pour l 'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges ClaudeInventors: Pascal Del Gallo, Thierry Chartier, Gregory Etchegoyen
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Publication number: 20110091345Abstract: A method for producing a high strength aluminum alloy tubing containing L12 dispersoids from an aluminum alloy powder containing the L12 dispersoids. The powder is consolidated into a billet having a density of about 100 percent. The tube is formed by at least one of direct extrusion, Mannesmann process, pilgering, and rolling.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2009Publication date: April 21, 2011Applicant: United Technologies CorporationInventor: Awadh B. Pandey
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Publication number: 20110091346Abstract: A method for producing a high strength aluminum alloy parts containing L12 dispersoids from an aluminum alloy powder containing the L12 dispersoids. The powder is consolidated into a billet having a density of about 100 percent. The billet is extruded using an extrusion die shaped to produce a forging billet. The L12 alloy billet is isothermally forged to produce a forging with improved mechanical properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2009Publication date: April 21, 2011Applicant: United Technologies CorporationInventor: Awadh B. Pandey
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Publication number: 20110064599Abstract: A method for producing a high strength aluminum alloy brackets, cases, tubes, ducts, beams, spars and other parts containing L12 dispersoids from an aluminum alloy powder containing the L12 dispersoids. The powder is consolidated into a billet having a density of about 100 percent. The billet is extruded using an extrusion die shaped to produce the component.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2009Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventor: Awadh B. Pandey
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Publication number: 20110020163Abstract: The present invention relates to a super-hard enhanced hard-metal comprising particulate hard material and a binder and at least one formation, the formation comprising a core cluster and a plurality of satellite clusters, spaced from, surrounding and smaller than the core cluster, and the core cluster and satellite clusters each comprising a plurality of contiguous super-hard particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2009Publication date: January 27, 2011Inventor: Roger William Nigel Nilen
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Patent number: 7857188Abstract: Friction stir welding tools made of a hardmetal including hard particles having a first material and a binder matrix having a second, different material.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2007Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Worldwide Strategy Holding LimitedInventor: Shaiw-Rong Scott Liu
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Patent number: 7789933Abstract: An R-T-B based sintered magnet according to the present invention comprises: 12 at % to 15 at % of a rare-earth element R; 5.0 at % to 8.0 at % of boron B; 0.02 at % to 0.2 at % of Mn; and a transition metal T as the balance. The rare-earth element R is at least one element selected from the rare-earth elements, including Y (yttrium), and includes 0.2 at % to 8 at % of Pr. And the transition element T includes Fe as its main element.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2009Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventor: Hiroyuki Tomizawa
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Publication number: 20100196734Abstract: Wear protection sheets containing hard material particles having a metallic shell and solder material particles selected from the group consisting of soft solders, hard solders and high-temperature solders, the use of the wear protection sheets and a process for producing them by tape casting are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2009Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicants: H.C. Starck Inc.Inventors: Michael Svec, Karl-Hermann Buchner, Hans-Peter Baldus, Aloys Eiling, Jim Ryan
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Patent number: 7740715Abstract: An R-T-B based sintered magnet according to the present invention has a composition comprising: 12 at % to 15 at % of a rare-earth element R; 5.0 at % to 8.0 at % of boron B; 0.1 at % to at % of Al; 0.02 at % to less than 0.2 at % of Mn; and a transition metal T as the balance. The rare-earth element R is at least one element selected from the rare-earth elements, including Y (yttrium), and includes at least one of Nd and Pr. The transition element T includes Fe as its main element.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2009Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventor: Hiroyuki Tomizawa
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Patent number: 7740716Abstract: The present invention provides a technique to improve an adhesion strength between a magnet main body and a protective film. The rare earth sintered magnet of the present invention comprises a magnet main body of a sintered body containing a rare earth element and a protective film formed on the magnet main body, wherein the ratio of a 10-point average surface roughness Rz of the magnet main body on which the protective film is formed to a mean grain size D50 in the magnet main body (Rz/D50 ratio) is kept in a range from 0.20 to 10.00, inclusive. This gives the rare earth sintered magnet which is coated with the protective film having a high adhesion strength of 100 N/m or more and exhibits high corrosion resistance.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2005Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Yasushi Enokido, Gouichi Nishizawa, Chikara Ishizaka
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Publication number: 20100143620Abstract: An article coated with a highly durable, wetting resistant coating is provided. The article comprises a coating that comprises a cermet material. The cermet material includes a nickel-bearing metal matrix and a phase disposed within the matrix. The phase includes an anion moiety, for example nitrogen, carbon, or boron; and a cation moiety, for example chromium, zirconium, titanium, vanadium, hafnium, niobium, or tantalum. The phase is present in the cermet at a level of at least about 5 volume %.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2008Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Leonardo Ajdelsztajn, James Anthony Ruud, Dalong Zhong, Molly Maureen Gentleman
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Patent number: 7731776Abstract: Multimodal cermet compositions comprising a multimodal grit distribution of the ceramic phase and method of making are provided by the present invention. The multimodal cermet compositions include a) a ceramic phase and b) a metal binder phase, wherein the ceramic phase is a metal boride with a multimodal distribution of particles, wherein at least one metal is selected from the group consisting of Group IV, Group V, Group VI elements of the Long Form of The Periodic Table of Elements and mixtures thereof, and wherein the metal binder phase comprises at least one first element selected from the group consisting of Fe, Ni, Co, Mn and mixtures thereof, and at least second element selected from the group consisting of Cr, Al, Si and Y, and Ti.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2005Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: ChangMin Chun, Narasimha-Rao V. Bangaru, Neeraj S. Thirumalai, Hyun-Woo Jin, Jayoung Koo, John R. Peterson, Robert L. Antram, Christopher J. Fowler, Emery B. Lendvai-Lintner
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Patent number: 7722726Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing alloy flakes for rare earth sintered magnets, which makes uniform the intervals, size, orientation, and shape of the R-rich region and the dendrites of the 2-14-1 phase, which inhibits formation of chill, and which produces flakes that are pulverized into powder of a uniform particle size in the pulverization step in the production of a rare earth sintered magnet, and that are pulverized into powder compactable into a product with a controlled shrink ratio, and alloy flakes for a rare earth sintered magnet obtained by the method, and a rare earth sintered magnet having excellent magnetic properties.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2005Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Santoku CorporationInventors: Kazumasa Shintani, Ryo Murakami, Kazuhiko Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20100086434Abstract: The present invention relates to a niobium alloy for capacitors comprising as an alloy component from 0.01 to 10 atom of at least one element selected from the group consisting of the elements belonging to Groups 2 to 16 of the periodic table and further comprising diniobium mononitride crystals of from 0.1 to 70 mass %, wherein a powder of the niobium alloy has an average particle size of 0.05 to 5 ?m and a BET specific surface area of 0.5 to 40 m2/g, a granulated product of the niobium alloy having an average particle size of 10 to 500 ?m, a sintered body of the powder of the niobium alloy or granulated product thereof, a capacitor and a producing method thereof using the sintered body. A niobium capacitor using the powder of the niobium alloy of the present invention or a granulated product thereof has high capacitance and small leakage current value and is excellent in high-temperature property and heat resistance property.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2009Publication date: April 8, 2010Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.KInventors: Kazuhiro OMORI, Kazumi Naito
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Patent number: 7662207Abstract: The invention provides a super hard and tough, nano-crystal austenite steel bulk material having an improved corrosion resistance, and its preparation process. The austenite steel bulk material comprises an aggregate of austenite nano-crystal grains containing 0.1 to 2.0% (by mass) of a solid solution type nitrogen, wherein an oxide, nitride, carbide or the like of a metal or semimetal exists as a crystal grain growth inhibitor between and/or in said nano-crystal grains. For preparation, fine powders of austenite steel-forming components, i.e., iron and chromium, nickel, manganese, carbon or the like are mixed with a substance that becomes a nitrogen source. Mechanical alloying (MA) is applied to the mixture, thereby preparing nano-crystal austenite steel powders having a high nitrogen concentration. Finally, the austenite steel powders are consolidated by sintering by means of spark plasma sintering, rolling or the like.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2003Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Nano Technology Institiute, Inc.Inventors: Harumatsu Miura, Nobuaki Miyao, Hidenori Ogawa, Kazuo Oda, Munehide Katsumura, Masaru Mizutani
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Patent number: 7645349Abstract: A sintered permanent magnet having a composition comprising, by mass, 27-33.5% of R, which is at least one of rare earth elements including Y, 0.5-2% of B, 0.002-0.15% of N, 0.25% or less of O, 0.15% or less of C, and 0.001-0.05% of P, the balance being Fe, wherein it is in the shape of a ring having an outer diameter of 10-100 mm, an inner diameter of 8-96 mm, and a height of 10-70 mm, with a plurality of magnetic poles axially extending on an outer circumferential surface. The distribution of a surface magnetic flux density B0 on magnetic poles in an axial direction of the ring magnet is in a range of 92.5% or more of the maximum of B0.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2006Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Nobuhiko Fujimori, Kazuhiro Sonoda, Takashi Tsukada, Junji Matsushima, Yasushi Kimura, Satoru Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20090293672Abstract: A macroscopic composite sintered powder metal article including a first region including cemented hard particles, for example, cemented carbide. The article includes a second region including one of a metal and a metallic alloy selected from the group consisting of a steel, nickel, a nickel alloy, titanium, a titanium alloy, molybdenum, a molybdenum alloy, cobalt, a cobalt alloy, tungsten, and a tungsten alloy. The first region is metallurgically bonded to the second region, and the second region has a thickness of greater than 100 microns. A method of making a macroscopic composite sintered powder metal article is also disclosed, herein. The method includes co-press and sintering a first metal powder including hard particles and a powder binder and a second metal powder including the metal or metal alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: TDY Industries, Inc.Inventors: Prakash K. Mirchandani, Morris E. Chandler, Eric W. Olsen
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Patent number: 7618497Abstract: An R-T-B system rare earth permanent magnet, which comprises main phase grains consisting of R2T14B compounds and a grain boundary phase having a higher amount of R than the above described main phase grains, and which satisfies AVE(X)/Y=0.8 to 1.0; and (X/Y)max/(X/Y)min=2.0 to 13.0, wherein X represents (weight ratio of heavy rare earth elements)/(the weight ratio of all rare earth elements) for a given number of the above described main phase grains Y represents (weight ratio of heavy rare earth elements)/(weight ratio of all rare earth elements) for the sintered body as a whole; AVE(X) represents the mean value of X obtained for the given number of main phase grains; (X/Y)min represents the minimum value of (X/Y) obtained for the given number of main phase grains; and (X/Y)max represents the maximum value of (X/Y) obtained for the given number of main phase grains.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2004Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Eiji Kato, Chikara Ishizaka
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Patent number: 7618496Abstract: A radial anisotropic sintered magnet formed into a cylindrical shape includes a portion oriented in directions tilted at an angle of 30° or more from radial directions, the portion being contained in the magnet at a volume ratio in a range of 2% or more and 50% or less, and a portion oriented in radial directions or in directions tilted at an angle less than 30° from radial directions, the portion being the rest of the total volume of the magnet. The radial anisotropic sintered magnet has excellent magnet characteristics without occurrence of cracks in the steps of sintering and cooling for aging, even if the magnet has a shape of a small ratio between an inner diameter and an outer diameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2005Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Sato, Mitsuo Kawabata, Takehisa Minowa
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Patent number: 7601296Abstract: A method of forming a sputtering target and other metal articles having controlled oxygen and nitrogen content levels and the articles so formed are described. The method includes surface-nitriding a deoxidized metal powder and further includes consolidating the powder by a powder metallurgy technique. Preferred metal powders include, but are not limited to, valve metals, including tantalum, niobium, and alloys thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2006Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventors: Christopher A. Michaluk, Shi Yuan, James Maguire
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Publication number: 20090229411Abstract: An article includes a microscale composite material having a matrix with titanium boride particles configured to form an insert in a metallic mass being comprised of material other than a consolidated titanium-based metallic composition having titanium particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2009Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Andrew P. WOODFIELD, Eric A. OTT, Clifford E. SHAMBLEN
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Patent number: 7578867Abstract: A ceramic sintered product which comprises a first hard phase containing a nitride of titanium, a second hard phase containing at least one of alumina and zirconia, and a binding phase containing nickel; and a method for producing the ceramic sintered product. The ceramic sintered product is lightweight and exhibits good abrasion resistance in a wet atmosphere, and further can be produced at a low cost.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Kenichi Hamamura, Saburou Nagano
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Patent number: 7572313Abstract: A turbomachinery component includes a substrate having a surface, the surface consisting essentially of at least one composite of at least one metal and at least one compound having the chemical formula Mn+1AXn, wherein M is at least one early transition metal selected from groups IIIB, IVB, VB, and VIB, A is at least one element selected from groups IIIA, IVA, VA, VIA, and VIIA, X is one or both of carbon and nitrogen, and n is an integer between 1 and 3. The component is made by compressing a powdered material to form a substrate that consists essentially of the composite and sintering the substrate, or by coating a substrate with the composite.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2005Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: Drexel UniversityInventors: Thirumalai G. Palanisamy, Surojit Gupta, Michel Barsoum, Chien-Wei Li
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Patent number: 7569114Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a rare earth magnet which enables to achieve a good balance between high coercive force and high residual magnetic flux density, and its manufacturing method. The present invention provides a rare earth magnet in which a layered grain boundary phase is formed on a surface or a potion of a grain boundary of Nd2Fe14B which is a main phase of an R—Fe—B (R is a rare-earth element) based magnet, and wherein the grain boundary phase contains a fluoride compound, and wherein a thickness of the fluoride compound is 10 ?m or less, or a thickness of the fluoride compound is from 0.1 ?m to 10 ?m, and wherein the coverage of the fluoride compound over a main phase particle is 50% or more on average.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2007Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Matahiro Komuro, Yuichi Satsu
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Patent number: 7534311Abstract: A rare-earth sintered magnet according to the present invention, of which the main phase is an R2T14B type compound phase, includes: 27 mass % through 32 mass % of R, which is at least one rare-earth element that is selected from the group consisting of Nd, Pr, Tb, and Dy and that always includes at least one of Nd and Pr; 60 mass % through 73 mass % of T, which is either Fe alone or a mixture of Fe and Co; 0.85 mass % through 0.98 mass % of Q, which is either B alone or a mixture of B and C and which is converted-into B on a number of atoms basis when its mass percentage is calculated; more than 0 mass % through 0.3 mass % of Zr; at most 2.0 mass % of an additive element M, which is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al, Cu, Ga, In and Sn; and inevitably contained impurities.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2004Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Tomizawa, Yutaka Matsuura