Containing Boron(b) Or Nitrogen(n) Patents (Class 75/244)
  • Publication number: 20130052472
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventor: Zhiyue Xu
  • Publication number: 20130047785
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventor: Zhiyue Xu
  • Publication number: 20130052075
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventor: Jan Boström
  • Publication number: 20130047786
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Michael L. Schmidt, Gregory J. Del Corso, Patrick C. Ray, Ning Ma
  • Publication number: 20130000982
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventor: Garrett T. Olsen
  • Patent number: 8333848
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Izumi Ozeki, Katsuya Kume, Junichi Nakayama, Yuuki Fukuda, Toshinobu Hoshino, Tomokazu Horio
  • Patent number: 8317893
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: John H. Stevens, Jimmy W. Eason
  • Patent number: 8317941
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Futoshi Kuniyoshi, Rintaro Ishii
  • Patent number: 8318045
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
    Inventors: Jaewoo Kim, Young Rang Uhm, Byungchul Lee, Jinwoo Jung, Chang Kyu Rhee, Min-Ku Lee, Hee Min Lee, Sang Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 8303681
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Seoul National University Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Shin-Hoo Kang, Jin-Kwan Jung, Han-Jung Kwon
  • Publication number: 20120276393
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventor: Robert G. LEE
  • Publication number: 20120204677
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: Diamet Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinari Ishii, Tsuneo Maruyama, Yoshiki Tamura
  • Patent number: 8231703
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC
    Inventors: Roland D. Seals, Edward B. Ripley, Gerard M. Ludtka
  • Patent number: 8222785
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Matahiro Komuro, Yuichi Satsu, Takao Imagawa
  • Patent number: 8216338
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Doosan Infracore Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Seob Shim, Chung-Rea Lee
  • Publication number: 20120103135
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Zhiyue Xu, Soma Chakraborty, Gaurav Agrawal
  • Patent number: 8168118
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Cabot Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher A. Michaluk, Shi Yuan, James D. Maguire, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20120079916
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
    Inventors: AMRO M. AL-QUTUB, MIRZA M. BAIG
  • Publication number: 20120019341
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventors: Alexandr Gabay, Baozhi Cui, Melania Marinescu, Jinfang Liu, George C. Hadjipanayis
  • Patent number: 8043404
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Dynamet Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley Abkowitz, Susan M. Abkowitz, Harvey Fisher, Patricia J. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 8034153
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Momentive Performances Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Marchiando, Jon Leist
  • Patent number: 8007561
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignees: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Shindo, Atsushi Komura, Hiroaki Takashima, Toshiyuki Taniuchi, Masafumi Fukumura, Kei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8007922
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: TDY Industries, Inc
    Inventors: Prakash K. Mirchandani, Alfred J. Mosco, Eric W. Olsen, Steven G. Caldwell
  • Patent number: 7972450
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Matahiro Komuro, Yuichi Satsu, Takao Imagawa
  • Publication number: 20110132143
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventors: Zhiyue Xu, Gaurav Agrawal
  • Patent number: 7955526
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme a Directoire et Conseil de Surveillance pour l 'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventors: Pascal Del Gallo, Thierry Chartier, Gregory Etchegoyen
  • Publication number: 20110091345
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Awadh B. Pandey
  • Publication number: 20110091346
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Awadh B. Pandey
  • Publication number: 20110064599
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Awadh B. Pandey
  • Publication number: 20110020163
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventor: Roger William Nigel Nilen
  • Patent number: 7857188
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Worldwide Strategy Holding Limited
    Inventor: Shaiw-Rong Scott Liu
  • Patent number: 7789933
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Tomizawa
  • Publication number: 20100196734
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicants: H.C. Starck Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Svec, Karl-Hermann Buchner, Hans-Peter Baldus, Aloys Eiling, Jim Ryan
  • Patent number: 7740715
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 7740716
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Enokido, Gouichi Nishizawa, Chikara Ishizaka
  • Publication number: 20100143620
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Leonardo Ajdelsztajn, James Anthony Ruud, Dalong Zhong, Molly Maureen Gentleman
  • Patent number: 7731776
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 7722726
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Santoku Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumasa Shintani, Ryo Murakami, Kazuhiko Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20100086434
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K
    Inventors: Kazuhiro OMORI, Kazumi Naito
  • Patent number: 7662207
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Nano Technology Institiute, Inc.
    Inventors: Harumatsu Miura, Nobuaki Miyao, Hidenori Ogawa, Kazuo Oda, Munehide Katsumura, Masaru Mizutani
  • Patent number: 7645349
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Fujimori, Kazuhiro Sonoda, Takashi Tsukada, Junji Matsushima, Yasushi Kimura, Satoru Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20090293672
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: TDY Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Prakash K. Mirchandani, Morris E. Chandler, Eric W. Olsen
  • Patent number: 7618497
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Kato, Chikara Ishizaka
  • Patent number: 7618496
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Sato, Mitsuo Kawabata, Takehisa Minowa
  • Patent number: 7601296
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Cabot Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher A. Michaluk, Shi Yuan, James Maguire
  • Publication number: 20090229411
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Andrew P. WOODFIELD, Eric A. OTT, Clifford E. SHAMBLEN
  • Patent number: 7578867
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Hamamura, Saburou Nagano
  • Patent number: 7572313
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Drexel University
    Inventors: Thirumalai G. Palanisamy, Surojit Gupta, Michel Barsoum, Chien-Wei Li
  • Patent number: 7569114
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Matahiro Komuro, Yuichi Satsu
  • Patent number: 7534311
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tomizawa, Yutaka Matsuura