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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7255538 | Shrink-fit stress coupling for a shaft of differing materials A shrink-fit coupling includes a discontinuous ring between a ceramic stub shaft of a turbine rotor and an inner diameter r2 of a metallic shaft which typically supports a compressor rotor. If the materials for the ceramic stub shaft and the discontinuous rin... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251893 | Tribological applications of polyelectrolyte multilayers One aspect of the present invention relates to an implantable medical device comprising a surface coated with a polyelectrolyte multilayer, wherein said surface is glass, metal, plastic, polymer, or fiberglass. Another aspect of the present invention involves a meth... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7197819 | Method of assembling an electric power A method of assembling and providing an electric power apparatus. The method uses a heat resistant housing having a structure adapted to accommodate and retain a power circuit card and also including a bracket adapted to accommodate and constrain a rigid conductive ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7173823 | Fluid cooled electrical assembly A heat producing, fluid cooled assembly that includes a housing made of liquid-impermeable material, which defines a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet and an opening. Also included is an electrical package having a set of semiconductor electrical devices supported on a... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7090423 | Connecting structures Joint formations that, in joining together joining members employed in a variety of electrical and electronic components, yield sufficiently high joint strength in the direction perpendicular to the plane in which two joining members join, and meanwhile in the direc... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7084350 | Green ceramic insert, ceramic insert, ceramic green body or green body composite and ceramic laminated composite produced thereby A green ceramic insert having a green ceramic body provided with a recess extending through the ceramic body is provided, the recess being filled with a paste which may be converted into an electrical plated hole. A ceramic insert made from a sintered green ceramic ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 6896483 | Blade track assembly The clearances between an array of turbine blades and its surrounding blade track may be controlled by an expansion control material system supporting the blade tracks. The blade track support hoop is placed in tension by the expansion control material placed therei... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6722809 | Joint A joint for two flat structural members, in particular floor panels, wherein a groove and tongue joint joining two flat structural members is provided functionally separate from a twistlock locking the two flat structural members. The twistlock is formed on one of t... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6672786 | Ceramic to metal joint assembly A joint assembly for coupling a ceramic member to a metal member is comprised of a ceramic shaft portion attached to the ceramic member; a slotted shrink fitter formed of a first metal and disposed around and in torque transmitting contact with the cerami... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6641322 | Coupling with tribological coating system A coupling with a tribological system that can withstand temperatures up to 600° C. The coupling includes a shaft having an outer surface with a layer of chromium and a sleeve for receiving the shaft. The sleeve has an inner surface with a layer of silve... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6520703 | Coupling with tribological coating system A coupling with a tribological system that can withstand temperatures up to 600° C. The coupling includes a shaft having an outer surface with a layer of chromium and a sleeve for receiving the shaft. The sleeve has an inner surface with a layer of silve... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6431781 | Ceramic to metal joint assembly A joint assembly for coupling a ceramic member to a metal member is comprised of a ceramic shaft portion attached to the ceramic member; a slotted shrink fitter formed of a first metal and disposed around and in torque transmitting contact with the cerami... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6167667 | Expansion joint cover A expansion joint cover for covering the top or exposed side of an expansion joint in a structure. The expansion joint cover includes a plate having top and bottom faces, and a pair of sides. The plate also has a plurality of spaced apart fastening holes ... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6132175 | Compliant sleeve for ceramic turbine blades A compliant sleeve for attaching a ceramic member to a metal member is comprised of a superalloy substrate having a metal contacting side and a ceramic contacting side. The ceramic contacting side is plated with a layer of nickel followed by a layer of pl... | 10/17/2000 |
| 5554240 | Thermally conductive joining method and joint A method of joining metal parts together and the joints thereby produced having great strength and thermal conductivity by means of an adhesive filled with small, hard, thermally conductive particles. The filled adhesive is applied to the surfaces to be j... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5370596 | Ceramic and metal roll assembly A joint between an end of a ceramic roll and a metal ferrule compensates for the differences in the thermal expansion properties of the joined materials. A plurality of thermodeformable bimetal elements are positioned in the space between the roll end and... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5163770 | Method of bonding members having different coefficients of thermal expansion A method of bonding at least two members having different coefficients of thermal expansion is disclosed, wherein an edge of a bonding interface between the members is positioned in a tapered portion, thereby bridging one member having a smaller coefficie... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5161908 | Joined structure comprising members of different coefficients of thermal expansion and joining method thereof Joined structures are disclosed, which each comprise first and second members having different coefficients of thermal expansion and an intermediate member. The first and second members are joined together through the intermediate member. The intermediate... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5104747 | Joined assembly of ceramic and metallic materials A joined assembly of a ceramic member and a metallic member having a hollow cylindrical portion which is open at one end thereof, and closed at the other end, or bottom thereof. The ceramic member has a portion fitted in the cylindrical portion in such a ... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5096769 | Strengthened ceramic A strengthened article formed from a ceramic having a bore through a portion thereof and with a metal rod adhered by heat-settable adhesive to the ceramic within the bore thereof. The metal rod has a greater coefficient of thermal expansion than the ceram... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5073039 | Bearing assembly with thermal compensation A temperature compensated shaft bearing support assembly in a magnesium alloy housing wall includes a liner made of a material which has a coefficient of thermal expansion between the coefficients of thermal expansion for the magnesium alloy and for the s... | 12/17/1991 |
| 4930929 | Glass tube/stainless steel header interface for pressure sensor An assembly for relieving shear stress when indirectly mounting a glass tube to a metallic header containing a pressure to be measured. A bore within the header includes first and second shoulders and first and second radially outwardly extending surfaces... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4886695 | Ceramic-metal composite bodies A ceramic-metal composite body is produced by fitting a protruding portion of a ceramic member into a concave portion of a metallic member. In this case, the protruding portion has a quantity of undulation in a plane including the axial line of the protru... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4850732 | Co-conic thermal stress-free fastener A fastener for connecting structures having significantly different coefficients of thermal expansion which substantially eliminates thermal stress with varying ambient temperatures, while allowing said structures to be offset or spaced from each other. A... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4841100 | Expanding surface mount compatible retainer post A retainer post for tightly engaging a printed circuit board employing surface mounted technology. The retainer post has a hollow neck portion for insertion in a hole in a printed circuit board, an adjoining shoulder section for engaging the surface of th... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4836750 | Rotor assembly A gas turbine engine rotor (18) and shaft (28) are secured against radial loosening between the shaft (28) and axially spaced rotor spigots (24, 26) by annular spacer rings (42, 43) which are fabricated from a material having a thermal coefficient of expa... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4772139 | Liner for bearing assemblies and the like A flexible liner for bearing assemblies and the like including a flexible sleeve having first and second sides and a plurality of first and second slots formed therein. The first slots are positioned adjacent the first side of the flexible sleeve. The sec... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4703695 | Apparatus for compensation of linear thermal expansion An apparatus to compensate for the thermal expansion of a component inserted between two elements, particularly an explosive member placed between a lining, and a cover plate in a shaped charge, comprises two rings that are in contact with one another thr... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4702439 | Support for thermally expanding conical heatshield The front end of a conical forward carbon-carbon heatshield is attached to arbon-carbon nose tip by a threaded connection. The nose tip provides rigid structural support for the small end of the heatshield at all conditions of thermal expansion. The joint ... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4650385 | Daze fasteners A daze fastener system for connecting two or more structural elements wherein the structural elements and fastener parts have substantially different coefficient of thermal expansion physical property characteristics is employed in this invention. By prov... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4600332 | Aluminum/titanium transition joint between aluminum and steel bodies A strong transition joint between an aluminum plate and a steel object includes an aluminum sleeve adapted to be fusion-welded to the aluminum plate and a titanium core explosion-welded to the aluminum sleeve in the center thereof with the titanium core h... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4569868 | Heat-recoverable article Heat-recoverable articles, especially heat-shrinkable tubular articles, having an open end are formed so that the section adjacent said open end has a lower recovery ratio than a section adjacent thereto, thereby substantially reducing the risk of splitti... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4493378 | Terminal assembly First and second members are disposed in spaced relationship to each other. The members may be electrically conductive. The first member may be provided with a particular coefficient of thermal expansion which is higher than the coefficient of the second ... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4485545 | Method of attaching a metal shaft to a ceramic shaft and product thereby A method of attaching a metal shaft (10) to a ceramic shaft (12) having a first diameter (d1) is characterized by the following steps. A shaft portion (16) is formed on the ceramic shaft with a second diameter (d2) less than the firs... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4449422 | Transmission center support mounting A fluid directing center support is mounted in a main bore of an automatic transmission by means of a pair of intermediate rings between the main bore and the center support. Each intermediate ring includes an elastomeric body portion which is compressed ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4442733 | Transmission center support mounting A power transmission having fluid actuated ratio establishing devices has a center support disposed in a cylindrical main bore of the transmission case and a plurality of elastomeric shims around the center support in an annular gap between the latter and... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4436955 | Terminal assembly A terminal assembly includes a ferrule and a terminal pin disposed in spaced relationship to the ferrule. First layers made from a first ceramic insulating material are disposed in spaced relationship to each other in the space between the terminal pin an... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4432660 | Glass- or ceramic-to-metal seals A seal between a metal surface and a surface of glass or glass-like ceramic having, in juxtaposition, the metal, gold, an indium-gold alloy, indium, and either glass or a glass-like ceramic.... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4430376 | Glass-to-metal compression sealed lead-in structure A glass-to-metal compression sealed lead-in structure for electronic devices. The structure is constituted by an outer metal case having a high coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), a lead-in conductor extending through the opening in the case and havin... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4425476 | Progressively fused ceramic seals between spaced members such as a terminal pin and a ferrule A ferrule is provided with an opening extending through the ferrule and a terminal pin is disposed in the opening in spaced relationship to the ferrule. A plurality of insulating members are disposed on the terminal pin in the opening in a stacked relatio... | 01/10/1984 |
