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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8173065 | Method, system and apparatus for a takeout holder and insert The present invention provides an apparatus, system and method for handling glass containers that has a takeout jaw assembly with a base with a first side, a second side and a groove. The groove extends from the first side to the second side and is adapted to fit an... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8168118 | Powder metallurgy sputtering targets and methods of producing same 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 pow... | 05/01/2012 |
| 7943084 | Metal powders with improved flowability The present invention demonstrates a superior, more economical, and scalable process to increase the fluidity of metal powders by surface modification with alkylsilane reagents. This invention discloses that the most efficient process results from treatment with met... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7655182 | Method for fabricating a metallic article without any melting A metallic article made of metallic constituent elements is fabricated from a mixture of nonmetallic precursor compounds of the metallic constituent elements. The mixture of nonmetallic precursor compounds is chemically reduced to produce an initial metallic materia... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7601296 | Powder metallurgy sputtering targets and methods of producing same 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 pow... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7431808 | Sputter target based on titanium dioxide An electrically conductive titanium dioxide sputter target with an electrical resistivity of less than 5 Ω-cm, which contains as an additive at least one doping agent or a mixture of doping agents in an amount of less than 5 mole %. The doping agent or agents are s... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7416697 | Method for preparing a metallic article having an other additive constituent, without any melting A method for preparing an article of a base metal alloyed with an alloying element includes the steps of preparing a compound mixture by the steps of providing a chemically reducible nonmetallic base-metal precursor compound of a base metal, providing a chemically r... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7390345 | Powder additive The invention concerns a powder metallurgical composition comprising a major amount of an iron-based metal powder and a minor amount of carbon black. The amount of carbon black is between 0.001 and 0.2% by weight, preferably between 0.01 to 0.1% by weight. ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7384596 | Method for producing a metallic article having a graded composition, without melting A method for preparing a metallic article made of metallic constituent elements includes furnishing a mixture of nonmetallic precursor compounds of the metallic constituent elements. The method further includes chemically reducing the mixture of nonmetallic precurso... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7329381 | Method for fabricating a metallic article without any melting A metallic article made of metallic constituent elements is fabricated from a mixture of nonmetallic precursor compounds of the metallic constituent elements. The mixture of nonmetallic precursor compounds is chemically reduced to produce an initial metallic materia... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7329303 | Methods for producing titanium metal using grinding media Grinding media, including shaped media such as spheres or rods ranging in size from about 0.5 micron to 100 mm in diameter, are formed from a multi-carbide material consisting essentially of two or more carbide-forming elements and carbon, with or without carbide-fo... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7309374 | Diffusion bonded nickel-copper powder metallurgy powder In contrast to current industrial practice where alloying powders are added to starting powder metallurgy compositions either as powder mixtures or fully prealloyed powders, the present invention posits a diffusion bonded nickel-copper precursor additive mixture for... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7288224 | Method of producing a sputtering target A sputtering target contains a target material including as constituent elements Ag, In, Te and Sb with the respective atomic percents (atom. %) of α, β, γ and δ thereof being in the relationship of 0.5≦α | 10/30/2007 |
| 7258812 | Compound magnetic material and fabrication method thereof A compound magnetic material having high heat resistance is provided. A fabrication method of a compound magnetic material includes the step of preparing mixed powder including an organic resin and compound magnetic particles. The long-period heat resistance tempera... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7244287 | Magnetic particle, its production method, magnetic recording medium and its production method The present invention relates to a method of producing a magnetic particle including forming a layer containing an alloy particle that can form a CuAu-type or Cu3Au-type hard magnetic ordered alloy phase on a support, oxidizing the layer, and annealing th... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7241415 | Metallic parts fabrication using selective inhibition of sintering (SIS) A selective inhibition of sintering (SIS) technique may be used to fabricate a three-dimensional (3-D) dense metal object from a binderless metal powder. Layers of metal powder are provided on a build tank. For each layer, regions of the layer are sinter-inhibited, ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7228722 | Method of forming sputtering articles by multidirectional deformation A method of producing a valve metal mill form having dimensions sufficient to be divided to form a plurality of sputter targets is described. The method includes multidirectional deformation of an ingot to form a mill form having a preferred average grain size of ab... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7220380 | System and method for fabricating a three-dimensional metal object using solid free-form fabrication A method for solid free-form fabrication of a three-dimensional metal object includes depositing a particulate blend in a defined region, the particulate blend including a number of metal or metal alloy particulates and a peroxide, and selectively ink-jetting a bind... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7220397 | Modified oxygen reduced valve metal oxides Pressed material such as anodes are described and formed from oxygen reduced oxide powders using additives, such as binders and/or lubricants. Methods to form the pressed material are also described, such as with the use of atomizing, spray drying, fluid bed process... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7201809 | Radial anisotropic ring magnet and method of manufacturing the ring magnet A radially anisotropic ring magnet endowed with good magnetic characteristics and having throughout the magnet an angle of 80 to 100° between a center axis thereof and a radial anisotropy imparting direction is manufactured by a pressing operation. ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7175802 | Refurbishing spent sputtering targets Spent sputtering targets are refurbished by filling the depleted region of the target with new sputter material using a hot isostatic pressing or HIP'ing technique. ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7172725 | W-Cu alloy having homogeneous micro-structure and the manufacturing method thereof In W—Cu alloy having a homogeneous micro-structure and a fabrication method thereof, the method includes forming mixed powders by mixing tungsten powders with W—Cu composite powders; forming a compact by pressurizing-forming the mixed powders; forming a skeleton... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7168224 | Method of making a packaged radiation sensitive resist film-coated workpiece The present invention includes a packaged coated workpiece. The packaged coated workpiece has: (1) a workpiece coated with a resist film sensitive to optical radiation, particulates or chemical contaminants; (2) an inner barrier sealed to enclose the coated workpiec... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7149074 | Methods of making a niobium metal oxide Methods to at least partially reduce a niobium oxide are described wherein the process includes heat treating the niobium oxide in the presence of a getter material and in an atmosphere which permits the transfer of oxygen atoms from the niobium oxide to the getter ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7141126 | Rare earth magnet and method for manufacturing the same Rare earth alloy powder having an oxygen content of 50 to 4000 wt. ppm and a nitrogen content of 150 to 1500 wt. ppm is compacted by dry pressing to produce a compact. The compact is impregnated with an oil agent and then sintered. The sintering process includes a f... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7141208 | Fe-Co-B alloy target and its production method, and soft magnetic film produced by using such target, and magnetic recording medium and TMR device An Fe—Co—B alloy target, in which the largest inscribed circle depictable in regions containing no boride phases in its cross-sectional microstructure has a diameter of 30 μm or less. Its composition is represented by (FeXCo100−X)10... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7138019 | Method for producing magnetostrictive element and sintering method In the step of sintering a compact that is finally to be a magnetostrictive element, when the temperature in a furnace is elevated, the atmosphere in the furnace is evacuated by a vacuum pump to keep the pressure in the furnace at negative pressure in a temperature ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7112294 | Method of producing ceramic body This invention provides a production method of a ceramic body that can use waste and defectives generated during a production process. The invention includes a dust removal step of removing dust below a predetermined particle size from granulated powder in a slurry,... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7109642 | Composite piezoelectric apparatus and method The present invention relates to composite piezoelectric apparatus, transducers and methods of manufacture. In an embodiment, a composite piezoelectric apparatus has a sacrificial base and pillar array. Different volume percents of piezoelectric material are used in... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7108830 | Apparatus and method for fabricating high purity, high density metal matrix composite materials and the product thereof A method of production of large Ingots of neutron attenuating composites using a vacuum-bellows system allows for large cross-sectional shapes to be extruded and rolled. This method uses a vacuum-bellows technology which allows the manufacturing of large 8–16 inch... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7056393 | Method of making sintered compact for rare earth magnet A method of making a sintered body for a rare earth magnet includes the steps of (a) preparing a first coarse powder by coarsely pulverizing a rare earth alloy sintered body by a hydrogen pulverization process, (b) preparing a first fine powder by finely pulverizing... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7041151 | Electrochemical displacement-deposition method for making composite metal powders An electrochemical displacement-deposition method for making composite metal powders is described. The method is carried out by combining tungsten or molybdenum metal particles with particles of silver oxide or copper oxide in an aqueous hydroxide solution. Heat is ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7037463 | Method for producing a titanium-base alloy having an oxide dispersion therein A metallic article is prepared by first furnishing at least one nonmetallic precursor compound, wherein all of the nonmetallic precursor compounds collectively containing the constituent elements of the metallic article in their respective constituent-element propor... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7018583 | Method for producing a component by means of powdery starting material and extractor suitable therefore According to a known method for producing a component by means of a powdery starting material, powder is mixed with auxiliaries comprising binding agents, whereby a free-flowing mass is produced. A green body is produced from the mass by means of powder injection mo... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6991686 | Method for producing magnetostrictive material To provide a method for producing a magnetostrictive material of excellent magnetostrictive characteristics. The method for producing a magnetostrictive material, wherein a mixture composed of Starting Materials A, B and C is sintered, where A is represented ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6926754 | Method for preparing metallic superalloy articles having thermophysically melt incompatible alloying elements, without melting An article of a base metal alloyed with an alloying element is prepared by mixing a chemically reducible nonmetallic base-metal precursor compound of a base metal and a chemically reducible nonmetallic alloying-element precursor compound of an alloying element to fo... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6926755 | Method for preparing aluminum-base metallic alloy articles without melting An article of aluminum base-metal alloyed with an alloying element is prepared by mixing a chemically reducible nonmetallic base-metal precursor compound of the aluminum base-metal and a chemically reducible nonmetallic alloying-element precursor compound of an allo... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6878182 | Method of making tungsten carbide based hard metals The present invention relates to economic and environment-friendly slurries and their preparation, handling, and spray drying for the production of cemented carbide based hard metals. The slurry is ethanol-water based and contains metallic and metal carbide raw mate... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6852274 | Method for producing hard metal granulate A hard metal granulate is produced by wet milling and spray drying in a spray tower using pure water as the liquid phase. The spray tower is configured and operated in such a way that a ratio of the quantity of water added via the slurry (in liters per hour) to towe... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6841121 | Process for producing oxide-dispersion strengthened platinum material This invention aims to provide a process for producing an oxide-dispersion strengthened platinum material which allows zirconium oxide to be more finely dispersed in a platinum material, and to further improve creep strength in an oxide-dispersion strengthened plati... | 01/11/2005 |
