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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7361411 | Hardfacing alloy, methods, and products Disclosed is a hardfacing alloy capable of withstanding service abrasion of the order of silicious earth particles and weldable on industrial products, such as tool joints and stabilizers used in oil and gas well drilling, and other industrial products. The hardfaci... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7282238 | Method of depositing materials A coherent material is formed on a substrate (10) by providing a precursor suspension (14) in which particulates are suspended in a carrier fluid, and directing the precursor suspension (14) at the substrate (10) from a first source (1... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7214363 | Method for preparing composite microparticles Composite microparticles having thin coating layers can be simply prepared by bringing a host particle precursor into contact with a flame generated in a burner movably mounted at the bottom of a coating apparatus, by introducing the precursor in the form of a vapor... | 05/08/2007 |
| 6780519 | Flame-treating process The present invention provides a method of modifying the surface of a polymeric substrate, e.g., to improve the wettability of the polymer film surface and/or alter the metal adhesion properties of the surface of the substrate by exposing the substrate to a flame. T... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6149984 | Laser irradiation method In processing an object by irradiating it with laser light, a laser irradiation chamber is evacuated to a pressure value suitable for the intended laser light processing and the laser light processing is performed with the pressure in the chamber kept con... | 11/21/2000 |
| 5756150 | Method of spraying particulate materials on a solid surface materials In a method of manufacturing a sliding member, a granular spraying material is sprayed on at least a part of a surface of a body portion made of a structural material in at least partially fusing condition and in the direction which is parallel to or diag... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5731041 | Method for producing silicon coating having high surface area The invention is to a method for producing a high surface substrate. A mask is positioned (31) over a substrate to define a deposition area. Thereafter at least two dissimilar materials are simultaneously deposited (32) through the mask onto the depositio... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5639512 | Plastic optical fiber preform, and process and apparatus for producing the same A process and an apparatus for producing a preform for plastic optical fiber having a refractive index distribution in which the refractive index is gradually decreased from the center of the preform toward the outer periphery thereof, by depositing a dep... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5376421 | Combustible slurry for joining metallic or ceramic surfaces or for coating metallic, ceramic and refractory surfaces A slurry for joining metallic or ceramic surfaces or for coating metallic or ceramic and refractory surfaces, comprising a liquid suspending medium and at least two constituents in particulate form suspended in the medium, the constituents being so select... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5364663 | Thermally spraying metal/solid lubricant composites using wire feedstock A method of thermally spraying a solid lubricant (i.e. graphite or BN) impregnated metal matrix onto a metal target, using the steps of: (a) creating a flame or arc into which a consummable strand is fed, the strand being constituted as a hollow sheath of... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5198268 | Method for preparing a feed screw for processing plastics Preparation of feed screw having a wear resistant alloy coating thereon for the injection molding or extrusion of plastic. Nickel-based alloys that have shown themselves to be compatible with inlaid barrel liners by virtue of similar wear ratios, modulus ... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5194304 | Thermally spraying metal/solid libricant composites using wire feedstock A method of the thermally spraying a solid lubricant (i.e. graphite or BN) impregnated metal matrix onto a metal target, using the steps of: (a) creating a flame or arc into which a consummable strand is fed, the strand being constituted as a hollow sheat... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5075129 | Method of producing tungsten chromium carbide-nickel coatings having particles containing three times by weight more chromium than tungsten A tungsten chromium carbide-nickel coated article and process for producing it in which the coating contains chromium-rich particles having at least 3 times more chromium than tungsten and wherein said chromium-rich particles comprise at least about 4.5 v... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5030539 | Developer sheet useful in providing transparencies or reproductions having a controlled gloss finish utilizing a surfactant Disclosed is a developer sheet useful in forming reproductions having a glossy finish, or in forming transparencies comprising: a support having a layer of a finely divided, thermoplastic, developer material on the surface thereof, said developer material bein... | 07/09/1991 |
| 4888237 | Process for manufacturing a metallized polyolefin film and resulting film A process for manufacturing a metallized polymeric film to provide a structure possessing high metal-to-film adhesion and little, if any, tendency toward metal fracture is disclosed. In one embodiment of the process, at least one polyolefin layer is provi... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4849247 | Enhanced adhesion of substrate materials using ion-beam implantation A method is provided for improving the adhesion of a substrate material which does not form stable bonds to a bondable material by applying high energy bondable ions to the surface of the substrate to create an interface alloy layer and then adhering a bo... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4814232 | Method for depositing laser mirror coatings Methods are described for making a mirror useful in reflecting high energy laser radiation. The mirrors are comprised of an intermediate coating layer applied to the mirror substrate and a reflective coating layer applied to the intermediate layer. Plasma... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4561892 | Silicon-rich alloy coatings Disclosed is a coated substrate article coated with an alloy powder containing, in weight percent, 7 to 19 silicon, up to 5 copper balance nickel, cobalt and/or iron plus impurities. The articles may be coated by a variety of spray coating processes; howe... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4451508 | Hard facing of metal substrates using material containing VC and improved flux compositions therefor Hard facing of iron and iron base alloy substrates is disclosed using a hard facing material containing vanadium carbide and a flux composition containing nickel boron or calcium silicon. The nickel boron is used in amounts ranging from about 1 to 3% by w... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4255467 | Method for galvanizing seafood pots Seafood pots made of wire mesh netting are prepared for galvanizing by first passing them through an incineration chamber to burn, melt and loosen foreign material thereon, and then passing them through a high pressure liquid spray to remove residual burn... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4248905 | Tin-base body solder In the preferred embodiment, a method is presented for filling depressions in fabricated steel surfaces by applying a metallic body solder consisting of 15 to 20 weight percent copper, 2 to 3 weight percent zinc and the balance tin. The body solder alloy ... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4230555 | Oxygen gas analyzer using a solid electrolyte An oxygen gas analyzer is provided having a solid-electrolyte partition wall generating a detection signal proportional to the difference between the oxygen concentrations on each side of the wall. Electrode films attached to each side of the wall are com... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4202918 | Method for obtaining bright finish galvanizing coating on wire A method and apparatus utilized in conjunction with a wire galvanizing apparatus assures a bright finish on the coated wire. This method and apparatus includes passing the wire through a water quenching bath immediately following the emergence of wire fro... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4191791 | Method of applying a metal coating to a metal substrate The method of the invention employs a gas torch which has the feature of selective addition of metal powder to the gas flow, in a cyclical pattern of metal-spraying and non-spraying (fusing) utilization of the same torch. The torch is caused to make short... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4177754 | Apparatus for obtaining bright finish galvanizing coating on wire A method and apparatus utilized in conjunction with a wire galvanizing apparatus assures a bright finish on the coated wire. This method and apparatus includes passing the wire through a water quenching bath immediately following the emergence of wire fro... | 12/11/1979 |
| 4172162 | Boride hard-facing Introduction of boron as a hardening agent for metal hard-facing and the like is achieved by way of welding practices involving a consumable slender rod or wire filler member of relatively ductile material into the surface of which boron has been diffused... | 10/23/1979 |
| 4171394 | Process of hot-dip galvanizing and alloying A method of producing a hot-dip galvanized steel strip having a uniform zinc-iron alloy coating on one surface and a formable hot-dip metallic zinc coating on the opposite surface which comprises forming a thin uniform hot-dip metallic zinc coating which ... | 10/16/1979 |
| 4161555 | Flame spraying process for materials requiring fusion An improvement for the flame spray process in which a heat-fusible self-fluxing material is heated in a heating zone to at least heat-softened condition and propelled in such condition out of said zone in finely divided form onto an obscure substrate surf... | 07/17/1979 |
| 4135013 | Method for the prevention of stress corrosion cracking Equipment used in a substantially water free, but corrosive environment is protected from corrosion by coating only certain welded parts thereof with a metal more base than the metal part coated.... | 01/16/1979 |
| 4100330 | Method for coating glass with silicon and a metal oxide and resulting product Glass is heated to a temperature of at least about 400° C. and contacted sequentially with a silane-containing gas and an organometallic composition which thermally decompose to form, respectively, a coating layer of silicon and a coating layer of metal ... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4039700 | Hard metal coating process for metal objects Powdered binder metal and hard metal granules are deposited in measured quantities on the cutting edge of a metal blade. When these materials both have a magnetic component, an electromagnet with an elongated air gap is used to pick up quantities determin... | 08/02/1977 |
| 3954570 | Sensitized polyimides and circuit elements thereof A process for preparation of an activated or sensitized polyimide polymer, deposition of various catalysts on the sensitized polymer and subsequent plating on said sensitized and catalyzed surface of a metal, e. g., nickel, cobalt, copper, or gold from an... | 05/04/1976 |
| 3941903 | Wear-resistant bearing material and a process for making it A wear-resistant bearing material, and process for making it, comprising hard phase particles, such as Al2 O3, substantially uniformly dispersed in a plasma deposited or detonation gun deposited soft ductile metal matrix, such as alu... | 03/02/1976 |
