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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8178221 | {100}<100> or 45°-rotated {100}<100>, semiconductor-based, large-area, flexible, electronic devices Novel articles and methods to fabricate the same resulting in flexible, {100} or 45°-rotated {100} oriented, semiconductor-based, electronic devices are disclosed. Potential applications of resulting articles are in areas of photovoltaic devices, flat-pan... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178222 | Decorative part and process for producing the same A decorative part and a process for producing the decorative part. A first nitride layer containing at least one metal selected among hafnium, titanium, and zirconium is formed on the surface of a decorative part comprising a soft base made of a material selected am... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178220 | Surface-covered cubic boron nitride sintered body tool and method of manufacturing the same A surface-covered CBN sintered body tool includes a base material formed with a cubic boron nitride (CBN) sintered body and a surface covering film covering a surface of the base material, and has a nega-land exposing the CBN sintered body in at least a portion ther... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8153280 | Composition comprising silicon carbide A method of depositing a ceramic film, particularly a silicon carbide film, on a substrate is disclosed in which the residual stress, residual stress gradient, and resistivity are controlled. Also disclosed are substrates having a deposited film with these controlle... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8147991 | One hundred millimeter single crystal silicon carbide wafer A method is disclosed for producing a high quality bulk single crystal of silicon carbide in a seeded growth system by reducing the separation between a silicon carbide seed crystal and a seed holder until the conductive heat transfer between the seed crystal and th... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8142912 | Coating, article coated with coating, and method for manufacturing article A coating includes a nano-composite layer including a plurality of stacked films. Each film includes a zirconium nitride layer and a zirconium yttrium nitride layer. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8137825 | Aluminum nitride single crystal film, aluminum nitride single crystal multi-layer substrate and manufacturing processes thereof In a method of manufacturing an aluminum nitride single crystal film on a substrate by heating a sapphire substrate in the presence of carbon, nitrogen and carbon monoxide, an aluminum compound which differs from the raw material sapphire substrate and the formed al... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8129041 | Article having a protective coating and methods An article comprising an article having a first surface and a second surface adapted to come into contact with the first surface and a first protective coating on at least a portion of the first surface. The first protective coating comprises a first coating layer. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8119262 | Multilayered coated cutting tool The present invention relates to a coated cutting tool wherein a substrate is coated with a thin, adherent, hard and wear resistant coating comprising a laminar, multilayered structure of alternating layers of metalnitrides, metalcarbides or metalcarbonitrides. In t... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8105702 | Indexable insert with a multi-layer coating The invention relates to an indexable insert of hard metal or cermet with a multi-layer surface coating for a machining of objects essentially made of metal or an alloy, in particular those of a polyphase material such as casting alloys and the like. To increase the... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8101291 | Coated cemented carbide insert particularly useful for heavy duty operations The present invention relates to coated cutting tool inserts particularly useful for heavy roughing turning operations of very large steel components, such as drive shafts for ships and shafts for wind power plants. The inserts are large with an iC, inscribed circle... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8092927 | Shielding, particulate reducing high vacuum components A method of forming a gate valve for use in a high vacuum environment of an electron gun by machining a core of non-magnetic nickel-chromium-molybdenum-iron-tungsten-silicon-carbon alloy that is weldable with nickel alloys and has a tensile strength of about 750 meg... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8080324 | Hard coating excellent in sliding property and method for forming same Disclosed is a hard coating excellent in wear resistance, insusceptible to seizure, and excellent sliding property even after use over the long term, and a method capable of forming the hard coating excellent in sliding property in a short time. The hard coating is ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8080323 | Cutting insert with a wear-resistant coating scheme exhibiting wear indication and method of making the same A coated cutting insert for use in a chip-forming material removal operation wherein the coated cutting insert includes a substrate that has a flank surface and a rake surface and the flank surface intersects the rake surface to form a cutting edge at the intersecti... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8043729 | Coated cutting tool insert The present invention discloses a coated cutting tool insert particularly useful for dry and wet machining, preferably milling, in low and medium alloyed steels, stainless steels, with or without raw surface zones under severe conditions such as vibrations, long ove... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8043730 | Part for rotary machine, and manufacturing method therefor In a part for a rotary machine, a ceramic hard film is formed on a surface of a base material, the density of droplets which exist in a surface of the ceramic hard film is set to be within 1000 pieces/mm2, and the density of droplets whose mean particle d... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8043731 | Vicinal gallium nitride substrate for high quality homoepitaxy A III-V nitride, e.g., GaN, substrate including a (0001) surface offcut from the direction predominantly toward a direction selected from the group consisting of and directions, at an offcut angle in a range that is from about 0.2 to about 10 ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8039130 | Method of forming group-III nitride crystal, layered structure and epitaxial substrate Heat treatment is conducted at a predetermined temperature of not less than 1250° C. on an underlying substrate obtained by epitaxially forming a first group-III nitride crystal on a predetermined base as an underlying layer. Three-dimensional fine irregularities r... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8025991 | Cutting tool with oxide coating By using the PVD process, cutting tools are provided with a coating that is a mono-phase ternary or more complex oxide. By appropriately defining the involved major component and minor component in terms of atom percent, the distortions of the formed oxide can be co... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8021768 | Plain copper foodware and metal articles with durable and tarnish free multiplayer ceramic coating and method of making Soft and porous material is coated with a multilayer ceramic coating by physical vapor deposition. The coated material is suitable for use as foodware, particularly, a copper foodware article including a plain copper substrate, a base coating, and a ceramic coating.... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8007928 | Coated article with black color An article is coated with a coating having a black color. In a preferred embodiment, the coating comprises a nickel or polymer basecoat layer, and a first color layer comprised of oxygen-rich refractory metal oxycarbides, a second color layer comprising oxygen-rich ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7998600 | Dry composition, its use, layer system and coating process Coating processes are often only intended to be applied locally. At the same time, local coating processes cannot always be used, so that frequently masking has to be used. A protective layer contains a binder and titanium oxide and can be used as a diffusion barrie... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7968216 | Internal gear pump There have been demands for transparent electrode materials and magnetic materials, each having a wide range of applications. In view of the situations, a novel functional device and a method for forming an oxide material are provided. A functional device includes a... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7964296 | High-volume, fully dense silicon nitride monolith and method of making by simultaneously joining and hot pressing a plurality of RBSN parts High-volume, fully dense, multi-component monoliths with microstructurally indistinguishable joints that can be used as refractory, corrosion and wear resistant components in the non-ferrous metal industry. The Si3N4 monoliths according to the ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7964295 | Coated cutting inserts The present invention relates to a cutting insert comprising a body of sintered cemented carbide, cermet or ceramic or high speed steel or the superhard materials such as cubic boron nitride or diamond said body being provided with a hard and wear resistant coating ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7955721 | Article having cobalt-phosphorous coating and method for heat treating A method of processing an article having a substrate and a cobalt-phosphorous coating disposed on the substrate includes heat treating the article. At least one physical characteristic of the cobalt-phosphorous coating is altered using the heat treating to thereby c... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7906230 | Coated cutting tool and method for producing the same Provided are a coated cutting tool having excellent wear resistance and excellent resistance to chipping as well as excellent fracture resistance such that the coated cutting tool is unlikely to cause backward movement of the tool edge position due to wear or chippi... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7906229 | Semiconductor-based, large-area, flexible, electronic devices Novel articles and methods to fabricate the same resulting in flexible, large-area, triaxially textured, single-crystal or single-crystal-like, semiconductor-based, electronic devices are disclosed. Potential applications of resulting articles are in areas of photov... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7901799 | Multilayer nitride-containing coatings This invention relates to erosion resistant coatings comprising at least 2 sublayer systems in which each sublayer system is separated from another by an interlayer, wherein (i) each sublayer system is the same or different and comprises at least 4 layers, (ii) said... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7897272 | Wear-resistant structure There is provided a surface-coated body equipped with a hard film that has high adherence and exerts excellent wear resistance. In a surface-coated body in which the surface of a base body is coated with at least one layer of a hard film constituted of one or more o... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7871715 | Surface-coated cutting insert and method for manufacturing the same A surface-coated cutting insert includes an insert body having a substrate of tungsten carbide-based cemented carbide, titanium carbonitride-based cermet or ceramics, a base layer, an intermediate layer and an outermost layer, the base layer and the outermost layer ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7867633 | Coatings for glass molding dies and forming tools The invention provides coatings to achieve the best accommodation of chemical, physical, and mechanical properties desired in high performance and reliable glass molding and forming tools. The substrate material can be any ordinary die or tool material such as cast ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7858212 | Dispersion strengthened rare earth stabilized zirconia A process for forming a coating on a substrate, such as a turbine engine component, is provided. The process comprises the steps of providing a rare earth oxide stabilized zirconia composition, blending the first rare earth oxide stabilized zirconia composition with... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7833637 | Easy-to-clean cooking surface and electrical household appliance comprising such a surface Food cooking surface for a kitchen utensil or cooking appliance, constituted by the surface of a compound fabricated starting from an alloy whose two principal components are zirconium and cobalt. ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7829207 | Manufacture method for ZnO based compound semiconductor crystal and ZnO based compound semiconductor substrate A manufacture method that can manufacture ZnO based compound semiconductor crystal of good quality. A ZnO substrate is prepared to have a principal surface made of a plurality of terraces of (0001) planes arranged stepwise along an m-axis direction, the envelop of t... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7824782 | Molded article located in the beam path of radar device, and method of manufacturing the same A molded article located in the beam path of a radar device has only a slight amount of radio transmission loss and has a metallic color. The molded article comprises a substrate and a layer of ceramic material with which the external surface of the substrate is coa... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7824783 | Coating for components requiring hydrogen peroxide compatibility The present invention provides a heretofore-unknown use for zirconium nitride as a hydrogen peroxide compatible protective coating that was discovered to be useful to protect components that catalyze the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide or corrode when exposed to ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7816022 | Composite structure for microlithography and optical arrangement A composite structure for microlithography, in particular a holding device for a wafer, has two or more components, the surfaces of which are bonded together at least at one bond. At least one of the components consists of cordierite (Mg2Al4Si | 10/19/2010 |
| 7799443 | Coated cermet cutting tool and use thereof A cutting tool insert has a cermet body with a Co and/or Ni binder phase and a coating deposited as monolayer or as multiple and/or alternating layers of carbide, nitride or oxide. The coating has a thickness of 21-50 μm, when the inserts have a flat rake face, wit... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7794860 | Surface-coated high hardness material for tool It is an object of the invention to provide a tool for precision finishing and grooving of quenched steel by thinning a coating film of a CBN sintered compact tool. The invention provides a surface-coated high hardness material for tool comprising a cubic bor... | 09/14/2010 |
