Abstract:
A metal foil substrate material and method of making it in which layers of ferritic stainless steel and aluminum are solid state metallurgically bonded together forming a composite material. The material is further rolled to a desired foil gauge with no heat treatment and then heated to form a uniform solid solution material.
Abstract:
Discrete powder particles of copper 14 and INVAR 12 are mixed together in a container 16 and packed into a powder metal article. This article is hot vacuum degassed and vacuum sealed and then heated to temperature well below the sintering temperature of copper or INVAR. Immediately after heating the article, it is subjected to a high pressure, high strain force such as extrusion through a die thereby yielding a fully dense, strong composite material 10 with excellent combined thermal expansion and conductivity properties.
Abstract:
A metal foil substrate material 50 for catalytic converters 54 and method of making the material in which layers (10, 12, 14) of ferritic stainless steel and aluminum are solid state metallurgically bonded together forming a composite material 24. Such composite material 24 is further rolled to the final foil gauge with no heat treatment and then subjected to a thermal in situ reaction to form a resulting uniform solid solution foil material 50 with superior high temperature corrosion resistance.
Abstract:
A metal foil substrate material 50 for catalytic converters 54 and method of making the material in which layers (10, 12, 14) of ferritic stainless steel and aluminum are solid state metallurgically bonded together forming a composite material 24. Such composite material 24 is further rolled to the final foil gauge with no heat treatment and then subjected to a thermal in situ reaction to form a resulting uniform solid solution foil material 50 with superior high temperature corrosion resistance.
Abstract:
A self-brazing material 10 for use in a heat exchanger 50 using a corrosive heat exchanger fluid is manufactured by providing a first substrate layer 10 and a second layer 12 metallurgically bonding the two layers together to form a composite material 22. This second layer 12 is made of a material chosen from a group consisting of materials capable of having good high temperature and corrosive properties, and melting at a temperature well below that of the first material 10. The bonded material 22 is then reacted so as to render the second layer 12 a brazing layer for the first substitute layer 10 with excellent high temperature and corrosive properties.
Abstract:
Layers of copper (10) and Invar (12) are cold pressure rolled with reduction in thickness to be metallurgically bonded together in interleaved relation, and strips (20) of the bonded materials are cold pressure rolled together a plurality of times with reduction in thickness to be metallurgically bonded together to form a metal composite (208) and to break up the layers of Invar in the composite, thereby to distribute portions of the Invar material (12.1) in a copper matrix (10.1) to limit thermal expansion of the composite while permitting the matrix to extend in continuous phase along three mutually perpendicular axes through the composite substantially free of diffusion between the copper and Invar materials.
Abstract:
An electrical circuit system having a semiconductor device (14) electrically and thermally connected to an electrically conductive circuit layer (16) of a substrate (12) and having a heat-dissipating base layer (18) of an aluminum metal material in the substrate has an electrically insulating hard coating dielectric layer (20) of aluminum oxide directly adherent to the base layer mounting the electrically conductive circuit layer thereon in selected electrically insulated relation to the base layer while providing improved heat-transfer to the base layer, the aluminum metal material of the base layer being substantially free of iron and copper constituents and the electrically insulating hard coating of aluminum oxide being substantially free of iron and copper inclusions for achieving the selected electrically insulated relationship with a very thin dielectric layer to provide improved heat-transfer between the electrically conductive circuit layer and the base layer. Preferably the electrically insulating hard coating layer of aluminum oxide comprises a multiplicity of sections of the aluminum oxide hard coating material which are individually adherent to the base layer and are separated by an electrically insulating adhesive material which is disposed on and between the sections of the hard coating layer for cooperating with the sections of the hard coating layer in securely bonding and mounting the electrically conductive circuit layer in the desired electrically insulated relation to the base layer with improved heat-transfer to the base layer.
Abstract:
An electrical circuit system having a semiconductor device (14) electrically and thermally connected to an electrically conductive circuit layer (16) of a substrate (12) and having a heat-dissipating base layer (18) of an aluminum metal material in the substrate has an electrically insulating hard coating dielectric layer (20) of aluminum oxide directly adherent to the base layer mounting the electrically conductive circuit layer thereon in selected electrically insulated relation to the base layer while providing improved heat-transfer to the base layer, the aluminum metal material of the base layer being substantially free of iron and copper constituents and the electrically insulating hard coating of aluminum oxide being substantially free of iron and copper inclusions for achieving the selected electrically insulated relationship with a very thin dielectric layer to provide improved heat-transfer between the electrically conductive circuit layer and the base layer. Preferably the electrically insulating hard coating layer of aluminum oxide comprises a multiplicity of sections of the aluminum oxide hard coating material which are individually adherent to the base layer and are separated by an electrically insulating adhesive material which is disposed on and between the sections of the hard coating layer for cooperating with the sections of the hard coating layer in securely bonding and mounting the electrically conductive circuit layer in the desired electrically insulated relation to the base layer with improved heat-transfer to the base layer.