Highly electrically conductive surfaces for electrochemical applications

    公开(公告)号:US11208713B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-28

    申请号:US15688423

    申请日:2017-08-28

    发明人: Conghua Wang

    摘要: A method is described that can be used in electrodes for electrochemical devices and includes disposing a precious metal on a top surface of a corrosion-resistant metal substrate. The precious metal can be thermally sprayed onto the surface of the corrosion-resistant metal substrate to produce multiple metal splats. The thermal spraying can be based on a salt solution or on a metal particle suspension. A separate bonding process can be used after the metal splats are deposited to enhance the adhesion of the metal splats to the corrosion-resistant metal substrate. The surface area associated with the splats of the precious metal is less than the surface area associated with the top surface of the corrosion-resistant metal substrate. The thermal spraying rate can be controlled to achieve a desired ratio of the surface area of the metal splats to the surface area of the corrosion-resistant metal substrate.

    Method and an apparatus for manufacturing an R-Fe-B sintered magnet

    公开(公告)号:US11107627B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-31

    申请号:US16236926

    申请日:2018-12-31

    摘要: A method of manufacturing a plurality of R—Fe—B sintered magnets using a plasma flame apparatus and a furnace. The method includes a first step of providing a sintered magnet block. Then, the sintered magnet block is machined to form machined magnets. The method continues with a step of cleaning surfaces of the machined magnets to form cleaned magnets. The method then proceeds with depositing a plurality of spherical droplets of a heavy rare earth powder selected from at least one of Dy or Tb on the surfaces of the cleaned magnets, to produce a plurality of magnets including a uniform film of Dy or Tb. Then, the magnets including the uniform film are sintered to diffuse the uniform film into the magnets through grain boundary phases of the magnets to produce the R—Fe—B sintered magnets. A plasma flame apparatus is also disclosed herein.

    System and method for applying amorphous metal coatings on surfaces for the reduction of friction

    公开(公告)号:US11078560B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-03

    申请号:US16599138

    申请日:2019-10-11

    摘要: An embodiment relates to a composition comprising an amorphous alloy having a low coefficient of friction (COF) of 0.15 or less, wherein the amorphous alloy is substantially free of phosphor (P) and substantially free of boron (B). An embodiment relates to a method comprising solidifying a molten layer of an amorphous feedstock on a preexisting layer by controlling a heating source and a cooling rate so as to avoid formation of crystals in the molten layer and not affect a crystalline structure of the preexisting layer, and forming a specimen; wherein, the at least a portion specimen has the low COF. Another embodiment relates to a system comprising a drill string, wherein the drill string comprises a drilling bit and a drill pipe connected thereto, wherein at least a portion of the drill pipe comprises a coating having the low COF.

    Coating method for vehicle shift fork and shift fork with amorphous coating layer formed by the same

    公开(公告)号:US10969010B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-06

    申请号:US15906941

    申请日:2018-02-27

    发明人: Min Gyun Chung

    摘要: Provided herein is a coating method for a vehicle shift fork and the methods includes: preparing a Fe—Cr—Mo-based composition such as a powder; pretreating the shift fork by washing a pad part of the shift fork to remove impurities; forming a coating layer on the pad part using the Fe—Cr—Mo-based powder by high velocity oxygen fuel spraying (HVOF) method; and cooling the coating layer at a rate of about 106 to about 108 K/s to form an amorphous coating layer. Further provided are an amorphous coating formed by high velocity oxygen fuel spraying (HVOF) method and a shift fork including the amorphous coating.