Abstract:
An improved method of reducing a mixed metal oxide composition comprising oxides of nickel, cobalt, copper and iron in a hydrogen atmosphere to produce a mixture of the respective metals, the improvement wherein the atmosphere further comprises water vapour at a concentration, temperature and time to effect selective reduction of the oxides of nickel cobalt and copper relative to the iron oxide to produce the metallic mixture having a reduced ratio of metallic iron relative to metallic nickel, cobalt and copper.
Abstract:
A method for producing a sintered body includes: a) molding a composition containing a powder primarily made of an inorganic material and a binder including an aliphatic carbonic acid ester based resin in a predetermined shape so as to obtain a compact; b) exposing the compact to a first atmosphere containing an alkaline gas and thus decomposing and removing the aliphatic carbonic acid ester based resin from the compact so as to obtain a degreased body; and c) sintering the degreased body so as to obtain a sintered body.
Abstract:
A thermal method of making a hydrogen permeable composition is disclosed. A mixture of metal oxide powder and ceramic oxide powder and optionally a pore former is formed and pressed to form an article. The article is dried at elevated temperatures and then sintered in a reducing atmosphere to provide a dense hydrogen permeable portion near the surface of the sintered mixture. The dense hydrogen permeable portion has a higher initial concentration of metal than the remainder of the sintered mixture and is present in the range of from about 20 to about 80 percent by volume of the dense hydrogen permeable portion.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a new process for making a low cost powder for the manufacture of high performance bearings. Improved powders and sintered parts (e.g., bearings) are also provided. The powders of the present invention are formed by blending iron powder with fine cuprous oxide powder and elemental tin powder. The blended powders are then thermally treated under a reducing atmosphere to form a sintered cake, which is milled to a powder.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to provide a tungsten-based sintered body having a relative density of 99.5% or more (a porosity of 0.5 volume % or less) and a uniform and isotropic structure, which has not been able to be achieved by conventional techniques. In particular, the tungsten-based sintered body is intended for use as a discharge lamp electrode, a sputtering target, a crucible, a radiation shielding member or a resistance welding electrode. The intended tungsten-based sintered body is produced by subjecting a tungsten-based powder to a CIP process at a pressure of 350 MPa or more to form a powder compact, sintering the powder compact in a hydrogen gas atmosphere at a sintering temperature of 1600° C. or more for a holding time of 5 hours or more to form a sintered compact, and subjecting the sintered compact to a HIP process in an argon gas atmosphere under conditions of 150 MPa or more and 1900° C. or more. The tungsten-based sintered body of the present invention is suitably used, for example, as a discharge lamp electrode, a sputtering target, a crucible, a radiation shielding member, an electric discharge machining electrode, a semiconductor element mounting substrate and a structural member.
Abstract:
A mirror having low density, low CTE, high thermal conductivity, high elastic modulus, and a reflective, polishable surface. The instant mirror features a silicon-based metal coating as the reflective surface, and a composite body as a support or substrate for the reflecting surface. The composite body features carbon fibers reinforcing a matrix containing silicon metal and optionally some silicon carbide. The metal coating can be elemental silicon metal, possibly in amorphous form, and can be applied by a vapor deposition process such as chemical vapor deposition (e.g., plasma enhanced CVD) or physical vapor deposition such as evaporation or electron beam PVD.
Abstract:
Tungsten-based alloy material sintered at a high sintering power that may contain additive elements soluble in the nickel and selected from the group constituted, for example, by rhenium, molybdenum, tantalum, niobium, vanadium or a mixture of these, wherein, after sintering in liquid phase at a temperature of around 1500° C., it has: a two-phased α-γ microstructure that is fully densified, has no porosities or has negligible porosities of a low mean grain size (Lα) and a contiguity (Cαα) that is very low with respect to the size of the tungsten crystals, and a dispersion of micro-oxides with no loss of ductility properties.
Abstract:
An efficient process for producing fine nickel powder, capable of metallizing the powder at low temperature to prevent its sintering, and fine nickel powder produced by the process, composed of particles having a flat shape, diameter of limited variations and uniform thickness, and suitable for internal electrodes for laminate ceramic capacitors of high electric capacity. The process comprises a step for forming a nickel compound coated with gelatin by adsorbing gelatin on preformed nickel compound particles with different size and shape (Step (A)), and another step for converting said nickel compound coated with gelatin into fine particles containing metallic nickel and nickel oxide by heating the nickel compound coated with gelatin produced in Step (A) in an inert gas atmosphere (Step (B)). It may include an additional step (Step (C)), subsequent to Step (B), for completely reducing nickel oxide in said fine particles by heating at temperature lower than that for Step (B) in a reducing gas atmosphere.
Abstract:
The present teachings are directed methods of producing tungsten-containing nanoparticles, specifically tungsten nanoparticles and tungsten oxide nanoparticles with an average particle size of less than about five nanometers.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a powder metal composition for producing powder metal components comprising a Co-based pre-alloyed powder, with irregularly shaped particles comprising at least 15% by weight Cr and less than 0.3% by weight C, admixed with graphite. The invention also concerns a method for producing PM components by pressing of articles to shape from the powder metal composition according to the invention and sintering them.