Metal treatment inventions 12/06

20060289088 - Titanium treatment to minimize fretting: A method for surface treating a titanium gas turbine engine component. The method includes providing a gas turbine engine component having a titanium-containing surface. The component is heated to a temperature sufficient to diffuse carbon into the titanium and below 1,000° F. The surface is contacted with a carbon-containing gas... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20060289089 - Method for treatment of chemically passivated galvanized surfaces to improve paint adhesion: A method of treating a zinc-galvanized metal surface, which has been chemically passivated, the treatment providing increased resistance to corrosion and improved adherence to a subsequently applied organic coating comprising contacting a chromium passivated, zinc-galvanized metal surface with a coating solution bath comprising from about 1 to about 10 parts... Agent: Henkel Corporation

20060289090 - Method of refining metal surface and metal product by method: This invention relates to a method for fining a surface of a metal product to form crystal grains having sizes less than 1 μ m at their surfaces and the metal product produced thereby. The method is comprised of a process for forming crystal grains having sizes less than 1... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060289091 - Internal gettering by metal alloy clusters: The present invention relates to the internal gettering of impurities in semiconductors by metal alloy clusters. In particular, intermetallic clusters are formed within silicon, such clusters containing two or more transition metal species. Such clusters have melting temperatures below that of the host material and are shown to be particularly... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20060289092 - Heat dissipation device having low melting point alloy coating and a method thereof: A heat dissipation device having a layer of a low melting point alloy coating and a method of fabrication are described. A low melting point alloy material is heated to above its melting point, and the melted alloy material is sprayed onto the heat sink to form a coating layer... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20060289093 - Al-zn-mg-ag high-strength alloy for aerospace and automotive castings: An aluminum casting alloy comprises, in weight percent: about 4-5% Zn; about 1-3% Mg; about 0-1% Cu; less than about 0.3% Si; less than about 0.12% Fe; less than about 0.5% Mn; about 0.01-0.05 wt % B; less than about 0.15% Ti; about 0.05-0.2% Zr; about 0.1-0.5% Ag; no more... Agent: Mr. Edward J. Timmer

20060289094 - Lead-free free-cutting brass alloys: A lead-free free-cutting copper-antimony alloy comprises in percentage by weight: 55 to 65% Cu, 0.3 to 2.0% Sb, 0.2 to 1.0% Mn, at least two elements selected from the group of Ti, Ni, B, Fe, Se, Mg, Si, Sn, P and rare-earth metal in amount of 0.1-1.0%, as well as... Agent: GlobalIPServices

20060289095 - Nitrogen removal from molten metal by slags containing titanium oxides: The invention relates to titanium oxide containing slag compositions and associated methods for reducing the nitrogen content of metals. The titanium oxide slag compositions can be used to reduce nitrogen content in various molten metals including steel, nickel, copper, iron, and the like. The nitrogen content of the metals can... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20060283525 - Soft magnetic material and method for producing same: A method for producing a soft magnetic material comprises a step wherein a plurality of composite magnetic particles, each of which is composed of a metal magnetic particle and an insulating coating film covering the surface of the metal magnetic particle, are formed into a compaction, and another step wherein... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060283526 - Wear resistant alloy for valve seat insert used in internal combustion engines: This invention related to a high carbon and high molybdenum/tungsten martenisitic type iron base alloy with excellent hot hardness and wear resistance for making valve seat insert. The alloy comprises of 2.05-3.60 wt % carbon, 0.1-3.0 wt % silicon, 0-2.0 wt % manganese, 3.0-10.0 wt % chromium, 11.0-25.0 wt %... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060283527 - Bulk-solidifying high manganese non-ferromagnetic amorphous steel alloys and related method of using and making the same: Iron based amorphous steel alloy having a high Manganese content and being non-ferromagnetic at ambient temperature. The bulk-solidifying ferrous-based amorphous alloys are multicomponent systems that contain about 50 atomic percent iron as the major component. The remaining composition combines suitable mixtures of metalloids (Group b elements) and other elements selected... Agent: University Of Virginia Patent Foundation

20060283528 - Aluminum alloys having a pre-determined electrical conductivity: An aluminum alloy and a method of making the aluminum alloy comprised of pure aluminum and a casting aluminum. The pure aluminum and casting aluminum are alloyed in appropriate proportions such that the aluminum alloy includes a desired electrical conductivity in the range of about twenty-seven percent (27%) to about... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20060283529 - Apparatus and method of producing net-shaped components from alloy sheets: A method and apparatus for producing ultra-fine grained metal material sheets. The apparatus molds and rapidly solidifies a metal material to form a fine grain precursor. The precursor is then subjected to a series of successive alternating tensile and compressive strains that alter the grain structure of the precursor so... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060283530 - Hot-shaping and hardening a workpiece: A method of hot-shaping and hardening a hot steel workpiece that is at or above its AC3 temperature. The method has the steps of positioning the hot workpiece between confronting faces of a lower die and an upper die, providing a coolant bath having a liquid level above at least... Agent: The Firm Of Karl F Ross

20060278307 - Method and solution for coating metal surfaces with a posphating solution containing water peroxide, produced metal object and use of said object: The invention relates to a method for the treatment or pre-treatment of surfaces of metal objects by means of an acidic, aqueous solution containing zinc and phosphate. Said invention is characterised in that the phosphating solution contains between 0.1-10 g/L zinc, 4-50 g/L phosphate calculated as PO4, between 0.03-3 g/L... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20060278308 - Method of consolidating precipitation-hardenable alloys to form consolidated articles with ultra-fine grain microstructures: A method by which consolidated articles can be produced from nanocrystalline materials to have mechanical properties that can be improved through thermal treatment. The method entails machining a body to produce polycrystalline chips having nanocrystalline microstructures, and then consolidating the chips to form a consolidated article having mechanical properties that... Agent: Hartman & Hartman, P.C.

20060278309 - Electrode for fuel cell, and methods for manufacturing these: The invention relates to a hot rolled sheet which is made from austenitic iron/carbon/manganese steel and which has a resistance of greater than 900 MPa, whereby: resistance (MPa) x elongation at rupture (%) is greater than 45000. The chemical composition of the inventive sheet comprises the following concentrations expressed as... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060278310 - Die casting component and method for the production thereof: The mechanical properties of a die casting component made of an aluminium alloy have the following proportions; magnesium 3.0-6.0 wt %, silicon 1.4-3.5 wt % manganese 0.5-2.0 wt %, iron max. 0.15 wt %, titanium max. 0.2 wt %, the remainder being aluminium and other components having a total proportion... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20060272747 - Fluxing compositions: A fluxing composition comprises a fluxing agent in which the fluxing agent is a compound having (i) an aromatic ring, (ii) at least one —OH, —NHR (where R is hydrogen or lower alkyl), or —SH group (iii) an electron-withdrawing or electron-donating substituent on the aromatic ring, and (iv) no imino... Agent: Jane E. Gennaro National Starch And Chemical

20060272746 - Submerged arc flux: A highly basic particle flux for submerged arc welding that produces less than 7 ml/100 gr of diffusible hydrogen in the weld metal, which flux comprises a carbon dioxide containing compound with an effective amount of heat releasable carbon dioxide in the range of 0.5-3.5% by weight of the flux... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Lincoln

20060272748 - Colored conversion layers devoid of chrome formed on metal surfaces: A method for producing coloured layers on zinc, aluminium, magnesium or alloy surfaces. The surfaces are brought into contact with an aqueous treatment solution which is devoid of chrome, said solution containing, in total, 3-35 g/l persulfate ions and/or peroxodisulfate ions and not more than 10 g/l ammonia or ammonium... Agent: Henkel Corporation

20060272749 - Method for inert gas welding or inert gas soldering workpieces comprising identical or different metals or metal alloys by means of an additional zn/al metal: The invention relates to a method for inert gas welding or inert gas soldering of workpieces (A) made of steel, aluminum, magnesium, copper, or the alloys thereof with workpieces (B) made of steel, aluminum, magnesium, copper, or the alloys thereof by using an additional molten metal alloy, workpieces (A) and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20060272750 - Pressure casting method of magnesium alloy and metal products thereof: The present invention provides a pressure casting method of a magnesium alloy. In the method, a molten magnesium alloy is cooled to form a partially molten state containing a solid-phase, and the partially molten state is further cooled to form a solid-phase granularly crystallized solid material. The solid material is... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20060272751 - Heat mold device and a method of making a guide wire by using the same heat mold device: In a heat mold device 1 for a guide wire 9, the metallic mold body 2 is made from the material, the thermal expansional coefficient of which is the same of a metallic coild wire 91 to stabilize a shape-forming configuration 94. A plurality of the mold bodies 2 are... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060272752 - Gas quenching method using a recycling facility: The invention relates to a gas quenching method of the type that makes use of (i) a quenching cell (V1) which is intended to receive objects to be quenched with a quenching gas and (ii) a buffer capacity (V2) which is designed to contain the quenching gas. The invention is... Agent: Air Liquide

20060272753 - Method of producing a silver alloy part and alloy used for same: A method is provided for producing a part made of a silver-based alloy using an initial alloy, the initial alloy comprising silver and at least one metal soluble in silver at contents between 0.04 and 4 atomic %, the at least one metal being capable of forming a stable oxide... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP