3845results about "Hot-dipping/immersion processes" patented technology

Analyte sensors and methods of manufacturing same are provided, including analyte sensors comprising multi-axis flexibility. For example, a multi-electrode sensor system 800 comprising two working electrodes and at least one reference/counter electrode is provided. The sensor system 800 comprises first and second elongated bodies E1, E2, each formed of a conductive core or of a core with a conductive layer deposited thereon, insulating layer 810 that separates the conductive layer 820 from the elongated body, a membrane layer deposited on top of the elongated bodies E1, E2, and working electrodes 802′, 802″ formed by removing portions of the conductive layer 820 and the insulating layer 810, thereby exposing electroactive surface of the elongated bodies E1, E2.

Analyte sensors and methods of manufacturing same are provided, including analyte sensors comprising multi-axis flexibility. For example, a multi-electrode sensor system 800 comprising two working electrodes and at least one reference/counter electrode is provided. The sensor system 800 comprises first and second elongated bodies E1, E2, each formed of a conductive core or of a core with a conductive layer deposited thereon, insulating layer 810 that separates the conductive layer 820 from the elongated body, a membrane layer deposited on top of the elongated bodies E1, E2, and working electrodes 802′, 802″ formed by removing portions of the conductive layer 820 and the insulating layer 810, thereby exposing electroactive surface of the elongated bodies E1, E2.

Devices and methods are provided for continuous measurement of an analyte concentration. The device can include a sensor having a plurality of sensor elements, each having at least one characteristic that is different from other sensor(s) of the device. In some embodiments, the plurality of sensor elements are each tuned to measure a different range of analyte concentration, thereby providing the device with the capability of achieving a substantially consistent level of measurement accuracy across a physiologically relevant range. In other embodiments, the device includes a plurality of sensor elements each tuned to measure during different time periods after insertion or implantation, thereby providing the sensor with the capability to continuously and accurately measure analyte concentrations across a wide range of time periods. For example, a sensor system 180 is provided having a first working electrode 150 comprising a first sensor element 102 and a second working electrode 160 comprising a second sensor element 104, and a reference electrode 108 for providing a reference value for measuring the working electrode potential of the sensor elements 102, 104.

Described here are embodiments of processes and systems for the continuous manufacturing of implantable continuous analyte sensors. In some embodiments, a method is provided for sequentially advancing an elongated conductive body through a plurality of stations, each configured to treat the elongated conductive body. In some of these embodiments, one or more of the stations is configured to coat the elongated conductive body using a meniscus coating process, whereby a solution formed of a polymer and a solvent is prepared, the solution is continuously circulated to provide a meniscus on a top portion of a vessel holding the solution, and the elongated conductive body is advanced through the meniscus. The method may also comprise the step of removing excess coating material from the elongated conductive body by advancing the elongated conductive body through a die orifice. For example, a provided elongated conductive body 510 is advanced through a pre-coating treatment station 520, through a coating station 530, through a thickness control station 540, through a drying or curing station 550, through a thickness measurement station 560, and through a post-coating treatment station 570.

Described here are embodiments of processes and systems for the continuous manufacturing of implantable continuous analyte sensors. In some embodiments, a method is provided for sequentially advancing an elongated conductive body through a plurality of stations, each configured to treat the elongated conductive body. In some of these embodiments, one or more of the stations is configured to coat the elongated conductive body using a meniscus coating process, whereby a solution formed of a polymer and a solvent is prepared, the solution is continuously circulated to provide a meniscus on a top portion of a vessel holding the solution, and the elongated conductive body is advanced through the meniscus. The method may also comprise the step of removing excess coating material from the elongated conductive body by advancing the elongated conductive body through a die orifice. For example, a provided elongated conductive body 510 is advanced through a pre-coating treatment station 520, through a coating station 530, through a thickness control station 540, through a drying or curing station 550, through a thickness measurement station 560, and through a post-coating treatment station 570.

Described here are embodiments of processes and systems for the continuous manufacturing of implantable continuous analyte sensors. In some embodiments, a method is provided for sequentially advancing an elongated conductive body through a plurality of stations, each configured to treat the elongated conductive body. In some of these embodiments, one or more of the stations is configured to coat the elongated conductive body using a meniscus coating process, whereby a solution formed of a polymer and a solvent is prepared, the solution is continuously circulated to provide a meniscus on a top portion of a vessel holding the solution, and the elongated conductive body is advanced through the meniscus. The method may also comprise the step of removing excess coating material from the elongated conductive body by advancing the elongated conductive body through a die orifice. For example, a provided elongated conductive body 510 is advanced through a pre-coating treatment station 520, through a coating station 530, through a thickness control station 540, through a drying or curing station 550, through a thickness measurement station 560, and through a post-coating treatment station 570.

A coated steel material excellent in corrosion resistance and a method of producing the same, wherein a coated steel material has on the surface of the steel sheet a Zn-alloy coating layer containing 1-10 wt % of Mg, 2-19 wt % of Al and 0.01-2 wt % of Si, where Mg and Al satisfy Mg (%)+Al (%)<=20%, the balance being Zn and unavoidable impurities, and has a coating layer structure of a Mg intermetallic compound or the like. As a base metal treatment, it is preferably provided with a Ni coating layer. The coated Zn-alloy coated steel sheet may have provided on the coating layer, as an intermediate layer, a chromate film layer, and, as an upper layer, an organic coating layer. The Zn-alloy coating layer may further contain one or more of 0.01-1 wt % of In, 0.01-1 wt % of Bi and 1-10 wt % of Sn. The coated steel material may be painted.

An air knife mouth arrangement for use in an air knife assembly having a laterally extending mouth through which pressurized fluid passes to operate on a coating applied to a surface of a sheet material passing the mouth in a longitudinal direction to control the thickness of the coating. In the preferred form of the invention shown the air knife mouth arrangement comprises a mouth defined by a pair of facing lips, each lip having in front elevation a curved shape along its length. The curved shapes of the two lips face each other. The lips of the air knife mouth arrangement are selectively laterally displaceable relative to each other by a moving means so as to thereby vary the separation of the lips and hence the width of the mouth along the length of the mouth. It is to be noted that the term "length" refers to the dimension of the mouth in the lateral direction (indicated by the X axis), while the term "width" refers to the dimension of the mouth in the longitudinal direction (indicated by the Y axis).

The invention proposes a high-strength dual-phase cold rolled steel sheet having an excellent deep drawability, wherein the steel sheet has a composition comprising C: 0.01-0.08 mass %, Si: not more than 2.0 mass %, Mn: not more than 3.0 mass %, P: not more than 0.10 mass %, S: not more than 0.02 mass %, A1: 0.005-0.20 mass %, N: not more than 0.02 mass % and V: 0.01-0.5 mass %, provided that V and C satisfy a relationship of 0.5xC/12<=V/51<=3xC/12, and the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, and has a microstructure consisting of a ferrite phase as a primary phase and a secondary phase including martensite phase at an area ratio of not less than 1% to a whole of the microstructure and a high-strength dual-phase galvanized steel sheet comprising a galvanized coating on the above steel sheet as well as a method of producing the same.

A flux for hot dip galvanization comprises from:&Circlesolid;60 to 80 wt. % of zinc chloride (ZnCl2); 7 to 20 wt. % of ammonium chloride (NH4Cl); 2 to 20 wt. % of a fluidity modifying agent comprising at least one alkali or alkaline earth metal; 0.1 to 5 wt. % of a least one of the following compounds: NiCl2, CoCl2, MnCl2; and 0.1 to 1.5 wt. % of at least one of the following compounds: PbCl2, SnCl2, BiCl3, SbCl3.

The invention is a technique for strongly integrating a galvanized steel sheet and a resin molded article. A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet “Z18” is immersed in an aqueous solution for aluminum degreasing at 75° C. for 7 minutes, to form roughness having an RSm of 0.8 to 2.3 μm and an Rz of 0.3 to 1.0 μm on the surface. The surface is covered with convex protrusions having a diameter of about 100 nm, and a chromate treatment layer appears in the surface. In other words, three conditions suitable for bonding are satisfied thereby. A resin composition comprising 70 to 97 wt % of polyphenylene sulfide and 3 to 30 wt % of a polyolefin resin is injected onto the surface. The resin composition penetrates into ultra-fine irregularities and is cured in that state, whereby a composite in which the galvanized steel sheet and the resin molded article are strongly integrated is obtained. The shear rupture strength of the composite is extremely high, in excess of 20 MPa.

A metal matrix composite casting comprises a metal matrix composite and a processed member inserted in the metal matrix composite by enveloped casting. By the processed member which is easier to process than the metal matrix composite, a processed portion of a predetermined shape can be formed in the metal matrix composite. That is, by a simple processing such that the processed member is removed from the metal matrix composite or the processed portion is formed in the processed member itself, the processed portion having a desired shape can be easily formed in the metal matrix composite.

The invention provides 1,000 MPa cold-rolled hot-dip galvanized dual-phase steel and a manufacturing method thereof, belonging to the technical field of cold-rolled hot-dip galvanized high-strength steel plates. The chemical components in mass percentage of the cold-rolled hot-dip galvanized dual-phase steel are: 0.06 to 0.18 percent of C, less than or equal to 0.1 percent of Si, 1.2 to 2.5 percent of Mn,0.05 to 0.5 percent of Mo, 0.05 to 0.6 percent of Cr, 0.005 to 0.05 percent of Al, 0.01 to 0.06 percent of Nb, 0.01 to 0.05 percent of Ti, less than or equal to 0.02 percent of P, less than or equal to 0.01 percent of S, less than or equal to 0.005 percent of N, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. The manufacturing method adopts Cr or Mo to replace Si, so as to enlarge an austenitic and ferritic two-phase region and improve the hardenability of the dual-phase steel, and meanwhile, the manufacturing method improves the strength of toughness of the steel by adding Nb or Ti refined grains, so as to ensure that the steel has good weldability and usability, and the strength grade of the steel can reach over 1,000 Mpa.

The invention provides a rare earth-containing Al-Zn-Mg-Si alloy with high aluminum content for hot-dipping steel products, comprising the following compositions by weight percent as follows; Al: 50-75%, Mg: 1-5%, Si: 0.5-2.5%, the addition of 0.002-0.1% of Ti, 0.001-0.045% of B and 0.05-1% of rare earth (La or Ce), and the balance of Zn and unavoidable impurities. The invention utilizes corrosion resistance of Mg2Si and grain-refining effect of the rare earth, the Ti and the Bi elements to improve quality of plating solution and obtain a high aluminum content aluminum-zinc alloy cladding with ,a bright and smooth surface and great corrosion resistance property. In addition, the content of aluminum in the alloy is up to 50-75%, thereby lowering production cost.

In a method for coating a surface of a turbine component with an environment-resistant aluminide, a coating is formed by cold gas-dynamic spraying a powder material on the turbine component surface, the powder material comprising aluminum, platinum, and at least one additional metal selected from the group consisting of nickel, chromium, hafnium, silicon, yttrium, rhenium, zirconium, cobalt, and tantalum. After forming the coating, at least one thermal diffusion treatment is performed on the turbine component to metallurgically homogenize the coating and thereby form an aluminide coating that includes by weight about 12 to about 30% aluminum, up to about 50% platinum, about 2 to about 25% chromium, about 1 to about 5% hafnium, about 1 to about 5% silicon, about 0.1 to about 1% yttrium, and about 1 to about 3% Zr, and nickel.

Disclosed are an ultra-high-strength steel sheet having both a tensile strength of as high as 1400MPa or above and excellent formability and an advantageous process for manufacturing the same. A high-strength steel sheet having both a composition which contains by mass C: 0.12 to 0.50%, Si: 2.0% or less, Mn: 1.0 to 5.0%, P: 0.1% or less, S: 0.07% or less, Al: 1.0% or less, and N: 0.008% or less with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and a structure which comprises, in terms of area fraction, autotempered martensite: 80% or more, ferrite: less than 5%, bainite: 10% or less, and retained austenite: 5% or less and in which the average number of precipitated iron carbide particles of 5nm to 0.5[mu]m in the autotempered martensite is 5OE04 or above per mm2.

The present invention provides, in a hot dip plating system having an annealing furnace for hot dip plating steel sheet containing Si, a continuous annealing and hot dip plating method and system causing internal oxidation without causing surface oxidation of the Si in the steel and avoiding a drop in the plating ability of the steel sheet and retardation of alloying, that is, a continuous annealing and hot dip plating method using an annealing furnace having, in order, a front heating zone, rear heating zone, soaking zone, and cooling zone and a hot dip plating bath, comprising heating or soaking the steel sheet at a steel sheet temperature of a temperature range of at least 300° C. or more by indirect heating, making an atmosphere of the zones one comprised of hydrogen H: 1 to 10 vol % and a balance of nitrogen and unavoidable impurities, making a steel sheet peak temperature during heating at the front heating zone 550 to 750° C. and making the dew point less than −25° C., making dew points of the following rear heating zone and soaking zone −30° C. to 0° C., and making a dew point of the cooling zone less than −25° C.

Steel sheet having organic coating comprises: a zinc or a zinc alloy plated steel sheet or an aluminum or an aluminum alloy plated steel sheet; a composite oxide coating formed on the surface of the plated steel sheet and containing at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Mn and Al; and an organic coating formed on the composite oxide coating and containing a rust-preventive additive component.

The present invention provides a hot press method used for producing a high-strength member for an automobile and, in particular, a part which requires high-strength, such as an undercarriage component of an automobile. More specifically, the present invention provides an aluminum plated steel sheet or an aluminum-zinc plated steel sheet suitable for high temperature forming (hot forming) wherein high strength is obtained after high temperature forming, and a method of producing the same. Also, the present invention provides a hot dip aluminum plated steel sheet which suppresses the alloying reaction of a plated layer during press forming and has beautiful appearance, and an aluminum-system plated steel sheet for hot press having excellent after-painting corrosion resistance. Concretely, the present invention is a high-strength aluminum-system plated steel sheet excellent in heat resistance and after-painting corrosion resistance, characterized by having an Fe-Al-system coating containing, in mass, Mn and Cr of more than 0.1% in total on the surface of the steel containing, in mass, C: 0.05 to 0.7%, Si: 0.05 to 1%, Mn: 0.5 to 3%, P: not more than 0.1%, S: not more than 0.1% and Al: not more than 0.2%, and, in addition, one or more element(s) selected from among Ti: 0.01 to 0.8%, Cr: not more than 3% and Mo: not more than 1%, so as to satisfy the following expression (1): Ti + 0.5xMn + Cr + 0.5xMo > 0.4 ... 1

The invention provides a high-strength hot-dip zinc plated steel sheet which exhibits high TS-El balance, excellent stretch frangeability, excellent workability due to low YR, and excellent impact characteristics, and a process for manufacturing the same. A high-strength hot-dip zinc plated steel sheet excellent in workability and impact characteristics, having a composition which contains by mass C: 0.05 to 0.3%, Si: 0.01 to 2.5%, Mn: 0.5 to 3.5%, P: 0.003 to 0.100%, S: 0.02% or below, Al: 0.010 to 1.5%, and N: 0.007% or below and further contains at least one element selected from among Ti, Nb and V in a total amount of 0.01 to 0.2% with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities and a microstructure which comprises, in terms of area fraction, 20 to 87% of ferrite, 3 to 10% (in total) of martensite and retained austenite, and 10 to 60% of tempered martensite and in which the average grain diameter of the second phase consisting of the martensite, retained austenite, and tempered martensite is 3[mu]m or below.

This high-strength steel sheet includes: in terms of percent by mass, 0.03 to 0.10% of C; 0.01 to 1.5% of Si; 1.0 to 2.5% of Mn; 0.1% or less of P; 0.02% or less of S; 0.01 to 1.2% of Al; 0.06 to 0.15% of Ti; and 0.01% or less of N; and contains as the balance, iron and inevitable impurities, wherein a tensile strength is in a range of 590 MPa or more, and a ratio between the tensile strength and a yield strength is in a range of 0.80 or more, a microstructure includes bainite at an area ratio of 40% or more and the balance being either one or both of ferrite and martensite, a density of Ti(C,N) precipitates having sizes of 10 nm or smaller is in a range of 10¹⁰ precipitates/mm³ or more, and a ratio (Hvs/Hvc) of a hardness (Hvs) at a depth of 10 μm from a surface to a hardness (Hvc) at a center of a sheet thickness is in a range of 0.85 or more.

A coated electrically conductive substrate has particular utility where there are multiple closely spaced leads and tin whiskers constitute a potential short circuit. Such substrates include leadframes, terminal pins and circuit traces such as on printed circuit boards and flexible circuits. This electrically conductive substrate has a plurality of leads separated by a distance capable of bridging by a tin whisker, a silver or silver-base alloy layer coating at least one surface of at least one of the plurality of leads, and a fine grain tin or tin-base alloy layer directly coating said silver layer. An alternative coated electrically conductive substrate has particular utility where debris from fretting wear may oxidize and increase electrical resistivity, such an in a connector assembly. This electrically conductive substrate has a barrier layer deposited on the substrate that is effective to inhibit diffusion of constituents the substrate into a plurality of subsequently deposited layers. The subsequently deposited layers include a sacrificial layer deposited on the barrier layer that is effective to form intermetallic compounds with tin, a low resistivity oxide metal layer deposited on said sacrificial layer, and an outermost layer of tin or a tin-base alloy directly deposited on the low resistivity oxide metal layer. In this alternative embodiment, the barrier layer is preferably nickel or a nickel-base alloy and the low resisitivity oxide metal layer is preferably silver or a silver-base alloy. When heated, the coated substrate of this second embodiment forms a unique structure having a copper or copper-base alloy substrate, an intervening layer formed from a mixture or metals including copper and tin, and an outermost layer which is a mixture of a copper-tin intermetallic containing phase and a silver-rich phase. It is believed that this silver-rich phase is particularly beneficial to reduce an increase in resistivity due to oxidation of fretting wear debris.

A bright finish aluminum alloy on high strength aluminum or aluminum alloy lamination is disclosed including a bright finish top sheet, a high strength aluminum or aluminum alloy substrate, and an adhesive bonding the bright finish metal top sheet to the high strength aluminum or aluminum alloy substrate to provide a bright finish aluminum on high strength aluminum or aluminum alloy lamination product having brighter finish than a sheet product of said high strength aluminum or aluminum alloy and higher strength than a sheet product of said bright finish aluminum of the same thickness as said lamination product, wherein said lamination product withstands galvanic corrosion. In one aspect, the bright finish metal top sheet is 5657 aluminum foil. In one aspect, the high strength aluminum alloy is 5182 alloy sheet.

The invention relates to a method for antiseptic treatment of marine climate resistant engineering component, comprising: 1. carrying out rust removal treatment on components; 2. carrying out etching treatment to components; 3. carrying out surface activation treatment on the components; 4. putting components into a special atmosphere oven to preheat; 5. dipping the preheated components into plating solution to dip, wherein the components rotate in the dipping process; 6. carrying out diffusion treatment; and 7. adopting coating for seal treatment. Components treated by the method of the invention can endow full corrosion resistance and washing corrosion resistance under the condition of marine climate.

A terminal for an engaging type connector includes a punched Cu alloy strip as a base material, a coating formed on the Cu alloy strip by postplating processes and including a Sn layer, and a Cu—Sn alloy layer sandwiched between the base material and the Sn layer. The Sn layer is smoothed by a reflowing process. The terminal has an engaging part and a solder-bonding part, and the surface of a part of the base material corresponding to the engaging part has a surface roughness higher than that of the surface of the base material corresponding to the solder-bonding part. The engaging part has a low frictional property and the solder-bonding part has improved solder wettability.

A steel sheet excellent in mechanical strength, workability and thermal stability and suited for use as a raw material in such fields of manufacturing automobiles, household electric appliances and machine structures and of constructing buildings, and a manufacturing method thereof. are provided.

The steel sheet is a hot-rolled steel sheet of carbon steel or low-alloy steel, the main phase of which is ferrite, and is characterized in that the average ferrite crystal grain diameter D (μm) at the depth of ¼ of the sheet thickness from the steel sheet surface satisfies the relations respectively defined by the formulas (1) and (2) given below and the increase rate X (μm/min) in average ferrite crystal grain diameter at 700° C. at the depth of ¼ of the sheet thickness from the steel sheet surface and said average crystal grain diameter D (μm) satisfy the relation defined by the formula (3) given below:

1.2≦D≦7   formula (1)

D≦2.7+5000/(5+350·C+40·Mn)²  formula (2)

D·X≦0.1   formula (3)

wherein C and Mn represent the contents (in % by mass) of the respective elements in the steel.

The invention provides a high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet having a TS of 1,180 MPa or greater and excellent workability, such as stretch flange workability and bendability. Also provided are a molten galvanized high-strength steel sheet, and a method for producing the same. The high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet having excellent workability has a composition that comprises, by mass%, C: 0.05 to 0.3, Si: 0.5 to 2.5, Mn: 1.5 to 3.5, P: 0.001 to 0.05, S: 0.0001 to 0.01, Al: 0.001 to 0.1, N: 0.0005 to 0.01, and Cr: 1.5 or less (including 0) and satisfies formulas (1) and (2), with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. The steel sheet has a microtexture wherein there is a ferrite phase and a martensite phase, the percentage of the texture total surface area occupied by martensite phase is 30% or greater, (the surface area occupied by martensite phase)/(surface area occupied by ferrite phase) exceeds 0.45 but is less than 1.5, and the average particle diameter of the martensite phase is 2 microns or larger. [C]1/2*([Mn]+0.6*[Cr])>/=1-0.12*[Si] (1), and 550-350*C*-40*[Mn]-20*[Cr]+30*[Al]>/=340 (2), wherein C*=[C]/(1.3*[C]+0.4*[Mn]+0.45*[Cr]-0.75).

In a cold-rolled steel sheet in relation with the present invention, metallurgical structure of the steel sheet is made a mixture structure including bainite, residual austenite and tempered martensite, particularly, when the metallurgical structure is observed with a scanning electron microscope, bainite is constituted of composite structure of high temperature range forming bainite with 1 μm or above average distance between neighboring residual austenite and/or carbide and low temperature range forming bainite with below 1 μm average distance between neighboring residual austenite and/or carbide, and when the area ratio of the high temperature range forming bainite with respect to total metallurgical structure is made a and the total area ratio of the low temperature range forming bainite and the tempered martensite with respect to the total metallurgical structure is made b, a: 20-80%, b: 20-80%, and a+b: 70% or above are satisfied. The cold-rolled steel sheet in relation with the present invention is improved in all of the elongation (EL), stretch flange formability (A), and bending properties (R) with a good balance, is excellent in the overall workability, and has 980 MPa or above tensile strength.

The invention relates to a hot galvanizing sedan plate and the production method thereof, which solves the following problems: P and S in steel are difficult to control because of being lowly required; as to a horizontal Sendzimir hot galvanizing machine, the recrystallization temperature of a steel plate is slightly high, and the plastic strain ratio and extension are low. The high-plastic-strain-ratio galvanizing plate is composed of no more than 0.004% by weight of C, no more than 0.020% by weight of Si, 0.05% to 0.20% by weight of Mn, no more than 0.016% by weight of 0.016, no more than 0.015% by weight of S, 0.04% to 0.07% by weight of Ti, 0.02% to 0.06% by weight of Als, no more than 0.003% by weight of N, and the balance Fe and unavoidable impurity. The production steps are as follows: smelting by hot metal desulphurization and secondary refining process; hot rolling; cold rolling with a total reduction of 80%; and galvanizing. The invention has the characteristics that the method is pure Ti processing; the control scopes of S and P are wide; the plastic strain ratio is r90 DEG C >=2.5, the extension A80mm is 45% to 50%; and the current process route and equipment is unchanged.

A thermal interface material (40) includes a silver colloid base (32), and an array of carbon nanotubes (22) disposed in the silver colloid base uniformly. The silver colloid base includes silver particles, boron nitride particles and polysynthetic oils. The silver colloid base has a first surface (42), and a second surface (44) opposite to the first surface. The carbon nanotubes are substantially parallel to each other, and extend from the first surface to the second surface. A method for manufacturing the thermal interface material includes the steps of: (a) forming an array of carbon nanotubes on a substrate; (b) immersing the carbon nanotubes in a silver colloid base; (c) solidifying the silver colloid base; and (d) peeling the solidified silver colloid base with the carbon nanotubes secured therein off from the substrate.