27 results about "Expanded metal" patented technology

Provided is an expandable metal plug for use in a wellbore tubular. The expandable metal plug, in one aspect, includes a downhole member positionable proximate a plug and abandonment section in a wellbore tubular, wherein at least a portion of the downhole member comprises a metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis to seal the wellbore tubular.

The present disclosure relates to the manufacture of expanded metal mesh, and more particularly to a novel expanding blade (100) which may be used for micro-expanding very thin metal mesh foil sheets (12.5μm to 50μm thickness) with a mesh pore size of about 5μm to about 50μm and a porosity (mesh open area) of 10-50%. The expanding blade (100) may have a plurality of expanding teeth (102) with a blade tooth pitch of 15μm to 75μm (400 – 1440 teeth per inch). The disclosure further relates to laser ablation and wire EDM methods of fabricating an expanding blade with the identified tooth pitch and characteristics.

To provide assemblies, systems, and methods of lightning strike protection for aircraft composite structures.SOLUTION: The lightning strike protection material assembly 10 includes a lightning strike expanded metal foil layer 16 having a lightning strike expanded metal foil 18 and a resin-infused scrim layer having a non-metallic scrim infused with an infusion resin 45 having a tailored viscosity and a tailored cure profile. The lightning strike protection assembly 10 is configured to be laid up on and co-cured with an uncured composite laminate assembly having a plurality of structural ply layers pre-impregnated with a structural resin. The structural resin has a structural resin viscosity and a structural resin cure profile that are different from the tailored viscosity and the tailored cure profile, thereby preventing intermixing of the structural resin and the infusion resin during co-curing and allowing the infusion resin to effectively encapsulate the lightning strike expanded metal foil 18 and form a cured lightning strike protected composite structure 80 capable of achieving a defined resin boundary.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2D

Thermal Interface Material (TIM) (1), in particular for an energy storage device, comprising a plate (2) of expanded graphite, wherein a reinforcement (3) is embedded in the plate (2), wherein the reinforcement (3) is an expanded metal of aluminium or copper or wherein the reinforcement (3) comprises a metallized hook tape or a metallized spacer fabric or a metallized velour or a metallized pole fabric or a metallized woven fabric.

The objective is to provide a compact dust collector that can be used in a limited space while minimizing the risk of dust explosions. [Solution] The dust collector 1 comprises a lower body 2 on which a dust collection container 2e is provided and a suction port 2c is formed, a filter section 3 positioned above the lower body 2, and an upper body 4 positioned above the filter section 3. The upper body 4 has a built-in fan 4d and an electric motor 5, and an exhaust port 4c formed therein for discharging gas that has passed through the filter section 3. The lower body 2 has an expanded metal 7 positioned at the suction port 2c to straighten the airflow so that the gas drawn in from the suction port 2c is directed towards the filter section 3.

An atmospheric water generation system has a container and at least one atmospheric water generator within the container. The container may be adapted to collect water generated by the atmospheric water generator. In particular, the container may be a tunnel container, openable at both ends. The floor of the container may be porous, e.g., made with expanded metal, and a collection pan may be placed beneath the floor. The collection pan is sloped downwardly from its sides to its center, and also slopes downwardly from one end to the container to the other. Each end of the container may have a porous panel on which is installed filter material.

The invention relates to a flame arrestor (10) which is designed to prevent the flame propagation of flammable gases from one flow side (18) of the flame arrestor (10) to an opposite flow side (20) of the flame arrestor (10), wherein the flame arrestor (10) comprises a first base body (12) and a second base body (14), wherein the first base body (12) and the second base body (14) are arranged substantially coaxially with respect to a respective central axis (X) formed by the cylindrical shape of the respective base body (12, 14), wherein both the first base body (12) and the second base body (14) are made of expanded metal, wherein the expanded metal of the first base body (12) has a free open cross-section in the range of 10% to 50%, and wherein the expanded metal of the second base body (14) has a free open cross-section of at least 45%.

Form system, comprehensive: a forming device comprising a fluid supply unit that supplies a fluid to a heated metal tube material, and a forming tool that forms a shaped product by bringing an expanded metal tube material into contact with a forming surface; a laser processing unit that cuts a non-product section from the formed product removed from the mold; and a scale removal unit that removes scale from the shaped product that has been cut by the laser processing unit, wherein the formed product is a metal tube with a flange, and The scale removal unit removes the scale by ejecting particles onto an outer circumferential surface of the formed product taken from the molding tool, and does not eject the particles onto an inner circumferential surface of the formed product taken from the molding tool.

The present disclosure relates to the manufacture of expanded metal and to an expanding apparatus for expanding very thin metal foil sheets (12.5pm to 100pm thickness). The subject thin foils will be expanded with sub-millimeter size tooth blades for very small pore sizes, and advanced in small increments for uniform hole or pore distribution. The expanding blade may comprise between 400 and 1440 teeth per inch which may provide a range of pore sizes from roughly 5-6pm up to about 48-50pm. The expanding apparatus generally comprises a polymer concrete machine base, a granite expander frame atop the base, stationary lower blade mount and fixed blade mount, an upper blade actuator assembly including piezo actuator driven reciprocating blade assembly which moves up and down and side to side cooperating with the fixed blade to expand metal passing through the head.

The disclosure relates to lightning strike protection material assemblies, lightning strike protection material systems, and methods of using the same. A lightning strike protection material assembly includes a lightning strike expansion metal foil layer having a lightning strike expansion metal foil, and includes a resin impregnated gridding cloth layer having a non-metal gridding cloth impregnated with an impregnating resin having a customized viscosity and a customized cure profile. A lightning strike protection material assembly is configured for laying on and co-curing with an uncured composite laminate assembly, the composite laminate assembly having a plurality of structural ply layers pre-impregnated with a structural resin. The structural resin has a structural resin viscosity and a structural resin cure profile that differ from the tailored viscosity and the tailored cure profile to prevent mixing of the structural resin and the impregnating resin during co-curing to allow the impregnating resin to effectively encapsulate the lightning expansion metal foil and provide a defined resin boundary. And forming a cured lightning protection composite material structure.

Currently, the only way to secure 10 expanded metal sheets is by tying them together on all four sides, which makes mass production difficult. Therefore, there is a need to find a simpler manufacturing method. Also, if adhesive is applied to the entire surface for fixation, the adhesive will be visible through the gaps, resulting in an unsightly appearance. [Solution] A metal wave plate made by overlapping and fixing expanded metal diagonally to form a single plate, characterized by having different colors applied to the aluminum expanded metal.

A PEM electrolyzer PTL (16) is created from micro-expanded mesh metal foil layers to allow for precise level control of the thickness, porosity, tortuosity, pore size, inter-layer connectivity, and surface roughness of these layers. The pore size ranges from 3 m to 30 m, and the porosity (mesh opening area) ranges from 10% to 50%. A PEM anode pack assembly (10) is formed from a micro-expanded PTL layer and a multi-layer expanded metal flow field and bipolar plate. The three sub-components are diffusion bonded together to form an integrated group and PVD coated on the outer surfaces.

The invention relates to a baking tray for industrially operated baking plants comprising a frame and an inlay, wherein the baking tray is designed to be flat and the inlay is made of a perforated sheet of aluminum or an aluminum alloy with a thickness of no more than 1.3 mm, in particular no more than 1.15 mm, or from expanded metal made of aluminium or an aluminium alloy, or is formed from a grid network arranged under tension, and the frame consists of a frame made of a rectangular cross-section hollow steel profile or The baking tray is made of a high-temperature plastic and features two wide and two narrow walls. The wide walls are wider than the narrow walls, and the narrow walls are arranged approximately parallel to the inlay, while the wide walls are arranged approximately perpendicular to the inlay. Compared to conventional baking trays, such a tray is very lightweight and therefore has a low heat capacity. This significantly reduces energy consumption in industrial baking lines.

This product is an algal reef used to cultivate seaweed. As shown in the "Reference Perspective View Diagram Showing the Names of Each Part," the algal reef is composed of a base, anchor bars extending approximately vertically downward from the base, a frame placed on top of the base, and a cage placed on top of the frame. The base is formed as a low, bottomed rectangular tube. The periphery of the base is formed by a base frame consisting of plate members with a roughly L-shaped vertical cross-section. A flat bottom (base bottom) made of a metal mesh member such as expanded metal is joined to the lower periphery of the base frame, and diagonal braces made of strip-shaped thin plate members are arranged inside the base frame. Near the four corners of the base frame, anchor bars are arranged to extend approximately vertically downward. The four anchor bars are each composed of, for example, screw sticks with a screw positioned downward for drilling into the seabed. The frame placed on the base consists, for example, of a rectangular flat base and column sections positioned at the four corners of this base. The periphery of the base is formed by beams made of rod members such as pipes, and a base plate (basket support base plate) on which the cage is placed is attached via receiving members positioned at the four corners of these beams. The basket support base plate is made of a metal mesh member such as expanded metal. The frame is fixed to the bracing of the base via the column sections made of rod members such as pipes. A net is stretched over the surface of the cage placed on top of the frame to allow seaweed to grow. The form of the cage is not limited to any particular form as long as it allows the net to be installed within a predetermined range. For example, it may be a form in which the net is stretched over at least a portion of the surface of a polygon including a prism or pyramid, a form in which the net is stretched over at least a portion of the surface of a cylinder or cone, a form in which the net is stretched over a cylindrical shape, a form in which the net is stretched over a curved surface including a plane or a sphere or hemisphere, or a form that combines at least two of these forms."Reference perspective view 1 showing the state of use" shows an example of the use of the algal reef in which a cage with nets stretched across the six planes forming the surface of a rectangular prism is placed on top of a stand. "Reference perspective view 2 showing the state of use" shows an example of the use of the algal reef in which a cage with nets stretched across a cylindrical shape is placed on top of a stand. "Reference perspective view 3 showing the state of use" shows an example of the use of the algal reef in which three cages with nets stretched along a plane are placed on top of a stand.

The application discloses a kind of solventless lightning protection composite film, the composite film includes conductive metal net, hot melt adhesive film and backing, the conductive metal net is fixed on backing by hot melt adhesive film, and the hot melt adhesive film is infiltrated and bonded the backing and fills into the aperture of the conductive metal net.The lightning protection composite film of the application is smooth and smooth on surface, and the initial surface viscosity of colloid is moderate, which can modify the phenomenon of surface lack of glue, poor glue and pinhole after prepreg curing, and also has excellent lightning protection performance.The viscosity of hot melt adhesive is adjusted by controlling temperature during preparation process, to realize the integrated molding of colloid and backing material and expanded metal net, and there is no introduction of any solvent during production process, and the process is time-saving, simple, and environmentally friendly.

Provided is an expandable metal centralizer for use in a wellbore. The expandable metal centralizer, in one aspect, includes a downhole tubular positionable on a downhole conveyance in a wellbore. In accordance with this aspect, the expandable metal centralizer additionally includes one or more wellbore centralizing elements radially extending from the downhole tubular, wherein at least one of the downhole tubular or the one or more wellbore centralizing elements comprises a metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis.

An electrode assembly for REM electrolysis, comprising a porous sintered plate, a first mesh layer having an expanded metal mesh and an inner surface bonded to the surface of the porous sintered plate, and a protective coating applied to the assembly, wherein the first mesh layer is bonded to the porous sintered plate at a plurality of point contact regions.

A CO2 separation chamber (14), in particular a sorption chamber (14) and / or desorption chamber (18), is proposed for a CO2 separation device for separating CO2 from a supplied gas stream (12), in particular an air stream (12) from an environment, wherein two opposing wall sections (28, 32) of a chamber housing (26) each have a grid (36), in particular an expanded metal grid (36), and / or a perforated plate, in particular a perforated perforated plate, for housing stabilization and a film (38) and / or a cloth arranged on this / this for housing sealing or consist thereof.

A piece of flattened expanded metal (9) is wrapped around an airbag inflator filter (21) with the flattened rough side (17) of the piece facing the inside diameter (ID) of the filter and the flattened smooth side (15) facing the outside diameter (OD). This orientation allows the filter (21) to capture more slag than a filter made with a standard wrapping method in which the smooth side faces inward. The expanded metal can be of various types including, for example, variably expanded metal (VEM) or standard expanded metal (SEM).

Light weight and efficient airbag filter devices are made from expanded metal strips. In some embodiments, an expanded metal strip is a bi-directionally expanded metal sheet where the blade alternately comes from the top-down direction as well as from the bottom-up direction, so that one continuous strip of steel can be expanded facing up in one section and then facing down in the next section without cutting or removing the strip from the processing line. In some embodiments, an expanded metal strip may be crimped variably based upon the layer's length. In some embodiments, bi-directional expanding may be combined with variable crimping of the individual sections / layers allowing for a single strip of metal to be both expanded in two directions and crimped layer by layer during a continuous process on one sheet of metal.

Formwork element (1), preferably made of expanded metal (alternatively plastic or smooth sheet metal), for producing a joint between two concrete sections, characterized in that the formwork element (1) consists of various components of different geometries, e.g. square, rectangle, trapezoid

The present invention addresses the problem of improving the bondability between a fiber-reinforced composite material and an expanded metal, and to improve impact resistance of a bonded body of the fiber-reinforced composite material and the expanded metal. In order to address this problem, provided is a prepreg including a resin-impregnated sheet substrate in which both sides of a sheet-like fiber substrate are impregnated with an epoxy resin composition containing thermoplastic resin particles having an average particle size of 5 to 50 μm, and an expanded metal is laminated on at least one surface of the resin-impregnated sheet substrate.

The invention belongs to the technical field of petroleum and natural gas resource development, and particularly relates to an expansion metal open hole anchoring packer. The device comprises a central pipe, an open hole anchoring sealing assembly and a valve hoop. The open hole anchoring sealing assembly comprises an expansion metal anchoring sealing shell. A sealing cavity is formed between the expansion metal anchoring sealing shell and the central pipe; the upper end and the lower end of the expansion metal anchoring sealing shell are each sleeved with a set of expandable barrel type slips, and the center pipe is sleeved with the expandable barrel type slips. Through type slits are evenly distributed in the expandable barrel type slip. The valve hoop sleeves the central pipe and is in threaded connection with the central pipe; the valve hoop is provided with a channel which is communicated with the central pipe and is communicated with a sealing cavity between the central pipes of the expansion metal anchoring sealing shell; the expansion metal open hole anchoring packer is made of metal. The soft metal framework is expanded through hydraulic driving, meanwhile, other anchoring and sealing assemblies installed on the soft metal framework are linked to be expanded together to be attached to the stratum, and the anchoring and sealing functions are achieved.

The invention relates to a flame barrier (10), which is designed to prevent a flashback of flammable gases from one flow side (18) of the flame barrier (10) to an opposite flow side (20) of the flame barrier (10), wherein the flame barrier (10) comprises a first main part (12) and a second main part (14), wherein the first main part (12) and the second main part (14) are arranged substantially coaxially to one another, as seen in relation to a respective central axis (X) formed by the cylindrical shape of the respective main part (12), wherein both the first main part (12) and the second main part (14) are made of an expanded metal, the expanded metal of the first main part (12) having a free open cross section ranging from 10% to 50% and the expanded metal of the second main part (14) having a free open cross section of at least 45%.

The invention relates to the technical field of underground packers, and particularly discloses a sealing ring body manufacturing method based on a self-expanding material, which comprises the following steps of: performing mould pressing on a hydrated expanding metal material to form a sealing ring body mould pressing part capable of hydrating and expanding, and forming a threading channel in the sealing ring body mould pressing part; sintering the plurality of sealing ring body molded parts to form an integrated sealing ring body fusion part; vulcanizing the rubber material on the surface of the sealing ring body fusion piece to form an elastic protection layer; an electrode is implanted into the sealing ring body molded part or the sealing ring body fusion part, and the expansion metal material can react with well fluid to form a primary battery through the electrode. The method overcomes the defects that a traditional packer is poor in machinability, complex in process, high in cost, poor in adaptability and the like, solves the problem that the setting condition is inconvenient to detect due to the fact that underground electric equipment is inconvenient to connect with electricity, and improves the energy utilization rate of the self-expanding material.

The utility model relates to the technical field of steel screens, and particularly discloses a steel screen connecting piece which comprises a plurality of rectangular columns, a steel screen is arranged between the left rectangular column and the right rectangular column, fixing lugs are arranged at the two ends of the steel screen, at least one tray is sleeved on the outer side of each rectangular column, an assembly seat is arranged at the upper end of each tray, and an assembly groove is formed in one side, facing the steel screen, of each assembly seat. A supporting block is arranged at the lower end of the tray, a plurality of inserting grooves are formed in the outer side of the rectangular column, the supporting block is inserted into one inserting groove, and the two ends of the supporting block extend out of the inserting grooves and are clamped with the tray. The tray is supported by the supporting block from the lower end of the tray, the pressure borne by the tray can be shared, and the height of the tray is limited. The supporting blocks are assembled on the stand columns in an inserting and pulling mode, when the supporting blocks are pulled out, the height of the tray can be adjusted according to assembly requirements of steel screens with different heights, flexibility is high, and disassembly, assembly and replacement are convenient.

A fire pit includes a main body having a double outer wall that defines an air inlet. An accessory support post is received by the main body within the double outer wall. A locking projection and locking flange cooperate to lock the vertical and rotational position of the support post with respect to the main body of the fire pit. A floating fire box is supported from above by a grilling flange that allows the fire box to move down when heated. The accessory post can be used with a post holder next to a camp fire. The post holder and accessory post use of the locking projection and locking flange to secure the accessory post with respect to the holder. A grill having an outer body member protects the user's finger from engaging sharp edges of an expanded metal grill.