13679 results about "Metal powder" patented technology

The present invention disclosed a method of producing a three-dimensional porous tissue in-growth structure. The method includes the steps of depositing a first layer of metal powder and scanning the first layer of metal powder with a laser beam to form a portion of a plurality of predetermined unit cells. Depositing at least one additional layer of metal powder onto a previous layer and repeating the step of scanning a laser beam for at least one of the additional layers in order to continuing forming the predetermined unit cells. The method further includes continuing the depositing and scanning steps to form a medical implant.

A method of forming an implant having a porous tissue ingrowth structure and a bearing support structure. The method includes depositing a first layer of a metal powder onto a substrate, scanning a laser beam over the powder so as to sinter the metal powder at predetermined locations, depositing at least one layer of the metal powder onto the first layer and repeating the scanning of the laser beam.

Scanning Laser Epitaxy (SLE) is a layer-by-layer additive manufacturing process that allows for the fabrication of three-dimensional objects with specified microstructure through the controlled melting and re-solidification of a metal powders placed atop a base substrate. SLE can be used to repair single crystal (SX) turbine airfoils, for example, as well as the manufacture functionally graded turbine components. The SLE process is capable of creating equiaxed, directionally solidified, and SX structures. Real-time feedback control schemes based upon an offline model can be used both to create specified defect free microstructures and to improve the repeatability of the process. Control schemes can be used based upon temperature data feedback provided at high frame rate by a thermal imaging camera as well as a melt-pool viewing video microscope. A real-time control scheme can deliver the capability of creating engine ready net shape turbine components from raw powder material.

In an electrode structure for a lithium secondary battery including: a main active material layer formed from a metal powder selected from silicon, tin and an alloy thereof that can store and discharge and capable of lithium by electrochemical reaction, and a binder of an organic polymer; and a current collector, wherein the main active material layer is formed at least by a powder of a support material for supporting the electron conduction of the main active material layer in addition to the metal powder and the powder of the support material are particles having a spherical, pseudo-spherical or pillar shape with an average particle size of 0.3 to 1.35 times the thickness of the main active material layer. The support material is one or more materials selected from a group consisting of graphite, oxides of transition metals and metals that do not electrochemically form alloy with lithium. Organic polymer compounded with a conductive polymer is used for the binder. There are provided an electrode structure for a lithium secondary battery having a high capacity and a long lifetime, and a lithium secondary battery using the electrode structure and having a high capacity, a high energy density and a long lifetime.

The invention discloses a two-dimensional fiber cloth reinforced ceramics based composite material and the preparation technique, which adopts the two-dimensional fiber cloth as the reinforcing phase and the ceramic powder or the refractory metal powder as the stuffing, and the carbon and the carborundum as the base. The process steps are following: first the sizing agent with different ceramic powder and metal powder is coated on the two-dimensional fiber cloth, and then overlapping, puncturing and repeated densification are carried out. The preparation method has the advantages of lowering preparation cost and shortening preparation cycle, and the two-dimensional fiber cloth reinforced ceramics based composite material has the advantages of high shear strength between layers, structural stability and high reliability. The types of fiber cloth and the base can be adjusted and optimized in a wider range according to the applications, so as to be applicable for different fields.

This invention is directed to a composition comprising: (a) platinum group metal powder, alloys, or mixtures thereof as a powder or deposited on graphite supports; (b) poly(glycol ether), derivatives, or mixtures thereof; (c) carbon-based electrically conductive filler; and (d) thermoplastic polymer or mixtures thereof. The invention is further directed to a process for dispersing platinum group metal powder, alloys, or mixtures thereof in poly(glycol ether), derivatives, or mixtures thereof. The invention is further directed to the above composition wherein the platinum group metal powder has been dispersed according to the above process.

Metal powder Ta and/or Nb, with or without one or metals from the group Ta, Nb, Ti, Mo, W, V, Zr and Hf, is made in a fine powder form by reduction of metal oxide by contact with a gaseous reducing agent, preferably an alkaline earth metal, to near complete reduction, leaching, further deoxidation and agglomeration, the powder so produced being sinterable to capacitor anode form and processable to other usages.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a graphene reinforced metal-matrix composite, which comprises the following steps of: firstly, dispersing the graphene oxide on the surface of the flaky metal powder; and then obtaining the graphene/metal composite powder through the reducing treatment; and at last, carrying out densification treatment by adopting a powder metallurgic technology to obtain the compact graphene reinforced metal-matrix composite. The flaky metal powder has the plane two-dimensional form, is inclined to the directional piling to form a laminated structure, and is helpful for inducing the graphene orientation distribution and giving play to the reinforcing effect. The preparation method disclosed by the invention is simple and feasible, is capable of regulating the graphene content and is suitable for preparing the massive composite.

Metallic powders are formed by the electrically exploded wire (EEW) process. An apparatus (20) for manufacturing such powders includes a closed loop recirculating gas path between a reaction chamber (100) and an extractor (32). A wire (31) is delivered from a source (400) along a wire path from ambient conditions outside the chamber to within the chamber. Within the chamber, a first electrode (200) has an aperture circumscribing the wire path and a second electrode (203) is located proximate to a terminal end of the wire path. A source (26) of electrical energy applies a discharge voltage between the electrodes to explode the length of wire therebetween to form an initial particulate. The initial particulate may be selectively extracted and processed to produce desired powders, in particular, energetic powders which are passivated for stability under ambient conditions.

A semiconductor device, in which a solder layer bonding chip parts and wiring members are enclosed with the resin layer, and the solder layer is comprised of a compound body in which metal powder is distributed in the matrix metal, is disclosed. When a semiconductor device in which the chip parts are installed in the wiring member with the solders, the soldering part is sealed with the resin is mounted secondly on the external wiring member, the outflow of the solders and the short circuit due to the outflow, the disconnections, and the displacement of the chip parts can be prevented.

Disclosed are a printed wiring board having micro-via holes highly reliable for conduction and a method of making the micro-via hole by providing a coating or sheet of an organic substance containing 3 to 97% by volume of at least one selected from a metal compound powder, a carbon powder or a metal powder having a melting point of at least 900° C. and a bond energy of at least 300 kJ/mol on a copper foil as an outermost layer of a copper-clad laminate having at least two copper layers, or providing a coating or sheet of the same after oxidizing a copper foil as an outermost layer, irradiating the coating or sheet with a carbon dioxide gas laser at an output of 20 to 60 mJ/pulse, thereby removing a micro-via-hole-forming portion of at least the copper foil as the outermost layer, then irradiating micro-via-hole-forming portions of the remaining layers with a carbon dioxide gas laser at an output of 5 to 35 mJ/pulse to make a micro-via hole which does not penetrate through the copper foil in a bottom of the micro-via hole, and electrically connecting the copper foil as the outermost layer and the copper foil in the bottom of the micro-via hole with a metal plating or an electrically conductive coating composition.

The invention discloses a fast manufacturing method of three-beam laser compound scanning. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly utilizing long-wavelength laser (CO2 laser) for preheating the metal powder, then utilizing short-wavelength laser (YAG or optical fiber laser) for fusing the metal powder and finally utilizing long-wavelength laser (CO2 laser) to carry out heat treatment to the frozen metal. The fast manufacturing method uses the three beams of laser to carry out compound scanning, namely uses long-wavelength laser to preheat, short-wavelength laser to fuse and then long-wavelength laser to carry out heat treatment, can realize the compound process of preheating, fusion and heat treatment of the metal powder. The three beams of laser compound scanning mode can reduce internal stress of the metal part, avoid warping and cracking, improve organization and improve performance.

Tungsten/polymer composites comprising tungsten powder, another metal powder having a high packing density, and organic binder have high density, good processibility and good malleability. Such composites are useful as lead replacements, particularly in the manufacture of shot.

A lead-free, composite polymer based bullet and cartridge case and methods of manufacturing the same, wherein the composite polymer material includes a tungsten metal powder, nylon 6/6, nylon 6, short glass fibers, as well as additives and stabilizers. The cartridge case includes a lip lock configured to matingly engage a cannelure formed along an outer circumferential surface of the bullet. The cartridge case also includes resilient walls wherein the case may snap fit onto the bullet. The bullet and cartridge case may be formed in a single step process by injection molding or a two step process including injection molding and a welding process.

A new, cost effective process for the production of ultrafine particles which is based on mechanically activated chemical reaction of a metal compound with a suitable reagent. The process involves subjecting a mixture of a metal compound and a suitable reagent to mechanical activation to increase the chemical reactivity of the reactants and/or reaction kinetics such that a chemical reaction can occur which produces a solid nano-phase substance. Concomitantly, a by-product phase is also formed. This by-product phase is removed so that the solid nano-phase substance is left behind in the form of ultrafine particles. During mechanical activation a composite structure is formed which consists of an intimate mixture of nano-sized grains of the nano-phase substance and the reaction by-product phase. The step of removing the by-product phase, following mechanical activation, may involve subjecting the composite structure to a suitable solvent which dissolves the by-product phase, while not reacting with the solid nano-phase substance. The process according to the invention may be used to form ultrafine metal powders as well as ultrafine ceramic powders. Advantages of the process include a significant degree of control over the size and size distribution of the ultrafine particles, and over the nature of interfaces created between the solid nano-phase substance and the reaction by-product phase.

The invention discloses a prescription of a wheeltrack lubricant additive, which is characterized by strong bearing capacity, high temperature resistance and long effective time upon one time coating, thereby solving the defect that factigue crack expansion of the wheeltrack is accelerated by traditional grease for the generation of oil wedge effect. The prescription comprises 1 percent-30 percent of metal powder, 3 percent-50 percent of high temperature solid lubricant material and 5 percent-50 percent of fatty acid by weight. The strip solid materials can be produced in virtue of other accessories by the prescription.

Systems and methods are provided for designing and fabricating contact-free support structures for overhang geometries of parts fabricated using electron beam additive manufacturing. One or more layers of un-melted metallic powder are disposed in an elongate gap between an upper horizontal surface of the support structure and a lower surface of the overhang geometry. The powder conducts heat from the overhang geometry to the support structure. The support structure acts as a heat sink to enhance heat transfer and reduce the temperature and severe thermal gradients due to poor thermal conductivity of metallic powders underneath the overhang. Because the support structure is not connected to the part, the support structure can be removed freely without any post-processing step.

The present invention has an object of providing a carbon nanotube dispersed composite material utilizing as much as possible excellent electric conductivity, heat conductive property and strength property owned by a carbon nanotube itself and taking advantage of features of ceramics having corrosion resistance and heat resistance such as zirconia and the like, and a method of producing the same; and long-chain carbon nanotubes (including also those obtained by previous discharge plasma treatment of only carbon nanotubes) are kneaded and dispersed by a ball mill, planet mill and the like together with calcinable ceramics and metal powder, further, the knead-dispersed material is treated by discharge plasma and this is integrated by sintering by discharge plasma, and carbon nanotubes can be thus dispersed in the form of network in the sintered body, and the electric conductivity property, heat conductive property and strength property of the carbon nanotube can be effectively used together with the properties of the ceramics and metal powder base material.