Conversion of fullerenes to diamond
What is claimed is: 1. A method of forming synthetic diamond on a coated substrate surface having an initial coating selected from the group consisting of fullerene and diamond comprising the step of:... Read More
Inventors: Gruen, Dieter M.;, Assignee: |
Combustion flame method for forming diamond films
Under these circumstances, and in view of the fact that a method using a flame of combustion is easier to carry out than any other method based on CVD, and has a higher film-forming speed, it is an ob... Read More
Inventors: Murayam, Motohide; Kojima, Shinji; Ohsawa, Katsuyuki; Noda, Shoji; Uchida, Kiyoshi;, Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho (Aichi, JP) |
Diffusion bonding of aluminum and aluminum alloys
We claim: 1. A process of forming a structure from metallic components made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy that is liable to form a surface coating of oxide, which process comprises the steps of: su... Read More
Inventors: Cooper, Graham A.; Bottomley, Ian E.;, Assignee: British Aerospace PLC (London, GB) |
Apparatus for controlling plasma size and position in plasma-activated chemical vapor deposition processes comprising rotating dielectric
OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Those of ordinary skill in the art will realize that the following description of the present invention is illustrative only and not in any way limiting. While the present d... Read More
Inventors: Pinneo, John M.;, Assignee: Crystallume (Menlo Park, CA) |
Apparatus for thin-coating processes for treating substrates of great surface area
We claim: 1. Apparatus for thin-coating processes for the treatment of substrates of large surface area, with substrate area dimensions between 500-1,000 mm by 500-1,000 mm, using a plasma which is ex... Read More
Inventors: Gegenwart, Rainer; Gesche, Roland; Kretschmer, Karl-Heinz; Ritter, Jochen; Noll, Sonja;, Assignee: Leybold Aktiengesellschaft (Hanau, DE) |
Free standing diamond sheet and method and apparatus for making same
OF THE INVENTION The interior features of one type of a CVD diamond deposition unit that can be used in the practice of the present invention to make very large, approximately one square foot sheets ... Read More
Inventors: Anthony, Thomas R.; Fleischer, James F.;, Assignee: General Electric Company (Schenectady, NY) |
Method for producing carbon allotrope
To accomplish this object, the method for the production of carbon allotrope contemplated by this invention comprises continuously supplying fine carbon powder onto a substrate, irradiating the fine c... Read More
Inventors: Shimura, Hirofumi; Sasaki, Shinya; Enomoto, Yuji;, Assignee: Agency of Industrial Science & Technology, Ministry of International (Tokyo, JP) |
Article comprising regions of high thermal conductivity diamond on substrates
OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Those of ordinary skill in the art will realize that the following description of the present invention is illustrative only and not in any way limiting. Other embodiments o... Read More
Inventors: Herb, John A.; Pinneo, John M.; Gardinier, Clayton F.;, Assignee: Crystallume (Menlo Park, CA) |
Diamond materials with enhanced heat conductivity
OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Those of ordinary skill in the art will realize that the following description of the present invention is illustrative only and not in any way limiting. Other embodiments o... Read More
Inventors: Herb, John A.; Pinneo, John M.; Gardinier, Clayton F.;, Assignee: Crystallume (Menlo Park, CA) |
Process for producing crack-free nitride-hardened surface on titanium by laser beams
Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown a microstructure of a laser nitride-hardened titanium substrate 1 having a base metal portion (not shown), and a hardened layer 3, forming the outer surface thereo... Read More
Inventors: Gavigan, William J.; Snyder, Craig L.; Tufano, Frank J.; Miller, Ronald S.;, Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company (Woodcliff Lake, NJ) |
Pretreatment process for forming a smooth surface diamond film on a carbon-coated substrate
OF THE INVENTION The invention comprises a pretreatment process for carbon-coated substrates which provides a uniform and high density of nucleation sites thereon for the subsequent growth of a conti... Read More
Inventors: Feng, Zhu; Brewer, Marilee; Brown, Ian; Komvopoulos, Kyriakos;, Assignee: The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, CA) |
Process for forming membrane having a hydrophobic fluoropolymer surface
We claim: 1. The process for forming a composite porous polymeric membrane formed from a porous polymeric membrane substrate having an average pore size between about 0.001 and 10 microns formed of a ... Read More
Inventors: Moya, Wilson; Goddard, Philip M.;, Assignee: Millipore Investment Holdings Limited (Wilmington, DE) |
Process for the production of a surface-coated article
OF THE INVENTION The inventors have noted a plasma CVD method as a coating method which has an advantage, i.e. resulting in a uniformity of a coating film thickness, characteristic of the CVD method,... Read More
Inventors: Ikegaya, Akihiko; Tobioka, Masaaki;, Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (Osaka, JP) |
Mthod for the surface treatment of semiconductors by particle bombardment
I claim: 1. A method for the extraction of a plasma beam from a low-pressure plasma, comprising the steps of generating a low-pressure plasma by electric and magnetic fields, applying a radio frequenc... Read More
Inventors: Oechsner, Hans;, Assignee: |
Method of producing integral, hard nitride layer on titanium/titanium alloy
The object of the present invention is to eliminate the inconveniences of the known processes described above. With the process according to the invention a uniformly distributed nitride layer is obta... Read More
Inventors: Johansson, Erik; Westberg, Helena;, Assignee: Tisurf International AB (Uppsula, SE) |
Surge current-suppressing circuit and magnetic device therein
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a magnetic device for suppressing surge current in the accelerator, which shows sufficient surge current-suppressing function and is extre... Read More
Inventors: Nakajima, Shin; Hirao, Noriyoshi; Yamauchi, Kiyotaka; Shimoe, Osamu;, Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Planar P-I-N photodetectors
In accordance with an illustrative embodiment of my invention, a photodetector includes a semi-insulating single crystal body of light-absorbing semiconductor material and spaced-apart, single crystal... Read More
Inventors: Tsang, Won-Tien;, Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated (Murray Hill, NJ) |
Image sensing device
This invention overcomes the drawbacks of the prior art devices and provides a one-to-one image sensing device which does not call for the provision of an additional optical system and which is simple... Read More
Inventors: Segawa, Hideo; Mori, Koji; Itagaki, Masanori; Sakurai, Kohichi; Ishiwata, Tatsumi;, Assignee: Ricoch Company, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Photo electro transducer device
We claim: 1. A photo electro transducer device including: a plurality of first wiring conductors formed on an insulating substrate in the form of a one-dimensional array; a plurality of photo electro ... Read More
Inventors: Yamamoto, Hideaki; Baji, Toru; Tsukada, Toshihisa; Sasano, Akira;, Assignee: Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Public Corp. (Tokyo, JP); Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Image recording device
In view of the foregoing, it is an object of the present invention to provide an image recording device which is capable of solving the above described various problems in prior arts. In order to acco... Read More
Inventors: Sawano, Ichiro;, Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd. (Osaka, JP) |
Stratification mass for the production of top surfacing layers
OF THE DRAWINGS From FIG. 1 it is seen that on the to-be-coated, mechanically-roughened carrier surface 2 of a carrier layer 1 of steel DIN 1624, quality St. No. 4, a slide layer, as for instance a f... Read More
Inventors: Hodes, Erich; Sternisa, Danilo; Schneider, Walter;, Assignee: Glyco-Metall-Werke Daelen & Loos GmbH (Wiesbaden, DE) |
Adapter element
What we claim is: 1. An adapter element that allows machine elements to be accommodated in a centered manner with zero play as to a shaft, with these machine elements having different thermal expansio... Read More
Inventors: Seibig, Bernd; Reymann, Alfred; Dittmer, Helmut;, Assignee: GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH (Geesthacht, DE) |
Thin film photovoltaic cell
FIG. 1 illustrates a conventional thin film photovoltaic cell 1 which includes an opaque electrical contact 2 with a first semiconductor 4 formed thereon and a second semiconductor 6 formed on first ... Read More
Inventors: Meakin, John D.; Bragagnolo, Julio;, Assignee: The University of Delaware (Newark, DE) |
End cap for communications cables
The present invention seeks to provide a cable end cap and particularly an end cap provided with a pulling eye, having a central spigot which cooperates with the crimps in the sleeve to transmit tensi... Read More
Inventors: Dwyer, Liam D.;, Assignee: American Sawmill Machinery Company (Corinth, MS) |
Sheets of aluminium alloy containing magnesium, suitable for producing bodies of cans by drawing and ironing, and method of obtaining said sheets
I claim: 1. Sheets of aluminum alloy containing about 0.1 to 5% by weight magnesium suitable for producing bodies of cans for fizzy or non-fizzy drinks by drawing and ironing, obtained by strip castin... Read More
Inventors: Teirlinck, Didier;, Assignee: Cegedur Societe de Transformation de 1'Aluminium Pechiney (Paris, FR) |
Metal-ceramic composite article and a method of producing the same
The object of the present invention is to provide a metal-ceramic composite article comprising a metallic member and a ceramic member bonded to each other in high bonding strength, which metallic memb... Read More
Inventors: Tsuno, Nobuo; Matsui, Minoru;, Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd. (Nagoya, JP) |
Coaxial conduit bulkhead mounting assembly
The present invention is a bulkhead mounting assembly for securing at least two coaxial conduits passing into a bulkhead, comprising; an integral body having a large diameter externally threaded porti... Read More
Inventors: Rider, Brian G.; Gerber, Terry D.;, Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, PA) |
Method of providing a metal component with a thermally black surface
I claim: 1. A method of providing a thermally black surface on a substrate comprising the steps of: forming a layer of a metal compound on said substrate, said metal compound comprising aluminum and a... Read More
Inventors: Blanken, Jacob;, Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation (New York, NY) |
Method for processing and fabricating metals in space
OF THE INVENTION A method for providing solar energy process heat is a part of the preferred embodiment for a forming method particularly adapted to metals having adequate vapor pressure when heated ... Read More
Inventors: Henson, H. Keith; Drexler, K. Eric;, Assignee: |
Production of mechanically alloyed powder
The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed as defined as follows: 1. A method for the production on a commercial scale of a mechanically alloyed powder pro... Read More
Inventors: Gilman, Paul S.; Mattson, Walter E.;, Assignee: Inco Alloys International, Inc. (Huntington, WV) |
Generators or Motors 
