Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC

Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc.

Liquidmetal Coatings, LLC

Other

Apple Inc.

Crucible Intellectual Propery, LLC

Choongnyun Paul Kim

Atakan Peker

William L Johnson

Quoc Tran Pham

John Kang

Theodore Andrew Waniuk

Tranquoc Nguyen

Hewy E Jackson

Tranquoc ThebaoNguyen

An apparatus and related method for cooling a hard metal applied in a molten or semi-molten state to the surface of a metal substrate employ a chill block chilled by a cryogenic coolant conducted through a coolant passage in the chill block with at least one ejector port in communication with the coolant passage arranged to eject cryogenic coolant from the chill block onto the hand metal for further cooling the hard metal. An alloy steel substrate preheated to 300 to 600 degrees Fahrenheit has a hard metal applied thereto by an arc welding process.

Apparatus and method for cooling a hard metal applied to the surface of a metal alloy substrate

An Fe-base in-situ composite alloy, castable into 3-dimensional bulk objectsis provided, where the alloy includes a matrix having one or both of a nano-crystalline phase and an amorphous phase, and a face-centered cubic crystalline phase. The alloy has an Fe contentofmore than 60 atomic percent.

Fe-base in-situ composite alloys comprising amorphous phase

One embodiment provides a composition, the composition comprising: an alloy that is at least partially amorphous and is represented by a chemical formula: (Zr, Ti)MNSn, wherein: M is at least one transition metal element; N is Al, Be, or both; a, b, c, and d each independently represents an atomic percentage; and a is from about 30 to 70, b is from about 25 to 60, c is from about 5 to 30, and d is from about 0.1 to 5.

Tin-containing amorphous alloy

Metallic dental prostheses made of bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys wherein the dental prosthesis has an elastic strain limit of around 1.2% or more and methods of making such metallic dental prostheses are provided.

Objects made of bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys and method of making same

Provided in one embodiment is a method for producing a composition, comprising: heating a first material comprising an amorphous alloy to a first temperature; and contacting the first material with a second material comprising at least one fiber to form a composition comprising the first material and the second material; wherein the first temperature is higher than or equal to a glass transition temperature (T) of the amorphous alloy.

Fiber-containing composites

Metallic dental prostheses and objects made of bulk-solidifying amorphhous alloys and method of making such articles

A golf club is made of a club shaft and a club head. Either the club shaft or the club head is made at least in part of a in-situ composite of bulk-solidifying amorphous alloy. The weights of the various club heads of a set, which have different volumes, may be established by varying the compositions and thence the densities of the bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys.

Golf club made of a bulk-solidifying amorphous metal

A method of investment casting bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys, and the formation of articles of bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys made by such methods are provided.

Investment casting of bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys

A process and apparatus for thermoplastic casting of a suitable glass forming alloy is provided. The method and apparatus comprising thermoplastically casting the alloy in either a continuous or batch process by maintaining the alloy at a temperature in a thermoplastic zone, which is below a temperature, T, (where, the resistance to crystallization is minimum) and above the glass transition temperature, Tg, during the shaping or moulding step, followed by a quenching step where the item is cooled to the ambient temperature. A product formed according to the thermoplastic casting process is also provided.

Thermoplastic casting of amorphous alloys

The present invention is directed to a method of joining an amorphous material to a non-amorphous material including, forming a cast mechanical joint between the bulk solidifying amorphous alloy and the non-amorphous material.

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Northridge, CA, United States of America

Choongnyun Paul Kim