Delphi Technologies, Inc.

Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Gregory Keller Rasmussen

Jinping Zhang

Fenglian Chang

Terry Jack Gold

Timothy F Coha

Robert O Pichulo

Ulf Sawert

Mark Ray McClanahan

William S Zimmerman

John Hrinevich, Jr

Gamdur S Mann

Carlos Augusto Valdes

Dan H Emmert

Richard F Kostelic

Leon Pitek

Maryann G Seibert

Neal M Letendre

A method for producing thin film deposits of ternary shape-memory alloys using an ion sputtering deposition process comprising using a hot pressed metal powder composition target.

Production of ternary shape-memory alloy films by sputtering using a hot pressed target

Disclosed is a method for producing ternary shape-memory alloy films employing sputtering process techniques using krypton as a process gas.

Method for producing NiTiHf alloy films by sputtering

A method for producing thin film alloy by a sputtering deposition process comprising using a target having compartments of individual components arranged in concentric circles.

Sputtering alloy films using a sintered metal composite target

A process is provided for forming a thin film deposit of a Ni&mdash;Ti&mdash;Hf ternary shape memory alloy on a substrate by magnetron sputtering deposition having high transformation temperatures and good shape-memory and mechanical properties. The method of forming a thin film deposit of a ternary shape memory alloy on a substrate by sputtering deposition comprises arranging a Ni&mdash;Ti&mdash;Hf target and a substrate within a deposition chamber, maintaining a working distance from the target to the substrate of about 83 mm to 95 mm; heating the substrate to a temperature high enough to induce in-situ crystallization; introducing a krypton working gas into the deposition chamber; applying appropriate level of deposition power so that the deposition rate is from about 6 &angst; per second to about 120 &angst; per second; and, depositing a Ni&mdash;Ti&mdash;Hf shape memory alloy film having a composition ranging from about Ni (TiHf) to Ni (TiHf) .

Process for deposition of sputtered shape memory alloy films

A method and system for producing thin film alloy by a sputtering deposition process comprising using a crescent-shaped aperture interposed between the target and substrate of a sputtering deposition system.

Sputtering alloy films using a crescent-shaped aperture

A method for producing thin film deposits of binary shape-memory alloys using an ion sputtering deposition process comprising using a hot pressed metal powder composition target.

Production of binary shape-memory alloy films by sputtering using a hot pressed target

A method and system for producing thin film alloy by a sputtering deposition process comprising using a circle-shaped aperture interposed between the target and substrate of a sputtering deposition system and establishing a rotating/oscillating relationship between the substrate and the aperture.

Rotating film carrier and aperture for precision deposition of sputtered alloy films

A high pressure fuel hose for disposition between a fluid connector on a fuel pump canister in a fuel reservoir and a fluid connector through the reservoir wall. The fuel hose, located intermediate the fuel delivery system and a check valve at the fuel pump, has a flexible tubular body characterized by a plurality of annular sinusoidal convolutions well suited for accepting volumetric and pressure increases in the fuel trapped between the check valve and the fuel delivery system caused by temperature loading of the fuel following engine shut-down. A region of reduced wall thickness is formed in the tubular body to act as a pressure fuse having a predetermined burst pressure allowing system leakage due to overpressurization to be location controlled.

Fuel system pressure fuse

A modular fuel sender in a fuel tank of a motor vehicle includes a reservoir, a fuel pump in the reservoir, a low pressure conduit conducting hot return fuel back to the reservoir, a secondary pump in the reservoir for pumping new fuel from the tank into the reservoir, and a control which effects a recirculation mode of secondary pump operation when the new fuel level in the fuel tank is above a predetermined low level and a scavenge mode of secondary pump operation when the new fuel level in the reservoir is below the predetermined low level. In the recirculation mode, the secondary pump recirculates reservoir fuel to avoid overflowing hot fuel into the fuel tank. In the scavenge mode, the secondary pump continuously maintains a partial vacuum in a screen in the fuel tank regardless of the fuel level in the reservoir to maximize new fuel scavenged from the fuel tank before fuel starvation occurs.

Modular fuel sender for motor vehicle

A canister with an electric fuel pump therein is connected to a cover for an access port through which the canister is installed on a fuel tank of an automobile by three hollow struts. Each strut has a first end press fitted into a socket on the cover and is telescopically received in a bore in the canister. Coil springs around each strut urge relative separation between the strut and the cover and a flare at a second end of each strut defines a stop to limit relative separation. A passage in the cover from a return fuel connection on an exposed side of the cover to one of the sockets conducts low pressure return fuel to the one of the hollow struts press fitted therein. The return fuel flows back to the canister through the one hollow strut.

Modular fuel delivery system

Ductile ruthenium alloys are provided by mixing, by weight, about 70-80% ruthenium powder with about 20-30% of a pre-alloyed powder consisting essentially of cobalt, nickel, chromium, tungsten and silicon, the powders being of less than 200 mesh size, the mixture being blended with a binder to enable easy handling in pressing a green part using pressures of from about 35,000-50,000 psi followed by sintering in dry hydrogen or inert gas or in a vacuum, sintering temperature and time ranging from about 2150.degree. F to about 2250.degree. F for periods of from about 45 minutes to about 30 minutes, respectively.

Ruthenium powder metal alloy and method for making same

Ductile ruthenium alloys are provided by mixing, by weight, about 75-85% ruthenium powder with about 15-25% of a pre-alloyed powder consisting essentially of nickel, chromium, tungsten, silicon and iron, the powders being of less than 200 mesh size, the mixture being blended with a binder to enable easy handling in pressing a green part using pressures of from about 35,000-50,000 psi followed by sintering in dry hydrogen or inert gas or in a vacuum, sintering temperature and time ranging from about 2050.degree. to about 2150.degree. F for periods of from about 45 minutes to about 30 minutes, respectively.

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Grand Blanc, MI, United States of America

Gregory Keller Rasmussen