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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2016
Applicant:
Smith International, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Yahua Bao, Orem, UT (US);
Scott L. Horman, Provo, UT (US);
Assignee:
SMITH INTERNATIONAL, INC., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 15/04 (2006.01); C22C 29/16 (2006.01); C22C 26/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 15/04 (2013.01); C22C 26/00 (2013.01); C22C 29/16 (2013.01); B22F 2998/10 (2013.01); C22C 2026/003 (2013.01); Y10T 428/31678 (2015.04);
Abstract
The present invention relates to tungsten-rhenium coated compounds, materials formed from tungsten-rhenium coated compounds, and to methods of forming the same. In embodiments, tungsten and rhenium are coated on ultra hard material particles to form coated ultra hard material particles, and the coated ultra hard material particles are sintered at high temperature and high pressure.