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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2025

Filed:

Jul. 11, 2022
Applicants:

Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (US);

Inventors:

James M. Boileau, Novi, MI (US);

Bita Ghaffari, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

David N. Seidman, Skokie, IL (US);

David C. Dunand, Evanston, IL (US);

Anthony De Luca, Dübendorf, CH;

Assignees:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22F 1/04 (2006.01); C22C 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C22F 1/04 (2013.01); C22C 21/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of forming an aluminum alloy component including melting and solidifying an aluminum alloy, solution treating the aluminum alloy, and heat treating the aluminum alloy. The aluminum alloy includes scandium, zirconium, erbium, silicon, at least one of molybdenum and tungsten, manganese and the balance aluminum and incidental impurities. The concentration of the alloying elements, in atom %, is greater than 0.0 and less than or equal to 0.15 scandium, greater than 0.0 and less than or equal to 0.35 zirconium, greater than 0.0 and less than or equal to 0.15 erbium, greater than 0.0 and less than or equal to 0.2 silicon, greater than 0.0 and less or equal to 0.75 molybdenum when included, greater than 0.0 and less than or equal to 0.35 tungsten when included.


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