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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:
Mar. 25, 1980
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1978
Applicant:
Inventors:
William Unsworth, Swinton, Manchester, GB;
John F King, Lancaster, GB;
Stephen L Bradshaw, Lancaster, GB;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
7516 / ; 148161 ;
Abstract
A magnesium-based alloy for casting contains at least 88% magnesium, 1.6-3.5% silver, 0.1-2.3% of rare earth metals comprising at least 60% neodymium, 0-2.3% thorium and 0.1-2.5% yttrium. When no more than 0.5% of yttrium is present the minimum amount of thorium is given by the equation ##EQU1## Other elements may be present to improve the alloy properties.