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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:
Nov. 26, 1985
Filed:
Oct. 19, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
Albert G Tobin, Hauppauge, NY (US);
Assignee:
Grumman Aerospace Corporation, Bethpage, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
148-63 ; 148-635 ; 4272481 ; 376305 ;
Abstract
A method is proposed to attenuate hydrogen diffusion through fusion reactor components via controlled oxidation of prealloyed surfaces. Alloys of zirconium, vanadium, titanium, niobium, tantalum, tungsten, nickel and iron may be protected from hydrogen isotope permeation by using vanadium as an intermediate layer and either chromium, nickel-chromium, silicon or aluminum as the oxide forming component. This method may also be used to prevent hydrogen embrittlement of metals from external hydrogen environments and is applicable to the majority of alloy systems exhibiting hydrogen embrittlement phenomena.