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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:
Aug. 22, 1989
Filed:
Jun. 03, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Degussa Aktiengesellschaft, Frankfurt, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
75233 ; 75230 ; 75232 ; 75244 ; 419 13 ; 419 19 ; 419 21 ; 419 66 ; 252513 ; 252514 ;
Abstract
Electrical contacts are formed from a silver-iron material which contains 3 to 30% by weight of iron and one or more of the components manganese, copper, zinc, antimony, bismuth oxide, molybdenum oxide, tungsten oxide or chromium nitride in amount totalling 0.05 to 5 weight percent, the balance being silver. These materials are suitable for forming electrical contacts of a wide variety. Tantalum is an optional component which may also be utilized particularly when 0.2 percent to 2 percent zinc is present.