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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:
Jul. 10, 1990
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Trevor J Martell, Weltevreden Park, Transvaal, ZA;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K / ; C04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
228122 ; 228124 ; 228187 ; 228228 ; 228234 ; 76DI / ; 761082 ; 419 11 ;
Abstract
A method of producing a thermally stable diamond compact having a metal layer bonded to a surface thereof is provided. The thermally stable diamond compact comprises a mass of diamond particles containing diamond-to-diamond bonding and a second phase uniformly distributed through the diamond mass. The metal of the metallic layer is molybdenum, tantalum, titanium or like high melting refractory metal, nickel or an alloy containing a dominant amount of any one of these metals. The method includes the steps of: