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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. 19, 1991
Filed:
Sep. 25, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joseph J Ritter, Mt. Airy, MD (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, Washington, DC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B / ; B32B / ; B05D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428218 ; 427 531 ; 4272481 ; 4273722 ; 4283105 ; 4283124 ; 4283126 ; 4283128 ;
Abstract
A method of forming a ceramic monolith comprises exposing a pre-formed metal substrate to a NaCl filtered continuous wave laser beam of about 50 to 100 W power and about 80 to 315 W/cm.sup.2 power density in an atmosphere of a gas desired to react with the metal, allowing for the gas to diffuse into the metal substrate at a temperature effective to permit reaction thereof to form the ceramic monolith, and cooling the monolith.