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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:
Oct. 29, 1991
Filed:
Jun. 15, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428357 ; 428402 ; 428357 ; 264 63 ; 501152 ;
Abstract
Inventive rare earth oxide voidless spherical grains having a mean grain diameter of from about 30-300 .mu.m formed by agglomerating a rare earth oxide powder having a mean grain diameter of 1 .mu.m or less are disclosed. An agglomeration method is disclosed comprising slurrying a rare earth oxide powder by dispersing it in water, admixing a salt of an organic acid with the slurry, and spray-drying the slurry.