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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. 14, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gary Gilde, Northeast, MD (US);
Parimal Patel, Bel Air, MD (US);
Clifford Hubbard, Havre de Grace, MD (US);
Brian Pothier, Laurel, MD (US);
Thomas Hynes, Nashua, NH (US);
William Croft, Natick, MA (US);
Joe Wells, Port Deposit, MD (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C04B / ; C04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
501 97 ; 343872 ;
Abstract
A ceramic nanocomposite made from silicon, oxygen and nitrogen is provided hich has a very low dielectric constant, low dielectric loss along with good strength and hardness. The ceramic nanocomposite finds use in millimeter-wave radomes and microwave radomes used on aircraft which must resist erosion from high speed impact with water, ice and dust in the atmosphere.