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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1997
Deborah Rose Pank, Saline, MI (US);
Matthew John Zaluzec, Canton, MI (US);
Oludele Olusegun Popoola, Grand Blanc, MI (US);
Robert Edward DeJack, Whitmore Lake, MI (US);
James R Baughman, Plymouth, MI (US);
David James Cook, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, INc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of fluxing a cast light-weight metal substrate for thermally adhering sprayed metallic coatings thereto, comprising: (a) preparing the substrate to be clean of grease and oil and to have a uniform and homogeneous surface energy; (b) electrostatically depositing a dry flux powder coating onto such prepared surface; and (c) thermally depositing melted metal onto and across the flux coated surface to further thermally activate the flux if not already activated, for stripping away any substrate oxides and to thermally metallurgically bond the deposited molten metal to the substrate.