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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:
Sep. 21, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 13, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Pankaj K Mehrotra, Greensburg, PA (US);
William R Huston, Greensburg, PA (US);
Assignee:
Kennametal Inc., Latrobe, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C04B / ; C04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
501 87 ; 501 89 ; 501 92 ; 501 953 ; 501 961 ; 407119 ; 428689 ; 252516 ; 2525202 ; 25252022 ;
Abstract
A ceramic composition produced by the consolidation of a blend of starting components. The composition comprises a matrix with one or more of the carbides, nitrides and carbonitrides of hafnium, molybdenum, zirconium, tantalum, niobium, vanadium and tungsten, titanium nitride, and titanium carbonitride in an amount that is greater than 50 volume percent of the matrix. The matrix comprises between 60 and 99.8 volume percent of the composition. Ceramic whiskers are uniformly dispersed throughout the matrix wherein the ceramic whiskers comprises between 0.2 and 40 volume percent of the composition.