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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 27, 1998
Franz Hauner, Rottenbach, DE;
Gunter Tiefel, Furth, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A contact material, a shaped article or contact piece and a process for producing a shaped article from a contact material based on silver, include forming a powder mixture from silver and a metal oxide, and metallurgically processing the powder to form the shaped article with the metal oxide being reduced to metal. Since metal oxide powders are obtainable with a very much smaller particle size than metal powders, it is possible to obtain a contact material with a mean particle size of the metal incorporated as an active component of less than 1 .mu.m. Such a contact material has particularly favorable switching properties as a result of the fine particle size.